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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING.’ e MIBLO'S GARDEN. Brosdway.—Dn. Ditwourn—Tax Rap Unows—Tungn Fixine THAPEae WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway—Sraxp ta Proven WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tus [20x Cuxst—Dow | ‘Cassar pe Bazan. LAURA KEENB'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Racaet tue | AYER—B2tsy BakeR, NEW BOWERY SHEATBE, Bowery—Buuesxin—Hun- @aRian Curey—OcR Gal. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax VuLture—Raoui— Moruun Barner. er Satta BAKNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Comxo- porx Nerr, CoLoren Troriost Fisa, &¢., at all hours, Pavvnetre, afternoon and evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad. way.—Ertuiortan SoNGs, BURLESQURSs, Dances, &0.—Tae Brack SriGaDe. CHRISTY'S.OPERA HOUSE, 885 Broadway.—Ermorta an Dances dotuaare wee Saran WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Erarerian Dances, &¢.—Bino Hunrens, PALACE OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street,—Camrnett’s Minsteets—Sonos, Dances ann Burresyues. HOPE CHAPEL No. 720 Broadway.—Exninition oF Tixneti’s Cartvornta, HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal Street.—SonGs, Dancus, BUXLESQUES, GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Dagawina Room Exrertainmenrs, PARISIAN QABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. — Open dally tole A Guile sabes HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU Sones, Da: Bueiesavxs de lyn. Erarortan New York, Thursday, jovember 13, 1862 | LHE SITUATION. General McClellan arrived at Trenton yesterday morning. The news from Gen. Burnside’s army is notimportent. A party of Gen. White's rebel ca- valry made an attack upon a small band of our forces at Mount Gilead, near Leesburg, on Tues- day night, capturing about thirty-five of our men The rebel pickets are reported to have disappeared altogether from the vicinity of Harper’s Ferry. Rain was falling heavily there yesterday, and the Potomac was rising rapidly, although still fordable. There is some interesting news from the South- ‘west to-day. Despatches from Nashville say that the rebels under Generals Buckner and Polk are retiring southward. General Breckinridge sent a flag of truce from Murfreesboro on Tuesday night, asking for the exchange of some prisoners. Breckinridge is reported to be sick. General Rosecrans has written a congratulatory letter to General Negley on the latter's successful defence of Nashville on November 5. The rebels blew up the stone work of the bridge over Mill creek, on the Murfreesboro Railroad, six miles from Nash” ville. The bridge had just been repaired by the rebels, who also destroyed the bridge over the Harpeth, near Franklin. Our despatches further and a few small arms. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBEN 13, 1862, ecoupied Hamilton, several miles further up the | L. Vallandigham. Goneral Wool will probably be Roanoke river, and had gone to Tarboro. EUROPEAN NEWS. The European news by the City of Baltimore and Nova Scotian is five days later than the ad- vices by the Scotia. Mr. Cobden, M. P., had addressed an important speech to his constituents in Rochdale, in which he emphatically condemns the idea of English in- tervention in the American war. Ho said that such a movement on the part of the Cabinet would do injury instead of good, and weuld not bring out cotton; a war with the North was certain to en- sue, and this struggle would cost Creat Britain more money in six months than would feed all the distressed Lancashire operatives for ten years. The London Times says that Lord Lyons has been instructed by the English Cabinet to the ef- fect that while England will be found ready to act with the other Powers in promoting a restoration of the old Union, the formation of a new one or @ peaceable separation of the South from the North, he (Lord Lyons) ia not to depart in the meantime “a hair's breadth” from her neutral policy as at first declared. Mr. Slidell had an interview with Napoleon on the 28th ult. The commander of the Angloxcbel steamship Gladiator published the report that Admiral Wilkes, U. S. N., had really ‘‘blockaded’’ the coast of Bermuda; but his statement was not generally credited by the press, and the excite ment produced on the Stock Exchange in London by his first assertions in Liverpool had subsided. British nayal reinforcements had been ordered to Bermuda. The London Times inclines to the opinion that Admiral Wilkes has not exceeded the proper national right of search for contraband of war, and says that if he has not England has no cause to complain. A Prussion journal makes grave complaint of the action of General Butler in New Orleans to- wards Prussian property and Prussian subjects. The London Times says that Mrs. Phillips, an English subject, had become insane in New Or- leans in consequence of Gen. Butler's treatment. The rebel pirate Alabama had destroyed the bark@Wave Crest, from New York for Cardiff. The British Foreign Office had issued a letter, written by Mr. Bunch, the British Consul at Charleston, touching the quantity of cotton now in theQouthern States. The letter is dated 13th of August last. Amount of cotton remaining in the Southern States at date, which might be avail- able to foreign commerce as soon as the bleckade ig removed, may be stated at three millions nine hundred and fifty thousand bales. The London journals continued to speculate on the result of the elections in the Northern States. The articles were generally favorable to the de- mocratic party. ¥ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The C*ty of Baltimore and New York, et this state that preparations are being made to elect representatives to the present Congress from dis- tricts in Tennessee on the occupancy of the Union troops. Governor Johnson will probably soon issue a proclamation to that effoct. A despatch was received yesterday from Gene ral Davis, at Columbus, Ky., stating that the ex- Pedition commanded by Brigadier General Ransom has proved a great success. It came up with Colonel Woodward's rebel force, eight hundred strong, near Garrettsburg, and after a short en- gagement killed sixteen of his men, among them one captain and @ lieutenant, wounding forty, in cluding one captain and two lieutenants, and taking twenty-five prisoners, all their horses and fifty mules, a large number of arms and equip- ments, half the camps of Woodward’s men, and outing the whole force and driving them out of the State of Kentucky. Onr loss in this action was three killed and seven wounded. The latest news from Mcmphis says that the rebels are still at Holly Springs, but that their stores and provisions have been all removed, and it was reported that the enemy were falling back from there. The Union army passed beyond La- grange towards Holly Springs on Tuesday. The tone of the Southern papers, from which we give some extracts, indicates an expected grand battle. The Richmond Enquire? of Monday says significant movements are progressing along the entire line of the army under General Lee. Stirring, perhaps startling, events, seem to be rapidly approaching, promising, in reality, “a short, sharp and decisive” winter campaign. It was reported on Sunday, it says, that Gencral Jackson was upon the verge of battle in the Shenandoah witha greatly superior force of the enemy, and predicts that in the course of a few days a considerable change will take place in the present nominally inactive state of affairs. Governor Brown, of Georgia, in his annual mes- sage to the Legislature, takes grourd against the Conscription law, the suspension of the habeas | corpus, the impressment of private property, and | the enforcement of martial law. The son of Geo. N. Sanders, a major in the rebel army, was captured by a cruiser on the Virginia coast while signalling to some soldiers in a small inlet. Major Sahders was found to be in posses- sion of rebel despatches for Europe, whence he ‘was endeavoring to escape when detected, and, after a fruitless attempt to reach a vessel which was lying offshore, he was taken by Lieutenant Baker and a boat’s orew. The vessel, upon dis- covering the arrest of* Mr. Sanders, immediately put to ses. Four English sailors were in company with the rebel emissary when he was captured, thus intimating that it was upon an English vessel ho was about to sail. The yellow fever is raging at Charleston, South Carolina. The rebels have just launched a pow- erful ram there. An iron-plated steamer ran the blockade on the 19th ult., after undergoing a heavy fire from the gunboat Flambeau, without receiving port, and the Nova Scotian, off Cape Race, furnish news from Europe to October 31—five days later. Consols closed in London* on the 31st ultimo at 9334 a 9324. The Bank of England had advanced the rate of discount to three per cent. The Liver- pool cotton market closed irregular on the 31st of October, at a decline of from two to three pence sterling on American descriptions, and one penny on Surats. Flour was steady. The Parisian mar- ket was flat, but prices remained ateady. The report of the abdication of King Otho, of Greece, is confirmed. Anew ministry had been formed. Garibaldi's condition of health was again very critical, and the Italian physicians, assisted by the English doctor who previously visited him, were to have another consultation on the case. The steamship United Kingdom put into St. Johns, Newfoundland, a few days ago, for coal and water, and sailed again on Tuesday on her voyage to Quebec. A steamship, supposed almost with certainty to be the Europa, from Queenstown on the 2d inst., passed Cape Race on Tuesday evening. She was distant about five miles, and our agent at the point made an effort to board her and obtain our news despatches. He did not succeed, however, for, although the steamship replied to his signals, she did not come nearer, and, a high sea running at the moment, he was forced to return to the shore, traversing four miles with extreme diffi- culty and peril. Had the course of the steamer been a little nearer the news would have been obtained. It will now reach us from Halifax. The report of the Europa is two days later than that of the Nova Scotian. We are in possession of late dates from La- guayra, Venezuela; but the news contained in the Comercio, of Laguayra, is not of any immediate im. portance. An official decree of General Paez de- clares the blockade of all the ports and coasts of Maracaibo, from Cape San Roman, on the peninsn. la of Paraguana, to the Punta de Espada, on the Goagira peninsula. Due notice of the blockade has been given to all foreign vessels, and time al- owed those in port to depart. Judge Culver, of New York, the new American Minister to Venezu- ela, had arrived, in company with his family and friends. His “reception {by the Dictator was most cordial and pleasing. The presentation took place in the audience chamber at the Government House, the Minister being presented by the Secre- tary General of State, Pedro Jose Rojas. As a matter of course, there were felicitations on both sides. In the remarks made by General Paez he took occasion to say that numerous attefttions had been bestowed on him in New York, all of which he still holds in grateful remembrance. One or two federal officers had arrived, and offered their services to the Veneznelan government. The Board of Supervisors resumed their session as county canvassers at twelve o'clock yesterday, and, having canvassed the Fifteenth ward, adjourn ed until twelve o'clock to-day, when they will take up the Eleventh and Seventeenth wards, in the elec- tion returns of which there appears to be some difficulty with regard to the Assemblymen. The sentence on Albert Horn, convicted of fit- ting out a slaver, was postponed to Saturday when Measrs. Brady and Beebe will offer some con! siderations to the United States Circuit Court m mitigation of punishment. A number of the most prominent heads of the different ehurches in the country are trying te pre- vail upon the President to appoint a national thanksgiving day, intending that the 27th inst. shall be the day selected. We think this quite un- necessary, as already the executives of fifteen States have selected that day to be observed ac- any damage. It was not known what vessel she ‘was. Our news from North Carolina is very impor- tant. The Richmond Dispatch of the 11th states that the Union troops were advancing on Tarboro fn force on the 6th inst., and our special corre- #pondence from Hamilton confirms the statement. Tt was asserted in the rebel papers, a few days sinoe, that our forces had been defeated at Wil- Hamston on the 2d inst. Our correspondence of two days inter, however, not only makes the con- test a victory, but also states that our troops had cording to the wishes of the petitioners, and no doubt all the remaining loyal States will adopt the same day. Taking in view this fact, we cannot see the necessity of the President interfering, as it matters but very little whether the recommenda- tory proclamation comes from the President or from the Governors of the different States, as the observance will be precisely the same, Another head has rolled into the basket. The venerable Major General “John E. Wool has been relieved from his command of the Maryland Department, and General Robert C. Schenck se- lected to succeed him. General Schenck is the re- publican member elect to the next Congress, in the ‘Third district of Ohio, he having beaten Clement ordered to report to his homo in Troy. In the Court of Genoral Sessions yesterday, be- fore City Judge MoCunn, Patrick McGinnis, charged with an attempt at rape, pleaded guilty to ult and battery. Randolph G. Kohee was tried and convicted of an attempt to rob Harnden's Express of a sum of money by assuming the name of Jamos 8S, Gray, to whom the money was sent. Both prisoners were remanded for sontence. Stocks wore lower yesterday, and closed with a further downward tendency. The deoline of the day on the Active railway shares was oqual to 1% & 3 per cent. Money was in very active demand at 6 a ¥ per cent. Gold roge to 13234, cloaing at 18244, Exchange clogod at 145% 8 146%. Cotton advanced to 634¢c. a G4c. for middlings, with an Active inquiry aad sales of 2,800 bales. Flour declined 100, 8 20. per bbl.; wheat 1c. a 80. and corn 1o. per bushol, with free sales at the reduced figures. Pork was up to $12 94 4 $13 12 for meas, and active at these quotations. A fair ;businoss was transacted in sugars, which wore very firm. Molasses was in moderate request, while coffee and teas were quiet. Thore was rather more doing in fish at buoyant prices, Sales of hay, hides, hops and leather were fair and prices well supported. Lard was Plenty and depressed. Butter and cheese were in good domend, There was less activity in tallow, tobacco and whiskey, and more animation in coal, soap and froights, with, in the latter instance, however, a depregsion in rates. General Burnside and the New Cam- paign in Virginia. General Burnside, with all the responsibili- ties of his important promotion, may be con- gratulated upon the great advantages attending it. He is placed at the head of an army which, under the military gonius of McClellan, has be. come a model in its organization, discipline, equipments and efficiency. The positjons also to which this army has been advanced in pur- suit of the enemy are eminently favorable for a brilliant campaign. In numbers, too, as in every other element of strength, this splendid army, under an able leader, is equal to all emergencies. A correspondent in the field says that it is difficult to form an idea of the im- menee proportions of this advancing host; that “one sees corps on corps pass on like mere ro- giments, while whole acres of ground, trampled with many feet, show by day where legion® have reposed the previous night.” To crown all, the most cheering spirit of courage, confi- dence and readiness to grapple with the enemy prevails in every corps, division, brigade, regi- ment and company. Under all these favoring circumstances, and almost within a day’s march of the main body of the rebel army, we cannot imagine that a decisive battle will be long delayed by General Burnside. It is understood that the special ob- ject of his appointment is an immediate advance upon the enemy—that it is the purpose of the administration, as it is the wish of the country, to administer a crushing blow or two upon the head and front of the rebellion before winter has established its blockade over the “sacred soil” of Virginia. In every point of view it is of the highest moment that General Burnside shall establish his headquarters for the winter, not on the line of the Potomac, but on the James river, if anywhere, and in the rebel capi- tal; for the reduction of that city, which may be now accomplished in an open field fight, may next spring require along and wasting sioge Considering, too, the enormous daily expendi- tures involved in the subsistence of the Army of the Potomac, the idea that it is to set itself down for the winter in front of the enemy, this side of Richmond, and without a decisive battle, is of all present conjectures the most unwel- come to the public mind. The country, accept- ing the promises of the government, expects a prompt advance upon the enemy. Nor is there any lack of public confiden%e in General Burnside. His admirably managed and eminently successful campaign in North Carolina furnishes many evidences of his good qualities aa a military leader. McClellan is well pleased with him, and says:—“Burnside is a splendid fellow,” and “will do better than nine out of ten men may suppose;” that “he has sound sense and integrity of purpose,” and that “where these qualities are combined suc- cess is certain.” He has, too, the confidence of the President and of the army in a high degree: Indeed, in his unostentatious deportment among his soldiers, and in his constant solicitude for their welfare, Burnside enjoys much of the per- sonal popularity of MoClellan. We are en- tirely satisfied, to the extent of our knowledge of the respective merits of the numerous gal- lant officers of the Army of the Potomac, that General Burnside is the best selection that could have been made from them to fill the place of General McClellan. With great confidence, therefore, in the ca. pacities, will and purpose of General Burnside to move forward his splendid and powerful army to a great and glorious victory, we await in patience the issues of this year’s Virginia campaign. We anticipate a decisive trial of the enemy's strength before the lapse of many days. The main body of the rebel army is reported to be in the neighborhood of Culpepper Court House, which is only some twenty miles or 80 south of Warrenton, where General McOlellan had established his headquarters when relieved of his command. The Rappahannock flows be- tween the contending armies, and perhaps upon the banks of this now famous stream General Lee may be redifced to the same tactios to co- ver his retreat as those to which, with his over- whelming forces, he subjected General Pope in August last. Stonewall Jackson, meantime, with a conside- rable independent command, remains in the Shenandoah valley, in order to divert three or four times his force from the Union army to watch his movements and to protect the Upper Poto- mac and the rear of Washington. We presume, however, that the late snows and rains have put the Upper Potomac in a condition to protect itself, or to render Harper’s Ferry unapproach- able by Jackson or by the whole army of Lee. Hence we conclude that Jackson will next be heard of, not on the Potomac, but somewhere upon the flank or rear of Burnside, among his ammunition and provision trains, or that he will “catch a Tartar” in some desperate adven- ture of this character. General Pleasanton, with his active and efficient cavalry force, has at length supplied a great necessity and an in- valuable protection against these rebel forays. We still count upon the military advantages of several weeks of fine autumnal weather in Virginia. The late snows and rains may have temporarily arrested a forward movement, but probably only for a few days. We will ven- ture, at all events, to hold out the promise to our readers of @ great battle and a glorious victory, or of an inglorious flight on the part of the enemy, before the close of the first week after the meeting of Cor Should the skies brighten up and continue favorable, the death blow to the rebellion may form a con- gratulatory par h of the President’s Mes- sage. Never di @ Union cause look more romising nor that of the rebellion more hope- esa than it looks to-day. Se General McClellan in Retirement? McClelian now belongs to history, The order for his retirement from command \eods and oloses the first volume of his milita'Y record. With all the facts of the oase before it» posterity will review this portion of the work and do him justice. No matter what his de- tractors may assert, McClellan has already justified all that his friends have claimed for him, and proven himself one of the greatest military geniuses and purest patriots of the age, No man since the firat Napoleon ever rose 80 quickly from a subordinate to a supreme com- mand. No man, from Cincinnatus to Washing- ton, ever relinquished that command more nobly or more grandly sacrificed all personal feeling and selfish ambition upon the altar of his country. McClellin’s farewell to his army, 80 graphically described by our correspondent yesterday, was one of the most touching scenes in the annals of the world. It is no mere rhetorical phrase that likens MoClelian to Cincinnatus and Washington. Like Cincinnatus, he was called from his pri- vate pursuits to save his country, and he bas succeeded. Cover up this fact beneath senseless abuse and ex-pane criticisms as you may, it is still a fact and cannot be refuted. There may be those who now remember to forget the in- spiriting and encouraging effect of McCleilan’s dashing campaign in Western Virginia, where he won the first Union triumphs of the war, and reported his victories in such rapid succession that the people were excited to the same patri- otic enthusiasm which animated his little, valiant army. There may be those who forget that terrible crisis of the country when our forces, under McDowell, were retreating from Manasgas, and the capital of the nation was in the power of the rebels, and who forget also that McCicllan rapidly reorganized our routed and miscellaneous ariny, and soon surrounded Washington with a system of impregnable for- tifications. There may be those who forget that, when radical intrigues had before dis- graced McClellan and withdrawn him from the peninsula, Pope and bis army would have been captured and Washington lost had not McClel- lan reinforced him with veteran troops and protected his retreat to the Potomac. There: may be those who forget that McClellan, recall- ed to command, took this mutinous, this shat- |. tered, this disorderly remnant of an army, marched immediately upon the victorious rebels under Lee, organized his forces as he went, de- feated Lee at South Mountain and Antietam, delivered Maryland, and for the third time saved the capital and the nation. For- getfulness cannot obliterate the record of his- tory, however. We, like other republics, may now be ungrateful, and the members of the ad- ministration, who, but for McClellan, would now be caged at Richmond, may doom our best generals to retirement; but the verdict of the world speaks in the Prince de Joinville’s admirable pamphlet, and vindicates McClellan from all our ignorant censurers. Nor is McClellan unlike Washington in this: that he is a great general and a perfect patriot, and that he has been most falsely and basely maligned and abused. Washington, however, was not forced from his command by his ene- mies, though at several periods such a miafor- tune seemed probable. There were ignorant, foul-mouthed radicals during the Revolutionary war, just as there are during this contest. Mo- Clellan has his Horace Greeley; but Wasbing- ton had his Tom Paine. Greeley only imitates Paine when he derides and assails McClellan. Paine found fault with Washington's military skill, demanded his removal, styled him “Mister” instead of General _ Washington, charged him with connivance with all sorts of crimes, and, in short, originated that style of attack which Greeley now so poorly plagiar- izes. What is the reputation of Washington now, and what is that of Tom Paine, his de- tractor? What will the reputation of MoClel- lan bo fifty years hence, and what will be that of Greeley, the Tom Paine of this era? Patri- otism endures when fanaticism and political hatred are annihilated. McClellan is still a very young man, and can afford to wait. He will outlive his accusers and their accusations. And, after all, of what is he accused? Simply of being a conservative. The order for his re- moval was dated on the day when the news of the results of the late elections reached Washington. General Halleck’s letter re- hearses the details of certain difficulties about supplies; but these difficulties were removed, and they did not remove McClel- lan. There are rumors of orders issued in October which McClellan disobeyed; but his removal did not follow for over a month after, and his disobedience had long since been can- celled, if it ever happened, by his subsequent activity. It is said that he was too slow; but long before his removal he had begun to move with remarkable rapidity, and when retired he was within a week of Richmond. Besides, if he were too slow, why appoint the cautious Burn- side in his stead, and not the fast Pope or the faster Fremont? No; the removal of McClellan was a political, not « military necessity, and was intended to offset the conservative triumphs at the elections. In the course of time this political necessity will pass away, and McClellan will either again lead our armies or be at the head of the nation: Such a man as he cannot be crushed by slan- ders any more than the sun oan be extinguished bya breath. That he is a great military genius is proven by his deeds, by the unanimous testi- mony of European military critics, and by the affectionate esteem and devoted love of his sol- diers, who ought to know what a general is, since their lives depend solely upon his skill. That he is a patriot is shown by his noble silence under constant contumely and unde- served detraction, by his unselfishness, by his dignified acceptance of attempted humiliations, by his soldierly obedience to orders, by his magnanimous refusal to notice the sillanous political and Cabinet intrigues which have thwarted his best devised plans, by his sublime parting with his soldiers and exhortations to them to “stand by Burnside as you have stood by me,” and by that serene and conscious in- tegrity which has enabled him to rise superior to all vicissitudes of fortune, and remain equal- ly great in command or in retirement. As a soldier and a patriot his country will yet do him justice, and he can walt. Geverat Scorr’s Resorpzr to Mr. Bucnay. an.—The veteran General has replied to ex- President Buchanan. It settles the matter so far as they were connected with tho early part of the rebellion. It clearly proves the imbecility of Buchanan. The blic is more indebted to poor Pierce and blundéring Buchanan than to any other men for the present distracted condi- tion of the country, It was as easy for Bu. \ chanan to have crushed gut this rebellion when it first broke out in South Caroling in the win- tor of 1860 as it was for Jackson to put his iron heel upon the neck of the nullifiers in that State in 1832, Now what a pitiable spectacle he presents to the world! Our Amuscments and the War. We Publish in our sdvertising columns this morning otices of from eighteen to twenty places of px ‘Ylic amusement. Nearly every one of these enter‘ainments is most satisfactorily patronized. MaaSers of all kinds and condi- tions report crowded houses and replenished exchequers. It is @éonishing, during a war like this, that so many’ people shoul have the’ means and the inctinatic@ to pass their evenings at the Opera, ‘the tlieatres and the concerts: There ecems to be something prophetic in this singular and oostly popular indulgence’ in amurements. It appears to demonstrate the general confidence of the masses that the end of the war is near at hand, and that the sad troubles of the country approach their termina- tion. The Academy of Music was crowded both on Monday and last evening, and the audience was even moved to little bits of enthusiasm by the performance. Guerrabella, the prima donna of these occasions, is a capital actress and a very enjoyable singer. Her popularity is doubtless of that sort which follows, rather than precedes, her appearance. With no preliminary puffing, she made a decided im- pression, and may achieve a great sensation as her powers are more fully developed in other operas, Certainly het face and figure are in her favor, and her perfect self-control and knowledge of the business of the stage show the finished aotress. Besides this, her history is a romance in itself, and she has beon a greater heroine in real life than upon the boards of the Opera. A‘l these recommendations to public interest cannot fail of their effect, and La Guer. rabella may yet win her way to a furor, as she has already secured a succes d'estime. Brignoli sings better than ever, and is always thoroughly enjoyable. The other parts in the operas are well sustained. The fear of the draft has doubtless scared some of the able bodied male members of the chorus into enlisting for the war, and the female members do not make a very good show in old dresses, some too large and others too small for them; but on the whole this department is satisfactory. For the orchestra, it is sufficient to say that Muzio leads: That little giant, Ullman, divides himself be- tween selecting ghe scenery and attending to the numerous goats who apply at the stage door for an engagement in “Dinorah.” With 60 good a company, and such excellent audiences, Grau cannot but be prosperous and delighted, and he consequently dresses much more stylishly and unlike poor Greeley than ever. The theatres are by no means behind the Opera in attractions or attendance. Lester Wallack and his comedians are nightly grected with crowds of bosom friends. At the Winter Garden Booth makes the theatre blossom like a rose with fashionable toilets and brilliant bon- nets. Laura Keene reapa # good and sure har- vest at her little theatre. The Ravel troupe delights the young folks at Niblo’s. Forrest, in very heavy tragedy—this great actor must now weigh over five hundred pounds—and Matilda Heron, in her unique Camille, are outrival- ling Beecher, the low comedian, at the Brooklyn Academy. Barnum’s audiences are as great 9 curiosity as anything else in his Museum. Wood’s and the numerous other minstrel halls are filled to overflowing. The Bowery theatres are crammed and jammed with invincible de- mocrats, and please their patrons mightily. The German Opera is as successful as it de- serves, and it deserves a great deal. The pri- vate amusenrents of society are equally flour- ishing, and balls, fetes and soirees are as nume- Tous, a8 expensive and as magnificent as ever: Looking only at the enjoyments of the people, therefore, the city would seem to be engaged in @ vast carnival. Contrasted with the horrors and terrors of the war now raging, this mirth, this gayety, this costly dissipation, seems the more wonderful, and the philosophical ob. server earnestly seeks to discover the cause of this phenomenal jollity. The people have not yet become indifferent to the war; for the recent elections disprove that theory. There is, on the other hand, no such senseless, giddy excite- ment here as that which raged in Paris during the French Revolution, and drove the people to the theatres for refuge from thought. May not this popular gayety, then, be the result of an in- stinctive and unconscious feeling that the war is nearly over and that peace will soon again bless the land? If this indeed be the true cause of the universal rejoicing, we can only hope that the popular prophecy may speedily come true; that the rebels, already driven to deliberation, may quickly decide to lay down their arms, and that we may shortly have a permanent, rectified Union. Greetry’s Guy Contracts.—There are atill a few people who profess to regard our asser- tions that Greeley & Company, of the Tribune, are interested in a gun contract as a very good joke. We assure all such persons that the mat- ter, if a joke, isa very serious one, and that our charge is based upon official Congressional documents. The evidence in regard to this ‘contract business will be found on page 165, section 68, of Secretary Stanton’s published report in reply to a resolution of the House, passed December 23, 1861. The whole of the evidence in the case was also published and re- viewed in the Heratp of April 26, 1862, and may there be referred to by those who are un- able to procure a copy of Secretary Stanton’s report. It is thus a matter of official, docu- ment evidence, and not of mere rumor or y, that Greeley obtained from Secretary of War Cameron @ gun contract paying five hundred thousand dollars cash, and about two hundred thousand dollars net profit, and that his sourrilous and unpatriotic journal is now supported by drafts upon the United States Treasury for these useless guns, and that, in fact, all of our honest taxpayers are heavily mulcted in order to pay the expenses of the treasonable Tribune. Phecheaine SOM a om Axoruen Kearst Lerrar.—An {natvidual named Halstead has furnished the abolition papers with another letter written by General Kearny. This letter shows that the motive of Kearny’s enmity towards McClellan was the ne. glect of the latter to give Kearny the entire credit ofthe victory at Williamsburg. If Kearny was the great military genius he thought him- self to be, as well as the brave soldier we all knew him to be, he was certainly a very unfor- tunate.man during his life, He is no less un- ‘fortunate now, however, in leaving behind him rofessed friends who are doing all they can to Reprive him of the fame he so hardly won and to cast a cloud over a character which has been hitherto greatly admired, Omaness oi cam Casnmer Nor Parcrrep.— Now that the radicals have smcceeded in re- moving MoClellan, they are their former hue and cry about changes in the Cabl- net. It does not suit us to have'the Cabinet changed just at present, however. The mean: ing of the recent elections seems not yet quite understood at Washington, and we fear that if anew Cabinet were to be constructed now the conservatives would be ruled out altogether, and that only such radicals as Sumner, Love- joy, Wilson, Wade, Garrison and Wendell Tiiips would be cheson, This arrangem would not. please us hy any means, and we cannot permit it to be made. i Besides this, it would be impossible to collect a Cabinet half so good for the newspapers of the country as that now in power at Washing- ton. Where under the sun would we find our materials for fun, ridicule, satire, criticism, hu- mor and invective if the present Cabinet were @lismissed? Where could we procure subjects fa” dissection, curiosities for exhibition, mon- atros ities to daily dumbfound the publio, if the “Happy Family” at Washington were dissolved? Where ¢i8 there another such combination of financiat incapacity and military meddling as Chase? W,'ere such another old naval fogy as that captain @f Nosh’s Ark, Secretary Welles? Where such another man as Stanton to muddle up the Fort Lafayette business and write flaming’ bulletins about every- thing and nothing’, Where such another smiling Daniel ia the Won’s den as Secretary Seward? Where, in short such a collection of mutual jealousies, political aspirations, inter- hal dissensions, futrigues, intermeddlings, mis- management, squabbles, plots, connterplots, ri- valries, mutinies and animosities, with Honest Old Abe bestriding the singular medley like a good bumored, joking Colossus? Of course the answer inust be, nowhere. Therefore, for the sake of the newspapers— and especially of the Heraup—we insist upon the retention of the present advisers of the President. There are a great many queer, odd sticks lying loose about tho country ; but all of them combined would not make so grotesque and laughable a Cabinet as this. Poor Massa Greeloy is vory funny in his way, and Bom- bastes Furioso Clay, Young America Train, Count Adonis Gurowski, Brudder Beecher, Dominie Cheever, Whirligig Brownson, Pro- clamation Fremont, the Pathfinder whe loses his way ; Wendell Phillips, the elo_ quent scold; Altoona Andrew, Abelard Ray- mond, the “Little Villain;” Waterfowl Bryant, of the Post, and Senator Anthony, who won't re- sign, are very funny in their ways; but you might shake them all up ia a bag together, and then draw out enough of them to fill the places of the present Secretaries, and yet fail te collect gach a heterogeneous Cabinet as that with which we are now blessed. On account of our regard for the newspapers of the country, there- fore, we cannot permit any change. As for the interests of the nation, they must take care of| themselves ; and that they will be sure to doe Cabinet or no Cabinet, as long as the newspa- pers survive and prosper. Mrxtstur Camenon on New Yorx Berencus.—lg is stated that when Minister Cameron sailed into New York harbor, upon his return from Russia, he was greatly struck with its defenceless con-| dition, and immediately urged that something} should be done, either by our national or mu- nicipal authorities, to guard this important city more securely. It occurs to us that if Minister Cameron had attempted to sail past our fo and batteries upon a hostile instead of a fri ly errand, he would have been struck by « c non shot instead of an idea. But still there may be something reasonable in his oriticiem of our harbor defences after all. Let him sen on his friend Cummings, with a credit of two or threo millions ef dollars, to put the harbor in good fighting order, and will believe that he is really in earnest in suggestions. AcapExy ov Mvsie,—Notwithstanding the unt character of the weather, an excellent audience assem. bled last evoning to witnoss the socond appearance of dame Guerrabelia in the “Trovatore.”” Owing, probably, to the fact that the role ef Leonora does not tax the ener, gies of a singer to the same extent as that of Vicletta, b; keeping her attention constantly fixed on the dramatic quirements of the part, her voice was heard to mue' greater advantage than on the first night. Having pittlo strain upon it daring the earlicr part of the oper it was enabled to do full justice to the beautiful music the fourth act, in which, #0 far as the sopra. no is concerned, all the more important of the score is concentrated. We have rarel heard the opening scena of this act and the Miserers bot! sung, and a perfect tempest of applause greeted the con: clusion of the latter, and compolied itq repetition. more Madame Guorrabella is heard the more wo convinced she will ingratiate herself in the favor of o public. Her graces of person, distinction of benring exquisite taste and skill in vocalizntion are net often to found combined in the same artist, and they compen: in their rare union for an occasional tnok of that strety which is to be found in coarser orgunizations. MI Morensi, the new contralto, made a favorable im Her voice is excellent in quality, not perhaps as symj thetic as it might be, but etill young, fresh, and of timbre. A little more study and stage experience wiil ¢! her a fair position as an artist. Brignoli sang with than usual spirit, and shared with Madaino Guerral the honors of the evening. Amodin also oxorted hi toadvantage, and elicited well merited appiause in “71 Balen,” which was admirably given. Altogether performance was a most satisfactory one. —— Wartacn’s Taratne,—In spite of the attraction of ti Opera, and the down pouring rain, a large and (1 bio andience was present last night at this house to wit: ness the performance of the comedy ciititied “The Cen) tral Park,’ which was Gret produced with groat ° at Wallack’s old theatre in 1861. Tho play is ono of light charactor, the plot more intricate than pro ut still the performance was so spirited and some of situations go Indicrous as to carry the audience by From the commencement of the first act roars of tor grooted the efforts of the artists, and attested te ‘undoubted success of this reproduction. Mr. ‘Wallack as Wyndham Otis, the gay young man al town, was natural and easy, as usual, and at times (r sistibly droll. Mr. John Gilbert, Mr, Norton, Gannon and Miss Honriques morit special not while Mre. Jotm Sefton was an overwhelming Irish vant girl. The last scone was much applauded. lake in the Central Park, the swans and gondola ‘ail there, and at that Rerettia) ayes ee ely inte the ly clearort uj Th reproduction, of tue'Central Park’ may tally de ‘another success for the management, Dawron’s Moswum,—The Esquimaux family brought this country by Mr. Hall, the Arctic explorer, ‘at present on exhibition hore, and are weil worth a vi ‘Thoy aro vory intelligent, aud give a favorable ien of social cond! people. They will on! io at Canrna..’s Minsraeis.—The performancen of this cellent troupe attract crewds nightly to their new hail Palace of Music, corner of Fourteenth street. Mo ing prtnsancen take place every Wodnosday and Sal w G Dopwortn’s Hatt.—The Myers sistors give one of th dramatic entertainments at this estab! Leia ts ‘The programme is & most aliractive Pct asst rere The Arabia Outward Bowna, |' 12, 1868, steamship Arabia sailed at uoon with for one pavengers ror Liverpool and twenty-five tor Halil She takes out nearly two hundred thousand dollere specie,

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