The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1864, Page 4

4 EE —_—_—__ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1864. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GOURDUN BENNETER BDITOR AND PROPKIETOR Matamoros to eslebrate the establishment of the impe- | 80th of March, pleaded guilty to poity larceny. He was Pinto Tennessee te etrike the blow of a rial authority there, Our Consul in that towo was atill | Sb! to ibe penitentiary for s'x months. protected [rom rebel insults and outrages by a guard of French soidiers, Deserters from the rebal army were The Girst snow of the season feil 19 this olty yesterday. It commenced about eleven Woinck in the morning, and lasted about twenty minutes, changing into a light skower constantly corning across the Rio Grande and giving them. | of raiv OFFICE K. W, COKNER OF FULTON AND NAS6AU BTS. | selves upto him. In one day over one buadred reported Volume XX1X , AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, No. 319 ACADENY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—Itaiay Orzra— ON COV ANNE. THEATRE, Broadway.—Victias—Paso- Tus Caioxer. BROADWAY wie’s Lawr en, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Lroadwi WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuoot or Bz- womn WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Basgs 1 tax Woop— Pave Par OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway,— — alae iway.—Covrt Carve: NEW ROWERY TREATRR, Bowery.—1 rs Beart—Frincn Srr—Hinam | ovax. eae BOWERY THEA’ wis—Witro. Mow: -eALADDIN—Tue Nigat BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadwav.—Sewgo, Ivpians— AiKw> Doss—Cowmonore Nutt—Far Girt. Dramatic ERFORMANCHS== ay and Evening BRYANTS' MINSTRISL'S, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way. —Etmioriay Sonos, Dances, BuRLEsques, &0.—Foor ON pe Kanrar. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—L’Bomauue Bru use asp tas Fea aNcKS, &C .CAMPBELT'S MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery = Naninp axp Fxcinno Neianaw oy Erriorian Oppitigs— How Axe You Grexnsacks, SALLE DIABOLIQUE. 585 Broadway.—Roserr Beuvee HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Dog axp Mox- REY ACiOcS EQUESTRIAN, GYMNASTIC 4ND ACROBATIC EX- PERTAINNENTS. DODWORTH HALL, 606 Bi = azena to Uoeaorae iepareran aiacoan bir: themselves at bis office, From Florida we leara of two A lotter from Lexing tom, Missouri, cays that as tbe Fighty-pinth Todiana regiment was on its mared through that place, threo of its officers—Major Heury, Surgeon Very successful Union raids in the weetern part of that | Porter and Lieutenant Ashley—stopped at a house for State, under the direction of General Bailey, in which Much valuable property was secured, We have files of Richmond papers of Saturday last. As usual for several successive days of la'e a considerable Portion of thelr space is devoled to the discussion of Nortbern politics, The result o/ our Presidential election they consider a deliberate declaration of the Northera people that they will have ‘four years more of such war a8 Lincoln wages,’’ and it is in this magner, the Sentinel lege says, that the Yavkees ‘exhibit their diabolical spirit and the resolution which now controls them.’ Therefore the people of to think only of war for an todeficite period, and to make it their Dusiness; and the earnestness with which they are conjured toshis course strongly indicates dinner, After they nad covoluded the meal, and while on the way to remount their horses, bitched at a fence nour by three guorilia scoundrels disguised in the na- tional uniform d shed up and ordered them to surrender. ‘The fiends then took them to the woods, where, aiter robbing them, they were all three shot throu:b the head, and left iyiug weltering io their blood. Their dead bodies were aiterwards found by oitizens’ where they were killed. Six more men charged with belog concerned in the al- 'd conspiracy to sack and bura Chicago and releace the rebel prisoners at Camp Dougias on the day of the Presidential election, were arrested in that city on Mon- day night, One of them is named Semmes, and is said to the South are urged | 0° & vephew of the rebel pirate of that name, From San Francisoo we learn that the Monitor Cx manche, which was eunk in the harbor of that place some ‘ime ago, and subsequent!y raised and put together, was successfully launched on Monday of this week. fhe that a large portion of the said people are just now in | Steamship Golden Age, which sailod from Sav Francisco such frame of mind that considerable coaxing will be required to bring them up to the mark. The rebel editors desire to have no talk or trouble about ‘‘queations the rebel Vice President, Alex. H, Stephens, Governor Brown, of Georgia, and Mr. Boyce, membor of the rebei for Panama on the 14th inst., carried over a miilion dollars in treasure. Advices from Japsn report a ekir- mish between tho Japanese and the allied fleets. Tne receipts of the maritime customs of Vera Crus, arul Lrar—Erutorian BONGS, | of peace,” and the recoustructionist statesmen, such as | Mexico, during the fret eight months of the present your amounted to 2,000,616 plastres ($1 05 each), being an increase on the corresponding period of 1863 of 1,200,218 Plastres. The mouth of September produced « eum of Congress from South Carolina, are invited to resign. | 437,157 plastres, being 07,529 more than in the preceding The Expresseays that the democrats of the North “have vetrayed every principle of their own, ebandoned month, ‘The stock market was dull and lower yesterday, and closed heavy, Gold had a downward tendency, and, ‘heir old and faithful associates “of the South,’ and | after opening at 24434, closed at 283. Government seou- jotued the black republicans in their bloody crusado,” AMERICAN THEATRE, te 444 Broadway.—Bacvers, | thus rendering themselves unfit for Southern association. Pantoximes, Buaiesguns, & HOPK CHAPEL, 72) Broadway,—Woon! i man Trours OF Glass BLowERs SRASPERA: BOER VAN AMBURGH & CO.'S MAMMOTH MEN 839 ad G41 Broudway.—Open trom 10 AM to lO Ee NIBLO'S SALOON ! y . Coucmme, Broadway.—Mus. O'Naiit's Secony cmesday, Nov. 16, 1864. Our despatches from the Sheuandoah vailey give os further particuiars of the pursuit of the rebeis through and beyond Front Royal, by Powell's division of cavairy, On Saturday {ast, and an accoupt‘of another eavairy vic- ory over the enemy by Custer and Merritt on the same ay, Generai Powell sent back from the Luray valley, as Ghe tangible fruits of bis chase of Early’s fiying troop. trs, two pieces of artiiery, one hundred and fifty Prisoners and @ large quantity of ammunition, Cus @er's and Merritt’s Ogbting copsisted of several hours ekirmishing, the rebels being finally driven back 1m groat Sonfusion, White this cavalry skirmt.bing was tn pro. @ress Eariy advanced bis infantry as far as Middietown, ‘but immediately withdrew on the defeat of bis cavalry, @od returned to Fisher's Hill The Union tosses in the en- €xgoment were very email, both in killed and wounded. Barly's infantry force is ascertained to be a considerable one; but Sheridan's men are in excellent condition ana the Dest of spirits, and prepared for the rebels whenever they choose to come on, Rebel guerilias have crossed the Potomac, evidently ‘with the intention of attempting plundering caids in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the peorle of the Gcutherm part of wbe latter State bave caught the alarm, and arc arming, apparently determined not to be taken at @ucb disadvantage as on previous similar occasions. { | hour this morning. The Whig ts confidant that before this month ts out ritics were steady and higher, In Dusiness places the aspect of things was about tho same yesterday as on Monday, with the single exoo)tion that there was less buoyancy and firmness, Holders Grant will make a combined and formidable land and | were very backward about relinquishlog that firmness water attack on Richmond, Additional arguments ‘are supplied in favor of arming the staves, We publish to-day General Butler’s official ordor on the relinquishment of command in this city, ia which he returns bis thanks to the various army officers, the sol- Giors, the militia, the police and the citizens, for their co-operation with him for the preservation of ordor during the election excitement. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. | The steamship Australasian, from Liverpool on the Sth ; and Queenstown og the 6th inst., bringing two days ister | European intelligence, arrived at this port at an early The details of her newa, which is interesting, will be found in another portion of this paper. Major General McClellan's resignation of his position in the regular army ted by the President, to date from the 8th inst.,the day on which it was ten- dered and General Philip H. Sheridan, commacder of the Shenandoah army, bas received tho major generalship rendered yagaut by this retirement, as will beseen by fer which we publish in another column. f our Washington correspondents states that it is now rendered certain that before the next meeting of the United States Supreme Court, on the first Monday in De. cember proximo, Mr. Secretary of War Stanton will be app inted to the Chief Justicesbip, and General Butler will take Mr. Stanton’s place at the head of the War Department. i We publish to-day a full report of the reception given to General Butler at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Monday The display was one of the most brilliant that has ever beon gotien up in the sumptuous chambers of this famous hotel, and the thou- sands of fashionable guests who attended showed bow much the act and motive were appreciated. In our Feport all pecersary particulars will be found. Among the audience Greeley and Beecher made their appearance; the latter indulging in @ political speech, but the former ‘Citizen military organizations are being formed io Chambersburg, Mercersburg, Waynesboro, Greencastle (and other towns. Rumors were circulated in some quarters yesterday that General Sherman bad been beard from, and that he bad oaptured Augusta, Georgia, We are assured from Washington, bowever, that 00 information bas been feceived by the government to warrant apy such state- ment, nor is it expected that any intelligence wil! reach @he North regarding Sherman's movements for some | days yet, unless it comes from rebel sources. These Feports, therefore, bad 010 basis io any known facts, Dut to a eomewhat plausible supposition, apa they { parry with them an sir of probability, as Augusta, which is on the Savennah river, the dividing line be Sween Georgia and South Carolina, and two bundred « d Sdirty miles from ite mouth, ts on an almost direct lie Trom Atianta to either of the cities of Charies\:« sud Bavannab, From the former it is distant ove booted | And thirty-six miles, avd from the latter ove 4.» Gred and twonty. It is atthe eastern term nua ot Georgia Railroad, the western end of which ts et Atlin 'a, And is connected with Charieston by the Sout Rallroad. In population and importance Ang peownd city in the State of Georgi: In the Hxnatp of Thureday and friday las @coountes of the pursuit of the rebel privateer | by the gunboat Sassacus, and of the chase and « \« \ Demining in of her off the North Carolina coast ty 9 Our biockaders. At the time it wes believe Pirate could not escape; but it now aypoars thes +) Qs weare informed by our Beaufort desyates., 6! | four Union steamers engaged in tbe chine of her oF ‘Tth instant, the Montgomery and the L. Be former following ber up from t morning wotil dark, The pursuit was unig”) (most exciting. So near had they gotto ber tha! but a ‘wrollns | tats the | an took the ie evel ek tn aud @bort time could have elapsed before she would bave | ‘eon their prey, when night set io, and she escapes \. | the darkness—whither is not known, | Our army despatches from before the rebel cayits! ‘Mention « poisy and apparontiy meavingless dem n-ira Goa made by the rebel pic! in front of the Sero.d Corps on last Saturday night. Whatever was its dein, @ made wo impression on our lines; for they remained Precisely the samo on Sunday morning as on the previous @vening. There was heavy cannonading in the vicinity Of Dutch Gap on Sunday night, but with what result bas Goseriers from the enemy of the treatment they will re- ‘@eive on coming into bis lines has been republished, and fs being again sont into the rebel army. The weather is and many of our soldiers bave built jog buts to make themeeives more comfortable; but we are admon dabed that this fact must not be taken as an indication ‘@hat our armies on the James are going tnto winter quar. tern. oe \ The steamebip Cabawba, whieh arrived here yester- Gay, brought us interesting dgepatches, from the Guif Department, dated in New Orleans to the $d inet The Pebsls are building forts on both sides of Red river, @bove the Alexandria falls, The registered enemies re fently sent out of the Union lines bave been conscripted ‘by the rebels, The rebels at Browusvilic bave put « oustom house in operation, and have prohibited the im ‘portation of all kinds of goods except corn, flour and | wegetabion. They have recentiy received an accession 40 Unolr artillery of two pieces, and are expecting four more, There about fifteen hundred bales A rebel = government cotton there, awaiting @bipment to foreign ports. Our returned prisovers from Frrior, Texas, wiare that immense quastities of the staple are ' nave dist { derer of mara: , in, ‘ came to bis death by a gugshot wound in the head, at ‘ tue bands of some utknown person or persons, add a ‘ .t Mot been ascertained. General Grant's order in‘orming , } Tombs in detault of one thousand dollars bail, on charge | of bemwg in Jeague with two other men who abstrasted { Sve hundred dollars from the pocket of Joba Lee white preserving a more dignified silence. Geseral Butler's remarks, however, contain the main substance of the s)irit of the meeting, and we therefore particularly ca!l our readers’ attention to them. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday at noon, and Gisposed of several routine bills and other papers devoid 0! pubiic ioterest, They then organized as county can- vassers, and continued in session for several hours. There was notbiag in the proceedings, however, worth reporting. In the case of O'Neil vs. Weed & Co.’s Express, in the which they have manifested since the late advance in gold, especially for foreign goods, owing to which trans- cotions were much circumscribed. Petroleum, cotton, &c., were irregular, On 'Change the flour market was duil and heavy and about 160. lower. Whoat was unsot- tied, du!i and nominally 2c. a Sc. lower, Oats were heavy, and the market less active. The corn market Opened firm, but closed dull and drooping. Pork was | dull, ungettied and lower, Beef was firm, with a fair demend, Lard was rather firmer, with, however, but little doing. Whiskey was rather firmer, with a mode- rate demand. Freights were rather more active. The market for boef catile was buoyant and firm this week, and pricos were nearly or quite 3c. higher, in the face of continued beavy receipts, Prices varied from 80, a 18c, a 183¢c, Milch cows were unchanged. Veals wore steady at 5c. a 180. a133¢c, Sheep and lambs were frm at $4a$7a$8. Swine were in feir demand at 11}c.a 12346. The total receipts were 6,172 beeves, 117 cows, 2,089 veals, 19,432 sheep and lambs, and, 23,725 hogs. North and Soath—The Miiitary and Political Condition of Each, Recent great events, as our Presidential elec- tion, Sherman’s movement from Atlanta, and Hood’s toward Tennessee—taken with the re- cent messages of Southern officials—altogether show us the relative military and political position of the two sections in a new and strik- ing light. All the facta shown iu the doeu- ments and in the events alike point out the evening jast, togetber with the remarkable speech which | broad d'stinctions that characterize either side, | be delivered on that occasi and mark the ¢ontrdst between the two more clearly than they baveever hitherto been seen. On tie one side, they show the steady and easy operation of the political system of a great people, working in a crisis of that peoples des- tiny without jolt or jar—and an immense mili- tary enterprise launched forward without effort and aimed with irresistible f ata point it cannot fall to hit. On the other side, they ehow tho turmoll of divided counc!lsa— the bitterness and the chaos of factions, and a military necessity without military power or purpose—an army that neglects and relin- quishes what it might do and beats the air for an object beyond its reach. On the one band a great, free and united people, and on the other Merine Court, betore Judge Alker, where the plaintiff |g mere agglomeration of ambitious wretches, sued to recover for loss of baggage entrusted to do- fendant’s care for the purpose of being conveyed to plain- Uf's residence in Thirty-tbird street, the jury yesterday Drought in a verdict for the plaivtiff assessing the dam- ages at $105. At & meeting of the City Council of Toronto on last Monday night the Mayor stated that the members of the Fenlan Brotpernood in the United States have in contem- Piation an armed demonstration op Canada, and that in- formation of the design bad been laid before tbe Canadian government. ‘Ths iron Aglo-rebel blockade running steamsbip Lucy, captured off Wilmington, on the 2d instant, by the gun- boat Santiago de Cubs, arrived in this port yesterday, in charge of a prize master and crew, en roule to Boston. She bas on board three hundred and sixty-five bales of coton and twenty-five tons of tobacco. A miniature teegraph office, designed for a presect to | the Emperor of Russia, hus beeo prepared by an artisan of this city. I¢ consists of complete telegraphic appa: ratus, capable of transmitting mersages between this cily and Boston, all embraced within the compass of a morncoo cage e'gbt itebes in length, six tocbes in width, aud three anda baif ipches in depth. The members of the Seventy-ninth regiment of New York Volunteers held @ meeting Inst night at the Mercer | House, corner of Mercer and Broome streets, for the pur- ose of reorganizing a8 @ regiment of the New York state | ble than any peace. ; Sational Guard. A school of mies was yesterday organized by§a portion of the frculty of Columbia College, in this city, This sclwol is to be in connection with the college, but ie to t branches of studies for its students, apart from the reguiar college course. It will give sclevtife ineirnetion in regard to miverals and tho art of working mines, and wili have various learned professors to pre Side over its several ciasses, Three years will constitute the period of study. The Coroner's tavestigation in the Brooklya mysterious murder case wis c pciuded yesterday. No new facts were developed, and nothing giving aclue to tbe mur- of the man, or to the reasons for the body, was evolved during the exantna- piviog their verdict that the man mui liation of t ‘The jury, Tec ymunendation that tne reward for the discovery of perpetrator or perpetrators be increased. Jobn Monaghan was yesterday committed to the he was trying on # pair of new pantaloons in an Uliver ftreet clothing stora Momagan’s alleged accomplices Dave not yet been arrested Horace Jones, the well known borsoman of this city, and proprietor of the Lafayette stables, in Mercer streot, was drowned in the Delaware river, op Saturday night last, Dy the upsetting of a sailboat while out on « gun- ning excursion.’ ‘A number Of natives of the different British North Ame- eviding in tbis city, fecontly beid « zed & society, with the tite of the Association,” baving for its object the maintenance of social intercourse aud fellowship among themselves. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, before Judge Daily, @ judgmemt was recovered agajust the city by Geo, B. Mickle for $25.69, on account of a purchase from the plaintift by the Common Council of a patent fire escape and hook and ladder apparatus im November, 1860. The Gefence set up was that the city bad no right jg make tho purchase in question, and that there never had been any money in the treasury to liquidate 1% pill be Inrge caiondar%: cases prepared for trial in the Genera! Seasious ‘yesterday; but, owing to the ab- sence Of witnGsrs, no cases could be brought to trial Anna B. Ulmer, indicted for stealing $86 worth of pro rican provinces, ave recently parsed that piace on wagons, bound from Bhreveport bo J ‘The steamer Ike Davis, cap- some time ago by piratical passengers, on her way om a Texan port to New Orleans, was said to be taking woevitle foo board a cargo of cotton in Matagorda vay. S2ttlM ‘ me pp still Continue i some portions of Louisiana. [peek and rebels bad a ture Gaze feudango in ef 2. perty from P. Sbamberg, of No, 8 Bayard street, on the 18th of March, pleaded guilty to an sitempt al grad larceny, and was seut to the penitentiary for one year. There was another indictment agaivst her for a similar j Offenos, Win. i. aixer, Souvicled Im Beptember of forgery in the fourth degree, was sentenced to one yenr's imprisonment inthe penitentiary, Heory Puplor, who | W010 gD worth of Glubbiagssom Wen. B. Daypuardy on he ea Me ye EOD ane A Nene OS each ceeking bis own advantage—every one suspicious and fearful of the other, and all rifling the pockets and cutting the throats of a deluded and downtrodden people. Here at the North our grand quadrennial crisis is over, and it has left us stronger and Grmer on our feet than it found us. The elec- tion has consolidated al) party divisions into one great harmonious whole—one united and determined people. There is no longer any opposition on the great points of national policy. Never was there held a more quiet election thun that just past; never did political machinery operate, even in a time of peace, with more noiseless perfection, and never was tho acquiescence of a people in the decision of the majority more absolute. Every man is in favor of the prosecution of the war to its just and proper object, and there isno longer a rem- nant of that miserable faction which foisted upon the country its hypocritical ery for peace, even at the cost of things infinitely more valua- If the peace faction bas any head, it dare no longer show it. There is no one, not utterly lost to shame, but is ashamed to have been part of that faction, Aud this grand unity of the peopie finds its fit expression in the force with which the war is now carried on by the con- firmed and strengthened government. Our operations now promise, for the first time, the absolute and early destruction of the military power of the enemy. Our two great armies are in the hands of men equal to any military achievement—the peers of the best soldiers of history; and with the richest people on the face of the earth to feed, equip and reine force the great armies that those wen lead, it | is mere madness to doubt that complete triumph will soon crown our efforts. But how different is the picture presented by the people, the government and the armies of the South. No Southern man bas any longer any confidence in the rebel cause. The people have neither confidence in themselves nor in tueir leaders. Even Davis, the arch rebel, eon- demned to the bad elevation of the highest place in that pandemonium, has shown the white featber. He tells the Southern people, in so many words, that that slavery which is the basis of Southern seciety—for which 80 many men have been killed in battle—is an evil, a social crime, and not a benefit to the negro, That the negro is fit for a better condition, and that his freedom may be given to him “as a reward.” “Mr. Davis entertains,” says South Caro- lina, “the same opinions as Seward and Sumner;” and on this question of the negro the South is broken up into factions. On the question of State rights it has bold and noisy factions, and the whole country is one scone of factions tumult, There js burdiy an able- bodied man whose home is in the Southern States who is not in the rebel army; and the rebel President and his Secretary of War call urgently for more men. All those who have been slain have not overpowered the government of the United States, and what they have done will be lost tf more are not pat in wo army. Hod marches weakly away drunken man, and Leo crouches exhausted behind the Richmond defences. If more men can be found—white men or black men—to fight, what are they to fight for? Simply, eay certain of the Rich- mond papers, to make Mr. Davis dictator. Mr. Davis urges the rebel Congress to suspend the rebel pross, to let his heads of department go into the revel Congress, and to give him eu- preme and despotic power over tbe persons of the Southern men, thai he may send every one whom be dislikes into the rebel army, just as the Czar sends men who displease him to Siberia. Buch is the last phase of the great rebellion, 2ud euch is tie condition for which a whole people have endeavored to destroy what one of their leaders calla “the best government in the world.” Goncra) Butier’s Peace Proposition—The Dove with the Olive Brunch. The flattering public reception given to General Butler at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on Monday evening last, was, in many respects, a remarkable event. It was remarknble in view of the object of his visit to this metropolis and in view of the odject of the meeting; it was remarkable from the numbers of distiaguished, beaut ful and interesting ladies who graced the festival with their presence; but it was most remarkable in this—that General Butler, dis- | gu'sed in the plumage of war, appeared on this occasion as the dove, returning from the sub- siding waters of the deluge, and bearing in his mouth the olive branch of peace. What ao agreeable surprise will this be for our “misguided brethren of the South.” Re- garded by them as the embodiment of all the vioes, all the cruelties and all the crimes inci- dent to human depravity, they have learned to designate Geu. Butler as “Butler, the tyrant;” “Butler, the robber;” “ Butler, the Infamous,” aud “ Butler, the Beast.” This last choice dis- tinction, as expressing all that is vile and abominable, has become as common among the subjects of Jeff. Davis as that other favorite epithet of “Lincoln, the Ape.” What will these people of the South think of this muoh abused man Butler, whom they have declared an outlaw, beyond the pale of ransom or pardon, and for whose head they have offered the value of a haudred negroes—what will they say of him when, seizing the over- whelming verdict of the country for the war, he gracefully and graciously comes forward with the olive branch of peace? If there be anything of Southern chivalry remaining, be- tween Richmond and Mobile, surely this volun- tary offering from General Butler of kindness for hatred, and charity for abuse, will disarm even the most ferocious fire-eater of his resolu- tions of vengeance. General Butler thinks that the late election has so far sustained the administration, and basso completely strongth- ened its hands for decisive war, that it is now in the best possible position to try again a liberal offer of peace. This is what be proposes to our rebellious Soutkern brethren.gHe would say to them:—“Come back, come back, and leave off feeding on husks, and share with us the fat of the land, and bygones shall be by- gones, and in one country, and with one law, we shall live in peace hereafter.” And it is no stinted or halfway forgiveness that he offers. He proposes it “to all, if all will submit to the fawe;” and he very convincingly ass:—"By so doing shall we not, in tlie eyes of the world, have ‘exhausted all the resources of statesman- ship’ in our effort to restore peace to the country?” Such is the amnesty suggested by General Butler ia behalf of peace. If contemptuously rejected by the rebel leaders, however, he pro- poses the fearful alternative of war on the plan of “William the Conquerdr’—war to subjugation, confiscation and the coloni zation of the enemy’s lands by our own soldiers, This terrible alternative, we do not think, from the present military situa- tion, will be necessary in any event; but we do most cheerfully concur in the pro- position for the experiment of another invita- tion to peace to the rebellious States on the basis of a liberal amnesty. In trying it, whether accepted or rejected, the administra- tion will be vindicated before the world, and the people of the loyal States will become a unit in its support. From the interesting fact that, upon the heels of this peace speech of General Butler, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher nominated him for the next Presidency, we infer that the General’s peace programme will be satisfactory to the abolition war radicals, while, on the other hand, the universal amnesty proposed “is all that could be reasonably asked by Vallandigham and the peace copperheads. Therefore, when the Secretary of War shall have heard officially from General Shefman, and that the military game of chess now being played in Georgia is completely under his control, we w~uld respectfully recommend to President Lincoln the adoption of General Butler’s peace propo- sitions, and the allowance of the interval of gruce suggested to the anniversary of General Javkson’s victory of New Orleans. In the meantine it willbe feather in the cap of General Butler that he stands the first public man in the country to propose a generous amnesty in belalf of peace after a national election which has fully justified and strength- ened the administration for the subjugation of the rebellion by force of arms. Tue Scurxswic-Horsrew Question.—The treaty of peace by which Denmark has formally ceded her rights to the duchies is no doubt re- garded by Austria and Prussia asa triumph for the interests of despotism, and a check upon England, whose growing influence upon the Continent it has been a great object with those governments to arrest. In these calculations they will find themselves mistakon. The pre- text under which they have wrested from a weak State dependencies to which she had eatablished as good a title as any by which they hold their own posscesion is one which they will find outs two ways, The principle of national unity upon which this aggression upon Denmark was founded was an. idea started by the revolutionary party of Germany. It was o powerful lever for the ob- jects which they had in view, but it is a dun- gerous one for governments to make use of whose ompires are made up ef mixed nation- alities. That they received from the radical or progressive partic in their dominions a cor-* dial support in the movement against Denmark ought to bave been evidence sufficient to them of the fact. Let us see how this practical recognition of the principle is going to work. Venice stands in regard to Italy in a much stronger national relation than did Schleswig- Holstein to Germany, In the duchies the pop- ulation was more or leas mixed, the German clemen} however prepondorating, while in Venetia it is purely Italian, ,In the duchies there was a strong party forthe Danish con- nection; in Venice none but the government functionaries are partisans of the Austrian. How, then, in face of the argumentsyused to justify the spoliation of Denmark, cax’ the longer retention of Ven‘ce by Austria be, 4 fended? Here is a dilemma into which the Ge ~ man governments have been pushed by the revolutionary party, and we do not weil see how they are to extricate themselves from it. If German unity is a good thing Italian unity is a better; for the Italian government is wea: only from the hold which Austria possesses of its territory and the military aid which France gives the Pope. The Italians would be fools were they not to a»ply the precedent es- tablished in the case of Denmark; and this, no doubt, they will goon be prepared to do, with tue aid of Great Britain, which bas affronts to avenge and in‘erests to sustain in counection with the mov BI dhis War. It is an old and wise adage that the bless- ings of Providence are often so well disguised @s to be at first uurecoguized. At the outbreak of this civil war, certainly, nobody would have pronounced it a blessing, and everybody was disposed to denounce it as a curse. Indeed, even up to the present time, there a those who continually barp.upon its miseries and indulge in uunecessary exaggerations of its terrors and its woes. Regarded from the standpoint of the individual, the war really has been very dreadful. It has made countiess widows and orphuns, It bas taken away the pride and the support of mavy a bome. It has filled the land with coffins and cripples. It has devasted large sections of the country. It bas destroyed our commerce, and turned trade out of its usual channels. It bas ruined very many people, while enriching others at their expense. Tt has vastly increased the prices of all the lux- uries, comforts and necessuries of life. Look- ing at it simply in its effect upon individuais, or upon classes which are composed of indi- viduals, the war has undoubtediy caused an immense deal of trouble, suffering and mis- fortune. But, in fact, this is not the right way to look atthe war. If we consider any of the great wars of history in th’s way they were all very bad; whereas we know that many of them were productive of the greatest poesible goo. The first Napoleon stripped France of all ker young men and wasted lives as if they were sous; but he made the naton glorious, predisposed the world to peace, and left many benefits asa legacy to the Frenchmen of the present day The war which drove monarchy fiom Kugland and placed Cromwell at the bead of affairs was avery terrible thing, and Eng\’stinen were robbed of their lives, limbs, homes and pro- perty in a very ruthless manner; but vo one now denies that the Cromwellian war was exceedingly profitabie to England and to the world. Our forefathers marched through the Revolutionary war with bleeding feet, and ewpty stomachs, and ragged clothing, und pockets either completely empty or scantily furnished with worthless Continentul money. They left their wives and ebtldren behind them to work the ‘arms or tend the stores as best they could, and doubtless there was starvation in many « homestead,and all on account of the war. Yet no American will say that the Revo- lutionary war was not a vast benefit to us and to the whole of mankicd, and no American now wishes that we bad yielded to the despotism of Oid England and submitted to a disgraceful peace. Asit ws with those wars so it is with this. The blessing may be thoroughly disguised, but it is a blessing, nevertheless. In a great war like this the individual is los: in the grandeur of the results. Private Joues falls and is carried to a grave or the bospital; but the Union triumphs in the figiit. Merchant Brown, whose customers are in the South, makes avery bad failure; but the war sete thousands of other merchants upon their feet. See what this war bas already done for the country. It has developed resources of which we were previously ignorant. Iron, coal, cop- per and salfpetre mines Lave been discovered in the South in numbers and locations undreamed of before the war. Cenals have been built like those upon the Mississippi and at Dutch Gap, which were simply impossible to private enterprise, and which will greatly facilitate vavigation. Harbors hitherte un- known are now crowded witi our shipping. Wherever new railroads are needed they are laid down at the unprecedented rate of a mile a day. The telegraph follows our armies wherever they ge. Soldiers turn editors and start newspapers in the enemy’s country, aud our generals take the stump as soon as they bave taken a city and proceed to instruct the people they have conquered.. The slavery question, which was our only source of dts turbance, bas” been cut by the sword, like the Gordian knot, and now seems in a fair way to settle itself through the desperate measures of the rebel leaders. The whole South, hitherto reserved for negro plantations, is being thrown open to foreign immigration. This same immigration constantly recuperates the Nortb, and is rather increased than diminished by the war. Domrestic manufac- tures are wonderfully encouraged. Inventions multiply upon us. We have created an iron- clad navy such ag it is. On sea or on land, with sailors or with soldiers, we are now more than a match for any other nation upon the face of the earth. These are some of the benefits which we, as a people, have already derived from this war; and we might enumerate many more, were our space equal to the requirements of the subject. But any one who cau appreciate the-full scope of the benefits we have recited will need no further argument to convince him that the war is really a blessing to the country. When it shall end in the complete restoration of the Union, ite blessings will be even more apparent. The anger, the prejudices, the jeelousies which it has created, will soon pass away; but the telegraphs, the railroads, the canals, the harbors, the . various improvements which it has also created will then remain, The-sen- timent of nationality, of devotion to the Union, of faith in the brave old flag will remain like- wise. This war has shown us that wo are a world within @ world. Upon this continent we can find or produce everything necessary for olther war or peace, At the summons of ouf government we ean raise an army of a mi)- lion of men and cover the sens with a fleet of frigates end impregnable tron-clads, Our cities and berbors dah be defended, at a week's notiee, with forte and earthworks which Buropenns have no power to capture, and with mammoth cannoh, throwing thousand yound ! balla. before wWhica nny Buronean (ease) : Cy utterly worthless. Hence if we should ever engage ina European war its battles will be fought there, not here, and we shall attack London and Parie, instead of waiting for the enemy to attack us. Thus weshall become the proudest and most powerful nation upon the globe, and in centuries of prosperous peace— varied, perbaps, by victorious wars—we shall reap the full benefits of our present intestine , Struggles, and put to shame those who see only th'¢ horrors of the contest, and overlook its glo ties and its blessings, ee Gra‘8D Farure or tHe ALpany Recencr— Tury y48e IxcompsTent AnD SHOULD Be Da piacep.- ~The late Presideatial election bas demonstra ‘ed many things of which the ooun- try was pxéviously unaware; but in no par- ticular are its Tesults more conclusive thaa in proving the utter incompetency of Dean Rich- mond and the oy ber members of the Albany Regency for polity cal leadership. These grand moguls of the State are only terrible to non- combatants.~ Let any’ one, no matter how in- significant, “offer fight,’ and trey are down on their knees begging” terms and tendering abject compromises immediately. Lt was 80 at the Charleston Convention ,in 1860, where theis weakness and irresolution, when contronted by the little knot of secession aonspirators from of the couvention, the breakin” up of the democratic party and the fix‘al brewk~ ing up, for a time at least, of our oa- tional government. Had the Regeney men taken the secession bull by the horns—it was but a bull-cal’ thea—they mnght have run it out of tue party or slaughteaed it on the floor of the convention; but sheg* dilly-datlied witb it, and shilly-sballied with it, until at last the few rebel conspirators were led to believe that they had only to hold on long enough and make a little more noise to back the Rezency down altogether. Indeed. they did finally back them down in that very Contest, for we all remember the mongrel elee- toral ticket made up that year, upon whieh the Donglas meu, Breckinridgers and Belle Everetts were about equally misrepresented, So, too, the Regency were bullied by Fer- nando Wood for years in regard to our locat matters tn this city; vut the greatest bullying that bas ever bee: done against them, and the most igrominaious ba’k down they bave ever made, took p'ace at the Chicago Convention. ‘ho this party gathering of dewocratic fools and fossils, Dewn Richmond journeyed with bie distinguished troupe of Regency performers, swearing more horribly than ever did ‘our army in Flanders” against tue “copperheads,” aud vowing to dri:k the blood and eat the heart of every “peace-at-aiy-price” man whe should dare to avow his sentiments on the Soor of that convention. Had they stuck to thie text and made a plattorm of substantial loyalty, piacing thereupon General McCleltan, with some proper vice presidential associate, who soubts but that Mr. Lincoln would now be packing up nis clothes and papers with @ view to quitting the White House by next 4th of March? But, despite all their threats and vaporings, the Dean and company quailed at the decisive moment before the louder threats and fiercer vaporiegs of Vallamdigham, Voor hees, Wood, Pendleton and others of that class, really forming 4 contemptible minority of the convention, and only made strong by the weak- ness and irresoluiion of the Regency leaders, to whom the ether loyal delegations had beem induced to look for guidance. Let it be thoroughly understood that it is to the coward- ice and mismanagement o! Dean Richmond'and the Regency that the democratic party owe their defeat in the recent contest, and let the whole democratic party, uot only of this State, but of tue Union, combine together to kick these incompetent usurpers trom the seats of power they have so repeatedly proved themselves unfit to fill. New Castner or Fossit Ccniositiss.—It ie reported that Professor Agassiz is about add- ing to bis cabinet of fossil curiosities several rare specimens. They were exhumed during the late Presidential election and lald upon the shelf, suitabiy labelled and classified, Among the most interesting specimens is one named the “carbouiferous” or Buchaaan clase, the assortment of which is very large. It em- braces a large number of Pennsylvania fossils, all rare curiosities. Then there is a ciass called the “silurian,” a very fossiliferous class, of which poor Pierce is labelled as the finest spe- cimen. Then there is the tertiary class, of which fiddling Fillmore {s presented as the most interesting and venerable specimen, Of this class, but not exactly of the same generie origin, may be named—1, Vallandigham, of the eocine strata; 2, Belmont, of the meocine, and 3, Fernando Wood, of the pliocene, or politician strata. These are a few of the recent additions to Professor Agassiz’s cabinet of fossil remains.after the last election. QUERILLAS ACROSS THE POTOMAC. The People of Chambersburg on the Alert—Organization of Military Ce: for. th rotection of the 8 der, &c. GCuauunresurc, fa, Nov. 16, 1864. Bome rebel guerillas baving crossed the Potomac, evh dently with the purpose of plundering the border, the citizens of Chambereburg held a iar; eoting this even. ing, and organized three field companies for defence, one of which is-to be armed by tte members with Orst class. repeating rifles. Companies were also promptly organized today tm Greencastle, Wayneuboro and Mercersburg, and all of them will be completely armed to morrow. The border people are fully prepared for pluaderieg raide, and thay will make short work of say guerilias. who may fall inte. their hands, Arrival ef the Prise Steamer Lucy, The prize steamer Lucy, Acting Master Frank H. Wilke tm charge, arrived at this port yesterday morning in thirty. © one hours from Hampton Roads. She was captured.on the. 24 tnst,, about one bundred and sixty off Wilmiag- ton, N. C.,by the United States gun! Santings, Ge. Cuba, after @ chase of one hour aed a ball, duriag whies | she throw overboard Ofty-four bales of cotton, She te bound to Boston, Her cargo consiete of three by and sixty-five bales of cotton, and twenty-five tons tobaceo, She ise sidewhee! steamer, built of irea, twe handred and twenty-five feet long, twenty (eet, beam, one hundred aod ninoty.two tons burden and.eam year old, } Thie was her tenth trip of sunning the bicekatte, ’ Exmsrnon ov ran Annem’ Yorn Gocurt.—The ‘‘pri. wate view” of this exhibition took piace tnt evening at the Derby Gallery. The rooms a8 usual, over. crowded, free circulation being uk Of the question, Of the contributions by artiste to the present sale thore are only fifty, bubamong these thene are afew of very great merit, partioularly those by W bittredge and Esst- man Johneon, The pictures learied are numerous, and’ embrace some of the Svest bpecimens im the elty of American, Freach, German dn@ Dutob artists, We shall reserve for another ocecasion car strictures upon the now works, as we do n08 profess to be able to judge of thoir qualities by gas light. It would be well if the bed adit of exbiditiog pletures in this manner could be dene away with, but we prestme that as long as fashion lends ita sanction there qill be mq une im remogptrating guint j. the seven Guif States, led to (c'e adjournment |