The New York herald., 1862-12-09

gramme; but no one except Benjamin mention
ed the matter to Barney. wa
Returning to the North, Barney became
tor, a regeneration, patriot and free
lodger at ore Of our hotels. Consequently
he enlarged his story little and told il "
/ friend who repeated it to aAother friend, who
repeated it to Greeley. at each repetition the
tale grew more wondVous. and when poor
,rc.,cv sss,,,n-- t N the Tribune, VIII sddi.
tions, amendments, decorations and expiSpa-
tions, it mast have greatly amazed the few old
:. >uen who read that crazy sheet. The Tribune
Ill., ,~ler, who dreams of treason, strata
rems snoil. eonspSlracies and assassinations,
and wears . suit e Chain armor under his rag
ged coat to pro.ect hina from the deadly dag
ger and the pernicious pistol, thGnse ~ 'na' ~
had discovered mare ) nest, and rushea -o,. :.
to the City Hall, where be closeted hilsN u
with Mayor Opdyke. Senators Sumner aA0
Fessenden, tA,n on their way to Washington,
were admitted to this conference, and, at its
close, Mayor Opdyke sent for Fernando We0d
to inform him Of the dreadful plot. The Chs
Waller Barney had been be orehand with Op-
dyke. however. and had already confded the
matter to Fernando. 1t ssems that Mr.. Wood
was almost as ally hoaxed as poor Greeley
for he myster ously referred to the affair in one
Of his speeches, which Greeley published as m
official confederation o. his news-that is to
say, what Barney told Mr.. Wood was produced,
with great flourish of trumpets, as proving
the truth OF what carney had told the friend
who told poor Greeley. The idea of Barney
corroboratnc himseii is as rich Us Mr.. Squeers'
doubly SKINNED milk. In order to complete
the resemblance OF this miraculous narrative
to that of tie House which Jack Built" Mr..
Wood had confdentially entrusted the story 70
Thuriow Weed Ut the AstOr House, but MIR.
Weed was too old and wisc q bird to bs
caught with such chaff and therefore sneered
at tie whole affair, and called upon poor
Greeley through the Albany Journal to make
q retraction and dismiss the man who wrote
the bogus telegram from Washington concern
ing these overtures.
There is the whole truth of the mat
ter, and for all the rest of the particulars
poor Greeley is responsible. The Cheva-
lier Barney talked with no one but Benjamin
on the subject, and had no more authority to
receive peace propositions than Benjamin had
to make them. He was no emissary from any
enc. carried no letters or credentials from con-
servatives at the North, aud brought back no
letters. documents or credentials to Governor
Seymour John Van Bureu or any other man.
What Eenj j.min said we have given above; and
there is nothing in it about the Crittenden COM
promise. the assuml tion Of the Southern debt
or driving the French from Mexico. The story
as originally told rests solely upon Barncy's
veracity. The story, as given in the Tribune,
is the joint product Of Barney's veracity and
Greeey's imagination. The moral Of the mat
ter is that poor Greeley was badly bitten and
drawn into premature declaration that he is
in favor of national convention to arrange .
peace. We thoroughly believe that, If this war
lasts one year longer, the conservatives will be
as true to the Union as ever, while Greeley and
the other radicals will be sending emissaries to
Richmond to offer JEFF Davis disruption OF
the Union II he will take all the slave States.
There is the real plot which lies under all this
smoke, and which the radical assistants of the
rebels are now working hard to accomplish.
Danger Ahcad-Louis Nap0Ieon's PeIicY
Towards This Couatry.
An effort is being made by those journals in
the service Of the Emperor Napoleon to palliake
alto y n D..