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

4 NEW YORK HERALD. |! JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, @PFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON 43D Nassau Sta, | cash madwance. Momey sent ry mail will be at the of the sender, Nome but Bunk bulla current in New York THE DAILY HERALD. two centeper cov. $1 ver annum THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturdoy, at az conte per pan ok who Sane the Burapean Etition “cary W-dargiay, Gents per copy. annum art of Great britain oF the Cont nents Doth bo tacade Dat ye, the each month, at siz conta per copy, 01 $2 18 per anvvm THE FAMILY HEKALD, on Weanentay, ax four cents per copy, oF $2 per annuw. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Pince—Irauiaw Orera— Divowas. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw: WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadwa} Macaerm. OeNTRaL Pane, WINTER GARDEN. Broadway.—Aut Harrow Evs— Banomr tax Baron—Macio Jone. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. 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The delay allowed by General Sumner for the removal of the women and chil- dren was occupied by the rebels in throwing up earthworks to the right and rear of the town, as the daylight yesterday morning revealed. Up to Friday night we bad not opened fire on the city. The civic authorities conceded all within their power, but the military force occupying the hills defending the town-—that is to say, the army corps of General Loggstreet—would not consent to its occupation by General Burnside’s troops without offering an obstinate resistance, and so the matter Stood at last accounts. Intelligence from Sigel’s corps, near Fairfax Court House, up to. Friday night states that the rebels still hang about our flanks in that direction. Stuart was at Warrenton on the previous night with a large force, and pushed his pickets on the Manassas Junction road and the Warrenton “pike.” ‘They were driven back by our cavalry under Lieu- tenant Koenig. It is confidentiy stated that Stuart's headquarters are at Warrenton, and that White's cavalry, numbering five hundred men, is at Lees- burg. The working parties of our army in front of Harper's Ferry were attacked yesterday morning by the rebel cavalry near Halltown; but General Geary opened a masked battery of six guns on the assailants, and drove them back, shelling them as far as our guns could reach them in their retreat. Gen. Geary is very active in the prosecution of the defensive works around Harper's Ferry. ‘there is considerable news of a stirring charac. ‘ter from the Southwest. Despatches from Cairo state that reconneissances from Lagrange to Rip- Jey, Miss., have just returned, having occupied that place and Orizaba, eight miles south of it, im twenty-four hours. Our forces took sixty or sev- enty prisoners and seventy horses and mules, with- out losing a man. Reports from Nashville on Friday state that Generals Bragg, Cheatham and Buckner had eva- cuated Murfreesboro, and were falling back on Tullahoma; but more recent despatches state that General Bragg is advancing upon Murfrees- boro and not abandonin, Heavy cannonading was heard yesterday morning in the direction of It is said that Jef. Davis required Bragg to fight every inch of Tennessee soil. General Breckinridge’s divi- sion had occupied Shelbyville. The rest of the rebel army is reported to be south of Duck river, fortifying Elk Ridge. A grand expedition down the Mississippi river is now being organized at Columbus, Ky., by Gen. McClernand. It is designed to openthe whole river as far as New Orleans, and will consist of a force of 40,000 men. The gunboat fleet of Com- mcdore Porter will participate in the movement. The fleet consists of ten gunboats, carrying 12) guns. Vicksburg will probably be the mos isoportant point of attack; but with gach a force, an | Commodore Farragut, with his fleet of gun- Loats below that city to co-operate with Porter wand McClernand, the defences at Vicksburg will not present any very formidable obstacles. » bombardment and partial destruction of the city of St. Marys, Florida, on the 9th instant, by the United States gunboat Mohawk, is graphi- Cally described in our Fernandina correspondence to-day. The treachery of the inhabitants de- manded this terrible retaliation at the hands of Captain Hughes. Our map of the locality will be found of much importance in connection with this affuir. Lebanon; but the cause was not known. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A despatch from San Francisco, dated 21st inst., States that thirty thousand dollars had been for- warded on that day, by the steamer Constitution, fox the fund of the National Sanitary Commission, fuking the total ainount sent from the Pacific coast for the relief of tick and wounded Union diers half a million dollars (he Coroner's investigation into the circum- wtarices attending the death of Miss Clementina Anderson was concluded yesterday, and resulted go a verdict of the jury « st Dr, Edward M. Lrowne, the alleged abort and Angustus L. Simms, as accessory bef and after « faet. Browne waa committed to prison + he action of the Grand Jury, and bir Elin. Gordon, was held as a Report of the testimeny @lsewLore iv to-day's bape. ac taken NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 186%, a Mgr. de Merode, the Pope's Minister at War, | the purpose of cutting in, as opportunities may has disbanded the small remnant of the Ivish vo- | be offered, between our army and its trains and lunteers called the Legion of St. Patrick, Which depots of supplies. He is a vigilant aud active was already reduced to some twenty mem, 12 Rome. The draft in Milwaukee took place on the 19th ! inst., wjthout any serious outward opposition. There were two amendments to the constituti of Wisconsin voted on at the last election, One | was to increase the Governor’s salary from $1,250 a year to $2,500, and the other was to reduce the rate of interest from ten to seven percent. The latter was ado pted and the former defeated. The Legislature of Vermont has elected the fol lowing State officers:—Sceretary of State, George W. Bailey, Jr., of Montpelier; Auditor of Ac- counts, Jeptha Bradley, of St. Albans; Superin- tendent of the State Prisen, Hiram Harlow, of Windsor; Commissioner of the Insane, Dr. E. N. S. Morgan, of Pownal; B: ak Commissior J.E, Dickerman; State Prison Directors, C. C. Martin, of Finisburg; Lucius Robinson, of Newport, and Daniel Stearns, of Windsor. In the Banks expedition New York will certainly have five regiments, Connecticut five regimenta, Maine three regiments, and Massachusetts eight regimerts of infantry, one of cavalry and three batteries of artillery. Gen. McClernand’s body guard, under the com- mand of Captain Francis Jackson, has been in- creased to a battalion, forthe purpose of taking part in the proposed expedition against Vicks- burg. It is stated that one of the victims ordered to be executed at Palmyra, Missouri, on the 18th in- stant, was a man who had a wife and several chil- dren dependent altogether upon his daily labor for their support. A young man, knowing the coni- tion of the family, offered himself as a substitute for the husband and father, was accepted, and was one of the ten who were shot. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to Green Bay was formally opened on the 12th inst. The coal dealers of Boston have advanced the price to nine dollars per ton. Upland cotton brought sixty-eight cents per pound at asale in Philadelphia on Monday last, This is the highest price the article has as yet sold for. Mr. A. L. Fessenden, of Wisconsin. was ordered to be released from the military prison in St. Louis, unconditionally, on the 16th instant, ‘ the charges against him not having been snstained.”’ The order for his release arrived at the prison hos_ pital en the same day of, but a few hours subse. quent to his death. The stock market was better yesterday, and Gosed with a very buoyant tone, Harlem preferred and Mlincis Central being the favorites. Money was @ shade easier than yesterday, but still very close. Gold closed at 18034; exchange at 14434. The specie export of the day wa® $589,369. Saturday's cotton market was an extremely dull one, though middlings were quoted down to 66c. a 66%. There was a fair degree of activity in breadstuffs, with eales ro- ported of 15,000 bbis. flour at full previous prices; 150,000 bushels wheat and 115,000 bushels corn at an advance of lc. per bushel. Only 450 bbls. pork found buyers.at un- changed rates. The sales of beef reached 850 bbls. ; of ard, 1,500 pkgs. , and of baeon $20 boxes, at uniform quo- tations. Butter and cheese were active and firm. Whis- key was stiffly held at 37c. a 373¢c., with sales of 1,250 bbls. Moderate sales of sugars, hay, hops, hides, seeds and taliow were reported at former figures. Coffee, rico and molasses were quiet. Sole leather was in good de- mand and very firm, ag were likewise fish, wool and to- bacco. There was less activity in freights, but otherwise no noticeable alteration. The Campaign in Virginia—The Losses and Profits of Experience. Our latest authentic advices from Virginia are satisfactory and encouraging. The army of General Burnside, in prime condition, is con- centrating its massive columns near its new base of operations at Fredericksburg. The work of repairing the connecting railroad to Aquia creek landing, on the Potomac (nine miles), is rapidly progressing. The rebels threaten to resist the passage of Burn- side’s troops, and there may, therefore, be a battle and avictory. The next thing will be the construction of several bridges over the Rappahannock, to replace those destroyed by the Union forces in their evacuation of Fredericksburg last August. The railroad and the bridges may detain the army several days ; but this will be time well spent, especially as the late rains have rendered the “sacred soil ” of Virginia temporarily impassable to heavy army wagons and artillery over her common roads. With the shifting of the grand army of Gene- ral Burnside from its late interior base, at the foot of the Blue Ridge chain of moun- tains, down to the navigable waters of Chesapeake Bay, all the intervening and utterly exhausted region of forty miles be- tween Centreville and the Blue Ridge and be- yond has been wisely abandoned. Stonewall Jackson may thus amuse himself to his heart’s content in dashing up and down the Shenan- doah valley for a hundred miles, and across the gaps of the Blue Ridge, and through the deso- lated counties of Loudon, Fauquier, Culpepper and Prince William on the eastern side; but he will gain nothing but starvation by such enter~ prises. Last spring and summer he gathered at Front Royal, Strasburg, Winchester and other points a rich harvest of provisions, cloth- ing, ammunition and hospital stores in conse- quence of the vain efferts of our War Depart- ment to hold the Shenandoah valley and the extensive region indicated east of the Blue Ridge, with forces inadequate to the task, in conjunction with General McClellaa’s move- ments upon Richmond. Thus the rebel army of Jackson was maintained largely at the expense of the federal treasury; and the different de- tachments of Union troops, scattered about over aregion of one hundred miles square to catch him, though insufficient for their object, drew so largely upon the army of General Mc- Clellan as to defeat his great expedition. We are gratified that General Halleck has taken counsel from these dearly bought lessons of experience, in a¥andoning the Shenandoah valley and the intervening country, from the Blue Ridge to Centreville, as a free range, for the time being, to Stonewall Jackson. Thus a Union force in the aggregate of sixty thousand men, more or less, which was frittered away last summer in playing hide-and-seek with Jackson, is more usefully employed at Harper's Ferry and in the immediate front of the Virginia fortifications of Washington. If Jackson chooses to assail either of these pesitions he must come prepared for a siege, or be joined by the whole army of Lee. That Lee, as @ last resort, would sacrifice Richmond for the prospect of capturing or shelling Wash- ington, is altogether probable. But, if he enter tains any such design, these late extensive and Hiberal rains have rendered its execution, for some days at least, impossible. There is now, , too, such a volume of water in the Upper Poto- mac as makes it secure, not only between Lees* burg and Harper's Ferry, but up to Cumber- Jand, egainst rebel marauders. We uh it altogether likely, therefore, es + but a sinall prospect of any profi | ranger, and is very apt to turn up, like Stuarts in unexpected places, at the luckiest’ moment for success. It will be seen, however, that the ‘on | Present advance of General Burnside towards Richmond is well devised for victory in the front and security in the rear. We presume, too, that, after the narrow escape of Washington last summer, he will take good care that, in‘advancing upon Richmond, he does not advance upon an abandoned city, with the rebel army on the back track, two hundred thousand strong, and hungry and desperate, pushing for Arlington Heights. When General McClellan advanced from Fortress Monroe up the Richmond peuinania, Norfolk was in possession of the rebels, snd, with the steamer Merrimac and other iron- elads, they controlled the James river. They also heid the York river in holding the fortifica tions of Yorktown, from which it required the approaches of a regular siege to expel them: Now, with Norfolk, Yorktown and the two rivers in ur possession, the work required to carry General McClellan to the Chickahominy holds good, and remains so much work done in behalf of General Burnside; for that his ad- vance will be supported from the James and York rivers is too much feared by the enemy to be doubted. Everything looks well for the suc- cess of the present enterprise of the grand Army of the Potomac, and the country demands that it be pushed forward with energy and with the sagacity taught by experience, and -without delay. “Making a Great People.” The Opinion Nationale, the organ of Prince Napoleon, has a very sarcastic article, which we printin another column. upon the pretended object of the Emperor of the French, in bis war with the Mexicans, to ‘make them a great peo- ple.” This is rathera novel idea in making war to “thrust greatness” upon a people. Many wars have been undertaken to destroy a great people; but it is the first time we have ever heard of a war waged against a people for the purpose of making them great. It is true that war sometimes does develop the greatness of a people; but, then, that is not the case when they are conquered, but when they come off victorious. To subjugate a people by force of arms, and impose upon them a govern- ment, is not to make them great, but only to enslave and degrade them. But this is the greatness meditated by Louis Napoleon for the Mexicans. He does not, of course, intend that they should conquer his armies, and thus be- come great. But it is quite possible that after all the Mexicans may become great in a way that the Emperor least designs. Their military qualities, their heroism, their patriotism, may be developed, and they become what they have not been for many years—a united people—and they may whip the French to their hearts’ con- tent. In this manner they may become as great as the heterogeneous and hybrid races of which they are composed will permit them- But, as the French journal suggests, if there be any infallible receipt for making a people great, why should not General Forey begin at home? The elements of a great people are great virtues, great characters and great talents. But the French do not possess those in such a superabundance that they can afford to export them to Mexico. It required a Gorsiesn to eliminate the elements of order out of chaos after the first French Revolution; and it seems that it needed a man of the same blood to hold the reins after the Revolution of 1848. Had the French been abundantly blessed with great virtues, great characters and great talents, such lame and impotent conclusions could never have resulted from those two revolutions. The truth is that a people’s greatness must spring from themselves; and their institutions, which are a test of their greatness, must, if worth anything, spring from the same source. Insti- tutions imposed by conquerors, and not spring- ing out of the national life of a people, cannot make them happy or great. The idea that any people can be made great to order, by suffering conquest at the hands of another people, is one of the most absurd notions that ever entered the head of a statesman. To subjugate a people cannot make them great; but the attempt and the failure have often done so. Is this the sly meaning that lurks in the words of the Constitutionnel? If it is, we hope the Emperor's project will be crowned with success. The seven United Pro- vinces of the Netherlands were made great on the same plan by Philip II.; and George III. was eminently successful in making his North American colonies great by a seven years’ war. Perhaps the Emperor Napoleon may do the same for the Mexican people. Morr Ligut.—Several days since we called the attention of the city authorities to the fact that carriages were allowed to circulate through the streets after dark without having lighted lanterns. We earnestly recommended that striet measures be taken to enforce that rule or regu" lation which, must exist—to the effect that all vehicles passing through the streets of the city after nightfall should bear in some conspicuous place a light. This measure is one involving life or death, and should meet with the earnest attention of those whose duty it is to watch over the public welfare. At Central Park such a measure has become an imperative necessity: Each day we hear of some accident having occurred from the fact that in the evening ear- riages unavoidably come in contact in the crowded streets and avenues leading from the Park. They remain in the smooth, pleasant drives of that great rendezvous of the fashion of New York until it is dark; then comes a general tush for the city, and crowds of carriages get mixed in almost inextricable confusion. The drivers shout and swear at haphazard; for they have no lights and cannot distinguish where they are going; they dash on, and come in violent con- tact with other vehicles, jeopardizing the limbs ‘and lives of our wives and children, to say nothing of our own. Why should this danger be daily, or rather nightly, incurred, when, by a simple measure of police regulation, it may be easily avoided? Let but the policemen arrest each driver whose lanterns are not lighted at night) and fine him for the offence against public safety, and we shall soon see one and all attend- ing carefully to the lighting of their lamps at the proper hour. We shall thus be saved from a danger which is greater than is perhaps sup- poeed, and shall hear less of accidents caused by a want of attention to a municipal regula- tion which is called for by common sense and law. We are determined to keep up this de mand for more light until it bas been duly attended to, and appeal to the city authorities ne int! tovolving as it does the end weitere . & matter wl aafete The New, Absorbing Topic in Eng- land. The philosopher who discovered that there was but a step between the sublime and the ridiculous must have been a careful student of the English papers. Until very recently the absorbing topic of discussion in England kas been our civil war. Russell, Palmerston, Gad- stone and other official worthies have made long speeches about it, and written any number of letiers explaining and qualifying their speeches. That great debating society, the British Partia- ment, and that premature parliament, the Oxford Debating Society, have been laboring in vaia to fully understand and fairly discuss this great question of the day. Those districts in which the cotton famine prevails have been blessed with public meetings and public lec- tures benevolently calculated to show the peo- ple why they are starving, and to encourage them to starve on unti! this plan, or that plan, or the other plan, has been adepted for their | relief. The English papers have mingled daily doses of sophistical argument, tawdry rhetoric and violent invective, and, with the self-satisfied air of a low comedy physician, have adminis- tered these remedies for rebellion to the sick man of America and the starving men of Eng- land, only to make matters worse and the patients more unwell by their quack medi- cines. A new and more exciting topic has at length come upon the Englisn tapis, howeverr and, according to the London Times, “is dis- cussed with more vivacity in clubs and social circles than any question of politics, whether foreign or domestic.” This great, absorbing subject is the decision of a bet about the spet. ing of the word “reindeer.” Not only the clubs and social eircles, but the whole press of England is deeply interested in this momentous affair. Our English files by the Persia treat of very little else. The jour- nals are filled with communications pro and con., explanations, corrections and contradictions: The London Times and its leading contempora- ries devote long and solemn editorials to the subject, and argue about it with that sublime and ponderous gravity becoming a herd of ele- pbants in chase of a fly, or Mrs. Partington dis cussing the abstruse problem whether or ‘not the moon is inhabited if it be made of green cheese. Of course there is a Yankee at the bottom of this important business, upon the proper settlement of which such tremendous consequences depend; and we shrewdly suspect that Mr. Ten Broeck—the Yankee in question— is deliberately and maliciously perpetrating a terrible hoax upon our British relatives, in order to obtain a fair equivalent in amusement for the one hundred pounds out of which he has been swindled. The facts of the affair, as far as developed, seem to be these:—Colone! Bur- naby and the Hon. Captain Stewart, of the Eng- lish army—illustrious as men about town and on the turf—had a horse named Palm Oil, Sitting at the Jockey Club Room one day, they determined to change the name of their horse to Reindeer, very naturally preferring that title to the slippery cognomen previously selected. Unfortunately the English fashiona- bles are not very remarkable in an educational point of view, and neither the Colonel nor the Captain could spell reindeer. A waiter was therefore despatched for a dictionary, and re- turned with Dr. Johnson’s slightly obsolete pro- duction, in which the word is spelled r-a-i-n- d-e-e-r. This point decided, the horse was named, and no more was then said about the matter. Both Colonel Burnaby and Captain Stewart were struck with a brilliant idea, however, and prepared to put it into execution. By and by Mr. Ten Broeck drops into the club, and after some off hand talk the conver- sation is adroitly turned to the newly named horse, and Mr. Ten Broeck is informed of the rechristening. Then Colonel Burnaby takes out his betting book and asks, “How do you spell that word, Stewart?” Captain Stewart re. plies, “Why I spell it r-e-i-n-d-e-e-r.” “Bet you five pounds it’s r-a-i-n-d-e-e-r,” says Bur- naby, “and we'll decide it by Johnson’s Diction- ary.” “Done,” says Captain Stewart; and the bet is booked. Mr. Ten Broeck, coming from the land of free schools, knows that Burnaby is wrong, and tells him so. Burnaby offers to bet Ten Broeck any sum he likes. Ten Broeck: loth to take advantage of his friend’s ignorance’ but willing to humor his evident desire for a bet, wagers one hundred pounds against ene on r-e-i-n-d-e-e-r. Johnson’s Dictionary is again procured, and Ten Broeck loses his one hundred pounds, which the Colonel and the Captain divide between them. This is what is called a «put up,” or a “bubble” bet, and is obviously unfair, since two persons, having previously ascertained a fact, inveigle a third person into betting about it by pretending to get up a bet between themselves. Our thimble riggers and patent safe operators, and their high born imi tators in the English aristocracy, practise this dodge exclusively, and it is never attempted by an honorable sporting man. This, then, is the subject which now engrosses the English mind. Admiral Rous, the Hon. Ar. thur Annesley and the Hon. Robert Law- ley (brother of Frank Lawley, the London Times’ Baltimore correspondent) are inter. ested as witnesses, and the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief of the British army, threatens that unless the affair is fully explain- ed he will issue a general order prohibiting army officers from belonging to sporting clubs or societies. The sensation thus created in aristocratic circles may readily be imagined. Very probably Parliament will be called upon to interfere, and we should not be surprised if the Queen settled the discussion by a procla- mation. The London Times could very easily satisfy all parties, however, by engaging Bur- naby, Stewart and the Hon. Mr. Lawley (“who repudiates his own formal testimony”) as its special foreign correspondents. The Times seoms to prefer stock gamblers—like Russell— and dishonest private secretaries—like Frank Lawley—for its American representatives, and why should it not send over these perpetrators of a swindling bet to help write down this un. aristocratic country, and teach us by example how to relinquish our insane worship of the al- mighty dollar? Certainly no other proceeding could be more appropriate or more character- istic of English journalism. Tae War in tHe Sovtuwest.—Since the ex- pulsion of the rebel Gen. Bragg and his grand invading host of seventy-five thousand men from Kentucky into the northeast corner of Tennes- see, his army seems to have melted away. A portion of it may have been sent East to strengthen Geo. Lee at Richmond; but the main body, it appears, has been broken up inte detachments, and scattered along the country south and west of Knoxville, for, the indispen- able object of subsistence, The great federal | depots of provisions. ammunition, &e., at Nash Ville and Memphis were the speeist objects of Bragg in his rapid retreat from Kentucky ; but, as Buell headed him off at Louisville in his porthern march, go Rosecrans has anticipated him in his retreat. Consequently Bragg has been compelled to move down nearer the bor- ders of Georgia and Alabama, and to divide his forces, in order to feed them from the impove- rished country around him. Further West, the demoralized rebel forces of Van Dorn, Price and Lovell, which were so ter- ribly defeated in their concentrated attack upon Coriath, have been pursued by Gen. Grant to Holly Springs, Mississippi. We dare say that when the combined land and naval forces un. der Gen. McClernand and Admiral Porter get under way, they will, in conjunction with Gen, Grant, very soon clear out the armed forces of the rebellion from the entire State of Missis- sippi, including Vicksburg, the last remaining point on the Mississippi river where the rebels now command a crossing. Meantime, under the general direction of ‘Gen. Butler, the work of ferreting out and breaking up the squads of rebel guerillas in the swamps of Louisiana has been. going on successfully ; and simultane ously our naval forces have cleaned up the whole coast of Texas, including a heavy cata- logue of warlike spoils. Little remains to be done to complete the suppression of the rebel- lion in the Southwest, beyond the capture of Vicksburg and Mobile ; for the loss to the rebels of these two important military positions will, under the pressure of our land and naval forces from the Gulf coast and from the North, involve the loss of Mississippi and Alabama. Where, then, will be the hope of rescue tc the rebel cause in Arkansas, Northern Louisiana and Texas? They will all go by the board. Thus, while in the East a decisive victory on the part of Gen. Burnside will be followed by a general collapse of the rebellion, from Virginia to Georgia, it only needs a telling blow or two in the Southwest to settle the question, from Georgia to Texas. East and West, too, best of all, the Union has the men and the means in mo tion competent for the work. Fears.—Now that King Cotton has been found an ineffective agentin securing the forcible intervention of England, thé rebel journals are shifting their tactics and are appealing to her timidity. The last number of the Richmond Dispatch has an article in which it conjures up a fearful picture of her doom in the event of a reunion being ef- fected between the Nouth and South. In the first place she is to lose Canada; next, her flects are to be swept from the ocean, and then the loss of all her colonial possessions—the West In- dics, Australia and India—is to follow. As the recqnstruction of the Union will inevitably take place, whatever course England may choose to pursue in our regard, we present the above recapitulation of facts to the careful attention of Englishmen, with a recommendation for them to consider whether it will not be well for them to conciliate the good feeling of the North by pursuing a frank and honest policy towards it whilst yet it is in their power. From the present language of the rebel journals they can see how ready Southerners would be to concur in a war against them in revenge for the insin- cerity of their conduct towards them. Those who play a double game must expect to reap a double harvest of enmities. Reset Appeats To ENGuisi Enouish Miurary Criticisms on THE WaR,— The London Army and Navy Gazette, in an ar- ticle on the progress of the war, has the follow- ing remarks on the inaction of our army in Vir- ginia :-— There is the North, with double the white population of the South, all dying to die for the Union, without any foreign and internal element to distract their strength and attention—with the command of the sea, and with a free intercourse with all the nations of the world,-which can sell tl munitions of war or furnish them with merce- parics—with the control of the great inland rivers and water communications—with the most virtuous, intelli- gevt, rich, prosperous and enlightened citizens—with all the armories, dockyards, foundries and manufactories— with sulphur, saltpetre, charcoal, iron, steel, lead, the New Yor Heracp, and everything that ought to com- mand success, standing at bay on the Northern frontiers of Virginia before an enemy which has all the disad- vantages, and all the advantages which have fallen to the lot of the federais. The above is all true, or was so at the time it was written, the only thing in connection with it to which exception is to be taken being the writer's speculations as to the causes of the in- action which excites his wonderment. The North has had all the powerful auxiliaries of which he speaks, the New York Heratp in- cluded ; but they have been paralyzed by in- fluences which have been left out of his calcula- tions, Had he read the debates in Congress in March last, and followed the articles of the Union journals since, he would have seen that the inaction of our forces in Virginia was caused, not by any want of competency or energy on the part of our commanders, or of a spirit of enthusiasm on the part of our troops, but by the obstacles thrown in the way of General McClellan by the radicals, and the pressure brought to bear on the President for his re- moval—a pressure which he declared himself unable to resist. The New York Herarp used its most strenuous efforts to defeat those malign influences, and therefore our English military contemporary is correct in setting it down as one of the most effective of the forces employed in the vigorous prosecution of the war. Operatic. ‘The weather cleared up a little last evening, and gave manager Grau a good night for his galaperformance. The public appreciated this favor, and Irving place thundered with the rumble of carriages. * The performance began half an hour earlier than usual, and go the house filled up rather slowly at first. By the regular hour of opening, however, a very select and fashionable audience crowded: every part of the Academy. Although Mr. Grau had not advertised the fact, it seemed to be generally understood that General McClel” yan would be present last evening. The General did not attend, however, although Mrs. McClellan was in a re- tired private box in the dress circle, and Mrs. President Lincoln was present for a short time during the evening. As we semi-officially announced that the General's pres. once was anticipated, it is but fair to state that General MoClellan at first accepted Mr. Grau’s invite. tion to attend, but, being detained by other en- gagements, sent Mr. Grau the following note, of which ‘no mention was made to the audience, because no official notice had been given on the subject:— Fiera Avance Horm, Naw Yone City, Nov. 22, 1862. Mr. J. Grav: Bin—I am directed by Coneral McClellan to express bis regrets that he is compelled to deny himself the pleasure of attending the Opera thia evening, as proposed, and to tender 3 te ge whi (oad £4 ape Tam, sir, very Feepeetany TB. SWEITZER, Licut. Col. and A. D. Os As {s usual upon such occasions, there were many rumors that the brave and popular General was here, there and everywhere—in the parquet, the dress circle, tho boxes; but be could not be found, though at every pause in the performance opera glasses were anxiously levelled to catch & glimpse of him, and enthusiastic in- dividuals rushed up atairs and down stairs aed through the corridors to hunt him out, Evidently the large au- dience desired rather to see MeClelian than to listen to the performanoo; bat the performance was amply suff ciont to repay them for their attendance. ‘The programme began with the first act and a scene from the third act ef a,'in which Lorini, Me renel, Susint and Mace appeared, Lorial was in good voice, bul did Gob Hing woll as ia “Luctezia Borgia’ on the evditag ptévious. Moronsi was, as usual, ad@ivablo, and Was weartily and deservediy ap- Plauded, Gusti did well,ena’ Maccaferri did as well as he could, ‘La Praviata” fokowed, with Guerrabelle as the heretne an¢ Brignoli ax\ Alfredo. We ean oniy repeat our former notice of this tatt,’T (Pera. GuerrabeRa acted eplenaidly and sang enjoyably.’ Brignoli’s excelieat rendition of bis part is familiar to ,the public. Both artists, as well as Amodio, were greatly’ yAPPlauded, The extraerdinary care with which Signor Ma 7i0 affected to conduct the orchestra was equally insfi‘uctive and amusing. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. . Wasninaton, Noy. 22, 1868" MOVEMENTS OF STONEWALL JACKSON—GEN. ifainy’ ZELMAN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIM. An impression prevailed quite extensively in front yea terday and this forenoon that General Early’s and General Marshall's divisions of Stonewall Juckson’s corps were advancing upon Washington, and had arrived in the viol- nity of Middleburg and Leesburg. We, however, atate what we know in saying that tg “Stovewall” comes in this direction with less than one bundred thousand, men that General Heintzelmap will hardly let him get back to the mountains again, so that there need be little fear that we shall hear the report of his artillery in this city. Wearone believers that tho rebel troops who now hover around our immediate front are in any considerable force what- over, THE SUPPLY OF POSTAL CURRENCY. The agent of the National Bank Note Company states that they:are now striking off daily one hundred thousaad dollars of the postal currency, and Secretary (hase has directed such @ multiplication of the plates that twe hundred thousand dollars shall be issued daily. At the former figure the public will get twoand a half milliona of dollars a mouth; at the lattor, five millions; #0 the dap is not far distant when it would seem that a proper sup- ply will be at hand. These Ogures show how immense an amount of small change is needed for the purposes of trade, and bow much of publie debt will be thus ai” sorbed. In this city there has ever been auch a aupply of the postal currency that the miserable postage stampsy which are causing such mischief and toss in the Nort&, have ecarcely been needed. THE CASE OF GENERAL M’DOWELL. The Conrt of Inquiry in ‘the case of General McDowell met and organized this morning. ‘The President asked the Recorder if be had avy charges against Genera! Mo Dowell fur the Court to act upon, and was anawered ia the negative. The Recorder was directed to apply to the Adjutant General for all charges or other papers referring to the case, and the Court adyourned until Monday next. ‘The request ot General McDowell was for a court of inquiry into his general conduct, but f appears that by some error iv the phraseology of (he order the Court ia directed to investigate charges against him, whea there are one in existence. There are onig two sorts of courts known to the military service—courts of inquiry and courts martial. The military commission’ which have recently been instituted are an innovation, and there does not appear to be any authority for them: The order in the McDoweli case authorized @ quasi court martial The fact was developed in the official interroga- tory to General McDowell this morning by the Recorder, “Whether he had any objection te any of the officers of the court detailed to try his case?’ to which Generat McDowell replied that he was ‘“‘not on trial."’ Under the language of the order it is probable that the court will be compelled to adjourn without action or await a aew order. H THE CASE OF GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTER. General Fitz John Porter's trial is delayed by the aom- arrival of witnesses THE SKNATE AND THE NEW BRIGADIERS. It is understood that the Military Committee will soru- tinize very closely the appointments ot brigadier geue- rals wade during thé vacation of Congress,and that many of those named will fail to receive confirmation. Te those of demecratic lineage and faith not much merey will be shown. LIEUT. COL. COLBURN. Lioutenant Colonel Colburn, of General McClellan's staff, who was summoned here a few days ago to shew upon what authority be bad left the Army of the Pete mac, was assigned to duty in the office of the Adjatant General, from which he was relieved this morning, and is again waiting orders, Colonel Colburn is oue Of the most efficient officers in the field who are sow in the service, and it was probably regretted that hie particular abilities for field duty at this important crisis should be buried in the office of the Adjutant General, Tt bas been many years since he enjoyed a furlough, and while the military authorities are determining where to place him he may perhaps obtain that privilige. SUDDEN DEATH OF GENEKAL PATTERSON. Brigadier General Frank Patterson, of Philadelphia, was found dead to-day ip his tent, at Fairfax Court House. The cause of his death is not knowa. THE NUMBER OF DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. ‘The number of soldiers recently discharged and paid off has been greatly underrated by the New York Tribune. The number paid off by Paymaster Andrews last week was eighteen hundred : M’CLELLAN’S BODY GUARD MUSTERED OUT OF SERVIOR. ‘The Sturgis Rifles,who have acted as General McCiel- lan’s body guard during his campaigns in Virginia end Maryland, at bis request are to be mustered out of the service next Monday. Generai McClellan claimed this privilege for bis household troops, who will doubtiess re enter the service in positions suited to their several capa’ cities. STONEWALL JACKSON'S SERMON, Stonewall Jackson ix reported to have delivered to hig troops last Sunday a discourse apon text from Joel, chap- ter 2, verse 20, as follows :— But I will remove far off from you the Northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea and his hinder part toward the utmost sea,and his stink shall come up, and his tl savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE CAPTURE OF REBEL ‘VESSELS. The Navy Department has been informed of the capture by the steamer Hale, in Nassau river, of the schooner Wave, iaden with turpentine and cotton. ‘The Daylight boarded the Racer, of Nassau, N. P., of ‘Wilmingten. The crew of the latter made their escape, and afterwards ineffoctually fired upen the boats’ crews of the Daylight. The Racer had to be abandoned in eon sequence, but her cargo, principally of salt, was saved. It is arcertained from other despatches that the expe- dition which Gred the Alieghanian was led by Lieut, Wood, formerly of the United States Navy. Several of the in- cendiaries bave been captured, one of whom confessed he was the rebel pilot in the expedition. A PRESENT TO THE PRESIDENT. Mr. Lincols has been presented by a leading represen- tative of the Hebrews of the West with an elegant paint, ing of the American flag, having upon its stripes an in, scription in Hebrew, from the book of Joshua, chapter first, verses four to mine inclusive. A SPRCIMEN OF BRITISH NEUTRALITY, An tilastration of the shallewness of the pretence of British noutrality will be found im the following notes die- covered on board the last prize which arri at New ‘York—viz: the schooner Water Witch, which was cap- tured while attempting to rua the blockade. Barclays & McDowell arc leading merchants at Kingston, Jamaica, ‘and seem to take # for granted It is the duty of = commo- dere in the British Navy to give information and advice to facilitate the delivery of cargoes of merebandise in the Dlockaded ports of ne - itch:— Te Oaptale ieee te berwwita & note for Comme. dore Dunlop, and_hoye you may get some useful tion from ‘Your messenger takes the demijohn rom again, Wi you @ speedy and prosperous voy- age, 1am, very truiy, yours, a E Hi idanee, we take the Ii! faction, and will feel ‘obliged can give him under the circumstances. W BARCLA’ fe are obedient servants, YS & MoDO' Court of G Before City Judge MeCuna. SENTENCES, Nov, 28.—The following prisoners, Convicted during the Inst week, wore brought up this meroing before City Judge MeCunn for pond aed . ghes rand ta ¥ Ps \Ee ciate Prison for awe yonre, eer Klump, convicted of the same offence, was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment iv the State Prison. Shad. rack Reid, the cotored ep of manslaughter im {he third degree, was senlenced to the State Priton for four years. sl a The Nova Scotian Oatward Bound, Mowrist, New. 92, 1868. | Phe steamship Nowa Sootian mailed from Qubec at eleven ‘cloek orming, ‘aking o thirty: varevnteteaze cemesrere tor bi g F} F