The New York Herald Newspaper, September 27, 1862, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882. from the South Pacific. Great agitation continued NEW YORK HERALD. | fom tefonth Paci, Groat eit as ued JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS FEEME cash in aavanc, Money seat ry mail will be ut tha wish o tne sender, Nemebut Buuk billie current in New Fork THE DAILY HERALD. (wo centeper oni THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturd copy, oF S37 annum: the Luropeun Edition ney W. @6 six cents per copy, $4 per annian to.any of Great Hritain, or $6 12 teany part o' thd Cunt nent, both to include mst aye. the California Kditiom on the lst. WIth amd 2lstafeach month. a six cents per copy, 0 $2 7S per an cum. 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The rebels are evi- dently in force opposite Sheppardstown and along the line of the Upper Potomac, as our pickets and scouts constantly come within reach of them. On Thursday evening the Sixty ‘second Pennsylvania, with a section of the First- New York artillery and Griffin's brigade, crossed ta ford near Sheppardstown and took four hun- dred rifles, marked ‘‘London, 1%62"—some” of the @ontraband weapons, no doubt--aud one twelve pounder rifled brass gun. The rebel pickets did wot dare to resist this formidable force, but fell back on their approach. We give some additional reports of the battle of Antietam to-day, which will be found highly in- teresting. The commanders, on both sides were as follows:— Comm intr in- Chief. Commander in-Chtef. Ganmarter of ight Wong. “Command ref tog Wing. Maj. Gen. Fitz John Vorter. Gon. Jas. Lamgsirect. Ms reA. B arnaitee Gena an Mi The Governors of the Northern States, who re- cently adjourned their meeting from Altoona, Pennsylvania, to Washington, had an interview with the President yesterday, and presented an @ddress, the substance of which we give in our despatches, There is a rumor which came from Washington that the President contemplates issuing another Proclamation, proclaiming the State of Florida ® government cotton plantation, and inviting all laborers, white and black, to settle there for the Purpose of cultivating cotton. Ample protection, ®ays the rumor will be guaranteed, by the @rmy and navy to all such settlers. The State Wonstitution is to be set aside temporarily, and Florida reduced to & territorial condition. This movement of the President's is said to be only preliminary to a policy whieh is to be adopted hereafter with other Southern States. We give ‘the ramor as it reaches us. We give to-day some further extracts from the Southern journals of one day later than those which we gave yesterday. They continue to an- ounce @ great victory at Autietam, and endea- vor to make another triumph of the recent skir- mish at Sheppardstown ford. Itis manifest, how- ever, that these accounts of victories, which were really defeats, are not satisfactory to the Southern People. In like manner, the Richmond papers elaim that Gen. Rosecrans was beaten at Iuka the “ther day, when we know by all the authentic re- * prte that he completely demolished Gen. Price } Qdhis rebel army. It is said that among the } Gphies captured were six batteries, thirty-six -Pas, and five hundred prisoners. We have some imformation of an interesting @haracter from the Gulf coast, by the arrival of the gunboat Connecticut. The Connecticut cap- tured the British schooner Rambler, which had fun the blockade at Sabine, Taxas, bound for Havana with a heavy cargo of cotton, the proceeds of which, according to the papers found on board, ‘were to be invested in ammunition, medicines and ether contrabaud articles for the rebels, She was @ent to Ship Island. The Connecticut also rey hat on the afternoon of the 30th the United States @unboat Winona, Lieutenant Commanding Thorn- fon, ran under the fire of Fort Morgan, Which is considered the defence of Mobile, fand opened fire on a rebel steamer lying inside, Griving off her crew and damaging her Greatly by the explosion of an eleven-inch ahell in her bow. Fort Morgan opened a heavy fire on the Winona, but she escaped unhurt. Reports from Apalachicola state that two rebel tron-clad gunboats, mounting six sixty-eight. Pounders, are nearly ready for sea, under com- snand of J. Catesby Jones, who says that he will tink every gunboat on the Gulf coast. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Aspinwall steamer Ariel, Captain Thomas (liner, arrived at this port yesterday forenoon. hue brings some interesting, though not important, bews from the Central American republics and PRMET, ARMY. i especially in Panama. Mosquera had carried his threat into effect of closing all the cathedrals, aud the banishment of the nuns and priests, re- ported in our last advices, has now been fully con- ‘firmed. The former have sought refage in Lima, and the latter wherever protection could be found. A new treaty nad been ratified between the re- public of Ecuador and Arboleda, and had appa- rently satisfied the people. The anniversary of Peruvian independence had been celebrated with great eclat, A novel mode of adding to the gene- | ral enjoyment was the providing by the rich Peru- | vians of dowries to several poor girls, many of whom were married on that day. The health of all the Southern republics was good. Accounts from San Francisco to the 25th inst. state that the President's emancipation proclama- tion was heartily endorsed by the leading journals there. The commercial reports state that large quantities of goods are going into the interior, and that domestic liquors had seriously declined in price. The steamship Philadelphia arrived at this port last evening, from New Orleans the 16th inst., and Havana 20th inst. The news from New Orleans is two days later, but possesses no particular im- portance. Gen, Butler has issued a general order that each neutral foreigner resident in the depart- ment of New Orleans shall present himself with the evidence of his nationality, to the nearest pro- vost marshal, for registration of himself, and his family. This is done to distinguish the disloyal from the loyal citizens and honest neutral foreigners. ea By the steamship Philadelphia, which arrived at this port from Havana yesterday, we have some later news from Mexico. Our dates from Vera Cruz are to the Jith inst. The vomito is raging dreadfully at that place, and is making consider” able havoc in the French fleet. The French iron-clad frigate Normandie ar- rived at Snacrificios on the 4th inst. great anxiety was felt for a convoy of one million dollars, which had been despatched from Vera Cruz to pay the French troops at Orizaba, and it was supposed to have been captured by Mexican guerillas. At Havana there was very little yel- low fever, and the health was generaily good. A troop train, containing the Twentieth regiment of Pennsylvania militia, collided with a locomo- tive on the Cumberland Valley Railroad. one mile from Harrisburg, Pa., yesterday morning, killing ten and mangling between thirty and forty sol- diers, who were returning to their homes from Maryland. Should the rebellion continue in its presen- shape until the Ist of January next, the number of slaves which will on that day be virtually eman cipated, under the proclamation of the President, will be as follows:— Alabama. » 435,132 111,104 61953 462,232 333,010 Mississipp 436,696 North Carolina. 331,081 South Carolin 2,541 Tennessee 275,784 Total, according to census of 1860... .3,405,015 —The natural increase will probably make the aggregate at the present time about 3,500,000. Hon. J. W. Matthews, of Mississippi, formerly Governor of that State, died on the 28th ult., at Pal- metto, Ga., at the residence of Dabney P. Jones, Esq., @ relative by marriage. His illness was cholera morbus. The bushwhacker Poindexter, who recently made his escape from a guard, afterhe had been captured, has surrendered himself voluntarily, and will be taken to St. Louis. He was badly wound- ed by being fired upon when he escaped, and was glad to return for succor. Gen. Schofield is pushing on into Missouri to head off the rebel General Price. At last accounts he was at Rolla. An examination of the trophies taken from the rebels in the late battles in Maryland shows that we captured thirty-five thousand stand of arms, sixteen pieces of artillery and thirty-five stands of colors. It has been announced that ,J. B. 8. Todd, brother of Mrs. President Lincoln, was elected Delegate to Congress in Dakota Territory. Full returns show that Wm. Jayne, the present Gover- nor of the Territory, was chosen over Mr. Todd by about one hundred and fifty votes. At the mecting of the Board of Aldermen yes- terday, a resolution was introduced declaring that it is an act of injustice on the part of the Manhattan Gas Company to impose on our alrea- dy overtaxed citizens an extra charge of fifteen cents per thousand feet of gas, to meet the war tax, and calling upon the Corporation Counsel to make a transfer to the city of all the rights and privileges of the company, in accordance with a provision intheircharter. The subject was refer- red to a special committee, consisting of Messrs, Farley, Brady and Walsh. The resolution from the Councilmen, directing heads of departinents to administer to their subordinates the oath of “ al- legiance to the government,”’ was amended so as to read ‘‘support the constitution of the United States,’ and then concurred m. Some routine business was transacted, and the Board adjourned till eleven o'clock this forenoon. The Protestant Episcopal Convention held the continuation of their meeting yesterday. The sub- ject of the division of the diocess has been laid over for the consideration of a future diocesan meeting. The Convention adjourned sine die. The cotton market wus quiet yesterday, and sales con- fined to about 250 bales, in small lots, on the basis of 5640. a 57c. for middling uplauds, chiefly at the inside figure. The flour market was steady for common and medium grades of State and Western, while the higher class of brands were rather firmer. The demand was jelly from the local and Eastern trade. Wheat was firm, and rather higher for good to prime qualities, owing mainly to the advance of sterling exchange. The market was active, and sales were pretty freely made, in part for export. Corn was firm for good to prime qualities, which were scarce, while common and inferior lote were un- changed. The sales embraced good seund shipping lots at 60c. a Glc. for Western mixed, with yellow do. at 65¢, Pork was dull, with sales of mess at §11 625, a $11 75, and at $10 25 for prime. Lard was in good demand, with sales at full prices. Sugars were firm and active, with sales of 1,800 bhds, and 640 boxes at full prices. Cofiee was active. The sales of Rio footed ap about 7,023 bags, part at 22c.a 23¢., and 2,500 do. Maracaibo, in bond, at p.t. Freighte to Liverpool were casier, Wheat, in bulk and in bags, ‘was taken at 11d t¢d. a 12d. ,and to Loneon at 12%¢4. a 13d. for wheat, in buik apd im ships’ bags, and cheese to Glas- gow at 508. The stock market was very active indeed yesterday; but there was « decided reaction in prices. Railway stocks fell off 1 a 2 per cent from yesterday's best Prices, but were readily taken at the “decline. Gov- ernments did not vary in the least. Gold advaneed to 120% @ Xf at the close, Exchange was 13134 8132. Money abundant at 4 per cent. Harper's Ferry.—The reader will perceive, on turning to our war correspondence, that Harper's Ferry is again in the possession of our forces, and that that truly indomitable and veteran soldier, General Sumner, is in charge of the place with his whole corps, All mis- giviogs as to the skill, will, means or capacity of the officer in command to hold this import- ant position may therefore be dismissed. We will guarantee General Sumner to hold it, even against the whole rebel army of Virginia, if brought to bedir upon him. Under his direo- tion no such incompetent and blatherskiting politician in soldier's clothes as Tom Ford will be placed in charge of Maryland Heighw. The President’s Emancipation Anti- Slavery Proclamation—“The Pope's Bull Against the Come ‘The special deputation which recently waited upon President Lincoln, with a memorial from an abolition meeting in Chicago in favor of na- tional emancipation, have rendered no small service to the country ia procuring, in advance of its issue, the President’s sensible views of his late comprehensive proclamation on the sub™ ject. Thus the truth is made manifest that this proclamation, beyond the enforcement of the Confiscation act, is only a tub to the abolition whale, the President regarding it as “‘necessa. rily inoperative, like the Pope’s bull against the comet.” He very pointedly and properly asked of this aforesaid committee, “What good would @ proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we now stand? Would my word free the slaves, when I can- not even enforce the constitution in the rebel States? Is there a single court, or magistrate, or individual, that “ would be influenced by it there? And what reason is there to think it would have any greater effect upon the slaves than the late act of Congress (Confiscation), which I approved, and which of- fers protection and freedom to the slaves of rebel masters who come within our lines? And suppose they could be induced by a proclama- tion of freedom from me to throw themselves upon us, what should we do with them? How can we feed and care for such a multitude? General Butler wrote me a few days since that he was issuing more rations to the slaves who have rushed to him than to all the white troops under bis command. They eat, and that is all; though it is true that General Butler is feeding the whites also by the thousands; for it nearly amounts to a famine there.” ‘These remarks of President Lincojn clearly show that he bas no faith in the miracles which his Chicago com mittee so eloquently assured him would finish up this rebellion with a proclamation of emanci- pation. But to silence the clamors of our shrieking and howling abolition faction, and to put them to the test of their promises, including a new batch of nine hundred thousand volunteers for the war, President Lincoln has issued his pro- clamation of emancipation. He declares that afver the first day of January next all the slaves in every State, or in any designated part there- of, which shall be then in rebellion against the Union, shall be “then, thenceforward and for- ever free.” There, good people, is your pro- clamation. It practically signifies nothing; but much is gained if you will only stop this in- tolerable clamor. Very true, in the interval to the Ist of January, the armies of the rebellion may be pushed down into the cotton States, and then, with the advance of our forces, our abolition fanatics may anticipate the practical work of a sweeping emuncipation. But there is no occasion for sensible men to apprehend any such thing. With the northern frontier line of the rebel armies push- ed down into the cotton States, there will be an end of the rebellion. Further resistance in the exhausted cotton States, when placed between our victorious armies on the land side and our iron-clad gunboats on the sea side, will be mad- neas, and those States, with their institution of slavery, will be saved by a seasonable capitula- tion. Such are doubtless the expectations of the President, and hence these three months grace which he allows to the States involved in this rebellion to save themselves and their domestic institutions. Slavery, asa local affair in the loyal border slave States, remains untouched and respected, and it will be respected in every re- bellious State which shall have returned to its allegiance and be represented in Congress by the Ist of January. The President thus expects to reclaim, and not to destroy, the people of our rebellious States. He has, we dare say, not the remotest idea that this conditional proclamation of emancipation will go into practical effect. He expects this rebellion to be suppressed before the expiration of the present year, and that thus the question of slavery under the constitution will be restored to the absolute control of each of the States directly concerned in the main- tenance or removal of the institution. These three months grace to our rebellious States have secured to thé Prevident, let us hope, a three months armistice from our besotted abolitionists. And if, during this interval, they in good faith cease to embarrass and torment him, and cease to intermeddle with the plans and movements of our armies, we have no doubt that Honest Abraham Lincoln’s great ob- ject of restoring the Union in its integrity will be consummated before the end of the year. Tae Reset Accounts or tuk Battie or Ax- rmuztam Crerx.—We published yesterday the first rebel accounts of the battle of Antietam creek, from the Petersburg papers and Richmond telegrams. From these extracts it is apparent that the battle has been a most serious blow to the rebels, and that they have concluded to re- linquish all hope of reclaiming Maryland. Of course they claim the result of the battle as a rebel victory. They do that with every battle, no matter which way it is decided. They fail to explain, however, how such a “victory” was fol- lowed by so disorderly a retreat across the Po- tomac. They admit that the loss during the brief raid into Maryland was greater than in any previous battles since the time of Napoleon. We have the best authority for stating that our loss in killed and wounded in the several bat- tles in Maryland was fully 18,000, and that of the rebels 30,000. We buried three thousand rebels on the battle field of Antietam. The rebel army in Virginia is almost demoralized by its defeat, and the rebel army in Kentueky is hardly better off. McClellan has beaten Lee’s army, and the army of Bragg has been out generalled, outmancuvred and outmarched by General Buell. The rebel soldiers in both these great armies are without hate to their heads, shoes to their feet, overcoats to their backs and blankets to their bodies, and long before supplies can reach them they will be forced to evacuate all the border States. Tur Cowmne CoxoressionaL Evecrions.—We hope that all loyal people will bear im mind the overwhelming importance of the coming Congressional elections. What sort of a Gover- nor we may have is of comparatively little con- sequence. Congress controls the affairs of the nation, as the Legislature controls those of the State, and the Common Council those of the city. Elect a conservative Congress, and the country is safe. Allow the radicals to again hold the power in Congress, and the country is lost. We cannot stand such trials as those to which we hav subjected by the radi- cals of the present Cor . Let the people do their duty at the polls, and all will be well, The Might of Secession Maintaived by Horace Greeley. In yesterday’s Tribune, over his own proper signature, Horace Greeley published a letter, in which he declares in favor of the richi of secession, not only im the case of the rebellious States of the Sout, but even of the Pacitic States and Territories, should they desire to set up a new government for themselves. He lays down this general principle, applicable to every State in the Union: “What I have taught and believed and still maintain is the right o! a people to form and modify their political in- stitutions without the necessity of fighting for such change.” He denies that a county or two or three counties can lawfully secede from a State. For example, the people of Nantucket coulé .ot be permitted to secede from Massachusetts, nur the people of Long Island or Staten Island from the State of New York. But the case is different with a sovereign State, or even a colony which is not sovereign. For example, he says, “I believe our Revolutionary fathers had a right, for reasons which were co- gent and seemed to them conclusive,to terminate their connection with Great Britain, and that the British were wrong in resisting their claim to do so. And the right which I claim for our fathers and for ourselves I will not deny to others.” Then he goes on to say that “if the people o' our Pacific States and Territories siall at some future time have very generally attained the conviction that they could do better as an inde pendent nation than as a part of this country, and should kindly, frankly, firmly express thai conviction,” he would say let the bonds be dis- solved. And so likewise in the case of the Southern States. The following are his words:— This is the doctrine } tried to promulgate in the winte: Bot I still insis’ States—or even of the sired to dissolve the Ux peacer lly, dalibe (thar wish, we shout, eta, | shoo di is said that an honest confession is good for the soul. Greeley has owned up at last. Many a time we. charged him with promulgatin, these doctrines, and quoted extracts from his journal in vain. He either denied the soft impeachment or was dumb. Now, after contributing in so vast a degree to break up the Union, he expects forgiveness for his treason, like the penitent thief on the cross; but his repentance is not sincere. Let him, therefore, like Judas Iscariot, go and hang himself ‘on a sour apple treo,” 80 as to save the people the trouble of doing it here after. If the right of a State peacefully to se cede exists, the accident of war cannot alter the right; and if the cotton States had a right tu secede on the ground that they had “very gene rally attained the conviction that they could do better as an independent nation than as a pari of this country,” then we had no right to pre- vent their doing so by force, and were the aggressors in making war upon them, whereas in taking up arms they were only defending a sacred right. Even in the case of seizing the forts and other property of the United States they were only seizing a part of the common property, to which they had as good a right as the free States, “their equal copartners.” I; this was all that was the matter, the account could have been easily settled, and war would not have been necessary. In fact, the war, according to the reasoning of Greeley, ison our part the most atrocious ever waged against any people, and even more unjustifiable than that which Great Brituin waged against these States when they were colenies under her sovereign sway and threw off her yoke. There can be no doubt that the people of the States which have seceded are more unanimous than were the colonies at any time during the Revo- lutionary war. It is very evident that Greeley is of the same opinion now that he was in the winter of 1860-61: that the Union is not an indissoluble govern- ment, but a rope of sand; that it may at any time be broken up like a partnership, and that he is in favor of the dissolution if the South really want to go. This appears more clearly from an editorial article in yesterday’s Tribune, headed “Inklings of Peace,” in which he says “There must be an accommodation (between the North and the South), and, that fact esta- blished, it seems to us very easy to settle the terms.” So, then, all the blood that has been shed, and all the money that has been expend- ed, and all the sorrow and calamity that have befallen the country, are in vain, and Gresley is willing to let the South go, even without the emancipation of a single negro. We submit to the President whether this article and the let- ter of Greeley to Mr. McChesney do not come under the prohibition of the last proclamation of the President, and whether the writer ought not to be seized by Provost Marshal Kennedy and sent to Fort Lafayette as a “disloyal per- son,” “discouraging velunteer enlistments, and thus affording aid and comfort to the rebels.” Tar Convention or Governors ApjourNED From ALTOONA To WasHINGTON.—It appears that the radical Governors, whose “secret Conclave” is condemned even by some of their organs here, adjourned to meet at Washington, where they bad an interview with Mr. Lincoln yesterday, and where they hope to extort from the Presi- dent, by fair.means or foul, by wheedling or by intimidation, submission to their dicta tion as to what generals shall conduct the war. Being foiled Ks Governors Bradford, Curtin and Tod, in their attempt to carry the proposi- tion to hays McClellan removed and Fremont installed in bis place, they will now try their hands, individually and privately, with the President, to effect the desired change, and at the same time to impose upon him a thoroughly radical Cubinet to carry out the emancipation proclamation. But there is little chance of the President be- ing coaxed or seared into their views. Me- Clellan will be kept in the field at the head of the army, and, instead of a radica) administra- tion, the President, reading the signs of the times, will, we have reason to hope, appoint a conservative Cabinet, and thus give the death blow to the radical faction, and at the same time save the country from the machinations of the Roundhead conspirators. Tie Tamone Scrpressiva Mr. Lincons’s Ix- TERPRETATION OF His PaociaMation.—The other daily papers of this city published yesterday the President's admirable comment on his own proclamation. The Tribune alone was guilty of the sin of omission, Why did it not publis! the President's in of the document, and exclaim “God bless Abraham Lincoln? ” What right has Greeley to ae his own gloseas the true interpretation, while he suppresses Mr. Lincoln's notes and comments explaining the text of his “Pope’s bull against the comet?” Is he afraid or ashamed to let his readers know the truth? Guxeusy Narzp 10 THe Counter.—The fol- lowing appeared in yesterday’s Tribune:— Wuers Axx You, Nixw Hunpaep Trousanp Men?—Not very long ngo poor Greeley announced in the Trebune that bal a veserve Of wipe b udred thousand radicals, who would enhst for the war if the President would emanci- pation, bu }o@e servives could not Le secured at any other ‘ann’ the above faleebood been uttered and contra. acled often eno igh to render it high time an attempt was made to give it some sort of countenance? When 200 ext refer to it, be’ gord enough to quote the passage trom the Tribene on which you base it, giving the date, Jn compliance with the polite request of Freeley, who ealls the paragraph in the Herap “a falsehood,” we quote the passage on which we based it, from the Trilnine of Saturday, Au- gust 2, 1862, being the last paragraph of the leading editorial, entitled “Let us have plain Snglish.” It is as follows, verbatim et litera- There are three times three hundred thousand born and naturalized Yankees, wh) never smelt battle, reary enough, bounty or no bounty, to die tor their country. But they had rather do first and die afterward, if neces. sary. Start the good old chorus of universal “human sater,"? in its own dear, masicai, glorious, burning, self- evident words Sturt the old chorus of Idberty Forever, ind they wil ail join in and march on, knowing, cvery blessed mother’s son of them, that what is going .to be fan is to gave the country, and not to save its ene- mies Does this satisfy Massa Greeley,.and will he re- tract his charge of “falsehood?” We have had oc- easion to refer to the article several times, aud the ‘Tribune never pretended till yesterday that we had misrepresented it. No doubt it calculated that we could not lay our finger on the article, or that we would not take the trouble of hunt- ing it up. We now quote the words. What has Greeley to say for himself? Will he assert that “three times three hundred thousand” are not 900,000, or that the emancipation proclama tion of the President, for which Greeley cried “God bless Abraham Lincoln!” is not, after ul, “the good old chor:s of universat ‘human vater,’”” nor “the old chorus of Liberty For- ever?” IsGreeley dissatistied with it? If he is let him say so in “ plain English;” but if he is rot, and thinks that Abraham Lincoln has really vstarted the old chorus of Liberty Worever,”’ then we reiterate our question, “Where now are your nine hundred thousand men?” You pledged yourself that they would “ali join in and march on.” That is just what we now want them to do, and then there will be no necessity for a draft in any State. Are Greeley’s 900,000 ‘ike Falstaff’s “men in buckram?”’ Are they men like Greeley himself, who not only never “smelt battle,” but never intend to smell it under any circumstances? Now is the time “to save the country.” Where are your three times three hundred thousand ? Wuo Are THe Marpiors?—We have ro- peatedly shown that the mismanagements of the campaign are the work of the radi- cals in Congress and elsewhere. It was through their efforts that the army in Virginia was last spring divided and scattered by creating new departments. It was at their instigation that the administration stopped catistments last winter. While they were, under Wilson’ and Fessenden, importuning the government to stop recruiting the rebels were increasing their force by conscription, thus com- pelling our generals to meet superior numbers at every point, McClellan could have gone into Richmond if he had had more men. Pope was compelled to fall back because he had not men enough to contend with the large rebel army. The cause of our failures and dis- asters has been this want of men. This the po- liticians in Washington and the radicals in Con- gress are responsible for. They not enly under- estimated the forces of the rebels and prevailed upon the War Department to stop enlistments, but were for sending home one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers already in the army. All statements prove that it is the legislation of the radicals in the last Congress—their confiscation and other extreme measures—that has incensed the Southern people and forced them into des- peration and the adoption of retaliatory acts. They have extended the war and swollen our debt to over a thousand millions of dollars. They are responsible for the sacrifice of the one hundred thousand men who have been slain upon-the battle fields or returned to their homes sick and maimed for lite. The hue and cry, therefore, against our Generals, is only a dodge to shift the responsibility from the radical in- triguers and place it on the officers of the army. They, and not our geaerals, are responsible for our failures, and those journals which are assailing our generals and charging them with mismanagement are there- by laboring for the continuation of the radical rule that has been so disastrous and expensive tous thus far. The sooner our generals are permitted to manage the war, and the radical Marplots are forced into retirement, as was the Gates and Conway cabal in the days of the Re- volution, the sooner will this war be brought to a successful issue, and the earlier will peace be restored, and our divided and distracted coun- try be again one harmonious aud prosperous whole. Tas Novation or Wavsworti.—The nomi- nation of that radical, Wadsworth, falls coldly upon the public. The political thermometer marks the freezing point. The people of this State do not want for their Governor a man like Wadsworth, who, as a general, dis- tinguished himself only by his attacks upon his superior officer, General McClellan; who was one of those abolition intriguers whose inter- meddlings with our plans and our generals have cost the country much unnecessary bleed, much squandered money and an indefinite pro- longation of the war; and who, after a very brief term of service in the field, occupied him- self at Washington in stirring up disturbances between the civil and military powers, result- ing almost in bloodshed. His own party dis- trust this man, and before a month is over he will be without @ corporal’s guard of political supporters. No Movement Across THe Potomac.—It isa matter of no surprise that General McClellan does not advance across the Potomac. No army could be in @ condition for immediate aggree- sive movements after such # battle as that of Antietam creek, unless it were straightway re- inforced by supplies and fresh troops. Now is the time for other and adjunct armies to ad- vance, therefore. These assistant armies are delayed, however, as well as General McClel. lan, by the want of those reinforcements which the Governors of certain States keep back, for reasons best known to themselves. But, in point of fact, the rebels will soon be compelled to retreat whether we advance or not. They have no shoes, hats, overcoats or blankets, are al- most demoralized, and are without supplies. In such @ strait, the cold nights now coming on will be more fatal to them than a dozen hattles. ‘The rebels used to threaten us with King Yel- low Jack, whom General Butler conqueed by cleanliness. Let us now see how long they gan resist his Northern Majesty Jack Frvet, ‘ NEWS FROM HAVANA AND MEXICO. Arrival of the Steamship Philadelphia— Arrival of the Irom-Clad Frigate Nor- mendie at Vera Cruz—Dreudfal Ra. | vages of the Vomito—Probable Capture | of Une Million ef Doliuis Belonging te the Frenen by Mextcun Guerillas—No | Yellow Fever at Havana, &e., dic. ‘Tho steainship Philadelpita, Captain Morton, from New Orleans 15th and Havana 20th iust., urrived at this por, yesterday. ; The atrices from New Orleans are unimportant. { OUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCR. i i Havana, Sept. 20, 180m, | ‘The steamship Philadelphia, from New Orieans for New York, bas atopped here to coal, in preference to going te Key Wess, fearing sickness there; but there is littie or no fever now at that place. By the steamer Mexico, which Isft Vera Cruz om the 11th, we toarn that Admiral Janvriom arrived in the ‘rom- clad frigate Normandie, at Sacrificios, on the 4th. ‘The vomite-is making dreadful havoc at Vera Crus, aa@ & the Fronch war vessels are suffering severely. Many physicians have died, and only two are left inthe whole | fleet. P Commander Koza ts to startiébon for France, amd Cap- ‘ tuin Durand do St. Arnand has reinstated him already, ‘ General Forey was oxpected to arrive on the 20th, 1 Groat anxiety was felt for a convoy with $1,000,000 for }. the payment of the French troops at Orizaba, which ha@ | not arrived, though ten @ays over due. Ihe authorities . at Vora Cruz gave out tbat it was stuck iu tho mud, and ' that a river bad awollea to such an extent as to be um 4 fordable, It is presumed by well informed persons im | Vera Cruz that the gueritas have captured it, as it ie known that they knew of its departure and of the specie conveyed, Jt was currently reported that the Freneb were about to attack Julapa. ¥ ‘The steamer San Jaau arrived here on the 7th, an@ sailed on the 8th i The steamer British Queen, from New York, is-expected "1 to arrive here w night or Wo-morrow morning, ® There is ne yellow fever of consequence bere, and the ‘| rains are abating. i NEWS FROM THE ARMY OF VIRGINIA, # The Railroad Open to Bristow’s Sta- tion—What Was Found . here Move- | ments of the Rebels, d&c., &e. inaa, Sept. 26,1862 Aneugine started from Alexavdria yesterday and pro- 4 coeded as far ag Bristow. Shortly after arriving there a) wain of cars was seen approaching from the other side,, but which, on discovering their d.ugor, started back ands disap) 1 ight rebel soldiers were found at Bristow, who had heen stationed Ubere to guard and assist in loading the? debris found among the ruins of the trains destroyed: at, that place. ‘ ‘They were captured and brought down as prisoners ~ Sixteen freight cars were also found uninjured at May, hassas, with about half acar load of ammunition, which; hai been placed on the ground and covered with canvass. The revels, it seems, got the idea, started by some, Union prisovers, that this was an infernal machine, and 0 refused to approach it. It was loaded, and, witk- the cars, all brought down to Alexandria, No otner’ troops were discovered im the vicinity. ' Tt was ascertained {rom good authority that trains were! running regularly, night and day, to Culpepper, bringing; supplies to the euemy, which were conveyed in wagonti from that place by way of Sperryville and Front Royal we! Winchester. u The Rapidan bridge has been rebuilt, and the bridgt over the Rappahannock was to be finished today, Al’ the engines and the cars not compietely destroyed hav | been run off from the stations wbove Bristow, and ar now being used by the rebels. Last week the line of pickets established by tho enem: reachedfrom Winchester to Brentsville, @ point some si} miles south of Manussas. This was to prevent resident south of that line escaping impressment, which is Bo.) boing enforced in Virginia, where they have sway. Many, however, succeed in eluding these pickets an reach our lines, leaving their fumilios and domestic effeet behind, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WAR GAZETTE. OFFIOIALs i it Order Respecting Provost Marsheis..| Wasurwaton, Sept. 26, 1663. The War Department has issued the following order r 4 specting special provost marshals, and defining their 4 ,, ties: — First—There shall be a Provost Marshal General of t - War Department, whose hoadquarters will be at Washia ! ton, and who will have the Immediate supervision, oo trol and management of the corps. Second—There will be appointed im each State one + more special provost marshals, as necessity may roquit | who will report to and receive instructions and erdd from the Provost Marshal General of the War Depa ; ment. F Third—It will be the duty of the special provost ms shals to arrest all descrters, whether regulars, voluntee or militia, and send them to the nearest military cor mander or military post, where thoy can | cared for and sent to their respective reg ments; to arrest, upon the warrant of the Jud Advocate, all disloyal persons subject to arrest under t orders of the War Department: to inguire inte and rep treasonable practices , seize stvien or embezzied prope: of the government; detect spies of the enemy, and p form such other duties as may be enjoined upon them the War Department, and report all their procoedin promptly to the 'rovost Marshal General. Fourth—To enable special provost marshals to dischm their duties eMficientiy ; they are authoriged to call on & available military foree within their respective distric or else to employ the assistance of eitizens, constabdi) sheriffs oF police officers, so fur as may be necessn under such regulatious as may be prescribed by the F vost Marshal General of the War Department, with Approval of the Secretary of War. Fifth—Necessary expeuses incurred in this serv will be paid on duplicate bills certified by the spe provost marshals, stating tho time and nature of service, after examination and approval by the l’rov arshal General. Sizth—The compensation of spceial provost mars will be dollars per month, and actual’ travel expenses and postage will be refunded on bills certi under oath aud approved by the Provost Marshal Gone Serenth—All appointments in this sorvice will subject t be revoked at the pleasure of theecrot of War. Bighth—All orders heretofore issued by tho War partment, conferring authority upon other officers to a8 provost marshals, except thowe who have rece! Special commissions from the War Department, bgredy revoked. a By order of the SECRETARY OF WAR. L. THOMAS, Adjutant Govera GENERAL NEWS. Wasuincton, Sept. 26, 186 ANOTHER PROCLAMAT.ON REPORTED TO BE FOr COMING—-PLORIDA TO BE MADE A LARGR GOVE MENT COTTON PLANTATION. Tam informed, by « gentieman high in the confid of the administration, that the President has had in+ templation for som time, and will shortly issue, ano highly important proclamation. It may therefore expected at any moment. Tt will prociaim the Stat Florida at once to be uador the jurisdiction of the f ral governmont, inviting, at tho same time, ail laborers from the North and Wost, white Diack, to settio in said Stato, for the pose of cultivating cotton, The President will guara them ample protection by both the army and navy. ‘State constitution is to be set aside for the prosent, the State reduced to a territorial condition, and gover accordingly. Is ts said that thie is only initiati: policy which im to be largely adopted heroatter it should prove successful. The President hopes | this means to make ample provision for the cult tion of cotton not only for our domestic wants, to supply foreign governments, thereby obviating necessity for intervention. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO M’CLELLAN'S ARM The Marquis of Hartington and his brother in. Lord George Cavendish, who are sone of the Duke of vonshire, the largest landholder in England; also Cot Leslie, of the British Army, and John Rose, Rac Canada, who have been sojourning in Washington some day® past, left this morning for Harper's Ferry spond a few days with our army in that vicinity. CONDITION OF GENERAL nooKER, General Hooker is attended @t the Insane Asylun