The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1862, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. pe OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS in advance. Money sent by mail will be at the FS cath i a bat Bank Sle Matrant tm Bie York THE DAILY HER. ‘two conts , 87 per annum, Cee CALLE MARAE coon kerwrdin, 20 ees conte por | the Bitton ary Warley, A reat poe, see se Teh anal Slat ofeach monty ab at Comba or ane Tie vaWicy IERALD. on Wednesday, at fowr conts per sony, 0 $2 ne: annum 'OLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing important news, solicited from any quarter of the world; Y/ weed, will be Kiherally paid vo-. Ba- OUR FORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS ARE Pamnicuauuy BigcmerkD 10 Stal AL LETrKas 4xD PACk- (A085 SENT US. ‘NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correapondence. We do not DVERTISE MENTS ‘enewed every ; advertisements in- sorted in the Wexkty Henan, \Pamity Huratp, and in the Californie ‘ani European Euiitions, JOB PRINTING executed with neatness, cheapness and des- 111Ne, 09 AMUSEMENTS THIS BVBNING. 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PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. Open daily trom 0AM. ud P.M. ” shia NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bunuxsaves orcs, Dances, ac. New York, Thurssday, April 10, 1862, TO OUR BUSINESS PATRONS. Parties having business announcements to make throngh the columns of the Hxnatp are hereby notified that we can have nothing to do with ad- vertisement agents. Their favora must besent to us direct, to be attended to. We are compelled to be thus strict because of the dishonesty of par- ties who, whilst acting as agents for certaig ob- soure journals, assume the ugency of the Hsxaty, with a view to give weight to their misrepresenta- tions as te the amount of our circulation. These persons have no sort of connection with our estab- lishment, and- no. means of knowing, beyond the reat of the public, the extent of our daily issues Woe give them fair warning that, if they persist in this mean ar’, dishonorable course, we shal! pro- secute + sor anattempt to injure us in our bu- sine»s. The daily circulation of the Hunatp is now over one hundred thonsand copies, and fre- quently reaches to from one hundred and twenty to one hendred and thirty thousand—more than the aggregate oiroulation of all the other city dailies of the same class put together. These facts are’ easily susceptible of proof before # legal tribunal, and the parties to whom we rofer expose themselves to severe penal- ties by putting forth false representations as to its ‘mount, under the assumed character of our agents, and with a view to benefit our rivals, THE SITUATION. A despatch from Cairo states that an officer who left Pittsburg Landing on the evening of Monday ‘nat reports that the Union forces have taken pos- session of Corinth, the intrenched position of the rebels. The late glorious victory at Pittsburg, on the Tonneasee river, is the all absorbing feature of the war, We give to-day a complete history of the battle, with all the details as far as they have been ascertained up to the latest moment, together with as fine map of the battle ground and its vicinity, and sketches of the leading officers en- gaged on both sides. In every respect, both as regards the duration of the battle, the numbers lost, and the determined valor of victors and vanquished alike, it was one of the most re- markable and bloodiest conflicts of modern days, Our loss proves not to be eo heavy as at first re- ported. It is set down at about five thousand killed and wounded. What amount of l6ss the rebcis suffered cannot of course be accurately stated. The body of the rebel Commander-in-Chief, Albert Sydney Johnston, was left on the field and taken possession of by our troops, together with those of Many other distinguished officers. We unfortu- tanately lost a number of our leading officers, but that is not to be wondered at, considering their eplendid conduct, their constant exposure to dan- ger, and the disregard of persone! safety which they exhibited throughout the two day's action. Among the wounded was General Ulysses S. Grout, who commanded our forces. The number of men engaged on both sides must have been a hundred and fifty thousand at least. Our troops numbered eighty thousand men in action on Monday (the second day), aud the enemy, from all accounts, must have had very nearly ce many in the fleld. The Southern accounts of the strength of the rebel army st Corinth, given before the battle, were probably exaggerated. They were as fol- lows:— Under Albert S. Johnston. ... .. 20,000 Under Braxton Bragg.. -» $0,000 Under Nathan G. Evans. + 40,000 Under Leonidas Polk. 30,000 Total........c00u tr wee ve were etes soe See 120,000 ‘The force mndet General Evans wae, in all Probability nearer to ten thousand than forty thousand, which would make the aggregate of the army of Corinth ninety thousand men. The newa of this great victory, which has broken the rebel power in the Southwest, was received throughout the country with intense excitement, enthusiasm and jubilation, from the ational capital to the romotest part at which the intelligence was received. By late accounts from Fortress Mouroe a severe NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862%.—-TRIPLE SHEET. | storm had been raging there on Monday and Tues- day, which must have seriously affected the march of an army ap the Peninsula, and will probably delay active operations in front of Yorktown for a day or two. Everything, however, ia progressing favorably. The last heard of the Merrimac was the same as we have previously reported. She was lying off Craney Island, in company with the York- town, Jamestown, Teazer, and four small tugs, all under steam. This was on Monday, and the foggy weather which prevailed was supposed to have detained the rebel flotilla at that pojnt. We pre- sent our readers to-day with two maps of the neighborhood of Yorktown. The official despatch of Commodore Foote to the Navy Department, which we publish to-day, in addition to the detailed account of the siege of Island No. 10 which we furnished to our readers yesterday, forms @ complete history of that suc- cessful affair, and the advantages which the Union army in the Southwest has gained by its capture. The island and the enemy’s works on the shore have both fallen into our hands. Commodore Foote announces, as the result of a hasty exami- nation of the captured forts and batteries, that we have taken “eleven earthworks, with seventy heavy cannon, varying in calibre from thirty-two to one huudred-pounders rifled. The magazines are well supplied with powder, and there are large quantities of shot and shell and other munitions of war, and also great quantities of provisions. Four steamers afloat have fallen into our hands, and two others, with the rebel gun- boat Grampus, are sunk, but will be easily raised. The floating battery of sixteen heavy guns, turned adrift by the rebels, is said to be lying on the Mis- souri shore below New Madrid.” A congratulatory | despatch was forwarded by the Secretary of the Navy yesterday to Commodore Foote upon his victory at Islaud No. 10. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, petitions in favor of emancipation, and the establishment of a national armory and military department in Wisconsin, were presented and referred. The bill allowing the Attorney General and Secretary of the Interior to fix the salaries of Distriot Attorneys, was passed. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the Honse of Representatives, the bill to in- crease the efficiency of the Medical Department of the army. A bill making additional appropriations for the civil expenses of the government was re- ported, and nearly all the Senate’s amendments to the Post Office Appropriation bill were agreed to. The Senate's amendments to the bill establishing branch post offices in cities were con- curred in. The bill to abolish slavery - in the District of Columbia came up on its second reading, to which Mr. Valiandigham objected. The question then recurred under the rule, ‘Shall the bill be rejected?” which was decided in the nega- tive, 45 against 93. The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whols on the State of the Union. The Pacific Railroad bill was taken up, and Mr. Phelps, of California, spoke in its favor. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The acrew steamer Etna, Captain Kennedy, which sailed from Liverpool at four o'clock on the evening of the 26th, and from Queenstown on the 27th ult., arrived at this port at noon yesterday. Her news has been anticipated fully by the Hiber- nian at Portland, and the reports published in the Heraup on Tuesday and Weduesday morning. The government of Algiers has published a no. tice to cotton planters, reminding .cm that a pre- mium of from 20 francs to 100 francs will be award- ed to every one who shal!, during the scason of 1862, plant cotton to the following extent:—20 francs for twenty ares, 40 francs for forty, 60 francs for sixty, 80 francs for eighty, and 100 francs for a hectare (two and a half acres). The Imperial Agricultural Society of Algiers .will also continue its prize of 300 francs for the best cultivation of one hectare. By way of France—brought by the French mail steamer Bearn—we have commercial advices from Rio Janeiro to the 24th of February, The receipts of coffee in Rio were very light, not exceeding an average of 2,000 bags per day. ‘This, together with the confirmation of & small stock remaining ip the country, and unfavorable accounts as to the growing crops, caused dealers to be very firm, and good demand springing up, both for Europe and the United States, enabled them to advance rates. Sore dealers were asking much higher prices, and appeared sanguine of seeing round lots at $,000 reis per arroba before many weeks elapsed. Sales since last report were 124,000 bags, of which 60,600 bags were for the United States, 66,400 for the Chaanel and North of Europe, 3,600°for the Mediterranean, and 3,000 for the Cape of Good Hope. Stocks were estimated to be 140,000 bags. Lots for the United States were quoted 6,600 a 6,900 reis per arroba. Freights to the United States, North, were at 50s. a 533. per ton; South, (rebel) via St. Thomas, 75s. 9 90s. per ton. An American schooner obtained for New York 6¢c: per bag and 5 per cent. The British steam sloop Styx (6), Commander Ward, left Plymouth Sound on Saturday, March 22, for the West Indies. Our advices received from Salt Lake City to the 18th of March, state that Brigham Young was duly elected as Governor of the State of Deseret on the 34 of last month. Hon. H.C. Kimball has been elected Lieutenant Governor, and John M. Bern- hisel representative. A meeting of the General Assembly will be held on the lith of the present month to elect United States Senators, ono of whom is expected to be ex-delegate Hooper. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday, a favorable report was made on the bill authoriz- ing the payment of the bonds created by this city to assist in equipping aud forwarding to the field troops for the defence of the Union. The bill au- thorizing the application of tae sarplus revenue of the sinking fund to the payment of the city debt was passed. Other business of interest was trans- acted by the Senate, to which the pressure of news on our columns preclodes our referring. The As- sembly passed several bills of some importance. Anwng them were the Susquehannsh Railroad and the Metropolitan Health bills. The Metropolitan Health bill was discussed at considerable length, and amendments by different members were pro- posed; but, after the rejection of all of them, the bill passed by sixty-eight yeas to forty-eight nays. General Franz Sigel, at last accounts, was reco- vering from the severe illness which prostrated him after the battle of Pea Ridge. A special election will be held in the Ninth Con- gressional district of Illinois on the 6th of May, to fill the seat in the House of Representatives loft vacant by the resignation of Gen. John A. Logan: The government Commission to iquire into the charges against persons confined in military pri+ sons for treason against the government have been busy the past few days. William W. Hen- dricks and Jonah Potterfield have been released from Fort Lafayette, on taking the oath of alle- giance. David C. Watless and Captain Isaac 1, Vigures have been released on parole, while Colo” nel Thomas, the French lady, William H. Hill, W. H, Childs, E. W. Cecil and Mr. Chaplinhave been sent back to Fort Lafayette, ‘This day will be devoted to fasting ond prayer in the States of New Hampshire and Vermont, ‘We have now some additions to make to the list of rebel Generals who have been taken by various causes from the service of the bogus confederacy since the commencement of the rebellion, and the following is the @ataiogue :— Bovid 5. Suiges, sastgnes Poomne'T Fane Sen 5 . Faunt resignes Joba B. Grayson, died. Folix K. Zollicoffer, killed. P. St. George Cocke, suicide, Simon B. Buckner, captured. Lloyd Tilghman, captured. Edward Price, captured. Busbrod Johnson, captured. Ben. McCulloch, killed. Gideon J, Pillow, suspended, Paul 0. Herbert, killed. Gen. Slack, killed. M. L. Bonham, resigned Albert 8, Johnston, killed. Wm. Whapn Mackall, captured. And two others, as yet uvkuown, captured, Of the above it appears there were :— + 8 Suspended... + 1 Committed suicide. + 6 Died. Bl nee Total. The Union army thus far has lost but four Gonerals:—Nathaniel Lyon, killed; Wm. H. L. Wal- lace, killed; Frederick W. Lander, died, and B. M. Prentiss, captured. The effect of the recent good news was plainly manifested at the booksellers’ trade sale yesterday. The bids ran higher, and where books reached the duplicating price the num” bers called for were above the average. The rate of discount. was a matter of after con” sideration with buyers. They wanted the books, and seemed bound to have them. Shel- don’s books ran well, and were freely dupli- cated, especially the Riverside editions. Child’s Philadelphia invoice went remarkably well— such heavy works as Kane’s ‘“Arotic Ex- plorations,” in all styles; Blackstone’s ‘‘Com- mentaries,"’ Allibone’s ‘Dictionary of Authors,” and Sparks’ “Franklin,” (an eighteen dollar book,) being freely duplicated, and even triplicated. Gould & Lincoln's and Scribner's invoices were also freely duplicated at ‘‘stiff prices,” and Lindsay & Blakistone’s Philadelphia list was equally fortunate, General St. George Cooke's “Scenes in the United States Dragoon Servicé’’ running off rapidly. A meeting of the managers of eightecn of the principal lihes of railroad in the United States was held at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. Judge Jewett, of Ohio, was appointed chairman, and E. B. Phillips and E. A. Chapin secretaries. A com- mittee of three was appointed to report a time- table for passenger and other trains to be run during the summer months. After some discus- sion their report wasadopted. The amended time- table doos not differ very materially from the one at present in use. No business of public importance was trans acted by the Commissioners of Emigration yester- day. From the weekly statement it appears that 1,311 emigrants arrived here during the week end- ing on the Sth inst., making a total of 6,007 during the present year, against 10,071 up to the same date in 1861. The number of inmates remaining in the institutions on Ward's Island is 766. The ‘Treasurer's report shows a balance in the bank of $4,819 18 to the credit of the Commissioners. Nicholas 5. Veeder, the last of the Revolutiona- ry heroes in Schenectady county, New York, died on the 7th instant, aged one hundred years and three months, He.died within two miles of the place of his birth, and had never resided at @ greater distance from his birthplace. A new planet, of the thirteenth magnitude, was discovered near the star Beta Virginis, at the Har- vard College Observatory, on the Sth instant. Fe- rona was the name given it. The prize steamship Magnolia, lying at theAt- lantic Dock, Brooklyn, was sold yesterday, by public auction, for $50,000. Ske was purchased by Mr. Starks W. Lewis, for the government. The market for beef cattle was buoyant at alf the yards yesterday, and holders were enabled to obtain pretty full prices for all grades, but espe” cially for prime, which were in active demand both from the butchers and government agents: The prices ranged from 6c. a Sic. @ 9c.’ with the bulk of sales of good cattle at 8c. a 8%c. Milch cows were quiet. Veal calves were steady at dc. » 6%c. Sheep and lambs sold at prices ranging from $3 50 to $5 a $7 per head, but mainly at $475 a $550. Swine sold at 3%c. a 3%c. for light, and 4c. a 4¥%c. for heavy, for corn fed, and 354c. a S%c. for still fed. The total receipts were 3,998 beeves, 107 cows, 849 veals, 4,692 sheep and lambs, and412,333 swine. Notwithstanding the brilliant victories reported ia yesterday morning’s Heratp, the stock market was ame yesterday, and prices closed no better than the day before. The chief cause of this singular anomaly was doubtless a general distrust of the news from Titts- burg, which the bears labored actively to discredit. The money market was easier; caf loans 6 percent. Ex- change was steady; gold 3¢ lower. The street was al! day agitated by the most absurd rumors, which had the effect of checking business. ‘The cotton market yesterday exhibited some less tone and animation, while prices were without important changs, The eales embraced about 600 bales, in lots, chieily to spinners, on the basis of 27340. a 28c. for mid- ding uplauds, with some lots reported at 28340. Tho sale of Sea Island to come off to-day will probably moet With logs competition among purchasors, from the fact that but a small portion of American machinery is adapted to its manufacture. The chief demand at this, 5 at former gales, wil! probably be for ehipment to Fu- rope. Tho following table, from tho circular of Messrs. Witham P. Wright & Co., dated the 10th April, 1861, gives the recoipts and distribution of the crop up to that pertod as follows:— Received at Southern ports from Sept. 1, 1860, {6 April 10, 1861, bales... «3,240,000 Exported to Grot Briiai 1,794,000 “ France... 491 “ _ othor foreign ports. 201,000 Taker by Northorn manufactur Stock on hand Tne receipts to the present timo in the ports of the Bouth ere very uncertain, but supposed to be quite limi- ted, while the amount sent to Northera or foreign ports has been confined to parcels running the blockade, or contigcated or captured by the government. At last aecounts the stock of American cotton in Liverpeol was reduced to 144,000 bales, against between 700,000 and 800,000 bales at the same time iast year, and the total of all kinds was 400,000, egainst about 900,000 last yoar. Flour vas heayy and dull, and fell off about Se. por bbl. especie lly for Stute and Western brands. Wheat was quiet and sales limited. Corn was jess buoyant, with fair sales at Gc. a 61 igc. for Western mixed, delivered. Pork was quiot, with sales of new moss at §13 a $13 1234, and prime do, at $10 25 & $10 60. Sugars wore firm, with sales of about 1,000 hhde. The government contract for 1,698,000 Ibs. was reported taken yesterday at 90. a Okc. for refined yellow coffee sugars, the latter figure cor: exponding with Stuart's grade of letter “C."" Coffee ‘was quiet, Freights were dull and engagements mode- Fats, Joun Suupext.—It seems that this man, whom the London Times noticed as being worth, per- sonally, about as much as one negro—he may be worth less, for aught we know—before he left the United States for Europe, sold all his property in the South, amounting to two or three hundred thousand dollars, and invested the whole in English and French securities, Herein he plainly showed that he had no conf. dence in the rebellion; and yet such a man would lead his countrymen into this difficulty, and ruin the fortunes of thousands of men, while he carefully secured his own. He never expects to return home, and in fact he would not dare to do so. He would not dare to show his face again in Louisiana, to meet the scornful and vindictive gaze of a people whom he has deceived and abused. He has managed with more cunning than some others of the leaders, who have xot tp sare thomesives, ‘The Sanguinary and Decisive Battle of Pittsburg Landing—Our Greatest and Most Important Victory—Reported Oc- cupation of Corinth by Union Troops. The most sanguinary battle ever fought upon this continent, and immeasurably the most im- portant in its crowning victory to the arms of the Union, is that which was so magnificently fought by our invincible Western soldiers on Sunday and Monday last, at Pittsburg Landing, in Southern Tennessee, That locality, hitherto unknown, except to the residents and traders on the Tennessee river, henceforward becomes one of the most famous landmarks in American history. From the details before us, it would appear that this battle was very skilfully contrived between the rebel Generals Sydney Johnston and Beauregard, for the purpose of cutting to pieces the army of General Grant by overwhelming numbers, before he could be strengthened by the advancing re- inforcements of General Buell; that General Grant was thus assailed by a combined force twice his own in point of numbers; that thus the results of the battle, atthe end of the first day, were very seriously against him, and that, had the daylight lasted two or three hours longer, he would, perhaps, have suffered a fearful defeat. But, in still holding the enemy at bay to the end of the terrible fighting of Sunday, the invaluable time was gained which brought in his reinforcements, and which se- cured to the Union the glorious triumph of Monday. In this desperate enterprise on the part of Johnston and Beauregard we have a repetition of the bold dash of Zollicoffer at Mill Spring last January, and for the same great object, and with the same result, Beau- regard knew that if the Union forces advancing upon his intrenched camp at Corinth, from different points, were permitted to form a junction, he would be lost; but he saw that by promptly acting himself upon the offensive he might cut up the several approaching columns of our troops in detail, beginning with the advanced army corps of General Grant, and thus reverse the whole tide of our recent triumphs in the West back to our starting point of Cairo. Considering the desperate extremities of the rebel cause, the temptations thus offered him were irresistible; and against any other than the very best troops inthe world—our strong, tall, muscular, disciplined, intelligent and unconquerable Western fighting men—he might have succeeded on Sunday last.in a serious check to all our offensive operations by land and water. But the trump card of Bull run, between Beauregard and his duplicate, John- ston, was in this instance turned against them, and their grand game for recovering their losses in the West they have lost, and in losing it they have lost the whole Southwest, and their last chance of regaining a hope of success in any position in any quarter of the South, on the Mississippi or among their inland mountains, or in, their strongholds near the.sea. Between this disastrous repulse of the rebels at Pittsburg Landing, and ‘*he surrender of Island No. 10, with its immense stores of artil- lery and munitions of war, our right of way in the West is reopened, without much further difficulty, by land and wa- ter, to the Gulf of Mexico. The forti- fied camp of Beauregard at Corinth, has, it fs reported by our telegraphic despatches, been hastily abandoned by the rebels, and is now occupied by our troops. And now these questions come home to Jeff. Davis and his raling confederates at Rich- mond: “What are we to do? Would it not be well at once to make our escape from McClellan? Has not the time arrived for aban- doning even the pretence of holding on to Vir. ginia? Docs not our safety require that we shall leave her to her fate, and take such of her troops as can be secured to follow us to the Southwest for a junction with Beauregard, so that when pushed to the last oxtremity we may still have s chance of reaching the protecting soil of Mexico?” Nor can there be a reasonable doubt that before the lapse of many days its last day’s sun will have set upon the rebel government in the Old Dominion, and then we shall have nothing to do but to gather up the broken fragments of a great re- bellion laid in ruins, There is no occasion for the slightest impa- tience in regard to the movements of General McClellan. That accomplished soldier, to whose military genius and knowledge we are chiefly indebted for all our splendid victories of the present year, by land and water, is abun- dantly equal to the single operetion of re- storing the old fing to the Stute Capitol of old Virginia. Upon this point our readers may anticipate @ crowning success. Let bim who is inclined to be impatient read the letter, elsewhere in these columns, from an intelligent correspondent, touching the compre- hensive services of General Mcvlellan as de- scribed by General Halleck. It shows that McClellan understands his business, From all accounts it appears that the rebels on the York river route to Richmond are resolved upon a stubborn resis‘ance; but, whether they fight or fly on his approach, the army of MoClellan will surely do its appointed work to the satisfaction of the country. The chosen architect, under our sagactous Prosident Lincoln, in planning the grent fabric of our glorious victories of 1562, McClellan, at Richmond, will himself put on the capstone of the pyramid. If his advance shall be des- perately disputed, then we are confident that, under McClellan, our soldiers <i the East will wipe out the disgraco of Ball run, and fully establish their claim to stand side by side with, our invigcibje eoldiers of the Weet. The Herald a Live Newspaper. Times like these try newspapers as well as men. Journalism suffers, like every other business, from the crisis in financial and com- mercial affairs, and, like every other profession, from the general stagnation and pause in the ordinary industry of the country. Besides these it has its peculiar evil experiences. The press has played so important a partin the military drama now enacting that the udmin- istration has deemed it necessary to establish a censorship over the news, which is the very life blood of a metropolitan journal. Newspa,, per despatches are suppressed; newspaper cor- respondents meet with few favors and much opposition from those in power, and the go- vernment dictates what intelligence should, and what shall not, be published, after the journalists have triumphed over every obsta- cle and obtained the fullest and latest details of important and interesting events. That the Herarp has neither felt the pecuniary crisis nor a}!owed its readers to notice any falling off i, i's uews is the best proof of its vitality and ii best praise of the manner in which it is conducted. Other and weaker journals have either succumbed com- pletely to the adversities of the crisis, or else live on,shorn of their former fair proportions, their circulation and profits grown small by degrees, and their columns as destitute of any show of enterprise as of interest, while their editors and proprietors are seeking to eke out the'r failing fortunes by contract jobbing, office hunting or base advocacy of public swindles. Compared with these moribund journals, which have fallen under the ban of popular opprobrium or the keener curse of popular neglect, the Hx- RaLpstands in prosperity and enterprise the only real, live metropolitan newspaper in the country. In spite of the hard times, our circu- lation and our advertisements have marvellous- ly increased, until we surpass not only each one of our city contemporaries, but the whole of them combined. In spite of the censorship of the press, and the increased expense necessary to obtain news, we continue to excel, not only our contemporaries, but even our former self, in the fullness of our intelligence and the celerity with which we present it to the public. In yesterday’s Herat, for example, is the record of a feat never equalled by any news- paper in the world, and approached only by the London Times in its best days. The Lon- don’ Times received and published the news of the battle of Waterloo in advance of the arrival of the special government couriers, and resis its reputation to this very hour upon that per- formance, although the Henacp again and again paralleled this sort of eaterprise, befote the era of the telegraph, and during the pro- gress of the Mexican war. But yesterday we recelved and published the full details of the first day’s fighting at Pittsburg Landing, by telegraph from our own correspondents, and in advance, not only of all other papers, but of the intelligence received at the War Department. This glorious and exclu- sive news was published in,“the regular morning edition of the Hxratp, and was tele- graphed from our columns to the President, and perused by him long before our dilatory contemporaries had even heard of the intelli- gence. When we had fully dissemina‘ed the news by our regular edition, then the other papers came out with extras; but, so far were we in advance, that onr aespaich was trans- mitted to Washington ard read in both houses of Congress, amid enthusiastic applause, sup- pressed only from respect for the heroic dead, hours before the extras of our contemporaries had reached the suburbs of this city. Our special correspondents with General Grant’s arty risked life and limb to procure us the news we so promptly, and at a great expense, placed before the government and the public; and, all things considered, we think we have again, as on many former occasions, fully es- tablished our claim to the position—long con. ceded to us by the masses of the people—of the only live newspaper in the country. It occurs to us that now is the time for the government to signalize its recognition of the many and valuable services performed by the press during this war, by withdsawing all telegraphic and other restrictions, and per- mitting each journal to publish what it thinks proper, subject to any penalty necessary to secure the exercise of a loyal discrimination and caution on the part of the editors. The conductors of the leading journals now fully comprehend the wishes and intentions of the government in regard to the publication of war news, and if left to themselves they will be much better able to satisfy both the govern- ment and the people than during the continu- ance of the present system of censorship. Either the leading editors do not understand their profession nor appreciate its responsibili- ties—and we believe we have fully dissipated any such an idea, if it ever existed, in regard to our own case—v else they must know much better than any «/tach« of the War Department what they should publish and what they should suppress. Our word fér it, the government would soon become satisfied of the advantages of relieving itself and the press of much trouble and annoyance by adopting this plan. Soxpay 4 Memorapte Day mx tax Evests or Taig War—The fact that our glorious bat- tle of Pittsburg Landing was opened on Sun- day, and that tue capitulation of Island No. 10 occurred between Suuiay evening and Monday morning, reminds us of certain other memora- ble Sundays in the leading events of this rebel- lion. On Sunday, the Sth of May last, Presi- dent Lincoln’s twenty days to the parties con- cerned in {!'s rebellion expired. On Sun- day, the 2ist of July, Bull run; on Sun- day, January 19, 1562, the beginning of the general break down of the rebellion, was fought the battle of Mill Spring, Ky., ending in the defeat and death of General Zollicoffer; on Sunday, the 16th of February, Fort Donel- son was surrendered; on Sunday, the 23d, the Union advanced column, under General Nel- son, entered Nashville; on Sunday, the 2d March, Brunswick, Ga., was occupied by a por- tion of the Dupont expedition; on Sunday, h 9, the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor, in Hampton Roads; on Sunday, March 23, the baftle of Winchester; and, be- sides these more important events occurring on Sunday, there have been Sabbath day skir- mishes East and West, within the last twolve months, too numerous to mention. But pre bably Pittsburg Landing, like Blenheim and Waterloo, will stand in history among the great decisive battles of the world fought on Sun- day. Beauregard, however, in celebrating it asthe week day anniversary of Bull run, has made serious mistake; but, with regard to Bunday as the holy Sabbath, it is out of the question with hostile armies face to fage. $$ $$ $$ $$ NN Tax Tax Bus-—Srexca ov Mu. Sravens.—Oa Tuesday, in the House of Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means, made s sensible speech on the Tax bill. On everything else ex- cept the slavery question Mr. Stevens appears to have sound ideas. On the nigger he is evi- dently monomaniac. On matters of finance his ideas are practical and full of good sense. He argues that the war cannot be carried om without armies and navies; these can only be sustained by loans; loans cannot be had unless the interest is punctually paid, and that cannot be done without comprehensive taxation. The debt on the Ist of July will be eight hun- dred millions. We are expending now three millions per day. A tax in proportion must be laid on. There is no escape from it except repudiation. The bill, it is true, is a clumsy affair, em- bracing too many artioles, and involving double or treble taxation of some olasses, while others are almost exempt. For instance, what can be more absurd than to tax & few prosperous proprietors of newspapers and permit the reat to go free? It is unconsti- tutional, as well as absurd; for the-constitution requires “uniform taxation.” Yet the bill must be passed in some shape, and the sooner the better, The financial troubles which are ahead will be only precipitated and aggravated by any attempt to stave off the burthen which all must bear. Mr. Stevens seems to anticipate the future financial difficulties which must be encountered. He observes, “So long as the money is honestly and economically expended the people of the loyal States will not refuse.” This is just the very queation that is now, te say the least, in grave doubt, and will here- after be thoroughly canvassed. Honesty and economy are virtues whose existence are rathet mythical just now among public men. While the war is going on and our troops are victories, objections to the Tax bill will not be strongly urged. But when the excitement is over, and the war expenditures that are now circulating money so freely have ceased; then will oome great depression. - Credit will be exhausted, and our financial troubles, which are now only beginning, will then be fully developed. Real estate and all kinds of property will go down, and govern- ment bonds alone will be buoyant. Tho ability as well as the willingness to pay taxes will be infinitely less than it is now. Ex haustion will necessarily follow our struggle Now, therefore, is the time to pass the Tax Dill and collect the money. Hereafter ali kinds of excuses will be given and all kinds of objee tions made, and it is possible that a large party may arise who will clamor for repudiation. Mr. Stevens contends that the secessionista ought to be made to pay the expenses of the war. We agree with him as far as he goes; but he does not go far enough. We hold that the abolitionists ought to be made to pay the piper as well as the secessionists. They are both equally revolutionary and both equally guilty, They have played into each other’s hands.ané forced the nation to wage an intestine war in or der to prevent anarchy and put down revolution, let it emanate from what quarter it may. If the principle is to be adopted that the authors ofthe war pay for it, then the abolitionists are responsible fora heavy share of the burthen By all means let the Southern secossioniste and the Northern abolitionists be made to pay the expenses of the whole war. Guests Warvars.—The leaders of the re volt in the South find it necossary to deceive and keep up the spirits of their unhappy dupes by great boastings and grandiloquent speeches and promises. It seems they threaten, as a last resort, when all their armies are routed, demolished and scattered to the four winds, that they will maintain an everlasting guerilla war- fare in the mountsins—in other words, they will become banditti and robbers one large scale. These miserable leaders, who bave cheated and deluded the people of the South in everything they have done and said, may perhaps, for this once, be believed as to theis intentions—that they will turn mountain rob- bers and prey upon the country which they have exhausted and destroyed. They may be believed herein, perjured as they are; for they began with being robbers, and it will not be strange thit they should end the same. But their to the mountains will not help then much; for here, too, we may say, as of all their desperate movements, they are already out flanked—we have “turned their-position.” It isa singular faet that in all the mountainous regions of the Union, from Maino to the utmost Southern limits, the inhabitants of the moun+ tains generally are loyal Union men. What, then, will they do in the mountains! In South Carolina, in Georgia, in the interfor of all the Southern States of this glorious Union, the brave and hardy mountaineers are opposed tothem. They might as well plana guerilla warfare in Vermont, whore the shade of the no- ble Douglas would meet and scare them death; or in the Connectiont mountains, the ghost of the brave Lyon would meet ang confound thom. What can they do in the mountains? We apprehend, not without a shud. der of commiseration, that the fate of the first Christian thief and traitor awaits them—an ine glorious elevation by act of law in the valleys. Wuo Are ResponsisLs FOR THE BLoop Srin.ae iw Tee Recuvt Bartie!—This is a question which it needs no ghost toeolve. The men whe stand responsible befor: God and the country, and before the whole world, are the abolition- iste primarily, and the secessionists secondarily, According to the accounts received of the battle at Pittsburg Landing, the insurgents lost thirty-five thousand men, and the Union troops about five thousand. This may be somewhat exaggerated; but there is ne doubt that the loss of life is fearful, that or phans and widows have been made by thow sands, and that a wail of decp anguish will ascend from every corner of the land. Poverty and destitution will be the lot of vast numbers thus boreft of their natural protectors. For these manifold calamities the revolutionary abolitioniste—led on by Phillips, Garrison and Greeley—and the revolutionary secessioniste— led on by Yancey and his fellow conspirators areaccountable before high Heaven and at the bar of public opinion. All the water in Nope tune’s great ocean cannot wash away the bloody stains which adhere to them, and thele memory will stand accunsed for ages. Poarrion oF Tae Untren StaTss at THs O10sm ov Tae Wan.—Whon the rebellion broke out there was hardly a nation in the world loss pre« for wat than we were. Armios had not only to be created, but the vast materiel neces sary for their equipment ss well. The quantity of cannon and firearma imported end manufac i