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NEW YORK HERALD.
J ASK* GORDO* II KM RETT,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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Volume XXVII No. 155
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THE SITUATION.
The rebels made another attack on General
HcClellan's army yesterday morning. Their ar
tillery opened from five different points on oar
troops at New Bridge, with the intention, no
doubt, to prevent the rebuilding of that structure.
Their fire was returned by three of our batteries,
and, after a severe engagement of two hours, the
enemy retreated. Nothing further occurred dur
ing the day to disturb the peace of our lines. The
last heavy storm has raised the Chickahominy to
an unprecedented height. The railroad and tele
graph lines have been seriously interrupted from
the same cause.
We may form some correct opinion of the loss
bf the rebels in the recent three days' action from
the fact that all the omnibuses, furniture wagons
and drays in Richmond were impressed to carry
the wounded from the field into the city, and the
Exchange Hotel, Spotswood House and many
other public and private houses, were immediately
converted into hospitals.
We give to-day some further details of the grand
battle at Fair Oaks or Seven Pines?as it is
called in some accounts?in front of Richmond, to
gether with an alphabetical list of the killed and
wounded, as complete as it is possible to furnish
It up to the present date. Recent reports show
that our army in the fight of Saturday, Snnday and
Monday were contending with six full divsions
of the enemy, numbering at least 75,000 men.
General McClellan has issued a spirited address
to his army, which we publish in another
column, asking them to stand by him in
?nother coming battle, upon which he intimates
the fortunes of the war are to turn. He reminds
Jus soldiers of their past successes and asks them
to remember that whenever they have met the
enemy with the bayonet he has always fled in a
panic,and urges them to exercise all their valor
and skill in the approaching attack on the rebel
capital, which is certain to crash out the rebellion.
Be assures his men that he will be with them in
the conflict and will accept equal danger with the
humblest among them. This address, which is
rigorous, brief and to the point, was dated on
Tuesday, and indicates that the action at Fair
Oaks is speedily to be followed up by a battle still
more decisive and possibly more bloody.
A rumor reached her* yesterday from Louis
eille that Memphis and Fort Pillow had been
taken by our forces on Friday night; but as our
despatches from Cairo and Chicago bring intelli
gence as lata as yesterday, to the effect that on
Monday the rebels were still in possession of
Vicksburg, and that on Wednesday last our gun
boats were still bombarding Fort Pillow, it neces
sarily follows that the report of the occupation o'
these two places is premature.
A* a singular contrast to the action of the Chris
tian Powers of Europe with regard to the recep"
tion given and aid afforded to rebel vessels in their
ports, we have the fact demonstrated, by, recent
official communications between Mr. Seward and
the government of the Sultan of Turkey, that the
latter has refused admission into Turkish ports
to any vessel bearing the rebel flag.
The Persia brings interesting news from Europe,
dated on the 25th of May, with important letters
from our correspondents in Paris, London and
Berlin, all of which appear in the Hebild this
Homing.
One of onr correspondents in Paris gives a
very graphic detail of the plans and policy of
the Slidell family, ia their nnited capacity as a
rebel embMsy ia the French capital, down to the
Moment when Napoleon accorded his latest?and
?*ry probably last?interview to Mr. Slidell.
The meeting took place in a very quiet manner
at the residence of the Count de Persigny during
%n afternoon reception of seme of the most dis
tinguished French statesmen and politicians.
Xfapoleon took Slidell to a seat and con
Versed with him during the space of an
bour, winding up with an advice to the
rebel leaders "to lay (Inim their arms, as their
cause was topetess.'' Count de Persigny left Paris
for London the next morning, and it -vas presumed
that his journey was undertaken with reference to
the new shape in which his Imperial master had
produced his idea of intervention in American
AffUrs.
England was sorely puzzled as to her future
treatment of the Mexican and American questions.
Indeed her journals seem to regard both subject*
?s identical, and hence they find it very difficult to
treat with the Emperor of France with satisfac
tion or security. It announced that Oreat Britain
baa "washed her hands" out of the Mexican alli
ance, a statement which has already drawn forth
Very bitter remarks from the semi-official portion
pf.the Paris press.
| The interest ia England with regard to the
progress of the war against the rebels was
yvore intense than before on account of the daily
Increasing destitution in the manufacturing dis
tricts.
| Qfncral Prim, It Is said, has been ordered to
fretiirn to Mexico as Spanish Minister, accredited
fco IM iii J<Mto gtTlfUMBt. Md t? it only. Tlus
appointment indicates tbat Spain regards the tri
partita treaty, signed in London previous to the
late invasion at an end.
The British steamship Boutjiwiek had arrived at
Liverpool, from Nassau, N. P., with a cargo of
cotton and naval stores.
CONGRESS.
In the Senate yesterday, the annual report of
the Smithsonian Institution was presented and or
dered to be printed. A bill establishing certain
armories was introduced. The resolution appoint
ing a committee to deviae better ventilation of the
Senate chamber was adopted. The bill providing
a government for the Territory of Arizona was
discussed. A motion to take up the resolution
providing for the expulsion of Senator Stark, of
Oregon, who is charged with disloyalty, was re
jected by a vote of 13 yeas against 29 nays. The
consideration of the Tax bill was then resumed.
The plan of the Boston Board of Trade and the
substitutes of the Finance Committee were both
rejected. Mr. Sumner proposed a tax of two dol
lars per head on slaves, the slaves in no case to be
sold for said tax, which was adopted by a vote of
19 against 16. The Senate then adjourned. The
Senate will probably reach a vote on the Tax bill
to-day.
In the House of Representatives Mr. Wickliffe,
of Kentucky, asked leave to introduce a resolution
inquiring whether General Hunter has organized a
regiment of blacks and fugitive slaves in South
Carolina, but objection was made, and the subject
was, therefore, not entertained. The bill appoint
ing a Board of Fortifications for sea coast and
other defences, was discussed in Committee of the
Whole. Mr. Stevens moved to strike out the
enacting clause, which was agreed to. The House
subsequently confirmed the action of the commit,
tee, so the bill was lost. Without transacting any
other business of importance the House adjourned.
MlSiitii.LAnjsOUS NEWS.
The Persia, from Liverpool on the 24th and
Queens town the 25th of May, arrived at this
port early yesterday morning. Her news is three
days later than that.by the City of New York.
The Liverpool cotton market, under the in
fluence of intelligence of the reopening of the
Southern ports, closed at & decline in prices.
Breadstuff had also declined, while provisions were
without material change.
It is said the cabinets of Paris and Turin were
maturing a plan for the recognition of the Ponti
fical States. Mazzini was said to be concealed in
Milan, and the government of Italy was searching
to find his place of concealment. The Archduke
Maximilian, of Austria, was soon expected in Paris.
Victor Emanuel had returned to Turin from Naples.
Russia was again interfering in the quarrel be
tween Turkey and Montenegro. The Pope had ad
dressed twenty-two cardinals and one hundred
and twenty bishops at a consistory held in Rome.
News from Vera Cruz comes to us to the I4th
ult. Reports were circulating to the effect that
the French had met with a severe repulse at Pue
bla, losing about twelve hundred men; but many
were slow to believe it, and other rumore say that
the invaders occupied Puebla without any resist
ance. Preparations for defending the capital
were continuing. The French Commissioners have
protested, it is said, against the treaty between
Juarez and the United States' but have made no
objection to one with England, lately made. Par
ties from Texas, supposed to be filibusters, had
been causing some trouble. Tellow fever was still
raging at Vera Cruz, where the French garrison
had suffered considerably from its effects. The
news brought by the United States frigate Poto
mac , which arrived at Key West 30th ult. from
Vera Cruz, partially confirms the report of the dis
aster to the French; but we have not ascertained
whether the date of her sailing from the latter
place is later than the letter we publish from oar
correspondent.
From Bio Janeiro we have commercial advices
dated on the 24th of April. The coffee market
raled quiet, bnt firm, from the departure of the
English until the arrival of the French packet, the
sales being about 32,000 bags, at former quota
tions. The advices by the French steamer, from
all consuming countries, had led to a large busi
ness and a firmer market, while there was but lit.
tie alteration in the prices paid. The quality of
the late sales was not so good, and an advance
was considered to be established of 100 to 200 reis
per arroba. Sales during the fortnight were
35,400 bags. Lots for the United States were
quoted at 7,300 reis to 7,500 reis per arroba. The
stock was estimated to be 150,000 baga. Hides
sold at 280 reis to 300 reis per pound; stock 7,600
pieces. Freights to the United States were taken
at 6>s. per ton, and five per cent, and an American
schooner obtained 50c. to 60c. per bag, and
five per cent, via West Indies. Several foreign
vessels had been chartered at 65s. to 70s. per ton,
and five per cent, for a Northern peri; 70s. to 75s.
per ton South; and an American schooner at 70s.
per bag, and five per cent, North or South.
The annual regatta of the New York Yacht
Club, which was to have taken place yesterday,
but was postponed in consequence of the uncer
tain state of the weather, will come off this morn
ing, according to the arrangements already made.
Vie lovers of aquatic sports are praying for light
winds and fair skies.
The regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce was held yesterday. Nine new mem
bers were ballotted for and unanimously elected.
The special order of business, being the election
of a Secretary, was then taken up. Mr. J. S. Ho
mans, the former Secretary, was in some way
connected with the issuing of a secret circular a
short time before the annual election, which was
intended to influence the members in the choice of
officers for the ensuing year. This rendered him
obnoxiona to many of the members, and four can
didates were put in nomination for the post of
Secretary, which has, we understand, the snug an
nual salary of fifteen hundred dollars attached to
{t. Mr. John Austin Stevens, Jr., was elected on
the first ballot by a majority of one. The meet
ing was unusually noisy, and adjourned immedi
ately after the election, although Gen. Wetmore
made strenuous efforts to bring before the Cham
ber resolutions referring to the establishment of a
mint in this city.
Hon. James H. Lane, of Kansas, delivered an
address at the Cooper Institute last evening on
the Union and the war. Kev. Dr. Tyng presided,
and there were some eight hundred persons pre
sent. The speaker spoke vehemently against the
institution of slavery, and urged the freedom of
every slave and the arming of black guerillas tQ
hunt oat the rebels who are hanging on the skirts
of the army.
The Commissioner! of Public Charities and Cor
rection held their semi-monthly meeting yester
day, when Commissioner Nicholson offered, for
transmission to Thurlow Weed, a congratulatory
communication, complimenting him on the im
port an t services he has rendered the coontry dur
ing his residence abroad, and tendering him a
cordial greeting on his safe return to the land of
his birth. In answer to a communication from the
Board of Councilmen, the Commissioners have
sent to inform them that they can And accommo
dation lor eight hundred sick and wounded
soldiers. Dsniel S. Devlin, the City Inspector,
sent in a communication, stating that human re
mains have recently been fonnd in the old Potter's
Field, in the neighborhood of Fiftieth street and
Fourth avenue, and asked the Commissioners to
provide suitable cases and have thpra safely trans
mitted to the Potter's Field on Ward's Island.
The Commissioners express their willingness to
comply with his request after consulting with the
Board of Health.
Xbe case of William Muller, charged with kt?D
ing a disorderly bouse at the corner of the Bowery
and Delancey street, was finished yesterday in the
General Session*, aad remitted in a verdict of uot
guilty. Patrick Millmore, convicted of receiving
a quantity of copper wire, knowing it to have
been stolen, was tiued $2,>. As that wa? Itis tirst
offence, and as there were other mitigating cir
cumstances in the case, the Recorder imposed a
light sentence, l'eter Miller pleaded guilty to
grand larceny, in stealing a gold watch worth (100,
the property of Jane Miller, No. 12 Clarkson
street, and was aent te the State Prison for three
years, he being an old offender. William O'Keefe,
indicted for a felonious assault upon Daniel Stan
ley, by attempting to stab him with a knife,
pleaded guilty to assault and battery, aud was
remanded for sentence.
The stock market ww again buoyant yesterday, and
prices of all descriptions advanced. New York Central
sad Pacific llail rose 1 por cent, governments and
the Western shares Hal per cent. The market closed
strong. Money was without chauge. Exchange 114K a
Gold was % higher.
Hie cotton market opened firm yesterday morning;
but as the day advanced, with the receipt of foreign
news aad reports from the seat of war at the Woat, the
market was lees active and prices lesa buoyant, closing,
however, without change of importance in prices.
The sales footed up about 800 a 900 balee, at 31c. a
31 He. for middling uplands. The floor market was
heavy and lower, showing a decline for some gradee of
6c. per bbl. The demand was Yetr, ohlsfly from the
home trade. Wheat was heavy, and fell off lc. per
bushel, while the market was active at the conceeslon.
Corn was firm and active, with saloa of Western mixed
at 40c. a 50e., In store and delivered. Pork was
heavy for prime and steady far mees, with sales of the
latter at $12 50 and $0 a $9 25 for the former.
Sugars were steady, with sales of 1,600 hhds. Coffee
was quiet; a sale or 000 bags Laguayra was made for
export on private terms. Freights were irregular, with
rather more tone at the close, while engagements were
te a fair extent.
The Last Assault of the Radical Press
Upon the Folicjr of the President.
The sensible and judicious course of Mr.
Stanly, appointed by the President Military
Governor of North Carolina, has furnished oc
casion for a most violent outburst of the aboli
tion journals against the conservative policy of
the Chief Magistrate, whom the Jacobins are
attempting to stab over the shoulders of his ap
pointee. The revolutionary radical press has
opened in full cliorua, like a pack of furious
hounds, against "Scorpion Stanly, the crue{
wretch" (as they call him), because he ordered
out of the State of North Carolina Dr. Vincent
Colyer, an incendiary missionary from this city,
of the same stamp as poor Pearce, whose mis
sion in South Carolina was attended with so
vast an amount of evil, while, for its professed
object, it is confessed to have been a miserable
failure. Whether the folly or the criminality of
such proceedings is the greater it is difficult to
determine. The Tribune, the Times, the Post
and the Commercial Advertiser demand
either the reprimand or the recall of
Mr. Stanly; and two of these journals
state that Secretary Stanton has declared that
he would not belong to a government for five
minutes which could authorize or sanction his
proceedings, and that he has written to him,
with the sanction of the President, to counter
mand his orders. Indeed, tbe Post last even
ing improved upitn this, and asserted that the
President himself bad directed Mr. Stanly to
revoke his action.
Now, as Mr. Stanton has continued a member
of the administration more than five minutes,
and even several days, since these events
transpired, we conclude the Secretary of
War never used any such language;
for the course of Governor Stanly has
been shaped by the well known policy of
the President, and the President could not
change it even to accommodate Mr. Stanton. It
it the aame policy that guides the path of Ed
ward Stanly in North Carolina, and Andrew
Johnson in Tennessee. Both men have very
properly been invested with a large discretion.
They are natives of the States over which they
have been appoiated provisional Governors,
and they know better than abolitionists sitting
in their easy chairs in New York what
is well or ill-calculated for the pacification of
their respective States, and for their ultimate
restoration to their normal condition under the
constitution and the Union. As for the hum
bug of teaching the A B C to blacks of forty or
fifty years of age, it is so preposterous that the
common sense of mankind laughs at it. Bet
ter far to teach them how to work for an honest
! living; and Governor Stanly, as a practical
man. did well to get rid of the pestilent nui
sances that, under the pretence of instructing
the negroes in the rudiments of an education
which they cannot comprehend, and which
they could never turn to any account, were
sowing the seeds of servile insurrection against
the white race, and undoing all the good that
the moderate and conciliatory policy of the
President was so well adapted to produce.
H. H. Helper, brother of the notorious Hinton
Rowan Helper, admits in bis letter to Gover
nor Stanly that he left the Union army in
order to co-operate with such emissaries as
Colyer in the work of pulling down what the
President is laboring to build up. If the war
were carried on according to the fanatical
ideas of the radicals, it would continue for
twenty years, and fail in its legitimate object
at laM.
By his proclamation at the beginning of
hostilities, nearly fourteen months ago, Mr
Linceln announced that the object of the war
was to restore the rebellious States to their al
legiance, and not to meddle with their local
government or institutions. He said it was "to
maintain the honor, the integrity and the exist
ence of our national Union, and the perpetuity
of popular government." The tendency of the
abolition policy is to overthrow both. The
President said the immediate duty ef the forces
called forth would be "to repossess the forts,
plaoes and property which have been seized
from the Union, ami in every event the utmost
cure uxmici be oljserved to avoid any destruction of
or interference with property, or any disturbance
of pmctful citizens in any part of the country."
The object of the abolitionists and of their pro
pagandists is the very reverse of this. Again,
Mr. Lincoln, in his message to Congress on the
6th of March last, announced that the question
of emancipation rested with the Southern States
themselves, and not with the general govern
ment. and he repudiated the idea of setting up
any "claim of a right by federal authority to
interfere with slavery within State limits," and
declared that he "referred the absolute control
of the subject in each ca*e to the State and the
people immediately interested.*' No language
could be more explicit than this; and both
houses of Congress, by large majorities, adopted
a resolution embodying the sentiments of the
President. His rebuke of Generals Fremont
and Hunter on this subject is matter of history.
It is to contravene and overthrow this con
stitutional policy that the abolition conspira
tors have banded together in the oa?) of the
twb Carolina*. Tbejr instruments ars acti
slavery teachers, Beat among tbe negro popu
lation under the auapioes of Secretary Chase.
There can be no doubt that it was by his direc
tion 1'earce proceeded on his mission of mis
chief to South Carolina; and from all that we
can learn it is equally certain that Colyer, un
der the name influence, embarked in the work
of tampering with the slave# of North Caro
lina. Better for Mr. Chase to attend to hiB de
partment, which is financial and commercing
and not political, instead of lending himself to
the intrigues of the abolition desperados to
subvert the policy of the President, over
throw the constitution and inaugurate a reign
of anarchy.
But the policy of the President to the policy
of the majority of the people, and therein lies
its strength. Notwithstanding, therefore, the
schemes of the Jacobins, who hare even plotted
the defeat and destruction of our armies, in
order that their disunion programme might be
carried out, the rebellion is now in such a fair
way of being speedily crushed that we have
every reason to hope that peace will be re
stored before winter, and every State in the
South will be represented by a Union man in
the next session of Congress, and through the
wise and patriotic course of the President the
flame of secession at the South, and the flame
of abolition at the North, will both have been
extinguished in the darkness of a death from
which there can be no resurrection.
The Indiana Frauds and .the Tribune.?
Greeley, in an editorial in yesterday's Tribune,
endeavors to throw all the blame of covering
up the frauds in connection with the irregular
issue of Indiana bonds upon District Attorney
Hall, and at the same time to defend the In
diana State officials from all blame. This
mean and contemptible dodge will not go
down. The Indiana State officials were here
and knew the facts, and it was their duty to go
and make complaints before a police magis
trate, and have the guilty parties arrested.
This done, it would have been the duty of Mr.
Hall to follow it up and attend to their prosecu
tion. The District Attorney attends to those
matters that are officially brought before him.
Arrests of this kind are always made by virtue
of complaints made before a magistrate, and
the failure of the Indiana State officials to make
the complaint makes them guilty of compound
ing tbe felony. It was theirs, and not Mr.
Hall's, duty to file this complaint.
Not only were the Indiana State officials cog
nizant in January last of the fact that irregular
and fraudulent issues of bonds had been made,
but we are informed that one of the officials of
the State knew it more than a year ago, yet
took no steps to arrest it, but with full know
ledge of the fact permitted the fraudulent
bonds to be thrown upon the market in Wall
street. The effort of the Tribune to throw the
responsibility of covering the affair up upon
the shouldere of Mr. Hall is therefore only the
more mean and cowardly. This, however, with
the defence of the Indiana State officials, is no
more than might have been expected from that
source. Greeley and the Tribune have so long
been mixed up in such jobs as free wool, im
provement companies, elections of Speakers,
government contracts and other jobs in Wash
ington, that it is perfectly natural that they
should come to the defence of officials who
are criminally guilty of countenancing a fraud
upon the public, and who, having full know
ledge of the facts, took no steps to arrest it.
Sympathy and fellow feeling, no doubt, prompt
the Tribune to defend those officials.
It is high time that the necessary stops were
taken to deal oat to the negligent and guilty
Indiana officials the punishment that their
course justly merits. It ia said that one of the
parties connected with the affair has already
left the State, and unlesa immediate steps are
taken the others will follow and elude punish
ment. Whenever a fraud is committed in Eng
land the party guilty ia arrested, tried and
sent to Botany Bay. and made an example of
as a warning to all others. But here the guilty
parties are permitted to escape, and others im
mediately follow in their footsteps. Thus a
few years since the Schuyler frauds came out,
and, through the tardy movementa of those
whose duty it was to execute the laws,
Schuyler left the country and escaped the pun
ishment that he merited. A little later came
the frauds in connection with the Ohio Life and
Trust Company. No efforts were made to ar
rest the person responsible for those frauds
until be bad eluded prosecution by sailing for
Europe; and he ia now reported in Paris, living
in fine atyle. From all appearances the Indiana
State bonds affair will end in about the same
way, and no person be brought to punishment
as a warning to coming generations. It is time
in justice to ourselves aa a nation, injustice
to the thousands who are defrauded by theso
transactions, that an example should be made
of these men, that all officials may hereafter
know the fate that awaits them for betraying
trusts and neglecting their duties.
The Ixmgxkct of Tint Abolitionists.?The
poets of the Post use the following classic lan
guage in reference to the Military Governor of
North Carolina appointed by the President:?
SoosnoR SJtawi.t.?Tho nam* which the Indignant
O'Connell used to give to Lord Stanley will much better
ai.ply to tho cruel wretch whom the government, by
some mistake, baa appointed Military Governor of North
Carolina. He is a scorpion or scourire of the moat niniift
nant ?ort. ? ? ? Is this miserable tool of the
North Carolina secessionists to be allowed to continue
his malignant outrage*' ? ? ? An Interfe
rence which is not relieved by any motives of humanity,
but which la infamous in Itself, a disgrace to the nation,
and an offence to the enlightened conscience of the civi
lized world.
These elegant extracts are fair specimens of
the rabid violence and indecency of the Jaco
bin press against the President and the men
whom he has appointed to carry out his con
servative and constitutional policy. How long
will the seditious brawlers be permitted to in
dulge in such attacks against the civil and
military authorities, at a time when they are
doing their utmost to crush rebellion and re
volution? If Forts Warren, Lafayette and
McHenry are not yet full they soon ought to
be; for the disunion traitors outside their walls
and in our very midst are more numerous,
more guilty and more audacious than those
within. Even handed justice, aa well as the
publie safety, requires that they ba promptly
taken care of.
CoMri.KXI(?N OF TIIK NrXT SKHHtnN Of CoN
<)rehm.?The complexion of the next session
of Congress will be very different from that
of the present. When it assembles in Decem
ber it wiH include Union representatives from
every Southern State. Its complexion will be
Union throughout; for the abolitionists of the
North m well as the secessionists of the South
will have been all squelched by that time, and
every man will swear by tho good old constitu
tion given ui by Washington and his com
? Uriels.
V?ry Inportut Hcwi from Europe?l?oul?
Kapolton and <hr Mebci Ambassador
Slidell?No Hope for Oar Rebel Cotton
Burners.
The capture of New Orleans by the naval
forces of the United States appears to have
produced a profound impression throughout
Europe, and particularly upon tbe vigilant and
sagacious mind of tbe Emperor Napoleon. Tbe
event in question, and its immediate conse
quences of cotton and sugar burning by
the defeated rebels, have evidently con"
vinced him of two things: first, that this
Southern rebellion of ours for an independent
Southern confederacy is a miserable failure,
and there is no help for it; and, secondly, that>
as the last resort of spite and desperation, the
managing chiefo of this rebellion really intend
to enforce the burning of our Southern cotton,
tobaoco, rice and sugar, so that England and
France may be made to feel tbe necessity of
coming to tbe rescue of Jeff. Davis and his
reckless confederates.
With these two important facts established
to his satisfaction, it further appears that Louis
Napoleon was not slow to act upon tbem. For
a long time we have beard little or nothing of
John Slidell, the accredited ambassador from the
rebel government at Richmond to France
Ignored by the French government, Slidell has
stood back upon his dignity, and, while receiv
ing all bis friends at his residence in the
Champs Elysees, he has declined to honor any
invitations to social reunions in other quarters
while awaiting his recognition by the Court.
A very few days, however, had elapsed in Paris,
after the reception of the decisive news of our
recovery of New Orleans, when Slidell received
an invitation to a private reception at the
house of Count de Persigny. Slidell, however,
still standing back upon his offended official
dignity, sent his regrets and excuses; but this
would not do; for late in the evening be was
visited by the Count in person, who represented
to the said Slidell that "it was of the utmost
importance that he should attend." He was
present accordingly, and still in time, at the
place appointed, and found himself there in
the presence of many of the highest dignitaries
of the empire, including the Emperor himself.
Here we come to the pith of the matter.
The Emperor, drawing off our Southern rebel
ambassador into a quiet corner, chatted with
him for an hour, and the material points of this
conversation were, as understood in Paris, the
Emperor's opinion that the time had arrived
for Jeff. Davis and his colleagues to abandon
their Southern confederacy as a hopeless enter
prise, and to lay down their arms; and next, a
broad hint of European intervention against
them should they longer persist in the despe
rate and barbarous expedient of weakening
their enemy in this war by the destruotion of
Southern cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar, those
products in which all the nations of tbe civil
ized world, and especially the Western Powers
of Europe, are so deeply interested. Having
thus enlightened Slidell, for the benefit of Jeff.
Davis and his confederates at Richmond, it ap
pears that on the next day the Emperor des
patched the Count de Persigny to London.
What for? Doubtless to sound Lords Palmers
ton and Russell upon the new idea of Euro
pean intervention in behalf of peace between
our loyal and our rebellious States.
Believing that these reported events, dis
closures and details are substantially true, our
Southern rebels, we expect, will very soon dis
cover that upon the last card of "King Cotton,"
upon which they have resolved to win all or
lose all, they have lost their game; that their
incendiary acts of burning their cotton and their
other great staples, on the approach of our Union
armies, have incensed the civilized world against
| this hopeless and insane rebellion; and that
France is not disposed to stand an idle specta
tor at the continuance of such suicidal and
savage acts of rebel incendiaries as those which
marked the approach of Commodore Farragut's
squadron to New Orleans. This fair and con
sistent interpretation of the facts in question
is fully borne out by the consistent and reliable
explanations that have been made of the recent
visits of Monsieur Mercier to Richmond.
In all this business neither the government
nor the loyal people of the United States are
under any special obligations to Louie Na
poleon. He has dealt with us more honestly,
or at least more skilfully, than England; but in
this last and most sensible idea of intervention
in our domestic affairs the French Emperor
has only been making a virtue of necessity, in
coming round to the right ride at the eleventh
hour, when all doubts as to the issue of this
rebellion are at an end. It will be observed,
too, that the same steamer which brings
us the news of tbe curious events we
have recited brings us some equally curious
and suggestive reports of Napoleon's Mexi
can programme. It is thus given out that,
while he adheres to Mexico for King Maxi
milian as an equivalent to Austria for the
surrender of Venetia to the kingdom of Italy,
Ac., this Mexican game comprehends at least
the gold and silver, grape and cotton producing
department of Sonora as a French colony. But
in this enterprise, as in the matter of our
Southern cotton and tobacco, the Emperor Na
poleon realizes, at length, the necessity of con
ciliating the United States.
The Paris Pairie throws out the opinion that
the fate of Cuba depends on the issue of our
war with Jeff. Davis; and in some quarters this
is interpreted as a threat from the French go
vernment which it would be well for Mr.
Seward to take into his estimates of passing
events; but we consider this oracle as in reali
ty signifying nothing. But the great impend
ing event which is foreshadowed in the revela
tions of this imperial interview with the rebel
ambassador Slidell Is an offer of capitulation
and submission to the United States, from Jeff.
Davis and his ruling rebel confederates, under
the auspices of France, and with the consent of
England, including the salvation of Southern
cotton, tobacco, rice and sugar.
With these views of the interesting facts we
have been considering, we shall not be sur
prised if very soon we hear that our Southern
rebel leaders, under the counsels of England
and France, are ready to close up the books of
the exploded government of onr so-called
"Confederate States." The burning of their
great staples, upon which they have ventured
to coerce England and France to their relief,
marks tbe downfall of a desperate cause in the
estimation of civilized Europe.
A New Ihtcbiom in Washington Somrrr.?
The passage of tbe bill by Congress recogniz
ing the governments of Hayti and Liberia will
introduce into the fashionable circles at Wash
ington a new feature. There will be added to
the diplomatic corps at the national capital
officials as black as ebony, dressed in their gold
lave, with a retinue of attendants and Uy?ried
servants, to participate in all the fashionabW
gatherings in the select circles. Their ap
pearance will no doubt enable Sumner, Wilson,
Lovejoy and Stevens to accept invitations U
the parties, levees and social gatherings at the
Whit* House.
Skcbktary Cha.se Liming IIih Rhputation.?
Secretary Chase has recently lost much ground
among the public, owing to the development
of his disunion schemes in connection with
Horace Greeley, Wendell Phillips and the
rest of the abolition Jacobin leaders. He bad
acquired a high reputation for hit management
of the finances of the country and his skill in
raising the sinews of war; but be is fast losing
the character for prudence thus earned, and il
he continues in this course soon not a shred ol
it will be left. He is also losing the gratitude
of the people. He is doing a great injustice
to himself by his improper meddling and m
trigues against the policy of the President
The maxim of the Roman*, Ne sutor ultra crept
dam, which, translated into the vernacular
means that "the shoemaker should atick to hie
last," is a wholesome rule for the heads of da
partments as well as for other people.
Vessels Gone to Sew Orleans from Vortk?
?rat Harbors.
Fifteen vessels, comprising four steamers, one ship,
two barks, tea brigs and six schooners, containing
assorted cargoes, chiefly consisting of provisions, have
' leared from New York sinoe the proclamation of the
President opening that port to trade.
From Boston there has been cleared two barks, two
brig" one schooner, all but the schooner being loaded
with ioe.
From Philadelphia there have cleared one small steamer,
two brigs and one schooner, with assorted cargoes.
The namber of vessels cleared from the three port*
above mentioned are, four steamers, one ship,four barks,
six brigs and eight schooners, making a total of twenty
three vessels of every description now oa their way to
New Orleans.
There are now loading at this port for New Or I sane
one steamer, two ships, four barks, one brig and three
schooners. Total, elo von.
Arrival and (Reception of Thnrlow
M diclinm a public ovation, and departs
FOR ALBANY?BIS KZPBRIKNCB WHIL1 ABROAD.
Thurlow Weed and daughter arrived from Europe
yesterday morning, in the steamship Persia, after a so
journ there for some time, during which he had ample
opportunity of studying the peculiar institutions of
foreign nations and feeling their pulse in regard to adaira
on this side of the Atlantic. 'In obedienee te a resolution
pwsed by the corporate body of this city on Monday
last, tendering a publle reception to Mr. Weed on hie
arrival, Aldermen Smith, Allen and Mitchell, accompa
nied by Councilman Jones and James, of the Sub-Com
mittee on National Affairs; Alderman Henry and others
proceeded at nine o'clock, In carriages, to Jersey City!
to meet Mr. Weed. Mr. Weed had just landed from ?
tug, and was standing on the wharf awaiting the debar
kation of his baggage. The city authorities labove
named having severally greeted Mr. Weed on
The Cotton Bnrnere at Work la Arkaneae.
Pocahontas, Ark., June t, 18OT.
A rebel gunboat came to Jaeksonport day before yee
terday, and destroyed all the cotton and sugar there
She was reported te be on the way here; but we have
since learned that she returned down the river, destroy
ing all the cotton and sugar as she went. It is supposed
tliat a very large amount of each has been destroyed
For a time there was much consternation In this vlclsltyj
and troo|>s were under marching orders all Tursdny
night. Everything Is quiet now.
Tns opska.?Napeleon Ullman begins the summer sea
son at the Academy or Music on Wednesday next.
Miss Maoois Mitchbm. has become the lessee of Laura
Keene's theatre, and will open it on Monday next for
the summer season. She has engaged an excellent
company, and will open with a new play wrlttea
expressly for her. The management is entrusted to aoet
eatable hands, and the front of the bouse and Trees*
rer's department will be under the charge of a gentle'
man most acceptable to the press and the public Oa
the whole everything looks favorable for a succeesfu,
Weed.
Akdavasi'b CoKcint, Nislo's Sauiow.?The concert an
nounced for yesterday, and which was postponed on
acoount of the Ntin sickness of the above artist, will
take place to-morrow, Saturday.
Aeciiwnrr off tub Homox Kivb> Raii.soap?A* Riram
ahd Eiobt Cam in m Rivsr.?An accident occurred yes
terday morning to the Montreal freight and paeeenger
train, near Rhlneheok, en the Hudson Hirer Railroad, by
which the locomotive A. K. Hmith and night care wore
destroyed and pitched Into the river. The accident was
caused by a large tree whieli hud fallen from the bank
above and lay extended along the track. The night was
pitch dark and the rain Tailing In torrents. The obstruc
tion was not seen until the train was cIoho upon It, when
the engineer and fireman Jumped from the engine Into
the river and swam ashore. Tho fireman was slightly
injured. The emrino struck the lme with great forre.
carrying It about twenty rods, tearing up the track ana
scattering the rails and ties in all directions. The engine,
with wight earn attached, pitched from the embankment
Into the river. The engine now lies bottom upward. It
was one of the best on the road, and worth from ten to
fifteen thousand dollars. The pess"nsers esc*i>ed un
Injured. The mornlug down express was detained about'
three hours.
The Fort Monroe Telegraph Lin*.
Kort Monhok, June 6, |ft62
Ttie telegraph is so mu<h occupied hv government
business tuat it Is Impossible lo s md a list of the wounded
at the battle of the Seven Fines. U has been sent h?
boat, due at QalMmort to-morrow mocniuf.