The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1864, Page 4

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The attack of Fiiday evening wes a triftug effair, and ne soon ropulsed, without apy loge whatever to the “PRionists, who maintained their position, General Jailer reagsumed command of the Army of the James ‘Jo last Friday morniog. By an arrival at Cairo from New Orieane the ¢eath of Pooral Canby, commander of the Weat Mississippt Mill Gary Division, is reported. He is suid to have died in New Orleans op the evening of the 12th inst, @fecis of the wound inflicted by @ guerilla on the White river, Arkansas. \t would neem that never will “the wicked coare their troubling” in Miseour! from the When Price’s invasionary army was driven comp ly over the border, the good and foyal people of the State fisttered themseives that efter all their severe gufferinge and privations they were at Inet to have @ taste of the sweets of pasce and qu s. But the murderous guorillas, of whom 1 was thought Missouri wee rid, are again at idabie numbers tn some eections work in pretty for A gang under Diek Berryman and are plundering willing the Uni in Madison and Wayne counties, astern part of the State, the remnants ninanded by Bil! Anderson, who bas onder the lead of his brother, still prowl- b North Missouri, robbing and murdering not Deen killed, are, jog tb: Ouly Unioniste, but even secessionists, while other parties Of these outiaws are cerrying bavoc in various directions where they were thought to be complulety cleared out, In addition to ali these horrors ere ‘s & report current Bhat @ invade the £ BIg about to | zens in | ers out of ste from Arkan many counties bave driven the rebel eympe: Ghelr midst We give thie morning some additions) particulars re- Farding the grand campaign in which General Sherman is Bow engaged. The Georgia Legislature is now ii ses Bion at M ageriile, which ts a point wery con wenlect for s visit from his maguiticeat raiding foros, urd ae many, If not a majority of, the members © y are kpowm to retain thelr old @ection for the Colon, it i# mooted among the prot Dilitics that, on the appearance in their midst of Geueral e Y my repeal the ordinance of eecessio and restore tt to State of the South to ber righttul porition ip a The lest « ensiuar of a rebet attack on Memphie Mico the numerous pre ones, bave not yet been ree ized, Deepatcbes of the 11h from that city eay th Besurogard was Mina, whore ¥ was to join bit. Tho ret ree ting every man they can find, The e 4 « of them known to be sear Me eo foer Gbousand, who are st Collioreville, Mise; but other aller detachmente are said to owe Chalmers and Lopgstreet are reported at Lolly ‘ The Chattanooga (Temn.) Gacetle eaye tbat Conera Beng to nseume ¢ nd of ail the troope of th Fitton ext corpe now to that district Gever bes w his a gafety de Kuoxvitle, Teroessen tiie losser iu the lave fight witp Breckinridge are estimoted at Duodres in wounded Gnd miseiog The erew of the Union stermer Cheeseman, lately exp ured on the Tonnesses river ty Forrest, lave been Paroled, and bave arrived at Memphin. Nivety-siz prroled Union officers bave ato arrived there Bioce y uae withdrawn bimselt out of conve Bient reach of General Sheridan, novhing of a very cele, Florida, will be open to domestic aud foreign com- Morce on and afler the Ist of December proximo, except- ing Ge relates to such articies as ere contraband of war. Confirmation is furnished by New Orleans despatches Of the 12th inst. of the attempt of the commander of the national gunboat Rattler to deliver that vessel to the rebels for # consideration of two boudred thousand dol- lars end one hundred bales of cotion, with a guarantee of safe conduet into Mexico. : The government steamer Pontiac was recently fired upon by one of the South Carolina rebel forte, a ten-inch shel! from which struck ber and killed and wounded soveral of her men. Not the least interesting portion of the contents of this moroing’s Henatp ig m letter from the Richmond cor- respondent of the London Zim-s,to which we have al. tuded op two or three occasions lately, According to the Admissions of the writer, whose sympathies are all with tho “confederacy,” this factitious institution must be at the present time in @ moet rickotty condition, with but @ few more epasmed © gasps left in it. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘There are four ateamsbing from Europe due at Ameri- can ports to-day, one of them (the Monrovia) carrying news five days lator than the report of the Australasian. These vessels éailed in the following ordor, viz:— Day of Sasting. Cunard line are withdrawn from the service, ‘Ibe Cape Town (Cape of Good Hope) Commercial Jour- nal of the 20:h of September, reporting tho state of the markets, says:—“'Though transactions during the mouth Rave becu extremely limited and devoid of speculation, there bas been, on the whole, rather more activity appa- rent In busivess generaily. A considerablo trade has beeu deve in mavufactures and fancy goods. Owing to imports being far beyond our limited powers of imme- diate absorption, but = comparatively small portion of cargces bas as yet been taken by retailers, and, there not being any field ia this market for speculative middiemen, importers have to store aud wait the demand for the re tail trade.’’ Sau Francisco advices Inform us that the late defeat of the Japanese by the allied fleets has resulted in opening to (oreign commerce the inland seas of thatempire, In the fighi!ug the allies bed only twolve killed and fifty. four wounded, while the Japanese loas in killed and wounded was over two hundred. The American steamer Sea King was chartered by our Minister, Mr. Progn, to take part in the engagementa with tho natives, and did g00d service. The #ploadi@ Catholic Cathedral of St, Peter and St. Paul, in North Eighteenth street, Philadelphia, was de- dicated yesterday. The edifice was crowded to its ut- most capacity on the occasion, and hundreds who desired to euter were compelied to go away without being able to Goso, A large number of the most eminent dignitaries oF the church took part im the sacred ceremonics, about two hundred priests altogetbor being present. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Areubishop Spauld- ing, of Baltimore, The building hag beeo tm process of erection during the past eighteen years, An interesting account is published of the voyage up the rivers of our Northwestern torritory of what is styled “ibe idaho Fieet.’’ This fleet consisted of two Very light draught vessels—the Chippowa Falls aad Cut. tor—which le/s 3. Paul, Minnesota, tp the middie of last April, an@ went several hundred miles up the Missouri river, to the Yellowstose, and navigeted that stream a considerable distance above its mouth. Daring @ fight on last Soturday evening in a house in Monroe street, near Corloars, Kdward |’ arker was go ee- verely stabbed in the abdomen that 18 is thought be can- Bot recover, A mau named Fravois Fitzgerald was ar. rested and locked up on the churge of being the person who lofiicted the wounds. Mary Strand, a girl seventeen years old, was yester- day arrested in @ Cherry sireet dance bourse, ané com- mitted to the Tombs, on the complaint of Jobo brown, of No. 7$ Usk street, who alleges that she stole from him over two bundred dollars on last Thursday Sight, while he was under the effects of a dose of druggod wine which Lieutenant Colonel A. P, Hopkins, of the One Hundred and Thirty-third New York Voiuoteer regiment, died in this city on leet Saturday, from ppcumonia, after an illness of nearly three month. Colonel Hopkins took part inthe sioge of Port Hudson and many other engage- mente in the Department of the Gulf. The funeral of Captain Duncan Richmond, late of the Ove Hundred and Thirty ninth New York Volunteers, who received bis mortal wound in the battle of Cedar creek, op the 19th ult., took place yesterday in Brooklyn. bY vices were conducted at Mr. Beecher’s church, Aud the romaine were accompanied to Greenwood by Com- | paoy K of the Thirteenth National Guard regiment, a lodge of the Odd Fellows and Pugive Company No 3. Lieutenant William H. Cusbing, the destroyer of the rebel ram Albemarle, vieiied the Board of brokers on Saturday, and received a hearty reception from both “bulls” and “bears.” The young hero was introduced to the most prowinent meno of the Board, and spent au agreeable half hour tu recetving their congratulations Tho National Thanksgiving is to be observed on Thurs- day uext with more than the usual ceremonice in all the Catholic churches of this diocese, Archbishop McCloskey has given directions for spiritual services and (or prayers on the part of all the faithful that peace may goon be restored to the country. Archbishop Purcell, of Ohio, bas also directed extra observance of the day by those under his ministerial charge. ‘Two formidable Monitor gunboats, pamed tho Shiloh and Etiah, have been for some time in process of con- struction at St Louts. A Gre yesterday at No, 16 North Eighth street, Phila- deipbia, destroyed property valued at two hundred ana fifty thousand dollars, ten thousand of which was ia- sured io New York companies. An act of Congress very important to sbipping mer- chante and shipowners, which goos toto effect on the Let of January next, i published {a this morniug’s Hewat. During the last fifteeo months over five million doliara have been paid over to the Treasurer of the United States by Marshal Keyes, of Mavsachusetis, as the proceeds of sales of captured blocksece rugwers whore cases havo been adjudicated at Boston, The Britis North American newspapers devote much pace to the discussion of the subject which is now up pecmost in the minds of ovr provivolal peiyhbors—the proposed colonial confederation. One very important potet which disturbs the minds of these ed\torial writers tw the question whether the peopie will be allowed to give expression to their feeting in the matior of the vew form ¢ government before it Is inaugurated. We publish this morving a rkeich of the Dubugne (lowa) load mines, with & desoription of their geological formation, the manner of workiog them, aod an estimate of the great value of their yield. ‘Tim ReweasvRSMENT OF Amentoan VesseELa. We give in to-dey’s Henatp alaw passed at | the inst session of Congress requiring all American vessela to be remeasured, in con lormily with the act, on or before the Ist of | Jonuary next, and the tonnage to be carved | or otherwiee pertoanently marked oa the main beam of the The penalty for non- compliance with the requirements of the jaw is a forfeiture of all claim to the protection of the United States. The new measurement will greatly increase the aggre- gate of American tonnage and place it far ahead of that of any other nation in the world. Many vessela will register nearly one-third more thao they do at present, and their ae knowledged tonsage, as with English vessels, vessel, @xeltiog charactor bee ceourred to tho Shenandoah | will approximate nearer their carrying oapa- alley, it is reported that a party of our men who & (ow days ago wont out in Rearch of Monby's gue city. The law is an important one to ship- owners, and will command thoir immediate Pee som m~ -94 cusrebelmed by & lareely superior} Consideration. The Milttary Situation—Var Great Operations trom an Auglo-Rebel Point of View. We reprint In another part of to-day’s paper en extract frem the last letter to the London Times, written by its Richmond correspondent. At the present time, when the situation of the two armies near Richmond and the movement of Sherman are the really great topics of the day, the extract in question bas a peculiarly deep interest. Hitherto this correspondent has, on several occasions, spoken the thoughis and wishes of General Lee, and has made bold statements in such a way as to give fair color to the supposition that his words were inspired directly by conversations with that soldier. The Times is moreover so distinctly and even dishonestly committed in favors of the con- federacy that any account of the military situa- tion printed in its columns would state the case as fairly for the Southern cause as com- mon decency would permit. We have, tbere- fore, in this extract, in all probability, General Lee's own view of the mili- tary situation, stated as favorably for the rebel cause as the most unacrapulous up- holder of that cause can possibly state it with- out danger of offending the common sense of his English readora. In what this Richmond correspondent says of the situation in Virginia he is an apologist for General Lee. He does not declare with the crazy Richmond papers, or with the more crazy Northere copperhead papers, that Grant’s campaign is a failure, that Lee is virtually the victor, and that Grant is as harmless to Rich- mond on the James as he would be on the Potomac. On the contrary, he speaks of the “disadvantages of Lee’s position as compared with Grant's.” He perceives the danger of Grant’s presence there, and that Lee, for the sake of safety, ought to drive him away--a fact that we have repeatedly insisted upon, and that the rebel and copperhead papers have studiously kept out of view. He then shows that Lee cannot do this necessary thing, and showing that, in the relative position of the armies, the oue that “acta on the aggressive bas an immense advantage,” shows that Lee cannot act on the aggressive. And why? Be- cause the bard fighting of this terrible summer has crippled him to such an extent that he “cannot afford to hazard even twenty lives in a tentative operation.” Is this the proud and glorious position of the successful general who bas beaten bis adversary all summer, when at the end of the summer the loss of twenty men may endanger his campaign and his cause and the existence of his government? Do al! these, after a summer of successes, usually rest on asingle battle yet to be fought, and a battle whose success may turn on the possession of twenty men, more or lesst Is that general @ very great conqueror whose final succeas cannot be established by a single victory, but all of whose achlevements may be lost in a single defeat? The correspondent pictures Grant as the “stronger, talier, more active and keener sighted”’ of the two gladiators, and de- precates the “numorical inferiority” on ac count of which Lee is compelled to forego the most tempting opportunities to smash Grant to pieces. Lee is pictured as a hero who sighs “Tf I were only stronger!” but heroes do not Teagon in that way usually. Your “if” also bas always been “a great peacemaker.” Grant is praised unatintediy, although without inten- tion, and simply in the endeavor to exculpate Lee for not beating him. He is a general who carries on siege operations from a base that is unassailable; has aline thirty miles long so well drawn that there is not a weak point in it, and can operate on either extremity of that line without bis adversaries being able to tell which is the real movement and which the feint. How many of the great generals of hia- tory bave done this? But the Times correspondent looks for the solution of this struggie to another theatre thao that of Virginia. Lee cannot drive Graut away—tbat he knows positively—and he has hope that Grant will not be able to over- power Lee—that “the Confederates may be able to muintain their present attitude” until winter weather shall put @ period to active operations. But another operatioa may compel Grant to give up bis grand attempt. This ope- ration is Hood's movement on Sherman’s com- mupications and into Tennessee. If that move- ment is euccess‘ul—if Hood compels Sherman to retire into Tennessee, that “great disaster” to Sherman will enable Richmond to “laugh its assailants to scorn.” But that movement has resulted in the most contemptible of all military failures. And what then? Then we are on the other horn of the dilemma. “If, on the other hand, Sherman is able to extricate himself from bis present critical position by either beating or outwitting Hood, thege will be reason tor apprehension about Richmond during the comiug winter the like of which has never existed before.” Here the most that is expected of Shermoen is that he should drive Hood from his communications and hold his position, and that only was to endanger Rich- mond so greatly. But bow much more will that city be endangered now that Sher- man has done so much more than that—now tbat he is even going forward on the groatest aggressive movement of the war. In his state- ments we may see the admission of the Rich- mood authorities that Sherman's movements seal the doom of the rebellion Tux Horiwars.—The holiday season, which always closes the year everywhere throughout the world, and is generally the herald of joy and blessings to the poor, begins this week all over the country in the form of a thankegiv- ng. Itis nota national thanksgiving, in the direct sense of the word, and yet so far all the loyal States bave agroed to bold ft on the same day. By State action the celebration is mado anational one. Our brave soldiers in the field are also to be regaled with » splendid dinner of fat turkeys and other good things provided by the unceasing bouuty of the loyal North. Such an act will be cheering to our soldiers, for it gives them full assurance that they are remémbered at home. This bas been dove for two or three years past to our soldiers and vailora, and on such @ vast scale as to astonish foreigners. We do not feed a regiment, but an army. We take w force of one bundred thon- sand men and send them turkeys, pies, pud- dings and all kinds of good things for a epien- did dinner for one day. We load ships with these things and send thom to our army and to our navy, wherever they may bo. Although we, as a people, are accustomed to Go things on a grand scale, rogardiess of ox- pense, and do not regard this as anything ex- traordinary, the other nations of the world look on as with utter amazement. A poopie in the maldst of @ bloody wat, having tons of thou- sands of soldiers in the fleld, and war ships studding every sca, yet every day expanding into greater commercial importance, and cele- brates its national electious, feasts and boli- days with peace and harmony. Our soldiers’ Thanksgiving dinner shows whet we are capa- ble of doing. It takes A republic to do it. Florida—Precedents lished by England. ‘The case of the rebel privateer Florida com tinues to engage the atiention of the public, and to excite discussions on international law concerning neutrals and belligerents aud their mutual rights and relations. The angry com- ments of certain portions of the English press, ia which Captain Collina’ act is declared to be little less than “piracy,” and calling for the direct interference of all the maritime Powers to compel our government to release the ship, lave excited the apprehensions of the timid, who fear that we shall become embrolled in a war with those Powers if an ample apology is not at once made to Brazil. There are no grounds for these fears. We can have ne com- plications with England in this matter, because itisan affair solely between Brazil and our- selves, and until the diplomatic wheel is blocked no foreiga nation has a right to inter- meddle or to interfere. Besides, the British government, when it comes into court and officiously assumes the position of arbitra- tor, must show that her record is clear of all stains from outrageous violations of neutrality and invasions of the sanctuaries of neutral ports. This she cannot do. Her record is spotted all over with proofs of her utter disre- gard of international law and ber reliance on tbe law of might, and it would be an act of the greatest eflrontery, even for Great Britain, to offer her offices to adjust an affair which can- not, except in the moss distaut manner, affect ber interests, and which the empire of Brazil and the United States alone oan settle between them. The question of how far the Florida sacrificed her rights as a belligerent in neutral waters by capturing and destroying our commerce within three miles of the Brazilian coast, and whether ste did not establish the necessary precedent for her capture by these violations of the neutrality laws, are important ones, and must eater into the consideration of the case. If, as alleged, the Florida disre- garded the restrictions impased by the Brazil- ian government upon be!ligerents seeking asy- lum in the ports of the empire, and forfeited the protection exiended by tbat neutral Power, by making those sanctuaries a base of opera- tions against a Power friendly to Brazil, then there can be little question of the legality of the capture. But all these nice questions will be settled in a fair and manly spirit by the two nations primarily interested in the affvir, end fo doubtful or untenable ground will be taken by either side to prevent an amicable adjust- ment. Meanwhile the friendly offices of Eng- laad can be dispensed with; and, while Brazii and the United States are disposing of the question, we commend to Britain » calut con- sideration of the catalogue of her violations of neutrality, which we publish on another page, where she has established precedents of utter disregard of right or reason and of international law. ‘She catalogue em- braces the wanton and eutrageous destruction of the Danish feet and the capture of Copen- hagen in 1807, without even a shadow of right~aa atrocious violation of law, human and divine, which in its resuits inaugurated a war, swept Denmark’s commerce from the seas and made it prize to the captors, and stripped the kingdom of nearly ali its pesses- sions in the East aud West Indies. And yet Engiand stigmatizes the capture of an Anglo- rebel privateer which depredates on unarmed vessels piracy, and calls upon the maritime Powers to intervene and protect the rights of the weak! ‘Then, again, we bave an inatanco of flagrant violation of the neutrality of a weak nation in the capture of the United States frigate Essex, Commodore Porter, after a memorable contest, by the Noglish men-of-war Phoebe and Cherub, in tbo waters of the neutral port of Valparaiso, Chile, within pistol shot of the beach. Have the champions of the rights of weak nations aud the viodicators of international law for- gotten that precedent? A third giaring viola- tion of the sanctity of a neutral port by the English is presented in the case of tue American privateer brig Geueral Armstrong, captured by boats from a British squadron in the port of Fayal, a Portugal possession, in 1814. There, under the guns of the castle, the General Arnmatrong sustained two boat attacks, and re- pulsed both with terrible slaughter to the enemy, but was finally abandoved, as the English ship stood in and opened fire with her heavy guns. The English afterwards boarded the privateer gnd set her on fire, effectuatly de- stroying her. To the protests and remon- strances ef the Governor Captain Lloyd, the British commander, replied in s menacing spirit, and warned the Governor that “if he suffered the Americans to injure the privateer in any manner be should consider the place an enemy's port, and treat it accordingly.” The fact that some of the inbabilante were wounded and portion of the town injured shows how closely to the town the combat oc- curred. . These examples will suffice for the present to show that England bas established too many precedents of violation of neutrality to appear in court as arbitrator to decide the Florida question with clean band» and a clear con- science. She cannot but with ill grace offer her aid to settle the difficulty, and we caonot, in honor, permit her to interfere in any way with the affair. Tar Reat Peace Procosrrions.—There is o great deal of taik about peage proporitions to the rebels, growing ont of a speech by Judge Pierrepont, at the Cooper Institute prior to, and oue by Gen. Butler at the Fifth Avenue Hotel after the election. But the matter will probably end in a proclamation of the President grant- ing an ainnesty to those people, and inviting them to come back to their allegiauco under the constitution and the laws, and the deci- sions of the Supreme Court affecting the quos- tion of slavery. Jf they chooze to come baok an amoeety like this will give them tue oppor- tunity, aud this is probably what the President will do, In reference to sending commissioners to Richmond, he will doubtless hold to the opinion which he has always maintained: that such @ course of action would he tantamount to recognising the rebels as @ nation, and it would also be bp 60 in Europe, It is held that « lawful government oun only deal with rebels in arms by @ proclamation of am- nosy, with conditiegd, When tiey bare Laid ell tha. down their arms they assume their orlizal rights. Put there fs @ commissioner now on bis way to the rebels who will probably arrange the preliminaries of peace before the meeting of Congress, and before a proclame- tion will be vecessary. It will be manifest enough to the Governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, some day this week probably, that they had better agree upon terms with General Sher- maa, and leave the wreok of the Confederacy in time to save their States from utter ruin. It is clear that Sherman is the real Peace Commissioner now en route to meet these Governors in council at some convenient spot in the cotton States. Let us hear from him The Era of Novelty—Tne War, the Theatres and the Americin People. This is the era of novelty. Just before the outbreak of this civil war we were jogging along very quietly and comfortably and slowly becoming a great nation. We had the same advantages over other nations in a geographical point of view as New York has over otler cities. Nature had kindly given us this start in life and we were making the most of it. Active, enterprising, energetic, industrious men were flocking to this country from atl parts of the world, as they flock to this city from all parts of the country. Cities were springing up like mushrooms in the West. New States were steadily forming and entering the Union. Our commerce was rapidly increasing. Then, in the midst of this peaceful prosperity, came our civil war. The first, the immediate effects of the war were of course bad. Our commerce was destroyed, our manafactories stopped, our business quite upset. For the time it seemed as if we were finally undone; but it soon be- came evident that our troubles were merely the jars caused by reversing the national engine to run in another direction. Leaving pexce be- hind us, we started upon the track of war. Business turned into new channels and became brisker than ever. Manufactories began work again, but upon new materials. Commerce took refuge under the neutral flag and ex- ported and imported as usual. The cities out West continued to grow. The new States re- sumed their prepurations for their nuptiaie with Uncle Sam. Our armies covered tha land, our navy covered the coast— presto! we were @ great nation ali at once. We wented money and we printed it, We wauted supplies for a million of men and they appeared as if by magic. Everything necessary tor the war wae discovered somewhere or other within our borders. Brother Jonathan had taken off his cout to go to work, and all the tools he needed happened to be tying around the house. Thus, all of 9 sudden, was inaugurated the era of novelty. The war wase novelty. The manufacture of the war material was a novelty. An army 6f @ million of soldiers was a novelty. Our navy was a novelty, The iron-clads were a novelty, over which the world has not yet done wondering. Batties were novelties. Canals changing the courses of great rivers were novelties. Fighting major generals, who handled immense masses of men, were novelties to us who were oaly accustomed to the Halls and tbe Sandfords of militia parades. Gunshot and sabre wouuds were noveities, and cvery- body stopped to watch the slow progress of the ambulances. Trade became martial, and men sold thousands of muskets who had never touched a gun before in their lives. Ministers of the Gospel of Peace bocame recruiting officers and preached fire, fury and treedom from the pulpit—although this was oot so much of a novelty after an experience of Brother Beecher and his Sharp rifies. The contraband was a novelty; but the negro was not. The way Butler governed New Orleans was a novelty. So were Cilase’s experiments at teaching piccauinnies the dead languages at Hilton Head. Dupont and Farragut opened the way for Butler and Chase by some novelties in the naval line. Mr. Lincoln’s jokes were novel for u while, but grew stale presently. Seward’s little bell was @ novelty; but it did not become popular. Postage currency was a novelty; but goid and silver coin would be greater novelties, just now. Grant at lust developed into our most startling novelty; for, not content with whip- ping the rebels from the face of the earth, he sent Hooker to whip them in the clouds. But a list of the novelties to which this war has introduced us would be, in fact, a history of the war, and that we have neither time nor space to write. Sheridan’s novel mode of changing a defeat into « victory, and Lieu- tenant Cushing’s novel style of disposing of a rebel ram ought not to be omitted. The fact that an important popular election can take place quietly and wittout disturbance in the midst of a terrible civil war is a historical novelty. Petrolia is a novelty, beyond question, and if the wells are giving out, og come¥persons suppose, this novelty will prove very costly to all concerned. Lowever, we have no more fears of those wells being pumped out than we have hopes of Gideon Wellies being turued out. Philadelphia has a grand novelty in ber cathedral, and is very proud of it; but if we know New York city and Archbishop McCloskey, that pride will havea fall before ten years have passed. In the meantime new and magnificent buildings, like that architectural fantasia, the Acedumy of Design, are in course of ereotion all over the city, and make Philadelphia seem more of a village than ever. Our new aristocracy, dressed in the newest fashions, crowd the Academy of Music to hear Maretzek’s new and brilliaot artists, who are soon to sing the new opera, Don Sebastiano. Our theatres are not behindhand in novelties. Mrs. Wood produces a new comedy cailed Milky While at the Olympic to-night; and good old plays, with new ecenery aud novel custs, may be seen at Wallack’s, the Winter Garden, Niblo’s and the Broadway. Wallack has a novelty by Bonci- cault in rehearsal; Manager Stuart is going to make a novelty of Hamlet, and all the other theatres have Christmas novelties in preparation. Artemus Ward is a novelty among lecturers, and gives us novel views gf the beauties of Mormendom. Heller fills his Devil’s drawing: room with a novelty called the Scarlet Spirit. Thus, from grave to gay, from the war to (he theatres, we find novelties overywhere in this country; and whether City Inspector Boole ro- moves a pile of dirt higher than Trinity church spiro, or our good poopte send roast turkeys by the ton for Thanksgiving dinners to our brave soldiers, everything ts done upon a broad, large, Amoriean scale, and all our novelties prove usa great people ‘Tum Arproacrma Ctrarran Ktxcriow—Dorr or Ovn Ormans.—All the lobby politicians, ee ert ee ete ae o> elena claus who live upon the spoils of office and the publio treasury, are now actively at work making arrangements for the charter elections which will take place # couple of weeks hence, All these public cormorants have the fifteem millions of dollars involved ia the expenses of the efty in full view. This {s all that they care about. The public interest {s to them of me account whatever. Now, while these men are thus engaged forming their plans and perfeo> ing their echomes of corruption, it becomes the duty of the taxpayers of the clty as well as of all the lovers ef good government t look out sharply for the public interest. After the political cauldron has boiled over, and the jobbers bring their candidates forward, let them be thoroughly sccutinized, and only the best men selected to serve the city. The idea of the people of this metropolis voting for a man because he belongs to a certain party, when all the euccessful candidate will do is te put all he can get out of the treasury into hie own pooket, is simply preposterous and must be abandone Tux Sourn No Unrr.—One of the customary and insidious falsehoods of the friends of the rebels, both bere and abroad, is that the South is a unit in sentiment, and cannot be conquered, This is repeated day after day with unblushing impudence—not, however, without repeated contradictions when they are not thinking of what they say. For example, a well known copperhead jourual, which would be more at home in Richwond than New York, ie constantly finding fault with our armies for their summary punishmeat of the rebels whem they are detected in the commission of theix bioody outrages. The innocent, it asserts, are now punished as well as the guilty, thus crush- ing out the Union spirit in the South A mo. ment before the same journal has asserted that there isno Union spirit in the South. Weleave such booby journals to explain their own im consirtenoy as they besi may. With regard to the fact itself we see in the resolution recently offered in the rebel Congress by Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, pretty strong evidence that there is a Jarge body of loyal men in the South whe have stood firm amid all the threats which have been uitered against them. This is the resolution, and it speaks for itself : Resolved, That while we prosecute the war with afl the enercy aud carncetness we Dave. reasous of polloys jusiive and humanity ake require that the Presidem® shoutd be armed with aaequate power to Offer « cmply amneily to oll such of the cxtzens and resnden’s of the Cam federste States as hereiofore, under o achusson or otha~ wise, have Leen hoalike toour » amd who are pow wilh ing to come iorward and take upon thomecives the obth atlow to Support our governmect as true and loyal eith zens. It is proof enough that there are people i the South hostile to the rebel cause in cuff. cient numbers to cause great aaxiety to the rebel government. Amnesties are not offered to individuals, but only to large bodies of mea, #0 lacge as to be formidable. Pardons are offered to the former and amnesties to the lob ter, when they become formidable. We trust our loyal and long suffering friends in the South will remain fixed in their principles and true to the old flag. The dawn of « happier day is breaking for them, and before loag they will be “redeemed, regenerated and disem- thralled” by the genius of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Farregut and Porter. Important Movement tn Tennesses, ‘The loyal men of Tonnessce dosire to piace thew State ou @ sound basis, and the following call for a State eum vention will show by what means they would secure Congressional representation :— The beavy loyal vote cass in Teanessee shows the mont of the people, aud their deste to pul duwa rebellion aud restore Civil goverument. We are extitied to eight Representatives und two Senewrs in Ge Congress of the United Stutes, as woll as te @ Governor, and other officers to be ciected, aad tho interests of our people are suiforiag for the want of these representatives in Congress. The ubdersigned, acting as the Executive Committes: for East Tennessee, have designated the third in Deceuber (19h) for @ preiimiuary State Conv to be heid at Nashville, to form 2 ticket to be ruu for © constitutivual eonvention by the loyal men of the the Governor dosigoating the day for the election prociamation after toe preliminary Convention makes out the ticket. ‘We call upon West and Middle Tennessee te act m osm. cert with us t once appoint their delegates to the ‘onveation of tne 10th of December. SAMUEL R. RODGERS, RK. BYRD, W. G. BROWNLOW, . Tt. PATERSON, PERKZ DICKINSON, Executive Committen Novemase 12, 1864. Accident om the Galtimere aad PRlia= deiphin iatiroad. Batt mona, Nov, 19, 1894. A coastraction train on the Phiiadelphia and Baltimere Railroad was thrown from the track this afiernooa, sear ‘he thirteen miles station, by (he mispiacemest of & switcd, Fortunately no one was tojared, but the express trains from New York acd Wasiington wore delayed several hours by the accident Lovisvitum, Nov. 10, 1064, The oagine of a freight train foaving Nushviie oxriy ow Fridoy morning broke one of Its driving wheels, whic a every revolution broke the rai, Some twelve hundred Fails betwoon Nashville avd Galintin were thus rendered usoless,aod the damage amounts to twenty thousand doliars, The train was twelvo bours bebiud time in oom Yoquence of this injury to the road. Theatrical and Mastcal, THR OPERA, ‘Tonight Don Giovanni will be given at the Academy tu Fourteenth stroet, Carozzt-Zucebi aad Morenst are anounced for the occasion. A crowded and fasntonadia Avdionce is anticipated. During the week Rig Jette, Martha and Don Sebastiano will be produced, together ‘with Faust at Saturday's matines, Our Brooklyn veigt> bore will be treated to Il Poliato on Saturday evenwmg WALLACK’S, Manager Wallack has in ‘and @ throes act piece, by Mx, Boucicault, nevet yet playeu hare, but be holds it as one Of the resources of Dis estabiishmeat, With a prodess Adaptation of moans W an ond, he seema disposed to keep on bis standard plays while they continue to draw em woll agtuey do now, But whon the popular taste seome to call for the stimalus of novelty the veteran will let ee kaow ‘‘How she Loves Him,’ OLYMPIC. Mre, Wood will present to-night a new play with the pecoliar title of Miiky White. It is by the auther of the Chimnoy Corner, and in of the sume domestic webool. iis peculiar title refers tw the vocation of ome ef ite characters who belongs to that remarkable race at men who go about at daylight ecreeching shat uveartely cry whieh ts conventionally acoep.ed 48 anaouncing the presence of @ milkman, ACADEMY. Thore will be an agrovsbie holiday performance at the Acad of Music on Toankagiving night Mr, Dew Bryant is the star of the occasion, and appear = Irieh comedy. The performance will de under the diree tion of Mr, Moss, of Wallack's theatre, WINTRA GARDAN, Manager Stuart promises one of the rarest of drametty trewts for an early ovcasion, in aid of the fund for Coe Shakapere Monument. Cals tread will be the performance Of Suakapore’s tragedy of Julius Cesar, with the bre thors Edwin, Junius aud Wilkes Boosh, ae Julius Caner, Brutus aud Maro Antony. NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘The Lorsican Brothers wil magnificent atyle, Manager Wheatley will play both the brothers, and will Introduce some marvelions spiritual phenomena, Thore will also bes fine ballot and a taney hariequinade, As 8 speotaele alone the drama ought w ‘attract crowded houres. THs BROADWAY. Jona Owens appears to-night as Dr. Ollaped io Oe Poor Gentioman, and as Solon Ghingle in the People lawyer. Wo shall now bave an epportasity to judge of ‘Mr. Owens by comparinoa, for Dr. TX