The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

children." It was only the day before yesterday that
at a great Democratic meeting at the Cooper Insti-
tute it was resolved, " That the Democracy of the
City of New York, iu general meeting convened,
again reiterate and declare their unyielding oppo-
sition to all men and all factions who in any man-
ner seek to impair or destroy the glorious Union of
the United States as a great Confederate Republic;
that we will uphold and maintain the Union at all
times and under all circumstances by all the means
in onr power, and that we will never consent to or
permit any arrangement by which it shall be either
destroyed or endangered."
On the other hand,
is too natural, by their success at Chattanooga, will
the Confederates, elated, as
come to no compromise that may not be based on
the terms of " Recognition by the enemy of the
Confederate States; withdrawal of the Yankee
forces from every foot of Confederate ground, in-
cluding Kentucky and Missouri ; withdrawal of the
Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that State
shall decide by a free vote whether she shall remain
in the old Union, or ask admission into the Confe-
deracy," Sze.
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The want of these will stop
the war. The grand invasion is dying out.
"There will be nothing on our part to counteract
the disposition to peace which the decaying vigour
and promise of the war will necessarily produce in
the minds of our enemies. The United States have
only to stop. There is nothing to prevent them from
doing this at any time. Whatever those may affirm
who desire to feed and inflame the war spirit among
them, we but speak the universal sentiment of our
people when we say that we have no purpose against
them that wou;d require them to remain in arms a
day. We stand only on our defence. We have only
proposed to seek our fortunes apart from them.
We care not how happy and prosperous they may
b© without us. It was no part of our motive, in
separating, to destroy or injure them. We made
no attack on their people, their property, or their
institutions. We were simply taking care of our-
selves. There is nothing to prevent peace and a
just settlement between the two Confederacies any
day, but the will of our enemies.

:‘ There is no question of life or death between us,
so far as they are concerned. It is not necessary for
them to be destroyed that we may live. They seek
our life—we do not want theirs. We have neither
the purpose nor the wish to subjugate them. They
have no motive for war—have nothing at stake but
the advantage they might hope to get out of us by
forcing us into connexion or subjugation to them.
The hope gone of succeeding in this, there is no
motive left. They have no right, no inheritance, no
privilege of their own which we seek to destroy or
impair. And surely they will not admit that they
have not among themselves the elements of great-
ness and happiness, and that the despised South is
necessary to their security."
It has been officially ascertained that up to the
Ist of January of this year the Northern States have
sent 1,276,246 men into the field. New York alone
contributed 222,836. This year, as I wrote in a
former letter, Mr. Seymour, Governor of the State
o f Now York, has issued 5,000 commissions for officers
from January to August. Notwithstanding all this,
we hear that the contingent for this State alone,
under the new call, added to what is due to make up
for previous shortcomings, will be 108,085 men. On
the other side, Virginia alone, with a population of
1,596,318, has contributed a contingent of 102,915
combatants to the Confederate armies. The average
ratio of men that any people can spare for warlike
purposes has already long since been widely exceeded
by the two contending parties, and the continuance
of the fight must result in a work of awful depopu-
lation.

The public debt of the Northern States on the
Ist of September was approximately stated to be
1,228,832,771 dols. This, however, by no means re-
presents the amount of liabilities incurred by the
Northern States in the pursuit of this war.
Were the civil sti Ho to come to a sudden stand,
and were accounts to be wound up this very day,
and claims on the Government to be satisfied, I am
assured, by persons competent to speak on the sub-
ject, that the public debt would be between twenty-
five hundred and three thousand million dollars !

Truly, the finances of the South are in no better
condition ; but it is difficult to deny that the power
to cry "hold ! enough !" in this contest lies with
the North alone—the North which fights for an
idea, for the fond notion of a chimerical Union, the
empty boast of being the " biggest people inhabit-
ing the biggest country," and the vain aspiration of
having it one day in its power to say that "not a
cannon shall be fired in Europe without its good
will and pleasure."
The spirit of "strike" is abroad among all the
industrial classes. Here in New York, at Phila-
delphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Chicago, and other
cities the mechanics aro astir. Coopers, carpenters,
painters, shoemakers, &c. They say they are unable
to live and keep their families at the present prices
of provisions, clothing, fuel, &c. Taking some of
the necessaries of life, such as flour, butter and eggs,
vegetables, sugar, tea, coffee, beef, rice, &c., it is
computed that what three years ago cost 9 dols.
67c. is not now to be had for less than 16 dols. 69e.
There is a rumour of a strike among the hotels too,
which threaten to raise their daily board from 3
dols., their present charge, to 3 dols. 50c., although
there hardly ever were such good times for them
within men's recollection, and although some of the
New York hotels clear a net profit of 1,600 dole. to
2,000 dols. weekly. The daily charges for board
and lodging used to be 2 dols. a day.
General Rosencranz was received at Cincinnati
with loud acclamation, and in an address to his
fellow-citizens he vindicated his conduct from the
aspersions to which he had lately been exposed ; he
contradicted the rumours that had been spread as
to his ill-health, and the abuse of opium to which
it had been ascribed ; declared that the President
had testified to him by letter his satisfaction with
the doings at Chicamauga; and that his suborii-
nates, M'Cook and Crittenden, expressed to him
their regret at the false reports which had been
spread of anything spoken by them to their chief's
disparagement. The public, however, will not soon
hear the last as to General Rosencranz's deserts or
demerits.

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lien of
all
President's parties are unanimous in praising the
which, as I f
aanstwer to the Missouri delegation,
often said,
said, demanded the recall of
General Scholfiel
from the command of that West-
ern
goseoadt. It is doubtful, however, whether
all D"etphaertm
exhibited by Mr. Lie,ie, moieration, and firmness"
"Qin at this juncture will have
power to restore any
tillisinsogurrii like calmness and security
in those distracted Ntime
prevail,
Guerilla war-
fare will for a long
Lail, not only in that
State, but in all those
Southern territories which
the Federals are now rather overrunning
sub-
duing. The disorder is raging moreu than
rutlalessly than
elsewhere in Tennessee and Kentucky,
may in the rear
of Grant's armies,—if,
believe the
assertion of Governor Bramlette, of the latter State
who says that "no man can think of quitting ' his
post while we have a formidable raid before us,
while our banks are robbed, and our towns sacked
within 40 miles of the capital."
The New York people would at last seem to be
somewhat weary of the efforts made by them to
cement the good understanding between those
" twin giants of the earth," Russia and America.
The officers of the Russian squadron have had gala
days, torchlight processions, public and private
banquets, reviews, speeches, " ovations," till they
are, and almost declare themselves, sick of it. They
will be back this evening from an excursion to
Niagara (which they insisted should be strictly
Private, without toasts or speeches), to which they
were treated by the proprietors of the Hudson River Navigation,New York Central, and Erie Railway
Companies. These, like all other associations of the
same nature in this country, are now flush with j