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

6 NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1862.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Wolume XXVIE........0.cc:cesee ee ecee es No, 159 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Syaen. WALLACK’S THE. Lepr or Lrons—Yan LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Fancuoy, Ox rue CRICKET, M4 Broadway.—ILanpy Axpr— USERERPRR, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Taz Wrzaxp’s Tew: re SW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.~-Tunzw Fast Wo- MeN—IDIOT OF THE MOUNTAINS. BOWERY THEATE wery.—Vatsia—Tuk Fe.on's Dream—Picates OF Arg ERs. BARNUM'S AMER} Suow—Com. Nore Mangizn Raxke—Your N MUSEUM, Broadway.—Rasy Wiare, &c., at all hours.— iN DANGER. BRYANTS' MINSTR: ‘way.—Biack Wizanp s | Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- AvEST. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bonresques, Dancxs, &c. NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, Dances, Burixsyvus, dc. GATPTIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Darawing Room Extagrainmeyts, PEOPLE'S MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.—Sonas, Dances, Buncesguzs, sc. PARISIAN CABINET OF WO Open daily from 10 A. M. ull 10 P. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, June 10, 1862, Canal street.—Songs, DERS, 553 Broadway.— THE SITUATION. There is nothing of importance to-day from General McClellan's army. The state of the wea- ther and the country around absolutely prohibits immediate action, although some skirmishing is continually going on. i Several despatches received in Baltimore from Southern papers report that our troops had landed onthe 4th instant at James Island, opposite Charles- ton; that a battle took place there and they claim a victory. Later despatches, dated the same day, say that our men had landed in large force on Bat- tery Island and John Island, and were then in front of Gen. Gist, the rebel leader, under cover of our gunboats. An immediate advance on the city ‘was then considered imminent. Our forces are advancing steadily up the Missis- sippi river from New Orleans. The Vicksburg Whig of the 4th says that the federals have landed six thousand troops at Baton Rouge. The Mem- Phis Avalanche of the 6th says that all the bridges between Memphis and Humboldt have been de- stroyed. ‘The pious, but not very truthful address of Jeff. Davis to his army on the battles of the 31st of May ‘and Ist of June, or Fair Oaks, is published in nother column, His own presence on the field during part of the operations is established by this address. He claims a victory, of course, and also, as the custom is with all the rebel leaders, de- fames the army of the Union. Our other extracts from the Southern journals will be found very interesting. The news from the Southwest teems with stories of victory for the Union arms and disaster to the rebels. A despatch from Louisville yesterday says that our forces now occupy Baldwin, Gun- town, Jackson and Bolivar; that the railroad re- pairs are progressing rapidly. The enemy passed Guntown on Sunday night, re- treating southward from Baldwin. It is estimated that twenty thousand have deserted since they left Gorinth, mostly from Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas regiments. All the regiments from those States passed down closely guarded on both sides by Mississippians and Alabamians. It is believed by the people that Beaure- gard cannot enter Columbus with half the troops he brought from Corinth. The whole country north and east of Baldwin is full of armed soldiers, returning to Tennessee and Kentucky. General Pope telegraphs from the advance, that the prisoners who first deserted to be exchanged, now want to take the oath. The rebels drove and carried off everything for miles around. The wealthiest families are destitute and starving. ‘Women and children are crying “or food, and all the males are forced into the army. We have received General Sherman’s official re- port of the evacuation of Corinth; but we are compelled to withhold it for want of space. The advance of General Fremont’s army reached Harrisonburg on Saturday afternoagz, and drove Jackson's rear guard from the town. Colonel Bayard’s cavalry and Kane's Pennsylvania rifles followed them. The latter suffered severely, losing Lieutenant Colonel Kane, who was wounded and captured, together with Colonel Wyndham, of the First New Jersey cavalry. Jackson is thought to have teft the main road, and has either halted the main column for battle or greatly strengthened his rear guard, and posted his trains, which are in confusion, on the road. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency of providing for an air line railroad between Washington and New ‘York, was introduced by Mr. Sumner, and laid over. A bill providing for an increase of the medi- cal corps of the army was introduced. A joint resolution directing the discharge of soldiers guilty of offences against military law, from the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, and de- claring that such imprisonment shall not here- after be allowed, was adopted. The Senate then resolved itself into a High Court of Impeachment for the trial of Judge Humphreys, of Tennessee, charged with treason and other high crimes. Proclamation was made, calling on West H. Humphreys to appear and an- ewer to the charges, and no response being offer. ed, the court adjourned till the 26th inst. The Se- mate then resumed legislative business, and the House bills prohibiting slavery in the Territories, and prescribing an additional oath to grand and petit jurors, were passed, the first named by a vote of 28 ‘to 10. The Pacific Railroad bill and amendments ‘were ordered to be printed, and the subject was then postponed till to-day. After an executive @oession the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, a meriorial asking the admission of Utah into the Union was presented by the delegate frem that Territory. document, together with the constitution of ‘Utah were appropriately referred. The Tax bill ‘and the Senate's amendments thereto were ordered eo be printed and referred to the Ways and Means @ommittee, A resolution calling for information fos to whether General Hunter has organized a pegiment of negroes in South Carolina, was adopt- ‘ed. Mr. Vallandigham offered a resolution, tend- or'va the thanks of the House to General Halleck out loss of life, and declaring that the Hoyse would rejoice to see the constitution as it is, and the Union as it was, maintained and restored everywhere without any further effu- sion of fraternal blood. Mr. Vallandigham de- manded the previous question on the resolution, but objection was made, and the subject was laid over. The resolution appropriating $35,000 for the purchase, from Gales & Seaton, of sets of Annals of Congress and Register of Debates, was repealed. A resolution was adopted requesting the Presi- dent, if not incompatible with the public interest, to submit to the House whatever informa- tion he possesses concerning the relations between this country and foreign powers. Mr. Julian offered a resolution for repeal of Fugitive Slave law, which was referred to the Judiciary Committee. He moved to instruct the committee to report the bill, but the motion was lost. A resolution was offered by Mr. Colfax, in- structing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill modifying the Fugitive Slave law, by giving trial by jury toany person denying under oath he is a slave, &c. A resolution declaring that the Presi- dent should instruct the commanding generals in the rebel States to issue a proclamation, that the army of the repubiic will be subsisted, as far as practicable, upon the property of those in rebel- lion, and those who give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, was adopted by a vote of 83 against 39. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have very interesting news from Hayti, dated at Aux Cayes on the 13th of May. Our cor- respondent im that city details the leading inci dents connected with the inception, organization and futile explosion of the late revolutionary movement undertaken against President Geffrard ‘n the South. The affair was very formidable at one moment, in view of the great wealth and po- pularity of some of its leaders, as well as the plausible indictment against the Executive, which they circulated among their adherents and sym- pathizers. Geftrard was accused of enriching himself enormously at the expense of the treasu- ry; of favoring the mulattoes (the ‘colored folk” of Hayti), to the exclusion of the blacks, and of taxing foreign merchants very heavily, in order to benefit the Haytien traders, who are mostly colored people, or mufattoes. The agita- tion produced by the publication of these inflam- matory charges was heightened by the distribution of an able and ingenious pamphlet, to the same effect, written by M. Salomon, Jr., a native exile, now resident in France, so that the revolutionists seemed atone time to have it all their own way. They were emboldened by the apparent inactivity of Geffrard. His clemency on former occasions was mistaken for timidity. He encouraged the idea that he was timid by actually sending his family to France, and thus leading the conspirators to believe that he was preparing to fly the coun- try. When the proper moment arrived, how- ever, he struck his blow effectually, by ordering the arrest of the leading traitors in Aux Cayes. They fied to the plains and mountains, but being pursued by troops marched from Port au Prince, about sixty of them have been made prisoners. It is supposed that they will be condemned to death, but, as Geffrard is not cruel, that some of them will be ultimately banished and the remain. der pardoned. The Saloman party still threaten- ed to burn down the town of Aux Cayes. The remains of Colonel Bailey, United States Army, were interred at Elizabeth, N. J., yester- terday. The ceremonies at the church were very impressive, the Rev. Mr. Kempshall delivering an eloquent address. The edifice was crowded to suffocation. A procession more than a mile in length followed the body to the cemetery. Atthe meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, @ preamble and resolution, calling upon Congtess to adopt the bill now before them, pro- viding for the enlargement of the locks of the Erie canal so as to admit of the passage of gun- boats, was adopted. Owing to the Mayor's veto of she proposition to give Thurlow Weed a com- plimentary reception, Alderman Boole moved a reconsideration of the vote whereby a resolution was adopted tendering a public reception to Arch- bishop Hughes on his return from Europe. ~The vote was reconsidered, and Mr. Boole offered a resolution tendering the thanks of the Board of Aldermen to the Archbishop for his services to the country while abroad, which was adopted. A communication from Colonel William Wilson, pre- senting to the city a rebel flag captured at Pensa- cola, was received, and the thanks of the Board were tendered to the Colonel. The reportappro- priating $12,000 for two parks on the Fourth ave- nue was reconsidered. The report from the Councilmen, in favor of placing the names of en_ gineers of steam fire engines on the pay roll, was adopted, and the Board adjourned till Monday next, at one o'clock. The Board of Councilmen were in session last evening, and acted upon a large number of routine papers. The Mayor returned, without approval, a resolution authorizing the Comptroller to pur- chase the lot of ground No. 195 Elizabeth street. A committee of conference was appointed to con- fer with the Aldermen upon the ordinance appro- priating $500,000 for the relief of the families of New York volunteers. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on National Affairs to prepare resolutions expressive of sympathy and condolence with the families of the late Colonels Riker and Miller. Resolutions of thanks to Arch- bishop Hughes for the valuable services he ren- dered to the United States government in Europe, similar to those passed by the Board ef Aldermen, were unanimously adopted. The Corporation Counsel, in reply to a resolution of inquiry, states that a contract is not complete, as a binding obli- gation upon the Corporation, until it has been signed or executed by the head of a proper de- partment. In response to a resolution, the Presi- dent of Public Charities states that they have ac- commedations for eight hundred wounded soldiers, and that, when necessary, proper exertions will be made by the Commissioners to relieve those who fought to “ protect the flag we love and in- tend to honor and sustain.” The report of the Committee on National Affairs, in favor of adopt- ing an ordinance organizing the St. Joseph's Hos- pital, was laid over. The calendar of general or- ders, containing resolutions relative to routine matter, was nearly exhausted, when the board adjourned. The First rebel regiment of Kentucky has been disbanded by the Confederate military authorities. The cause assigned is that it could not be depend- ed upon. Tho stock market was again better yesterday, and Closed buoyant at an advance on ail the speculative stocks. Now York Central rose 1{, Pacific 1, and the Western railway list 34 a % percent. Money was very easy. Exchange firm at 116 a 115%. Gold 1044 a 10414. The bank statement shows an increase of depo- site equal to $132,206, and @ decrease of $353,033 in loans and $148,402 in cot. In view of a government sale of confiscated cotton to come off to-day, the market yosterday was quiet, spinnors holding off until ite result ean be known, The salen were confined to about 200 bales, closing at un- changed prices—namely, Sic. a 8iige. for middling uplands. The foreign news favorably influoncea the market for breadstufts, Flour was active and in good request, and advanced 6¢.a 106. per bbI. Wheat was also firmer and in good demand, closing at an advance of 2c. per bushel, Corn was also tolorabiy active, and 2¢, per bushel higher, with sales of old Western mixed, im store and delivered, at 52, a Sie. per bushel. Pork was heavy, with sales of moss at $11 25 © $11 50, tho latter figure for heavy Darrels, and prime at $9 8 $9 60. Sugars wore in good request at steady prices, with sales of 1,300 hhds, avd 203 boxes, Coffee was steady; a sale of 1400 bags Rie was made at 20)¢¢. Freights were lower to English porte for grain, while engagements wore moderate. and his army for the occupation of Corinth with- | Imteresting from Richmond—Latest Rebel News and Views from that Quarter— General McClellan and Our Abolition Organs. From a parcel of Richmond newspapers re- ceived yesterday at this office, we have com- piled and submit to our readers this morning avery interesting budget of the latest news and opinions of the war, direct from the rebel government, its immediate newspaper organs and the rebel army in that quarter. From the congratulatory address of Jeff. Davis to his army, after the late two days sangui- nary fighting on the ground between the Fair Oaks and the Seven Pines, it will be seen that he was present a portion of the time, and that in his opinion “nothing could exceed the prowess with which you [his troops] closed upon the enemy, when a sheet of fire was blazing in your faces.’ He does not want any better fighting. He boasts of the capture of our position, including several batteries and five hun- dred prisoners; but what does all this amount to? When the smoke of the battle has cleared away our forces are found nearer to Richmond than they were before. The object of Johnston’s attack upon our detached and advanced divisions on the south side of the Chickahominy was to capture or destroy them before they could be reinforced from the other side of the flooded stream. The enterprise failed as did the attack upon our exposed army atShiloh. The Richmond Examiner says that Johnston's forces, “from prudential reasons, have fallen back two miles, leaving the enemy in possession of the swamp, a decidedly ques- tionable legacy.” Beauregard, failing to drive General Grant’s army into the Tennessee river, as he had promised, made a similar excuse for falling back as fast as possible upon Corinth; but General Halleck, from his headquarters at Corinth, has since spoken, and has given us the finale to that chapter of the war. The same result is impending at Richmond, and with all their whistling to keep their courage up, the rebel leaders and journals in that beleaguered city cannot conceal their fears of a crushing defeat. The Richmond Enquirer, for example, ina leading editorial, pleads lustily for foreign in- | tervention, and for the employment of all available means to secure the recognition of the Confederate States by some leading Power or Powers of Europe, in order to convince the people of the South that this war, on their part, is not a war against rebels and traitors, but against a separate people fighting fora bound- ary. What boundary, when at least seven of the thirteen so-called “Confederate States”—to wit: Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida—are in the possession of our land and naval forces, and when the fate of the other six—each now par- tially occupied by our fleets and armies—is de- pending upon thig siege of Richmond? This extraordinary eleventh hour article of the En- quirer, however, upon foreign intervention, can only be regarded as a confession that its South- ern confederacy has collapsed, and that the people of Virginia have no other alternative before them than submission to the Union. Foreign intervention, according to our latest European advices, has assumed a new shape since our capture of New Orleans. It is no longer intervention for Southern independence, but intervention for Southern submission to the Union, and for the preservation of Southern cotton, tobacco, rice’and sugar from our South- ern rebel incendaries. We gave the other day some interesting news from Paris of a remark- able meeting between Louis Napoleon and the rebel ambassador, Slidell, at the house of the Count de Persigny, and it is now noised abroad that the Count may soon be expected on an ex- traordinary mission from the Emperor on this side the Atlantic. Should this rumor turn out to be well founded, we can have no misgivings of the mission of Count Persigny, but every motive to facilitate his great objects of inducing our Southern rebels to lay down their arms and to save their cotton and tobacco. Meantime, our radical abolition organs in this quarter have not only ceased to be clam- orous and impatient in reference to the delay of General McClellan in advancing upon Rich- mond, but they have become alarmed at his positign. They fear that he is in danger, in front of an immense rebel army, vastly superior in numbers to his own, and are chiming in with the Hxraxp, that McClellan should be prompt- ly and heavily reinforced from every quarter from which troops can be spared for his assist- ance. We are not surprised at this sudden so- licitude of our abolition radicals; for they know that should any serious disaster befall General McClellan they will be held accountable for it by the country, and that they cannot escape the crushing responsibility. We believe, however, that between President Lincoln and General McClellan there exists that happy accord and perfect confidence which lead to sure success, and that General McClellan’s requisitions for reinforcements will be responded to without delay, regardless of the number of men he may call for. We are not aware that he has demanded any, nor that he pauses to await an increase of his forces. We rely upon his skill and discretion in any event, and, with the fate of this rebellion re- duced to the struggle for Richmond, we are content to wait till he is ready to advance. Anticipating, too, from his gallant army, d:- rected by his vigilance, sagacity and sound judgment, a crowning triumph at Richmond, we hope the President, meantime and hence- forward, will actively pursue the wise policy of encouraging elections to both houses of Con- gress from the States reclaimed, in season to give the Union sentiment of those States a hearing at Washington at the regular session in December next. We are gratified to know that the assaults of our Northern radical abolition disorganizers upon Governor Stanly have failed to shake the confidence of President Lincoln in this conservative officer; and from this circumstanco we are abundantly reassured of the President’s adhesion to that consistent Union policy which places such popular local men as Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, and Edward Stanly, of North Carolina, first and foremost in the reorganization, under the Union, of the States recovered from this rebellion. Let General McOlellan be strengthened. We have the men by thousands anxious to join him. A few days more may well be given to masterly inactivity, in regard to an advance, in view of the men and the means for an over- | whelming victory. Every day’s delay thus Sanployed will strengthen us and weaken the enemy, in view of the demoraiization of his troops from our continued victories in other quarters. We rely upon President Lincoln's knowledge and clear und»rstanding of the po- sition of things at Richmond, and upon General McClellan and his splendid army, for a com- plete and crowning victory in our oecupatign ofthe rebel canital, The Tax Bill—Its Passage by the Senate. . The Tax bill, which for the past three months has been dragging its slow length along, has at length passed the Senate. Only the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the amend- ments made since it reached the Senate, and the signature of the President, are now necessary to make it a law. On the reception of the bill, as passed by the House of Representatives, it wae referred to the Committee of Finance of the Senate, by the chairman of which it was, after long and careful consideration, reported with amendments. The Senate then, in Committee of the Whole, acted, first on each of the amend- ments proposed by the Finance Committee, and then on such amendments as individual mem- bers saw fit to offer. In another column we publish a compi- lation of the rates of duty imposed by the bill. It will be seen that important changes have been made in it since it passed the House of Representatives, the Senate endeavoring to accomplish the object of the measure—to raise revenue from the people by taxation—with as little inconvenience to them as possible. In accordance with this intention, the Senate has stricken out the tax on gold and silver watches, plate, &c.; also that on carriages and pianofortes kept for use. The purpose of raising the requisite sum of money by a tax on manufactures has been steadily ad- hered to, and the few articles not included in that class on which a tax was laid by the House have been taken from the tax list. The income tax has been changed, gradations being made, so that the rich man is required to pay a larger proportion of his profits than the poor man. The bill, a3 it passed the House of Re- presentatives, required a duty of three per cent to be paid on the excess of income ever $600. The Senate amendment requires. on all incomes over $600, and not over $10,000, a duty of three per cent to be paid; on all over $10,000, and not over $50,000, five per cent, and on all over $50,000, seven and one-half per cent. The principal points of discussion were rela- tive to the taxes to be imposed on distilled spirits, tobacco, cotton, slaves and insurance companies. The rate of duty originally im- posed on spirits—fifteen cents per gallon—has been raised to twenty cents. A prolonged debate took place on this tax; but only twenty cents were levied. Some of the Senators deemed this too high for the purpose of the bill, while others believed that the revenue could be sensibly increased by raising it still higher. Many amendments were proposed, but all were voted down, and the tax left as the Committee of Finance recommended. Fifty cents would be nearer the mark. On tobacco, too, the rates have been raised. After the bill had been considered in Com- mittee of the Whole, and had been reported to the House, a clause imposing @ taxon raw cotton was inserted. The Finance Committee of the Senate recommended that this clause be stricken out. This was accordingly done, but afterwards the matter was reconsidered, and a tax of halfa cent a pound imposed. An interesting debate toek place on the question of allowing a drawback on goods manufactured of cotton and exported for sale in a foreign country. The clause relating to this allowance was altered so aa to read, that there shall be a “drawback on all articles on which any internal duty or tax shall have been paid, except raw or unmanufactured cotton, equal in amount to the duty or tax paid thereon, and no more, when exported.” The effect of allowing nothing in return on raw cotton when exported will be to cause foreign nations to contribute, in the enhanced price of the pro- duct, several millions of dollars towards the expenses of our war. The most important measace proposed was the insertion of a section requiring that, on per- sons held to service or labor, a tax of five dol- lars per head should be paid by the person holding or claiming such service or labor. This section was amended so as to require but two dollars, and was afterwards, on reconsideration, stricken out. The evident desire of most Sena- tors was to impose this tax, thus reaching many inhabitants of the Southern States, and causing them to contribute towards defraying the ex- penses of the rebellion they had inaugurated. The great obstacle to the imposition of such a tax was the provision of the constitution that no direct or capitation taxes shall be appor- tioned among the States, according to their respective numbers. In the opinion of several of the Senators most desirous to insert this sec- tion, it would be contrary to the spirit and let- ter of the constitution to tax slaves in the man- ner proposed, such tax being both a capitation and direct tax. On this account, after careful deliberation, the Senate refused to insert the section. Many changes which we have not at present space to note were made in the bill during its passage through the Senate. It will be returned to the House of Representatives for concurrence in the amendments made since it left that body, and, if a conference committee be not required, will in a short time become a law. The time fixed for the act to go into effect is the first day of July of the present year. Tue Trracxe Takine Lessons tx JournaLism.— Poor Greeley, of the Tribune, is ina very bad way. He begins to appreciate his own inca- pacity to condact a newspaper, and humbly begs us to instruct him. “Let us know,” says Greeley, in yesterday’s Tribune, “from what source and through what channels the Heraip has twice procured for publication the alleged muster rolls of the rebel armies. Let us see by what means the Heratp has been repeatedly supplied with rebel newspapers.” Poor old | Greeley! We are very sorry for him, and will | inform him of the secret of our success. We attend to our business, and leave all jobs, office secking and gun manufacturing to the Tribune | editors. We have what our Boston neighbors ' call “an unrivalled correspondence” from all | quarters. Thus we succeed in procuring the earliest and most reliable news; and are, as | Gay, of the Tribune, acknowledges, “constantly ' ahead,” and the Tribune is therefore “obliged,” as Gay again confesses, “to copy from the | Herat.” Poor Greeley, on the other hand, never did and never could attend to his own | Wusiness—though he interferes greatly with other people’s—but meanders into dirty by- | paths of lobby drafts, gun jobs and place hunt- jing, and the consequence is that the Tribune | “is not a newspaper.” This minding our own business has made the Henatp the leading 1 newspaper of the country, and given it @ cirou- | lation unparalleled in the world. It is the se- | ret of our success, and we give Massa Greeley | the benefit of it; but we are greatly afraid that—as Sam Weller observed when he gave a glass of whiskey to a drunken man—* he is toa | ‘er gone for it to do him any good.” The Tribune om Malcolm Ives, Jobs and Patriotism. The fanatical gang of Satanic agitators who control the Tribune are beginning to swallow their own words in regard to Mr. Malcolm Ives, whom they have hitherto been constantly slan- dering and libeiling. In yesterday’s Tribune Greeley and his jobbing managers were obliged to publish the following tetter from Mr. Ives:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. New Your, June 8, 1862. J ask your permission to say a single word in reply t the following editorial remarks contained in yesterday’s Tribune:— Dr. Maleol uestion formed that there were no charges against him. He sands vindicated of all suspicion of twason, having dropped his connection with the Herat. * * *'® Is it not probabl that Dr, Ives? arrest is due to his connection with that paper, and that its intrigues to plunge us into a great European. war, for the benedt of Jeff. Bavis & Co., ma Feat the botiom of his misfortune? Who can shed light on tis dark subject? It was to have beon hoped that so very humble an in- dividual ag myself would have been permitted,with his re- lease from Fort McHenry ,to have relapsed into the obsou- rity from which he had most reluctantly emergod. Com- mon justice, however, compels me to:cadl attention to the absurdity of the contradistion contained in the statement that I wasreleased from confinement because ‘there were no charges against me,” and am, at the same time, “‘vim- dicated trom suspicion of treason’? because ‘connec- tion has changod to ooaso with the Henan. ‘Tho two as: sertions are incompatible with each other. You not very incorrectly call the whole affair of my arrest a ‘‘dark subject ;”’ but, with whatever mystery there ig about it neither the Her \.p nor its editor has anything to de, and it would be dishonorable and wrong were I to suiler it to be laid to their account, Single minded patriotism re- quires that the interests of every good citizen should, for the present, succumb before the paramount necessity Of prosecuting uninterruptedly the war to crush out an unholy and fratricidal rebellion. Uritil, that end shall have been triumphantly sibelned, pivaie, grievances, mine own included, should be allowed to sleep, and thoir victims will be excused from offering premasure explana- tions to the public. Meanwhile be pleased to bolieve that, Mr. Bennett had no more to do with my arrest than you had, and that neither my imprisonment nor release was in any way affected by the courso, political or otherwise, of the journal he edits. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, MALCOLM IVES. This letter requires no comment from us» and the Tribune clique found themselves so nicely caught in a trap by Mr. Ives’ explicit denial of their repeated assertions—that the Heratp had something to do with his arrest— that, in despair, they dropped the subject, like a hot potato, and indulged in a very silly hash about jobs and patriotism. They could have found no subject upon which the Heranp is more willing to compare notes with the Tri- bune. We defy the Tribune jobbers, or any other men, to prove that the Herano, or its editor, was ever concerned in any job, contract or office seeking intrigue. The Rebecca, one of our “famous yachts,” which the Tribune charges that we attempted to “engineer” upon the government, has been for a long time and is still for sale. The government, wishing to purchase her for the revenue service; sent an agent—not Morgan or Cummings—to appraise her, and offered us four thousand dollars for her. We thought this entirely too small a sum for so excellent a boat, and so refused the offer. Is there anything like a job about this? Will the Tribune attempt to set this against its empty gun manufactory, and try to defend its guilty self by throwing dirt at us? Then as to the question of patriotism. The Tribune has lost so much circulation, influence and money by having this subject discussed, that only the extremest folly could have in- duced its crazy editor to revive the matter again. If poor Greeley wishes the facts of the case to be repeated, however, we are altogether too good natured not to be willing to oblige him. We will put the statement, to-day, in mercantile form, and only regret that our space will not allow us to include more than the largest items of the Tribune’s account. Here is the ledger, the: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN ACCOUNT WITH TUR NEW YORK HERALD. Dr. ‘To subscription at the beginning of the war... $3,000 00 To use of the yacht Henrietta, in sieges and ex- jitions on the uthern coast over a year, which use we devoted her gratuitously.. 10,000 00 TOA... -orccrscscosrocserccscccessoncesed $13,000 00 Cr. By the arrest and imprisonment of Malcolm Ives, our temporary correspondent at Wash- ington, and his confinement iu Fort McHeary for three months, uy} no charges what. $00,000 00 ever” The government may think that the debt and credit side of this account balance each other; and we may not. We hope that our pa- triotism is sufficient to supply any deficit on the credit side, however, and so pass on tothe Tribune's account:— GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN ACCOUNT WITH NEW YORK TRIBUNE. Dr. To a civil war, fomented by Tribune abolitionists, costing the country in crisis, ruined commerce, suspended omen Oy on expenses tomeee 000,000 Pe in tri yl f ‘fo the loss of Fort no ct failure of the expedition for the relief, caused by the rovelations of Harvey, the Tr.bune’s Washington correspondent To losses at the battle of Bull run, caused by the Tribune's ‘ onward to Richmond” articles, amounting, ac- cording to Thurlow Weed, to abvut.. To delays, extra expenses, &c., caused by the Tribune's assaults upon Gen, McClellan, say To the abolition campaign of Fremont Missouri, including mule, blanket musket coatracts To Banks’ disaster, ‘abolitionistsand their intrigues against WOCIMAD .. 64 ecceee ccc eseeeeeeeeees To various emancipation schemes, darkey schvois, nigger conservatories at Beau- fort, and General Hunter's squashed proclamation, including expenditures for red trowsers aud Tribune muskeds. To daily attacks upon the administration and the army, encouraging the rebels * and weakening the Union cause, say... 100,000,000 00 3 2,000,000 00 100,000,000 00 200,000,000 00 Prcvscocesssessdesseoers . i; in and 50,000,000 00 10,000,000 00 5,000,000 00 By a contract for 25,000 muskets obtain- ‘ed by the Tribune Gun Association aad ‘sub-lot to outside parties $625,000 00 second contract for 40, sub-let as above...... 500,000 00 By Greeley’s pay, franking, ‘books aud miloage while in Cor ‘ 5,000 00 By salary of Harvey, of the » ‘Minister to Portugal, four years... 30,000 00 By salary of Pike, of the Trilune, Minis: ‘ter to the Netherlands, four years... 30,000 00 By salary of Hildreth, of the Tribune, Consul at Trieste, four years... . 8,000 00 By salary of Fry, of the i'ribune, 3 tary of Legation at Sardinia. . ° 7,200 00 By salary of Bayard Taylor, of the Tii- bune, Secrotary of Legation at St. Pe- . 7 00 By protit ry — ‘of Camp, stockholder of the Tribune, . 500,000 00 By protit of Almy, of the 7ribune, on gun I 50 cent cehpornnes viectes 250,000 00 By proiit of Suow, of the Tribune, on gui . 100,000 00 By profit of Hail, st ‘bune, on army shoes . 60,060 00 By profit of Dr. Ayer, stockholder of ‘the Tribune, on Cherry Pectoral for the army ‘ 60,000 00 By proiit of Wilkeson, of tho the “Tribune's Contract Bi 05 $2,162,400 05 If our readers will study these figures care- fully they will see just how much the Tribune jobbers have gained from the country, and just how much damage, past, present and future, they have been and are doing the United States of America. This account shows a considerable balance against the government; bat it is the very worst sort of a balance for the Tribune, and the account will be settled some day or other. The Tribune may take this expose of its jobs to heart, and consider its latter end Meanwhile, to return to Mr. Ives, we have only to say that the whole story of the causes of his imprisonment is ready to be given to the pub- lic whenever Secretary Stanton may wish to sea it, We calmly await the time of the honora- hie Secretary, and the public and the Tribune must follow our example. ee Revelations of the Campaign tm View Sinia—Attack on General McClellan. In another part of this day’s- Henao will be found &n article from a Boston paper, giving very curious revelations about: the campaign in Virginia, which must have come from the War Department or Military Confimittee of the Senate, or, perhaps, from both. The writer frequently reiterates in italics the: assurance “we know,” lest any person should doubt the authenticity of his statements from the fact of. their being originated in so obscure a journal. But, as poor Pierce used to say, there was only one great paper in the world-—the Boston:Post— to which he sent his official communications, #0 probably some other distinguished indi- vidual who has access to the secrets of: the War Department regards the Transcript in’ the same light. Whether the article has emanated from Senator Wilson, Senator Sumner or some other great man, we: need not now inquire. Suffice it to say that it is a defence of the blunder or series: of blunders which resulted in the recent disaster in the valley of the She- nandoah. It is an ex parte, one-sided argument, - charging General McClellan with being the cause of the mishap; and'im order to be proper- ly appreciated it needs-elucidation from facts long in our possession’ which constitute the: other side of the question. It purports to defend Mr..Stanton against the- attacks of the New York Herat; but, as we have never attacked. Mr. Stanton, the article ought to be regarded as an onslaught upon General McClellan under the guise of a defence of the Secretary of War. We have hitherto believed Mr. Stanton. guiltless of these blun- ders, for he was not a military man, and of course would not undertake to regulate a campaign. But now we are certain; for it turns out from the semi-official revela- tions in the Boston Transcript that there has been a military manager of the War Department—Julius Cesar Hitchcock—whose “skill as a strategist and:whose powers of com- bination” are so justly eulogized by our contem- porary. This gentleman had been proposed to Mr. Cameron as a military adviser, but was re- jected, owing to some old quarrel between them arising out of Indian affairs. But Mr. Stanton took him into his counsels and was guided by his military wisdom. It is clear, therefore, that Mr. Stanton is as innocent as an unborn babe. The Transcript saddles the whole responsibility upon.Caius Julius Cesar Hitch- cock ; but it is open to. doubt whether so ac- complished a soldier—one who so distinguished himself in the Mexican warand was the friend of General Scott—can thus be made the scape- goat for such grave military mistakes. His plans may have been all right, and may have failed only from the blundering in the execution by incompetent generals. That terrible blun- ders have been made and that somebody is- re- sponsible for them is beyond all doubt. The writer in the Transcript states that when Secretary Stanton came into office “he found General McClellan virtually directing the whole war, and fixed in his determination that no advance should be made until April;” and that “in this determination he fortified himself by a vote of eight of his generals against four.” This is perfectly true as far as it goes; but let the whole truth come out. Why was it that General McClellan was fixed in his determina- tion not to advance till April, in despite of the clamors of the Tribune and other abolition jour- nals, which daily assailed his ears? Because a large portion of the Army of the Potomac were without improved small arms, and some of the troops without any kind of weapon, while part of the cannon so essential to success had yet to be made; and, lastly, the roads would not be- in order for the movement of artillery and military stores till April; while every day’s delay weakened the enemy, who had the start in preparation, but whose twelve months men, to the number of 80,000, would probably retire t0 their homes, if not prematurely attacked; whereas the preparation, the organization and discipline of the Union army would be rendered more complete by gaining @ little time, which would, in the end, have the effect of really hastening the cam- paign to its consummation. The Army of the West, too, before the arrival of General Halleck, was ina miserable condition. Nor were the gunboats ready to play their part in the pro- gramme. It was essential tothe plan of Gene- ral Scott, adopted by General McClellan, that the movements in the Southwest, in and on the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf should be simultaneous. But, through the- influence and intrigues of the abolitionists in the Cabi- net, the Army of the Southwest was forced to advance prematurely. The plan of the cam- paign was thus disclosed too soon, and the rebels. at Manassas, taking the alarm, retreated; where- as, had not the time fixed by McClellan for a simultaneous movement at all points been an- ticipated by a rash precipitancy, the rebels at Bowling Green and at Manassas would have been caged together, the rebellion would have been finished at a blow, aud the war would have been now atanend. The excuse for the necessity of an immediate advance was the fear of foreign intervention, which was a groundless fear, for if McClellan had not been interfered with he would have been successful before any foreign Power could have inter- vened. Instead of moving in April General McClel- lan’s army was compelled to move in March, and the Army of the Southwest had moved even in February. Owing to the fact that Halleck had the control and direction of the whole | Army of the Southwest he waseminently suc- ceasfil, but would have been much more so had his advance been delayed, while he would! have essentially contributed to the capture or destruction of the whole rebel army in Vi ginia. On the other hand, McClellan had hisy army split up by abolition intrigue, and only 2, fragment of it assigned to his command, fhe was divided into four armies, one of which wis given to Fremont to operate in the mousta/ns of Virginia, another to Banks to operate in the valley of the Shenandoah, a thir to McDowell to operate on the Rappaban‘nock, and the fourth to McClellan to operate on the peninsula between the James and York. rivers, The object of this arrangement was to enable McDowell, who held the central position, to slip into Richmond while McClellan was laying siege to Yorktown, which it was necessary for him to reduce before he could make any fur- ther advance. McClellan was thua to be de. prived of all tho fruits of his exertions—the éclat of capturing the rebel capital. But by some fatal blundering the plan: was frustrated. The Pathfinder lost his path in the mountains, Banks ran away to Maryland, a distance of sixty miles in two days, Shiel General, with a portion of Banks’ army was