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bal NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES “GORDON BMASKI'T, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NAS3AU 308, SBMS cask tbe at the | igh ov the vende New York j WS \ oy ~ Sp ton cents pe 12 cogay oF $2 mer aman PARY 0. RESPON DENCE. r Pervun FoReicy Com eqnacrem ro Seat ALL Lwyie Rs AND Pace: ken o/ anonymous correspondence, We do nob me one VTS enewed enery day: arbvert weitee ¢ Wap xin Henatay Paaaty Mec tr California and Europe On PRINTLNG cxecuted with aaninesa, ” oO" Sener heapnces and des pat Woinme XXVII,, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Traniay OrzRa— Ga Sonwansrna. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Booadw acm wha WALDACK’S THEATRE, Broodway—Scnooe ron Soaps, WINTER GARDEN Broadway— ERALDIN LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway —~Oup Hans axn Yooxe Lranrs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. —) Bra— {AYeASSASSIN OF RuseNWaLD. BOWERY THEATRE, Bow Vureke or THe Canmaray Se eaX Bow. t Banay, GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, os Broadway.—Marrua, anth treet and et, PROMBNADE BAfNUM'S AMERICA! AQUAKT\ LEASED. Sean &e OFL, Atvernoon and evening, UM. Broadway. —Gxann Cuator Mar hours, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS’ Mecha: way.—Eumortas Soxge, BURLESQU! Brack Bricapr, CHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, OS Bi z Boncs, Daxcrs, Ae.—Perex iret Frere WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, BM Be oad way, ETHIOPIAN Soxcs, Dancrs, &¢.—Tax Birn HosiE cs HOPE CHAPEL, Broadway. Dxwision oF Tineye.'s CaLrvoRNta, HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND music Fir. 4 Canal ine TWO ScampseFox 1x 4 care hoa GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 618 Broatwa Roow ByTertars meta, AWLNG VARISIAN CABINET VONDERS, 585 Broadway.— Open daily trom 1OACM. GHID Te Me) Brenda. New York, Sunday, Scpt. 21, 1862, DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mouday, Sept. 15. Tuesday, Sept. 16 + 121,680 125,520 Wednesday, Sept. 1 880 Thursday, a 126,000 Fr se aa 19... 123,600 Saturd. Pe aa “28 23,460 ‘THE SITUATION. Reports received from headyuarters yesterday represent everything quiet at the froul, with the exception ef some skirmishing by our troops, The latter crossed the ev and proceeded a mile inland, without serivus Opposition, capturing six guns, which were brought back to the Maryland side, and are now pointed against the enemy. The ford was so nar- Tow that only one wagon could pass, deep water lying at each side of the ford. The rebels, under the ruse of a flag of truce for the ostensible purpose of burying the dead—a pri- vilege which was humanely acceded to them by General McClelan—took advantage of the armis- tice on Thursday not to bury their dead, but to transport their army across the Potomac. Thus, at midnight, they had succeoded in getting nearly their whole force across, and by daylight on Friday morning ali bot the rear guard had gone ever. Se muck for the honor of the revel chiefs. It was stated at last accounts that they were posting artillery on the opposite shore to provent our troops crossing. General McClel” lan, however, if it should be necessery, can well atiord to keep them in their present position as long 2 he pieases. Every hour weakens the re- treating enemy, and gives time for fresh troops te come up to our army, as tkey are now doing from Pennsyivania. Meantime, while the rebels are engaged with McClellan im the Upper Poto- imac, why may not Richmond be aesailed from be- low? Our troops entered Sharpsburg at five o'clock on Friday morning. They found the place con. siderably damaged by our shells, though no lose of lite, with one exception, had oocurred among the WHeizens. The rebels had consumed all the provi- sions in the town during their stay; but the supply was #o inadequate to the wauts of the starving arwy that many of the hungry woldiers ere said to have actually wept with disappointment and despair at finding their wants unappeased, It is unnecessary to way, therefore, that our men, when they entered the town found little proven- det; but they were forvanately provided from the Upon surveying the whole field of the late eavairy and infantry. ri fatiishing a* they were. rear. ore wes found to be more heavy No less than 2,500 rebels were found unburied, although numbers had been duterred the day befere, The rebel loss in killed and wounded will less than eighteen or twenty thousand, while we bave cap- tured fully five thousand prisoners. The succinct history which we give to-day of the capture of Harper's Ferry by the rebels re- lieves the memory of the gallant Colonel Miles from all insinuations against his honor and loyalty, It will be seen that the place was not surrendered, mor was the position on Maryland Heights aban- doned, until there wes no farther possibility of holding either point. The recapture of Harper's Ferry by « portion of Burnside’s corps, though very confidently stated im some quarter#, does not appear to be satisfactorily confirmed. Further details of the Jate grand battle are pub- lished in our columns to-day, furnished by our special correspondents who were on the field. They will be found highly interesting, graphic and complete. Our Louisville correspondence contains a most fateresting account of the battle at Munfordsville, Ky. It appears that Bragg, Humphrey Mars and Kirby Smith their fi It is said that Louisville, and not Cincinnati, the object of attack by the rebels. The forces of Buell and Bragg had undovbtedly come into eo'- Pasion, The news of General MoCictan’s victories action, the rebel than was supposed. not amount to have combined is | Little, of Mississippi, | Whitefield wounded and nade prisoner. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTiuciR in Maryland will, in all " probability, ee an the Sagara important change in the policy of the rebels in Kentucky General Rosecrans had @ brilliant engagement with @ large rebel force, fifteen thousand strong, under General Price, near Iuka, Miss., on Friday, in which he completely routed the enomy, and was pursuing them at accounts, Ex-Governor was kifled and General Our loss was only five hundred killed and wounded. That of the enomy was much greater The steamship Roanoke arrived at this port yes- terday with advices from New Orleans to the 12th of September. Our special correspondence is in- teresting, but notof very great importance, as, under the firm role of General Butler, affairs progressed evenly and steadily. The Union troops had regular expeditions, on afl sides of the city, in order to hunt up and chase rebel guerillas, The duty was regarded as a sort of amusement, al- though now and then dangerous. Acting Briga- dier General Paine had just ran up the river with considerable force, and, disembarking at the proper place, he surprised some six or seven hun- dred Texan cavalry, Our men fell-on them like an avalanche, and in a short time they ran for thé swamps, leaving the arms, horses, ammunition and commissariat be- hind them. A number of prisoners were taken during the pursuit, The most absurd stories of rebel victories around and in Washington were circulated by their leaders in Louisiana, and be- Ex-Governor Wickliffe, of lieved by the masses. Louisiana, had aninterview with Gen. Butler under a flag of truce, in order to complain of the conduct of the Union troops outside of the city and threaten retaliation by the hanging of Union prisoners in the hands of the rebel officers. Gene- ral Butler replied that the rebel General Tayior had only one hundred and thirty-six of our men as prisoners, but that we had five times as many of his; so, !f hanging were commenced, the rebels would iose heavily in men. Released rebels were to be organized again under General Tilghman. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The London Gazette of the 2d instant contains an order in council enabling Mr. Horatio Nelson Lay and Captain Sherard Osborn, R. N., to enter into the naval and military service of the Emperor of China, to acquire and equip ships and to enlist British subjects for the said service. This permis- sion te be in force for two years. The Scottish Former publishes forty reports regarding the state of the crops in twenty-two of the counties of Scotland. The harvest generally is late, and, in wheat especially, unusually unpro- ductive. On heavy lands barley and oats are also generally poor. Potatoes are showing symptoms oae, and in many places are very deficient. evidence that this will be a bad year for the farmers in Scotland generally. The radical revolutionary journals of Italy are in a bad way under the new system of rules of Vv r Kmanuel. The Unita Jialiana, the Maz- zinian organ of Milan, has announced that hence- forth it will cease to appear. The Déiritto, of Turin, and the Popolo d'Italia, of Naples, have been scized by order of the government—the one for @ revolutionary article, the other for publish- ing the protest of the Emancipation Society of Genoa, now suppressed. The following are the names of general officers commanding Braxton Bragg’s ragamuflins in Ten- nessee:— Commander-in-Chief—MaJ. Gen. B. Bragg. Firat Corps d'Armee-—-Mej. Gen. Wm. J. Hardee, commanding. First Division—Brig. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck- ner. Second Division—Brig. Gen. Hilliard. Third Division—Brig. Gen. Slaughter. Second Corps d’Armee—Maj. Gen. Bishop Leo- nidas Polk, commanding. Fourth Division—Maj. Gen. Benj. F. Cheatham. Fifth Division—Brig. Gen. R. H. Anderson. Sixth Division—Brig. Gen. George Many. The Mayor of New Bedford, accompanied by the Hon. Thomas D. Eliot, M.C., have just return- ed from a visit to Washington, and report that “all will be right in the matter of the draft.” Governor Letcher has issued hie third proclama. ion, calling upon the people of Virginia between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five to enrol] them- selves under the command of that notorious thief, John B. Floyd. These proclamations were based upon a law of the rebel Legislature of Eastern Virginia, passed on the 17th of May, which author- ized the executive to commission Jobn B. Floyd a major general of the State after he had been kicked out of the Confederate service, amd em- powering him to raise an independent force of ten thousand men. Four months have passed, and the men are not enrglled. Hence the Governor's third proclamation. A great number of substitutes are advertised for in the Richmond papers, all to be over forty-five years of age. The Common Council of Troy, tired of waiting for the government postage stamp currency, on Thursday authorized the Finance Committee to issue twenty-five thousand dollars in shinplasters. Hon. Thomas Ewing, Jr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, has resigned his place and joined the Eleventh regiment of that State. At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day a communication was received from the Corporation Counsel, giving his opinion that the Board has the power of removing, by @ two- thirds vote, the head of a department for de: liction of duty, and that the party so removed not the right to hold over until a successor is appointed. The resolution proposed by Alderman Walsh, to present a sword and sash to Brigadior neral Corcoran, and to appropriate the sum of $1,000 for that purpose, met with some good natured opposition, on the ground of en anneces- sary outlay, and was for the ne defeated, though the proposer (Alderman Walsh) offered to accept the substitution of the sum of $600 as an amendment. The stock market opened steadily yerterday, but gained streagth as the day advanced, and finally olosed buoyant, with @ pretty general advance. Money was ebundant at 4 per cent. Exchange, 129. Gold was 116% turonghout the day, but clesed at 1173¢ bid. ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday, while enies, in mal! lots, were confined to about 100 9 150 buies, closing nominal within the range of 63c.a56c. The chief salee the day bofore yesterday were made at She. @ 85)gc. The mews frem Europe, giving ac- counts of a decline in Liverpool, alev tended to unseitie the market, as dealers felt disposed to awuit the recoipt of private advices by mail, The four market was heavy, and dal) for common aud medium grades, while good to prime brands of extras were quily firm. The transac- tious were to a fair extent, in good part to the home trade, Wheat was irregular, and closed at a decline of about le. per bushel, with tolerably free sales at the concession. Corn was lees buoyant, and fell off abont le, per bushel, with suies of sound Western mixed at 500. and some lots of prime do, at 000. Pork was firm and in good demand, with cales of mesa at and with emailer lote of heavy barrels at $12, J at $10 12) a $1025. Sugars were firm and ve. ihe chief sales were continued to $11 75, as. The sacitons embraced abont 1,700 hhds., inciuding fair t» good retining Cnbas, within the range of #0, # Sje., and small lows of good to prime grocery gratos . Coffee was quiet. Freighte were ault ute moderate, Ty Liverpool wheat wax Kand in ship's bags ati ad. and dd flour Wo Glasgow #. 4x. at ., in balk and ship's bags. Rebels trom Mary- land—Now for Richmeud, The expuision of the grand “liberating” rebel army from Maryland is one of the most import- ant and decisive events in the hiftory of this re- beliion. It-marks the limit of General Lee's ad- vance to the northward, it secures Washington, it “liberates” Maryland, it destroys the pres- tige of rebel inviacibility, it demoratizes this hitherto successful and powerful rebel army of Virginia, it restores ce” tence, solidity and en- thusiasm to our own troops, it breaks up the whole of this last audacious rebel programme of a winter campaign on the northern side of the Potomac and the Ohio, it opens our way to the easy occupation of the rebel capital, and it marks that final turn in the tide upon which, from the Potomac to the Mississippi, we may pui- sue our advantages down to the Gulf of Mexico. The loss on the part of General McClellan of the great battle of Wednesday last might have involved the loss of Baltimore, of Maryland, and of Washington ; it might have been @ loss which @ thousand millions of money and an- other year or two of war on the grandest scale would have failed to repair. But with the vic- tory on our side the losses to the rebel cause, as we have indicated, are correspondingly great. The game is now in the hands of President Lincoln, hia Secretary of War and his General- in-Chief, and especia!ly is their opportunity for the capture of Richmond so clear and inviting that if they neglect it they will surely be called to account for it by a disappointed and justly indignant people. The army of General Lee, driven back into Virginia, is now some two hundred miles away from Richmond. Had our officers en- trusted with the important position of Har- per’s Ferry held out a few hours longer, the rebels, repulsed from that point, would have had no other line of retreat than up the valley of the Shenandoah—a rounda- bout journey. But, with their occupation of Harper's Ferry, and the seizure of our supplies there, they may move the whole or a portion of their forces through tiat gap, and, by way of Leesburg, proceed directly south to Richmond. At the same time the rebel forces at Cumber- Jand Gap and thereabouts in Tennessee may be summoned to his headquarters by Jeff. Davis, and, if so, with the advantages of a good railroad, ten thousand of them, within ten days, may be brought into the rebel capital. Even by way of the Shenandoah valley Jack- son will hardly require over fifteen days to move a body of fifty thousand men around to Riebmond, On the other hand, a Union column of twenty- five thousand men, under any active officer, arriving at Richmond within the next ten days, may walk into the city; but five days after the expiration of this interval a hundred thousand men may be unequal to the task. We think that the pursuit of Gen. Lee should be left to General McClellan, and that no at- tempt this side of the James river peninsula to head off the rebel retreat should or will be made with an inferior force running the hazard of being cut to pieces. Richmond is the point at which General Halleck should aim to cut off Lee’s retreat; for the capture of Richmond will bea more damaging blow to Jeff. Davis and his Southern confederacy throughout the South and throughout Europe, than would be a dozen Union victories in the field, leaving Richmond untouched, for with the city once in our pos- session, we can hold it with a single gunboat. We thus dwell upon this point in order to impress upon our government the public opinion and public expectations upon this sub- ject. The rebels, in sending out their whole army to crush General Pope and to push into Washington in advance of Genera! McClellan, left Richmond under the care of less than ten thousand men; and now, while General Lee’s utmost skill and exertions are employed to keep the Potomac river between his shattered forces and our victorious army, the public de- mand for an immediate descent upon Richmond, by a short cut from Washington. ie altogether just and reasonable. Unquestionably General Lee comprehend: this danger of the rebel capital, and we have no doubt that he will risk the loes of a portion of his army by moving off at once with a column of forty or fifty thousand men, post haste. for the defence of Richmond. As it was a race between Lee and McClellan, from the James river, for Washington—the one by land, harase ed by General Pope, and the other by water— so now it becomes a race between Lee, from the Upper Potomac, and General Halleck, from the Lower Potomac, with every advantage of troops, distance, routes and transportation in our favor, for the open front door of Richmond. So our intelligent, loyal people understand it, and so we hope that they will not be disap- pointed in their just demands and expectations, Tae Farcre or tHe Reve. Cawraron iv ManYLanp.—The rapid collapse of the invasion of Maryland by the great Southern army is suggestive of grave reflections. It was the dic- tate of desperation. The furious Richmond journals and the fire-eating section of the rebols have evidently forced the cooler heads into thetr measures. They now, however, find that, hard as it isfor them to defend themselves in their own States, it is infinitely harder to pene- trate the North, even through a loyal State that still retains their own cherished institution. That they based the success of their confede- racy upon the campaign in Maryland is evident from the debate in the rebel Congress, the ex- tracts from the Southern papers and the address of General Lee, all of which we lay before our readers to-day, as illustrative of the hopes and purposes of the enemy. It is evident, therefore, that the failure of the Maryland campaign is tantamount to a collapse of the rebellion, and that the battle of Antietam was ao decisive one, and the turning point of the insurrection. Their great army is baffled and beaten, falling back upon Richmond, to produce panic there and throughout the whole Southern States. It will not have time to rally till McClellan is again upon it and gives it the finishing ulow. Henceforth the radicals will not be able to interfere with him. When stern reali- ties arrested their career, and he was per- mitted for a brief season to conduct the war after his own fashion, behold what he accom- plished. He took our beaten army, and with it he whipped the victorious army of the enemy. If the radicals are not permitted to meddle with the war, and if gun contracts or secret and disloyal combinations do not thwart the plans of the government, the stor and { stripes will soon float victorious over the bat- | tlements of Ricimond, and the rennion of the thirty-four States will become an accomplished fuct before the year 1863. . A Yankee fu the Opera Business. ‘The Furopean journals coustantly that they cannot comprehend the rapid tions and transitions of the American character, as developed in this war. At ono time our armies | retreat, and Europeans stigmatize us a4 oow- ards; but the next steamer brings the news of our victorious advance, and they are forced to eutogize our bravery. Fora while there is a pause, and the London Zimes dectares that we do not mean, and do not know how, to fight; but the next day Kurope is appalled by accounts of battles more bloody than any in history. The Merrimac and the Monitor thunder away at each other, and the world discards wooden walls and isin a fever about iron-clads; but, shortly after, our wooden vessels capture New Orieans, sailing up the Mississippi through an infernal avenue of shot and shell and flame, and sinking the iron-elad gunboats and rams of the rebels as they go. Now, it will hardly leas astonish our transatlantic critica that, in the midst of what they call a terrible and desolat- ing civil war, we have the spirit, the leisure and the funds to cultivate the Muses, and to in- troduce to them s new prima donna and a Yankee impressario. To-morrow evening we sball declare our in- dependence of foreign Powers in opera. Be- fore this we have entrusted ow operatic affairs to the great Maretzck, from Germany; the great Muzio, from Itely; the great Ullman, from Hungary, and the great Strakosch, from the kingdom of Solomon; but now we are about to put ourselves under the charge of the great Nixon, from Yankeeland and the Cremorne Gardens. He is to be the McClellan of the Opera, and we trust that he will inaugurate his reign by driving all the foreign rabble from the lobbies of the Academy,as McCleilan has driven the rebels from Maryland, and puiting every deadhead into his appropriate coffin and under the ground. We expect there will be those who may object to Nixon's management, as the scandalous Post and Tribune opposed McClellan; but the enmity of the wicked is al- ways the praise of the virtuous; and before long publio opinion will rebuke the opponenta of Nixon, as it now rebukes the abolitionists, and any hostile papers will be as completely squelched asare the Post and Tribune by Gen. Halleck’s circular, published yesterday. It is our custom to give the biographies of great generals when they are called to new com- mands, and we wish we had apace for that of General Nixon. Suffice it to say, however, that Nixon first became a public man asthe manager of a travelling circus and the proprietor of se- veral wild bulls and tame buffaloes. Eucamping with his circus at Niblo’s Garden, he met with such success as to warrant him in leaving the ring, like an alderman with a Japanese for- tune, and entering upon the legitimate business. He used the arts acquired in his menagerie to coax Edwin Forrest from his retirement, and ex- hibited that histrionic bull of Bashan to the public on half-shares, and with great profit to all concerned. The beautiful Cubas, by some supposed to be a genuine Oriental houri, fresh from Mahomet’s paradise, was next entrapped, and with her, and leaving Forrest, Nixon took to the woods of the Cremorne Gardens. In these gardens Nixon concentrated all his forces, as McClellan did at Antietam creek, aud gained as glorious a victory. He had there Cubas and champagne, promenades and panto- mimes, a circus and segars, trees and tableaux, illuminations and ice creams, horses and hand- some ballet girls, clowns and concerts, Chinese pagodas and Cinderella, wonderful dwarfs and @ brass band, Greek fire and soda water—in short, a coyglomeration of acceptable amuse- ments and refreshmente. To these he soon ad- ded Carlotta Patti—the queen of the Patti family—and Madame Strakosch, her sister, who charmed the town with their melodios. Then the idea of opera seems to have dawned upon him; for he increased his forces by a new tenor, Signor Sbriglia, and afterwards by Signor Sn- sini and the redoubtable Muzio, the nephew of Verdi. But one obstacle then interposed between Nixon and the Academy of Music. Nature, which had been so lavish in everything else to Carlotia Patti, enviously deprived her of the free use of one ofher limbs. Celebrated as the best of our coneert singers, and with every requisite of voice, culture, study, dramatic fire and surpass- ing beauty, this misfortune alone kept Made- moiselle Patti from treading the operatie stage, and enabled her younger sister and pupil, Ado- lina, to outstrip her on the bright path of fame and win the earliest and proudest laurels. But Nixon was » Yankee; and the special mission of a Yankee is to circumvent and improve upon nature. He studied and reflected, con- sulted much with physicians and mere with mechanisis, and at last succeeded in procuring a contrivance by the aid of which Patti can walk with unfettered steps. Nothing else was wanting. . Nixon had made his prima donna and his opportunity. The Academy of Music was at once engaged and refitted, and to-mor- row evening its doors will be opened to the public. Carlotta Patti, supported by the ar- tists already named, appears as Amina in “La Sonnambula,” a character in which Adelina won ber best triumphs, both in New York and London. The admirable Muzio wields the baton. We have no donbt whatever of tho result. Nixon will find it more difficult to manage prime donne, tenors, contraltos and baseos than educated mules, trained horses and tame buffaloes; but he will assuredly succeed. After having managed Edwin Forrest, he has a right to assume that he can manage anything. When Cordier and Titiens arrive, therefore, they will probably find their fame as far eclipsed by the Patti here as it is in Europe by the Patti they will leave bebind them. “My Maryianp.”—There has been a great dea} said about the song called “My Maryland,” which all the rebels sing and all the rebel young.ladies play on the piano. This song, with the assistance of the rebel army, was ex- pected to redeem Maryland. The expectation was disappointed. The Marylanders liked the music of the song much better than they did the rebel army. The one was full of melody; the other was full of fleas and dirt. We give the words of ‘My Maryland” in another cotwan this morning, a8 an appropriate requiem for the rebel army of invasion. They Heard the distant thunder bum ‘The Old Line's bugle, fife aod drum , but before they had any further revelations McClellan's boys were after them with the bayonet, ond they skedaddled from Our Mary- land forever. Way Is Iv?—While nearly all of our gallant sea officers in Admiral Farragut’s squadron have received promotion, and by name the thanks of Congress, why is it (hat our gallant 41, 1832 marines, though mentioned in official de- 6patohes for gallantry and efficiency, have beea negleoted? WasenGron, Sept. 20, 1362. WHY THE NEW LEVIES ARE NOT SENT TO THK Shar OF WAK, ‘Much surprise has been exprossed hore at tho fact that in some of the Northern States thore are large bodies of troops, raised uader the new levy, who are withheld fron immediate service on account of technica! objoc- ti \t is said that thore are now, and-baye been for several days past, ten th ad men organized in New Jersey whe might have been sent to Washingtou, and taker the places of other woll trained troops, except (hat the Governor refases to allow them to leave until they are completely armed. ‘There are arms enough for thor but timo is required to make tho boxes i which to pack thom, aud they cannot, therefore, be seat forward. The truops might easily bo moved to the point where tho arms can be distributed to them: but oa account of the obstinacy in requiring them to be fully armed before Waving the state, the government i@ de- prived of the services of this body of men, who might be available immediatoly — in turning the tido of battle and securing the anniintation of the great rebel army. Suspicions are entertained that the holding back of this force, raised wuder tle call of the Preeidoul, is not without siguificance, and that the Gov ornors whe fail at this crisis to send forward every man ourdiled ina regiment already fully organized, are favor. ing the tasyoment which has recently been referred to as looking to the inauguration of a political revolution. THE DEY GAT OF THK § SAT WASHINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, The Navy Department bas reccived a communic. tion from the acting lieutenant commanding the gunlvat Louisiana, dated Washington, North Carolina, Sept. 3 b says On Saturday, the 6th instant, the evemy attacked tho town and gainoil au catrance, Wo went to quarters tm meliately. At five o'clock in the morning we received sof musketry across our decks, when we opene’ th shell, grape cnd solid shot f rebels a jiog euemy, killing and woundiog many. o’clock’ im the morning, baving driven then from the reach of our gins, we ceased firing and pived down During the action the guabont Picket biew up, kiiling bi captain and eighteen men. Tho romuinder of the crew were brought on board this vessel and attended to by Assistant Surgeon Bradley. It gives me picasure to tos (iy to the handsome madner in which or gins were mit naged by Aciiug Master Hooker, of this veaset, ‘The crow have received my thanks.'* Immediately on the receipt of this despatcu the Nays Dopartment, with its wsial promptoess in such cas moted Acting Master Hooker to acting voluntee tenant, aud ordered him to the command of the iu: Victoria, THE STAMP TAX ON TELV.GRAPHIC MESSAGES. Tho Commissioner of Internal Revenue, among the numerons decisions upon questions continually presonted , hag decided, that the stamp tax imposed upon tolographic messages is not required to be paid upon the business massages of the telegraph companies or ratiroad compa nies using a telegraph line of their own. It ic a# de- cided, that when the jaw goes into effect, on the tat of Cctober, the stamps will be affixed by the sender of the message, snd marked with his initiais, and no message is to be sent without having been thus previously stamped: THE POSTAL CURRENCY. The Bank Note Engraving Company, of New York, which supplies the postal cucrency , bas assured the lost. master General that within twoor three week: plates will be multiplied so that fifty thousand a day will be priated. ‘Phe engravers repors that the demand of the ‘treasury Department for one and two dojiar notes, as w 3 the oidinary Treasury notes, so monopolizes the power of the engravers and printers to furnish them to the public, tuat their ability to get the postal cureenoy is tuck im paired. It is clear, howovor, that as the bauks at present furnish mm abundance of one, (oro ant three dollar notes, the public interest would be best subserved for the time being by issuing an abundance of postal notes, RESTORED £0 THE MILITARY SFRVICE. So much of General Orders No. 125, from the War De- partmont, as directs the dismissal ‘or Lieutenant John Simpson,of tho Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Voinnicers, and Lieutenant T. 1. Christie, aid-de-camp, has, by direc. tion of the President, been revoked. Satisfactory evidence having been submitied that Cap tain Sol. J. Houck, of the Seventy-first Ohio Vulunteers, did not advise the surrender of Clarksville, Tenn., aud that be signed the card justifying the surrender, under a misapprehension of its contents, the Prosident divec's that so much of General Orde;s‘No, 120 48 eashiers him be revoked. DISMISSED FROM THE ARMY. Additional Paymaster James Mann is dismissed from the service, by direction of the President, for absence without leave and negiect of duty. SUICIDE OF QUARTBRMASTER COY, OF THE ELEVENTS MASSACHUSEITS. Quartermaster Alonzo Coy, of the Eleventh Maseachu- getts regiment, committed suicide to-day by shooting bimeelf with a pistol while laboring under deep mental depression, cauced by domestic affliction, He was Acting Brigade Quartermaster of the First brigade, Grover's division, and & much esteemed officer. THE NEW SENATOR FROM OREGON. The newly elected Senator from Oregon, Benj. F. Hard ing, wae formerly United Btates District Attorney fur the Territory and the first Spewker of i) wouse in the Oregon State Legislature. He i about ty years of aze, a law. yer by profession, and was @ Douglas democrat in 1860, THE INDIAN TROUBLES IN MINNESOT. Mr. Dole, the Commissioner of Indien Affai from Minnesota that he is sbect to return te thie Jurisdiction over the hostile Indian tribes is temporarily iu the hands cf Gen. Pope THE CAPITOL DEVOTED TO BOSPITAL PURTOSES. Senator Hale was ai the Capito} to-day, and was amazed to seo the hall of the patrl nd that of the common# used for heepital purpeses. Pallets are in the places Of the desks and lounges of the Senators and Representa. tives, and it is the impression of conservative mer that the halls aro for oxce put to a good use. THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF TNR ARMY. Fanit is found with the medical department of the army for an alleged want of efficiency, but it should be atated (hat Congress made vo extraordinary appropri: tion for that branch of the service, nor was it sappored that there would be a tithe oF the claim for service upow the medical department which at present eviste. La other words, the misebievous idea has too much prevailed thet the rebellion would be immediately crushed out REBEL PRISUNERS. Thirty priscuers, captured by the c rev ance yesterday towards Thoroughfare Gap, have brought to Washington, aud were gent to the Old (4) General Kearny and 7O THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD One of the Now York papers of the 17th states th, loiter dated Angust 8, written by the deceased General Kearny to Mr. V. Halsted, had been made public. 1/ Lore be such a letter as is therein described it is due ins justice to General McClellan, a8 well as the jate Genern! Kearny’e military fame, vo produce such letter, and in part, perhaps, to myself, after having said what | dit on the subject in your paper and that of the Sun on the 18th— admitted by Mr. Halsted Wmeelftoafriend of mine to de correct—begging at the same time that J would write no more about it. ‘When the high standing of such an officer as General McClellan is wantonly attacked, or it is sought to tarnish the brightness of military glory that must ever yert upon Philip Kearny’s name, or anything is left to doubt—as slated by myzelf—in relation to facts,I feel at liberty to demand what J suggest—the original letter. L. KEARNY. eee The Patriotism of the Irish 10 THE BDITOR OF THE HERALD. Naw Yonx, Sopt. 20, 1862. Having lost my health some time since, aud being still sick and not able to participate in the struggle which threatens to destroy the institutions of my adopted conn- try, I take the only method in wy power to aid the cause. A party of young men got up a porty for my benefit. Not being yet in need of the amount thus raised, you will find enclosed the sim of $49 60, to be presented vo Pirigadier General Michael Corcoran to aid in recruiting Dig brigade. Thanking my friends for their kindness in coming to my aid, and wishing the cause all the success jt deserves, I remain, your obedient servant, PATRICK DONOVAN, 57 Montgomery street, Now York ‘The money wil! be handed over to General Corcoran to-day. a! sais Movements of Governor Curtin. Harnienora, Sept, 20, 1862. expected to arrive here from a virit Valley. ynneiae Governor Carti to the Cumberta ee eat ac A Se i Defeat of the Rebols Near luka by Goneral Resecrans. eynenenennnenetintye eaten Barnavitin, Teno., sept. 20, 1668. Vosterday ovening Rosoorans came up with Price at jake, aud @ fight onsued, which lasted about am hour without intermission. i’rice ocoupied lula Last night ang this moraing retreated, loaving his dead and w vnded on tho fol, some 650 to number, with Rosoccans im hot pursuit after having captured bis trains, stores, &o. Our loss is catimated at about 199 Killed and 209 wound Cd. Price's forces, 24,000 mou. Caio, Sep). 20, 186g. General Rosecraas commenced moving from Rienzi to Tula, Mississippi, yostorday moruing During the afternom his styance camo iu comtact with the onomy’s pickols and hexyy sicirmishing eusued until might. The fight was renewed this morning, and lasted until nearly nooa, when ths sony gave way in Southerly dlrection, ‘Our loas is stated to be betweea four Buadred aad five hundred killed aud wounded Tho rebel loss waa aot ascertained, but is-belisved ¢o be greater than ours, Gonera) Little, formeriy Governor of Missiaippi, was KiMed im the Abt, and General Whitoficid was wounded 1 taleea pri Tae rebel force ts stated to be 000, under General Price, Tho battle took place twe Inka. General Rosencrans is ia pursudt oF nur. L miles east of tho snomy IMPORTANT FR Ml FORTRESS MONROE. A Large Reve! Force Reported at Breakk- water River—Our Troops Ready for Them. oxrnsa, Moxaom, sup. 19, 1962. ‘Yhe steamboat Canoniens left hore this morning with ® tag of triice for Aiken's Landing, Major Ladlow ta charye, taking up ive Ladies from Norfolk, and tntonding to bring dowa ail the Unlon prisoners that ara able come Vheve is 4 camor that a rebal foros oxmbering from 18,000 19 20,00 men, i# in the vicinity of Bisckwater river, ‘but ample preparations have been made to repel their t= vagion if that is tnoiv iatention. On the rece; of tho newsof tha death of Genera Sunsfield the flag on Fortress Monroe was placed at half mast News from New Mexico Kansas Cory, Sept, 19, 1862. ute Ve mail, with dates t> the Tth inst , arrived list evening. ‘The newsis meages, The Nev joo Indianw are making extensive raids in Now Mexico. On the 3¢tle ¥ attacked a vauch> near Sim Migual, They wounded two and took two captives. ‘Tuey also took 20,000 hoid of shsep and 500 head of cat tle belonging te Guliave Gasezatog and Joye. Yhe Indian Troables in the Northwest Cocama, Sept 20, 1862. ted by the Acting Governor a'tioments of this Territory, edt + here, report thu! (he paste r Indie ranasnotes in Mipneso‘a has en- tirely . and that tbe settlers bave returned ta thete hones, There © hostile Inciaas withia the limits of this Tor Shere is not tho remotest trond’ sttlera ia auy seotton from ‘The messenger Imddock to the Ni orn now to Marching for the acat War, Sacceart’s Hvrao: vpt. 20, 1862. Two more battalions of artillery, numbering about ele yeu handred mon, under the command of Captains Mid- dicton aud Gilmore, left Madison barracks a! two o'clock P.M. to-day, en roue to New York, baing the balance of the contingent for Feforsen and Twwis counties, under the government cal! for six hundred thousand mon. Jef. feraon county haa raised four regiments, besides severat iadependent batteries aud reeruit’ for o:d regiments i— the field, The last quota has been filled by twenty-four hundred magnificent, able-bodied young men, the clite of Jofferson and Lewis counties. Volantecrs The Paroled Bighty-Seven h Ohio Regi- ment. Pannavsirnta, Sept. 20, 1882. The Fighty-seveuth Ohio reximent, three unonbhs? vor unteers, paroled at Harper's Ferre, passed through this city to day, en route for home via Pitisburg. The Kansas Republican State Com P vention. Tzavexwouru, Sept. 19, 1962. ‘The Republican State Convention yesterday nominated afoll Stare ticket,headod by Hon, Thomas Carney, of this eity, for Gorernor. A. C. Wilder, of this city, re ceived the nomination for Congress by the same con- vention. The Norwegian Outward Bound. Mowiruat, Sept. 20, 1862. The steamship Norwegian sailed from Quebec for Liver- pect at half-past mine o'clock this morning. She takes out twenty mine cabin and fifiy-one steerage passengers. ‘ahe Detence of! New Jersey. PROCLAMATION FLOM GOVERNOR OLDEN RELATIVE TC ‘THE DEFENCE OF TRE STATE, Tho following important proclamation has been issued by Governor Olden, of New Jersey, relative to the im- portance of steps being taken for the better security and defence of the State :— Exxcuiive Derarrment, Tresor, Sept, 18, 1862. The condition of the conniry renders it prudemt i ware efforts should be made to increase the of che active military force of the State, in order in any sudden emergency (he people may be pro. . The uniform companies of the State have been xarded by our people ag the nurseries of those f lant soldiers who bave conferred honor apon New sey Dy their steady bravery on the fleld of battle, and if 48 to those companies, organized and armed as they svreundar tie aathority of the State, that reeort must now be had. | therefore recommond (the commissioned oflicers of the companies of tho active militia of the state to proceed samediately, and witb the utmost energy, to recralé their reapective companies to the moximum num! ~ Dinety-eight men each. These companies will proc wil cases where it 1 necessary, to elect the proper or dnieeioned apd non-comi ieued officers, Sethe Seg for drill at least twice in each week, and oftener if selves im readiness to be called Into active service when- ticable, Both officers and men are ‘enjoined to hold ver the exigencies of the State may require. Tbe tains of the several companies wil! forward to the jatant General, on the first day of October next, muster is of (heir respective companics , containing the pamea of their officer: id nen formed companies, provide themecives with unifors fod periget Chemmselves in drill, ia order that they may deiona Meir homes if the Slate shail be invaded, CHARLES 8. OLDEN. The New York Knights Pomp It. The 6 Knigbts is, The meeting was largely. attguded officers were elected for the year sat 7 Commander ; @rrin ¥ Deputy € Wo. A. Bortis, Grand Gener H-sime ; Grand Captain Genoral ; 1 and Comm ery of the outs of New ‘eruplar, met in Watertown et ‘The following ander , Pierson Mundy: ’. L. Banting, Grand Warden ; Charles F. Gillet, Grand Junior Warden ; 8. Perry, Grand Treasurer; Robert Macoy, Grand Re- corder ; Samuel Graves, Graf “\andard Bearer ; H. fieil Prestoo, Grand Sword’ Bearer » Beadi Parker, Graud ‘Warden , Royal ©. Lavengs, Grand Sentinel. Affairs in gah oo N.Y. Hinson, Sept. 20, 1862. Our city bids fair to be a merry ace next woek. Court ho . Se kts a sceRtou cond— Columbia in on the Fair Grounds, ig fast master! She ate nen Fair, the 24th, 25 inte. itself, whieh it is expected w ‘Iliant a suocese ag last your, when it almost mer cine the diate Fair. ‘The directors hare Robort Millinghaw , which beat Ethan hy on the 10th inetant at the Fasbiow Course, Long Island. He is gortainly. to be here on the last two days of the Fair. We are making preparations: for a great brome AG. ag J. O. Mason, the United States ‘Army; Oe tttell, of Philadelphia, sed Ligetenaat tiie, of Hartford, are stopping at the Metre »olitan Hotel. Coloval Keita ey ire moe. oste. of Halifax: G. orinnoie Chesney «of Comneetiout: @. W. yy ie Racive, are stopping at the Paymaster Buchanan va W, 8am ; Lewis J Nav. ii wrayer, of Philadetphi ton; G Gd ot Chicago: Ted Fos oi A: and J. Blake, 6 Ohio, wore my vp hye Agtor fag Farmed