The New York Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1862, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OPFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8T8, Volume XXVI1.............. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, MIBLO'> GARDEN. Broadway.—Ricaarp TI. WALLAOK'S , THEATRE, Broadway.—Lonvon Assv Rance WINTER GARDEN Broadway.—Ricariirs. LAURA KEENB'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Prg Wor Pinctoy—COL BN BAWN SKTTLRD At Last. NEW BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery—Kirrr—Jocausi— Tuisa Dooroa. BOWERY 7TH ~~ is Sag peo ERE TRBATRE, Bowery.—Canivicuaw—Magic GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, 435 Broadway.—Tae Sx. Rave. BAKNUM'S AMBRICAN mP Trorc st Fisu, &C., a @ad evening. UM. Broadway.—Cor hours. Pavvaurrx, after. n BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way HOPIAN SONGS BuRiksyues, Dances, &C.—THe Buaok Gnigane, CHRISTY'S OPBRA HOUSE, 685 Broadway.—Erniorian Bones, Dances, bo.—Tur Miscutevous Monae, WOOMS MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Erarorray Bons, Dances, 40.—Bino Hunters, HOPE CHAPEL No. $20 Broadway.—Exarar TURREL. » CALIFORNIA, HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal eet —Soves, Dances, BURLKSgres, &c. iN OF GAIBTIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Daawixa oa ENTERTAINMENTS, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDER: Broadway.— Open daity trom 10 A. M, till 16 P.M. sid -_ HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Sonus, Daxcus, Burtesguas, &e. New York, Monday, October 13, 1862. THE SITUATION. Another brilliant victory in Kentucky is reported to-day. General Buell is evidently following up his advantages like a skilful general. Privaté de- 8patches received from Lebanon state that there was agreat battle fought on Saturday, between Harrodsburg and Danville, heavier and more Revere than that of Wednesday last at Perry- ville. Colonel Woolford, of the Kentucky Union cavalry, captured one hundred and sixty wagons and a thousand prisoners. The rebels, at last ac- counts, were retreating to Camp Dick Robinson. Colonel Woolford has not hitherto been much Known to fame; but we give a sketch of him to- Colone! Miller, captured two pieces of artille Brooklyn.—Eraoriax Some of General Dumont's men, under yand 150 rebels at Versailles on Saturday, and drove the rest of them from that place to Nicholasville. Humphrey Marshall was i mmaud of the rebels. From all the accounts which reach us from Pre- derick, it Peunsyivania haye retired into Virginia again. is evident that the rebel invaders of They moved trom the direction of Gettysburg to- wards Frederick: but the military governor, Col. Allen, had * large force. of vrepared to receive them there with It was stated that 4 large portion the rebel cavalry passed through Thorn- ton’s Gap towards Warrenton on They passed through Woodshoro and Liberty their Newmarket, theace to Monrovia and Ur Saturday. on way to and = from a, in the diree- tion of the river, near Poolesville. that they captured some sutlers’ wagons, destroyed A® portion of the railroad track, and cut the tele- graph It ts reported tines on their route. General Pleasan- ton, with three regiments of cavalry, passed through Frederick yesterday] morning at daylight, and followed in pursuit of General Stuart's forces. At eleven o'clock yesterday morning heavy c: aonading was heard in the direction of Nolan's Ferry, at the mouth of the Monocacy river, where %& was supposed Stuart would attempt to cross the Potomac. The reports place the conflict st Edwards’ Ferry. Some prisoners captured ‘tate that the rebels crossed in three divisions, ander Generals Stuart, Cobb and Hampton: that the men were strictly ordered not to disturh private property, and that it was respected auring their whole trip. It was thought that Cobb and Hampton, with their divisions, recrossed &t a ford above the North Mountain. Reports from Harrisburg and Harper's Perry sonfirm these statements. General Banks receiv- od a despatch from General Stoneman yesterday. dated Poolesville, apprising him of the appear- ance of Stuart’s and Hampton's force, six pieces of ariillery, at daylight, pursued by General Pleasanton’s cavalry. When they arrived in sight of the river they broke up into small bodies and made for several fords. The troops sent to intercept them were. of course, also obliged to divide and engage the ene- my at a number of points. The rebels finally crossed between Conrad's Ferry and Point of Rocks. The stolen blue uniform which Stuart's Men wore made it diffienlt to distinguish them from our own men with That the rebels have made gowd their retreat to Virginia with a thousand horses and some pro visions, after marching round on grand Army of the Potomac, is beyond doubt. The cavalry of General Pleasanton, which was in pursuit, arrived at the crossing just asthe enemy had completed their passag marched se over the river. General Pleasanton ty-eight miles in twenty-four hours but was ouly up in time to engage the artillery of the rebels as they covered the rear of Stuart's forces. The news from Corinth still further confirms the report of a splendid victory. We captured two thousand prisoners, including one hundred officers: ‘The rebels lost one thousand killed and a large Bunrber wounded. Our loss was only three hun- Gred and fifty killed and one thousand three hun- @red wounded. The rebels abandoned and spiked eleven guns, destroyed three caissons, and lost gost of their ammunition and trains. General Rosencrans, after parsuing the the enemy until the Oth instant, returned to Corinth at the command of General Grant. He reports the rebel army dis- Wersed, demoralized, and incapable of further mis- chief. He would gladly have followed them up, tinder the conviction that this is the acceptable Rime to destroy them ntterly, but for the orders of his superior to retorn. Despatches from Ciiro, dated the B say that there are movements at Helena, Arkans be bokening a0 Womediate advance in some direction, bul whether on Vicksburg or Little Rock is not permitted to transpire, It is intimated, however, Chat an important movement was about to take place at oace, froin the fact that afl civilians were Gorbidden to travel in that vicinity A fal) telegraphic report of the European news Pe tue Hibernian. of Cave Rave, appears in the Hesaup to-day. The advices are dated to the 34 instant, and are important, so far as they relate to the position of the American question, in two points of view. First we have the fact that the news brought to England by the Norwegian dispelled all doubts as to the complete success of the Union troopa, under McClellan, in Maryland. The British press was in its compliments to the General for his. “onergy,”’ “rapidity” aad ‘‘velecity” of movement, the London Times leading the way in its editorial praisé of the young commander. The writers, however, endoavor to draw and support the infer- ence that the cause of the North has not been ma- terially benefitted by the late battles, the London ‘Times asserting that ‘the retreat of the enemy is only a temporary relief to the federal government.” The London Post admits that the cause of the rebels is not “so good" as it was in the beginning of September. In the next place we find that our very latest despatches from London, dated on the 3d instant, contains some significant conclusions to these comments. The London Times Paris corres- pondent writes that it was “reported in political circles that the British government was not then so entirely averse to the recognition of the South- ern confederacy as it has been,” and ‘‘that there is a probability of the question becom- ing shortly the subject of deliberations in the ministerial councils.” The London Times, when publishing this news, endeavors to show that the rebel army in Maryland did not sustain a severe defeat after all, and that ‘‘the cause of the North is not advanced a single step by their unexpected victory.” Distinguished men from almost every country in Europe, who were lately assembled in a scientific congress at Brussels, had prepared and signed a peace address to President Lincoln. Additional particulars “of the communication held between the rebel steamer ‘No, 290" and the British vessel Cairngorm, relative to the burn- ing and capture of American whalers by the for- mer, are to hand by the Hibernian, and appear elsewhere. The Paris journals state that the French troops will be in possession of Mexico City at a very early date. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Hibernian, from Londonderry on the 5d inst., passed Cape Race last Friday, bound for Quebi A full report of her news, which is five days later, telegraphed from Newfoundland, appears iv the Heratp this morning. American cotton had advanced one penny per pound in Liverpool, the market closing quiet. Svrats remained stea The stock in hand footed up two hundred and twelve thousand five hundred bales, dull. Breadstuffs were firm. Provisions were Consols closed in London on the 3d inst. at The Princess Maria, daughter of Viétor Ema- nuel, was married by proxy to the King of Portu- gal. The report of Garibaldi’s health is more satisfactory. It was thought that the General and his: followers would be pardoned under a royal amnesty. From China we have a most interesting letter, furnished by our correspondentin Shanghae, dated on the 20th of July. This communication contains a full account of the advent of now Mandarin) Ward to the shores of the Celestial Empire, with full notes of the prudent, courageous and liberal line of condnet by which he has advanced himself to a position which bids fair to place the euterpris- ing and “Jive Yankee" in the van of civilization in the hoary land of the Central Flowery Kiugdom, Mr. Ward, having seen service in Central and South America and the Crimea, landed in Shanghae a few years since unknown, and with, a few Mexican dollars in bis pocket. The city of Shanghae being soon after threatened and pinched by the native rebels, neither the im. perialists nor th allies, the English, could de- tend it. In this strait Admiral Hope, R. posed and perfected with him a plan by which Mr. Ward might strike a blow at the rebel headquar- ters in Soonkong, @ very well fortified city on the Woosung river, Ward organized a band, ran up the river, and took the place by storm, for which service he was paid the sum of forty thousand silver tacls. He has ever since—although perse- cuted by some few shallow-pated English cock- neys—been regarded as a power inthe empire, and acknowledged as such both by the British and Freneh adimira! His career, as described in the letter, is very instructive. The annual State elction will commence to-day in South Carolina, and continues two days. Mem- hers of the Legislature are to be chosen, on whom will devolve the election of a Governor in place of Francis W. Pickens. In South Carolina all State officers, as well as Presidential electors, are chosen by the Legislature. Dr. Cheever, at the Church of the Puritans, last evening, delivered another of his phillipics on the President's Proclamation, amt in denunciation of slavery. which was listened to by a large congre- gation, who frequently interrupted the speaker with applanse. Another “reliable yentleman” has arrived in Washington from Richmond, who says that he was ou board the Merrimac No, and that she has all her iron plate put on | and that she will soen be ready to come out. The intelligence from Richmond two days previous informed us that no one wax allowed on board the Merrimac No. 2, and that not an iron plate bad been placed on her In than six hours after Dick Hawes was in- stalled as Provisional (rebelj€ rnor of Keutueky, in the Capitel building at Frankfort, the whole party--begus Governor and suite, commanding eneral, provost marshal and all the ragtag and followers of Brexton Bragg—skedaddled rds Lexington. Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, hae or- dered a draft for eight hundred more men to fill up the regiments now organized in the State. The Nova Scotia and Labrador herring fisheries have proved a failure this season. ‘The stock market was calmer on Satarday, and left off at beter prices than ruled on Friday afternoon. Jt seem+ od to be believed in the street that the reaction had spout itvelf, and that the parties who bad taken the lead in en. gincering the decline were buyers of stocks. At the close the tone of the market was quite hopeful. Money was more abundant, large eums being offered at five per cent Gold advanced to 128%, and exchange to 142 a 142},. ‘The specie export of the day was pearly a miljion dollars. ‘The usual trade tables for the week will be found jv the money article ‘The cotton warket was again firmer and higher on Suturday, with sales of about 2,000 bales, closing on the basi# of S7)ye. for middling uplands. Flour was again active and higher mon aad nedium grades, closing at an advance of 10c. a ibe. per Dbl. Choice family gradow were scarce, and held 20c, higher. Wheat war lees active aud buoyant, and closed av a decline of Te. a 2c. per bushel. At the concession A (Air ANOUnL Of sales were made, in part for export, Corn was firm and im good request, with antes of quod sound =«Weetern mixed at 63. n 640. Pork wae steady, aud (he previous advance snetained, though clowing with less animation, Mees sold at $1275 ond prime at $11 57); 6 $1150, Lard was firm, with satos at oie. for fair and at 100, @ 109@. for good to choige, Suyare were steady, and the advance wotieed the previ as sustained. The sales embraced about 1,600 pg Ay Coffee was firmer, with «sale of the Henrietia’e carco of 1,600 bags to (ir trade. at NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OC'NOBER 13, 1862. 25c. per Ib., understood to have boen bought fer alargel | What Patriotism Dem'ands from Horatio Seymour and the Comvervatives of This house in Front street. Amother Battle in Kentucky—Genera B We have a brief report from Louisville of another battle between the pursuing forces of General Buell and the defeated and retreating army of General Bragg. This last engagement was between Harrodsburg and Danville, and appears to have involvéd in the losses of Bragg a large number of prikoners and a considerable portion of his wagon, train, We anticipate, therefore, before the lapse of many days, the gratifying intelligence of the capture or com- plete dispersion of Bragg’s army, and the basty rotreat southward of all the other rebel forces in the State. General Buell is doing his work of clearing out the enemy very handsomely. We hope that before the close of this day the most skep- tical of our Wall street stockjobbers will be convinced upon this point. On Saturday they would have it that he had caught a Tartar, and that his simple and unpretending official report of Wednesday's battle was but the prelude to a confession of an ugly defeat. But, believing General Buell to be not only an able military leader, but a truthful man, and knowing that he had an army around him competent to dis- pose of the rebels before him in any position, we found no difficulty whatever in understand- ing his clear and explicit statements, to wit :— “<The action continued until dark. Some fight- ing also ocourred on the centre. The enemy were everywhere repulsed, but not without some momentary advantage (to the enemy) on our left. The several corps were put in position during the night, and moved to the attack at six o'clock this morning (that is, on thenext morning after the battle described in the report. Some skirmishing occurred with the enemy’s rear guard. The main body had fallen back in the direction of Harrodsburg.” The case is plain enough. The army of Gen. Buell, divided into several columns, covering an extensive semicircle, was advancing upon Bragg. On Wednesday afternoon one or two of these columns came into collision with the whole army of Bragg, fought it for several hours, and everywhere repulsed it. Darkness then came on, just as one or two of the other columns of Buell arrived on the ground. The work of finishing up the victory, however, which had been substantially gained, was neces- sarily suspended until the return of daylight. Soon after daylight our army was pushed forward, when it was dis@overed that the enemy had slipped off, but only to be overhauled .again on Saturday and thoroughly beaten. General Buell, like General McClellan and General Grant, has been particularly obnoxious to our abolition disorganizers; but, like McClel_ lan and Grant, Buell gives a satisfactory answer to his accusers upon the field of battle. We have no doubt that Grant, Rosecrans and their associates. in all the region around Corinth, Mississippi. and Buell in Kentucky, and McClel- lan in Virvinia, will very speedily now put an end to the hungry and demoralized armies , of the rebellion, and to the base accusations and intrigues of our abolition malignants. Time is precious, The season is favorable. Our sol- diers are ready. The country expects the ad- ministration to do its duty. Let the good work done be followed ap without any needless delays. uy Tyevrranie =ConrraBanps Provipep ror.—Secretary Seward has officially an- nounced the suspension of the scheme of colo- nizing negroes in Central America, on ac- count of the objections urged by the Central American Ministers. Though an effort will per- haps be made-to procure the consent of the government of New Granada to allow the negroes to setile there, it is most probable that the colonization project is knocked in the head, at least for the present. Certain individuals are, however, contem- plating a plan to take the place of the colo- nization scheme. This plan is to establish agen- cies with each of our armies to take charge of all contrabands now within our lines, or who shall be captured during the advance of our immense forces, and to send them to New York and New England, to be &pprenticed to farmers: New York will probably need but very few of these colored laborera: but New England can very well accommodate one or two hundred ‘thousand of them, and thus rid the government of @ very great deal of perplexity as to what shall be done with the inevitable contrabands. It is true that this plan has been tried and has faited tn the Western States; for the Mayor of Chicago refused to allow negroes to come there, and quoted the law of the State prohibit- ing the importation of a colored population. In the West, however, there is a strong feeling against the negroes: but in New England no such prejudice exi: On the contrary, the negroes will be received there with open arms and with all the honors paid to them in Old E land. We hope, therefore, that the New Eng- land people, who love the contr: nds so well and have done so much for their welt will in immediately to prepare fer their recep- tion, and especially to provide for them warm clothing and other creature comforts, so that the natives of the sunny South may not die off belore they are fairly transplanted to the hard soil of the chilly North. Tue Reeves. Buseck F).sG.--It is now some weeks since a Tennessee member of the rebel Congress introduced into that body the atro- cious proposition that henceforth, in the pro- gress of the war, the secession flag should be superseded by the black flag, and that no quar- ter should be asked or given. It was referred to a cemmittee, and there it appears to have been stifled, as something toe monstrous and offensive to be restored to light. Its author seemed te have had as little regard fer conse- quences as he had for appearances. He forgot that not only might rebel prisoners of war out number the prisoners taken from the Union army, but that in New Orleans, Charleston, and all along the Southern coast, there are hun. dreds of thousands of secessionists in our power, who would be liable to suffer in retaliation for atrocities inflicted on Unionists. It is gratify- ing, however, to observe that, although rebel politicians may be as barbarous and blood- thirsty as ever, there has bees a very percep- tible change for the better in the conduct of the rebel army, and that the prisoners who fall into its hands have not to complain of the vil- Janous treatinent experienced by prisoners in the early part of the war. Even in the late raid of Stuart's cavalry into Pennsylvania the State. We perceive that Horatio Seymour is an nounced to addroas a public meeting at the Cooper Institute this evening, as the democratic candidate for Governor of this State. We en- treat him to take the opportunity of retiring from a contest which there is every reason to fear will be characterized by dangerous vio- lence. We cannot afford at this moment to ex- pend our strength in fierce quarrels among our- selves, while the enemy is in the field and the rebellion still remains to be crushed by our united efforts. It is quite true that the party now in power is open to severe criticism; and, from the elec- tions in Maine and Connecticut, and from va- rious other signs of the times, there can be no doubt that the tendency of the public mind is towards democracy or conservatism, and the re- publican party is everywhere rapidly declining in strength, owing to its development of radical- ism and the violence threatened by the leading abolitionists against all who differ in opinion with them. The mismanagement of the war, caused by radical interference; the severe, if not unconstitutional, measures adopted against sitizens in the loyal States, and the corruption in army contracts which has come to light, have contributed in no small degree to drive from the ranks of the party many conser- vatives. But many who do not approve of what has been done, and who detest radi- calism, still remain, because they think that a strong opposition to the party to which the administration belongs would greatly interfere with the successful prosecution of the war for the Union, by dividing the people and intro- | ducing perplexing and distracting compli- cations. If the elections could possibly result In plac- ing the conservative party in power at Wash- ington, the case would be entirely different. But in our system of government Cabinet Minis- ters cannot be displaced, as they are in Eng- land, by the popular voice, or their defeat on any important question in Parliament, or a vote of want of confidence in them carried in the House of Commons. In England ministers are changed because they are held responsible for every act of the government. The sovereign is not responsible, and cannot be changed unless by a violent revolution. In our system there is an opportunity of making a change of the Chief ‘Magistrate every four years, aud the disposition of the people is to give every legitimate support to the government in power for the time being. It is true the President can change his whole Cabinet, or any part of it, if he finds it inefi- cient; but he is not expected to replace the dis- missed or resigning members from the ranks of their political opponents, as thg English sove. reign always does. It is the President of the Unit- ed States himself, and not his ministers, who is held legally and constitutionally responsible by the people. We are in the midst of a great cri- sis, and the party in power must deal with it according to their best judgment. The Pre- sident of their choice and themselves will be held to strict account hereafter. The nation is engaged in a terrible civil war—struggling for its very existence. Any interference by the leaders of the opposition party tending to de- feat the object of the war, or to emlsarrass the administration in the prosecution of it, would be unpatriotic and unwise. This is no time for party gladiatorship. (There ought to be only one party—the party of the Union—till the war is brought to a successful termination. After that will come the reckon- ing, when party can once more legitimately take the field, lay bare every misdeed, and ex- pose every act of corruption and every viola- tion of the constitution. But now there is no time for this. | The train is in motion: we are all in for the"war. The locomotive cannot be stopped, nor can any one safely jump off to cri- ticise the movements of the engineer, the brake- men or the conductor. When we get to the end of our journey that will be the proper time to deal with those in charge of the train if they have been guilty of any folly or crime. Or, suppose the case of a ship in a violent tempest, which threatened every moment to send her to the bottom, what would be thought of the conduct of the passengers if they mutimied against the captain and crew, instead pf obeying their orders and giving them every assistance? The ship of the Union is at this moment in imminent peril; she labors in a heavy sea, with a tre. mendous gale and a Jee shore in view, a false reckoning having been made on the log. We are all on board, and she is freighted with the hopes of humanity. She is in donger; tor there are forming breakers abead. But the ship is staunch. We know what heads devised her plan and what workmen constructed her giant frame: and she will weather the storm if every one of us does his duty, and if those who steer and man hee are not improperly interfered with by any foolish zeal in this hour of national peril. When the — gallant vessel arrives in port then it will be the time to condemn aught that was harsh or unjustitiable or inhuman in the conduct of the officers or seamen, and to bring them to a rigid account fox the voyage. We are in the midst of a revolution as great as that which teok place in France seventy years ago, and party violence cannot save the nation, though it may destrey It is bad enough for the radicals to take “Advantage of their position to indulge in violent demonstra- tions and threaten what is still worse. Let not the democrats imitate their example, else we are lost. Let them not give the abolition dema- Sogues any excuse to inaugurate a reign of ter- ror. They have already reached the length of their tether, and there is nothing further left for them to do unless to bang themselves. Let them have plenty of rope, and they will be sure to do that. They have played their last card, and they have played themselves out, uniess the conservatives will unwisely give them the advantage of anew deal by violently quarrel- ling with them and mixing up the cards in con- fusion. Andjwho are the leaders of the democratic party In this State, that we shonld confide in them to manage our affairs at this eriti. cal juncture? Are they not the Albany Regency, the very men who cheated various candidates at the Charleston Convention, and, by persisting in their adherence to one man whom they knew to be unaeceptable to the South, broke up the Convention, split the demo- cratic party and caused its defeat, with all the consequences that have since ensued? They are responsible for secession, rebellion, and the rebels conducted theniselves more as civilized | civil war that has sprang from it. We trust, enemies. It is to be hoped that, whether | therefore, that Mr. Seymour will not mix him- hostilities will ond this winter or be protracted | self up with these mon. His reeord is very dif- indefinitely, the horrors of war will not be needlewly and ruthlessly multivlied. ferent from theirs. Let him keep aloof, and i avoid anv party contest at the oresent time Let him give a noble example of patriotism and self-denial by withdrawing from the contest, and, instead of the Governorship of New York, which amounts to nothing, the people of the United States will, perhaps, reward him here. after with the highest office in their gift. The Rebellion and Its Four Defeated jchemes for » Southern Confederacy. With the overthrow and dispersion of the rebel army in Kentucky; we have the tota) collapse of the last and most desperate war programme of the rebel chiefs at Richmond, to wit: 9 winter campaign in the midat of the bountiful supplies of subsistence and clothing of our loyal border States, 80 called, of Mary- land, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. The armies of the rebellion are thus thrown back upon the exhausted States involved in it, where it is simply impossible that they can hold out through the winter against our ad- vancing aud overwhelming forces by land and water. Thia is the fourth war programme of the rebel leaders which has beea broken up since the se- cession of South Carolina, December 20, 1 The others were:— First—The revolutionary seizure of the gov- ernment at Washington. Second—A defensive lin Third—Immense armies and great and de- cisive pitched battles. The seizure of Washington as a Southern revolutionary coup d'etat was first agitated by Henry A. Wise, in the Fremont and Buchanan campaign of 1856. Again, in 1860, near the close of the year, we find this project associated with the name of Wise, but this time as the chief of a secret conspiracy of ten thousand traitors in Virginia, Washington and Maryland. The scheme also involved the secession and revolutionary uprising of Mar} 3 but this important branch of it was defeated by the per- sistent refusal of Governor Hicks to cail his secession Legislature together. How the en- tire scheme was communicated to General Scott, and how it was circumvented by his wise defensive precautions, and by Lieutenant Jones in the burning of the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry; and how our national capital and government were saved by President Lin- coln himself, in his “Scotch cap and long mili- tary cloak,” need not here be recapitulated. It is sufficient for our present object that this first grand rebel scheme for a Southern con- federacy—the seizure of Washington by a numer- ous and reckless band of secret conspirators and assassins—was abandoned with Mr. Lincoln’s military inauguration. We take up, then, the second programme of the rebel leaders, involving a defensive line. Before adopting this line they deemed it expe- dient to drop all false pretences of cone’ by a resort to actual, open war, in order to drag into the whirlpool of the @lion the hesi- tating slave States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentue Missouri, Maryland and Delaw ‘The tirst four of these States being thus secured. a northern frontier defensive line was adopted, extending from Manassas and the Potomac, across Virginia and Kentucky, to Columbus on the Mississippi river. At the same time the powerful rebel conspiracy which existed in Missouri was re- lied upon to conquer that State and Kansas. Thus, for the first eight or ten months of the war, our border slave States had to bear nearly all its burdens of spoliation and destruction. But in January and February last, at Somerset, Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, this rebel de- fensive line was so completely broken down in Kentucky that about the Ist of March it was abandoned in Virginia, with the evacuation of Manassas by the rebel army and itx retreat to Richmond. - ¢ In bis inaugural address to the rebel Con- gress on the 22d of February, Jeff. Davis: referring to these Western rebel defeats, said that he and his confederates, in undertaking to hold their exposed and extended defensive line, had undertaken “too much.” The Rich mond journals, upon this hint, broadly inti- mated that a new rebel system of warfare had been adopted—a system of immense movable armies, prepared to fall back or advance at a moment's warning. Not long afterwards this new system was reduced to a practical experi- ment, in the mustering of an immense rebel force at Corinth, Mississippi, and in it« sudden march and tremendous assault upon our army at Pittsburg Landing. But, driven back to its intrenchments, this grand rebel Army of the West was next beleaguered at Corinth, and next, when sought for, it was invisible, having stolen off under cover of the night. But, while this new system of warfare on the part of the rebels had thusexploded in the West, it promised them the grandest compensations in the Kast. Daviw had collected an enormous army at Richmond, and his generals contidently wait- ed for their oppertimiiy to pounce upon the steadily advancing forees of Gene MeClellan. The results uced no rey Against overwhelming numbers through seven successive days’ fighting, McClean saved his | invalnabl. But the rebel chief raised the si of Richmond, were r bolder movements. Accordingly, with the first evidences of our pr wv the evacuation of ‘the Virginia peninsula, this last most inso- lent and desperate rebel programme was adopt- ed of a mareh into Washington in advance of General McClellan's forces, and a general inva- sion of and winter campaign in our loyal bor- der States, on both sides of the slavery line, in view of the indispensable articles of bread, meat and clothing to the nungry and ragyed soldiers of the rebellion. Thus it will be seen that since December, 1860, four successive schemes of the rebel lead- ers in behalf of the Southern confederacy have been knocked in the head, together with King Cotton and European inte-vention. The last resort of the rebel Congress, and of Gene- ral Bsagg, its mouthpiece in Kentucky, is a very absurb appeal to the Northwest, in con- sideration of the bribe of free trade and the free navigation of the Mississippi river. Could anything more clearly reveal the desperate ex- tremities of Davis and his confederates’ An- other telling blow or two from the army of General McClellan will make the peace oflering of President Lincoln's emancipation proclama- | tion a house of refuge even for South Carolina. | ition here. aud my having uly for Exp ov Ixptan Hosvtnirnms.—There seems to | be little cause for entertaining any doubt that | the Indian war, which looked so menacing some weeks since, is virtually at an end. The fn- dians are laying down their arms, and their chiats—who instigated the rising and are re- sponsible for the atrocities that marked it—are being surrendered into the hands of the autho- tities. It is to be hoped that ne mawkish sen- ‘Vimant of forbearance will he exhibited ia their ee } veanited a Case, true umay cue” speedy and condign punise ment will be allowed to act as a warning to a the Indian tribes with’ our borders. Thew Indians have been uniformly treated with toc much kindness and forbearance by the nations government. Their late conduct takes from them every claim to consideration. They can not be allowed to remain in their pre sent reservations, which a few years hence will be in the very heart of the nation. The Pacific Railroad and telegraph lines, the Car- son valley emigration, and the Mormon estab lishments in Utah, require the removal of al those roving redskins, who are the most unmiti- gated nuisances on the face of the earth. Some out of the way place on the Pacific slope shoule be selected, and all the remnants of the Indias tribes east of the Rocky Mountains should be gathered together and packed off to where they could never have a chance of indulging in theis two favcrite passions—the drinking of fire wa ter and the tomahawking of women and chil: dren. Clear the country of savaga A Yankee Dynasty ia Chin At certain periods of their history nations seem to lose the capacity of supplying theis own rulers, Then somo foreigner steps in ané is elevated to power, or forcibly seizes the reins of government from the weak hands which trem ble while holding them. The history of Eng land records many such crises, and the British sceptre has passed’ from Saxon to Dane, to Ro man, to Norman, and now rests for a while is German house. In France, after almost as numerous mutations, the crown is worn by ons of the family of that Italian Napoleon who sup- planted the Bourbons and Orleanists. This rule is without exception, however, and does not require illustration. Just at this time Aus tria and Prussia seem to have nearly reached such a crisis, and the bonses of Hapsburg and Brandenburg will soon give place to other and better dynasties. Even China, whose emperors are relatives of the sun and moon, is not exempt from this great Jaw of nations; and, from pre- sent indications, we should not be surprised to see, before many years, a Yankee, boru beneath the Stars and Stripes, crowding the tottering Tartar dynasty irom its ancient throne and ustrping the supreme authority of the Celestial Empire. dn another columa of this morning's issue our readérs will find a letter from our Shanghae correspondent, giving a brief but piquant and interesting resume of the exploits of General Fred. Ward—a Yankee lad and a Chinese maa- davin of the bine button. Ward arrived in Uhina twe or three years ago as the mate of a coasting schooner, with ten Mexican doNars in his pocket and a great idea in his head. He , had been to wragua with Walker, and, while aiding that plucky filibuster in bis unsuccessful allempt to found a government upom principles, he had obtained the education uecessary to carry out his idea of founding a government in China upon mercantile principles. He found China distracted by a great rebellion, and s0om determined to take a hand in the contest. The rebels had possession of a strong town cafled Soonkong, from which they threatened the government city of Shaughae. The imperial troops could not take Soonkong from the rebels; but Ward offered to do it by contract, and, his offer being accepted, drilled his troops, captured Soonkong, drove back the rebels, saved Shanghae and received his money. To fully understand this exploit, imagine that dar- ing our own civil war the rebels at Richmond threatened Washington, which we, having no McClellan in the tield, supposed would be cap- tured. Imagiue. then, that Young Hyson, or some other Chinaman, landed on eur coasts, with no property but his pigtail, and offered to capture Richmond for fifty thousand dollars. Imagine. also, that Young Hyson’s offer was accepted. that he gathered together all the stray Celesiials who vend segars in our streets, and with these as his main force marched upon and detvated the rebels, resioved Richmond to our government and pocketed his wages. That was precisely what Ward did in China, and the im- perial government had sense enough to appre- ciate his worth and give him « commissien te. defeat as many rebels and recapture as many qowns as he liked at a fair compensation. One of the English adinirals on the Chinese station intrigued against and even imprisoned Mandarin Ward, as his great influence became apparent. Ward was charged with being a fili- buster-—probably from his early affiliations with. . Walker -and at one time he was called a seces- sionist, and accused of intending to fit out a fleet. to prey npon our commerce inthe Eastern war ters. These caliunnies were soon outlived, howr ever, and, as if more effectually to reprove them’ Ward took to himself an almond-eyed, small- fooied Chinese wile, and became naturalized as ubje The Emperor, more favora- ble to bim than : after these proceedings, pro- moted lim to another colored mandarin buttoa, and the French and English authorities notonaly consulted with him, but sent their forces to aid him in his next attack upon. the rebels, which n another victory and higher henors for Mandarin Ward. In the face of the prejur a Chinese | dices of the whole world. which supposes that all Chihamen fight by standing on their heads and calling each other harrible names, Ward demonstrated that, propevly officered, the Chi- ood soldiers as any other people: Atthe battle to which, we have just referred. they fought side by side: with the English and, French sailors and marines, and did themselves. and their general no discredit. Mandarin, Ward has now a large army of them, officered& by Europeans, and. most thoroughly, drilled, and his force is constantly increasing. With this army he offers to put down the entine re- bellion by contract for ten millions-of dollars,’ and the Emperor has accepted his.terma. If Mandarin Ward, valgarly called Fred. Ward, can accomplish this, what is to pre- vent him from concluding this charming ehapter of Oxiental history—more wonderful and entertaining than any of the bright fables and enchanting romances of the Arabian Nights-by swizing the imperial throne and gow erning China by contract as its Emperor? The First Napoleon. began his career by the capture of Toulon, as Ward began his career by the capture of Soonkong. Why should not Ward end bis career as the Emperor of China, as Na- poleon reached the climax of his glories as the Emperor of Prancet ‘This may be a work of time; but, unlese some anlucky accidemt should apel Mandarin Ward ta commit harikari, or send his head to Pekin without his body, we have no dowbt that this enterprising American Will evon go te the Chinése capital asthe fa. paror’s chief adviser, , ‘Then wear his monarch s signet ring, ‘Then press (at mouarch's throne, a king, and beneltt the Coledtial Rmoive and the worl’ } 3