The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1862, Page 4

ry NEW YORK HERALD. OPFICEN. W. CORNES OF FULTON AND NaSSa0 STS, Wodwme XVM... cccseeccseeee see Mle BOT “AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Lavr or Lyons. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Bosom Farmnos, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Rowzo anv Jutist. LAURA KEENF’S THEAT! Bae Wioxep—Convca Love. WEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bo Hf Pass, ran Eursosate—Uve 0, _Rewerr—Cusvee Dovat. BOWERY THEATRE, Magic Picis—Banpit Or tax Broadway.—No Rasr ron PROGRESS OF 4 SCaMr— mR. QERMAN OP) HOU P. BRA HOUSE, 685 Broadway.—Jaan DE KNUM'S AMERICAN MUSKUM. Broadway.—Cotor- ao tuoriose Fisu, &¢., stall hours. Pavvaxrra, afternoon end evening. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. BRY, MINSTRE: ; ax Bonas, Bc eLusquus, Dances, &0.—Tas k HRIGADE. . CHRISTY’S 0" ERA HOUSE, 685 Broadway. PAR Bowas, Dawons, £0. re Jaren ae WOOD'S MINSTREL roadaray.—Eraroriam Bones, Dances, £0.—Ws Aut BELONG to THE UNION Axny. HOPE CHAPEL No. 780 Broadway.—Exaisition oF ‘Tiewwii's CarivoRnias HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND ureet “Somos, Dances: Humuasauas do) TAM Canal GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Daawixa Bxrertainments, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. roadway, = Open daily froml0 A. M, till 10 P.M Ree HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! Bonds, Daxces, Burixsauus. Ac. Brooklyn. <Ermortan _New York, Monday, October 27, 1862, THE SITUATION. The news from the different points of the theatre of war is devoid of much interest to-day. The rebels paid @ visit, a hundred and fifty stroug, to Manassas Junction on Friday, and at- tacked a body of our men numbering only eighty. Our troops retreated with the loss of fifteen men 8nd two officers taken prisoners. Capt. Conger, of the Third Virginia cavalry, with thirty-five men, who had been ona scouting expedition, &nd was on his return, met the same party of re- bels between Catlett's Station and Warrenton. Captain Conger attacked and dispersed this body, Killing several members of the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry and taking two prisoners. In the engage- ment Captain Conger was seriously wounded, and femained on the field overnight, when he was taken in charge by a resident of the neighborhood fod his wounds cared for. His brother, Lieutenant Conger, had captured @rebel major, but while in charge of him was himself capturea and is now a prisoner. The whole loss of Captfin Conger's party in the fight ‘Was one wounded and three prisoners. Captain Dakigren with his force drove in the rebel pickets betwoen Catlett's and Warrenton Janction yester- Gay, oi ‘The army of General McCiellan remains as here- tofoie. No movement has been made at any Point on the Potomac. A scouting party, who re- turned to Sigci’s headquarters on Saturday night, feport that the rebel General Mumford, with a force of 1,500 men, was at Purcellsville, about twelve miles west of Leesburg, on the road to Buicker's Gap. A large patrol of the enemy is at Leesburg, Middlebury and Waterford. It will be acen by a statement inanother column that the State of New York had raised, up to the 23d instant, of her quota, 83,353 men. The whole Ghober to be raised on the 2d of July last, on the Re calls for six hundred thousand, wa: ve por ceut added....... soreceee Total... Number raise Yet to be recruited or drafted........... The intelligence from the West records no change in the position of the armies there. Brig. Gen. Edwin Price, son of Maj. Gen. Price, ef the Confederat army, has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. He was captured mear Warsaw, Mo., last winter, and since thay time has been on parole. He was recently ex. ‘hanged for Gen. Prentice, and after visiting the tebel camp at G enada, Miss., returned to St. Louis. He gives it as his opinion that the rebellion is mearly broken, and that the Confederate army can exist but a short time longer. He visited Gen. Ourtia’ headquarters, and immediately onhis return fesigned his position underthe Richmond govern- ment, gave his commission to Gen. Curtis for the . latter to send through tho lines. After subscrib- ing to the oath of allegiance, he announced his determination to observe it in both letter and epirit. Our correspondence from Tennessee to-day will be found very interesting, containing as it doe: the details of the recent fight at Lavergne, anf a succinct account of the general condition of affairs fm that State. Our extracts from the Southern papers re- lative to the condition of the rebel army are worthy of note. The Richmond Wiig says in regard to @ supply of shoes just sent to the troops:— “These supplies will afford great relief as far as they go, and we only regret they are not ample enough to meet the wants of the entire army. Mauch good will be accomplished, however, if even a@ portion of our barefooted and ragged defenders have shoes put upon their feet and clothing on their backs. Many of them have not change, their clothing since they left Richmond. They have slept in 1t—fonght in it—crossed the Poto- mec in it—marched over dusty rouds and through storm and sunshine in it; yet they have not ohanged it or washed it in all that time, because they had no other to put on when that was taken off. The reader will not be suprised to hear, therefore, that many of the troops are covered with vermin, and their clothing rotten and dirty Deyond anything they have ever seen. There is no negro in Virginia who is not better off, in this re, spect, than some of the best soldiers and first gen- tlomen in all the land.” Predicating ite argument upon these facts, the Whig urges upon the people of the South the duty of contributing supplies to the army. The posi. tion of the rebel army,as represented by this au- thority, is perfectly frightful. ‘The rebel journals appear to be as much in th, dark a8 ourselves concerning the movements of Cen, Bragg. They say that he has fallen back forty miles, towards Cumberland, for the purpose uf procuring subsistence. MISCELLANEOUS NEWs. We lave news from St. Dormuyo dated in St Douiiago City ou the dvth of Septeuber. The coun | try was making rapid ment and the extension of its foreign commerce, under the new rule of Spain. Senor Don Felipe R. y Lomayne, the Captain General, is both enlight- ened and liberal in his views; so that the days of revolutionary movements and pronunciamentos may be said to have ended. The tobacco crop of the north will be twenty per cent in excess of for- mer years, the sugar cane crop is doubled in ex- tent, and great attention was being paid to the cultivation of cotton. The prices of togwood and mahogany had advanced, in oonsequence of the increased demand for labor in the other branches of employment. There would be a very large supply of cotton raised in the colony if suffi- cient hands could be had to attend to the saving of the staple. White immigration of laborers and tradesmen is invited by the government of Spain. St. Domingo City was very gay and greatly im- proved in appearance. The United States Consul was absent, and Mr. Waldomeyer, of Baltimore, discharged the duties of the office, The clipper ship Dreadnought, that Captain Semmes, of the pirate Alabama, was after, arriv- ed in this port yesterday. The hope was express- ed on board the Alabama that she would cap- ture the Dreadnought, as she would make an ex- cellent privateer, on account of -her great speed; but we are happy to state that the wish of the rebels has not been fulfilled. The fine ship Reporter, Captain White, from New York for San Francisco, foundered off Cape Horn about the 20th of August last, and there can- not be much doubt that thirty-two of her crew perished. Colonel John M. Thayer, of the First Nebraska infantry, has been renominated for a brigadier generalship. Colonel Thayer was distinguished for his gallantry at Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing, and for the ranidity of his march from Corinth to Memphis in midsummer. At Pittsburg Landing he commanded a brigade in General Lew. Wallace's division, and was highly praised by the latter for the part he took in the action. He was nominated for promotion immediately afterward; but his non-confirmation was ascribed to the fact that, Nebraska being still a Territory, he had no one in the Sonate to present his claims. With his second nomination, he should this time be con- firmed. e The contest for member of Congress from the St. Louis district of Missouri is quite interesting. The republicans have divided the conservative wing, nominating Frank P. Blair, Jr., and the extreme abolition faction running Samuel Knox. The democrats have made no nomination; but will pro bably bring out a candidate before election. Col. Blair is pretty certain to be successful; though a large vote will be polled against him. Mr. Knox is a native of Massachusetts, and is an abolitionist of the Greeley and Sumner school. The principa; strength on his ticket is with the Germans that have deserted Blair. The election takes place on November 4. The Governor of Pennsylvania has ordered that in all cases where persons who have been drafted and are exempt from military service by positive law, notwithatandizg they did not previously take ont their exemption papers, shall be discharged, and their names stricken from the rolls. ‘ Substitutes are nowy plenty in Paltimore at three hundred dollars erct. General* Woo! |.as announced that mo more paases will be granted to visit Fort McHenry, Two cars on theNorthern Central Railroad, about eighteen miles south of Harrisburg, were thrown from the track androlled down the embankment on the 24th inst. Some fifteen of the passen- gers were severely injured. During a gale on the 22d inst. two barges, com. posing the tow of the steamboat Ethan Allen, on Lake Champlain, parted their hawsers, and sunk off Point of Rocks, carrying down five men. A number of other vessels had their deck loads swept off. Suow fell in Burlington, Vermont, on the 22a inst. Lewis Wetzel, a member of the Western Virgi. nia Legislature, and editor of the Point Pleaeaut Ktegister, was shot dead by John Hall, President of the late Western Virginia Con - iutional Conven- tion, at Point Pleasant, Virginia, on the 234 inst, An offensive article had appeared in the Register against Mr. Hall. General Jeff. C. Davis was assigned to the mili. tary command of the fortifications opposite Cincin- nati on the 23d inst. It is reported and believed that our soldiers in Gen. McClellan's army are deficient in drawers socks, overcoats and shoes, and that they cannot make a forward movement without them. Judge Carmichael, of Maryland, has been re- leased from Fort Delaware, and will hold court in his district during the approaching sessions Senator Pearce, of Maryland, is slightly improv- ing in health Seven physicians were drafted in Adams coun ty, Pennsylvania. ‘The five per cent additional isto be added to the entire quota of six hundred thousand men, and not, as stated on Friday, to the Jast oall for three hundred thousand. ‘his will add six, thousand in this State to the quota of one hundred and tweu- ty thousand. ° In consequence of the frequent firing, by rebel “partisan rangers,"’ upon unarmed steamers be- tween Cairo and Helena, Gen. Sherman propcses that prominent secessionists shall accompany the pilots on each steamer, who will take their ices of being shot. John Van Buren, in accepting the invitation to speak at Rome on Friday, telegraphed as fol- lows :— I will attend meeting at Rome. on Friday at two o'clock—if not in Fort Lafayette. JNO. VAN BUREN, 3. Mary Real, convicted of the manslaughter of Peter C. Real, and sentenced by Judge Barnard to the State Prison for two years and six months, was transmitted yesterday morning, by Sheriff Lynch, to Sing Sing. The Sheriff kept her in the City Prison as loug as was consistent with his du- ties. The petitions to the Governor for a remis- sion of her sentence have been numerously sign- ed throughout the city, and it is said that nine of the jurors have already affixed their signatures thereto. The trial of Mr. Albert Horn, merchant, for fit- ting outa slave vessel, is still pending before Judge Shipman, in the United States Circuit Court. Stocks were better on Saturday, the jeading shares be. ing Rock Island and lilinois Central Bi ms fer the time to be neglected by speculators jocks. Pa. cific Mail declined 2% per cont on the reopening of tue Nicaragua route, and Nicaragua Transit sold at 7. Money wag abundant at five per cent. Gold closed at 130% a 131; exchange, 144. The asval trade tables for tho week will be found in the money article. ‘Tho decline tn gold and sterling exchange Saturday had a depressing influence on produce generally, and prices for most descriptions were either lower or at a pavec. ‘The cotton market was less active, and prices favored Purchasers, while sales were confined to about 800 bales, closing chiefly on the busts of 60c. for middting up!ands. ‘The flour market was heavy, and prices declined ‘rom 100. @ 2c, per barrel, and tn some casos, especii|ly of common grades of State nad Westérn, as much as 400, per bbi, was reported, while gales were light and confined mainly to the home trade. Wheat was heavy, lower and Joss active, and closed at « decline of 1c. a 8¢. per bushel. Corn was sgarce, @specially good sound Western mixed, which was firmer and higher, and closed a! O8c, a t0c., with tolerably free sales. Pork was ia fair demand, while prices were lower. Bales of mons wore made at $13.25 © $13 8754, and of prime at $12 19% & $1 25 Sugare were quiet and prices unebanged. Sales wei 0 confined Wo 365 hhds., inctiding Cuba refining goods at 9340. aM %e., with @ email lot Of plain New Ortoana at 9c, and 60 bbis, New Uricans molasses sold at 4% Coffee war firm, but quiot. Freighta in American vosecis were work inged, wotle enprgements were 1) in unw trad vessels raten word wtoaly, with modurate ergs, taco Te tion of the Cabinet. The workings of popular governments are different in different countries. In England, if the course of the Queen’s advisers seems to be heartily disapproved by the majority of the people, they reaign their portfolios and their seats in Parliament,and elther appeal to the country in a new eleotion or give place toa ministry selected from the opposition party: To France, if the opinions of the government and the people become antagonistic, a popular revolution follows—barricades are erected, the arguments of artillery, musketry and the sword are used on both sides, and the govern- ment is cither forced to adopt the people’ views or is supplanted by a new dynasty. Thi* method of reforming their rulers bas been om. ployed by the French people some fifteen or twenty times sinoe the first great revolution of 1789, and constitutes, therefore, a recognized part of the French system of government. In England, then, when the government and the people differ they appeal to the polls. In France they appeal to the sword. In this country the President is elected for four years. At the expiration of that period | either he or the party which has supported him goes before the people and asks for a ronewed lease of office. If the majority of the peoplo are satisfied with and endorse the policy of the ad. ministration, they vote for the candidates of the administration party. If the people are not satisfied, a new party is placed in power. But, however much the people and the administration may be at variance during the President’s term of office, the people cannot force bim to change his policy or resign his position until the next Presidential eiection occurs. Fiven if the administration party were, ‘in the meantime, to be defeated at the polls, and a majority of both houses of Congress were elected pledged to repeal the old and oppose the new administration measures, and to stop the supplies of the government, the President could veto all the acts of Congress, and, under any but the mest extraordinary circumstances, could carry on the government in spite of Con- gress. Practically, therefore, as such ® pro- ceeding on the part of Congress would require @ miraculous combination of majorities, events and coincidences of time and opportunity, there is no provision in our system for obliging the President to adopt or reject any policy at the will of the people. The idea of a serious and dangerous disagreement between the chief executive and the country was never contem- plated by the framers of our government, and such a crisis is indeed moat unlikely, either at this or any subsequent period of our history. But when the President finds that a majority of the people are dissatisfied with his adminis- tration, he has the remedy in his own hands. ‘The members of his Cabinet hold office by*his appointment and oan be dismissed at his pleasure: Such dismissals are of course voluntary with the President; but.they areseldomrefused when a majority of the country imperatively demands them, and are even sometimes granted at the request of a majority of the administration party. Thelast general change of the Cabinct occurred under President Jackson, who, finding one portion of his advisers intriguing with Calhoun and Van Buren with another portion fomenting a political agitation, sent the whole set out of office and replaced them by better men. During a war Ike this, however, these Cabinet changes become the President’s duty as well as his privilege. When the administra- tion bas clearly lost the confidence of the country, our Cabinet should be reconstructed and a new policy inaugurated, just as, under similar circumstances, the ministry would re- sign in England, and the Emperor be deposed in nee. President Lincoln haa a Cabinet which is quite as divided as that dismissed by Geaeral Jackson; and the present Cabinet dis- svusions and contentions injuye, not merely the technical administration party, but the whole country, which is unanimous in support of the Presidert. Members of the present Cabinet differ with each other, with the President and with the people as to the policy to’ be pursued iu prosecuting this war. These members are iatriguing for and against our generals, inter- fering with the conduct of the war and thwart- ing the best devised plans of our military lead- They neglect their own departments to intrude upon the departments of others. They have crippled the efficiency of our army and navy, deranged and mismanaged our finances, and greatly prolonged, embittered and increased the cost in Jife and treasure of this unhappy war. Do a majority of the people demand their expnision from office, and the selection of more competent and patriotic men as the President’s advisers! This question was an issue in the Central States in October, and is an iasuo in the Novem- ber elections which are now being canvassed. If the approaching elections in New York, New Jersey, Maseuchusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ll- linows, Missouri avd Minnesota result in as marked conservative triumphs as those recently guined in /’cunsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, this conservative victory will be intended, and wil! prebably be accepted by the President, a8 a hint to reconstruct the Cabinet. Let the people remember this when they go to the ballot box- ea. If, as we hope and expect, those elections shell reveal a decided conservative majority in most of the loyal States, there is no reason why Prosident Lincoln should not select bis new Ca- binet, as he has his generals, from the honest and able men who belong to the con- rervative, in opposition to the radical abo- lition party. All parties are now in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war. All parties heartily eupport the President. Yhe corservatives have cordially endorsed and assisied President Lincoln in bis arduous labors since bis inauguration in office. They are really more cordial friends of the President than his own political adlerents, who have threatened to depose him, who have slandered his wife and family, who have attacked and ridiculed his endeavors to carry on this war constitu tionally, who have inaliciously intrigued against. him, who have couutermanded his orders and thwarted his plens, aud who have attenipted to ulternately cajgle and bully bim into disre- garding his oath of office by throwing away tho | constitution, and continuing this war without aay other guide but the cruel caprices of an aboli- tion ininority. A conservative victory and a Gonsei vitive tween the President aad the people, and speefi- ly and gloriously end the war. Voters of the orth, the issue is with you. Tre New Mittrary Rovrs reom Fort Waita- Watta to Forr Benivox.—lu snather columa | will be found an additional interesting account of the construction of a new military road tom Fort Wella-Walla to Fort Lenton, All operations -# NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER. 27, 1862 strides in industrial develop- | The Coming Elections and a Reconstruc- except the war have for the time been for- Gotten by the people; and when the completion of a new military route is announced—oue of Great importance, and one that at any other time would excite the greatest interest—it is, only spoken of asa matter of little moment, and with the wonder how government finds time to carry om other work save that of crush. ing the rebellion. Tt is nevertheless true that groat enterprises, guch as we speak of above, for the purpose of opening new military roads between the East and West, and developing the resources of the country, are being carried on, notwithstanding we are engaged in a war of enormous magnitude. Tho work on public buildings is not neglected; they are being pushed forward with rapidity and energy, and, in fact, much is being done by government, apart from the mere conduct of the war, that receives but little attention at present from the people, but which will, when the war is over, attract their admiratien and wonder that so much could be carried om for the coun- try’s benefit at a time when the war was sup- posed to occupy the attention of all depart- ments of the government. : The Altoona Gubernatorial Convention— Eleventh Hour Polition! Bodge. The radicals are still sorely troubled, and are wincing under our expose af their doings at the Convention of Governors held at Altoona in September last. They find that their in- trigues against Union generals are recoiling upon their own heads and hastening their own overthrow. They are therefore resorting to all manner of dodges and subterfuges to shield themselves and stay the storm until after the November elections. They first induced the Washington reporter of the Associated Press to. send over the wires @ atatement that those who ought to know assert that no effort was made at Altoona to secure the removal of, General McClellan. This was declared to be false from several quarters. The next that appeared was the statement of tthe Tribune's Washington cor- respondent, admitting that the question of re- moving McCielian was broached, but only in general conversation, and not ina formal manner, and that Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, admitted that be said as hard things against McClellan-as any of the Governors—evidently disappointed that be was not put down in that category in our report. Here is a devial and then an ad- mission of the truth of our expose. The radi- cals, ascertaining that this only made matters worse, and aroused the public against them, prevailed upon Governor Berry, of New Hamp- shire, to write a pretended denial, the only effect of which was to convince the public that every essential point in our report was true. Since that period oumerous private letters have been floating about the country, written by those whe participated in tho deliberations of the Convention, substantially endorsing our report, Several persons of influence, holding official positiona in their respective States, who were-at Altoona during the conference, bave since called at the Hxnat.p office; and subsiag- Uated everything sald by our correspondent. The fact was eo generally conceded that we did not suppose any person would have the impudence or sudacity to deny it at this late hour. But it seems that Gov. Andrew, after apendipg considerable time in Washington, pay- ing midnight visits to generals, endeavoring to creato jealousies and dissensions in the army, has found his way to Boston, and thus discovers a handwriting on the wall, informing him of hia fate and the retribution that bis intriguing course is about to bring upon his own bead, To avert the storm that he sees pending, threat- ening bis political annihilation on the 4th of next November, he has resorted to letter writ- ing, aud comes out with the statement “1 did not, either formally or informally, move or sug- gest that the Governors should interfere with the position of Major General McClellan, or of any other officer of the army or the navy.” He concludes his letter with a moral essay about hanging issues of ‘oa tional life on the aword of any leader, which, if be and his radical associates had acted apon, the war might have been at an end long before this time, and thousands of lives and inillions of treasure saved. It needs no argument to prove that this carg of Governor Andrew is simply an electioneer- ing dodge. The late hour at which it has been made, coming, as it has, before the public juat after the disastrous defeat of the radicals in the October elections, and gust before the elee- tion in Massachusetts, which is to decide the fate of Andrew himself, with all the ciroum- stances connected with it, makes it self-evident that sueb is ita design and purpose. But mark how carefully he words his letter. He doos not say that the subject of removing McClellan was not brought up, but simply atates that he did not, “formally or informally, move or sug- gest an interference with McClellan’s position;” and then adds, “nor do I believe that any mo- tion waa made by any other person.” We have never stated that any motion was made or resolution offered for the removal of Mc- Clellan, but that the question was brought be- fore the conference in the disoussion of its ob- jects and purposes, and that, among other thinga, the immediate removal of McClellan was urged and advocated by Governors Andrew and Sprague, and that when Governor Andrew was asked who would take McClellan’s place, he replied, in effect, that Fremont’s staff was ready. But Governor Andrew has now found that such views are unpopular even in Massa- chusetts. Hence his eleventh hour card and efforta to shirk the responsibility and place it upon other shoulders. The evidence against the truth of Governor Andrew's last card is | just a8 conclusive as were the faats in opposi- tion to the reported speech of Senator Wilson: denying that Le bad said a word in the Senate in favor of stopping enlistments. But what matters that to Governor Audrew, if his letter will ovly be “a good enough Morgan until after election?” If Governor Andrew's statement is true, how does it happen .that the Baltimore American: upon the authority of Governor Bradford, ao. uicd the statement of the Washington reporter TSE Ease eee them have ancrificed their tenaof thousands of dollars’ for the Union cause, and the only ob- ject of their writing the letters was that the truth might bo known. We leave it with the public to decide whether the evasive letter of Governor Andrew, written for eclectioneering purposes, or the statements of the three Gover- nors referred to, who tave never demanded that the national administration should yield to their views of conducting the war before they responded to the demand for men, or in any manner placed a condition upon their loyalty, are the most worthy of their confidence. Amerioan ann Enatisn Iron-Ciava.—The re- suit of the naval combat in Hampton Roads was no sooner known in England than the Ad” miralty ordered @ target to be made, intended to represent the side armor of the Monitor. ‘The government workshop soon produced the de sired structure, and soon the usual tests wore concluded. It was “easily penetrated,” re- ported: the ordnance oilicers. This reassuring fact was forthwith made known through the press, and John Bull took a long breath, quite eure ‘that tie Yankees, after alf, bad not hit upon anything better than the Warrior. The British public will learn some day that the pre tended conolusive trial was a chest, and that the side armor of the Monitor is something very different from a slight timber target, covered with plate iron a few inches thick. The fact is simply that the target get up by the Lords of the Admiralty represented the lower part of the Monitor’s side armor, which cannot be bit. The upper part, which alone may be atruck by shot, their lordships would have found it no trifling undertaking to copy- Our readers are aware that the visible part of the Monitor—vis, her massive deok—resembles a raft some forty feet wide, strongly bound with plate iron on the top and sides, sustained also by the incompressible medium in which it is immersed. It was reserved for the wise heads of the British Admiralty to prove the vuloerable nature of guoh a structure by firing at a emall screen of timber tess than thirty inches thick, covered with five one-inch plates of iron. A In return for the attention which our pro, ceedings receive from the English, we are care. fully looking into what they are doing with their iron-clads. The Warrior being their grand achievement, pronounced by them as per- fect and imvulnerable, we have particularly directed our atteation to her construotion, and carefully ascertained the strength of armor inade precigely like that which is supposed to render the boasted ship impregnable. So far from discovering any magic tenacity of the much talked of four-and-s-half-inch Warrior plates, we find that Captain Dahlgren puts his eleven-inoh spherical shot through them as readi- ly aa Deiamater puts the steel punches through the bull. plating of the Dietator—one of the great ocean Monitors now building to beard the lion.in. his den. But the Navy Department éave- prepared-gwns more pov than the famous’*eleven-inch, The Passaic tast Monday received into her massive turret @ fifteen-iuch Dahlgren, a magnificent amooth bore gun, weighing 42,200 pounds—by far the largest gun afloat. The whole of our Monitor fleet will be armed with this tremendous ordnance. How will the Warrior, with her four-and-a-halfinch armor plating, come out of a contest with our iron-clads thus armed? The fifteen-inch shot, with a moderate charge, will not only pierce, but shatter, the slight Warrior armor. great ship, then, will have to depend on her superior speed for safety. But in a contest with our larger iron-clads of the Dictator type, which carry relatively a greater motive power than any sbip ever built, flight will not avail. These ships, moreover, have side armor of iron ten and a half inches thick, with four feet back- ing of oak, while the turrets are fifteen inches thick, composed of plates aud forged slabs, There are eubstantial reasons for believing that the Dictator will prove a dictator. Tue Carrons ov Saume Pass—An [mporrant Posrrion Gatien For Mu.trary Orsrarions IN ‘Texas.—On another page will be found an ex- tract from the Grenada (Miss.) Appeal (reBel newspaper) giving an account of the capture and occupation of Sabine Pass by the United States naval forces, Since the commencement of the war Sabino Pass baa been an important point to the rebels for the exportation of cotton and importation of arms and munitions of war. The Sabine river ig the boundary line belween Louisiana and Texas,-and across this stream are transported the thousands of bales of cotton sent from other States of the so-called Southern confederacy into Texas, to be shipped from the ports of that State to Cuba and other points in the West In- dies, and to Europe. All the arms and muni- tions of war tht are landed in Matamoras crosy the Sabine river on their way to supply the rebel army east of the Mississippi river. The occupation of Sabine Pass will prove of immense importance to the government as a base of operations for a military movement in Texas during the coming winter. The line of the Sabine should be held, and thereby the transportation of all articles for the benefit of the rebel States to and from the State of Texas and Mexico will, in a great measure, if not en- tirely, be prevented. It is well known that im- mense droves of cattle for the subsistence of the Confederate army are sent weekly from Texas. More have been sent from this State than all others of the confedoracy combined, and this can all be stopped if the government will follow up the advantage guined by the | oceupation of Sabine Pass. Before the Ist of January all the important | points on the coast of Texas will no doubt be in possession of the’ United States; and it should { be the first aim of the military commander ordered to that district to oceupy Fort Brown opposite Matamoras, on the Rio Grande, and hold as much as possible of the Sabine river. If this is done the effect upon the rebel govern- | ment and people will soon be manifest; for one of their most important points for supplies of The | i | “the Convention would not bave concluded har- stiet wil restore harmony be- | moniously if the radicals bad continued to press of the Associated Presa, and declared positively } all kinds will be taken from them, and they that the question of removing McClellan was | will be compelled to look elsewhere for a place | brought before the Convention? Why should | that will hereafter furnish them so many of the Governor Cuttin state in conversation that | necessaries of life as the State of Texas has | heretofore. | If the truth could be ascertained in regard to | the matier, it would be found that the robet the removal of MeClolian?” Avd why hus necody singe {i tod that “the friends of | government has obtained more suppiies to | pepe 1 saute it to carry on this war through the | the malcontents are trying to repel the odiuin | which is fixing itself upon Andrew and Sprague | ports of and from the State of Doxas than from | desperate fin ee ceive, with little trouble, all they required for their outfit and subsistence. An importaut blew has been struck the State of Texas and the Confederate States by the occupation of Sabine Pass, Let the government follow it up with vigor during the coming winter, and the rebel government will be caused more trouble than at present, we imagine. Admiral Por ississippi River Filo- tila and Its Objects. Excepting the unsilenced rebel fortifications and batteries at Vicksburg, the Mississippi river, since May last, has been reopened to our commerce’ from the mouth of the Ohio to the Guif of Mexico. Vicksburg, however, has oon- tinued and remains a barrier which only our vessela-of-war have been able to pass; and the running the gauntlet of those enfilading rebe? batteries for a mile or two is a dangerous ad- venture, even for a vessel-of-war unprovided with a heavy coat ofiron mail. In addition to these rebel works at Vicksburg, the banks of the river, above and below, are infested with guerillas, lying in wait for unarmed commer- Cial steamers. The consequences are that, while between Cairo and New Orleans there is ne trade whatever, all the intermediate communi- cations, frora point to peint along the river, are seriously interrupted, Gen, Butler, at Now Orleans, with a conside- rable army and thousands of African contra bands, and perhaps fall one-third of. the white population of New Orleans to feed, is neces- sarily subjected to many annoying’ extortions, inconveniences and embarrassments. He secs, for instance, that while, even «nder a military order, he cannot reduoe the price of flour in New Orleans below ten dollars the barrel, it isselling in St. Louis for less than five, and, with an unob- structed river, could be delivered to him at six dollars, And 80 with beef, pork and all the other articles of subsistence. He is paying twice or thrice the prices at which he could purchase them with an open river way to Cairo Nor is this all. While the rebols blockade the tiver at Vicksburg they ere enabled at that point to bring over from Toxas large amounts of supplies for the rebel armies in Mississippt and Alabama. The government, fully apprised of all these disudvantages to us and advantages to the enemy from this state of things, has resolved to put an end to it. Accordingly Admiral David D. Porter has been appointed to the supreme command of our iron-clad gunboats, rams, transports, &c., of the Mississippi, and, with a flotilla of some sixty vessels of all descriptions, will soon move down the river, to clear away all cebel obstructions, including guerillas, movable batteries and the formidable Works on the bluffs of Vicksburg. Those works will be the only impediments sufficient to delay the progress of more than one vessel; ‘but they may baffle the whole squadron unless eup- ported by @ co-operating land force. Doubt- leas, however, when the gttack is made upon Vicksburg, such « se othe yed, and ~ employed, probably itaili‘be drawn from our army of Corinth, the splendid fighting soldiers of whioh seem to be as indifferent to the hottest fire as galamanders. The expedition of Admiral Porter, at all events, like that of the indomitable Farragut to New Orleans, is organized and equipped for success. Its commander belongs to a salt water family whose achievements of distinction ex- tend through half a century. With the arrival of the flotilla at New Orleans the river will be completely reopened to trade; for Admiral Porter will have gunboats enough to enable one or more to pass every point along the stream from Vicksburg to Cairo once or twice @ day. Thus the superabundant provisions of the great West will find a hungry market at New Orleans for millions of supplies, and thus the muttitudes of soldiers, sailors, poor white in- habitants and contrabands dependent upon General Butier will be abundantly supplied, to the saving of millions of dollars to the public treasury. Equally important, ina military view, will be the complete separation thus effected be. tweon Miasouri, Arkanaas, Louisiana and Texas on the west from our rebellious States on the eastern side of the Mississippi. The former will thus be cut off from the chances of being reinforced from the rebel armies on the eastern aide of the river, while the latter will be cut off from their Texas supplies of flour, corn and oatile. Finally, with this great enterprise of Ad- miral Porter accomplished,our naval forces, from Washington down to the sea, and thence along the coast to the Galize, and thence up the:Mis- sissippt and the Ohio to Parkersburg, in Virgi- nia, will almost completely encircle thé re bellion. The break in the circle between the Ohio and the Potomac is now disputed by the great army of the rebel General Lee, We hope, however, before the expiration of October, to be able to report the forcible removal of that army, routed and brokers a hundred miles or two southward. Anti- cipating, too, the speedy expulsion of the rebels from Kentucky, we expect, with the return of the high waters of winter in our cotton States, that our light draught gun- boats will be able to shell their way into the interior of every one of said States, from the Southern seaboard to a conjunc- tion with our armies from the North. With the prospects of this double invasion before them, we adhere to the idea that another Union victory or two in the tield, with the victorious movement of Admirai Porter's fleet down the Mississippi, will bring our rebellious cotton States to the saving alternative of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation—submis- sion to the Union. Syupromus or Cavina Iv. nals have assumed a tone of singular boidness in criticising the conduct of their rulers. Conr sidering the vigorous censorship to which they had been subjected, the inference is that the rebel government has become so weakened ia public estimation that the press is no longer afraid to attack it. A military despotism that suffers or is unable to check such outspoken freedom on the part of public writers. is ina fair way to succumb. But not merely in the newspapers, but in the army itself, does Hats Li- cenge of discussian prevail. If we are.to credit the evidence of a Baltimore surgeon, who re- cently suceweded ia making his espe from the rebel lives, the failure of the revellion and the restoration of the Union are troated as foregone eouchisions amongst the- rayk and file. Tho ial condition of the government, he government | by the Yaniee trick of hinting that there was) any other State now in rebedlion. The blockade, { through the depreciation of its paper, which hes only an informal talk about the propriety of the | of that coast has nevor, ‘beon efficient, and de | now about the same valuo asthe old Freaoh head removal of McClellan?” We have the letters | facility of shipping and receiving goods osntra: signats, has contributed ax much ag aaything befo*e us written by the persons ko whotn the band of wat, by Way of Mexico, has ongbled the | to tui feeling ainongst the soulery. Paid in ' ' above Governors aude these remueis. 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