The New York herald., 1864-08-13

hand writing upon the wall. Surely. after hav-
ing been SO Gar led astray and betrayed. a. Mr..
Lincoln has been. by such treacherous guides
as Ren Wade aud Winter Davis. he must now
be in frame Of mind to listeu to good advice.
TEe DEMONSTRATION AGAINST TIM ADMINS
rRATIoN--PEAoE.-The whole partsan press
takes narrow and strictly party view Of the
great popular demonstration Of the 10th inst
Tho Nous finds that II was a triumph Of the
views of the peace party because no one advo
Gated tie prosecution Of hostilities, and The
Post takes especial notice that the "leaders OF
the democratic party" were not there. We do
not see what right the Post has to assume that
any othor portion Of the democratic party was
there. Az far as party goes. every man there
might have been once . republican; for 1t was
not party affair at ALL 1t was demonstra-
ton most distinctly and definitely outside Of
all party, and the only comprehensive view
that can possibly be taken Of 1t is that II was
tremendous expression Of the popular dis
gust with the administration and Of the deter
mnation to overwhelm it unless some great
change in its policy is soon made. So far as
the absence of "leaders" goes, the meeting was
on evidence that an intelligent people are
the true leaders, and an evidence also that
The people can come together and make
themselves heard without tho old fashioned
party machinery. 1t was the presence Of 80
many men, coming there with the common OBJ
ject, and the earnestness with which they ex
pressed themselves to one another, that made
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virtue Of the speeches; for the speeches were
the only contemntible part Of it,
Ilr. Lincoln may see in this demonstration
fair example Of the beartness With which the
people will come together at the shortest no
tice to utter the most wholesale and absolute
denunciations of his past actions and his present
policy. Men were never more universally
agreed upon any point than they are now agreed
in disgust with the administration over this
whole country; and unless something decided
is done between this and November this condi-
tion Of the public mind will continue, and will
completely defeat Mr.. Lincoln. Nothing can
make sufficient impression upon the public
mind to change it greatly on this point unless
II looks to the cessation Of hostilities. An ar
mistice, such as we have recommended, with
the appointm at from either side Of delegates
to national convention, to agree on terms Of
reconciliation, would affect the country i'm
mensely, and that is Lincon's last chance TO
affect the country in any way favorably to him.
REBEr. JOURNALS IN New YoRx-Thc Ne,os Of
mond papers. It's advertisements are taken
from those papers or meant for then. Its
reading matter is in. great part taken from
them, and its editorials are merely feeble re-
scripts Of those it copies from the moro bitter
Of the Southern papers. In its issue OF yester-
day ii assumes that Mr.. Lincoln rejected the
proposition Of Southern peace commissioners
with the air Of conqueror, and argues to show
that ne had no reason to do so. Tor this pur-
pose it gives view Of the present position o.
the contest from which an Englishman just
landed in New York might suppose'that he was
standing on the only spot In the United States
that was still in the absolute possession Of the
government Of the United States, and that even
this spot was invested by rebel armies. In
these matters the Neos goes too far to accom-
pish even its own purposes. 1t draws its lies 50
largely that they are merely ridiculous, and
do not deceive even the few demented and
ignorant persons who wish to believe it. When
Leo and Grant begin to fight on the Rapidan,
and the combat progresses from that point
steadily southwark for sixty miles. neither the
Ne,cs nor the World can make the country be-
lieve that Grant is being badly beaten all tie
time. Neither when Sherman has penetrated
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can they make the country believe that rebel
victories are what took him there and what keep
him there. The people OF the United States
know well that OF the twelve States that The
rebels pretended to hold when this war began
they now hold entirely only the two Caro!inas,
that they have large armies only IN Georgia
and Virginia, and that in the whole country
this side the Mississippi there is, except those
two armies, nothing to dispute our possession
but guerillas; and with that knowledge they
very readily answer all those who argue that the
con!ederacy is triumphant everywhere, and that
we are actually hemmed in at Paducah BY
Southern ascendency."
LOOK Or, SAUGGLERs,-Tlc Treasury De-
partment has just issued stringent Instructions
10 officers OF the revenue and agents in foreign
ports, enjcining the strict obser saoe OF The
United States law to prevent sn ggliag. Pas
sengers' baggage Is to be nore rigitily ex-
amined than heretofore, and all contraband
articles promptly con6scated. Great care is
required at the hands Of all consuls, vice con-
snls and commercial agents abroad ia regard
to the manifests Of oargoss coming to UnItea
States ports, and the proper sealing OF such
curgoes, &c, Baggage passing from the United
States, through Canada, and again into the Unitcd
States, as by way OF tho Grand Trunk Railway
should be put ip,some place where 1t can be