The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1862, Page 4

4 —r OO — NEW ‘YORK HERALD, |e toring Grom cstiintisay a mos catig ion gion weve OS knowiedging thei’ Stduous gervices in occupying | The British treasury returns'fy the year sha” that place, and enclosing a like order of commen- dation from Major General Buell. General Mitchel | the 14th instant, Prices tended eth! upward, bat says that his men executed a march of forty miles | were unchanged. The stock on hand was ‘out | in twenty-eight hours and » half, over fallen tim- | Dated at 525,000 bales, of which 194,500 bales were No. 58 | ber and pther obstructions placed by the ‘Aetiens, Breadstufls were steady amd provisions == | etiemy in tiieir track, and he sade:—'In’ the Te neve f Pitt Aap OS night time, ower a frozen, rocky, precipitous | ports the commencement of an agitation among pathway, down rude steps, for fifty feet, you have Sepowers which constitute the Confederationwhiclt i « ay evel passed the advanbed guard cavalry and infantry, | 7y, se ae fossa * queatitie of that body and before the dawn of day you have entered use of it is to be found m a Pras- i sian despatch to the other German governments iv triumph a position .of extraordinary natural | requesting a general consideration of a reform of i 2 strength, and by your ene.™ay proudly denominated the organization, and the absolute refusal of Saxo. SAU XEENwO THE,‘TRE, Broadway.—Tux Ma- | the Gibraltar of Kentucky, With your own hands, ny to accept it. Austriz, Bavaria, Coburg, Baden, 4 OR, THN PaKe oF Day sss * am aes a with other States, have taken a different view of FEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bo Wery—Pavisxe—Suarcires ‘ough deep mud, in’ dre,zeking rain, P | the matter from Prussia, and a dissolution of she ig ren ges Meee ‘ rocky pathways, nex?to impawoble, and across @ | Federal Diet was expected! in consequence. De: oem RY THEATRE, Bowery..~Sticexzr's Naviowat- / footpatiiof your own constracéen, built upon the | monstrations and printed! manifestoes in favor oP ' BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSBOM. Broadway.-cox | Twins of the railway bridge destraped for their pro- Victor Emanuelas king, and Rome as the capital; Nemodamme ierseeaames Waasne 20, at all houree fe of Italy had beemmade at Genoa, Milan and other OnpvA, afiernoon and evening, teotion ly;a retreating amd panic stricken foe, you | Diaces, Sixteen’coal mixers had been drowned ia: ow shoulders your vi 4 Minoraats, Mechanics? Hall, 472 Broad. | have transported upon: your your | a pit at Norwold; in Walem. The Pemberton pit, 9AMEs conpDon SENET, ACADEMY Ov MUSIC, Ir n OeRT—Lucta pi L AMMEROU: *eLe ToN's Cam, WALLACK’S THEATRE, No. $4 Broadway.—"} 10 Oars pe pe Baggage amd camp equigmge.” Newcastle, Eugiand, was fldoded, and thousands of aecivay Poin Ae cearoriar Sosa Bases ae) | By tho Hibernian, at Fowtand, woltare that the | Persons were ttrown out of employment thereby. poe bie Sos po ake debated inthe English | 8°50 Mon is appointed President of the Spanish TS a cates ete ee loan qnestion was oll de! ~ Council. The inundations: ia Germany had pro- CANTERBURY MUSIO & = " Parliament. Indeed if thas subject wore exsiuded | dnced the most’ dt . olehty Danous, Buaiesgcxs, £0.—O'Fussincas ar tis Pa, the-proceedings in both houses woul4ipossess no | thousand persons-having to-be provided for by the + i - 2 iblic in one district. Pn ag SeRwtew, Drawme | inxeresp whatever. Earl Russell madp-an impor” | PU! ne rt 7 ms, &O, Late advices from the West Coast of Africa re-- AMERICAN MUSHO HALL, 44¢Drosdway.—Boxas, Bat- tantideclaration in the Hesse-of:Lords;.om tie 10th | eoont the alave-trade- ae exceedingly active. » Pantomines, &0—Rival Lovins, instant, when he admitted: that the-peculiae cir- | Since the witiidrawal of tite United States squads _ SRYSTAL PALACE HALL, No 45Bowery.— | cumstances of the United) States justified ‘“angent } rom the Ameriean flag was. hoisted very freely by measures’*—such as arbitrary arrests—by the go- | the dealers. CONCERS m Soxos, Danezs, 46—1'wo Clowns. ’PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, %63 Broadway. The’ State Senate ab Albany yesterda; a y passod ‘Open daily vernment, and that eves British subjects may be | the New Youk Port Captain and Harbor Masters from 10 # M. til9 i BM. seized: by order of the Rresident, if*‘‘he believed | bill, and the-bill relative to dividends of life insur- that the parties were engaged in treasonaBle con- | ance companies. Onsthe-bifs regulating sheriffs’ i ics.” Parliament had given the same: fees, and tapermit the-loaning of money in small a 0 amounts for more than-the present legal rate of in. power to the British, executive in times of dif- | torest, adgerse reports were made from the.eom. culty, and it had been frequently exercised | mittees, amd they were: rejected. A majority re- port was made infavor of incoporating the New York State Homeopathic Society. The Brooklyn Chartez Amendment Dill was reporte® com- NOVELTY MUSIC 616 me] sones, Daxons, 6a HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bur.asques New York, Friday, Februr.rcy 28, 1862. DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD . 104,016 | Without the persona being brought totrial. The . 118,080 | eases of the English subjects. lately arrested in .« 118,968 | the United States eens however, be “earnestly plete and oxdpred to a third reading. The . 117,720 | watched”’ by the Cabinet. bill amending the act of 1860 relative to,the righty . 113,328 | The Fark of Malmesbusy again complained of and liabilities of hashands and wives was ordered sémine . *g | to third reading. Progress was reparted on the 112,896 | the ‘deliberate misrepresentation” of Earl Derby's ban bi a conferring on the Metropolitan pelice addition- 118,800 | speech aa to the foreible raising of the blockade | > powers relative to the inspection of steam boil- . 803,808 by the London Times. Lord Malmesbury approv- | ers. In the Assembly the Speaker announced the ios ed of the conduct of Lord Palmerston so far with | committee of five resolved upon the previous day The above figures, which can be verified from set Sunday, Fo%ruary 16. ,,* Monday, Februar: 12. Tuesday, Febetiary 18. Woasecihy, February 19.. arsday, February 20.. iFriday,; February 21.... Saturday, February 22.. NEW Yoité HRAUD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 186%, ~ off. expenditure of eleven millions ot’ dollars over Rs pone sre: deapehs wtgs pre fom oi ineome. The Liverpool cotton market was firs: om boasted object of. the army, of Beauregard, and | Johngon outgeneraling. Patterson en the She~ our efforts were maialy directed to the safety | nandgah, and reaching Manassas in time to rein eS il Vienna to Austria, still it is desirable to re ‘The cottom market was firm yesterday, w' Gene “ip of the Confederates and a0 nese tcte.ceam entse ie maria eres | ee Gencratan ‘Pf *e Umton Come manders. The inaugural addr Spéeches in the Confeder™ of the Southern papery sits Fort Dotielsos, and the wile Governor of Te#nessee, all show that, tho the rebels:have rseeived severe Blow. © ‘Shey an not yet conquered’ and that they'wh, | make @ desperate resistance as long as they & br te and ic. better on the week's sales, The transactious | Chance. The necks of the leaders depema prsrgt geen Dosen ay pines va cate poyde sre } their success. The recent victories, thougis fa * io was er, with sal q oO 3,900 be Rio at 200. ate, Pregha were quite meng pairs Ew garvisdowy -_ R 5 eee al . J ieady, while engagements were be that th Confederates never coritent- The Collapsing Hebeliion=The Groans | Plated being alfte to perntanently hiold! Mis- eh tha Saaiinin souri, Kentucky and: Virginia, and that their Th so-called “permanent government” of | o#jSct in occupying Virgihfe and the ovber our robetlious Confederate States stands before | bowler States was*to obtaim subsistence for: its macmgers and its-victms to-day the most | thei# armies, to keep away te ravages of war humiliating revolutionary abertion, and the | frony the cotton Statas, and te produce a mored! most psiaful mocksry: of » national reforma- | @ffect in Europe by the apparent extent of their tion, with which any poople hare ever been | territory and by their quasi investment of Wagh- ‘afflicted simce the ravolt’ of Abealom against | ingtor? The question? now is, what is thejr ‘the govesmment of his< fattier, David, the | Prospsct of success, even im the cotton ‘anointed Hing of Isracti. Our Southern traiters, | States, which depends (6'some extent upon tho late so boM®' and defiant;. are veduced to the | capacity, of their gencrals, upon which they depths of despair. Jf). Davia, im sackcloth have hitherto relied vith .cormiderable conf) and ashes, resorts to the: sacrilagioms' mockery | dence. Their caloulati+ms;. bared upon their] of anothes day of fasting, Humiliation and railroads; to maintain their cammunications ; prayer, white. the members-of his Cabinet and | have beem'completely badiied. corps legistitif are bitwrly: Genoumeimg each The debates in the reifel-Congsesa which we, other like detected rogues, and: while among | publiske@ ion Wednesday reveal the: fact ‘that his newspaper organs, from>Richmond to New | the generals apparently’ “hadi no plan of Orleans, we- hear nothing: bub the sounds of | campaign,” and hence, when: their strong po- “weeping and wailing azd’gnashing of teeth.” | sitions were suddenly asrniled, they were un- From. the bombardment: of Fort Sumter | able te-zeinforce them. There-seemed to be no down to tke battle of Manassas the armed | military-mind to combine andidineet the whole forces of this rebellion. were raised and | operations. The Confederate geueralship was marched into Virginia umder the war | denounged by Boyce and others as utter fimbe- ery of “Washington—the. ity ef Washington | cility. In the same tone. ths Rigtmon@, the for our capital, and tha liberation of Mary- | Charleston and the New. Orleans papers had land.” For many weeks. after our disastrous | spokcm long before; and reesm events seam to day at Manassas “Washington” was still the | justify their censure. With the exeeption of Joe posstbic. If the rebel army retreats to the cotton States without fighting, then its defeat will be insured; for our lines can be contracted and the enemy can be surrounded with over- whelming numbers. With the insurgent armies in Kentucky and Tennessee overthrown, the armies in Virginia either defeated or put to flight, and with Nashville and Richmond in the possession of our troops, the utter extinction of the rebellion in every Southern State would ouly be the work of sixty days. We have every confidence in the success of at generals. Their troops are better armed, beter clothed, better equipped and better swpp\.'ed with ammunitien and provisions, and their ge. neralsbip is now superior fo that which guides th? rebotit How is it that eur genorals are better than \ theing? - They are #11 West Point officers, both, ': Norther and Sontlern, They are‘both aatural< ‘Jy of the-same average ability. The’ avttry ex- periense: of both fy shout the same—Rmited to the Mexican campeia. But Nero'is the dif- ference. The Southern ‘afficers have’ remained. im: the ewmy, deing nefitimg: ever sinve. ‘Be aymy, routiue:. The Northern officevet not‘! com temt with sc inactive a life,.kave gmimrked' im business pursuits, which have sharpered their wits and‘ enlueged their capacity for general-- ship. For-instance, the intinge knowibdge of* railroads and the telegraph which Cieneral- McClellan has spquired in the: interval of his leaving the army and his now taking up*arms- for the Union gives him an imanense aévan+ tage. Northern men, too, are betser acquainted’ than Sawthern mew with the mechanical ante+ so necessary in the-opetations of: the field,.and:. they ary more farseeing, active aad energetic; from the-climate andthe habits ef the pop» lation. It. is true George Washington was: &: Southermman; but he is an excegtion to. ther rule. ‘Phere was but.one Washington, and'we shall nayer: look upem his like again, Isis: evident that the changes are against the South. for othes: reasons besides the maxim of Napo» leon, thei*the Lord isalways on the side of:ther heavies&artillery. Slightly lower for somo grades, white sales were modo- ."ate and chisfiy to the domestic trade. Whoat was ivac- ive 8nd prices wore irregular and in favor of purchasers, ‘ly for common and medium gradew. Corn was \ of Jefferson Davis, the ‘e Congress, the tone 2 the capture of speech of the ospecia, lower, wih rather more doing at the decline; sales of Western mid were made af Glo. a 633¢c., m store and defWored. Pork was firm and im good demand, ist part for fature dofivery, % $14 3744 a $14 50 for new moss, and $9 624 a $9 75 fo’ prime do., and at $15 for 500 Sbis, deliverable i the firsf half of June. Sugars were firm of our federal city against a threatened rebel invasion. The rebel flag was advanced to Mun- sen’s Hill, within, sight of President Lincoln forc®Beauregard for the battle of July 21, and the exploits of Price,and; Meyd in runniag avy, the Southern generals appear to have dis- from the southern windows of the White House, | pleyed no strategy. In. the hattle of Maneyas andfor some time the speculations of the news- | itself there was.no generalship. It was wea by mongers at Washington were mainly directed | tie Southern troops.against raw soldiers, nat in The War Deperteeent melt ne lease The zecent order of the Secretary of Warim respect to the blockade. It was a matter for | torevise and consolidate all the game lawaof the «ourtboeks, give the circulation of the New York State into one law. The bill to improve tae Cen- iHumaty for the week just past. We believe that iit more ¢han equals the aggregate circulation of all pee a ae and of course it far surpasdes that of any one of them. The ad- * wantages which the Hxrap affords to advertiser® are self-evident. THE SITUATION. Nothing of an important character reaches us ; Fie Seawess of the Union troops at the battle from the national capital, or the army of the Poto- of Mill Springs had given the British public a new mac. A report that Jefferson Davis has made overtures” to the government for a compromise obtains much credence in Washington, and it is said that the rebel leader asks for a convention of all the States, in which the difficulties between the government, alone to decide upon, but the reat state of the measure should be inquired into. Earl Bustell congratulated the House on the accord of opinion existing on the subject among the lead- ing men of all parties. Mr. Cobden was to call the attention of the Com- mons to the state of international and maritime law existing at present as gfooting the rights of belligerepts, =, ois Hoyt He and more correct estimate of the force and power of our army. Mr. LL. D. Russell has sent home another prophecy about the'future operations of the Army of the Potomac, coupled with a statement con. South and our government shall be finally adjusted, cerning the morale and discipline of the men. The including fresh guarantees for the protection of the Southern institution of slavery. This is only one first should ruin his character as @ military seer forever, and the second is of “equal value with his among many sensation reports now floating about description of the battle of Ball run, He says that Washington, and has probably no foundation in | 14. soy of the Potomac is not likely to move until | beldom ‘‘personal liberty and private rights have fact. The enactment of the Treasury Note bill has caused a tremendous pressure for the new notes at the Treasury Department, and Mr. Chase is kept constantly occupied in hastening the printing and signing of the notes, so as to supply the increasing demand. The President issued an order yesterday creating General Jobn A. Dix and Hon. Edwards Pierre- pont, of New York, a special commission to exa- mine the cases of State prisoners, now in custody, and determine whether it is most consonant with public safety that they shall be liberated or sen, to civil tribunals for trial. Our intelligence to-day from the North Carolina expedition is of considerable importance. De- spatches were received at the Navy Department yesterday from Commodore Goldsborough, stating that our forces were in possession of the Seaboard Railroad, and had destroyed the bridges across the Blackwater and Nottaway rivers, thus cutting off all communication between the seacoast and Nor- folk and Richmond. The Commodore aiso furnish. es detailed reports of the visits of our boats to the Currituck Canal, Elizabeth City and Edenton, to_ gether with a list of the rebel vessels destroyed by our vesscls since the fleet reached Hatteras, making seven vessels in all, six of which were well armed gunboats. The army of General Hslieck is pushing on its victories in Arkansas. An oficial despatch from that General, received yest y by Genera; McClellan, announces that Fayetteville, Arkan- sas (a town on White river, 196 miles northwest of Little Rock), was captured by General Curtis; that the rebels fled in great confusion across the Boston Mountains. They burnt a portion of the town before they retired, besides perpetrating an act of cowardly vandalism, which it is almost diffi- cult to believe, had it not been too fatally veri fied. The dastardly rebels left a quantity of poi- soned meat behind them, which unhappily was partaken of by our troops, and resulted in poison- ing forty officers and men of the Fifth Missourj cavalry, among them one or two valuable com- manding officers. Such deeds entitle the perpe trators to no mercy. The evacuation of Colambus remains as yet up. confirmed officially. The mysterious conference { between the rebel officers, under a flag of truce, and Commodore Foote and General Cullum, on board the Commodore's flag boat, off Columbus, which we before announced, is more particularly teferred to in our columns to-day. The conference lasted for two hours and a half, but it was consi. | dered of so much importance that strict secrecy was enjoined upon all those present until General Halleck, and possibly the Commander-in-Chief, can be consulted. “Certain it is that after the rebel officers returned to their truce boat Commodore Foote signalized the Union fleet to return down the river. The gene. tal belief in the West is, that a proposition to evacuate Columbus in order to save it from destruction, constituted the mission of the flag of | trace. A Cairo despatch, however, states that dull, heavy firing—like a rumbling explosion—was heard on Wednesday in the direction of Columbus, winter is over, and adds positively that a ‘“‘muti- = nous spirit’ prevails among the men. ‘The Sumter was at Gibraltar on the 13th inst., under notice to quit. Another batch of her crew had landed and would not go on board again. M. Thouvenel had received Mr. Slidell at Paris in his private capacity. His diplomatic character i. 8 | aes is said to be completely ignored by Napoleun. England approves of the idea of an elective monarchy for Mexico, and “‘if the people by a spontaneous movement place the Austrian Arch- duke on the throne,” Earl Russell will not attempt to prevent it, but the government will not assist in a forcible intervention for that purpose. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the bill establishing a national foundry and furnace on the Hudson river or in New York harbor, was reported back by the Military Committee, with an amendment striking out the furnace. Mr. Davis introduced a substi- tute for the Confiscation bill, which was ordered to be printed. The bill to increase the efficiency of the medical department of the army was taken up. Amendments providing for an additional number of surgeons, to be selected from the medical corps, reducing the salaries of the Surgeon General, his assistants end medical inspectors, and providing that the act shal! continue in force only so long as the rebellion lasts, were agreed to, and the bill passed. The report of the Conference Committee on the bill making appropriations for civil expenses was concurred in. The case of Senator Starke was resumed, and the resolution of the committee on the subject, declaring Mr. Starke entitled to a seat, was adopted by a vote of 26 to 19. Mr. Starke thereupon was qualified and took his seat. The Confiscation bill was taken up, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the Conference Committee's report on the disagreeing amendments to the bill making appropriations for civil ex- penses, wasagreed to. A bill providing additional clerks for the office ef the New, York Assistant Treasurer, was referred. A joint resolution to print Washington's Farewell Address, Jackson's Proclamation on Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence, for general distribution, was re~ ferred to the Printing Committee. The case of Mr. Upton, who claims to represent the Fairfax district of Virginia, was again discussed, and the claimant declared not entitled to a seat by a vote of seventy-three to fifty. Resolutions of the Com- mittee on Elections, confirming Mr. Verree in his right toa seat as representative fromthe Third district of Pennsylvania, were reported. Mr. Kline is the contestant. On motion of Mr. Wash- burne, from the government Contract Committee, a resolution was adopted cafling on the Secretary of War to communicate to the House thegreport and correspondence of the commission siff hg at St. Louis for examination of the claims growing out of affairs in the Western Military Department. The schooner Western Star, Captain Crowell, ar- rived at this port yesterday from Key West, bring- ing advices to the 18th inst., from which we learn that everything was quiet at Key West and the troops in excellent health. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, The steamship Hibcrnian, from Liverpool the 13th and Londonderry the 14th instant, reached Portiand yesterday afternoon. Her advices are five days later than the nows brought by the Nis gara to Halifax forwarde Cones 991; for m creased £86,000 in the we + The mails of the Hibernian were tral Park was ordered to a third reading; also that authorizing the Historical Society to establish a museum of antiquities and science an@ a gallery of artsin the State Arsenal building. The Public Defence bill was taken up and diseussed at length, the greater part of the day’a session being con- sumed overit, Progress was finally reported on it, and it waa made the special order for Saturday. ‘The Patiroed Committee of the Assembly held s meeting yesterday and heard arguments on the Broadway Railroad. Several gentlemen addressed them, and the argument was closed. The com- mittee will make their report on the subject next Monday. They have appointed Tuesday next to hear parties on the Spring Street Railroad; Wednes- day, on the bill to reduce the fare on city railroads generally; and Thursday, for arguments on the Tenth Avenue and Forty-second Strect Railroad. This day is to be devoted to fasting, humiliation and prayer throughout the bogus Confederate States of America, in response to a proclamation issued by Jeff. Davis. Jeff. Davis, in his proclamation fora fast day, says that throughout the widespread limits of Re- heen duly honored.” The evidences to sustaip is ee oe found in the porggegiions Parson Brownlow, the hahging of five Union me in Tennessee, and the order of the Secretary of War to “let t em hang;” the impressment opera- tions in Memphis, the statement of the Richmond Enquirer that there are two hundred Union pris- oners in the jails in that city, and the sending of men in New Orleans six months to the workhouse for expressing Union sentiments. Jeff. Davis, in his inaugural address, estimates the aggregate strength of the two armies at a mil- lion of men. He knew that the Union forces num- bered over six hundred thousand, and we there. fore cannot do otherwise than accept his state- ment as an admission that his rebel followers do not count four hundred thousand. According to the letter of M. F. Maury, the re- bels are secretly building somewhere one hundred steam gunboats of the following dimensions:—112 feet long, 21 feet beam, 171 tons burthen, and six feet draft. Their armament is to be one nine-inch gun forward and a thirty-two pounder aft. They are to be ready about the Ist of June. The peopfe along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers, and on the East and West Canada creeks, in this State, are in great dread of an approaching flood. The snow in the northern section is said to be five and six feet deep ona level. A sudden rise in the streams depends in a great measure upon the manner in which the snow is carried off. If it should be melted by a warm rain there is no doubt @ great flood would follow; but if carried off gra- dually by the warmth of the sun, as in many sea- sons has been the case, there would be no danger. Another snow storm visited us yesterday. It commenced about one o'clock in the morning, and fell to the depth of three inches, but turned to a drizzling rain about noon, The Sound boats were detained about two hours, but the railroad trains came in atthe regular time. The city horse cars were obliged to use double teams. The Board of Aldermen adjourned on Monday, sine die, for want of a quorum, and, no call for a meeting having been made, they did not organize last evening. The Military Shoddy Contract Committee re- sumed their investigations at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. Several witnesses were ex- amined, among whom were some officers connected with the State Military Department. The commit- tee seem determined to make tho strictest investi- gation as to how and by whom the shoddy swindle was perpetrated. Some startling developements have already been made, and those who connived at the manufacture of such worthless clothing for our soldiers during the commencement of the war are ‘shaking in their boots.” The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening. A communication was received from his Honor the Mayor, accompanying the beautiful rebe; flag captured by Acting Brigadier General Smith at the capture of Fort Donelson, presented through Mr. Bennett. The trophy was accepted, and will be placed in the archives of the City Hall. After the transaction of a good deal of routine business, the special order, being the tax levy for the pre- sent year, was taken np, and various amendments to the Comptroller's estimates were made, which will be found in the reputt of the proceedings. The totale@emeunt of the reduction made on the Comptroller's estimates is $270,000. The only case that was tried in the General Sessions yesterday was an indictment against Esthet Kendgick, the coma being Michael Maher, The jury acqltted the actied. The trial of Butt Allen and Dad Cunningham, charged with keeping a gambling saloon, was set down for Monday eral indictments fer homicide, n Sev. tried in the Oyer an Mr. Hall has r April to the question whether Johnston and Beaure- gard intended to.cross the Potomac by fording the stream above or by ferrying the river at some point below the city. That was the climax of the rebellion. Frow that day down to this the bluster and insoleat boasting of the rebel journals in regard to their designs upon Washington have decliaed, until at length their music is of the most dole- ful and dismal description. The Richmond Dispatch whistles desperately to keep its cour- age up, but confesses that ‘there are tories in the South (Union men), as there were tories | him. in the Revolution, whose only sympathies are pursuance oJ,any, plan of battle, as Beauregard jadmits, but cantrary to bis plan; and when the } battle was-won there.was not sufficient general- ship to take.advantage of it and capture Wash- ington, as: might easily have bees done. Beauregard has net as yet proved that he is more than 9 good engineer officer. He has ex- hibited neither strategical ability nor much tactical skill. Whether Albert Sydney John- ston, commanding in the Weat, is either a strategist ox-a tactician, still regsains to be seen. Appearances, as well the caxse, are against: regard.to the publication,of war news hag.ex- cited aonsiderable comment, an@ provoked much angry invective from the abolition nawe- papers; and, in order-to correct any misapyne~ hengions of the Secretary’s meaning, wo maak sta'p a few facts coanected with the matter: Secretary Stantoa’s order is but a repetition ef that of Mr. Cameron, with severer-pexalties added, and that reither of these orders is half so atringent as that issued by the rebel govern- ment. As far as the close interpretation of the words of tke order is oncerned, it A good general wovld have seen the must be remembered that Secretary Stanton writes his emphatic masifestoes slap-dash, and with great mental reservations. He imagines that every ope must understand, as clearly as he does, just what he wishes to say; and, indeed, it is only those who are blinded by prejudice who cannot read and comprehend hig. orders aright. Mr. Stanton intends, then, t prohibit only the transmission and publication of any intelligence in regard to movements contemplated, plans formed, expeditious designed, victories organized and troopa stra- tegically concentrated. Such information can be of no great interest to the public, but is of incaloulable service to the rebels, who are thus forewarned of our intentions and forearmed to defeat our armies. The transmission and publication of movements accomplished, plang carried out, expeditions successful, victories won and troops triumphant, the Secretary has no intention of suppressing, but will, on the contrary, greatly facilitate. This is precisely what is meant by his order, and we may add that it is only for a temporary object, which will be evident in a few days, and is not in- tended to remain in force durjng the war, al- though it might very properly be made bind- ing till the rebellion is put down. No difference whatever, therefore, will be seen in the contents of the Hera in consequence of this government con- trol of the telegraph. We have always ful- filled what we knew to be the wish of the gov- ernment and the duty of a loyal journal, and have carefully refrained from publishing any premature information which might aid the rebels and hinder our arms. The journals which will be crippled are those abolition or- gans which, for certain purposes of their own, have aided to prolong this war by furnishing the rebels with the fullest details of our pur- poses and our forces, in spite of tho repeated warnings and remonstrances of the command- ing officers. The Trilune, with the report of General Thomas; the Times, with the account of Sherman’s expedition; the World, with the revelations in regard to the forces and destina- tion of General Burnside’s division, are in- stances of these disloyal and objectionable publications. The argument that the rebels have other sources of information is sophisti- cal; for, even if they have, why should we not deprive them of this? The idea that the New York journals do not reach the rebel head- quarters is a mistaken one; for in some way through secret agents the New York dailies aro received at Richmond as regularly as at Wash- ington. A moment’s reffection will expose © the futility of the statement, also, that no , reliable information of military matters can be | obtained from newspapers. In spite of the strict regulations of the rebel Congress, the fixratp was able to compile, from the few } Southern papers received here, a list of the of- K ficers of the rebel army so minutely accurate that the clerks of the rebel War Department - were accused of furnishing us with our informa- tion, and a committee of investigation was ap- | pointed by the rebel Congress to ferret out our | suspected informants. If we could accomplish | this, in spite of the careful vigilance exercised ‘ in regard to the contents of the rebel papers, how greatly must the rebels have profited by ; the unrestricted, treasonable and premeditated | revelations of the abolition organs. Secretary Stanton’s order is evidently most just, and most necessary, therefore. A good ; newspaper, like a good citizen or a good sol- dier, will do its utmost to assist the govern: ! ment, and will refrain from giving aid to the with the enemies of their country, who lament | importance of the defence of the Tenaes- its victories (rebel) and rejoice over itsde-} seo and the Cumberland, and would feats;” but stil! ‘ne true men of the South, | have rendered those rivers impregnable to any if driven from {ir seaports and cities into the | but an overwhelming force. Instead of that, interior, will, it thinks, “resist as long as | only small forces were posted in the forts on resistance is possible, and, if conquered, they | each river, and the forts—particularly Fort will not stay conquered.” The Richmond | Henry—were erected at the wrong places. It Enquirer says, “if Nashville is taken, and if | is now qgmitted that the proper position for we lose, in consequence, all the country of | these forts was at the Narrows, where the two hich Nashville is the centre and capital, it ig ! fivers, bending towards each other, contract 8 question MS i Southern forgeg whuld the distance between them to three or four Tot be strongel bettgr gble than before to | miles. Infinitely more important was this po- out the defensiye ideas that have hitherto | sition” than Bowling Green, on which so much ated this ¥ar;” and from this opinion our labor had been spent in vain. Here was the Richmofid philosophor oceedp tg suggest a | fiatural defence of Nashville and Northern Ala- prudent backing Fiwn & the fensive interior | bama, agd the loss of it has spread terror e of the seaboard rebel States, leaving | throughout the South. It is candidly admitted ‘ennbasee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and | by our soldiers, and by all the Northern ac- Western , a8 States and ground of | counts of the battle at Fort Donelson, that the doubtful Southern loyalty, to the tender mer- | Southern troops fought admirably. But in war cies of “ the Lincoln government.” what avails the most desperate valor without The Memphis Appeal complains bitterly of | generalship and a good cause? the increased rebel restrictions against the | So far the generalship of the rebels appears introduction of cotton into that town; the | to be at fault in the West. Whether that arises Knoxville (East Tennessee) Register finds some | from the self-conceit of Davis, who does not comfort in the fact that the property of loyal | give to some one military mind the chief com- Union men in that region, including Senator | mand, so as to devise a plan of defence and Andy Johnson and a hundred and fifty others, | form strategical combinations, but either has been sequestrated as “the Lg of | directs everything himself or allows his Secre- alien enemies,” to the extent of o million | tary of War tp do so—a man who knows and a half of dollars; the New Orleans | nothing of ihilitary matters—or whether there Della is sorely troubled about our gunboats, | is no general in the Confederate army of the and says “ the exporience we have already had | requisite calibre to be commander-in-chief, is has demonstrated the impracticability of de- | a problem still to be solved; for we must not stroying the iron-cased and strongly built gun- | conclude too hastily that everything is accom- boats of the enemy by the cannon of forts,” but | plished by the capture of Roanoke Islang and suggegts that those boats may be captured by | the fall of the forts on the Tennessee and the boarding them. This is the idea of the young | Cumberland. All these are only outposts; and rat who recommended that a bell be put on | though Norfolk is turned by Burnside, and the cat; “for then,” said he, “his approach | Bowling Green and Columbus have been will be announced, and we shall have time to | turned by Halleck and Buell, the end is scamper off.” “But who,” said the old rat, | not yet. Though our troops have captured “js to put on the bell?” ..To conc]ude these | thirteen thousand men, the rebel army in Ten- quotations, however, the Charleston Courier | nessee and Kentucky is not yet destroyed, and confesses that “ we have sustained heavy losses | may be reinforced and combined. This army in munitions of war ;” that “our country bas | must be captured or dispersed befoue the work been deprived of the services of several thou- | is done in that region. sands of her best disciplined and bravest sol- Again: the flower of the rebel army is still at diers,” and that “the enemy pushes on, flushed pomesort ne lege Leesburg and Winches- with victory, to win more triumphs,” but that | ter, commanded by Joe Johnston and Gustavus Southern heroism should learn to beggme famil- Smith. The best officers in the whole Southern iar with defeats and never despair” army are with these forces, which have also the The last hope of the rebel government and | advantage of possessing superior arms. The its organs is in Southern heroism and Southern reports that a large portion of these troops had endurance, against the loss of their principal | been sent to the Atlantic coast and to the States, their seaports and inland cities. But Southwest turn out to be unfounded. Not a stubborn facts are very stubborn things; and the | single regiment has left. Tho rebel armies of history of mankind has shown that when people, | the Potomac and Shenandoah, therefore, must scattered over a large area of territory, are re- | be defeated in a great bettle before anything duced to the alternative of submisgign gr de- | decisive is accomplished. When that is done struction, they {variably submit. Moreover, a | the rebellion is crushed. fnajority of the Southern people, even of the | This task belongs to General McClellan, cotton States, were coerced into this rebellion | to whose grand combinations the advan- by an armed and reckless sesession minority; | tages obtained on the Tennessee and the and although this reckless minority, to save | Cumberland are due. Those movements are a themselves, would see the whole South laid | part of his plan. That he will very soon turn waste by fire and sword, they know full well | Manassas and Centreville, and cut off the sup- that there still exists a Southern popular ma- | plies of the armies under Smith and Johnston, jority which is only waiting for a favorable | or compel them to come out of their iptrench- opportunity to take Davis and his associate | ments and fight him on a fair field, or retreat usurpers into its own hands. These groans | southward, we have not the slightest doubt. and howlings of the rebel government and its | We have no fear of the result of the battle. The newspaper organs amount to nothing more nor | victory will be as decisive of the fate of the re- Jess than a confession that they have been play- | bellion as Waterloo was of Napoleon. If ing a desperate game and have lost it. They | they retreat without fighting the moral effect are on the #étg® of retreating to their original | will be as disastrous to their cause. One im* Southern confederacy of the cotton States, But | portant reason why they massed so large an what earthly chance haye they there, reduced | army in front of Washington, and have been at to a population of five millions, ineluding two | so much pains to blockade the Potomac, was to aml O'Con ‘ dict oud it was supposed that the rebels mi | ” ight be | ,. f atontn tes blowing up their intrenchments, 5 to same ve abhe bat Brigadier General Mitchel bas issued au order | It is suid that the negotiations for a Lrench four | ata) ) the indictment. | ond Satnr- | discount; Pr i eon the Thy nt dav io Marea | iniilions of slaves, against the Union, with its | give the impression in Europe that the capital rebels by even an pg Sr > “ | enty-six millions of people, and its encircling | of the country was continually threatened, well | always been at mp ‘a duty and the ra dng i and overwl elming fleets and armies? knowing that in European nations the loss of the Huninp, and bist 3 pine 2 rt fore the expitation of another week we | the capital is equivalent to the conquest of the | Ing to sa" Tt Ait hi ary OE expect to hear of the flight of Davia & Com- | country or the overthrew of the government. matter. Ve hope re parts pep aber pany from Richmond between two days, and | And though that would not be the result of the will rigidly enforce his wise order, allow it to become ‘a dead letter, to be disre- arded at ploasnre, like that of Mr. Cameron inland route, via Montgomery, to | capture of Washington, for that city is not to | the United States what Paris is to France, or dies move the moral effect of the menace as soon as