The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. @AMES GORDUN BENNETTS EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR CYFICE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash tn advance, Money sent by mail will be st the risk of the sevder, None but bank bills current in New York taken TAS DAILY HERALD, Foux cents per copy. Annual subscription price $24. THE WEEKLY Hi Per copy. RALD, every Saturday, ot Fry ceuts Annual subscription price:— Five Copies. ‘Ten Copies. Postage Sve cents per copy for three mont) Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers, €2 SOcuch. An extra copy will be sent to every cub @ ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at samo price. An extra eopy will be sont to ciubs of twenty. Zhese rates make the Wrrnry Funanp the cheapest publication in the country. ‘The Evrorean Enimiox, every Wednesday, at Six cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or 86 toany part of the Continont, both to Include postage, The Cartrorsia Epon, on the 34, 13th and 23d of each AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—ITautan Orena— Dow Swvastian. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —Mixy Wuire—St. EORGE AND THE DRA-GOO: NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Warttya ron tux Veunicr—Tux Vacnan BIBLE SECRET, THEATRE, Bowery.—Rro Rivixc Hoop— agDS—Sekit OF BuVENTY-SIL BROADWAY T@ERATRE, Broadway.—Poon Gzxte- waN—DkOPLE’s Lawyes. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Corsicax Brotuxs, WALLACK'S TREATRE, Broadway.—To Maraxy nu Nor ro Mazzy. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Hauver, BARNUM'S MUSRUM, Broadway.—Tarsk Mawworn at Gints—THkee = GiaNis—Two " Dwanrs—Inpiaxs— pee! AvTomatons, DRamatic Perronmances—Day and veuINg BRYANTS'’ MINSTEELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. 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The captain of tho steamship Her- man Livingston, which arrived at Annapolis ycster- day, with paroied Union soldiers from Savannah, re- “Pris that when bis vessel left the Savanna river, DB est Friday, the exchaoge of prisoners bad opped, Sherman baving cut off the railroads Yeding from Savannah, and, {t was thought, Wached ali the balance of our men confined at Camp Tawion, near Mille, some twenty thousand in number. When the men who arrived tm tho Livingston left their Tobe! prison, Sherman's advance was reported to be Gistant from it only eix hours’ march. Though an effort ‘wan being made by the rebels to send all these captive Enjon soldiers off to Florida, it could hardly succeed. Notwithstanding the anxiety unmistakably evinced by the rebel authorities and newepapers of Richmond to con- Coa! advices of Sherman's movements, they cannot avoid Aisclosing @ great deal im regard to them, but proba- Diy not the balf th Our extracts publiched this morving give all that they were willing to tell up to Inet Friday. Av engagement, the Richmond papers say, oc- curred on last Wedvesday, on the west efde of the Oconee 7 know. river, near Toombeboro, where the Central Georgia Pail road crosses the river, between the rebels and a large force of Sherman's cavalry, io which, of courte, the Union troops were “repnised and driven back.’ They re eaid to have been still on tke west side of the Oconee on the following day, The Augusta Constitutionalist says the railroad bridge over the river was burned by them on Inst Sunday. The report of the burning of Mille sald by the Richmond editors to luck confrmation, though it te believed that « portion of Sherman's force But in the Savannah News of the 234 Ageville is bas been there. ingt.,® despatch reiterates that it was captured on Inet Monday, ond that the State Mouse, Governor's mansion and penitentiary there were burned, and that the town of Gordon was also captured by the Yankees. Tu and Georgia bave iseued Sovth Carolina Governors of proclamations enliing out all the males of those States between sixteen and fifty-five. A correspondent of the Richmond Dipack sys the Yankee government can well afford to pay one toiition dollars per day for the in- cha h to it gratia Wo w which the Ft apers furt the movements of Sbertai corgla. Publish this morning ay foteresting detailed reeume of Elerman's march from the time of bix departure from Atlanta up te the period of bis reported arrival at Mil Ved gevilic, with a map showing the scones of bis past and pro: e Ow patch reports smart skirmish. fing between Generals Thornes aud Hood, for the past few days, botworm fuleski and Columbia, Ten hessee Aud that the maia Union army bes fallea back north of Duck river. Forrest ba od the river, end fs exsrying to etrike ile Sank ond feed's mate army is thought to be moving uorthonerward towards Bhetbyvilie ona Wartrace Tie loyal people of Mistourl have appareniy become 60 inured to a fife of fighting and contention, by the past fou s of war io thefr mitot, t © the main ® t foo t1 driven fat actoss thei bor 4 t neds quarrel emong themselves. So, ns o Louis corr dents Informs vs, @ firroe we v State between the re * fi rane, Dieasap < aue Ucraen Is entitied fo th rt wlitionary for k int a 4 it ie anticipated that one important rewuit of this most uusecmly and untimely @ispute Will be the removal of Rosecrans from the hexd @f the Department of Missouri, The Missourl Uniontiste, # they moet quarrel « em entirely too eerly pe @ their bickerings, for, scoording to accounts, they PATO G004 reason We anticipate much future trouble have taken od for the commencement 0G themaetves, | bas la o, | we NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY NOVEMBER 28 1864. from the wily and etealtby rebels. I South- east Missouri Dick Berryman’s g.wg of busbwackers are wore asing in bumbers and the boidvess of their dveds, buraing, murdering and robbing throughout that section, and the Union people are fleeing for their lives. Ia North Missourt the guerillas have not yet beon entirely extirpated, though they are thinning out under the relentless warfare now carried on aga ust them by the Union people, Nothing else, experience has proved, will have the desired effect in clearing out these soulless § = desperadoes. Our correspond ent says that the pretence that General Stirling Price discountenanced the outrages of the scoun- dreis is allasham, Agirlof sixteen, convicted in St. Louts of repeated violations of she oata of allegiance, of carrying comtraband articles across our lines, and of being a rebel spy, has had her septence, which, accord- ing to tho rules of war and the enormity of the offence, is death, commuted by General Rosecrans to imprisonment during the war. Secretary Seward has refused to present to the Preai- dent the petition, signed by about three hundred avd fifty thousand rebel sy:npathizers of England and Ire- land, saking the government of the United States to cease hostilities against the armies of Jeff. Davis, Mr. Seward says that, as this document does not come from the British government, or through its diplomatic agents in this country, no official motice could be taken of it by our government. A Dutch bark which arrived at Boston from St. Thomas, W. 1, yecterday, reports having, in latitude 32 08, longt- tude 98, fallen in with a schooner rigged propeller of about four hundred tons, painted white, and having two fucnels, The steamer, which was of course a rebel Pirate, at Orst showed the American colors, but after- ‘wards hoisted the rebel flag. On leaving the Dutch ves- sel, the piratical cruiser steered of, under sail, in a southwest course. Twelve bundred and forty-six more of our paroled Union soldiers, released from captivity in Georgia, ar- rived at Anvapolis, Md., yesterday from Savannah, on board the steamships Weybosset and Hermann Living- ston, The Richmond Dispatch of last Friday says that arrangements pave been made for the exchange of a number of prisoners at Mobile, and that it is probable the exchange on James river will soon be resumed. Late rebel papers, in giving accounts of the appearance of Early’s army in front of Sheridano’s lines on the 12th iost., and its sudden flight, with the Union cavalry at its heels, furnish the same explanation of his movement on that occasion as our correspondents gave at the time. Early had understood that a cousider- able portion of the Union army had left the valley. He found out his mistake, and was glad to get Dack up the valley again as expeditiously as possible. The Richmond Whig says that there are now only about four thousand Yankee troops at Newbern, N.C, The Charleston Mercury learns on good authority’? that thero are upwards of two thousand skuikers belonging te the rebel army now in South Carolina. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We publish this morning more details of the diabolic attempt of the rebel conspirators to destroy the city by fire on Friday night last. Several hotels escaped by the vigilance of the proprietors, who acted with the utmost promptness on being informed by the police that such en attempt was to be made, Several suspicious characters called at the various hotels on that evening, looking for lodging, and, what was most singular, in every instance they carried black valises. It is to be hoped that the guilty parties may be detected and made to pay the penalty of their nefarions conduct. Had they succesded, there ie no estimating what an emount of damage might have been done, The detectives are on the track of several of the conspirators, and wiil Jn all probability succeed In arresting the leaders in this villanous plot. The national and local authorities in Wasbiugton, ‘warned by the recent extensive incendiary attempts of rebels in New York,have taken extra precautions for the security of all the government bulidiags, the uotels and otber smportant stroctures In that city. It Je reported from Paria that the Kieg of the Sandwich Ielands has sent an ambassador to France to say that he would gladly accept the protectorate of Napoleon, giving a large territory in payment for tbe support. ‘The British war corvette Scout has been selected by the Admiralty to have ber midship sides protected by means of chain cable, ona plan similar to that adopted by the United Stgtes steamer Kearsarge, when io oD with the Alabama. It is eaid that the aonunciation of proposals for a new Joan and all other tmportant operations of the Treasury Department are postponed until the Secretary has com- pleted his report, The instructions to the Treasury ageats for the reguie- tion of trade with the jngurgept States are now ready to be issued, ‘The agents are to issue permits for the par- chase of cotton, tobacco, &c., and to determine the amount and character of goods to be given in exchange tor them. Hevry Perry, proprietor of a boarding house in Water street, was yesterday committed to the Tombs on the charge of having etabbed bis brotber Charles, in @ maa- ner which it fs thovght will prove fatal, dcring au alter- cation between them ag to thelr finavetal matters. Jobo Lee, only nineteen years old, was yesterday com. mitted for triai to answer the complaint of William Hart, who says tbat ons night be was acsaulted, beaten and robbed by Lee and some confederates, on the corner Of Grand and Greene etroots, The other assailants were not arrested. A woman who gave Pridget Smith as ber name, was yesterday committed ou the charge of having atterupted to pase two dollar counterfeit bills on the Gorn Exchange Bank of this city, on two shopkeepers in Fourth avenue, Awomnn named Emily Gorke was yesterday arrerted, cuarged by Henry Skillen with having robbed him of one hundred dollars while they were together ia @ disreputa- ble boune fa Centre street. A man named Bernard Fitzpatrick, residing in Jersey City, on Saturday last, while under the influence of tn- toxicating liquor, killed bis iusant child with a stove lid, hich be threw at Lis wife, Some further discoveries Lave been made by the Mrook- lyn poitce of alleged robberies by the woman Bridget Hamilton, arrested in that city om Wednesday last for stealing wearing apparel from a house in Sackett Street. Itappears that sho has been for the past two years engaged In operations eimilar to this, relieving nu- merous persons af necessary clothing. Articles valued At iwo thousand dollars, alleged to beon stolen by her, bave already boon claimed by the owners, GLAND IN Hen Dearines wire Tak Fronpa Ca The case of the Florida appears to exercise more of the attention of Evgland than any other foreign Power, though one would suppose that the other maritime nations were quite as much interested. The fact is that E Engtan id has bad a — with Brazil, and she ng some advantage for herreif. Every British government bas done since our rebel- | lion commenced bas furnished a precedent of which we will avail ourselves in the proper e. In the Mason and Slidell case they ad {led the correctness of our position on the | right of wearch question, In the effort to e wrong In the case of the actity of neutral pe ye violated, ts recognized. We 10 reasoa to be dissatisied with their They establish principles for which been contending. In the f Great Britain herself in fitting out | put ts in th Florida, the | ne, Lave always aud Piratical vessels to wage war upon a Power with which ebe is at peace wo have another precedent which we will assuredly follow greatly to our own interest, one of these days, when war is waging between some of the maritime Powers of Europe. Thus we cheer ully accept the interpretation of international law upon all these points from the high court of Ragland. Important from Sherman's Expedition— The of Twenty Thousand Union Prisoners. According to the report brougat by the Herman Livingston, which arrived yesterday at Annapolis, Sherman had stopped the exchange of prisovers at Savannah by cutting the rail- road between that city and Millen, and was Releas within six hours’ march of the stockades where our soldiers were confined, It is, therefore, fair to suppose that bis cavalry had succeeded in releasing from twenty to twenty-five thousand of our gallant soldiers who were held prisoners of woar by the rebels. This is one of the great triumphs of Sherman’s brilliant movement. The latest intelligence vouchsafed us from the rebels of Sherman’s progress shows that his course is steadily and resistlessly onward; that from the very heart of Georgia he has been sweeping, almost without a show of oppo- sition, a war path sixty miles in width, and through some of the richest counties of the State, abounding im corn and swarming with negroes. Considering that all our news of his movements is from rebel sources, since, swing- ing loose from his moorings at Atlanta, he turned to the eastward, and that the rebels naturally put the best face upon their situation that they can, the reports which thus far they have given us of the events of his march are all that could be desired. They are not clouded by any check to his progress, nor by any appearances or prespect of a serious resist- ance at any point. On the contrary, while the rebel chiefs at Richmond are calling upon the people of Georgia to bring out their militia reserves and to lay waste the country in advance of the daring invader, the Georgians are hotly denouncing Davis as having betrayed them to their destruction, Accustomed to rest their calculations of our army movements upon the necessity of a well filled and fortified base of supplies, the rebel chiefs were never so completely deceived as in the present movement of Sherman. They were sure, a month ago, that, as Sherman had but forty days’ supplies at Atlanta, it would be only necessary to move Hood around upon his communications with Chattanooga, and thenee between Chattanooga and Nashville, to compel “the Yankees,” bag and baggage, to fall back into Tennessee to obtain provisions, and to agave their bacon. Jeff. Davis boasted to the people of Georgia that he had come down among them to put thie effective scheme in motion. To Davis, therefore, we owe our thanks for the removal of Hood’s army on a wild goose chase into Western Tennessee, 60 as to enable Thomas to hold him there, while Sherman, with the main grand division of his forees, is marching for Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, without any regular armed orga- nization to oppose him. Sherman had dis- covered from his foraging expeditions around Atlanta that Central Georgia was filled with supplies; that her endless cetton fields of 1860 had become her inviting cornfields of 1864, for the subsistence of the rebel armies. It isin making those cornfields his ‘base of supplies that Sherman has completely turned the tables upon Jeff. Davis. It is a regu- lar Napoleonic movement, which would have been impossible to s great army in any of the cotton States during the first two years of the war. It was not until the main Western armies of the enemy were dislodged from Kentucky and Tennessee, and cut off from the corm and cattle of the west side of the Mississippi, that the intervening cot ton States were devoted to the subsistence of “the confederacy.” But under this necessity, Georgia in the spring of this year planted such an ample breadth of corn and sweet potatoes, as to provide liberally not only for her own people and arinies, and border State refugees, negroes and all, but also for Lee’s army at Richmond. Sberman’s march corers an impore tant section of the State from which these sup- plies are drawn, and cuts off all the reet. He will leave not asingle line of railway oom- munication between Richmond and Georgia, nor a single line between Lee's army on the James river, aod that of Hood on the Ten- nessee. Hence the panic and consternation which prevail at Richmond; hence the cries from that doomed city to the people of Georgia to destroy their own subsisience in order to starve out Sherman, This is their last chance; but es it involves their own destruction, no fears need be entertained that they will adopt it. They may burn their cotton on band of the old crops of 1861 and 1862 on Sherman's approach, but they will not burn their corn cribs and houses, and take to the woods to die there. of starvation. Nor do we think it likely that Hood, threo hundred and fifty miles behind, will overuaul Sherman; or that Loe, with ‘Grant waiting to pounce upon him, bes d, or will be able to send any as- Shersaan been permit arleston. work, and, with bis arrival on sistance to Savannah or Cl will finish bi f we are inclined to think tl Grant will be be in R ard from bmond One hundred from Lee's Waren tar Revver, Desy and twenty-one rebel army arrived in Was! Day, and fifly more y erters ton ‘on Thanks at to the ere Friday. They were all vatched N by this time are i among our pri cities, The ma thom are ably weil meanir nest in their tions; but that there are some who bave t that method to gain an unsuspected admission into our midst for purposes the most vile and treacherous there cannot be a doubt. We think, therefore, It behooves the proper officers of the government to be on their guard and to closely scrutinize these rebel deserters. ken The Lute Incendiary Plot and ¢he Kebel Press of New York. A few weeks ago the Richmond Whig, in commenting upon General Sheridan’s operations in the Shenandoah valley, suggested a scheme of retaliation, which, according to its pro- gramme, was to result in burving, to quote its own language, “ona of the cbief cities of the enemy.” The Whig observed, “nothing would be easier;” that “the men to execute the work are already there;” that “twenty men, with plans all preconcerted and means provided, selocting Some dry, windy night, might fire Boston in a hundred places;” and “if the Yankees retal- jate, it is a game at which we can beat them. New York is worth twenty Richmonds.” The same paper furthermore recommended that a million of dollars be appropriated by the rebel authorities for the “hiring of a gang of trusty and intelligent incendiaries,” for the above purpose, and in conclusion said, “If the Executive is not ready for this, we commend the matter to the secret deliberations of the Congress about to meet.” That rebel Congress has already met, and had its stormy secret session, and New York bas been fired in nearly twenty places, and, as it were, by spontaneous action. The men to “execute the work” have appa- rently been found on the ground, and their diabolical scheme only failed of success in consequence of the bungling manner in which it was put in execution, and the excellent police and fire arrangements ef the hotels and of the city. Thus have the apprehen- sions of Mr. Seward, mentioned in his late letter to Mayor Gunther, been fully realized, and our own admonitions, in view of the throats of the rebel papers, not uttered in vain. Now we come to the consideration of a very important question. We have seen that a sys- tematic plan to burn the city of New York has been along time in contemplation among the rebel leaders, and it is simply impossible that any such "daring scheme could be carried out without the connivance of parties resident here in the city. Thess parties must have been, and no doubt still are, the active and confi- dential co-laborers of the rebel agents and emissaries in our midst. How far these local confederates, who are involved ia this atrocious conspiracy, may be associated with the New York city rebel press will probably never be known. What we do know, however, is that for many months the rebel press of this city has been as actively, openly and earhestly devoted to the canse of the rebels as any of the newspapers in Richmond. We know that for months past these rebel organs have been fomenting all the revolutionary and rebel ele- ments to the peint of insurrection. They have done this by misrepresenting the acts of the government; by disparaging the victories of our armies; by exaggerating every little rebel success, and by showing in every possible way that our own government is the great offender against the rights of the people, and that Jeff. Davis and his associate rebels are persecuted innocents and entitled to the sympathies of every individual opposed to Mr. Lincoln's administration. So flagrant has been the course of these Now York rebel journale in these respocta that i¢ has led to a very general suspicion that the conductors and managers of them have their secret understandings with the enemy—a matter which it would be right and proper for the government to ferret out. It is believed that the conductors of these rebel organs in New York are as completely in the confidence of the rebel junta at Richmond, and are as cognizant of their schemes and desigus against the North as are any of their rebel co-laborers In the South. We suggest, therefore, to Gen. Dix that, for the purposes of a thorough investigation of this diabolical busineas, that he may find cer- tain witnesses connected with ‘the rebel press of New York who, if put to the test, may give him a great deal of valuable information. General Dix will be joined heartily by the great mass of our community in any steps he may think proper to take to secure the appre hension of these secret and evil-minded con- spirators. Suenway’s Insonance or Miirrary Srra- teGY.—The Richmond Whig is severe upon Sherman. It says that his present movement is “an insolent disregard of all the principles of strategy as explained and practised by the masters of the military art.” That was pre- cisely what the old Austrian Marshal Wu said of Napoleon in his first Ttalian camp aver Tne Lars Pen or Tae Cory—Tar Orvicrat pans or Generar, Dix.—General Dix is to be commended for bis zeal and promptitude ia responding to the emergeucies now existing in this city. His official orders in regard to the late incendiary scheme breathe the right tone, and are stamped witit his accustomed vigor. He has now to enforce rigidly the regulation compelling all refugees from within the rebel lines to register their names within twenty-four hours after their arrival in the city. The enforcement of this rule is necessary for the future peace of the city; for, if the military authorities show any timidity in the face of the terrible danger which has just menaced us, the most frightfal consequences may ensue, end the power to avenge and to protest themselves be assumed by the people. Not only are our own residents exasperated at the late attempts to fire the city, but strangers and trevellers from abroad, who were to have been made wholecale victims if the atrocious plot had enceceded, are loud in their expressions of indignation against the perpetrators of the fiendish deed. An occurrence at the St. Nicho las on Saturday evening last showed the tem- per of the ¢ of that hoase on the subject A hotel thief was detected in the act of stealing acoat; pursuit and some confusion ensued; the thief plnoged throngh the glass door, Dbroaking the glass and cutting hiwesif ter- ribly: was eaptured and, under charge of the ehief of the detectives, the hotel. Dur time ocoupted ia capt taken to the private z the brief space of the fellow among the people orted that one of the evious night had been ith great diMoulty that utmost excitement preva crowd could be restrained from infl summary punishinent upon tho fellow. of “Hang him,” “Ileug him,” were uttered Joud and deep, and it was not until it was a nd that he was nly a petty thief that the seut subsided. Thie is the feeling all over the ¢ city, and it is evident no mercy would be shown the culprit who might be detected in an act ef incondiariam, The nearest Iamppost would be the only tribunal that would be inroked. It is, therefore, neces- sary for the maintenance of peace and good 7 order that the most stringent measures should be adopted by both the civil and military authorities to prevent a reeurrence of the scenes of Friday night, and to bring to a strict accountability ail suspicious and disloyal per- sons who may have sought a shelter in tuis city only to destroy it. Sew Departure Demanded. The Northern rump of the old national demo- cratic party was demolished in the late Presi- dential election. The verdict of a “crowner’s quest,” sitting upon its remains, would be, “Died of the Chicago Shent-per-Shent Convea- tion.” Nothing but the name remains to its followers, and “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In fact, the mission for which the democracy were reorganized at Chicago is ended. They have failed in it. They may “hang their harps upon the willows;” for their silly songs of peace-at-any-price have been “played out.” But, as exiles from Zion or the flesh pots of Egypt, they will never be reclaimed while they sit still with their faces to the past and their backs to the faiure. They must look about them, take a careful observa- tion, ascertain their latitude and longitude, and take a new departure. From tho time of Martin Van Buren’s election to the Presidency in 1836, the history of the democratic party is the history of # pro-slavery organization. The original nullification or secession movement of South Carolina on the tariff question having been snuffed out by Gen. Jackson in 1832-3, that restless and disap- pointed champior of Southern State rights, Jobn C. Calhoun, began to work up the South on the slavery question for his ambitious purposes, in view of a Southern confederacy. Thus, when Van Buren was brought out for the Presi- dency, in 1836, as the Kneal democratic succes- sor to General Jackson, he was required by the Southern denocracy never to interfere with slavery in the District of Columbia, or in any other place, except to give it a helping hand. He signed the bond and was elected. In 1840, however, asa candidate for re-election, he wa3 overwhelmingly defeated upon the money ques- tion. In 1844, the money question being set- tled, he was required again to toe the mark on slavery, as involved in the project of the annex- ation of Texas. This time the Southern demo- cratic leaders asked too much. Van Buren de- clined to sign this bend, and so, with a majority of the national party convention elected in his name, he was thrown out by “Bobby Walker’s two-thirds rule,” and Polk, a genuine Southern pro-slavery man, became the democratic nomi- nee. Polk was elected; Texas was annexed; the war with Mexico followed, as predicted by Clay and Van Buren both; extensive acquisi- tions of territory resulted; and then came up again, in new shape, the old slavery trouble upon the question of organizing those new ter- ritories, ~ This brings us down to 1848, when General Cass, on a movable patent lever pro- slavery platform, was set up as the democratic candidate for President, and was defeated by General Taylor, assisted by Martin Van Buren, as ac independent, free soil, anti-slavery candidate, on his Buffale platform. Thus “Little Van” was amply avenged for that Southern two-thirds rale—that pro-slavery trick of “Bobby Walker” of 1&14; and thus began the disintegration of the Jacksonian democratic party. In 1850 Henry Clay’s great compromise measures on the slavery qnestion were adopted; and as the best representative of that peace platform, in 1852, poor Pierce was triumphantly elected President. Had the Southern Icaders of the democracy been con- tent with that liberal adjustment, they might have held the balance of power in every department of the national government now and for an indefinite time to come. But they demanded the repeal of the Missouri compro- mise, incorporated in Mr. Clay’s adjustment, and poor Pierce and the Northern democrats in Congress basely yielded it. And so General Grant is besieging Richmond to-day, and Sher- man, with his avenging army, is sweeping through the heart of Georgia. So, teo, it has followed from that act of repeal that Abraham Lincoln, elected Presi- dent in 1860, upon the platform of the exclu- sion of slavery from the Territories, is re-elected in 1864 upon the platform of the absolute extinction and perpetnal pro- hibition of slavery over every foot of soil within the jurisdiction of the United States. It is altogether probable, too, that before the close of Mr. Lincoln’s second term the insti- tution of slavery will have ceased to exist from the Potomac river to the Rio Grande. The course of events is drifting strongly in this direction. What, then, is the great fact to which the Northern remnants of the democratic party, demolished by slavery, should turn their attention? Jt is this: that their vocation, as the servants of their former Southern pro-sla- very masters, is gone; that there will be no more debasing concessions to slavery required, vo more grovelling in the dust to Southern pro-elavery politicians for a sop among the fat things of the government kitchen, ne more Chinese sprawling flat on the ground to the three-tailed mandarins of the emptre for their favor. All this is done away with. They could not see it—they of the Albany Regency at Chi- cago ; but they can see it now, unless they are as blind as poor old Buchanan was im 1800. What, then, should. be the new departure of the Northern democracy? They should take the initiative in Congress, and co-operate in the States for that amendment of the constitution which will remove this stumbling block of slavery entirely out of the country, and forever and ever. This done, the opposition | nte of the Union restored can easily organize a victorious national party upon the great prac- nes touching our foreign and domestic afairs*that will then comie into the foreground. On the other hand, while the Northern demo- cracy continue to cross themselves, and mutter their old party prayers before the grinning skeleton of Southern slavery, they can do nothing. We advise the forlorm democracy to look about them carefully, and they will sve that they are behind the times, and will never catoh up by Legraniae still. Tan St. Annaxs Kaw government has very proy application of the St. Albans rat mission to send a special messenger to Rich- mond for evidence in their defence. If they bad consented to this request they wonld have een regarded es lending themse' vey to the pro- tection of m gang of highwaymen; for these deaperadoes must be esteemed no better. Their purpose was highway robbery, burglary and arson. They have no claim to be considered or treated as soldiers; for thoy had no more right to enter our Northern States from @ for per- | Senthern States who hoids neutral territory, with the intention of plunder- ing banks and other establishments, theo any gang of ordinary burglars or highwaymen who might organize their plans on the Canadian frontier. It is quite probable, from the way the case is tending, that they will be given up by the colonial government, to be tried at St Albans for arson and robbery. There they will be dealt with according to their deserts, and we trust that the Canadian authorities wilh gee the justice of the measare. Folly of the Late Rebel Iucemdiary Attempt—Its Reactionary Effect. If it be true, as alleged, that the recent at tempt by rebel emissaries to fire our city had its direct instigation from Richmond, nothing can mark more strongly the desperation of Southern rulers. Had it been undertaken pre- vious to the Presidential election we could have understood it. It could not have bees hoped to iufluence the contest in any way but unfavorably for Southern interests; but with the certainty with which the rebel organs pro- fessed that the election would go against Mo Ciellan, this did not matter. The attempt, # made then, might have been made to tell ia another way. The conduct of the peace fae tion had created considerable distrust and un- easiness in the public mind, and the extent ef its organization being still undeveloped, i would have been important to the rebellion it could have compromised’ it by a supposed connection with an attempt of this sort. HN would at all events have givem color and probability to the revelations made in conneo- tion with the “Sons of Liberty” and the “Order of American Knights.” In the con- fusion and exasperation which would have fol- lowed the rebels might have hoped to so compromiss their copperhead allies as te have fanned into a flame the elements of civil strife which they have all along persuaded! themselves existed here. The result of the election must, however, have dispelled all hopes of this kind. peace party is dead and buried, and but o: feeling auimates the Northern people—that a determination to put down the rebellion any cost. We cannot, therefore, understand what the Richmond government proposes itself by such enterprises as the raids fronij Canada and the incendiary attempt upen No York. Supposing them to be successful to 1 fall extent contemplated, they could have ne] possible influence upon our course. In the way of annoyance they are but as the stings ef insect on the back of alion. They could only] have the effect of exasperating us still mor against the cowardly and assassiu-like conduc! of the men who have hitherto claimed f themselves a monopoly of chivalrous sents ment. But there is another effect which they will produce, upon which their originators have mo calculated. In this city and vicinity there at present residing from forty to fifty thou Southern refugees, who are indebted to government for peaceable toleration, althoug! the language and actions of many of ti would justify a different course of treatment Of these a large proportion are women children sent North to enjoy the comforts civilized life while their husbands and father} are battling in the rebel armies. So is in Canada. In Montreal, Toronto and o eities there have been large accessions to population from the same sources. Lil Canada, the liberality of our governm has enabled the rebels to make of New York |] sort of neutral ground, on which their familie! find the shelter and protection which are dente | them on their own soil. What sort of paterna feeling is that which seeks to compromise thu recklessly, and through vindictive moti merely, the safety and comfort of so mi helpless beings? We have seen what in have been the consequences of there insan efforts—general indignation against South refugees, where before the feeling was ri one of sympathy, and a strict surveil: placed upon their movements. We tremble think what would have been the result in Ne York had the late fiendish attempt to bu down our public buildings succeeded. Un the influence of the excitement to which th fearful sacrifice ef life occasioned by it mu have led, the authorities would have been u uble to exercise any check over the passious ¢ the community. Those who have been out raging public esuntiment by their avowed 5; pathy with the rebellion would have been first to fall victims to it. As it is, the condition of those Southern fam’ lies that have taken refuge among us will neo sarily be rendered very uncomfortable by i Restrictions will be placed on thelr movemen‘ that will incouvenience them greatly, while considerate feeling which has hitherto marke | the relations of our community towards ther will in other respects be very much altere For this they have to thank the desperadoe whom they have aided fn placing at the bea of their meck government. Steeped to the! necks in blood, they have ceased to discrim nate as to the consequences of their acts. matters but little to them what reprisals the bring upon the unhappy people whom the have misled, provided they can ouly succee in inflicting vengeance upon us for their di appointments. Tnx Corron Trane.— We see that the gover; ment lus decided to confine the issue of pe mits to trade in cotton exclusively to the agen, of the Treasury Department in future, arny officers no longer to have anything to do wit it in consequence of the deworalization arieid out of their connection with the purchase: rebel cotton. This is very well eo far. It perbaps a decided improvement on the forme aystem; but we do not perceive the necessi: of having any restrictions at all. Why a re cotton trade be left open like all othy hes of commerce? As long as we pe greenbucks for the cotten we relieve Treasury to the extont of their redemptic while every bale of cotton we buy is worth much gold to us, for which ft fs convertible & While, if it goes from rebel hang », the gold returns to w Besides, every man in t green ks holds boud which unites him to our government; & that the dissemination of the national curreag in the rebel States is calculated to strength the Union feeling there, It will steady wavering and convert the obstinate. Ther fore we advocate free trade in cotton wi greenbacks as o measure of good policy on tY pact of the government. Europe. through Mex rebel government. at Boston, Roaron, Nov, 27, 1964 The Asia arrived at eight o'clock this moroing. malls will be forwarded by to-night’s train, due at Nq ‘York on Monday morning, Wiad northweat; Arrival of Har 48; clouay alt day, Sy