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New York, Saturday, Jane 7, 1863.
DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Monday, June 2, 121,776
Tnesday, June* 3, 122,400
Wednesday, Juno 4, ... 120,960
Thursday, June 5, ? ? - - 120,720
Friday, June 6, - ? - - 121,320
Daily Average, - - 121,435
THE SITUATION.
The latest news from General McClellnn's head
quarters, np to this morning, is to the effect that
deserters from the rebel army report that General
Joe Johnston was mortally wounded in the groin
daring the late battle, and that General Smith is
now in command of the rebel army in front of
Richmond. General Magruder is reported to be
about to resign his command, being disgusted with
" the military administration " of the rebel gov.
eminent. The people of Richmond were in a fearful
state of excitement daring the action of Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. The house tops, and the emi
nences around the city were crowded with specta
tors, and when the rebel troops were seen to run
towards Richmond the utmost consternation pre
vailed. Crowds of people were abandoning the
city and crossing the James river, in the expecta
tion that the rebel capital will soon be occupied
by the Union army. All reports confirm the fact
that the condition of affairs in Richmond is terrible.
There are no troops in the city except those doing
guard dnty. The whole rebel force is outside,
oocupying the defences. It is also stated that
there are no rebel troops now between General Mc'
DowelTa position on the Rappahannock and the
army of General McClellan.
We publish today another instalment from our
correspondents of the story of the battle of Fair
Oaks, which will be found exceedingly interesting.
The New York troope have behaved splendidly.
General McClellan stated that the bayonet charges
of the brigades of General Thomas Francis Meagher
aad General D. E. Sickles were "the most stub
born, sanguinary and signal of modern times."
They repeatedly advanced with cold steel on the
enemy, who every time met them vigorously, but
they finally cleared the field. Our additional list
of kill-- ' 1 wound d to-day is very fall, and will
post* i:rnfu' interest fpr the public.
The . o of Fort Wright, on the Mississippi
river, was announced to the War Department yes
terday, in the following despatch from Cairo:?
The De Soto has arrived direct from Fort Pillow.
Our forces occupy the fort. The enemy burned
everything. A number of guns were found. The
large mortar* had been destroyed. The gunboats
have passed Fort Randolph.
The news from General Fremont's division yes
terday reports the army at Mount Jackson, with
the Shenandoah river swollen so fearfully as to
render pursuit of the rebels for the time impossi
ble. The pontoon bri-lge, constructed to supply
the place of the one burned by the rebels, was
?wept away, but the materials were all recovered.
A portion of the troop* has crossed on the pon
toons in the morning.
Another disappointment ha* occurred?as nn
accountable a* it was unfair?in procuring the re
U?m of Coionei Corcoran and the other officer*
held u hostages by the rebels for the privateers
men in the possession of our government. The
steamer Muft&chusetta was sent op the James
River on Sunday to City Point with the privateers
men on board, on the promise of Qenerol Hnger
that the Union officer* would be exchanged for
them; bnt when the boat arrived there the officers
were not forthcoming, although a train of cars,
bearing a flag of truce, came down from Peters
burg to receive the privateersninn. Colonel Whip
Pi* very properly refused to give them up until
Colonel Corcoran and his comrades were deliv
ered to him. A communication was then sent
(o the rebel government asking an explanation.
Answer came book to the effect that Qeneral
Huger exceeded his anthority, and that farther
conference would be necessary before the ex
change could bo completed. It was Immediately
replied by the flog of truce boat that they would
remain at City Point o reasonable time, in order
for the proposed further conference. This was
oent to the War Department at Richmond, and an
immediate answer promised the Massachusetts.
She waited till the next day without receiving ony
further communication, when, after sending a boot
ashore nnd learning that nothing was expected
from Richmond, she started on her return down
Utr river.
C0V01K8S.
fl the Rcnnte yesterday, resolutions of citisenn
gl 2i?w l'wrk ia favor of the eatallinkfivut uI ?
mint in this city were presented. The Indian Ap
propriation bill was referred to a conference com
mittee on the House amendments. Official reports
of the operations of the naval forces on the Mis
sissippi, the capture of New Orleans, Ac., were
received from the Secretary of the Navy. The
Secretary of the Treasury was requested to inform
the Senate relative to the accounts of the Marsala
of the District of Columbia. A resolution calling
for information relative to the mustering of ne
groes into the military service in South Carolina
was laid over. Mr. Sumner offered a resolution
in effect calling for the removal of Edward Stanly
from the post of Military Governor of North Caro
lina. Objection was made, and the resolution
lies over. Mr. Sumner also offered a resolution
declaring the office of Military Governor contrary
to the constitution and laws, destructive to the
civil authority, and contrary to the spirit of our
institutions. This was likewise objected to, and
lies over. Mr. Sumner moved to take up the
resolution for the expulsion of Senator Stark, of
Oregon, charged with disloyalty; but the Senate
refused, and recommenced the consideration of the
Tax bill. The vote of Thursday levying a tax of
two dollars per head on slaves was, after conside
rable debate, reconsidered?twenty-two against
eighteen. A proposition to tax slaves under ten and
over sixty-five years of age was defeated?aeven
teen against twenty-three. The Tax bill was
then passed, by a vote of thirty-seven against one.
Mr. Powell, of Kentucky, casting the negative
vote.
The session of the House of Representatives was
devoted to the consideration of prirate bills and
general debate, in which matters of general in
terest transpired.
Both houses adjourned til! Monday.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The prire schooner Lucy C. Holmes, which was
captured off Charleston, S. C., on the 37th ult., ar
rived here on Wednesday night. She is one of the
prizes taken by the United States steamer Santi
ago de Cuba, and is loaded with one hundred and
eighty bales of cotton. Lieutenant C^geshall
was put on board with a prize crew of six men,
and ordered to take her to Boston. The severe
storm on Wednesday forced him to put into this
port, when he immediately reported his arrival to
Commodore Paulding, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
who has ordered the prize to be disposed of at this
port.
The annual regatta of the New York Yacht
Club came off yesterday according to the published
programme, and was a highly interesting affair.
The contest was a spirited one and was admirably
conducted by the committee?Charles H. Haswell,
Fletcher Westray and John T. Rollins, Esqrs. The
steamboats chartered by these gentlemen, on be
half of the club, conveyed the invited guests and
others in the wake of the n mble fleet, and the
race, from the starting point to the Southwest
Spit, was marked by a great deal of skill and a?
tive competition. We give a report elsewhere.
The steamship City of Washington, from Liver
pool 28th, via Queenstown 29th nit., for New York,
arrived off Cape Race at seven o'clock last even
ing. Her advices are a few days later than those
brought by the Persia.
A telegraphic summary of the news is given in
another column.
It is stated that the British government will re
fuse to restore the ship Emile St. Pierre, which
vessel was recaptured from her prize crew and
taken to England.
In the London money market consols on the
29th closed at 93% a 93%. The Liverpool cotton
market was firmer, at a slight improvement in
prices; breadstuffs firm, bnt provisions flat.
The United States storeship Supply, Colvoco
resses, commanding, from New Orleans, May 13,
and Key West 25th, arrived at this port last night.
The stock ruarkat was not eo'strong yesterday, and
prices ot several descriptions of railway shares were a
fraction lower. The reaction was apparently caused by
the realisation of profits by speculators. Money was
easy at 3 a 6; exchange active at 114Jf a lis. Gold 104.
The cotton market was quite Arm yesterday, with a
good demand from spinners. The sales footed up aboat
1.000 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 31J^e. a 31 )fc.
for middling uplands. The steck on band baa be
come limited, and confined to comparatively few hands.
Flour exhibited more buoyancy and firmness for com
mon grades, while medium qualities were doll. Good
to choice extra brands were firm; sales were tolerably
active. Good to prime wheat, in good shipping order,
| waa rather better, wbiie inferior and common qualities
were irregular. Corn was firmer, and tolerably active,
."ales of old Western mixed were made at 49>jc. a
51c., in store and delivered. Pork waa in fair demand
at the late redaction in prices. Sales of mess wsre made
at $11 SO, and of prime at $9 a f? 25. Sugars were in
goo<l request, with sales of 1,300 bhds and 1,100 boxes.
Coffee was steady, but quiet. Freights closed with
more firmness, while engagements were to a fair extent
At prices given In another column. We refer to another
column for tbe Messrs. Stuart a prices for tbeir refined
I cigars.
be niisiMippl River Reopened?Now
for Richmond.
With the intelligence from the West that the
rebel# have evacuated Fort Wright, or Fort
l'illow, and that the descending gunboat fleet
of Commodore Davis (the successor of Commo
dore Foote) has run the gauntlet of the batte
ries of Fort Randolph, en route for Memphis,
we think that with perfect safety we may con
gratulate our readers this morning on the re
opening of the Mississippi river through all the
late formidable rebel obstructions, from Co
lumbus, near the mouth of the Ohio, to the
Gulf of Mexico, a distance of over a thousand
miles.
This stupendous undertaking wss practically
commenced in February last, with our victories
of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. on the Ten
nessee and Cumberland rivers, which drove
the rebels out of Kentucky, opened the
gates of Nashville to our army, and
turned the rebel works at Columbus, a fortified
position which. from its natural and artificial
strength, w:is known as "the Gibraltar of the
West/' But this Gibraltar, with its tiers of
batteries and enfilading redoubts, numbering
over a hundred pieces of heavy artillery, being
turned, was abandoned by the rebels on the 1st
of March. This was the first break in the rebel
obstructions of the Mississippi. We need not
here recapitulate the eubsequent achievements
of our land and naval forces going down the
stream from Cairo; nor the difficulties met and
overcome by the squadron of Commodore
Farragut going up the stream to New Orleans;
nor the consequence* of the dispersion of
Beauregard's great army from Corinth. The
net r< suits, in a purely military estimate, along
the immediate banks of the Mississippi river,
from Columbus to the Belize, will probably
comprehend a lose to the rebels of more than
a thousand pieces of artillery, vaat amounts of
munitions and materials of war, and an im
mense fleet, all told, of floating batteries, gun.
boats, iron-clad rams, tugs and river steamers.
If by this time, the "th of June, the ascending
gunboats of Commodore I'arragut's squadron
and the descending gunboats of Commodore
Davis are not lying together in front of the city
of Memphis, we have no doubt that they will
be there within a day or two, celebrating not
only the reopening of the mighty rivor through
out its whole extent, but the substantial ac
Ciaplisliment tbe Wyrk putting
dowu this rebellion in the Mississippi valley.
Added to their repeated defeats in Missouri,
Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and
Mississippi, and to their loss of New Orleans'
the rebel armies of the Southwest, concen*
trated into the army of Beauregard, appear to
hare become so disheartened and demoralized
and broken up, with his evacuation of Corinth,
as to justify the conclusion that be will never
be able to rally together again for battle fifty
thousand of bis late imposing fore* of one hun
dred and twenty thousand men.
The rebellion thus being virtually put down
in the West with our occupation of the entire
line of the Mississippi river, and the flight,
demoralization and dispersion of Beauregard's
army, a decisive overthrow of the rebel army
of the East will end the war. So now for
Richmond. Had not the wise and well con
sidered plans of General Scott, General McClel
lan and General Halleck been interrupted by
our intriguing, clamorous and disorganizing
abolition disunionists, this rebellion would
have been to-day among the things of the past.
But as our abolition disturbers and Marplots
precipitated the disastrous battle of Bull run,
they also contrived to break up the plans of
General McClellan with the rebel evacuation
of Manassas. Thus his army was divided into
three armies, and, while that of McClellan was
to advance upon Richmond via Yorktown, the
rebel forces in that quarter between the army
of McDowell and that of Banks were to be in
tercepted and enclosed as in a bag. We need
not say that this grand scheme has failed?that
General Banks has only escaped being
bagged himself by the most remarkable re
treat for rapidity, intrepidity and endurance
of all this war, and that General McDowell,
apparently, has been hardly as useful in these
too widely extended combinations as the fifth
wheel of a piece of flying artillery. Accord
ing to the programme enforced upon the War
Department by the boisterous abolition bri
gade, General McDowell was assigned the posi
tion from which, in the nick of time, he could
step in and carry off all the honors? A practi
cal test, however, has shown that our abolition
strategists relied too much upon the accommo
dating disposition of the enemy.
Banks has been repulsed, McDowell has been
baffled, Fremont, coming in by the wrong
road, has failed to catch the retreating Jack
son, who knew the right one, and all these
outside operations, instead of assisting, have
embarrassed the movements of McClellan; for>
while diverting us with their flashing depreda
tions into the valley of the Shenandoah, the
reb'els have been concentrating their strength
in front of Richmond. There they are in supe
rior force to that of General McClellan; but
there, by immediate and heavy reinforcements
to McClellan on the right flank and on the left,
and in the rear of Richmond, we may still not
only capture the city, but the rebel army de
fending it, and most of the chiefs of the rebel
government, including Jeff. Davis himself, who,
it seems, has resolved to "die in the last
ditch."
So well satisfied are we tbat this con be done,
that the rebel army and the heads of the rebel
government can be taken with Richmond, and
that we hare the reinforcements needed for
the work sufficiently near to enable General
M'Clellan to achieve this complete and crown
ing victory within the next ten days, that we
feel no hesitation in urging this plan of action
on the immediate attention of the President and
his Secretary of War. For the space of a hun
dred miles north, south and east of Richmond,
let all our available forces be drawn close around
the enemy there, so as to make his capture cer
tain and inevitable, and then our occupation of
the rebel capital will infallibly end the war.
James Henry Lane and Henry James Ray
mond.?Jim Lane cheek by jowl with Ray
mond. Par nclbtU fratrum. "Tell me with
whom you keep company, and I will tell you
what you are," ie a trite though true remark.
Birds of a feather flock together. The man
slayer and the Kansas border ruffian addresses
a Jacobin club at the Cooper Institute, and
among "the distinguished persons" reported
in the New York Times to have gathered around
him are Dr. Vincent Colyer, banished from
North Carolina by its Military Governor for
seditious practices; H. II. Helper, brother of
the author of the "Impending Crisis," served
with the same sauce for the same cause, and
Hon. Henry J. Raymond. The lion of the
evening was, of course, Jim Lane, who, a few
years ago, in Kansas, shot a neighbor dead in
the open day for venturing to a well near his
house with a vessel to get a drink of water.
This Lane held forth ia his usual low, vulgar
slang, so repulsive to an aadience even of or
dinary refinement Raymond seems to be
ashamed of bis performance. He says he is not
an "impressive speaker;" that "there is nothing
marked or striking either in his thoughts or
language; and his manner is vehement and
boisterous, rather than effective or eloquent.
He makes no attempt at argument, rarely ap
peals to the feelings, and deals scarcely at ail
in either wit or humor." In short, be is only
remarkable for "a good deal of ungraceful ges
ticulation." He ought to take lessons in rhe
toric and elocution from the ex-Speakor of the
New York State Assembly; for, though Ray
mond has failed as a lobby manager and in
many other undertakings, he is a proficient in
the art of fluency and flippancy. Let him take
uncouth brother Lane in hand.
No Move Yet to Punish the Gcti.tt Par
ties Connected with the Indiana Bond Af
fair.?As far as we have been able to learn t
there has been no complaint made before any
magistrate in reference to the monstrous swin
dle in the issue of Indiana State bonds. There
are in this city in the neighborhood of a dozen
police and civil magistrates who stand ready
to discharge their duties in this matter, bat
cannot act until a complaint is filed with them;
but as yet the Indiana State officials have made
ne complaint, nor have they taken any steps to
mete out to the guilty parties the punishment
that their action justly merits. Those officials
connived at the fraud, and neglected to take
the necessary steps to arrest it when the fraud
was going on, although cognizant of the fast,
and are now apparently desirous that all con
nected with it shall escape punishment.
The management of the finances of the State
of Indiana by its officials has brought disgrace
upon the State and blasted its credit. It is now
the duty of the State officials, from the Gover
nor down to the lowest official, to take a deci
sive step in the matter, and convince the public
of their honesty by seeing that the guilty par
ties are punished to the full extent of the law.
Their delay and silence only increase the ex
tent of this enormous crime, and add to the
disgrace of the State and country.
Tlie Jtcobia Club* Or|?Blilag Agalut
tlfte Preaident.
On Thursday last a meeting of a Jacobin
club, under the name of '-The Emancipation
League," was held at the Cooper Institute in
this city, attended by Dr. Vincent Colyer, H.
II. Helper, Rev. Dr. Tyng, lion. Ilenry J. Ray
mond and others of the same abolition stripe.
The club was addressed by Parson Tyng and
by Homicidal Border Ruffian Jim Lane, whose
equal for violence and bloodthirstiness could
scarcely be found among the demoniac charac
! tera who figured in the French Revolution.
The theme of the speakers, the burden of their
song, was denunciation of Governor Stanly, of
North Carolina; and the design of the move
ment is, by fair means or by foul, to subvert
the conservative policy of the President, and
with it the constitution under which the coun
try has prospered and grown into a greatness
without a parallel in the history of the world.
Among other things contended for by Lane
was the claim that the black race is superior
to white. He says black babies are superior
to white, and the only reason why they are not
superior when they grow up is the lash of the
slaveowner. Upon this opinion about negro
superiority be founds the necessity of emanci
pation, and holds that no slave State can be
received back into the Union. Dr. Tyng asks
for what, if not fdr emancipation, have fifty
thousand Northern freemen fallen in the pre
sent war, and he announces that the principal
object of the Emancipation League is to pre
vent any State now in rebellion being recog
nized as a member of the Union, except on the
condition of emancipation. This is known to
be the plan of Mr. Secretary Chase, and by
various intrigues he is laboring to carry it out,
in opposition to the policy of the President*
ITe has been mixed up with the mission of
Pearce to South Carolina, and with the raid
of Colyer into North Carolina; and we have no
doubt that he is at the bottom of the Emanci
pation League and the Jacobin meeting at the
Cooper Institute. Mr. Chase has not act
ed in good faith. When the war be
gan he came to New York city and
applied to the conservative merchants
for money to carry on the war. He ob
tained it on the faith of the President's pro
clamation and his own endorsement of its
views. It was to be a war for the restoration
of the Union as it was before the war began.
But no sooner does he accomplish his object
than he turns round and goes to work to make
the war a war of abolition. If he had declared
this purpose at first, how much money would he
have received ? Not a dollar. Very different has
been the course of Mr. Seward, of whom, though
we have said some hard things, we must con
fess that since he entered the Cabinet he has
displayed the highest statesmanship. His opin
ions, and, indeed, the opinions of the whole
Cabinet, cxccptfog Mr. Chase only, are entirely
at variance with those of the latter gentle
man, which are supported by the New York
Tribune, the Times, Post and other Jacobin
journals.
It does not appear that Raymond spoke at
this treasonable meeting, whoso declared ob
ject is to prevent the restoration of the Union
and to supersede the constitution; but yester
day morning, in a leading article in his jour
nal, he endorsed its principles and threatened
the President. He charges Mr. Stanly with
"enforcing laws which shock the public sense of
justice and disgrace the civilization of tbe
age;" and he intimates to Mr. Lincoln that if
he does not repudiate the action of the Military
Governor of North Carolina he will "speedily
find himself responsible for slavery, and com
pelled to answer at tbe world's bar for per
mitting its existence." The President has so
lemnly sworn that he "will faithfully execute
the office of President of the United States, and
will, to the best of his ability, preserve, pro
tect and defend the constitution of the United
States." Now, Abraham Lincoln is not
President of a part, but of all the
United States?as much the President of
South Carolina and North Carolina as he is
of New York and Massachusetts?and he is
bound by his oath to carry out the constitution
in the Southern States as well as in tbe North
ern. Tbe constitution knows no North, no
South, no East, no West. It recognizes no
distinction between slave and free States.
When the constitution was formed there was
only one State in which slavery did not exist.
It has been abolished in a majority of the
I original thirteen States by the action of the
State Legislatures, the only way in which it
could be abolished. The constitution ex
presAly recognizes the right of property in the
services of slaves under tbe State laws, and that
right the President has sworn to protect and
defend. The Emancipation League, Jim Lane,
Dr. Tyng and Henry J. Raymond, propose that
be turn traitor and perjurer together, casting
his oath to the winds, usurping the sovereignty
of the people and changing the form of the
government. Because certain Southern men
have proved traitors, therefore Mr. Lincoln
ought to cxcel them in treason, and delibe
rately destroy whatever interest the people
have left in the Union of coequal States
founded by George Washington and the
patriots of 1776. And if Mr. Lincoln will not
commit this crime he is menaced with being
compelled to answer at the tribunals of the
Jacobins, who, immediately after his inaugura
tion, gave him to understand, through the
editorial columns of the Timm, that he would
be "superseded'' if he did not commcnce hos
tilities. At that time tbe obligation of his oath
to maintain the constitution was urged by the
name men who are now calling upon him to
violate his oath and the constitution.
The President, in his proclamation in April
of last year, and in his message to Congress
three months ago, has declared his obligations
and his intention to respect the slave
institution within the limits of every South
ern State. Could his deputy in North Carolina
do less?
As to the noise about the education of the
negro, it is all sham and humbug. A wise
statesman once said that ail sound education
began with the stomach. The people of North
Carolina know the negro better than we do, and
will teach him to work for a living. What
right have we to interfere with them? If we
attempt anything of this kind the war would
become chronic, and would not be ended in this
generation. That tho rebels will be defeated
in battle after battlo there can bo no doubt;
and the decisive battle, proving the superiority
of tho federal arms, will soon be fought and
won. But if the fanatical ideas of the radicals
were to prevail, our troubles would only then
begin, and, though tbe rebols were whipped, the
restoration of the Union, for which tha war was
i inaugurated, would be as distant as ever.
Important Political In the
State*
The arrival of Thurlow Weed from bis
visit in Europe has set the politicians ot tho
political cliques, factious and parties of this
State in motion, and there are already indi
cations that we are on the eve of important
political combinations affecting eaob and every
party in the State. The old political parties?
the democratic, republican and whig?are al! in
a chaotic state, and one mass of confusion. The
different elements that compose them fere float
ing and drifting about in a general mixed and
disordered tumult. Old party lines and divi
sions have all been destroyed and wiped out of
existence by the surging waves of tho mighty
revolution that was inaugurated with the re
bellion. The old party ties and issues have
long since been buried by these revolutionary
waves, and are no longer binding upon, nor
control, the action of the masses. Out of this
chaos new affinities are being made and new
lines drawn upon the great questions of the
hour?the living issue of the year one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
The abolitionists and radicals, taking advan.
tage of this universal confusion and unsettled
condition of political matters, have organized
an Emancipation League in this city, and com
menced a series of lectures on last Thursday
evening. Their arrangements are made>
and being made, to extend their or
ganization throughout the North, with
the intention of organizing a party into
which shall be drawn the abolitionists, radi
cals and extremists, hoping to be able to con'
trol the elections and fill the State and Con
gressional offices with fanatics, and thus carry
out their schemes to overthrow the constitution
and destroy the Union. While these conspi
rators have been actively at work a great con
servative movement has been going through
the incipient stages of formation, which the
arrival of Mr. Weed has in a measure opened
up to the public. We understand that a pro
gramme for a conservative union has been
arranged, to bo composed of the true Union
men of all the old parties?democrats, republi
cans and whigs?upon the basis of endorsement
and support of the conservative policy of the
President?tho restoration of the Union as it
was, the constitution unchanged and unim
paired?leaving to the several States, as they
return to the Union fold, the control of their
local rights and interests, the same as in
former days.
We understand that this programme for the
organization of a great conservative party has
been prepared and agreed upon by the conser
vative loaders, and is ready to be submitted to
Mr. Weed, and will, no doubt, meet with his
and Secretary Seward's approval. It is con
templated under this arrangement to nominate,
by one or more conventions, Horatio Seymour
for Governor and William M. Evarts for Lieu
tenant Governor, no doubt with the intention
of obtaining the endorsement of the people for
he latter, and then sending him to the United
States Senate. Should this general conserve
tive organization be fixed upon, the local orga
nizations will be adjusted to it, and none but
high minded, conservative and true Union men
be nominated for Congress. And, thus
fortified, no person can for a moment
doubt but that the Empire State, with
its great commercial interests, its future
prosperity, power and influence at stake, will
ghe the ticket an overwhelming endorsement,
and roll up a majority that will effectually end
in this quarter all future efforts of the abolition
conspirators, as well as Secretary Chase's and
Collector Barney's black party, which now
seek the total destruction of the Union and
constitution^
No doubt the intended reception of Thurlow
Weed, who is considered a great man by some
of the politicians, had something to do with
this movement. His endorsement of the pro
gramme, however, may be considered morally
certain. With this conservative Union party
fully organized, and its Union platform laid
before the public, the conservative and Union
loving people of this State will rally to its
standard, and but few weeks will suffice to con
vince the most scrupulous person that its suc
cess is certain and its overwhelming triumph
sure. The Congressional and legislative nomi
nations will then bo arranged on the same
basis, and the record given for the Union and !
constitution at the next November election
will be such as to cheer the heart of every
Union man and of overy lover of tho consti
tution that Washington and his compeers gave
us throughout the length and breadth of tho
Francs and thk Umtkd StatKa.?"Ev<ry
Ixxiy k.wics that the future of Havana depends
upon the success of the French expedition in
Mexico.''
These ars the sphynx-like words of Napo
j,eon forth to the world In the
columns of the Fatrie, and which have creatcd
almost as much sensation in Paris as the few
ominous words uttered to the Austrian Am
bassador at the famous New Tear reception
previous to the war with Austria.
Wo think these words may be interpreted as
follows, and that this highly coudensed sen
tence may be amplified thus:
"Spain has done wrong in separating herself
from I' ranee in this Mexican enterprise; or, at
least, the Spanish General Prim has done
wrong, and it is to be hoped that Spain will
not recognize or authorize his secession from
the French alliance. But why has Spain done
wrong? She has clearly acted against her own
interest, and even put in jeopardy the Integrity
of her dominions. Does not Spain know that
Cuba, standing alone in the midsf of the An
tilles, with no power close at hand to give sup
port. must inevitably, in the course of a very
few years, fall into the hands and power of the
United States? Does not Spain foresee that if a
footing should be gained in Mexico by European
rowers there will then be a strong support for
Cuba close at hand? Hence it is manifest that
tho future of Havana depends upon tho rosult
of present European action In Mexico."
8uch wo oro inclined to believe is the ra
tional interpretation to be given to the ex
pression contained in U.a Fairie, and which i?
believed to emanate diroctly from the Emperor.
Sonac of the Paris journals intimato, how
ever, that the words convey a threat against
the United States. The idea is not so vory
absurd. But, If such really he the case, Prosi
dent Lincoln, in reply, might say to the Em
peror Napoleon :?
"We have a word or two to say to your
Majesty on that subject. Within ten days from
now our war against tho rebels will be ter
minated by the capture ef Uichmon.fl. We shall
then lmvo seven hundred thousand veteran
tryoi * and a fleot of four hundred mon-of-war.
with guns innumerable, ready for action at in^
point. If a sister republic should call upon us
to assist her in the hour of need we shall feci
bound to do so, and then who known but that
Mexico may become your Imperial Majesty'*
Moscow! Furthermore, we have conservative
heroes and princes among us, fighting valiantly
in our armies, who will be ready at any time
when the occasion offers to take the lead of the
conservative and all the other parties ia
France which stand ready to rise at any mo
ment to put In force the old and regular con
i stitution of France?revolution."
Tub London Times' Own Correspondent.?
We have been highly amused with the attempt
made at a "correspondence," by Mr. Charles op
Dr. Mackay, we know not which, exhibited in
the columns of the London Times received
Thursday by the steamer from Europe. Thia
gentleman is, as it seems, the sucoessor of Bull
Run Russell in the department of American
correspondence with the Times] but, unlike
Russell, he stays at New York, picks up a few
fragmentary pieces of Intelligence from the
Tribune and Times of this city, and makes
his comments, most commonplace and trivial,
on the items obtained from sach doubt
ful sources. The position of a second hand
observer, with no other information than thai
derived from the daily papers published in
New York, is not, we confess, a very favorar f
ble one for a correspondent who professes to give
an account of great events occurring at placee
far remote from his point of view; but even
such a position would, by a man of talent, be
made more available than Mr. Mackay has suc
ceeded in making it. Any commonplace man
seated in a counting house in London, with the
New York papers before him, might have writ
ten better and more original correspondence
than our poor poet, Mackay, has been able to do.
The thing is a perfect failure. It lacks Russell's
, invention, it is without any of his descriptive
powers, it is even void of his secession pro
olivities, and his pungent, biting misrepre
sentations. But, though it has none of the
vices of his predecessor, in all their richness
and elegance, it has a poor, mean, miserable
imitation of ell the faults and follies of the fu
gitive hero of Bull ran. Seated in his parlor
in New York, the successor of Russell authori
tatively pronounces all the intelligence re
ceived in New York of the progress of our
arms and the results of the war to be absolute
" lies." He say* that we in the North are
drunk, hare lost our reason, Ac., Ac., in believ
ing the announcement of the triumphs which
have attended our armies and fleets. This is
decidedly cool, but, if it proves anything,
would rather lead to the supposition that the
gentleman himself must have been not sober
when he wrote such nonsense. He professes
' solemnly that he cannot distinguish, among the
great " liars," which of them is greatest, onr
generals, our government, our telegraphs or
our negroes. This is deoidedly cool; but that
the London Times should publish suoh deci
sions, made in New York, dated from New
York, and coming from the poet Mackay, is
cooler and greener.
Mr. Charles, or James, or John McKay, or
Mackay (we know not which), goes on valiant
ly to deny all our victories. The battle of
Williamsburg was only a victory because
General McClellan chose to say it was; but he
adds "it was not such a victory as it might
havo been considered if ." if what! Why,
"if his opponent had not continued his retreat"
Admirable logic. So a victory is none at all
| if the enemy retreats. "Our own corres
pondent" then goes on to imitate Russell in his
prophecies, and predicts that General McClel
lan will enter Richmond as he entered Ma
nassas and Yorktown?"to find it evacuated
and dismantled."
Really, we have wasted too much time and
space in criticising this genius of a corres
pondent. His effusions are too little, too vul
gar, too mean, for criticism. We promise him
to take no farther notice of him. After all,
Russell, with all his faults, was superior k?
painting, in false coloring, in false prophesy
ing, in detraction and spite against the North?
superior in everything, including decent writ*
ing, to his poor and pitiful successor.
Who is Da. Vincent Colter??In the N?w
York Times, Colyor, the missionary of mischief,
who was Bent back by Governor Stanly with a
flea in hia ear, in (Inscribed as among "the die
tinguished persons present" at the meeting of
the Emancipation League, aljps Jacobin Club,
addressed by Jim Lane at the Cooper Institute.
From what does Colver derive his distinction?
It appears that he was formerly a crayon p<fc
trait painter, and during the Kansas troubles,
at a single stride, he became an artist in oil.
He undertook to paint "Bleeding Kansas,"
personified under the figure of a young maa?
whom he delineated as scratched all over with
briers, and of an appearance so grotesque and
comical that the artists burst into convulsive
fits of merriment, calling the picture Laughing
Kansas. It wa3 like a tragedy which makes
the audience laugh. Having failed in the One
arts, he applied himself, under the auspices of
Secretary Chase, to the work of propagandise?
among the slaves of North Carolina, till he waa
cut short in his labors by Governor Stanly.
His friend Raymond, howeverj assure* the
readers of the Times that he will "return vic
torious to the sccne of his labors in North
Carolina in a week." Wo shall see.
BfJHtKiT or Mr. A>n Mrs. Jon* Sunn*.? At Wallack'a
theatre this ???Ding th? highly suooeasfttl adaptation
entitled "Fast Man of th? Olden Time" will b* j*rforme4
by s powerful east, for ibe benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Joba
Hofton. The entertainment will concludo with the cele
brated "Christmas Country Cushion Comle Cotillon," In
which Mr. Lester Wallack will sustain no leas than four
different characters, and introduce the pepvlar song ol
"Simon the Cellarer." The other comle characters wilt
be sustained bjr Messrs. Rtake, Fisher, Mark S'nlth, Qeorgp
Holland, John Sefton,Mrs. Hoey, Mrs. Slonn, Miss Goo
?on and othors. The combination Is a rare one, and &ie
will b? the only oceaslon en which these artiste wJM
bare all appeared together in the samo play.
Acadkmt OS HVMO?CoNmvcmrr OS rns flr/*>?.?
Ulmann opens the Academy of Muslo for the euir.naer
season on Wednesdsy evening nest, with a grand* oombt
nation of opera, pianoforte munle und prestidigitation.
Among the artists engaged are >iadame Comle Ilorchard,
the celebrared prima donna of New Orleans, vrtio will ap
pear In the roU of Lucrezla Borgia: Miss Ktflogg, l)'An->
grl, Brignoil, Susisl and Amodio. Oottaohnik, Use gre-al
pianist, and Hermann, the world-renowned prutidigit*
tor, will appoar every evening and contribute to the
amusement. The season will consist of six n'^glit only.
Bsnosivs ACitinsiY or Mum.?The d',rectors hare
given the free uso of the Acsdemy this evening for ttie
benefit of the management, on wliloh occasion the gran J
combination will appoar for last lima In the "Serious
Family" and tho last art of "Richardthe Tbli'd."
rosTiovswssr OS TUB Pk*nivii.ui rirwto a?i.i Tke
sals of public property at Perrlvllle, wh'ck vsa * 0*me
off on the lltU iast has be?a e??tt*??d Ui'. furtu^i
elice.