Year: 1862

The sext Co.Sress-Thc DcraHnds aea


Expectations OF shc Country.


According 10 the Congressional tables which
We publish to-day, the next House OF Repre-
sentstives will probably stand


Conservatives. ..............,.........i .i0i
Republicans. Observation-Disclosures. 81


Conservative majority. .................... Is


We arrive at ihis Division from the actual To-
turnA Of the elections made, ard from estimates
OF those not reported and those yet TO be made,
which we think cannot fall wide OF the mark
At all events there vii. be = conservative ma
jority In the popular branch Of tho next Con-
gress sufficient for all practical purposes. But
we hope that by the first Monday in December,
1868, the day of the first regular meeting of
the now House, there will be full delegations
added 10 its conservative side from oil our re-
volted States, and acquisitions from them to
the Senate sufficient at least TO overcome the
present republican radical majority in thai
body. s>s


In this view Of tho subject, even Il there
we're republican majority of twenty or thirty
in the mex. House from those portions of the
Union represented in the present Congress, it
would cease to be q matter Of any great i'm
portance. We cannot for q moment entertain
the idea that during the next twelve
months we ees 10 make no accessions
from the States involved in the rebel
lion. On the contrary, before the expiration
Of the present year we expect suoh blow or
series Of blows to be given TO the rebellion In
Virginia and Tennessee as will do away with
the supposed military necessity Of enforcing
the emancipation proclamation. We expect
that by the tst Of January the idea will be
generally entertained that all our reyoited
States will De represented in the two houses at
Washington before the close Of the next Con-
gress. Wa anticipate before the 4th of March
next when the last session of tie present Con-
gress expires, such material and moral pressure
upon the rcbellous South az will completely
upset all the existing calculations Of the
shrewdest Northern politicians in regard to the
next Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Albany Regency may gatter themselves
that he will come from their hands, neatly la
belled "this side up with care;" but he may
come from Virginia or from Georgia, or, per-
adventure, from Texas.


The country having furnished the government
with the men and the means, demands and ex
poets that this rebellion shall be put down now,
right away, and that there shall be no going
into winter quarters short OF some decisive vic
tories, which viii virtually bring JEFF. Davis to
the ground. We have evcry reason to believe
that both General Mcclellan and General Rose
Grams will satisfy these public demands and ex-
pectations And what them The enforcement
Of the emancipation proclamations No, not If
the President shall then discover any positive
and active revival of Union sentiment through
out the South. We believe that there will be
great reaction Of this character with another
great defeat or two of the rebel armies. The
people Of the South, despairing. impoverished,
exhausted, and threatened with an invasion
which may scatter their slaye property to the
four winds Of Heaven, with or without the
proclamation, with Lees complete defeat, will
seriously begin to consider the advantages Of
submission to the Union.


And here it is that the newly elected mem
bers to the next Congress from the Northern
States may render the most important services





Union, through the informal conference which
we have suggested. Let such conference be
promptly called together, and let il declare, for
the information Of tho people OF the South, that
these late Northern elections do not mean any
separation OF the Union upon any terms, nor
sny compromise with the rebellion, except the
compromises of the constitution of the United
Strta hut hat xYhs thn tsun
Of the North will thus sustain the war TO secure
the submission OF the South, IL 10 not their wish
or purpose 10 make the war a savage crusade
for the extirpstion OF slavery, and we are sure
that good results will follow. The President
will thus be encouraged to repudiatc the aboli
tion radicals altogether aud their evil counsels;
the present Congress will be warned, and the
people Of the South will be relieved Of all de-
lusions and false impressions as to the spirit
and purposes of the conservatives of the North.


We hope, therefore, that our suggestions In
reference TO the proposed Congressional confe
renee or caucus viii be acted upon, in order
that The government, the South and John Bull
mayshave an authoritative explanation Of the
meaning Of these late elections, and be assured
that Whle tney call LOT IetrcncHment ana re-
form. and more activity and energy in The pro-
secutlon OF tho war, they do not involve
treaty Of peace upon any other basis than the
"integrity Of the Union"


THe RETIRED AND OvERsIAuGgED OFrIcXss
OF THe MAYA WORD IN THErR FAvoR---
Now that the exigsnces Of the times demand
the services Of every officer Of The navy whose
name appears upon the register, we think it
being kept in session at first class hotels, at an