The New York herald., 1862-11-16
action Of the New York Chamber OF Commerce
with reference to the pirate Alabama. n.


action Of the New York Chamber Of Commerce
with reference to the pirate Alabama. M
Mr. Bright has written letter applauding IRE
siacnt i.neoln's emancipation proclamation.
The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant at
an anyance of two q three pence per pound wiiie
bfeadsturs and provisions were dun
Aprohmnary meeting Of the friends OF General
Banks was held at the Astor House yesterday af
ternoon, 10 arrange for public reception OF that
popular officer. There was avery full attendance.
After some discussion, The matter was referred to
a sub. committee OF FIVE, to make all the neces-
sary preparations. We give report elsewhere.
The Board OF Comfy Canvassers resumed their
session IT twelve o'clock yesterday. when the
CanyassaFs from The Ninth and Tenth districts OF
the Eighth ward appeared and corrected the cr-
rors III their returns. After canvpssing returns
from other wards, in which there were only a few
slight clerical errors the Board adjourned to Mem
day at Twelve o'clock.
The fourth instalment Of Prince de JoiuvilIe's
narrative of the war, Of which we give to-day
translation. commences with the skirmish and bat
tle Of Williamsburg, and gives a graphic descrip-
ton Of the march from Yorktown to The Chicka-
hominy. The cause OF the failure of the campaign
ofhe Army Of the Potomac it clearly proves to have
been that while the rebel army was being largely
increased and concentrated VI Richmond, the ar
ny under Cen. Mcclellan was undergoing constant
dimnuton, not only from battle and disease, but
by the withdrawal Of corps and divisions. II
shows, moreover, that while both Mcclellan and
Mcdowell were anxious TO form junction, which
would have assured the fall of Richmond. other
influences were at work TO prevent that. This il
one OF tho most important reviews Of that cam
paign ttat have yet been published, and II will
doubtless receive that very general attention which
II merits
stocks were better at the opening yesterday ana
.her weaker afterwards closing, however, better,
ru,c than Friday Moley still in active demand at
I. Gold--whch ~as restored to its CORNER pace 10
The beard l.at-cosed AZ l3iTs. Exch nga at is5 r.
The FIissonri Observation-Disclosures
iu tho Border slave states.
The emancipatiolists have carried four or
fve Of the nine members returned for Congress
from Missouri by the late elections of that
State. The same party have made vigorous
effort for the State Legislature, and they have
almost succeeded in securing it against the
hitherto nvincible democracy. These results
indicate political revolution as remarkable as
that which has just overthrown the republican
radicals in New York; but with little inquiry
into the subject it will be seen that the people
Of Missouri, in the election Of these emaucpa-
ton members to Congress, have by no means
endorsed the slavery exterminsting policy of
the abolition radicals, but the widely different
scheme Of President Lincolns compensatiye
emancipation, and for very good reasons.
OF all the border slave States, excepting Yir-
ginia, the State Of Missouri has suffered Ike
most severely from this war, and especially in
the losses of her slave property and in the de-
cisive consequences against the continuance of
the institution within her borders. The State
has been two or three times oveIrun by rebel
armies, under Price and his Arkansas associates
and with each expulsion they have carried Off
lot Of negroes. Rebel guerillas have also
made very free with the slaves Of Unionists
and Kansas jayhawhers have liberated by hun
dreds the slaves OF secession sympathizers and
conspirators. Then again, in tho midst Of this
general confusion Of contending armies, gueri-
las, robbers and negro stsalers, the slave popu-
lation Of Missouri has taken 10 itself wings, and
flown away eastward to Illinois, northward
into Iowa, and westward into Kansas. in the
proportion Of ten slaves to one that has been
stolen, by rebels or hurried southwark with or
by their masters,
All these causes, operating together have
materially diminished the cash valuo Of slaves.
and their habits Of obedience, and the security
of the institution in Missouri. At the sane
time the great European stream Of immigra-
ton, pressing westward, and ovcrhowing the
surrounding free States has invaded and
e
crowdng therein African slave labor 10
the wall. Slavery in Missouri is reduced to
the exhaustine pressure OF all these elements Of
internal strife and competition, when Prcsi-
dent Lincoln submits to Congress his scheme
Of buying out the institution in all the bor
der slave States And this, including the
absence of twenty or thirty thousand pro
slavery voter. is the service OF the rebellion
farther South, is the true solution Of these late
emancipation successes il Missouri That
which was apparent in the reign Of peace has
become inevitable from this reyolutionizing
war. The manifest destiny OF Missouri is that
of free State Her people, therefore, are
rapidly coming over to President Lncolns
border State policy of emancipation, and
probably in their next elections they will settle
the question in lis favor.
The late election Of the administrator candi-
date for Governor in Delaware involves the
same concusion-tha the people Of that State
in which African slavery 10 nearly extinct, are
disposed TO sell ont their remnant of the insti
tuition 1T hslr price. rs thing which has ceased
to pay expenses. Maryland is evidently in
clining in the same direction. Virginia. with
her slave population already swept OF from one
half Of her sacred soil'' by this war cannot
emerge from it without taking upon herself the
work Of emancipation. And so with Kentucky,
although her loyalty to the Union has pre-