The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1862, Page 4

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Telegraphic despatches received in Wash- ington last night announce that General Shiclds had a conflict with the rebels, commanded by Generals Jackson, Smith and Longstreet, fonr miles below Winchester, yesterday, completely routing thew, nd capturing numbers of Prisoners, several cannon, and a large quantity of Small arms throw» away in the flight. At last ac- counts our cavalry was in pursuit of the flying rebels. It appears that General Jackson was under the impression that our troopa had left Winchester, and were advancing on the road from Strasburg. When within abont a mile and 4 half of Winchester a skirmish occurred between the advance guard of both ar- mies, in which General Shields was wounded in the arm by the bursting of a@ shell. The enemy immediately commenced a@ retreat; bat were followed up by the main body of General Shields’ army, and an engagement took place, commencing at half past tea yesterday morning, aad ending in the entire defeat of the rebels a; dusk. The rebels had fifteen thousand men in the Geld, while the force of Generel Shields was only eight thousund. The loss cn both sides was heavy—that of the rebels, however, . nearly doubling that on our side. We give to-day a very fine map of Island No. 10 in the Mississippi river, its batteries and fortifica- cations on shore, and tho position of the rebel Guaboats, together with that of our gunboate, mor- tar boats and transports, which will show the Strong pajnt which we are assaulting. There is no further news of the progress of the siege. The rebei accounts of the late battle at Pea Ridge which we publish to-day are very iatcrest- iag and curious, The rebel journals claim the fight as a victory, of conrse, and describe their army as being in the rear of oura, and driving the latter southward; which, it is hardly neces- cary to etate, we know to be an absurd fabrica. tion. They admit, however, the death of Generals NeCulloch, McIntosh, Slack and Herbert. The telegraphic details of the European newa, dated to the ¢th of March, bronght by the Ameri- ca to Halifax, are published this morning. It will be secn that the speech of the Solicitor General of Kogiand on the blockade question, in the Com. mons, was exceedingly emphatic as to the ac- kuowledgement of the’efficiency of that measure by the Cabinet, as well as of his opinion of the ille- gality and danger from public disapproval at home of any interference with the operations of our government towards keeping the rebel ports closed. We stated that the preseat blockade was more effectual than that instituted by E oo against America in @ former war, when five hundred American privateers went to sea inthe face of it, and that it was bet- ter maintained than the British blockade of Havre in 1798. Mr. Gregory's speech against the blockade proves that the “sympathizers’’ with the rebels in Parliament are rank abolition‘sts, and look to the disruption of the Union es a certain means of extinguishing slavery. The London Army and Navy Gazetie—an ex- cellent authority—doubts the reports of the strength of the Southern army in Virginia, from the fact of the troops of the confederacy being so quickly whipped in Tennes The British authorities at Gibraltar have ordered that the movemente of the Sumter and Tuscarora shall not be signalled for the benefit of eithe” belligerent. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The new steamship Caledonia, Captain James Clarke, of the Anchor line of Atlantic steamers, reaohed this port yesterday morning from Gias- gow after a very stormy passage. The Caledonia has been built by Meas. Mandyside & Henderson, of Scotland. She is of two thousand five hundred tons burden and measures in length 252 feet breadth of beam thirty-three feet, depth twenty- two feet nine inches. She is propelled by a pair of direct engines of 198 horse power each, and ber accommodation for passengers is spoken of as wery good. The Caledonia experionced a deten- who composed the body were either killed or wounded. The report relative to the cowardice of the New Mexican troops is more than confirmed by the same source of intelligence. The whole of the Union ferce in actiom only mumbered eeven hundred, with but six guas, while the rebel force exceeded three thousand. Captain Plympton for- tunately eacaped injury. The first nine Congressional districts of this | State, as reported in the Legislature, which em- brace the cities of New York and Brooklyn, con tain three hundred and thirty-two thousand six hundred more inhabitants than are embraced in the last niae districts, which are located in the northern and wostern sections of the State. New York and Brooklyn are thus cheated out of two representatives at least. The gunboats Monticello, Zouave, Dragom and Albatross, and government steamers Hunter Woodis, Mystic and Flag, are al! now at Baltimore undergoing repairs. Thirteen veasels of the Gloucester (Masa.) fishing fleet, it is supposed, were lost on Georges Banks ia the gale of the 25th of February. The crews of these vessels numbered one handred and twenty men, and they heve left seventy widows and two hundred and fourteen children. The Tennessee river expedition consists of three gunboats and one hundred transports—all steamers. Mrs. Martha L. Watkins, an account of whose flight from Arkansas we recently published, died in St. Louis on the 18th inst. She had been driven from her home near Fayetteville, Ark., by the rebels; and, being in a situation that required the tendereat care, she contracted disease from the fatigue and exposure to which she was sub- jected during her flight, which caused her death. Her husband had. previously been compelled to flee on account of his Union sentiments; but what bécame of him Mrs. Watkins never learned. The floating battery which the rebels have at Island No. 10 is the old New Orleans Pelican dry dock. It has been iron-clad, and mounts fifteen guns, Ca Friday last Messrs. Bushnell, Griswold, Winslow & Co., capitalisis, whose funds built the Monitor, received a contract from the government for building six additional iron-cased vessels, on the same plan as governed them in the construc- tion of the Monitor. The new vessels are to be each thirty-five feet longer than the preseut Moni- tor, and are to carry two fifteen-inch Deblgren guns. The largest proportion of the iron ca will be done at Troy. The Rey. Mr. Givin, Chaplain of the United States steam frigate Roanoke, yesterday morning preached, by inyitation, at the York street Metho- dist Episcopal church, Jersey City. The church was.crowded, and the discourse of the reverend gentleman was stirring and patriotic. He dwelt forcibly on the necessity tor the revival of prayer for the early cessction of the war, and in the course of his sermon alluded to the recent battle at Hampton Roads, and to tue timely appearduce of the Monitor, which, Be donbted not, was the result of the earnest prayers of the families of our brave sailors and soldiers, who miss them from their homes. The congregation was deeply affected. Stocks were better Saturday, espevially efier the re- eeipt of the news from Europe. The mosi aclive stocks of the day were folede and Erie, both of which were considerably higher at the Governments were in good demand. Money was fririy active at previous quo- tations, Exchange wae dull. The bullion expors of the day was $4 ‘The cotton market was excited on Saturday, and prices Closed at an advance of abontle.al}(c.perib. As many holders withdrew their eupplies from the market, sales Were restricted to about 160 9 200 bales, closing in the afternoon on the basis of 2%. « 28!fe. per ib. for mid- dting aplands. It was believed that the reaction com: menged in Liverpool, adviecs of which wore brought by the America, would prove more permanent and pro_ gressive than any previous movement of the kind,or that it would likely be onward end upward, so far as anything to the contrary ¢ould now be seen. The flour market was inactive, and sales timited chiefty tothe home trade, while prices were sustained. Wheat was quiet and sales limited, while quotations wese about the same, though in the absence of iranaaciions of moment they were nominal for most descriptions. Corn was ia fwir demand, though berdiy so firm, at steady prices. ‘The sales embraced Wesiern mixed at 680. in atere, and at 600. delivered. Pork was heavy and duti, with sales of new mess at $13 3734 2 $12.50. Sugars were quiet and steady, while the sales were confined to about 140 bhds,, wos:'y within the range of 62,¢. 9 Tice., with afew hhds. @ fraction above and under these Agures. Coflee was quie of moment were reported. Freighte were steady, ari the cates curreet within « day Of (wo past were fully sts! a. The Course of England im Our Civil War—Let Her Look Out for the Comsce quences. Every arrival from Europe brings ua fresy intelligence of the continued retrograde move- ment of England in reference to our national troubles. By the news to the 9th inst., broughy by the America to Halifax, which we published yesterday by telegraph, we learn that in a de- baie in the House of Commons the list of up- wards of three hundred vessels, handed in by Mr. Mason as having broken the blockade, had dwindled down t nineieea,and most of these escaped on dark and stormy nights. So much for the vera of the chivalrous Mason, whose performances in the same line bad been previonsly exhibiied by Lord Jobn Russell. But the important feature of the news is that the Solicitor General, the law officer of the Crown, “strongly opposed any inierference by England in our national struggle,” and de- clared that “the blockade bad been as eflicient as other blockades in former years.” This set- tles the question of the effectiveness of the blockade. The legal anthority whom the Brit- ish government is bound to consult adumits that the blockade is in strict accordance with the law of natior nd cannot be impugned. Now this is a complete recession from the ground iormerly maintained in the British Par- liament, in the British press, and by many of the British naval officers in the fleet of observa. tion off the Gulf coast. England Las evidently abandoned her hostile attitude, and the with- drawal of her troops from Mexico is another evidence of her epprecistion of the dangerous position into which she bad been precipitated by her cupidity and her jealous intolerance of agreat maritime and commercial rival. But though England has, in a variety of ways, inti- mated that she has washed ber hands clean of our national troubles, and bas done with the business, she may find out before all is over that the American republic has not done with her. From the period of the Revolution, and in- deed long before, a vory hostile feoling has ex- istod in this country againet Bagtand, sill with- in ee last fow years. Her injustice to the colonies, and the cruelty with which she con- ducted the war for theix subjugation, caaploy- 2 knile and the tomahawk of the © o accomplish what she failed to achieve by legitimate warfare, rankled in the hearts of the Amegican people long after ihe tion of seven days im the ive in the vicinity of peace. This feeling had in a great measure Cape Race, which point she reached on thy seventh day ont. She was surrounded for six days * with bergs rising from ten to seventy-five feet pbove the surface of the water. The Caledonia is consigned to Mesara. Francis Macdonald & Co, We learn that during the galiant action at Val. verde, near Fort Craig, on the 21st ultimo, one of tie compantes of the Seventh United States in. footry, antot Captain P, W. L. Plympton, bravely ghodto thos arms antil over gue-haif of those - IR subsided by tho effecte of time, when it was again revived by tle war of 1412-15, and the events whieh ted to (hat struggle. Bat that generation had passod away, and an cra of good feeling gradually sprang up from (he inoreas- ing commercial intercowrve between the two" nations. Our entbuslestic roception of the Prince of Wales in the fall of 1860 was a strik- that it gave rise to a false suspicion that the course of the nation was tending towards monarchy. Upoa the very heels of this re- markable exhibition of the entente cordiale England seixed the opportunity presented by the insurrection which the money and the arta of her aristocracy had done so much to foment, threw off the mask, and avowed her real feeling towards the American people, by acknowledg_ ing the belligerent rights of the rebellious States, the first step towards acknowledging their independence; and this in view of the fact that in the Canadian rebellion in 1837, and the revolutionary movements in Ireland in 1848, the American government took no part, though it was‘ In its power to rendor revolution suc- cessful in both countries. : For a long time the North thought the Sou! was not in earnest, and appeared so apathetic that British statesmen rogarded the final sepa- ration of the slave from the free Staies as a fore- gone conclusion; and their presses, from the ponderous quarterlies down to the flippant weekly journals, openly exuited in the idea thai the republic was dead and gone, and that democratic institutions had proved a failure This the British oligarchy deemed the proper time to drive home the dividing wedge which their intrigues had inserted, The cause of the siave States was warmly espoused by those who had petted and feted the atthor of “Uncle Tom’sCabin,” and supplied the sinews of war to John Brown—those whose abhorrence of tho Southern institution had been always expressed iu terms of rieasureless abuse. Aid and com- fort were lavished by them upon the slave- holding domestic enemies of the United States. Hopes were held out to the traitors that the blockade would be raised by the superior naval power of England, avd that the independence of the Southern confederacy would be recog- nized at an early day. Tho leading British newspapers were incessant ia their violeat ti- rades against the federal government and the Nortbern States. It was concluded as a settled faci, either that the independence of the Con- federate States would be allowed to go by do- fault, or that they would be able to maintain it by the sword. But ihe first rebel gun fired at Fort Sumter dispelled the illusion, and soon a change came over ibe apirit of the British dream. The North awoke from its slumber, and rushed to the conflict “like a giant refreshed with new wine.” Such an energy was never displayed before except in the case of the French Revolu- tion. No other nation has ever been able, in so short a time, to briug inio the field so many well armed and equipped troops, thoroughly drilled and disciplined. No nation in Europe can do it to-day. With that instiact of se!{-preservation which has alwaya marked the career of the English aristocracy, they soon perceived the peril by which they were surrounded, and they began to pull in their horns. This was the cause of the easy terms of the settlement of the Trent affair—a settlement, however, againat which the American nation entered a silent protest, intending to settle it in a different manver ai a more convenient season. Now that the dis- asters of Big Bethel, Bull ran and Ball's Bluff have been wiped out by the far more subsian- tial victories of Hatteras, Port Royal, Roanoke Island, Mill Springs, Fort Henry, Fort Donel- son, and the capture of Nashville, the wriakied, unblushing face of old Britannia is wreathed in simulated smiles, a3 she hobbles awkwardly oul of her dilemma, bowing and scraping #5 she retires backwards from the presence of the vigorous young Genius of Liberty whom she had eo lately insulted. What will she say when she hears of Newbern, New Madrid, St. Augus- tine, Brunswick, Jacksonville, Fernandina, Pea Ridge, and probably soou of the capture of Richmond? There is no paraliel in history to the meanuess and perfidy of her course. How strangely does her precipitate backing out contrast with the indecent haste with which she rushed into the quarrel. But North and South andersiand her like a book. She has played false to both, and both long for the day of reiribution. Already the South denonnces her selfishness and “Punic faith,” and, in order te deprive her of cotton, proposes to barn every bale. Relying upon her professed sympathies and secret promises, the Confederates eniered upon the conflict in the confidence that England would surety raise the blockade, if she did not actually form an alifance with them, As the devil always does with the victims who trust in him, she left them in the Inreh in the critical hour of their need. And now, that their chancer of success are des perate, they burn with impatience to avenge the treachery. The tendency is to induce them to submit to the federal authority, and unite wilh the North in punishing the nation whose machinations, aided by « handful of abolition trailors, originated the rebeiliou and the civil war. Wagland bas libelled both sections of the country, and when they are reaniled let her expect the rewards of ber deeds, She has sown the wind:she will reap the whitlwind. ‘The energy of the United Siates in organizing en invineible ermy and an impregnable navy, the grand results already achieved and to be hereafter achieved by the war, will demonstrate the strength of the republicand the stability and permanence of democratic institutions; and the resalt in Europe, combined with the distress arising from the injury inflicted by the war on the commercial and manufacturing interests, wily bo to give a grand impetus to the cause of demo- cracy and to rekindle the flames’ of revolutton, Napoleon will probably save himself by riding upon the whirlwind and directing the storm: But the British oligarcby are doomed, and the people will throw of their yoke forever, as the French people long since have done in the case of their nobility. The French Revolution is ye; to be finished in Wagland. Im that day her aristocracy will call upon the United States for j help; but they witt call in vain, So far from giving them aid and comfort, we will commend to their own lips the poisoned chalice they lately presented to ours; and not only will the N&W YORK HERALD, MONDA independence of Mexico be maintained, aad | Canada cut loose from the sinking old bulk of the British empire, and every Mlaad in the West ludies whieh now owns English sway be set free to choose iteown destiny, but the white slaves of Fingland, Scotland and Ireland will be “yedeemed, regenerated and disenthralied by the genius of universal emancipation.” * Avower Pare ano Hs Isptanse—Our readers ave familioe with ‘the fact that the rebel forces in Arkansas are in purt comprised of the savage red men of the frontier, tribes whose mode of warfare is abborrent to every civilized idea of what warfare should be, and whore conduct in the ficld at the receut battle of Pea Ridge did ) ton. | appear to be incredible, Genoral Wadsworth leader of this band of auxiliaries is Mr. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, @ “Northern man with Southern principles,” as the rebel newspapers Gelight to call him—a poet and au orator, a politician and @ goldier. Alas! that the latter litle should be so dishonored. The special, duty of Mr. Albert Pike in this contest appears to be to hover over the field of battle with his band of untamed Indians, tomahawking the dying and scalping the dead. The instinct and training of the Indian may afford some ¢x- cuse for such @ method of warfare. Nature brought bim forth a savage, and, where the in- fiuences of civilization do not reach him, he is a savage alill. But what can be said for the white man who turns the tomahawk and the scalping knife upon his own kindred? It is stated that a Northern man-—par- ticularly a Northern abolitionist—when he goes South and obtains an interest in the institution of that section, makes the moat relentless task- master. The man who at the North whines the most pileously over the sorrows of the slave becomes at the South his most merciless perse- cutor. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, hails from New England, though for many years he has beon a Southera slaveowner and an earnest ad- vocate of Southern interests and institutions. In his career, thea, we find no exception to the rule; but he appears to have imbibed, with the change of place, a ferocity of nature and a dis- regard for all the qualities of mercy for which, heretofore, there has been no parallel. He had earned the reputation of a fair poct, an accom- plished speaker, a good lawyer and an able po- litical writer. To all this versatility of talent he has added now a genius for bloodthirsty and cowardly deeds from which human nature shrioks with horror. Inon-Ctao War Vessets on tHe Monrror Sysrew.—-Our remarks with reference to the new turret ship proposed by Captain Coles, in England, has cailed forth a communication from Captain Ericsson which removes all doubts as to priority of invention. Captain Ericsson, we now learn, on the 26th of September, 1854, forwarded to the Emperor of France an elabo- rate plan and description of an impregnable iron vessel, provided with: a revolving semi. globular turret or capola, made of plate iron six inches thick and sixteen fect diameter, placed in the centre of the vessel and furnished’ with heavy erdnance, which turned with the cupola or turret, as in the Monitor, by means of steam power. The Emperor, we also learn, promptly acknowledged the receipt of the plans, approving of the inventioa in flattering terms. Captain Ericsson informa us that he wil! at once address the Emperor, requesting his Majes- ty to forward a copy of the plan. It is-indeed fortunate for the originator of the new system that he can establish his claim to priority of in- vention ia a definite manner by such high testi- mony. As to the comparative @estructive power of the intended British ship with six tur- rets, twelve Armstrong one-hundred-pounders and twelve hundred pound. broadside, we need only call attention to oar remarks a few days ago respecting the capability of the Monitor to carry two of the twenty-inch guns now being made by order of the Navy Department. These two guns throw each an eleven hundred pound shot; so that we have here a vastly su- perior broadside of twenty-two hundred pounds to oppose the British cupola ship. Besides tuis, we havo no evidence that this ship will be #3 impregnable as the Monitor, and no reason to suppose that her propeller and rudder will be, as in the latter vessel, absolutely protected ugainst shot. With regard to speed, the country will learn with satisfaction that the Navy Department is just now making contracts for impregnable vessels that will Leat the twelve knot cupola ship. The harbor defence vessels of the Moni- tor class, it is trae, will not make twelve knots; but, on the other hand, a single such vessel can, owing to its light draught, take up a safe posi- tion in shoal water aud sink « whole fleet of the deep dranght cupola ships daring their f our harbors. Tuk Evrtomxer ov THR Biockape AckNxow- Lupaeo.—It will be seen by the proceedings of the British Parliament that the efficiency of the American blockade is now fully recognized by the government of England. The admission of the Solicitor General, one of the highest law officers of the Crown, to that effect, and his ox- pressed opposition to any interference, of course seltle the matter, and establish his declara- tion as the opinion also of the government. Other European nations will doubtless follow in acknowledging the efficiency of the block- ade. They will have no difficulty in doing so now that the leading maritime Power has pro- nounced in its favor and declines to interfere with: it. Every day now renders the biockade still more complete and efficacious; for we are ra- pidly repossessing ourselves of all the forts and defences of the coast. We hold For- tress Monroe, the defences at Hatieras, Fort Pickens, Fort Clinch at Ternandina, and Fort Marion at St. Augustiae, Florida. The other for's along the Atlantic and Guif syores it soon be io our hands, and every importdnt Southern port will thus be effectually block- aded, almost without the assistance of our naval vessels. Sixuviar Deverorements or rae Hosriurry Acarsar Geverat McCiettay.--In the coterles of the New York Tivibune and Times it is given out that from Genotal Wadsworth has emanated the series of attacks on General McClellan which have appeared in the columns of the Zri- dune, and have beon offered to other journals. Indeed, the Hon. Mr. Raymond, Speaker of the New York Assembly, makes no secret of the fact that he has received o letter purporting to ve from Geacral Wadsworth, but which was go gross and violent in its abuse Genera, McClelian that be declined to insert it, and re- turned it to the author. Greeley and his colla- borateurs of the Tribune bave given out that the elaborate and furions onslaughts in the Trine, about a fortnight ago, denouncing McClellan as a military charlatan, and even hinting that he is disloyal to the cause of the Union, emanated from the same source—Gene- ral Wadsworth, Military Goveraor of Washing. Jan these statements be tiue? To ua they is a native of the wostern part of this State, is chairmen of the Republican State Committee; he is wealthy, bas travelled in Europe, and is in every way a respectable gentleman, It is not possible that he could be guilty of what | has been laid to his charge. Yet his nome has been used by the editors of tho Tribune and ‘Times and thoir coleries té back up their at ing evidenoe of tho chongeigo mych #0, indeed, | no disgredit to their barbarous mature, ‘(he | tacks, private and public, upon the prilitary Y, MAROH 24, 1862, reputetion and loyal character of Ghetai McClellan. It is too preposterous and too re volting for credence, and the journalists in question ought to be called to account for the atrocious calumny. . The Hegira of Jeff. Davia. The hogira of Joff. Davis! What a theme for the historiant What a volume of matter is comprised in that brief sentence, the hegira of Jeff. Davia! It stands before us, too, not as @ probable impending event, but aa a certainty. D.M. Currin and J. D.C. Atkins, two members from Tennessee in the rebel Congress at Rich- mond, have telegraphed the Memphis Appeal, March 11, that “President Davis is coming West soon. Rally everybody to his standard.” This is official, and we dare say that, by this time, Jeff. is beyond the boundaries of Virginia. Hegira! Webster defines it as an Arabio word, “from hajara, to remove, ‘to desert. In chronology, an epoch among the Mohamme- dans from which they compute time, The event which gave riso to it was the flight of Mohammod from Mecca; from which the magis- trates, fearing his impostures might raisea sedition, expelled him, July 16, A.D. 622.” This explanation makes the word hegira ex- ceedingly appropriate to this Western journey of Davis; but the parallel will hold no fur. ther, unless Jeff. shall succeed in escaping into Mexico, and shall there recover from his fallen fortunes. That he is enroute for Mexico we have no doubt; but that he will reach the Mis- sissippi river in season to cross it without de- tection is not a0 certain. For some days past we have been deprived of our usual fugitive Norfolk and Richmond newspapers, from which we suspect that the whole rebel government and rebel army of Virginia are iu motion for the Southwest, [a- deed this was made manifest the other day with the discovery that the rebel armed forces had abandoned Aquia creck, a point as essen- tial to their reported new defensive line as waa Leesburg to their left flank of the line og Manassas. And the news is abroad that they have vacated Fredericksburg, which means the whole of the line of the Rappahannock; and where are they to halt inside of Virginia? At Richmond? We think not; for that place is comparatively defenccless, and, being on the north bank of the James river, is too much ex- posed to the army of McClellan to make it a safe halting place for the demoralized and panic stricken forces of the rebel Johnston. Tic is a cautious and sagacious leader, and will not risk the last throw of his dice with the odds so heavily against him, in s useless effort to save Richmond or Virginia, which are already lost. In our statements of a month ago, of the most probable immediate effects of the loss of Nashville and Manassas to the rebels, we indi- cated the movements which they are now pro- ceeding to carry out. We mean the withdrawal of all their forces from the bordcr States, and their concentration upon some strong defensive points in the cotton States. We belicve. too, that the bulk of the rebel forces will be con- centrated in the Valley of the Mississippi, and in view of the last necessity of fighting thei, way across the Mississippi river, aud Louisi. ana and Texas, into Mexico, and thi: © treating army will be made to sers. the con voy of Jeff. Davis and ali the office. : of Vis rebel government, and all other aciive rebel conspirators, who are not prepared to trust to the chances of repentance or an amnesty. This is our interpretation of this warlike trip of Jeff. Davis to the Southwest, He is bound for Mexico. But, what « fall is this from bis high estate! About this time last year his ora- tors and newspaper organs, from Richmond to New Orleans, proclaimed the White House at Washington as his destination, Maryland as an indispensable part of his confederation, and the line of the Ohio river as his inevitable Northern boundary in the West. We think it was in March or April last that Mrs. Jefferson Davis sent a letter—-a well authenticated letter—to a friend in Washington, desiring the plate marked “Mra. Jefferson Davis,’ upon one of the pew doors of Trinity church, in Washington, to be retained there, for that within a few months she expected to reoccupy said comfortable pew. Nor did this appear as a vain and foolish boast at that time; for it was not until after General McClellan's indefatigable labors of July and August last, in reorganizing our Poto- mac army and in strengthening its defences, that we of the North were relieved of all fears concerning the aafety of Wasbiagion. But what a fall has followed in the hopes, threats and promises of his rebellions Excel- fi. Davis, and of that more ami enthusiastic rebel, our “Lady Davis,” as she is siyled, and, doubtless, from her great personal attractions, by the rebel chivalry of the South; The Whito House, Washington city, Ma,yland, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Arkansas, have beea overcome by “the armed heroes of the Lincoln government,” and now Virginia, and jis beautiful capital of Richmond, must be abandoned at the approach of McClellan and bis “Yankees.” Was there ever such a prodi gious and comprehensive programme in any gther repellign in the history of mankind as that upon which Jeff. Davis was advanced in triamph to Richmond? Was there ever such en ignomipiqus failure in any rebellious conspi- toy as that which marks the hegira of Jeff, Davis from the “Old Dominion?” Buussinas or Rerer. Reve.—One of the imme- diate fruits of the rebellion was to close up all the common schools Sonth. Its duration fora few yeara would conseqnently Lave the effect of entirely suspending the progress of educa- tion and reducing the slave States to @ condi- tion bordeving on barbarism. One of the first results of the occupation of ‘Nashville by the federal troops was the reopening of all the public schools. Thus, whilst civilization flies at ‘he fpproach of the rebels, it follows in the wake of our arms. Si James DFerovsson Agaix.—When Sir James Fergusson and other members of the Brith Parliament paid a visit to this country some inonibs ago, we tool casion to animad- vert upon the probable obj of their mission, and to suggest that in the case of Sir James Fer. gusson ab least there was mrich catise to suspect that this visit had for its object the furtherance of the then incipient rebellion. Coming here as members of the Parliament of an indepen. dent and neutral nation, we did not think the course pursued by lhese gentlemen was very decorous or fair, end we esid so more than once. Sir James Fergusson took offence at oar eommonte, and iedignantly denied the inainus. tions that he in any way favored the treason of the Southern States. Sir James has, however, just given eyideace against bimoelf by his agyion in tio Dritish Portfincgat Girhg the dchate upon the American blockade: On that occasion he took sides with the rebel States, and stroau- ously advocated the breaking of the Southern blockade by the British government. Sir James Fergusson has therefore, with his own lips, openly verified everything we said sbout hum. Yanory Nor Carrurnp—Oxiom oF Tew Ruwor.—It turns out after all that the arch- traitor Yancey fs still at large, and that the statoment of his having recently made a speech in New Orleans hes some probability in it. We learn, from our correspondent at Key Weet, the manner In which the rumor of bis capture got started. Is appears that Commander Ridzeley, of the Santiago de Cuba, received a letter from the American Consui General at Havana in- forming him that Yancey had sailed for » Southern port in the William Mallory. On the 9th, after the receipt of this intelligence, the Water Witch arrived at Key West, having em board tho captain and crow of this veasel, whioh she had captured on the 5th off St. Andrews Bay. The people of Key West were throwm into a state of great excitement by the rumory which immediately got into circulation, that Mr. Yancey was among tho prisoners, in the dis- guise of a scaman. A close scrutiny of the crew, however, showed that this impression waa unfounded; and, furthermore, our correspondent was informed by the mate of the Mallory that Yancey had left Havana the day before the lat- ter vessel sailed, in a schooner called tho Break. of Day, bound for Mobile. The fact that the statement of the Nashville paper, that the rebel commlasioner had turned up at New Orleans, arrived here on the same day as the reports of his capture, precludes the idea that it was fabricated for any special par- pose. We rust therefore console ourselves foe the disappointment of tho arch rebel’s escape by the reftection that sooner or later he will come to his deserts. There is a Nemesis for the conspirators and traitors who have been the authors of this unnatural rebellion. If they do not dio by their own hands they rune fair chance of doing so by those of their dupes. AFFAIRS AT THE STATE CAPITAL. City Tax Levy Reportcd—The Debate om the New Assessment Laws—The Lobby Hungry and Disappointed—Action of the Republican Central Committee The Resolutions Adopted, d&e. Atnaut, March 22, 1863. ‘The Assembly Committee on the Affairs of Cities re- ported this morning the city tax levy. Tho items are precisely the game as those in tho bill sent up by the Comptroller; no change whatever in the severai estimates in tne bill as it was sent up by Haws. Thoze who wish to increase the {tems will endeavor to got {t referred to the New Yoric ity delegation, with powor to report complete. This ill ig attracting a great deal of attention. We have hed the lowor branch of the Common Council stationed at the Delavan House, and the Aldermanic Board at Congress Rail, almost in permanent sossion ever since the tax levy arrived hore. Some of theso odicials are here for the purpose of increasing tho items, and othora to preven’ them. Comptroller Haws has also been in attondance and rates with tho majority of the lower branch of your Council to prevent an increaao in the fore the committes. mmon wtema, and hag basa ‘Th tne poor man who had only enough to shelter his had to pay move in proportion than the man worth hundreds of thousands. There {a certainly some need of legisiation and change in our assessment laws. Whother this bill, or some other, ts the remedy for the evil, time @ can toll. It one rable features and iat is, the me st0cks and mo-tgagos wi ve to pay Proportion, Aud not escape scott freo, as is at presont too the caso, Afior sometime was spent the grees was reported and the bills for next Monday, immediately after the mn ed of tho Legtal Fi g s E We have bad, during this session ure, good sized lobby, but thus far it has been dry times; mouey has been scarce, and but few monsures coust- 2 ; g i dered that there iz money in. house, and J might add, port brauches of the Legisiaturo present a dieappoin ore! em pense anxious looks, They aro ie ab ai Taud watch every arrival neagure the cut of his coat and _— f es Cy the . * of otis bill or the of his desir’ parkage or detent it potas enongh fo, diatribate, ioe Hood ike, a Little currency am ungry ments are now being made to make a combined cffors a push xine Pe Se a and co ao an tise ane others, which thoy imagine parties wi willing to pay money rather than bave the first clase passed and 4 Jatter defeated. They are really ina condition, and unices matters chango soon, the Legislature will bave te pacs a bill for the relief of the lobby and some of the hungry members. if The action of tho Exocutive Committe of the Republican States Contral Committee, in endorsing the conservative policy of the national administration, meets with unl- Vorsal approval, with the axception of the fanatical por- tion of tho late republican party. Ihe iden of their re- solving to stand by the'republican party is woar: : what nridiculons aspect. The idea that there Is aay such party in existence now will be an item of news ta the public, and the resolution to stand by a party thas has long gince been stowed away among tho relica of the past and forgotten by almost everybody, certainly ta- duces a smile. ‘The Court of Appeals commenced Us March session here to-duy. Pe Intelligence. Mrs. Honter, of Washington; General Baxter, of Vor- mont: J. 1. Hamblin and tady, of Portland, Me.; Lr, 0. G. Swan, of Paris, and Colovel J, H. Almoy,of Now Ha- ven, have arrived at the Astor Hou arch, of Pennsylvania; F. G. Gale, of Chicago; 8. ‘ou, of Rochester; W. Angol, of Alleghany; J. A. nd C. P. loss, of Auburn, are aaong the arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Fx Governor Pollock, of Pennsylvania; Geo. Hi. Stuart, of Philadelphia; B. H. Cheever, of Lb ame ert Hon. W. A. Moseley, of Buffalo; Lisutonant W. W. Judge Sherman, of Newburg: C. Holmes, Hale, of Boston; A. Kirklaad, of Alger, of Boston, have arrived at U. 8. A; Washington; 1. P. Canada, and Francis tue Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sraprina Arrray ax 4 Grocart Srons.—The grocery store of Edward R. Herna!, corner of Forty-sevonth atreet and Sighth ayenne, was tho scene of @ serious #' bbing affray on Saturday evening. Two mon, named Joum Gallney and & ward Walsh, got into a fight it appears, which ended in Walsh’s plunging @ knife tuto bis adver- sury’s breast. ‘The assailant escaped the barroom door, aud has not since been heard of. to Bellavue Hospital, whero the physician s his opinion that the wound was removed in attendance gave it would prove fatal. Sains Court Catendar=This Day. Soretue Bae Gettin Part L---Nos. 1576, 1576, 889, Lins, 1592, 45, 24, 1789, 1309, 1404, 1816, 357, 1394, 1695; 1540; 1998, 1895, 14a, 1401,"1504. Fart 2—aa? jonrhed. Journed. . Tanu.—Not. 967, 274 to 317, 174, Serruom COURS. Pact LeNos. 1371, 1871, 549, 1627, 2005, 3195, 2017, 1879, 1681, 1683, 1685, 1687,’ 1680, {00s 1008. Part 2.—Nos, 616, 1762, 1754, 1756, 1760, 1762) 1766, 1768, 1770, 1772, ‘1774,’ 1776, 1778, 178M 1784. Part @. 2809, 1091, 1695, 1699, 1601, 1668, 1607, 160, 1611, 1013, 1336, 797, 1675,’ 1677, iy Part 4.—Ni 1634, 1548, 422, 660, 1186, 1416, 1768, 1738, 1700, 1702, 1794, 5 Coro Pryas.~Part 1. 4, 164, 167, 169, 170, AGL, 173, 1847S, 175, 1 178,179," 180, 181, 192) 183, 184, 185. Fart ry t ‘ ; » 0, T1, 72, 100" 442) 114, 125, 120, 1 77, 106, 36, 106,’ 185, 16514, 167, 3. oe Arrivals and Departures. ABRIVAS. 8. jo ship Ulsscow Mr Ht and n bE] Hitesenny mand s0n, Col ed SP Ratrasion, So z arter, Me Leonte, Mi) a, as i pices pip Wan Seuer=-Heury W of Bath, Geo W foe, of NY ork r 1 oom--Ship Adriatlo~Wm My Hunt, Riche § Crags, oun Shelly, Of England; John Vessmeter, of German) ‘Foocnow Bark Comack=Geo H Dans, of Bostoa; Mre Gray, captain's wife. . EC en SHIPPING NEWS. Port of New York, March 23, 196% Below. tip Charter Oak. Shit Satan Been by pilot boat Jas M Waterbary. Bark Magnolia, of Bile Gocyes, ‘ot Colehe Es, par, of ¥ Brig Brempiar, che Kave WicoX, . Bent ace Wh by pilot boat Mary Taylor, No, 6. Spoken. ie Re ring Bok, of Trepton, from at Marka, Bene ore et cant bearing W739, digtwat 8) sallagy o eum,