The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1862, Page 4

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ERT HALL, 615 Broadway.—Drawing NTs. GAIETIES © om Exracera, PARISTAN CA\ Open dally ITUCATION. The retreat of General Pope’s army from Cul- peppergo the north bank ef the Rappahannock was cted in an admirable manner, General Sigel covering the rear splendidly. Considerable skirmishing has been going on with the rebels since our new line of operations has been taken. It is reported that . General Sigel cap- tured two thousand rebels, who crossed the Rappahannock at a rush; but Sigel, having per- mitted them to cross, immediately destroyed the bridge by a heavy fire from his batteries, and then pouring in*s volly of musketry on the enemy, killed nearly four hundred of them and captured the whole remaining force, who were unable to make a retreat to the ether side of the river. Our correspondence describes the retreat of Gen. Pope very minutely and graphically. Our correspondence from Hilton Head contains some very intcresting accounts of the rebel rams at Savannah, together with other events transpir- ing in that locality, including the recent general order of Major General Hunter. From the West we have intelligence of a skir- mish which occurred at Big Hill, in Madison county, Kentucky, between the troops of General Metcalfe and the rebels. No account of the loss on either side hag reached us. General Metcalfe had withdrawn to Richmond. General Rosecrans, with a for¢e of nearly forty thousand men, has gone southward from St. Louis, where, it was said, a large body of rebels under General Armstrong were located. It was sup- posed that the combined rebel armies of Generals Armstrong and Price—the latter of which was at Tupelo, on the Mobile and Ofhio Railroad, with twenty-five thousand men—imtended to form a junction and attack Resecrans. A curious account of the proceedings of the guerilla chief Morgan and the adroit interception of telegraphic despatches by one of his officers will be found in another colnsun, and is worthy of perusal,‘as one of the most singular incidents of the war. By the arrival of the steamship St. Marys, from New Orleans 17th inst., we have recaived mtelli- gence two days later than out previous advices. General Butler's Order No. 21, relative to the sequestration of the privage firearms of the citizens of Now Oridams, does not wit the French Consul’s (Comte Mojan’s) idea of mmeum and (usm. He thetefore opened a oorres- pondence with Cemeral Qutler, and desires that French subjects be permbsted th retain ther pri- vate firearms, as he thiuice the United States au- thorities cannot extend ndequate protection over them ‘‘at all times and af! pinces."’ Gomera) But- ler promptty replied to Comte Mejau's letter, re. butting the argument uged Wy the jatter—namely, that the Frenchmen of New Osle aus have ‘“‘sacrific- edeverything to madntain dnning the actwal conflict tho neutrdlity tmposed wypn them.’ General Butler cails the Coneni’s “‘mttevtion to the fact, that the United States forces gave cvory immunity to Monsieur Boonegrase, who claimed to be the French Consul at Baton ‘Rouge; allowed him to keep his arms, and reliad ppon Me neutrality, bet his son was taken prisduer on the bettie Seid ip arms agains ua.’ The eorrespondence wilt be found elsewhere. By the arrival of the MiYbernian off Gape Race yesterday wo have om» day's leter news than that by the Kangaroe, fhe United States gamboat ‘Tuscarora left Kingstown very saddenly on the morning of tho 13th met., by order of the Col- lector of Customs. Tier destination was not known, nor is it agpertetned why sho was erdered off so precipitately. A conference on the subject of eotton sepply had taken eg in London. A deputation from the © a Supply Association met commissioners from the comstrics which sent eotton samples to tie 1 ne fonal Exhibition. Representatives frow It iiugal, Spain, India, "Awstraiie ana sundry ov “rican States were present. Aji vuraging representations of what th vere capable in the predue- tion of « ~ ANBOUS NEWS. bera © Cape Race By edviecs tothe quence of an extraordinary advance in the price of cotton and cotton goods. The intelligence had caused a slight advance on all descriptions of cot- ton in the Liverpool market. The steamship Great Eastern is reported to have arrived off Cope Race about eleven o’clock on Saturday night. She will, therefore, probably reach this port to-night or to-morrow morning. Her advices are to the 17th inst, The letter of our Hilton Head (South Carolina) correspondent, published in our news columns, will be found interesting. From the statements of rebel deserters, it would appear that the rebel iron-elad vessel which has disported in the Savan- nah river recently, and now menacing Fort Pulas- ki, is not the British ship Fingal, metamorphosed, but an entirely new and formidable machine, mounting numerous guns of heavy calibre. The Fingal has been razeed, and is now being plated with iron, and at last accounts was nearly com. pleted. She will soon be ready to co-operate with the ram Georgia in an attack on Fort Pulaski and the blockading vessels in the vicinity. The rebels feel confident in their ability, with their iron-clad vessels, to breach the walls of Fort Pulaski, and compel its garrison to surrender unconditionally, and afterwards to destroy our naval fleet. The Rhode Island Legislature will meet in extra session to-day. Colonel John A. Davis; of the Forty-sixth Dli, nois regiment, having been solicited to become a candidate for Congress, in the Third district, re- plies that he ‘can be of more service to the country in following the torn banners of his regi- ment, and sharing the danger, the perils and the glory of who that are left of the gallant and brave men who followed him into the smoke and fire of battle at Donelson and Shiloh than he could as a member of Congress.”” as The wilitary camps in Iowa, for the regiments of nine months men, have been designated as fol- lows:—At Keokuk, Camp Lincoln; at Clinton, Camp Kirkwood, at Dubuque, Camp Franklin; at Towa City, Camp Pope; at Des Moines, Camp Burnside; at Muscatine, Camp Strong. Persons volunteering for the nine months cali must enlist in the town or district in whioh they are enrolled. : The announcement came yesterday, from Phila- delphia, that Charles Ingersoll had been arrested for treasonable or discouraging remarks, made at the democratic meeting in that city on Saturday last. Mr. Ingersoll, in his speech, denounced Pre- sident Lincoln and the government in pretty strong terms, and accused them of disregarding the con- stitution, and of being the most corrtipt of any in “the world. He also stated that our debt was hea- vier than that ef any other nation, and one that had the least prospect of ever being paid. The following number of volunteers were in camp at Chicago on Saturday las i Board of Trade Tattery. Mercantile Association Independent companies. A splendid banquet was given at Ottawa, Cana- da West, on the 2ist instant, the occgsion being the formal opening of the Ogdensburg, Rome and Watertown Railroad. Speeches were made by a number of American genilemen, among whom were the Hou. Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee; Judge Jawes, of Ogdensburg, and Professor Davis, of Poughkeepsie. Union scntiments and the best of feeling prevailed. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 520 deaths in the city during the past week— @ decrease of 165 as cowpared with the mortality of the week previous, and 2 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. Tue re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 5 of diseases of the bones, joints, &e.; 82 of the brain and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 13 of the heart anf Wood vessels, 104 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 7 ef old age, 16 of diseases of the skia and eruptive fevers, 1 premature birth, 238 of dis- eases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 28 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 6 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 14 from violent causes. There were 354 natives of the United States, 5 of England, 94 of lre- land, 27 of Gerwany, and the balance of various foreign countries, ‘The stock market was buoyant yesterday, and prices of ali deseriptions advanced from 34 to 1} per cent, cs pecially after the reecipt of the news from Virginia. The most active shares are Erie, Erio preferred, Hudson, Mi chigan Central and Michigan Southern, Money was very abundant at 4 percent. Gold was lower, closing at 11514 011534. Exchange sold at 127}{. The banka show an increase of $1,313,283 in deposits, $2,526,973 in loans, and $286,708 in specie. Tue cotton market was firm and higher yesterday, while the sales emUraced about 700 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 47c. for middling uplands. Owing to the advancing tendency in freights, and less favorable news from ngimd, por Hibomiaa, the market for breadatufls was heavy. Flone fell off Sc. per bbi. for common and medium grades, while good extra brands wero un- changed. ‘The sales were moderate, and in good pact to the domestic trade. Whest was alsg affected from tho mmo causes, and fell of Lo. a 2c. pér bushel, whity males wore made (0 a fair extent. Corn was alao heayry. ‘Whe chit cates wore cow fined te heated and dump iom, with parcdls for shigument Eastward, while prime to cacice Western mixed, which was uot planty, sald at We. a O6c., and choice at Glc.,in sme lots. Pork was lowe cotre aod booyant. Sales of mess wore made a 6i2, and at $20 for pricae. were stendy. ‘Bho ales were confined to abou 225 hbds., 100 of which consisted of New Orleans, at Ge, Coffee was atondy, bat quiet. Freights wore IMgbor. Wheat, insbip’s bags, was ongaged ior Liverpool av 144gq. and dour at 4 Tue Guest Wa: Mewrxo To-weeow.—be mass meeting which isto be held in the Park to-morrow afternoon will diifer ftom thowe that have preceded it in the fact that it wil be» moeting of the people for action, and not for talkiog—a reerusting movement on a monster scale. Every man who feeis am interes: in the restoration of (he Union should bring to R either his eouteibution for promoting enlist meats or sn wndestaking t© provide a reernit, Not a moment is te be lost f we would wave the city from she necessity of a devft. By euer Sy, zenlowmess and liberality om the part of a who heve it m the® power to give, there is yet time to avert it. MH the goverament were once eonvinced that our qnota for the second call eonld be made ap without more delay than would be eveasioned by the process of deaft ing, it would, we doubt not, grant the extension of time necessary to effect it. Let all, then, whore hearts are with the eause of the Union, make i a point to be present ai this meeting. No exeuse of business abould be aliowed to interfere with a duty #0 pressing and obligatory on all good citizens. The man who eau attend and yet re- mains away will be guitty of indilfwrence to the fate of the republic. This meeting will afford a test of the loyalty of those who waver botween their atlegianee to the Union and their abolition proclivities. Lovejoy, Sumner, Greeley, and thowe who aot with them, are miking of getting np 0 mosbing of their own, to define the eondi- Hons on whieh thoy will give their support to the governmont. If ther have a 9 trlotism in then, they Will, even &t this, the e ith hour, ale! crotchels that have upon the conntry, 1, with the meet- ark of pa sou NEW YORK HERALD, TURSpAY, AUGUST, 26,1862.» —_" 7 ome a tc = . saw ze "the army, prevent enlist-| of the service, resomiind thé introduction of saan and has quite as much’ =~ lated to deniorah.” ae oa. tae = : lon. of | much of afi old woman quite as , when pith ‘The Opposing Armies om the Rappahan- nock—Lively Skirmishing. Gen. Halleck’s reported expulsion of news- paper correspondents from the Army of Vir- ginia has left us to the chances of stray passea- gers for any information from the opposing armies on the line of the Rappahannock, until we shall have had an engagement of sufficient importance to command an official report. The letter which we publish this morning from the Philadelphia Press gives the results of the observations of the writer at the “ Head- quarters of the Army of Virginia” down to Friday last, and shows that, although the enemy had been making vigorous efforts at various points to cross the river, they had been uni- formly repulsed, and in one instance, at least, with a pretty heavy loss. But the Philadelphia Bulletin, from a passenger who left the Rappa- hannock on Sunday morning, says that the ‘re- port of the capture by General Sigel of two thousand rebels lacks confirmation. The Press correspondent in this matter may have picked up one of the idle rumors of the camp, or he may have had the first confused report of some sbarp collision, the facts of which have yet to be ascertained. There is one skirmish, however, reported by the Press correspondent of which we guess there ean be little doubt, inasmuch as he was in the midst of the fray. We allude to the rebel attack upon a railway train at Catlett’s station, from which it would appear that at least one detachment of rebel cavalry, on Thursday even- ing last, had not only got to the north side of the Rappahannock, but within six miles of Ma- nassas Junction, where, if we are not mistaken, there is a very valuable depot of army supplies. We presume, however, that, as the rebels were repulsed in this night attack at Catlett’s, they fell back towards the main body of their army, and that in the meantime Gene- ral Pope has provided for the security of his supplies and trains at Manassas. According to the report of the aforesaid passenger, who left the Rappahannock on Sunday morning, our troops, up to that time, had still successfully resisted all attempts of the enemy to force a passage over the river, and “will be able to maintain their position until a junction with the other army corps shall enable them to resume the offensive.” r We conclude, accordingly, that everything is working well on the line of the Rappabannock— that General Pope has baffled and checkmated the rebels successfully, and that he has thus gained the invaluable time needed to bring the forces of Burnside and McClellan within sup- porting distance. We do not anticipate, there- fore, a battle in Virginia of any magni- tude for some time to come. The rebels having evidently failed in their desperate enter- prise to catch the army of General Pope by forced marches, and crush it before he could reach the supporting columns of Burnside and McClellan, it is not likely that the rebel gene- ral in command—Joe Johnston—will rashly try the fortunes of a general battle. time, having failed to capture the commissariat trains of General Pope, or any of his stores of sup. plies, Johnston will probably be mainly occu- pied for several days in hurrying up from Gordonsville the subsistence demanded by his half famished army. The extreme point of danger is passed. Our several armies in Virginia have doubtless ere this formed a junction, and we may thus as- sume that the rebels have reached the extreme limit of their advance, and that soon we shall hear of their retreat along the whole line vo- luntarily, as a measure of safety, or by com- pulsion. Tae Conpvcr or Tux War snp Tas Poxrtr- crans.—There is no difficulty in finishing up the war before spring, if the génerals who hare charge of it are let alone, so as to manage it in their own way, without the intermeddling of the politicians. In order to make sure of the desired result, our army will not take the offensive till it is fully recruited, and the six hundred thousand new troops swell it to a million by the lst of November next. By the same time the iron-clad gunboats will have been finished, and the mailed fleet will number some fifty vessels, sufficient to capture Charles- ton, Savannah and every port on the Southern seaboard, during the winter months, when such operations are more practicable, in consequence ‘of the ymilder temperature. These invincible vowels, morcover, can penetrate the interior of the country by the water courses, and aid the movements of our armies in the Gulf States- The armies put in motion by the first frost will sweep in such overwheiming force over Virginia and the antire South that effective resistance wi be impossible, md the rebel forees will be all surrounded and captured or dteoxganized aad dispersed, se that. by the middie of January the rebellion will have re- ceived its death -blow, and the repuldic will have vindicated its title of “one and indivisi_ ble.” We have the men, the money and the re- sources to conquer an enemy already oxbaust ed, and it is only a question of time. But to tasks the time brief it will be necessary to save the genorels of the army_from the pernicious in- finence of the politicians, who blight ati thet tiigy touch.. We hope tlie President, therefore. will keep them at distance, slmtdng than equally out’ of the War Departnont and the Wiste Howse. They ought to be driven away as lepers that contaminate all with whom they “egme in conmet. But for their dvstructive in fineace fhe etraggle for the Union wenld have been long ance evowned with success. They ‘have protracted itso as to reader new levies and new suppiles of money nevessary; and they woaid protragt it for seven years if their poliey was allowed to prevail. In order to bring it to 8 speedy, end, and restore the blessings of peace and prosperity to the country, it will be necessary to kick the fanationl radicals out of Washington, and let the war be conducted on pase military principles and the diemtes of eommon sense. ‘ Casmiva Paanis Bavoam Swiva.—The impv- dent reply of Greeley to the Prosident’s letter to him ts only a new illestvation of the old preespt, “Cast not your pearls before swine, lest they torn again and rend you.” Greeley again radely charges the Dresident, whom he impudently and familtarly addrerses ag “dear sir,” with violating the laws of the land. The President hes done no such thing; but Greeloy and the abolitionists want him to violate the eonstitetion, whleb Le bas sworn to defend, and heoanee he will not do this they insolt and obose him at every opportunity, aconsing him | even of constructive murder in the eare of the New Orloens negro rioters. The Provident hes but one course to pursue towards Greeley ond the radical disunioniste, and that is to put a summary stop tg their seditign, wuigh is qaigu- ments and destroy the ,Ublic government at a moment of great pv all should rally around the Execative, European Intervention, and How It Ha, Been Knocked in the Head. One of our Wasbington correspondents at- taches, in our opinion, too much importance to the services of Archbishop Hughes, Bishop McIlvaine, Thurlow Weed and some other amateur and volunteer diplomats to Europe, in the important work of “counteracting the machinations of rebel emissaries in the English clubs, French salons,” &. Our correspondent says that “ it may be that the failure of foreign intervention in behalf of the rebels may be at- tributed largely to the influence exerted in all ranks of society by the gentlemen referred to;”” for that “ it is certain that before their mission took effect the emissaries of the rebels were successfully poisoning public opinion at its very springs.” We incline to the opinion that the labors in Europe of “the gentlemen referred to” had no influence whatever over the government of England or that of France. We believe that Thurlow Weed, for example, from his labors in London and Paris, produced about the same effect upon the minds of Lords Palmerston and Russell and Louis Napoleon as if the venerable Thurlow had remained at home, and had, against rebel emissaries in Europe, confined his labors to the editorial columns of the Albany Buening Journal; and we dare say that the same may be said of his patriotic colleagues. The simple truth is that both England and France, some nine months ago, had virtually concluded to intervene, and that they have only been shaken from their purpose by the manifestations of our tremendous military power and resources, and our fixed resolution to put down this rebellion, intervention or no intervention. England, trumping up the convenient pre- text of an outrage to the British flag, in the case of the Trent steamer, began to prepare actively for a war with us for the relief of Jeff. Davis, when Mr. Secretary Seward’s quiet and masterly explanation of the Trent affair put an end to the complaints of John Bull for a time and silenced him. France began to bea little shaky upon the heels of our victories of Roanoke Island, Fort Donelson,.&c.; but that instructive and ominous sea fight between the rebel iron-clad Merrimac and our invincible little Monitor creatgd a panic in England and France, especially in England, which opened wide their wondering eyes ing regard to the danger of intervention in our domestic affairs. ¥The rebel iron-cased: monster, the Merri- mac, in a sudden dash, had destroyed two of our finest war ships of the old wooden school; but she found more fhan a match for her heavy battery and her impregnable sides in our unexpected little nondescript, the Monitor. This conflict and these results demolished all the wooden navies of. the world, and England, for the purpeses of an invasion of the United States, found herself very suddenly reduced to one solitary available vessel-of-war—her iron- clad but cumbersome and clumsy Warrior. We had effected a complete revolution in naval warfare in a day, and this tremendous fact set- tled the question of intervention in the British Cabinet in the negative. This opportune beginning of the Monitor has since been enlarged on our part into an iron- clad navy sufficiently strong to annihilate the navy of England; and, as we have added weight and power to this iron-clad armament, England has become more and more decided against in- tervention. Louis Napoleon has also felt the peculiar ty of our iron-clad vessels-of-war; but, when these peace agents on the water are backed by an army of a million of loyal men, the wisdom of the policy of non-interven- tion becomes as clear as the sun to both Lord Palmerston and Louis Napoleon. influence in fawor of neutrali- Such are the agents, instrumentalities, argu- ments and influences that have defeated the machinations of the emissaries of Jeff. Davis in Europe; and against the cupidity, hypocrisy and unscrupulous ambition of England and France all other arguments and agents, and all that they have done, may be set down as only so much “leather and prunella.” Tue Ins ano German Evemeyt Ix THE War.—A contemporary is indulging in invidious comparisons between the patriotism of the two nationalities, German and Irish, as represented by Generals Sigel and Corcoran. This is a most ungracions and ill-timed theme for discus- sion at the present moment. alities are striving with equal energy and equal patriotism to defend the government from the assanits of treason and rebellion, it illy becomes a public journal to draw distinctions calculated to provoke unpleasant feelings between any portions of our citizens. The Geumens and the Trish in our armies are alike jastigated by a common sentiment of devotion to the flag and the constitution which insure them a home; and for the maintenance of that flag and that consti- tution they are willing@%o sacrifice life itself upon the battle field While all nation- It is, bowever, not extraordinary that irri- tating remarks like those referred to relative to oer patriotic adopted citizens should‘ emanate from a journal which not lang ago advocated the extension of the term of naturalization, and the inffiction of certain pafns and penalties—as, for Amtance, the exctusion from office and other disabitities—apan the members of the Catholic cliarch, to whidh the groat mass of the Irish and a large number of the Germans are attached. Commetrta, whetber of praise er blame, from such a souvee, fortunately, can bere little woight cithor for good or evity but the bad taste and the misgfiievous tendency of mtxo- dueing such subjects at the present tue are none the lees. Cumoropy is mie Army.—We enderstend that several gentlemep, medical and surgical, ot the highest eminence, have united in recom- mending to the government the organization of a aorps of ehiropodists, to inepect the fect of the men and keép them in order for marching. It has oceurved to ue that this braneh of surgery might be introdueed into the army with very positive utility, not only with an eye to the tomfort of the soldier, bwt the effeiency of the serviee. Thove can be no greater hindrange to rapid marehing, or to eelerity of movements of eyery sort, than te pain, Irritation and halting propensities arising from affections incident to the foot, and almost ingeparable fiom army lite and exposure, Gareful attunthn to the eondt- tion of the feet of their solery wae considered a material element in the effrotive management of avostus Wy Pre“oriek the Great avd Napoleon; and we see no reason why it ¢howld be disre gorded in the brave armies of the Union, Hu- mold aA ai many yousidgrations, mgt logs Wien the eficlenoy | raging to this YOR,srable lady, who ie quite aa ere, tis. ——— > Jeff, Davis’ Barbarian Congress. and under an able and | influence as Greeley iimself, besides having skilful head an organization of operators | been twice as long fishing fo." Tecognition. The throughout the army might be perfected of | President will find Mrs. Chila’s last letter to the highest practical value and importance. him in yesterday’s Tribune, and & Prompt an- swer will greatly oblige the writer. i ay - = : y.Jen who could rebel against a government | Wel! to state, however, that emancipation an ; Iike ons’ Own will not hesitate long ‘at any sort | Cl0ulzation, of which subjects these letters to of infamy. It i8 not susprising, therefore, to the President treat, are mere platonic ideas find the desperate leaders of the present hope. very well adapted to some dreamy system of less rebellion vainly endeavoring to substitute utopian philosophy, but altogether out of place’ cruelty for strength, and devising and adopting in this practical world, and having no connec- the most barbarous and atrocious measures to | “on whatever with live, wide awake men and bolster up their sinking cause. In his las¢ mea- | Women. sage Jeff. Davis recommends, and immediately | gxelusion of Newspaper Correspondents upon its assemblage the present rebel Congress from the Army. entertained, propositions in regard to retaliatory A report is in circulation—and there is, ne warfare, which, if adopted and carried into | doubt, some foundation for it—that a special effect, will completely revolutionize this war, | order has been iasued by General Hatteck ex- and result in most frightful and unnecessary | cluding all newspaper correspondents from the bloodshed. The measures to which we refer | army. This is the first special order im regard were introduced into the barbarian Congress | to correspondents that has been issued sinee the by Mr. Foote—commonly called Hangman | siege of Corinth, and, in its exclusive and sweep- Foote—a noisy, blustering rebel Congressman | ing character, the only order of the kind that has from Tennessee. They provide that if rebel | ever been directed against the press, eltiar guerillas, or those who harbor and assist rebel | here or abroad, by any military commander. guerillas, shall be punished by Union officers, It is quite true that some of the newspapers such Union officers shall, if captured, be put to | against whom it is levelled richly deserve pun- death; that Union prisoners shall be held as | ishment for their publication of contraband hostages for guerillas, and made to suffer the | news; but it is not just that those journals same fate; that officers of Union negro regi- | which have paid implicit deference to the cen- ments shall be hung or shot, if captured, and | sorship regulations should be inoluded in it, the negro sol diers sold into slavery; and that | The order issued by Secretary Stanton, requir hostages shall be taken from among the Union | ing correspondents to give their parole not te prisoners for, and be made to suffer precisely | publish anything that might be serviceable the same treatment as, every rebel citizen im-| to the enemy, furnished, we had sup- prisoned by-our government. These bills were | posed, a ready means of reaching de} referred to the Military Committee of the rebel | linquent parties. The evi of thee barbarian Congress, and, as they are approved | culpability could be easily prod! and their by Jeff. Davis, will probably be passed. exclusion from the lines of the army would Such barbarous, brutal and inhuman mea- | have the effect of deterring others from follow- sures will come home, like curses, to those who | ing their example. General Halleck, it ape inaugurate them. As threats, they amount to | pears, thinks otherwise, nothing, and will deter the United States go- Not only does he deem it necessary to issue vernment from no proceedings which seem to | this rigid decree of exclusion against news- be necessary to the restoration of the Union. | paper correspondents as a body, but he has, If practically carried out they will only effect | we understand, given directions that no more greater disasters to the rebels, without at all | letters are to be transmitted fsom tho meme impairing the success of the Union cause. | bers of the Army of the mac to their None but men who are blind to all the dictates | families, the order applying to all ranks, from of reason and humanity could ever entertain | the general and colonel down to the private., such sanguinary ideas for a moment. The Now, as regards ourselves, we shall, as we simple fact that such aets are before the rebel | have always done, cheerfully acquiesce in any Congress is equal to the efforts of a dozen re- | regulation issued by the military authorities cruiting officers here at the North. The hang- | that may be deemed : conducive to the interests ing of a single Union prisoner, or the butchery | of the campaign. But there are other interests of single Union officer, by command of the | which, without interfering with the objects rebel authorities, will be followed by a ven- | aimed at, are, we think, entitled to considera- geance as terrible as it will bespeedy. Hither- | tion. to this government has conducted the war ina The families who are sending their dearest most Christian spirit. Our efforts have been | members—their fathers, their husbands and devoted to restoring the Union, not to extermi- | their sons—to combat in defence of the Unien, nating the Southern people. Our armies have | and the people at large who foot up the bills been employed in defeating armed rebels, | for the vast expenditure contracted by the notin deyastating Southern hearthstones. | government, naturally feel some anxiety im The conduct of our soldiers in the | regard to the events inwhich they have so deep enemy’s country has been most exem-'| astake. How is this anxiety to be tranquil- plary, and, in spite of the efforts of rebel } ized if, neither through the newspapers nor leaders to fire the hearts of their followers | through the medium of private letters, they are by lying tales of Union outrages and atrocities, | to receive news from the army ? they well know that no other army in the world During the Crimean war, when in moat of has ever equalled that of the United States in | the other European capitals the public mind the kindness, justice and forbearance with | was agitated by false rumors, set afloat By stock which it has respected the homes and protected | gamblers, the Russian government—one of the the families of its enemies. We believe that the | greatest military despotisms in the wortd— rebel leaders have often profited by and impos. | published in St. Petersburg a daily bullétin ed upon this clemency, and we know thag the |-from the army, which attracted attention for its wives of the rebel Generals Lee and Beauregard | strict adherence to facts. If it had to report am have .themselves experienced and appreciat- | advantage to the Russian arms, it did so with- ed the magnanimous gencrosity of the Union | out exaggeration; if a reverse, nothing was troops. extenuated. History does not present another so It is no argument against this clemency that | remarkable example of confidence and fair our soldiers hang guerillas and give,gbush- | dealing between a government and people. whackers a short shrift. These fellows, who ¥f the President is of opfuion that thero are are farmers by day and soldiers by night; who | grounds for the Chinese system of exclusion im burn bridges and tear up railroad tracks ; who | regard to correspondents established by the or- fire upon passing trains and murder wounded | der of General Halleck, he should, in considera- men in ambulances; who sack peaceful vil- | tion of the anxiety of the public, and in meray lages and hang aged and inoffensive Union citi- | to those who have relatives in the army, follow zens, are not soldiers, and will not be recogniz- | the example of the Emperor of Russia, and ai- ed as such, no matter what threats the rebel | rect that a daily bulletin be published in Wash barbarian Congress may fulminate. They are | ington of the events transpiring at the seat of simply assassins, brigands, highwaymen and | war. land pirates, and should be shot down like dogs We feel that we are in a position to make this wherever they are caught. Let Jeff. Davis hold | suggestion, because we, of all journals in the one of our regular officers as a hostage for a | country, have adhered most faithfully to the guerilla, bushwhacker or bridgeburner at his | orders of the government and military authori- own peril. Already his crimes weigh heavy | ties in regard to the non-publication of contra~ on his soul, and a few murders more or | hand news, even when compliance with them less will not at all change the fate | was attended with detriment to our own pecu- to be meted out to him in this world and the | niary interests. Let what is right and proper, next. As to the threat against Union negro | we repeat, be done to secure our generale regiments, that is a mere brulum fulmen, since | against the premature betrayal of their planag no such regiments now exist under the authori- | put at the same time let it not be forgotten that ty of the United States government. It will be | the people have a right to be daily informed of remembered, however, that the rebels have } the progress of events in which their dearest siroady organized negro regiments, and the | interests axe involved. baxbarity of the teitors is evident when we consider that they propose to massacre Union officers for doing the very thing which they have themselves authorized in their own armies. ‘Winter Garpen.—This establismaent reopened lg evening for thofull season, with Mies Bateman as the ing star. The play was tho Hunchback," and quite a Went audicnce assembled on the cecasion. During the recess: We do not arin the negroes, simply beonuse We | ne atigrations and cmibeltishmionts have beon effected im believe that they can do move for the Union in } tie nouse which have greatly improved its internal ap» other oapacities than as soldiers, and not be- | pearance. The miniatare baiconies that prijected from cause of any fear of retaliatory warfare. It pares brdtcrd pit aa re a raiataa ie sf i tl moved seboettut y pavneling, paint rete cohieteit tut ha aeaamnede neutral thuts, and relieved by gMding. A greater force of * oe gae has also been put on, 9 that the thestre, which haa distinctly. The rebellion is now a hopeless a3 | never yeen properly Hit, now presenta quite an agreeable the restoration of the Union is certain. The | nspect. Mise Datetuan’s reception wes of the most en” very consideration of retaHatory measures is an | tieestic kind, md her Jutm,.—her best charactar— open confession of the weakness of the rebel | Ws pmyed under the auspices of this cordial greening, and we need not gay lost noving in force and Spirit Crom cause. W Jed. Karis and bis arew wore not | i” cng was ropoatealy called bofore tho curtain, and mad they would be down on thelr knees beg- | precied with Xaral toxtinontals of she approbation of the ging for meroy instead of defiantly threatening | audience retaliation. They might as weil try to avert the blow of Heaven's lightning by striking off'n lucifer match as to endeavor to check the pro- Cc ers’ Inque: A Max Pons Fw Wire in Waren Srmemr.—Coroner Ran. nog held an inquest yesterday on the body of Anne Down gress of the Union arms by talking of hanging a few prisonors. Fools that they are, they for- feit every chance of mercy, baman or divine, ond voluntarily make themselves eqnal to the most brutal savages, at the very momeot wien the civilized world bas again refused to reeog- nize thelr independence, and when the powerful government they have assailed has the rebellion completely within its grasp, ie marshalling ite overwhelming forees by land and by sea, aud is about to strangle treason out of existence. Avyomman Lorran 70 Ti Prestozn1—Baana- PATION AND Conoxraytion.—Sinee President Lin- on bas taken to writing publie letters to pri- yate indtvidnale, we reepectfulty roeommend Mrs. L. Marin Child to his early attention, Mrs. Child must now be about sixty yeats of age, and ahe has been engaged for te past thirty in writing levvers to king*, met- bers of Gbngress, emperors, Joba Bryywos und other dfstinguished personages will Jui having yet been favored with s single reply. That the same brwiness of letter writing for Mfteen yonrs, should be favored with » note from the President, while she baa pone, is very disco. poor Greeley, who bas only b’sen engaged ia Se cman, ing, ® pative of Irolund, aged thirtydive yoars, who men | hor death on Sanday evening, from injui#ies inflicted om her person by ber husband, at their realtence, No. Alay Wator street, Frem the evkicnee addaced at 1 it appears what James Rowning, sen of the d aged ton yoors, saw bis father kick her, p tho stomach, and strike her three ‘ four times violently with his elonehed fist, at Gio dame time ening ber by opprebrions names. ‘hp ehdid also ae. ot that hie Tener had been in the havhor Rioking and I osing bis motlwr. it appears vhas en Sunday evening Downing avd his wifo paid visit to the two amters of the latter, named Men Connor and Mavgaret Bagbr, at No, 369 Cherry streot. Neeensed sont for aquart & Beor at her Losband’s reqrast, and the liquor having Gooa dgypasedt A Dor feramoney to get me cuget. “She re Jy whict made tha CJ th way down hag he) Lf wd on tho way ; oven tt made oD attempt to strive his “@ifo, but Talos Kowerey,, af so M os they reached, home he inade am abtook hor, milictiog Mnjurter aout the abdomen whi! Lher death, 8 ong sas Vas the tay ailroy but some me SS oe 9 appear, he ing and big wife ved for some time at previo ba Hae a Bane ot wo chains ng she resul. . Gaka lon emit eo ec earn ave Ras his by Keaton fu ifr ba poe’ : Ba encore in thing -five mul on ie emamination thet be did not dese take the life of ne aite, bee tities fe had commen har hast My in solf+ . Mo was Wh Towds to owdit neem wa thraageitied OCltigon, WmeAGo, August 25, 1868. G@ttiwen, woh for many youra at ide cAfdones ‘ie todings & ee