The New York Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. 34NRS GURDUN BENNBTR EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE B. W. COMMER OF FULTON AND MA2SAD STS. ThRMS cash im advance. Movey sent by mail will be tthe risk of tbe sender. None but baak bills ourrent in New York takea THE DAILY HERALD, Foor couts per copy. Annual eubseription price $18. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Fives cents er copy. Apnea! subscription price:— Ove Copy ry Peeve Cop Five Copies # Tee Copies... 5 1s Postage five cents per copy for three months Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers, B21 50 exch. An extra copy will be sent to every club * ton. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, 5 | §.C.,and Fort Sumter is reported as being still con- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1864. Daving fullilled the duties with the exeoulion of which he honorably acquitted, Tits cbarge appears to bave grown | The Rev. Hemy Word Beecher on the Out of mistakea deatity. Ie Auguet last the Bostop Arm Of Brewster, Sweet & Co. were robbed of a considerable was charged. Oar rebel sewspaper files contein General Forrest's official account of the destruction of Union gunboals and transports on the Tennessee river, pear Jobasonvilie. Four gunboats, fourteen steamers and twenty barges are claimed as baving beow set on Ore avd burned up, con. suming a0 immense amount of valuable property. We may well doubt @ good portion of this, as it te added that ‘all the immense warebouses on shore at Jouusonyite bad also been destroyed ; for we have since learned that Joba- Sonville Is still eid by the Union forces, and that but a very small portion, if any, of the army suppiies stored thore was burved. The bombardment of Chacteston, were passed in this ct'y by &@ mee 50 much resembling Mr. Manniag thal several witnesses sMeatified bim, to the of others better acquainted with Mr, Manniag, newover, exculpaied bim. The case bas been uudor cunsideration for dome weeks, as our readers bave (rom time to time deen informed. The really guilty man has not yot been arrestea. A sawmill, planing mill and a targe quantity of lumber were burned at Ti'sonburg, Canada, om the 0th, Loss $30,000. There was good sleighing io Connections op the 13th. The stock market was heavy and lower yesterday Gold continued to abey its dowaward tondeacy, and alter soiling at 249 fell to 228},, and closed at 230. Govern- meats wore stroog at an advance. The fail of gold eausea considerable depressive in com- mercial circles yesterday, aad almost put a stop to busi- Bess, In imperied goods scarcely anything was done, and values were wholly mominal, Demestic produce was ull at a decided reductive im prices ta almost all articles. Petroleum was dull aad lower. Oottee was also lower, tinued with steadiness and severity. Teo Unto war Vessels and seventy-eight transports are reported at Hil- ton Head, EUROPEAN BEWS. Our special correspondence from Loadon, Parle, Bertie and Vieona, and our European files, dated to the 5th of Next Popsidency. At the late festival at the Fifth Avenue Amount in Treasury uotes, Seme of theee sicien notes | Hotel, at which Geaeral Butler was the lion of tie evening, the Rev. Renry Ward Beeoher bast of their belief, as the guilty pemon, The evidence | Seized the occasion for “6 few witty and ploas- ant remarks,’ concluding az falows:— ‘ben we bavetried honest, prude, compideratg Abra. —(lavaiier)—and be is tired, vad wo aged acmther nino, if We candot do Helter, Ido trust sbere ig no crieen presont (ooking With ao ineiDuatiog BH at Butler) who would decline to act for a hithe while ag Presidentel 180 . The time may come whew we ne: d gppiee power of wsministration. (Cries of “Yes, clr, he's the mem.") If there ted Dieter who bas genres for udaaia- stration I think that man is. Butter, (Land obeors. ‘Good, good.” “Hravo.”) 1 beg you & waderstand distinctly that F do pot nominate Lim. (Fea, yes,” Cheers, “Baller ") It wilt bo proved In due sre Chiat the New, York Hurstp pomivated him, (Loud cheers.) The Rev. Brother Beecher is right. As a laborious, pains-taking political parson, he has evidently been studying the Heratp to seme purpose. He has discovered that no Presi- dential candidete, of any party or olique, escapes the erucible of the Hwraup. We think Hoboken, &c. Thea we isve our gay city purties and soirees, our dancitg end musical festivals, our balls, theatres—above all, our blessed Opera, which elevates ony musicul (as'es and adds & crowning lustre $0 our fashionable society. Truly, Old Winter & not without his joys and his jingles, his glitger and bis gorzeousness. And in the midst,of alb our @:joyments we do nob forget the poor, the poorly .clad, poorly housqd, poorly fed; but add another pleasure to aie of joys by the satiafaction we experience im alleviating the miseries of the unfortunate. Practical Deniings With tke Great Slavery Quvstion. For the past thirty years the country hee been troubled with theories about slavery. Garrison, Grevicy, Wendel) Phillips, Suetmer, Ciase, Peecber, Cheever and many others have talked-and wrilten about-slavery aud its absti- tion uuti Gnally they fulke@ and wrote the thesé few facts to show that New York should not be either Londoa, Paris and other cities in Europe im cultivating @ knowledge of the diseases te which the equine race amd other domestie animals is heir to. Furthermore, according te the last census, there are in the United States 7,245,011 horses and mules anv! © $1,519,360 Other demestic animn’s, not ineluding dogs. Ht the amouxt of capital ($1,107,490,25) whicks- these’ avimals are therein estimated to be worth fad been ievested in avy other budge, everyprecaution would kuve been taken to protect amd guawd it agaivst-loas, 1s is ior the benefit’ of the government, as well = of indl- viduals, Maat this large intezest shopld not be allowed to’ remair any longer unpretec\ed. Yhe best way to protec it is to encourage she esiatAishment of a scl) of veterinary inetree. tion im_ this city, fronm which well eduvated — practitioners san gradvite to accsmpany. our urmies, wuere they would) be productive of am country ito a great civil’ war. These loqua- cious and scribbling parsons aw@ politicians alt bad their theories about the peculiar institu- tion; but none of them Nad-auy practical ideas about it, and none of thew cowtd present » and avy larger pumber at same price, An extra eopy | November, contain very interesting details of the news will be sent to clubs of twenty. Tacs rates make the | by the Australasian. Wrexty Herat the cheapest publication in (A: country. Miss Mary Lee, an Amorican lady, has been married in ‘Tho Burorean Epimio, every Wednesday, at Six cents | Paris to a Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, an able diploma- Per copy, $4 per anvam to any part of Great Britain, or tist apd accomplished gentiemac. Pag however, pate ays 2 Oa ‘Caange | be might traly say, too, from the deyolopments jour market was y, one & 260, lower. i rap esi yy ee see of permit ayes oe ce ag sabe Mie demand, and lower. Oats wore ta moderate demand, | DOM Y °°Pa BPR, Cyt, th te Dut dull and declining, The perk market was duli and and the copper from the dross, The Rev. decidedly lower, closing very irregular. Beef was active | Brother Beecher, however, is a little ahead of | Focal oulable attount of gyod to ths’ cavalzy service, and eave'mo immense expeniiture to ‘eke? government,-by their treatment: of’ sick, veounded and otherwise disakted horses. 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Te principal persons against whom It was generally conceded that Napoleon's’ interview | and @rm. Lard was leas active, at easier prices. | us in nominating his Presidential candidate for W gaed wes dull and depressed. Freight were quiet, 1868, before the dust and emoke of the great battle of 1864 have entirely cleared away; but, What Preside: Lincoln. Bhowtd Do— | quick as he lias beon, Beecher is behind Wet- Proposed dit. to the South. more in hofsting the flag of Butler. ‘Acting There never was a greater moral victory | upon the hint thus thrown owt, with General achieved since the establishment of the repub- | Butler's double nomination, we are constrained, lie thaa the re-election of Mr..Lincoln. Gen. | though two or-three years abead of the time, to Grant has atyled it a double victory, and euch | take a look over the whele sevedule of the it is, for it is a triumph over the weak and | Presidential oandidates. surviving and the ignoble policy which advocated peace at the | candidates killed off in the tate election. We cost of national bosor, and it is a great triumph | think they may properly be divided into three for republican institutions, the downfall of | classes:— which the foreign enemics and pretended In the first class stand those able, efficient, friends of the American natibm portended as | gucccesfal and popular military leaders Gene- the result of our unbappy internecine strife. | ral Grant, of Illinois; Generals Stberman and The whole North was never more united upon | Sheridan, of Ohio; General Thomas, of Virginia; any question than it is at this moment upon | General Hancock, of Pennsylvania—all of the with the King of Prussia were underiaken with the imperial view of avoidiag an ovil which would ciroum- amount of postfacto argument which was likely to evolve 80 much of mystery that the London journals expressed almost a wish for the speedy execation of ¢be criminal. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Superintendent Keanedy, of the Metropolitan poliee, having become aware of certain extensive forgeries which had been committed in this and other States, about ‘six weeks ago gave the case iuto the charge of some of the detectives of this city, fo be “worked up,” and they have since been diligently engaged io it, and with very the industry of the police has resulted in bringiog charges are named Walter Patterson, Michael O’Brien, Ira Garadier, George F. Coughlin, Hugh MoNellis, John St. Clair and Spencer Pettus, The four first named have been arrested. The other two are still at practical plao for. abplishiag’ slavery and pro- viding for the. slaves whe were’ freed. Since the oufbreak of this war’ thesn tteorists have been still more at fault. Even General Butler, ‘whom Ward Beecher recommended the other evening a8 aman of great administrative abi- lity, has not been able to gripple with this great problem. He simply discovered'» name— that ot contraband—t+ which to distinguish the negro in bis.relations to us during. the early part.of the war. This was a very clever and original idea for the time; but it did'lietle or nothing towards settling the question of'siavery, and was ouly useful as @ sort of temporary ex- pedient. But while these philosophers were talking and writing about the negro, the war developed two practical statesmen, able to grasp and solve the whole matter. One of these states- aminstitution is & process of’ organization” ta this city, under an act of incorporation passed on the 6th of April,-2857, and the’ pubjic are, invited to co-operate/with the ineorporatozim periseting its organiastion. Lyperenpent a8 Cowrnastep wis’ Pane’ Journsaism.—The Tribane of yesterduy’ comes* ‘out with the statement that for the last year it~ has tees published without profit, ead tuat om its weekty edition the net oss-has amounted te many theusands of dollars. It is consequently” obliged to raise the price of its issues to ite’ subscribess. The cause assigned for thie en- pleasant condition of things is the deproviation: of the currency below the ‘specie standard, « which it says compels it to buy paper ‘and- other materials at a cost considerably above the full smoust received from its subscribers. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place,—Tusetmoxr4t 70 7 the subjugation of the rebellion. It is true | army in the field; and Admirals Farragut, Por- Now this is all very well to state, but it wilt! e ae = en pipe pty vats Bary Pabercam age oe that a very large minority vote was cast for | ter and Dupont, of the savy. men is @ leading man at the Nowh; the | not bear examination. The Henarn, notwith pire dawrex, THEATRE, Broadway.—Vrotims~PRO" | 11 ses of thelr alloged series of frands, the investiga. | Geueral MoClellan; but it was because of his| In the second class of availables we may other is leading men at the South. | standing similar causes have. been operating: NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tar Oxtccer, WALLACK'S TREATRE, Broadway.—Rosepa.s. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Basgs ix raz Woop— Pavt Par. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Rose or Castite NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae StRaxcen— 08: Hauorp Hawk—Durcuman's BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broa: ‘Trained Docs—Commopore Puxroemancks—Day and ing. BRYANTS’ MINSTREL’S, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broad. —Sexeca Inpurs— ‘at Gime. Deamarioc way.—Ermioriax Songs, DANoxs, BURLESQUES, &c.—Foor- | Lincola’s administration, but pledging the Tammany do FALLS ON Dx Kanrer. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—L'B cmetum PeRILKUSE AND THE FEAR! — ye ru. Lrar—Ergiorian Boxos, CAMPBELL'8 MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery — Yanixp sxp Excirixo MBLANGE or Etuior! — How Anr You Grexnnaons, Sey * GALLE DIABOLIQUE. 885 Broadway.—Rosxar Hauiee HIPPOTHEATROS, Fourteenth street.—Doc axp Mon- xxY Actoss—Kquestaian, Gruxastic axD AcROsatiC Ex- FERTAINMENTS. DODWORTH HA 806 B: — AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway. Pinouisns, Bnemeone aa, Ot Becadway.Bariars, HOPE CHAPEL, 72) Broadway,—W oopsorre' miaN Troure or Guass Bowens. pnt VAN AMBURGH & CO.'8 MAMMOTH. SSeacusts, Mr. Jon's, P.M. 639 and 641 Broadway.—Open from 10 A, M. to COOPER INSTITUTE.—Da F ‘i S00! TE.—De. Frezcistox's Mrsramious New York, Thursday, Nov. 17, 1864. An £HE BSITUATION. The rebels have of late been engaged in the construc, Yon of a dam across a small creek which empties into the Appomatiog river, sear Petersburg, with the design, roadway.—Covar Canps— | perpetrated is supposed to involve @ eum of about (Union. ton of which was commenced in the Tombs Police Court, and will be continued to-day. This case involves @ forgery of the name of Mr. Richard D. Lathrop, of this city, on acheck on which the money was drawn from the Bank of Commerce, The whole series of forgeries avowed sentiments in favor of maintaining the | rank General Hooker, of California; Generals material difference between bis position and | Roseorans, of Ohio; General Logan, of Illinois; that of Mr. Lincoln upon the continuance of | Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Vice President the war until the dignity of our flag was | elect, and others. These are all men who respected and the laws were obeyed. In this | “till live.” light the South views the issues of the late elec- In the third class, or among the dead men, tion and our position to-day, and in this light | killed off or worn ont, we mey enumerate also the subject is regarded by foreign Powers. | General McClellan, General Fremont, W. H. The time bas come wken President Lincoln | Soward, Salmon P. Chase, General ‘Cameron, may be meguanimous. He should adopt | Horatio Seymour and all the Seymours, all the the humane suggestions of Gen. Butler | Biair family and all the Woods, General Tom and send a mission of peace to Rich- | Ford, General Milroy, General Hunter, General mond, . offering an unfettered amnesty, | Buell, George H. Pendleton, Clement L. sccompanied by a fair proppsition to | Vallandigham, fiddling Fillmore and poor the people and ‘leaders of the South to lay } pierce. down their arms and come back into the old Now, let the Rev. Brother Beecher lay by Union, fraternally and iu good faith, under the | this olassification of Presidential availables or constitution and the laws enacted in conso- aspirants, living and dead men, and see if at nance with it, & delegation of distinguished | the end of three years the Heratp bas not, in men bearing cach a proposal would be wel- ! almost every case, hit the mark, includiog comed in Richmond, if we can measure popu- | General Butler. After a long and eventful lar feeling by the signs of the times, Let the} experience in American politica we bave come offer be based upon Mr. Seward’s plan, as ex-| to the conclusion that a first class military pressed to the French goverament—that is, for | obieftain possesses, all the elements required the Southern States to send their representa- | for a first class Presidential candidate, and all tives to both houses of Congress as heretofore, | the qualifications demanded for a first rate where their seats are still waiting for them and | President. General Washington and General thelr colleagues from the North will weloome | Jackson were men of this description. General them. This would be the true convention of | Harrison and General Taylor belonged, as all the States—a convention Congress, where, wilitary leaders, toa lower rank. But, as be- if there be anything wrong in our logislation, | tween the profession of war and the profession anything oppressive to any sectién, it can be | of the law, we hold that a second rate soldier remedied by the common voice of all. $250,000 Ata meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee last night, provision was made for the election on next Tuesday eveuirg of delegates to ward conventions for the nomination of candidates for the charter offices. Resolutions were adopted condemning the policy of Mr. mocracy to a support of the national government in all Constitutional measures for the maintenance of the The Cctoder term of the United States District Court ‘was opened yesterday by Judge Netson. The business of the term includes indictments principally against parties charged with passing counterfeit currency notes, embez- ziing letters and enticing soldiers to desert, ‘The Board of Education met last evening. The Mayor sent in © communication nominating W. B. Eager, Jr., John Hecker, James Kelly, Andrew Mills, Jas. W. Gerard, Joho H. Anthon and 8. Buckbee for School Jespectors, in accordance with the new law, This was re‘erred to Committee on E'ections and Qualifications, Mr, Calkins was reelected Assistant City Superintendent, Mr. Jj Norman was elected to the same Office, hitherto filled by Ia tho Gensrat Sessions yesterday Charles Feltuer, in- Ajcted fo> « fc:oulous assaalt upon officer Byrnes, of the ‘Twonty-second preciuct,on the 26th of June, pleaded Guilty to assantt and vaitery. George S. Byrne pleaded guilty toan assault and battery committed upon Michael Corey. The defendants were remanded for sentencd. ‘The Grand Jury brought in a large number of indictments, which will be tried this week. ‘A meeting of the Ladies’ Contra! Association of Re- Nef was held last evening at Cooper Institute, The large Union at all hazards, so that there was no | Banks and Butler, of Massachusetts; General |. Both are distinguished for administrative capacity. Indeed, although directly con- nected with the conduct of the war, they have greater talents for administration than for generalship. The one is a shrewd, intelligent and sagacious Yankee, who compre- hended the slavery situation as sooa as he visited the South, The other is a Southerner, who has owned slaves and aiways lived among them, and who consequently knows all about them, understands all their capacities and necessities, and is aware of the proper meape to give them freedom and to take care of them, and induce them to take care of themselves, alter they have received the boon of manumis- sion. The one holds a majer genoral’s position in the United States Army. The otber is at the head of the armies and navy of the so called confederacy. The one is Major General Bauks. The otber is Joflerson Davis. Seff. Davis’ pian of manuwiseion is laid down in his recent message to the rebel Congress. It is to gradually enlist the slaves into the rebel army, by giving them freedom and a small farm by way of bounty. His organs develop the p'an in all its details, and labor to show that it is asimple bargain between the slaves and the rebel government, and that the masters have no more right to ask for compensation for their freed negroes than they have to ask compensation for their conscripted sons. This is a keen and novel argument, and leaves the slaveholder no ground to stand upon. If it prove convincing, and Jeff. Davis’ plan against it, has never been so prosperous as i> has been during the period covered by the- Tribune's 4 ff ulties. Tuis, too; be it remem-- bered, while ite expenses have been enor: mously increased by the improvements which - it is constantly making in the organization of’ its various departments. The true cause of the- Tribune’s embarrassments lies not -in the de preciation of the currency, but in the tact thas it is the mere organ of a party. If.such be ite- condition, what must be that of: the Times, World, and Daily News? They must, indeed have a hard time-of it, That it is to their party relations, and no other cause, the impecunioua~ condition of these journals is owing is mede evident, not merciy by the facts-whioh we state in regard to ourselves, but by the prosperity of another daily journal: which pursues a similar independent course, Independence of party is the only key te. newspaper success. A journal bound by suck ties cannot maintain the high, intellectual, moral and political elevation which a popular organ should aim at. Thus circumstenced, i must constantly be dragged down to the level of the corrupt and debasing influences that surround it. But there is-another and stronger reasem still why at this time party journals should be unable to hold on their course thrivingly A mighty revolution bas swept over the coun- try, and all the old party landmarks have bee destroyed. Neitber politicians nor journalisty with a few exceptions, know exactly. wheres hall bout three-quarters full of Indies and gontie in the White House is superior to a first class ele rciep giciiese-encnsleonae lg aapgcahy RAG Poller raperted.a tat att sap sant rop. | It is not necessary that in making.such @ | lawyer. Thus, even General Taylor, though | °° adopted, thea slavery is abolished | they atand. For the present and for some time Droaking it and flooding tte Union lines, thus driving | resented, and a list of the delegates, representing about | proposal to the South Mr. Lincoln should take | only a short time in the Presidential office bo- without any trouble, and .the negroes | ¢o come only the independent journals, whick back oar army and regaining some of the ground which | fifty branches, in New York, New Jersey, Coonectiont, | any issue upon the slavery question. Let are amply provided for after the war. | have enabled the country to steer through ite as beon 80 galiant!y wrested from them by Grant's sol. diers. Works to counteract this arrangement have been constructed on the Union side. General Eagap, fore he died, will compare favorably in that position with Van Buren, a first class lawyer; and we have no doubt that General Harrison, had he lived through his term as President, Massachusetts, and otber States. Mr. Knapp, Associate Secretary to the Sanitary Commission, addressed the meeting, showing how the commission does its work. O:her speakers fullowed, avd the meeting, which opened that settle itself in its own way by the gradual process of abolition, if, indeed, it is not al- ready virtually dead. An outcry against such Tf, on the other hand, Jeff. Davis’ plan be op- posed and resisted, then the confederacy is abolished, and the negroes will come under the difficulties, will exercise any influence with the people. The Jribune and the otber.organs of the old political parties may raise their prices who bas had the superintendence of these, was | with prayer, closed with s bovediction a measure might be raised by the radicals; but | would bave left a record eclipsing thut een bg Pik oii ey a a or resort to any other financial make-shift that... wounded im the arm on Sunday night by hie ery Cagle as reps d einey pitas all the conservative republicans and conserva- | of either of those technical, pettifogging pata of if Re aon fi ald careat a © | they choose, but it will not save rr They numbered 3,007, f : ‘i : the P eal & rebel picket, while making an examination of thom. A he sember tended Yo Co6 okmad Gate cf Tie8, was 166,600) tive democrats would hail it with unbounded | jawyers, Buchanan, Fillmore, or poor to buildup the Union and a Saanenia will find the ground continue to slip from. abarp fight, apparently without any important result, oc- Ourred between the pickets infront of a portion of the satisfaction, and the cry of the noisy agitators would be drowned in the voice of the people. Pierce. In this view we oan hardly class Abraham Lincoln as a dyed-in-the-wool ‘The balance of the commutation fund is now $43,791 70. ‘The “World's Health Association,” which met at Hore it down, and now he seems more than likely te under them until they arrive at a dtate of total bankruptcy. There is but one hope. of salva- Army of the Potomac on last Monday night. An attack | Chapelon Tucsday, reassembled yesterday, Dr. Thrall, | A fair offer to restore the Southern States and | lawyer. The backwoods or prairie lawyer aoe —_ wun ae, the rebellion and | tion for them; and we make them’s present of by the enemy in considerable force is dally looked for. of the Water Cure cigs Ane aod it every man in them to their original status in” is never dyed in the wool. His mind posciondy) nat seg SS the advice. Let them cut clear Of party. ties, No toformation of the exact whereabouts of Genera, | pee naphay a Baths: Gweases which atict bu. | ¢ Union, untrammelled- by any conditions | is not warped and twisted out of its P hoon and take to serving the people at-large. When. Sherman bas yet been made public. A Nesbville | Gespatch states that the rebel General Hood's army is Still in the neiguborbood ef Fiorence, Alabama, one corps Of tt being on the north side of the"Tennessee river. The bad condition of the roads, it is said, prevents Hood mak_ fog any active demonstration. Over two thonaand Usion Soldiers ieft Indianapolis, Ind., on Tuesday, for active | Service Ia the field, and five thousand still remain there. | The Richmond Whig covtaics rumors that Hood took Decatur, Alabama, and captured the garrisen of eight | thousand troops, half of whom were colored, on the 2éth | Ul. A rebel attack on Huntsvitle, Alabama, is aiso | Teported The Montgomery Mau of the Teh inet. is expecting “in eurly advance upod Augusta or Mecon”? by Sherman. The Richmond zaminer ridicules the idea of any seach movement, The latest rebel newspapers hive an amusing despaich tm reference to tne cavalry fighting in the Shenandoah valley on Saturday last, of which our correspondents have furnished the particulars,and in which the rebels suffered severely, one portion of them being driven through Front Royal by Geoerai Powell, who captured from them two } cannons, one hundred and fifty prisoners and consider. able ammunition, This rebel despatch says that Ebert Gan's men were driven back with beavy loss, including two bundred prisoners captured, while Early's lors” was Blight, Brigadier Genera: Tyler Ras forwarded to the War Department in Wasbington a black flag captured | from Early's command jn August Inst. The efciency and activity of General Sheridan's cavalry is shown in the fact that the First division of it, under Merritt, bas captured during the prevent campaign twenty nine pieces of artillery, two thousand prisoners, eigbteca caissone, one bundred wagons and ambalances and fourteen battle age. General Pope, commanding the Department of the Northwest, in bis report of adlaire in his district for the past year, eays that he proposes \o do away entirely with | and, by way of variety, entertained the audience io j what they ple save obedience to the laws, and with Grant | just proportions by the ancient quibbles and and Sherman meantime still pressing the re- | catches and chop logic of the law. We must bellion to its last shifts, such an offer, we ven- } consider Honest Old Abe as a rail splitter, ture to say, would not be despised. If the | and even in that capacity he has, in securing a South should reject it, then the onus of pro- | second term, proved himself more thana match longing the war would be with them, and the | for any of our lawyer Presidents, from Van Bu- whole world would justify our goverument | ren down to Buchanan. in pursuing it to the bitter end. But wef General Butler is a first class lawyer; but be have little anticipation that such @ mis- | is only a second rate general, and therefore a sion would be rejected. Should the lead- | second class Presidential candidate. And 80, ers be disposed to refuse, it is very probable | for the edification of Brother Beecher, we might that the people would rise up aad repudiate | ge on with our comparisons. We think, how- them. It would lurdly be safe, in the present | ever, we have made out our case, whioh is this: exhausted condition of the South, to oppose any | that the man who bas been developed in the H meusure calculated to accomplish an honorable | military profession into a first rate general is manity whic should be reso:ted to asa medieine. Dr. Spauider, of Penvsylvanta, deliverea.a long and carefully prepared address on tho subject, axpostog the various quack medicines imposed upon the public by unprinoi- pled practffioners of the allopathic school, and contend ing that the resuita which bave been attamed from pro- per hygtevic treatment bave boon so satisfactory as to render hydropathy one of the m nccessiul and popu. lar modes of medical treatment now in use. Several lndiew participated in the proceedings of the Convention, short lectures on the subject of women's rights, dress, fesbion, &c. Mrs. Jones, one of the lady speskere, in concluding her r4drers, hoped that the time was not far Aistent when tnties cold wear what thoy pleased, do el, go where thoy pleased, and retarm when toy pleased, without being under the contros of wep agarnet thetr Wri. : | the city, as well as several distia: Mayor Gunther bes offered arewurd of five hundred dol. | peace. Tve germ of disorganization and de- jars for the apprebecsivn au¢ couviction of the man who, on Sunday morning. the 6th inet., imu:dered policeman Jo seph Nulet, of the Twenty-vinth precinct. Gificer Noiet, it will be remembered, bad arrested the man for attempt: ing to break into a disreputabie Bouse in Twenty-fourth strest, and was conveying bim to tho station house. They had proceeded as far as Twenty-pinth street, when the prisoner suddenly drew a pistol, fired tbe fata! ebot, and ercaped. ‘The B ton merchants and ship owners gave a banqnet on Tuesday evening to Captain Winslow, of the famous Ko srsarge, aod bis officers, Tnore were about throe bundred guests present, including {pe leading men of \ished gentiomen of pational reputation. Edward Everett was one of the speakers on the occasion, Captain Winelow gave an ac. count of the sinking of the privateer Alnbama by the Kear- and was received in the most enthusiastic manner, igo Lieutenant Thornton, cue of bis officers. meeting of the Toronto City Council on last Mon postion put to bim formation regard. jan Brotberboed in ter mast be convinced by this time that their only chance of safety lies in a return to the Union and submission tothe law. It is no difi- of an incipient independence which, it must be | clear to them, is wholly impossible of accom- plishment. It is, in truth, the only ark of sal- tracted war, the result of which must be utter ruin to the Power which is weakest in resources; and we need not define upon which side the greatest weakness exists. Deprived of all hope of foreign aid, as Davis admits, the rebellion must rely upon its internal resources, and upon the last white man within its limits to fill up the armies before the arming of siaves is A day night, the Mayor, in answer to asking whether he bad eny posit ing tho alleged intention of t Baffalo to make a raid on Canad ceived a letter on the subject which be had deemed it proper to forward to the Provincial Secretary, bot which would be made public in afew days. The Mayor has resigned his position as President of the Toronto Pelice Commission, because the other Commissioners refused howl in the Richmond papers against any pro- poritions for peace, unless based upon Southern independence; but Richmond journalism is not moralization is tructilyiag so rapidly among | will make a first rate President. them—both leaders and people—that the lat-| profession, in that broad, comprebensive and a first class candidate for the Presidency, and The editorial independent field which is above the contracted sphere of parties, politicians, parsons and petti- foggers, stands next te the military profession cuit task. It is not derogatory to the diguity | as good school for the Presidency. But whether the Rev. Brother Beecher belongs to this editorial school or not, it will bardly require a legal mind like that of Generel vation on the stormy sea of a bloody and pro- | Butler to determine. We have only to say to the Rev. Brother Beecher, in conclusion, that bis nomination of General Butler may possibly hold good, but that it is altogether more probable that it will be superseded and forgotten by the host—in addi- tion to our list—o! more available candidates for the Presidential succession that may come into the foreground within the next three years. resorted to, according to the spirit manifested | Candidates that are set up now will be knocked in the rebel Congress. It cannot maintain | gown and cast aside by the course of events iteelf long in this emergency. We hear a wild | pefore the fight of 1868 begins. Toe Winter in Town anv Counrry.—One snow does not make winter, any more than in actual operation in Louisiana, and ts fully explained and defended in the General’s recent epeech in Boston, a synopsis of which we pub- lish in another column. Carefully considered, it is not so very different from the plan of Jeff. Davis. Great minds may not move in precisely the same grooves, but they work upen paral- lel lines and accomplish the same results. General Banks proposes to give the negro bis freedom, and so does Jeff. Davis. General Banks also proposes to free the wife and family of the slave, and although this is not expressly mentioned in Jeff. Davis’ plan, yet it is logi- eaily and practically Included and cannot be omitted. General Banks proposes to give the freed negro good wages, and Jeff. Davis proposes to give him a good farm. With either hecan support himself and his family. Both Banks and Davis propose to allow the emancipated child of freedom to remain at the sunny South, which isa great doal better than transporting him to the frozen North. Both agree, moreover, in using him as a military engine as much as possible, and the plans of both were obviously suggested by the exigen- cies of the war. We like General Banks’ plan, and we like Jeff. Davis’ plan. Each is practical and efficient. We suppose that wherevor our armies reach the plan of General Banks will be adopted, and that Jeff. Davis’ plan will be carried into effect inside the rebel lines. Between them there will soon be little left of slavery or of those .theoretical aboli- tionists whose only scheme seemed to be to free the megroes first, and allow them to starve to death afterwards. A Cottxoe or Veterinary Sorcrors IN New Yors.—The necessity of the establish- ment of a college of instruction in veterinary surgery in this city has long been apparent. the administration is right let them give ite cordial support, and, when wrong, let them as. firmly oppose it. Above all things, let them. remember that they have a great moral re sponsibility resting on their shoulders, and that the: political corraption and profligacy which have been so near destroying us have stil to be steadily combatted. The snake is scotcted but not killed. It is by bearing these: facts in mind that the\Hexatp. bas attained ite, present unexampled position of prosperity. There is nothing to prevent the now nearly de- furct party organs from profiting by. itm example. Casmet Caanxors.—It is generally. ramored® that President Lincoln is about to take omr advice and make several changes in his Cabi- net. Banks and Butler are named for the War Department, in place of Secretary Stanton, whe is mentioned in conneotion with the office of Chief Justice. Dupont, Farragut and Wilkes are the favorites for the Navy Department, although Wilkes is now under a cloud in com sequence of the personal spite of the incompe- tent Welles and his contemptible clique. Some good financier should also be ealled to the Treasury Department. Let us bave a Cabinet of practical, energetic men, even if the Presl- dent has to make changes every six weeks to get them. Jerr. Davis VextiLatep sy His Own Com aness.—Mr, Chambers, of the rebel Congress, fs opposed to putting negroes in the rebeR army. He thinks it would make en uncom~ fortable fire in the rear, and also he thinks 1@ fe a measure that, if resorted to at all, shoul® only be resorted to In the last desperate emere gency. He thinks that the desperate emery gency has not yet turned up, and, therefore, the usual style of Indian trentios. He will use the army, , tl t the sentiment of ¢ e swallow makes @ spring. But he wonders that the proposition sbould be to dismiss an officer whom he believes to be cognizans gf | the confederacy—it jg no | the sentiment of the | one awallow makes 9 s ut with the | We baye some veterinary surgeons here; , which he says Is amply sufliciont for the purpose, toe” | srrangymente of the Fenians for tue Sipposed intend people of the coniederasy. Tt is only ihe voe | drat now doles Trilling séneations both in ib , but 4 and thelr qualifica- | made now. If, he says, “the Southern army force good behavior on the part of the red men and to Preveot imposition and unfair dealing with them on the pert of the whites. A vessel which has arrived at Halifax from Bermuds, ‘brings the nows was at Five Fatbome Hole on the 7th inat, She bad eap- tured bark and two schooners in addition to tbose be- fore reported. A steamer, suppored to be the United States ganboat Quaker Vity, was seen on inst Saturday morniag, Of the North Carolina coast, in intivude 94 45, longitude 75 30, 4 the rebel privateer Chickamauga | or raid, "Rew. . Orders have been issued from {he State miliary heedquarters at Harrisburg for the immediate eprot ment of the militia of Pensayivenia, under the pro- vietona of an act of the last Legislature. Forty rebel prisoners escaped from Oamp Morten, near Indianapdlie, by scaling the fence, on Monday last, Teo others, who sueceeded im getting outelde the enclosure, ‘wore rearrested beforo they got far, Extensive coal fields have recentiy been discovered im the vicinity of Fort Rice, Minnesota. ‘The Montreal court bes granted the application of the Bt Albans raiders for a delay of further peoceedings in their case until the 13:n of next month, in order to en- pee a preterea nihil of a few miserable politicians. the Southern people would not only accept the with us in the inevitable war with those foreign chasing apotber steamer, upon which she was gaining co Major General Peck, who was assigned by Genersi Dix, ourly iv November, to the defence of the northern fron ter, to preveot raids serces tbe border and to preserve che peace generally, bas reiinquisbed sid commana. | able them to procure evidence. ‘The United States gunboat Niphon arrived at this port | yesterday from off the Wilmington bloc! She will to Boston. | The examination of the cberge ageinst Mr. John B. Manning, broker, of No. 19 Wall street, was yesterday | concluded tn the Tombs Police Court, and Mr. M. was fill up the ranks of the army, in order that the war if Its humane purposes should fait. ————————————— KK town and country, The emotions are eminently We believe that if Mr. Lincoln were to send a | pleasurable. In the country it is regarded as few distinguished men to Richinond now that | the harbinger of those bracing nights, when upon the glistening snowy surface the sleighs terms offered, but they would be willing to join glide merrily and cbeerily along to some gay country dance or village frolic, in which mirth nations which for four years past have boen | and joy tumultuously abound. It is also the insulting us by their insidious and hostile | country season for fireside festivals, in which policy. Now is pre-emineutly the momont for | both young and old join with a zest that makes Mr, Lincoln to make a fair, honest and frator- | even the fingers of Old King Frost upon the nal offer to the South for the restoration of | window panes dance as if in sympathetic glee. peace, and we call upon him to doit. Mean-| In the city there fs not much sleighing, it is time itis the duty of the people at the North to | trae; but, then, we have our grand skating carnivals upon the frozen and shaven surface mission of peace may be backed up by an | of the Park lakelets, upon the numberless and unmistakable determination to continue the | well conducted skating ponds on all*sides of us—{a Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Jersey City, | tons are inadequate to the purpose. This country is celebrated for its stocks of splendid horses. It has the fastest trotters in the world, and the superiority of {ts racing blood bas been tested and acknowledged on the English turf, The war has given a great impetus to horse raising all over the country; and we can now be said to present as complete and form!- dable a cavalry force as any nation in the world. The high character of our horses is not only appreciated by our own citizens, but foreign monarchs send here to purchase their mont serviceable and dashing steeds. The Emperor of the French has had several orders exocuted fot the purchase of American horses, which are stated to be the nonpareils of his extensive stud. It needs but the statement of was prostrated and the Southera threatened with subjugation,” he could stand it. Can it be that they are? No; Knows better than that, for he has read ty message of President Davie; and, therefore, 7 sees that this question, whiok ought only ” come up in « case of desperate emerge’ «has been raised at the ond of # campaly most successful ever vouchsafed to the ( jonfed., orate arms.” And here “Mr. Chambers t 194 froma the President’s message to show tthe ! sident himself had presented & mm ogg view of the military prospects of the South.’ “And why,” says Mr. Chambery | «ig the coum try agitated by this questioy now, when the horizon is so bright?” Thid ig what Artemus Ward calls “sarkesum.” , Fis to preity hard om, es