New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-13
Rebels Rejoicing ever The Failure
at WiImingtoa.
Origin of the Rumor Of French and
English Intervention.
CASE OF THE ST. Adams RAIDERS.
from cnr Special Correspondents
NfnNrp1AV Saturday

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tas-that they had, in common with their fellow
traitors at home, to discourage and derress them.
ASH have before stated every event that in
Dixie or elsewhere. favorable or the reverse 10 the
Rebel cause. Is speedily communicated TO the Rebel
smssares berc and that it IS only necessary 10 De III
,be confidence of these ems,ares then messengers
or friends to obtain information Of avery interesting
and important character.
Iregret that cannot today report these Rebels still
nearer the verge of despair than they appeared at the
date Of my last letter. They truly extraordinary
people 1t requires much dsbeorten and defect them
bot very little is sufficient 20 encourage and eate them
OF coarse the courageous of Them could not fail
being brought to grief by the defeat Of Hood the fell Of
Savannah and the dsaeecion manifested by the people
Of Georgia on the line of Shernans march, and 10y
peace petitions TO JEFF. Davis and Lis Congress- but
She unfortunate failure few days later, of our expcd
zion against Wilmington, completely restored their
eQuanimity and you may now find them staggering
around public places and gaseonaiiEg as Id!cuoGsy al
ever.
But the failure OF this expedition Is not the only cause
Aey have, or fancy they have, for selfgratdation.
few days ago a letter dated at Paris was received
here BY Sanders from A. Dudley Mann with aocompa-
nyng dispatches for the Retel government conveying
Che assurance that NAPOLEON had determined either
With or without she cooperation Of Great Britain TO
recognize the ConfedeTacy after the renstaaton
Of Mr. Lincoln This intelligence of course has made
All the-Rebels who Lave been treated TO II very ubi
hni.
The letter from Mann had not been in more than
eight and forty hcnrs before OStsinod currency
and created little excitement among tie natives
sbat the French and British Governments actin. in
concert would recognize The COME lerscy Immediately
after The 4th of March next.
This dit to by certain know Ledge grew out Of the
poasiings at tito Terrapn,"-a stionab.e refresh
nent saloon in this eity-ofa drunken S0utherner who
hal been informed OF the receipt by Sanders of the letter
referred TO- and was not little surpriE I'd and amused
10 find it repeated in Washington dispatch 80 one Of
your city contemporaries
lam certain that the Rebel emissires here have
ssyed no assurance from abroad, aud indulge little or
% hope that Great Britain intends, is Likely 10 unite
siib ia shs sSsP0Sei soho'"~ ~sreVVs islV- l.
Deed Mann declares that such an esont is out OF the
question. Nevertheless majority Of the British eao
BET be says approve and have encouraged the proposed
setion by Napoleon. They urge according TO this
authority that il would DO wiser for the Emperor 10
move IN the premises ellne the united action OF his
government and Great Britain would likely be egarded
by other nations than own, as an unfair end IN
friendly coalition against us. and gain for sympathy
and powerful allies.
But that undue importance may not be attached 10
h letter of Mann it is proper 10 say that he does not
pretend TO have received The be conveys from
The Emperor himself and bases his assertions entirely
upon the account given BY Sdell Of interview had
BY him with DIouyn DC Lhuys about the let Of
December.
This is not the aIs or second time that it has been de-
.laFed by Rebel Commissioners that their Government
was about TO receive foreign recognition. know that
long ago the Summer Of 1868 there were received
lat least lat Benjamin alleged, and that the Southern
umes and people were informed that there had been
reeiyed-st the Rebel State Department dispatches
from sdeI conveying the positive assurance that the
Conederacy would be recognized BY france before the
10th day Of April. 1901.
But for the hopes inspired by ills and siDilor fabrioa
sons the rebellion would have collapsed long ago; and
his not improbable that tie assurances just forwarded
By sliaen. Mann a Co.. form another piece Of cticu
y to impose still further upon their credulous victims
Be this as il may the sensation ramOT that has for some
tsys been going the rounds has 10 other foundation
nan Mann's letter to Sanders
Tie question of jurisdiction in the case Of the ST.
Ahans raiders upon which Justice CouTsol discharged
heu and which was subsequently raised in the Of
nose recaptpred before Judge Smith, was on Saturday
opposed Of by the latter who decided that he had urs
tcdon Judge Smith, although he never entertained
lub Of bis Jurisdiction, carefully took whole week to
usMine the question which the inferior Judge concely
1hmself competent 10 pronounce upon in single hour
But the correct decision OF Judge Smith win neither
surn the most Of the caprs, restore the pundcr
theh Immediately after their release found It's way in
bthe hands Of the rebel agent
Judge Smith had no sooner finished, than another
nd novel-but not more novel than ab.urd-question
jurisdiction was raised by the pris0ners' counsel
Tie question. briefly stated, is whether st. Adams, in
te State Of Vermont il within tho Jurisdiction of the
United States.
lappeaIs that the statute first enacted By lie Cana
dian Parliament for carrying out the provisions OF tie
A'hburion Treaty, declared in regard 10 claims for
e1,gadiii0u. that the magistrates aud judges should
have cOgnllnoe Of crimes committed within the juris
sction Of the United States, any Of tho States.
This statute eiterward repealed, and another
substituted, which merely gave magistrates and judge
eognzance In Of claims for exradiOn for crimes
committed within the jurisdiction Of the United
e<'es the words, "Or any of to States" employed
II the former statute being omitted
Therefore Il IS Coutonded that tie statute Itself in
thded 70 make distinction between The jurisdiction Of
DE United States and that Of the individual States
AUG tie learned counsel for tie prisoners argue ad
~AAe IS clear mud. that Vermont is not within the
sdieton OF the United States nud that the culprits
"-,' therefore be discharged.
Ale Argument Of the prisoners counsel condensed
t'Na whereof you VIII receive Through the Montreal
r'' was mainly repetition OF tho Southern doctrine
aSA'e rights and undoubtedly furnished to them
. lfor,~ bexa