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LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.
The Inman steamship Etna has arrived, with ad-
vices from New York to the 3d.

The New York Journal of Commerce says :

" The Police Board have been thrown into a state
of consternation by orders from Governor Seymour,
directing all the members to I.ppear at Albany to-
day for trial upon grave charges of official miscon-
duct. The order and its formal charges, copies of
which are also published, were served upon Com-
missioners Acton and Bergen on New Year's-day,
and must have considerably marred the felicity of
that festive occasion. Commissioner Bowen re-
ceived his little surprise to the same effect yester-
day, and may be supposed to bear it with more
equanimity thau bis colleagues, as he has the com-
mission of a Brigadier-General to fall back on,
should the charges be sustained and the whole
Board removed, as confidently expected. The Com-
missioners held a meeting yesterday, at which this
new turn in their affairs was anxiously discussed—
with what result is unknown. Ali kinds of rumours
are abroad concerning the policy and plans of the
Board. Some persons, who profess to know, say
that they will pay no attention to the Governor's
order and let their case go by default, taking it for
granted that their removal is a certainty. Others
say that they will throw the whole thing into the
courts, and trust to the ingenuity of able lawyers
to keep their places a little longer. But it is not
worth while to speculate on the probability of any
of these reports in view of the speedy decision which
the Commissioners will be obliged to make upon
the issue before them, The following is a copy of
the Governor's citation : ,

" Executive Chamber, Albany, Jan. 1.

" ' Sir,—Annexed are copies of charges of official
misconduct preferred against you, and I do hereby
appoint Saturday next, the 3d of January inst., at
of
2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Executive
Cham-
ber, at the Capitol, in this city... Albany, as the
time and place of hearing the same.---1 am,
SeymourBlc was inaugurated at Albany
very
HORATIO SEvxr
respectfully,
Governor
-.....0uR.,,,
on the 2d. He was addressed as follows by Governor
Morgan :
" Governor Seymour,—The oath you have just
taken fulfils the requirements of the constitution
and laws, and again formally invests you with
the high office of Governor of the State of
New York. As such I now greet-you, and tender
to your administration all the support which a pri-
vate citizen can give. Confiding in your ability
and patriotism, the people of this, your native State,
have called you to the discharge of duties second
only in importance to those of the chief magistracy
of the United States. A change of administration
here has never taken place at a period so crowded 1
with vital events as now. Fortunately, the duties
are not new to you, and though of the gravest
character, and of the most perplexing nature, yet
in their conscientious discharge you will have the
approbation of all good men. Herein will be your
reward. In closing an administration of four year
duration s'
in the midst of acivil
speaking in war,
found it necessary in which Ihave
to assume more than ordinary
responsibilities,
81
vshes urosuaild have felt a satisfaction in
detain!, especially in reference to mili-
tary affairs; but
directed to make full argepeorhtsss
fnorotussea.netTioou , -t
li this,
l
the chiefs the
staff departments have been
refer for specific information
As,as to the part New
York has borne in the war.
be scrupulously careful in relation however, ho you will
to
ofwhatever con-
cerns the honour or the interestthe State, I
know it will be gratifying for You to be assured

1 that its credit never stood higher; that its funded
debt is rapidly diminishing; that its principal and
interest have been protiptly paid in coin ; that its
public funds are adequate for every proper demand
on them ; that the surplus revenue of the canals
have increased from 900,000 dole, in 1858
to 4,000,000 dole. in 1861, and that taxa-
tion may be largely reduced to the present
year, and this when scarcely less than a quarter
of a million of our people are voluntarily engaged
in the military service of the country. Of such a
State, and with such a record, we may well be
proud. Would that I could speak thus encourag-
ingly of national affairs, but we may not anticipate
immediate peace. Millions of people, aroused by
imaginary wrongs to fierce passion, cannot at once
return to reason ; their resentment must have time
to cool, and the delusion under which they act to be
dissipated, but the day most surely come when the
people of the South will again own the same sove-
reignty, honour the same laws, and Sght under the
same flag. At present we must use the sword ; it
cannot be sheathed until those in rebellion shall lay
down their arms and the Constitution and the laws
have uniform sway."
At the conclusion of GOvernor Morgan's address,
which was warmly applauded, Governor Seymour
thanked Governor Morgan for the kind expression
of his good wishes, and congratulated him on the
able close of his administiation. He then said :
tiw
"I have solemnly swo to support tile Constitu-
tion of the United States ith all its grants, re-
strictions, and guarant , 4 and I shall support it.
I have also sworn to suptaithe Constitution of the
State of Now York, with all its powers and rights,
and I shall uphold it. I have sworn to support the
duties of the office of Governor of the State, and
with your aid they shall be faithfully performed.
These Constitutions and laws are meant for the
guidance of our official conduct, and for your pro-
tection and welfare. The first law recorded for my
observance is that declaring that 'it shall be the
duty of the Governor to maintain and defend the
Sovereignty of the State.' The most strict injunc-
tion of the Constitution is that the Governor shall
take care that the laws ' are faithfully executed,'
and so help me God they shall be. I will not dwell
on the present occasion on our national affairs. Our
position, as a State, has been happily alluded to by
my predecessor. My views on the subjeet will be
laid before the L, gislature. • While knowing that
my position gives me little control over national
affairs, I yet venture to trust that before the end of
my term of service the country will be again great,
glorious, and united, as it once was."

The New York Chamber of Commerce adopted
on the 2d the following resolutions respecting the
Alamama:—

"Whereas on the 21st day of October last a state-
mentl emanating from Captain Hagar, of the ship
ab a me as , wasuti produced to this
ons were Brilliant, recently burnt at sea by the captain and
w of 11 e
and
a a ms
teer
eseriesA of r 0
Chamber,r
unanim-
ously adopted, the object of which was to warn the
merchants of Great Britain, in a friendly spirit, of
the evil consequences likely to ensue from a repeti-
tion of such piratical acts from the fitting out in
the ports of Great Britain of other vessels like the
Alabama, destined to plunder and destroy our com-
merce on the high seas, and whereas this Chamber
are led to believe that other vessels have sailed or
are about to sail from Great Britain for the express
purpose of destroying American ships in distant
parts of the world, and in an answer of Earl Rus-
sell to the council of the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce, is found the following passage, to wit
" Sir,—l am directed by Earl Russell to reply
to your letter of the sth inst. respecting the destruc-
tion by the Confederate steamer Alabama of British
property embarked in American vessels and burnt
by that steamer. Earl Russell desires me to state to
you that British property on board a vessel belong-
ing to one of the belligerents must be subject to the
risks and contingencies of war, so far as the capture
of the vessel is concerned. The owner of any Bri-
tish property, not being contraband of war, on
board a Federal vessel captured and destroyed by a
Confederate vessel of war, may claim in a Confede-
rate prize court compensation for such destruction
of property f and
" Whereas, action on the part of the Liverpool
Chamber of Commerce, so far as at present known,
has been limited to a reference to the proceedings
of this Chamber to their counsel, and on the part
of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, to her Majesty's Government, as set forth in
the communisation from Mr. Tronsa and Mr. Ten
nant, secretary of these hon. bodies.
" Whereas, since the month of October last it has
come to the knowledge of this Chamber that the
Laurette, T. B. Walls, and other ships, have been
captured by the Alabama, and that in the first-
named a considerable portion of the cargo was on
British account, and certified to be such, and under
the hand and real of the British Consul ; and,

" Whereas, there is no evidence before this
Chamber to show that in thp absence of a recognized
Government of which to demand redress, the British
Government has issued orders to the naval cotn-
rmuannddoerwonf
andll Her Britannic
nntihcoAAlalajebstaym'sn, as an offenderships of war to
against the property and honour of Great Britain as
well as an offender against the rights and interests
of humanity; and

" Whereas, it is alleged that the Alabama is con-
tinually supplied from Great Britain with coal and
ammunition, by means of which she is enabled to
continue her piratical course against American com-
merce, the consequence being to raise the premium
of insurances on American veaaels and their cargoes,
and to depress the rate of freights in American
ships, and to transfer our carrying trade to vessels
of other nations, this Chamber is lea to the follow-
ing conclusions :

"1. That through the active instrumentality of
the subjects of Great Britain, the so-called Confede-
rate States are furnished with ships, men, arms,
and ammunition, with which to war on the cora-
meree of the United States.

" 2. That without such foreign aid the States in
revolt against the Government of the United States
would be powerless to effect any injury to American
commerce on the high seas.
"3. That this war on American commerce, car-
ried on by ships built and manned in Great Britain,
if not rebuked by the British press generally, is not
discouraged by the public sentiment of a once
friendly nation, claiming to be guided by high and
honourable principles, and is not effectually and
thoroughly arrested by the strong will and stronger
arm of the British Government.

"4. That as a result of the foregoing facts and
conclusions, the merchants of the United States
are subjected in a certain degree to the evils which
would attend a state of War with Great Britain,
and are compelled to witness the carrying trade
of their country transferred from their own vessels
to British bottoms under all the sanctions and
advantages of peace and neutrality to the latter,
while the source of this great peril, threatening to
drive American commerce from the ocean, is of
British origin ; now therefore—

" Resolved, that a committee of ten be appointed
to take into consideration the foregoing, and to re-
port at a special meeting, to be called for the pur-
pose, what action it becomes this chamber to adopt
on the premises."
On the occasion of his recent raid north of the
Rrippahannock Gen. Stuart played some queer
pranks with the telegraph. Among other things
he sent a telegram toQuartermaster-Gen. Melgs at
Washington, requesting him to furnish the Confe-
derate army with better mules, as those provided of
late had been of very poor quality. Out in Ken-
tucky Morgan played a sernewhAt similar trick.
Reaching Mumfordville on Friday of last week, his
operator,
a man
.named And, who lately left the Louisville office, immediately attached his
.instru-
ment and sent a despatch to Gen. Boyle, as if from
T_his stated that Morgan was in
Gen. Granger.

the vicinity of Cowling Green, in tehOing making
an attack, and asking for aid. Gen. Boyle made
answer that he could not give him any. Gen.
Granger (Morgan) then asked if there were no
troops in Louisville which could be sent to his aid.
Gen. Boyle sent word that there were no troops in
Louisville at all. Gen. Granger asked Boyle what
disposition had been made of the troops. Gen.
Boyle told him the force and position of his troops,
spoke of their efficiency, &c , and gave all I h.-) in-
formation in regard to them that Morgan wan'el.
Mo gan then sent in his own name a polite message
to Boyle, calling him "a bright youth and smart
boy," ending with characteristic vulgarity. The
operator then sent a love-letter to his sweetheart in
Lexington and a note to the operator at Louisville
to forward, and closed the office he had established.
The War Department had received the following
despatch :

" Headquarters, Cincinnati, Jan. 2.
"Major-Gen. Granger reports that he has received a de-
spatch from Major Foley, commanding an expedition sent
by him to Elk Park, Campbell county, Tennessee, consist-
ing of 250 men of the 6th and 10th Kentucky Cavalry,
stating that on Sunday morning last he surprised a camp
of rebels 350 an ong at that place, killing 30, wounding 17,
" and capturing 51, without the loss of a man. All their camp
equipage was burnt, and 80 horses and a large amount of
arms captured.
"H. G. WRIGHT, Major-General Commanding.
"Major-Gen. Halleck, General-in-Chief."
" Headquarters, Cincinnati, Jan. 2.
"Mtijor-General Halleck, General-in-Chief,—l have just
learned from Major-Gen. Granger that Major Stearns, of
the 14th Kentucky cavalry, with 150 men, who were ordered
by him on a scout to aaeertain the whereabouts of a large
band of guerillas in the eastern part of Powell county,Ken-
tucky, on the 26th ult., after travelling all night over ob-
scure and dangerous bridle paths came upon their camps.
They were preparing to move. Major Stearns dashed upon
them, capturing their leader, a noted guerilla, and 11 men.
The rest, though outnumbering Major Stevens' force, were
utterly routed and escaped into the dense woods, brush, and
mountain gorges. 25 horses and a large amount of clothing
blankets, guns, pistols, &c., that were being transported to
Humphrey Marshall's camp, were also captured.
" H. G. WRIGHT, Major-General Commanding."
From Cairo we have the following intelligence :
"Cairo, Jan. 2.

" A steamer from below reports that the gunboats accom-
panying Gen. Sherman's expedition have gone up Yazoo
river. At Drumingol's Bluff, 20 miles above the mouth, a
rebel battery was discharged. A severe cannonade followed,
during which the gunboat Benton was struck 16 times, the
shots penetrating. Gen. Sherman's force will debark up
the Yazoo and march to near Vicksburg. A train with sup-
plies would leave Memphis yesterday for Holly Springs.
When Island No. 10 was evacuated lately 69 cannon were
spiked and 10,000 rounds of ammunition thrown into the
river. Jefferson Davis addressed the Mississippi Legisla-
ture at Jackson on the 28th ult."

From Louisville, Kentucky, we have the follow-
ing advices :
" LOUISVILLE, JAN. 1.

" The guerilla Morgan crossed the Cumberland river and
cut off Nashville at Gainsborough and appeared in front of
Mumfordsville on the 27th December. Col, Hobson, of the
18th Kentucky, drove part of his force, killing nine and
capturing 16. Morgan then crossed Green river, above
Mumfordsville, and moved in the direction of Elizabeth-
town, burning the bridge at Beaver Creek and Nolin. He
also destroyed the trestlework at Muldraugh's-hill, and
moved for Rolling Fork. Col. Harlan, commanding the
10th Kentucky, overtook him at Rolling Fork, and attacked
him, killing and wounding a number and capturing a cap-
tain and some privates. The rebel Colonel Dull died of his
wounds, as also did one of our lieutenants of artHery.
Col. Harlan crossed, pursued, and attacked Morgan at Rol-
ling Fork and the Salt River Bridge. This is the first in-
stance, I believe, of infantry routing and attacking cavalry.
Morgan fled before Harlan to Bardstown, and from there
attempted to escape between Lebanon axed Camp Belleville.
Col, Hoskins, of the 12th Kentucky, commanding there,
attacking him this morning, killing a number and captur-
ing 90 of his men, and capturing his caissons and ammu-
nition waggons. Morgan is flying precipitately. General
Reynolds marched from Glasgow yesterday for Greens-
burg, and may intercept him. Col. Hulsey, of the 6th Ken-
tucky Cavalry, was killed. Our casualties are not yet re-
ported, Morgan has paid dearly for what he has done.
" January 2.

" Colonel Hoskins, of the 12th Kentucky Regiment,
commanding the Federal Forces at Lebanon, Kentucky, at-
tacked the guerilla Morgan south of the Columbia road yes-
terday, killing and wounding several, and capturing 60 of
his force, together with their caissons, ammunition wag-
gons, and provisions. Colonel Halliday, of the Gth Ken-
tucky Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle, commanding
9th Kentucky Cavalry, with the 6th Kentucky Infantry,
are in pursuit of Morgan. The infantry are under Colonel
Hoskins. Morgan is retreating very rapidly in the direc-
tion of Columbia. Major Foley, commanding 175 of the
18th Kentucky Cavalry, surprised 350 rebels in camp at
Elk Fork, Campbell county, killing and wounding 17, cap-
turing 51, burning all their camp equipage, capturing 80
horses and a large amount of arms. The report that 15,000
rebels crossed the Cumberland last Monday and were
moving towards Louisville is discredited at headquarters."

The siege of Vicksburg has been re-commenced.
The Richmond papers of the 31st contain the fol-
lowing :--

" Vicksburg, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1862.

" On Saturday the enemy made four desperate attempts
to force our lines on the Chickasaw Bluffs, with heavy loss.
The 17th Louisiana greatly distinguished itself, repulsing,
unaided, the assault of three full regiments of Yankees. On
Sunday morning the enemy again advanced on our lines,
and were repulsed with heavy loss. All the troops behaved
gallantly, but special mention is made of the 28th and 17th
Louisiana Regiments, the former regiment maintaining the
ground all day against superior forces. Our loss on Sunday
was one killed and two wounded ; Bth Tennessee, feur killed
and six wounded, Captain C. A. Gently among the killed ;
17th Tennessee, two killed and two wounded ; 81st Ten-
nessee, one killed, none wounded. One of General Lee's
couriers had his leg shot off. Woofford's Artillery lost
one sergeant killed. No particulars of the casualties in
other regiments. On Monday afternoon 8,000 of the
enemy advanced upon our regiments on the right wing of
the Chickasaw Bayou to storm the works, but were mowed
down in large numbers, and upwards of 400 prisoners
taken, with five stands of colours.—The enemy were driven
back to their boats, and afterwards sent in a flag of truce
for permission to bury their dead, under which some of
the prisoners escaped. Fighting still continues with no
important results. The fighting of our troops was splendid.
The 28th Louisiana again immortalised itself for the gal-
lant manner in which it acted during the battle. The
Yankee prisoners say that Morgan is their general com-
manding. Severe fighting is going on now. The enemy
have destroyed the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Rail-
road as far as Delhi, a distance of 33 miles. They are also
said to have burnt the town of Delhi, which is reported to
be totally destroyed. Our casualties in yesterday's fight
were small. This morning firing is heard in the same direc-
tion, and it is supposed the enemy are again advancing to
storm our works. The soldiers are eager to meet the enemy,
and are determined to conquer or die.
"Knoxville, Dee. 29, 1862.

" The Commissioner's Court is trying for treason Butler,
a member of the Legislature, and A. 1). Smith. Great feel-
ing is manifested.

" Mobile, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1862.
" President Davis and staff arrived here at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.

" The Richmond Dispatch states that there are 1,450
Union prisoners in the Libby Prison."
Another vessel of the Banks expedition had been
lost near Chesapeake Bay.
At Norfolk, on the 31st ult., owing to the miscon-
struction of an order issued for a different purpose,
about 200 persons were arrested while returning
from places of amusement. Considerable excitement
was created in Norfolk by a negro celebration. The
contrabands collected together, met their marshals,
formed a procession consisting of at least 4,000
negroes of all kinds and colours, headed by a band
of music (drums and fifes), and paraded through the
principal streets of the city. They carried several
Union flags, and cheered loudly for the downfall of
African slavery. It was understood that they were
celebrating the birthday of the emancipation pro-
clamation.
Advices from Falmouth of the 2clinst,, state that
Stuart had succeeded in retiring across the Rappa-
hannock near Warrenton. General Burnside had
returned from Washington. Several contrabands
alfrom
Richmond,
c h
officer,
en e dr
had come into camp, and were received in accord-
anceh
British army, had been
with the prolamation.
on the charge of acting as an emissary of the Con-
er
federates;
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i p Constitution left San Francisco on
the Ist inst. with 1,067,000 dols. in specie for Eng-
land, and 3%8,000 for New York. The increase in

the'ahipment for England and the decrease-in that
for New York were in consequence of the-Alabama's
proceedings.
Halifax advices of the 2d state that Admiral
Milne's squadron had not returned to Nassau. The
ships Herald, Leopard, and Kate had• run the
blockade into Charleston.

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STAMPED ....sd.

General Butler's Farewell to New Orleans.

Before leaving New Orleans Cieneril Butler
is,tied the following tiltiress to the inhabitants of

th kt ci,y Jr; =
Citizens of New Orleans,—it may not be inappropriate,
as it is not inopportune in occasion, that there. should he
addressed to 3 on a few words at parting, by one when name
is to be hereafter indissolubly connected with your city.
I shall speak in no bitterness, because I am not conscious
of a single personal animosity. Commanding the army of
the Gulf, I found you captured, but not surrendered ; con-
quered, but not orderly; relieved from the presence of an
army, but incapable of taking caro of yourselves. So far
from it, you had called upon a foreign legion to protect you
from yourselves. I restored order, punished crime, opened
commerce, brought provisions to your starving people, re-
formed your currency, and gave you quiet protection, such
as you had not enjoyed for many years. While doing this,
my soldiers were subjected to obloquy, reproach, and insult.
And now, speaking to you, who know the truth, I here
declare that whoever has quietly remained about his busi-
ness, affording neither aid nor comfort to, the enemies of the
United States, has never been interfered with by the soldiers
of the United States.

The men who had assumed to govern you and to defend
your city in arms having fled, some of your women flouted
at the presence of those who came to protect them. By a
simple order (No. 28), I called upon every soldier of this
army to treat the women of New Orleans as gentlemen
should deal with the sex, with such effect that I now call
upon the just-minded ladies of New Orleans to say whether
they have ever enjoyed so complete protection and calm
quiet for themselves and their families as since the advent
of the United States troops.
The enemies of my country, unrepentant and implacable,
I have treated with merited severity. I hold that rebellion
is treason, and that treason persisted in is death, and any
punishment short of that due to a traitor gives so much clear
gain to him from the clemency of the government. Upon
this thesis have I administered the authority of the United
States, because of which I am not unconscious of complaint.
I do not feel that I have erred in too much harshness, for
that harshness has ever been exhibited to disloyal enemies
to my country and not the loyal friends. To be sure, I might
have regaled you with the amenities of British civilisation,
and yet been within the supposed rules of civilised warfare.
You might have been smoked to death in caverns, as were
the covenanters of Scotland by the command of a general of
the royal house of England, or roasted like the inhabitants
of Algiers during the French campaign; your wives and
daughters might have been given over to the ravisher, as
were the unfortunate dames of Spain in the Peninsular
war ; or you might have been scalped and tomahawked as
our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage allies of Great
Britain in our own revolution ; your property could have
been turned over to indiscriminate loot, like the palace of the
Emperor of China; works of art which adorned your
buildings might have been sent away like the paintings of
the Vatican; your sons might have been blown from the
mouths of cannon like the sepoys at Delhi ; and yet all this
would have been within the rules of civilised warfare as
practised by the most polished and the most hypercritical
nations of Europe. For such acts the records of the doings
of some of the inhabitants of your city towards the friends
of the Union, before my coming, were a sufficient provoca-
tive and justification. But I have not so conducted. On
the contrary, the worst punishment inflicted, except for
criminal acts punishable by every law, has been banishment
with labour to a barren island, where I encamped my own
soldiers before marching here
It is true I have levied upon the wealthy rebel, and paid
out nearly 500,000 dols to feed 40,000 of the starving poor
of all nations assembled here, made so by this war.
I saw that this rebellion was a war of the aristocrats
against the middling men ; of the rich against the F., or ;
a war of the landowner against the labourer ; that it was a
struggle for the retention of power in the hands of the
few against the many ; and I found no conclusion to it save
in the subjugati n of the few, and the disenthralment of the
many. I therefore felt no hesitation in taking the substance
of the wealthy, who had caused the war, to feed the innocent
poor, who had suffered by the war. And I shall now leave
you, with the proud consciousness that I carry with me the
blessings of the humble and loyal, under the roof of the
cottage and in the cabin of the slave, and so am quite con-
tent to incur the sneers of the salon, or the curses of the
rich.

I found you trembling at the terrors of servile insurrec-

tion. All danger of this I have prevented by so treating the
slave that he had no cause to rebel. I found the dungeon,
the chain, and the lash your only means of enforcing obe-
dience in your servants. I leave them peaceful, lab,rious,
controlled by the laws of kindness awl justice. I have de-
monstrated that the pestilence can be kept from your bor-
ders. I have added a million of dollars to your wealth in the
form of new land from the batture of the Mississippi. I
have cleansed and improved your streets, canals, and public
squares, and opened new avenues to unoccupied land. I
have given you freedom of elections greater than you have
ever enjoyed before. I have caused justice to be adminis-
tered so impartially that your own advocates have unani-
mously complimented the judges of ray appointment. You
have seen, therefore, the benefit of the laws and justice of
the government against which you have rebelled. Why,
then, will you not all return to your allegiance to that go-
vernment—not with lip-service, but with the heart ? I
conjure you, if you desire ever to see renewed prosperity,
giving business to your streets and wharfs—if you hope to
see your city become again the mart of the Western world,
fed by its rivers for more than three thousand miles, drain •
ing the commerce of a country greater than the mind
of man hath ever conceived—return to your allegiance. If
you desire to leave to your children the inheritance you
received of your fathers—•a stable constitutional govern-
ment ; if you desire that they should in the future be a
portion of the greatest empire the sun ever shone upon—
return to your allegiance. There is but one thing that
stands in the way. There is but one thing that at this
hour stands between you and the Government—and that is
slavery. The institution, cursed of God, which has taken
its last refuge here, in His providence will be rooted out, as
the tares from the wheat, although the wheat be torn up
with it. I have given much thought to this subject. I
came among you, by teachings, by habit of mind, by poli-
tical position, by social affinity, inclined to sustain your
domestic laws, if by possibility they might be with safety to
the Union.
Months of experience and of observation have forced the
conviction that the existence of slavery is incompatible with
the safety either of yourselves or of the Union, As the
system has gradually grown to its present huge dimensions,
it were best if it could be gradually removed; but it is
better, far better, that it should be taken out at once than
that it should longer vitiate the social, political, and family
relations of your country, lam speaking with no philan-
thropic views as regards the slave, but simply of the effect
of slavery on the master. See for yourselves,
Look around you and say whether this saddening, deaden-
ing influence has not all but destroyed the very framework
of your society. lam speaking the farewell words of one
who has shown his devotion to his country at the peril of
his life and fortune—who in these words can have neither
hope nor interest save the good of those whom he addresses ;
and let me here repeat, with all the solemnity of an appeal
to Heaven to bear me witness, that such are the views
forced upon me by experience.
Come, then, to the unconditional support of the Govern-
ment. Take into your own hands your own institutions,
remodel them according to the laws of nations and of God,
and thus attain that great prosperity assured to you by
geographical position, only a portion of which was hereto-
fore yours. (Signed) BENJAMIN F. BUTLER.
New Orleans, Dec. 24, 1862.

t
PROSPERITY OF THE STATE OF NEw YORK
,
At the inauguration of Mr. Seymoure as Governor oaddressed to him
New York, the following rem„alkksnowweit
will be gratifying
by his predecessor in office :
for you to be assured that the
ecredit of this State never stood
higher ; that its funded
is rapidly diminishing ; that
interest its principal and
been promptly paid in coin;
have
that the public funds areadreeqvueantueelsorof the
every proper Canals
havedemand
on them ; that the surplus
in-
creased from 9J0,000 dols. in 18.58, to 4,000,000 dole, in
1862 ; and that taxation may be largely reduced the pre-
sent year, and this when scarcely less than a quarter of a
million of our people are voluntarily engaged in the mili-
tary service of the country. Of such a State, and with such
a record, we may well be proud."
NEW ELECTRIC CABLE FOR THE ITALIAN Go-
VERNMENT.—The English screw steam-ship Haw-
thorn, chartered by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., for the
purpose of laying fot the Italian Government an electric
cable from Cagliari to Trapani, arrived in this port on Sun •
day last from the latter place. She had successfully sub-
merged the cable within 13 miles of the coast of Sicily, and
her object in coming here was to supply the deficiency from
the spare cable in deposit at Malta. She left early on the
morning of the sth, to lay the remainder of the cable, and
we are hourly expecting to receive a telegram announcing
the successful completion of the line. The cable is similar
in construction to the deep sea portion of the Malta and
Alexandria one, which has answered so admirably, beingec
only a little slighter. The new line will give a more dir t
l.
course to telegrams for the continent and England and
avoid the circuitous route through Italy,—.l.ldlt a l imes,
Jan, Bth,