gattekSta gattlikettra WEDNESDAY, F:EDRUARYI, 18E35 printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to 'examine .the pro ceedings of the legislature, or-any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free commu nication of thought aud opinions is one of the Invaluable rights - of men vand every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any sub ject; being responsible - for the abuse of that liberty. in prosecutions for the publication of papers Investigating the official conduct of 0111- ,cers, or men In public capacities, or where the matter published is proper for public informa tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi dence."—Cbartitraion of Pennsylvania. The City Election. The coming city election is of no little importance. - We cannot .afford to lose votes either by petty dissensions among ourselves or by a lack of activity and energy among the Democratic masses. It is the duty of every man who is at-* tached to the great principles of the DemoCratic party to go to work vigor ously, to secure the triumphant success of the excellent ticket which has been put in nomination. Our opponents are resorting to every conceivable device to defeat us.. We have the power to baffle them in every effort they may make. It only requires that every Democrat should do his whole duty. Let each ward be thoroughly organ ized,and every Democratic voter brought out, and we have nothing to fear. If this is done, as it should be, at once and effedtually, we can carry every ward in the city with ease. But the work must be begun at once. Let there not be a day's delay - in the matter. The Negro Will Not Rise If the war in which we are engaged has prrbven any one thing, itds that the negro is unfitted to rise above a condi tion of dependence upon and servitude to the white race. The abstract idea of universal human freedom is a theme capable of infinite dilation, and well adapted to energetic declamation. It is easy to paint real wrongs until they are not recognizable in their expanded pro portions, and when the reality fails there is still left the boundless field of unrestrained imagination. By dint of constant effort the Abolition leaders seem to have succeeded in convincing themselves that the negro is " a man and a brother," and, as such, fully en titled to - be endowed with all the rights and privileges of citizenship in the ' freest and best Government on the earth." He must ride in the street cars, must be admitted to visit our delectable President on terms of perfect equality with "all the world and the rest of mankind," and have all the privileges to which any other man is entitled. These are glorious days for Sarni)°, theo retically considered. But practically how has he been bene fitted ? Will some of his boasted ft lends inform us? In what single respect has his condition been bettered? Can any one point it out to us? It was thought lie would rise withohe occasion; if not to better his condition, at least to cut the throat of his master, to ravish white ladies, and to murder innocent children. But in truth the negro slaves of the South by their do cility and their want of ferocity have put to shame those who would willingly have become their instructors in bloody and brutal deeds. They have remained on the plantations where they were reared, quietly laboring, until enticed away by ,the presence of our troops', whom they followed in a condition of absolute de pendence. What have they done to shoNi that they are fit for freedom ? It is true, many of them 'have been put Into the army as substitutes for coward ly Yankee Abolitionists, but the experi mem, of making soldiers of them has not, as yet, been such as to greatly en courage those enthusiasts who regard the uegro as "the coming man." Th, truth is the utopian dreams of the half crazed philosophers who now rule us are destined never to be realized. They may foist some of their pretended re forms upon American society; may do away with all laws which distinguish against the negro; may allow him to ride in street cars alongside the whites, to sit in the same pew in church, to eat at the same hotel table, to vote at the same polls, but they can never make hint anything else than what God has creat ed him and his kind to be, a race vastly inferior to that to which we,belong.— They will be in the future, as they have been in all the past, satisfied with a po sition of dependence and servitude. This relationship can never he changed while they continue to exist among us as a distinct race. It matters not whether they be culled slaves or freemen, so long as theirsocial status remains It uchanged. Why, then, should a mere abstrac tion be allowed to stand in the way of a settlementof our difficulties? How long are the veins of the white race to remain open in order that crack-brained politi cal philosophers may strive for the ac complishment of impossible schemes? The interests of the white race demand that this war should be speedily closed by an honorable peace. Even the in terests of the negro race demand an im- Mediate adjustment of our difficulties. It would not be difficult to show that the blacks have suffered more since this war began than they did in all the long yearsuf their past servitude. Why then should the horrid strife in which we are engaged continue? 1 - low long will the people allow a lot of blood-thirsty fanat ics to &wind them to the earth? It is high tiwe there was an end of it. The substantial interests of both races alike demand a speedy peace. Delay in Paying Our Soldiers There is much' complaint, and that with abundant reason', in regard to the fact that many of the men now in the field haVe not been paid for a long time past. ln many of our country ex changes we notice accounts of the suf fering condition of the families of sol diers, who, not having been paid for months, are unable to furnish the loved ones at home such aid as their inade quate pay is sufficient to enable them to supply. It is a shame that private soldiers are compelled to wait for months for the paltry pay which they re ceive. This, together with other causes, has about finished up volunteering.— Hereafter our armies can only be re cruited by the harshest and most rigid system of conscription ; and those wile will be compel jed to leave their families behind them, when dragged off by the provost guard, must bid good-bye to wife and little ones, sure that they will be left to suffer in their absence for the commonest necessaries of life. Such is one of the blessings of the second term of Lincoln's rule. Negroes in the Railroad Cars Yesterday the farce of allowing pas sengers to vote upon admitting the ne groeA to ride in them was commenced j n Philadelphia. The whole thing was a miserable burlesque on elections. Of (te>ll.re:til ,, :re was no restraint. Every b'cly, men, women and children voted. to last night the voting is said to ith<l t twenty to one against g 1): ,g - the corning man'' the right to (wit alongside of his 4714 KlP4erti. When will i .47 : 1 ;: 4 57, - _ , It IA mania? P'ht-5 , ;.";•5?,'!, ;4 4 7 tiFiA proe la ri,lay , mum day e i:4,4 e," pub) fwiti lig, anks ri .44E;4g,';q ; Afoi floes 41k4144, r . iti , Y4s '44 'Aoi-eih ,- /4 ,t;ed .v 164141 NvPr .sl9l6#9 titVoY, Aftli_AP_eedrifelM.±--- ' For weeks past the people of this war weary land have been listening with anxious Jhearts,and attentive ears to the rumors of peace which have filled the air. Patrioticen, men, who see in a further continuance:of the strife but a greater accumulation--of national evils, have been earnestly praying for peace. Women ; whose sons; hitsbands and lovers are exposing their lives on the battle-field, have turned white and eager faces heavenward by day and by night, asking God to overrule the mad passions of men and to send us peace. Thousands of children, many of them pining in want, all of them needing the support and guidance of paternal hands, have caught up the word and merrily prattled of peace. Soldiers in the field, strong nerved men, who have endured the shock of battle and braved all its dangers unmoved, have been melted with the thought of home and all its endearhig pleasures, as from day to day they have read of movements that gave some hope of a speedy peace. The earn est desire of millions for peace, led mul titudes to believe that' it was near at hand. Unsubstantial as Was the basis on which this hope rested, it was fos tered and cherished, until very many came to think the war was in reality about over. The news of the entire failure of Mr. Blair's mission, while it is nothing more than we expected and predicted, will bring tears to many an eye and the sick ness of despondency to many an anxious heart. *From the first spread of these ru mors of peace, we had no faith in them. I ,Ve knew that Mr. Blair was not the man to go to Richmond, and we had no reason to believe that he was commis sioned to make any offer which the South could accept without complete sel f-a base ment. To expect uncondition al submission from a people fully as proud and sensitive as we dare be, was au extreme of foolish credulity, only possible to purblind fanatics. They never can, they never will submitto any such degrading - conditions. Brave men have always been ready to die rather than to suffer dishonor. The same spirit must always actuate and control a brave people. The armies of the South have met with serious reverses lately, but we have looked in vain to see any exhibition of a disposition to yield a cause for which they have struggled with such desperate and unyielding, valor. To all intents and purposes the people of the revolted States are as yet a unit. Fighting on their own soil, as they do, animated by a hatred the most intense and lasting, as they are, there is no hope of their speedy submission. They know that it is only a question of endurance. They must suffer much, but they are fully convinc ed that if they can but rise superior to the dread which the anticipation of such suffering begets, that they must in the end find themselves mas ters of the situation, and able, if not to secure independence, to dictate terms of peacahle reunion. A continuance of the fearful struggle must involve im mense sacrifices of life and property on their part, but we believe they are fully prepared to make them. It is true they have had bickerings and dissensions lately ; but these have sprung from a dissatisfaction with the management of affairs among them selves, not from the exhibition among them of any disposition to accept such terms of peace as Mr. Lincoln is ready to offer. They have made important changes. direction of their Con gress, and with the full consent and ap probation of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee has been made Commander-in-Chief of the armies ei-1 the Confederacy, and invested with Plenary powers. The armies are to be filled up and re organized ; 1111(1 a large force of negroes will he attached to them in such capacity as they shall and be found fitted for. By the time the spring campaign opens they will have made a desperate effort to - put themselves in complete readiness to meet our forces. The war is inn yet over. All hope of a speedy peace is dissipated. The fanatics in power still persist in continu ing the struggle for the benefit of the negro. They Will not offer, and would not accept peace on the basis of a re stored Union, unless it came in such shape as should secure them a continu ance in power. This point they hope to reach by prolonging the bloody strug gle which has already proved so costly. In the meantime there is an end to volunteering in the North. The 'pa triotic men, who voted for Lincoln and more war, are not disposed to shoulder their muskets and fight for their opinions. The draft fixed for the 15th of next month is sure to take place. It will be as inexorable as it is inevitable. There is no filling up of quotas, but an anxious dread of the impending evil. With the vanishment of all hopes of a speedy peace is mingled a well-found ed horror of theaccumulating evils of a protracted war. Well may the heart of the nation be sad, and the minds of the people filled with anxious forebodings 9 Dead• Lock in Finances The House of Representatives insist upon having put into the General Ap propriation Bill, a small item of some 40,00 U as extra pay to the employees of that body. The Senate have refused to concur. The House thereupon refused to pass the bill until this was restored. The eonequenee is a dead-lock in finan cial ailltirs. The correspondent of the New York llcraid, writing from Wash ington, says: There are now something over two hundred millions of pressing demands against the ( lovernment, including the pay due the army, freight bills of rail way companies, and debts due contrac tors, which there are no present means of paying. Certificates of indebtedness being fundable in gold interest bearing bonds, the Department will issue no more of them without a reasonable pros pect of realizing the gold to meet the interest. Neither can the issues under the late loan bill be devoted to this pur pose until after the passage of the De ficiency bill, now playing at shuttle cock between the two Houses of Con gress on account of the clause providing extra compensation to House employees of the last session. This embarrassing state of affairs has brought many Hoy eminent creditors here, who are beg ging the members of the House to re cede and permit the bill to pass." Consolation for Democrats Wendell Phillips is reported to have " It is an unfailing rule of national life that the party that carried you th rough a war always vacates office when it is ended, and the other party comes in. In 1868 the Democracy is to preside at the White House." This, from so prominent an Abolition ist and shrewd a politician as he is, should be taken as warning by the now dom inant party, and their acts and policy should he shaped in accordance there with. Of the many false and crude things said by Phillips the above is not among them. In this utterance he but quotes history. He willget no thanks from the leaders of his party, and yet he deserves their most sincere regards for pointing out to them the inevitable course of events. If they are wise they will profit by acting In the belief that a briefperiod will break their rule, and that their places at the helm of government are to be assumed by new men of a new party. It Is said that lowa is not only out of the draft, but has an excess of about RAM men to apply on future calls, If this be so, Idwa is a good State to live in. The people of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsyl vania, New York and New Jersey, will please take notice. e Forney's Press devotes column after column to urging upon the pack` of Abolitionists, now assembled in the State Capitol at Harrisburg, the passage of alaw tusking it a penal offence to exclude any negro from the privilege of riding hrthe street cars along with the *bites ; and denounces any such com promise as that of setting apart cars for, their separate use. But, while doing this, it also chimes in with the advance men of the party with which it is allied, and urges that the negro be endowed with all the rights of citizenship. In favor of the latter proposal it has not yet spoken out quite so boldly as some other organs of the administration, but it is advancing, and will in due time be fully up to the extremest demands of the tines: One by one the leaders of theparty now in power are beginning to recognize the ugly truth that stares theni in the face. They know that to set the negroes free without removing all restrictions which have heretofore been placed upon them, will be to make their condition worse instead of better. They know well too, that their lease of power must be very short, unless they can devise some plan by which to enable them to prevent the future success of the Democratic party. The only feasible plad for doing this which suggests itself to their minds, is to confer upon the negro the right of voting. In and out of Congress this project is now being agitated. One by one the orators and the newspapers of the Republican party are committing themselves boldly and unreservedly to this project. We call the especial at tention of all our readers to the follow ing leading editorial from the ,S'hippens burg New,; a comparatively moderate Republican newspaper, which earnest ly supported Abraham Lincoln in the last campaign. By the extract which we give any thinking Republican ean,if he will, take soundings for himself, and tell how far he is prepared to drift with the party to which he belongs. It is high time fir ill men who are not pre pared to endorse the doctrine of negro equality to its fullest extent to turn short round. How many Republicans of this city and county are ready to adopt the following as part of their po litical creed at the present time. If any there he who iibieat to it, let them atonce abandon all connection with that political organization which is fast be ing committe 1 thereto. Sago the ,Shipprii ibis j tuffs 'rho "lleconst ruetion " Bill now be fore t 3e I ioust , of Representativebrings up for discussion, and, we trust, for set tlement, the most important question involved in the ret urn of the .seceded State to the Union, namely: whether the rights of citizenship, including, that of suffrage, shall be limited to the whit,' male inhabitants of the States, or ex tended to all, black as well as white. To limit the rights of citizenship to the white race, is to deny and reject those great principles of justice and equality, of the rights of man as man, and of the brotherhood of men,—which lie at the foundation of our political in stitutions, :11111 the assertion of which is the chief glory, as their maintenance will be the chief strength, of our demo cratic republic. And this course would be, moreover, as eontrary to policy as to prmiciple, to expediency as to right. The black race at the South is that part of the population upon whose loyalty to the Union dependence can be placed. They are the counterpoise to their disloyal masters. They require the right of suffrage, not only for their own defence against the evil-disposed and tyrannical white ruling class, but also for the defence of the interests of the Union against the selfish designs of a disappointed, malignant, am4despotie order. 'Without the right to Inte, the black man is only all enianeipatiql slave; with it, he is a freemen. That there mitt hi lie risk of temporary troubles were all the black male inhabi tants of the Southern i - 7;tates admitted at once to the polls, we do not question. But this risk is easily to be avoided. Let the proviso be established with which Massachusetts has guarded the right of suffrage, namely : that no one shall be allowed to vote unless he can read and write. The object of such a provision is plain, and its peculiar adaption to the case in point. It is a rough means fur making sure that a man has secured at least the elements of that education by which he may befitted to exercise intel ligently the right of suffrage, before he is permitted to enjoy that right. Noargu-' mentofunfairness, inequality, or injus tice can be raised against it. It is but the sequel and seal of the system of in- struction whielt the state establishes and maintains for the education of its inembel - s and for its own safety. Pi., o provision whieh ppl le, (quail!/ to I lir `MEAN '11," HITE," THE IRISH BOti-'IROTT ER, aia/ cinnncipotrtt 1117/;•,,. It 111:11,11,, invidious distille ti(lll on the chance tot' birth, fin-- tune, or other externid circumstance, it treats all alike, giving all an equal chance, an , '! ",erry man to be equal with e to rut" ill the trttr spirit of a 1 . 11.110 1C d 1,, , T(1C.1/. Let all loyal men who would see jus tice secured and peaN.4.stablished, unite in urging upon Congress the equal claims of the black as well of the white inhabitants of the South to the full rights of citizenship. Is it any wonder the people of the 430tith resolutely refuse to submit Is a party which boldly announces such doctrines as these as an essential part of its future policy? When will a brave and generous people become so abjectly servile as to submit to such degruda tion I Is it lint high time for the people of the North to say to fanaticism such as this,."thus far shalt thou go hut no farther?'' A Rebel Spy on Trial Some days ago a rebel officer named S. B. Davis, rains \V. Cummings, a lieutenant in the rebel service, was re cognized by soldiers on board a railroad train in Ohio, a, the former keeper of the rebel prison pen at. A ndersonville. He was arrested on charge of being a sw, and is nA.w ipcf.,r e a court-martial in Cincinnati. Thursday he made a speech to the court, concluding as fol lows: " Gentlemen, I do not ask pity. My heart fears nothing on this earth. I am no coward. I, like the rest of you, have faced bullets before to-day. some of you have marks of them ; I can show them, too. I ask not for pity ; I ask but for justice. If, in justice, you or any other court on God's globe can make me out a spy, hang nie. (tentlemen, I am not afraid to die. Young as I am, scarcely verged into manhood, I would like to live. But, gentlemen, I am no coward, and I deem a man who would stand here before his tel before soldiers who have faced the foe, who have felt bullets, and ask pity, does not deserve the name of man. Had I thought that you could have re ' arded me as a spy, nothing could have forced me out of Richmond. As to gathering information, I have no way to show that I have not done it. I know I have only done my duty. I have done it as best I could. God knows what I intended, and He knows that I do not deserve death. But if I die Igo without pity, but as a soldier should die. I fear not death, and I can go to the judgment bar of God now, to-morrow, whenever it may please the Chief Magistrate of this country to say go." Shameful While New York and New England are largely helping to maintain expen sive military missionary establishments in South Carolina and other Southern States, there are facts existing right in New York more deserving of attention thap the negros on Tybee Island. The Superintendent of Sanitary Inspectio4 in his annual report to City Inspector Boole, states, "that in a certain part of Cherry street, Fourth Ward, there are two tenement houses, measuring each 18 feet in -width, 180 feet is depth, five stories high, and that these toget her contain 145 families, composed of 440 adults and 460 children, making a total of 900 persons.' TleEruOlty-or-Abol tionlsm.- Were the fanaticism of the radical Abolitionists not completely blind and unthinking, the events occurring arounti them every day would be sufficient to induce them to pause in their career of madness and folly. They have precipi tated the most appaling and wide-spread misery upon the white race of this country, without, in any way, bene fitting the negro. By breaking up the social relations which existed between the two races in the South, they have failed to effect any good. The follow ing appeal to the charity of the people of the North in behalf of the many ne groes, who followed Sherman's army in its march through Georgia, will show to wllat a miserable condition these poor creatures have been suddenly reduced by those who profess to be their friends. With theSe facts before him, it cannot take any man of ordinary judgment long to determine-how little the negro is benefitted by being torn from his home on the plantations of the South, to become a pensioner on the Govern ment, or a wretched dependant upon the precarious and uncertain charity of a people already sadly oppressed with pe cuniary burthens. v The appeal, which follows, is published in the Washington National Intelligenecr. Whileitexhibits a sad picture of destitution, and strong ly appeals to the charitable, it furnishes an unanswerable argument against the policy of the Abolitionistt : APPEAL FOR THE BLACKS LIBERATED BY SHERMAN'S ARMY IN GEORGIA Good men and women of the North: We earnestly appeal to you in behalf of the thousands of suffering negroes which Gen. Sherman has just liberated by his triumphant march through Georgia.— Wherever he has borne our flag they have hastened to follow it, with ample faith in the truth of the Government and the charity of the nation. They have arrived on the coast after long marches and severe privations, weary, famished, sick, and almost naked. " Seven hundred of these wretched people arrived at Beaufort, Christmas night, in a state' of misery which would have moved the advance of a host no less destitute. Thestores of the Government already overtaxed to supply a large army are not available to relieve their wants, and unless the charity of the North conies speedily to the rescue, they must die by hundreds from exposure a d disease. " So extreme and entire is the poverty of these people, that nothing which you can afford to give will come amiss. Clothing is their most pressing need, especially for wonten and children, who cannot wear the cast-off garments of soldiers. Shoes and stockings, suspend ers, hats, awl underclothes of all kinds, are hardly less necessary in this climate than in the North. Ute'nsils, medicine, money—anything you have to spare will find its use among this wretched people. " The several Freedmen's Aid Socie ties at the North are proper and suf ficient channels for your beneficence. For the sake of suffering humanity we pray you let them he quickly and abundantly filled." " BEAt'Hobr, S. C'., Jan. 7, hsti.i." Contributions in clothing or money, in response to this appeal, sent to W. E. Whiting, rooms of AnWrican Mis sionary Association, 61 John street, New York, will lie forwarded front that city without expense. The End Not let ust now there are very many credu lous people who are rt;sting quietly in the belief that the war is about over. We do not like to disturb such in their pleasant fancies, and would gladly let them dream on. Their condition is an enviable one. Day by day, as regularly as the mail arrives, they. read their ac customed newspaper, which soothes their spirits into the softest repose. They believe what they see in print. Why should they not do so? Is not the sheet they peruse tonal, and, therefore, truthful? Do not all newspapers of that :,111111p agree in asserting that, now at least, for the hundreth time, "the backbone of the rebellion is broken. - Ilas not Sherman captured Savannah •, Is not Fort Fisher ours ? llow should it be possible for the rebels to continue the struggle? We have no doubt there are very many foolish people who expect be tween this and spring to see the whole Southern Confederacy on its knees be fore Mr. Lincoln, begging for peace. We very much fear they will be sadly disappointed. \Ve see no hope, no near prospect of any such Occurrence. We do believe that under the control of wise men a speedy and honorable peace might be ohtaitied ; but we have no as surance that the present Administration are any Wiser to-day than they have shown themselves to be in the past. They have heretofore refused to make any right use of our victories, and have failed utterly to rear) any advantages from them. No man who reads the rebel news papers, or listens to the utterances of their public asseYnlili;?s can believe for a moment that the Southern people have the &tightest idea of submitting uncon ditionally. Never was the spirit of bitter and defiant hatered more plainly exhib ited than at the present moment. They neither talk nor think of submission. It is true there is a feeling of despond ency expressed, but it is all expended in complaints of mismanagement on the part of their rulers. They blame Davis, and denounce Idm in no very measured terms, but the tone of such men and newspapers as do this is, if possible, more hostile than that of any others in the Confederacy. Changesare being effected in the rebel Cabinet. Mr. Seddon has resigned the position of Secretary of War. tither changes will follow. General Lee will be entrusted with the supreme Comm nut of the Southern armies, or will, at least, occupy sushi a position as that now held by (;rant. The spring campaign will open vigorously on our part, and we shall meet with stuliboni resistance. The war is not nearly ended. The draft must go on, and it will be more relent less and sweeping than any which has preceded it. The coming Fitli of Feb ruary- will rudely awake many a credu lous believer in the prophecies of Abo lition newspapers from pleasant dreams that the rebellion is crushed and the war over. The end is not vet. The Quota of Pennsylvania. The entire quota of the state is, under the recent call for 300,000 men, 49,563, sub-divided thus among the several dis tricts : First Congressional District, 1,936 Second, 2,50 ; Third, 2,912 ; Fourth, ; Fifth, I,s43—Philadelphia and Bucks. Sixth, 1786—Montgomery and Lehigh. Seventh, I,l2l—Chesterand Delaware. Eighth, I,s6o—Berks. Ninth, 2,sB4—Lancaster. Tenth, 1,527-Schuylkill and Lebanon. Eleventh, 2„sl3—Northampton, Car bon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne. Twelfth, I,49s—Luzerne and Susque hanna. Thirteenth, 2,3ol—Bradford, Wyom ing, Sullivan, Columbia and Montour. Fourteenth, 3,435---Bauphin North umberland, nion, Snyderand U Juniata. Fifteenth, I, 9 2o—Cumberland, York, and Perry. Sixteenth, 2,4o3—Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Somerset. Seventeenth, I,oo4—Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, and Mifflin. Eighteenth, 2,lB7—Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga and Potter. Nineteenth, 2, Jefferson. Twentieth, Mc- Kean, Clearfield, Elk and Twentieth ' I,sl2—Crawford, Venango Mercer and Clarion. . Twenty-first, I,s47—lndiana, West moreland, and Fayette. Twenty-second, ...,572—Pittsburg. Twenty-third, I ,77o—Allegheny in part_, Butler, and Armstrong. Twenty-fourth, I,64l—Lawrence, Beaver, Washington, and Greene. The quota pf Philadelphia, including the outside portion of the Fifth district (lucks county,) is nearly cate-fpurthpf the whole-11,486. The brave old sea-dog, Vice Admiral Porter, has laid his heavy paw on Gen. Butler, and nothing remains of the hero of Big Bethel and the Haynau of New Orleans, save the fame as a brazen browed pettifogger with which he left Lowell, and the fortune which he re turns thither. _ _ But hold ! This is not - all. Let us be just. There remains also, and clings about him, the detestatiOn of the civiliz ed world beyond the water, the hatred and scorn of all his countrymen and countrywomen who love whatsoever things are pure and of good report. And last of all, there lingers about him the odor of the praise of Thaddeus Stevens —Thaddeus the gentle, the clean of tonge, the chaste. Butler -is thus with one coup wiped out as cleverly as the admiral's tarswab off a dirty deck, and almost as completely as he would have been in a few days more by the adoration of the Tribune and the praises of the Post. The fact is, Gen. Grant did not leave much to be said when he told Butler,that in thefirst place he had no - business to go to Fort Fisher, and in the next place, that he had no business to come away ; but the admiral seems disposed to show that wholesale lying about what occurred while he was where he had no business to be, and wherehe could not leave with out disgrace, was not: the way to take Fort Fisher, nor to cover his shame from the eyes of the American people. He says General Weitzel was selected, and General Butler's name was never connected with the expedition, except to fit it out. When the expedition did prepare to start, it was going to the at tack on the supposition that the powder vessel, originally prepared by General Butler, would blow the fort down, and the troops would have nothing to do but walk in. He soon saw Butler depended entirely on this powder boat, and that there would be no assault from the be ginning. It is not true, as Butler says, that he gave the navy thirty-six hours start. The transports started before the navy disappeared. It was Butler's duty to have rendezvoused at Beaufort and waited until the monitors and powder boat, on which so much depended, were ready. The movements of the light transports should have been subordinate to large and slow moving frigates .and iron -clads; and he should have been where he could have arranged with me, says Porter, all the details of the attack ; but no, he kept out of my way, and, I think, studiously. Butler states that Admiral Porter was quite sanguine he had silenced the. guns of Fort Fisher, and that he was urged, if that were so, to run by the batteries intp Cape Fear river, and then troops could land and hold the beach without difficulty or without liability of being shelled by the enemy's gunboat Tallahassee, seen on the liver. Porter says this is a deliberate mistatement, adding : General Butler does not say who urged me ; hut I never saw him or his statrafter the landing ou the beach, nor did I have any conversation with hint or see him except on the deck of his vessel, as I passed by in the flagship, from the time I left Fortress Monroe until he left here after his failure. Admiral Porter further says, in denial of l'Aitler'sstatewents, that he never had the slightest intention of passing the batteries until the fort was taken. The department saw his plan, and the utter impossibility of doing so. He would certainly not have been influenced by ( len. R i s opinions in nautical matters, or risked his vessels to amuse him. Admiral Porter says;—" All the next paragraph in General Butler's report, in relation to what the Admiral said, and what the Admiral declined to do, is false from beginning to end. I never had any conversation of the kind with any one. Indeed, the whole report is a tissue of misrepresentations, including the part that says, 'the instructions he received did not contemplate a siege,' when lie knbws he never received any instructions, and joined the expe dition without orders." I n reply to what General Butler says about the weather assuming - a threaten ing aspect, and the surf rolling in on the beach and the landing becoming diffi cult, Admiral Porter says : I assert the landing on that day was smoother than when General Terry landed there.— There was no necessity for General Butler re-embarking his men on 102- ,MM of the weather. General Grant never contemplated the withdrawal of the troops. He sent them there to stay, and, having once effected a landing, he knew that the most difficult part was one. After a further review Achniral Porter says, in conclusion :—Permit the to say that I do notsee what it matters whether lleneral Butler's troops lande I one day or another. He . decided the fort could not be taken when he did land. lie could not expect the rebels to leave a work like that with less than five hun dred men in it, and he certainly could have tried to assault that number. Uen. Terry had twenty-three hundred to con tend against, and he carried the works without a very serious loss, considering the importance of the position, to the country. Greeley on Shernian's Order. The New York Tribune condemns eneral Sherman's order in regard to the negroes of Georgia. :fin}• one, not afflicted with " nigger on the brain," would, on reading the order, which we I elsewhere, suppose Sherman has given Unfree a very fair start in the world. But the Tribune is not satisfied. It does not consider it sufficient that the escaped negroes should be given in fee simple, as a goodly heritage, a broad expanse of the best cotton lands of the South. (;-reeley is a pnilosopher, while Sherman is a mere soldier. Greeley has studied for years theproblem of the existence of the negro on this conti nent ; and he is fully aware that one of two things must inevitably happen. Either all the boasted good of emanci pation must be proved to be the verriest lying cheat the world ever saw, or the negro must be made the equal of the white man. Left to himself, and com pelled to compete with the stronger race in the hard struggle for existence, he roust always remain in a condition of dependence and subordination,-no bet ter in reality than slavery, so long as the prejudice of color and cast exists. All this is plain to the philosopher of the Tpibunt. It is not strange, then, that, with his humanitarian ideas, he. should object toSherman's plan of deal ing with the negro. Heal' kiln! lie says: "General Sherman assumes that the negro is a race apart and different from the white, and, if intrusted with free dom, must be isolated and left entirely to itself. The vicious principle of pre judice against color lies at the bottom." And again : " IVe Bholl not begin to solve the prob li in cif i'manolpotion till aim at mak ing thr Sonthcrn blacks American ,iti zoo;, with rill the rights, and nlightenintnt that a Republican Goy crii men( can bestow, and abandon the notion that he is only a black man who has ceased to be a slave, and hereafter must have only such material fruits as he can gather from his untrammeled labor. To give them land is just and wise.; they are entitled to that start in life from a parental government. But it is not just or wise to set them apart as a race having nothing in common with their white fellow-citizens, with the same rights and the same responsibili ties. To colonize the blacks abroad is pretty generally acknowledged as an absurdity ; to attempt to segregate four millions of them at the South in colo nies by themselves is a still greater one. They must, like their fellows at the North, take their chance as a part of the whole people, free from the wrongs and the disabilities of slavery, and aid ed by contact with white civilization, to become good citizens and enlighten ed men." Such is the erede of the chief thinker of the Republican party; and to this position all who conclude to hold fast to that political organization must come at last. MASON & H.kIILIN'S CABINET OR . OANS.—Having taken some pains to satisfy ourselves respecting the merits of these new instruments, we are able to speak very confidently in regard to them, and to recommend them heartily to our readers. We have not found any difference in the opinions entertained of them by musicians;•all value ,them highly, and all agree that their superi ority to all other instruments of the class, American pr foreign, is indisputa 7 l'erk Examiner. = = ~D iiii~ = lu = Sonora: ~-~' The startling and seemingly improba ble rumor of the cession of Sonora, Sin aloa and other States of Northern Mex ico to the Emperor Louis Napoleon by Maximillian has been confirmed; . as also the fact that Ex-Senator Gain has been created a Duke, made Governor General and. Vice Secretary or Viceroy of the Emperor of the French. He is invested with plenary powers in his new office, and will be supported, if need be, by French bayonets. The silver mines of Sonora ate pro verbially rich, but heretofore the Apache Indians-have prevented them from be ing worked. The lands are fertile, and the climate one of the most 4.ealthful and delightful in the world. The ter ritory which has been thus ceded to France, until such time as the debt o\ing to. France by Mexico shall be paid, embraces some two hundred and fifty thousand square miles of the rich est mineral and agricultural portion of this continent. Beyond a doubt Dr. Gwin has been chosen as th instrument of Louis Na poleon in this new scheme, because of his ability to draw_ to this new territory a large and increasing num ber of resolute followers. A bold ad denturer himself, he is known to be hostile to the United States and strong ly in sympathy with the rebellion,— The following sketch of him, which we take from the N. Y. Herald will be read with interest: William MacKendry Gwin was born October 9, NV), in Sumner county, State of Tennessee. He was the son of Rev. James Gwin, a Methodist Episcopal preacher of considerable celebrity in the South. Upon attaining a sufficient age and advancement of his studies, young Gwin was admitted to Transylvania University, Lexington, My., where he completed his education and studied medicine. He spent a short time in Nashville, Tenn., and thence removed to and settled in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He never commenced the practice of medicine, but turned his attention to law and politics. }ie was admitted to the bar, but never practised. In 15"23 he received anti accepted from General Jackson the appointment of United States Marshal for the State of Mississip pi. In this position he was retained through the administration of Mr. Van Buren until the inauguration of General Harrison to the Presidency in 1841. In the same year he was elected to Con gress. At the expiration of his term in 1845, he declined a re-election, which was strongly pressed upon him by his political friends. In 1857 he was ap pointed by l'resident l'olk to superin tend. the erection of the custom house at New Orleans. In lie resigned this position and removed to California, then receiving the influx of a large emi gration. In California he took a promi nent part in the regulation of aintirs. He was elected a delegate to the con vention which formed a State Constitu tion in Is4u, and with John C. Fremont was elected United States Senator from the new State. In January 1857 he was re-elected for the term ending _Marc,, 1591. Upon the expiration of his term of office, ex-S (tutor Gwin returned to California::: : was the true friend of the enemies 01 he government in that State. Meal. AdleMrs. (1 win continued her residence in Washington, and lived in the most sumptuous and defiant manner. Her hoLISU was the meeting place of such notorious spies as Mrs. Greenough, Mrs. Phillips and others. At the depot in Washington a trunk, addressed to Mrs. (twin, was examined and found to contain a large number of gentlemen's shirts, some or them sewed together. Upon separating them it was discovered they concealed a map of all the l'ffrtifications on the Virginia side of the Potomac river. About the same time Dr. G will's sun, a cadet at West Point, resigned, and went to Mont gomery, Alabama, to seek fin appoint ment in the rebel army. In November, 1,561, while on his re turn to the States, Dr. Gwin was placed under arrest by General Sumner, who was a passenger on the same steamer. The General had with him live hun dred United States soldiers, and was fully able to en force the act. The arrest took place two days front the port of Panama, and the charge against Dr. Gwin was treasonable language. Im mediately after the notification of the fact of the Doctor's arrest, Mr. Brent, one of the party, sought his stateroom on the vessel, and was seen to throw through the porthole into the sea a number of papers and documents, maps, (Sic. General Sumner now seized the trunks of the party and placed seals upon them. Mr. Brent and Calhoun Benham, ex-United States District Attorney for California, were also put under arrest. It was discovered that Dr. 0 win and party had purchased tickets to Panama, thence designing to embark at Aspin wall for Havana, and thence to Europe, it was supposed as agents of the rebel government. On November hi the party arrived in New York city, and Dr. 0 win and his colleagues were committed to Fort Lafayette. On December 2 the United States Marshal received instruc tions to release Hon. Wm. Mack. bi win, Calhoun Benham and J. L. Brent, Esqrs., upon their parole to report them seves to the state Departmeht at Wash ington for explanation, and to remain thereafter on parole, subject to the direc tion of the Secretary of Sta te. Dr. win was subsequently released from his pa role and left for Europe. Ile spent most of his time in l'aris, and was on terms of intimacy with Louis Napoleon. Of Dr. Uwin's actions during the interval up to the present little-is known. He was a great speculator, and always had the fortune to meet with extraordinary success, in the accom push in en t of which he consulted ends, not means. He is a man fully six feet in height, good form, with a full and not displeasing face. What Mr. Blair Proposed to the ('onfede rate Authorities, and the Reply lie Re • ceived. [From the Richmond Sentinel, January :24. • Mr. Blair left Richmond yesterday morning upon the steamer Allison with Commissioner Ould for the truce boat at Boni ware's landing. It is understood that Mr. Blair's mission to Richmond was emphatically one of peace. After laying before our authorities, informally of course, the wishes of the Federal gov ernment, the interpretation'of which is peace on a subjugation basis, and find ing that these modest desires were not likely to be complied with, he came down pointedly to a proposition of re union upon any terms, and desired to know upon what terms the South would agree to return to the sheltering aegis of the old flag. He suggested the Union as it was, the nigger as he is, and the South as it used to be. He suggested also that the North would foot the bill and taxes for all the negroes stolen and property destroyed by the ar mies and emissaries of Federal usurpa tion. Of course he made all these suggestions on his own responsibility; but whether deemed authoritative or not, he received not the slightest en couragement to hope for reunion, and was made to understand that the South was lighting for independence, and in dependence only. He then inquired whether, if the independence of the South was recognized by the federal government, the South would make common cause with the North and drive the French from Mexico. The response understood to have been given to this diplomatic feeler was : "Make the pro position formally and officially and you will get a reply." fhis is the s übstance of Mr. Blair's political conversation with persons in and out of authority while in Richmond, so far as we have been able to learn. There may be some thing yet sub roses, but we doubt it, though, probably, there may have been some allusions to driving the English out of Canada, in connection with the last proposition. A Terrible Scene A gentleman who has returned from the battle-field of December Pith, near Na.shville, whither he went in quest of the body of a slain brother, describes to the Chicago Post the scene as one of un mitigated loathing and horror. The rebel Bead still lie upon the field un buried, and in all the ghastliness of death as it fell upon them in the shock and carnage of battle. In some places where charges were made and repulsed, the poor wretches lie in heaps, oneupon the other, as they had fallen in the agony of death. The excuse given for not burying them, was that the living were too busy in chasing the men under Hood to stop to care for the dead. — The Senth Proposed Invasion of the North by Ne groes—The Richmond Cabinet—Speen lotion as to the New Members to be Appointed—New Command_ for Etreck .. ittritige--Early Superseded in Com mand by. Gordon, &c. [From the Richmond Examiner, January 24.] It is reported that Gen. Breckinridge has been assigned to the command of the Trans-Mississippi Department. Yankee Prisoners to be Sent North. [From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 24.] One thousand Yankee prisoners, con fined in Libby prison, will be sent North in the flag-of-truce boat to-morrow morning. The number of prisoners now on hand in this city is upwards of three thousand, including about sixty officers. The Cabinet Changes. • (From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 21.] As no appointment of a Secretary of War has yet been made, the office can not be said to be yet vacant, as Mr. Seddon's resignation has not been ac cepted. Among the gentlemen, named to succeed Mr. Seddon, is Governor Leteher, of Virginia. It was reported yesterday that the Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, has sent in his resig nation. We think this is true, though we have no positive information on the subject. Candidates for the War Secretaryship. [From the Richmond Whig, Jan. 21.; The vacant Secretaryship of \Var is a very vexatious question to the public, and the problem as to who"shall till it will hardly be made known until Mr. Davis sends his nomination to the Senate. On the street, yesterday, Gen. Breckinridge, Who is in the city, ex- Governor Letcher, Gen. Howell Cobb, Gen. G. \V. Smith, and others, were prominently spoken of in connection with the position. General Early Superseded by General Gordon. yriau the Richmond Dispatch, Jan A letter from Gen. Leers army an nounces that Major General Gordon has been placed in command of the Second Corps, lately commanded by Lieutenant General Early. (itiry's Brigade in Line of Battle. L From tiny Richmond Examiniir, Jan. 21.] For sonic hours yesterday morniniz, in consequence or some movement of the enemy on our-extreme left, General Gary's cavalry brigade was held in line of battle, but the enemy made no at tack. Gold Falllng,—Conlederate Money and Fortunes Together. From the Ilichmontl Examiner, Jan. The price of gold is falling, and this time it is no fluctuation or delusion.— Those who have thrown away their con federate money tOl'hold a little gold, and those who have speculated on the dis asters of their country are about to re ceive a terrific lesson. The government has no great amount of notes in circula tion, and the assets of the Confederacy will redeem every cent of its obligations. Confederate money and the fortunes of the Confederacy will soon rise together. The downward tendency of gold is en couraging. Private sales were made on yesterday at thirty-eight for one, a fall of more than one , hundred per cent. in less than a weed. Proposed Negro lova. of the North. From the Hietlllloll.l DiSparell, •, Our ( leston letter says: Now let us say to the North that we are on the defensive—that they can stop this war immediately by Withdrawing their troops. If they refuse, let Congress put three hundred thousand slaves in the army, and put deeds of emancipation in' their pockets, march one hundred thousand to Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand to Ohio, and one hundred thousand to Indiana. Tell them to spare nothing - but old men, women and children, to live on the country, lay waste as they march, to rob banks, to take every kind of property they want, to have it as their own, to load every wagon, horse, mule, and with the spoils, and bring it back to their old homes, and enjoy it and freedom for life. How long would (tram stay at City Point ? I have heard. officers ()thigh rank say they would cheerfully volunteer to command the negro troops. Under the late law to consolidate comnanies, etc., hundreds of officers will he without commands, who would willingly command these troops. Let Congress do this, and, in the language of this intelligent Viegin ian, before next Fourth of July the war would end, and our indepqndence would he acknowledged. Keep the men over forty-live at home, and put the negroes in the army. The Radicals Opposed to Peace 'Elie slight appearance of a hope that peace may come, through the negotia tions which are now being so much talked of, has alarmed the radical lead ers of the Abolition party in Congress. On Monday, Mr. Clark, of N. H., offered the fol lowing, whieh wits ordered to be print ed and laid upon the table for the pre sen t : mid Hulls( of Repit.BenfitlireB itl (b/1/11"( 58 (18800 ble7d, That no negotiation, terms of settle ment, or concussion, or compromise, be entered into, proposed, yielded or made with the rebels, directly or indirectly, until they have manifested their implicit and unconditional submission to the authorities of the Government; and, further, that, however nitwit peace may be desired, the present war must be waged with all the resources and energy of the Government, until said submis sion shall 612 secured, and the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws estab lished over the entire territory of the United states as heretofore claimed. The title of the above is " A resolution declaring- the sense of Congress upon the subject of negotiation." No one who understands the temper and designs of these desperate men, can doubt for a mmneut that any attempt to bring about a speedy and honorable peace will meet with their persistent and united opposition. Peace on the basis of a restored Union is the very thing they have mcist,yeason to dread. They could, in such an event, only es cape the righteous vengeance of an out ' raged people by ignominiously creep ing into obscure retirement. They are to day, as they have been in the past, the bane and curse of the country ; the villainous authors of all the woes that have come upon us. If they find in Mr. Lincoln the slightest disposition to yield any one of their fanatical designs, for tile sake of staying bloodshed and resioi ug the Mon, they will bring such a pressure to bear upon him as he never encountered before; and there is but very little reason to hope that he will have manhood enough to resist it. These fanatical and bloodthirsty wretch es are the power behind the throne at Washington. They will have to be silenced in sonic way before rumors of peace can amount to anything. It would matter but little how this was done, so it were but done effectually. Annual Statement of the Coffee Trade of =CMIIM The New York Shipping List of the 18th inst. contains the annual state ment of the Coffee trade of the United States, by which it is shown that the total receipts in the United States for the year ending December 31, 1864, were 1,06-5,889 pkgs, weighing 145,304,10.57 against receipts in 1863 of 508,275 pkgs, weighing 75,269,417 lbs, and the total consumption in 186-1 was 109,086,703 lbs, against a consumption in 1863 of 79,719,- 6411b5, being an increase of 29,307,062 lbs; or 36 84-100 cent. The stock of Rio at the ports, as made up by Messrs. Wm. Scott & Sons, is 43,994 bags, viz. : 5,800 in Baltimore, 1,000 in Philadelphia, and 37,194 in New York. Skating in Paris The Paris correspondent of the New York Times says the skating costumes this winter are very brilliant, in that city "on ice." 'Young America, as usual, carries off the palm. He adds: On the Imperial skating pond, that is to say, the pond on which the Imperial family and their friends skate, and to which are invited the best skaters from the other ponds, Miss P. Low, of mas sachusetts, has been the lioness, and Mr. Marshall, bank note engraver, from New York, the lion. Miss Lowe cuts her name with facility on the ice, which is a great feat for a lady - in this country ; and while she and Mr. Marshall perform their wonders, the imperial party form a circle and look on in admiration. Mr. CiimMaC, ' Mr. Ross, Mrs. Ryer and many rther AmCrican gentlemen and ladies have "gone up head" forsuperior Skating; and been admitted into thp ranki of the select on the reserved le,lo. ftemi of lfewe. Me.4tsrs. itichardzion , and . Brown, the escaped journalists, appeared before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and testified to the cruel treatment of our prisoners by the rebels. On Novem ber 25th, many of the prisoners had been without foodibr forty-eight hours. They mention deliberate cases of kill ingand wounding' During twomonths, from the 18th of October to the 18th of December, the deaths were 20 per cent. of the whole number. When they left at the latter date they were dying at an average rate of 13 per centum a month. In consequence of the numerous ac cidents which have recently occurred in the Bergen tunnel, through which at least and hundred heavily laden trains of the New York and Erie and Morris and Essex railroads pass daily, the Judge of the Hudson County - Court, of New Jersey, at the openi4of the Jan uary term, called the particular atten tion of the Grand Jury to the nuttier, and those gentlemen have rendered a rep, rt highly censuring the Erie Coln pan . and presenting the tunnel as a publit. nuisance. Thy machine shop of the Mahoning- Divi,ion of the Atlantic and Great We-t _rti Railroad, at Youngstown, was destroyed by fire on the hoorting of the 2,5 th. The property de stroy,d is valued at fifty thousand dol lars. Steithern theatricals seem to lie thriv ing. The,Selma theatre was reopened on i.• 2d. Miss Virginia Kenthle, of the Mae,' theatre, is in trouble, the editor of Cte Confederacy having intimated that idte was not ti chaste as ice. Miss Elle Ili.tir Aren is manageress of the MoMi, theatre. Miss Eloise Bridges has just closed an engagement at the Wilmington theatre. Porter anti Terry did t saute thing the other day !tear by \\ riming - ton. The A meriean Railroad Journal shows the leilgth and cost of every railroad in the united States. The total miles in loyal States it:3,431,062, completed:2,:t:l7,- 2.1:1; cost of road and equipment,S2,ot - to,- 'Fatal miles in rebel States 1,49•2,70'2, completed Miti,94u; cost of road and equipment_S:237,o,ls,ss7. Admiral Porter reports the capture, on die night of the _4th, of the hli e steamer Blenheim, from Nassau, with a valuable cargo. The Richmond Ex(tmia,r says that all tb blockade-runners in Cape Fear river eseaped to sea before the frill of Fort Fisher. The may, of Boolievilk, AL., mi. McDcarmon, committed a murder in that town on Friday, and fled for part.' unknown. No particulars are given, hut the Police are on the lookout Gn• him. The t•ebels hold a fraction more than , 43,01 in Federal prisoners, :11111 (Ili' Fed era's hold over 75,0n0 rebels, all11111U: whom at•e twenty-one Major:mil Generals. A Charleston dispatch of the 1:Ith inst., says the Union pickets extend a short distance east of Pocobil kir°, on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and that the road has been partially destro\ - ed, the piers burned and the iron taken away. A Union gunboat lately madca reeon noissance up the Red River as far asthe mouth of Bliwk and dispersed a Rebel catop, the only force of the enenry discovered. The Cleveland iron rolling, mills, lo cated at Newburg, Ohio, won. partially destroyed by lire; on the inst., in volving a loss of forty thousand dollars, on which thereore insuranees for thirty thousand dollars. A number of incendiary li res among barns and unocdttpichl buildings have occurred lately - at Batavia, N. Y. Last Tuesday night an old brewery, used for the storage of barley and other grain, was set at fire and destroyed.-- 'Phelossesareestimated at twenty thous and dollars. Over one hundred and forte men, nearly all soldiers, were killed by the boiler explosion on board the steamboat Eclipse, in the Tennessee river, near Johnsonville, on last Thursday. The one and two dollar notes to he is sued by the Treasury Department to the national banks will soon he delivered by the Treasury. Hon. It. S. Smith, Treasurer of the State of New Jersey, was taken with paralysis, on Sunday morning last, and died on yestoiday. Ile had held his of fice for 15 years. Yesterday afternoon Andrew J. Bur roughs, a clerk in the office of the Comp troller of the Currency, Washingnin, was shot by a young woman named Mary Harris, from Chicago. She ap proached him in the Treasury building, and diseharged a pistol, inflicting an immediately mortal wound. She sub sequently told conflicting stories as to the reasons for the commission of the deed. The Secreffiry of War yesterday sent to the Senate a list of the General offi cers in the service of the United States on the lirst of January, It com prises eo major generals, and :21;5 briga dier generals making a total of :3:a. Of this timelier '24:3 are in command, .20e of whom are brigadiers. Eight majorgen erals and 12 brigadier generals are awaiting orders, and one major genend and 14 brigadier geueralsare off duty on account of woffiels and sickness. These are Generals Sickles, Ricketts, Asboth, Bartow, R. O. Tyler,eliernmelpfennig, Paul, Gresham, Underwood, Conner, Mclntosh, Bradley, Long, Fagan, and Stannard. -tannard, now brigadier, (iene•akk tys and liuffe are prisont-tr or war Two medical students got into a quar rel about negroes riding in the ears To, the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, yesterday, when one deliberately lired pistol at the other, but without efrect. A fire in Richmond, Indiana, yeHteN day morning, destroyed prola Vahled at two hundred thousand dollars. On last Thursday night, while a train on the Ohio and Mississippißailroad was approaching Cincinnati, and within two miles of that city, one of the cars, filled with.passengers, became detached, and rolled down an embankment twenty-five feet high. A number of the occupants were injured, but non fatally, and they were all gathered up and placed in the other cars, and the train arrived at its destination only thirty minutes behind time. A Word on Peace There are men who talk as if war were a normal condition, and who start at the suggestion of peace as if sonic wrong were done the nation. But all v..ars must have an end, even ho-e. cal - rh•d on, as so felt ever have been, the highest good of the people, though all may not be attained which the vic torious party, at the outset, promised itself: Ordinarily it is a struggle of en durance. It is a question of pluck and resources, and resources, as in all human affairs, are the groundwork of courage. Which can hold out the longest ? Which con hold out no longer? There conics always a tinie when the last is a vital question, and when it conies peace is inevitable. We may or we may not have reached that poidt, but the signs are, at least,_ significant, and wise men will ive them due consideration. In' the natural course of things peace is imminent. It may be the immmi nence of weeks or of months; certainly it cannot be delayed beyond the dura tion of one more campaign. Mr. first visit to Richmond was neither fruitless nor useless, or it would not have been repeated. Without pretending to know anything of its de tails, we, in common with evrybody else, arrive at this conclusion. Not less significant is the gradual but steady de cline in the price of gold. It has been going down for weeks, with certain fluctuations attributable merely to speculation. Gold gamblers and brokers are not the arbiters of our destiny. They cannot make peace, but they are careful observers of the signs that herald it. Those who command the market are advised, not 'only of all that is going on at Washington, but their lines of communication extend to Davis' cabinet and Lee's headquarters. Money is a great power, and commands the secrets of State. is Lee thinking of the evacuation of Richmond? Does Davis look with approbation upon the movements of the party against him ? Does he dread some sudden movement of the Union party in any particular State ? The gold gamblers know. Their friends at Richmond advise them of coming events, and gold touches 200— falls below it. We are not more sanguine than our neighbors, nor are we mote hopeful of or anxious for peace; neither do we pre tend to more wisdom. But we hail the' flash of those bright streaks of the com ing day, and do not choose to shut dur eyes to them because others, with closed e n. ye io ll u ds n , e keep out the light.--Nsw . York
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