The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1863, Page 4

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Brook! —Ermrortan foxes, Danoxs, Bnumeauen ao 5 ie New York, Friday, April 10, 18603. THE SITUATION. From all the information in our possession we ‘re warranted in stating that the attack on Charleston has fairly commenced, and it may be, ere this time, that the great rebel stronghold has been reduced. Fort Sumter is again the object of attack—this time the Union gunboats being the aggressors. The arrival of the United States transport Pairhaven at this port yesterday brings us news from Port Royal to the 4th inst. The can- monade on Fort Sumter opened on Monday from nino of our iron-clads. A tremendous explosion took place in the harbor of Charleston a few days since, causing a jarring sensation to the whole blockading squadron six miles off. It is supposed to have been a premature explosion of some sub- marine machines, probably the rebel torpedoes; and if this be so the obstructions most dangerous to our fleet may have been removed by some un- looked for disaster. ‘The Richmond papers generally are silent upon the state of affairs at Charleston, So are the rebels on the Rappahannock. All these things indicate that success is not on the side of the enemy, whatever may be the fortunes of our attacking forces so far. We have information from robei sources as late a8 the Sth inst. The Richmond Sentinel of Wednesday says:— “It is understood that official information was re- ceived at a late hour on Monday evening to the ef- fect that the encmy (our forces) had been attempt- ing to cross the bar off Charlcston harbor; but had not up to that time succeeded in getting over. It was believed yesterday that several fede- ral iron-clads, eight in number, together with many transports had crossed.” “It was also believed’’— says the Sentinel—‘that a deapatch was received by the Secretary of War (Randolph) om Tuesday evening, to the effect that the long expeeted at- tack had commenced, and that the enemy were bombarding fort Sumter.”” The Richmond Whig says that late on the same day our iron-clads had crossed the bar, and were then at anchor. This was officially announced. Atany moment, then, we may receive important intelligence from Charleston. Geperal Copeland, of General Stahl’s division, made a successful raid to Aldie, Middleburg and Ropersville, in Loudon county, Va., im which he captured some seventy rebels and over one hun- dred horses. The President paid a visit to the Army on the Rappahannock on Sunday, and had a review of the army by brigades. The report of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, relative to the Bull run battles and the disaster at Ball’s Bluff is publistied, Although it relates to events ao far removed, it is highly inter- - esting. The testimony is voluminous and minute. The news from the West is not encouraging. A despatch from Clarksville, Tenn., dated Wednes- dsy, says that the steamboat Lovell and the pro- peller Saxonia were captured and burned by the rebels fifteen miles above. The captain of the Lovell was killed and the captain of the Saxonia lost an arm. The first engineer of the Lovell was wounded. Woodward commanded the rebels, who were twelve hundred strong, with two pieces of artillery. Rebel despatches from Chattanooga say thata Union force of 15,000 men is advancing on Colam- bia, and that a battle is imminent. A new canal has been commenced acroas the pe- ninaula, near Vicksburg, eight miles long, and be- yond the range of the rebel batteries. Admiral Farragut holds the river from Vicksburg to Port Hudson. General Grant and Commodore Porter had gone up the Yaaoo on a reconnoissance. A re- bel despatch from Fort Pemberton, dated the 5th, statos that the Union troops had embarked on board their steamers, and were in full retreat. ‘The United States steam transport Pioneer, Cap- tain Hasleton, from Beaufort, N.C., 6th instant, arrived at this port last evening, and reports that General Foster was at Washington, N.C., hemmed th by the rebels. The steamer Sylvan Shore left Beaufort for Washington, N. C., on the 4th instant, and when a few miles below that place was fired ‘upon by ® rebel battery on shore, which resulted in the killing and wounding of several of the crew of the Sylvan Shore, and compelled her to return to Beaufort. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the Broadway Railroad ‘bill and the bill prohibiting the banks from loaning money on gold or coin were both passed. Soveral bills were passed and # number favorably report- od; none of them, however, of general importance, No business of importance was transacted by the Assembly. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The new stoamship City of Cork, of the Inman Vine, will sail this day (Friday) at noon, for Queenstown and Liverpool, from pier 44 North ri- ver. She goes out as an extra steamer, and copies of the Hwratp and the latest news des- + patches go by ber. She will land telegrams and j despatches at Cork and proceed to Liverpool, City of Washington sails on Saturday next, at the usual hour, aa the regular weekly steamer of the line. Tho British steamship Louisiana, from Liverpool, arrived yesterday, brought 1,849 bales of cotton, and the British steamer Celt, from Havre, brought 679 bales, making a total of 2,528 bales. Governor Morton, of Indigng, last evening ptQ powpliméifary dinner, tendered to him, beMiome of the leading republicans of this city. Mayor Opdyke presided, and speeches were made by Governor Morton, D. D. Field, General Wool, Robert Dale Owen, Judge Bonney, H. J. Raymond and M. Cowden. We give a condensed report of the proceedings. The Committee on Water Defences of the Har- bor Defence Commission met yesterday, to hear Mr. Stevens in regard to his celebrated floating battery, now lying. at Hoboken; but in conse- quence of illness in the family of Mr. Stevens the committee will hold a meeting to specially hear him on Tuesday next at one o'clock. Mr. M.N. Stanley presented the result of an. experiment by & new gua making by him, which sent a half-inch steel spike through four and a half inches of solid wrought iron plating, beipg fired from an ordinary rifled barrel, The same. sized spike from the eame gun-was drivea through fifteen feet of solid pine» plank. Mr. Malafert, the contractor who restored Diamond Reef, explained hie plan for an infernal machine; and Mr. L, H. Dunkin explained his plan for an iron-clad to be wholly impervious to any shot or-sheil. : There are now 6,716 inmiates in the public insti- tutions of the city—2 decrease of thirty-one since last week. The number admitted during the week was 1,465, while those discharged, transfer- red or who died numbered 1,496. The investigation into the circumstances attend- ing the death of Peter F. Fletcher, of No. 119 Washington street, supposed to have been poison- ed by his wife, was commenced yesterday by Co- roner Ranney. A number of witnesses were exa- mined, but nothing definite was elicited. The in- quest was adjourned over until to-day, in order that the contents of deceased’s stomach might be analyzed. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Recorder Hoffman, Bridget Breen, ¢ servant girl, was indicted for grand larceny, in stealing $156 from her mistress, Mrs. Emma Kingsbury, early in March last. The jury, after remaining out about two hours, stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction, with no prospect of a nearer agreement, and were accordingly discharg- ed. The Court adjourned until this morning. It is proposed to clear the timber off all the is!ands in the Hudson river, in order that the free passage of the ice shall not hereafter be ob- structed. The market for cotton was-very dul! yesterday, ay buyers were reluctant to pay over 60 cents for middlings. Prices of broadstuffs, provisions and groceries tended downward, yet business was quite limited. Tallow was active, but cheaper. A very slack demand prevailed for nearly all descriptions of domestic produce and goneral merchandise, at drooping rates, The compotition of screw steamers with sailing vessels had a very depressing effect on the ocean freight market, leading to x. great re- striction of engagements aud a material reduction in rates. Gold was active yesterday, but the fluctuations were lers active than the previous day. It opened at 148%, Sold down to 146, aud closed about 147%. Stocks were irregular, and generally lower in the morning, but rallied in the afternoon, and became quite strong, with the exception of Harlem. Exchange was dull at 162 a 163. Monoy was exceedingly easy; call loans 5 per cent. ‘The trade tables of the port for the month of March will ‘be found in the money article. The Conduct of the War a Disgrace to the Nation. Since the rebellion began nething has seen the light Which is co calculated to give aid and comfort to the enemy and to dishearten the people of the loyal States as the disgraceful re- port on “The Conduet of the War” issued by the joint committee of Congress. “Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!” is a proverb of a very old date; and Jeff. Davis may well exult that his enemy bas not only written and printed a report, but that he is about te repro- duce it in pamphlet form, as if if were not sufficiently humiliating to the nation that it should appear in the newspapers. The com- mittee have been two years at work, and what they have produced at last recalls the fable of the mountain in labor, which brought forth a ridiculous mouse. The main design of the report is evidently to damage General McClellan; and so one-sided a document never before emanated from a Con- gressional committee. It is more like the speech of a public prosecutor against @ prisoner than the charge of an impartial judge, exhibiting the evidence on both sides, without fear, favor or affection. But in their anxiety to injure him they have effectually damaged themselves, and brought reproach upon all in military authority, from the Presi- dent down to the bnigadier general. For who is responsible for the conduct of the war? Not the subordinate generals, but the authorities at Washington who appoint them. The flippancy with which s committee of civilians give expres- sion to military opinions, and speculate upon what would or might have been had General McClellan done this or omitted to do that, is quite in keeping with their profound ignorance of the subject on which they treat. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” They are all like a set of schoolboys playing soldiers when the school master is out. The most burly of them, Ben. Wade, shonts that they are all wrong, and strikes right and left, after the fashion of a bull in achina shop. He hite the tall boys like Lincoln under the fifth rib, and the short boys like McClellan on the bridge of the nose. The military criticisms of Wade & Co. are about as valuable as the prattle of children. But, while their opinions are not worth a rush, the facts which they bring to light present a melancholy picture of the folly and incapacity which have marked the conduct of the war in the Cabinet and inthe camp. They re- present Abe Lincoln, an Tlinois lawyer, play- ing the part of Napoleon the Great dictating to his marshals. This would be extremely farcical were not the consequences involved of the most tragic nature. The report throughout fe a satire on the President. In one portion of it, indeed, a most serious charge is made, namely, to the effect that Mr. Lincoln and the two great men who eit by his side, Halleck and Stanton, let ont the secret of Burnside’s plan of campaign, so that it reached the enemy and compelled the abandonment of the plan. The report is as remarkable for what it omits as what it contains, One of the most brilliant and successful battles ef the war, that of Han- over Court House, won by McClellan’s right wing under Fite John Porter—a victory from which the capture of Fichmond would have fol- lowed but for the action of the authorities at : the national capital—is completely ignored. No mention is made of tho failure at that critical moment of McDowell to advance from Fredricks- burg to co-operate with McClellan, though his advance guard had heard the sound of the cannon—a failure caused by the positive orders of the War Department forbidding McDowell to move. McClellan did bis part well. The au- Pein i NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1863. the report (or fairnesd and impartiality. © Zoln down who is fit to lead 60,000 men; and that in the principal battles in which we had not more than a portion of them, hardly 20,000, could be brought into action. Thus our generals havo always had more troops than they knew what to do with. The decisive battles won by the masters of the art of war, euch a8 Napoleon and Frederic, were the result of @ skill which brought to bear their whole force against the enemy. Most of the battles fought in this war have been mere ecenes of slaughter without result. The chief cause of failure lies in an ignorant interference at Washington with the generals in the Geld. The ouly man who appeared to. understand his business in theory and to have made proficiency in the practice of the military art was General McCtel- Inn, and he wag dismigsed just. when his talents and capabilities were being developed by ex- perience. It is truco he has his faults_and that he. made come mistakes ; but he has been thwarted in the most malignant manner from the very outset by the politicians in Congress and the radicals in the Cabinet. The greatest fault imputed to him is fexcessive caution and laek of self-confidence. But this arises from a just appreciation of the difficulty of his task. An inferior mind would be blind to this, and commit such terrible blunder# as that of Burn- side at Fredericksburg. McClellan was gradu- ally fecling his way and fitting himself to be a great military leader. He was becoming bold- er and bolder every day, and more expert in handling a large army, as at Antietam, when his career was cut short by an order from Washington, and inferior men put in bis place. It is not in a year or two years that a soldier, even with a good military education, but who has seen little or no service, can rise from the position of a captain of cavalry to that of a suc- cessful general commanding 100,000 men. How long did it take to make the yictor of Water- loo? How many battles did he fight in India and in the Spanish Peninsula before he attained the skill to cope with Napoleon? At an earlier period of his history Bonaparte asserted with truth that he did not know one. man in Europe who was capable of conducting fifty thousand men to battle. Why, then, should the fruits of the ripe experience of years and genius com- bined be expected from so young and inexpe- rienced an officer as General McClellan? By the greatest military judge in the country, the veteran Winfield Scott, he has been recently pronounced the ablest general the war has “yet developed. He had done the best his circumstances allowed, and would have matured into a first class general as rapidly, perhaps, as any who ever preceded him, with two or three rare exceptions. Buthe was recklessly sacrificed last fall by a combi- nation of party spirit and imbecility, and from that day to this the Army of the Potomac has made no progress, while it has suffered serious disaster. We fear that, through the same blun- dering which has characterized the acts of the War Department and the performance of so many of our generals in the field, other disas- ters may be in store for our army in the present campaign. But there is one source of consolation and national pride in the report—one distinguish- ing feature of the war—and that is that the incompetency of generals and of the War De- partment has been redeemed by the intelligent courage and discipline of the men. They have fought like heroes on every field; and even when they knew that they were marched into the jaws-of death, without any advantage to the cause, they shrank not from the sacrifice. This was the case at Fredericksburg, where they said to each other:—“Boys, we are going into a slaughter pen; but we must do it: come on.” And even after the dreadful defeat which they anticipated they were ready to try it over again next day. There is no example in his- tory of troops fighting so bravely and so well who bave been so badly led. By their brilliant fighting qualities they have won imperishable renown. By the conduct of the war from first to last the country has been disgraced. Tur Connecricur Exrecrion—Tue Lesson ir Teacues.—The radical journals in this city and elsewhere are laying the flattering unction to their souls and tothe souls of their readers that the result of the recent election in Conneo- tieut is a triumph for republicanism. It is quite the reverse., It is a triumph for conserva- tism and rebukes the copperheads. The figures show that there is a republican lose almost in every district, and that the entire majority of last year is diminished from upwards of nine thousand to three thousand—a loss of six thousand in twelve months. And had not the copperheads managed to get control of the democratic organization and put their ideas prominently forward, not only would the whole of the republican majority of last year have been swept away, but a handsome majority would have been won for the democratic candi- date. The radical journals, therefore,so far from taking any comfort in the result, ought to regard itas the mysterious handwriting on the wall which dooms their party, showing that the tide of opinion is steadily advancing against it, and {fs only prevented from Leing more rapid in its progress by the folly of a portion of the op- position. As the elections last fall rebuked the republican party, 80 the elections this fall, and particularly that of Connecticut, rebuke the copperheads. The conservative republicans, if not repelled by their insane proceedings, would have gone over to the democratic camp in swarms. The copperheads allege that the Connecticut soldiers of the republican stamp sent home to vote, to the number,of five thousand, while the democrats were refused furloughs, did the business—in fact that “the troops of Connecti- cut conquered the State.” But even if this be true to the extent asserted, it would have avail- ed nothing but for the mischievous course of the copperheads. But nothing can arrest the progress of the great conservative party, Events are daily killing off the extremes and drawing together and consolidating the conservative elements. Nothing can save the revolutionary republicans from annihilation at the polls in the Presiden- tial election of 1864. Even if the rebellion should be put down before that time it would not redeem the party from destruction. The amount of mischief it has already done is too groat to permit it to retrieve Its ruined fortunes. No party could play the role that it has per- As to generalship, the report goes to prove { thAt the safoty of Washington when it was not | fore endangered was sacrificed to everything | sweep away all obstractions or surge over glee; that we avg not » man from Abg Ling Yagu in irresistible majesty, The | thoritics at Washington spoiled al. The omis- formed and Hve. The imprudence of some sion of all this is. a specimen of the character of leadmg men of the op; ' | elections retard the wave of conservatism and may in the State throw it back for a moment, but it is only to ga'n new etrength and in its mext advance to Lyrrers on THR LOYALTY ov Tax Anuy.— Hardly a day passes that we do not receive let- an army of upwards of 100,000 men in the eld | tors from the army giving assurances of the un- faltering loyalty of our soldiers in the field, and repudiating all sympathy with the senti- ments and declarations of the copperbeads of the North. We do not publisl the letters and resolutions on the subjoct, deeming it entirely unnecessary to do so. We entertain no doubt, and the country entertains none, in regard to the loyalty of our army. Never could any na- tion boast of a braver, truer or Gner army in every respect than that which is now in the field contending for the integrity and perpetuity of the American republic. Ati that our soldiers need is that they-shall be praperly clothed and fed and paid, and tbat they shall be commanded by officers who will \cad them to victory. _ For this they can only took to” Washington; but it: must be confesséd that no great reliance Js to aL. be placed upon those who have power i that'| W.," quarter. Nevertheless, in victory as well sein defeat, the loyalty of our army is beyond question or dispute. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasuunarox, April 0, 1863, ‘THE RECENT ROBBERY OF ADAMS’ EXPRESS. It fo stated thas among the parties arrested recently by detective Allen Pinkerton, some fourteen in numbers were several ladies. Upon one of the number, neatly sandwiched between her amply quilted skirts, were thirty thousand dollars im Treasury six por cent certificates of indebtedness, consigned to Adams & Co.'s Express. ‘THR MILITARY DISTBIOT OF WESTERN VIRGINIA. The department recently commanded by General Cox bas been included in the Middle Department, under com- mand of General Schenck, and is now recognized as the District of Western Virginia, commanded by Brigadier General Scammon. ARREST OF GEORGE B. LAWRENCE. George B. Lawrence, author of the well known romance, “ Guy Livingstone,” was arrested a mile and a baif be- yond our picket lines last night, while making his way towards Richmond. Lawrence arrived in this country two or three weeks since from England, and has occupied his time since with prominent secessionists in this city and Baitimore. He is known to have been on unusually iutimate terms with prominent rebel sympathizers, and when tuken was armed with letters of introduction and direction from a well known eource in Baltimore. He was taken before Judge Advocate Turner to-day, and by him committed to close confinement in the Old Capitol. Law- rence dined with Lord Lyons while in Washington, and seemed to enjoy friendly relations with all the British fegation. Trouble with the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. INSUBORDINATION AMONG THE SECOND CAVALRY—— ONE OF THE MUTINFERS SHOT. Boston, April 9, 1863. Ingubordination among some of the soldiers of tho Second Masgachusotts cavalry this morning led to one of them, named William Lyneh, being ordered to be put in ivons. Hts comrades resisted the order, drow their sabres and knocked down the sergeant, who was endeay- oring to apply the bandouffs. The assistance of the police was called, but the threat ning demonstrations of the soldiers deterred their inter- teCol Lowell, in command of the regiment, was then sent for, and, after warning the men of the folly and pen- alty of disobedience, ordered Lynch from the ranks to be ironed. Lyneh objected to the irons being put on him, and his rushed forward to bis rescue. Colonel Lowell then fired, killing William Pendergast the leading matineer, instantly. promptly stopped the outbreak. EIGHT DESERTERS DROWNED IN BOSTON HARBOR WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE. i | | t #? i L3 i i os ay ; Musical. “ FIDELIO” AT THB ACADEMY OF MUSIC. AG immense audieace greeted the appearance of Mana- gor Apechuis’s German opera troupe at the Academy of ‘Muste last night. We bave no space to review the per- formance at length. We can but notice its great success. The artists were loudly uded. The opera was ad- mirably sung. On Satui evening next another per- formance will be presented at the y ‘thi troupe, on which given, THE GOTTSCHALK CONCERT AT IRVING HALL. A large audience assembled at Irving Halil last evening to hear M. Gottechalk’s second concert of this season. Want of space prevents our entering into the doteiy of this performance. Gottschalk was as soagpestur a6 usual, He played with exquisite taste and skill, was boister- ously applauded. Mies sang with Buceeas, and was likewise warmly applauded. Mr. qT ve ‘heodore Thomas ‘The concert was undoubtedly a success. Theatrical. Matilda Heros will play “Edith” but » few nights longer at Niblo’s Garden. On Monday next “Camille” will b@ revived, and will be followed by movelties during the closing weeks of Mss Heron's engagement. Mr. Thomas Baker, the lender of Laura Keene's orches- tra, takes his annual bevefit on Saturday evening. Mr. Baker is an excel'ent and popular conductor. The theatre should be crowded ‘The Indian chiefs are drawing immense crowds to Bar nom’s Museum. The chiefs look atthe spectators, the spectators look at the chiefs, and the enjoyment is , mutual. Marine Disasters. Pmapevena, April 9, 1863. The deserters wrecked on board the steamer [’atroon, @ guard, and sent via the canal to Washington. ‘The up- per works of the Patroon are gone, and she will be a total wreck. The cargo is ben arta ee by wreckers. Arrived schooner John Maniove, from New York. Of Crose Ledge, Monday night, was ron into by the steamer Continental, bad b irks stove, jibboom, fore top- maste, &c., carried Charge of Murder of a Polite: COURT OF OYRR AND TERMINER. Before Hon. Judge Ingrabam. Arni 90.—The People w. Bdward W. McCormack.—The prisoner in this case is charged with the murder of police officer Williamson, of the Ninth ward, and was tried last 000; for ; Columbia, $2,500; Mechan| Mos" “freer Wise: 1400; xe + $3.b00 Columbia,’ on tle dod Mr. were also very successful in their eflorte. ' at the Breakwater, have been brought up the river with | DINNER TO GOV. MORTON OF INDIANA. Speeches of Gov. Morton, “D. D. Field, Geu. Wool, Robert Dale Owen, Sie., &e., die. A comphangp! dinnor yas given Ish .Svening at the Malson Doreo Wo Yovernor Morton, of indiana, by some gontlemen of the republican party of (bis city, who had tendered him an invitation in the following tertas:— New Yorn, April 4, 1868. ‘To his Kexcelienoy O1tvan P. Morrow, Governor of Indiana: Sin—Your presence in this city’ gives us tho opportu nity , nos only to testify our reapect for youself persou- aily , but our eenso of the parsunount importance of main- taining the closest re'ations and the most cordial under- standing betweon the Weat and the Kast, That we may have the opportunity to show our regard for yourself and for tho Great West, of which you are @ represontative, as also to hear your views upou public matters, we beg you to moet us at diuner on any day that may be agreeable to you in the course of the ensuing week. Very respeot- fully, your obedient servants, This invitation was signed by tho following aamed gea- tlemen:— Mayor ke, Maj. Gen. Wool, du yer wae Peuaiog, R . Martin, Dows, The diaper wos laid with thirty-five covers, and was gotten up in the highest style of the culinary art. Mayor Orprxe opened the proceedings, saying that their guest this evening bad done as much as any maa in the United States in the prosecution of the war. He bad had Peculiar diMcuities to encounter in the enlistment of troops in his State; but stilt he had succeeded in sonding to the Meld as large and as well equipped a force asany State had gent in proportion to its population. It was kuown that Indiana bed many conservative politi- those whom Ei IMPORTANT FROM ALBANY. Passage of the Broadway Raliroad ena Gold Bills by the Sonate, éc., de. Atmanr, April 0—10 P. i. ‘The Broadway Railroad bill hae just passed the Seaate by a vote of 19 to 10, Senator voted agninat on ite fival passage. ‘The Gold bill just passed the Senate, with only four votes against it. ‘The Assembly had under consideration the Staten Istan@ Ferry billagain this evening. Progress was reported. Senators Low and Truman, who were.absent at thele dinners, to-day, when the Brosdaway Railroad bill wan taken up, rose to a question of privilege to-night, and had thelr votes ed against that bill. This makes twelve Governor Morton respond: as intended for the State he represented, Sent to the war over ove hundred thousand men (ap- plause) At least half the ulation of Indiana were Dorn in slave States or of Southern parents. The same waa true, ia a large degree, of the States of Ohio and Iili- pols, This was an important consideration, which must Rot be lost sight of when they come to consider the war. Another consideration not to be lost si their geographical situation. New gylvania and the New England States the Atlantic, or connected with it, and the States of Obio, Tliinoia and Indiana found their outlet to the ocean through the Mississippi river. For forty years after the settlement of Indiana, its commerce was entircly depend- ent on the Mississippi river. Asfaras lake navigation was concorned, they had never had much dependence on the lakes. All the traditions of the peopte of Indiana and other Northwestern States, were connected with the free pavigation and control of the Mississipi river. (Applause. ) Within the past few years, howsver, they had begun to bave intercourse directly with the seaboard through the railroads to New York; but railroads did not answer tn all respects as well as the river communication did. But since the closing of the Mississippi the railroad rates latter te had boen raised. That he regarded oa bad policy. | the Committee on Banks. are The people of tho Kast and of the West should | zealously at work to have the Lod be drawn more closely thor. (Applause.) | amendment of the Senate to the aad ‘The people of Indiana haa the impresvion genera'ly that the South nad been their chief customer, because they had sought that way to Europe. As to this war, what was it made for? He knew that Southern sympa- thizers said it was for the protection of South. ero rights: but the very first official declara. tion made by the Southern Comniissioners to Kart Russell was that the South bad no apprehensions of any interference with their rigits on the part of the United States government. ‘If war was made for the biishment of a government basod upon slavery, ing gthat ior ite chief foundation, how should this war be ended? How should poace be restored? There was three wa} to admit the separation, the Union, with the New England States left out, and the third by suppreesiug tho rebellion and conquering the rebellion, and he was in favor of the latter mode. (Ap- plause.) The rebels had repeatedly declared that tl ey would make no peace short of having embodied them the States of Kentucky, Misscuri, Maryland and Delaware. This would necessitate the abandonment of Washington, which would not the control of tho Misstesippi ri = in the Northwest io Southern confederacy, or of a westerm confe.’eracy. That would also bring about the establishment of a Pacific republic. Whon the work of disintegration com- Mencetl, no reasonable mind could su; may porsibly carry it; but it looks dou! now. will, bably, be a committee of conference wun A Gold is the Albany and Susq' A dill to remove restr! pce was introduced in the Senate to-night. io Franklin Townsend, of Albany sod: Pears H ahe, ton, of Syracuse, have been appointed by the Goverser f tr dr ambmiatlr Biate Iawt jum. Nature has treated us with a phenomenon ia the bea- vens to-night—ane of the most abe ye 4 es. About nine P. M.a gra; white the atretebing was attacked pear Somerset on the 24th ult. by am ever. whelming force of infaotry and cavalry. After e despe- rate hand to band fight Pegram fell beck stx miles an@ pursued. The loss Doth sides Tas pororaenans agent brought coda Ege ‘ot of ot Sroroma, Ape, 1068. Corinth a repreparing for a movement— ~ Hg Ae people, by representing standing with his foot on a broken constitution, declari the war was being waxed for the purpose of promot- ing uegro equalisy, thus creating a state of feeling in the community which bad efiectually prevented all volunteering. These men were the autbors of the Couscription these were the men presentations and would give rise. 88 “nt pany with all the otber only paying a decent rest raged the Ci ‘iption act. and should he e Conscription act. and si be held responsibio for pes 4 nly, on well quald it. Among the best means for ending the war by sup- Presaing the rebellion was the opening of the Mississippi river. (Applanse.) On the west of the Mississippi river there was the Missouri, and between Missouri and the Gul wero-the States of Arkansas and Louisian: government opened the [pe it became an im, Dask (boroughiy aod completely. * bere the President's proclamation i every county snd \ ou every plavtation. (Applause.) All west of the Mis. sises] should be soi] and homogeneous. It ‘be then free from the beeen gated to thePa. cific Ocean. By securing control of Mississippi they secured every’ to the west of it. Texas would readily fi The juest =of those three States could be made perfect in a vor: short time, It could be made free soil, and being made {ree oil the rebeliion would be fenced tn. (Applause.) | Not only would the South not reconquer those States oa the west bank of the Mississippi river, but she would have | po inducement to do so. (Applause.) Thus, the rebel- lion being confined to a fow old slave States, it would steadily perish of its own rottenness. (Applause.) He believed that the opening of the Mississippi river would, of itself, prove fatal to the rebellion. | they bad secured the free navigation of the Mississippi river they should forever have ox. tinguished treason im the Northwest. (Applause. He believed that the most important step for thé guverfi- ment to take, and he believed that the government had | nad ite attention called towards it. He could not doubt that the execution of that measuro id, Of itself, be sufficjent to accomplish the destruction of chis rebellion. The redels, being confined to the cast of the Mississippi, without the possibility of extension or opportunity of ex- charac! for bread , was po riot, placed their action on any declared basis. bee w the high prices; “pon hat spec: soners have so high, and dispose them accordingly. But it ts now proven that there waa no d) those pet berseilt vision made for the poor who may veed it; sn¢ that whole thing was simply @ plunder! raid under impunity, An ebullition such as we noticed bave excited no attention outside of the quiet where good order is so uniform aud #0 universal. amounts to nothing here, Under the local Beading is ‘“‘a riot case,” where Dr. Thomas M. Palmer, charged with encouraging « ‘it ip ili if Egai deen in the Confederate service from an ‘The tettimony was to when the crowd was on gee if war, The Id end as leat and woul rh i | § ih Fad Is 1 iy i E ® 5 i if 3835 ze 2s rT i 5 ges F H 4 | i A a 37 it li in 4 g il rs £ & f $3! : ge Ht Fa