New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-12

Fionres can { lie These 40 200 loaned dollars to
M,ramon on his "last legs" a. Sir Chas. Wyke
characerizes bis and his admDstratons footho q, 70
be reimbursed by $l5 0OO, 900, IL loan ut 9oO pei
cent premium. Interest runs, on the millions, mol
on the thousands, at per cent. The TRiBUSEs re-
markable article already referred to, aimed to dem
onstae theoretically, that if figures could not lac
themselves they might become the cause Of lying IN
Others Putting metaphors aside it IL PLAIN NJ BOOK.
keeping by double entry that, if Jecker Co.-that
il. 10 quote Minister Thouvenels words, French
subjects who have advanced money to decker on
bonds issued by him and on bis contract with the
Mexican (Miramons) Government could recover
ten millions on the fifteen. they would 10 doing q
very pretty business S1ppose, then, i've millions
are sacrificed by j. g. Co TO the fabrication oil pup
lie opinion, invested in poht'cof capital ns aioreleu.
toned remarkable TRIBUNE article intimated might
he the case.
Uurryng past way stations now, IA to-day po-'3i
necessities let alone the crowded state OF your col
umns force Inc to, this train Of ideas brings me 70
th. Grand Junction of the JeckereSque with the
c. s. .-slidelLand- Mason projected line oil Franco
or Anglo Franco American line Of policy.
That this last line was surveyed by American sur
veyors. be sure Ridiculous az may seem, TO most Of
THr TRIBUNE readers the notion OF the Government
al editor of the Esprit Pubiic quoted above, lei the
sueering TRIBUNE readers not forget that the Iiss
fifteen months of our domestic American history h"s
been but series Of surprises, OF bitter and welcome
Perhaps, Oh the whole, v0lnnthfy
preliminary sneering is the lowest possible ofdcr q"
the lowest possible contributions to The National
canse. Suppose, for instance that we, even we tne
chosen had fifteen months ago looked iaets ana "a
,ioom probabilities in the face, instead Of sneering
at them and sneeling at foreign sneerng oil us, orr
own selves-Should we tie worse oil to-day Let
that pass. have faith that mortar-braying enough
vet awaits Ms to bray ont Of US the donkey'bIayinG
of "peace when there Is no peace, and cannot be;
tn ronnd into us the fact that what Is pbilo-opm-
Ia, n 4 ~ Al ~
true had hes. be accepted as practically true IA soon
as possible.
To come back to our Moutons, our cottonwood
men, Slidell and Mason.
Money is ace Of trumps," says proverb, and
" Cotton IS King" says a woud-be nation, not dis
tipguished thus far for wisdom. hat wouid-be
nations representative in France IL AIR. Sbdeil;
wanting the ace, he is playing the king-so l AN
told by those who think they know, who certainly
have lad special opportunity Of watching his game.
Shdel is trying 10 do with cotton what Jecker ~
Co. have done with "bonds." The concern that
Mr. Slidell represents could not furnish hun WIN
much cash on his departure from Charleston.
What il has furnished him with il credit, whatever
that NAV come to- based on 100000 bales Of {. y i.
cotton This was the secret service fund OF Mr.. Sli-
dell Has il done good service Your recollecIlons
OF Mr. Sdells ekill and success III LoGiriana cleo
tons in Congressional votes III the good old times
of Union.saving AID Buchanan corruption, viii best
answer the question.
Not that presume TO state that Government jour
nails publishing coineidsn'al, approbatory argumen.s
favorable TO Mexican expedition and slave rebelhoi,
have been subject 10 gross influences. The resPec-
liabilities forbid!
Five hundred thousand bales Of cotton were &c, 10
the account of Mr.. Slidell by his Government tis-
ure 10 Yourselves the fttsngness Of this cipher ana
material 10 French minds and inaginaIions. Hall
million bales OF cotton anu whatever could DC done
with them in the way OF credit or basis OF orooit,
were put into ths hands Of Mr. Sidel by the I. b ~
to buy wisdom.
Heaven and the lower orders forbid that
should say hat there any Debt aud credit connect
lou between the advocacy by Government Journals
IF Southern Independence and tho diatHbution OF
Tie promises TO pay based on cotton.
We al know how largely cotton entered, oi late
years, Ia our own country, into the manufacture OF
shoddy public opinion aud Of slazy morality, Of
southside pulpit covers and Congressman yarns, Of
the canvas OF slave ships, and OF the me oanbnc
Of their owuers oravats-hemp being OFT ~ DiAFett
OF rotten adminis rations and oi tract societies mat
would not wash-ti orr moral, religious, political,
so ial fabric seemed pretty mucn all cotton.
Mr. Slideil, "a profoundly pactiocd fabnonnt, hsf
reason 10 think that be has been Of late as sdcces-
fIl here in France he used 10 be in foul Louis.
lana elections aud in that corrupt Congressional
legisaton in iinbecile Buchanans time. He seems
10 have reason to think that be was 40 successful
here under L0uii Napoleon as lie was used TO be IN
der stupid Jemes Buchanan.
DO not presume to saythat lie respectable eti-
tors OF res pecta5le semIoiic and oicoua journals,
are nsnred to write as theydo on American themes,
by hOpes Of Jeckerese or Of Shdeli-cOtton prohts
Only, if governmental editors were purchasable,
one " Oald be sure that they would write much a
editors now do write. That may be
only "A singular coincidence. let IT paes.
We ali know how largely cotton has extended OF
late wears in our own country into The shod ~ pup
he sentiment and rlazy morality, aud sonihs de pull
il covers that would not wash, and Congress
Inens yarns aud slave-ships canvas, snd into cam
bric cravats of flaye-ship's owners-natlon being
out of reaGisite hemp-Sand rotten Administrations,
iii al last our social, political, ana other ihbiics
,eemed TO be pretty much all cotton.
Mr. Slidell is q practiced lubricant; gness he has
been successful with certain French prints. What
il curious about them is that they aro all Of Govern
ment patterns!
Surprising that my informant, who is in a singularly
apt position 10 know, i'd right in his statement that
Mr. Slidell has used not neiIectvely, bis half mil
lion bales Of cotton secret service money, in the
press and otherwheres.
DO therefore say that gentlemen connected with
the lGovernmentall press are bribed TIE rhetoric
Of social courtesy forbid.
Brides, rays a proverb throw dust in cunning
mems eyes. Another proverb says: Bnbes enter
without knocking. Only fancy, then, how very
softly cotton brides would come in.
Once in, however, their value, Ike Jecker Il
Co.'S bonds, depends on thlng-, etc. 10 huppCse
it is purely hyPotheteal-Mr. slidel rays
to a newspaper mnn, or to "any other man
who has influence with Government newspaper
man, You .hal have 100 bales Of cotton Il 90 be
the Cotton Coniederacy turns up success, as with
your help it may.
Now the necessary condition Of payment Is the
success OF the rebellion. The belt aid 10 such sue
cess would be the offer by France aud England Of
mediationEkely 70 be followed By recognition OF
&. ;. A., seeing that rejection by U. S. 4. Is 10
good rs certain. highly desirable If hot necessary
condition Of such on act on their part would be lie
preliminary conversion Of popular sontimen, to its
favor. The longer such act Is delayed tie longer,
oill-holders argue, viii they Ii, out Of their pay
Oi eourse, Mr.. Sdell can only draw on BIZ, dit,
m. Lahe OF which is cotton I'm de porL ~ hanLa nl