avery --
Secession lies -- Jeremy Diddlers -- Sensation-seekers --
Despotic tendencies -- Atomistic Torquemadas -- Congress chained
by formulas -- Burnside's expedition a sign of life -- Will this
McClellan ever advance? -- Mr. Adams unhorsed -- He packs his
trunks -- Bad blankets -- Austria, Prussia, and Russia -- The
West Point nursery -- McClellan a greater mistake than Scott --
Tracks to the White House -- European stories about Mr. Lincoln
-- The English ignorami -- The slaveholder a scarcely varnished
savage -- Jeff. Davis -- "Beauregard frightens us -- McClellan
rocks his baby" -- Fancy army equipment -- McClellan and his
chief of staff sick in bed -- "No satirist could invent such
things" -- Stanton in the Cabinet -- "This Stanton is the people"
-- Fremont -- Weed -- The English will not be humbugged -- Dayton
in a fret -- Beaufort -- The investigating committee condemn
McClellan -- Lincoln in the clutches of Seward and Blair -- Banks
begs for guns and cavalry in vain -- The people will awake! --
The question of race -- Agassiz.

An ugly year ended in backing before England, having, at least,
relative right on our side. Further, the ending year has revealed a
certain incapacity in the Republican party's leaders, at least its
official leaders, to administer the country and to grasp the events.
If the new year shall be only the continuation of the faults, the
mistakes, and the incapacities prevailing during 1861, then the worst
is to be expected.

The lowest in moral degradation is an European defending slavery here
or in Europe. Such Europeans are far below the condemned criminals.
Still lower are such Europeans who become defenders of slavery after
having visited plantations, where, in the shape of wines and
delicacies, they tasted human blood, and then, hyenas-like, smacked
their lips And thirsted for more.

Always the same stories, lies, and humbugs concerning the hundreds of
thousands of rebels in Manassas. These lies are spread here in
Washington by the numerous secessionists--at large, by such ignoble
sheets as the New York Herald and Times; and McClellan seems to
willingly swallow these lies, as they justify his inaction and c----.

The city is more and more crowded with Jeremy Diddlers, with
lecturers, with sensation-seekers, all of them in advance discounting
their hero, and showing in broad light their gigantic s