The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-20


| TSaeaies has vail over the absorpsie0 OF the
India and New Orleans trade OF that port BY
| New York. which II attributes to the wer. and
it admits thatit has but faint hopes Of ever re-
gaining it, This ID but the fulflment of the pre-
| dictions that we years ago INDUCED in, and
| that excited s0'much derision on the part of our
| Boston contemporaries. The Hub Of the Uni
verse is beginning to find out that il ia at the,
| outside, and not at the centre of the wheel But
there are many other cities Of even moro pre-
| tension than Boston that are destined to make
| the same discovery We are rapidly approach
| ing that stage Of population and commercial
| greatness which will enable US TO say, in
Mussulman fashion, that "God is great, and that
New York is His metropolis" Its central posi-
ton on continent. itself occupying the great
geographical centre OF the globe, and the fur
Their power of absorption that will be impaired
10 it by the Lines to the Pacific now being built
by us, and that are projected through British
and Russian territory, all point to this result.
With the vast additional commerce that will
flow to us from all parts Of tho world there will
be carried along all those arts that gid and ro-
fine life, and that contribute to establish the
ascendancy Of great cities Il is not too san
guine an anticipation, then to indulge in that
within the next half century We shall be far
ahead in wealth, population and importance of
any of the metropolitan communities now in
existence, or of which We have any record in
history
VANcE's RAm.-All the rebel arrangements
that run against Grant inevitably get smashed
up. Sydney Johnston Beauregard, Bragg,
Polk Buckner, Joe Johnston, Pillow and Penn
berton found that out to their cost, and finally
Vance has tried it Vance is not the Governor
of North Carolina. Who Vance is not we
know; but who he Is the Sybilline leaves per-
baps could not tell, further than that he is
general of the rebel army Vance, like
Young Norval, had had his spirits raised by the
cogitatlon Of heroic stories. He had heard the
marvcls Of Jeb. Stuart's achievements within
the Yankee lines, aud thought he could i'm
prove upon all that So he resolved to ride to
Temsvlle, and be famous But he forgot that
Jeb Stuart's raids were made in Virginia,
where the Washington people rule, and he for
got, alas that Temsville il in Grants depart
ment. On his way to Tcrasvillc he captured q
train of twenty-tbree wagons, and thought he
was all right; and then, before he knew it, the
twenty-three wagons were retaken. and with
them were captured the bulk Of Vances
party-mcn, horses and arms ance's Adju-
tant Vance Inspector Vance!
SaMBo AS A LIST RESORT The Richmond
Sentinel says that distraction ~ destruction"
to the confcderacy, and that Only united action
can save it The Londoa Times says that it
can only be saved by faith aud a good cur
rency Mr. C. A. Lamar has come to the con-
clusion that saltpctre will not save the cocfede-
racy, an1 he proposes to save it with plaster
and hot water He does not tell us whether it
il the pitch plaster or the poor mans plaster;
neither. does he INCEPTION whether che water is
to have any whiskey in it, But these plans
are all trivial and insignificant by comparison
with the great plan that The Southern govern
ment, in emulation OF Northern extremists seems
likely to adopt BY despatch from Western
Virginia printed elsewhere it will be seen that
the niger is at length really part and parcel Of
the Southern army. Three companies Of negro
cavalry formed part of the force with which
FitzLugh Lee lately operated near Moore6eld
Thus the extremes o. the quarrel North aud
South reach the same result and Sambo is to
fight for bis freedom on both sides.
MoaE TAXATION Tribune and Times are
talking about more taxation Well. the govern
meB must receive three or four hundred mil
lions year from taxation or 60 by the board.