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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Volume XXVII.., WALLACK’S THEATRE, @sL—Lou, Montea—Ketunwe Sit Broadway. —Yanaes VoLuNTEER, WINTER GARDEN Broadway.—Huncasace. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Pusr O'Dar— Suoxmaxun ov Loviouss. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Dexon oF tas Da skut—Hauntep HuLe. NIXON'S CREMORNE GARD! Sixth a Opera, Batuur, ¥1 EQcmstmianism. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadwi Tom Tuvae—Com. NuTt—LRARNED Swab, &C., at al Teurrarion, afternoon and evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way —Erstortay Songs, Burumsquas, Dancus, £0.—Tue Buick Buigavs, ° Fourteenth street and eN4DB CONCERT AND fF EN, hours. CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, 585 Broadway.—Ermioriun Sonas, Dances, &c.—Scuekaxnnonn's Bor. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ergiorian Sonus, Dances, &c. DY Gisson. HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HL ro —CnOnae tax Lixe—Dear 43 & Post—' 130M. Canal ‘us No GAIETIRS CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Drawina Room Enrertainaents, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 563 Broadway.— Open daily from 10 A. M, till 10 P. M. New York, Sunday, August 24, 1862. ——————s THE SITUATION. The arrival of Capt. Snyder, of the United States transport Virginnia, at this port, brings us the intelligence that Gen. McClellan left Fortress Monroe with a large portion of his army on the 2ist inst. His destination was s&id to be Aquia creek, for the purpose of reinforcing Gen. Pope. A rumor has been in circulation for several days in Buffalo that a rebel bearer of despatches had passed through that place, en route for Nia- gara Falls, and it was asserted that the person was Wm. L. Rancey. On reference to the rebel Congressional news published yesterday it will be seen that Yancey was present and answered to his name in the chamber of the rebel Senate in Vir- ginia on Monday last, and therefore could not have passed through Buffalo. The news from Memphis states positively that the rebel General Bragg is at Chattanooga, and that General Hindman’s forces are movinggwest from Little Rock. Guerillas are hovering about the flanks of the Union army, occasionally doing damage to the troops. Our special correspondence from the depart- ment now under General Buell furnishes us with complete intelligence from varions parts of the same, and the map which we publish to-day will give a clear view of the whole vicinity around Chattanooga, An enthusiastic war meeting was held in St. Louis on the evening of the 2st. Mr. Gamble made the principal speech, and recommended a most vigorous war policy in that State, deprecating the disposition to find fault with the policy of the federal government. He also recommended the extermination of the guerillas in the State, and would drive South all non-combatants who de- nounce the government. The military authorities held bonds from the rebels to the amount of over a million of dollars, and he advised all broken bonds to be collected at once. The arrival of the Blackstoue from New Or- leans puts usin possession of tke full repost of the battle of Baton Rouge, furnished by Colonel Cabill, besides a list of the sufferers on that oc- casion. The body of Colonel Roberts, of the Seventh Vermont Volunteers, who dicd on the 7th of his wounds received near Baton Rouge, was brougit to this city by the Blackstone. We to-duy give a list of the returned officers, The document will be found interesting, as it shows for whom each been exchanged. The list of exchanged rebel officers far exceeds that of Union officers. A gunboat reconnoissance on the Mississippi river below Napoleon, Ark., found all quiet. Two thousand guerillas passed through Raleigh. Tenn.,on the 20th, committing depredations en the route by destroying cotton, bridges, &. The Grenada Appeal still asserts that a general movement of the rebel armies of the West is to take place at once, and that Tennessee and Ken- tucky will soon pass from the Union troops into their possession. General Johnson (Union), with about 800 men, made an attack upon @ quperior force of the rebels under Morgan, at Gallatin, and met with a reverse. The Union forces lost 300 prisoners, ineluding The rest of the command cut exchanged prisoners of war. dias General Johnson. their way out General Morrill, in Missouri, is determined to put a stop to the recent action of the Union troops of surrendering their garrisons without making any defonce, and says that such surrenders are in- He further asserts that ‘‘a surprise is never excusable,” and that any officer, if found guilty of such surprises and surrenders, shall be shot, according to the Articles of War. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘he steamship Kangaroo, from Liverpool on the 15th, and Queenstown on the 14th inst., arrived off Cape Race on Friday evening last. by this arrival we are furnished with one day jater intelligence; but, in the very brief telegraphic summary of her news with which we are fuar- nished, tl of political importance. The Liverpool markets for breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were inactive. Con- sols were quoted at 9334. The Newsan (N. P.) Guardian of the 6th inst. 01 the clearance from that port on the 28th . ofthe steamer Minho, Capt. Parke, for St. John, N. B. @), with an asgorted cargo; on the 2d inet. the steamship Kate, Capt. Loot port,and the steamship Coluiabia, r tured on the coast, The above vessels cleared osteusibly for St. John, but beyond all dowbt destiaation is or was one of the blockaded ports. The sloop Lady, of St. Joun, Nicholas, cleared from Nassau on the 2d excusable, Cap inst. for Key West, but it ia thought she tein a | contraband voyage to the Sonth. ‘The stoamer Blackstoue, {som New Orleans Au- Quast 15, arrived atthis port yesterday. By this arrival we have received the fall official report of the battle at Beton Rouge and the complete list of casualtics in thet affair, Our loss was 84 killed, 264 wounded and 34 missing, Police Justices Welsh, Kelly and Osborn, in the Conrt of Special Sessions yesterday, convicted a man named Timothy Cronin on a char sanlt ani battery. It waa proved, for the defence, that Mary Delaacy, the complainant, had given him svat provocation; but the Court devided tuat be | bad no right to excoute the law himself by pum- melling her bead, aud faed him twenty-live del- lars, to impress the matter more firmly on his mind. Moses Greenwood, butcher, of No, 54 West Thirty-third street, was charged with keep- ing quantity of diseased and unwholesome meat in his slaughter house. The Court discharged him, as it could not be proved that the meat was intended for sale, the defendant stating he had slaughtered the animal for its hide. ‘The usual attraction of the Central Park Sa- turday afternoon concerts was somewhat decreased yesterday by the threatening aspect of the weather. Notwithstanding this, some two thou- sand persons were present during the musical performance, and a fair number of carriages and equestrians ornamented the Drive. The sultry state of the atmosphere also caused some little demand for ice creams and soda. ‘The stock market opened very weak yesterday, and there was a decline of 34 a 2 in registered sixes and also in the leading -railway shares on the circulation of un. favorable rumors, Shortly after noon, however, these rumors were authoritatively contradicted, and stocks ral- Ned up to Friday’s prices, closing strong and active. Money was abundant at 4 percent, Exchange dull at 127%. secs cotton market was more active yesterday, and prices were highor, with sales of 1,700 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 4610. a47c. for middling uplands. The advance in freights tended to depress the market for breadstuffs, Flour was heavy and easier for commonand medium grades, while high qualities of extra were un. changed. The transactions were moderate, in great part to the home trade. Wheat was heavy, and sales were restricted by the rise in freights, while prices for common and medium grades favored purchasers, Corn was heavy and rather lower and less active. The sales embraced new and old mixed, the lat- ter, part im store, at $8c. a 60c. Pork was less buoyant, but more active, with sales of meas at $11 95 a $12, and of prime at $10 1234 a $10 25. The government contract for provisions was quoted ag follows, viz:—For pork, mess, 9,000 bbls. at $12 25 a $12 50; prime, 1,200 bbls. at $11 87¢; beef, mess, 2,500 bbls. at $13 94 a $14 34; ‘bacon, 300,000 Ibs. at $7 20 a $7 75 per 100 !bs. Sugars were less active, while prices, though some less buoyant, ‘were without quotable change, while the sales embraced about 200 hhds. Coffee was steady. A sale of 126 mats of Java was made at 263c., and 200 bags St. Domingo ‘were made at 21c. a 21}¢c. Freights were firmer; wheat, im bulk and ships’ b: was engaged for Liverpool at dd. and flour at 3s. General Halieck’s Final mpaign to Pat Down the Rebellion. Tn the absence of any official or definite intel- ligence for several days past from our Army of Virginia, mysterious rumors and gloomy conjectures have filled the public mind, creating some anxiety as to the safety of General Pope and the safety of Washington. The fact being established that the rebel army of Richmond, en masse, was moving northward to cut its way across the Potomac, if possible, before, General McClellan’s forces could make a junction with General Pope, and before any considerable body ef our new regi- ments could be thrown forward to his support, was clearly suggestive of danger. The ques- tion of the safety or destruction of our forces in detail by an overwhelming rebel army was re- duced apparently to a niee question of time, in regard to which the advantages were in favor of the enemy. But we are gratified to assure our readers that, from lack of means, orlack of energy or confidence, the rebels have lost their last golden opportunity, and that General Hal- leck has thus gained the power to advanee, to fall back or to establish his lines at his discre- tion. In the first place, Gen. Pope. seasonably dis. covering his danger in the neighborhood of Gordonsville, has fallen back to the line of the Rappahannock. Secondly, he has thus out- witted his crafty enemy, and formed a junction with Gen. Burnside’s column and a large force from the Army of the Potomac, which secures him from ony immediate assault. The piece- meal programme of the rebels is thus defeated in the outset; for Gen. Pope is no longer within reach of a sudden raid a la Jackson. but is in such a position and is surrounded by such masses of disciplined troops that he can only be met by the deliberate and cautious ap- proaches of a great army. ‘Thus Gen. Halleck has secured the incalculable advantage of choosing his own time for the resumption of the active hostilities of a grand campaign, for there is very little reason to fear that the rebel Gen. Lee will now underiake the hazardous enter- prise of pushing forward to the Potomac. His plans have been spoiled by bis failure to catch General Pope. and from an offensive he must now fall back to a defensive attitude. Onr absolute command of the magnificent water communications of the Chesapeake Bay and our splendid fleet of army transports have enabled us to defeat the calculations of the enemy in regard to the transfer of McClellan's army from the James river to the Rappahan- nock, and thas we have gained the all import- ant point of time upon which everything de- pended. Washington is safe, Pepe is safe, McClellan and Burnside are safe; for they are all within supporting distance of each other, and in the occupation of a strong military line along the hills of the Rappahannock, and within a few hours only, by rail or by the Potomac, from Washington and its reserves of fifty or sixty thousand men. General Halleck, then, has the strings of the campaign in his grasp. He is relieved, too, of those mischievous, intermeddling and disor- ganizing military politicians of Congr@ to whom McDowell owes his defeat at Bull run, Banks his repulse from the valley of Virginia and McClellan his terrible seven days’ fighting fer the rescue of his army in front of Rich- mond. Inthe absence of Congress these Con- gressional Marplots are out of the way, and General Halleck has a clear field before him till December for the arrangement and execu- tion of the work of this Virginia campaign. We expect him to finish it before December. Within a week or two his forces around Washing- ton andin Virginia will probably be fully up to the mark of three hundred thousand men. With this force at his command the country will expect him not only to move forward steadily “on to Richmond,” but to put an end to the last great rebel army, and thus end the rebellion itself with bis occupation of the rebel capital. From his grand campaign in the West we know that the military combinations and move- ments of General Halleck may be relied upon; bui wo shall expect him to improve upon those valuable lessons of experience given him at Bowling Green, Nashville, Pittsburg Landing «od Corinth. We shall expect him to repeat in Virginia, not the occupation of cities, towns and camps evacuated by the enemy between two days, bul the complete successes of such enterprises as those of Fort Donelson and | | Island No. 10, The opening of the new oam- | paiga in Virginia, iucluding the dolivate, dit. | | onlt and hazardous removal of the army of | General McGlelian from the James river around | : to the Rappahannock, is er ently satisfac- ‘tery, and gives us tho most encouraging avsu- | ronces that the end of this vampaiga will be the end of this revelion, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1862. We published yesterday the message of Jeff. Davis to the rebel Congress now assembled at tichmond. The document is as brief as it is impudent. In those portions of it which refer to indisputable facts, such as “the sufferings en- dured by some portions of our people,” the writer cuts himself short, as if he feared to say too much. Only when describing the imaginary atrocities of the Union armies, or when piling lie upon lie in regard to the Union generals, does Jeff. allow bis pen full swing. The mes- sage was evidently written for Europe, and the effort to be dignified and magisterial is pain- fully apparent. It claims no special victories, says not a word of the recent battles before Richmond, the fight at Cedar Mountain, the re- cent guerilla raids and the destruction of the Arkansas, but claims success in general terms. Every pretext afforded by the abolitionists is skilfully used to excite the Southern people, and retaliation of the most vindictive kind is openly threatened. In short, the message is remarkable mainly for its glittering generalities, for its audacious lying, for its silence in regard to European intervention, for its cold, lugubri- ous and hopeless tone, and for its barbarous recommendations of retaliatory warfare. The message opens by reminding Congress of the “desolating war,” the “sufferings of the people” and the “gallantry and good conduct of the troops.” The United States gov- ernment , is then charged with “perfidy which disregarded rights secured by com- pact, and madness which trampled upon ob- ligations made sacred by every consideration of honor.” What this means only Jeff. Davis can explain. Who have been guilty of the “perfidy which disregarded rights sec by compact” except those rebellious Stat hich have attempted to force themselves out of the Union, thus disrupting the nation and imperil- ling the country? Who have “trampled upon obligations made sacred by every consideration of honor’ except those traitorous rebels who have proved false to their country and false to the oaths they had taken to support the consti- tion, and who are now violating laws which they themselves framed, disregarding obligations which they themselves imposed, and indulging in a causeless and hopeless rebellion against the best government on earth—against a gov- ernment which they themselves assisted in forming and which they themselves aided in administering? Were we not well ac- quainted with Jeff. Davis’ character we should consider that such sentences as those we have quoted were bitterly satirical, and intended as reflections upon the rebels themselves. In the same vein are the complaints of rapine and ont- rage made against the Union forces, but true only of the Confederate troops. Proceeding in his attempt to fire the rebel heart, Jeff. Davis re-echoes the abuse of the English journals against General Butler, but adroitly holds our government and people responsible for the General’s verbal indiscretions. The Confiscation bills passed by the last abolition Congress and the attempts of Hunter and Phelps to raise abolition negro regiments are artfully em- ployed, as we predicted they would be, to strengthen the rebel cause. Thus once more Northern abolitionism and Southern treason join bands and encourage each other. ‘The message says nothing of the number of troops now enrolled in the rebel armics; but Jeff. Davis seems startled by the President’s calls for six hundred thousand more men. He says that we are ‘now seeking to raise new armies on a scale such as modern history does not record,” and begs of his Congress to extend the Censcription act so that two hundred and fifty thousand more rebels may be placed in the field. The,Conscription act may, and doubtless will, be extended; but the rebels can never raise that number of new levics. All of their available men are now in the field, and when we have defeated their present armies our mili- tary labors will be substantially over. The message admits, as we have often asserted, that the former Conseription laws of the rebels have been boldly criticised and sometimes resisted; and we are informed that “ the efficiency of the law has been thus somewhat impaired.” Le- gislation to adjust this difficulty, to control military transportation by railroad and to rid the army of incompetent officers is urgently recommended. In regard to the rebel navy Jeff. Davis is careful to say little. He speaks of the “construction and equipment of armor vessels at home and abroad;” but he neglects to mention that his vessels built at home are sunk or blown up as soon as con- structed, and that those purchased abroad are generally captured as soon as they attempt to run the blockade. Legislation is asked “to secure crews for vessels,” but it might better be devoted to securing vessels to be manned. Has Mr. Davis forgotten the blockade, or has he become so accustomed to isolation as not to recognize the rest of the world? One would really think the latter of these hypotheses cor- reet; for itisa remarkable fact thut no European Power is even named in the message, and all parties, except the United States and the sham confederacy, are utterly ignored and ruled out of the quarrel. This is as it should be. Let Slidell and Mason retire from the European courts, and let us settle our domestic difficulties for ourselves. Perhaps, however, Jeff. Davis nay be indulging in hopes of intervention which he dare not express. He does not mention inter- vention; but he also says nothing of Stonewall Jackson. The most amusing portion of the message is that in which the head rebel declares that “ the credit of the government securities remains un- impaired, and that this credit is fully justified by the comparatively small amount of accum’ lated debt.” No doubt, as the “ government securities” never had the least credit, at home or abroad, they are “ unimpaired;” but the idea of the confedetacy not being in debt—when it never had and has not now a cent in the trea- sury—when it stole all its first arms and ran in debt for those it now has—when all the moneys it ever paid out are merely promises to pay— is indeed supremely ridiculous. Quite as amusing, however, is the recommendation of an increased issue of Treasury notes in” stead of bonds, on account “of the preference of the people” for notes. This | “preference” is aasily explained, Treasury notes are for smaller amounts than'Confederate bonds and more easily gotten rid of by the people, who aro perfectly aware that the | bonds are practically payable only on the Day of Judgmeat. Why Jeff, Davis wants to issue more notes, however, we cannot understaud; for, ns ho himself suys., we print many auch | notes here at the North and retail them for five conta a ploce, the denomination being alto- | gether immaterial, So, 99 one hundred dol- tyr Coufodesate note cap be bought of some t Joi. Davis’ Last Messaye. of our soldiers for half a dime, and looks bet- tor, will pasé better at the South, and is really just as valuable as the genuine article, why cannot the rebels adopt these bogus shinplas- ters as their irredeemable currency, and save themselves the loss and trouble of a ruinous competition with us? At the close of his message Joff. Davis states that the Indians within the confederacy remain true to the rebels—a fact of which we were also informed by a telegram, published yes- terday, detailing the outrages of these very Indians upon our women and children, whom not satisfied with murdering, they afterwards horribly mutilated in true rebel style. After all, however, the main point of this message is the recommendations of retaliagjpn upon our prisoners, which the rebel Congress adopted, by introducing acts. providing that our cap- tured officers be held as hostages for guerillas, and hung or otherwise punished, as the rebels please, and that the commanders of Union negro troops be hung or shot, if captured, and the negroes sold into slavery. These bar- barous measures, if carried out, will make this war the bloodiest in history; for the North will terribly avenge any life thus sacrificed to the malignity of traitors. Before they can be car- Tied out, however, we hope that no rebel armies will be leftin the field. Our million apd a quarter of troops are now rushing to arms, our iron-clad navy is rapidly approaching comple- tion, and this worst message of Jeff. Davis will probably be his last. * Intrigues Against the Union in Paris. The rebel Commissioners in Paris and Lon- don have not failed to take advantage of the extreme ignorance of the people of France and England as regards the United States. Securing to their detestable cause the prominent journals of the great capitals, Paris and London, by a liberal outlay, they have worked upon the minds of the people by the publication of false news articles, intended to cause a dislike of the North, as well as to give the most unfair and un- truthful idea of the designs of our government and the causes of the present struggle. While these arch schemers were subverting the press in Paris and London, what were our Ministers doing to counteract the powerful in- fluences thus brought to bear against the cause they are representing? Of Mr. Adams, our Minister at the Court of St James, we cannot complain. We are aware that he is ably at- tending to our interests, and have all confidence in the result of his labors, We know that he has an arduous task, the English having ever been inimical to us. But in France the case is quite different. The people, though under- standing our institutions but imperfectly, were nevertheless prejudiced strongly in our favor. We say were in our favor, because we fear that they are so no longer. Mr. Dayton, our envoy in Paris, has allowed Slidell to succeed in all his manceuvres. Where a word of contradic- tion might have been given, that word was left unsaid. Where the Minister might have called such journals as the Patrie, Le Pays, Le Con- stitutionnel, &c., to order for the publication of false despatches and news, all injurious to the cause he is bound to protect, he remained silent. A single refutation, published in the columns of the journal having disseminated the false news would have had a powerful moral effect. From some cause no such refutation was ever made, and the public, at first inclined to doubt, ended by accepting the lie as the truth. This no donbt proceeds from the fact that Mr. Day- ton does not understand the French language, and that he is not au courant with the spirit of the French press. We may ask, while upon this subject, why our administration has neglected securing the services or good will of the French press. There are writers of influence in Paris, favor- able now to the cause of the South, who are not bribed by money. They are honorable men, proud of their positions and above a mean ac- tion. Slidell was too wise to offer lucre to such; but he sought them out, flattered them by polite attentions, invited them to his magnifi- cent residence, dined and wined them, and, aided by his accomplished family, gained the good will, and hence the services, of these wri- ters of ability. These same writers are scarcely aware of the existence of Mr. Dayton, who could not entertain them if he wished, as they are not proficients in the English language, while he does not speak French. At the period, some six months past, that the “Esprit Public, a new weekly journal, was started in Paris, the editor, Mr. Hypolitie Castilie, went to Mr. Slidell to make advances to that person as to espousing the cause of the South. He was well received, and the result has been that the Esprit Public is a bitter antagonist to the North. Mr. Castille, who was not prejudiced in the matter, would lave gone to Mr. Dayton, but he knew nothing of him, while Slidell’s praises were in the mouths of all Mr. Castille’s fellow journalists. Is it not time that our government should take this matter in hand ‘that some capable, clever, gentlemanly person be despatched.to Paris to counteract the influence of the arch trailor Slidell? Thurlow Weed won't do. Let it be some one well versed in European politics, customs and languages, and with re- sources placed at his command enabling him to vie with the prominent members of the elile of Paris in his social relations with the talented, the influential and the wealthy vesidents of the eapital of capitals. Such a person could throw light upon the false assertions of the rebels. His determined efforts would deter the Paris journals from the publication of false news injurious to our gov- ernment, and we should not irrevocably lose our prestige in France, Neither nations nor in- dividuals are independent of the good will and esteem of their fellows, Tue Last Arcric Expevrriox—Ivrortant Discovertes.—The last expedition, under charge of ©. ¥. Hall, Esq,, fitted out for the purpose of discovering more, if possible, relative to the fate of Sir John Franklin’s party, lias been ina great measure successful, and accomplished even more than expected, Reliable informa tiow has been obtained and relics found of tha Rist Voyage of Frobisher to the Arctic regions, made three hundred years singe, and Mr, Ifal} is now on his way to the United States for the purpose of reorganizing and starting once more for his last field of operations. Our map and sketch of his explorations on another page will bo found interesting, and will repay an at- tentive perusal. ‘Tu Distovarry any Impupence ov Giene- tev.—Not only did the Tribune publish prema- ture disclosuces of the movements of General MeClellon and General Pope, endangering the safety of tho atimies of one or the othor or of Hoth, bub it bad the qudaglty to say that it was authorized to do #0. Now, we have the highest authority for saying that there is no truth what- ever in this statement; but that, on the contra- ry, 80 indignant are the military authorities at such conduct that they have given directions to exclude the reporters of the Zribyne from their lines. A Lerrex rrom Prestpent Liyconn on THe Neoxo Question.—President Lincoln has writ- ten the “Hon. Horace Greeley” a characteristic letter on thenegro question, which we publish this morning. It shows that the incessant hue and cry of our abolition radicals for a procla- mation of emancipation does not disturb the equanimity nor shake the honest convictions of Abraham Lincoln. He adheres to his original. policy and purpose of considering the Union the paramount, and the negro a secondary, question. He desires to save “the Union as it was,” slavery and all, if this can be done; if not, he would still save the Union, and still treat the negro as a subordinate question. First and last, he regards this war as a war for the Union, and not for negro emancipation; and upon this platform the country has sustained and will continue to sustain him. We suspect that this letter will raiso ® breeze in the abo- lition camp and widen the breach between the abolition leaders and the President, and thus strengthen him and his administration among the honest masses of the people. We are in- clined to believe, too, that this is the object of this letter. At all events, it is another “wet blanket” to the Hon. Massa Greeley and his grand idea of universal negro emancipation. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasuinctoy, August 23, 1862. STRENGTH OF THB REBEL ARMIES. ‘The Washington Star says:—From the South we have the following data in relation to the strength of the Con- federate retreat from Manassas. ur informant states that General Johnston loft Manassas with 40,000 effective men. General Magruder held Yorktown with 7,500 effec- tive men when the Union army landed. The Confederates, acting under the advice of General Lee, left Yorktown with 67,000 men, on June 1. Eighty-five thousand rations were issued to the Confederate army before imond. Detailed reports by rogiments, brigades and battalions of all but seventeen captains, showed that 6,357 soldiers were placed hors de combat in the battle of Seven Pines. On June 21, 123,000 rations wero issued to the rebelarmy before Richmond. By July 20 30,000 new troops had reached Richmond from the South, most of whom were new levies and not regarded ag thoroughly safe, On the 13th of August there were six regiments of infantry at Savannah, and a force of 34,000 near Charleston. THE DIFFICULTIES IN KBFERENCE TO SOUTHERN COT- ‘TON. Anumbor of complaints have been made in reference to the rogulations about the purchase of cotton in the neighborhood of Memphis and Helena. It is represented that a large amount of cotton in thas vicinity has been secreted by the negroes whose masters have gone to the wars, and whose mistresses were not averse to Riding the cotton from the rebel burners. Parties de- sirous to procure this cotton aud forward it to market: represent that they are greatly ombarrassed in their operations by army officers and their particular pets, to whom has been granted a monopoly of this important and lucrative trade.” THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER TO GREBLEY. It is suggested that the reply of the President to Gree- ley will call out a host of negro worshippers in let” ters to the former, and they will expect re, plies. This class of fanatics should kuow tha the President, jnat at this period ofjour affairs, deeired to get a few words to the country, and no method of so doing, except by seizing upon the letter of Greeiey and replying to it, wes apparent. ‘The Cabinet was uot consulted cou, cerning the letter, and it is belicred that not above one of them knew that it was in existence prior to its appear- ance in print. The views expressed in the letter are pre- cisely what were stated to be the opinion of the President in this correspondence a fow weeks ago. It appears that immediately after Horace Greeley wrote his letter to the Prosident he despatched Mr. George W. Wright. of Fremont notoriety, to visit the President per- eonally and persuade him that he bad botter keep tho peace towards # concern that wieided such au awful power. The mission was porformed; Mr. Wright came; he saw the President; bu used all his persuasive pow- ers to induce him to overlook and forgive the puerile ebullition of Greeley’s passion, He portrayed in glowing torms the vast cirealation of the Tribuaz, and urged the President to be cautious bow he took issue with such a Juggernaut. The President failed to appreciate the arguments thus presented, and took tiv ball by the horns in his mauly, straightforward letter published to-day: Mr. Greeley’s mossenger was unable to stay the Executive lightning, aud tho thunderbolt fell. Greoley is knocked down, and his emissary is nonplussed OLD CAPITOL PRISONERS. Captain Garnett, of the redel army, brother of vr. Garnett, formerly of this city, who wag « prisouer m the Old Capitol prison, has beon released upon his parole, He says that he will never take the oath of allegiance. He was paroled on account of ill health. ‘Ten rebel prisoners were brought in this morning ond gent to the Old Capitol. Among then {s Captain Ells, of the Fifth Virginia cavalry, Marshal D. L. Phillips, of Illinois, arrived here to-day, having in charge twelve state prisoners from that State, who were taken before the Provost Marshal and sent to the Old Capitol. THE NEVENUE LAW DEFINITION OF THE WORD “PEDLER.”? The Treasury Department construes the word ‘pedier,’’ as use¢ in the Excise law,to bea person who gainsa Lvelihood by travelling from place to place and soiling goods and wares, or one whose occnpation it is to sel! goods while travelling from place to place, A farmer who gells his own products by travelling from house to house is not a ‘‘pedier’’ in the sense of the law PAYING THB SOLDIERS OF TAE ARMY OF “THE PO- TOMAC. Paymasters are busy paying off the soldiers of the Army of the Potomac as fast aa they arrive at their avstination. y AN EXPEDITION OF THE POTOMAC FLOTILLA. The gunboat Resolute, Acting Master Tole, arrived here this morning, bringing the body of Michael Ryan, who was killed on the 21st inst. near the mouth of the Rappa- hannock. From one of the officers the following partiga- lars have been obtained:— Recently Master Tole, with a boat’s crow from the Resolute, procecded up Sturgeon creek about three miles, to cnt out two vessels, which the officers of the Resolute ‘had been informed were up the creek, and, reaching the place, they eut out one of them, aud were towiug it down ‘when it ran eground. They set about getting it off when hi re Sred into by a gang of gnerillas in ambush on The Gre was immediately returned, and was some time; but, dnaing it impos. gidlo to get the sloop off, the party returned to the Resolute. The following persona in the boat were wounded :»-Pa'or Nelson, in the hand; R. Kane, in the side, Mitel: and arm; John Melonald, ta the loft hand and arm, aud Jackson, acitizou of Virginia, who was acting ag pilot, iu the fore! ‘Thursday last auether expedition was formed, and Master Joclyn, of the Relianov, Master Tole, and Master's Mato T, Newton, with boais’ crews from the {wo vessels, wont up again and set fire ® the schooner, and, finding the sloop still agrorud they also fired her. ‘As they were pulling away the guerillas Bred iuto them froin an am- bush onshore. Tho men immediately returned the fire with rifles, aud, worimg the boat in position, brought a howitzer ‘to bear on the euemy with grape and rifled shot, and it is probable with effect, as the fring from: thie eh ras, of the Reso ate, wounded in the foot; Androw Splcenger, of the Reliance, in the thigh, and Frank Miller, of the Reliance, in the right arm. ‘The boat then returaed, firing into every sus- pivious locality on the way, in order to guard against ® surprise, and returned to the ships. As the boat was polling ayy [rom the scene of action tho rebels were Thong in the field and along the beach, having vith them a number of women and children, using thom express y a8 scceous, to prevent our men from firing upou then. RELEASR OF TUE HARRIBRTRG EDITORS. Last ovening Uramet Barrott, Thomas MeDowel, John M. Foster aud Uriah F. Jonos, editors and propeietors of te Harrisburg Palriot and Union, had a bearlag before Brigadior Genoral Wadsworth and Judge Advocate L. Tarner. Thoy were arrostet on the 6th inst, on the charge of prblishiug a hand il calgalated to discourage enlistmenta, and on the exaruaation they severally made oath, vith the exoeption of Me. fonos, of havingypo know- edige of the publication of intended publication thereof, having been printed by two apprentice boys in the office, Mt. Jowam, the local editor, mute oat that he Arafiod tho handbill (oF the boys simply ag @ joke, and without any intention of discouraging ealistine.ts The Parties then gave their parole of honor 10 do mo aot oF deed hereafter disloya! to the government, claiming, a¢ the same tine, that they never had, Thoy wero Wem diachargod from imprisonment. THE CASE OF PAYMASTER FOLSOM, It ig @ misapprehension to suppose that Major Folsom was arrested because of apy suspicion that he was a de- faulter. Ho was only arrested because he deposited government specie ina bank for safe kesping instead of in tho Treasury. No paymaster stands higher for intogri- ty in tho pay department than Major Folsom, SUPERIORITY OF THR SPRINGFIELD MUSKETS, Atthe time when Enfield rifles ‘and other Europea arms were in groat demand for our army, as somothing vastly better than the guns manufactured at our ar- mories, the officers of the old army clung to the Spring- fleld musket of the make of late years, as having no su- perior. Time and practice have demonstrated the cor rectneas of their ideas, and henve the demand for the Springfield muskets for the now regiments. Some time since it was stated that our War Department had supplied itself with large quantities of the best Europeam small arms, which had como direct from go- vernment armories, aud wero therefore relia- able, Can as much be said of the arms recently cap- tured on board vessels seeking to run the blockade of the rebel ports? It is notorious that the European arma that were first procured by our government from jobbers were good for nothing, and it was not until mid-winter vha¢ the Army of the Potomac could be suid to be well armed. ‘The Enfield rifles of Senator Wilkins’ regiment were worthless, MORE BOGUS NEWS. ‘The story current here, and published in the Washing. ton evening papers, about a train of cars being fired inte last night by rebel guerillas, is pure fiction. Tho story was told first this morning in Washington by a Tribuné reporter, who stated he was on the train, and is of apiece with othors told by the reporters of the same paper, the publication of which has had the effect of causing Halleck to exclude the reporters from the army. AOQUITTAL OF SURGEON HEWIT. + Dr. H. 8. Hewit, surgeon and medica! director of Gen. Grant's army at the battle of Shiloh, has been honora- bly acquitted and ordered to duty in Gen. Pope’s army, the charges against him having been retracted. TWO NEW YORKERS ILLUSTRATING THE CODE OF HONOR. It is rumored to-day that.a duel was fought with shot” guns loaded with ball, yesterday, at Green Springs, near Georgetown, between two Now Yorkers—Robbins aad Smith. Nobody was hurt, SERENADE TO GENERAL CASEY. ‘Tho band of the Tenth New York cavalry to-night sore- maded General Casey. A LARGE NUMBER OF CEWSUS CLERKS TO BB DIs- / PENSED WITH. The rapid approach of the work on the census to com- pletion makes it necessary for the Secretary of the Inte- rior, we learn, to drop about one hundred of the clerks engaged upon it from the roll of his department. This action wilt probably take place betwen this and the 1st proximo. . DEATHS OF SOLDIERS. The following deaths of soldiers are announced:~« Jobn Bryan, Co D, 107th Pennsylvania. J. 8. Rogers, Co. K, 12th Pennsylvania. Corporal Samuel! Monger, Co. K, 4th Pennsylvania, Ransom Bodright, Co. E, 112th’ Pennsylvania, 24 artil- tery. Corporal J. H. Wiggins, Co. G,2d U. 9. 3. 5. Richard Carey, Co. G, 4th New York Artillery, Letter frem the President on the Negre Questio: Execotivs berg § Wasuinatoy, August 22, 1862. Hon. Horace GRxELBY:— ‘Duar Sin—I have just read yours of the 19th, addressed to myself, through the New York Zrivune. If there be im it any statements or assumptions ot fact which I may to be erroneous, I do not now and here conti it, Ifthere be in it any inference which I believe te be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against it. It there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it, in deference to an old friend, whose heart Ihave always supposed to be right. As to the y 1 ‘seem to be pursuing,’’ as you say, Thave not meant to leave apy one in doubt. I woul@ save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the constitution. The sooner tho national authority cam be restored, the nearer the Union will be the Union as it was, If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do net agree with them. If there be those who would n06 save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, Ido not agree with them. para mount object. in this struggle is to save the Union, ‘and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If} could save the Union with the freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing ali the slaves I would do it. And if could saveit by freeing some and leavit others alone, I would also do that. What I do abdoul slavery and the coiored race I do because I believe it helps to save this Union. And what I forbear, I forbear decane I do not believe it would help to save the Union. T shail do less whenever I shall believe what I am hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shali he- lisve doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errars when shown to be errors, and I shall ber new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. L have here atated my purpose according to my view official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft ex- pressed personal wish that all en everywhere could be free. Yours, ‘A. LINCOLN. IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS A Battle Between a Small Unton Force and Morgan’s Guerillas—Defeat of the Unionists—The Rebel Plan of Opera- tions for Tennessee and Kentucky= Burning of Cotton by Guerillas=Hind- men Moving West from Little Rock= Whereabouts of Bragg, &ec., de. Lovviris, Ky., August 23, 1868. General R. W. Johnson, of Kentuoky, with 800 feders, soldiers, comprising a part of the Second Indiana rogis ment, Wynkoop’s Pennsylvania regiment, and the Fifth Kentucky cavalry, uader Colonel Haggart, attacked 1,700 guerillas, under Morgan, near Gailatin, and wore defeated, with a loss of 300 prisoners, including General Johnson. The remainder of the Union force cacaped and went te Nashville. Colonel MeCook was not in the fight. There has been no tolegraphio cominidaication south of Russelville, Ky., since five e’clook on Thursday afternoon. Meurms, August 23, 1862. Part of the gunboat fleot made a reconnoissance Napoleon, Ark.,and found all quiet and returned. ‘The Grenada Appeal continues to assert that a generat movemont of the rebel armies West is to take piace im* modiately, and that Tennessee and Kentucky are soon te be in possession of the Confederates. On the 20th inst. two thousand guerillas passed through Raleigh, Tennessee, in the direction of Memphis, and re- traced their steps the same afternoon, burning all the bridges over Wolfe and Hatchee rivers, aud all the cottom they could find. The country northward of Memphis, outside the federal Jines, is represented to be considerably cxcited in conser quence of depredations committed by men claiming to be federal soldiers, but who are, probably rebels in dis-” ise, ks Memrnia, August 20, 1862. Thirteou huudred guerillas opposite Helena have burned ‘one thousand bales of cotton and committed othor depred dations within the last few days. It is reported that General Hindman’s rebel army ia moving west from Little Rock. The people along the road are going with the army, taking their nogroes and other moveable property with them. While General Hovey’s division was retarning to Helo na from C'arendon, four ef bis men were killed and seve- ral wounded by guerillas. A large amount of property ‘was captured by them. Avefageo from the South furnishes the following ia. tolligence regarding Southern military movements :— General Bragg is at Chattanooga. The next move seems ‘ag if it would bo on Nashville, ‘Tho reports of a portion of Bragg’s forces being at Grand Junotion are unfounded. Upto Friday there were none thore except scouting partios, who would come in daily and take what they wanted and thon leave, Grand Junction seems to be regarded by them as doubt- ful ground; hence they make arrangements to stay there ag short a time as possible. Stoppage of Confederate Notes. Ivpianavonis, Auguat 23, 1862. A man aamed John W. Garrett, formerly a resident of this city, was arrested last night, heving in his posses? sion threo hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars im Confederate notes, Garrett held a receipt from Adama’ Exprogs fer three hundred and seveoty-fve dollars im mouey seat to D. R, Ramsey, in Philadelphia, who in supposed to be the ongrayer of the Confederate money. —————. f Congre asiopal Nomination in Ohto. Torgno, Augugt 23, 1862. ‘At tho reguiar Union Convention to-day, Hon. J. Ms Aahley was ronominated for Congress by eoclamation, amid greab ontbusiaam. Hon, ¥. 0, Beaman, of Michigan, addronged the Coa yoation,