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K3 Broadway. I 4- KEWS OF THE DAY. ''I Mid i I THE BEBELUOJf. Tit Secretary of War ha iaaued an order an. foaacint 1.

That from and after to-day. the frapn Linea jl 111 telegrams relating to Urj operations, ezceptinf those from the Depart i BMOi ana ine Lrenerais commanding, are proniu- Mtaxl Journals publishing newa, unauthorized, are to be punished 4. i Appoints a military supervisor of meaaagea, and a miUtaryj superintendent of telegraph offices 5. -) This order not to interere with the ordinary opera- Wlons pf said cpmpiniea. I tXho Conference Committee on the Treasury 'Bill Mondsy 'reported their sgreement, which t.

V. k. was (vwuiin uj wwvu i of concurrence was subsequently reconsidered by 'the Senate on! the motion of the Chairman of iaaace, and the Bill referred back to the Confer- nee Committee. Meanvrhile, a short bill is paaaed by both Houses to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to Issue interest-bearing Certift- eatee to such of the public creditors who have had their claims duly audited and approved. Although no particulars of the capture of Nash-i villa have yet Reached us, there appears to be no doubt that it has fallen into our possession.

Oen. MoCi.Kl.tAK, our Waahlngton correspondent in-' forma as, yesterday received a telegram from the Vest confirming the report that Gen. Bceu. had occupied the Tenneesee capiLaL, and stating that the rebels had fallen back to If urfreesboro, about Vthlrty miles below Nashville. The news is also eoftfirmed by ja dispatch from St.

Louia, which states that our troops took possession with. a out opposition. The latest advices from Fort Donelson, received by way of Chicago, an Bounce that the rebels had strong fortifications on Pine Bluffs, twelve miles this side of-Nash-' tQle, and that they were expected to make a perate stand there, but the intelligence of the evacuation makes it probable that the show of the rebels at the Blufla was only a show, to cover the retreat of the main body from the city. Murfrees-boro is the capital of Butherford County, south- I east ef Nashville, on the road connecting with he Memphis and Charleston road, just over the Alabama The rebels are apparently making preparations to evacuate their stronghold at Columbus, if they have not already done so. This fact seems to have been established by a reconnoissance from Cairo on Monday morning.

The expedition consisted of four gunboats and two mortar-boats, with the Twenty-seventh Illinois Keglment, and a battalion of the Eighth Wieconein. On proceeding down the river, was discovered that the rebels had seized aU the flatboats and skLQs as high up as they dared to come, and that there had been a movement of some kind among the troops at Our flotilla were getting into position on the Missouri when a rebel steamer with flag of truce made its appearance, and a consultation took place on one of gunboats which lasted two hours. The natre of this con- M. eultation, and its results, have not yet been made News from the BurnaUe by the arrival of the steamer Bltiaur at Fortress Monroe, confirms the rebel report that our gun- iwaw naa asaaa uieu appearance ai nuiion, on the Chowan The nlace was ahalled and burned by our forces, it appears In retaliation for aa attack by the rebel artillerists there. The Ninth New-York Begiment accompanied the gun- boats hut did not land, the enemy being found in tef great force.

The greater part of the expedi-tkaiwas still at Boanoke Island, and wae to be i johed Immediately by Oen. Williams' Brigade, at' The Xhicagoj enae4 of last Saturday, announced that the entire sect of mortar-boats, thirty-eight in all, would be completed to-night-Seventeen were: in complete trim on Thursday last, and Capt. Coxrabls expressed himsell confident of his ability to shell out every rebel fortification on the Mississippi, above New-Orleans, by their aldaloM; f', V. A dispatch to I the Cincinnati Gmatttt, dated at Cairo, Feb. 10, states that three thousand rebel prisoners, at Fort Donelson, have asked to be el lowed their arms, and to be enrolled in the army union.

COXGBESS. The Conference Committee on the Treasury Note bill made a report, oar Honda recommend-lng that both Houses of CongTesa recede from si portioor of thdr amendmente. The report wae concurred in by both Souses, and the bill passed. In the Senate, yesterday, however, the vote to "agree wha the report of the Committee being reconsidered, was disagreed to, and the bill! wae Recommended to the Conference Committee. A petition wae presented, aaklng that J.

Fxx-'fcojrr bo appointed Lieutenant-General. A res-F to carry Into effect the Jonvention with 2W-Granada and CoataBica, was paaaed. A rea-; luUon was passed asking the Secretary ot War Whether any steps bad been taken toward the totntnicUon of any railroad by the War Depart-; authority for it. The MU for the JP1 and cuufvaUon of certain cotton lands ras taken up arj an amendment limiting the ap. preprUuon to was adopted.

It was then bm in specul ardex fox to-day. The bill for ho coaficaticn of (be property of rehls was cpn aJdered, Lite speoal wqci-Htlie caseKOT Mr, StalM of Oragoa Ubg SHatpoc4. to Aoake way fr it, Ifr. Tl'hpu. aJ lrted the, la favor of Its passage Jn I be Ilfuse, the Jadiciair Cammiltre were Instructed to inquire JiUo the, expediency of vest log the United Sutea CoranlaaIgners with to Issue writs! of torfauJ, A bill to UX the salaries of public officers was introduced.

The Senate biB to reduce the number of cavalry regh ments was passed, after some debate, limiting the number to fifty inattad of flirty regiments. I A resolution was passed instructing the Commitire on Claims to inquire into the propriety of indem. nifjlng certain Union men In Kentucky for losses caused by tlieUebels. The Committee on Wats and Means was Instructed to inquire iLto the ex pediency of Icvjlng a tax of three per cent upon cotton. A bill from the Committee of Ways snd Means, to estatlUh a Branch Mint at Denver City.

in Colorado Territory, caused considerable de bate, but was not finally acted upon. A bill direct ing the Collectors of Pens tocsuse ship-captains to take the oa'h of allegiance was The bill authorizing the Postmaster-General to establish a uniform money-order system was passed. An. other bill was paaed anthorizing the Postmaster-General to permit additional articles to- be sent by mail at book-postage rates. A bill to establish an additional judicial district in New-York, to be catted the Eastern District, was introduced by Mr Ditbx and passed.

A bill to establish an addi. tloial article of war, for the government of officers of the army, was reported from the Military, Committee by Mr. Bla.ii, of Missouri, and occasioned a long and warm debate. It prohibits all ofilcrrs from employing any of the forces under their command to return fugitive slaves, under the penalty of dismissal from the The bQl was finally passed, after considerable filibustering on the part of its opponents, 83 to 42, and the House adjourned. GENERAL NEWS.

The steamship North Star, from Aspinwsllon the 15th arrived at this port, yesterday morning, with mails, passengers, and treasure from California. The treasure list foots up $759,246. The news brought by the Forth Star is onusally uninteresting. The violent wind of Monday night had considerably abated yesterday morninfr, and most of the vessels detained in the North Ktver were enabled to get to sea. In consequence of the unusually low tide at about noon, the Booth ferry-boats got aground near their slips several tunes.

Some of the vessels at the North River piers were seriously damaged by the gale. Roofs, chimneys and signs were also scattered in every direction, and several persona were more or less injured. The steam transport Matazms will sail to-day for Port Royal with a cargo of ordnance, ammunition and subsistence stores. She also takes out a large mail. Yesterday morning the Twelfth Connecticut Regiment, CoL Hinrt C.

Dxhiho, arrived ofT thia City, and were immediately transferred to the steamer Fulton, in order to be conveved to Ship Island. The regiment numbers nearly a thousand men. Gov. Buckingham accompanied the regiment. He and the officers were entertained by the Sons of Connecticut at the Astor House.

The remains of Col. Cb ailis L. Rcssxix, of the Connecticut Tenth Regiment, who was killed in the battle of Roanoke Island, were interred at Birmingham, on Monday. Gen. D.

Ttlxe, Gov. Buckingham, and a number of Stale dignitaries were in attendance. Among the rebel prisoners taken at Fort Donelson wss Rev. U. G.

Howard, who, a short time ago, preached in Bochesier, and afterwards in Chicago, from which place he went to New-Orleans. He waa officiating aa Chaplain to a regiment from that city. An interesting cane respecting the jurisdiction of foreign Corporations was, yesterday, decided at Special Terra of the Supreme Court, by Justice Lkoxakb. The decision waa in the ease of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company against the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad Company, on a motion of the defendants to set aside an allotment issued, on the 1st of the month, against funds deposited by them in this City to pay Eastern stockholders. The opinion of the General Term in the case of Bakes against the Comptroller, in respect to the bill for printing 1,500 copies of the City Charter, with Kent's notes, and in respect to the competency of the Comptroller to resist the payment of bills for which funds have been specifically appropriated, will be found in tbe law columns.

The Court at Special Term, Justice Alum, has decMed in respect to the charitable bequests of the Rose will, that they are void for uncertainty. The case has before been stated in the Times. The wilt of Caroliki L. Griffin, now admitted to probate, leaves to her pastor, Rev. Fbakcis ErrikGHAM Lawrknck, $10,000, and 400 books selected from her library.

To St. Luke's Hospital, $5,000 to the Sunday School of the Holy Communion, $5,000 alo a larjre sum to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of this City. Another heavy business was done in the Stock market yesterday. The National Securities advanced to 92 for the 6 cents, and 85 for the cents. The Railway Shares were firmer on trie and Michigan Southern, but 'S cent, lower on New-York Central.

Gold left off 103 103 Flour waa in more request yesterday, at, however, somewhat irregular prices. Wheat was inactive and unsettled. Corn was depressed, and old mixed Western was cheaper. A good demand prevailed for Provisions, chiefly hog products. Pork was dearer.

Sugars and Whisky attracted more attention. Coffee was less freely dealt in. Green Teas were moderately inquired for, as were also Hay, -Tallow, Adamantine Candles, Fruit and Tobacco. 1 1 Cotton was dull and nominal. The freight engagements were light.

The Cattle Market was quite lively yesterday, owing to a light supply less than 3,000 and cooL clear weather, which always helps the dead meat markets, and, consequently, improves the live stock trade. Many of the droves changed hands previous to being retailed, and brokers held most of the stock on their own account, and were thus enabled to advance the rates from c. fc. They were firm in their demands, and as there was an uncertainty about a further supply, butchers bought quite freely at the advance, paying 8tc.9c. for good cattle, and, if extra fat, SJc, and even 10c.

Common stock sold at 71c. or but Little higher than last week. The supply for to-day will be light, unless some of the tardy trains arrive with delayed cattle. States Coming Back. Tennessee seema inclined to return to the Union at once.

The moment the rebel armies are driven out of Virginia, she will follow tbe North Carolina win take similar action, just as soon aa her people are released from their thraldom, and Louisiana win repeal the ordinance secession as soon aa New-Orleans baa fallen into the hands of. the National armies, which will be within a month. A little! longer time may be required for Georgia; and two or three years may elapse before the other Gulf States are thoroughly converted from the error of their waya. the result certain. Sooner or later we abal have rebellion 'crushed and the Union restored.

The TrUmn pibUsbea an article from a correspondent who deprecates this result. He seems to think that restoring tbe Union mean not only bringing the Southern States back Into tt again, but restoring them to' their old political rulers, and Slavery to lis oM political lofincnce In Congress and the affairs cf the General Government. is almply impossible. The political leaJen, who have seduced the South into the National Government or dritea kilo exile by the loyal icitixens of their own States. Their race is run.

And eVca If it were pet, where wia tbey fiai a Ue Iforth, without whose all tiey nrost be farerer powerless In tie National councils Does any man sut- hw. ibat 4tjnof ratio Party. will again link its forfbna of Slavery burnt the i fire and a political party makes shipwreck lirtfe on the eatne be much kas fscaclous than the pfmccraia uily ire natural tcrvdeocyof evenu is to piace tbe political iwrr'of the Sonthern States in lie hand of Tbe power of the slave oligarchy ia Iwoken forever. And it the Nalknal GovcrBant continues to be conducted on I he batis of the Constitution, and in a spirit of wi-dirr and magnaniiLity, wc ahall bare half-a-dozen Slave Slates adopting a poL Icy in liavni ony with that Of the nation at large, within the next three years. JefT.

Davis Inaugural Speech. The suspict-s uoder which Mr. Jeff. Davis delivered bis Inaugural on last Saturday, were certainly gloomy enough for htm and his 8o-calb Government. His throne, ere it had been well set up.

was tottering to Us base; the ground was sliding from under his feet the air waa thick with ill omens, and the lightning brought him messages of disaster by every wire. Ia the West, his armies had just been routed! and taken captive his stronrjuilda had fallen, and one-fifth of his dominion bad just been wrested from bis clutch In the South he could almost see the advancing bayonets of his foes. Along the coast line, at twenty points, his enemies were penetrating into Ms' kingdom, and their cannon were at the gateways of everyone of his ciii a. In his front he beheld a host, sufficiently great to annihilate him and every vestige of bis power, about to be hurled against him. From across the seas there was no word or sign of hiipe those on whom he had relied he now found but mocked at his calamity, and laughed at his fears.

Even they of his own household welcomed the tzg of his foes, and those whom be had deceived were turning their swords against him. All around him and above him were the evidences of dissolution and destruction. Neither had he within himself the Inspiration of a just or r.oble cause, but only the consciousness that ho was going down to destruction, because he had darod to set himself np In opposition to his country's power, to the rights of man, and to foe laws of It was grotesque enough, that at suoii a moment, Mr. Jarr. Davis should declare his tottering house and his failing power, a permanent" superstructure.

Ilia address (which will be found injanother column) was as impudent, mendacious and hypocritical as himself. lie tells his auditors that tbe day ia the birthday of Washihgtok, points them to the statue of that great -souled patriot, then gives a nod to Providence and then, referring to the treasonable ceremonies going on, says, In ghastly satire, the day, the memory, and the purpose seem fitly associated." They are associated associated as usurpation and treason are with the grandest patriotism as the cause of freedom for which Washikotos fought is with the atrocious slave-propagandism, for whose sake this bloody rebellion was stirred up as TV ash-isqtoh himself is associated with Jirr. Davi8 as Judas Iscariot was with his Master. i After this allusion to the Father of his Country, Datis refers to himself talks of his mingled fee'ings of humility and pride" (feelings of hemp and the hangman would have been more appropriate) nods again to "high Heaven," whom he informs that "the unanimous voice of the people has called rue to this exalted station." If the speaker himself, and his auditors, snd the whole country, did not know by what devilish agencies this rebellion had been incited, and by what deceptions and frauda upon the people of the South he had managed to attain power, his statement might be worthy of exposuie. But the present sentiment and condition of the bulk of the plain people in Kentucky, and Missouri, and Western Virginia, and Tennessee, (all of which States he still claims as part of his Government,) and wherever our liberating army has marched, furnish a reply which nails the falsehood as soon as it leaves his throat.

Datis then formally makes his charges against the North. He reiterates the old and oft-repeated statement that it had made war against Slavery (which word he adroitly evades mentioning in this as in his other inaugural a year ago.) He accuses it of malignity and barbarity in the present war even after, in the prosecution of the war, we have shown a consideration for the rights of the citizens of the Southern States we have en tered, and a regard for the lives and property of their inhabitants, which contrasts palpably enough with the rebel cry of "No quarter," and the rebel policy of universal confiscation. He recites again the proofs of the fact that we have disregarded the time-honored bulwarks of civil and religious liberty," and deduces theiefrom our incapacity to administer a free government We even denied the right of peaceful separation" the great bulwark, it seen of Davis's tottering government i and, as a consequence, there was nothing left for him but war. This, as the world already knows, but, aa he again tells it, resulted in a million of men standing in hostile array, waging waralong a frontier of thousands of Battles," says he, have been fought, sieges conducted, and, although the contest is not and the tide, for the against ua, the final result in our fa. vcr is not doubtfuL" It does seem likely that, in hie- heart, and in those of bis hearers at lLat moment, it did appear slightly doubtful, fcu far as it depended upon success in the Belli to which the Union had been chai-lengr A year ago be relied upon the heavy column t-nd the unflinching pluck of the retxl army tut tow, la the Light of late event vrrtent appearances, that hope bs.

gins to il, and be leans upon another lees lofty a yL equally SctXL lie looks for kto-y, ot to lis army, but to the bank' n. -tc cf the "Sat icnal Government. The yerill at ear Jon rx-l ii wider the immense load of lAi triwA il lave incurred a deM which, in lhcr -Tert tt subjugate tts, has already Stx fearful dimer-sioas as wLU subject to kusk which must continue to o-v-ptcoa fi ai for to Ue wU Cu thj of bis bepss, in this way ai.lhtij-t taj their realiraJon by the tatfcns hteh 1 3 now sees are 'so aigtially faii. lag lie the tt continues ia-a 6oir.e-sk.at dcwicait tt; Its refers to lale adverse fttlusa, but ajf tiut notii- inr rould. be! so bad as failure, aad JUfvouty 4.4f a thei price ol-auweas, la such aia -tbiaka.

ioc-ade tatherl' benefteeat H''iU 9 workings states that! hi has neither asked aor received assistance from i any quarter, n'l- tAl'a-Ma- andltnra that. sua 4 aa tvuw atr (be heart br a 'people reaolTed to be free these dLsasters tend out to stimulate iuyic resistance." This latter statement so enlirtly contradicts out experience thus far In the war In the WesVihat no 'fitter contradiction of i Can be founi than Datis himself now sees in Tennessee. closes with prayer, very effectively pot, for a blessing on his "caufe." which when! we consider what that cause is, makes one as much disgusted at the blasphemy of the conclusion as with the mendacity of the whole speech. The Ethical llasis of tbe Sonthern Confederacy Considering the enormous part which perjury played in the inception of the rebel cause, there is something very odd in the flouting which Mr. Bococa, Speaker of the rebel House of Representatives, at Richmond, gave It the other day.

pis address to the rebel legislators at the opening of their conclave, which we have already published in full, was indeed occupied with little else than bot denunciations and deprecations of that crime. Here are some specimens of the staccato style in which he iterated and emphasized this point Our new system Is designed to avoid the errors of tbe old. Certainly It la toundea a a utaerem system of political philosophy, and is sustained by a peculiar and more conservative state of society. It has elements of strength and long life. But at the thtesh.

oil lies the question I have already stated. Can it legltimatelv afford the means to carry the war to a successful conclusion If not, it must perish. But it must be destroyed, not by the hand of violence or by the taint of perjury. It must go out peacefully, and in pursuance of its own provisions. Better submit to momentary inconvenience than to uy'wre repretatatn honor or violate public faith.

In the whole book ot expe. dients there is place for falsehood andperjury. Let uf on the contrary, assiduously cultivate the feeling of respect for constitutional limitation, and a taertd rtvcriKCt for the sanction of au oath. If one did not know the character of the men to whom this lesson in ethics was ad dressed, one might well read it as a grotesque bll of irony, That representatives of any society above he level of the Fan-Fans, or a community of gorillas, needed to be told that it is better to submit to momentary incon venience than to violate public faith," and tha in the whole book of expedients there is no place for falsehood and perjury," (and this, it will be noticed, not merely stated by the way, but made the subject of direct didactic incul cation,) may well be accounted one of the strongest of moral anomalies. But he meant no irony in the matter.

The ethical Bocock lectured the men of, what he calls, the new system," after this wise for no other reason than that they needed the lesson. He must have been perfectly conscious that he was addressing men, every one of whom had the crime of repeated perjuries on his soul. He simply meant to admonish his brother legislators that they must be very careful to guard themselves against indulging in licenses which, thouch perfectly legitimate and proper under the Constitution of the United States, would not do at all for the new "Confederacy." What undid that, he seems to say, might play the deuce with this. A little honor, even among thieves, gentlemen! But where he f.nds his guarantee for any such sadden devel. opment of the moral sense in the traitor league, or how he expects a "Confederacy" avowedly based on that very principle of State Rights which the rebel chiefs have used as the anodyne to soothe their guilty consciences while perpetrating treason, will tend to impress on men's minds obligations more sacred than the Constitution of the Fathers, are matters that are not obvious to us, if they are to Bocock.

But, indeed, from whatever point of view we look at the stupendous sham which 'these men have set up, we see there is not virtue enough in it to keep it long from putrefaction. What Manner of Government is it The English statesmen, whether Ministerial or Opposition, who have taken ground in Par. liament against the recognition of a separate Southern power in this country, will certainly find no reason to regret their well considered prudence in the inaugural ofMr. Davis. They will rather rejoice that such a shadow of Government as i by his own confession he would have the world recognize in a mere league! of insurrectionary States, has been denied all present official consideration if not ail hope of future place among the acknowledged Powers of this Continent While speaking of the Union from which he is endear, oring to separate himself, as a voluntary union of sovereign States, instituted by the fathers of theConstitution.the implication is that hewould have the new league of the South rest upon the complete sovereignty of the several Stalest which States shall be left free to come and go at wilL To make this implication the plainer, he dwells in a subsequent paragraph upon the voluntary nature of this association of Con federated States, and with a strange perver sion or misapplication of terms, speaks of the conservatism jof a Constitutional Government Nor is this all.

The very nature of this voluntary association of sovereignties is urged upon the world as the best security against foreign wars and the most infallible guard against civil strife. It is scarely in the chapter ef possibilities that any great European Government constitutional or despotic, win be content to accept or recognize it as a substantive Power, upon an avowed principle of this nature certainly not until the league assumes at least the sem blance of poli tical consolidation, so far as to prosecute its own independence of the United States, without falllrj" to piece by the Yoluntary withdrawal of udr Bor der States as Tennessee, and the flight of the Provisional of Southern Kentucky and Missouri. The conspiracy, of which Jlr. Paris is the' head, were more than content to receive the State of Tennessee into their league, net on the principle of seceding irom ice unttec States, but under a virtual disclaimer of the right of accession, and on the reTolctloaaTy right of separation. The Slate joined the new league for common defence; not scloibwledgrnent ofthe original basis npon which the league was forced by' tie Gulf Stales.

And notr that this ccrcmon defence fails her, she can voluntas Dy withdraw, and by the simple rcoeal of the leilalive and rovoiutionary c( cf sew 1 ration, jetura to her old Of this, no reasonable 'complaint can1 be made by tlu voluntary association at Richmond- The kt jrlll ho the. logical eouduloa of their own manner of governments We need scarcely arid, that the example of Tennessee will be contagious, and to the Datis experiment utter and irretrievable rum. The entire fabric crumbles to pieces for the want of the Constitutional base of self-preservation. In appealing to Foreign Powers to recognise in the voluntary nature of the league the best security against foreign wars and civil strife, Mr. Datis deprives his own Government of all authority to hold the league together, even so long as to make good its own independence.

Nor will foreign, States be content with the guaranty, if such it may be called, against tlte future disturbance of the peace of the world, in the voluntary nature of this league, much less trade, and make treaties with it on the miserable assurance that at the first moment of asserting their right of secession, these States proposed a settlement on the basis of a common liability for the obligations of the General Government." There will be no difficulty, we apprehend, in detecting the sophistry of this assurance, with any European merchant or statesman, and the flimty pretext that this voluntary princi; le constitutes the sum total of its conservatism, will scarcely answer their very natural inquiry, What manner of Government is it? Senator Sumner's Plan for Reorganizing, tbe National Government. 1 Tk. Sonntnr Kruvrn'fl 4 7 wt 1UUVI9VO plan for carrying on the Government after the rebellion shall have been crushed. That plan is simply to abolish every hveholding State that has seceded, and to organize the soil of them all as Territories, to be governed by ap- pointment Irom wasntngton. ine irxoune thinks that timid, conservative salads" may shrink from a policy which "must strike many feaders as very radical," but that at every stage of the struggle the policy of Senator Scmvxr's view is equally clear and decisive." We cannot concur in this opinion.

We believe that policy to be utterly fatal to every great interest of the United States, certain to end, if adopted at ail, in rendering peace impossible, and in converting the entire Southern portion of the Republic into a field of prolonged and bloody civil war. That it sweeps away the present Constitution, and destroys forever the Union which our fathers gave us, is perfectly evident. Not a vestige will be left of either. We are to have a new Constitution and a new Union a Government resting upon entirely differont principles from those under which we have prospered hitherto, and utterly incompatible with the ends and objects which our National framework sought to attain. Instead of having a National Union, in which each State will be left to the control of its own local affairs, the National Government being limited to National objectf in the sphere of its authority, we shall have simply a centralized despotism, in which everything like freedom will be extinguished, and all rights will be permanently held at Khe will of the central power.

We do not believe the people of any section, or any considerable portion of them, are ready for any such change in the character of our Government The Trilune thinks the adoption of this policy would have prevented secession. Possibly it might but as no man ever dreamed of proposing it, the plan has been postponed too long to serve as a preventive. But it would crush the rebellion now, says the Tribune. Possibly but we can accomplish the game result on better terms. We can crush the rebellion by force of arms.

We can do it and save the Constitution. Mr. Srxxaa would abolish the Constitution in order to put down a rebellion against it. He would destroy the Union in order to thwart an attempt to dissolve it. The whole scheme is preposter.

ous, quite as visionary and absurb as the theory on which he professes to base it that every seceding State has committed felo de se. The phrase smacks much more of the Court of Sessions than of the Senate Chamber. There is much more of special pleading in it than of statesmanship The Tribune urges it because it would forever consolidate the Union against its only gTeat danger, that which arises from the doctrine of State sovereignty." There is no danger in this doctrine, if it be only kept within its proper limits. If it goes beyond them, if it pushes a State into rebellion against the National sovereignty, then it must be pushed back. But the doctrine that a State has control of it local affairs is a perfectly just and true doc.

trine. It is the very basis of our form of Government. It gives the only true security for popular freedom and for the preservation of our civil rights, and the day that sees it extinguished will see the sun of American liberty set forever. We do not want the Union consolidated against the just rights of the States that compose it Tbe South has carried the doctrine of State sovereignty to an absurd extreme. In asserting the right of a State to nullify National laws, or to release its people from allegiance to the National Constitution, it transcended its rights, and did violence at once to the true doctrine of State authority, and to the rightful supremacy of the General Government This error is In process of being corrected, and the discipline is one which will not encourage its The real object of Senator Suitsxa's 'policy and the real motive of the Tribune's indorsement of it, is to get a chance to abolish Slavery in the States.

If the Slave 'States can be converted by an act of Congress into National territory, then, CongTesa having the authority to make aU needful rules and regulations respecting the territory of the United States," may; abolish Slavery within their limits. The end does not justify the means. Nor would the end itself be attained 'ia any way beneficial to the slates, or acceptable to that great mass cf the American people who desire to see the curse of Slavery safely and advantageously removed. Senator Srarxa's plan makes every interest, every every guarantee of the Constitution and the subordinate to the abolition of Slavery. Even if Slavery could be brought to an end' la no other way, the people wonld not agree with Grievous as are the evils of Slarerr.

the evils of abolishing the Constitution and the Union would be ten times Eat there is not the slightest necessity for ny such extreme and frarful experiment Thrare pf SlaTcry Ja mleibrefcThe power wwc nas aiona tnalntained It, becomea extinct a the, result; of fto nres-en war. -alt staked, Its i existence oa the auc- wii rebellion it Talis forever when the rebellion la' crathe Constitution is to bo coostrued, tbe.Gorer. mcnt is io bevconductedvthe affairs of the" Republic are to be learned on, im the inUrttt of Freedom and not of Slavery. itself secures tfce end desired. There' hi the slightest necessity even If there justice, in resorting to th radical and destine- ive poucy proposea oy air.

sviMis'rjpotf thu The New Truant Officra This City baa reason to be thankful for tha excellent management of the Metronqlitat Board of Police The former slip-shod -guar-diana of society, who nsed to hang about cor, ner-groccrie8; and were in Intimate relation of friendship with gamblers and simps, ire i replaced by a well-dressed, orderly; discinllaedj force, with much esprit du corps, who- are a real terror to evil doers. Tho personnel of the force is admirab we doubt if a fioer-look-; tog body of men la physical proportions caa be found in the country. The old habits of slovenliness and dawdling are mostly brokea up. Tbe men carry themselves well, are neat" In person, and respectful to strangers' The "Deicctive Force Is very actire snd well m.iinjvu, muiM. WW UvUvf VUG ID UV larga city in the world here there la less of picking pockets and petty thieving; Of course.

there tra 1 anmn tronblaanm relics of the old system of police, and the force in some wards needs weeding out" yet. Men arc still found who are ready to disgrace the name of an officer of the law, by guilty connivance with criminals, and there Is still i Ilct of ttforough military discline sotrje portions of the body. Still, on the whole, Va may aiW compare the orderly condition ef our City and police-management with; (hit of any European city. Crime is on the decreaseespecially among! the young and is a a a v-v 4 sierniy Kept unaer. ueeas or violence occur no more frequently than tiey must every where here nvd mlhdred thousand human beings gather together.

Every street and lane of the Metropolis, in the darkest hour of tha night, is perfectly safe to stranger or citizea. It is true, certain species of crime, as gam bling, and the evils connected with prostitution, are reached with more difficulty, but thia is doe rather to defective legislation than any want of energy in the Police Commissioners. One of the most beneficent measures which they have originated, has been carried out during this year of civil :war.T The crying evil of our City, as every one knows, la the vagrancy and consequent crime of the young children of poor people, who are mostly foreigners. The opening of a life of. juvenile crime Is usually in truancy from school The boy runs away from wholesome restraint; he grows np uneducated and without discipline evil companions soon lead him to acta of petty crime he learns the dodges and the slang of the thieves and rowdies, and sooa becomes accomplished in the arts of juvenile wickedness.

To nrevent trnanev baa lono hn Mr thdhfi interested in the welfare of the young, as one of the first steps in renovating our City. Onr New-England brethren have recognized the importance of this for years, and the Boston Truant Law, with the Truant Officers," have accomplished wonders In preventing the first beginnings of juvenile vagrancy and criminality in that city. For some four years, a similar Police agency has worked to great advantage In Brooklyn. Under the general act, the Commissioners in New-York have this Winter detailed two officers as tSPOT frffiAevain wwa Tf TOAf mwA Im aHI gence, whose duty it is to visit every school in the City, find, out the truants, and then to go to the houses of (toe parents to compel or induce them to keep their children from the streets, and place them in the schools. The mere visit of the officer with an explanation of the law, to the parents or to the school, is enough.

The children are fearful of playing truant again, or the parents are aroused to a more responsible 'sense of their duty In educating their children. i If a child Is persistently truant, the officers have the power, under thl act, of bringing it before the Jndge, when It can bo placed temporarily in a place of. detention. But this severity, thus far, has not been necessary. Every one parents and teachers have received the officers with the greatest kindness and courtesy, and feel the public value of their labors.

The only exception to this kindly reception is with some of the Trustees of schools in the Ninth Ward. These gentlemen, we understand, haye declined to permit the officers to collect the truants of their schools. It Incumbent on them to explain to the public why they are resisting a measure so plainly beneficial to the whole community. It should be remarked that these officers are not authorized to touch the gTeat' eril of "non-attendance on school and: of Tagrancy among children, th meet with all the while. The tens of thousands of children who never enter the pnblle school, they have nothing at present to do with their duty ia merely to reclaim the truants.

Their success is shown by the fact, that in two months over five hundred truants have been brought back to regular attendance on the public This Ls an encouraging beginning of their work. We hope for sUU greater results. tt hi da Btoeckel, the Buaalan Minister at Waahtaatota- la aUmmtmm IK AllMimarl TtntmlJ AWBMUr UWMQ XDMff Will1 speadent, who arrived from Canada on Monday, Is at the Brevoort Bouse. i i w. It i m- uov.

aoeKtrjgnam was tame city au el yesterday forenoon, and returned some la the afternoon, Hea.G.aV. Backet, of Seneca Falls i James Er-pata and lady, ef Bontoa CapL J. W. Jones, of the V. 8.

Army Lieut N. HoHy.of the Seventh Infantry ef the U. 8. Army i CapC IL P. top, ef PhiladaV Jtla mA ml Tin.

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S. Arwy IL Lord, of Ohio, and Wea. noa, X. Jtaguan, a. iu.

m. w. immhuiwi n. Whtuiey, laeae Cnshlflg and E. Batehelder, of Bostoa Major Bavaea.

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Stargis Hooper, ef Bostoa A. P. sloatant, ef Paris, and Mr. Cadwalader and Mr. Raul, ef Philadelphia, are at the Brevoort House, i a.

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