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

4 NEW HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETR SDTIOR AND PROPRIETOR “vorK ave CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVBNING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving placa Itavian Orena— Cap of ras Regiment. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway,—Harrinst Dar or Mr dave—Peoris’s Lawrxa RBIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coomis Soogam. WALLACK'S TREATRE, Broadway.—Rosmpace, WINTER CARDEN, Broadw: Hawurr. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—St. Gxorcr anv m2 s—Mingy Waite. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Waitina ros tas Veupi0r—LoLa Montéz—l'mmare ov Tux LaLKs, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—La Tous deanery Linv—Furing Dutcu man. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway,—Tance Maxvore Far Grats—Turae Gianis—Two | Dwanrs—Inpians— AvtomatoNs, DRamatic Parvoxwaxces—Day and ‘Bvouing. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way—Ermiorian Songs, Dances, Burtesquas, &¢.—Las Muaginis,. WOOD'S MINSTREL H Lestaze Bac—U. 8. G. CAMPBELL'S MINST: Vario axp Excinna Mi Gooss axp Gaxpza GALLE DIABOLIQUE. 585 Broadway.—Roserr Heiss. Nestx— 514 Broadway.—Tue Biack jorian BonGs, Dances, &C. LS. 193 and 201 Bowery.— au or Eruiorian Oppitias— A Es HOPE CMAPBL, 72) Brondway,—Woopnorra’s Boun- wian Troure or Giass Blowxns. VAN AMBURGH & CO.'8 MAMMOTH MENAGERIE, 690 and 541 Broadway.—Open from 10 A, M. to 10 P.M. HIPPOTUEATRON, Fourteenth street.—Doc axp Mon- wee Aarons 0 YANASTIO AND - Tenge EabuaTELAN, Graxastic axo ACROBATIC Ex. DODWORTH Hal 806 Broadway.—, axono tun Monaowa” ne aes AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Barcers, Pantoximes, BURLESGUss, Tne Woovcosens, 000 Broadway.—Moving Wax ow Oy. —PaLLErs, Paxrowrens VANNUCHI'S MUS! Fiounss, VARIETIES, 37 and jaa, BuRuxsgom: THE SITUATION. All the intelligence regarding Sherman's progress in Georgia, both fren our own and rebel sources, is.of the most cheering character. @tate that the government yesterday received in- formation relative to tis suceess which has caused much rejoicing. It is believed that be has already advanced so far towards the com- pletion of bis grand march that no serious foterruy tion of it need be apprehended. We have alsoa renewal of tbe report, given some days ago in the Hr. 4p, (mat be has captured the town of Mien, in the vieiulty of which, at Camp Lawton, about twenty thousand Union prisoners, r.moved from Andorsonvilio, ‘were confined. This piace is now said to bave been taken on tho 29th ult. A de:patch which we have received from six miles below Savannah, dated on the 71h ult., states that Sherman was then again reported to be near that city, Rebel news: Papers give accounts of the attack on Macon and of a severe fight on the @oones, the passage of which river by Sherman's troops is admitted. Previous to the Creasing tt ts announced that Kilpatrick's and Wheeler's cayairy bed an eogagement. As the national army epproaches the coast the panic among the tebels increases, and it has now extended tnce Couth Carolina, the people of that State thinking ‘thet Shermen ts moving on Charleston, though oplin- fone were still divided with them at she date of latest Wooousts as to whether that pitce, Savaansh or Beaufort, was his destination, The Savanah Re. publican, contrary to what the rebel presse cenerstiz has aasersod, cays that he ts “coming forward rapidly, Bpreading devastation in his path.” Tbe Richmond ZAspatch says there are fourteen Union gunboats and transports pear Port Royal, which are expected to 00- operate with Sherman, asd one of our own correspon. Gents in the Geet of Charleston reassures us that General Foster and Admiral Dabigron are ia communication with General Sherman and prepared to co-operate with him at the proper time Our despatches from Hilton Head, & C., which arrived bere yesterday by the steamship Fulton, from that place om Wednesday last, give us an accouct of an important expedition, under command of General Foster, to Pocuta- {igo bridge, on Broad river, which place was captured, ater some sharp ®kirmisbiag. The rebel garrison, flod- ing themselves too weak to bold tbe place, bastily evacu- ated it and fied. Large quantities of cotton feil into the hands of tue Union troops, which,ffor want of trasspor- tation, had to be burned. This is the third attack which the natio-al forces have made jon Pocotaligo, the two former ones being unsuccessful. Tois expedition tended to imcrease the beliet that the rebel strength along the Gouth Caroli:a coast has beep very materially weak- ened for the purpose of sending of men to oppose Sherman. The iron steamer Beatrice, of five tundred tons burthen, grounded on last Sanday night while attempting to run past the block- fading fleet into Charleston, and was captured, with about ‘thirty of ber crew, by the Union vessels, Her officers ‘and somo of ber crew succeeded fn escaping to Sullivan's Island. Tie Beatrice was from Nassau, and sbe and her argo were worth about two hundred aud twenty thou. eand doilars. Being unabie to got her off, our men set fire to ber, and she was destroyed. ‘There has been no further general engagement between the armies of Generals Thomas and Hood, ia Tennessee, ince the magnificent Union victory at Franklin on Wed- nesday last, though slight skirmishing bas been carfied ©0 Détween We cavatry. Tho! additions! detaitn which ‘we give to-day afford further evidence of the sanguipary end determined character of that coptest. General ‘Thomas has concentrated bis forces in the fortifications which completely surround Nashville, keeps them form 4 In Moe of battle, and bas them arrangedjin positions © be prepared for any movements the rebels may at tempt. Kot the slightest fears are entertained for the safety of that place. The victory of Franklin as ove of great importance to the national srmy, aot coly from the Josten which it inflicted on the enemy, but from the fact that it gave bim @ decided heck in bis northward progress, and thus enabled he Union commander to concentrate bis army. {tt gaid that Genera! Hood was, on the day efore yesterday, endeavoring to push « heavy cavairy force to the north side of Cumber- iaod fiver, om which Nashvilie is situated, with what success is pot stated. About seven bundred of the rebels captared at Fraokiio arrived at Louis. ville, Ky.y Our Washington advices ours on the nine miloe math of Nashville, on last Wedues. day eveolug. All people in Nashville not hav. ing any ostensible business have been ordered out of the city by General Thomas. Geveral Stanley, who com- M™anéed the Fourth corps of the national army ia the Datile of Frankito, has boon compelled, by the severity Of hie wound received on that oecaston, to retire tempe- warily {rom service, Rebel newspapers say that the Colom forces [beve eyscusted Cumberland Gap, Gast Poangenee, O24 withdrawa to Kaorvilie on Thursday night, en fouls to Camp ougias, fiilimois, The rébels captured train of Tennessee and Alabama Railroad, os that an order has been fesued by General Sderman for the devastation an@ abasdonment of Kast Tenveesee, and tums, woo net Kovariiic Bays re- movstrated with Rim against it, but without elect. The Richmond Sentinel of the 1st inst thieks that Floods Teanessee campaign is progressing flecly. It bad not Yet beard of bis severe deveat at Franklin. Our correspondents ia front of Richmoad give as full details of General Gregg’s successful cavalry recon: ‘Boissance from the Army of the Potomac for the purpose @f ascertaining whether Geveral Lee bad sent any considerable force to assiet the Georgians ta cou. batting Sherman. General Grogg started with his division on last Wednesday night, moved beyond the right fink ef the rebels, and procecdcd to Stony Creek station, where, by a suddes dash, on Thursday morning, he sar- rounded and captured the entire rebel garrison of over two hundred moa, with two cannons,eight wagons, thirty mules, end all the enemy’s arms, ammunition and stores. ‘Thence bts force moved on to Duvall’s station, fell on the rebels by surprise and with impetuosity, routed them, and captured ao immense amount of commissary stores and other property. The depots, shops, public buildings, &c., were burned, and the captured stores sbared a like fate, from tmability to carry them off. Considerable damage was also done to the railroad. No evi dence whatever was obtained of any portion of Leo's force having been sent of to Georgi, The expe- dition was most successful in every respect. On Thurs- day last the rebels were observed to be busy in moving artillery towards Richmond from Potersburg. Oa the subsequent day their movements indicated preparations to resist an attack by the Union gunboats in James river. There was considerable fring along the Jerusalem plank road early on Thursday forenoon, without any result of consequence, Later in the day affairs in the Army of the Potomac settled down into more than the usual still. mess, Inthe Army of the James mo additional move- ments of consequence have taken place, The new colored corps of that army is te be numerically styled the Twenty fifth. Its organization progresses rapidly and Gatisfactorily. Great rejoicing was occasioned in both armies by the announcement of Echofield’s victory at Franklin, Tennessee, A Union expedition which crossed the Mississippi river from Memphis, Tenn., and went fifteen or twenty miles toto Arkansas, captured, on the $0ch alt., forty rebel col- diers, including Brigadier Geucral Adams, an adjutant, three captains and one leatenant, Major General Dana, commanding at Vicksburg, has ordered all gray cloth and cotton cards remaiuiog at that place and Natchez to be immediately shipped North, un- dor penalty of confiscation, General Washburno has been assigned ¢o the command of the postand district of Vicksburg, with its present Umits, General Washburne bas promulgated an order requiring a tax ofa half per cent a month to be levied and collected from all persons in Memphis who are in any way exempt from military daty and hold trade permits. The tax will be upon the amount of business por month granted in the trade permit. The fund thas raised is to be devoted to defraying the oxpenses of the militia and paying for « permanent guard for each regiment. 2 By ordor of General Canby the district of West Tex- nessee and Vicksburg bas been formed iute ose com- mand, under Major General Dana, with beadquarters at Memphis. Newbern advices of November 29 state that the yellow fever is now entirely eradicated. The victims to Ks fatality averaged Gfty per cent. Dr. J. W. Page, of the Sanitary Commision, ie rapidly recovering trom the disease. ¢ From Seathern papers we learn that the rebel Gover- Ror of Mississippi bas ordered the trial by court martial Of those persons whe have pot responded te bis cak oo the militia, and the citizens ere much (roubleé about the matter. The revels at Jackson, in that State, were greatly alarmed on the 26th ult. by apprehensicas of o Union raid by General Morgan L. Smith, who, * was ‘aid, bad crossed the Big Biack river oa the previous day with betweea two avd three thousand men. The Mayor, Comptroller and Supervisors, being the pergons having official charge of the business of procur- ing votucteers in thisolty for the sationel armies, have isaued an addross to the citizeas in regard to the eorrec- tion of the military earolment ordered Dy Provost Mar- ebali General Fry and Governor Seymour. They say that they bavereason to believe that apother eallfor more mea to fill the armies will soon be made by the President, and that, therefore, it is the interest of every person to cooperate fa baving @ proper correction effected. Complete copies of the existing enrolments of each ward are to be pristed and furnished to enrolicd cilizens, and whenever a name appears on the list which should not be there, and whem omissioas are observed of Bames which should be registered, it is requested that notice ef the tact be given to the district provost mar- see MISCELLANEOUS EWS. All anxiety regarding the eafety of the steamship Nerth Star, bound from Aspinwall for New York, is allayed, The Fulton, which arrived at this port yesterday, reports (oat the North Star bad put into Port Royal, 8. C., fore supply of coal, she having been delayed om hor voyage by the brouking of the piston of the engine of her con- voy, the gunboat Augusta, which she was obliged to take fn tow, The Nor:b Star will probably reach New York to-day. The steam transport Merrimec, Captain Sampson, from New Orleans 27th ult., arrived’ at this port last night. She brings no news. Captaia Edwio D Phillips, senior line ofesr of the First regulars, died oa board the Merrimac on Friday night, very suddenly. He was for- morly adjutant of tho regiment, and was one of the officers turned over by Geveral Twiggs, ia Texas, to the rebels. He was thirty-five yeats of age. ‘Tbe French mail steemsebip Washington, from Havre November 16, reached this port yesterday afternoon. ‘Hor pews bas bees fully amticipated. ‘The United States steam transport E. L. Clark, Captamn Hotmes, from Key West, via Port Royal; tbe steamer Fairbanks, Captain Huater, from Washington; and the steamer City of Port aa Prince, Captain Mulligan, from Port au Prince, all arrived at this port at am early bour this morning. By way of San Francisco we have s report that the Moxtesn republican General Alvarez lately Imperial forco marching on ACapuico. We b repetition from the game source of the occupation of Mazatiam, on tho Pacific coast of Mexico, by French troops, which was reported in the Hanan some time ago. On Tuesday mext the chartér clection is to taxe piace ip this city, amd the people will be ontied apon to vote for Aldermen, Counci!monm ard S¢hoot Officers. Io another part of the Hensto we pablish a eketeh of political mat- tere genérally, with @ list of the candidates, as fully as could be prepared up to the latest moment. Our readers ‘would do woil to examine the list carofully, and select the men they believe most compotent and houest for the important positions tobe voted for. Joho Gilbert, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter io the fourth degroe, ip killing Patrick Kinioy, at Madame Bot!’s saloon, in Broadway, wae sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the Penitentiary, yesterday, by Judge Baroard, in the Court of Oyar aod Termicer. Joremish Waddington and Robort Drysdale, bounty brokers, were charged yesterday, before Judge Clerke, of having drugged @ farloaghed soldier, named Canniff, and taking bim to Portiand, Maloe, where they sold bim for $1,000. The Court granted aa order of arrest in the case of each of the accused, aad beld them to bail ta the sum of $2,000. At about three o'clock yesterday morning a dense fog set in, with a light breeze from east southeast. Vessels to and from sea were somewhat detained in consequence. ‘The ferryboats on both rivers made rather irregulsr and navigation in general was more or less impeded by the density of the fog, Ge far we have beard of np ecoidents to the shipping. The inquest fate the causes of the late fatal eepidoas on tbe Mow Baron Baliroe4, near Seventy-oizta treet, was continued yesterday. Three witnesses were examived, two of ibem beiwg employes of tbe company. ‘Their testimony was that the rond was in good condition throughout, aud that it ie-cepefully watgyed and repaired. The tnqueet waa adjoureed to the 16th inst. ‘William George died yesterday tn the Tombs from the ecects of the blows lafiicied en bim by Jehn Donovan, while suffering from whiskey lunsey,on Friday mora- tng, a8 desoribed in yesterday's Hearn, 4 coroner's in. quest was beld on the body of George, when it was shown that the cause ef death wag the fractures of (he sxull ieficted by Dovovan with the stoye poker. A man who raid he'was @ Sootch mechiuist, and gave his uame as George Smith, was yesierday arrested, after & chase by the police through Nassw etrest, on the cbarge of stealing two thousand dollars worth of dia- monds from & business Rouse tm Maiden lane, On Friday wight @ lot of youngsters woot aboard the schooner C. F, Soull, at plier 14 North river, and, as 1s alleged, attempted to steat a tot of rope. The captain of she vessel fired at tne party with @ revolver, wounding ‘one of them, named Terence Kewan, who was conveyed Wo Bellevue Hospital to await the result of bis Injuries and the demands of the city euthorites, ‘The ovber depredators escaped. A woman named Ellen McGuire was yesterday arrested ond committed om the complaint of haying attempted to abduct an infant child ef Richard Murphy, of No. 431 Fourth avenue, Early on Saturday morning two burglars were dis- Covered loading @ wagon which they nad standing ia the Street in front of @ furclsbing store in Fulton avenue, Brooklya. A policeman who was watching them dis. covered himeelf, when they immediately fed, One of thom was pursued by the policemaa through Gallatio Place and Livingston strest to near Hoyt street, when he was fired upon and brought to w stand, He gave bis pame as William Stevens, and it is thought thatthe wound he received from the policeman’s shot, which took effect in one of his arms, may necessitate amputation. Tne value of the goods stolen, which wore recovered, was about ove thousand dollars, The other burg!ar oscaped. A man has been going around the city for some days engaging apartments advertised to be let, making ad- vance payments on them, paying im bills on the Bank of Egg Harbor, which is no lopger in existenco, and re- celving good money in ofange, He has not yot been ar- rested. A woman named Mary Carroll was yesterday arrested and committed on the allegation of having stolen a dia- mond ring worth three bundred doliars from Kate Mid The dieton, residing in West Twenty-seventh street. missing treasure was recovered. A Coroner's inquest was heid yesterday on the body of John Weish, foreman in « Cherry street cracker bakery, whose death resulted from falling through a hatchway of the establishment. Coroner’s inquests were held yesterday over the bodies Of two children about two years old, ove in Tenth ave- nue and tho other in Mott street, who were burced to death by fire which they ignited while playing with matches. An inquest was held yesterday on the remains of Ellen Call, ten years of age, who was killed by bricks falling on ber from an old building being torn down at 264 Mott street. 5 A fight occurred at @ piace called Timber Ridge, in Ful- ton comgty, Southern Pennsylvania, an Friday, between a lot of deserters and Company F of the Two Hundred and First Pennsylvanis regiment, The centest lasted for about an hour, the soldiers driving the deserters for a cousider- able distance through the woods, killing one and wound- ing two of ghem. The remainder escaped, The volun- teore suffered no casualties, ‘The ctock market was dull: yesterday, and gold was heavy. Théopening quotation for the latter was 2303, and the closing one 22844. Government securities were fre. Commercial matters were-very quiet on Saturday, the rain storm contributing to the usualdalness. Very few Dusiness tranactions were recorded either in-imperted or domestic produce. Nearly all Kinds of the latter were lower, however, though the concession did mot succeed in inducing mach demand, Values were in most cases Bominal. Petroleum was wixed—ocrude wae duit and lower, but refiued was without decided change, On "Change the flour merket wae less-active;.and: prices de- Clined 6c. = 100. Wheat and corn were inactive, and Bominally lo. a 2c, lower. Oats opened rather easier, but closed firmer, under a brisk demand. Whiskey was active and firm, while freights comtinued quiek Daty of Mr. Lincein—Efforte to: Appoint @ Chier Justice.” If Mr. Lincola commit the mistake of regard- ing bis re-election as an endorsement by the American people of his policy. and: Oabinct ‘advisers, be will fatt into a fatal error,.and one whioh cannot but make his. second and last term as occupant of the Presidential office a most disastrous and unhappy period, beth to himself and the country. The result of the late election was an emphatic: condemnation of the Chicago platform, more than, anything else; bet it carried with it as well the resolve of the American people that “the Union mast and shall be preserved;” and thoir coufidence, alse, that the resolution of the Baltimore Convention, calling for changes in the Cabinet, would be accepted by Mr. Lincoln. as part of the terms which secured his nomination, and, therefore, to be obeyed implicitly. If Mr. Lincoln view the matter in any other light, and act upoa his con- victions, be will be seriously mistaken. All the great currents of American opinion reo ina conservative and generous direction, and if our re-elected Chief Magistrate accept the Tribune theory, that the result of eur late Presidential contest was an endorsement and adoption by # majority ef our citizens of the confiscation bill, enmancipatiod proclamation and the continuance of arbitrary arrests in the layal States, we prophesy that he will speedily come to grief, and find his friends in a minority throughout alb the loyal States in the State contests of next October and, November—the State of Massachusetts alene excepted. The Tepublicans are successful, and cannot only: afford to be generous, but will find their true policy to lie in that direction. They should pass @ sponge over all differences of opinion in the recent contest, and bend évery effort te the task of reuniting allvsections and interests of our people—as they were united in the first year of the wars-in the maintenance of the national authority aad the suppression of the’ rebeblion. The trae test question now before Mr, Lin- coln, the answer to which will show us’ whether he be competent or unequal to this task, is the nemination of successoz to the lamented Chief Justice Taney. If be yield to the “radical” or Fourlerite-abelition pressure in favor of ex-Secretary Chase, he will dishearten all the donservative and fair-minded clements of the country and throw the war back for a yoar, if not longer. Chase failed miserably as the matinget of oar fational Guances.. To his prodigal and unne- cossary outpouring of paper money, whem with firmness and tact a hard cash currency conld just as easily have been maintained, we are indebted for the doubling of our national debt over the sum actually called for, and for the eaturnalia of the last three years, ia which the shoddy lords of the Chase wing of the republi- can party have been indulging. We need a pure, calm, unbiassed, statesmantike and emi- nently legal mind in the office of Chief Justice. In all these requisites Mr. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, fs most Jamentably lacking. He fs a furious partisan in regard to all public questions, and atrimmer, shifter and expediency hunter upon every great issue that is pressed home en his attention, Of the slavery problem we sball soon be rid by an amendment to the constitu- tion, “forever abolishing chattel slavery throughout the United States,” in due legal form. This question disposed of and re- moved beyond the arena of discussion, what qualities dase Me. Chase noegess.o¢ on recommended for the | Rio national goveriimést, | 1ceas what grounds.can he be first law office of the even by the mpgs ardent eoirits af siavery party?. He is a failure im finance, a bitter partisan In. politics, a, man of intense, and rencorous hatreds, a fifth rate legal.eu- thority, and the most open \e aod slanderer of the’ very tribunal over which the Fourierite abolitionists now ask that be may be called to preside. We cannot think that Mr. Lincoln will stultify himself and fnsult the public intelligence.of the bar and country by any such nomination; and therefore Mr. Chase may be d'smissed. Mr. Stanton, it would now seem, is equally out of the question. His health, which was serlousty impaired, is already much improved, his illness, as he maintains, having been caused solely by the miasmas and exposures of his recent visit to General Grant’s headquarters, and not by any general “breaking down” under the perfectly monstrous labors and anxieties of his last three years in the public service. It is probable, therefore, that, shortly after tho opening of Congress and the sending in of the department reports, Mr. Stanton will carry his picturesque beard on. a tour of observation out West and down the Mississippi—perhaps pass ing from New Orleans to Cuba, and from Cuba to Mexico, with the double object‘of improving his health and looking after the chances of carrying out our “manifest destiny” in those benighted regions, immediately on the conclu- sion of our domestic troubles. Stanton thus out of consideration as well as Mr, Chase, it is altogether probable that the Chief Justiceship will be given to some emi- nent lawyer of the West—the President being very likely to follow out in this matter his personal predilection for Judge Davis, of Ili- nois, in whose character, judgment and acquire- ments he is known to repose the highest confl- dence. Judge Duvis presents availabilities for the position second to those of no man in the country, and his nomination would be received with respect, if net with positive favor, by the leading aud represemtative minds of nearly all classes, Of course there are many coaserva- tives who would prefer Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, to any gentleman yet named in this connection; but as Mr. Johnson is supposed to have put himself beyond the pale of adminis- tration favor—in which he previously stood high—by his pamphlet in defence of General Fitz John Porter, even the conservative classes of the border States would far prefer Judge Davis to either Chase or Swaine, the latter of whom is being fussily wad uselessly pushed forward for the Chief Justiceship by certain very well known interests in Washington and elsewhere. Looking dispassionately over the whole field, and with: our knowledge that the picturesque Stanton is- out of the question, we think Mr. Lincola cannot do better in this matter than give the reins to bis personal wishes—agud those we know will lead him to select bis old friend and former associate, Judge Davis, as the chief expounder of our national taws and fundamental policy. The Inflae: the Westin the Union— ‘The Copperhead Press. There is a copperhead: press. here fn the East and a copperhead press-in-the great West; but there is a difference in character and con- duct between the two. Before the election they were both aliké the expenents of a clamorous opposition. Now we hear very little of the copperhead press: inthe West. It {s no more the offensive and unscrepulous as- saflant of all who favor the Union cause. It is quieter in all ways, and gives evesy evidence of its dieposition to “acceptias the seal will of the American people the decision given by that people on the Sth of November. In this we may see that the copperhead press of the West was the exponent of a: party fairly op- posed to the administration but destsing most earnestly to change the personnel of the gov- ernment. It was opposed to-Abralam Lincoln, to his acts and measures, and did its utmost to put another men in his place; bat the people decided against the party thus. represented by the Western copperhead press;: an@ now that press in its modified tone shows that the vio- lence of its opposition ended: there, and that though it may oppose a party, a candidate or a principle, it does not oppose the United States. In this submission to the:popular verdict it cannot be doubted that this press represents the opinions and interests of the Westera States. However earnestly the West may con- duct an opposition to any. candidate, the West- ern people know that thpie future prosperity Ttoust depend upon thé-unity of this great na- tion. Attempts were made by the rebel government to got the: Northwest to try a Separate confederacy, and -unscrapulous poli- ticians made use of this idea. But it isan idea that-will never have ang danger in it 0 long as the Western people remain the clear-sighted generation that they ave. It is their interest to see the supremacy ofthe United States govern- mnt re-established over all this contineat, and that interest silences in their midst any oppo- sition that is not @ fair one—any opposition that opposes the country and not a pasty. The West will not leaveus while they have to carry their products to.the séa down the Mississippi, by the ‘great northern lakes, an@-over the ‘Bumerous lines of railroads te the Atlantic States. So long as theterritory of the United Btates te subject to one government these great Vines of coimmanication will be feee to all, and the Western States will keep oa in their. grand Career of progress until they become the centre of the Unioa, with rich States still farther West covered with railroads leadisg’ to the Pacific. But when one territory shall be divided*into two, three, or half a dozen confederacies, those lines will be in the hands of foreign and hostile Powers, and the Northwest will bave to fight or buy its way ont. It must have lines to the sea Or sea const. It is the struggle for these that makes all the warsof inland States. It has been so through all time, It is so how with Austria, clinging to Venice and struggling for other outlets, And it is this great fact that makes the Western States strong In our o: and silences opposition when there is no oppor- tunity for the achievement of a fair result. How different is the opposition of the cop- perbead press in the East from that of the cop- perhead press out West. The election has not modified its bitterness in any degree. Indeed, it would seotn that the gall of disappointment had made it worse. Its opposition to the ad- ministration is more violent even than it was when that opposition had the fair objoot of en- deavoring to change the aduinistration by ia- fluencing votes for another candidate. In this it proves that it was not the exponent of avy healthy opposition that bas its existence bere ir, our midst, but shows itself to bave been all ‘che time and to be now the organ of the rebels, It =-Hanatte Th 76 sotice that an attempt Would he mays burn our city, just as the London'Post dees. And when the was made It was in de- light and laughed its Sendisl | just es the Richmond papers will when they ‘the news. This press is even more the rébel press than is that im Richmond; for the, Richmond papers ensure the rebel administration and make severe strictures upon the acts of Mr. Davia, while our copperhead press in the East has for, the acts of that personage only continued praise, It reserves its censure and abuse for all supporters of the Union cause. Geverat McDowstt ox Guverit MoCzer- Lan.—We publish to-day a very Interesting re- Port of a speech delivered some weeks ago in San Francisco by General McDowell on Gen- eral McClelian’s conduct as commander of the. Army of the Potomac on Arlington Heights. The conversations reported. by General Mc- Dowell with the President, General MoClellan, General Franklin and others, and the inside testimony which he submits upon this subject, throw considerable light upon that never satis- factorily explained detention of ‘the Army of the Potomac in front of Washington from July 1861, till April, 1862. The evidence of General McDowell, upon the whole, reflects very heavily upon General McClellan as the com- mander of a greatarmy. In reading it we can- not avoid the conclusion, from all the other evidence in the case, that it is substantially true, and that General McClellae, by bis dila- tory policy, was confessedly uneqnal. to the task which he had assumed, and. delayed and still delayed to move from his defenees for fear of accidents, Little by little, as the inside testimony is developed, we begin to compre- hend the mystery of that long detention of the Army of the Potomac, over two hundred thousand! strong, in the defences of Washington. The more we are enlightened the more: it is apparent thet General McClellan, as General- in-Chief and: the immediate commander of the Army of the Potomac, was a failure, and that President Lincoln, as Commander-in-Chief over McClellan, was in 1861 and 1862 a most de- plorable failure: If all the facts as stated by General McDowell be true, and we have no reason to doubt them, Mr. Lincoln, ia his long submission te the lengthened inac- tivity of General McClean in 1861 and 1862, betrayed: a degree of weakness and timidity, a wantof pluck and resolution, that we cannot comprehend. . But, as General McDowell has opened the door, we may expect that the matters-disoussed In his remarkably suggestive speech wilt be sifted to the bottom. The truth of history and justice to the country, to General McClellan and all concerned, re- quire that this should:be done. Tae Torgors or osm Prison Srstem—An event occurred in the-Fombs on Friday which is enough to shock the-sensibllities.of the most callous, and the fact’ that. such a scene could take place in the principal prison of the me- tropolis is a disgrace te- the authorities within whose province the management of our public juils comes. The murder in cold blood of two sléeping prisonora and ‘s blind man by raving lunatic; aad the severe injury inflicted upon others, who were locked up in the cell with himy is something fearful to contemplate. But is-# mot.an event likely tooccur at any time-as long as the system prevalle of huddling tegether in one room a number of men charged. with different degrees ef crime, moved by: different passions, in various conditions of: health, sane and insane, and leaving them thus incarcerated without any official protection op supervision? In this cace it-seems that the murderer was imprisoned at the lnstigation of his family—he being intoxicated to the verge of madnoss—in order to insure their -omn safety; and yet he was shut up with a crewd of other prisoners, one of whom wasa bHnd man, and fell a vic- tim to the madman’sfuey. . This is a disgrace- ful state of things, oud invites. the strongest reprobation of the-pwblic. In many cases young persons, who. may! have committed a crime for the first time, and a very petty offence, perbaps infoxiontio#; or some isorderly conduct: im the streets, are thus thrown into the soeiety of criminals of the worst class, where they, learn the trade of vice and draw morel corruption each from the other. One of the occupants of the cell in which this double murder was done ap- pears by his evidence to bea clerk; what his offence was we do. not know; but we know that the horrible-assooiation to which he was condemned in tbis-cell was punishment worthy of the deepest crime. The loose manner ia which the inquosb was conducted Is also repre- hensible, and, with the facts elicited there, as above stated, shows bow familiarity with crime and criminals makes officials indifer- ent to the proper requirements of their station. In European cities a wholesome reform fo prison discipline bas been effected. Since. the |: days when. Howard opened the eyes of the ‘world to the interior horrors of the common jails, the malefactor has beer treated like a mao, though fallen and crime stained, and not Tike am insensate brute. Bat it would seem from the- disclosures in our City Prison on Fri- day that we'have in our midst system as un- netase) and revolting to « Christian mini as any which Howard exposed and corrected years ago in the Old World: ~ * Sewanv’s Corregsronpance.—The telegraph brings ws the dreadful news that Seoretary Seward’s diplomatio correspondence for the past year will comprise some three thousand printed pages. This, it must be remembered, is only One year’s work. How Seward ean find time to scribble so much, and how the govern- ment can afford to print his correspondence, we cannot understand. Most authors ha hard time to get their writings published many of them pay the booksellers. roundly for the privilege; but the complete letter writer of the State Department prints everything he writes—good, bad or indifferent—and charges the bill to Unole Sam. Seward is certainly the most fndustrieus of Secretaries, and as his writings have kept all Europe busy reading them, so that.acither Palmerston nor Napoleon has bad any time to pick a quarrel with us, we must give bim the credit of being very success-, ful an weld os very inustrione,_ Mismanacuuent oF RatLwars.—We ° not’ ted yesterday that # train on the Saugus P ranch Railroad aatrowly escaped destruction , several hbgary timbers having been placed upon the Yeack. These railway accidents ar. becoming more and more frequent, and the'a fs really no exouse for them. If the direc'ors would have fences bullt to keep cattle “ff the tracks, and pryat bq Slageed with the papegs pubsiehed ip slanal men stationed at evcry mile of the reed. revent catactrcpucs Ihe the munity a fow weeks ago. But the rosds.are not managed by engineers or, superintendents, but by stock speculators, who do not care to run the trains safely so long as they can run the stock up by declaring dividends. This ought to be or must be reformed, or we shall be compelled to re sume travel in stages on account of the deadly dangers of @ ride by railroad. Liggt anp Dangyess ut Baooxtyy.—The Brooklyn people, although eminently en- lightened in Christian piety, are not quite se well off in the illuminating qualities of gas .We have had two communications lately from residents of that city—one complaining thad the names of the atreets were not painted om the lamps, and another accounting for this de © ficiency by the fact that, as the lamps were not lighted, the limner’s labor and the expense would be both thrown, away. Brooklyn, # appears, is left in outer darkness on prince | ples efeconomy. It may be that the Alder men, being mostly householders, apply the system ef economy in gas-in their own homes, and find it to work very well. But they will dis- | cover that it is quite a different thing where a lerge and growing city is concerned. The surroundings and necessities of 2 city of over | three hundred thousand population must be considered im » broader view than the manage ment of s household, and if the corporators of Brooklya have any interest—as no doub they have—io the further growth and prow perity of the city, they must study the com | venience of its residents. They dosire, of course, that people should continue to make their homes there; but if they expect then te leave the well lighted city on this side of the East river, they must nos compel them te flounder in the dark, exposed to the chance of getting broken bones or hard knocks from the bludgeons of highwaymen:, There have beem periods, even in the depthof winter, when it. was as hard to see your way through the pub- lic thoroughfares of Brookiyn: as through e F stone wall or theintricacies-of a diplomat. If this very mean idea of economy: is persisted im. | ! the Brooklyn Corporation willf find that pee ' ple will go to Jersey City, Hoboken and other places in this vicinity to live, where they cam at least find their way homeat nights when the moen shines in the calendar bat not in the -beavens. FProvrers’ Srries.—Thestrike of the printers ‘upon the daily papers of Boston hasended, ag | such strikes usually do, im the discharge of the old:haads, while-the papers appear as usual. Is ourdealings with printers we have always found them: most honorable and intelligent body of men,-aed they have an esprit du corppstroages tham: most other operatives. Recently, bow- ever; they have fallen into the strange error of | believing that they own the establishments is | which they are employed, and they have adopted rules-which no employer felt justified'in com plying with, The result is that the Peinters Uniomy.whieh was an nt society for ces tain benevolent purposes, was used as a otviking machine, and bas been smashed up by ite cob lision with the laws of buginess. This is-the im’ variable efeet of such illegitimate assumptions of the power of one set of men to dictate term to another. The employers have founé printers-honorable, and the printers know thels employors to be just, and im many cases gene Tous. There ought to be no room for any dif ferences, therefore, and atrikes should be-heard of no. move. Gen..Jonn Pors.—Weare glad to hear thel this distinguished and meritorious soldier has gone dewn to “the front” in Vi ginla. We doubt not that the General-ia-Chief has cut oubeome epecial duty to which General Pcpe is to be assigned, and we are confident that be will vender. a good actount; of any oppoatuaity offered. him for further’ distinction. He did some-admirable work in Missouri in the early part ofthe war, and at New Madrid, et.Jsland No. 10: on the Mississippi, and at Corinth His beat and most persistent fighting, however, wasin.August and September, 1862, im that terrible and disastrous campaign of the secend Bull rua. But he fought that campaign under the- explicit orders of General Halleck te “fight, and fight like the Devil,’ as hedid fight, with: a mere skeleton of an army compared with. the swarming legions of Lee. By Lee’s gteat: army, victorious frov: the. Peninsula, Pope was for fifteen days! enzeloped, and “fightlag like the Devil” day-andinight. Thé ‘odds. against him were overishelming; but ‘still. he would have succeeded; had they not been se far frightened out of their wits at Washington, especially Halle ck, as to be inoa | pable of helping him. The greatest misfortune ‘to General Pope however, in coming Bast in ;1862, was bis mis fortune Of boasting a little ‘too much of what he had Goue in the Weiter d what he intended to, do in Virginia. Thia-w as his great mistake Bot we sre assured tha ¢in his last field o | employment—among tbe Indians of Min neseta—he bas become sobered down to the modesty of an old seldie ¢, He has sown his wild oats, he has learned the virtue of modesty, and Grant has calle'4 for him. Grant was Pope’s co-laborer, fio J ugh on another line, from New Madrid to , Corinth, and knows his maato bes sturdy f r. A soldier whe thus endorsed by Grant and called to his sidé we msy be ‘sure will bave important Work to do, and ¥ jill doit, We are glad that General Pope is to have another chance. Sotprra’ Bo onrtes.—We are constantly re ceiving comp Jaints fYem enlisted men whe have not rec’ sived tholt bounties, or who have been cheate 4 by brokers out of some portion of she amo ant due them. This matter is im portant br joause such complaints deter others from n' jisting, and bocause soldiers do not fight we {1 when they feel that they have been ewind) ed upon entering the service, New, if const ant and public announcements were made {n ¢ gatd to how much money the voluntecr oF sub atitute is enti to receive; how, where 4r 4 when he is to receive it, and what deduo { fons are to be made, if any, the most of theese complaints could be avoided, and both citizens | and soldiers would. be better satisfied. The Giffculty now is that* most of the recruits de not know thelr rights until after they have been wronged. : Tas Park snp tam Revonuens.—There {a always & party of reformers very busy about election itizens’ Associations, an@ so forth—comp! of the extravagance of our public bodies, the high rate of taxation, and the various modes of remedying these ‘evils, We bave am excellent examole of bow,