Additional from the North.
From our latest Northern files we get some additional intelligence, which we did not have room for yesterday:
The Presidential question.
The Washington
Republican quotes from the Cincinnati
Commercial a paragraph regarding the correspondence between
President Lincoln and
Secretary Chase, and adds: ‘"We do not know what motive the correspondent of the
Commercial could have, if any, in stating anything more than the fact about the correspondence referred to After the celebrated hoax appeared, attributed to
Senator Pomeroy,
Mr. Secretary Chase addressed a rote to the
President, not disapproving the language of the 'circular,' but in tone rather apologetic, stating that he had not seen the circular until after it was published; that at the request of friends he stood in the attitude of a candidate for the Presidency and submitted the queston to the
President whether he deemed his (
Chase's) position incompatible with his duties as a member of the
Cabinet.
The President replied that
Mr. Chase's position, as the head of the Treasury Department, would not be considered upon any other basic than that of the public interest, and in that light he was not then aware that he (the
President) had any occasion to complain.
The appearance in
Mr. Chase's home organ of the paragraph above quoted makes this explanation necessary."’
A dying Government.
In the
Yankee House of Representatives last Wednesday.--
Mr. Voorhees, of
Indians, said it was a melancholy spectacle to behold a free Government die. Liberty once lost has never in the history of the world been regained by the same people.
A republican form of government once overthrown has never risen again.
Whenever in the wide domain of human conduct, a people once possessed of liberty, with all the power in their own hands, had surrendered these great gifts of good at the command of a usurper, they have never afterward proven themselves worthy to regain their forfeited treasure.
The American Republic, he said, is dying, and he proceeded to enumerate the causes which are working its downfall, saying, among other things, that under the present Administration, justice was no longer established, nor the blessings of liberty secured to the citizen.
No instance in all history could be found where a people claiming Christian civilization has waged a war of any kind against any foe, in dumb ferocious silence, without a word, sign, or a look in behalf of a peaceful solution, as long as we have now been engaged in this cruel conflict.
He argued at length that negotiation now opened would lead to a restoration of the
Union without further slaughter, and that such a course of statesmanship was sanctioned by enlightened precedent, and especially commanded by Divine law. But such a course would not accomplish emancipation, nor bind up a central despotism; hence it was not pursued by the party in power.
He argued that the management of the Treasury Department had rendered bankruptcy and ruin inevitable.
He spoke of
Gen. Burnside as infamous and brutal for his agency in banishing that statesman and Christian gentleman,
Mr Vallandigham; and in conclusion, said the
Union could not be fully dissolved, but that every day which the present party remained in power rendered its restoration more remote, and the burdens and sufferings of the people more in tolerable.
He warned the
South not to look forward to separation and independence but to embrace every opportunity to co-operate with the conservative men of the
North in returning to their allegiance on a basis of perfect security for all their rights and institutions as American citizens.
It this be done, the next Presidential election will put an end to the war and death, and bring a constitutional Union of the States.
A telegram from
Washington says:
‘
Gens. Pleasanton and
Birney were examined before the
Committee on the Conduct of the
War to- day, in relation to the
battle of Gettysburg--Their evidence, especially that of
Gen. Birney, was very damaging to
Gen. Meade.
Among other things they stated that there was nothing to have prevented our force from pursuing the rebels the day after the battle, and utterly routing and destroying
Lee's whole army.
Some new facts were also elicited respecting councils of war held at that time, and what was proposed to be done, but which propositions were overruled by
Meade.
’
Another adds:
‘
General Meade has arrived here, having been summoned here to appear before the
Committee on the Conduct of the
War, to answer charges preferred against him by
Generals Sickles and
Double-day, alleged to be ordering a retreat at
Gettysburg.
A full opportunity will be given to him to disprove them and if he falls it may lose him the command of the Army of the Potomac.
A number of the officers who participated in the fight at
Gettysburg have been subpoena.
The matter is assuming a rather serious aspect.
’
Gen. Gibbon, in a letter to the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, denies the assertion that a corps commander had in his pocket, on the second day of the
battle of Gettysburg an order to retreat.
An arrival at New York from New Orleans announces that
Admiral Farragut was operating actively against
Mobile.
The mortar and gunboat fleet were bombarding Fort Powell, at the entrance to
Grant's pass, and it was believed that it would not hold out long.
The rebel ram
Tennessee was inside
Mobile Bay, near
Fort Morgan.--Troops were being forwarded from New Orleans to take part in the attack on
Mobile.
Miscellaneous.
Warren W. Wing has been confirmed by the
Yankee Senate as Postmaster at
Norfolk, Va.
Edward Everett has taken charge of a fund of $100,000, to be raised in
Massachusetts, for the "long persecuted" loyalists of
East Tennessee.
Mr. Baldwin, of
Mass., was called to order in the
Yankee Congress last week for speaking of
ex- President Buchanan as "that miserable man."
The
Herald wants to know if it took so many millions in other days to subdue one
Florida indian how much and how long it will take to subjugate the "
Irish-
Seminole Billy Bowlegs Finnegan" now there.
The Nashville
Union is requested "by the highest authority' to announce the no more passes will be granted to the wives and families of officers to the front of any of the armies in that theatre of operations.
A private letter from
Havana dated March 1, received in
Baltimore, states that the gunboat
DeSoto was in the dry dock there.
The blockade runners and secessionists in
Havana had threatened to burn the vessel, and also threatened the officers with violence.
The Spanish authorities, however, had given the officers of the
De Soto permission to wear their side-arms, and they now visit the city fully armed.
The London
Times says: ‘"The
German and New York packet steamers are now heavily insured against war risks; they are all, however, very fast, and will probably be able to avoid the
Danish men-of-war.
The
Germania, last week, ran from the
Sicily Isles to the Needles in 14 hours."’
The Philadelphia
Age notices the curious fact that the number of men who were killed, crippled, or captured in the recent
Florida disaster would have about sufficed to reorganize that State under the amnesty proclamation.
Fourteen hundred votes were more than were required, and about that number were placed
hors du combat. A life for a vote!
The Baltimore
American says: ‘"it is not believed that the words '
Jeff. Davis and Cabinet killed' were contained in the original order found on
Dahlgren's body, but were interpolated by the enemy."’
