The New York herald., 1863-02-18

deSpondency OF Wall street, the revolutionary
tendencies Of the spoils democracy and aboli-
ton fanatics of the North, and the fears and dis
trust peryading the public mind imperiously
demand military success" The government
has the men and means and the opportunity to
secure success, and the country has the right to
demand it. We are gratifed to hear that en-
couraging accounts from our military officers in
the field, East and West, have created more
hopeful feeling in Washington, and we trust
that this feeling will be soon extended to New
York, with the news of some decisive Union
victory as the opening of the impending cam
paign.
william Colorado Jeweta's Letter 70 eho
President.
William Colorado Jewett has had his carte
de uisite taken. This announcement may seem
unimportant; but Jewett is no ordinary man,
and his carte de uis;ts Is no ordinary photo
graph. The ghosts of the great departed
lowered around the operators camera, and the
operator himself was spiritualist Of the first
water. The consequence was that the shades
of those illustrious worthless, dead and alive who
inspire Jewett in bis great work of mediation,
were impressed upon the photographers mega
tive, and distinctly visible in Jewetts oartes
de cisite In one Of the pictures before US
Napoleon the First stands majestically by
Jewett's side; in another Luther smiles upon
Jewett's efforts; in q third Melancthon; in a
fourth Queen Victoria; in . fifth the Emperor
Of Russia, and in a sixth Tallsyrand, are seen
at Jewett's right hand, in gloomy and in
pressive grandeur, evidently aiding and abet-
ting his mediation and mining schemes.
Thus, by this spiritualistic photography, we be-
hold not only Jewett's handsome face and elc-
giant figure, but are also favored with fac
simile of Jewetts soul, and learn that it is COM
posed of the souls Of all these immortals and
that they actually possess and speak through
him.
We desire to call most particular attention,
therefore, to the letter which Jewett has recent
ly addressed to President Lincoln, and which
we publish in another column this morning
We always thought Colorado Jewett great
man; but we now discover that he is half =
dozen great men and women rolled into one.
Whatever he says must consequently be Of the
not only his own private opinions, but those Of
Napoleon, Luther, Queen Victoria and the rest
He is not merely blowing his own trumpet; but
he il himself trumpet through which em-
perors, kings, queens and sages declare their
combined wisdom to the world: There is
not the slightest doubt of the genuine
ness of this last spiritual manifestation.
Jewett's letter establishes beyond question the
fact that he is possessed. Its solemn tone, its
mysterious mannerisms its oracular style, its
apparent contradictions and its prophetic warn
ings are but 80 many proofs that 1t was dictated
by mighty minds far removed from the realms
of common sense. Indeed, its contradictions
seem to US the very best evidences Of its super
natural origin. The shades Of Napoleon and
the Emperor Of Russia never could agree.
Queen Victoria, tho head of the English church.
would certainly differ upon some points with
the reforming Luther. The mild Melancthon
and the intriguing Talleyrand are not likely to
divide soul between them without little
controversy. II, therefore, Jewett pitches into
the emancipation proclamation at the COM
mencement Of his letter and rather favors it at
the close, that is only the result Of little diff
Guilty between Napoleon, who, as military
ghost, knows that the proclamation will not
end the war, and the Emperor Of Russia
who is now involved in emancipation
troubles Of his own, and desires to see us in the
same puddle. II Jewett argues in favor of
peace and yet avows himself a war man,
Queen Victoria and Luther are at fault. If
Jewett urges mediation in the name Of Heaven
on the one hand, and tries to oust Seward and
nominate new Cabinet on the other, ttat is
matter for which the contending and opposing
influences Of Melancthon and Talleyrand are TO
blame. Jewett cannot help these little muddles
When man is full of spirits his brains and his
pen are equally unmanageable.
1t will probably surprise many readers that
the souls Of Greeley, Vallandigham. Louis
Napoleon and Mercier are not among those pho
togrsphed upon Jewetts carteS de uisite The
natural explanation Of this omission is that
Louis Napoleon and Mercier are represented by
Napoleon the First, and that Greeley and vallan-
digham have either no souls at all or souls so
small as to be undiscoverable. But, though
absent from the photographs, there is enough
Of these personages in the letter to the Presi-
dent. vallandigham speaks through Jewett
against emancipation. Mercier and his master
speak through Jewett in favor of mediation.
Greeley, and all the radical, abolition, disunion
cabal speak through Jewett in his attack upon
Seward, and through Senator Sumner when he
declares that Stewards recent patriotic and
statesmanlike reply 10 the offer Of French
mediation is the weakest document of
the administration" and "an sbsurdity."
Jewett is the agent Of these radicals,
and they use him, ss the monkey did the
cat, to try and get their political chestnuts