The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1862, Page 4

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As the details of the recent battle at Perryville, Ky., come in, the completeness of our victory is more firmly established. At last accounts Gene. ral Baell had a terrific fight with Bragg at Chap- lin creek, when the rebels broke and scattered over three different roads, pursued by the forces ofGeneral Buell, who followed them for a distance Of twelve miles. General Gilbert, who came up to the relief of General McCook on Wednea- day, has got into the rear of the enemy, and the probabilities are that the whole rebel army will be bagged. Our force in the fight of Thursday was 15,000 infantry, 2,500 cavalry and eight batteries of artillery. During the afternoon these were reinforced. The loss of field officers in our ranks is very large. The rebel army in Keo" tuoky is utterly broken up by this defeat, and fol- lowing so ciosely upon the victories of General Rosecrans and General Grant in Mississippi, must have a stunning effect upon the rebel cause in the entire West, and must destroy the programme which the rebel chiefs laid down {cr their winter campaign in the fertile regions whoac richness they hoped to enjoy. Probably the most astonishing news of the day + the scport that Stuart's rebel cavalry have roased the Potomac at Hancock, and now occupy hambersburg, Pa. A despatch from Colonel « ‘eClure to Governor Curtin states this fact. The advance of the rebels is one thousand strong, with aix pieces of artilicry. Colonel McC!ure and Pro- voat Marshal Kimmel! went out to meet them to make some proposition for a surrender, it was presumed. Our news from Corinth is not very full; the pursuit of the enemy continues. Our troops oc- cupy Rienzi. The chase after General Price was atill kept up at latest accounts. driven lis forces as far as Ripley. that General Oglesby is not dead. Our news from the South to-day contains Gene- ral Lee's official account of the recent battles in Maryland, and his orders issued from headquarters, in which he congratulates his troops on their va- lor; but warns them that they have yet to meet the euemy on the soil of Virginia. The Rich- mond papers comment upon the late fight at Co- rinth, and the affair at Franklin, near Suffolk. Of course they make the results of both battles look weil for themselves. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Her Catholic Majesty's steam frigate Princisse de Asturias, Captain Alvarado, arrived at this port yesterday from Havana, whence she sailed on the th ult., coming to New York via Hampton Roads. She mounts fifty-one guns, is of two thousand tons burthen, has a propeller engine of three hundred and fifty horse power, and carries a crew of five hundred and fifty-one men. Of the reinforcements intended for the French ermy in Mexico the following detachmenis had either arrived or were on their way at the latest dates:—2,800 men and 300 horses had arrived at Vera Cruz on the 22d of August, and proceeded immediately to Orizaba, Up to September 6 there had touched at Santa Cruz, Teneriffe, twelve vessels, ai] carrying troops or provisions to Mexi- co, namely:—-The City of Lyons, with 1,925 men of the Fifty-first regiment; the Tilsit, with General Neigre and 990 men; the Duquesne, with 1,015 men of the regiment; the Eure, with 350 men, ar the St. Louls, with Genera Barzaine and 1,034 men of the Ninoty-third-re- giment; the Navarin, with General de Castagny and 1,034 men of the Ninety-ffth regiment, Of these six vessels, the last two had sailed from Tonlon, and the others from Cherbourg. The six additional are the mail-clad frigate Normandie the transports Mogelle, Cormorant ond Y. corvette Chaptal, and the sh renne, having Generals Forey ani d with @ number of troops, on board. The ‘total ¢ of troopsin the above resume will probably reach ten thousand men, and ali have by this time arriv- cd at Orizaba. At the battles of South Moumiain and Antietam the Union arms captured fourteen pieces of can now, fifteen thousand five hund stand of arms, trty-nine colors and six thou and killed nearly four thousnd re Sightcen thousand seven hundred. J) Dattios, according to the Richmond pap nd the bogus Congress, which resulted iu splendid Confederate victories.” One hundred and forty-three miserable, hall- lad, frightened and woelegone contrabande arr iv. ed at Chicago on the 6th inst, They were quar. tered in the colored Baptist church. The People's Union County Convention last QVeuing wominated Vavid B. Jacques, of the six. It is stated | of the Chu! ‘ the country. We had then | Surrogate, and Witliam Tucker, , for Supervisor. . on J, ‘fucker has been nominated a any didate for the office of Surrogate by both the Tammany and Mozart wings of the democracy. General John Cochrane was nominated for Cou- } gress last evening by the Seymour Association of the Seventeenth ward. * The sossion of th eral Rpiscopal Convention yesterday was mainly devoted to debate on the report of the special committee on the condition th regard to the present state of Juige Marray Hoffman, Hon. Robert Winthrop, and others, spoke on the subject; but h | without taking auy action the Conveution ad- jovrned, The Board of Aldermen met again yesterday afternoon, and went through the form of rejecting another nominee for Street Commissioner—Mr. James A. Briggs. An ordinanée authorizing the issue of shinplasters of the denominations of 10, 25, 50 and 75 cents was also passed by the Board. The special committee appointed by the Board of Aldermen for the purpose of investigating the proposed transfer of the right to manufacture and supply gas to the inhabitants of this city from the New York and Manhattan gas companics to the corporate authorities, met in room No. 12 City Hall, at eleven o’clock yesterday, but ad- journed over to Tuesday next, at two o'clock, without transacting any business. The trial of Mevy Real, charged with the mur- der of her husband, was continued in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. A report of the evidence is given in another part of to-day’s paper. The trial of James Winthrop and Monora Mor. rissey, indicted for murder in the first degree, was commenced in the Court of General Sessions yes- terday. The crime is alleged to have been com, mitted in June last, when the prisoners are charg. edwith having killed ‘a woman named Catharine Curran, by administering to her a large quantity of gin and alcohol. After examining a large num- ber of witnesses, the Court adjourned until Mon- day next, at eleven o’clock, when the case will be given to the jury. The receipts of the Panama Railroad ia August, 1862, were $133,921 98, This shows a decrease of about $15,000 as compared with August, 1861. The falling off is in the passenger traffic. The freight traffic shows an increase. This company has this great advantage: its receipts are chiefly in gold and silver. Twelve vessels, laden with cotton, from India, reached Liverpool during one day, the 26th of September. Their aggregate cargoes amounted to fifty-four thousand six hundred and fifty-seven bales, the largest being six thousand and fifty-six bales. and the smallest three thousand four hun” dred and ninety. The decided advance in sterling exchange yesterday communicated its impulse to nearly every article of pro- duce, foreign and domestic. Cotton advanced from 1}. to 2kzc. por tb. The sales embraced 3,000 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 57¢. for middling uplands. Flour was again active and higher, with sates of common and mo- dium grades at full 10c. per bbi., and for good to choice family extra Gc.a 16c. a 25c. per bbl. Wheat was in good demand, and with free sales closed at an advance of 8c. per bushel, and for some grades 4c. was claimed. Corn was in good demand, and from 1c. to 2c. highor. Pork was active and higher, with sales of mezs at $12 50 8 $12 76 and of prime at $11 123; a $11 25. Sugars were in good request at from ‘gc. a ‘gc. higher on some grades. Thesules embraced about 3,600 hhda. and 76 boxes. Mossrs. Stuart’s prices for thoir refined sugors will be found in another column. Coffe was firm. A sale of 1,000 bags of St. Domingo was made at p.t. Freights were steady, with a fair amount of engagements. There was quite apanic yesterday morntng in stocks, some of which fell2a3a5 per cont, while gold rose to 129. The panic iu stocks was caused by an offort of the money lenders to get up the rate ef interest by calling in their loans, After the ftat board the market all rallied, and an advanoe of 1.413; por cent ensued. Just at the close there were again indications of weakness, and prices dropped off'a fraction. Gold closed at 12734. De- mand votes rose to 12383. Exchange advanced to 142, closing about 141034. Money was lent at 6.647 por cent. % The Rebel Rout in Kentucky=The Re- bellion Cat Up in the Weat. The rebel General Bragg—who lately ad- vanced into Kentucky with a powerful and insolent army, not only to turn over to Jeff. Davis that inflexible Union State, but all the Northwest to the sources of the Mississippi river—has been precipitately put to fiight, Neither rapid marches, nor skilful strategy, nor desperate fighting, nor all these expedicnts combined, have been sufficient to save him. General Buell has outmarched him, out- maneuvered him, overhauled him and routed him. The result, in its value to our great cause, in conjunction with our recent victoric in Northern Mississippi, can hardly be over- estimated. The reader will understand the importance of these victories by the consequences which would have followed bad they been gained by the rebels. With the decisive defeat of Gene- rals Grant and Rosecrans at Corinth we should have lost Memphis and Nashville, and all our fortifications, artillery, munitions of war and stores of provisions at those points: Tennessee would thus have been completely reconquered by the rebellion. With a decisive defeat of Buell in Kentucky, that State would have fallen helplessly into the hands of the rebels, including Louisville and its immense military supplics of all kinds, and the left bank of the Obio river for five hundred miles, and both banks of the Mississippi again, from Cairo down to New Orleans. But, with these victories on the side of the Union, we not only secure Kentucky and Tennessee and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers intact, but we have so crippled the rebellion in the West that wow, with our forces in the field in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessec, Mississippi and Louisiana, we may, without # repulse or a check, sweep away the vestiges of the late rebey arinies in that quarter, from Missouri and Ken- tucky to the Mexican boundary. We have demolished the whole rebel pro- gramme of an invasion and a winter campaign among the abundant stores of subsisténce and clothing of our loyal border States on both sides of the slavery line. The initial victories to this end were those which expelled ihe great rebel army of General Lee from Maryland back into the military desert of Virginia. General Buell has substantially finished the good work in Kentucky. Thus, Kast and West, the hungry and ragged armies of Jeff. Davis ave driven back into the States which the rebellion has reduced to the verge of famine; and so, with winter close upon them, another Univn viet ory or two in the Jus will bring into pla: , through. out the South, the saving alternative of Pre- sident Lincolu’s emancipation proclamation: ) Retween the proservation of their iustitution of slavery in the Union, on the one hand, and fa- mine, iavasion and the destruction of slavery on the other, our collon States may now brought to tho saving choicg or between the War’ &k aud General 4 pasnres and aset ted, too, tha n andl i vst Departs Metleltan mover work in vy D. spartment y enn be no doubt that with some such practical and energetic Jack Tar at the head of this department as Adiuiral Voote, Farragut, what a candidate often does during a political conveution—withdraw bis name from the ballot in favor of another person. We are all one great party for the Union now; ‘and will Mr. Seymour refuse to do for his country-what he would do willingly for bis political party? We sincerely hope and trust not, and we can pro- mise him that, if he follows our advice, his triumph will be greater than that of Wads- worth; his magnanimity will be remembered when all parties are forgotten; himself and his party will be triumphantly vindicated from the base charges so freely made against them; his success in the future will be insured beyond a peradventure, and, no matter what politicians may say, his grateful State and country, ever prodigal in praises and rewards, will regard him not in the mean light of a disappointed office seeker, sulkily retiring from a hopeless contest, but as a patriot and a Christian, nobly sacrificing himself and his political ambition to the welfare of the people and the integrity of the Union. Ball Run Ra Outstripped by Poct- astor Mackay. Aa our readers are aware, we long since ceased to publish the New York correspondence of the London Times; but there is a letter pub- lished in that journal on the 27th of Soptember which is such a curiosity that we reproduce it in anothor column, It will be seen by the reader that Bull Run Russell has been com- pletely out-Russelled by his successor, Mackay, who claims to be a poct and a philosopher, but is certainly a Scotchman and a scoundrel. Some time ago he made a hasty tour through the country, and was hospitably treated. He wrote some flippant, flimsy letters about matters and things of which he was profoundly ignorant, and made somo doggerel verses for which he would have been immortalized in the ““Dunciad” if he had lived in the days of Pope. He became the successor of Russell after the hero of Bull run had made a hasty exit from the country whose troops he had ridiculed and abused. With all his faults, Russell had somothing of dash about him. He was an amusing, jovial fel- low, of enormous self-conceit, overflowing with John Bullism, and with a profound contempt for everything American, North and South alike. He dabbled in stocks, and dipped into oyster stews and toddy in some queer deans. We were very sorry when he was ordered away from the army by the Sesretary of War and left the country; for he was always cxcel- lent material for a paragraph. Russell would go at least in tho neighbor- hood of a fight, eveniif he did run away from the field far ahead of ail others, a3 in the case of the rout from Bull run; and he wrote funny, spicy letters, if they were not very truthful. He was too gallant, moreover, to assail a woman. But Mackay describes great battles, though he has not been within three or four hundred miles of the scene, and, with those iow and vulgar instincts which are peculiar to men of his moral and intellectual calibre, men in whom the ani- mal predominates over the mind, ho assails a lady who has won the admiration of all with whom she has come in contact—a lady who, not ouly by the official position of her husband, but by the geniality and matronly virtues with which she adorns the White House, is entitled to the respect not only of the American people, but of those who enjoy their hospitality. Since the days of Mrs. Madison no other lady has so dignificd her station as thé wife of the Chief Magistrate of the United States. What is Mra, Lincoln accused of in the correspondence of ckay? The highest crime of which man or woman can be guilty—treason against her country. She is charged with communicating to the enemy secrets known only to Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet—secrets involving the safety of the army and the success of the cause for which itis fighting. In other words, she is held up to public infamy as a spy of the cnemy within the ponetralia of the government. “The President's wife is charged with treasoa,” says Mackay. “The chorge against her has often been obscurely hinted. It is now openly made, with the addition that General Halleck was so thoroughly aware of her indiscretion—for he ave it no harsher name—that he Gees: on assuming the office of Commander-in-Ubief, that she should leave Washington for her home in Springfield, Iinois, whither she accordingly proceeded three weeks agy.”” Whence comes: this charge? We will do Mackay the justice to say that he did not invent it. We heard ramors of it floating about six weeks ago, and we distinetly traced them to understrappers of the Treasury Department, The truth is, this story, and others of a descrip- tion which we will not characterize, have been set on foot by the leading radicals of Washing- ton, and thence circulated throughout the country, North, East and West, in order to damage the President and to so intimidate him by these foul calumnies as to get control of the administration. Mackay is the inti- mate companion and instrument of these desperate men. His abolition sentiments are in perfect harmony with theirs, and he has afforded them all the aid and comfort in his power by giving their stories the benefit of the circulation of the London Times. Had he merely referred to their slanders to denounce them, the case would be different; but he meanly insinuates his belicf in the worst of these charges, and gives it importance by asserting that “it is now openly made.” Who has openly made it? We call on Mackay to tell the Ame- rican people, or be branded as an accomplice with the radicals in their defamation of Mrs. Lincoln’s character. The conduct of Mackay is a cowardly, wan- ton outrage upon a woman of whom the coun- try has a right to feel proud. It is a Nagrant breach of good manners and of the laws of hospitality, and it is too much for him to ex- pect that it shall go unresented. He resides on Staten Island, in the vicinity of a camp, and we would strongly advise him to lose no time in increasing the distance between him and the soldiers. Indeed, we would recommend him to take passage in the first ship for England; for he bas evidently made this country too hot for Lim, and it way not be good for bis health to remain in it much longer. Dupont or Sicha one fleets of iron lad ah ook light draught gunboats would not be idle at this important time for action. They would be mace to seize this splendid opportunity, while the bulk of the rebel forces of our Southern seaboard Stales are with the army of Lee, to open the James river to Riebmond, to slell out the rebels from Fort Sumter, and to cut their way into Mobile. Mr. Secretary Welles, how- ever, appears to have abandoned every project of assisting our armies on the seaboard beyond the maintenance of his blockade. We can only’ then, appeal to President Lincoln to bring the navy into action now, while its immense power may be wielded with the certainty of the grandest results. Meantime let our local and military authori- tiea concerned push forward their reinforce- ments to the Army of the Potomac, or they may be too late to share in the honors of the crown- ing victories of the war. The Political Contest tn this State= What Ought to be Donct We are engaged in no ordinary war. The result of the present conflict decides tle life or death of the nation. The object for which we fight is the very existence of the republic. The triumph of the rebellion fs not merely the loss of a few States, but ia practically the destructton of the country. Before this great issue all others sink into insignificance, as stars fade before the sun. Over a million of Ameri- cans are now in the field, in the Union and rebel armies, carrying on this dreadful, fratricidal war. All the mighty energies of this great country, North and South, are devoted to the maintenance and sustenance of this immense military force. Battles, more bloody than any in history, gain double horrors from the fact that we are combating no foreign foe, but are slaughtering or are slaughtered by our-own brethren. Every day the telegraph wires shudder with the news of our sad victories or our sadder defeats, It is for our interest, for “the interest of the South, for the interests of the nation, of the world, of civilization, of liberty, of Christianity, that this horrible war shali be ended. I¢ never can be ended save by the suppression of this rebellion. The suppression of the rebellion can never be accomplished until we all devote ourselves to the work, body, mind, heart and soul. And yet, with these stern, undeniable, cruel facts appealing to them from every side and rebuking their criminal frivolity, two misera-- ble, drivelling political parties in this State are disputing about an office worth but a few thousand dollars a year, stealings, pickings and patronage included. We declared before the nomination of any candidate for Governor, and we repeat that declaration now, that the ap- proaching State election does not affect the absorbing question of the war one way or the other. We insist, therefore, that no honest, patriotic man can have the slightest interest in this election. We believe, moreover, that the political squabbles, the recriminations, the animadversions, the acousations of treason, the mutual reproaches, billinsgate, jealousies and ill will which have. already distinguffhed the present canvass Have greatly assisted the re- beilion and retarded the vigorous prosecution of the war. We fear that the reault of the un- bridied license and bitter rivalries of a political contest at this time will seriously injure the Union cauae, no matter which candidate may be elected. If, as both of the gubernatorial can- didates have declared, the sole issue of this clection ia the prosecution gf the war, the there need be 10 Sontost; for both Seymétr and Wadsworth are loyal men, both are in favor of suppressing the rebellion by armed force, and both are deeply interested in restoring and perpetuating the Union. For tho ouiside issues which both candidates havo attempted to drag into the contest we have no sympathy what- ever. The negro question, introduced by Wadsworth, cannot be decided until our own safety as a nation is secured. The questions fn regard to habeas corpus, letters de cachet and governinent espionage, agitated by Seymour, will all be reviewed an@ settled when the war is over. Now itis fatal to stop to discuss them. White the doctors disagree tho patient d Let us try the remedies at hand fairly and im- partially. If they do no good we shall find others. The great thing is to do something im- mediately. When the crisis is passed and the Union saved we will argue about technicalities of treatment and remedies. As this canvass is, therefore, not only no as- sistance, but really a posilive detriment, to the Union cause, we should desire the election to be postponed until the conclusion of the war, if such a postponement were possible. All honest patriots would join us in this desire; for they can see, if politicians cannot, tho baleful effects of a canvass in which the republican leaders call ali democrats traitors, and threaten to bang them; and the democratic leaders call republicans tyrants, and flippantly talk of a Northern revolution. We know that the great body of the people care nothing and think noth- ing of this disgusting bluster of a fow political swindlers; but the effect at Washington, at Richmond and in Europe is none the less in- jurious, The people of this State are too busy with the war to sympathize with this spramble for oflice between the candidate of insane fa- natics and the candidate of that corrupt Albany Regency which refused to avert this war, two years ago, by nominating a popular democrat like Dickinson or Seymour for the Presidency. Why, then, should the peeple be tempted from their labors for the country into a detestable political riot, for tho sake of two parties, for whom no one, except a few dirty office hunters, cares‘a snap of the fingers? But, as the election cannot be postponed, what can be done to re- move this dangerous temptation? If we im- agined that our advice would be fol- lowed, we should advise both the present candidates—for whom we have no feelings per- sounlly but reapect—to withdraw in favor of anew man, generally and deservedly popular and shackled by no party chains. We cannot suppose, however, that such advice would be heeded, and we therefore appeal to Mr. Sey- mour olone to rise to the greainess of the ovcéa- sion and givo the country the convincing proof of bis patriotism by desisting from any further canvass, Pe en the election to go by default A New Scitoor, ror Py IVICIANS.—-Our politi- clans having tun themeelyes aground by their etale tricks aud expedieuts, they will have to adopt some different cystem of tactics to pre- vent themselves being shoved aside by the new ton Whom the war is bringing to the surface. ina condition of things which fs hourly shifting pave full a 7 best terms ti eas, considerations already u yerty to Sean on and settie Tn addition (atl tue 1, but w weal to mere selfish motives, we can | and changing its nepects, they are as much ag aseure Ne. Seyine ur that, from present indies | fault and przzied as to their course as if they tions, if he reg ® candidate, hie defent is | wore the merest political tyros. The best can give them in their embar. yassment fs to go and see Hackett, in Macktin's famous political portratl of Sir Pere tinax MacSycophant, of which William Pitt re- Youk advice we fwble. Tle may earry Albany and afew interior tow but the e, tive State will certainly go against hin. Prav- tically, therefore, we ouly ask him to do now NEW YORK HERALD, _SATURDAY, OCTOBER Ul, 1862. marked “that it was a picture strong and instructive enough to afford any politician pro- fitable contemplation.” A few hints borrowed from this clever political satire will freshen their faoulties and put them even with the times. They can take their first lesson at Niblo’s to-night. A Ilr ar Ma. Seonerany Caase.—We find the following hit at Mr. Secretary Chase in the Washington correspondence of yesterday's There is diasatisfuction at the non-payment of the troops in the field. Requisitions to the amount of not lesg than $50,000,000 for their pay lie iu tho Treasury Lepartmcat awaiting action. So much hag boen drawn for pountion for recruits that the department is obliged tomporarily to do injustice to the old soldier In tho Fast not a few re ments bave not been paid since the Ist of June. In Wost some of the best regiments in the service have not received a cent for eight months, Meantime a eee of paymasters draw their salaries in idleness, It is hoped ‘that the ovil will svon be remedied by paying tho soldier. The Treasury fifty millions behindhand in its payments to our brave soldiers! Can this be truo? What has Mr. Seoretary Chase been doing all this timo? It is widély understood that he has been trying te manage the War Department in making and unmaking generals, and has also been in this business assisting in some of the Presidential schemes and mbve- ments of our miserable party politicians. ‘These statements of the Tribune in regard to the non-payment of our soldiers indicate, at all events, that Mr. Chase has been neglecting one of the most important duties of his own depart. ment. Tifty millions in arrearages to our sol- diers! What excuse has Mr. Chase for this de- ficiency? We should like to know. Braga’s Proctamarion—Braaa ano Grez- tey.—In the impudent proclamation of the rebel General Bragg to the people of the North. west he says that “the Union is a thing of the past;” that “a Union of consent was the only Union ever wortha drop of blood;” that “when force came to be substiluted for consent the casket was broken,” &c. Now, as these falla- cious and pernicious notions have from time to time been preached by Greeloy, since the seces- sion of South Carolina, it may well puzzle the simple-minded reader 40 know by what au- thority or right Massa Greeley azsuines to de- nounce any man as a secessionist or traitor to the Union. The fact is that Bragg and Greeley are both disunionists, Bragg preferring a sepa- rate Southern confederacy to get rid of the abolitionists, and Greeley preferring a separa- tion to a reunion with Southern slaveholders, If the war wore left to a settlement between two such men, we should have two confedera- cies in very short order. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasnt Oct. 10, 1862. THE INTRIGUES AGAINST M’'CLELLAN. Mr, Halstead, of Nowark, Now Jersey, has returned to thecity. At first sight this aunouncomont may seem not particularly interesting to your readers; but the fact as- sumes more importance whea it is announced that Mr. Halstead is tho possessor of Gonora! Philip Koarny’s lot- tor containing severe strictures agaiust General McClellan. This letter was montioned some time since in several of the Now York jouruals; but as a distioguishe rulative of Goneral Kearny wrotea pote denytng the exisieuce of such @ letter, the affair was supposed to have ended Not so, howovor. ‘he letter does exist, and is a docu! ment biaming in tho most positive terms General McClel. lan’s peninsular campaign. ‘Tho writer ailirms that upon several occasions our furs23 might have marched into Richmond had the Com‘nandor-in-vhief have exerted a little boidness or better generalship. His tendency to take up stroug positions aud fortify thom, tha onomy, of course, haying no intention of attacking finy such strong. hold, is ridiculed; while, Yo aati Up, MoSiellan is pro- nounced “burnt ‘out ” The writer affirms that whou Manassas was first evacuated Genoral McClellan should have foliowed tho enciay iuto Richmond; that after tho battic of Williamsburg our troops might hayo entorod thal city, aad also after the seven days’ Aghting—oppor- tunities lost, saya General EK: iv, from @ waato? de cision, of boldaoss, on tho part of Gonoral McClellan. Mr. Halstead has iu his possession letters froa — Kearny dated from Willisuasburg, aud the question dated Harrisoa’s Landing Both there. , blame severely the miilary course of General M His (McClellan's) oxemics aro iz hopes th be tho instruments whoroby his ruin may Mr. Tlalstead came last wock to ginal letters in his possession. Ho ned amtiences of Secretaries Stanton and Chase, and rod to thom General Kearny’s strictures upon McCiellan, Secretary Lhase—s0 Tam assured upon good authority—at once took up the case. Hoadvised Mr. Halstead to read the letter to the President, and had h m accompanied tu ‘sliency by Governor Sprague. The letier was duly assed wich the President and a copy of It left iu bis hands. Mr. Mal. Stead then called upon the Altoona Governors, at that time here, and read to each of them General Kearny’s letter, leaving with cach a copy. He a’so ecalied upou General Hooker, and read to that officer the letter of his old friend and comrade in arms--Kearny. The letter is to bo published at no remote date, but not Teuppose, until it has been duly used in a private man, ner. No one can doubt that the object of the prime movors in the affair is @ bitter hostility against MeCtellan. The meshes of this seemingly insignificant net are surely closing around the young commander. The lottor is made use of to prejudice against him oflicers hitherto favor. able, as it is well known that the opinion of an officer like General Kearny will carry great weight with it. tt must, however, be borne_ia mind. that the letter was written at @ period when the gatlant Kearny was chafing under the mortification of a retrograds mover ment of the army, and that ho may have blamed General McClwllan when, bad he have known all the cizcum- stances, he would have laid his censure at other doors. Be that as it may, the onemics of McClellan aro now working energetically agaiust him with the weapon fur- nished them by Kearny, whose chivalric spirit would have scorned such a use of his opistle. Gen. McCiolian haa, howover, in his grasp a sure means whereby ho may os cape the machinations of his enemies. He must at once strike a torrible blow. Let him but attack and rout the rebel armies, aud, a8 a sure result, tho intrigues T have just mentioned will collapse. Anothor period of inoxpli- cable delay may cost the young commander the high post he once’ before lost, because the people could not brook ins action. He must onto Richmond now, or bis enemies here will surely ruin him, THE VICTORIES IN KENTUCOT. There is much rejoicing here over the news of the Union victories in Kentucky. The inactivity of our army on the Potomac will svon coase. Future operations will appear to bo a noediess delay. CONDITIUN OF GENERAL NOOKER. General Hooker's wound is healing very rapidiy; but his surgeons have ordered him to remain quiet in his quarters at the Insane Asylum until the tendous ia his ia- fured foot have been thoroughly freed from inflammation, It isnot yet knowa to what command bo will be as- signed. THE RADICALS ORDERED TO “'OALT OFF TITRIR DOGS.” ‘Tho abolition organ bere bas for its leader this morn. ing an article doubtiess inspired by Thurlow Weed, why ig now in thiscity. Itsaysto the abolitionists of New York, who denounce as traitors all conservatives and do- mocrats, ‘that they must call off their dogs."* CONDITION OF SECRETARY CUASE. Secrotary Chase is convalescing. Mr, Hartley, the capable. Chicf Clerk of the Treasury Department, acts as assistant secretary ia the absence of Mr. Harrmgton, INSPECTION OF GEN. STAHEL’S DIVISION—A SKIB+ MISH. ‘The following la just received from the Hanatp corre: spondent at Fairfax Court Howse: A roview and inspection of Genoral Stahel's division of tate ootye took place at Centreville to-day, Gen. Sigel 1 thorough inspection of the troops, with whose ice he was well pleased. day Lieutenant Conder, of tho Third Virgiaia fad & skirmish with Ball's rebol cavalry near . Our force, being smal, was compelied to retreat, after killing @ rebel Noutenant named Means, and wound. ing another, who was the brother of Cataln Ball, 78 POSTAGE BTAME CURRENCY. During tho last quarter, euding with September, the Post Office Department oye rama ’ postage stamps, as is shown by tho bill of the Natiour# \ | Bank Note Company. These stamps represent the ucgre- gate amount of $3,176,064, or more than $1,349,416 more ‘than for the quarter ending with the 30th of June. A large proportion of tho last igsuo is yet in the bands of the postmastors. unsold, though no doubt half a mil- lion of dollars worth of postage stamps are iu circulation as currency. ‘The National Bank NoteCompauy have [urnishod postage ‘stamp as well ag Troasury note curroucy far in advance of the contract, and are constantly extending their f- A, * fp cilities for increased daily supplies. | ! “qhe Treasury hag taken into its own hands the business of furnishing the postal curreney, A hundred thousand | dollars’ worth a day will soon be issued through the mui- tiplying of plates, This might havo been done some time | since, had not the capacities of the engraving establish ment been monopolized for striking off one aud two dol- lar notes, which were not so much needed as the postay — currency. ‘The National Bank Note Company have got the daily delivery of postage currency up to $47,500, and it is up. doratood it will reach $50,000 by the carly part of next week. The total amount alroady dolivered is $1,155,000. NAVAL @RDERS. Lioutenant Commander Scott hre beea detached from tho Steantor Florida and ordored to return North. Midshipmay Huntington has been appointed acting eusign, and ordered to the Pacific squadron. Lioutenant Commander Walker has been ordered te join the Mississippi flotilla. i] Commander Gueat has beon detached from the Mosuke, and ordered to return North, Commander George Rodgers bas geen dotactied fom tho Tioga, and ordered to retura North, ' Commander Clary will relieve him on the Tioga. Commander Barnott has veen detached frou duty ag Inspector of the New York Navy Yard, and wilt be re lioved by Commander Baldwin, Commander Beaumont and Lieutonant Stocce have beem ordered to the steamer Florida, David Porter Heap, late Consul at Conatantinopto, has loft hore to act as secretary to Acting Rear Admiral Por- tor, of the Mississippi. SUPERNUMBRARY ARMY OFAICRRS. The order from the War Department of August last has been modified by substituting the word ‘“ supernume- rary” instead of “incompetent,” as characterizing the officers to be mustered out of service on Lhe disbanding of tho Fifty-scventh Peonsylvania and Kighty-soventh Now York Volunteors, the men having been traasterred® ;\ to other régiments from tho same States ucder the direc. tion of the General Commanding tho Army of the Polo mac. MILITARY COURT MARTIAL. First Lioutevant Eugene A. Smalley, of tho Marine corps, was tried last mouth, at Norfolk, on the charge off | | ‘absence without loave from bis station at Gosport Navy © Yard. The Court found him guilty, and sentenced bim to be reprimanded in general orders by the Hon. Socretary, of the Navy. Tho decision on this sentence has required serious consideration on the part of the revising vower ‘The Secretary, in the general order, ays if it wero not confirmed, the officers convicted would altogether escape punishment for an offence which a malority of militar; men would certainly regard as of a vory grav character, particularly when committed in time o war at @ station but recently in the possession of the enemy aud stilt ia the vicinity of hostile opera tions. The Court have adverted to no palliating circum stances in explanation of the lenity of thoir sentence ‘and ou reviewing the record I can perceive nove, excep the ploa of limited exporience of the duties of an officer! urged by the accused in his defence. This sentence, um accompanied by any comment, is not calculated property, | to enlarge the limited experince of a young officer, 0 give him correct notions of tha importance of discipline It would tend rather to misicad him. I am constrained therefore, in coufirming it, to accompany this reprimanc” of Lieutenant Smalley with an admonition to him an+ other young oilicers of tho corps to regard the sonteace in this case aa indicating the true character of the of) feace committed, HOSPITAL DIRECTORY. The Sanitary Commission are preparing @ hospital | 4. rectory which will contain Mats of paticnts io all ‘ws military hospitals in this district. It will be correete daily oc frequently, and when pasa wil furnis touch nocdod information, a aoe MAP OP THIS ANSIRTAM BATTLE GROUND. A map of ‘tho Antiotam battle ground, indicating th location of all the fleld hospitals there, has boon prepare for the use of the Sacitary Commission, and wilt t lithographed. The hospitals number about soventy, ar those which contain rebol wounded exclusively are to t marked on the map. INSPROTOs OF HOSPITALS. Tho hospitals in Washington have beon pattially o: amined by the hospital inspectors; but no & tailed roport is give Some material changes hospital arrangements must be made as coid weath approaches, The temporary barracks and tents used set y tho sick and wounded soldiers will have to givo place‘ more substantial buildings, Members of the corps of i sectors say that, considering the circumstances umd fi which they were improvised, ours are in goueraithe be” military hospitals eves seon MEDICAT. SUTTLIES TOR THE ARMY. Through the contributions ofthe poopie, in response the appeai Leretofore made, the Medical Department be beex supplied with immouso quantities of liat and dres ings, snd therefore no more are at present required. SURGEON KING. Dr Jaws Kicg, division surgeon of the Penneytvan reserve gorps was to-day ralicved to assume tho poritic of Surgeon General of Penusytyania, to which place t has ben appointed by Governor Curtin, vieo Dr. H. Smilb, resigned. Dr. King bas bien for over a year the field, and is r led by the army ag one of the mo faithful aud eflicient of surgeons. SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE OF NORFOLK. ‘Tho citizens of Norfolk, Va., are ropresentod to bee suffering condition, for an area containing forty thousas inhabitants is enclosed by federal pickets, and trade" from the country are forbidden to euter the city wit anything except vegetables. The port is under bivckad and our vesse's are not allowed to cater trade. These striagent rogulations have veca re dered necessary on account of tho wniisguised di loyalty aud treachery of the citizens of Norful) General Viele has becn hero and represented tho facts + the President ana the Secretary of War, and to-dy the subject was discussed in Cabinet. It was argued th Norfolk, ovcupying a similar position to that of Ne Orleans, should be supplicd as a military ‘necessit Genoral Viole has no authority to supply the Inhabitan from the military stores. Tho government refuses )- supply thom with food a8 prisoners of war, and the om roliof must be permitting thom to purchazo provisions f thomselves. It 1 believed that the decision of the Cat not was advorse to granting permits to Northern mo _ chants to trade with Norfolk, ws the Secretary of Wi 3 refused such permits aiter the adjournment of U Cabinet. ‘ ‘THE RLMOTIONS IN DELAWARE. * Fi It ig understood ip political oircies here that the pr liminary elections in Delaware have gone against W abolitionists. MOVEMENTS OF JONIN ROSS. John Ross, accompanied by Commissioner of Iudic Affairs Doll, and Colonel Coflin, superinteudents of st Southern Indian Divisions, had & conference with U President this afternoon on business connected with tl_ Cherokee and other Indian tribes. PROTROTION FOR THE OVERLAND MAIL ROMTE. Governor Evans, of Colorado, is here in order to mai ae arrangemonts for the protection of that Territory fru Indian depredations, and guarding the overiaud rou, » ' by which the poople are furnished with domestic suppite MANCFACTURES FROM CORN SUCKS. | A foreigaor has fied bis application (with spoctmen | for a patent for variqus sos made of maizo shucks. ft) yarlotios include yarn, maize cloth, paper of boaatt qualities (white and colored), from aii vo parchiag texture; waize flour, &o OOLD IN THE TERKITORIES. | In viow of tho extraordinary discoveries of gold int!) |) | sevetg! United States Torritories, and consideriag the cf necessitios of the govermment, Congress wit tho ensuing session be asked to cnact some racasnres t which a considerable part of the treasure may, airy, miners, be secured for public uses. FLAG PRESENTATION. ‘The stand of colors presented to the Now York ment by the city of Brooklyn will be eomnaitted to Color Dodge, late tts colonel. OUNBRAL JOR LANR'S CASTLE SPRCULATIONS. Gonvral Joe Lane when las board from was ou bis w to thé upper mines In Wasington Territory with a Uy sand head of cattle, from the profita of which it ie Leved by tho Oregomiayss that be will yeatize Oty th pane dollars.