The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-12-14
Tue New Yotk city Press, Yesterday.

The TiNEs thinks that wo havo Graded
cycn,' and that the Nashville affair will h.
counted as an offset to the Slilcll and Mason
seizure.
The WORLD IL pushing after the ultra con-
'cryatyes on ono hand, and tho ultra radicals
on the other Tho one class, it urges, favor
tho idea that the rebellion IL 20 be cured simply
Ivy putting II under regimen, !. C.. blockade OF
ports and short allowance Of the comforts of
life. The radicals, on the other hand, imagine
that the business ia to 10 lone chiefly by pro.
CARNATIONS and ennctmcnis aud while they give
tho army ono thought, they give Congress o
hundred. They want nothing done to end tho
rebellion until general emancipation of tho
tlaycs Is de, Jared. The WORLD Is for lighting
the rebellion as though no slaves were in exist.
encc.
Referring 20 the stringent orders Of Con. Hal
lcck, respecting the quartcrins refugee families
In the MANSIONS Of scccssionists, its St. Louis
correspondent writes thus,
What, however, has produced tho most con-
stcrna'iou "a the construction Of tho Ter tdiOnis
whereby tho refugees from the southwest arc to
I've quattcrcd, fed nnd clothed at the expense Of
ANoNtu tc'thHlOulSIh living WITHIN our lines.
Underneath the air Of retributivc Justice, which
commences this action, there are many difficult
ties TO be met. While there is the nmplcst
room for the distribution Of charity, both
pullic and private, in alternating the wants If
the thousands Of refugees which the Indictment
wca her Is sending into our camps, that object,
Il would seem, might be more silly a,tiinod by
other means. Imagine the rude refugees from
the northwest quartered In the palaces Of Lucas
and Olive street. Their oxen and stock dcmi-
cltd alongside Of tho spirited carriage horses Of
our rcbclluus first families
Unfortunately, most of tho Confederate sol
dicrs were comp He'd TO dispose of their proper
~ before they left their homes. Tho home, Of
tho principal rebels arc not under our control
Those who rem ain at home arc 80 crcumspcct
a. 10 cvadc the punishment. Therefore, II tho
"avowed sccessionistsd arc traitors, their homes
and property may be confscatcd; if they aro
not traitars, 1t Is difficult to SEQ how wo can
compel them TO feed and Clotho thes, loyal 70.
iugces.
Tho TRmUNE quotes the following from Louis
Napoleon's "llstorcal Fragments evidently
with view Of proving to its readers tho neces-
sity for tho ultra position of that paper upon
the great questions of the day;
"Nlarch at the head of tho ideas of your age.
and then these ideas will follow and support
you.
II you march behind them, they will drag
you ON.
And ify march against them, they will
certainly .nye your cowntdl.'
It's Forlr Monroe correspondent says
Commodore Godsborough has returned from
VAST ington with his broad shoulders placed
under the HI inside expedition. | do not know
that a new direction has been given 10 this eN-
pndit'on h according as its objects and desti
nation have taken shape, an increa cd interest is
gwen to 1t. The fleet which will I've uuder the
direction Of Commodore Goldsborough will play
an important part, though not lees important
service than that originally designed will be as-
signed 10 tho forces under Gen. Burnside. The
rebels are evidently anxious concerning his OK
petition, and have mixed IL up with tho social
ed Butler expedition; but as yet they have
failed utterly to ascertain either its character or
tho points at which tho blow will DO aimed.
1hcir iavorite theory is that demonstration
will lie made up York River, with the Wow OF
swc, ping the rebels from the peninsula and
making an effective stroke at Richmond Iii.
rect. In this theory II may turn out that they
are more than half right, and yet utterly wrong.
The HERALD has taken up tho matter Of
that prophecy" Gctitiously said to DO taken
from the ith chapter al IIagPai, and whlci
has been extensively inherited in the news
papers. II insinuatos that Greeley and Beech, 7
aic invonling "a new slavery Bible, and that this
is ono OF their improvements.