The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1864, Page 4

CO208 UM. W. CORNER OF FULTON AXD om pSeeepEDeeCnrenes TERME cash in advance. Mevey cout by mail et the risk of the sender, None but bank bills currents Now York taken. {HE DAILY HERALD, Foum coats per copy, Annual subscription price 914. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACE'S TBEATRE, Broadway.—Scugot or Kz. oka WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Haucet, OLYMPIO |ATRE. Broadway. G: > pass => \way.—8t. Gzonce ann rea NEW BOWERY TREATRE, Bowery.—Warnxc ron ras Vexpicr—Mas-or-Wan's Man—Srecrax Buipxcnoom. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Caaix Bor—St, Jauxs exp Ot. Guse—Misomsr Manin. BROADWAY THEAT! Brosdway.—Poos Geyris- wan—Puoria's nwa a MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Oons1o.x Broruens, BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Bresdway.—Taacx Mauxorn fat Ginis—Tunes Giaxts—Two Dwaars—Inuians— im AvroMatoxs. Daawatic Penronuancrs—=Day and BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Se Songs, Dawoxs, Borixsquas, &0.—Licur a WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 614 Brosdway—! 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Though they sirive %@ conceal the most important portions of what they know, and whicm is evidently anything bul agrees- Die te themselves, they cannot avoid telling much. ‘The farrival of General Slooum’s left wing of the army, sixteen thousand stromg, at Madizon, and the burning of tke tows, are aunounced. The excitement * at Augusta om last Monday wes very great, and in the ‘urgest Deed for troops it was proposed to impress the Begrees, One of the papers of that place waa very foar- ful of treachery on the part of ite citizens on Shermau’s arrival. The importance te she confederacy of Macon and Augusta ate dwelt upon at length by the rebel press, aud that thet falt would be a great disaster to it is admitted, ‘The Richmond Whig derives some comfort from an as- Bertion, which It strives te believe true, that Sherman is Only marching on an average seven miles day. An es. eaped Union soldier from Charleston who has arrived in Chicago makes an interesting statement in regard to yaost importaas movements which are to be made in va lous sections simultaneously with Sherman’s arrival in ‘ne vicinity of the Atlantic coast: Savannah, it is positively ‘Poorted, ig the destination of his army, and Admiral Mahigren and General Foster, in South Carolina, are said be co-operating with him,and as soon as the time of ee ee ate paeriit come fixed, ‘they will demonstrate upon Charleston and Wilmington; Grant upon Richmond, and Sheridan in some other quar- or. This escaped sollicr says nothing can stop the @nward progress of Sherman. ‘The Richmond Lngwirer of Friday last gives an aceount of the attempt to escape, recently, of thirteen thousand ‘Union prisoners confined at Salisbary, North Carolina ‘This eocount states that they bad formed a plot to over- power the guard, escape from the stockader, and mara through Western North Carolina into Tennessee. They @ucceeded in overpowering the interior guard of their ‘encampment, sod were engaged in a Oght with the out- wide guard, when artillery was opened eg tvem, which made further resistance hopeless. About forty of the prisoners were ki'led and a large number woanded. From Tenvesses we learn that thore ts daiig skicmisb- fing at the front between the ferces of Thomes and Hood, A body of rebel cavalry attacked the Union gar- Fiscp at Shelbyvilie on Monday iast, but was driven off Biter some severe skirmishing. Stoce then Shelbyville Des been evacuated by our troops, and It is Bow occupied Dy the revels. The railroad through from Nashville to Chattanooga Is anbrokes, though bands of rebel cavairy tre prowling near it Five hundred of them crossed the ‘rack op Tuesday night, fifteen miles south of Nashvilic, ‘but did not interfere with it. A train over it arrived ia Neaebviite from Chattavoogs on the same night. Ample Preparations have beon made for the reception of Hood * ald be attempt to move on Nashville, dvioes from City Point state that beavy artillery and sketry fring commenced at an early hour en Toesdey rning of this week, on the north side of James river, ne vicinity of Doteh Gap, and continued up to cleven O'clock. The gunboats were thought to be taking part fo the engagoment. No particulars of the affair have ‘been received. The exchange of musketry and ae. Sillery Gre betweon ihe opposing armies ip the @ame vicinity on Monday, mentioned in yesterday's Wtrascy, was maintained throughout the day, but with itt:e lose or damage on the Upion side, General Butice has issued an order mustering out of sorvice several [pioers oF cotoren troops for incapacity and other more Wingraceful causes. A rebel newspaper despatch from Petersburg speaks of considerable activity in the front Pt the Army of the Potomac, which, it says, looks as if Grant was propering for a move on the rebel right, ‘With the exception of a few trifling raids, nothiog has i ote for tome daysto disturb the quiet of the va m if ona! army jo the Stienandoah vaitey, and it ts mot itkoly it will be toterfored with for some days to come, at Poast not by another advance of Farly By tbe arrival of the stoamer Empire City at this port fast night, from New Orieans, we bave a brief sccount jor s brilfieot affair in Louisiana, General A, L. Lee, commanding tho Union cavalry forces ai Baton Rouge, re. ‘turned to that point on the 224 ult., from an expedition to Juverty and Brookvilie, bringiug with him (three pieces of rebel artillery, between seven and eight hundred horses and mules and two hundred prisoners, including Ue entire staif of General Hodge, all of which wore eaptored after a epirited ebgagement with the ecomy. It Ss reporied (hat a iarge portion of Magruder’s army ie Ondeavoriog to effeot a eroming Of tbe Missiesippl in order 9 reinforce Hood im Tonnosses, bat the Union troope abd Pravonts wore on tne wateh, and will Prevent the cross. PPE MT posaibie, he report Published Is one et our air papery Uaad the 7 . ‘ ured by the rebel (General Buckeer, t without elightest Goundation, General thowe bimself to sight of Morgaazia; but treops stationed there would be very Raper je ave bis make his appearance, > Bermoda dates @f the 86th of Movember are received by way of Halifax, By these we learn that, after being based by the blockaders, the privateer Chickamaugs had arrived at Wilmington, 8.0, The ¢ Tall aaasee, accounts of whose escape from the b: the North Carolina coast have already been git Hignarp, was till at Wilmington at the latest accounts, but was expected to leave Bermuda ina few days with a cargo of cotton, The Diockade runmers Armstrong, with seven hundred bales Of cotton, and the Talisman, with foar hundred, had ar- rived at Bermuda, There wore twenty-one bloakade runners at Nassau, N. P., on the 12t8 ef November, some Of which bad beea chased buck to port by United States vesecls, after sailing forknetr Southern destinations. A Newbern despatch of the 27th of November gives « report that all ¢he available rebel troops in North Caro- lina have eon seat to the assistance of Georgia. General Bragg is in command of the rebei Department of North Carolina, The rebel papers of the State thiek tbe Union expedition against Wiimiogton has been abandoned. It is thought that Governor Vanoe wil! be elected to the Rich- mond Senate, Major General Q. 4. Gilimore teaves to-day for New | Orteans, where he will report to Genoral Canby, for the Purpose of lnapecting the defences of the various fortified posta in the West Mississippi Military Division. MISCELLANEOUS HEWS The steamship Columbia arrived here yesterday, from Havana on the 26th of November. She brings later news from Cuba, Vonesuela and St. Domingo, but nothing from Mexico. A Swedish envoy who goes to Mexico for the purpose of officially recognizing Maximilian arrived at Havana, on route, on the 23d of November, and salled for Vera Craz on the 26th. Eighty-four Austrians intended to form part of Maximilian's body guard left for Mexico at the same time, Two blockade runuers were in port at Havana,and ove hid just sailed. Our Havana cor- respondence reports the revolution in Venesueia at an end, & compromise having been offected with the insurgents, But according to cur Curacoa despatch this will not long deprive the Venerueians of their favorite entertainment, for it ts wtated that @ gemeral recentiy sailed from that ialand for the purpose ef effecting a landing on the Vene suelan coast, gathering around him as large @ force as he could, and getting up another revolution tn one of the Provinces. From Havana there is a very improbabie Story relative to St. Domingo, to the effect that seven thousand of the natives had advanced upon the capital, overpowered the Spanish garrison, and held the town. Im regard to St. Domingo we Dave some very interesting statements by @ Spaniah geo- Uemav, who has lately arrived in this coustry (rom there. He says that, contrary to what bas been reprecented im Cuban and oiber Spanish papers, the Dominicans ere far from being conquered by the Spavish troops. Be states that th uatives hold be wmountala districts, while t@e Spaniards carrison the town, from which they oceesicn- ally selfy out, and, after skirmishing a little and loving a few men, retara. The money ef the mother country is being squandered Inviehly om the island; bus it ts the optoion of intelligent moa that Spaia will pever cubdne the Dominicans. Our correspondent ta the city of Mexico, writing on the Slat of October, repredents the condition of the country under the imperial regime ae vory deplorabie. Comamerce ts stagnant, and agricultaral vperationa been so much interrnpred by the continual wa brigecdege, murder and robbery throughout s!most tbe eatire Mexican territory during the past two roars (bat the most necessary articles are in tho greatest scarcity, and macy are said to be dying of starvation in the cities of Mexico and Sam Luis. To alleviate these sufferings, a special tax of one per contum per month has ‘veen levied by the imperial government oa aii kinds of property, This, added to all the previous taxes with whieh the people were burdened, has caused great dissatisfaction. A number of the French troops have embarked for France, acd Maximilian has been notified ‘that it will be necessary to devise some new financial Tae re. measures of cease the continuance of the war. publican General Romere capt: wrlnan AP Mama Teske‘al the itexican traitors companying It, which was commanded by the uotorious Marquez. In the State of Michoacan betwoen three and five thousand republicans Lave recently formed them. selves (nto queriila bands, scattered among the Mountains, for the purpose of waylaying and harsexing the lovaders We have advices from the isiand of Curseoa to Novem ber 13, oy the schooner ia Crecie, Nothiag of import ance hed transpired since our previous report. The United States Consul, Mr. Fareoo, hud sretved and taken charge of his office. Mayor Gusther, In xocordance with the avihorization of the Board of Supervisors, has issued a proclamation offering a reward of five thousand dollars fer the arrest and conviction of the incendiaries who recemity at- tempted to burn down the hotels and other buildings of the city. A destructive [ncendiary Ore occurred between four sod five o'clock yesterday morning in tbe lumber yard of Ogdea & Co., No. 302 Washington street. Nearly one. third of the biock im which the yard Is situated was destroyed. The iors is probably nearly $100,000. The losses by fire durieg the past montd, however, have becn lesa than for aay previous month in the year. The fol- lowing table shows the number of fires and the losecs (where the amount of property destreyed has exceeded $20,000 in value; for each month of the past year im the raids, like the borning of Chambersburg, Pa., last July, of of the destruction of property by our own or the rebe forces in the operations of war. Us Monday lest « torpede was found in one of the berthe of the Long Island Sound steamer City of New London, The fuse had bee lighted, but had become ex- tinguished in some manner before it burned into the aheil, and thus providentially was prevented the blowing up of the boat and the fearful lose of life and manating of human bodies which would have ensued. This infer. nal design if supposed to have been the work ef some of those connected with the recent atiempt to destroy ,¢ city. while ia Canada recently, was iaformed by a Souther: there of an organization bund of about one bu and Sfty Southern rebels, whore design was to set fire to al the principal cities of the North, and for this parpose they were provided with a highly combastible preparation which could be carried io & small compass and tgnited by « slow matek. ‘The regitiration of Boutherm citizens begine te fall off considerably, not more than forty having presented thomeslyvoa at General Peck's headquarters yesterday Up to tho prevent time about fou undred and fifty hewe complied wit General Dix's order. The excitement consequent upon the alloged comepiracy to burn the city begins to subside; Dut the hotel keepers have not relaxed thelr vigilance, and any aojourner whe may be the unfortunate possessor of @ ‘bisck valise” te ‘ooked upon with considerable suspicion. A Special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at one o'clock to-day, The case of the Florida eap- ture and the Captam Winslow testimonial wilt be among the lotoresting topics brought before the Chamber Jor ite acitow, : A case involving the copatitutlenality of the State Pilot laws was argued yesterday be‘ore Judge Bocks, of the Supreme Court. The Pilot Commissioners, tt appears, Dave Drought an action againes Messrs, Spottord & Tiles ton for employing & plies met licensed under the laws of tee State, The defendants claim that the pilot was poled OE te santa tepne as goeer & reminie commoren. welch included eticteme, 10 ( io his splendid aight in Now York and Pennsyl- Plalotidis’ counsel, and am interesting affidavit was pre- sented to the Court in regard tothe case. The jndge re- ‘gorved his decision. Horace B. Henman, one of the Fulton ferry ticket takers, was yesterday taken before United States Com- missioner Osborne, on the complaint of Edwerd Carroll, who charges that Houman gave bim io change, at the ferry gate, inntead of legal moaey, one of the ferry tickets, and that he was compelled to take this, secrifice the amount,er be prevented from crossing to Brooklyn. ‘This case ts oaly one of hundreds of the same kind which daily ocour, forming a petty annoyance which the ferry Monopoiies inflict on the community. Henman was re- leased on ball, avd it is expected that the case will be laid before the Grand Jury. Sarrogate Tucker has admitted to probate the wit! of Sohn J. Ryder, which had been contested by*the uacle of the deceased. The Surrogate has adjourned bis court Ul Monday, when the alleged will of Abraham R, Law- revce will be takon up for trial. At the opening of the General Sessions y Owee Lynch, who pleaded guilty to wansiaag! fourth degree @ few.days ago, was placed the bar. ‘The Court was furnisbed with affidavits to show that the death of Mira, Dubois, canged by the defendant's horse, wee purety accidenta!; so judgment was geuspended. Mary Weavor,a tall, intelligent looking elderly woman, attired in deep mouraing, who pleaded guilty last week to grand larceny, waa seategced to the State Prison (or two years and six months. It ie said that this Indiviaual has rendered herseif somewhat notorious for shoplifting, acd that at one time sho played at the Broadway thertre as Lady Maobeth. Michael O'Brien was convicted of grand larceny, in stealing five hundred dollars in Jersey bank Dills from Thomas Fallaher, oo the 16th inet., at a drinking saloon in West atreet. He was re- manded for sentence. Barbara White, lodicted for stealing four bundred and seventy-live dollars from Catharine Welsh, of No. 276 West Thirty.seventh street, on the Lith of October, pleaded gullty to grand larceny, aud was gent to the State prison for two years. Catha- tine Smito, charged with stealing thirty-six dollars from Joba W, Ginn, pleaded guilty to a minergrade of larceny, and was sent (o the penintentiary for six months. James Brana gan wee indicted for the murder of Heury Miley, by striking him several blows with a large hammer, on the 4th of August, The aTair grew out of a blacksmith’s “strike,” when the deceased refused to jola it. The Priscrer pleaded guilty to mansieughter in the Grst degree, aud wan remanded for sentence, William = Lennessen was convicied § of nighway robbery, 10 agsaniting Jobn HA. Alcott, chief clerk atthe Potice Headquarters, on the night of the 16th of Octover, while passing through West, Houston street, between ten Bnd eleven o'clock, whoa be lost @ vaivable gold watch and a diamond ring. Full particulars of this cage were published by us ut the time, so that it is ooly necessary to repoat that Mr, Alcott wag brutally asssutted by ten or twelve men and chot at three times by the pris- oner, fu whose possession @ loaded seven barrelled re- volver wag found (three barrels emptied) when he was arrested in a house !m Greene street shortly after the rob- hery. Mr. Alcott identified another mao, name Kdward Rurne, who ‘will be tried next weex, The seutence of Hennesseu was postponed til that time. The Commissioners of Indian Affaire at Washingtoe yesterday awarded the contracts for furnishing Indian supplies for the coming year, These suppites consist of ciotuing, blankets, sgricuitaral implements, bardware acd various other kinds of goods, . Tho redel exGeneras Roger A, Pryor arrived to this city from Washington éarly yesterdsy morniag, ia charge of Genera! Wessels ond Lievtenant W.G. Shaw. After taking breakfast et » Cortiandt street hotel, (he party proceeded to Brooklyn aud took the cara to fort Ham- fitow, whence Pryor was ferried over to Fort Latayesto, where be is now coufined. Johc Keon and Renry Sinith were arrested vesterday at the entrance to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, haviag cop- per end lead in (heir possession, supposed to belong to the governmect, They were detained for examioation. Tuomas Morgan, @ soldier, while qutetly standing on the corner of Broadway and Forty-fourth eteeet, on Tues- day evening, wes nuddenly aesauited by some vitlais unknown to him, aad with whom he had not exchanged 2 ward. who stabbed bien ter tha broset, fetivcing & Wound from the effects of which it te feared he cannot recover. ‘The scouncrel escaped, and Morgen was taken to bis quarters by the police. As winter approaches, the emigration, ex usnal, de- creases. Lust week the numbor of arrivals from Durape | was ove thousand ofne hundred and oigbty-four, making one hundre? and seventy-Ove thousaud three pnudred and fifty-two since the current year commenced. The number landed to this date last year wee one hundred and forty-six thousand five bundred and uinetcen, ‘The balance of the Commatation Fund at present is $54,000 16. Captetn Petl, the alleged Lake frie rebel pirate, war yerterday reiersed (rom arreat by the Toronto Court, the ebarge upoo which be was hell being abandoned: but he was immediately after rearrested on a iresh warrant. An investigation in regard to the vow ghargs wil! be made to day. The stock market was duit yesterday. heavy, and, after openlog at 2224;, Government secarities were dull, The fail im gold gusettied the warkets again. and ren dered prices nominal. The buvyancy aud drmuess which prevailed on Tuesday proved to be only temporary, and the rosuit simply of the rise io gold, The amonnt of | busines yesterday was light, and confined almost wholly to domestic produce, On ‘Change the flour market de clined Se. a 10c., with rather more doing. Wheat was irregular and lower. Corn was dull, and 3¢, @ do, lower. Oats were quict, and searcely wo firm. Pork was more ac- tive, bat $1 a $150 por barrel lower. Reef quiet. bat firm. Lard easier, while whiwkey was scarcely so firm Freights quiet. At the monthly sale of Seranton coal in this city yes lerday, twenty-five (bousand tons were old ata slight ad- vanee on the prices of the regular sale of the previous Gol, was cloned at 2284. Month, Steve coal sold yesterday at from nine dollars | g' and sixty-two cents to doliars cighty-five conte. | The Groat lesue of Mr. Lineela's Re- election=Dees He Understand It! Ta Old Abe napping? Tas the drowsiness | which bas so long brooded over the Nary | Department extended to the White House’ | Does Mr. Lincoln construe his re-election as popular grant to him of four years more in which to put down the rebellion, and that ac- cerdingly he can take his time, the late neces sity for an energetic and irresistible pressure upon the rebel armies having passed away? Is be dozing in his easy chair under this con- soling narcotic? One would think so from the present appearance of ‘masterly inactivity” at Washington. Excepting the late order assign- Ing General Hancock to the special daty of collecting @ new corps of veteran volunteers, we have bad nothing from the national capital for some time to show that the administration fs not asleep. ven the war bulletins of Secre- tary Stanton Lave been suspended. This will nover do. Old Abe must wake up. This is the time for action, not idleness, Now he has the op- portunity for decisive work—s golden opportu- nity, which the country expects will be turned to a good account. The great issue of the late national election was tho suppression of the re- bollion, Mr. Ligooly bas beg rine for Aher term by an morte fad majesty: and by a clear majority of, electoral votes ofthe whole Union, robellious States and all, The only States voting New end Jorsey, wh! visi Og sats Amboy Fatt “~~. afew bun- rod votes; aad Kentnéky, which the beginning of the war hag been as brratie her movements as {f guided by @ drunk Bourbon leader, brimfull @ll the time = vania. In the Northeast the results in Novem- ber were foreshadowed in September; but in the Northwest there has been a tremendous popular revolution against the Chicfgo oandi- dates, ia view of V: platform, and of those Northwestern treasona- Circle” and the “Sons of Liberty,” with which Mg ein. 8 a Chicago peace ble conspiracies, the ‘Knights of the Golden the copperhead leaders of the democratic party were identified. It is thus apparent that Mr. Lincoln owes his triumphant re-election aot so much to his own merits as to the Chicago copper- heads and thelr treasonable affiliations, in the Northwest. From the close vote of New York and Pennsylvania we may safely asgume that upon an honest and unequivocal war platform the democracy could have elected General McClellan. But, as between the war platform and policy of Mr. Lincoln, and the peace at.any-price platform and agents of Mr. Belmont’s Shent-per-Shont Convention, the re- sulis which have'followed were inevitable, in spite of all the blunders, failures, disasters, heavy taxes and high prices associated with the administration. Besides, frem the glorious victories of Grant, Sherman, Farragut and Sheridan, the people of the loyal States be- lieved that Old Abo had turned over anew leaf, that he was on the shortest road to peace, and tbat under his present efficient officers, army and navy, he would soon bring the re- bellion to an end, if given another four years’ lease of power. We would respeotfally call Mr. Liucotn’s at- teution to these facts and public expectations connected with his election. The people of the loyal States expect him to push on the war, not after the old jogtrot fashion of slowly “pegging away,” but with renewed vigor. Our national debt has risen to proportions which are alarming, and it atill in- creases by millions from day to day. Our taxes, at this rate, must soon be increased to save the Treasury from ruin; and still we can hope for no legitimate stopping place between the price of gold and the value of “greenbaoke” till we can see the ond of the war. Weappeal, then, that Mr. Lincoln, fa trusting to General Grant and his forces in the field; is not doing justice to that admirable soldier, nor meeting the demands or expecta- tions of the country. The late election bas shown, surprising es the fact may appear in’ Europe, that we have more men in the loyal States now than we bad atthe beginning of the war, and that the people of these States are still ready te make all needful sacrifices, in men and money, to bring the war toa speedy close. In thiseensible and practical view of the subject Mr. Lincoln need not be afraid that he has exhausted the patriotism of the North in his calls for soldiers. Under the present syatem of liberal bounties, and in view of the staggering condition of the rebel con- federacy, he may, and we think he should, call at once for three hundred thousand twelve months volunteers, so that against every possible contingency we may celebrate, with the next Fourth of July, the absolute extinction of the rebellion. We dare say, considering the present divided, weakened and demoralized condition of the rebellious States, that this call itself would be apt to deglde the contest. In any event, now ig the time for the reinforcement of our armies, in order to demolish the crippled and Qivided forces of Jeff. Davis before be can concentrate them in any movement east or west. weeless for the rebel prese ‘ty to attempt to ridicule the recent conspiracy to burn down the motropolis as a political piot of the republicans. This is not « mater for jeers and jokes. Thousands of men, women aud children, in our dotels and our theatres, were snddenly subjected to the peril of death ia its moat frightful form. The evidences of & conspivaey to effect this are ample. ‘The plot only failed because of the cowardice of the agents, who were aftaid to stay in their roome until the flames bad gained headway. The atrocious scheme was predicted in the Richmond organs, foreshadowed In the rebel press of this city, and doubtless pre- pared, under the supervision of George N. Sanders, in Canada. [t is of the same char- acter ag the murderous raid of rebel highway men upon St. Albans, and was undoubtedly conceived in the seme brain. These are indis- putable facts and logical inferences, and those who seek to make a political jest of so horrible an affair deserve the severest ceusure, and incur tbe suspicion of being concerned in the outrage of which they are the willing apolo- ets. That the Incendlary conspiracy has caused a panic throughout the city fa undeniable. Boarders at hotels will no longer accept rooms upon the upper stories, from which egress, in case of fire, is dificult, Consequently the hotels, hithevto #0 overcrowded, ure rapidly thinning out. Our theatres also feel the effects of the panic. They are not so well attended as before the fires, and the audiences start te their feet in nervous alarm at the least unusual noise in tho gallery or the lobby. The strictest precautions have been taken aguinst any repetition of the attempt; but it will be a long while before the feeling of apprehension wears away, It is, indeed, shocking to reflect that in this en Hghtened age monsters base eneagh to doom innocent women and helplese children to the tortures of a crue) death by fire can be found wearing the semblance of humanity, and the whole civilized world will regard these fiends, their employers and thelr sympathizers with Uomitigated borror and unbounded reproba- tion. It devolves upon General Dix to relieve the minds of our people from the anxieties which now oppress them, snd to protect the city against any further dangers frem auch atrocities, Our police aud civil authorities are doing well; but upon our military authorities we must chiefly rely. General Dix fs an excel- lent man, a New Yorker, and an official of decided character, and now is the time for him to exhjbit his energy, neal and ability, ot only in writing spirited orders, but also in ferreting out the ders, bringing them before a court , Gnd shooting them as soon as convicted. Tho swiftest and severest punish- mépt ghould be mefed out to the conspirators; ‘and It js the daty of General Dix to listen to every cuggestion bar will assist him to delivering them to justice. make in regard to raoniir, segs, it Rg9 understood. It isa matter of common noto- rlety that rebel agents, rebel spies and gradu- ates of Fort Lafayette make their headquarters at the back office of one of these rebel papers, and have been seen in company with its editor. Checks for large amounts have been received by the same editor from Montreal, the nest of secessionists in Canada. The various secret societies of secession origin have elected this person an honerary or active member. British agents consort with him,and are allowed full licemse in his journal, which is avowedly the champlon of traitors and the defender of the confederacy, and which has such intimate business relations with the press of Richmond as to regularly exchange advertisements. Now, we put it to General Dig whether these facts, which are susceptible of proof, are not sufficient to justify him: in thoroughly examiaing the editors, reporters and attaches of these rebel journals before a court martial, and whether it is not more than probable that he will find the clue to the conspiracy in these offices? The rebel papers of this city have been tolerated by our loyal citzone—we are sorry to add that they have even been supported by the Corpora- tion advertisements; but when they oconnive with incendiaries they deserve no mercy. We, therefore, appeal to General Dix to investigate them closely, and if necessary we shall bring the subject before. Congress, which meets on Monday next. When WU the War Be Knacdt This is now the all important question wit the people, Now that the great political atrug- gle is ever, and Mr. Lineoln is once more firmly fixed im his high place; now that Sherman goes on so magnificently that the enemy dare not tell how he goes on; now that the whole mili- tary prospect is so full of promise, and the people see, as they suppose, the begioning of the end, all have the desire to kuow when tho great straggle will be over. We have not the slightest doubt that, with the right kind of men in power under the President at Washington— with mea able and disposed to do their whole dnty in all the high places of the national gov- erament—the war could be brought to a tri- umphant close in one year, if oven itmight not in six months. The pepuletion of this country is now actu- ally greater than it was when this war begen; and the natural wealth and the credit of the country are so far superior to the necessities of the war, that the war has not yet even put either of them tos trial. We have, therefore, plenty of men and plenty of money, and what we want is, the right kind of men at Washing- ton to bring them out, We want there, and tumbles with Peter B. Sweeny and ‘he r- of Genet were plucked by the later, whet) upon Mr. Sweeny became:the chieftain 14) all-the other leaders, he seems to ipvehad day, and now George H. Purser, with Jai Brooks as his aid-de-camp, appears to hve | come the leader of the warriors, aad hey ¢ ‘The result is that he lias finally as @ prominent light im the Gatholf: He has assumed the vows and tead of religious {aith, fs in fall communio, ena i special communication with its beadhe Pe of Rome. James Brooks has alse bea wat fog the current of events, and, beoging & wwipoed that duty as well as snccentead & in that direction, he hes found bis wy to anxious seat, hes become a ceoham in the Catholic faith, and doanedbe wh robes. The two have, therefere, € potnt in the religious soale which 2 them to secure to ‘Tammany moral and social bearing than tt by we must have, the men who cen put a right v idea walors proportion of the men of the country in the Ph eas and gave og good army. und who can make’our national wealth rirore but ava'\ .ls for the national defence. Now is the “4 the time, Now our army is areal, grand, effective body for the practical purposes of war, and our generals are without equals in ability. The whele country is united to sustain the war. We ate all strength and purpom. Onr enemy, on the contrary, is all @ncillation and weak- ness—~divided in every respect, an@ exhausted by bis great efforts. If, with such a etate of affairs, we do not finish the war {n six months or a year, it is simply through the want of brains at Washington. It is high time that the President should stir his stumps to see that we do not fail for such @ reason, and to earry out the pledges that he virtually mage to the people when he became a candidate on the Baltimore platform. We must close up the war in order that ye muy have a free field for the settlement of our scores with England and France for the insults and outrages heaped upon ua by those countries while our hands have been tied by this groat domestic struggle. Foreign wars, through all history, have quieted internal discord and been @ bond of nnion to a peeple; and a foreign war that Is necessary to our dignity and honor must serve this purpose for us. Finish the re- bellion, and the men of the two sections, en- gaged in a common war against a common enemy, will be brothers once more in the first battle. Put an army of two hundred theusand Northern and Southern men commingled on the Canada border, and a similar army on the Rio Grande, and Meximilian will skedaddle out of Mexico, and England will pay the bills for the damage done to our commerce by her pirates; or we shall have a war that will shake the gow eroments of those two countries to their foun- dation, and give their people an occasion to chaunt over themselves those requiems that they were so eager to chaunt over the great republic. Brirrisa Srxcutation anv Taurupeyor,—-Le another column will be found the correspond- ence which has passed between Mr. Seward and Mr, Joseph Parker, the bearer of the so- onlled peace address from the poople of Great Britain to the people of the United States. In so far as the pompous designation of the source from whence it emanates is concerned, the document in question caa only be compared to the famous declaration of the three tailors of Tooley street. “We, the people of Great Britain,” said the tailors; “We, the people of Great Britain,” say Mr. Joseph Parker and his co-sigoers. The force of impudeace can no further go. The document sought to be thus palmed off on us fe nothing more than wiat aporting men would call ‘a hedging business.” Tt dears the signatures of some members of the British aristooracy, it is true, and of other people who ought to be respecta- ble; buat these parties are merely victims of the sharpers who, under guise of @ simula- ted sympathy for the South, hooked them into ‘wking their Confederate bonds off their hands when the game became g losing one. One un- lucky baronet, with more money than brains, has been let in to the tune of about £300,000, not one penny of whieh be will ever sc again. Of course these would like to sce the war at ‘an end and the {adependence of the South re- cogniaed. It offers tho gnly earthly chance of their hopde boing ever goed for anything. Bot he om toask ls another, If, Te goes back with a fies in his oar, the pablic will postr ttt eed Pd to their relief and gave them we morality. Isaae V. Fowler tried tcbach th vbe moral honors of defaulters, bi was pelled to leave before he had oomloted instructions, Henry W. Genet th put falthfal through a drill in race cour morali but, this being distasteful to the Samme, Pe B. Sweeny came forward as mastenf corer nies in the social eclence of railwayaad igus, Sweeny now appears to belwing ¥, before the rapid ptogrese of evits, and; ylelding to the next rising manfeorge)| Purser, who seems to be now mapalling warriors. Mr. Purser, through ye's of la} rious study, has so mastered moral nd cal science that he will Be abledo gi Tammany that high religions, moreand position which she bas -heretofor failed receive under her numerous lead@. Broc having also taken the initiatoryleps in Catholic faith, will be able to a P *the great work of moral reform Under the guidance of these supflor I! Tammany will come out purified ad erated, and will soon become thejreat po; cal and moral power on this continnt. wonders never cease, a Feapnvo tam Poor ann Maxina jarndt van Marosatzy.—Mr. Joha plan for reducing the price of the poor—a most worthy and beeflcent ject; but he fs looking for the coxperatio: twenty-five others in order to carr; it out. Anderson is a very respectable ma, and volont withal. He is an excellentwaa of ness, and, now that he is out of the tobe} trade, he could not occupy his tim better ¢ in putting down his own $10,000 ad under, ing the plan himself. Besides he lie cand! of the democracy for the next Miyor, might thus accomplish the doub} pur feeding the poor and makieg capital for Mayoralty. Mr. Blunt is also didate, he fs making good capital, not byfeedlug poor, but by saving them from'th draft. Blant’s chances are decidedly go@l. Wo advise Mr. John Anderson to go dread wit! project on his own hook, and notwait for others. He may be sure that hewill not twenty-five candidates for Mayorin the ol Tun Sovrarry Rervcers.—The Sou refugees now fn. thia city and Brooklya swelled the populafion of these to plac thirty thousand. {a Philadolphia, also, has been @ veyy larg’ incresse, prob from the same oause. It is shown by the ceodings at Grenoral Pook’s registry b that « very V/srgo oumber of the Southern! our midst Wolong to a respectable olass; the same Vimeo we may be sure that there great my.ny rascals hore too, anf these men W?.0 will not register, because their rot bear the light. There is quite ‘rable number of women and @7a0ng these refuges, whose male are oither seldjers ia tho rebel army compelled by business necessitics to (en Reeth, There are tamer. toe,