The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-11

IL s3n.s other way How would they like,
instance, Qur blockading the whole OF 8
ports, shutting hem out and ourselves ins
A TRAIroR CAUGHT AZ LAsr.-Ever sinl
the issue Of tho Presidents proclamation,
the 10th Of April last the 7ri6ssHe, in commo
with its republican cotemporaries, has bee
Wild upon the subject of treason and traitor
NO terrier ever hunted a rat with more energy
perseverance and hubbub than Hon. Mass
Greeley has displayed in his search for th
aiders, abettors and comforters Of the Souther,
rebels. He has lodged around corners and
crept through back alleys; he has painted
gauet stairs and dived headlong down cella|
steps; he has invaded the newspaper establist
ments and bedaubed himself with printers lax
he has listened at the door Of the Grand Jur,l
room; he has taken full shorthand notes Oh
private conversations; he has bribed wsiter)
and held stolen interviews with domestics
| Wherever he saw an American flag he suspect
| ed 1t was raised a. blind to conceal treason,
Wherever no American flag was displayed b
insisted upon having one hung ont, declaria.
that it's absence denoted treason. But hi
| worked, painted and searched in vain, unsi thu
| government made its seizure of dispatches.
| and then, to bis apparent astonishment, thS
first ard greatest traitor discovered was fouN
to be connected with his own establishment th !
Tribune Office. q
Mr.. James E. Harvey, the Washington cofl
respondent of the Tribune, the friend of virtu.'
and of both administrations, aud the recently
appointed Minister to Portugal, was the traito'
| thus discovered, and, so far, has been the onI !
one revealed. The discovery and his astonishl
ment thereat were too much for Hon. Mass,
Greeley, and not until yesterdays issue of tho
Tribune was he able to speak his mind upon tn
subject. Now that he does speak, O pretty
mess he makes Oft
OF course be declares that Harvey is guilty
| speaks Of the "infamy" of the deed, and cali
| for "the severest condemnation and punishl
ment" If one bird of prey gets winged, tad
rest of the flock are said to turn upon it ant
peck it to death; and upon this principle Ho,I
Maesa Greeley turns States evidence azains
Harvey. If the dispatches to Judge McGratt,
| and to the Tribune do not prove treason, Mass
| ga Greeley has other testimony on hand. III
| states that Harvey, while on bis way to Pcrtus
| gal, stopped at the American Consul's at Gall
way, and by his representations prevented th3.
publication of letter explaining our nationa
| troubles and the manner in which they nigh
be settled.
Now, this information is hardly worth much
! and its publication does the Tribune 20 grea
credit; but such as it is, why was 1t not reveal
ed before? Why did Hon. Massa Creole
keep in his employ such an arrant traitor, aot
even get him appointed to foreign minis
as q reward for his services? 'Ah!" says th. !
Tribune, in another editorial, she hal per
sonsl standing with" the late administrator
(which rendered bis services of peculiar vaiu;
to u.s." Indeed, his services were of "peculia,.
vaiue"-of very peculiar value"-so Judgdl
McGrath and the Charleston rebels also. Ii
plain terms, Harvey was good spy, and tn |
Tribune, knowing him to be traitor, kept him
to sneak around the departments, and pick I'D
items Judge McGrath paid him to do preciselsa
he same thing for the same reason By a com:
parison of dates we discover that Harvey telei
graphed the information of the intended reis,.
forcement of Fort Sumter to Meg rath and Gree
ley simultaneously. He was determined it should
reach the Charlestonians by one channel on
the other. 1t did reach Charleston, ard thss
reinforcement was prevented. Was not Gree
ley's publication of this information misprisioo
of treason? Did be uot do his best TO warn.
the South of the intentions Of the government I
But the II ib,re puts its foot further into tue
caire. Not only did Harvey have peculiar
personal standing" with the late adninistra
ticn, but he wss also intimate with Secretary.
Seward. The Tribune says I" he probably OK
erted some influence Ia misleading Gov. Sew
ard" 1t was Seward, then, who gave hin k
information about the Fort Sumter sfair v,o 5s
it? 70
Here is pretty kettle of fsh to be sure
Seward gives reasonable information; Harvey
sends It to McGrath and to the Tribune; Hon
Massa Greeley publishes it, and thus affords
aid aud comfort to the Southern traitors, All.
three are in the sane box, ard a very tigEtl
box it is. There we leave them, exhibited
gratis to the gaze Of an admiring world.
BLUBBE RING, CRYING AND PRAYING The.
Hon. Bee. Wood, Of the Daily Ne,cs, and tine
Rev. Jerry Hallock of the Journal of Cam
nerce, are precious pair of saints. The 10,
mentaions of the ancient Jeremiah over the
destruction of the glory of Jerusalem are re-
produced in the numbering and crying ani
praying of his modern New York imitator, on
account of this dreadful war And the Hon
Ben. Wood, too, has lately become as pious as
parson, and prays and groans, and weepsl
and bowls, at an awful rate over the horrors oil
this terrible war Now If tho n{o,1a Jarrr he