The New York Herald Newspaper, October 8, 1862, Page 4

(WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1862. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENRETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orrices. wv. CORNER OF FULTON AnD Nassav sts, NIBLO'S CARDEN, Broadway.—Ricumuieu. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.--Money. WINTER GARDEN Broadway.—Mescaawt oF Veniox. LAURA KRENIDS THEATRE, Broadway.— " Finaton—oas oF & LOFER. la NEW BOWERY THEATRE, maawvou BRI re Law MANAGER § aiticy Bowery. AUGHIER—MiLLY. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—¥ast Worn or THE Movsax Tuse—Raovt--How to Avoin Drartixa. GERMAN OP! OSE, & aed Py ERA HOUSE, 485 Broadway.—Caito or KNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broad fe COLOR: ‘Bo Trorrest Fisn, &c., atall hours. Wievouinre atlaranon and ereuins BRVANTS MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ fall, 472 Broad- fay. —Eumioriay Sons. Koncesaues, Dances, &o.—Tue ox Uniuane. CURISTY'S OPERA HOUS:! 585 Uroadway,—Erniortan Bouse, Da vous, &o.—Tux Mise : ev OUS MONKEY, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, Boncs. Dawors, &c —OriteiL0. roadway. —ETmiorian ROrF CHAPEL No. 720 Broadway.—E; Munesi's Cicteonsta, ee eee HU(CHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC drock Sock, Danens, Bematoras ee Ts Canal posit vee . GAIBTIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.— Roo Rvrentainneyts, ig BY PRAYERS PARISIAN CABINET OF W Open daity trom 10. A.M, tL LO P.M HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, bs sHODURY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn —Ermorta New York, Wednesday, October 8, 1862, THE SITUATION. General McClellan has issued an order to the Army of the Potomac relative to the late eman- Oipation proclamation of the President, in which he states that it is the first duty of the soldier to Obey the civil authorities as represented by the Executive, who is charged with the adminis- tration of federal laws. While not sceking to restrict the right of discussion, upon all Public quostions, in the camps, he recommends that it may be restrained within proper limits, ang Gonfined to the respectful expression 6° osinion, He rewinds them that the remedy for political er- Fors ia to be found at the polls, and adds:—“In thus calling the attention of his army to the true relation between the soldiers and the go- verament, the general commanding merely @dverts to an evil against which it has been thought advisable during our whole histo- Fy to guard the armies of the republic, and fin 80 doing he will not be considered by any righ, tinded persons as casting any reflection upon that loyalty and good conduct which has been so fully {luatrated apon 80 many buttle fields. In carrying Out all measures of public policy this army will, of course, be guided by the same rvles of mercy fad Christianity that have ever controlled its con- duct towards the defence!vss. Some activity is manifested by car army on the Upper Potomac, which in all probability pre- cedea a vigorous movement and an approaching battle. Advices from Frederick state that recent te- Connoissances have established the faet that General Lee is rapidly falling back towards Rich- mond. A detachment from General Sumner's corps drove in the rebel pickets at Charlestown on Sunday, and it is evident that the retreating enemy is to be closely followed up. A deserter from the Second Virginia cavalry, Mumford's brigade, captured near Fairfax Court House, states that General Jo. Johnston is to super- sede General Bragg in Kentucky. He says that he heard rebel officers admit the loss of the rebels at Antietam to be 16,000 killed and wounded and 4,000 prisoners, According to his statement the Webel army is located thus:—Mumford's brigade, effrom aine hundred to ten hundred cavalry, is between Warrenton and the springs. The force at Oulpepper Coart House, now commanded by Gene- fal Jo. Johnston, vonsists of three divisions, one of them commanded by Generali Gustavus W. Smith, another by General Horton; the name of the other division commander he did not know. The force under Lee at Winchester, he says, numbers one ‘@Bundred and eighty thousand men, and is being meinforoed; but this is evidently too high an esti; : Mate. » We teara from Cumberland, by way cf Balti, more, that the rebel artillery chief Imboden’s entire wagon train of supplies, together with two | picces of artillery, fifty prisoners and a quantity og mall arma, were captured yesterday by our troops, and that General McReynolds was purse- dug the enemy up the Great Cacopan river. ~The grand victory at Corinth receives confirma- tidn daily. Farther despatches from General Grant, dated at noon on Monday, state that Gene- rais Hurlbut and Ord came up with the flying ene- my on Sunday, and drove them five miles back across the Hatchie river towards Corinth, thus completely cutting them off. They captured in this attack two rebel batteries, 300 prisoners and a quantity of small arms. Upen General Grant in- forming General Rosecrans of these facts he re- Ceived @ despatch from the latter, at Chevalla, fin these characteristic and satisfactory terms:— “The enemy are totally routed, throwing eve y thing away. We are following sharply.” So much flor the battle of Corinth. The results that ave certain to (Mow it will not only be felt with swbolesome effect in Mississippi but im Kentucky aod Virginia. Despatches from Cairo received dest night sey that the rebel lose in this battle was @ight hundred killed and from fifteen to eighteen hundred wounded. We lost only three hudred killed Gad one thousand wounded. We took fifteen bun- @red prisoners at Corinth and three hundred on the Mlatchie river. Colonel Ogleby is reported to feave died of his woupds. The rebels lost two generals, Martin and Rogers. The rebels iv Missouri appear to be faring no Detter than their comrades in Mississippi. Gen. Schofield made an attack upon them at Newtonia, &town Gfty-four miles south of Springfield, on Saturday tast, and thoroughly routed them after a fight of two hours, From this point he pursued sthem, and was expected to provoke another battle next day, but no further accounts of his move- ments have reached us. The rebels wore said to Be fifteen thousand strong. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship City of Washington, from Liver- 9001, amrived at this p ort at haif-past two o'clock Heratp. opened up.. General Hall, Colonel Roome and others addressed the committee, giving similar views to those previous!y published in the Heratp, after which the committee adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair. An immense and highly respectable mass meet- ing of the republicans of Brooklyn was held last evening in the Academy of Music in that city, at which Omgpius M. Clay made a two hours’ speech onthe subject of the President’s proclamation of emancipation, a report of which will be found in our columns. The Board of Common Council of Louisville, Kentucky, have adopted a resolution dismissing from office all persons who claim foreign protec- The fol- lowing number of persons have filed certificates of tion as exemption from military service, nationality claiming such protection:— British subjects. 77 France. 6 Germany .. 41 Russia 2 Switzerland 14 Poland 2 -12 Hungary. ol -12 Saxony... § The Board of Supervisors met yesterday, whe an appropriation of $30,000 of the $80,000 in the tax levy to pay the interest on county revenue bonds for 1862 was placed at the disposal of the Comptroller. The Sheriff’s bill for official services for the quarter terminating last June (which was vetoed by the Mayor on account of the item for ex- cise fees) was brought up and passed by the Board, by a vote of eleven to one, and the Board adjourned until ten A. M. on Saturday, when they will meet to appoint Inspectors of Registry. The trial of Richard 8. Downing, accused of murdering his wife on the 24th of August, was commenced in the Court of General Sessions yes- terday. The principal witness examined was the son of the prisoner, a little boy between nine and ten years of age, who witnessed the whole occur- rence, and testified that his father had kicked his mother in the chest. The case for the defence will be opened this morning at eleven o'clock. The inqnest in the case of John Donnelly, who was killed in on aflray with some negroes, near the corner of avenue B and Houston street, on Sunday morning, resulted in a verdict of “Death by a knife in the hands of Shedrick Reid, on the 5th day of October.”” The market for beef cattle during the past week was buoyant and firmer for prime, which were active at 8c. a 9c. The stock was mainly composed of common, which ranged all the way from 5c. to 7c. Other grades varied from 7c. to 8%c. Milch cows were firm at our previous qnota- tions, viz:—$25 a $49 a $50. Veals were steady at 4c. a6%c. Sheep and lambs were active at $250 to $4 a $550, a shade better on the average. Swine were dull and heavy, except heavy corn fed which sold at 414c. Tighter hogs scld at from 3'4e. to 4c.; distillery hogs, 334c. a %%e., and véry inferior hogs at 2%c.a 3c. The total re- ceipts were 5,133 beeves, 96 cows, 499 veals, 12,546 sheep and lambs, and 23,9(3 swine. AD attempt was mide by some leading opcrators yca- terday to induce a reaction in the stock markot by large sales of cash Stock; but if utterly failed. Within hak’ an hour after the new supply of stock was placed on the market prices rallied to previous points. In the after. noon the market wos buoyant, and the outside inquiry for stocks urge. Money was abundant at at 4a 5. Gold Tose to 1233;, and exchange to 1363. ‘The prices of most articles of produce and merchan- dise have exbébitnt indivations within a week or so of steadily rieing, with the expansion of the currency, In addition to this iafueace; the high rates of sterling ex- chaage, and the beavy duties collected, alsotend to heybten prices. Kast India goods, such aa indigo, hin- seed, teas, spices, &c., bavo felt the offecta of these commercial changes. Coflee has advaneet whhin a week about 1%. per pound Other articles of feod have also advanced. Tobarco has advanced, while breadstufls generally have also ap, Dreciated. ‘The sales of cotton yesterday embraced about 00 bales, withia ragueof Sée. x Bc. for midaing uplands again rove Se. a Wc. per bd), and wheat lo per bushes. Corn was alco in good demand and rsthor firmer. Sales of sound Western mixed were made at 0c. 2.60 steady prices. Cotes wos firm aud the recent advance | sustained. Sales of 2,950 bags Santos and 1,100 bags Rio wore made, at prices given iz another comin Freights were rather ensier but more uctive at the concessfon. Rapieat Parry meeting held on Monday evening, at the corner ef Broadway and Eighth street, George W. Blunt moved the following resolution:— Resolved, That every vote given for James 5. Wads- worth is a vote for loyalty, and every vote given for Ho- ratio Seymour is a ydto lor treason. The resolution was adopted, and a dele- gate immediately after called Mr. Seymour “the traitors’ candidate.” This is a sample of the violence with which the canvass is carried on by the radicals in the contest for Governor of this State. If there be any truth in these allegations, the best plan would be to arrest Seymour before he is elected, and to arrest all the democratic voters, that they may not be able to cast their saffrages for him. This would be the simplest and easiest way of de- feating “the traitors’ candidate.” All the demo- cratic soldiers in the army from this State ought also to be disarmed and placed in Fortress Monroe as prisoners. Nor do we see why the pro- ceeding should be confined to the troops of this State. It ought to be extended to the troops of all the demoeratic States, and in this way radi- cal victories might be secured everywhere. For instanee, the Tenth Illinois regiment consimts almost, if not altogether, of democrata. That regiment ought to be sent to Alton as traitoss, and prevented from fighting hereafter for the Union. And so of many of the Pennsylvania regiments, Why are all these traitors permit- ted to have the nse of arms to fight against the rebels, while Greeley’s loyal 904,000, who “never smelled battle,” are waiting to be armed and led against the enemy? Devectrve Gexpoata—We notice that the Navy Department is still building wooden gun- ‘boats of the same model as those ordered at the outbreak of the rebellion. Now, expe- rience has proven that such gunboats are de- fective for river and coast service. On rivers they are unable to fire ahead, on account of a peculiarity of their construction, and during a stern chase, as a chase onariver must neces- sarily be, or when advageing bows on upon the enemy, their broadsides are harmless, and they are almost useless, On coast service they are equally defective; for in any sort of a sea they roll gunwale under. Will the Navy De- t overhaul its log, make a note of these fats, and give us boats of a better model? It wastes money upon sach gunboats as these. this morning. Her news has been anticipated by her own report and that of the Jura, telegraphed from Cape Race, and already published in the ‘The Committee on National Affairs held an ad- journed mecting yesterday, Alderman Farley in the chair. Mr, T. R. Tomlinson appeared before the committee, and sddreased them on the state the harbor defences. He said the city should be prepared against all surprises, and that military bodies should be organized, 80 that a large number ‘The War in Virginia—Desp erate Situa- tion of the Rebel Army. The main body of the rebel army of Vir- @inia, at least one hundred thousand strong, under General Lee, was, at the date of our last advices, encamped between Charlestown and Winchester, apparently awaiting and expecting an attack from General McClellan. The next rebel column in importance was that of General Jo. Johnston, at Culpepper Court House, con- sisting of three divisions, equal, probably, to ‘The English Press on Emancipation. tion of its probability would be according-them credit for more sagacity than they have hitherto exhibited in treating of our affairs. From the commentaries published in advance of the President's emancipation proclamation by the London journals, it would almost seem as if they had had some intimation that it was about to be issued. To assume that they simul- taneously assailed it merely from an anticipa- of trained soldiers could be called out at any mo- ment, with a provision that their arms could be easily taken from them in case of a popular out- break. The mode! of a gun was then introduced, the inventor claiming that it would throw a shot of one thonsand pounds. The gun has four cham- bers. The ball is attached to four rods, made to fit those chambers. The inventor states that a ball from this gun will perforate the heaviest coat of mail on any vessel. The double subject of our harbor defences, and the necessity of military organizations for defending the city, was again the Blue RYdge, from Culpepper Court House to Leesburg, there appear to be no rebel troops beyond a few squads of scouting cavalry. From this distribution of the rebel forces it would appear that General Lee has abandoned all hopes of every other line of communication with Richmond except that up the Shenandoah Culpepper Court House, or by way of Gor- donsville. Had he been able to hold on to Harper's l'erry he might have commanded the Leesburg and Manassas; }i with Harper's Ferry in our possession (jencral McClellan holds this route, whereby, should Lee attempt pretreat up the valley without a fight, he may be headed off or !eft far behind in the race for drawing General McClelian up the Shenandoah Winchester. From the tone of the Richmond journals it appears that Lee is not averse to this engagement, but is prepared for it, and does not absolutely despair of turning the tables against General McClellan and driving him back into Maryland. Our only apprehension in the matter, how- ever, is that Lee may possibly deceive our scouts by a thin line of troops, so disposed in front as to present the appearance of a great army, while the bulk of his forces, horse, foot, artillery and trains, are hurried up the valley aud across the mountains to Culpepper Court House and Gordonsville. Once at these points, or at cither of thom, his forces may be moved northward towards Washington or southward towards Richmond, as circumstances may invite or demand. Strategy, in fact, is the only hope remaining to Lee. He must centrive to delay McClellan and get some days ahead of him, or, in the march to Richmond, of some two hundred and fifty miles, he will be overtaken, beaten and cut to pieces. That Richmond is Lee’s ob- ject we have no doubt; that he is finessing to draw General McClellan up the Shenandoah valley is manifest, and that he will slip off if he can, as Johnston did from General Patterson and from Manassas, and as Beauregard did from Corinth, is very probable. But all the appearances and ‘probabilities more strongly indicate an impending battle near Winchester. Our victorious army of Antietam, heavily reinforced, completely equipped and reinvigorated, is eager for the advance, while the losses and necessities of Lee's shattered, ragged, hungry and exhausted troops, more than all other causes, have com- pelled him to halt in his retreat. Since he started in pursuit of the army of General Pope, Lee has lost, in killed, wounded and missing, probably not less than fifty thousand men. His losses in Maryland, according to the careful estimates of General McClellan, were thirty thousand, and in his numerous battles with General Pope, from the Rappahannock to Bull run, the losses of Lee, we dare say, were fully up to twenty thousand men. Lee was, there. fore, apart from all considerations of strategy, compelled to halt near Winchester to repair damages. The Richmond journals inform us that now, bis damages being repaired, he is ready again for action; and from the very ne eessities of bis position, as we have indicated, we think he will be compelled to ficht, if for nothing else. to secure, if possible, his retreat to Richmond. Thus smticipating very g00n a great battle in the Shenandoah valley, we also anticipate a crushing defeat of Lee's army, and from this defeat the simost uninterrupted advance of our forces to Richmond, the occupation of city by our troops,and the expulsion of e vea- tige of the rebel army from Virginia before Christmas. To this end there sre other power- ‘fal movements afoot in addition to those of General McClellan’s army, 80 that the result cannot be regarded as doubtful. Considering, tbat Virginia, north of Richmond, for mili- tary purposes, is reduced to a desert, and that such, to a greater or less extens, is the condi+ tion of all our rebellious States, and that for the winter clothing of their troops all their matevials of public stores and private families were exhausted last winter—that even the cheapest cotton goods are now selling at Sa- vannah at a dollar, and a half per yard—is it not appareat that with the overthrow of the great rebel army of Virginia the whole fabric of this rebellion will come to the ground. Dreadful as are the wants and privations of our revelted States, they may prove to be a future source of congratulation to those su ffer- ing people, in compelling them to a surrender which will be their salvation. We- expect this, because Southern men, with all the courage and tenacity of despair, cannot live without food, nor resist the snows and frosts of winter in the rags which may have served for a sum- mer campaign? We anticipate, therefore, during this present month, such adefeat of the tebe] army of Virginia as will result in a gene- Pal collapse of this exhauwed rebellion We rely upon President Lincola and General Hal- leck 80 to push forward the war as to defeat ali the mad designs of our abolition fanatics. We expect the emancipation proclamation thus to become a dead better by the sabvation of our revoked States. We know thet this is the wish and aim ofPresident Lincoln, and the issue, under Pr nce, is in his hands. from relatives and friends of soldiers in ouz hospitals complaining that the surgeons wil) not allow the soldiers to be removed, pleading that they have ro time to make ont discharge papers and other as baseless excuses. It seems tous that government should be glad to have sick and wounded soldiers taken from the hos- pitals to their homes or the houses of their friends, where they are certain to be well cared for, at no expense to the government, and thus make room in the hospitals for new patients. If there is not clerical force enough to make out the discharge papers, more clerks should be employed; and certainly it does not take so long @ time to write and sign a short document as to attend toa sick or wounded soldier for General Ham- mond only needs to have his attention called weeks and months. Su to this matter to arrange it at once. forty thousand men. There was also a con- siderable supporting detachment at Gordons- ville; but in all that region of country east of valley and across tue Blue Ridge by way of more direct route to the rebel capital by way of Richmond. Hence the necessity to Lee of valley, and hence the probability very soon of tremendous battle in the neighborhood of | torions McClellan for his tardiness are now, as However the fact may be, the bitterness whiab all their articles display in dealing with the question of emancipation in any form in which it is presented proves the utter selfishness of the motives that animate them. Their para- mount desire is to see the separation between the North and South permanently consummated, and anything that is likely to interfere with this is sure to meet with their hearty censure. In the scheme of gradual emancipation, as present- ed by Mr. Lincoln to the border States, they fancied they saw the germs of an accommoda- tion with the rebels, and they therefore turned it into ridicule. As a measure borrowed from English poticy in connection with West, Indian slavery, they could not exactly assail it; but they sought to weaken its effect by cari- caturing it. The last proctumation of the | President, we know in advance, will meet with their most strenuous hostility. They will de- nounce, it as they have already denounced any prospective measure of this sort, as a scheme to provoke a servile insurrection in the South, and to renew the horrors of the Haytien and St. Domingo massacres. So frightened are they lest concession to the fanatical views of the abolitionists should lead to a more vigorous prosecution of the war, as pretended by the latter, that they will fail to perceive the drift of the President's proclamation, and will assail it with all the vehemence and rancor of which they are capable. It will be some time before they appreciate the real point and effect of “the Pope’s bull against the comet,” and until then we must expect to be held up to the world as monsters of inhumanity and cruelty. It is pitiable to reflect that the pecuniary in- terests of Englishmen should so get the better of their memories and sense of justice as to reuder them oblivious of the professions and declarations which they have been accustomed to put forth on this question. How often, for example, have their Exeter Hall orators uttered the extreme sentiment that it would be better to shed oceans of blood than that the sin of slavery should be perpetuated. For the last thirty years they have not only been preaching and agitating this doctrine, but employing paid missionaries to bring about the very state of things against which they are now protesting in advance. What can more conclusively prove that their boasted philanthropical sympathies in favor of the slave population of the South were ouly put forward as a means of dividing and distracting our once happy people, and of finally breaking up the republic? When the passions and prejudices that are involved in the present struggleghave subsided, history will do justice to the d'sgusting hypocrisy and profli- gacy that have marked the conduct of the Eng- lish abolitionists in our regard. The time will come, perhaps, when the sentiment thus evoked will take the form of a more positive retribu- tion. Exrecrations Nor Reauizep.—-Under the head of “Expectations Not Realized,” poor Greeley had a miscellaneous sort of an article in yesterday’s Tribune, demiling some of the disappointments of both patriots and rebels during this war. He forgot to mention, how- ever, the three greatest expectations which have not been realized. These are, first, the expectation of the appearance of those nine hundred thousand abolition soldiers who Greeley promised imgthe Tribune of August 2 should match on to do.and’ die as soon as the emancipation proclamation was issued; second, the expectation of a sight of those thousands of young men who Governor Andrew promised should swarm along the roads of Massachusetts as soon as that emancination proclamation wag issued; third, the expectation of the advent of those armies of men equal to “flaming. giants” who Governor Yates, of Illinois, promised should spring ous of the ground as soon as that emancipation proclamation was issued, That proclamation has been issued; but where are the nine hundred thousand abolitionists, the swarms of recruits, the armies of flaming giants? They are not visible-even te the eye of' faith. On the contrary, all the fiery radicals who once shouted onward to Richmond and assailed vic- the Trilnne says. “content to wait in settled calmmess for that happy end (the abolition of slavery) which their jndgment assures them is already begun.” Wemtust not expect, there fore, to behold the nine-hundred thousand, the swarms of recruits and the flaming giants of abolitionism on the march to join our armies. They are all sitting Gown, “content to wait in settled calmness,” aval-expecting to see the nig- gers go free. This expectation, like that of Greedey, that he will s*cape banging on a sour apple tree, will very soon be added to the list of these not realized. Tar Prociamation. or Coroner, Morcan Anousuine Stavery ar Key West, Frortpa.— Colonel Morgan, of the Ninetieth regiment New York Volunteers, now commanding the anilitary post at Key West, Flovida, has, by our last news from that point, seen fit to issue a- proclamation declariag all the slaves on that island to be free. It is difficult to imagine a more unwarranta- ble assumption of authority than that of Vol. Morgan in the ivsue of swch a dooument. Ii baats Fremont and Hunter all hollow, and, although eausing inconvenience for the time, must and will be set aside, and the Colove—- desirous, no doubt, of a Hits abolition neto- riety—be recalled xnd laid on the shelf, as one partly, if not entirely, bereft of his senses, The public must know that Key West, al- thong) part of the State of Florida, bee wever yet ont of the Union. That many of ie population desired to be under the Conttderat government is true; but they did not succeed, and all now remaining on the island bave taken the oath of allegiance, which entitles them to he considered as in all sespects loyal people. There were some slaves on the island whose masters or owners had leit when the military authority compelled the oath to be taken. ‘These slaves could have been declared free by Colonel Morgan with periect propriety; for they wore the property of men in arms against the government; but that all—among them the pro- perty of some as loyal people as ever lived— should be declared free by merely affixing his signature to a document of his own framing, is simply absurd. It is to be hoped that government will, in the case of Colonel Morgan act as it has in others | entive proceeds of the = te / NEWS FROM ‘| ‘Wismmurom, Oot. 1, R902. FEARS FOR THB TOSS. SOEEY a ee of a similar nature, aud endeavor to stop’Tom, Dick and Harry, who, because clothed with e little brief authority, imagine themselves great- ereven than the President himself. Colonel Morgan should be at once retieved of his com- mand and placed in a position better suited to his qualifications. The President's life is considered unsafe by many per. one here. As in all great political and social orises, there are now monomaniaes whose peculiar insanity points toward the assassination of the person who wields the power of the government. Mutterings have beea heard in reference to the President by persons who have this form of insanity in Washington, and the personal safety of the Commander-in-Chief ought to be looked after with the utmost diligence. ‘THE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL M’OLMLLAN. ‘There is every reason to believe that the Presideat i entirely satisfied that the army ef MoClelian could net with any safety or promise of success have pursued the cnemy immediately after the battle of Antictam. ‘This disposes of one of tho strongest points attempted to be made by the radical howlers after General McClotlan. REPOREED HELPLESS CONDITION OF THE RESEL GENERAL LES. . Advioes received in this city by relatives of General Lee show that he was injured in both hands at the battle of Autictam. A ball passed through the palm of hie right hand, and soon after, his horse becoming uumanage- able, he was thrown head foremost, breaking one of the bones in the buck of the left hand. One of his relatives, who saw him two days ago, describes him as perfeotig helpless. STONEWALL JACKSON REPORTED TO: BE MARCHING TO ATTACK SIGRI.. A negro, escaping from the Second Virginia cavatry, lately serving his master thero—e private in that regi- ment—reports the current belief among # portion of the rebel army that Jackson is marching down to attack Sige: at Carterville, This can hardly be truco, as Jackson's force was pretty well used up in the battlo of Antietam. THE REBEL ARMY STILL AT WINCHESTER. Rebels recently captured, having an oye to busivess, have reported that the enemy {s flying from the vieinity of the Potomac and Winchester towards Richmond. Our scouts, who have been as far as the valloy, report this afternoon that the enemy is not moving from the viei- nity of Winchester. The statements of our own ecoute ‘are considered the most reliable. It does not follow, bow- ever, that the enemy will not soon move towards Rich mond. e THE REBEL CONSCRIPTION IN VIRGINIA, ‘The rebel armies aro improving their occupation Of the adjacent sections of Virginia to enforce their conscription, which they bad not hitherto had an opportunity to de, actuated probably by a fecling of ill will towards people who.have been allowed to occupy their homesteads ua- disturbed by the Unionarmy. They are carrying of alt white mates, without distinction, over sixteen years of age, to bear arms in the rebel cause. They are alee iMpressing every horse fit for service, and seizing upem everything portable that can bo made available tothe support of an army. The male citizens are dying for refuge in every direction. Many of thom are n0w wae- dering in the mountains, and others have arrived here. THE REBELS DEVASTATING THE VIRGINIA VALLEY. It appears that Geueral Lee's army aro oxcecdingly de- ficient of forage, provisions and horses, and a determina- tion has been menifested to make the most of the occupa- tion of the valley of Virginia, and to sweep it clean, clearly intimating that there is no prospect of its being either long occupied or sovn again visited by the rebet forces. BALTIMORE SECESSIONISTS INVESTING IN REBEL STATS SECURITIES. It is stated ders in secession circles, that moacyed mow of Baltimore have been investing largely ia rebel State: bonds at fifteea cents on the dollar. The purchasers are evidently credulous in risking an investment which, it discovered, will surely consign them to a federal prisou. OPPOSITION TO THE DRAFT IN MARYLAND. Governor Bradford and ex-Governor Hicks were here to-day to ask the aid of a military force te protect the- agents of the State in making enrolments for the draft ta certain connties of that State. The enrolments have beea completed in afl the State except the southern counties of the western shore, where the secessionists have destroyed \ the partially completed enrolment lists aad driven the officers out of their counties. The request has beed granted, and the secession counties of Maryland wit be. coerced to submit tothe law. THE \NVESTIGATION OF THE HARPER'S FERRY APFAIR. ‘The special military commission to inquire inte the- Harper's Ferry affair is busily engaged in theexamination of witmesses and progressing rapidly. There are « large ember of wittiesses to be examined, although the Judge Advocate has requested that the list of witnesses fur- nished by the officers under arrest should be reduced as - much a8 possible. ‘The investigation will occupy at least two weeks. THE STRENGTH OF N’C! Taw Vicrory ar Cormri—Punsurr AND Torax Rovr or raz Reseis.—From an official despatch in another column from General Grant to General Halleck, it will be seen that the great victory over Price by Rosecrans at Corinth is not only confirmed, but that after the battle Generals Ord and Hurlbut came upon the enemy, and after seven hours’ hard fighting drove him five miles back across the Hatchie, towards Corinth, capturing two batteries, mavy emall arms and about three hundred prisoners. Rosecrans followed them up to Chevalla, whence he sends a despatch, saying “the enemy are totally routed, throwing everything away. We are following sharply.” The rebel General Martin is said to be killed. This is only a sample of other great battles which are soon to follow, in which the rebel power wiil be struck down by such decisive blows that it will be forced to succumb to its fate. If Bragg’s army be destroyed in Kentucky by Buell, as there is every chance it soon will be, and if Lee, after the staggering blow he sustained from McClellan on the Autietam, should now receive the finishing stroke at Winchester or some other point in the valley of Virginia, the rebellion would he brought to a sudden end, and saltpetre could not save it. All these events may happen before the close of the pre_ sent month, and with the new year the flag of the Union may float from the public buildings of every capital in the thirty-four States. But, even if the rebel leaders should succeed with one of their armies, the destruc: tion of the other two would render the success of no avail; for in a brief time it would be compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers, and before it could be reinforced it would be completely cut up or captured. The next two months will tell the tale of the great rebellion. The most fortunate thing in the world for the South will be that the insurgent armies are all destroyed before the lst of January; for then we shall have the Union again as it was, and the constitution as it is, and the days of aboli- tionism numbered. Desperation or rae Reset, Coxoress.—That the robellion is on its last legs, and that the rebel Congress is driven to desperation, are evi- dent from the fact that it has adopted a series of resolutions making overtures to the Pacific States and Territories for an alliance, acknew- ledging their independence and neutrality, just as another set of resolutions were lately intro- duced, reminding the Northwest that the free navigation of the Mississippi was open to it if it would lay down ite arms. The absurdity of the resolutions touching California may be estimated from the fact that it is the most loyal State in the Union. It has sent $100,000 to the government for hospital purposes; it sent troops across the desert which whipped the rebels and scattered them like chaff, and it has offered 10,000 cavalry to the Union army. Such are the desperate extremities to which the rebel leaders are given when they make ap- peals to the Northwest and California, in the hope of detaching them from the Union, to torm separate confederacies like their own. It seems that Mexican division and anarchy are the best programme the rebels can offer to-such loyal States as they seek. to. seduce from the Union: Reset. Horses ann Fears.—The rebels had great hopes that their summer campaign would be successful because their- ally, King Yellow Fever, would come:to their aid, and because the low water in the Southern rivers would pre- vent our guoboats from being of any great service. Their hopes in. regard to the gunboats were not disappointed, though our armies have done all that gunboats could do; but General Butler kept the yeltow fever and every other nuisance out of New Orleans, and in ether parts of the South, as. at Wilmington, North Carolina, the fever has done the revels a great deal mere harm. than it was ever expected to do us. Now that the cool months of fall have come, all danger of yellow fever is removed, and-very soon the Southern rivers will be na gable for our gunboats The canal opposite Vicksburg will now do its work, and make that pestilent city an inland town. Our gum boats, which the rebels so much and so justly dread, wilt not iail to take advantage of cir- cumstances and high water. and thenvebel fears will greatly outbalance rebel hopes. LLAN’S ARMY ON BNTERING YLAND. Seventy-five thousand rations were the sum of what was (wrnished Genoral McClellan’s army that advanced hence against the rebel force in Maryland. GENERAL HALLRCK WANTED IN TUE FISLD. The soldiers who. have fought under General Halleck. are manifesting great anxiety for his return to the field He bas earned at their head a high reputation for himeelf, and has won the personal regard of the whole army. ‘They deprecate Lis absence from active military duty foe he 1s regarded as better fitted for service in the fleld, and brilliaut action imdesperate engagements, than (or aay other duty. A REBEL BATTERY ON THE LOWER POTOMAC O8- STROYED. Captain Job Ruark, of the schooner Statesman, who. arrived bere today, reports that the rebels bad saeé ceeded in placing a battery at Cockpit Point, on the Pote- micwviver, aod that just before sunset yesterday one of our gunboats rao into the Point and shelled the batterys entirely destroying it. He thinks there must have beom a considerable quantity of combustible material in the immediate vicinity of the battery, a8.a iarge Gre was. barning neariyall night. \ ‘The captain of the schooner Eliza. Asm Jobosen, whieh » arrived this morning, states that bespoke a schooner bet low Cockpit Point, which warned him not to go too near iu, ag the steamer Georgia had been fired upou,and was. told our gunboats had run 1m and shelled the rebels out, setting Ube place on tire. The ceptain bad heard firing during the afternoon, and as he came up he saw three. — of our gunboats lying out from the. Potat, and a largo Gre. . ‘Durning on shore. GOVERNOR. ANDREW AT GEN, SIGEL’S HEADQUARTERS. Governor Andrew, of Sassachusctts, accompanied by- | Mr. Ingersolh, paid a visit at alate hour last night to the-, headquarters of General Sigel, aud returned to-day. They object of this midnight conference is not known. DEFICIENCY OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE ARMY. ‘The stepping of enlistments last spring by Wilkon and Company. not only vronght down the number of soidierge to that ‘ow figure which precipitated so many disasters, bat upturned atl just catculations 0 the Quartermaster’as Depariment as to transportation, & co woot of the GorracuaK crrt.—Gottachalk’s concert at Irving Hali last evening was well attended. The entortainmont was delightful, and was warmly appiauded by an elegant, fashionable and appreciative audience. Mrs. Jenny Kempton, who has ndt a voice of great power or compass. sang two or tree agreeable ballads in a pleasing manner. y Thomas, who 18a good baritone, vontributed handsomely towards the voual purt of the entertainment. ‘The performances of Sir. Theodore ‘homas ou the violin were excellent and elicited repeated plandits, particularly: the ““Tremoia”’ of De Beriot, in which he was emthosiag tically encored. But the chief attraction was Mr. Gotts chalk himself, whoge briMliant execution ou the piane de> lighted and dazzled the andience, who insted upon ev- Coting him in everything that he performed. He was | particularly happy in the“ Danse des ha” and the | “Murmores Koliers,” the latter a sploadid camposition of bis own, The concert was a decided success. ‘aller thousands of troops have. been, aod are aow sork) —— ously deuyed Wan CONCERT FN ALD OF THE Fasnrips o» Vout ytaxma.—A SECRETARY SEWARD. AND Nouraréds: ul nd concert for the beneit of the Soldiers’ Aid Aseocia- thou, of the Seventeenth ward, Greenpomt, Long Isiand, is to be given on Thursday evening, the 9b instant, at the Duteh Keformed church, Java street. This society was formed for encouraging enlissments and to provide relie€ for the wives und cltidren of volunteers who age fighting for the country, A number of distmguebed artists have vrolmuteered thew professional services, Among others, Madnrae Stephuai, Shes Emma Brevnan, Mrs. i. Ball, Miss Martha Marsha}, Mis. Holbrook and cbhers. VM. i expected thet there will be a crewded [* house to pad the funds of this truly patriotic asseciation, that tie directors. may bave means enough to neem a | Jarge nuanber of families 2 Une approaching winter. The ert will bo devoied to the ro nteers from the Seventeenta TION. Sie Sunday Morn2ny Chromicle, and its twin brotha ¢, the Philadelphia Press, aswert Unat Mr. Secretary, Soww @ was the carliest and most persisting advocate of the. w ai versal emancipation of the daves im the United States, ag one of the features m the tion of the war for the Union. Fither Colonel wu is greatly mistakes, or ely, ulsered his position, as take u im ¢ > Mr. Dayton, dated 28, an executive docummnt, No. /3, ac- on message of the Pr Me. ‘hat the cxistingsrovokgtion ip. etext , ‘Phe condition oF s the veveral States, will re main just the came, er it succeed or (ail. There te net oven a pretext (or the complaint that the disaffected are W be conquened by the United if the re- ‘a elite margins ‘volution Cail, for the rights or the States, the candi. BouoKLe FnuaRwoxic Sony —The aiiesiiy We. | Set iy tata lame ard forma of sdemwtralons tween the Foard of Management and the orchestra of | Whether te revolation shail succeed or whether it shall his society has been adjusted, and the first rebearsal | (ail, la (he one cage the Staies would be (edernily oon- ‘Mavertised x si | thoir constitutions and laws, customs, BAbIVA aad tnetitu- Farunr Voir, Oct. t, 1862. je fet, beh nae saa eed a8 i . = citleene " he has come into the adnuatstes- ‘The steamship Jura passed Father Point a4 a quarter | Usrough whose suffenges peat ten this morning, Her news has already been tele. | Sm, baa atwage repndiated ait designs whatwver aha graphed from Cape Race | | wherever*tmputed to iim and w ( dieturbing the | aystem of Slavery as it oxisting the constisution ‘The Jura bas forty-wwo-cabin aad one bundred and | and laws Yhe axe, however, would tot be fully pre- twenty steerage passengers. She met the sicamor Bohe. mianon the 24 iust.,and the steamer Nova Scotian, sented if Lwere to omit, to say that any such effort on hig part would be uncoostfntional, and all hie actions tn thaw eighty iniles below Cape Rosier, at a quarter after four oa the morning of the 6th inst. lirection woukl bq prevented by the judictal antnorit; even though neey, were assented (0 by Congress acd 4 ‘The Jura has experienced sirong westerly winds during tho entire voyage. people. ‘This record f official, and although the President has Personal Intulligence. low arrived last evening by the New Jersey Goveral Bar! ing by. Mr, Seward bar the letierot the 862, and contame companying the Soward says, " swathout a caure, « lief of she famivies of v ward. as yet Wo evidence that the Secretary of State | banged his views upon (be eudjeot. AL any rate, seta proper to assume a different positioa from that as 1 tue ballet ardly pousibie (hat te should bavo put forth as signed to ‘niin by bis Secretary of State, there has ver Gives wounded fa the groin at the battle of Antietam,