The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1862, Page 4

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BARNUM'S AM Tou Tuvaer—Co: Love ann Levany, ICAN MUSEUM. Broadway,—Guy. orr—LeaRxED Swat, &c.. at ull nours, ternoon and evening. ‘| CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 585 Broadway. —Ermorran Bonos, Dances, &0.—Starux Lover, ' WOOD'S MINSTREL HAl » $14 Broadway. —Erniorian Bonus, Dan * £o.—Sanpy Gins0n ( wrroncock’s THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal #rcet.—Loweusox Bor-—Two Heavins—Faisey Consumer, CAIETUES CONCERT HALL, 616 Proadway.—Drawtxe Roow BXTERIAINMENTS. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDE! roadway. — fom iar a whe Me na fs New York, Monday, August 18, 1862. THE SITUATION. Colonel Corcoran has arrived at Washington and has there met with an enthusiastic reception. The preparations in this city to give the gallant Colonel @ glorious reception are in fair way towards per- fection, and » meeting of the committee will be held at three o'clock this afternoon, at the armory of the Sixty-ninth New York State Militia, in order to confer with other organizations wishing to. joi? in the reception. Archbishop Hughes delivered 4 inost important and patriotic sermon yesterday morning, in St. Patrick's Cathedral. After reciting his course of sotion in Europe, he calls upon the whole North to come out in its strength, for “volunteering to continue and fora draft to be made.” He said that if three hundred thousand men were not enough, to call out another three hundred thou- sand. “The people should i n being drafted, and so bring this unnatural strife to a close’ by strength of might alone. We have nothing important from Gen. McClel- Jan's army, farther than that all persons sick ‘and incapable of military duty have been moved ont of camp and sent down the river to reeruit their health. The news from Gen. Pope’s army is interesting. @lajor Fifield had succeeded in capturing severay fhundred bags of. flour belonging to the rebel Btates, amounting to about twelve thousand Pounds. Contrabands report that Jackson’s army ‘bas been considerably reinforced from Richmond. ‘The Union army now occupy the line of the Rapi- @an from Raccoon ford to Cave’s ford, with pickets beyond. Gen. Sigel, who is in the ad- wance, has driven back that part of the enemy’s force which attempted to cross the river on the morning of the 16th inst. Later despatches state that a general advance towards the Rapidan was made yesterday morning. All was quiet up to one o'clock yesterday after- noon, the rebels not disputing the movement. An impertant change in the executive of Ken- tucky is telegraphed from Louisville. John F. ‘Fiske bas resigned the Speakership, and James F. Robinson, a well known Union man, has been elected in his stead. Governor Magoffin has also resigned his office, and Robinson, therefore, be- comes Governor de facto for the remainder of Ma- offin's unexpired term. M. Johnson, of Lexing- ton, also'a Union man, has been elected Secretary of State. These resignations and elections vir- tually restore Kentucky entirely to the Union, as by the resignation of J.B. Temple, Acting Go- vernor Robinson becomes President of the Mili- tery Board. From Cairo we learn that Jeff. Thompson sent a flag of truce to General Hovey, demanding “all the negroes within his lines or to prepare to fight.” General Hovey dismissed the fig and started in pursuit, with ten days’ rations. Several @mall fights had occurred in Missouri. It is re- Ported that on the 11th inst. the rebel cavalry surprised a company of the Third Wisconsin Vol- vateers eleven miles from Helena. Our troops, however, soon rallicd and beat off the rebeis. The rebel guerillas were still, on the i6th, car- rying on their nefarious proceedings at Gallatin, Teon, Late despatches, however, state that Act- ing General Miller made an armed reconnoissance to that place and found that the rebels had de- eamped. Morgan had gone to Harteville, where, it ia said, he had effected fa junction with Forrest. Morgan succeeded in capturing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in United States Treasury Notes in Lebanon. A report was in circulatien in Nashville that seven thousand rebels were near that city. The troops were ordered under arms ‘and cannon were placed to destroy the city on the first approach of the rebels. The arrival of the Trade Wind from New Or. leans, August 6, confirms what we have already surmised to be the true facts of the case with re- gard to Baton Rouge. When our despatches lef, the rebels had been repulsed, althongh greatly out- fumbering the Union troops. It is, however, trae that General Williams bas been killed. General Butle: has added another leaf to his laurel wreath by the energetic manner in which he at once de- spatched fresh troops to the relief of the garrison at Batoo Rouge; and Admiral Farragut also de- serves credit for his promptitude in sending off the fleet, &c. Baton Rouge is 179 miles above New Orleans. The official order of the Secretary of war re- specting volunteers andmilitia is very important, as it limits the time when bounty money shall cease to be given, and names the day when draft- ng shall positively commence. When the whole of Ahis last call shall have been raised we shall have NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1862. in the military arm of the sorvice a million and a | Probable Comvutstons ct Earope—Deme- { econ cover aur waters. Garibaldi may quictly quarter of men. The auxiliary force comprised in the gunboats and fleets gives us equalte -half a million more, making the United States strength equa! to nearly two millions of men, With such a force against it, the rebellion cannot possibly stand much longer. The news by the Anglo-Saxon is one week later. The English papers are generally silent on Ameri- con affairs. A scheme appears tohave been put on foot by Mason and Slidell to enforce arccognition of the rebel Statics from the European Powers; but with what success is at present unknowa. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The monster steamship Constitution, which left New York July 14 for San Francisco, arrived at Rio Janciro in eighteen and a half days. While at Rio Janeiro she was visited by upwards of ten thousand persons. The Treasury Department has issned orders to the Collector of Customs at this port that here- after a! goods laden on board vessels bound for New Orleaes and other epen ports shall be under the snpervision of an inspector of customs, and that before clearance shall be granted the inspee- tor having had charge of the lading of said vessels suall certify that the manifest presented corresponds with the cargo on board. Vessels arriving from said ports are under no more restrictions than fermerly, and there has been no order from the department requiring an officer to be detailed to inspect and make return of inward cargoes from said ports. It is not the intentiva of the government to put the last three hundred thousand troops in the field immediately, but to keep them asa reserve corps in the diferent States. The various rendez- vous will be camps of instruction, in which the men wili have a fine time for the remainder of the summer, receiving the same pay and bounty as those in the field. Jeff Davis’ Confederate Congress, the members of which so ingloriously skedaddled from Rich- mond on the 21st of April last, while the Union “army was threatening the rebel works at York- town, having recovered from their fright, will re- assemble to-day in the city of hospitals. Gen. Ben Loan, commanding the Northwest Di- vision of Missouri, has taken the ficid. He left St. Joseph on the 11th inst., at the head of a large force, to wipe out the guerilla bands which now infest Missouri. A war meeting will be held on Fort Green Heights, Washington Park, Brooklyn, on Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock, and all business opera- tions in the city will cease at that hour. The stores will remain closed until after dark. The Secretary of War has decided that every person, whether a citizen or not—that is, unnatu- ralized foreigners who have voted at any elections in any of the States—shall be regarded as having exercised a franchise that subjects them to milita- ry duty. Every man who votes, if he is physically competent, must fight. Rhode Island has a colored population of less than four thousand from which to raise a negro regiment, and of these the able bodicd men would not number six hundred. The Jews of Chicago held a meeting on the 13th inst. and resolved to raise an Israelite company for the war. Those present subscribed eight thousand dollars to help along enlistments. The first quota of Kentucky is full, and enlist- ments, at last accounts, to fill up the second were going on at the rate of five hundred aday. The Louisville Journal says:—‘‘While other States are congratulating themselves on the patriotic energy of their citizens, we point with pride to the posi- tion of Kentucky and the noble impulsiveness which has filled her regiments in so very short a time.” The new, large and powerful steamers St. Clair and Brilliant have been purchased by the govern- ment, and will be immediately converted into iron- clad gunboats. The Tenth New York cavalry, Colonel Lem- mon, left Baltimore on Friday last for the seat of war. Aman named Hoag, belonging to Sherman, Con- necticut, purposely cut his hand with » scythe, to avoid being drafted. The wound bled profusely, and he shortly afterwards died. The banks of Syracuse have sent an order to the government for six thousand dollars of the postage tamp bills. The stock market on Saturday continued to exhibit strength and activity. The for governments, railway bonds and the more popular railway ehares was active, and higher prices in many instances were reached. Money was easy at 4 per cent. Gold opened at 11434 and sold up to 115. Exchange, 1263¢ a 127. in quantity and quality so widely as to render exact qno- tations difficult. The sales footed up about 300 a 400 bales, closing on the basis of about 4¥c. a 473¢0. (some were reported as low as 46c.) for middling uplands: $11 3734, and prime at $0 873g = $10. Sugars were firmly held, while sales were limited and cenfined to about 200 hhda. Cubes, part fair to good refining goods, at 83¢c. Grocery grades varied from 8i¢c. to 9e. Mo Insses were steady. Sales of 600 hhds. Porto Rico and change im rates, while engagements were moderate. Whiskey was firm and active, with sales of 1,500 bbis. at 31 jee. for State, aut at 32c. for Western. Tue Oxty Live Newsrarer.—We have beaten our contemporaries in every matter of inte- rest during the last week, with the exception of contraband intelligence, which we could not publish without affording important informa. tion to the enemy. Our contemporaries—the Tribune, Times and other journals—disregarding alike the safety of the army, the orders of the War Department and the oaths of their corres- pondents, have, to the imminent peril of our troops, published accounts of militery move- ments before they were completed, involving events of tremendous magnitnde. Had we thought it consistent with honor or pat- riotism we could have published the same news in advance of our contemporaries, as is our custom; but the character of the in- telligence was a bar to our doing so. The correspondents of the New York papers are permitted in the camps, on their sworn promise not to divulge movements of troops in advance or give any other information which would benefit the enemy; and yet their letters from the army are published, and editorials accom- pany them, drawing attention thereto, re- veallog what the rebels would pay any amount of money to find out. If our army escapes disaster, no thanks to the radical journals of New York; if it does not, the country wili know where to look for the cause of the inis- fortune. The only live journal in New York does not envy the bad notoriety obtained by its contemporaries in publishing controband in- telligence, the only kind of news in which the traitorous sheets are not at least one day behind the Herato. craey Not a Failure, Democracy has ceased to be an experiment. At the outbreak of our civii war the aristocrats: of Europe declared that this government was a failure. In the English Honse of Parliament it Was gravely announced that the bubble of de- mogracy had burst. The European journals hypoeritically lamented the fragility of denio- cratic. institutions, and congratulated their readers upon the great superiority and imper- “turbable stebility of monarchical governments: In point of fect this nation is now only enduring one of those terrible testa. to. which all nations are, at some pertods of their history, subjected, andfrom which they emerge stronger, purer and better than before. ‘There is no nation in history which has not gt some time or other experienced a similar though less cruel crisis, It is asort of national sickness which follows Indulgence in corruptions and excesses, but which can be cured by the application of powerful medicines, and will result in a sound and improved nation- al health. Europeans, however, preferred to re- gard this test as a final verdict of failure, this national sickness asa national death. Wo have reversed this verdict by sheer force of arms We have displayed such miraculous vigor and developed such unparalleled resources that pre- judice itself is conquered and detraction has changed to admiration. “A nation lying dead does not raise and maintain an army of over a million of men and build apd equip an iron- clad navy of unprecedented proportions. De- mocracy can no longer be pronounced a fail- ure. It has demonstrated itself a great and glorious success. Hitherto Europe bas been a mere spectator of this test of democracy, and, though neither im- partial nor unprejudiced, has at least refrained from an active participation in the war. Now, however, the signs of the times indicate that the struggle of the democracy of the United States has sympathetically affected the demo- eracy of the world, and that before long other governments than our own will have to submit to the cracial trials from which we are but just emerging. The low groanings and‘mutterings which announce the, coming storm now rever- berate ominously throughout Europe. Revolu- tions are contagious. War engenders war. Un- less all precedents fail and history ceases to repeat itself, Europe cannot escape convulsions while America suffers so severely. All nations are but constituent parts of a great unit, which we call the world. All. governments are af- fected if one be disturbed. But, in addition to this general principle, there are special causes for predicting commotions in Europe as the result of our civil war. This is a government of the people, indicating its strength and estab- lishing its right to claim equality with mon- archies and aristoeracies by showing that it can maintain its existence and its authority even against a rebellion of unexampled magnitude and resources. The people of every country are strengthened by this exhibition of our strength. Garibaldi fs encouraged by our suc- cess. The attack upon Richmond suggests the attack upon Rome. Whatever demonstrates the strength of a democracy weakens monarchi- cal and aristocratic governments; because the people no sooner feel that they are capable of self-government than they logically deduce their right to rule themselves, and immediately clamor for power. Thus come ali serious revo- lutions. The success of the government of the United States has made republics possible all over the world. Events have fortuitously assisted in empha- sizing and applying these great principles. The aristocracy of Europe have so loudly and passionately asserted that democracy was a failure that its success becomes all the more remarkable in contrast with their predictions, and the natural reaction which ensues causes the people of Europe to distrust their rulers and to exaggerate as greatly as they had be- fore been taught to undervalue our powers. Besides this, the failure of our cotton supplies and the passage of our prchibitory tariff place tmauch of the burden of this war upon European shoulders. The people of the manufacturing districts in Europe feel the weight of our trou- bles in advance of our own laboring classes, who find employment at high wages in our armies; and by this time these people fully un- derstand that their sufferings are caused not so much by our civil war as by the ruinous and mistaken policy of thelr own governments. Europe can no longer disguise the fact that she bas takon the wrong side in our contest. Had England and France given this government the moral support which they have vouchsafed to the rebels the war would have been over long ago, with scarcely a ripple upon the surface of international comity, and with uo disturbance in the interests of trade, commerce or manufac- ture, Instead of this, Europe has ehosen to prolong the war by abetting the rebels, and now the cotton famine rages; the supply of cot- ton will be exhausted in three or four months, and we are without the means to relieve the dis- tress thus caused, for, comparatively, no more cotton will be shipped from this country in over a year to come. The prohibitory tariff, made necessary by the prolongation of the war, deprives Europe of the great mar- ket for her manufactures. The Euro- pean politicians, therefore, in assisting he P have only succeeded in harming thei¥ own people, and, while attempting to break up this government, have but jeopardized their own. The blundering, foolish, mistaken policy of England and France has resulted in no advantage to the rebels, in no detriment to this country (as the London Times understands when it says that another threat of intervention would give us three hundred thousand more soldiers), and in incalculable distress at home. This is a bad record with which to go before the people in troublous times. What occasion may precipitate or inaugurate the convulsions in Europe it is impossible to say. England, alarmed at the prospect before her, is now trying to exculpate If from the charge of sympathizing with the South, and to quiet her murmuring masses by pecuniary re- lief. The Queen’s speech adroitly insinuates that she has always been neutral, and Karl Russell rebukes the shipowners, who are vio- lating the Queen’s proclamation, with an as- perity which eavors of an enforced repentance, France seems to hesitate about her Mexican ex- pedition, anxious to We prepared for, yet fear- ful of provoking, a quarrel with this country, and obviously distrustful lest the second Napoleon should find his Russia in the tropics. If, as reported, France is about to send over iron-clad frigates and gunboats, they can scarcely be intended for use against the Mex cans in the mountains, and are not of sufficient atrongth, even if they survive the sea voyage, to resist the iron-clad fleet with whieh we shall submit to be bound by Victor Emanuel’s pro- clamation, or he may refuse, like Banquo, to down ‘at* Napoleon’s bidding, . an@ involve France through Rome, or Austria through Venice. The wav between the Turks and the Montenegrins affects all of the Danubian pro- vinces, aud may yet bring Russia and Austria to arms, in which ease Poland and Hungary may find their long expected opportunity. Where or when the flames may first burst out no one can toil; but it is easy to see that the conflagration will bo universal when it comes. By that time, however, our demoeratio govern- ment, having shewa itself a success, will be at peace, and we ,will be at libc.wy either to calmly observe the writhings of all Europe in the crucible of revolution, or to exert our im- mense force to stir up and add fuel to the flames, as we may deem most expedient. American democracy is not a failure; but when, tried by as fiery tests, will the present European monarchies and aristocracies prove a success t ‘The Work of Our Navy in the Galf—The Prizes Taken and Sent into Key West Since the War. On another page we give, in connection with our former list of captured steamers, a com- plete list of all the vessels captured by our cruisers in the Gulf and sent into Key West for adjudication. When we examine the num- ber and character of the captures we may say “Well done for thenavy;” for, with the ma- terial we have had to work with, the success of our vessels has been far better than we had any reason to expect or hope for. Well may Europe say our blockade is effective when this list is examined; for had England been obliged to do the same work, even with the number of vessels she has adapted for the business, not half the captures would have been recorded. The table dves not comprise other vessels than those which have been taken into Key West. Could the prizes that have been sent to New York, Philadelphia and Boston—among which are the English steamers Bermuda, Mem- phis, Ann, Ella Warley, Ladona, Stetéin and othera—be included in the list, the sum total would exceed, provided they are all con- demned, over six millions of dollars. Key West, hitherto a port of entry of scarcely any note, has become since the war a place of great notoriety and importance, and the only place in the South where the United States hada court; consequently the majority of the prizes taken in the Gulf were sent there for adjudi- cation. To our naval readers the list will prove of great interest, for many of them have partici- pated in the captures and expect to be benefitted thereby. The finat returns of many on the list have yet to be made; when they are received the sum total will amount to atleast three mil- lions of dollars—a nice sum to be divided among the few interested. The Circassian and Columbia, English steamers, will alone increase the amount a million anda quarter, and the Adela and Reliance haifa miliion more. They may be considered four prizes well worth having. The list numbers fifty-three, and nearly two. thirds were under English colors, only three, however, legitimately, the others having the pri- vilege to wear the bunting and carry the re- gister by the loose maritime laws of Great Britain, which permit easy transfers from any flag to their own, and a fine opening for rascality by effecting bogus sales, as in the case of nine- tenths of the vessels on our prize list. It requires but a. small fee and less time in Havana to transfer a rebel vessel to the care and protection of John Bull. A rebel flaunting the stars and bars may arrive in Havana in the morning and before night the red bunting at his peak will proclaim him an honest English- man, pursuing a legitimate voyage, and entitled to a growl from the seagirt isle should she be in any way interfered with on the high seas by Unole Sam’s veseels. The division of our Gulf squadron and the rapid increase of our number of cruisers have had the effect to discourage the honest people who have so long carried on the business of shipping brokers in Havana. The English and Confederate (rebel) Consul Generals have found aterrible falling off in their consular fees; for the issuing of British provisional registers and other documents now amounts to nothing, while six months since * was a daily eccur- rence and a most profitable business. It only required an Englishman of easy conscience—and plenty of them were to be found for # hundred dollare—to go before her Majesty’s Consul General and swear that he had purchased a certain vescel and was the sole owner thereof, when the ne- cessary papers would be issued, the fee pocket- ed, and all was then right. The newborn Eng- lish steamer, or whatever she may be, loads her contraband cargo, and, with the same cap- tain and crew with which she ran the blockade from Dixie, clears for Matamoras, and goes to sea a legitimate trader, under the care and pro- tection of honest and strictly neutral England. We may congratulate ourselves that this work is about over, and, from the present well guarded condition of our coast, will not be re_ newed. If Mr. Helm, the rebel Consul General in Havana, is depending upon his former fees from vessels that had run the blockade to main- tain his present establishment, we advise him to seek other employment, for his occupation is gone—gone to the dogs; and if he waits for its return it will be only hope deferred. We call his attention to our prize list. He will recog- nize many as old friends. Fremont anv Paxurs.—The War Department has just republished an order issued in June last, assigning General Fremont to a command which he thought proper to decline, as it was beneath his dignity to serve under any other general. He resigned the command, but not the pay of bis Major Generalship. The intent of the repetition of the order is to call him to his duty, and to announce that resignations cannot be accepted in face of the enemy, General Butler is therefore right in hold. ing Phelps to his military obligations, and neither giving him leavo of absence nor accept- ing his resignation, nor admitting the validity of his silly plea that to obey the orders of his superior officer to employ negroes in felling timber, erecting abatis, and performing other labor connected with his camp, would be to become a slave driver, and to be guilty of that sin which abolition fanatics define to be “the sum of all villanies.” Let Fremont and Phelps and every abolition officer be held to a strict accountability, and be compelled to do their duty or abide the result of a court martial, Discipline must be rigidly maintained, other- wise the army will become utterly demoralized end ruined, j Wee Approaching Elections and the War. Now that the elections are about to be held for members of the House of Reprosenta- tives and the Senate, we trust that the atten- tion of the people and the State Legislatures will be drawn to the subject, and that prac- tical and vigorous measures will be adopted to insure the choice of men worthy of the high position and fitted to guide the destinies of the nation in this great crisis of its peril. ‘There were no statesmen in the last Con- gress, otherwise the country would not be in the position which we find it to-day. For the last thirty years corruption, party politics and fanaticiam have flied the halls of the Na- tional Legislature with men utterly incompetent and depraved, and the talent and worth and respectability of the country have shunned Congress, instead of being attracted to itasa theatre of legitimate ambition. The rebellion and tho civil war which are now desolating the republic are the natural fruits of electing such men to the high places of trust. The duty of the people is to turn a new leaf, and, instead of electing men because they belong to this party or that, to select them for their character and ability. Let the primary elections be attended by the people or overthrown by their action at the ballot box. There ought to be but one party now, and that is the party of the Union, the constitution and the laws—the party who will support and sustain the government which is standing between us and anarchy without end. Let nten of the right stamp, therefore, be elected, without regard to their party ante- cedents, and let the old organizations be broken up forever and scattered to the four winds of heaven. There is the grandest opportunity now for statesmen and patriots to gain undying renown aud do as much for the cause of ‘the country as the most successful generals can do in the field. Tlitherto good and high-minded men, abhorring the base appliances by which they must obtain nominations for Congress, have kept aloof and avoided as serpents the degraded ewirdlers who sold their votes and the iuterests of their constituents for. sums of saoney varying from a thousand dollar draft up to a hundred thousand dollars. The war has done one good thing—it has opened the eyos of the nation to the character of the men who have been representing it. Their frauds, their ignorance and their incompetence have been laid bare. There is, therefore, now ‘an opening and a fine field for the talents of a new set of men. Wars and revolutions always over- throw the old party hacks and bring up the great men of the nation. Let the people assist in the good work, and no longer leave their in- terests in the hands of caucuses and corrupt nominating committees, but come forward themselves to take counsel together and send to the capital men of merit and integrity, no matter to what party they may have hitherto belonged, provided they now go with all their hearts and energies for the maintenance of the Union and the constitution, equally against the armed rebellion of the South and the treache- rous abolition treason of the North, which is laboring day and night to render permanent the separation between the North and the South—to make it a great, fixed and irreversi- ble fact of American history. Let one consti- tutional party be raised from the ruins of all the old party organizations, and let all minor considerations be merged in the mighty issue at stake. When bad men combine to destroy the country good men ought to unite to save. Ivportant Orper ruom tar War Orrice.— We publish in another column the order just issued by the Secretary of War in regard to’ drafting. It is a most important order, and we therefore draw particular attention to it. It appears that, in addition to the six hundred thousand men ealled for by the government, it is intended to fill up all the old regiments to their original effective strength. This will give us a million and a quarter of armed men in the field. According to this new order no bounty will be paid to volunteers for the new regimeits now erganizing for the field after the 224 of this month; that no bounty will be paid to recruits for the old regiments in the, field after the 1st of September, and that draft- ing will begin at eight o’clock on the morning of that day. Now here are from six to eight hundred thousand men to be put into the field; and all the liberal bounties offered—by the United States government of $100, $25 in ad- vance; by the State government of $50, and by private individuals of from $25 to $50, as well as the sum of $50 to each man to be appropriated by the Common Council— will be completely lost to recruits if they do not volunteer for the new regiments betere the 22d instant, and for the old regiments by the 1st of next month. There is now but little time for men to decide. The best way is to volun- teer at once, and leave a enug sum for the wives and children. If the period fixed by the government be allowed to go by nobody drafted in the army will get more than $138 month. This is the long and the short of the whole thing. The difference is simply this; men volunteering at once will receive quite a Tespectable sum of money in shape of bounties, with which they can fe provision for their families; whereas when it comes toa draft every one selected will be compelled to go without a farthing of bounty, and men hav- ing families will have to leave them to previde for themselves as best they can. A Wer Buanker on THs Reseis—At Fort Donelson, and in various other battles of last winter resulting in the capture of rebel prison- ers, it was discovered that to protect them- selves against the cold ibe rebel soldiers. in the absence of blankets and woollens usually worm were, to a great extent, supplied with cotton comforters, cotton overcoats and blankets and overcoats made from carpets. Now, as the sum- mer is waning away, and the cold season is coming on again, the question recurs, how will the rebel army be clothed for the next winter’s campaign, should the war be prolonged into the winter? They have exhausted the supplies of woollens arid blankets, &c., which they had on hand at the outset; the blockade has cut them off from all outside sourees of supply, and their home factories have never supplied one-tenth part of their wants. even in times of peace. We conclude that the rebel leaders, in view of this important item of the soldier’s winter clothing, which they cannot, from their own re- sources, supply for another winter campaign, have been and are devoting all their energies to the overthrow of Gen. McClellan and the capture of Washington before the winter sets in, as the last desperate chance for, their Southern con- federacy. Let, then, our reinforceinents to Me- Clellan and Pope be hurried forward, so that in this last desperate effort for existence we may be able to turn this rebellion out in the cold and reduce it to an immediate suivender, Casswa M. Cuar's Lerren—We give the Hon. Cassius M. Clay the benefit of our columng, in the ciroulation of the letter which we pub- lish this morning, defining his position with regard to uegro slavery, negro liberty, and the negro question in all ils various phases. Mr. Clay thinks we have done him injustice in our’ report of and gomarks upon his late speech in Washington; but we cannot discover that this letter materially changes tho case. He says that “you again refer to my speech in Washington as yon reported it; and not as I uttered it, with a view of creating, I suppose, what is now called a sensation editorial, or to extort from mea reply for the benefit of your journal.” But this will not doy It isan old dodge of our politicians, when-fairly caught by the reporter, to charge upon him a wilful or aceidental perveraion of their remarks; but, from numerous examples of this.sort, we must persist in adhering to the notes of the disin- terested reporter against the memory of the in- terested politician. In the next place, the idea that in our commentaries upon Mr. Clay's speech our chject was to extort from hima» letter for the benefit of our journal, is a very absurd idea. The saddle is on the other horse. We publish Mr. Clay’s letter, to give him the benefit, through our columne, of his own de- fence, and because just now there is a lull in the war whioh enables us to trot him ont, an the judicious stage manager brings forward a dansewe or a funny fellow with a comic song, to fill up the interval between the more impor- tant performances of the evoning, Mr. Clay is also very wide of tho mark in saying that he has never heretofore been honored with his name in our columns. His newspaper reading of the last ten years has been somewhat limited, or his memory must be very bad, or he could not have made this. silly declaration. But he is con- strained to admit .the ‘‘eublimity” of our’ “ audacity,” which he-declares “is made respectable alongside of the’ indirection, the mendacity, the meandess, and the cowardice of your rivals, the London Times, and the New York Times, ita feeble follower.” This keen and well applied opinion of Mr. Clay shows that, with all his negro emancipation and negro liberty crotcheta, he is @ man of some discernment, On. the score of audacity we can excuse him, in view of his well deserved judg- ‘ment against that’ great English blunderer, called the Thunderer, and “the New York Times, its feeble follower.” And so, upon the almighty negro, we submit Mr. Clay’s letter to our readers, without further remark, except that it leaves him in the position in which he steod before—that of an abolition impracticable in hostility to the sound and sagactous negro policy of the administration. Tur Necro on Duty.—If fanaticism would only recognize the fact, there are plenty of ways in which negroes could be made more ser- viceable to the Union cause than by placing arms in thoir hands. The deficiencies of our ambulance service, for instance, have been due entirely to the absence of organiza- tion and system that prevailed in it. In the French and Prussian armies the service is as perfect os discipline can properly make it. A corps of men is specially trained for it, and they are never diverted from it to any other kind of work. Take the contrabands—generally speak- ing, ble bodied and lusty fellows—form them intoa corps of this sort, properly off- cered, and subject to all the regulations and penalties that govern the military? The prac- tice of withdrawing soldiers from the ranks to carry the wounded to the rear isone that tends very much to cripple the effective strength of our army, and is no reasen that we can see why negroes’ should not be al- lotted to this duty. They are susceptible of discipline—as was shown in the army of McClel~ lan, who was the first to place them under military discipline—and, 80 long as they are nod called upon to handle a gun or fight, would be delighted to be thus employed. The with- drawal of able bodied soldiers as nurses from the hospitals suggests another service to which they could be profitably devoted. It is pro- pose@now to employ convalescent soldiers for this purpose; but it is obvious that they are of all persons the most unfitted for it, thelr owm experience of a hospital giving them a diste-te for the work, and their continuance in its impure atmosphere tend- ing to retard their recovery. There is Ro better attendant or nurse than a negro. Here is, therefore, another service for which they are woll fitted, and it requires only that they shall be subject to stringent milt- tary control, as in the French hospitals, to cure them of their lazy tendencics. In the work of digging and trenching no better laborers cam be found, always provided that they are kept under rigorous surveillance. ‘The proper way of treating them would be to enroll them im distinct gangs or organizations for all these purposes, subjecting them to tne rules of the military service, and punishing them as deserters when found attempting to run away. There are at present from forty to fifty thousand able bodied contraband males within our lines, who by this plan could be made to relieve the army from a great deal of toilsome and harass- ing labor, thereby adding to its effective strength and rendering it at all times more ready to take the field. This is the only way in which the negro can be made of any use to Union. To arm him would only be to spoil a good laborer and make a wretched soldier, to say nothing of disgusting white men with the military ser- vice. Iurontaxt Maniresto or Arcusisior Hoouss- We publish in another part of this morning’s paper a most important sermon delivered yes- terday by Archbishop Hughes at the Cathedral, the first he has preached since his return from Europe. It is one of the most significant and important sermons ever delivered from any Catholic pulpit in this country. It is evidently the result of deep thought and deliberation on the part of the Archbishop, and its effect, not only here, but throughout the whole Catho- lic world, must be productive of the highest con~ sequences. Jt fully involves the Catholic Church in the perpetuity of this republic and im the suppression of this wicked rebellion. The views thus enunciated by the Archbishop are those of & mon of great observation. and prove him to be « profonud statesman Axoraer Mavassas Leruancy,—The Rich mond Dispatch complains that the lethargy _ which has fallen upon the rebe] government and army since the late terrible t!!!es on the Chickahominy is like that whic owed the battle of Manassas—six weeks 0! |.\4i iuactivi- ty. The Richmond editor cannot comprehend it. We think, however, it may readily ke solved. General McGlellan. on the Chicka