The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFIOKN, W. CORNER OF FULTON ANb NAdSA0 STS, or cans tn advance. Money centr; matt wil! he at the sauder, ‘Nomatut Bark bills current in See Fork LD. 00 coms per co $7 er aumum LD, every Sagurdoy, at six cants per the Bwropean Editign -agy Wedneaday, “annum to ny port of Brent Britain’ Cit nent, oth lo include pratage; the on the lst, 11th and 21s (@/ each month, at six Or 82 TB per cnacmm, faite WERAED, on Wednesday, at four cents ver ‘ani: Woruntexk CORRESPONDENCE, contaiui>g ioportant fron any quarter of the snortde {7 used. eill be for. g@POUR PORKIGN CORRESPONDENTS Aue ‘Y¥Buguwstsd TO Skat Aut Lerrees .Np Pace ‘No it taken of anonymous correspymdence, We 4 cr copy: Sh k not peed commis dion “BY RYESEM ENTS renewed every day: advertisements in- 6 the Waxnuy Herat, Pawity Wixnaty, ond tn de cam! Buty mi fa open PRINTING executed with noatness, heapness and des- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Kina Laan. WALLACK'S THBATRE, Broadway.—Wiw Oas, WINTER GARDEN Broadway.—Hauuet. LAURA KEENB'S winetos—Rovun Dia' EAT&E, Broadway.—Pxa Wor’ NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Son or mr NesrTow Onincux Oc Nan BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Girser's Revixncr— Motuse Goose—GoLosy PAuNTR, |, GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, 435 Broadway.—Der Frivs- cnutz. NIXON'S CREMORNE @A! Rth avenue. —W zap Sev comet ap EqurstxiaNise BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Conon mo Teorigsn Fism, &C.. at all hours. @avTii.r¥x—Youne America, atS P.M. Ciivpe Marcer, at 7g evening. DEN, Fourteenth street and BALLET, Promexape Con- BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Tall, 472 Broad. way. MIOPIAN SONGS, KueLBsques, Dances, 4¢.—Tas Brack Buigaps. OHRISTY’S OPERA HOUSE, 5% Broadway.—E Bons, Danous, Ao,—Inx Miscut:vuvs MONKEYS WOOD'S MINSTREL MALL, 614 Broadway.—Ermrortai Bonas, Daxcrs, ao.—tat tne Go. bias APEL No, 720 Broadway.—Exmrarzion oF YAMPORNIA. HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, 2 —Sonas, Daxces, Buxteseves, &c. ‘ear GAIBTIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Drawin: Roow Extenrarnunrrs, Aut ee PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, way. Open daily from 10 A. M, till 10 P.M. splat HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOU! Brooklyn.—! BonGs, Dancis, BoRiesyuas, iphone leerar igo New York, Thursday, THE SITUATION. General McClellan, with his staff, paid a visit to Bolivar and Sandy Hook on Monday. General Pleasanton, with his cavalry, has made another dash across the Potomac at Shepherdstown, when he came into contact with a body of rebels, and drove them back to Martinsburg, shelling them out from that place with his artillery. A large force of rebels are lying between Winchester and Martinsburg, By advices from Loufsv'lle we learn that General Buell, who was temporarily deprived of his com- mand and General Thomas appointed in his place, | wes immediately reinstated at the request of General Thomas himself and all the Major Generals io the Army of Ohio. Gencral Morganis advancing rapidly towards the Ohio river, to reinforce Gen. Buell. From our ocrcc:pondence from Hilton Head we learn that some important naval movements are vn foot in that direction, probably towards Sa- vanaah and Mobile, under Commodore Dupont. With regard to the revel rams at Charleston and Savannah, we are informed that the Fingal is near- Jy completed, and that Commodore Dupont is on the look out for her with the Wabash, which is constantly ready for action. We give some interesting news from New Or- leans to-day, among which is an account of a great rush of the inhabitants to take the oath of |} ; allegiance in order to escape the operations of the sixth section of the Confiscation act, which, in ac- cordance with the President's proclamation, was to take effect on the 23d of September. ‘The New Orleans journals state that the opera- tion of civil law has been restored in that city; that the Sheriff was to open six district courts in proper form, and the usual law proceedings were to go on. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The mail steamer Columbia, Captain Barton, from Havana, arrived at this port yesterday af- ternoon. The news from Mavana is of no impor- tance. The papers are filled with discussions on the war in America and the recent sanguinary straggles in front of the federal capital. The letters of our correspondents at Vern Cruz and La Soledad, Mexico, which we publish this morning, will be read with much intercst. From the former place we have a confirmation of the death of Gen. Zaragoza, one ef the bravest and best of the Mexican generals. He was buried with great pomp and ceremony. A good deal of typhoid fever prevailed at Vera Cruz, with fatal results in most cases, The letter from Soledad gives a succinct and comprehensive account of the movements of tie French army and the ad vance from Vera Cruz, together with some inte- resting facts concerning skirmishes with the gue- villas and the atrocities committed by these wild and barbarous soldicrs. The views of the Emperor Napoleon are uiso given at length in an autograph letter to Gen. Lorencez. The Havana papers eontain a brief statement confirmatory of the revolution in Maracaibe, Ve- nozuela, andsof brooding difficulties in other parts of the republic; but no details of these insurree- tionary movements are given. We have files from Torke Islands dated the 1th of September. The Royal Standard says:—We have had a moderate demand for salt this week, without any change in the price, which is eeven ceuta. The Turks Idands SNandard of the 15th ult. con, trina the following news:~Advices from St. Domingo, dated at Porto Plata, state that the in- ternittent fever bas proved fatal among the Spanish troops and_other Envopeans. The cntti- vation of cotton appears to be exciting the atten- ton of both the Spanich government aud people. ‘The great difficulty is to o. vain the proper cleas of persons for carrying out the views of those vioet interested in this matter. An effort is being made to introdece colored laborers frow the United States, which is likely to prove successful. fa the district of Axua large formations of rock salt, of a very good quality, have been discovered. The now Captsin General, Don Felipe Ribero y Le- maine, ia reported to be a gentioman of extremely liberal views, and is likely to be popular with the tixed and white inhabitants. We have some interesting news from the South, wy way of Granada, Mississippi, and Mgmpbis, ‘Jounetsco, It ts reported that in the naval engagement be- tweew the Union gunboat Santiago de Cuba and the rebel steamer 200" the former wae riddled with shot, aad was forced to retreat. The village of Kaodolph, Tenyossee whic} waq recently dostroyed by order of Gen, MW ascount of tis treachery of the inhabitants im Giring Into the stecmor Eugene, on board of which wap-8 large namber Of women and Mifldron, cop. ' NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER: 2. ‘TS02. The Approaching Campaign—Phe Ex- hausted Condition and Desperate Wx” tained ninoty-seven buildings, all but one of vhich were reduced to ashes. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day, the Mayor sent in the naine of Mr. Thomas B, Sunith as nominee for Sireet Commissioner. After some discussion the nomination was rejected by « vote of eight vo six, The Mayor also sent in @ Inessage vetoing a preamble and resolutions re- cently adopted by the Board relative to the war and emancipation, because they condemn the emancipation proclamation of the President, which he regards asa wise measure, aud because they create a war committee chiefly selected from par- tisan organizations. The communication was laid over, and the Board adjouraed till Friday. The Board of Councilmen held a special session yesterday for the purpose of concurring in the re- solution passed by the Board of Aldermen for ex- ichding the time of paying the city bounty to the 9th instant, Lhe paper'was amended for the pur- pose of connecting it with the original ordinance, aud then passed. On motjon of the Committee on Charities and Donations, the sam of one thousand dollars was donated to the Nursery and Child’s Hospital. A resolution was adopted to appoint a special committee to investigate the coat of street opening, and to furuish the Board with a detailed account of the expenses of the same since the year 1869, The Board then adjourned until to-da, (Thursday) at five o'clock P. M. > The Excise Commissioners met at one o'clock yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas room, and granted a number of licenses, after which tho Board adjourned, subject to the call of the chair or two members, for the transaction of -business pre- vious to @ final settlement. The Board of Education met yesterday evening, and adjourned for want of a quorum, It will be seen, by a proclamation published else- where, that the Governor has designated Thursday, Nov. 27, as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer. The triennial Episcopal Convention of the United States, met yesterday at St. John’s church, Varick.street. After the usual religious services, and the transaction of some routine business, the Convention adjourned till this morning. The number of vessels entered at this port from foreign ports during the month of September was five hundred and nine, and the number of clear- ances for foreign ports during the same period was four hundred and sixty. A corresponding period in 1861 gives three hundred and ninety-one entries and three hundred and sixty-eight clearances. ‘There has been @ convention at Houston, Tex- as, of Southern Governors, which was attended by Claiborne F. Jackson, of Missouri; Henry M. Rector, of Arkansas; Thomas 0. Moore, of Loui- siana, and Frank R. Lubbock, of Texas. An ad- dress was adopted to the people of these several States, asking a concert of action. The yeliow fever prevails badly in Texas. There are four candidates running for Governor in Arkanses—Harris, Flanigan, Henry M. Rector and John H. Rainey. blame John C. Breckinridge for their a, and say that he did not reinforce Price, as he was ordered. Important rebel military movements are said to be in progress fn Arkansas. There is only one regiment (Third infautry) from the State of Louisiana in the Western rebel army. Cousiderable complaint comes from the new re- ments in the field that the government is una- ble to supply them with tents, and much sickness is produced in consequence. The Thirty-fifth Massachusetts, which loft the State full in num- hors, four wecks ago, has been reduced to three hhandred and foi ight men and eight officers. ‘The Lehigh Canal has been repaired, and is now againopen for navigation. The first boat loaded with coal since the freshet passed into the canal at Maunch Chuuk on the 29th ult. A party of rebel bushwhackers, on the 17th instant, fell upon adetachment, numbering twenty men, of Captain Dykes’ Maryland cavalry, near Greeu Spring ron, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road, and killed and wounded fourteen of the party. The Boston Heraid is the only democratic paper in fhe country that joined the abolition journals in their attempts to overthrow General McClellan. The nominations for Congress in Indiana are now complete, with a single exception, as fol- Dist. Union. 1—Alya Jobnsop. 2—Col. W. Q. Gresham M. Democratic. John Law. le. Damovt. A. B, Conduit. T—Harvey D. Scott, D. W. Voorhees. 8—Goodlove 8. Orth Not nominated 9—Schuyler Colfax. David Turpic. 10—Wm. Biitchell. Jos. K. Edgerion. J. P. C. Shanks. F. Mobowell Tue stock market was lower yesterday morning, but becameactive and even rampant again in the afternoon, with a general and active inquiry for all kinds of securi- ties at the highest prices of the day. Governments were M higher aud firm. Gold declined to 1224 on the dis- bursement of about a million in the shape of intorest at the Sub-Treasury. Exchange closed at 134g a 13514. Money was active at 4a 6 per cent. ‘Tue coiton market was firm yesterday, with sales of 1,000 bales, closing stiif on the basis of 56)¢¢. for middling uplands. A sale of 399 baios of Gulf cotton, the cargo uf the prize schooner William, was made by auction yeater- “ay noon, at the Union Stores, Brooktyn. The prices were considered good, allowtag for the condition aud | quality of the lots offered, aome of which were damaged» while the bales were mostly light or of irregular weight’ ‘That of best quality and -in best condition bronght 543,¢. ab5c. Otherdote sold at 603¢¢. a $1c., and some common and loose lote seld atdic.a46c, And included in the Bale were 160 bales of damaged at 7c. and a small lot (205 ths.) do. at lde. The sale afforded no criterion of the state of the market. Flour was steady, and common grades of State and Western were unchanged and less active, while medium and prime extras were firm, and in #0me cues rather better. Wheat was heavy, and closed atadectine of 2c.03¢. Corn was easier and about Ic. lower. Pork was firm’, especially for prime, with sales of mess at $11 62}4, and of prime at $10 25: The stuck of pork on hand yesterday was about 110,739 bbis., against 157,756 at the same time last month. The stock of beef embraced 10,362 packages, against 15,568 om the first of Jast month, Sngare were leas active, while prices were unchanged. The rales embraced about 400 Ihde. and 146 boxes, Cofee was firm: arale of 1,000 bags of Rio was made a ide. Freights were Grmer for Liverpool, aud wat engaged at 1294. a 22d. in bulk and in ships’ Appowsment or Arvy Orricers.—It is of great importance to the military service of the country that the Governors of States should proceed without delay to fill np all vacancies in the army. This should be done on the princi- ple recommended by General Halleck—by pro- moting officers, non-commissioned officers and privates who have distinguished themselves in the field or shown @ capacity for military com- mand. The great want of the army now is eff- cient officers. The late battles in fromt of Wael- ingion ané in Maryland bave placed #o many hovs de combat that their places should be Glied immediat Scrrises ror Orn Anwy.—-We are now. put fing @ million of armed men into the fleld, and it ie the daty of the Quartermaster’s and Com- missary General's departments to wee that this fine army ¢hall not suffer from the want of supplies, inclusive of bayyage wagons, ambu- lances, stores and all the movable material of anarmy. If there Be-any delay tn the movée- ments of these forces, it will be ewing to the neglect of the duties of these departinents; for Genorals Halleck and McClellan on the Poto- ac, and Generale Wright and Buell ip, the West, Have goi everything im readiness for sug- cexsful blows at the rebeliion. Let the Quir. termecter and Commissary deparimente do their share in the great work. . - — tremitics of the Rebellion. The great aud momentous battle of Antietam has broken up the whole rebel programme un- der which the “liberating” army of Gon. Lee was pushed forward into Maryland. Lee anti- cipated the destruction, in detail, of the armies of Pope and McClellan, and the capture of Washington ; or, failing in this enterprise, he expected to revolutionize Maryland, occupy Baltimore, and cut off all our overland com” munications between Washington and the North. These were great objects, and the temptations to undertake them were very invit- ing and plausible. But stronger than all these inducements were the necessities of the rebels for an aggressive campaign into the abounding supplies of our loyal border States, on both sides of the slavery line, from Maryland and Pennsylvania to Illinois and Missouri. Lee’s advance into Maryland was thus only a part of the geueral scheme of the rebel leaders for the establishment of their armies where they could be comfortably subeisted through the winter; tor while Lee’s numerous hungry and ragged followers were to be quartered upon the rich counties of Northern Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania, the forces of Bragg, Kirby Smith and Humphrey Marshall were to be fed from the immediate valley of tho Ohio river, and clothed: from the stores of Cin- cinnati and Louisville; and, next in order, Hind- mand, Rains and Company were to push for- ward to the occupation of St. Louis. But the whole of this magnificent programme was knocked in tho head at Antietam. Lee is driven back into the military desert of Virginia, and his confederates in the West are now consider- ing, not how they shall advance,-but by what line of retreat they can escape destruction. They will not be permitted to tarry long in Kentucky, and in falling back within the limits of the rebellion they return to a region in which the mass of the local population are on the verge of famine. We do not speak at random. When General Halleck advanced to the occupation of Corinth he found the surrounding population so desti- tute of the commonest necessaries of life that he was compelled to appeal to the charity of St. Louis for their immediate relief. The sime melancholy tale is told by every witness from Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. At New Orleans one-third of the resident poffu- lation are mainly dependent for subsistence upon the army stores of General Butler and his charitable collections from the rich secession- ists of the town. At Richmond, with its nume- rous and immenee flouring mills, flour is selling at fifteen and sixteen dollars a barrel, even in the absence of Lee’s devouring army. We dare say, in a word, that if peace and the Union were re-established to-morrow, the destitution and distress which would be revealed, from Vir- ginia to Louisiana, would startle the civilized world. Herein, according to the confessions of the leading rebel orgaas at Richmond, lies the secret of this desperate rebel’ enterprise of car- rying the war into our loyal States. “Bread and meat” enticed General Lee into Maryland, Bragg into Kentucky, and Hindman to Missouri. But, baffied at all points, and menaced by our inercasing forces on every side, what else than destruction or dissolution can be the fate of these rebel armies? The general campaign which will shortly be opened against them, East and West, wiil inevitably scatter them to the winds. General Lee. With Richmond and Gordons. ville both in danger, he cannot linger at Win- chester; but in leaving his intrenchments there McClellan may cut him to pieces. If McClellan's arm y was strong enough in these late battles to dislodge that of Lee from the strongest defen- sive positions on the summits of wooded hills and mountains, what hope is there for his dimi- nished and demoralized army against the aug- mented and reinvigorated columns of Mc- Clellan? We hold, however, that in repulsing the armies of the rebellion from the north side of the Potomac and from the line of the Ohio, the most important part of the task of their over- throw is already accomplished. Recoiling upon an exhausted country, with no large depots of supplies, they must disperse with the approach of the snows and rains of winter, in the progress of their retreat. Some idea may be formed of the results of the rebel deficiencies in tood, clothing and hospital supplies from the report of Surgeon General Moore, of the army hospi- tals in and around Richmond. According to this report those hospitals now contain over seventy-five thousand patients—a number so far beyond all the casualties of the late battles from Richmond to Manassas as to appear in- credible. With all these terrible drawbacks, and with a Confederate tax of twenty per cent ypon the productions and incomes of the people of our revolted States, from and after the Ist of Jgnu- ary, together with the solemn warning of Pre- sideat Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation’ we are convinced that another defeat or two in the field will break up this rebellion root and branch. Our new campaign, which is about to open East, West and South, in conjunction with our iron-clad ships and gunboats, will soon settle the question and put an end to all canards and conjectures of European intervention: While our strength is just about to be developed, our rebeilious States are so near the point of exbaustion that they cannot, through this win- ter, maintain the unequal struggle. Ratirvap Provects or THE Repeis.—An ad- vortisment, which we copy from a late number of a Richmond paper, for contracts for the erection of a railroad’between Danville, on the southern border of Virginia, and Greensboro, in North Carolina, in order to give the rebel ar- mies a central route, in the event of the railroad line along the coast, or the Virginia and Ten- nessee Railroad, connecting Richmond and Knoxville, being cut by the Union armies. This is a proof that, instead of indulging in @veams of Northern invasion, the rebellious States fear the worst for themselves,. It will be also seen that raflroads through Texas have been ordered, the object no doubt being also military, and to facilitate the transportation of supplies of cattle and breadstuffs to the rebel army; siso arms end other contraband goods from Enrope, by way of Mexico; while, at the same time, cargoes, of cotten could be safely sont away by the roufe, till ovr tron-clad gun- boats ascend the Rio Grande aad put an end to the trafic. Tor Renes, Tax Brase-[t will be seen by reforence to ® Tax bill passed by tho rebel Con. gress that the unfortunate people of the South. orn States gre to be taxed on the Ist of January to the amount of one-fifth of all their ngrioil- tural produce and animals of every deserip- _which he was defeated, Take, for example, the grand army of tion. The Catholic people of Ireland have long cried to Heaven and mankind.against the in- justice of paying a tithe or tenth of all their produce to the Protestant Episcopal clergy. What is that oppression compared wtih this war tax upon a people boasting of democratic institutions? If they can stand that they cap stand anything. Goneral McClellan and the Boastings of the Richmond Press. General McClellan’s report of the battle of Antietam, which we published yesterday, dis- poses of the boastings of the rebel papers of Richmond—the Enquirer, Examiner, Whig and Dispatch—which affect, one and all, to be very jubilant over the. result. They claim it as a victory, won with a loss of only five to eight thousand men, and say that General MoClellan retreated on Wednes- day night or Thursday morning, and that Lee held the battle field all day Thursday, and then crossed the Potomac, two miles distant, un- molested and unresisted, and took up a posi- ; tion: on ‘the other side, at. Shepherdstown, and drove back, with great slaughter, the van of McClellan’s force, numbering ten thousand men, who had crossed- on Saturday in pursuit. They claim, in fact, that they won this third campaign, whose object was tho capture of Harper’s Ferry, with all the men and spoila that it contained. That ;by the first campaign they drove McClellan to the shelter of the gunboats at Harrison’s Landing; by the ‘second they drove Pope to the fortifications at Washington, and by the third they captured Harper's Ferry, their advance into Maryland and the threatening of Pennsylvania being mere feints to draw McClellan’s army out of Wash- ington on the north side of the Potomac, and to hold him at bay in,the Maryland mountains with @ part of the rebel force, while the remain- der, in the rear, was investing and securing the stronghold of Harper’s Ferry; whereas, if it had been approached directly from the southern side, the force holding it would have retreated, carrying off or destroying the cannon and ammu- nition, or General McClellan could have rein- forced it in such time as to prevent its capture’ So, then, the rebel army crossed the Potomac aud made a circuit around by way of Frederick and Hagerstown to capture Harper’s Ferry, which was abandoned almost as soon as it was taken; and General Lee fought two battles—one at South Mountain, in and another on Antietam creek, in which he was defeated, with the loss of probably twenty thousaud men and their arms—all for sake of the advantage of capturing Harper’s Ferry, which he never meant to hold. This is to win a campaign. And then he recrosses the Potomac, not because he was defeated, but for atrategical reasons, in order to win another campaign in some equally roundabout way. Ifthe Southern people will swallow all this, their powers of credulity are without a parailel. It is evident that the Rich- mond papers give this version of the story in order to cover a disaster to their arms of which they are painfully conscious. Their loss at the battle of Sharpsburg turns out to be about twenty thousand, instead of from five to eight thousand, the latter being the highest figure at which they have placed it. Besides, the pro- gramme proclaimed by themselves was the invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The lame and impotent conclusion upon which they fall back will not do. But it cannot be denied that the capture of Harper’s Ferry was a triumph and a great «d- vantage to the rebels. It gave them 11,500 prisoners, and ammunition for the great battle of Wednesday, while it secured a retreat fo" their fugitive army and prevented its capture or total destruction. It was the key of the whole position, and was seized by the rebels in the desperation of their defeat and flight, and not in consequence of any prearranged stra- tegic plan. Were it not for that event the suc- cess of McClellan would have been complete, and the whole rebel army would have been bagged. Its temporary possession served their purpose, . Now the question is, who is responsible for the loss of Harper’s Ferry? Not General Me- Clellan; for he had no control over the position. It was not in his department, and the officer in command was not under his control. We hap- pento know upon excellent authority that when Gen. McClellan was setting out with his army from Washington to give battle to Lee and Jackson, he impressed on the proper authorities at the capital the importance of either reinforc- ing or evacuating it, destroying the railroad bridge and pontoon, and strongly fortifying Maryland Heights; otherwise a calamity would be the result. His military eye at once saw that this was a vital point. His advice and remonstrances, however, were treated with neglect, and he was subsequently compelled to send away «portion of his own force to succor the besieged, though it did not reach them in time, and he was obliged, also, to alter his plans and to fight a battle at Crampton’s Gap, which would otherwise have been un- necessary. He had to deprive himself of Franklin’s corps in the beginning of the fight at Antietam creek in order to send the desired succor to Harper’s Ferry, and at the same time, by that route, to get in the rear of the rebel army and ¢ut it off; but, to his morti- fication, he found that the place had been sur- rendered, owing to the incompetence of the of- ficer in command, and the passage cut off from his own troops, while the rebels hastened to the battle of Antieiam by the road on the south side of the Potomac, and recrossed the river at Shepherdstown. Let the blame, there- fore, of the capture of Harper’s Ferry be laid upon the right shoulders. General McClellan gave warning to those whom it concerned. His. voice was not listened to. The loss of the place andthe prolongation of the war are the eee, of official folly at Wash- Gev. Stoxt anp THs Rapicat, Press.—The radical journals are representing Gen. Sigel as making complaints to the government about wrongs, and getting no redress, The object of these misrepresentatfons cannot be doubtful. Gen. Sigel, so far from making complaints, is busily engaged in his duties, and the last we heard of him he was boldly advancing upon the enemy. He did complain before, when he had good reason, and the President gave him re- qroat; but at present there is no evidence that, he is making eny complaint. He is « ‘gaod general, and is not so likely to make complaints as inferior men. We never hear of M or Banks making complaiate; but McDowell and Fremont, the most arducky generale in the army, have been aiws.ys complaining. It is cruel misteprorentycion of Sigel to exbibit him as eternally making complaints, But there ig nothing too desparate for the redivsl press, Se MoO.ersaw’g Rerorr anv Parry Sree — | chargod® At the Chimborazo hospital ther ‘The radical journate of this city, the organsof wore receiv 9d 24,895, of whom 2,033 dled. 4 | Wadsworth, who declared MoOlellan to be | the Winter ho2gital the number received w: cither an incompetont general or traitor, have | 22,874, of whom 4271 died. This would gi oharacteristically assailed bis report of the | of sick and wounded for Richmond alone, a battles of South Mountain and Antietam. One | the present time, an agiregate of considerab! « of them says that the loss of 46,000 men killed | over one hundred thousuad, being one-fifth a ‘4nd disabled on both sides is a price paid iafinite- | the entire military organization of the Sout! ly more than the gain is worth; that the capture | If we add to this the number of patients in th or annihilation of the whole rebel army would | military hospitals spread over the Confederat- hardly be worth the sacrifice, aud that in fact | States, it presents a total that is perfectly ap it is “the worst ot all bargains,” and somebody | patting. The causes of this large amount o will be held responsible for it one of these | sickness and mortality are to be found in a days. Such is the meanness of party spirit, | fact that the men comprising the Southern army which tries to depreciate a great victory in | have not been accustomed to work or ‘hard order to serve a vile purpose. The importance | ships of any kind; that they are miserably of this victory is to be measured, not by the | clothed and fed, and that, owing to the blockade number of men killed and wounded on either medicines, but particularly quinine, are exceed side, nor by the apparent amount of military | ingly difficult to be obtained. What the exten specess, but by a consideration of the conse- | of the suffering aud mortality will be when the. quences if Lee had been victorious and routed | winter overtakes them in their present astute o” our army. Washington would havé fallen be- | destitution we can form an idea from the above yond a doubt, and so would Baltimore, Harris. | figures. It is no wonder that with such pros) burg and-Philadelphin- Maryland would have | pects staring them in the face the tone of the: been lost, and with it the Union would have | Richmond journals should bo-dosponding anc received «staggering blow: Is the prevention | gloomy. beyond that of auy previous period of these results dearly bought at the loss of | since the commencement of the war. 15,000 men in killed and wounded on our side, and can any candid man call it “the worst of THE CUSTOM HOUSE. ra hw - Gargaiae Re 3 Recetpts for the Month of Septembera Tae Postar. Currexcy.—The notice issued |: The Effect of the Increased Price o by the Post Office Departmont, ingtructing post- | “Drmand Note oh ae lene yar hag ¢ A crease in Importations—ihe Relative masters to treat as unpaid any letter placed in | Waiue of Legal Tender Notes and Gola @ post office for mailing which may be covered &o., &e. with a stamp at all soiled or defaced, has given Another month of considerable activity at the Custom | rise to some grumbling. It is said that it will | House las just ended, and the Sub-treasurer’s ropor discredit. a circulating medium which is of the | SHO¥® that the receipts have been grefter than in the cs Sa z month of August, amounting to over tive and a quarte) greatest service to the public in the absence of | mittions of aciiars. ‘Tho past two or three weeks havi silver and of a sufficient quantity of the new | ycen rather exciting ones to the portion of our community, | postal currency issues. The answer to thi is, that no important changes are ever Rov. Dr, Clinton, W. T, Read ana Franksio Yell, ‘ M intorested in tue importing busineas. The rapid advanc: effected in the currency of a country the progress of tho market aud in devisit to avoid haviug recourse to shinplasters, neither ciroulation than any other kind of money, they are not taken notion that it legalized the use of postuge | given in paymont, they are the base of all circulation’ & fortuight—that is to say, golt wili bring mac! stock immediately becaine exhausted and the is quoted at a higher rate than before, Gold is the stand quisilions of postmasters. ; Tomnd notes, which are used exclusively as a subst + $00 i that the latte i atannps. | Asis0 On. a5 8 es fone (hal Wie IMCUEE i] TT aii thy aabd: foe GAly-eiGhE Ge TnlAb Gee Sank bed the means of removing the ink defacing. mark | however, therelis much less difference in the prices of th) further uge of postage stamps as currency, the so anmea een poem ged rer pv cet seas cers such only as may be needed by the public for value (a8 compared with that of legal tender no coming s0 scarce that even the railroads; which | yesterday being from $1193, to $119%. This is, o the high price which must be charged for every tuy them superfluous, In the meauwhile the Post portations, How erroneous this belief has thus far beou w: currency had been put nore rapidly and abun- RIPTION ACt OF THE REBELS.— | can continue, with gold at its prosent high quot charge for their goods a certain price, and receive scripts are to be drafted hereafter from thirty- tial 8 orig! more settied, and articies iu geaeral have anmore atably fivé. Those nave been used up, with the excep- decrease, Nor would it be disadvantagoous to the couate; ars older, thus including the whole of the large revcnues, and at first sight it would appear fooli But by the volunteer system, which prevailed } - sideration will carry the eonviction that it is bette and have been disposed of by sickness, by | 1ands. It would be well, therefore, if the value of The act docs not necessarily cail out the | tho pax law has deen put in operation at the C sary. The fighting population from thirty-five | Gormcuate’s Fest Concunt.—This eventug Mr. G Ryer. , Thoodore Thomas will conduct. rebel President could not now draw upon = b glean thir kaaitebabren, that residue in the volunteer force. At the patches from New York to the cvoning of the 20th troops to those ranging from eighteen to thirty- | Right Reverend Bishop Ha at 886,000, reckoning one in seven of the popu r. Delaware; L. A. Dowley,of Newport, i. T., an Me. if wife, total raised of about 555,000, whioh would leave be a Wah n ia the price of gold and domand notes—the only currency # ta which dutivs can be paid—has had the effect om without inconvenience to somebody. When ee are eras: Sire 8he, Seay de Ae the recommendation was first offered that | means to best avail of tho changes of the times, Tho! postage stamps should be used for small change, } Treasury notes of the legal tender issue are now the cur rency of the country, and are fouud more abundantly is key Aiphab a el nor the department was ro) sity ine true standard of value. Gold ‘and silver ba sponsible for it. ‘The law authorizing the issue | fone g.t of circulation, and, hough they aro vow bough ofa “postage currency’’ again led to the mis- | and sold liko merchaudise, the government notes being stamps for that purpose until the new issues Son as Le hina Ae se : the poate A a stocks and real estate down to groceries and prov: could be made. The consequence was that such GoM hide leavanced in, vaiee laa wo say) greaity-witod arush took place for stamps that the surplus f more in Troasury notes or bank bilis today tha! postal service became seriously emburrassed, | it would have donc two weeks since. It is a very com the deparimont being rendeced dependent upon | "0 “rror to say that gold has advanoed in vain the daily manufacture to comply with the re- | 011 nas a fixed and invariable value, and cannot be aaid to either increase or diminish in yaluo. This difficulty has been still further increased by the trouble given by soiled and defaced | stute for gold in the payment of duties, Lave gained more rapidiy in value than most any other scouriiy. A shor! passed without observation, chemical ingenuity astunn, ‘aad: brought. osly shat’ gine: when! $100 ia ‘gcd soon furnished the dishonestly disposed with | yo.:14 command $117 or $118 in lega! tender notes. Now! used in the post office, and of this cireulating } two curreacios. Every month the supply of demam, them. To discourage as much as possible the | Holes im we country is ditainished, ax they are cancetiog eal atie a i HG} suddenly becsme awake tw this fact when gold cum) notice t@ which we refer has been issued. For | jicncea its upward movement, and, knowing that Us the future sales of stamps will be limited to | uoteswore just as valuable-for their purpose as goly iteelf, they drove, by their eagerness to purchase, th the prepayment of postage. : “ h to that of gold than bef If thece regulations had been further delayed te heirs aoa The - estan a’ iat ie the service of the department would soon be | the importer has to pay about twenty por cent for fi seriously obstructed. Postage stamps were be- | goods in addition to the duties, the price of demand no! ‘ i S course, added to the price charged to the purchaser of thi | were at one time flooded by them, now:scarcely. | oo icie! chins one way im whieh the rise’ in’ the valall get enough to make change. Of course the new | ¢, gold dircetly increases tho value, or rather price postal currency issues and the small denomina- | articies of consumption. The question now arises, w! tion Treasury notes will, ina short time, render articic will not decrease the importations. It woul . ‘ va that ite. | Soem that such must be the caec, It was believed when Office Department bis to take care that its’) ho rssia act of inst July went into effect that the vers service is not hampered by an insufficient high rates of duty it imposes would effectually chook i supply of them. But the whole difficulty could easily have been remedied if the new postal | demonstratedafew days since; its fallacy is made stif more ovideut by the figures we gave at the boginuing o ee . a id ther these Large ray dantly in circulation. this article. But it is doubtful whet —_— ceipts for duty and beavy importations of merchand! Tax New Co tid A new Conscription act has been passed by the | Importers will feo! that the rolative value of gold rebel Congress, extending the age at which con- | "1s too uncertain to admit of large purchases in legal tender notes; but will not they feel that it five to forty-five years, Hithorto the conscrip- | potter to keop thoir goods until the currency is a ited tion embraced all between eighteen and thirty- value, or to export them to countrics where gold will b tion of Bragg’s and Smnith 's armies, and what is pail therefor? If such bo tho case the importations mu: left of Lee's. Now it is extended to men ten | to pave the supply of foreign guods imported under; this diminution, To be sure large importations y' jilitary age from eighteen to forty-five, or about one-fifth of the whole white population, | % #y that the country would be benefitted by « dee! in the revenue derived from customs; but a moment’t before the conscription, many of those between | for the nation to be deprived of the use of (his roveni thirty-five and forty-five years were absorbed, | than tuat tho country should send its wealth to othe} e field, or b: i imports could be brought down to the valao of the wd on the battle , or by wounds received sane. sO lies haba ‘Sea Galb paak ely 3 yeas should be sufficient to pay our foreign debts. whole of the fighting population; but it gives | House, the tax of three por cent om the exe authority to the Confederate President to call | over $600 having been deducted from the p it out to any extent that he may deem neces- | clerks for the month of September. to forty-five is found by the census to be only | chalk gives his first concert for the season at Irving a little more than one-third of that from | He will bo assisted by Mrs. Jenny Kempton und eighteen to thirty-five. Consequently the | J-R. Thomas, Schreiber, Bergner, Timm, Noll, more. than one-third the number of the’ troops he has already raised, even if he had not already expended a considerable portion of waa boarded at two o'clock this morning, and. news very utmost one-fourth is as mueh as this new | timo, together with commercial telegrams from Mr; conscription could produce, and greatly infes | George Stoker’s agency, put on board of her. : rior in some of the essential qualities of goed Personal I five years. : at the Everett House. Paula! Lieut, 8. M Mansfeld ,of We recently estimated the entire fighting | | MANUE to shat 8c hve aibeay, Waa population of the rebels that could be spared lation. We estimated the numbers in the field at 455,000, and the numbers lost by sickness and, stopping at the G and the battle field as 100,000 more, making a | Mndsnd Of Kugland, ere stoyptn Hon, Chauncey Vibbard, Erustas Corning, 4 hich a deduction of :Pruyn, of Albany Col a reserve of 331,000, from which a deruction of {irre or inineln; Re ‘ 100,000 ought to be made: for-varions causes, soi, of Now Havens Capt. loaving only 231,000 to fill up.the broken ranks { John Metis the Bh Nicolas po HS tute Bisboy Piliadelphi nt Re of the rebel army and to constitute a reserve, Right Bow ined favally , oF Minwisota ta Poor Bat the rebel Conscription. act is declared to | Rishon Whine. gmory” K. B. Forbes: nail Ogden Cu be illegal by one of the jurigos in the Confede- | mau, of Boston Rev. Om Son ee ie IE Togenh rate States, amd its validity is likely to be die bey! ‘ United, States heey Ae eS Mi Baia puted Bing toy faa cae ee It bioty sd colonel 0 on yN. He, geen, act authorizes Presiden Hon, W. 3. 8. Moore, Die; Be A Bur cet of "Be levy the troops directly, aod not through the | w cienat i sbictovani, ni Now unlnoe, faa ceapeger ley ree brio ten ae simart Wer dee mueh like an attempt at establishing a cOnsali | eee ee ion, are stoupiny ab the Jet” 1 ont dated government, if whieh State authoriayyand | the Governor Seworat of f Caine ut alia nected State lines shall be effaced. Already the Soush- be ah taak 4 moni Capea Reval, Sg journals corted ike HhrbeKh vue, ern. have taken the alarm. nity Prinow of vaefar het tt = oy Ten Waste of Lire Auonost sue Renrys— igen, Contra Rr The ished the Ri r bogpital statistics bade vy ich Canad mond papers show a of life and an | ten. amount of sickness and saifaring that are un- Guns an paralleled in tho history Of any campniga. | Capimin Grant, Ald decamp ty thydsg) "The number of wlok and, wounded received in Aid sa Lor at Wr, the Kichmusd howptta! Mg since their organization ate js, It appears, 99/508. Of these 7,663 have died, aud 12,146 bove been furluughed apd ais of Maino; Hon. B..Bubvitt ami | W. Dew