The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1862, Page 4

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PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 563 Broadway. = Open daity from 10 A.M, ti 10 cl HOOLKY'E OPERA | HOUSE, Brook!yn.Ermrortan per Dancus, BuRLEsgues, &c. Rew York, Thursday, October aa, 1862. THER SITUATION. A reconnoirsance was made on Tuesday from Harper's Ferry, under the command of General Ge with a strong force, into Loudon county, Virginia, which was very successful. The force consisted of the First brigade of General Geary’s division. The enemy was encountered at Glen- more, a short distance beyond Hillsboro, where a sharp skirmish took place, resulting in the rout of the rebel cavalry and the capture of a number of prisovers. Continuing their march, they reached Waterford, and from thence proceeded to Lovetts- ville, returming caily yesierday. The expedition resulted in the capture of seventy-five prisoners, iuctuding 9 number of officers. Among the latter were Captains Grabb and Everton. Avother reconnoissance was made on the same Gay across the river, oppo-ite Knoxville, where a revel raid was feared. It is said that the enemy have not more than twenty thousand troops at any single point in Virginia. The extent of our lines obliges him to distribute his forces, and prevents their coacentration at any particular point. General McClellan has sent a letter to Governor Brad(ord, of Maryland, in reply to his communica- Son veferring to the services of the army in that Pirate at the recent battles. The Gencral’s letter Bb wodest, but warm and appreciative of the flat- Sering terms employed by the Governor towards @he Army of the Potomac. Information has been received in Washington hat the rebels have evacuated Winchester, and ere falling back on Gordonsville. The rumors circulated here yesterday conceriing the proposi- tions for peace emanating from Jeff. Davis are proved to be based upon forgeries of General Lee’s signature. The story of the supersedure of Gene- rat McCleilan ia his command turns out also not to be worthy of any consideration. Our flotilla on the Lower Potomac have made seme extensive captures recently of rebels and contrabaud goods while the rebel vessels were eadeavoring to cross from Virginia to Maryland. Despatches from Cincinnati state that Brigadier General Jeff. C. Davis, who recently shot General Nelson at Loutsville, has been placed in command of the Union forces in Covington, Ky. Humphrey Marshall is said to be retreating from Mount Ster- ling towards East Tennessee, with a force of 3,000 men. Our troops were in pursuit. General Bragg is moving threugh Cumberiand Gap, and General Buel! is lying with his main army at Crab Orchard. The Richmond papers admit the compleie failure of General Bragg to accomplish anything im Kentucky. The Whig says that bis attempt was “‘a complete fizzle.’ Thus by rebel autho- rities themselves the utter defeat of two of their generale—Van Dorn in Missivsippi and Bragg in Kentucky—is acknowledged. The captain of the schooner Francis Kl:ncre, which was seized on the 7th inst. by the rebels and burned oft lower Cedar Point on the Poto- mac, who arrive] here yesterday, states that while coming down the river he positively saw the rebe} steamer Merrimac No. 2 with steam up and evidently very nearly if not quite completed. ‘The frames of two other iron-clads and two gun- Voats were in a forward state at the same place. ‘The condition of Nashville up to the Sth inst. is eurately described a in our correspondence to. day. Cat off from all supplies for a month or more, | Ma ourrounded by gueriilas, General Negley held goud his position, and on two or three occasions made successful attacks on the enemy, destroying @ rehgl eainp fourteen miles outside the city, ir ergne, and otherwise weakening the power the hesiegers, Our later news from North Carolina is very ivteresting. A successfal trip was made np the Vouge river by the Union forces, and at the same tine a oumber of recruits were obtained for the : vents of the North Carolina Union volunteers. sis fact gives strong evidence of the rapid return of the State into the Union. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A large, onttential, enthusiastic and most im- portent meeting of the democratic masses of vstyn was held last evening fn the Academy 6. Mut), Montague street, at which Mr Samuel resident of the Hudse River Railrcad, 4 One Of the reselutior “areaigned and \ foudly cheered and ak ‘The first spain Mier a few remarks by the President—was the Hon. Horatio Seymour. He declared that the cvents of the last few weeks had essentially | changed the relationship of the democratic party to the government, and that that party was now the “master of the situation.” An allusion in his speech to the Governor of Massachusetts brought down hisses for Governor Andrew, while another allusion to General Mo- Ciellan brought dowa rounds of applause. Mr. Seymour was followed in hia speoch by Mr. John Van Buren, who declared that he had never aup- | ported a candidate with more satisfaction than he | should support Mr. * the proclamation of the 7 President | peavy, but without omracipa dag the sinvos, ond thie renslution was 1 eugagemems wore 1nde: ate, Seymour, Still he had, fol- lowing the suggestion of an intelligent and sa- gacious editor, recently proposed, with Mr. Seymour's concurrence, that both candidates for the Governorship should withdraw in. favor of General Dix. He denounced General Wads- worth as an open, bitter, malignant enemy of General McClellan, and gave as his authority for that atatement Commissary General Welsh, of th’s State. If General Wadsworth had not changed his views in regard to his superior officer, then he was ® traitor and deserved a gibbet more richly than Jefferson Davis himself. In regard to Gen. Scott's letter to Mr. Seward, he said that the mode of his obtaining it was a secret, and that a most acoomplished and cultivated lady was helping him to keep the secret, As tothe statement made in the Evening Post in regard to his dining in the club room at the same table with General Scott, the day when he read that letter at the Cooper Institute, he declared it to be a false statement of a private conversation made by Charles King, of Columbia College, the only man in the United States who ever assailed a dead woman—Mrs, General Jackson. He (Mr. Van Buren) was but a private in the ranks; but, if he had command of the army and ever got to Rich- mond, he would say, “Gallant Greeley, advance! Forward, the black brigade! Penetrate to- the heart of South Carolina, and stay there forever.'’ He declared it as his opinion that, if there should be an attempt to make this a war for the abolition of slavery, and to arm the brutal helots of the South, it would be the highest duty of European nations, as civilized and Christian nations, to in- terfere. The last speaker was Mr. David Floyd Jones, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, There were also speeches made at the outside meetings. Yesterday the new arrangement respecting the delivery of postal currency was put in opera- tion. The amount delivered to city banks, how- ever, was not large enough to give much relief, only $600 being furnished to each bank. The banks out of town desirous of obtaining the currency were even less fortunate than those in the city, the largest sum furnished to any one of them be- ing only about one hundred dollars. At this rate the relief which it was intended the new ar- rangement would afford will be long in being felt, The Committce of the Board of Aldermen on Railroads met at two o'clock yesterday, Alderman Boole in the chair. The Clerk read the resolution directing inquiry to be made as to the number of cars run by the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, what number they paid licevse for, and by what au- thority the company had extended its track to Fif- ty-niuth street. The Clerk replied, in answer to a question trom the Chu iriman, that the company paid license for thirty-six cars, and they ran forty. and that they paid ticenses for twenty-one small cars, while they were running thirty-one. The Chairman directed the Clerk to notify the President of the Sixth Avenue Railroad relative to the subject, and to state that the committee would meet again on Friday to consider the business. A petition was submitted from six hundred and fifty residents of the Twelfth and ‘Twenty-second wards, above Fifty-ninth street and Eighth avenue, praying for an extension of the Eighth avenue road to Eighty-second street. Mr. J.P. Paullison, a resident of the vicinity in ques- tion, advocated the prayer of the petitioners. He said that the city authorities held the grant, and could compel the company to perform all the oblf- gations they were under to the public. There was alarge travel now .up the avenue to look at the new reservoir, and he thought it would pay the company to run up there. The prineipal point was to get them under some rule of the Common Council. They had promised to lay the track, but had not done so. Mr. Law told him they were only waiting for iron to do the work. He thought the cars could be run to Eighty-fifth street; but the company could not be compelled to run further than Eighty-second. After receiving some other papers, which were laid over until next meeting, the committee adjourned to Friday next, at two o'clock P. M. The city of Brookiya requires about eight hundred volunteers to compiete its quota of nine months men, and in order to raise these without resort tothe draft the Common Council on Monday appropriated one hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars, to be given in bounties of one hundred dollars to each volunteer. The bounties now paid in Brooklyn to all who enlist for nine months service are as follows:— City bounty. County bount Government bot Ward bounty. Private. The great speciality of this day’ seventh of the Booksellers’ Association, will be the photographic albums, The sale opens with several small miscellaneous invoices. Brockett's list of agricultural books, &c-, comes next in order followed shortly after,by Fortune's military bocks. Tilton & Co., of Boston, offer several varieties of photographic albums, followed by Davidsen and Bradburn, both ef this city, with the same spe- ciality. McKnight & Rutter, of Philadelphia, have a splendidly improved style of the same article, of which they offer thirty-nine varieties. Roberta, of Boston, and Miller & Burdock, have also several varies and Ryan, of New York, hase long list of the enme. Stationery invoices close the day's sale. The Mathews homicide case occupied the atten, tion of the Court of General Sessions during the whole of yesterday. Several witnesses were exa- mined for the defence, and the counsel for the prisoner made an eloquent appeai to the jury, to secure for his client a verdict of justifiable homi- cide. The case will be given to the jury to-day. ‘Stocks were frm yesterday, and (bd Eries were two per cent and the Michigan one per cent higher, A vote of the Stock Exchaage having decided that gold shall not be called at the bourd after Monday next, gold fuctnated from 134 down to 129, and again ap to Exchange sold in the morning at 146)g 8 147%. Money was worth S percent, The Persia took out a millon. Nearly all articles of produce fluctuate, more or joss, daily, with the rise OF depression in gold and steriing ex chong®, or, porhaps more properly speaking, with the vary ing value of the currency, indicated by the fluctua. tions in goidand oxchange, When the latter rive, flour, wheat, corn, pork, tec , rise with them, and when (hey decline the latter go down with them—so that pro ducers of there articios, when gold and exchange ait vance, May be convilered gainers, avd wier rersa when Urey fall, ‘Die cotton ket forms no exception to this Tule, though lees nffectet from the scarcity of the aryicle in market. The sales yesterday embraged abt 3.500 Vales, closing firm on the basis of G1%0. a 62c. per Ib: for middling uplands, establishing au alyance uf 1 Qe. per Ih., equal to $6 75 a $0 per baie, Flour, in Consequence of the improvement in gold and atorting went up from Ie, a 2c. per bb! Wheat, from the same Cause, advanced from 96. 4 #6. por huchet Corn, under the same influence, advanced tc. a y per bushel. Tork was also better, and wold at ir a § for mes@ and at $120 $12 26 for prime, signi® wore frm, with more doing, The miles enibraved abuee any hhds. Coflee was firm at Qe fer Rio, Trewmbts we henge of Ce The Real ‘rantae of the Late Eice- tio Many aro puzzled to anderstand the true meaning of the recent elections. Some think they indicate a desire to put an end to the war without accomplishing the legitimate ob- ject for which it was undertaken. But such is not the fact; for when Mr. Lincoln announced his policy in his fmeugural, and afterwards roiterated itin his call for 975,000 men, to en. force the laws of the Union and to vindicate the constitution, he was sustained by the unani- mous voice of the people, without distinction of party; and it seemed as if all old party lines had been effaced, and that there was but one party in the loyal States, and that a war party, in favor of putting down the rebellion by force of arms, but in a manner in accordance with the constitution, and without reference to slavery or any other of the domestic institutions of the rebellious States. Never was there so enthusi_ astic an uprising of a nation to maintain its constitution and“ its territorial integrity. Upon this platform of the President every- thing went on smoothly, and the people were thoroughly uaited, with a few insignifi- cant exceptions, which did not weigh more than tho dust in the balance. To add strength, if possible, to this unanimity, Congress endorsed the President's ‘platform and passed a resolution accurately defining the objeots of the war, strip. ping it of all extraneous questions and confining it strictly to the suppression of the rebellion by force of.arms. Every idea of meddling with the domestic institutions of the South was repudi- ated. Matters proceeded harmoniously, and the enthusiasm of a united people for the war con- tinned unabated, notwithstanding the defeat at Manassas and other disasters to the federal arms, The trouble only commenced with the intro duction into Congress last winter of the radical measures which were equally a departure from the platform laid down by Mr. Lincoln and the resolution adopted by the national legislature itself in the extra seasion of the previous July. The radicals concluded, from the victories in the Southwest, the capture of Somerset, Bowling Green, Fort Donelson and Columbus, that the rebellion had received a mortal blow, and that, breaking faith with the people and with the volunteers, they could now safely open the abolition budget and produce their programme of confiscation, emancipation, the redaction of sovereign States to Territories, and such other extreme and unconstitutional measures. But what was the effeot? It was twofold. In the South, the rebellion, which had been nearly crushed, was suddenly revived, and the whole population were forced to arms. The seces" sionists triumphantly claimed to be true pro- phets. The republican party falsified its own platform, adopted at Chicago before the election—a platform which utterly re- jected the notion that the federal power could, under any circumstances, meddle with slavery in any State in which it existed by the will of the people thereof. The seces- sionists were now in the ascendant, and whatever Union sentiment openly avowed itself or seoretly lurked in the South was over- whelmed. In the North the effect was equally damaging. The wedge of division was insert- ed, and every blow which drove it nearer home widened the breach, till now at length the people are again split inte two entago- nistic sections, and the party war cry is raised once more. Not only is this the case, but the majority of the people are opposed to the radi-. cal policy, as is demonstrated by the October elections, and will be further demonstrated by the elections in November. Even the republi- can States, which gave such large majorities for the republicans, are now arrayed against the radicals by still larger majorities. The elections are not an expression of the popular will against the war, but against the conditct of the war—not in favor of secession, but against the radicalism which has ruled rampantly in Congress, and has awaye@ the councils of the Cabinet, led on by one or two of its members. The Cabinet went on very well for @ time, each member attending to his legitimate sphere, till Mr. Chase, neglect- ing the financial affairs of the nation, embarked in the war business, and, by his intrigues with other members of the administration, succeeded in controlling the campaign, the generals, the naval operations in the Chesapeake and James river, and even the results of battles. He caused McClellan’s army to be so divided that success was next to impossible. But whena ehance offered he baffled it. His brother-in-law, McDowell, was under his influence; and we see the result at the second Bull run battle. McClel- lan was not reinforced, and the opportunity for taking Richmond was deliberately thrown away, Decause it was no part of the programme to have it captured at that time, and by @ conservative general, whom the people might ¢ake into their heads to make next President. What matters it that thousands of Union heroes died in vain among the swamps of Chickalominy, if only the radical game was promoted” The conse- quence of Mr. Chase thus neglecting his proper business and meddling in the policy and man- agement of the war is the financial depression, which has made a paper dollar in a poor man’s pocket only worth about six shillings, and has seriously impaired the national credit. The result of the elections in Ohio, his own State, is the most emphatic comment on the course of Secretary Chase. Thus the twofold blunders in statesmau- ship and finance bad nearly ruined the country, aud the people, alarmed for ite safety, have recorded their protest at the ballot box. This is the meaning of theielections, and they teil Mr. Lincoln em- phatically that be cannot retrace his steps a moment too soon. Let him escape from the contracted, dangerous platform on which he now stands, and return to the security of bis own. The people will sustain him. Let him abandon the cockboat of the radicals if he would save himself from being swamped, and let him go back immediately to the good old ship from which he has been forced by the fanatics. She will weather the storm after the other con” cern has goue to the bottom with all on beard There is no safely outside the ark of the consti- tution when the swelling waves of popular wrath shall have rolled mo ins bi Let re nee “ ? the President stick to the ai safety will be assured, while those who abandon her for other devices will repent when it is too late. Let him never give up the ship. Maxine a O18an Jon ov Ir, Creeley, Ray mond and Godwin. the chief editors of those radical abolition organs, the Tribune, Times and Post, was my done the republican party all the harm they coved with their pens, bave now hue i baronies a rrew gape tand ken to the qrtump. Tais wit as Wr the dewo- ee NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1862. crats; for these vadical editors have lost this State to Wadsworth by their articles, and will now largely increase Seymour's majority by tueir speeubes. If there ia any one thing nore dangerous to party than having Greeley, God- win aud Raymond write for it, certainly it is having Greeley, Godwin and Raymond speak for it. If there is any one thing more disa- greeable than reading those editors’ articles, it muat be hearing their orations. A Forward Movement of the Army—Ne Time to be Lost, The next two or three woeks may decide the question whether our magnificent Army of the Yotomac will be still lingering, with the return of spring, on the banks of that Lethean river, or pushing after the last armed forces of the rebellion in the dismal, swamps of South Caro- lina. Let General McClellan be detained two or three weeks longer, waiting for shoes and costs, and provisions and munitions of war, and the rains, frosts and thaws and impassable madholes of the Virginia roads of winter may @gtain him till the winds of March and the sun- ahine of “April have sufficiently dried the ground for the movement of artillery and provision trains, But let kim be promptly equipped for @ speedy advance upon the rebel army of General Lee, and that army may be cut up and dispersed, and ours may, without further interruption of any moment, push on to Richmond, and thence into North Carolina, betore the first fall of anow in that quarter. At all events, the defeat of Lee will open our way to Richmond, if we catch him and defeat him in the valley of Virginia’ and will enable General McClellan to establish his winter quarters in the rebel capital, and send the rebel government adrift “without a local habitation or a name.” Our occupation of Richraond before Christ- mas, we verily believe, will be the death blow to the rebellion, not only in Europe, but in our cotton States, from a popular reaction therein in favor of submission to the Union, in order to Save their cotton and their institution of slavery. With the loss of their Confederate capital, their Confederate scrip will be worth- less trash even in Charleston; and thus, without provisions or clothing for their armies, and without money, or any satisfactory substi. tute in the way of paper or credit, our already impoverished Confederate cotton States must give up the hopeless struggle. They can- not sustain a Confederate tax of twenty per cent upon the incomes and prodnots of their people, in addition to the terrible drawbacks and losses from an inyasion by our armies in- land and our fleets from the seaboard. But if we permit these golden days of autumn to slip away, and our Army of the Potomac to be embargoed by winter, we may have another year of war before us, and all the disastrous consequences of @ financial revulsion may bo added to the present heavy burthens and draw- backs attendant upon all our business relations. A defeat of the rebel army of Virginia within the next two or three weeks, a crushing do- feat, which our splendid Army “of the Potomac is competent to administer, wili lft us at once to our feet, and speedily bring gold and silver again into circulation and confidence into all our business affairs. To the government alone, in a financial view, a deci- sive victory over the rebel army of Virginia within the next thirty days will be worth a thousand millions of dollars, as compared with the detention of ourarmy on the Potomac till compelled to go there into winter quarters. We are assured that Gen. McClellan is anxious to advance. We know that his army is, and we have no doubt of its success if it should advance to-day and compel the enemy to fight or retreat The delay, we are told on every band, gs on account of the slowness or bad management of the Quartermaster’s and Commissary depart- ments at Washington. But this will never do Mr. Secretary Stanton should understand that his responsibilities in this business involve the life or death of the nation, and we ad- monish him of the wrath of an offended people in the event of his failure at this important crisis to meet their just expectations. Let him see to it that all the necessities of our Army of the Potomac are supplied at once, 0 that in a speedy victory all the advantages of our recent successes may be multiplied « thousandfold Letushear no more that “the Potomuc is safely guarded;” but let us hear that the rebel army is routed, and wa shall know that the Union is saved. Generar. Svorr's Lerren—Me. Bocsanan’s Imeecintry anv Cowanrmice.—The temarkable exposition from General Scott, in vindication of his patriotic course in anticipation of this rebellion, throws a flood of light upon the trembling imbecility and truckling cowardice of Mr. Buchanan during the last dark six months of his most wretched administration. There is nothing in all history to compare with it in grovelling servility, fear and obedience, by the head of # great nation, to a little knot of insolent and threatening traitors. Had the suggestions and appeals of General Scott, from October, 1860, to January, 1861, in behalf of strong garrisons in our Southern forts, been adopted by President Buohanany he could have crushed this great rebel- lion in the bud, as General Jackson nip. ped the nullification experiment of South Carolina of 1832-33. But Mr. Buchanan was cajoled by Floyd, humbugged by Thompson, bullied by Cobb, threatened by Mason, com- manded by Slidell, and frightened out of his wits to do all their offices of treason blindly, without a why or a wherefore, only asking that his own precious bones might be spared, and that the fearful work of actual war might be deferred until the end of his creeping aud cring ing administration This letter of General Scott, with its valuabie memoranda and their dates and specifications, clinches the nail of Mr. Buchanan's shameful moral cowardice and asnivelling dotage. His responsibility for this war will follow bim threngh « thousaud generations, in darkened eontrast with the shining pu'ciotiaw of General Seott Waoswonrn's = Wrrasitawan.—~We expect every day to hear that General Wadsworth has torned patrio! and gracelully withdrawa bim- self from the politionl cor lest in this State. We have it upon the reliable authority of John Van Buren that Seymour fa ready to withdraw whenever Wadsworth does. This affords Wars, worth a splendid opportunity to distinguish himself a thousandfold more than be bas aver done since te donned a brigadier general's uniform and started for the wary. Let him funmortatize himself by withdrawéy ia favor of { Goveral Dx, and Seymour will andowhtedly + to dow Mis example, Tht 6° alot hays 4 good o- Governor withont the untimely conflict of po- NEWS litiewl parties if Mr. Wadaworth insists upon running, however, it ia now more than likely that the people will think as menanly of him as be thought and talked of McClellan, and will vote accor dingly. _ A Morvan. Apmizarion Souery.—The tan- ner in which certain members of the New York bar bedaub themselves and each other with fulsome praises naturally disgusts all sensible people. In a recent important case in our courts, one of the counsel forthe defendant was subjected to this puffery ad nauseam. The counse! for the plaintif? bepraised the leading counsel for the defendant. The junior counsel for the defendant devoted a large portion of his long spoec): to a description of the merits of this leading counsel. Then this leading coun- sel made a eplendid oration about himself, and seemed to forget all about his client. The counsel for the plaintiff again loaded the de- fendant’s counsel with extravagant enlogy, and then the case was given to the jury. After the verdict against the defendant was rendered the counsel for the plaintiff apologized for having referred in his speech to the case of a. certain noble English lady, as he had been informed that his learned friend on the other side was an intimate of both the noble lady aforesaid and her husband, Then the legrned gentleman, the counsel for the defeudant, accepied this apology, and related 9 few incidents of his familiarity with the noble English lady aforesaid, and added & few more elegant extracts from his autobjo" graphy. Now, what had all this to do with the trial? What possible interest had the court and jury in these personal reminisvences? What was this noble lady to the counsel for the de- fence, or the counsel for the defence to this noble lady, that he should speak in open court of her intimacy with him? What right has any lawyer to consume valuable time with sucb trash? If it be intended for an advertisement, it works the wrong way, and loses the gentle- man ia question ten clients where it gains him one. Tu Democratic Nommexs ror Conaress.—- We have already received several replies from democratic nominees for Congress to our in- quiry whether or not they are in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and will sup. port the President in all practical measures for putting down the rebellion by force of arms We desire to publish all the replies before long, and the nominees should prepare them for us as quickly a3 possible. The question is a plain and simple one, and the answer need not be loug or argumentative, and must not be sophis- tical or quibbling. We shail support uo candi- date for Gongress who does not reply to this question in the affirmative. Let us kuow, then, gentlemen, will you or will yon not support the President in all practical measures for puttiag down the rebellion by force of arms? We notice that Colonel J. McLeod Murphy bas been aominated by the democrats of the Kighth Congressional district against Anson Herrick, who alvo cinims 4 bea democrat. The conservative yates of ‘ighth district had better fiviie Herrick * tt, and unite upon and elect Colonel Sica The political record of “Deacon” Herrick is perfectly familiar to us, and it is by no meaus a respectable one. We very much doubt whether the Deacon would like to see our political log overhanled and our knowledge of his proceedings fully givea to the public. If he runs for this office, however, we may find it necessary to expore hii ashe deserves, and he will then discover that he hus sianed tov deeply to be fit for anything but an editor of «scurrilous Sunday paper. As for Colonel Murphy's record, it ix most clear and honorable. He has raised a fine regiment, and is now fighting gallantly for his country. Uf he shall be elected to Congress, he will do aothing to injure and everything to benefit and maintain the goveroment for which he has risked bis life: Tae Derear ov tak Rameats tue Derkar or Jevy. Davis.—The force of the axiom that “ex tremes tou was never more strikingly exem- plified than in the origin aad conduct of the present war. Provoked by the fierce sectional- ism and criminal ambition of the fire-eaters oa the one side and by the rabid fanaticism of the abolitionists on the other, it has had but one aim, one object, on the part of both-.the disruption of the Union and its permanent division into two confederacies. The North- ern radicals have pretended to be in car- nest in aiding the government to put down the rebellion; but their acts have always be- lied their professions. The course pursued by their newspaper organs and their party, in the Cabinet os well as in Congress, has tong wince removed ail doubt as to their pur- pose. By obstructing the financial meas- ures of the government, by stopping en- listmenta at a time when they would have placed us in @ position to promptly crush out the rebellion, and by assailing aud try- ing to remove every Union general whoin they believed to be earnestly laboring to that ond, they have promoted the plans of the rebel leaders as offeotually as if they were avited in 8 common league with them. It is the convic- tion that has gained ground that they are strug- gling for the aame object—the permanent separa- tion of the two sections—that has aided in pro- ducing such a violent reaction against them, and that has led to the recent democratic triumphs in Ohio, Iowa, [ndiana and Pennsylvania. These gains are to be regarded not merely as victo- ries over our Northern radicals, bat over Jeff, Davis, They are intended to prove to both that the country is determined that the war shall now be vigorously prosecuted to 4 close, and that the President will be sustained against all the factions influences that may be i used to deter him from thy ceomplishment of hia pats the Hebel Steamer Alabama. { i i irom the New Bedford Mercury, Get 20.1 onepit TO WHOM CREDIT is KK, The sail description of the reboi steamer Alubal which appeared in the Naw Yous (teas of bevtay was drawn up by Captains (ifMoed wed Viton » of 6 harks bisha Duobar aud et IID, OF Ease port whom were on board the Atal , ane tude use of thor eyes “ ut wae @riiten out by throm oo board ty Keretain. The Hemant wes oredit for th Hagar, of the AN igat, whro wae La cnty. ae the privatecr, at tw Feeip oy aera handet their dlatement bo be communiented Go tke prere of (he chewmesr dlaberneee was givens bo | y Captnin Hogar, fie saying Hat it wun the} nod Virginia, of Now tedrord, ther wate on board te Abe we the Viele (ine de wae ay i —o weveral Yay | bana, sod his own ¢ | Ward, 1% wan no hte tntemtion af the Titrare or | Hagar in detenct from any Srmdys due ter Capremune Giftored wk teke aod jutey and Tiiton for Ure observation (bey jon thay had given cod peotiag the pirate, (From the Now Radiord Standard.) fe AP ARAMA AND Tite 200 Cantain Giltord fe eraly Of Cie opptgrane Cad Ue urns ant Bo AEA ME The BAT VOSAOL, AE He /rayts heard the crew of the Alabane speaking of Use ihe Oviate. Somes of the sowapapere takww (rot ‘iy Fa han, oungarned ue ue ey fe icoksits Lite Mobile, and an hewcing I road tie, @ ow 4 De Alabaawa trey Chr e909 Hr Ms a mat aa | grunts ClaMnINg eXEMpCiOn ape theretore o | gears. The last —Maria Redocta fuses ab interest ia) ong child of seven years of ages and he. hevaaved Adnmient and bie Cumtly i Uboie wore amet in “tor duenroly happons (tet the hap # motion w ae fc FROM M'CLEWAW'S ARTY, Successfal Reronnoissauce sato Loudos County, Va.—Sharp Skirmish with the Enemy—Rout of Rebel Caveatry—Cap. ture of Prisomers and Horses, &., Se Hanren's Fenmy, Va, Get, 22, 1802 A reoonnoissance was made yesterday, under the com woand of General Geary, with a strong force, into Lowter county, Virgiata, which was yvory snevossful The force consisted of the First vrigndo of Genera Geary’s division, composed of the Filth, seventh apo Staty-sixth Ohio and Twoaty-cighth Peonsylvania rogi ments, under the command of Colona C, Candy, of the Sixty-sixth Obie; the Second vrigade, composed of the One Hundred and Seoond and Ove Hundred and Elevoutt New York, Third Maryland and Ome Hundred and Nintk Peunsy)vania regiments, under the command of Colosa Handcoker; Knapp’s Pennsylvania hattery, and @ detach ment of the Sixth New York cavalry. Tho enomy was cucountered at Glenmore, a abort dis tauce beyoad Hillsboro, where a sharp skirmish too Place, resulting in the rout of the rebel cavalry and the capture of @ number of prisoners Continuing their march, thoy reached Waterford, and from thence pro ceeded to Lovettaville, returning early this morning. in the skirmishes the cavairy behived magnificently + and were vory effective, The battery was also brought into action, and did good service Colonel Candy's bri- gate kept up with the artillery and cavalry ull day, max. ing 2 mareh of twenty-one miles without any stragglin; fvom the ranks, ‘The expedition resulted in the capture of seventy-five prisoners, including a number of officers. Among thé iatter were Captains Grubb and Everton. Une prisouer who was wounded, was re'o so tnis morning oa parvle. ‘Phirty good horses w~io also captured, A great many ci'izens wero algo brought in, most o: whom have been giving information of cur movements to he cnemy. Seyera! of thom have in thoir posgession government property tukcn from Harper's Ferry. The rebel forge ip that section is evidently quite ‘seaall, thongh expeditions are geat up there by them almoat daily after forage, of which there is @ great abundance. ‘The prisoners are roughly but warmly clothed, and took ts if propared for cold weathor, though the haggard ap pearance of most of them indicates that they have euf- fored great hardships. Quo rebel cavalry company, which was commanded by Captain Grabb, is entirely broken up, nearly everyemam being @ prisoner in our hands. One of thoir dead, killed during the skirmish, was buried by our mea this morning. Colonel Diven, who commanded the cavalry, ceosived & bail through his coat sieeve. Lienteuant Colona! Mo- Vicker had bis horse shot under him. Our casualties were. KIGLED. Private William Murray, Co. A, 6th New York cavalry, Orderly Sergeant Fine Goer ‘6th New York cavalry. Privae Tomphius, Go. C, ehowidar dislocated by @ Call from his horse Another Reconnoissance-~Anticipatea Rebel Raid—Promotion of Lieutenant Powers—Trouble Respecting the Enlist- ment of Volunteers im the Regulas Army, &ec. Heanguasrers, ARMY oF Tam Potomac, Oct. 22, 1868. Yesterday two"companies of the ‘Tenth Maine returned from @ reconnoissance over the river, opposite Kaos ville, bringing with them several prisonors aud a number of horses Night before last information was received indicating that the enemy contemplated » raid upon Kuoxville- Cousiderabie alarm prevailed for a timo; but tho removal of the stores, and the ho?ses aad mules from the corea! to a 10ss oxposed position, together with the arrival of « body of troops, quieted the fcars of the citizens. Should the rebels attempt such @ raid they. will moot withe warai reception. & Lieutenant H. W. Powers, of Gguore! *eubiotion’s stadt. as been promoted to tbo rank of Captain, for moritoriows agryicoagin the field, and in the organization of the Army Trine Poleatd Saptal pabanbendboedyscre 4 enzasement since§the capture of Yorktown, and only received the notice of the press, but has elicited fre quent commendations frem hie superiors for bis gallantry. ‘the order of the Secretary of War permitting Volas- tevrs to leave their regiments and eulist Io the regular service, without first obtaining the consent of their of@- cers, is occasioning a great deal of dissatisfaction. makes many of the privates unruly ahd reckless, aa ‘hey escape punishment im many cases by threaten- iw, w lwave ther regiment. Recruits who bare got only received their State and county bounties, bes sums of trom twouty-five to seventy-five dollars im pri- vale bounties from friends of the regimonis in which they frst eulisted, havo joined the regular cavalry, leae- ing the commands for which thoy were recruited minus both money and men. In some of the regiments the ofiwers are already proparing their resignations, their companies having beon reduced from their full quota to more skeletons. ‘The apparent comparative suporiority of comfors and position in the cavalry service t tho rea” son (or the stampede from the infantry. The matter ia bo comming a serious evil, and must be attended to mme- dinioly Movements of the Opposing Armics—Visit of General McClellan to General Fits John Porter's Corps. Skakesnure, Md., Oct. 22, 1863. There has been a considerable increase of the rebel forces at the right of our line pear Havcock. This has caused @ strengthening of our forces in that direction. it hax Leen stated by @ prisoner taken during tho late reconnotssances, that the enemy hrvo not moro than twenty (Rousaod troops at any singh point ia Virginiay Tho extent of our itnes obliges the euewy to distribute lus forces, and preveuts their coucentraviou et aay par ticulny pointe, A laigo number of soldiers found in Sharpsburg withows passes have been arrested and seat to Harper's Kerry to labor on the public works there, Yoaterday Gonceal McCietiaa paid. s visit to (he corps of General Fitz John Porter, Ho wasreccivod mont ou" thsiagtically by the soldiers. The Victories in Maryland. LETTER FROM ORN. M’CLELLAN TO GOVERNOR BRAD- FORD, OF MARYLAND, Haavquartens ARMY OF THR Potomac, Pusasant Vaio, Md., Oct. 18, 1862. } To His ) Bxooliency A.W. Branvory, Goveruor of Mary fand ceralnes aye the bonor to ackvewledge the receipt of your Excelle: order of September 29, in which you advert in such flattering torms to the conduct of thin army im the recent battles fought upon the soil of your state. [twas with the utmost pride and gratification that I received this most prompt acknowledgment of the skill of (he officers nod gallantry of the mem of the Army of the Potowac. We felt it ait the more deeply because Mt emanated (rom the Kxecutive of a State whose inbabitants bad witoeased our efforts, and whose elds were revcued from the trader, Your prawe wilt stimu yate this army to renowed efforts in the sucred cause o tne Union, Permit me, Governor, ia the name of we Army of the Povomae, to thank you for your apprerintion of tte vie tories, With the sincere hope and belief that ne robe army shail again pollute the loyal “tate of Maryland, ans committing to you as a sacred trast the re: of owr gatlant comrades who now cost houea'h Its suit, Tam, Goversor, with lng respect, your obedient ser CRORGE 1H. MECLELLAN, vans, Major Gonerat, U.S. A the Deut ta Frederiek Cou , Ma. Frenne, Md, Oot, 2a, 1462 Gov Bradierd, upon the report of the commiatione: appointed to investigate Une chaayes of corrupdou It the water of Maing CxOMptiOn gortificates, Nw dectared auld dovtificntos nol! and volt. The citizens of Prederiok fed to ap pear at Frederick on Monday next for re-examination Pour phy sichans wii bo seve ap here to eoodwet the ty. exmm ination expeditieusiy # that the dgalt may take | place as once. Omitaaey. ADMIRAL POOR! 3 TCH CH PRES. Weare gatied upon to cooont Lie deayla of another ohiy of fear Adtnifal Nuote, Uinieed States Navy, Uae, died sity The short Spee of six ciomthe ‘The seeand-. Verily Froderica Hortesltet on te 14th inst, aged & 0 tues to te Ayealy wortawstrivken Traliy will be alms a coasting ow Tha aymyathy af the whole eouutry wih be with unt OF deatte 6 ao heavy auhew one Partly eirele #0 shofl a sauce OF Lim, Yi tha gory and revowr, ao well earned, and bby pro Toll: wed, wuld be gbetiy dheovwen walie by eOybt fe but Pool but one af hie chittd 07 ree rata Chiat ee 0%, ate Dg Powe HE antes» ve Hee will of Piha oo FS 2) eg, Dedevine ine an es vue gailans #