Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-10-09
LsTEST FROM THE UNITED s.hTE,,

We c~ontinne our selections from Northern
papers, bearing dates as late as the 9Th inst.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
King Abraham has issued a proclamation,
appointing the last Thursday in November A.
!. day of Thanksgiving and prayer in Yankee
dom. In his proclamation he says:
In the midst of 4 civil war Of uneqralIcd
magnitude and severity, which Las SOMETIMES
.reucd to provoke the aggression of foreign
Sta'cs, peace has been preserved with all IA.
items, order has been maintained, tie laws
have been respected and abeyed, and l.armo-
ny has prevailed everywhere except in nc
theatre Of our military conflict, while iiaslhE.
atre has been greatly contracted by Tie adj
vanring armies and navies al the Union.
Need ul diversions Of wealth and OF strenr.:,
from the fields Of peaceful labor TO the Ma
tional defence have not arrested the pillow, the
shuttle or ship. The axe has enlarged the
borders OF our settlements, and the mines are
!ul Of iron and coal and of the pr cious met
ais, and have yielded even more abundautjy
than heretofore.
Population has steadily increased. notwirh
standing the waste that has been made in the
camp, the siege and the battle field | tho
country, rejoicing in the consciousness ri au-
mented strength and vigor, is permitted 20 o.
pect q continuance Of years with Il Iarsa liz.
crease Of freedom.
No human council hath devised, nor ha.h
any mortal hand worked out these things
They arc the gracious gifts Of :he Moas-HiSh
God, who, dealing with us in anger for. our
sins, has. nevertheless, remembered mercy
II has seemed to me fit and proper that Lh"v
should no uNlnp,n1y rarnrantIu ,nI ,--,,c,lf-
acknowledged by the whole American people
wHA THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMATS THINK OF
FRENCH INTERVENTION
The Washington correspondent of the New
York World writes:
The "body Of foreign diplomacy" here, as
Burke once called tue. personnel Of the en-
~nassies, did not, if W. except the FrcnrI
portion OF it, without n pang, read the pm
phlet of NJ. Chcralier. The hand Of III"
French Emperor was plain TO them through.
out all It's parts, and, inimica! 10 our inst!;u
tions as the European ministers are, they
cannot, now that it appears a thing deter
niued, look undisturbed on France reaching
forward TO the Mexican Confederate c"m,h;na-
ton, which gives that ambitious power MI
Mexico. and besides, the first place in the al
lance and affections of the Confederate States.
the cotton producing power Of the w"rid.-
While they profess to believe that the Nap"
ieon Davis partnership will prevail, they con
sole themselves in the conviction thai thr:s
will he no permanency in the new ~alliane".
md they are equally sure that Davis. in the
end, will get the best end of the bargain,
.ince. if the Confederate States can secure
their independence through French help, they
will not he long in Selling Mexico on th".'
)wn account.
They say that Louis Napoleon's mind i
visible all through the Chevalicr pamphler,
and manifest from a similar test rs that hv
which ,D"gald Dalgetty detected the Duk" &
Argyle when that noble visited Scrtlanl \,
iisguise, to-wit: that no one else would have
spoken so well of him.