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London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

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(From the Times Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 19.
The extreme severity of tbo weather appears
during the last four days to have impeded military
operations in every quarter except in Florida.
General Grant has not been heard of during the
week, and the positions of Langstreet and Joseph
Johnston aro surmised but not known. Ru-
mours continue to be abundant, but the facts that
might support them are vaguer end more shadowy
than themselves and will not bear scrutiny. Many
people in high position are of opinion that General
Grant has taken the initiative in a movement that
will either mike him the greatest soldier of his
time or consign him to the limbo of the numberless
dead reputations of the war, which no power can
revive, and no galvanism startle into even the
semblance of activity. A much larger class are
under the impression that a new invasion of North-
ern soil will be attempted by General Lee as soon
as the weather shall permit—the scene of operation
this time to be Kentucky and Ohio, instead of
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
But if warlike operations offer no point of pre-
sent interest, the state of political affairs is suggest-
ive of coming danger. Whatever may be the case
in other portions of the Federal states, there is no
enthusiasm in New York, city or State, for the re-
election of Mr. Lincoln. The jobbers, broken', and
gamblers of Wall-street, and the contractors who
wax rich and insolent on the profits wrung out of
the needs of the army and the carelessness of the
Administration, are the only persons who seem
very earnestly to desire a prolongation of his term.
The mass of the people are indifferent, mainly for
the reason that they think any agitation of the
subject will be premature during the next two or
three months. Mr. Simeon Draper, ex-Provost.
Marshal, convenes meetings in support of his
favourite candidate, but cannot, by all the art
of advertising, draw 50 people together to Hope
Chapel to bear any eloquence of which the themes
are the virtues and the patriotism of the President.
The clergy are shy of supporting his claims, and
even Mr. Henry Ward Beecher deprecates the
nomination of any one at present, on the ground
that there is as yet HO candidate before the public
whose name is a tower of strength to rally around
it the heart and the judgment of the people. Mr.
Wendell Phillips thinks Mr. Lincoln pretty good
as far as he goes, but by no means good enough,
and hints that if he be re-elected it will not be be-
cause he is the best man to be found, but simply
because at some unexpected turn of events lie may
prove to b 3 the most convenient. "The error of
our politics," said he, in recognition of a fact that
has long been known to every foreign observer of
American history, though it was never very gene-
rally recognised in America, " is that we take the
available man always instead of taking the best.
The available man is the last convert to our opinions
—the man who is not so obnoxious to our enemies
that they hate him, and one that we ourselves can
forgive. What is the result ? The bias of his old
opinions we do not know, but they will always
influence him, and the consequence is the man is
trusted before he is known, and be always deceives
you." If the opinions of the press of this city can
be taken as an index to the public sentiment, Mr.
Lincoln must be placed among the most unpopular
of all the candidates. The Herald mocks and gibes
at him. The Daily News denounces him with sound
arguments and literary. diAnity. The World ardently
supports General M'Clellan. The New York Times
hesitates to recommend anybody, lease of all Mr.
Lincoln. The Tribune, which did more to make
him President by defeating Mr. Seward's nomina•
tion at the Chicago Convention in 18G0 than a hun-
dred thousand voters could have done, cautiously
refrains from saying a word in his favour. The
Journal of COMMerCC is openly hostile. The Express,
like the World, is strong for M'Clellan, The Evening
Post, the editor of which derives large emoluments
from an office in the Navy Yard, to which he was
appointed by the present Administration, has not
yet mustered courage enough to support his patron
to any greater extent than to collect into one
focus all the presentable and printable jokes which
aro attributed to him, and publish them for
the amusement of the people, that they may know
what kind a genius they have chosen to rule over
them. This, however, is an electioneering device
which may possibly do more harm than good to the
cause it was intended to promote. The only other
daily paper of any note is the New Yorker Stoat
Zeitung, printed for the Germans, and which is said
to have a circulation of about 40,000. This journal
advocates the pretensions of Gen. Fremont, as far
superior to those of any other candidate. The Irish
have no daily paper exclusively devoted to their
interests, but the weekly Roman Catholic journals,
which more particularly address themselves to foster
Irish sentiment, are all in favour of Al'Clellan.
But Mr. Lincoln, like all Americans, knows too
well how easily the New York press can be managed
by the wire-pullers of party to give himself much,
if any, trouble on the score of its present hostility
or indifference. His plan—or that of the persons
who would prolong their own power and importance
by prolonging hie—is not so much political as
military. He would prefer reelection by the vote
of a clear majority of the people, peaceably ren-
dered, if such a result were possible ; but as this is
not likely, whether the fortune of war be favour-
able, the plan is, as I believe I have already men-
tioned, to favour the nomination of many candidates,
so as to split up the popular vote and throw the
election into the House of Representatives. As in
such a case the representatives would vote by States,
and as Mr. Lincoln has already a majority in the
House, it will, make assurance doubly sure if he
can add to the number of States by the means de-
scribed in his recent proclamation. It is for this
purpose that General Banks is hectoring in Loui-
siana and declaring " indifference to be a crime.'

It is for this purpose that a military expedition
has been sent to take possession of Florida—
a point of no military value ; and it is for this
purpcse alone that Arkansas and Tennessee have
sent or will send representatives to Congress
on behalf of that decimal minority of " loyal "
people—to whom Mr. Lincoln, without any
authority bat such as he derives from the war
power, has deputed the privilege of electing Stare
officers and representatives. With the same end in
view it is suggested, although Congress has but 16
days longer to sit, that the outlying territories of
Nebraska, Idaho, and others, and even the Mormon
Paradise of Utah, should bo formally admitted 18
States of the Union before the adjournment, nut
the Americans are not so wholly absorbed by the
passion of war or the greed of gain as not to be
aware that this is a dangerous game, and that, as
Mr. Lincoln's election produced one secession and
ono civil war, his re-election by means like these
may produce a second secession in the North or
West, and a second civil war as sanguinary as the
first. A Republican representative, Air. Winter
Davis, of Maryland, and not long ago a strenuous
supporter of tho Administration, has already
sounded the alarm. In Opposing the right of a
newly-elected representative of the Third Congres-
sional district of Arkansas to take his seat in the
House, on the ground that his election was illegal
and unconstitutional, he took the position that there
could be no civil government in a State that hsd
seceded; at least, ❑o civil government that the Pre-
sident of the United States could recognise; and,
consequently, that no representative of such a State
could be deputed to or sit in Congress. He de-
nounced at the same time the appointment of mili-
tary Governors in portionsof seceded States, charged
with the duty of influencing, regulating, and con-
trolling elections by the intermediation of a
minority, called the President's Proclamatien of
Amnesty, from which the supposed right was de-
rived, a piece of waste paper, and manifested so bitter
a spirit of hostility to Mr. Lincola'o protensions as to

THE MURDER FOURTEEN YEARS Amo.—The ex-
traordinary charge upon which a tradesman named
Weekly Ball has been committed for trial is Northampton-
shire for murdering a woman named Lydia Atlec 14 years
ago has been already reported in The Sun. The charge was
based upon the discovery of a skeleton in a lane near the
village of Ringstead, the supposed
. scene of the murder. A
woman, but a ditn.
missing tooth was the link by which. it was sought to id entify
was that no bones of an in-
yskienlettehen
woeuyn
font were found, as would he expected from the condition of
Lydia Atli
eo at tho time of her death. It was suggested
the skin odfuthitshatht eoofrtyhe 11112841 g
in
one of the local n ewsp.apers that possibly a further search it
the same spot might• disclose the remains of an infant. While
acting upon this suggestion the police on Friday evening
made a,dir.icovery which was totally unexpected by them.
About 18 inches below where the skeleton of the supposed
murdered woman was found another skeleton was discovered.
The position of this skeleton was, as nearly as possible, foot
to foot to the skeleton previously found, only 18 inches
deeper in the soil. The teeth were in a perfect state of pre-
servation. Mr. Lea° was sent for immediately, awl, on ex-
amination of the skeleton, pronounced it to be that of a man
about six feat in height, but, singularly enough, the bones
appeared to have been in the ground much longer than the
bozos previously found. In connection with this latter dis-
covery it may be stated that an old man named Williamson,
90 years of age, has frequently stated that a gipey war
buried near that spot many years ago, and, indeed, the place
seems to have been a gipsy's burial-ground. The bones of
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