The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1864, Page 4

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According to these his demon. Btration towards Macon was afeint. No attack had been made on that place up to Wednesday last; but, whea a short distance from it, he turned northeastward. towards Milledgeville, the capital of the State, which town, it is reported, bis cavalry captured on last Sunday ight, subsequently burning the Capito! building and the Peuitentiary, Is is also said that @ strong force of bis army made a demonstration on Augusta, within twenty miles of which bis right was “repulsed with Severe loss.’’ This movement on Augurts ts also consid- ered @ feint, to distract attention from Sherman’s real first objective point, whiob is surmised to be Savanah. It is Prophesied that he will move as directly as possible on the latter city from Milledgevilie, and the betier is expressed’ ‘bat the large Union fleet which bas been collected in James river is destined for Savannah, and will meet Sherman there, The Augusta Chronicle of the 19th inst. Stated that a large fleet of Union transports bad already Qrrived of the Georgia coast, The same paper Sbuses in strong Janguage Jeff. Davis and the other Richmond autborities for not sending troops into the State to impede Sherman's movements, orying in Gespir, ‘‘ Is Georgia to be left to take care of herself?’ The Richmond Examiner thioks that the “ruthless” conduct of the great national army will tend to cement Georgians ia support of the rebel government, nd cause the lukewarm and halting to immediately take up arms and become its moat uocompromising de- fenders, aod that the State, after passing “through (his ordeal of fre, will come forth purified and purged of {ta love for the old Uaion. The Richmond Whig, though, {# Dot so hopeful as its contemporary, and says:—“We cannot say tbat we feel an absolute conviction, although, indeed, our hopes Strong. that Sherman will fai! in achieving bis Goal object.” Jt says that Sherman isa man of ‘‘undoubled ability and astutevess,”’ and «be would never bave commenced bis march from Atlanta bad be not believed be could finally reach the coast in safety.” The pablish sbow tbe division of sentiment, distraction and panic which Sherman's operations have created in the South, aod authorize us in anticipating the most Gecisive and glorious results from them. Up to last ight the autnorities at Washingten had received nothing later from bim than the announcements of the repel Press. The army of the rebel General Hood, consisting of about thirty thousand tofantry and cavairy and ten Datteries of artiliery, iecluding reinforcements which be has received from Dick Taylor and Forrest, bas eccu- pied rulaski, Tennessee, from which place the Union forces, under Geveral Thomas, bave falien back to Columbia, Tennessee, Hood has moved on towards Columbia, and on Thursday Jast some severe skirmishing took piace between detucbments of the opposing armies, to which it is sald that the casualties of the Union troops io kilied and wounded were lees than fifty, while the rebels lost over two bundred. A beavy battle within afow days is expected. There are rumors that fighting wea going on between Hood and Thomas on Friday. Geuoral Burbridge bas arrived at Cumberiand Gap, and Coat poins te supposed to be safely closed against an advance of Breckinridge through it inte Kentucky. A correspondent of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, writing on the 9th inst., says that Walker's divi sion of Magruder's Texan army was ew route to join Good “at Columbia or Nashville, Tewn.’”” We bave Previously publisbed this romor in the Hexatn; but it peeds confirmation. This same writer says Beauregard declares be will wivier bis armies in Tennessee. The Bristol, Teon., Register (rebel) reports that an artillery @uei occurred on the 18tb inst., at Strawberry Pialns, East Tennessee, betwees the Union forces and General Oreckinridge, and that om the 19th “s portien of the cap tared artillery” arrived at Bristol. The Richmond Beaminer of the 2th inst. gives « Goapatch from General Lee regarding the late reconnois- tance up the Sheosadoah valley of Powell's and Caster's cavalry, and their engagement with Karly’s army at Rood's Hill, on inst Tuesday. Of course it was @ rebel “guooess.'’ The two divisions of Unios troopers, accord~ tng to this official document, as wellas eome unofficial Particulars, were pursued by ‘one brigade” of rebel oavairy ‘for eight or ton miles,"’ and competied to leave Dobind “all their Killed and wounded. Jeane’s gang Of queriitis robbed whe stores and pluo- Gored the people of Shelbyville and Eminence, Kentucky, oe Thursday night. Union forces were nent out from Frackfort yesterday to pursue them, ‘The steamebips George Cromwell and Cossandra arrived bere yesterday from New Oricans. Though heir datos are no Inter than those by previous arrivals, Aber broughs us some additional military ivoms of tetorest extracts we NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY NOVEMBER 27, -1864. from our correspondents. Brigadier General Morgaa L. ‘Smith has succeeded Mayor Geeoral Dane ic (be command @ the ational treopeatand areued Vicksburg, Miss. Tee rebel cotton burners, guerilias aad pluaderers td Geoeral have besa almost cleared out of the district of Batoa Rouge, La, through the efficiescy of the Union officers and troops, and our lines bave been exteaded in that region. It is said that the rebel Scott's cavalry, who were for some time so active in Louisiana, being Ordered to Hood’s army, the mea mutiaied aad went home. Governor Seymour visited thig city on Friday, spe- Gially im reference to the revision of the eurolment io ‘hia State ordered by Provost Marshal General Fry, and ‘was in conference on the subject with Supervisor Blunt, Caairman of our Volunteoring Committee, and Assis. tamt Provost Marshal General Hays. The three Offictals agreed opoh s plan to effect the matter in this ity, and Geveral Hays soon after left for Wasbing- top, to lay it before the War Department, the sanction of which i$ will most likely receive. It is supposed that the same aystem will be applied to the correction of tbe military earolment throughout the State. Everything is expected to be in readiness for Commencing the business this week, and it will be proceeded with as rapidly as practicable, so as to have all the preliminary arrangements in readiness for another draft, whenever guch shall be deemed necessary. . ‘The Canadian government has refused the application of the St, Albans raiders for permission to send @ special messenger to to obtain evidence to be used in their defence, A despatch from Toronto says that eannon and other ‘war mat.riel have been recently sent frem Sarnis, Cana- da, on a tugboat bound for Lexington, Michigan. It is also thought probable that the steamer Georgian took capnon from Sarnia to Collingwood. Or the twelve hundred of our released Union soldiers who arrived at Annapolis on Friday last from Savannah the majority were ina most awful condition, being liv- ing akeletons, Eighteen died om the passage. Six hun- dred and fifty had to be sent to the hospital immediately om arrival at Annapolis, many of whom cam live but a very short time longer, Our correspondents in the armies of the Potomac and the James give very interesting accounts of the celebra- thon of Thanksgiving Day by the soldiers. Usfortunately the turkeys and other good things did not reach some of the corps in time tobe enjoyed on thatdsy. In the Ninth corps, among other Thanksgiving ceremenies, was the dedication of a new chapel. It is said that since tbe news of President Lincoln’s re-election has become generally known among tbe rebel soldiers the deserticns to the Union lines have largely tocreased, Those who come over say that immense numbers of others are all the time watobiug for opportunities to escape, and that @0 general is the demoralization that few of them can be trusted on picket by their officers. Not the least interesting aud important portion of the Hegatp this morning, as illustrating the bitterness of different factions of the chivalry towards one another and their intestine divisions, is that devoted to a repub- cation of articles from the Southern press denuociatory of Jef. Davi, the rebel Congress and the whole mushroom government af Richmond, Jeff.'s wholesale conscription has stirred up ® storm of indiguation, He is accused of a de sign to make himself jem unrestrained dictator, ‘and it is prophesied that ere long he will reap the whirl- wind. A convention of editors is called for to protest against his attempts to muzzle the press. Condemnation Of the secret sessions of the rebel Congress is expressed in the strongest manner; it is declared thut there can be nO excuse for them, and that they bode ne good for the rights and liberty of the people. Henry S. Foote, of Tennessee, is the bellicose member Of the rebel House of Representatives. A few days ago be denounced Jeff. Davis for granting exemption to a rebel Irishmas, named McMabon, and bad to take it back. A dey or two afterwards he challenged the whole rebel House of Representatives, and got laughed at for his pains. The Richmond Zzaminer called him « reconstructionist, on account of his Monroe doctrine-anti-Maximilian-Union resolutions, and he challenged the supposed writer, John Mitchell, and got under arrest, On the 23d inst. Foote had a fight with Wm. G. Swan, M. C. from Tennessee, whom he de- nounced as no gentleman, and the trio, Foote, swan and Mitchell, figured in the Richmond Police Court on the same day, much to the amusement of the rebel Congress, which appears to have adjourned for the purpose, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The attempt to burn several hotels in this city, some particulars of which were publisbed in yestorday’s issue, ‘urns out to be part of s grand rebel scheme for the de struction of the whole metropolis. The plan was some time in contemplation, and was frustrated im @ most Providential manner. We give up a large portion of our space to-day to the fullest details, which will be found to unfold one of the most diabolical conspiracies on record. The police authorities have worked up the affair very successfully, having already accomplished the ar rest of the principal parties concerned in the fiendish plot, Major General Dix has issued two proclamations One declares that the guilty parties will be tried by court martial and banged without tbe delay of a singlo day. The other requirse, fer the second time, all Soutb- ern residents to come forward and register themselves, at the office of General Peck, 73 Bleecker street, under severe penaliies, Toe affair occasioned intense excite. ment yesterday. Advices from Mexico say that the military force of Juarez at Onjaca, where be himself was at the date of latest accounts, consists of about seven thousand men, but that more than half of them are pew recruits, unlit for immediate service. These advices, which como sbrough imperial channels, detail extensive spoliations of chureh and private property by Juarez’s officers. Oajaca was surrounded by earthwork fortifications. It will be remembered that a short time since seven and three-tenths Treasury notes of 1861 were tendered in payment of duties on importations,ana that Cullector Draper refused to receive them and detained the goods, Suit wae brought im the Usited States Circuit Court to recover the property, and, after @ hearing, Jodge Nelson postponed a decisios, until the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury could bo received. The cage was again up yesterday, and was furtber postponed till Monday next. The Court, at its opening, was crowded by parties interested in the decision. The case of the United States against LeRoy M. Wiley, standing over, took precedence. This case bas been before the courts for some time, and, amongst the geatiemen of the leral Protession, excited considerable interest. Tho suit was first brought py the United States to condemn one thou- sand seven hundred and fifty-six shares of stock in the Great Western Railway Company belonging to Wiley, oo the ground that he was an alien enemy, aad tbe property was #0 condemned by Judge Betts. The suit isnow Drought on appeal from tbat decision, and is still en. ‘The case of the United States against William Ulmer was up yesterday, before United States Commissioner Botts. is one of the alleged brewery frauds, tho Gofendant being charged with distilling whiskey [rom the brewery rofuse without paying license, The de’eo- dant is foreman in Henry Claussen’s brewery establish. meat on Forty-seventh street, and admits the act of Gistillation, but denies that he committed any fraud upon the government thereby, tbe brewer's license taving been already paid upon the material there used, Surrogate Tucker bas admitted to probate the contested wit! of Mrs, Catherine Berwick. The will ie io favor of the daughters of deceased, and was opposed by ber The Brevsing will, which has occupied the Surrogat Court o long, bas bees submitted for decision. ‘The Seagriat baboas corpus case, which bas bee uvder examination in the Supreme Court, chambers, for several | days, was brought to @ conclusion yesterday by Judge Cat at Tne EE Mes nel A A a EDR LO ACA TT EE A a ee SEE Clerke rewanding the child to the custody of his edopied father, Mr. Fraacis Sengrist. ‘A break bas occuried te the Eric Caval, abeut slateta wiles cast of Rochester, which capnct be repaired be ere the Bth of Pecember, the (me decided upon by the Canal Comuatesiongre for the closing of cavigation. ‘Ibe double eader gunboat Tacovy weut ashore off Cape Hatteras, N. C.,@ (ew days aro, and bad not been re leased from her periious position when lest beard from. A suspicious vessel, whiot bad cleared from Montreal for New York, was seized om Friday, ia Joba's Bay, near Pemmaquid, by the steam cutter Mabooing, and will be detained until advices as to the case cam be obtained from Washington. The steambcat Francis Skiddy, rupaing on the Nerth river between thie olty eed Albay, ran upon e@ rock ‘about six miles below the latter place, om Friday nixbt, and sank, Hor passengers and freight wore all rescuca upigyered. The obair, bisoksmith and cooper shops conuected with the Kentucky State Penitentiary, at Frankfort, were destroyed by fre on last Thursday night. The loss is fifty ‘thousand dollars, Atrain on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Ratiroad was thrown from the track near Elkton, Md., on Fri day night, by crossties baving deem laid on the rails. The engineer, baggage master and firemen received slight injuries, None of the passengers wore in‘ured. The stock market was dull yesterday morning at the Doard, but afterwards it underweot improvement, ia sympathy with gold, which, after opening at 219%, closed at 2255. Gcvernmont securities were strong at a further advance, : ‘The general aspect of affairs in commercial circles re ‘Mained unobanged on Saturday. The business wag very Light, and confined mostly to domestic produce. Some kinds were somewhat higher and others somewhat lower; but, except on "Change, there was no marked change, Petroleum was quiet but Orm. Un ’Change the flour market was 5c. a 100. lower, with'a fair demend ‘Wheas was quiet, but 1c. a 20. dearer. Corn scarce and active,and Ic. a2c. higher. Oats were in fair request and firm. Pork dulland lower. Beef quite active and firm. Lard steady, witha moderate demand. Whiskey firmer, while freights were quiet, The Attempted Imcendiarism im the Cisty—Faliure of the Scheme. The desperate, but happily unsuccessful, at- tempt to spread conflagration throughout this city, on 'Friday night, is another evidence of the straits to which the rebels are driven ; and it is an evidence also that failure attends every effert they make to gain advantage in the in- fameus cause.in which they are engaged. We think there can be no doubt, from all the facts now in the hands of the police authorities, that the design to burn down the principal hotels, twelve of which were set on fire on that night, was the result of an organized plan on the part of a band of paroled rebel prisoners, and some of the recently released occupants of Fort Lafayette, aided by other emissaries, male and female, from the South. Bome time ago the Richmond papers coun- selled this very idea. They boasted that, altbongh they had not armies to send to overrun the North, and retaliate for the devastation which, in the ordinary circumstances of war, our forces were compelled to inflict upon Southern soil, that, nevertheless, a scheme might be arranged whereby the torch of the in- cendiary could carry destruction into our Northern cities, and burn down simultaneously New York, Boston and Philadelphia. They commenced thig infernal business bere ou Fri- day night, by disposing bottles filled with phosphorus and probably with sulpburic acid on the beds in the St. Nicholas Hotel, the La- farge House, the St. James, Metropolitan, Lovejoy’s, Belmont, Tammany, United States, and the Gramercy Park hotels. Early on Saturday morning similar attemps were made in the Astor House, Fifth Avenue Hotel, and New England Hotel. The intention, no doubt, was to create a general panic, divide the attention of the Fire Depart- ment, and thus spread a general conflagration over the city. But the attempt failed misera- bly. In no single instance did the miscreants succeed. The failure was as complete as the efforts of the rebela to subdue our armies in the West, in Virginia and on the Atlantic coast—as complete as the failure of their designs on the Canada borders. It was the last desperate attempt to succeed somewhere, and it has been defeated. What is the conclusion to be drawn from this defeat?. It shows in the first place the efficiency of our Fire Department. It shows the vigilance exercised by the managers of our hotels in the admirable internal police ar- rangements which they have organized in their different establishments, No one need feel any doubt of his safety from accident by fire in these institutions now; for it is evident from the promptness with which the fires were dis- covered and suppressed that incendiarism becomes almost impossible. But at the same time we must see the wisdom of using more precaution; of doubling the night watch in all large buildings, public and private, and keep- ing a careful look out for suspicious characters. It bas been observed for some time past that persons wearing the uniform and claiming the rank of officers in the United States army and navy, yet personally unknown, bave been stopping at many of our hotels. Suspicion falls upon some of these parties, and the police have already taken charge of several of them. The probability is that some of those implicated in the fiendish attempt of Friday night left the city immediately, and it would be well for the authorities of other large cities to be on their guard. These gentry may pay them a visit; for the scheme may and probably will be attempted elsewhere. New Pavements Neepev.—It is @ startling fact that the losses in horseflesh in a single year on account of the murderously slippery pavement on Broadway would almost pay for repaving the street. It is positive cruelty to drive horses over such a pavement, and every day the passers by are shocked by some ao- cident by which fine animals are maimed and ruined. We are very proud of our horses, and take good care of them; but we do not take cere of our pavements. That of Broadway is the worst, but that of Fifth avenue is hardly better. Noone can safely ride down the bills in Fifth avenue ata faster gaittban a walk. The consequence is that our finest streets are robbed of the display of beautiful equipages, The splendid turnouts have to go to the Park te be seen, and we have to go there to see them. But it isno easy matter for a carriage to get to the Park. One has to drive through cross streets and up avenues filled with railroads und stench; for Broadway and Fifth avenue are practically useless on account of their slippery roadways. These two streets form a continuous thoroughfare from the Battery to the Park. If the present pavement were taken up and replaced by macadamizing or asphaltum, the city would be wonderfully improved and we should not have to travel weary miles in order to take a drive or see other people drive. The roads in the Park are just what our streets cought tobe, Paris has tried the experiment, and prefers it to all sorte of stone paving. We again call the attention of the Common Council to this matter, and urge our public spirited | Citizens to insist apoa this important reform. Sherman's March Through Geergia— Rebel Ace Hts Bove ments. Generat Sherman bas suddenly become the ovly topic touched by the Southern papers. All otber questions are for the time Jost in the all important ones that relate to his move ments. Where is be? where is he going? what has be taken? what bas he not taken? what bas he done? and what will be dot But a few days azo they were all silent on this subject, aud they explained this silerce to the'r readers by saying that they withheld the news ratbor than gratiiy the Yankees; but they have abandoned that resolution, and now they give us in abund- ance more real gratification than we had ever thought it would ‘be in their power to give. They sbow us the panic excited throuzhout the State of Georgia by Sherman’s advance, and give us @ proclamation to the people of Geor- gia signed by Mr. Hill, of the rebel Senate, but none from Governor Brown; and that is an odd, and, perhaps, even a significant fact. They give us also a proclamation from the ever effervescent and windy Beauregard, who con- jures the people of Georgia to trust in him and Providence, and promises to be with them by and by. They recite the precipitate attempts to get the rebel stores away from Milledge- ville, the stampede of the Georgia Legisla- ture from the same city, the flight of the Methedist Conference, and they give us tole- rably -definite accounts of Sherman’s where- abouts up to the 20th inst.—seven days ago. According to these accounts Sherman is moving eastwardly from Atlanta on two lines that are substantially parallel, and that do not appear tobe more than forty miles apart at any point. His columns may therefore be consid- ered as within supporting distance. His left col- umn moves onalinetbat will very nearly corres- pond with the line of the Georgia Railroad, run- ning due east from Atlanta to Augusta, The right on a line that diverges to the south from Atlanta, and at Barnesville takes an easterly direction, and thence runs parallel with the line the left moves on till it reaches Millen, Geor- gia, point due south from Augusta, Sher- man’s columns continually connect and keep up communication in the strip of country. be- tween these twe lines, and his operations cover all that strip. We may safely assume that the operations of his cavalry, flankers aad foragers cever the country to a distance of ten miles outside of those lines on both the right and left. Thus the movement of this army practically makes a swath of sixty miles wide across the State of -Georgia. The right column finds Macon and Milledgeville on its line of march, and there can be no doubt that those places are by this time im possession ef our troops. The value of one of these places is admitted by the Richmond Enquirer. The possession of Macon, says that paper, would “give two advantages besides the mere prestige of eccupying the town and destroying whatever may be valuable there to our government. He could thus obtain command of the rail- roads which lead from Macon eastward to Augustaand the seat of government, and westward to the Mississippi, thus effectually destroying our communications with the Trans- Mississippi Department. He would, moreover, cut off Hood and his army from his base of operations, his supplies, and his means of con- ferring with the seat of government. In these aspects the move is # formidable one, and it is no use to sbutoureyes wilfully to the danger.” Here, then, Sherman falls incidentally upon one real and very great advantage—he isolates Hood from the rebe! government. Hood’s sup- plies, however, must be drawn from points west of Macon. On the point of resistance met with by Sher- man, the rebel papers are also agreeable. They speak vaguely of “combinations in pro- gress to foil his purpose;”’, but they speak of any attempt to stay bis march as a thing of the future. “Sherman is marching into the heart of the State, and meets with little resistance,” says the Enquirer; but the reason of this would appear to be, according to the same sheet, that be has mot yet got far enough away from his starting point. He could still retreat in case of disaster, and they want to reserve their great blows until that is im- possible. There is a wise discretion in this. But what a phase of the Southern mind is bere exhibited! Sherman is in the heart of Georgia; its capital is, in all probability, in his posses- sion, and be has his hand stretched out to clutch even more important places; and, with all this, the Southern papers tells us of prepara- tions that are to be made for resistance ‘as soon as Sherman’s true intentions become su!- ficiently known.” In all this noise of Sher- man’s movements we hear of Georgia contiou- ally. The people of Georgia are appealed to; the Governor of Georgia is abused; the Georgia Legislature runs away; the Georgia farmers are to do this and that, and the Georgia militia even more. But the Richmond Enquirer con- cludes that Charleston is one of the points aimed at. In view of that probability, the Sa- vapnah Republican asks a timely question. It wdnts to know what bas become of South Caro- lina “in this greatemergency?” This is Georgia impudence; as if South Carclina men could not take care of themselve:! And this Georgia paper even urges the authors of secession to “quit their wrangles over constitutional ab- stractions,”’ and come out and fight. After all, then, it is all about a “constitutional abstrac- tion.” Toe Svsstircre Business —Ag average of thirty substitutes a day now eglist at the office of the Supervisors’ Committee, without costing the government a single cent. This is exclu- sive of the volunteers, who receive the national and local bounties. Tho substitute business has now been reduced to a system. The price for one year substitutes is twe bandred and forty dollars; for two year substitutes, four hun- dred and thirty dollars; for three years substi- tates, six hundred and fifty dollars. Any man liable to the draft can obtain exemption for the sums named. The substitutes are now in ad- vance of the purchasers, so that there is ne delay fa the matter. As soon asa draft is ordered the prices will not be anything like so cheap. It is better to obtain exemptions at once, just as ® person would insure his house or his life, What with the substitutes and the regular vol- unteers, our quota is being steadily filled in anticipation of the next call for troops. The Supervisors’ Committee, and especially Super- visor Blunt, deserve every credit for their un- remitting labors. Tae Cuarter Exection.—We are going to elect a number of Alcermen and Councilmen in a week from Tuesday vext who will have the management, to @ great extent, of the five or six hundred millions of property in this city, and yet there is no excitement and very little interest manifested on the surface of so- ciety. Great is the bugger mugger, however, in the grog shops and the dingy back rooms thereof. It is there the real election is being held. As to what the citizens may do at the ballot box on election day it amounts to very little. The primaries decide the result as far as the charaeter of the new officials is concerned. Their, individuality is of little moment, for they are pretty nearly all alike. There were several of these primaries held last Thursday night, io different districts, and all that voters have to do is to look over the nominations of Mozart and anti-Mozart, and McKeonites and Tammany, in the papers, and make such selec- tion as they please, for the election will be surely made out of that crowd. If there is any choice, which we doubt, we presume taxpayers will exercise their judgment in consideration for their peckets, 1 reat Triumph of Po; s in Our Late National Election. The severest ordeal through which « republi- can form of government has ever been called upon to passin ancient or modern times has resulted in the greatest triamph of popular in- stitutions over the assumed divine rights of kings in the history of mankind. We refer to the great and glorious triumph of the Union, popular rights, public liberty, constitutional authority, law and order, secured in our late Presidential election. The leaders and adherents of the rebellion in the South, their emissaries, allies and sympa- thizers in the North, and the hereditary Euro- pean enemies of “the Great Republic,” bad ali been working, watching and waiting for a fatal diversion againet us, through the revolutionary elements and excitements of the late Presiden- tial contest. Nor were these confederated foes of the American Union without plausible grounds for the hopes that this trial would ‘prove its destruction. President Lincoln had proved himself unequal to the herculean task of grappling and controlling with a steady hand tho issues and trials of this gigantic war. He bad wasted great armies in small enter- prises, and millions upon millions of trea- sure for which there had been no ade- quate return. From negligence and bad Mapagement at Washington vast organi- zations of armies and navies had been pushed forward to painful disasters or ivgloriously frittered away. Preposterous abolition experi- ments of confiscation and reconstruction had alienated thousands of loyal men, who, in the outset, were among Mr. Lincoln’s supporters. Arbitrary arrests, heavy taxation, heavy drafts of men for soldiers, a depreciated na- tional currency, an enormous and still accu- mulatiag national debt, unexampled and still increasing prices forall the necessaries of life, the embarrassments of trade, aud the ancer- tainties of the war, all operated, with the causes aforesaid, to work up a tremendous popular pressure against the administration. Then the ideas were adroitly thrown out that peace would follow the overthrow of the party in power, and that heavy taxes, drafts, high prices and depreciated paper money would come to an end. Against all these temptations for a change, however, the people of the loyal States, in view of the threatened Chicago alternat've of peace at any price, bave overwhelmingly sus- tained the administration, because of its pedges, its labors, its successes, and its mani- fest purpose to fight out the cause of the Union. Against this paramount idea of the Union, all the extravagances, all the wastages of men and money, all the blunders and failures of President Liscoln, all tue losses, distreeses and disappointments of the war, all its burdens, triala and dangers, have gone for nothing in the late verdicts of the loyal States. All these grounds of complaint against Abrabam Lincoln, though engineered by @ powerful opposition party, and assisted by rebel agents and sympathizers, treasonable conspi- racies aud British sympathy, have most sigaally failed, in view of the fixed and inflexible pur- pose of the American people to maintain their Union at all hazards, against all hostile de- signs, and to the last extremity. Thus all the calculations of Jeff. Davis and his Southern confederates and European adhe- rents, of a revolutionary diversion in our re- cent national election that would precipitate a dissolution of the Union, have been demolished and dissipated into thin air. The fact is estab- lished before the world, in the most peaceable and orderly election in American history, that this people, in the midst of a stupendous civil war, and under the most trying aud threatening combinations for mischief, and bearing all tue burthens which this war imposes, are equal to the test.of a fair trial at the ballot boxes, and of submission to the result, and the duties in- volved to all parties. The “Great Republic” tbus stands vindicated among the civilized nations of the earth as possessing the strongest government of them all. The downfall of Davis and his spurious con- federacy, and the rebabilitation of the revolted States in the Union, will soon follow, and then will come @ convulsive reaction in the Old World analogous to that which succeeded the first triumphant war of American independence and unity. We have passed the great dangers that menaced us in weathering safely the rocks, shoals and breakers ef the lgte Presidential election. The work now before us is plain sailing. «Popular institutions have won the victory over the despotic, aristocratic and feudal institutions of Europe. Henceforward, with the masses of the European people, of every nation, revived by new hopes to new efforts for the ascendancy, we shall hold the balance of power im both hemispheres. The day may not be far distant—it surely will come—when the United States of America will become the model for the reshaping of every government in the Old Worid, from England to the steppes of Tartary. Such is the moral and the comprehensive sweep of the great victory secured in our late Presidential election. It is a decisive victory of popular rights against kingly pretensions, the wide world ever, and its fruits will soon begin to ripen. Personal Intelligence. It fo said that Mrs. O'Kane, who was recently the heroine of the famous divorce seit in London, in which one of the most prominent noblemen of England was ia- volved, has arrived im this city, and is preparing ® leo- tare on the manners, habits and tastes of the aristocrac; Of Great Britain, and which she will shortly deliver public. This is an rich vein i@ the great social strate of the model realm, whicb, it is said, the nay will strike unerringly and with boldness, = _——TS Another Railroad Disaster, Puaverrma, Nov, 26, 1864, A train which loft Baltimore last evening was thrown from the track near Elkton by crossties being placed in & cow hole by some scoundrels, #0 aa to cause an acexient to any traio coming either way. No injury bappened to the passengers. The engineer, fireman and baggage master wore slightly injured, The engine and three cars were left om the track in e damaged state, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wassinctom, Nov. 26, 1004. THE DIPLOMATIO CORPS AND THS CAPTURES OF TED FLORIDA. ‘The attention of the State Department bas been esa- siderably occupted during the past week by loterviews ‘with the dipiomatio eapps conceraing the seizure of the Florida, Lerd Lyons seems to be the only ere peas represeotative particularly interested im the matter. He spent the greater portion of to-day wit Secretary Seward. The result of the cmforence has wet yet transpired, nor is it keown that any agreement kas ‘been entered into; But the impression prevails to ofetal: circles that the matter ventually be set at rest by & simple apology to the Brazilian goverament, THE RESIGNATION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL BATES. ‘The resignation of Judge Bates as Attorney Gencral fe to take effect in a few days, probably before the meeting of the Supreme Court, on the first Monday in December. It will probably be {eft to the new Attorney Goseral te Pronounce the eulogy upon the late Chief Justice Taney, ‘The most prominent among those spoken of as bis eue- cessor are Judge Lowis, of Pennsylvania, at present Oom- missioner of Interne! Revenue; R. H. Dana, Jr., of Measm- cbusetts, and H. Wiater Davis, of Maryland, The ap pointment of the latter is greatly deprecated by the bes friends of the administration. TEE COTTON TRADE. The preliminaries for trading ia cotton bave os last been so far settled as to leave the question of permite exolusively to the agents of the Treasury Department. General Grant and the Secretary of War are both strougiy averse to allowing any military officer to bave anything to do with such permits, They regard such authority aa @ dangerous source of demoralization. Consequently it haw been determined to leave the whele responsibility apes the Troasury agents, the military commanders of dip triots having authority to suspend the trade temporarily during active military operations, ASMSTANT SECRETARY SEWARD CONVALEGOENT. Mr. Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of State, i slowly recovering from his injuries received weekt since, but ts yet unabie to visit the department. MORS CLERKS WANTED IN TUB DEPARTMENTS. Tt 1s believed that the heads of the sevesal departmenta will urge upon Congress in their reports the necessity of another iarge iocrease of clerical fores, The labors of the Treasury, Navy and War Gopartments have been greatly augmented during the past season, and of iate the Pension burese has been unable to reach cases untH weeks alter being presented. Applications tor peusions are now coming ta at the rate of five thousand per month, and the rate is constantly increasing. GUERILLAS ON THE UPPER POTOMAO. White's guerilias continue their operations om the Upper Potomac, frequently making midnight frcurstons into Maryland, The beadquarters of the gang, number. ipg about four hundred, are at Bloomfeld, in the Bins Ridge, between ashby's and Soicker’s gaps, frew which point they sally out in small squads, chufiy tes horses, cattle and other valuable plunder. SHENANDOAH. the Battle of {rom the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 24.) FROM THE VALLEY. ‘The following officiaiteapatch was received yesterdap at (ne War Department — Anapquantens, Auary Nowrunny Vincoxtty Nov. 22, 1864, Hon, James A. Szppow: Geoeral Karly reports that the evemy’s cavalry, t@ considerable force, drove in our cavciry pickets thie morning, advanced to Mount Jackson and crossed the river, It was met by some ipfaatcy and one brigade of Roseer’s cavalry and driven back. General Kosser pursued, ariving the enemy beyou@ Edinburg 1 confusion, and compelied bim to abanéow his kuiled and wounded. General Early tbiogs it was @ recoonoissance. R. KE. LES, ‘We learn from other sources that the force of the enemy consisted of two divisious of cavairy. ‘Monct Jackeoa is one mile north of the Shena and seven miles {rom the littie town of Edivburg. As the Yankees crossed tbe river, aud were subscqueatip driven back ‘beyond Edinburg,” it is evident that Rew ser pursued thom eight or teu miles, Toe chase a very lively spectacle. Une brigade two divisions ef them to abem airy pursuing ‘ankeo ci a compelling don soelr killed and wounded, is an event which chat. lenges our admiration. As po mention is made of the capture of any of the fugitives, except the wounded, ner » which are gen thrown off by fug , we infer that horses were not equal to the task of overtaking the Yankees ‘One account states that our loss w: ‘wounded—the enemy's loss uot kuow It could net have been very large, bow ‘The pursuit was Be doubt conducted cautious! oid an ambush. The Operas. Faust was given at the matinee yesterday to another overflowing house. Not aseat in the parquet, balcony er second tier was to be had tea minutes a’ the doors opened. The popularity of this work is one of the moss remarkable things in te bistory of the opera The more frequently it is represented the more it seems te grow in favor with our public. Nor is this appreciation of its merits confined to us. In England and in the other European capitals it is equally the piece de resisiance of the managements, There was s slight alteration tm the cast yesterday, Signor Lorin! undertaking the role of Valentive, and singing it very acceptably. Miss Kellogg was im excellent voice, The character of Marguerite suits ber well, both vocally and physically. We miss, however, Hermann’s Mephistopheles, That was a che Facterization that gave great zest to the German version of the work, THE OPERA IN BROOKLYN. The Brooklyn Academy of Music was filled last night ‘with s highly fasbionable and exceedingly woll dressed sudience, Donizetti's fine classic opera of Il Poliute boing the attaction, with Zucch! and Massimiliani as the Christian martyrs. We hardly remember an occasion upon which these excellent artists sang better than ey dia Inst night, or were more warmly received. The finale of the socond act was very fuely rendered, and produced a call of the leading artists before the curtata. The duo im the last act was also received with the enthusiasm which it merits and always commands. Tne opportunities for dramatic effect which this opera affords were not test by Zucchi. She threw all the passionate energy of which she has so much command into the part Last was the seventh subscription night in Brooklya, the house exbibited no dimiaation ia wad perbaps more full than on previous occasions, and quite as fasbion ably attondod. Revision of the E. mt. ‘The draft is creeping upon us much more rapidly thes many imagine, and while we do not desire to alarm any ‘one, we would suggest to all desiring substitutes to make sure of them from the Supervisors’ Committee while there is an opportunity. A revision of the enrolment ordered by the War De- partment will commence this week, and be cxrried through with all the argeacy the importance of the case and the huge proportions of the task will admit, This important subject was brought before the public, 1% will be recoliected, by = communication addressed by Provost Marshal General Fry to Gov- ernor Seymour, The Governor was in the city em Friday, especially im referonee to this matter, and immediately paid bis respects to the Supervisors’ Volunteering Committee, where he found Supervisor Blunt already deep in his plans for presecating this bust ness, which he knew would devolve apon this commitios, ‘Assistant Provost Marshal General Hays was also pre- font, The subject was very generally discussed io alt its bearings, and the importance of the revision, as bad heretofore been shown by the Governsr was conceded. ‘The plan proposed by Mr. Blaat for curing @ proper ‘and thorough exemination of the enrolment was place@ before the Governor and General Hays, and at once met with their approval. It te simple, but efficient, and te calculated to insure the greatest possible rapidity of ae- tion. Provost Marshal General Hays left immediately for Washington to lay these plans before ithe War De. partment for ite sanction, which obtained, the great work will immediately eommeace, ‘The task will be & hereulean one, but this committes, which bas raised a hundred thousand volunteers for the army and savy, will get threagh with it in good time, and the various proves: marshals of the city co-operating wMi tend somewhat to lighten the labors, The same system as that agreed upon -here, or «similar one, will mont likely be adopted for the interior towns and cities Of the State, On this point the Governor also consultea with Cosirman Biunt,aad bis views and suggestions appeared to him so eminently wise and judicious that thoy will be in all likelineod adopted by the Executive. ‘Thus everything is In a fair train for raising another army Of the people. 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