The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1862, Page 4

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HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE Fenn mch ng Sg HALL, Canal vas, Street.—Sonas, Dances, BURLESQ) GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Daawina mM ENTERTAINMENTS, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 563 Broadway. — ‘Open daily trom 10 A. M, till 10 OVERA Bons.ksqo1 PM THE SITUATION. News from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac reports everything quiet at the frout yex- terday. . The rebel Generals Jackson and Longstreet were said by certain contrabands who came within our lines, tobe moving towards Berryville, from the direction of Charlestown, The enemy were be- lieved to be still in considerable force directly in front of ourarmy. They were observed on Wednes- day night signalizing from a mountain near Snick- ersville. It was reported at headquarters last night that our cavalry captured an officer of Gen. Long- street's staff, with the rank ef colonel, and that Longstreet, who was reconnoitering with a small escort, narrowly escaped. The rebel pickets under General Walker, at Up- perville, were driven from that place on Wednes- day. The infantry were said to have marched to Baickersville, their intention being to escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains by way of Snicker's Gap. It is said that General Burnside has advanced along the eastern base of the Blue Ridge, and made a junction with Sigel's corps, their pickets Actually. joiniag—a movement which may have compelled General Walker to vacate Upperville. Advices received at Baltimore from Gen. Kelly. state that the rebels have completed the destruc: , tion of Back creek bridge, on the Baltimoze and Ohio Railroad, and that there are one thousand two hundred rebel cavatry at Hedgesville. This bridge is ten miles west of Martinsburg and twenty-five from Hagerstown. It was ninety feet decp and oue hundred feet long. Brigadier General Kelley reports from Comber- land, Md., that he sent a force forward, com- munded by Lieutenant Colonel Quick, of the Twenty-third Illinois, supported by Rourke’s bat- tery and Ringold’s cavalry, in pursuit of the re- bels who carried off the cattle in Hardy county the other day. Col. Quick overtook them, and captured one hundred and seventy head of cattle sixteen prisoners and twenty horses. According to the statement of a deserter from Richmond, who had opportunities of observing the Progress of the rebel ram Merrimac No. 2, that vessel is now completed, with the exception of two guns yet to be furnished her, and is looked upon by the rebels as a great success, and as cer- tain to do terrible destruction to our gunboats when she makes @ hostile demonstration. Her movements up to this time have been confined to trial trips to Fort Darling, in which it is said her machinery worked admirably. The difficulty between General Wool and the loyal citizens of Baltimore who had been arrested and sent to Fort Delaware by the General’s order, appears to be settied by an order for the uncon- ditional release of the arrested parties, iesued by the President yesterday. The probable restgna. tion of General Woo!, under these circumstances, was regarded with much consideration in Wash- ington yesterday. Our troops continue their successes in Arkansas. Ou Tuesday last Brigadier General Herron, with a force of a thousand men, attacked a rebel camp at @ point four miles east of Fayetteville, which ‘was occupied by three thousand rebels under Col- onel Cravens, and after an hour's fight totally re- pulsed them, and followed them for several miles into the Boston Mountains. All the camp equipage and wagons of the enemy were abandoned. We have some interesting intelligence from Ber- fuda tothe 2ist inst. The action of Rear ..d- biral Wilkes, United States Navy, in closely ¥ atehing and intercepting the trade of the rebels with England, by way of Bermuda, has excited the inhabitants of the island in no small degree agninst that officer and the Union. Some of the j- vnals affeet to say that our cruisers have insti- tuted a blockade of the English eolonial depend- oncy—the steamers Tioga and Sonoma maintaining # vigilant guard of ite ports of entry and depar- ture. The English vessels Alert, James and Gladiator were hailed and brought to lately by order of Admiral Wilkes. Her British Majesty's steamer Plover, just arrived from Halifax, took off despatches from the Governor of Bermuda to Admiral Wilkes, andthe man who acted as pilot to the Union vessels had returned to the “whore! Notwithstanding the vigilance of our ate, we find that the British steamers ipMator, Minho and Ouchita, all laden with cot- ‘ton from the South, had ran out of port at Bermuda for England. False signals were thrown out from / te shore in order to decoy the Union vessels from tucir station just asthe Minho safled. They had tie effet desired by the English sympathizers and raders with the rebels, The steamer Herald, a rogular trader to Charleston, had Just arrived at Bermuda with s cargo of cotton for England. The Horald did not see the United States versely, Us NEWS. MISCELLANEO! ‘The steamsh'p Hibernian, from Londondorey © he 17th instant, passed Cape Race last Weiine ° NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1862. | day morning on her t bec. She has | The National Importancecf the Coming lay morning voage to Quel 498 e news five days later than the advices of the Aus- tralasian; but the sea’ was so heayy of New- foundiand, in consequence of the recent gale, that it was quite impossible for our agent at the point to board her and obtain it. ee The steamship Bohemian, from Londonderry ‘on the 10th instant, went up to Quebeo from Father Point yesterday morning. Her news has been an- ticipated. Shc has two hundred and sixty-seven Passengers. It is thought that the North Ameri_ can will sail again on her regular trip, for Lon. donderry and Liverpool, next Saturday, the lat instant. ‘There are three European steamships fully duo at American porta to-day. They sailed in the following order from the porta named under- Official information from England states that Admiral Miine, Royal Navy, is to continue in com- mand of the North American and West Indian na- val station for one year from date. The Diario de la Marina of the 22d October states, on the authority of a passenger by the British Queen, from New York, that on leaving the port of Nassau, and when that vessel was moar Grand Isaac, the night being very dark and stormy, @ federal cruiser fired # shot at her, which passed over the head of the officer of the watch; and, as she did not immediately heave to, another shot was soon after fired by the American vessel, To prevent further difficulty, the British Queen stopped her engines, and soon after an offi- cer of the United States vessel came on beard, to whom the English captain spoke in very plain terms concerning the irregularity of his proceed. ings. After mutual explanations the federal offi. cer retired. It seems that the British Queen was mistaken for the Scotia, known to have sailed from Nassau, with a valuable cargo, for some port in the Southern States. Captain Jarvis, of the bark R. G. W. Dodge, ar- rived last evening from Trinidad de Cuba, states that on the Sth instant, when in latitude 23 40, longitude 7420, he was boarded by a boat from the United States steamer Montgomery, who re- ported having chased the day previous a rebel steamer, cotton loaded, and that the rebels ran her ashore near Havana, and set her on fire. A second edition of the draft will take place in } Connecticut on the 5th of November, The first attempt was a failure. The people of a portion of Fayette county, Pennsylvania, talk of resisting the draft, and they have constructed a log fort for their defence. ‘vhe draft has been postponed until the first day of December in Michigan. It would save time, trouble and expense, produce more satisfaction, fall less unjustly, and be vastly more satisfactory, if the operation of the draft were postponed in every loyal State in the Union until the lst of Ja- nuary next. The government cannot provide clothes and shoes for. the soldiers it already has in the field, and it seems the height of folly to take men from their homes and their families before they are actually wanted. Moses Anker, a noted secessionist of Baltimore, a long time an inmate of the Old Capitol prison in Washington, and recently released on parole, has been agains arrested for endeavoring to convey contraband goods and.a-mail to the‘South. A very large and enthusiastic republican meet- ing was held last evening at the Cooper Institute, at which General Wadsworth, the ‘republican can- didate for the Governorship, was present and spoke. Mr. Lyman Tremain also paid his respects to Horatio Seymour and John Van Buren. At the meeting of the Board of Councilmen yes- terday an ordinance authorizing the issue of shin- plasters in sums of five, ten, twenty-five and fifty cents, to the amount of three millions of dollars, was adopted by a vote of nineteen totwo. The ordinance has already passed the Board of Alder- men. The Councilmen concurred with the Alder- men in directing that every facility be givento Judge Advocate General Anthon to procure a full list of all the volunteers who enlisted in this city between the 2d of July and the 3d of September last. The jury in the case of Jacob Weiler, tried for the murder of his wife, in the Court of Genera] Sessions, after being out nearly twenty-four hours, failed to agree in their verdict. They were ac- cordingly discharged. Judge McCunn has desided that, according to the act of Congress of 1833, no person who has been convicted of a criminal offence can be enlisted into the armies of the United States. The Commissioners of Public Charities and Cor- rection met yesterday, when the weekly statement was submitted, as follows:—Number remaining on the 18th inst., 6,380; admitted since, 1,803; died, 47; discharged, 1,428; sent to Blackwell's Island, 361; to State Prison, 9; remaining on the 26th inst., 6,358—decrease, 42. Thé stock market was weak and lower yesterday Speculators geuerully appear to be selling their stocks in anticipation of the election, Gold fell to 130, Exchange closed wt 143g 8 8%. Money was in rather botter de- mind, Many bankers deem it wise, about these times, to exercise unusual caution in advancing meney on stocks. To good borrowers the rate is still 5 per cent. ‘The cotton market was firm yesterday, with sales of 1,000 bales, closing on the basis of 0c. a 61c. for mid- ling uplands. Flour was heavy, while common aud mediuca grades were from 5c. a 10c. per barrel lower. The higher grades, incfiding choice family brands, were unchanged, Wheat was steady for lots of good to prime red winter, amber and white Western, while the lower grades were irregular and from l¢. a 2c. lower in some cases. The market was tolerably active, in part fer ex- port. Corn was firmer for sound Western mixed, which was scarce, whiie that in poer condition was abundaut, and tho market heavy, and in some cases lower. Sound Western mixed sold at 72c.a73. Pork was dull, with sales of mess at $13 a 13 60, and of prime at $12. Sugare were active and firm, with sales of 2,279 hhds. Coffee was firmer and more active. A cargo of Mara- caibo, comprising 2,000 bags, was sold as p. t., and 2,000 do, Rio, in séparate lots, at 270. a 277¢¢., the latter figure for 500 bags prime. Freights were easier to Liverpool, While there was more effering at the concession. “Goixo 4 Woorne.”—The rebel Congress and Gen. Bragg have been trying to woo the North- western States Into the embraces of the South, by promising to guarantee them the free navi- gation of the Mississippi if they would separate their interests from those of the hated “Yan- kees.” We have yet to learn that their advances have met with the slightest response, except at Corinth, Matamora, Perryville and Maysville, Having relieved themselves of this great stroke of diplomatic policy, they next made insinu, ating offers of a similar character to the Pacific: States. The only result of the courtship has been the transmission from California of a second munificent instalment of a bundred thousand dollars for the relief of our sick and wounded. We do not care how frequently the [that ‘great ocos have produced en, in tunning over the history of man- kind, fom the exodus of th we it down to this day. See a piles 5° 4 great names are associate@with the American Revolution of 1776, with Washington at their head; and what @ host of mighty characters were developed by the first French Revolution, including the most wonderful man of all time— Napoleon Bonaparte. But here, in the midst of the most momentous revolutionary upheaval i. the history of mankind, we have little else to exithit beyond a plentifal crop of small pota- tes ‘Bhose radiculs labor in vain who try to avert the present conservative revolution by prating | about the political and personal merits of the | Progress of the War—Vigorons Meve- menis Against the Rebellion East and Weat. ‘There baa been very little change apparently since our last published advices, in the relative candidates. Tho old political parties are dead. | positions of the two great hostile armies in The domestic relations and private virtues of the candidates have nothing whatever to do with the great issue before the people. Whe- ther or not Mr. Wadsworth once gave a dime to a blind beggar, or added a hundred dollare extra to the rent of one of his tenants, is a ques- tion of no earthly importance. The public are not at all interested in knowing what Mr. Sey- mour has for dinner, or whether he employs 4 negro cook in his family. The fact that a few secession sympathizers intend to add their votes to those given for Seymoyr, and that the free negroes will vote unanimously for Wadsworth, is of not the lightest consequence in this can- vass. The issue is one of principles, not men. The question simply is: Shall the constitution be maintained or superseded ?—shall the Union ‘be restored or lost in anarchical experiments? Tt is equally useless to attempt to delude the people by asserting that # conservative triumph will encourage the rebel leaders to persevere in their treason. This game was fairly tested in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, and is com- pletely played out. Every sensible man knows that the truth is just the other way. What pre- text was used by the rebel chiefs to seduce the Southern masses into rebellion? That of abo- litionism. What documents are those or- dered to be read at the head of the rebel armies in order to spur up the suffering soldiers? The bloodthirsty produc- tions of the abolitionists. By what name did Beauregard, in his intercepted despatches to Bragg, propose to call the Union troops, and by what name are they now called in Beaure- gard’s official reports? The name of abolition- ists. What acts of Congress have done so much to crush out the remaining Union fecling at the South? The acts prepared and passed by the radical abolitionists: How, in the darkest and gloomiest periods of the confederacy, have the rebel tyrants and the rebe) press aroused, in- spirited, revived and infuriated the drooping and despondent people? By cheating them into believing that this is an abolition war, arid by dwelling upon the insane designs of the aboli- tionists. Inquire of the rebel soldiers against whom they suppose themselves to be fight- ing, and what do they uniformly re- ply? Not against the Union, but against the abolitionists. The rebel leaders know better—no one disputes that—but the great body of the Southern people are arrayed only against the bugbear of abolitionism, and would lay down their arms to-morrow if they could be convinced thatthe abolition policy is not the policy of the government of the United States. Against such facts as these how false is the argument that an abolition victory would weaken the rebel cause. Abolition triumphs are the support of the rebellion. A vote for ‘abolitionism is practically an aid to Jeff. Davis. A great conservative victory at the North would open the eyes of the Southern people to the real facts of this war,and at onc e destroy their faith in the scoundrels who have so cruel- ly deceived them. Then, unless all historical precedents are worthless, a popular revolution would ensue—Jeff. Davis would be hung by the people he has outraged, and the reunion of the States speedily follow. This is the con- summation which the abolitionists are endea- voring to prevent. To prevent it they delibe- rately purpose to supersede the constitution, and make Jobn Brown, instead of George Washington, the exemplar of the American people. This policy would destroy both the South and the North in order to destroy slavery, For slavery per se no loyal man now cares a fig. It must take its chances, like any other institution, during the war. But if, to abolish slavery, the constitution is also to be abolished, then every loyal mar must protest against abo- litionism, not for the sake of the rebels, but for the sake of his family, his property and him- self. If the constitution be superseded we have no longer any national government, and every bold bad man is at liberty to resist the President’s decrees, to organize armed forces to oppose the laws, and to commit any outrage his strength may warrant. When the Freach Gi- rondists overthrew the government they had no idea that a Jacobin party would soon appear to flood the streets of Paris with blood and bring the Girondista themselves to the guillotine. The republican abolitionists are the Girondists, and the radical abolitionists are the Jacobins, of the present day. For the time being thoy work harmoniously together and support the same candidates and the same policy. But let that policy be adopted, and the constitution be trampled upon, and what power is-there to restrain those fanatics whom even the constitu- tion could not restrain? How long before the Jacobin radicals, who now denounce the con- servatives as traitors, will apply the same odious term to the republicans? Those who are not willing to go as far as Horace Greeley and Cassius M. Clay are even now threatened with imprisonment and the gallows. By and by, when Greeley and Clay having destroyed the constitution, propose to go still farther than they dare at present, with what will they threaten those lukewarm repub- licans who sannot quite keep pace with them? How long ago was it that our Jacobins threat- ened to depose the President if he did not sub- mit to their demands? How long ago’ was it that they attempted to give Fremont an inde- pendent command? The constitution once su- perseded, what is to prevent the Jacobin radi- cals from making good their threats and hang- ing and shooting down citizens at pleasure? The constitution once superseded, the rifle, the bowie knife and the revolver become the supreme law of the land, and the stronger party brings the weaker to the gallows, as the French Jacobins dragged toth royalists and Girondists to the guillotine. These are the considerations which have moved the loyal people to this great political not only to abolish slavéiy, but also to abolish the constitution. They fear the bloody anarchy which the abolition Jacobins would inaugurate by annihilating our eonstitutional government. are not willing to sacrifice the country, the lives of those dear to them, their own lives and all their material interests to the black Goddess of Reason whom our Jacobins have set up and worship. They have resolved to put down the abolitionists; not to preserve slavery, but to save the nation. For these reasons they gave conservative majorities in October, and will give still greater conservative majorities in November. No hénest man can msundersiand this issue Northern Virginia. But, near Cumberland, on the extreme right of the immense line covered by General McClellan, that active mountain campaigner, General Kelly, has just performed @ very neat operation in the capture of a rebel cattle hunting detachment; and on the extreme left, eighty miles distant frem Kelly, General Pleasanton is actively removing the advanced guards of Lee’s army from Loudon county. At the same time the central division of General McClellan’s forces is steadily moving the out- posts of the rebels backward towards Wia- chester. The special object of Lee is evidently to move over the Blue Ridge, at several of the gaps, so called, which command the shortest and easiest roads to Richmond. These crossings lie between Loesburg and Culpepper Court House; but, as all this line is actively scoured by our cavalry expeditions from day to day, ‘Lee will most probably be compelled to keep up the valley, for the safety of his trains, to a point opposite Gordonsville; and hence we suspect that there will be no general engage- ment with Lee this side of Gordonsville. A® for the pursuit of his army up the exhausted Shenandoah valley, it is simply impracticable, upon the score of subsistence. Gen. McClellan’ therefore, must keep within convenient dis- tance of his depots of supplies, and between the enemy and Washington, until he can get between him and Richmond and compel him to make a stand. Lee is in a position from which it requires the nicest strategy to es- cape, and McClellan is advantageously posted to intercept him in any direction. And s0 there need not be any uneasiness or impatience in regurd to our Army of the Potomac. The army, late of General Buell, but now of General Rosecrans, is en route from Kentucky for Nashville, perhaps with the view of giving another lesson to General Bragg, whe, it is suspected, is preparing. for a desperate enter- prise in that direction. Atthe same time, along the northern border of Mississippi, the broken columns of Price, Van Dorn, Lovell and Breck- inridge are reported to be concentrating for another trial of strength with General Grant. But he will be ready to meet them and beat them at any point, and at a moment’s notice, and, it may be, before they expect him. Indeed, between Rosecrans and Grant we may antici- pate soon to hear that the armed forces of the rebellion have been swept from Tennessee and from Northern Mississippi down into the inte- rior of Alabama and Georgia. But to complete the work of the suppression of the rebellion in the Southwest, the Missis- sippi flotilla of Admiral David D. Porter will shortly move down from Cairo to New Orleans, in conjunction with a land force under General MoClernand; ‘while the* fleet of Admiral Far- ragut and an army under General Banks will be despatched, perhaps, to liberate the Union people of Texas, and to look after the contra- band traders at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and perhaps in an opposite direction. Thus it will be seen that President Lincoln is preparing actively, not for one heavy blow, but for numerous and simultaneous as- saults upon the remaining strongholds of the rebellion East and West, and by our land and naval forces. We do not imagine that in these operations the seacost be- tween Beaufort, N. C., and New Orleans will be neglected, but that round the contraeting circle of the rebellion the armies of Jeff. Davis will be assailed with irresistible force at every point, and routed and dispersed. Accordingly, we do not abandon the hope that before the lst of January the radical abolition policy of a sweep- ing emancipation crusade will cease to be en- tertained at Washington. We expect, in a word, that the armed rebels of the South and our disorganizing radicals of the North will be put down together—the nrst by our powerful fleets and armivs, and the latter through the sound public opinion of our loyal States, as re- vealed in this autumn s elections. Tue Privateer AtaBaMa.—We have heard nothing more of the operations of Captain Semmes and his privateer since the return of Captains Hagar, Gifford and Tilton. The next accounts that reach us will probably increase the number of vessels destroyed by him to five and twenty or thirty. Government has not as yet taken the steps requisite to put astop to his predatory career. The vossels that have been sent after the Alabama are, with one ex- ception (that of the Tuscarora), not of the kind calculated to overtake her or to interfere with, her work of destruction. The Vanderbilt is being fitted out for the purpose, and will be ready to sail ina day or two; but these two vessels are not sufficient to follow up and circumvent an antagonist so adroit and well practiced in all kinds of sea tricks as the pirate Semmes. It was a great mistake on the part of the depart. ment not toarm and despatch simultaneously with the Vanderbilt the Baltic and Atlantio now employed as transport ships, and ranking among the fastest steamers afloat. Then, again, it has the Connecticut and Rhode Island, two very fast vessels, and which, mounted with rifled cannon, would either one of them be able tocope with the Alabama. The saving of expense, if economy was the object in with- holding theffi from this service, will, we fear, be more than counterbalanced by the destruo- tion of property that will have been caused by the delay. Unless the rebel privateers are promptly followed up and captured, the injury to our commerce, in the payment of war risks and actual loss of vessels, will swell up a fear- ful aggregate. Tux Intsu Vote ano tax Rervsiicans—The Tribune has taken to bullying our Irish adopted eitizens because of their support of the con- servative ticket for the appioaching elections, This will do the republicans no good. Neither cajolement nor abuse ean render the Irish voter insensible to the fact that the party of which the: Tribune fs-the organ only desires to: make present use of him to fliig him aside and‘de- grade him when the opportunity arrives, He can never forget its policy as defined by Beecher in connection with the war. In endeavoring to bring the slave population of the South within the pale of citizenship, two of the objects aimed at are, to swamp the Irish vote, inorder to con- solidate power in the bands of the dominant party, and to crush out Popery. . Thus the in- terests of the abolitionists, the politicians and the religious fanatics would be jointly sub- served at the expense of our Irish fellow citi- zefs. ‘This amiable programme will, we need not say, receive no help from them in the ap- proaching contest. Hence the anger of the #ywune in anticipation of the fact. Catovtations or Tae Gomme Exzcrions— No one that the elections in Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana would turn out as they have done. The progress of public opinion was as silent as the dew. The con- servatives and republicans were equally aston- ished at the results, and all their calculations were confounded. It is evident that the con- servative victories do not spring from local causes, for they are everywhere the same. ‘The causes are general, and the results will be of the same character. Revolutions always begin at some point, and increase in momen- tum as they advance. It is therefore extremely probable that in the elections in November, particularly in New York, the revolution will be more fully developed than in the elections of October. The very fact of conservatism being triumphant and republicanism being defeated in the previoug elections will exert a potent influence on those which are to come. It is re- markable that as goes Ohio so always goes Western New York. The people of both sec- tions are of the same race and the same. class of thinkers. ‘There is every rea- son, therefore, to belicve that Western New York will follow the example of Oliio, and that the whobe Empire State will give @ tremendous majority against the republican party. What is the cause of this remarkable change? It is the utter failure of the re- publicans as @ governing party. They have fatled in both branches of Congress, and have terribly failed in the Cabinet; and were it not for the President, who resisted their reckless and insane course, the consequences would be still more disastrous to the country: The people bave come to the conclusion that the repubiicans have not the capacity to bring the republic safely through the great crisis which by their folly and wickedness they preci- pitated upon a happy and prosperous nation. It is the determination of the people to work a change as soon as possible in Governors of States, State Legislatures, members of the United States Senate and members of the House of Representatives. And though in the case of members of Congress the conservatives elected this fall will not sit till December, 1663, unless an extra session should be called by the Presi- dent, and though the present Congress, which will be in power for three months longer (from the first week in December to the 4th of March), may, if it pleases, do infinite mischief in that brief time, we think its members will have read too distinctly in the signs of the times the will of the people to outrage public opinion. There will be no longer any excuse for their doing so. But should they proceed to carry out the ultra views which passed muster last session, the President, taking his cue from the popular decisions, will reject and repudiate their destructive legisla- tion. If any attempt be made to stem the tide of public opinion which has now eet in, it will sweep away-evory barrier and vindicate its re- sistless power. Let those who op-pose beware of the consequences. are Important -OPERATIONS ON THE Coast.—The capture-of Sabine Pass and Galveston should be followed by the immediate occupation of all the ports on the Atlantic sea- board. The ports of Charleston, Savan- nah and Darien sheuld receive the imme- diate attention of the government, se that before the winter sects in we shall havo full and complete gontrol of these important points- The coast of Georgia and the Carolinas is lined with a succession of low islands, intersected by numerous navigable channels and bayous, which®afford good inland navigation, as well as convenient shelter and security to the contra- band traders which have for the last year in- fested these waters. The rebel steamer Nash- ville has made these waters her terminus, and has made three trips to Nassau with the pro- ducts of Georgia, bringing back in return muni- tions of war, and at last accounts was lying in Warsaw Sound, near Savannah, awaiting her chance to run the blockade again. With these ports open, or at least only subjected to the oc- casional telescopic visit of our blockaders, we need no longer wonder at the abundant sup- plies of arms, &., with which the rebels seem to be furnished. The last named port, of which very little notice seems to have been taken, is situated on the Altamaha, one of the largest rivers of Geor- gia, about ten miles from its mouth, at which there are said to be about twelve fect of water on the bar. This river is formed by the junction of the Oconee and Ocmulgee, which rise in the northern part of the State, the first of which is navigable by steamers to Milledgeville, and the latter to Macon. This port should no longer be left in the hands of the rebels. By getting possession of it we can, by means of a few light draught steamers, not only gain the control of the long chain of bays and channels which line the coast, but oan ascénd the rivers to the capi- tal and some of the principal towns in the very centre of the State. “ ow Dr. Browxson Ur ror Cononrss.—Dr. Ores tes A. Brownson, the theological chameleon and political weathercock, is the republican candi- date for Congress in the Middlesex district of New Jersey. Mr. Steele, the present member, op Dr. Brownson, and will almost cortain, fy be re-elected. Dr. Brownson, as ho himself admits, has no claim to be called a Jerseyman, and is identified with none of the great interests of New Jersey. He is, in fact, an outsider, sent over by the New York wirepullers to run in the Middlesex district, because they could find no New Jersey abolitionist able and willing to be a candidate. Of course the republican party in New Jersey professes to be friendly to the President and to support the administration, Just how sincere this profession is may be judged from the fact that Dr. Brownson, the re- publican candidate, is the author of the most violent attacks upon the President and the ad- ministration ever published. In the last num- ber of his Review he chargea the adminis- tration with cowardice, treachery and imbecili- ty ; acouses the Secretary of State of desiring to break up Congress and seize the government | by military force; says that the war is design- edly conducted so as not to hurt the rebels— the same remark for which the President dis- missed’ an officer from the army—and is gene- rally most grossly abusive of the Chief Execu- tive and his advisers. Such are the opinions of the man whom republicans recommend asa friend of the administration. In n him for Congress the republican managers in- sult New Jersey by presuming that her sonsare too ignorant to understand Dr. Brownson’s real character. If he ran here in New York, where he is very well known, he would not receive one hundred votes. It is doubtful whether he will receive half 60 many in: Now Jersey, ' The entertaining by the Kxecutive of charges against General Wool by certain parties at Paltimore tooks as if it is questionable whether he is to be awstained. If he is to be condemned, then the old soldier will return bis commission to the President. I hear that such is his determivation, as he values highly the reputation ac- quired by a service of half a century for his country. It 4s understood that the General called upon the President to-day, and asked that the charges agninst him should be reduced to writing, and he pledged biimself to prove their falsity. Moreover, he did not want to be degraded, but if he was to be condemued he desired an upportunity to resign. ‘What is wanted of Gen. Woot by the old Ping element in Baltimore is, that he shall arrest and imprison people upon slang whang reports; but the just rule laid down by him is, that complamts shill be made in writing, and sworn to, when arrests will be made, « trial immediately granted, and decision mide according to tho facts. As to the charge that Gon, Woei's associations are with se cessionists, it should be stated that his, social rela tions with Ballimoreans are very limited; but busi- ‘ness matters require bim to be iu constant communica- tion with parties whose service to the government is fully recognized by the authorities at Washington, but ‘er been obnoxious to certain party -cliques re. It isstatcd by Gen, Wool’s friends that the parties that cannot use him to carry out personal feelings of malevolence have attempted to demoralize the soldiers by imputations ag to bis loyalty. Genoral Wool remarked to-day that he would asrest more of the disorganizors in his department before tong. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR HEIRS OF DECEASED SOLDIER. ‘The following circular has been issued from the Adju- tant General's office:— Numerous applications are addressed to this office rela tive to the service of deceased soldiers and ollicers. Fraudulent claims have been facilitated by information procured from the public offices, and to guard against Buch impositions re We rights of digclurged sol- od soldiers, no information as to ‘Ke Or death of deceased officers oF vill be furnishod except to those who sbail show elves entitled to tt. Hence, in applications for ime tion, where it cau be used as a basis of claims against the government or to the prejudice of innocent the followlug conditions must be complied Firt—The {dentity of the soldier must be proved. Second—Heirs and representatives must show that they are such. In these cises the proof may be by aff. davits from crediblo and disiater persons, certified justice or notary, whose oflicial racter should also at LO appear. Cy ere att gent acts he mitt produce his autho. rity ndividual case, coupled with proof of that of the arly who empowers him in the manner above indi- cated, Fourth—Whore the object ia to cbtain pay or allow- ances, the application must be made to (he officer of the government, under whose direction payment would be made, Whee the officer is satisiled of the right of the claimant, he will cai! on the Adiutant,General for any ine fo: mation neccesary to pervect the claim, which, if found oy the records, will be furnished to him, but not to the party concerned. Fif.i—Whon the affidavits or other evidence proveea from a foreign country, the official cuaracter of ma- gistrate, or acting officer before whom they are taken, must be verified by a minister or coveal of tho United Sates resident: in the country where such evidence originates; the veriiication to ‘be in all cases under the hand and official sea! oi such minister or consul. Sizth—Applications for certiticates under the seal of the War Departinent, to be used in foreign countries, will only be ontortained when coming from the highest repre- sentativos of the foreign country through the Department of State. All the facts conuected with the subject of inquiry should be communicated, particularly the full name, rank, -regiment and company of the soldier, when and where he was last heard from, and the names of the officers under whom ho served. L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. NAFURALIZED FOR FAITHFUL SERVICES IN THM ARMY. Captain Edward Venute and Lieutenant Jyan Juiz y Cantilo; late of the Thirty-sevénth New °York ‘regiment, have been naturalized through the Cireuit Court for the District of Columbia, These are delioved to be the first cases under the recent law conferring full citizenship for one year’s faithful services in the army. NAVAL ORDERS. Lieutenant Commander Rhine and Lieutenant Wm. For, rest have been ordered to the Keokuk, . - Lioutenant Commander Hopkins has been ordered to the Wiseahickon. Lieutenant Commander Greene has been ordered to the Sangamon, Acting Volunteer Ljeutenant Wm. Flye has been ordered to the command of the steamer Louisiana, Acting Assistant Surgeon T. W. Meckley has been or- dered to the Monitor. GENERAL M’CALL NOT RELIEVED FROM HIS COMMAND: - General McCall has not been relieved from command, as bas been stated. When exchanged the Secretary of War voluntarily granted him leave of absence, and during his furlough he became sick, and is now a convalescent. He is bere and will soon be returned to active duty. GENERAL WALLACE’S DEPARTMENT. Major Genoral Lew. Wallace has boon assigned to duty in the department of the Tennessee. THE CASE OF GENERAL M’DOWELL. General McDowell's case will be takon up next week. ‘He has expressed a desire for a full and free investigation in open court of his military conduct. The investigation will not extend back to the first Bull run battle, as that was jinvestigated by the Military Committee and the ‘Senate, and his nomination as Major Goneral was subse, quently confirmed. His bebavior towards bis suporiore and his brothor officers, and bis lyalty will, by bs re quest, be fully examined. DEATH OF LIKUTENANT JAMES W, DUKB. Lieutenant James W. Duke, of the Second United Staves cavalry, died last wight, at General Buford’s rosideuos. He was a native of Kentucky, and hie high qalities as am officer made him a great favorite with bis corps. DEATH OF GEOKGS F. PICKELL, George F. Pickell, Company K, Now York Volunteers, died yosterday, at Finley Hospital, He aon Colonel John Pickel!,of the regular army, and enlisted thirty days after he left college. He was offered n'com- missien, but chose 10 begin a soldier's life as a private, He was much esteemed for his gatiantry., The remains were embalmed and sent to his late home in Livingston county, N. Y. ARREST OF A DRUG SMUGGLER, Aman from Baltimyre was arrested by the Provost Guard to-day, having in bis possession a quantity ef quinine, opium and morphine, supposed to be intended for the South. Ile was committed to the Vid Capitol. ARREST OF CLAIM AGENTS. Mesors, I Beg! and Grosclor, claim agente in this city, Save Been put into the Vid Capitol prison, by ordet of the War Department. Tho charge ts iho prosecution o fraudulent claims. Beal was formerly disbursing clerk tm the General Post Oflice. VISIT OF SECRETARY CiASE TO GAN. SIGKL. Socr etary Chase and his daughter arrived at Fairfax Court House this evening, where they have gone to visit General Sigel. CONSULAR RECOGNITION, Royal Pheipd as been recognized by the Prosident aa Consul General of Nicuragua, 0 reside at New York. MOVEMENTS OF MRS, GENERAL M’OLELLAN. Mre. McClellan has closed her house in this city, and to day proceeded to join her nusband at the headquarters of the army. PRISONERS IN THE DISTRICT Jat, There are one hundred and seventy prisoners in the District jail, cight of whom are charged with murder, COL, BISSELL’S ENGINERR REGIMENT, Colone! Bissell, from the Western army, ie here, en@ hae obtained permission to augment his regiment of ar- tificers to eighteen hundred. ACCIDENT TO THE DRAW OF THE LONG BRIDOR; The Washington draw of the Leng Bridge broke dowa to-day, and a car load of grain was precipitated into the Potomas. This aecident, itko several others at this bridge, ‘will bother transportation acress it fer a day or two. ——_ Larvae sy Gronoa Francis Taam on Exatanp, Ins- Oppression and America's progress,’ with a dash at poll- ties and @ sketob Of his abolition experience in the State Of Massachusetts, He promises to illustrate the subjest Dy ‘“ancodotes, figures, statistics and indisputable facta.” Something rich and refreshing may be looked for, aad @ full house may be expected, German Orrna,—Adams’ opera ‘‘ 14 Postilion de Lonjumeau” is to be brought out at this establish. mont this evening. Madame Rottor ts to perform the principal role, which fe exaotly adapted to ‘and piquant style, Some additions have twa ssade to the scenery, #0 that tho will be predused under every advantage.