The London Times, as is well known, is the organ of the ROTHSCHILDS.  During the late iniquitous war-flurry it acted perfectly in concert with Lord PALMERSTON.  While that gentleman kept back for three weeks dispatches, which, if published, would have had the immediate effect of establishing a peaceful feeling, his Hebrew accomplices bought literally right and left of securities of every kind.  Grand pickings they had; everything had tumbled down.  England was roused by the Times to a fury; a feeling of fierce injury was excited in this country, which an age will not now allay; and right in the midst of this, when one word might have changed the whole, the official ministerial organ explicitly denied the existence of those ‘peace’ dispatches which have since come to light!

Let us anticipate some of the results of this precious
Palmerston-Hebrew-Times swindle.

It has cost England twenty millions of dollars.

It has aroused such a feeling in this country against England as no one can remember.

It has effectually killed the American market for English goods, and put the tariff up to prohibition en permanence.

It has, by doing this, struck the most deadly blow at English prosperity which history has ever witnessed; for all that was needed to stimulate American industry up to the pitch of competing with England in foreign markets was such a prohibitory tariff as would compel us to manufacture for ourselves what we formerly bought.

Who will say now that a republic does not work as well as a monarchy?

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We have read with pleasure a recently written and extensively republished article by SINCLAIR TOUSEY, of New York, condemnatory of the proposed stamp tax, and in which we most cordially concur; not because it is a tax materially affecting the interests of publishers, but because, as Mr. TOUSEY asserts, the diffusion of knowledge among the people is a powerful element of strength in government itself.  In these times, it is essential, far more than during peace, that the newspaper should circulate very freely, stimulating the public, aiding government and the war, and keeping the mind of the country in living union.  Nothing would more rapidly produce a torpor—­and there is too much torpor now—­than a measure which would have the effect of killing off perhaps one half of the country press, the great mass of which is barely able to live as it is.  ’Let the press be as free as possible.  Let it be free from onerous taxation, and left unfettered by special duties to do its just work.’  This is a war for freedom, and the test of freedom is a free press.

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We are indebted to a valued correspondent in Illinois for the following communication, setting forth the state of affairs in Southern Missouri during the past summer.  Few of our readers are ignorant that since that time the region in question has been ‘harried and shorn’ even to desolation by the brigands of Secessia.