Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-25
IMPORTANT FROM rae aoR rH.

\ GLOOM1 UAl Al NAShlNttUN --ftffoiINA-
TION OF SEWARD AND CHAsE--TME CONsER
vATIrEs AND THE ABOLITION POLICY--LA-
INEVITABLE SITUATION OF THB UNION CAUSE
&C., ac.,;te
The New York Herald Of December 22d, contains
important statements relative to the Cabinet explosion
at Washington SUNDAY last tit ssysl was the gloOm
est of all days in the history Of the Federal Capital
that Seward and Chase have certainly resigned that
Seward will not remain in it IL Haleck aud Stanton are
retained and that Chase will not remain IL Seward
quits As in that event. he says the Northern capitalists
would shut down" The Herald audes, at eonsiders-
Bile length to the extraordinary state of affairs at Wash
ingon, and the following synopsis will be read with
much interest:
There are two candidates for the place of Comman
dern Chief Fremont being urged by the Radicals, aud
Mcclellan by the Conservatives. Chase may be made
Premier and r. J. Walker Secretary of the Treasury.
Ii is believed thatueher the people the army will
submit Fremont in place OF Hleck, or TO the reten-
ton OF Stanton; if such course be pursued the newly
Governors Of six of the great States initiating Ma'st-
chusetts in 1872 will recall their troops from the field
/ and demand change of policy. The Herald also says
in the present posture OF affairs the alternative is pr
sented Of forming Cabinet upon the emancipation
platform of adopting the conservative policy OF Mr.
Seward In the former case there is danger that New
York will abandon the war; in the latter case the
tire force of the radicals will be brought TO bear against
him. The most Intelligent observers, it continues, be-
| eve the proclamnionists will prevail.
The Herald saysihat all agree that another army can
1 only be raised by extreme measures
Fessenden OF Maine, and ID. S. Dickinson named
for Premier aud it is believed the former will be ten
dered the place. Grow, the present Speaker it is said,
| will get Secretaryship.
| A despatch from Washington at midnight on Sun
day SAYS the President has announced that he the
4 iu1ga NJ he a
i will not be Influenced by the dictation of Senator'S
The Herald says the forward movement by frede-
rcksburg by Burnside not undertaken by his own
judgment, but IVES peremptory ordered at Washing
| ton.
Haleck visited Burnside at Aqua Greek the 18th.
Burnside was in Washington on yesterday.
The Herald believes the rebel army is falling back to
Richmond.
Gold rose one per cent in New York when tho news
| Of Stewards resignation reached there.
Il was telegraphed TO- Washington from Burnside's
Headquarters the 2ls that his staff officers knew
nothing Of his resignation and that General Hampton
had captured captain thirty privates and eleven sut'
ers and six sater wagons They complain that suffers
goods are needed in the army but that the overland
| route 10 too dangerous.
INSIDE WV OF TEE acknowledgements LASH
ISG or TIE "INBEcIEs' At wAsAIEoroS.
| We copy in full she New York Worlds editorial oG
Thursday Inst to which brief alluson has been made in
the Geographic column
Heaven help US There seems TO be no help In
Tho cause pershing Hope after hope has vanished,
ill now the only prospect is the ve biackness of des
/ pair.
But how can we adjure Heayenf for help? Was it not
said by the wisest OF Pagans that there is stupidity
which battles the gods " and'is 1t not proverb
among Christians too, that God bel ps those only who
help themselyesi" What right have TO expect that
even Infinite Mercy will stay the laws of the universe
Mat We aud may be snatched from the track to
deathy IL il impiOus presumption to imagine that
the Eternal Reason which has ordained cause and effect
will abdicatr suit the folly that now governs us
| And vet IL is terrible spectacle. ship the
grapdest tia. ever sailed the tide OF time ireghted
With interests for the passing all calculation
/ and .beyOnd all price, the marvel aud the glory
/ of the whole world-we say il is terrible spccta.
| Gle TO see this peerless arEOsy m the hands OF
cLatering idiots and blind laundering nbeciles driving
straight on upon the breakers aud qucksands while the
crew the soltest and the faithful that trod
deck are compelled look paSsyey on, and in sheer
heiplessuess await the al-enguphing fate.
Don't call ;his cStrayagant language. 1t is ex-
traysgant 1t but eebly expresses the dreadful reality.
Here we are reeng back IRON the third campaign upon
Richmond Fifteen thousand OF the grand army Sacri.
feed ut one swoop, aud the rest escaping only by
hairs BREADTH and all for Whist: For the same old
cursed trio ofimbeeiles Washington Q.ncOln Hacck
and Siantonl Those rebel heights murderous might
have been carried without blow had the pontOOn
bridges been delivered at the time promised by the i'm
beetles NJ Washington In the face Of the stupendous
| work which the enemy able accomplish by TeA-
son OF that failure, Burnside would have made
the attack a. he did had he not in spite of his
pressing protests been peremp;orily ordered cross
that river and those heights then and there by
the men at Washington That is the true record Not
all the cunning all the impudeuce OF White House
funkeys can change that record i0ta. Like the
fatal bunder5 that preceded IT, IL has gone unaeraby
| into history.
Alas for our county! Given over it would SEEM to
tina most gnoblc fate that befe country
ed BY imbeeiles Time was, We have read when in
| competent ruler was not permitted among men. II he
could not or would not grid himself up 10 the task
ouired Of him he had 10 give way and often very swift
| " too 10 the man whom God made to command
| This cannot be now. The people have named the one
10 hold the helm of State Tor four years. sunshine
| or come storm. We must abide him he IT, aud find
in his droery what sOlace And yet il is pity
that he cannot be induced to call in proper heperS-
Why look Tor a moment
There stands his Secretary Of War; upstart in pub
lie life with neither knowledge experience, yet full
OF pretensiou and impotence, alike puLzleheadcd and
pragmatica his movements battling all calculation aud
CONJECTURE pitching loyal men into Fort Lafayette
| and now running muck of Gencrals in the field,
blatherskites and blunderer mischiefmaker and
marpot from the beginning There stands the Secretary
of the Navy venerable in years. gentle at heart mild in
manners, admirably qualified to do the needful for
| boarding school in.
Nurmuring streams, soft shades and sprnging Hov-
| ers,
Lutes laurels, seas Of milk and ships of amber;
but as to his capacity do the necdiu in these dread
times on the broad ocean-go read it in the flaming
tracks Of the Sumter and the Alabama. There stands
too the Secretary of tho treasury up to his in r
| redeensble paper and yet without knack enough to
furnish even green backs for the scant monthly pay Of
tho soldiers though the consequences he violation of
the public faith pledged them the untold suffering OF
/ their families at houlo and their decentralization
and desertion TO degree intellectually damaging to THO
| national cause There, too stands the man who cas
himself Generaln. Chief the Presidents chosen military
.hrisnr strategy IL In his ds