The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1862, Page 4

- Of all the medical stores, although tne; left four 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. permission to bury their dead, which was granted. A brisk succession of fights took place last weck in Western Virginia, commencing on Wednesday. The Union forces, under Colonel Siber, were at- tacked by the rebels, five thousand strong, be- tween Fayctte and Gauly, and fought till dark. Our men cut their way through gallantly to Gauly, with a loss of one hundred killed and wounded. Another rebel force, meantime, attacked Colonel Lightbarn at Gauley Bridge, compelling him to re- tire down the Kanawha—fighting every inch of ground—and still farther to the Elk river, where he made a grand stand on Friday, At last ac- counts—Saturday, 6 P. M.—he was holding his ‘OPFIOEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, XIBLO'S GARDBN, Broadway. WINTLR GARDEN Broadw: NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Wan. 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Heavy firing com- menced in the direction of Harper's Ferry on Saturday afternoon, and was kept up until a late hour yesterday. It was distinctly heard at Greencastle and Chambersburg, in Pennsylvania, a well as at Frederick. There canbe little doubt that the conflict was between the rebels and Gen- eral Miles, who commands at Harpor’s Ferry. General Miles, though having only a small force, is splendidly protected on the heights of Bolivar, end it is said sent word to General McClellan that he could hold out until reinforcements arrived. ‘These must have reached him last night. Itwas stated by parties who arrived in Washington yes- terday that a genera! order of General Lee's, found @t Frederick, laid down the plans for the rebels as follows:—Two columns were proceed by way of Middletown; one destined for Greencastle, and the other to proceed by Williamsport or Sheppardstown to engage our troops at Harper's Ferry. General Longstreet, it is said, was intercepted by some Union forecs at Middictown yesterday. No official report, how- ever, is received. This would tally very well with the news of yesterday; but how far these plans @an be carried out will depend upon the activity Of our generals, upon which the fullest reliance oan be placed. There seems to be no doubt of the fact, how. ever, that Jackson, with a large portion of the rebel army, has crossed into Virginia. Two rail. road employes arrived in Baltimore yesterday who had been captured by Jackson, and were taken across the river with him on Friday evening &t Williamsport, and there released. Their testi- mony, therefore, to the fact that he is now on the Virginia side of the Potomac, if true, is conclusive, The movements of our army since it entered Maryiand in pursuit of the enemy now assume a connected shape. Our advance cavalry, under Gen. Pleasanton, entered Frederick on Friday and drove a portion of the rebel cavalry, who were Protecting the rear, from that city, after a brief skirmish in the streets. Our troops were wildly welcomed; but when Gen. Burnside passed through on Seturday morning, and when Gen. McClellan arrived the same day, the enthusiasm of the citi- sens knew no bounds. They turned out en masse to greet them, and it was with difficulty that McClellan could reach his headquar- tere through the surging crowd of ex- cited people. General Burnside at once pushed on after the rebels with his whole force, occupy- fug every road, and even crossing the fields to Come up with them. The three stone bridges Across the Monocacy were found uninjured, though Ging iron railroad bridge was destroyed. The rebels devénscd almost all the provisions in Frede- Fick before they left, da ese robbed the hospital to hundred end fifty of their own sick bebind them, General Franklin has captured a rebel train of & hundred ainmunition and subsistence wagons, and v@ent back one hundred and fifty prisoners to Wrederick. "On Friday afternoon the Eighth Illinois cavalry, Colonel Farnsworth, charged on two rebel regi- ments of cavalry and three guns, a short distance @bove Middletown, on the road to Hagerstown. Three of our men were wounded, but we took forty prisoners. Later in the afternoon four Squadrons of the Second Indiana cavalry charged ona regiment of cavalry, supported by artillery, ©n the same road. It was a desperate affair. We Jost thirty men killed and wounded. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded was double that of ours. Our cavalry so pushed the enemy's wagon trains that they were forced to burn half a mile of wagons to prevent them falling into our hands. The reception which Generals Burnside and Mc_ Ciellan met with in Frederick, combined with the fact that the Marylanders have made no response to the proclamations of Lee and Bradley Johnson, wor have joined the rebel army in any force, isa piogular but convincing evidence of the loyalty of Moryiand, notwithstanding the alleged assertion of ber secret adhesion to the rebel cause, and the hopes of the rebel chiefs that a large army would Gock to their standard as soon as they crossed the Potomac. It would appear as if the hungry and Fagged rabble who followed Jackson and Lee did not impress the people very favorably as to the character of the men who came to “redeem” them, and that they preferred remaining under the “foreign yoke,’ as Lee calls it, which affords them protection and guarantees them prosperity. From the West the news continues cheerful. Cin- einnati is quict and secure, The rebels are laying back in some force south of Florence, Ky. Yester- day morning a desperate fight took place at Mun- fordaville, on the Green river, between a large force ‘of the rebels and our troops under Col, Wilder, of the Seventceath Indiana, in which, after a contest Gaating from turce o'clock in the morning till USBUM, Broadway.—Grano a all hours, CLiupe Mar- Ohio, The advance of General Buell's army from finely described in our expeditionary correspond- ence to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The nominations for members of Congress in Towa are nearly complete. The following are the names of the candidates:— Tnion and Republ William Windoa, Iguatiue Donelly. Wiliam B. Allison. Daniel U Finch. Joba A. Kasson, Jobo F. Duncombe. Judge Hubbard, The following are the names of the new govern” ment gunboats for the Southwestern rivers, now building at Cincinnati and Pittaburg:—Neosho, Osage, Kickapoo, Chickasaw, Winnebago, Milwau- ‘kee, Marietta, Sandusky and Eastport. Two of the above are being constructed on the planof the Monitor, and are nearly completed. They have one turret each, and will mount two eleven-inoh Dahlgren guna. The others are much larger, and have each two turrets, The boateare of solid iron throughout, To-day the draft is to take place in New Hamp- shire, Maryland, Indiana and Wisconsin. The ecaline session of the Legislature of Virgi- nia will commence to-day in Richmond. Governor Letcher says that the people have no salt, and he therefore has called the members of the Legisla- ture together to provide ways and means for getting the article. Rev. Mr. French, of the Port Royal Freedman’s Association, who has just returned from Port Royal, delivered a discourse last evening in the Church of the Puritans, in which the moral and social condition of the negroes of the South were commented on. He showed that the efforts of the Freedman’s Association had been troubled by governmental power, and in the course of his remarks passed a high eulogium on Gen. Hunter for the position he had taken in the present war. He alluded to the President's scheme of coloniza- tion, which he strenuously opposed, on the ground that “there waa.territory enough in the South for the negroes to live from. At the conclusion of Mr. French's remarks the colored man, Robert Small—the hero of the Planter—was conducted to the pulpit, and delivered a long harangue touching his enslavement and escape therefrom, many incidents of which excited the merriment of the audience to an inordinate degree. ‘The Rev. Hiram Eddy, of Winsted, Connecticut, who was for about a twelvemonth a prisoner in the hands of the rebels, was to have addressed the congregation at the Broadway Tabernacle, cor- ner of Sixth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, last evening, but was not on hand, owing, it is sup- posed, to indisposition. The pastor, Dr. Thomp- son, read a telegraphic message to the congrega- tion from Mr. Eddy, which simply stated that he should have to spend the day at home. The stock market was better on Saturday; prices of railway shares advanced % a 3¢ per cent, and govern, ment stocke, 3f @ 1%. The greatest advance was in Erie preferred, which rose 1}s per cent. Money was easy at 45 percent. Exchange sold at 1803; a {. Gold fell to 1185 a %. The usual trade tables for the week will be found in the money article. The cotton market, Saturday, was less excited, and prices easier, The sales embraced 1,000 bales, on the ba- sis of 5%c. for middling uplands. Some small lots were dieposed of ia the forenoon at rates above this figure. It being the last day of the week, but few spinners were im the market. Flour was atea- dy, and without change of moment im prices. At the close it was rather heavy for common grades, while other descriptions were firm, but not ac- tive. The chief sales were made to the home trade. Wheat was firm at the opening of ‘Change; but, owing to enbanced rates of freight aud a disposition to await the receipt of private advices by the late steamer off Cape Race, the market closed easier, white sales were tolera- Diy active. Corp was also heavy and lower at the close, while the market was tolerably brisk. Good sound Western mixed closed at 58c.a 50c. Pork was heavy and sales medere's at $1l $2'¢ for mess apd pt $10 a $10 1234 for prime. Sugars were steady, with sales Of about 700 hhds. and 320 boxes, at full prices. Coffee ‘was unchanged and sales limited. Freights were firmer. Wheat was engaged for Liversool at 153¢4., while 134. was seked at the close. To London wheat was engaged at 10d., and at 15344. im bags, to Glasgow. Democrat. oan . Josopb K. Hornish, Kaward H. Thayer, Dennis A. Mahony. HM. Martin. ereepe “My Maryayp,” “My Maryianp.”—Gener al Lee and Jeff. Davie must be pretty! well con vinced by this time that “My Maryland” is our Maryland. When the rebel armies crossed into that State they expected a great uprising of the people, which would give them at least fifty thousand new recruits, and aid them in transfer ting the battle ground of the war to the loyal States. In this they have been most greviously disappointed. Very few people, even among the secessionists, were jubilant at their approach: There was no uprising of the people in their favor, and the number of their recruits can be counted by a few hundreds. After a few days of feasting they found themselves surrounded on all sides by hostile forces, and they had only the alternatives of retreat or capture. Thus the deliverers of “My Maryland” find enough to do in delivering themselves from the scrape inte which they have been deluded. In fact, the raid of General Lee into Mary- land resembles on a large ecale the raid of Jobn Brown into Virginia. Brown, too, expected an uprising to aid him; but the slaves did not care to rise. Brown, like Lee, issued a proclamation announcing himself as a liberator, but was soon compelled to devote his entire attention to liberating himeelf. Brown, like Lee, advertieed that he had arme for all who would joia him; but was soon obliged to use these arms in his own defence. Like Lee, Brown expected to conquer a sovereign State; but soon discovered that bis only safety was in escaping from that State without being cap” tured. This comparison between the rebel general and the abolition insurrectionist shoulf be very instructive to Jeff. Davis & Company, They should learn from it that there are some kinds of “liberation” which sensible people do not desire, and that the Marylanders are just as averse to the blessings of secession as the Vir- ginia slaves were to the blessings of insurrec- tion and emancipation. We only hope that our generals may be able to complete the parallel between _Lee and Brown, by destroying the rebel armies and making the invasion of “My Mary- land” as striking an example as John Brown's raid of the consequences which sometimes ensue from attempting to carry the war into Africa. ground, and had shelled the town of Charleston and destroyed all the salt works in the vicinity. This news reachea us by telegraph from Gallipolis, Nashville into Kentucky after Kirby Smith, is eleven, the rebels were totally repulsed with | The Rebels Expelicd from Maryland ana heavy loss. They sent in @ flag of truce, asking Invasion Colla Tho very interesting details which we pnb lish this morning of the advance of General McCiellan’s army into Frederick C:ty, Mary- land, and of its joyous reception there, and of the retreat of the rebel forces towards Wil- liamsport’ and the fords of the Potomac in that direction, constitute one of the most curious, re- markable and important chapters in all the bis- tory of this rebellion. hungry army. ahead of General MvClellan and his forces from the Richmond peninsula, the rebel leaders might have been satisfied to await the chances of Europeaa intervention. But failing to pre- vent the junction of our two armies, and being short of supplies, mo other alternative was left to Lee than a dash into the fertile counties of Northern Maryland and their abundant stores of subsistence. He and the chiefs of the rebel government had also been deluded with the ridiculous notion that Maryland was groaning under a revolting despotism, and would joy- fully hail the presence of a rebel army for a general uprising against her oppressors. The proclamation of General Lee, however, announcing the presence of his army of libe- ration, failed to satisfy the people of Maryland that the ragged regiments of Jeff. Davis, with their Confederate scrip, were profitable or de- sirable intruders. On the contrary, it appears that even the Maryland secessionists were dis- gusted with the dirt, rags and wretchedness of their liberating friends from Richmond. Maryland was immovable, Lee was con- vinced. What, then, was he todo? McClellan was advancing upon his rear; Governor Cur- tin was mustering an army of a hundred thousand sturdy Pennsylvanians in his front; the rains of autumn were at hand; the Potomac river could not be trusted. He had but one alternative left him. He has adopted it, in falling back into Virginia; but so closely pur- sued by our army as to justify the belief that his broken forces will be routed and dispersed before their retreat is ended. As for the reported heavy battle at Harper’s Ferry, we have no doubt that its results will be entirely satisfactory, for the movements of the different corps of General McClellan’s com- mand appear to have been admirably arranged to checkmate the enemy at every point. We are satisfied that this rebel retreat from Mary- land is full of that demoralization under which this grand ragged, liberating rebel army will speedily melt away, especially with the exhaust- ed country which lies before it and the terrible army of retribution which is behind it. Expelled from Maryland under all the de- moralizing circumstances of a disastrous re- treat, the great rebel army of Virginia can hardly escape the penalty of a speedy destruc- tion or dissolution. And so of the grand Southern army of Kirby Smith, destined for Cincinnati for shoes, clothes and provisions, Driven ignominiously back without a battle, its retreat will culminate in its dispersion. Thus the last desperate rebel programme of the inva- sion of our loyal States, East and West, has col- lapsed; and with our heavily reinforced and re- invigorated armies in hot pursuit, we shall soon reduce this rebellion to that last stage of resist- ance—an impotent and short lived guerilla warfare. Ocr Wocspep Sorprers 1x Batt.e.—We have frequently drawn attention to the necessity for the organization of a special army ambulance department, by means of which our gallant sol- diers wounded on the field of battle might be ‘safely and expeditiously removed to places of safety and security. The recent battles of the Rappabannock afford new evidence of this ne- cessity. When the news reached Washington that immense numbers of our soldiers were ‘wounded and lying on the field, exposed to dreadful suffering, there was no alternative left the War Department but to take all the cabs and public conveyances that could be found and despatch them to the field of battle to re- move the sufferers. Of the vehicles so sent but few returned. The majority of them were ren- dered worse than useless, the rebels having seized and carried off the horses. The wound- ed, therefore, had to remain on the field, and it is said that np to Monday last there were still twelve hundred there within the lines of the enemy. Now, with a well trained and properly sys- tematized ambulance department in connection with the army, such painful occurrences would be unknown, or, at all events, the evil would be greatly ameliorated. The care of the wound- ed in battle is of the very highest importance. It affects the morale of the army in a high de- gree if proper precautions are not taken to pro- tect the soldier who falls weunded in the fight. It is stated that the rebels are greatly in ad- vance of us in this respect, as they have trained bodies of unarmed men accompanying their army, whose only duty it is to carry off the wounded from the ficld. We are glad to see that McClellan has paid proper attentien to this matter in bis march into Maryland. The question is one which forces itself upon the attention of the government; and if General Meiggs, of the Quartermaster General's Depart- ment, in whose province we presume it is to arrange such matters, could see to the immediate formation and discipline of regular ainbulance army corps, it would be one of the greatest practical benefits yet conferred upon our noble army. The soldier, when he goes into battle, naturally expects to be wounded; and when he knows tbat aid and succor are always at hand when he falls he will enter the contest with a more earnest and determined spirit. This and other reasons show that the matter ought to be attended to at once; for there is no duty more imperative on the government than the care and protection of its wounded heroes, Foiled at Cincinnath=Their Northern General Lee’s invasion of Maryland was a necessity. The war having reduced Virginia to a desert, he was compelled to crosa the Potomac for the temporary subsistence of his Had he succeeded in his boid and daring enterprise of crushing the army of General Pope, and pushing into Washington and prepare it for victory. Before the organi- zation and discipline were half completed, the radicals and their organs again clamored for an onward movement; but as seon as they found McClellan had taken the field and com- menced operations on the peninsula, with a view to the capture of Richmond, they never ceased abusing him for the slowness of bis movements, while the stipulated conditions on which he undertook the campaign were vio- lated by the radical influence in the Cabinet, his department divided, and the troops under his command distributed among several inde- pendent generals, over whom he could exercise no control. the co-operation of the ether generals as well asthe aid of the gunboats in the James river, The failure of the Navy Department to destroy the Merrimac in time, and its subsequent failure to capture Fort Darling, delayed and em- barrassed his movements. The generals with independent commands in Virginia egregiously failed to accomplish the parts assigned them in the programme. While McClellan successfully fought his way up to the very suburbe of Rich- mond, driving the enemy before him at York- town, Williamsburg, and every other point where he made a stand, not only did the Union generals at Fredericksburg and in the valley of the Shenandoah and Central Virginia fail to come to his aid at the critical moment, at the subsequent battles of Hanover Court House. Fair Oaks, or the seven days’ fight, but they permitted the enemy to be reinforced with large bodies of troops, which turned the scale of vic. tory on the wrong side. The sound of the cannon at Hanover Court House was heard at Fredericksburg, and yet McDowell gave no sign. Had the subordinate generals performed their parts half as well as McClellan acquitted him self inthe principal role, not only would Rich- mond have been captured, but the whole rebel army would have been made prisoners of war, and the rebellion would have been crushed at a blow. no control, and by the malignant influence of the radicals, his plans were allowed to fail. Yet, by his masterly retreat he baffled the rebel army in its main purpose, and, fortifying him- self in an impregnable position, asked for rein-, forcements to advance again upon Richmond in co-operation with the gunboats, He felt that the moral effect of @ complete abandonment of the rious, and the moral effect of an advance equally advantageous. His opinions were overruled, evacuate his position and retreat to Washing- ton, in order to form @ junction with the army of Pope, whose severe defeats were the result of the retrograde movement which General McClellan was forced by the highest authority to make. How did General McClellan act on this occasion? With an army so attached to him that it was in bis power te have created a re- volt against the government, he calmly and silently submitted to the order of his superior, however much his judgment might condemn and for law and order. from the James river to Alexandria without the perty of the government. He was now de- prived of the whole of his army, with the ex- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, ‘SEPTEMBER 15, 1862. ———— Sta annals McCletlaa and the Fire in His Rear. Just as we amtlgipated, the radical journals are again out in fwW cry, like eo many hounds: on the track of General McClellan. Now that he has been reinstate in his command of the whole Army of the Potomac, and that he has taken the field against the foe, the revolution- ary radica! press open from their masked bat- teriea a galling fire im his rear, for the purpose of impairing confidence im his generalship and loyalty, and demoralizing and disorganizing hie troops in the presence of the foe. What greater crime could be committed against the nepublio than this? In what other way could aid and comfort be go efficiently rendered to the enemy? They accuse the General of the guilty ambition of aspiring to # dictatorship, and charge him with being in league with an unknown number of unknown conspirators for the purpose of usurping the authority of the government and overthrowing by e@ violent revolution the President and his Cabinet. Any person who desires to see those accusations in detail may consult the files of the Post, Tri- duneand Times for the last tew days. In charg- ing McClellan with such designs the writers look into their own black hearts, and there find the treason they would cover up by site| it to him. In the beginning of the war some them openly threatened to supersede the Presi- dent and appoint a dictator; while others in- sisted that the rebellious States had a legitimate right to secede, and onght to be allowed to dopart in peace, according te the principles of the Revolution, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence. The development of the mar- tial apirit of the people, and their determination to maintain the Union at all hazards, soon caused the radical organs to play a different tune. They suddenly affected the most extra- vagant zeal for the war, and under this cloak of hypocrisy assailed the generals because they were not going fast enough for them, tho real object of the attacks being to drive them off the track and make a general smash, they having treacherously placed obstructions in the way, while they clamorously called on the engineer to put on all steam. The first result of this crooked policy was, the disastrous break down at Bull run. Gene. ral McClellan was then called upon by the President, with the sanction of General Scott and the acclamations of the whole country: to take charge of the Armyof the Potomac that Wasbington,is now safe. any insubordination Yo the President? existence of the government. the patriotism of McClellan? Take Fremont for an example. It is in evidence—ae may be seen fn the published report of the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of tte War—that that general contemptuously disobeyed the President, the Commander-in-Chief of the army, and said that he (Fremont) was the representa- tive of the people, and did not care what the President ordered. Here was insubordination of the worst kind—an attempt to set up) revo- lutionary government—an attempt which has been since repeatedly renewed Wy tho radicale, especially by their Jacobim War Comumittes. Let us hear no more, there- fore, bows “usurpation,” coupled with the mame of General McCiellan. That saddle belongs to a horse of a different color. But, while McClellan obeys the lawfully constituted authorities, he ought, as a general in the field to whom is entrusted the destiny of the republic, to insist that his plans shall not be interfered with by civilians in Washington, who have proved that they are profoundly ignorant of the first principles of war. He: owes it not only to his reputation as a soldier, but to his. country’s honor and safety, to make assurance doubly sure, that if his treacherous enemies of the radical school cannot be pre- vented from: imperilling his success and the: safety of the: army by their virulent assaults upon his character, they should, at least, not be: permitted to: tamper with his purely military operations as they did’ before. These men can no longer be suffered’ to trifle with the lives of our soldiers and: to: endanger the life of the nation itself. Tae Free States Not Invapep.—With the exception of a few guerillas, who entered Ra cine, Ohio, and’ ran: away with their plunder no foot of free territory. Even their advance into Kentucky and Maryland has been but tem- porary, and has resulted in disaster and re- treat. The rebels were greatly mistaken in supposing that our people were like their own; that our free: States were as sparsely settled and as depleted of fighting mcn as the South- ern States, and that their armies could invade” us and occupy our cities as our armies have in- vaded aud occupied:the South. When our forces appeared before Charlestoa and Savannah the: inhabitants of those places skedaddled. When our fleet arrived off New Orleans the people of that city made no re- sistance. When we took Memphis some of the citizens fled South and the others calmly sub- mitted. So it has been with every Southern town and city, and even the people of Rich- mond made every preparation to run away and some actually fied while ‘the fighting was progressing along the Chickahominy, ex- pecting the capture of the city as a matter of course. With our citizens, however, the case has been widely different. Instead of prepar- ing for flight we prepare for fight. When Cin- cinnati was threatened. the people of Ohio turned out en masse, armed with shot and squirrel guns, and finding that the rebels did not make the attack, they went over to Ken- tucky to look for the enemy. When Pennsyl- vania was threatened, the people rushed im- petuously to arms, and Governor Curtin has now an immense army of militia along the border. Thus, the rebels have discovered that they cannot invade us as we have in- vaded them, and thet we have larger armies at home than any we have hitherto placed in the field. If these home armies take the aggressive they will overrun the South like afiood. This is what is meant when we de- clare that if our Northern soldiers cannot bring back the-South into. the Union, the North wil) go down.into Dixie and do the work herself. His calculations were based upon By the failure of others, over whom he had Cross Corporations. Evapine THe Pusiic Tax.—We have already drawn attention to the unwise-and unjust action of the New York gas companies in shifting the tax on their enormous profits to the shoulders of the consumer. This outrageous proceeding is arousing the people to a vindication of their rights, and from all sides we are receiving letters on the subject. There ie no doubt that the agitation of the question will eventuate in great goed to the whole community, by the destruction of these unscrupulous moncpolies, which are acting so unfairly to the people. We have now to draw attention to a similar course of action on the part of some other close corporations. We learn that the New Haven Railroad Company has come to the conclusion to charge the United States tax on their profits to commuters on their line, by an increase in the price of travel. If this plan be carried out—and we can scarcely conceive that it could be reasonably entertained—many labor- ing men who travel on the road will be seri~ ously injured. The Brooklyn horse rail- road companiee—of which there are six— have also caught the evasive contagion, and, in consequence of a war tax of one and a half per cent on their gross receipts. have combined and decided to make no change in consequence, except to add one cent to.the fare of eack pas- songer, thereby increasing their grose receipts twenty-five per cent. It will be the fault of; the people themselves if they have to submit, to such plain imposition as this, Let the city corporations and the State Legislature be eallad upon to deal with all monopolies that seek to shirk their fair share of public responsibility, and in a time like this to add to the burdens of the people. It is almost certain that resolu%e popular action will cause the Legislature to act promptly and withdraw the charters of such shaving and unpatriotia organizations. The city government of Brook- lyn should, see to these horse railroad com. peninsula would be highly inju- and he was compelled to it. Such was his respect for the constitution He effected his retreat loes of a man or a@ dollar's worth of the pro- ception of ninety men and thirty-five “contra- bande,” though earnestly asking in vain to be allowed to take part in the battles at Manassas, and do what he could to stem the torrent of retreat. Did he now revolt against the autho- rity of his superiors? So far from it he again submitted in silence. And when, in conse- quence of the failure of other generals in the field, the capital wae endangered by the ad- vancing foe, flushed with victory, crossing the Potomac into Maryland and threatening Penn- sylvania, to whom did the government and the country turn in that dark honr? To McClellan. Mr. Lincoln fell back upon him as the anchor of hope in the coming tempest, and he was appointed to the command of the whole army. From the moment the appointment was made known to the foe his boldness was checked, and he wad compelled to look out for his “bases of supply” and “lines of re- panies, and, ff they cannot reach the evil, let, it treat.” From being confident and ram-| j,, brought to the aetice of the approaching pant, the rebels have retreated in a Legiskavure. The New York Oorporation will westwardly direction up the Potomac from McClellan’ steadily advancing columns, till at length they are believed to have recrossed the river and evacuated Maryland. That Stata ig doubtless also give attention to the questio: @nd interpose at once to provent the extor- tionate proceadings of the gaa and railroad gompanies. serene ent le Frelieved, theyauthorities of Pennsytvania breathe more (reety, qpud the fedoral government feets Has McCtetfan abused his trust since his re- appoiniment by aay revolationary cabals or Has he ever done'so? Never. On the contrary, above all other gexerals appoimed during this war he has been scruputvws in his obedience to the constitution aad’ the Chief Magistrate, and his respect for the paramount authority of the civil over the military power. He has shown throughout the greatest disinterestadness and the smallest amount of personal ambition. The false pretence of meditated “usurpation” is the offspring of a party malignity which would sacrifice to its purposes’ the: army and the very’ How do the epirit and’ condwet of the radical generals who have taken the field compare with like frightened thieves, the rebels have invaded | 4 NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasuinaron, Sept. 14, 16687 ACCIDENT TO 7K PRESIDENT. fr Comrg in from the Sefdiors’ Home ycaterday the President's horse ran off with bir for a cousidorable dis" tance, and tminred somewhat esevidusty bis wrist and ankle. Mr, Lineoln, however, kept his scat, and Ganily brought the steed imte aubjection. MOVEMENTS OF THE REBEL ARPY—THEAR PLANS, STRENGTH, EV. A goatieman who loft Weatminstor of Saturday mora- ing states that tho rebel (orces did not succeed im neouring tho large reinforcements they had expected’ at that pois. ‘The total number of recrults addod to thelt ranks frome that strongest vecession towm in that part of tho State amounted to thirty. ‘The Monocacy bridge was destroyed by the'rebels by Placing gunpowder in the prers and abutments andi expind- ng it. The bridge was & eeutly structare of trou, fou hundred foot long. Tie water station which was turned By the rebels was a substantiat structuro, containing @ steam engioe and punrp: No ether injury was dows to he railroad near Fredeviok. ‘Tiestory of the American flag being tied to tho tails horses end trailed in thedust-of the strests in Frodericlt is true. Tis-betteved the rebels mean'te show fight in Mary. land, tHough they havc thus far fallen beck before tae army undes General McClelfan: Thetr etvength is quite 28 muotag ene hundred and! twenty-five thousand, ro quiring fuby the force wo havosemie-thele direction te defeat them. HR COMPENSATION OF THE: NEW wore wan ASSESSORS. The Now York tax asseesors reine fin, The law pro vides for (te compensation in thv-ameount of » thousan@ and a few odd dollars, but so provision t made for office reat, clerk hire, safes for We pre- servation of documents, &o. According to @ moderate caleulation of the necessary empénses Qot provided'for, the assessors of ezeh: distriot i New York city will'be several hundred dollars: ous of peokey, each year. The agseasers have sent: to: Washington @ committee: to confer with My; Boetwe i Teference to the matter, and tie consulta tion hag resvited in « mutual acknowmdgmend Of the difficulties of the case, some of! witith cam be evercome only by supplementary legislations The meat Congress will apply the proper romedy. THE 6MALL NOTE ISSUE BY THE DISTRICT BANES, The government: has not, as is generally supposed, issued an order interfering with the issue of staalt netes by the regular banks of this District. It. is< underssse® that no such order is now contemplated. THE ARMY. Dr. Magruder, late Medical Director of GeneratMoDow_ ell’s division, is appointed President of toc. a@mine surgeons and) assistant surgeons army, io session at Philadetpitia. Dr. T. A. McParlin, late Medical Director of the Army of Virgivia, has been dotaited te ‘ the charge of the goneral hospital at Annapolis. Brigadier General Q. A. Gilmore arrived hereto-day. He: will probably: proceed to Cincinnati and-\report te Major General Wright-for a command. A gentleman connected with one of the departments of the government states that while he was at Slanassas, having been numbered with the tired nurses, becom vVoreed with an intetigent Georgian, who told hinv.in oea- fidence tbat if General McCiellan, as chief of the United States Army, would put forth a proclamation, at-this period of the rebels’ destitution, in substance that protection and needful clothing aad subsistence would: be ‘afforded all in armsagainst the government who shalliay down their arms and: come within our lines, that hea- dreds would gliadly-aveil themselves of the opportunity for their deliverancefrom starvation; and that noinfe_ ence the rebel government could bring to bear-would induce: the famished: men to resist the inducement thu® offered. The Sword Presentation to Admiral Foote, United States Navy. - DESCRIPTION OF THE SWORD. The sword, which is-to be presented to Admirat- Foote this evening, by the citizeas of Brooklyn, has been: om ‘exhibition several days, and bas been seen by iarge-num* bers of gratified people, It is undoubtedly the most.mag- nificent ‘sword that bas over been made in this coustry; is gracefully proportioned, rich and artistic in design, aad with scab bard and hilt of gold. ‘The pummel represents a golden hemisphere, studded: with stars; on which rests a branch of olive and oak, ber neath a group of trophies, ‘The guard, whiob is: part of the chief feature-of: the» whole,.isa superb work of art, containing a basso-re- lievo of Neptune returning triumphant en bis car. Ther figure of Neptune, bold and spirited, stands in his- car~ leaning uvon his trident; at bis ieet are the spoils of victory, Two vigorous sea horses draw tho carof: thes tended by tritous and sea nymphs biowingsrum-- pel honor of the hero. This basso-relievo ts encireled' by operscrell work, forming a rich aud barmopieus as— rangement vf lines, the cfiect of which is exceedingly”, pleasing. At the bottom of the guard is a baldty.me- deiled Lead of a dolphia. ‘On the ecabbard area series Of relievos, ilustratingc: some of the prominent exploits of the wold sailor whe ia: to be tho recipient of the gift. First is exhibited. Foote'ag bombardment of Chinese forte, with appropriate orm’ mental embiema and scenery. The second exhibus skint ful and:daring operations in the bombardmentof Islana! No. 10, wherein the immeuse but uncouth mortaz-boatad R reat pertection, the slanting smoke stacks, port holes, &c., of the bombketches- ges forth with great accuracy. There are also various: cidente. of . the operations on the Cumberland and Teanes» see rivers. Lower down are la eter allugionsioComp =. modore Foote’s experiences on the African coast. The following.inscription is also cut on the ecabbarnd p beautiful characters:— a by the citizens of Brooklyn to Fiag.0fe Andrew H. Foote, asa testimonial of their high persar regard, of their appreciation of big eminent character, distinguished public services fluence in a long.carcer of active duty; and especialy bie efficiency in the suppression of the. slave © on. the coast of Africa; his gallant. condug ; the destruction of the Burrie forts. im @ his masterly skill and energy in the: cm of a flotilla, and of his brilliant and intropid; bow ment therewith 2 Co Peiaegy onthed see, the Cumber! and the Mississippi."’ The sword biade is no less a masterpiece of: war ehip and material than the scabbard. It iariehig @d with agtistic designs, and near the hilt, ‘with graceful scroll work is the motto Jmi The designs.on the blade and hilt were madely sculptor J. Q. A. Ward, of this city. The. wast reflects credit upon the man Meesre. Ames, of Chickopee, Massachusette, © ene City Intelligence.. ‘Tam Prom Asocianion of New Yort—! nis instite tien bas issued am appeal to the public. of, @ ig city, ask. ing aid in order to carry out the preisenom! ny objects for — it haa been een Ropes f m was slarted: 0 year , hav object the vention Of crime of all grades. From oest reyort of the workings of the association, 1t,woult incalculable amount of good nas deem ase thousand dollars’ per annum are. ned the objects of the association, | 12 called upoa to furnish the fuade. The tributing are requested to hand in. Corresponding Secretary, e& No, 136 we or to William C. Gilman, Jr., at No. WARD ENGINE COMPANY NO. 3: bs ACCIDENT TO. JAC < appear (at am anplished, Tem for carrying ot © public aro now desirous of com sir amounts to the st Eleventh strew, Pine street. AND THB ALLEGED JON. HRRALD. ORK, Sept. 13, 1862. * eptember 1 there apy ward Engiue Company members named Jaek- issue of the Baxe.p of # dy! ‘an article stating that Her ‘0. 34 had run over ono. of thee * gon, and killed him instantly, Sv w,sir, such i not se. There was no pesson killed of DW ¢ by us, and there is Re person of the name @& Jacks0m.! Jonnected with us or oar company. Ap article appeared in tha, ider of to-day headed “The Jackson Fund,” stating tha! @ members of Howard Ev- gine Co. No. 94 were raising a fund for his family. Nos wishing to bave the public ¥ ceived by any imposition im the way of parties soliciting donations, I most fully ask of you te have ik & wrested, and oblige yours, p jOLLEY, Foreman of BOW -ard Engine Company No. % —— MAILS. 1/0R EUROPE. Tie Rebel inves, of Maryland—Meve- ments. of Gemeoral McClellan’s Army— Reported Bac@lesat Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg-:-Operastions of the Rebel’s in, the Weat-Another Fight in Caroliaa~-News from Mexico, dée., de. ‘The Cunard, mail steamship Asia, Captain smail, wil leave Bostoa on Wednesday for Liverpool. ‘The ma‘is for Europe will qlose in this city at a quarter- past one, and at hall-past five o'clock to morrow after noon, go by railroad ‘The, New York [eeaume—Edition for Kurope—will be published at eleven o’efock to-morrow morning, and wild contain full details, ofthe Rebet Invasion of Maryland, fand of the Movements of the Army of Gonefal McClellan to Intercept thom, the particulars, as far as received, of the Attack on Harper's Ferry, and Repulse ot the Rebels by Uae Union Forces; tho latest nows or the Ope- rations of Une Rebels in the Weat; an Accounts of tho Re cont Bate at Washington, N, C., and ali other interesting news {nu felation to the Progress of the War, laier nows fro" Moxico, &. , ke. 8, in wrappers, ready for mailing, #ix cents. Sampson Low, Son no. 43 Lidge Hii, London, Bag. land, will receive advertisemonts Gnd gubsortotions Cem tite New Yon flwnavy.