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

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A vigorous programme is said to have been agreed upon, and that immediate activity is to be the erder of the day. The news from General Pope’s command smacks ‘sso of coming action. On Friday General Gib- bon, with a body of infantry, artillery and cavalry, as sent out on a reconnoissance in the direction of Gordonsville, to ascertain the position and force ofthe enemy. The expedition proved quite suc- gensful. The party went within two miles of range Court House, where a short skirmish was had. Several prisoners were taken, who re. ported five of the enemy killed and several wounded. Jackson, with twenty thousand men, was between Orange Court House and Madi- #on Court House, anticipating an advance of Gen. Pope in that direction. Gen. Robertson was st the Court House, with two regiments and a bat- talion of cavalry, and Ewell’s brigade lay three ailes beyond. Gen Pope's Order No. 6, relative to the seizure of forage, was carried out admira- bly, to the great comfort of the troops and cha grin of the rebels. Nota man of the expedition ‘wes captured or wounded. A party of rebels boarded a schooner laden with $,000 bushels of condemned corn on Saturday Right, nearly opposite the headqnarters of the army, which they set on fire. Of course the loss of the grain was of no importance, being worth- less. The rebels came from the opposite side of the rivor in # small boat at midnight. We have some interesting news from the West, Pho Teath Ohio regiment, which was guarding the Momphis and Charleston road, between Decatur and Courtland, was attacked on the 26th inst. by @ large force of rebel guerillas under General Stearns and General Ward. Some thirty or forty ef our troops were killed and the road was dam- aged to some extent. It is said that there is & large rebel force at Tuscumbia, and that Colonel Forrest ia at Carthage. The supposed object of this concentration is said to be an attack on the Louisville Railroad. The Southern pepets are commenting on the President's new call for troops, and they urge the immediate necessity of striking a blow before the sew levies can be raised. While doubting the Practicability of procuring fresh men at the North, they advine that the rebel government shall act as though it could be done, and vigorously enforce sonscription. The report that the rebel ram Arkansas has been out out by our gunboats under the batteries of the enemy at Vicksburg, which reached us previonsly from Cairo, is confirmed by the Grenada (late Memphis) Appeal, which admits the fact. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Edinburg, from Liverpool, passed Cape Race on Saturday last, at seven o'clock P M. By her arrival we are in possession of Earo Poan datesto the 17th inst. In the absence of fain te bed English — have but little to question. T Lond ‘ . Forts again to the new pico ro 4 ao Dhesies that it will prove more disastre American than English \utore.ty seed frees A despa India, from a private source ober oe don, states that 115,000 haley of eottor had been shipped from Bombay in ae week. Parliamentary proceedings were unim- Portant. The revocation of Mawin James’ potent 48 Queen's council had been off: ally announced At ® banquet given in London by Mr. Rouher, the Prench Minister of Commerce, Milnor (ihon pre iding, in proposing the health of Napoleon {ii the chairman stated that the relations between “ngland and France had never been in amore satigfactory condition. A desperate contest be tween the Tarks and Montenerins was reported to have taken place near the Leutta river, the Turks proving victorious. In London stocks were firm and advancing. The Paris Bourse was heavy iy; rene news from Vicksburg is wp to Sunday evening, July 20, At that time it was stated that 8 soheme was on foot to capture the rebel ram rkansas. The Granada Appea! (rebel) saya that jue was out out from under the rebel batteries at Vicksburg by the Union gunboats Gen, By ‘agg and fumter, No date ia given. The statement that Gen. Butler's health fs not ord, sug that be would be forced to leave New Orleans for the North, is partially incorrect. At last accounts he had entirely recovered, and was in good health and spirits. Three steamboats arrived at Louisville on the 23d instant, from the Mississippi river, with one thousand one huadred and eighty-two bales of cotton. During four days, from the 12th to the 16th instant, there arrived in New Orleans, by way of the river aud in coasting vessels, one thousand five hundred and fifty hogsheads of sugar, and nine hundred and four bales of cotton. A grand State war meeting is tobeheld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 31st inst. The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee have subscribed twelve thousand dollars in aid of en- Ustments. Senator Chandler, of Michigan, proposes to raise aregiment and take the command himself. If he should be ordered to the Potomac, General McClellan will probably place him in a position where he can enjoy a “ little blood-letting.”” The new comet discovered by Mr. Tuttle, at the observatory of Harvard College, is rapidly ap- proaching the earth, and will be visible in the lat- ter part of August, Chemung county, in this State, has raised her full quota of the new levy, and the muster rolls have been received at the Adjutant General’s of- fice in Albany. We publish elsewhere in our columns this morning accounts of the proceedings during com- mencement week at Union and Hamilton col- leges, in this State, with the names of the gradu- ating classes, and a description of the very inte- resting exercises that always mark these literary anniversaries. Before the literary societies of Union College the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson deli- vered, on the 22d inst., an eloquent and powerful address on the “Rebellion, its Causes and its Re- medy,”” a synopsis of which will be found in our report. The Board of Excise held its forty-seventh ses- sion on Friday last, and adjourned to Friday next, the lst of August. The number of licenses granted up to this date is 905, being the largest num- ber granted in any year up to the correspond- ing season. The reason why #o many of the re. spectable liquor dealers have applied for license is that they have availed themselves of Supervisor Roche’s resolution, which provides that all persons who have been sued for violations of the Excise law may have the proceedings discontinued by obtaining license. Over five hundred arrests were made last week, and the police have a large num- ber of warrants in their possession, and expect to arrest several this week, as they are determined to enforce the Excise law. A letter from the Hon. George Opdyke, Mayor of thia city, given elsewhere, requests that the flags on all public buildings and all vessels in port be raised to-day at halfmast, in respect to the memory of ex-President Van Buren, whose funeral will take place at Kinderhook at one o'clock this afternoon. The remains of Lieutenant De Kay, brought by the steamer Fulton from New Orleans, were pri- vately interred on Saturday, at Hempstead, Long Island, in the family burying ground. The wool clip of Ohio will this year amount to thirteen millions of pounds—two millions greater than the clip of 1861. The stock market was 3 to 3¢ per cent lower at the board on Saturday Gold was +; per cent higher, with unusually large transactions. Exchange closed at 1298 190, Money was abundant at 46 percent. The usual trade tables for the week will be found in the money ar- ticle. The cotton market on Saturday was again irregular and sales limited, Large holders in most instances withdrew their supplies from the market, while pur- chasers only operated as they could pick up small “necessity lots’’ at a smart concession in prices, gene- rally within the range of 44c.a45c. for middling up- lands. The transactions in small parcels footed up about 160 bales. Flour, in consequence of higher rates of sterling exchange, advanced about 5c. per bbi., with moderate sales. Whoat was firmer, and lo.# 2c. high- or, while sales were active. Corn improged le. per bushel, and was tolerably active, the sales including sound and prime old Western mixed at 560. a Sic. Pork was unchanged, whilethe demand was fair. The sales embraced mess at $1075 a $10 8754, with some heavy barrels reported at $11, and prime at $3 76 0 $9. Lard was firm and active, Sugars were in good de- mand and prices frm, witheales of 2,500 3,000 bhds. and 380 boxes. Coffee was quiet, but firm. Freighis were stiff, with s fair amount of engagements, at um changed rates. President Lincoln’s Confiscation Procia- mation—Progress and Prospects of the War. For the purpose of liberally aiding in their seasonable circulation among all parties con- cerned, we republish this morning the Presi- dent's confiscation proclamation, aud the act and supplemental act of Congress to which this proclamation refers. it will be seen from the first of these acts that this sixty days’ notice of the President is limited to the comparatively innocent masses of our Southern people, who have been carried away from their proper allegiance by the pres sure of this rebellion. They are allowed these sixty days’ grace, while the leading conspira- tors and office holders, civil and military, of the Confederate and State governments in the service of the rebellion, are liable to all the pains and penalties of this Confiscation bill from the day of its approval. It will next be observed, from the supplemental act or resolu- tion passed in pursuance of the President's sug- gestions, that the confiscations of the real estate under the aforesaid law are only to apply during the lifetime of the guilty parties concerned, as enjoined by the constitution of the United States. The President having previously caused the issue of a general order from the War Office in regard to the employment of negroes in the army, we presume that, with this brief and sim- ply conventional proclamation, he has said all that he intends to say in the interpretation and enforcement of this Confiscation bill. Both as a military and as a judicial measure he touches it very gingerly. He evidently considers it a channel leading out into the boundless sea of anarchy. He still desires to treat our revolted States and their people as within the reach of & magnanimous forbearance. The paramount objegt of the radical abolition majority of Con- gress in the passage of this bill was the eman- cipation of the slaves of the South. The pro- visions of the bill to this end are sweeping and decisive; but, as they do not embrace a procla- mation from the President on the subject, he bas not issued one. Unquestionably, if his views of the aot, as @ war measure, were identical with those of Sena- tors Sumner and Chandler, and such abolition ‘isorganizers, his first proceeding would have been a flaming appeal to the slaves of South- ‘ebels to rush within the protecting lines of rmy, and be fi As President Lincoln’s great object, however, is mot the abolition of slavery, but the restoration of the Union, he very wisely keeps the negro in the back- ground as far as possible, Hence, in his mant- festoes on this Confiscation act, he says nothing about negro emancipation. He does not, at this critical period of the war, desire to dee steoy at a single blow—that is, in a proclama- tion of freedom to Southern slaves—the invalua” ble foothold which we have gained against this rebellion in the border slave States; but he Wichos to retain their support, He believes, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1862. too, that our twenty-three millions of loyal free whites, including the berder siave States de- voted to the Union, are strong enough to cope with the five millions of whites devoted to this rebellion, without calling upon their three mil- lions of slaves to help us. If they choose to come within our military lines they will | taken care of ; but their liberation is very pro- perly treated by our patriotic President as an incidental and secondary question. We have no doubt that the sagacious policy of President Lincoln in regard to this Confisca- tion bill has been strongly supported by Mr. Seward, whose distinguished course, as the head of the State Department, has won for him the universal approbation of our loyal people, In this connection we are gratified with the as- surances lately emanating from Washington that Mr. Seward is entirely at the service of the President, and has no higher ambition, in any event, than the maintenance of the Union. We are also glad to believe that, with the appointment of General Hal- leck as the General-in-Chief of the army, we have the promise of perfect harmony and co-operation in the Cabinet in re- ference to the movements of our armies and the generals commanding them. In all these mat, ters General Halleck will take the place of Mr, Secretary Stanton, who will have quite enough to do to look after the supplies and our swind- ling army jobbers and contractors. Next, in the fact that General Halleck has gone down upon a visit to General McClellan, the country will be gratified with the assurance of a “happy accord” between those two distin- guished officers, and that our new General-in- Chief proceeds in. the right way to supply the present wants and to provide for the future ope- rations of General McCl@an’s army. Mean- time, as the headquarters of General Pope are still at Washington, there can be no doubt that he already is thoroughly posted with the pro- gramme in which he and General McClellan are to co-operate against the great rebel army of Virginia. The President, the Cabinet and the army ap. pear to be working more cordially together than at any previous time since the outbreak of this rebellion. The general direction of the war is again in the hands of a skilful, experionced and accomplished soldier, From the time that it was taken away from General McClellan, and placed in the hands of a lawyer, we may date our military reverses, disappointments and dis- asters in the all important field of Virginia. Now we have every reason to hope that a gue- cession of brilliant victories will soon be open- ed. The work of reinforcing our two armies of Virginia, upon which the destinies of this coun- try now depend, is going encouragingly on; but the more rapidly the reduced regiments of Gen. McClellan and General Pope are filled up, the more certainly and speedily will great victories be secured. Five hundred recruits to fill up a regiment of veterans will be worth more for the work immediately before us than two full regiments of raw volunteers, officers amd privates. Let the energies and preferences of all concerned in the good work of raising sol- diers be devoted, first, to the important task of filling up the blanks in our veteran regiment: ; for thus one hundred thousand men will be worth twice or thrice that number of raw regi- ments for active service in the field. Let u; hear thatthe wasted regiments of McClellan and Pope are replenished, and we shall next hear of a great rise of stocks in Wall street. In keeping up the full strength of our experienced regiments we maintain an army of veteran soldiers. al The Confiscation bill being disposed of, and the new war policy and programme of the administration being clear and satisfactory, all that remains to be done to turn the tide against the rebels is to fill up at once the reduced ranks of our armies. Meeting of the Crowned Heads of Europe, By our latest intelligence from the other side of the Atlantic we learn that in September next meeting is to take place between the three principal crowned heads of continental Europe— the Emperor of the East, the Emperor of the West and the King of the Centre. Austria is omitted from this conference, because that nation, by her conflict with France and Sardinia, has sunk to the position of a second or third class Power; and besides, the affairs of Itely are not yet finally settled. The meeting of the Emperors of France and Ruseia and the King of Prussia forebodes some important moves on the ches*board of the En- repean continent. That it has any reference to intervention in our intestine war we cannot be- Mr. Seward, the only man who has shown himself an able statesman in our foreign policy as woll as in our domestic strife, has long since secured the neutrality of France, and with it that of all Europe. The meeting. therefore, will have nothing to do with Ameri- can intervention. Yet we have not the slightest doubt that it ie the result of the American wer. As the War of Independence led to the Revolution in France and the progress of liberal ideas all over Europe, which have continued in operation till this day, so the prevent war hae given a new impetus to those ideas and stirred the heart of democracy to its depths. The immense re- sources the republic has displayed, and the vast preparations by land and sea, have excited the admiration of the masses of the European population and the envy of their despotic rulers. The struggle in which we are engaged, while it has called forth expressions of the most bitter hatred of the aristocracy of Europe, has elicited the syimpathies of its people. The political effects of the war, therefore: upon the principal nations of Europe, added to financial, commercial and manufacturing em- barrassments caused by the blockade, have roused the vigilance of the rulers, and led them to consult each other as to the best mode of preventing revolution in Europe. Napoleon sees that France is now like a heaving yol- cano, which may at any moment overfiow in torrents of flery lava, destroying everything in its way. His sitnation is precarious, and, like @ man of segacity, as he Is, he looks ahead, Ruscia is in @ very revolutionary condition: Not oni’ 's Poland unsettled, but all Russia is in a distunved state, owing to ite transition from serfdoni #24 feudal institutions to limited freedom. Germany’ is discontented, and is ripe for revolution. Prusss,; now its chief State, has the greatest interest id *epressing republi- can ideas, Thus the three soverdigns are put- ting their heads together, lest they should soon find them without crowns. They will concert measures to check the first symp> toms of febellion; but if our war continues much longer thoy may find that all their pre- cautions cannot avail them, and that the flow- ing tide of revolution may sweep away their thrones and leave them stranded wrecks upon the shore, lieve. England and Our Terift. English statesmen and public men appear t? us, in some certain respects, to be plunged into a deep lethargy, and to have fallen into a condi- tion of the most complete mental somnolency and oblivion, They seem to have either for- gotten or to have sponged out of their minds a large piece of past history. They appear to ignore the fact that many years ago there oc. curred a great revolution in the world, and a great nation sprang into existence, formed out of a people who before were colonies of Great Britain. They seem to think and act as if these United States were still dependent colonies of the British throne, and to forget that we are an independent people, free to make our own laws and to regulate as we please our intercourse with foreign nations. Do we at any time think proper to make any change in our tariff—to lay on or take off any duties, to admit or prohibit any particular importation—these men—arro- gant publicists; for we do not confound them with the English people generally; they are not quite so arrogant and stupid—these men im- mediately raise a violent outcry and assume to be very shamefully and unjustly treated. They talk and reason as if they had to do with a colonial, dependent people, who have no right to frame laws which militate, or appear to militate, against British interests. Such assumption and arrogance aro really amusing—they are posi- tively ridiculous. They are contrary to rea- son, contrary to national amity, and contrary to the practice and habitual policy of the British government in all ages. When England lays prohibitory duties on French wines, does she ask leave of France? Do the French raise an outery that they are shamefully treated, and call upon the British Parliament to modify its laws? No such thing. The English are not so mean as to ask leave of France how to regu- late their custom house tariff, nor are the French so ignorant or arrogant as to vituperate the English for taking the liberty of acting as they please in their own affairs. Novw, all we ask is the same measure of fairness and simple justice. For the last ten years, or even further back, the United States have been gradually becoming formidable rivals to England in the career of national industry and productions. In many manufactures we even compete with England in the market of the world. We send our cottons to the interior of Africa, to China and to the Indies, and our mer- chant ships crowd every sea and ocean in the civilized world. Cun the English be so insane as to complain of our progress, and de- mand imperiously of us such a tariff as will suit them and their commercial policy better than ourselves and our own interesis? In sober genticuess and kindness, we would let England know that we shall pursuc our own course, only smiling at her arrogant reproaches and despising her exacting requirements. We have all the elements required by an inventive, en- ergetic and enterprising people to create wealth unbounded. Our resources in wool: cotton, iron, lead, coal, and all the numerous materials of manufacture, excepting French silks, are such as to give us the advantage over England in manufactures. Our forests supply us with all the requirements of a great com- mercial navy. In all these things, without 4 shadow of boasting or vanity, it may be truly said we greatly surpass the English. But, what is more, we have an inventive, ingenious, indus trious people, ready to turn all these abundant elements of wealth to good account. What, then, would England have? What does she mean by her complaints against us because of the enactment of our tariff? Would she have us remain idle, in order to give employment to her workingmen rather than to our own? But we will tell England what we would have and what we mean by our tariff. We mean to in- vite foreign capitalists to bring their capi- tal and their workmen over here among us, to work up, as part of ourselves, the rich ma- terials of wealth which lie in abundance around us. We mean to supply the world rather than to depend on the world to supply us, We mean to doas England has done—to go ahead. Can she justly complain of this, or of the means we adopt to procure this? Certainly not. We have never complained of the in- dustry and productions and commercial enter- prise of England, and therefore let her stop her mouth and cease to complain of our in- dustrial and commercial policy. That is what we will have, and what we mean, Furthermore, we would have England (ov rather English statesmen) to bea little more reasonable, and even rational, in their disquisitions upon our lawa and policy. She pursues her own interest. We simply claim the right of doing the same thing. Tur Carrer ron vik Retkask or Usioy ano Coyreveraté Prisoxers.—We are glad to learn that Major General Dix, commissioner on the part of the federal government. and Major General Hill, on the part of the rebels, have agreed upon a cartel for the exchange of the uumerous prisoners now in our own hands and in those of the enemy. This arrangement will be brought into operation immediately, so that there will be no more delay or difficulty in the release of our Union soldiers who have so long been languishing in Southern prisons. The new cartel is based upon the principle of that of thé Wat of 1812, between the United States and Great Britain, by which « system for the proper treatment, release and exchange of all prisoners waa clearly specified. That doeu- ment was signed by General Mason, Commissary General of prisoners on the part of the United States, and Colonel Barclay, general agent for prisoners on the part of Great Britain. Amon; other things it was stipulated that two carte! vessels, of the burthen of five hundred tons to- gether, should be constantly kept by each gov. ernment in the service of removing the prisoners of each side, to be released on account or exchanged. Accompanying this arrangement was a sliding scale defining the numbers to be exchanged for a general, a colo- nel, a captain and other officers of rank. The United States government immediately fitted and despatched two vessels to the West Indies: where many American prisoners were confined. Two British vessels were in like manner ordered to New York to take away the imprisoned sub- jects of the English crown. These vessels were known as cartel ships; and the American ves- sels were required to bring their released pri. soners to Providence, Rhode Island, one of the statfo.is agreed on for the exchange of prisoners of war, This plan 788 found to operate very success. fully; and we suppose some ‘at boron * come to on this occasion payer | Soc ges to hundreds of fami: lies in the loyal Statos wy, 8° ‘lends have long receded we. awd the humang TL eT matoes, onions and potatoes—these three voge tables in particular—to the peninsula at once, They will prove more valuable aud more ece- nomical than medical stores. Th Musical, ‘The advent of the dog days, and the exodus, such as ' is, to the seaside and the country, are not favorable te theatrical representation or the purses of the managers? Hence a good many of our places of amusementare closed up for the present; but those that are in operation are pretty fairly attended, There is not, however, muck novelty to comment upon in the bills for the past week, Last week’s performances at Wallack’s opened with » benefit to Mr. W. J. Florence, which, in point of attends ance and good acting, was a great success. Barney Williams and his wife participated, and of course gom- tributed no amall share to the excellence of the perform” anceand the pleasure of the audience, On Thursday night Brigadior General Meagher and staff visited the theatre, and wore greeted by an immense house. In re- sponse to a hearty call, the Genera! made a brief and pa- triotic speech from the front of his box. The capita! bur lesque, ‘Fra Diavolo,” remains stillenthe bills. Mrr Florence continues nightly to provoke mirth in some og Ais Irish fares. At Niblo’s Garden Mr. Jobn Collins, the Irish come- dian, under the management of Mr. Wheatley, has com* tinued to produce the ‘Colleen Bawn” with much success and with a very fair east, It will be performed for four nights more. On to-morrow evening Gen. Meagher and staff will be present by invitation, when Mr. Collins is an- nounced to sing several songs appropriate to the ocom sion. Our readers will not regret to hear that the Ravel troupe, who have just returned from Europe, will make their reappearance at this house on Monday next. ‘The Winter Garden, now under the management ef Mr_ W. H. Fleming, preduced a new candidate for popular favor on Thursday night last, im the person of Mies Ceclle Rushe, of Philadelphia, who made her appearance in the difficult role of Bianea, in ‘The Wife.” Miss Rushe ig an netress of considerable pewer. Her style is vigor- ous and energetic, and her reading correct and chaste. Her first appearance here was quite successiul. With a little careful study she will doubtless continue to retain the good opinion formed of her upon her debut. To-night Miss Fanny Browne takes her benefit, when @ new come. dian, Mr. Fiske, will appear. A dramatized version of Ainsworth’s novel of “ Jao& Sheppard,” which is claimed to be entirely new, kept the admirers of that style of drama tm the cast side of the city perfectly entranced at the New Bowery theatre all last week. The piece consequently remains upon the bills for the present, ‘The Old Bowery, after being redecorated, opens to-night for a new season, witb ‘ Ratlin, the Reefer,” aad two farces, The forthcoming benefit to Professor Anderson, te re- trieve—as far as friendship and generosity can acoom- plish it—his recent heavy losses at the Winter Garden, will be not only @ graceful mark of professional good will, but, im an artistic sense, a treat worthy of public attention, The theatre at which the event will come off is, we believe, not yet dee cided cpon, but wili be duly announced. The perform: ance will be of a very varied character, including the talent of the Academy of Music, Niblo’s Garden, Winte? Garden, Laura Keene’s, Wallack’s theatre, the New Bowery and the minstrel halls, Among the artiste whe aye kindly tendered their services are Mile. Carlotta Patti and Madame Strakoech, Mr. and Mrs, Florence, Mv, W. Wheatley and other eminent performers. The Dill will be one of am extraordinary character. The Acting Com, mittee are Mr. Wm. Stuart, Mr. Barney Williams, Mr. 3, Lingard, Mr. W. H. Norton, Mr. Charles Rosenberg, Dra. Jordan and Beck and Mr. C. Parsioe. There is no other motive for originating the benefit than that of pure gene- rosity. Professor Anderson has been reduced by his recent season at Winter Garden to circumstances of great necessity, and the benefit, therefore, becomes somothing more than a mere complimentary testimonial. ‘The amusements at Jones’ Wood during the present week consist of the following:—On Monday, the featival m aid of St. Gabriel’s church; on Tuesday, the closing day of the Schutzen corps exercives, postponed on Thurs- day last in consequence of the weather; on Wednesday, moonlight exeursion and fectival of the Arnon Lodge, No- 39,1. 0. B. B., for the benefit of the widow and orphan fund; and op Thuraday, annual picnic of 8. John’s ebarch, &e. Barnum, im addition to his renowned boreep cluding the learned seal who shakes hands with the Ia- dies, announces the appearance to-night of Mr. alfres Burnett, a great delineator of character, ‘ whose facieg expression is most wonderful,” and who is reported te be the only living man that can “laugh on one side of hig face and cry on the othor.” This is just such a featas the face of society exhibits every day; but Mr. Burnet? is nos the less wonderful for that. It 1s a time-honored tradition that Nero played the Ad- dle while Rome was burning, a fact which may be takes as evidence either of the inhumanity or ef the stoicless of that sovereign, With our sovereigns—the people— the banjo and the bones have quite as much attraction, despite the fact that these are war times; for the halld of “‘minstrelsy,”” presided over by Geo. Christy an@ Honry Wood, experience no dimiuution in their nightly audiencos. The bills at each of these nouses for the present week aro novel, and will uo doubt draw quite as well ae usual. action of the federal government, in its efforte for the release of those who have so faithfully served the Union cause, will meet with a hearty response throughout the country, and tend not @ little to stir up the ardor of the people to take up arms for its defence. We believe we have about fifteen thousand rebels as prisoners» and the rebels have about twelve thousand Union soldiers confined in Southern prisons. , Tas Ovvicta, Rerort oy THE Caprure oF New Orreans—We have received from the Navy Department a copy of the official report of the capture of forts Jackson and St. Philip , and the city of New Orleans. The caption of the work, which is published in octavo form, introduces the reader to the entire series of brilliant actions which gave to the national arms, on the 24th of April last, possession of the great commereial city of the South—up to the time of attack and capture the most remote from the scene of active hostilities. 1t contains plans, maps, diagrams and cuts of forts Jackson and St. Philip, of the approaches thereto, of the rebel rams Louisiana and -Manassas, and graphic and concise reports of the unparalleled naval engagement which resulted in our com- plete success and the utter discomfiture of the rebels. The work will be read with great in- terest, and we hail it as the first instalment of a regular continuation of like reports of the war from headquarters which we hope to see pub- lished from time to time. This single work, in itself, is vastly more valuable than whole tomes of the useless rubbish ordered by Congress session after session, and which, costing the country thousands and hundreds of thousands, is never read by the people. Nothing could give the country greater satisfaction than to be assured that the govern- ment would immediately issue similar author- ized publications for general information; and such an assurance, while due to the people at large, would be the most powerful incentive to individual heroism that could be devised— just to the country, just to the individual, sol- dier and seaman. To the present time the Henatp, and, in their lesser spheres of public usefulness, the other newspapers of the free States, have been the only chroniclers of devo- tion to the country, of sacrifices therefor, and acts of heroism which Grecfan or Roman his- tory, in the purest and best times of those re- publics, only can produce rare examples of. In the work to which we refer will be found the reports of officers commanding, speaking for themselves; their commendations to the department of subordinates in command under them; of the gallant rank and file; with the list of the killed and wounded—this to the latter an honorable record for future reference, for the former a silent but deathless memento to Keep alive the gratitude of a free and grateful people. We would recommend the govern- ment to at once undertake the publication of all official reports of engagements between the national troops and the rebels, by land and sea, that have upto the present time taken place, and to continue the same until the rebel” lion is finally crushed out, and thus bequeath to posterity a salutary warning towards the repression of treason in the future and an as- surance of success to all who stand faithful to the Union, the constitution and the laws. Ay Important Decision—Tauasury Norrs a Lrgat TENpER For TaxEs.—A decision of con- siderable importance with regard to the le- gality of tendering Treasury notes in payment of taxes was made in Chicago the other day. It appears that a taxpayer offered the County Treasurer $150 in gold in payment of State taxes, and $210 in Treasury notes in payment of county taxes. The Treasury notes were re- fused, and suit entered against the party for the amount. When the case came to be argued it was urged by counsel that, inasmuch as the State of Illinois, by legislative enactment, makes it imperative to pay the State tax in gold, Treasury notes were not a legal tender, but that in the matter of county and town taxes no such obstacle existed, and the notes were therefore a legal and proper tender. This point was raised by the State's Attorney, and the court accordingly decided that Treasury notes were a legal tender in payment of county taxes, and dismissed the case. This decision may be a guide to taxpayers in other States, and it will, of course, impart to ‘Treasury notes so much additional value as a safe circulating medium. FOREION. There is not much to comment on in foreign theatrieala, Arthur Napoleon gave a morning concert, on the 26. ult.,at the Hanover Square Rooms, London, assisted by the tisters Marchisio, Madame Borgoguous, lo, Parop ey Madame Nita Norrie, Miss Hey" » Signor Bettini, Mr. Waiter Bolton, Mr. Aptommas, M. Gasser, Signor Cossell! Signor Zucohint, Herr Pauer, Herr Poilitzer and M. Paque. Mr. Aptommas gave his sixth and last harp rocital, af Coliard’s Rooms, on the 8th ult. ‘The programme ta- cluded @ tarantelle for two barps, and ao fantasia on Irie melodies, the compoeition of tho benoficiare, and some etandard works by Alvar, anda variety of vocal musis, coutributed by Madame Louisa Vining, Madame Bock. oltz Faiconi, Mile. Georgi, Mile, 2 |, Mra. Helew vercy, Mr. Swift and Mr. Seymour Smith. Gorn axp Brxapsrurrs—Feut. Crors—In every quarter of the Northern States the re- ports from the grain crops are most cheerful. Indeed they are already gathered, and prove most abundant. The corn is not yet harvested; but it gives glorious promise of plenty. With such a resource we caunot be long hampered for want of specie. The crops in Europe, on the other hand, are all short, and they must have our breadstuffs in large quantities, which will enable us to pay off our indebtedness in {his product as well as with many other articles of home raising which we send across the Atlantic. This conditiod of affairs, together with the very small importatlons we are taking from Europe, will enable us to keep our, gold at home, while at the same time the high premium now upen that precious metal is imparting such astimulus to mining operations in the Pacific country that the gold crop will soon vie with that of grain in abundance, and before very long gold will become almosta drug in the market. Such are the consoling prospects in the financlat vista to counterbalance ina mea- sure our political troubles, % The Na New Navat Boarp.—Commodores Shubrick, Lavalette, Grogory, McKean and Breese have been selected by thé Navy Department to oxamiae those entitled to promotion under the naval grade act, conferring the ranks of rear admiral, commodore, &e. The board consists of retired officers. Fagesonx—steamer, Captain McCrea commanding—ar- rived at the Washington Navy Yard from the Rappahan- nock on the night of the 25th ing}. She brought in tow the prize schooner, Sabine, which was taken some days since. She also brought a lot of muskets, with whiok deserters from that vicinity were armed, all of which are flint locks, and some bear the stamp on the looks, ‘¢ Virt ginia Manufactory, Richmond, 1816."” Maarumarap—steam gunboat, Lieutenant Somerviile Nicholaon commanding—arrived at Fortress Monroe frons Yorktown on the 22d inst., and was under orders to pro- coed to sca the same day—to Port Royal—to join Come modore Dupont’s squadron, The Marblehead has bees doing excellent service in the York and Pamunkey rivers, end was the last gunboat to leave the White House after the evacuation of that plase by our forces. She covered the retiring vessels. The following is a list of ber of- cor Lieutenant Commanding—Bomerville Nicholson. Reimey. ‘Acting Mas'ers—George Martin Allen, r" sist an rl har Assistants, John’ B. Cupeater, William 8, Niools 08 Long. Actin lasters’ Mates—George W' ). F. B.0. Tow, Theodore Lahen, Jr Le eh Sidnat Cffcer=Chaites Henry Levy, third midabipman joe Hen at - Auta ‘surgeom—B. F. Bidders?” — Wanase—48 guns, steam frignte—undergoing repaire at the Philadelphia station. The follewing communication has been sent us by one of the crew of this vessel as@ suggestion of economy :— Coxtriections ron tHe War.—Soon after the war began we summed up the amount subscribed by private individuals in various quarters for the prosecution of the cam- paign at fifty millions, Since then various societies, churches and individuals have con. tributed probably ten millions more—not, perhaps, in money, but in shirts, stockings, medical stores and wearing apparel of different kinds. Now the war is receiving a new im- petus. We are, as it were, starting again. A fresh army of 800,000 men is to be raised; and already private contributions have come in to the amount of some hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we should not wonder if before long it was swelled to nearly five millions. All these have been free will offerings on the altar of patriotism. It is thus the people respond to the call of country. VeorTasLes For THe Army.—We are glad to learn that government is attending to that most important ingredient in the Commissary Department—vegetables. It is impossible to preserve the health of ‘troops without this anti- Dupout, took a leading and cons; part in the action at Port Royal, since which period, with the exception of @ few weeks crulsing off the Florida coast whe been lying idle and comparatively useloss as Her great size and dimen- J i) ~ L- — a oe harbor i ‘ort Royal is, im fact on along Southern’ oust’ with “woler’ of sficient ‘depth to afford safe and secure anchorage. The Wabas has @ crew of nearly seven hundred men, well drilled and diseiptined, and to assist Uncle Sam im bis work of crushing rebellion. These should be transferred to amailor vessels. Lay the Wal up for the present. At the Navy Yard at Philadelphi there are six versels, all of whic! of the poy character; but, I venture to say, re are not sufficient men on band to man two of thei. Men and money aré me ned ied the most table advantage, Tho of ti Js guffictent! soarce, and in war times like these our best poliey io C2 numerous to supply both the Pow! and Ironsides with good efficient mon, ripe 4 anxious fora fight, Nn th son old Sumter verset-of-war in that barbor. bus! our sant resources, that we > 4 scorbutic class of food, and we hope that the | the rebel treps in Charleston end Inatiy, authorities will not relax their efforts to keep Cen gp BB pong ou ota wall net ae pply. Thoy should song ploaty of te