The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1865, Page 4

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HOOLEY'S OPRRA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Erworian Mix- ernmiaT—Batians, Byuiisquss axp Paxroutans. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Open (rom 10.4. M. til 10 P. STUDIO BUILDINGS, Tenth street,—Exumimion or Pranow, Excise axp Fixuisn Picrckes, New York, Friday, December 8, 1865. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. Receipts of Sales of the Now York Duily Newspapers. OFFICIAL. - Year Ending Name of Paper May 1, 1865. FIRRALD. «gee rseerereeerereeeeerersnens $1,095,000 ‘Times... 368,150 ‘Tribune. 252,000 169,427 100,000 151,079 90,648 ++ -$1,095,000 ‘Times, Fribune, World and Sun combined.. 871,229 Tho National Thanksgiving was well observed yester- day in ali portions of the eountry from which we bave reports, and was no doubt generally recognized in every State of the Union. In the metropolis and our suburban cities tho observance was universal, The public offices, courts, banking houses, stores, businees places of every kind and schools were closed, and people of all classes and conditious in life were unanimous in making the oc- @asion « holiday. Notwithstanding the fact that the weather was very disagreeable, there being alternate falls of snow and rain throughout the greater part of the day, the services in the churches, the majority of which were open, wero faitly attended. We give on another page sketebes of the sermons and proceedings at several of the places of worship, as well as of thé public thanksgiving festivals at some of the city institutions, The snow and tain, howover, destroyed many programmes for outdoor sport which had been planned; but they served to give additional zest to the indoor enjoyments apd the happy family reunions at the home fireside and around the homo board. . ‘The California assembly and the Oregon Senate both ratified the anti-slavery amendment to the national con- stitution on Wednesday last. * From Washington we havo the report that at the Cabl- net meeting held on Wednesday it was decided that Mr, Matlory, who during the existence of the Jeff. Davis con- foderacy*was Secrotary of that myth known as the rebel Navy Dopartment, shall be arraigned for trial before a civil tribunal within the next thirty days, The truth with regard to the rebel bondholders in England is gradually leaking out, It will be remembered that when the list was first sent across the water it was 4odignantly roturned, branded asa New York Hkaap fiction, and that Mr, Delane, of the London Times, Mr. Giadstone and nearly every other prominent man whose namo was mentioned in the Jist, repudiated with much show of virtuous indignation all connection with the affair. Our Paris correspondent now assures us that Jegal documents wil! shortly be published proving that the lst was in the main correct. There were two ciassea of shercholders, it seeme—those who drew their interest in the ordinary way, ond those who wera content to wait the establishment of tho Southern confederacy before making any claim upon the fund. In this latter class were all the leading rebel sympcthizers in Europe who so eagerly denied that they ever “received” or “applied fer’ any rebel stock. The Hxravp’s theory as to the prevarication on which these denials were based appears to bave been the correct one. Tho cause of the recent raising of the siege of Mate- moros by the Mexican republicans under General Esco- bedo, heretofore frequentiy noticed in our columns, is expiained by our Brownsville correspondent to have been solely a lack of ammunition. A shipload purchased ia one of our Northern cities was delayed tn its arrival, and Ganoral fiscobedo was therefore compelled to suspend | his offensive opgrations end withdraw a short distance from the town, whore, at the date of latest accounts, lie still remained ready to resume the siege as foon as this very mevoasary material was received. His troops are said to be well provided in all other respects, and in good spirits, and the imperial reperts that they are deserting ate pronounced utterly groundless. To this Jack of ammunition on the part of thg, republicans, it seems, the imporialists were indebted for their success in recently running up the Rio Grande to Matamoros the gun- boat containing a number of French marines, of which ex- pioit we have already had several accounts, It is said that General Weitzel’s investigation has shown that the Amperial «harges that the gunboat Antonia was fired upon from the Texus shore of the river were unfounded. On the occasion of the withdrawal of the imperialists from Monterey, which was soon after occupied by the republicans, they marched towards San Luis Potosi, One of tho four main points at which we were some time ago informed Maximilian's forces are to be principally concentrated, President Juarez was to leave El Paso on bho,1th of last month, to re-establish his capital at Chi- hhuabua. A ball im his honor was given on the 11th ult. by tho United Siates officers at Fort Bliss, Texas. Offl- cial news from the interior of Mexico received in Wash- ington is most satisfactory for the republicans, showing that thoy are gaining ground there. General Logan, recently appointed by President John- son Minister to the Mexican republic, has arrived in ‘Washington, but his decision in reference to the accept- ance of the position has not yet been made public, The meeting advertised to be beld at the Cooper Insti- tute to-morrow evening, for the purpose of giving public expression to the entiments of our citizens in regard to tho Monroe Doctrine and the intervention of Europe in Mexico, Chile and Peru, has oy posponed until next woek. Due notice will be given Of the date of meeting, On Wednesday evening Senor B, Vicuiia Mac- Konna, the special envoy. from the republic of Chile to the United States, gave a sumptuous ban- quet at Deimonico’s to a number of distinguished South American gentiomen and members of the New York press, at which eloquent speeches were gate by Senor Mac-Kenna, the Venezuelan Minister, Mr. George Squier and others. The Monroe Doctrine was ,@trongly advocated, and European interference on the American continent received merited denunciation. General (rant arrived at Augusta, Georgia, on Wed- mesday, aud was (o leave there for Atlanta yesterday, ‘The Fronch inhabitants of Canada are: adding to the dinquietude which the Fenian excitement bas recently inftcted on the Canadian government. The French organs and the members of the French association xnown as the fons of Liberty have become very bold in ‘their denunciations of British domination and British confederation schemes. The French Canadians would eather woo the province annexed to the United States {papers in Montreal have received @ semi-ofcial warning dn reference to the alleged imprudonce of their course. ‘Mosutime tho mombers of tho government. backed by the British ministry, are pushing their confederation Programme, but 80 far apparoutly with no positive as- surance of success. The investigation which the bighor branch of tho Fe- nian government is engaged in making into the manage- ment of matters in Now York has already resulted in @ report announcing the detection of an effort to issue sixty-eight thousand dollars worth of bonds with the sig- nature of a person as agent of the Irish republic who had been rejected by the Senate. The Senate report that the President, at Union square, fails to nominate an ‘agent for their confirmation, as the constitution requires, ‘and they have notified him, and the general members and public at large, that the organization which they Topresent will refuse to bo responsible for such, and that such irregular proceedings will be treated as a fraud on the body. ‘The Senators and others manifested Joy at the reported escape of Stephens frem the British in Dub- lio. Thanksgiving Day was observed yesterday, but the work will go on to-day. The Fenia President in this city, Mr. John O’Mahony, publishes a card addressed to the Brotherhood, in which ho warns them against becoming disquieted by the alleged disclosures of the certain investigations, which he says are being prosecuted without legal authority. Another new line of steamers has been established to van between this city and New Orleans, under the name of the Atjantic and Mississipp! Steamship Line, which will Connect at New Orleans with a fleot of river steamers running to all points on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The pioneer vessel of the line, the Missouri, Captain Sherinan, will sail to-morrow (Saturday), at thrée P. M., from pier No. 13 North river, foot of Cedar stre°t, and evory Saturday thereafter a steamer of the line will sail from the same place. r Surrogate Tucker has admitted to probate the con- tested will of William Garvy, deceased, the opposition being withdrawn. The trial of John Kane's will was then taken up, The docedent left all his property to his relatives, and the will was contested by the widow. It was admitted to probate. The trial rogarding the estate of Bridget Davis, otherwise Adelia Ross, was then had, tho quostion being as to the marriage of de- coased with one Peter Ross, Tne Surrogate decided the marriage not proven, and the property falls to the wo- man’s children by # former gparriage, The Hepper and Westervelt will cases were set down for next Monday. Patrick MoCrudden, who was shot on Wednesday in the barroom on the northwest corner of Broome and Marion streets, as alleged, by the barkeeper, Patrick Dwyer, died in the New York Hospital yesterday morn- ing. ‘Twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy immi- grants were landed at this port during the month of No- vember this year, of whom thirteen thousand one hun- dred and seventy-nine were Germans. From January 1 to November 30 of this year ono hundred and cighty- eight thousand two hundred and four immigrants al- together arrived here, seventy-two thousand nine hun- dred and ninoty-six of them being Germans, Acconstraction train on the Oswego and Rome Rail- road, four miles from the former place, was thrown from the track yesterday morning by running over two cows, One man was instantly killed and several were injured. A company hax been organized in San Francisco, with ‘a capital of thirty millions of dollars, to construct a rail- road of seven hundred and twenty miles in length from that city to tho Califoraia State line, there to connect with the contemplated road to the Mississippl river. Another slight earthquake shock was felt in San Fran- cisco on Wednesday night; but it did no damage. ‘Two largo sheds at Lock Fourteen, Salem Township, Augialze county, Ohio, were set on fire recontly by in- cendiaries, and a large lot of hoop poles and twenty-two hundred thousand staves which were in the sheds were destroyed, A few days later two more sheds, containing large amount of heading, were set on fire, and the flamer communicating to the mill, barn and other out- ‘buildings, they wero all burned to the ground.” Besides: the other property destroyed, a valuable horse, esti- mated to be worth six hundred dollars, was burned up, with fifteen sets of harness. The loss is estimated at about sgventy-five thousand dollars, and the insurances are about forty thousand dollars. A fire at Motropolis, Illinois, on the 34 inst. destroyed the sawmill owned by Kimball & Beaupre. Tho loss was twenty-five thousand dollars. ‘A minority of four of the ooroner’s jury in the case of the recent guillotining disaster on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, differing from the majority, have made a presentment censnring some of the road employes, ro- commending that flagmen bo plaeed at all curves and that tho car couplings be strengthened. The San Francisco Alla of November 13 gives the particulars of a most daring robbery committed in that city between three and four o'clock that morning. Whilo the night clerk was in attendance in the office of the ‘What Cheer ‘Houso the robvers entered, knocked him down, rifled his pockets of the safe keys, opened the safe, which contained a largo amount of money and valuables, and carried off, as was supposed, about ten thousand dollarseNo arrests had been made, although the whole force of San Francisco detectives were at work. The Twenty-fifth army corps, which during the siege | of Rickmond-numbered between thirty and forty thou- sand inen, exclusively colored troops, has been consoll- dated into a division, m consequence of the extensive discharges of ttegro soldiers in Texas, where the corps has beon for some timo located. Three Days of Congress—Signs of a Wholesome Reaction. After three days of business the two houses of Congress stand adjourned over to Monday next. This proceeding is customary, in order to allow the Speaker a fair chance for a careful selection of the standing committees of the House. We presume, however, that they will be ‘essentially the same as they were last year, as they have been already announced in the Senate. Meantime we are gratified to observe that within the short interval of three days there has been a remarkable abatement of the radical fever which marked the first day’s pro- eeedings in both houses—an abatement which we think may be attributed to the wholesome influence of the President’s Message. On Monday, for example, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens bad it all his own way, and whipped through his joint resolution for a joint commit- tee on the condition of the rebellious States in short order. On the same day Messrs. Sumner, Wade and Wilson took possession of the Senate, and threw in work enough of @ radical stamp for six months’ discussion. On Tuesday the Message was read to both honses—a frank, manly, straightforward statesmanlike exposi- tion of the condition of the country, and espe- cially of the Southern States, and of his views and measures of reconstruction; and on Wednes- day we perceive that it has not failed of a good impression on the House and in the Senate. Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, a radical of the Northwestern echool, submitted to the House on Wednesday a resolution declaring it as the sense of that body that good faith demands that all colored soldiers who have been in the service of the Union ‘shall enjoy all the rights ot citizenship. Of course “all the rights of citizenship” include the right of suffrage. But it appears that the House, on the spur of the occasion, was not prepared to adopt this reso- lution, which, though limited to colored sol- diers, involved a direct issue with President Johnson on the question whether this thing of the right of suffrage is a matter which belongs to Congress or to the several States. Upon this question, as the constitution and the usages of the past and the present time are all on the side of the President, a break with him, it was evidently thought, was an affair entitled toa little cool consideration. And so, a debate arising om the resolution, Mr. Farnsworth was judiciously persuaded to let it go over to some other day, without attempting a two-thirds test for the of the rules. It appears that even the terrible Thaddeus Stevens himself had become considerably softened since Mon- day, and was altogether in a more amiable frame of mind on Wednesday. In the Senate on the same dav Mr. Sumner NEW YORK HERAUD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1508. unmasked another light battery and opened Our Relations With England and fre from it against the administration in a resolution referring. to the oath of loyalty required of one class of men entering upon the duties of any public office, and remark- ing that “whereas it is reported that, ndiwith- standing the acts of Congress, certain persons have been allowed to enter upon the duties of office (Treasury Department) and to receive the salary and emoluments thereof without taking the prescribed oath, and certain per sons have been appointed to offices not author- ized by any previously existing law, there- fore resolved, that the Secretary of the Treas- ury be requested, so far as the records of his department allow,” &c., to furnish the needful information on the subject. This reso- lation, over the shoulders of the Secretary of the Treasury, was evidently aimed at the President, and at his proceedings in reference to certain provisional officials of his in the Southern States. Under the rule it lies over @ day, and when called up again we may, per- haps, have an interesting debate upon it, But the little passage at arms which followed between Mr. Sumner and Mr. Doolittle touched the kernel of the main question. Mr. Doolittle moved to refer that portion of the Message which treats of the existing relations of the late rebel States to the Judiciary Committeo. Mr. Sumner remarked thet there was now on the Secretary’s table a resolution (that of Mr. Stevens from the House) providing for the appointment of a joint committee to whom this subject should be referred. It would be better, he thought, to await the passage of this resolution and then let the subject (President’s Message in relation to the South) go to that special committee. Mr. Doolittle thought that the joint resolution itself ought to go to the Judiciary Committee, and just here the House proposition for an adjournment over to Monday came in‘and cut off any further proceedings. Here we sce against Sumner a leading republi- can Senator from the West boldly taking his position on the side of the President, “The result will probably be such a modification of the Stevens resolution as to leave each house, as the constitution ordains, the judge of the qualifications of its members, instead ef tying up and handing over both houses ‘and the President to the care of a joint committee. Tn any event, the policy of Southern restora- tion which President Johnson has adopted having been approved by all parties through- out the country, he bas no other course to pursue. Let him adhere to it, do all-he can to secure from the States concerned the fulfilment of all his conditions, and, having fulfilled them, let him submit the rights of said States to a restoration to Congress. They may be rejected, but then the issue brought before the people in the elections for ihe next Congress will be a decisive victory for the administra- tion. The Président holds the impregnable ground that the excluded Southern States are not out of the Union, aud never have been; that they only need a reorganization under the constitution and existing laws of the Union to be entitled to all the rights in the general government which belong to the other loyal States. He has only to adhere to this ground to secure the establishment of his policy in this Congress or the next. We believe, however, from the cooling down of the radicals on the day after the reception of the Message, that a whole- some reaction has already commenced which will make the President’s policy the programme of the present Congress. When euch old radical campaigners as Thaddeus Stevens begin to tack ship it is because they seo breakers ahead. Misraer O’GREELEY AND THE CuaRTER Exro- tion.--The philosopher of the Tribune has always felt proud of the support of the plain, honest country people. He puts in his columns such matter as he supposes may suit them, by the way of assisting their digestion of his political nostrums. He tries to impose upon these honest people by an affectation of straightforward honesty and incorruptibility in himself. Affecting the style of the ancient philosopher, Socrates, he wears old clothes, carries @ smooth face, eats bran bread, and says in his*general manner, “behold an honest man.” He has played this game pretty success- fully; but he has evidently presumed too far upon the credulity of his country readers, The developments of the charter election in this city must undeceive these people. What will they think of his alliance with Fernando Wood to defeat the regular candidate of his party? Such .n incongruous political connec- tion is remarkable—is that of Beauty and the Beast, and can only be explained as having a bearing upon the piers and wharves job, or some other similar job. Greeley and the Woods united! What a union! ‘All the humbug nig- ger philanthropy of the Tribune cannot destroy the effect of such corrupt political miscegena- tion. The country people can no longer believe in the political honesty of the Tribune philoso- pher. Poor Greeley! we suspect he will soon discover a rapid falling off in bis subscription list. Report or THR S®ORETARY OF THE IxTE- R10R.—We give to-day an abstract of the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which gives a gratifying exposition of the internal affairs of the country. It appears that upwards of five and @ quarter millions of acres of land were disposed of during the last year and one quarter of the previous year. The aggregate quantity of surveyed public lands undisposed of Sep- tember 30, 1865, was one hundred and thirty- two million two hundred and eighty-five thou- sand and thirty-five acres. The Indian depre- dations and the policy of their extermination are commented upon, the Secretary taking ground against the latter as inhuman and un- christian, We are gratified to learn that the publication of the census of 1860 is nearly completed. The progress of the Union Pacific Railroad is referred to in the most encouraging terms, while the Northern Pacific road—from Lake Superior to Puget Sound—is mentioned as having suspended operations, if they were ever commenced, after the passage of the act donating enormous grants of land in aid of the project. Tar Ravicats as Pro-Stavery Mex.—The radicals in Congress are practically the last upholders and friends of the institution of slavery. They deny the political existence of the States whose votes would secure the rati- fication of the constitutional amendment, and oo permit their party rancor to stand in the way of the final abolition of the institution that they have pretended to hate, and whose destruction they heve held up as the prime object of all their volitical efforts, = it may be that a sufficient ah ount of the “need- fal” is in the Fenian coffers to o,?viate the neces- sity for their issue at all. If this latter be the case we heartily congratulate the F.B. on the plethoric state of their treasury; but if the former, the public has been done an injustice which is deservable of the most condigu punishment. Let us burst in ignorwnee no longer. Pray tell us what has become of the bonds? The History of the War—General Grant's Report. General Grant writes as he fights. The dit ference between his report and the other re~ ports that have recently been laid Isefore the public is as broad and ctear as beteveen his battles and the battles of any of the gen- erals whe preceded him in the commmad of our armies. He is equally uncompromising in the field and on paper. He goes straight to the point. He states the particulars of a batfle in half a dozem sentences that leave ws nothing to desire. He tells the truth fearlessly and openly. He praises with most generous free- dom all whose actions he can ~approve; but if any unlucky delinquent comes in the way of his curt, brusk narrative, 6 much the worse for that delinquent. He haa, in short, in his report added to military literature a document that is impressed through and through with the qualities of his own mind—that is, bold, free, simple, incisive, and direct in the ex- treme—a document that is as superior to all other mere formal official reports as his achieve- menta were to everything else in our military history, Grant’s report shows how magnificently the drama of war will go ahead when all its parts are under the direction of a master mind, and when the purpose is to carry on war in real earnest and annihilate the armed force of the enemy. It quite involuntarily puts in the broadest and clearest light the distinction between the conduct of the war in the year when Grant was Lieutenant General and di- rected all our operations, and the way in which it was conducted in the years before he rose to that high position. The country re- members very well how we blundered on through all those early years; how our opera- tions langu’shed until it often seemed that the result would be against us by» default; how often our generals marched up hill only to march down again. But in this report it is called to mind again how different the style was in Grant's year; with what directness and purpose everything went forward; how promptly blow followed blow, and how grand was the progress of events from his starting. point. at Chattanooga to the final scenes when the history of the war became “the record of the successive surrenders” of rebel generals. “Irom the first,” says the hero, “I was firm.in the conviction that no peace could be had that would be stable and condu- cive to the happiness of the people, both North and South, until the military power of the re- bellion was entirely broken.” That was the key note.- It was waste of time to parley, utterly useless to stand with folded hands and wait to see if may be some one could not patch up the quarrel. Thore was nothing to do but to fight—fight—fight! to “hammer continu- ougly,”’ to pound away until the enemy should be so exhaysted by the power we conld array against him that he should not have the strength to raise a hand against the govern- ment. With what wonderful persistency and effect Grant carried on the war in this way his report tells, and no other historian will ever equal the force, lucidity and point with which he tells it. ¥ Some of the best parts of the report are ite references to other generals, and we see their exact value given at once to the good and the bad, as if they were weighed in the very scales of justice, Grant's references to Butler put that doughty personage before the country in the proper light for the first time. They show how a prac- France. Our Wasbington correspomient has tele- graphed us that the portion of the President’s Message referring to our relations with England was received in Congress with emphatic and unanimous applause. That portion of the Message simply recites the hostile acts com- mitted against us by Great Britain daring the rocent war, and concludes with the significant remark that, “for the future, friendship be- tween the two countries must rest on the basis of mutual justice,” . From this remark we io- fer—and England may as well accept the same construction—that there is to be no friendship between the two countries for the future until full justice is done us for the injuries inflicted during the recent rebellion. If we do not ghoose to go to war at present, that is no reason why we should either forget or for- give the many wrongs which we have suffered, and which the President clearly and succinctly recites. The formal accordance of belligerent rights to the insurgent States; the supplies of materials of war sent to the rebels from British - manufactories; the ravages of British pirates ealling under the flag ofa nation that did not exist—these outrages upon the United States demand compensation and apology at the hands of the British government ; and, since even arbitration has been refused, they fully jus- tify us in declaring war against Great Britain, although we shall consult our own convenience as to the time when war is to be declared. Under these circumstances the President’s stern and menacing tone towards England is exceed- ingly appropriate, and it is unanimously en- dorsed, approved and re-echoed by the country. A quotation from the New York corres~ pondence of the London Spectator, published in these columns on Wednesday, shows that our interpretation of the President’s remark in regard to our relations with England is quite correct. ‘his correspondence gives the de- tails of a conversation with Secretary Seward, in which Mr. Seward said that he had told Sir Frederick Bruce, the British Minister, that “ the way towards anything more than the present relations of mere formal amity between the two peoples and governments must be led by the British people and the British government. If the British were content with our present attitude towards each other, we were; but if any change were made in it for the better it must be of British making.” Mr. Seward added that “we were the aggrieved party,’ and that “it was not for us to seek a reconciliation.” He concluded this verbal despatch to Sir Frederick Brace by stating that “nothing could be expected from us but to stand upon panctilio,as well as upon our essential rights, and insist upon both in the minutest particular,” and thay “this was as far as the.people of this country would allow any administration to go in that direction’’—mean- ing in the direction of conciliation. “Mr. Seward is quite right in this statement, Indeed, he might have explained that it is with the great- est difficulty that the American people are induced to be satisfied with even a “tormal amity” towards a government which has in- sulted us so grossly, injured us so wantonly, and refused reparation 80 impudently and un- justly. Beyond all question, a war with Eng- land would be most. popular, and had not President Johnson wisely resolved to settle up all our internal difficulties before dealing with our foreign relations, and had not the people Scquiesced in his decision because of their confidence in bis patriotism and ability, the recent Message would certainly hnve con- tained a declaration of war. But we know that we shall lose nothing by waiting. Neither the debt that England owes us nor our power to collect it will be lessened by time. And Canada will not move out of our reach in the meanwhile. The tone of that portion of the President's Message which refers to France is in marked contrast with its tone towards England. Presi- dent Jobnson does not forget, and the Ameri- can people cannot forget, that, while England has always been our bitterest enemy, France is our old and trasty friend. If to England the President speaks sternly, to France he ad- dresses rather a remonstrance thar a threat. Nevertheless, it is impossible for him to overlook the fact that the attempt to establish foreign monarchy upon the tomb of the Mexican republic is an act of indirect hostility towards the United States, and he therefore reasserts the Monroe Doctrine in terms which are perfectly plain without being in the least degree menacing. He evi- dently hopes and expects that France will withdraw from Mexico quietly and without a war, and he says nothing which can in any way render more difficult the delicate problem of retiring gracefully from an untenable position which the Emperor Napoleon is called upon to solve. The President is clearly determined to place upon France the onus of the quarrel ifa war shall become necessary to vindicate the Monroe Doctrine. He speaks of a European Power “challenging the American people to the defence of republicanism against foreign interference,” and, although he cannot say that we will refuse such a challenge, he does say that we would regard it as a great calamity, and he hopes that it will never be offered. “We rely,” he adds, “apon the wisdom and justice of European Powers to respect the system of non-inter- ference which has so long been sanctioned by time, and which, by its good results, has approved itself to both continents.” The Emperor Napoleon cannot fail to ad- mire atid to respect the powerful modera- tion of these sentiments and the calm and kindly manner in which they are expressed. We do not doubt that the hopes of President Johnson will be realized, and that France will relinquish scheme which ie not popular among her own people, and which offends her oldest and truest friends. Let her do this, and the friendship between the two countries will be almost fratefnal, and the bonds of union formed by the traditions of the past will be strengthened by the mutual justice and genia- lity of our fature relations. Towards Eng- land, however, we can entertain only a “formal amity” until the Alabama debt is paid and guarantees given fog the future, pretender, and justly hold him up to contempt. Butler was instructed from the first in the cam- paign against Richmond that that city was his objective point, and that he was to co-operate with the Army of the Potomac, and to seize or invest the rebel capital while Meade engaged Lee on the Rapidan. The plan was perfect, and no person with less ingenuity than Butler would have found it possible to spoil it. But- ler, however, managed wonderfully not to do what was requisite. He was shown that Rich- mond could not be reinforced from the south or from Lee’s army, and was at his mercy; but instead of seizing it he sat down at Bermuda Hundved and wrote despatches and “suffered the enemy to as completely shut him off from farther operations against Richmond as if he had been in a bottle strongly corkéd.” Such is Grant’s contemptuous disposal of Butler’s co-operation against the rebel capi- tal. Subsequently, when Grant was crossing the James, the enemy left the road from Bich- mond to Petersburg on Butler’s front unde- fended, and Butler scized it. Grant, seeing the advantage, sent the Sixth corps to enable But- ler to hold what he had taken, and Builer kept the Sixth corps in idleness, while the enemy recaptured the road. Nothing but Butler’s Fort Fisher failure could have put a climax to these achievements, Grant shows how the order for Weitzel to act against Wilmington was smothered by Butler; how Butler went where he was not sent and came away when there was no reason; and then how Terry, with nearly the some force, accomplished what But- ler had declared impossible. As the sequel to this Grant merely says:—" At my request Major General B. F. Butler was relieved, and Major General EB, 0. C. Ord assigned to the command of the Department of Virginia and North Caro- lina.” Butler in this report and Butler before the Committee on the Conduct of the War—or making speeches at Lowell—are very different se NI) contrast to Grant’s picture of Butler wo may ptt his picture of Sheridan. This sol- dior was always doing exactly what was want- ed, at exactly the right time and in the neatest possible way. When he commanded in the Shenandoah valley and Early lay in his front, Grant, seeing the danger to us of a defeat there, feared to order battle without an exact knowledge of the position. He started, there- fore, to see it with his own eyes. He met Sheridan, however, at Charleston; and he out so distinctly how each army lay; what be could do the moment ‘autho- tized, and expressed such confidence of success, that there were but two words of instruction necessary—“Go int” The victory nt Opequan Tne Fenian Boxns.—Where are the bonds of the Irish republic, those miraculous specimens of artistic conception and exquisite execution? The first woek of the past month was positively set down for their issue, but up to this time there hae not been the least sign of them. Perhaps, though, the leaders of the movement, with speculation in their souls, have bought them all up. desirous of reapina the righ harvest fore he got to Nashville. at Franklin he says: serious opposition the enemy met with, and I am satisfied was the fatal blow to all his expectations.” Of Hood’s movement past Sherman’s right to Nashville—that grand piece of strategy coneocted by Davis—we have the smple declaration, “Had I had the power to command both armies, I should not have changed the orders under which Hood seemed to be acting.” As Frederick the Great forgave hig enemies the lies they told om account of the blunder they committed, se Grant could ebsily tolerate all Davis’ speeches for the sake of that magnificent piece of acted stupidity. cal, sincere man regards such an empty, blatant |° was the result. Butler had to be hedged round 4 and bolstered up with page on page of minute instruction, and even then could always find a reason why he should not do the thing he ’ ought. For Sheridan two words were enough, and the victory came. Grant tells plainly that he did not like Thomas’ delay to strike Hood as soon as the latter reached Nashville; yet he adds,.with a grand sense of justice, “His final defeat of Hood was so complete that it will be accepted as a vindication of that distinguished officer’s judgment.” But he intimates on opinion that Hood’s back was weakened be- aking of the battle was the first Grant declares that the history of Sherman’s flank movements fronr Chattanooga to Atlanta “will ever by anything in history.” The particulars of , the growth of that great campaign in the two minds are marked down with the modesty of » nature too noble‘to claim the tithe of what be- longs to another. Yair tribute is paid to Meade also, whose “commanding always in the presence of an officer superiorto him im rank hay drawn from him much of that publie attention that hig zeal and ability entitle him to, and which he would otherwise have receig@d.” But undoubtedly the best of all Grant’s declara- tions is that in relation to the qualities of the soldiers—“It has been.my fortune tosce the | armios of both the West and the East fight bat- ties, and from what I have seen I know there is no difference in their fighting qualities, AIR that, it was possible for men to do in battle they have done. The Western armies commenced their battles in the Mississippi valley and re- ceived the final surrender of the remnant of the principal army opposed to them in North Care- lina. The armies of the East commenced their battles on the river from which the Army of the Potomac derived its name and received the final surrender of their old antagonist at Appo- mattox Court House, Virginia. The splendid achievements of each have nationalized oue victories.” be read with an interest unsurpassed This splendid recognition of the qualities ‘of our soldiers closes a document that has no equal either for the’ grand events of which it treats or for the admirable, generous, just and manly spirit in which it tells its story. The News from Kurope—English Treeblee at Home and Abroad. Earl Russell's reconstructed Cabinet appear by the latest European advices to be having anything but an easy time of it. The Fenians at home and complications abroad are leading them a somewhat uncomfortable life. Notwith- standing the fact that Fenianism in Ireland has been repeatedly reported as completely crushed, this hydra-headed Brotherhood per- sists in cropping up in all directions, and the latest precautions taken by the British govern~ ment in the garrisoning of Pigeon House Fort, Dublin, show that serious trouble is still anti- cipated. Pigeon House Fert commands the city an@ bay of Dublin, and it has historical associations which will give the action of the government great significance in the eyes of the Irish nation. In 1848 the guns were double shotted, and the garrison kept under arms all night, just as in the present instance. Then, as now, it was against the Irish people themselves that these precautions were directed. Daniel O'Connell and his repealers were the dreaded foe in 1848; President O’Mahony and his Fenians in 1865. The mere appearance of three large steamers in the offing of Dublin Bay euf- ficed to convince the commander of Fort Pigeom House that the long expected Fenian priva- teers had arrived at last, So, in hot haste he posted off to the Lord Lientenant and declared that unless reinforcements were sent to him he would not be answerable for the safety of the city. Accordingly the garrison was increased, the guns loaded, and every preparation made for an immediate engagement with the enemy. How far this new scare of the Dublin govern- ment is justified by facts the Fenian Congress in secret session could probably tell. us.“ But it is at least clear that the ghost of the Ale-~ bama is haunting the British government, and their trepidation will probably not be dimin- ished when they receive President Johnson’s Message. To add still further to their anxiety comes the escape of Stephens, the mysterious Head Centre, from the dungeon in which the au- thorities fondly hoped they had securely bound him. It is scarcely possible that the prisoner could have effected his release without the con- nivance of his jailers, and it Fenianism has spread into the ranks of the very minions of the law no further fact is required to show that the ramffications of the Brotherhood in Ireland are both extensive and mysterious. e The action of the Spanish government im Chile is another source of embarrassment to the government." In the abstract, John Bull cares little who is right and who is wrong in this dispute. It is from no romantic intention of protecting the weak against the strong that the merchants of Liverpool are clamoring for English intervention against Spain. But their pockets have’ been touched severely by the blockade of the Chilean ports, and conse- quently their indignation is lond against Spanish aggression. Har] Russell has promptly replied to their entreaties by despatching one of his characteristic menacing despatches to the Spanish government, and apparently hae placed himself in such a position that either he must submit to a snub from the Spanish gov~ ernment or enter upon an inconvenient an® inglorious war. Under ordinary cireum- stances, perhaps, Lord Russell gould take the snubbing and sneak out of the discussion, aw he dig with Russia over the Polish insurrec~ tion and from Prussia in the Danish war. But he has the reputation of his government to make; he aspires to wear Lord Palmerston’s mantle, and must, therefore, show a bold front, He will be the better able to do this as hig adversary is very small and a powerful ally in the person of the Emperor Napoleon is ready: to assist him. Tar Nroomr 1x Concaess.—Mr. Foot, of Vors mont, presented in the Senate the other day a resolution from the Legisiatuee of his State in fayor of giving caval yighta @ al) mou im the