The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-20 00:00:00

asking for their hard-earned pittances ta'fOlia- 41.1":1.j
clothe their needy wives and children ; somegades have had no dollars for their last six months'
service, and are becoming mutinous and unservice-
able, because unpaid ; nobody deals with the Go-
vernment who can find any other customer, hecause
payment is withheld to the last moment, and often
made in certificates of indebtedness; which must be
sold at a heavy discount; everything sags and drags for-
want of money, because the national credit is dubioaa.... "
Three months ago the friends of the Government;
would have declared such an exposition as this to,
be treasonable, but it now passes without challenge
or contradiction, or even a word of comment.
If it
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people.
to
ewerits
were possible to hi
ancient
effervescence,England were to swarm with volunteers in the sacred
wip theenthusiasmif
th
cause of the negro and of New York and the Middle
States in the sacred cause of the Union, though the
difficulty as regards men would be removed, there
would still remain the immense difficulty of money,
which the Tribune so eloquently deplores. Petroleum,
cotton, and corn may bring gold from Europe in
exchange, California may supply the precious metal
as abundantly as ever, but all these commodities,
though the supply be augmented from month to
month, or even from day to day, will not provide
means to carry on for another year such a war as
any
was waged in the last without greater loans than
have yet been contracted,sanore
financiermoreabunhadsandat
dared
dsuteos
of greenbacksthan
recommend. Neither Mr. Fessenden nor the Govern-
ment, nor any statesman in or out of office, looks
upon a further depreciation of the currency without
alarm. What to do under the circumstances is a
puzzle to all but a few fanatics, who, with the pro-
verbial haste of fools to rush to the accomplishment
of what angels might dread, insist that there is
nothing but a forced conscription and unlimited
issues of paper money that can enable the Federal
Government to restore the Union, and constantly-
urge the adoption of these measures. As regards the
conscription, they believe that the country (to use
their own phrase) will " grin and bear it ;" and as
regards the indefinite increase of the debt, and the
equally indefinite depreciation of the currency, they
continually assert that if the worst comes to the
worst the debt can be repudiated ; that such re-
pudiation will only make a certain number of
rich men poor ; that the resources of the
country will remain undiminished ; and that such
quondam rich men can easily start afresh in the
world and be little the worse for the enforced con-
tributions of their whole wealth to the support of
" the best Government the world ever saw." It is
palpable and notorious that the idea of repudiation
has few terrors to the American mind. No one can
mingle much in any society where politics are dis-
cussed without discovering very soon that the labour-
ing classes and the poorer people engaged in trade,
commerce, and agriculture, who own no Govern-
ment stock and pay no direct taxes, who have the
voting power in their hands under the system of
universal suffrage, and feel to their cost that the
war has deprived the dollar of half its value and
raised the price of the necessaries of life 250 per
cent., will have no scruple, if the case be brought
before them, to vote for the application of what
they call a " mighty big sponge" to the whole of
the Federal debt. And this, as Mr. Lincoln might
say, " suggests a little anecdote." An eminent judge
was recently waited upon by a large and respectable
deputation of his fellow-citizens and asked to "run"
as candidate for the governorship of his native State.
" No, thank you," he replied ; " I will not run
for any office just now. My time has not come.
In 1868 I intend to ' run' for the Presidency in suc-
cession to Mr. Lincoln, upon the broad platform of
Repudiation. If I do, I guess I shall carry every-
thing before me."
The war news becomes of renewed importance by
the close of the suspension, whichever it may be, of
the peace negotiations. Grant's army, asl announced
by telegraph a week ago, was put in motion immedi-
ately on Mr. Lincoln's departure from Hampton
Roads, and its first operation only publicly announced
this evening, was a flank march in the rear of Peters-
burgh, on the banks of a small stream called Hatcher's
Run. A sharp skirmish with the Confederates was
the only result, but the indications are that a great
battle is likely to be fought before many hours,
unless General Lee, as some suppose, has resolved
on evacuating Petersburg for the purpose of sending
reinforcements to General Beauregard to oppose
the march of General Sherman on Branchville or
Charleston. Sherman at last accounts was within
30 miles of the last-named city, impeded by the
morasses of the vicinity as well as by the bad
weather. A heavy snow storm, extending according
to the telegraphic despatches from Maine to Virginia,
and possibly into the Carolinas, set in this after-
noon, and after covering the earth four inches deep
has been succeeded by a pelting and continuous fall
of rain and sleet, filling the streets of this wretchedly-
paved city with mire and slush and half-melted snow
far above the ankles of pedestrians, and doubtless
rendering all army movements in Virginia impossible
until a frost shall once more harden the roads.

Late and very direct and trustworthy reports from
the South represent the Confederates to be confident
of their ability to carry on the campaign of 1865
without the aid of negro soldiers, except for camp
duty. Large reinforcements have been sent to South
Carolina. The spirit of the men and their officers
is buoyant and determined, and all speak encourag-
ingly of their ability to try conclusions with Sherman.
The Federal fleet has not been able to advance up
Cape Fear River on account of obstructions, and.
the opportunity for the easy capture of Wilmington
has been lost. The fleet is now within four miles
of Fort Anderson, on the opposite side of the river
to that on which the land forces are stationed, and
no attempt has as yet been made to attack it.
The Confederate prisoners taken at Fort Fisher
muchex;optrwessithstanclig t
n indite natgrioenat perilagas
in against General
the Bragg.fort
had been subjected on the first attempt by Admiral
Porter, when, in fact, it would have been com-
pelled to surrender almost without a blow if
Butler had had the nerve to assault, they allege
that Bragg neglected to take proper precautions
to repel a second attack. He had one of the
best corps of Lee's veteran army under his com-
mand, and yet, they say, he intrusted the defence to
a few raw troops from North Carolina, one regiment
of whom surrendered without firing a shot.

SALMON FISHINGS.—The season for 1865 com-
menced on the 11th inst., and in our day was unpreceden-
tedly successful. The number of fish taken by net at the
top of the river was /more than sufficient to pay the rent of
the whole year. After satisfying the local demand about
10 cwt. was sent south, and since then there has been a. •
large supply of clean run fish. It has been remarked that
the average weight has been greater than on almost any
previous occasion, many of the fish exceeding 201 b., and one
n in
onthseastteurllfiafiyytinhegfirbe:
of them weighing 301 b. Nearly 200 salmon were taken in
the Dunean and Dochfour waters, and it is evident that
but no
there is a steady run of fish from the fact that since the
ereuonuotCcupied-
opening day there has been no tide blank at the Friar's
Shot, the first pool netted on the river. At the mouth of th
cfl rolrivereenani be-
longing
dayiSfftsg rhol of
wasTthetahite takenesasuohu:t Harbouraa
the fesi
7 ps salmon
numberp lir Trustees.of anglers
waters
Wvrero
from the Spey we learn that about 140 sal
on the opening day, besides a number roll Were taken.
stake nets and bag nets at the mouth o trout, and the
an average fishing. The Deveron of the Findhorn had
Saturday and 19 on Monday. The produced 84 salmon on
structed by ice. We regret to. fishing is a good deal ob-
structed
on the Ness is likely learn that a question of boun-
Dbeochfour and Dunean fishingst()be litigated. The march of the
close by the fisherman's was generally considered to
canal and Andrew's Pool, bothy on the reach between the
yards but Dochfour claims about 80
more of the stream than has hitherto, we understand,
been fished in his interest.
ings shot fro The tenant of the Dunean fish-
his nets
A from
has since
the bothy,te 84 but was forcibly inter-
rupted, and an interdict
re-
stricting the extent of his privileges. 13: served upon
s Courier.
inem
The Bey of Tunis has accorded an Am an to all
the Tunisian tribes who have taken refuge in
Algeria.
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Winter coughs are alike distressing to the patient and
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and between the blade bones twice a day, while the blood.
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impure circulation. These favouring conditions remove
the cause, and the cough ceases. By the same means and
with equal facility the treatment by Holloway's inestimable
remedies will overcome ulcerated and sore throats,
diptheria, bronchitis, pleurisy, and pulmonary congestiTe
complaints.