The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1865, Page 4

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We have some further particulars of the rebel attack at Beverly Court House, Randolph county, West Virgi- nia, early on last Wednesday morning. The attacking force was commanded by General Wickham, of Rosser’s @ivision, and the Union troops at the post, consisting of the Thirty-fourth Ohio infantry and the Eighth Obio cavalry, under Colonel Forney, were completely taken by surprise, as well as outnumbered, the rebels rushing in upon them suddenly about daybreak. Sharp skir- mishing ensued; but we have no definite report of the casualties. Colonels Forney and Youat, and about four hundred of their men, it is said, were taken prisoners; ‘but the two colonels and about two hundred men soon after succeeded in escaping and regaining the Union lines. The rebels made but ashort stay, aud then re. tr ated towards Lewi-burg. The Tennessee State Convention has unanimously adopted resolutions abolishing and forever prohibiting 6lavery within that State, and abrogating the secession or. dinance and ali the laws passed in pursuance thereof. ‘Those are to be voted upon by the people on the 22d of February, and if they are adopted, an election for Gov- ernor and members of the Legislature will be held on the 4th of March next. Thore is no military nows of importance from the James river. The freshet is very heavy on that stream, the water having overflowed its banks for a considerable distance, and putastop to travel over General Grant's pontoon bridges. General Heckman is now temporarily ‘commanding the Twenty-fifth (colored) corps, General ‘Woitzel boing absent on furlough. A Cairo despatch states that General Thomas and his staif were at Paducah, Ky., @ few days ago. Deserters from the rebel Forrest's command are constantly coming {nto Cairo and taking the oath of allegiance to the gov- ernment. There appears to be no longer any doubt about the evacuation by the national troops of some of the frontier posts in Arkansas, regarding which telegrams have been 80 contradictory for some days past. Our St. Louis correspondent assures us that Fort Smith and Van Buren bas been abandoned, and that Fort Gibson, fo the Indian Territory, no doubt, soon will be. The garrison at Fayetteville, Ark., has not yet been withdrawn, These places are not given up from any iMeulty about holding Sicm against the rebels, but bocause the objects to be gained by their possession are not an equivalent for the necessary expenditure im mem and supplies. That the rebel General Price is doad seems to be settled by a rebel official order which has been received at Little Rock by the Union command- or, General Reynolda This order, which is dated at the headquarters of the rebel army in Arkansas, on the 4th of December, announces Price's death, and names General Fagin as his successor. Twelve new block houses ate to be built on the Southwest branch of the Pacific Railroad, to prevent rebel raids in future from Arkansas into Mis- sour. The Union men cf Missouri still continue to hunt down the rebel guerillas in that State, who aro nothing loss than organized murderers and robbers. Recently a party of the Home Guards and the Ninth Missouri cavalry pur. fad through several of the interior counties the noted chief Jim Jackson, whom, with seventeen of his men, they succeeded in overtaking and killing. By wiy of Cairo we have New Orleans advices to the th inst. General Canby had issued another and more stringent order ayninet trade with insurrectionary dis trict. Persons going from his lines into those of the enemy for the purpose of carrying on trade, unless they have special permits, will, if caught, forfeit the goods found tn their possersion. There are no new military movements reported. Late rebel nowapavers contain some additional itema of ————$§ —————— interest. The Richmond Dispatch, tn its issue of Thars- day last, stated that Mr. Francis P. Flair, Sr., had mot up to that time arrived in the rebel capital, and it did not believe that Ke designed coming there, though it had no doubt that h? was in General Grant's camp. Resolutions were introdtced in the rebel House of Representatives on the 11th Inst. designating negotiations for peace by any State o;' the confederacy separately as unconstitu- tional and revolutionary, and declaring a determination to continue the war until rebel independence shall bo acknowledg:d by the United States. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Secretary Seward has issued a ciroular announcing that all consular offices in the provinces lying on our northern and northesstern border are authorized to receive United States currency in payment for passports, and directing, “in case any consul has charged an excess over the pre- scribed price, that he refund the same. ‘The despatch of our Panama correspondent, dated on the 6th inst, brought by the steamship Ocean Queen, which arrived here yesterday, con- tains interesting news from the South and Central American republics. It is now thought that there will be no war between Spain and Peru, and that the difficulties between them will soon be amicably set- tled. The Spanish squadron at the Chincha Islands had been reinforced by the arrival of three additional heavy steam frigates, In Chile a number of new railroads are pro- jected, ard the business activity of the country generally is extonding and increasing, undor tho present quiet and orderly condition of politi- cal affairs, Duenag, has been re-elected. Preal- dent of Salvador by a large majority. The rebel pirate Bradshaw and his gang still remain upon the coast of that republic, waiting for some opportunity to commit damage on United States shipping. There ts not a ain- gle new revolution in any of the Spauish-American States reported by this arrival, the political condition of all of them being unusualty serene. Tho coffee and cochineal crops of Guatemala give very fine promise, The Ocean Queen brought to this port over three hundred and eighty- three thousand dollars in specie, ‘The injanction restraining the Comptroller fromtpaying the street sweepers their wages was dissolved yesterday by Judge Ingrakem, of the Supreme Court, and ina few houcs afierwards the claims of all of these men were liquidated, There was considerable excitement over the aflair; but no breach of the peace occurred, Several of the laborers a inecting in front of the City Hall, and adopted oa condemning the action of Dir, Hecker and tho Association, and revurning their thanks to the cial, hip Rebecca Clyde sailed from this port last night, laden with a cargo of provisions for the needy inhabitaats of Savannah, the free contributions of the people of this city. She steamship Daniel Webster, with Wk sht, and on @ #nilar philanthropic mission, ts expecter. to sail from the foot of Canal street to-day. ‘Twenty-one thousand dollars have been raised in Phila- delphia “or tho relief of the Savannah sutlerers. On another page we give our usial tables showing the passages of the various lines of mail steamers plying be- tween this country and Europe for the year 1864. Doring that per.od four vessels were wrecked, but on only one of which (the Bohem‘an, of the Canada line) were any lives lost. One hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundre¢. and seventeen passengers croased the occan during the year in the different steamers. Lato cn Friday night three policemen, among whom was offiver Leonard Fleming, went to the residence of a man named Robert Churchill, on the corner of Fifth aye- nie and Fifty-seyenth street, to arrest him, on charge of being concerned in burglaries and grand larcenies commit- ted in Westchester county. Churchill resisted them, and, during the struggle, a pistol, in the hand of officer Fleming, exploded, the ball taking offect in the head of the accused, producing a wound which soon after resulted in death. A coroner's inquest on the body of Churchill was held yesterday, and the jury rendered a verdict pro- nouncing the shooting accidental, and fully justifying the conduct of officer Fleming. ‘An affray occurred in a drinking house in Mercer stroet, near Grand, on Friday evening, between the barkeeper, named Edward Brennan, and Hiland Main, David Sulli- van and John McWarland, in which the barkeeper was 80 severely beaten on the head with a liquor bottle that he died at a late hour on Saturday night, The three other men were locked up to await the result of the Coroner's inquest, and two female inmates of the house were sent to the House of Detention as witnesses, Colonel Morgan, brother of the deceased guerilla chiof John Morgan, and one hundred and fifty other captive rebel officers from Hood’s army, arrived in this city on Friday evening, en rome to Fort Warren, Boston harbor. The French dye house at Watertown, near Boston, was burned, with its contents, including some valuable machinery, on the evening of the 12th inst. The loss is upwards of thirty thousand dollars. ‘The Maseasoit flour mill, located at Fall River, Mass., ‘was partially destroyed by fire on Wednesday night last. There were between twenty-five thousand and thirty thousand bushels of wheat and one thousand five hun- dred barrels of flour in the mill, a portion of which was badly damaged by water. The amount of the loss it is impossible to ascertain at present, The property is covered by insurance in fourteen reliable companies. Aportion of the City Hallgat Kingston, Canada, was burned on Wednesday evening. The common school Ubrary, together with twenty-six butchers’ stalls, the premises of an auctioncer, two fancy stores, two provision stores, a job printing office, &e., were destroyed. A large livery stable and several adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire at Peoria, Ill, on the morning of the 6th inst, Twelve or sixteen horses were burned. A young man lost his life while attempting to get out the horses. The fire is believed to have been started by an incendiary. The total logs is estimated at thirty thousand dollars. The stock market was dull yesterday. Government securities were barely steady. Gold was weak in the morning, but it stood firm at the olose at 220%. The markets were empbatically dull on Saturday, and the tendency of nearly all kinds of domestic produce was to lower rates, Imported goods ware quiet, and prices were nominal. Petroleum was dull, but with smal! reccipte and a light stock; holders were pretty firm. Cotton was lower in anticipation of receipts from Savannah. On ’Change the flour market was dull and 5c. 8106. lower, Wheat was inactive, but holders were not very anxious to realize, in view of the light receipts and small supply. Corn was quiet, but firm, while oats were dull and declining. The pork market opened dull and lower, but closed firm, with a fair inquiry. Beef was in active demand at unchanged rates, while lard was steady and in moderate demand. Whiskey was unchanged. Freights were dull. Traxs-Attantic Mar. Srgamsurp Lives.—We publish to-day a tabular statement of the pas- sages of trans-Atlantic mail steamships for the year 1864, We have given these tables from year to year since the introduction of steam- ship lines, just as we did in former times with the canvassback packet ships, before ocean steam navigation was adopted. There is con- siderable interest attached to the subject ; but it has decreased somewhat, since. Through the illiberality and stupidity of our government, there is no longer any international rivalry. That spirit is now confined to the different foreign lines; for we are ashamed to say that the United States have nota single mail steamer crossing the Atlantic. The shortest passage to Liverpool made during the past year was that of the Cunard steamer Scotia, which arrived at Liverpool on Christmas Day in nine days and | three hours. The longest was that of the Bre- men steamer Hansa, which arrived at Southamp- ton on the 14th day of April, in eighteen days and one hour. The Bavaria, of the Hamburg line, made the longest Western pas- sage, arriving in New York on the 7th Decem- ber, in twenty days, nineteen hours, The short- est Western passage was that of the China (Cu- narder), on August 23, when she arrived here in nine days and seventeen hours, There are five mail lines crossing the Atlantic, and they all belong to European companies—a sufficient comment upon the government of a great mari- time nation like ours,'which prefers a miserable and mistaken economy to interests of national enterprise N&W YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY “15, 1865. Slavery Abolished in Tennesseo—Progress | of Davis at the helm. So down with Davis of Kmaneipation. A Union State ‘Convention in Tennessee has unanimously decreed the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the State and its prohibi- tion for ever; and it was further decreed that there should be no compensation to slave owners. These propositions are to be sub- mitted for the ratification of the people on the 224 of February, when, doubtless, the same popular elements which brought together this Convention will establish its work as the future organio law of the Commonwealth. Missouri was not far behind Maryland in her revolution ef emancipation, and now Tennessee, close upon the heels of Missouri, has, in a moment, been added to the list of free States. Such are the results of that insane enterprise of narrow- sighted, self-conceited and reckless Southern politicians to break up the Union and found an independent Southern confederacy by war on the “corner stone” of slavery. Thus this trou- blesome institution, which otherwise might have survived in this country, under a reign of peace, for a century to come, may be pronounced as already destroyed. Before the end of five years from the bombardment of Fort Sumter, we may hazard the prediotion that there will not be “neither slavery nor involuntary servi- tude, except in the punishment of crimes,” in any hole or corner of the United States, from the British possesions to the Mexican boundary. It will have ceased to exist even in the prolific swamps of South Carolina. A constitutional amendment covering the whole Union as it was and as it will be, is the thing which will settle this business, Such are the fruits of this momentous and revolutionizing war, plunged into for the per- petuation and expansion of slavery. It seems to us that it was but the other day that Presi- dent Lincoln submitted his original plan of emancipation to Congress, whereby slavery would be removed from the country by the year of grace 1900. We have just entered the year 1865, and we find slavery abolished in West Virginia, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee, enveloped beyond any chance of escape in Delaware and Kentucky, overthrown in Arkansas and Louisi- ana, nearly swept away by the fires of war from old Virginia, and so seriously cut up, crippled and demoralized in all the rest of the South that its absolute extinction is throatened by Joff. Davis as the last chance for saving a remnant of his “confederacy.” The work which, through a hundred years of domestic peace we had hardly approached, is thus substantially accomplished within four years of this tremendous and resistless civil war. Let the friends of the constitutional amendment we have indicated wait in patience a little longer, and we gucss that they will yet find, even in the present House of Representa- tives, the two-thirds vote required to carry the proposition to the several States, Before the end of the year 1865 we anticipate the complete extinction of slavery, and a reconstruction of States and parties upon different principles than those of Northern abolitionists and Southern fire-eaters. The revolution must finish its course, and wise men will not stand in its way. The Southern Situation. We have given in the past few days copious extracts from the Richmond papers, by which our readers have doubtless gotten a pretty full view of the condition of affairs as well as of men’s minds in the Southern States. The Richmond Examiner grows daily more fierce in its clamor against Davis, and comes out with a patent remedy for Southern woes. As the Eraminer secs the present situa- tion of the rebel States those States are ona “sloping descent to perdition”—going to hell by their own weight. The rebel Con- gress cannot or will not intorfere; and if it attempt to, its interposition is baffled by a “contemptuous veto.” And, therefore, the Examiner, appalled by this view of the situa- tion, cries out in its agony “What then? What is the remedy?” Is the confederacy enclosed in an “iron circle of necessity” from which there is no egress? Must it be “whirled to the Devil?” and know that it is being whirled to the Devil, and yet not be able to steer the ma- chine to a safe place.or even to stop it? Are the Southern people “blind mice?” Is there “no remedy?” Yes; there is! The Eraminer suggests that a convention isa remedy. Con- vention is your grand political pana- cea. Brandreth’s pills, it is well known, will cure all physical and many moral ills. They will regulate the stomach and set the head straight. They will cause hair to grow on the crown of the bald, and make it fall off from the upper lips of maiden ladies. They will mend broken shins, broken fortunes and broken china; cure the gout, the ‘toothache, bad temper, pimples, sore eyes, corns and diptheria, “which is death.” Now, just what Brandreth’s pills are in the physi- cal world your convention is in the political. Was not convention the easy remedy for the ills those Southern men suffered in “the late United States?” Did not conventions take the South out from the atrocious tyranny that was involved in Lincoln’s election? Certainly. Therefore let the South once more have a convention—a convention of all the States, But why a convention? Because a convention is the only power of which Southern men can conceive as superior to Jeff. Davis. Jefferson Davis is clearly the cause of all the mischief. Grant is there on the James yet, holding Lee by the throat, and, Davis cannot help it. So down with Davis! Hood stepped aside, and Sherman went like a simoom across the con- federacy to the Atlantic coast. So down with Davis! Hood went on into Tennessee, and Thomas collided with the doughty hero and smashed him into small pieces. So down with Davis! Now Sherman may move from Savannah, through South and North Caro- lina, to Virginia. Thomas may move through Tennessee in the same direction, and all will co-operate directly with Grant, and Richmond and the cause will be inevitably gone unless there ia a more poworful band than that and up with some one else. The conscious- ness that all is lost if Davis holds his piace is, says the Heaminer, “in tho air; it is in the eyes and voices of men; it goes with them to church; it attends them to the market;” and the people thus haunted by this conscious- ness is a “rational, logical, consequent people.” Therefore it is inevitable that Davis must go down. But how? Davis is greater than Con- gress, greater than the pross, than the people, than the constitution, and can ride easily over all and have his own way. But convention, “the highest political tribunal,” is greater than all these at once and greater therefore than even Davis. Call a convention immediately, then, and first in Virginia. It is true that the Virginia people have opposed conventions; but that was because Georgia and North Carolina wanted them, and it was feared that through them they would make peace. They could not be trusted with that edged tool—poor Itttle things! But now it is Virginia that calls. Of course every one oan trust Virginia, espe- cially the Virginians, Such is the tone in which the Examiner leads the bitter clamor against Davis, and urges its great political nostrum: a convention. It does not exaggerate the opposition to Davis, and it shows as forcibly that that opposition is, as it says, “coming to ahead.” He must have strange eyes who can still see any chance for Southern success. Reduced to their last man, their only chance would be in united effort, and they are divided by the bitterest dissension. The chosen ruler is ridiculed as a fool, whose vanity has “frittered away” a nation, and influential men advocate his deposition as the only hope of success. Moreover Georgia is still in the van, and goes further than those who merely oppose Davis. It is evidently arranging its return to the Union, And if the news of the recent elections in several counties of the State prove true, it intends to return very soon. And while all this goes on, and “whirls the confederacy to the Devil,” while no step is taken to prevent the final defeat, the “iron circle of necessity” closes with terrible certainty and swiftness. But a little while ago Lee and Hood were the rebel hopes. Now Hood is lost in Mississippi and Lee only is left. Grant confronts him on the James and stands against him like an anvil, while Sherman comes on like a Titanic sledge to smash him on that anvil. Now, also, the enemy tells us that Thomas will move through East Tennessee and Virginia to Lynchburg, ond also operate against Lee. Can he do it? Most undoubt- edly. Sherman has just shown what can be done in that way. Thomas can be supplied by the government through ‘l'ennessee, and in Vir- ginia or North Carolina he can move through counties as rich as any touched by Sherman in Georgia. “Every part of the Southern coun- try,” says Sherman, “will support armies by a judicious system of foraging.” And therefore, bad as are appearances in Richmond now, the only prospect is that they will soon be worse. For, whether Jeff. Davis stands or falls, and whoever is putin his place, the end of March or April will perhaps see Grant, Sherman, Thomas and Sheridan moving against Lee’s linos, and will see the last vestige of the great rebellion utterly crushed out of existence. Driven from Tennessee and Missouri, crushed out of Ala- bama and Georgia, under the iron heel in South Carolina, alive only in Virginia—and despe- rately menaced there—so stands the confede- racy; and the only remedy that the Richmond doctors can propose is a convention to remove Jeff. Davis and then submission. General Butler's Last Failure and His Removal. General Butler’s report, published by us yes- terday, gives his view of the Wilmington opera- tion. It is the view that we would all expect from such a source. It tells us how admirably and promptly everything was done that was done by Gen. Butler, and how badly all was done that was done by any one else. Unfortunately for General Butler’s view of the case, General Grant, in the transmission of the report, has made some little addenda to it. These deci- dedly modify the story. General Butler’s great point is that the expedition failed on account of @ loss of time due to the navy. Doubtless the Navy Department will have a word to say on that subject; but to take the subject as these reports show it, we find that General Butler is one who requires a great deal of urging. Grant directed the movement as early as November, and, on the 30th of that month, was pushing Butler “not to delay the navy.” On the 4th of December Grant told Butler that he “felt great anxiety” to see the expedition started, and wanted it to hurry away “with or without the powder boat.” Yet, with all this it was, by Butler’s own showing, the 9th of December before he informed Admiral Porter that he was ready. While Grant wae thus hurrying Butler, was not Porter also hurrying Grant? Butler lays great stress upon the fact that atter he was ready he had to wait several days for the Navy Department, and that in those days he used up his stores, making it necessary that there should be still greater delay while he replaced his stores. But is not all that his fault? Did not his first delay of so many days have the same effect upon the navy stores that their subse- quent delay had upon his? and were they not, on the 10th, 11th and 12th, getting stores to supply the consumption that was caused by his tardy start? All this must be well shown before the delay can be accurately put on the right shoulders. But to leave out of view the question of time and delay, General Butler is shown to be the active, meddlesome Marplot of the whole business. This follows inevitably from his own statements, and from the statements of General Grant. He had no business with the expedi- tion at all. He was not ordered to go, but did go, and assumed the position and the powers of another man who was ordered to go. He practically superseded, without any orders, the man whom Gencral Grant had appointed to command. “It will be perceived,” says Gene- ral Grant, “that it was never contemplated that General Butler should accompany the expedi- tion, but that Major General Weitzel was especially named as the commander of it.” Butler, therefore, practically defeated, in this important respect, the intention of the Lieu- tenant General. He abandoned his Army of the James for that purpose; and if that army could do without him while he went on the expedition, it is not strange that the authorities should arrive at the conclusion that it could do without him a little longer. “The instructions of the Lieutenant Genoral to me,” says General Bntler, “did not contemplate a siege.” He ‘claims, therefore, that he returned in obedience © to Grant’s instructions; but Generai Grant says distinctly that his instructions did not contem- plate any withdrawal at all “afiera landing was made.” Grant ordered that the expedition should take two thousand shovels, one thou- sand axes and four hundred picks, That order does not signify that he intended the expedi- tion to retire unless it could carry the enemy’s position by escalade. Moreover, Grant ordered the point at which the troops should land, and ordered that once landed they should “intrench themselves” and “reduce” Fort Fisher. If General Butler fancies that he acted in accord- ance with that order, and if he cannot under- stand a military order any more clearly than that, it was eminently wise to send him to peaceful Lowell. Certain friends of General Butler give indica- tion that they intend to raise a clamor on this matter, and they have already started a notion that this removal is part of an intended syste- matic persecution of volunteer officers, Never did any one put forth a more ridiculous idea. General Butler has been the greatest and most uniform failure of the war. His military career is a monotonous record of national disaster, and there is not even the littlest incident of success in it, He began with Big Bethel and Hatteras, and he ends with his march to the Chicka- hominy, when he might have seized Richmond, and did not; with his failure to prevent the re- inforcement of Lee by the seizure of the lines south of the rebel capital; with Dutch Gap and Fort Fisher. And yet, with such consistent failure on record his friends have the un- blushing effrontery to say that his removal is due to the fact that he is a volunteer officer. Any one fact in his carcer is enough to justify his removal; and: yet his friends call in question the motive of that removal. But there is a worse fact than even this. General Butler, in his farewell order to the Army of the James, himself, attributes his removal to the fact that he had “refused to order the useless sacrifice of the lives of such soldiers.” These words im- pugn the motives of the Lieutenant General— they are a direct insult, and they have a ten- dency to demoralize the army that they are addressed to. Does any one doubt that an officer of the regular army would be cashiered for such words, That order would be punished severely in any well regulated service; and the fact that General Butler is a “volunteer officer” ought not to protect him in ours, Discipline in high quarters is as neoossary asit is in the ranks, and the present case should furnish an example of the court martial, if not of the summary dismissal from the service of an ut- terly incompetent and insubordinate Major General. The Peace Question—How to Bring About a Speedy Peace. Jeff. Davis and his ruling confederates seem to be extromely anxious for peace. He readily admits into Richmond any volunteer peace ambassador who presents himself with a white flag or a white feather from the loyal States, whether a representative of the-penny-a-liners, the war radicals, the peace copperheads, or of Kentucky Bourbon whiskey. His servile Con- gress proposes a peace committee of fifteen, in behalf of the so-called “Confederate govern- ment,” to wait upon a similar committee repre- senting the United States government; and, doubtless, with his consent, his associate, Vice President Stephens, makes another effort as a peace agent of “the confederacy,” to be passed through our army lines, and all to stay the bloodshed and ravages of this dreadful war and to secure the blessings of peace. But what is the peace which Daviq is thus industriously seeking? It is the peace which will recognize his Southern confederacy. He can make no other—he can treat for no other peace. He was set up by the conspirators of the rebellions South as the President of a new national organization, styling themselves the “Confederate States of America.” In this ca- pacity neither he, nor his Cabinet, nor his Con- gress, nor all together, have any particle of authority to treat for peace, or for an armis- tice upon any terms which do not first embrace the recognition of “the confederacy.” Davis must adhere to his position as the head of a separate confederacy in all his movements for peace; for the moment he abandons this ground that moment he recognizes himself simply as the head of a lawless rebellion. In all these peace movements, therefore, ho is pettifogging for a convenient quibble upon which he may say to Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon:— “Behold! the government of the United States, in receiving my peace offers or ambassadors in the name of my government, has actually re- cognized it. Why, then, should England and France any longer hesitate?” From the beginning of the war to this day Jeff. and his peace agents have been petti- fogging in every shape and form for a conve- nient quibble of recognition. Nor is there any telling what might have happened had we not, in our hair-splitting Secretary of State, pos- sessed a vigilant pettifogger equal to the best of them. Shaky, rebellious conspiracies, like weak nations, rely much upon the tricks of diplomacy. Thus, the Mexicans, of little ac- count in war, are, in the cunning arts of diplo- macy, equal to the Chinese. Cunning often supplies the want of strength in nations and in combinations, and to individuals among men, as well as to numerous lower orders of the animal world. Thus, conscious of their weakness from the trials of this war, the rebels have developed and exercised all the arts of trickery to gain their ends. These tricks, how- ever, are but the modifications of those inge- nious and cunning devices whereby the leading politicians of the South, through their institu- tion of slavery and the old democratic party, ruled the country so long. By the same arts they might have ruled it indefinitely longer. But they were deluded by their successes into a vain conceit of their strength upon the “corner stone” of slavery. Upon this rock they have foundered; yet still, like drowning men, they are catching at straws. We say they have no power to abandon, to surrender, or sell their “confederacy,” in nego- tiations for peace. The power is reserved in Jeff.’s so-called Confederate constitution to the individual States represented. The right which they claimed of secession from the old Unioa they have engrafted as the cardinal idea of their new Union. Under this idea each of the States concerned is a sovereign nation, and their so-called Confederate government is but o limited agency for general purposes— a thing of convenience, which any State may, at any time, by a State convention set aside. President Lincoln should, therefore, no longer trifle, or permit any, further trifling by peace adventurers and speculators with Jeff. Davis and his central coal at Richmond. Our nego- tiations for peace must be with the rebellions States, each for itself. Thus, to begin with Georgia, ifwe can get up a powerful State convention, fresh from the people, and an ordi- nance from such convention declaring the State restored to the Union, the “eonfederacy” at once falls to pieces. We remove a pillar from the centre, which tumbles down the whole edifice. We believe, too, that Georgia is ripe for this experiment. Her planters must now see that their “Southern confederacy” is defunct—that if they longer adhere to it they will lose, not only their negroes, but a half million bales of eotton, which by a timely submission they may save. They must see that their choice is submission now or ruin and submission very soon. Meantime, onr only reliable peacemakers are such as Grant, Sherman and Thomas, Farragut and Porter, and the blue jnekets of the army and mavy of the United States. Let these peacemakers be strengthened at all points; let them push forward their effective negotiations at the bayonet’s point; let them shut up Jeff Davis under a close siege im Richmond, or smoke him out; let them cut in and: cut off the rebellious States from each other; let them carry the war into the heart of the cotton regions, and we shall soon discover that Jeff. is as willing to allow and submit to the return of “our erring sisters” to the Union as Buchanaa was to let them go. Tas Trvune—Toe Removal. or GENERAL Burier.—General Butler’s removal promises te make @ noise in more ways than ene. Our readers will remember that the news was pub- lished exclusively in this paper. Thereupon the Tribune makes its complaint to the as- sembled wisdom of the nation in Congress-out of the mouth of Sam Wilkeson. It does not complain that our correspondents had the news first. That is so much the established order of things that even the Tribune no longer com- plains at it. But it does complain tbat it can- not have greater facilities for the transmission of news than we have. Our correspondent used the mail. Now the Zribune correspondent got the news two days later than our corres- pondent did, and if he could have used the tele- graph he would have gotten the news to his paper just as soon as it came to us by mail. He complains, therefore, that he could not use the telegraph. His idea is, of course, that he could not use it “exclusively,” for, if all could use it, the Tribune would be no better off, as we would still be two days ahead. Tus Present Pouicy or Russia.—We have had several visits from the Russians to this country from time to time. The government of the Czar has sent war ships here; has estab-_ lished diplomatic and consular agents, and’ keeps an ambassador at Washington; yet it is evident that the Russians, after all, do not un- derstand either our position or what should be their own policy. If properly advised by theix agents they would know that now is the favor | able time to carry out the traditionary policy of their race te extend the empire to the Bos Crimean war failed, because the military com- bination of France and England was too strong for Russia single-handed; but now, while we are pushing our continental policy to a poini that will be likely soon to employ the only Powers in Europe that could oppose the meas: ures of Russia, the time has arrived for the de signs upon Constantinople to be inaugurated If the Czar does not see this, he must be as be fogged about the state of affairs in this country as his diplomatic representatives appear to be Tun Asnuen at Worx Acamn.—Judge Ingra ham having dissolved the injunetion restrain ing the city from paying the ashmen their wagee work will be resumed to-morrow, and Nev York will no longer be in ashes. The ashme were paid off on Saturday. It is to be hope that the busybodies of the Citizens’ Associatio: will not again interfere with the cleaning o the city. They have examined City Inspecto Boole’s pay-roll, found it unexceptionable an returned it. Hereafter the ashes and garbag: will be regularly removed; but our citizen are requesied to be patient with the ashme for a day or two. ‘THkaTRICAL AvrormTmEst.—We are happy to learn the Mr. Wm. A. Mooro, for nearly twenty years connocte with the theatrical establishments of this city, and mor particularly with Niblo’s, has received the appointmer of stage er at the New Arch theatre, Philadelphi: Mr. Moore's popularity with the theatrical profession, ap the friendly relations which he has always maintaine with the press, qualify him eminently for his new pos tion. The manageress of the New Aroh.has made a valu ble acquisition in Mr. Moore's services. City Intelligence. Rene. Orricens Ex Route vor Fort Warnren.—Tt cars of the Harlem Railroad Company brought to th city on Friday evening Colonel Morgam (brother of th deceased guortila, John Morgan) and one hundred an fifty rebel officers, prisoners of war Hood's army These rebels were on their way to Fort Warren, in Bo ton harbor. On leaving the cars at Twenty-sixth strec and Fourth avenue they were escorted to the Cortlanc street ferry by « platoon of officers fuea the Twenty-fim precinct. Rewer vor to Prots.—The New York and Sand Hook pilots have had a bill introdaced in the Stat Senate for an increase of their rates, This body of me is the only one we know of whose rates of pay havo nc been increased with the exigencies of the times, or wit the vast inerease of their expenses. They are recoivin the same rates now that they reesived in 1854, whi’ their expenses have increased one hundred and fift percent. When these in connection with the ard: ous and hazardous nature of their vocation is considerer we cannot doubt the passage of she bill on its moepite | ‘Tus Axrvat Execrion or Ovricens ov tim Sr. Pa’ nicx’s Socisrr oy Brooxiyn was held last evoning in tt rooms of the Catholic Library Sectety. There wasa lar attendance of members and coasiderable interest map ‘The candidates for President were x-Alderms Tiernan and Wm. E. Robinson, es, |. M. jnahan and Johe A. Gilmo | and Mr. B. B. Haggerty, rer: Funmman ov 4 Reviomvsn—The obsequics of Bist Timotelli, lately attached to the Juvenile Roman Catbol in Eighty-sixth street, and for thirty years Aerio taketpiooe 08 two o'clock this aftornoon fré ‘Bt Vincent's Hospital. ‘Tun Como Butuan Tournament.—-Another opport nity will be afforded the admirers of the game of billian to witness a contest for the championship of Amerh between the great rivals, Dudley Kevanagh and Willis Goldthwait. Friday next, the 20tb.inst., ie fixed for t | trial of skill which is te decide the championship, and much interest has been manifested on previous occasto when these famous knights of the que encountered ca other, that the Academy of Muric has been engaged the arena for the contest. This will enable hundreds witness the match, who, if played in any of the regul, Dilliard rooma, would be deprived of that pleasur Every facility will be afforded the spectators to mark t! pid bow fortunes of the players from the begining eo 5 Fina my Tip Avexvr.—Shortly after nine o'clock It night @ fre occurred in the scale manufactory of J. Brown, cornor of Fifty-soventh street and Third avenu The Tames were soon Jatinguished. ‘The damage to ato and building amounts to about $150; insured. Williamsburg City News. Fata, Accipmret.—About eleven o'clock yosterda | Benjamin A. Dean, employed in the shipyard of Wo Groen fell from a bark on the stocks, a Py jured a anth that he died shortly after bis + moval to his ionce, in Franklin avenue, near Java workman named John Holmes felt at the eaine lume a received severe, hut not fatal Injuries