Year: 1863

The conviction that the disorders which
have made this city for more than three
days q scene of tumult, assassination and
robbery was no sudden outbreak of dis
content, but n regular conspiracy, a branch
Of the rebellion, aud the work of those
who hold communication with the rebels,
gains strength every day. The disclosures
made in the case of the men recently ap-
pretended at Philadelphia on charge of
treason, show perfectly easy it has been for
the accomplices of treason in New York
to act in concert with the leaders of the
rebellion at the South. From the testimo-
ny given in that case it appeared that
there was a set of men in this very city
who were engaged in leisnrely fitting out
TWO vessels, one to carry ylcontraband goods
and u rebel mail to Virginia, and the other
destined to cruise a rebel privatssf and
prey on the commerce of the county
The ingenuity of the detective police ena-
bled them to discover the plot in season,
and to seize the vessels when nearly ready
to proceed to sea, with the evidences of
their guilty erraud in their holds and on
their decks. 1t is well worthy of note
that among the letters found on board ad-
dressed to persons in Virginia was one
from the very fellow, Andrews, who fig
ures as a leader of the mob in this city
The truth is, that the rebellion has its
agents everywhere among us, and there is
no reason TO suppose that those who were
concerned in getting up tue mob are one
whit less likely to be in close cOmmunica-
tion with the rebel government than the
rascals who send contraband goods and
contraband mails from this port, and fit
out piratical vessels in our waters to burn,
sink aud destroy the vessels employed in
our lawful commerce.


The scheme of separating New York from
the rest of the state. and making 1t what
they call ''a free port" that is to say, a
mart for the rebel states-a port in which
their privateers may securely lie, and to
which they may bring the plunder of the
seas, was broached by Fernando Wood at
the beginning OF the present war. The
project has slept till now, but 1t has slept
merely, and the fomenters of this bloody
riot have revived it They seized the Oc-
casion when the metropolis was deprived
of the greater number of the natural de-
tenders of its interests, its honor and its
quiet when SO many Thousands of its gal.
liant aud vigorous young men, who would
willingly have shed their blood rather than
allow the city to be involved in this dis
grace, were absent, fighting the battles of
their country. Relying on the want of
support in which the local authorities





sought 70 throw the whole civil order of
the city into confusion, aud Introduce, as
they almost succeeded in doing, state of
complete anarchy. Out of this anarchy
there is very little doubt that these dream
ers hoped to erect revolutionary govern
meut, If those who administer the laws
could be driven from the city, we should
see emerging from the places in which they
have hitherto skulked, the real authors of
this agitation, the men who hired the felons
engaged in It, and taught them how to act
and guided all their movements in secret
we should see these men at the head Of the
new government, with their followers strut
ting In ePanlettes, transformed into GEN
erals and ProVost-marshals, ruling the city
/ by the same means of terror which have
been adopted In the seeding states.


We may mention here, as an Indication
Of the nature Of this conspiracy, that a
| distinguished and sagaciOus member of the
Democratic party, on terms Of friendly in
| timacy with those who stand in an equiVo-
cal relation 20 the present tumuIts, called
Yesterday at this Office TO inform US that
l we did not understand the character Of the
| present disorders, that they had a firmer
basis aud more fixed object than we i'm
agined; that those who instigated them
were determined to effect their purpose a.
/ any hazard, aud that our wisest course
| would be not to exasperats them by too
resolute an opposition. We cannot sup
pose that such counsel would have been
] given II its author had not known that
there were men concerned 10 1t Who did not
allow themselves TO be seen as its insfiga-
tors, and who had taken their measured be-
forehand with the greatest delib ration.
Our readers will rightfuiIy infer that this
Information, kindly as twas given, made
no difference in the course We had Marked
out for ourselves. The more determined
are the traitors engaged in this work, the
more firmly should they be resisted, snd
j the more summarY should be the niean.