The New York herald., 1864-12-10

family; bat glorious victory Ia . snali wsrd
election, VIXEN skiifully managed, II sometimes
like . comet, which draws great events and
disasters in its train.
IAsurrsesieasry Plots &C ths HsssA sna
Foreign Inssxvenssea.
Provost Marshal General Fry las given pub
lie notice that there is . movement on foot in
Canada by which all the scsm Of that country
is to be discharged upon our border Al an early
day to carry ous grand schsne Of wholesale
robbery and murder. All the lawless wretchss,
the agents of the Richmond government, the
cowardly deserters from the rebel army, the
skedaddIers from the draft, the sscutthroats and
piliagers Of every stripe who have taken re-
fugsia Canada within the past few years, and
have found congesial spirits and sympathizsrs
in the people of that province, are to cross tie
border ostshsibly in search Of employment,
bat really to apply the torch Of the incendiary
In our Northern cities-to stir up riot, to pill
lage and murder. Such Is the latest rebel ar
rspgement for the prosecution Of tha~ !" war;"
No one can doubt that the information thus
laid before the public ID derived from . trust
worthy source. Some weeks since Secretary
Seward published officially, il will be renem-
bered somewhat similar notice. That notice
was ridlculed BY the rebei&Fsss Of This city,
and had the good fortune to be sneered ct by
our wonderful Mayer, who affected to " disbes
lisve" it. Marshal Fry's notice will bs riai-
culed and snsered at In the same way. But
the 6rst was followed by the late attempt to
burn oil the hotels in this city, and the last ID
undoubtedly timely notice OF sn attempt
equally real and malignant, and fraught with
equal danger.
The present position d the Southern con-
federacy Is most desperate one. No band Of
rufianly conspirators ever aspired to set up .
government with less prospect Of success than
the Southern conspirators now have, or with
moro hopeless future in case OF failure. Army
| after army has been borne down m the strug-
| gle, until now the last man has been dragged
from his home, and the end they desire Is fur
| ther off than ever. In the extreme South the
| great cotton States lie PROSTATE before North
ern general; one Southern army stands and
looks on, helpless to prevent, and another
marches to inevitable ruin with the shout Of
| victory on its lips. Under these circumstances
the rebel leaders again turn their thoughts to
an attempt once reliuquished as'futile. Once
| more they hope for the intervention Of foreign
Power. II France or England can be brought
between the consederacy and the great blows
that the United States now aim ct 1t, they be-
ljeve that there will be hope to save it, and
| without that they acknowledge that there isdno
hope at all. Foreign Intervention is now,
therefore, their grand objective point, and that
i - p-lo A., Il, sc o1l hnk Ataxvl a.
At the commencement they demanded it
| openly, asd labored for IL through ambassa-
dors, and by the representations Of the great
i ness and power Of the nation they proposed to
set up. Now they have another plan. Having
| failed to move Europe by showing their
strength, they hope to do it by showing our
weakness and pointing to divided North-a
North that cannot hope to prosecute the
war to . successful close, and that will
not be formidable, after the war, to
| any Power that may assist the South.
| ~ was their hope before the election that the
success Of . candidate whose position on the
war was less distinctly in favor of national in
| tegrity than that of Mr.. Lincoln would do q
| great deal 10 that way. Then they could have
| pointed Europe to . President elected on q
peace platform, and we should have heard she
| most tremendous screams about the greatness
OF the peace party, aud that the majority OF the
North was no longer in favor oil, the war. Indeed
Europe was partly prepared in advance, and
we were permitted to hear that France wonld
see the election Of Mcclellan in that, light,
and interfere accordingly.
But that scheme failed through McClellan's
lo1k tocA J.e..
desperate pan. Over the border in Canada they
have an abundance Of the vlest material that
ever disgraced humanity, and here in our very
midst they have hundreds and thousands of
sympathizers aud agents-their some time poll
tical associates and present admirers. They
have even press that, with the most shameless
impudence, utters daily peans in their praise,
denouncss and disparagss ell Union efforts and
successes, aud covers all nefarious rebel attempts
by dsDeuncing every exposure Of them as
false, and by affecting ITO laugh at them as
doubt that they have been made. These
means are all that they can desire. Desperate
wretchcs TO start fires in every city, sympathi-
GERS to show them how 10 do it, and harbor
them till 1t is done, and press to seize the
occasion and incite nsurrection and riot, II
possible and then to tell the world that all this
is done by the Northern opposition in Its efforts
to overthrow the Washington tyranny and
stop the war. All these agencies are now
| active. The copperhead press was never so
loud and bold, nor the border cutthroats 50
plentiful. These last, encouraged by the pro-
lection extended to the Chesapeake pirates in
| a nroyincial city and hy the evident desire OF