The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-04

SECESSION TRrcssa IN EuRorE.-The Paris cor
dependence of the Tines and other London
journals has statements to tie effect that offers
of large pay and liberal outfit h.sve been made
by our government to officers Of tie French
artillery to induce them to serve in the isderal
army These are accompanied by the asssr-
ton that the Emperor has refused permission
to applicants to enter our service.
There Is not word Of truth in either of
these statements. Application has not been
male in single instance on the part of our
| govern. ment to any officer in the service of
France IT is equally untrue that the Emperor
has issued All order, the only effect Of which
would be to give gratuitous offence. The OBJ
ject of these kes Is plan. They are part and
parcel Of the machinery by which the rebel
agents in Europe arr Tying TO prejudice the
Union cause. II Il notorious that they are
lavishing money freely on oil the members OF
the English and French press who can be thus
| approached. Hence the extraordinary state
ments and rumors with which the Paris COR
respondence of the London papers is constantly
filed. and the outrageous mendacity Of which
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| The only foundation that can be traced for
the stories in question is the fact that applica-
tons have been made to foreign officers by the
rebel commissioners and that they have been
probably met by prohibition issued by the
French War Department. 1t has been found
convenient TO pervert this into rebuff of the
federal government, SO as to produce an effect
in England. These devices, however, cannot
remain long unexposed The Northern jour
nails, by their constantly reiterated complaints
| that some Of the best of our own officers
remain unemployed, will soon convince the
world of their untruthfqlness. Never at any
| time during the present war have we stood in
need of the aid which we are represented 10 be
| applying for. We have sufficient well trained
officers of our own, even without the foreign
assistance which is daily offering itself, to out
match the best scientific ability which the re-
bells can bring into the field The difficulty
with us has been to get all this military talent
employed. The politicians have hitherto stood
in its way; but the repeated misfortunes which
our arms have encountered are putting them
back in their places, and are bringing forward
the men called for by the exigencies Of the
| uiHcS' OAtAA Jul supply "a cAcoo 10 cAn"uo'SA
| there is no need of our sending round begging
| for officers to head our armies
THE "LITTIE VILLAINS or THE TIMES AND
THE ADMINIsTRATIoN-Th "little villains" of
the New York Times are quick to seize any
opportunity for a backhanded blow at our pre-
sent federal administration. They have been
sorely disappointed and offended in the matter
of the spoils and they will have their revenge.
1t is evident they have not abandoned their
scheme of turning "Honest Old Abe" adrift,
and of putting George Law in his place. and as
the provisional president of special commit
tee. What else are we to infer from the Wash
ington despatch in yesterdays Times, in which
this passage occurs?:-"This gentleman "a re-
fugee from Richmond) also reports that the
most brutal of the officers in charge Of our pri-
soners were Captain Todd, Mrs. Lincoln's
brother, and General Winder, the brother Of the
Winier now in confinement at Fort Lafayette.
Todd is such brute that he suoalld kick the dead
bodies Of o,u. men, and call them damned aboli-
tionists. So dcpraved was this wretch that the
rebel officers themselves preferred charges
against Todd, and had detailed him to other
duty"
This news concerning Todd involves alleged
atrocities on his part which are too revolving to
be true. We cannot believe them. They are
malicious inventions. But why should the
Times take such pains in holding this rebel
Todd, in this infamous light of brutal Sepoy,
before the world as the brother of Mrs. Lin
coln?" Is she to be held responsible for the
misfortune of having brother in the rebel
| L. 4 iii
paraded before the public for the purpose Of
creating suspicious against Mr.. Lincoln himselff
Surely no friend of the President or of his ad
ministration would aid in giving currency to
these shocking reports of the rebel brutalities
of sMrs Lincoln's brother" Under this belief
we denounce these revolving ISLANDERS as
stealthy blow at the administration from q
skulking enemy in the disguise of friend
The PURCHASE OF ENGLISH TRANSPORTS By
THE GovEaNMEST-PkorEcr HOME INDUSTRY
FIRsr.-We are informed by telegraph from
Washington that the government contemplates
depositing two millions of dollars in London, as
sum to draw upon for the purchase Of the
transports used by the English government
during the Crimean war. We trust that this
plan of the government, or of the Navy Depart
ment, will be reconsdered and given up. The
people have raised the money for this war
among themselves and not only without foreign
aid, but actually in spite Of foreign opposition.
AS far as possible, therefore, the money ought
| to be spent at home, and it seems to us that in
this case it can be spent here to great DEAF
better advantage than in England. We
lave ships enough here to make transports of,
and men enough to make transports Of them.
AS for the question of time we believe that
our ships could be transformed into transports
in less time than ships could be purchased in
England and brought over to this country. At
any rate the experiment is worth trying; for
what we might lose in one way we would gain
in another. The people who have done SO