The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1863, Page 6

— NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNBTT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIEOR. Ovmiom N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. PERMS cash im advance. Money sons Dy malt will be atthe risk of the seuder. Nove but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Taxer cents per copy. THE WEEKLY LERALD, every Saturday, at Five conts per copy. Avnual subscription price— Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, @1 SOocach Av extra copy will be sent to every club of ton. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be aout to clubsgof gwenty. These rates make the WEBKLY Hamat» the cheapest publication im the country. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do not return rejected communications Velame XXVIII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving place.—Italian -Opera.— Eves Foscant NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwey.—Caxtice. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—My Nosix Sox- oLaw. WINTER GARDEN, Qroedway.—Saran 1x Paris—Loan oF 4 Loven. LAURA KEENER Bav—Narver axp Ant. MEW ROWERY THEATRE, Beowery.—Satanss—O1D Bor arp Younus Jow—Uastiias Banvit. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Ja0c and fae Beax- otaLe—Srow Iino—Jace ee BABNUM'S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Mixeta Wasaxn. Com. Nort, Hirrororaxus, THBATRE, Broadway.—Bayter faents the most part of workingmen, He alluded briefly to the Americana war, and defended the policy of the English Cabinet in maintaining what he continues to term a strict noutrality towards the belligerents. He said that some Englishmen supported the cause of the North—others that of the South; but “it was not fitting or becoming that the British nation, as @ nation, should take part in that con- test,"’ although the contending parties “sued them like rivals who sue a fair damsel” to do so. The London Post—the organ of Lord Palmer- ston’s government—expresses its editorial hopes that the rebels will have achieved their indepen- dence before the close of the year. It was said that the Confederate government would not attemt to contract a fresh loan in Eu- rope until the beginning of the year 1864. Lioyd’s (London) agent in Matamoros furnishes @ detailed statement of the circumstances attend; ing the capture of the steamship Peterhoff by Ad- miral Wilkes. The agent was a passenger on the Peterhoff. He gives the position of the vessel at the moment she was brought to by a shot from the Vanderbilt, off Saint Thomas, and endeavors to show that she was in Danish waters when captur- ed. He asserts that the Peterhoff was'’a bona fide end honest trader, carrying « British mail, and that her seizure was in complete violation of the law of neutrals. Our correspondent in London, writing on the 1st of April, states thatthe public mind in Eng- land was laboring under a strong excitement tending to a war with the United States, and that the agitation in that direction was greatly increas- ed by the reports which were published concern- ing the arrest of the Peterhoff. He hints that parties high in power in England wished for such a war, and says he has reason to believe that Pal- merston is in full accord with Napoleon as to a course calculated to injure, if not destroy, the American republic, Groat Britain guaranteeing to the Emperor of France an unimpeded carcer in Mexico, go far as she is concerned, and her acqui- escence in his taking a good share of Texas if he will help her accomplish such a work. . Liviza » at all Foostz—Lapr or Mumstsm. Afternoon and Evening. se antethnlg BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, way.—Bratorias Somas, Burtmsqums. Daxces, Bricanz. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, S14 Broadway.—Braiorian open, Dancin eek Rie sigs COOPER INSTITUTE.—Dz. Coutox's Exarsrttox or tz Lavontne Gas warn Commopous Nore ann Conount BY aw Ovp Powe. THE NEW IDEA, 686 Brosdwiy.—Soxas, Bustzsauns, Bates, £c. 472 Broad. (£0.—Biace HOPK CHAPEL, 130 con; om, A Toun mt Inui AMBRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batiers, Yawromuss, Borissovms, £0. ‘ie Broadway—MacEvor's Hissnnt- LAND. PARIBIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 063 Broadway. Cpen daily from 10.4, M. H1OP, Me. WOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, frosklyn. {coon Deneah, Wencesaven Bor mene TRIPLE SHEET New York, Wedmesday, Aprii 15, 1663. ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wumxir Hunarp must be band. Od tm before ten o'clock every Wegnesday evening. its Ciroutation among the enterprising mechentes, farmers, mercheots, manufacturers aad gentlemen throughout the @ountry is increasing very rapidiy. Advertisements in- Sorted in the Wamx.r Hamarp will thug be seen by a large Portion of the live people of the United States. = THE SITUATION. ‘The attempt to take Charleston ‘is for the time abandoned. The iron-clad fleet of Admiral Dupont and the army of General Hunter have been with- G@rawn to Port Royal. The experiment proved too hasardous, The batteries of the enemy at Sumter, Moultrio and Cummings’ Point, and the obstruc- tions in the channels, presented obstacles too formidable to be evercome by the force brought against them, By the arrival of the Arago from Charleston bar on the 11th inst. we learn these facts. The fire from the battorics was tremendous, as the condition of the Keokuk shows. She was fairly riddled through and through with highly polished steel shot, weighing a hundred pounds each, furnished to the rebels by England. Our vessels fired in all only one hundred and fifty- one shots at the forts, while the latter struck the boats over five hundred aad twenty times. The armed transport George Washington was de- @troyed by the rebels in Coosaw river, near Port Royal, on Thursday morning last, as before re- ported. She remained behind for special service under Coldhel Hawley, who was acting as post commandant at Hilton Head while the forces were way. General Saxton, who was in com- mand at Beaufort, sent for the Washington to make reéonnoissance sround the island. In company with the gunboat Hale she went up the Coosaw river, was attacked by a rebel battery, which sent a shot through her magazine and blew her up. The crow were fired upon while * gttempting to escape, and several of them killed and wounded. We give still more interesting details from our correspondents to-day, as well as the eomments of the rebel journals. It appears that Colonel Rhett ‘was in command of Fort Sumter, Colonel Butler of Fort Moultrie, Captain Sitgraves of Fort Beaure- gard, Lieutenant Colonel Simkins of Battery Bee, Major Huger of Battery Wagner, and Lieutenant Lesesne, with s detachment from Fort Sumter, of the battery on Cummings’ Point. Our correspondence from the Blackwater to- day gives an interesting account of the rebel ad- vance upon Suffolk, the capture of several of our outposts, and the flight of the women and children. The object of this attack is to prevent reinforce- Our Paris letters corroborate this view of the case to some extent. They lead to the conclusion that Napoleon is a very doubtful friend at best. The rebel cotton loan had collapsed to one per cent premium on the Ist of April, and this quotation was berely maintained, notwithstanding the fact that the speculation engaged the active sympathy of all Pe British shipbuilders, shipowners, mer- chants and manufacturers, who are jealous of the resources of the United States, while they aro making fortunes by building a fleet for and fur- nishing supplies to the rebels. and the other to an assemblage made up for their work, without @uy disposition to re- néw the disturbance of the day proyious. ‘The polide are deserving of considerable credit for the efficiency displayed on this occasion. The workmen in the copper shop of Messrs. Brooks & Cummings, in avenue D, have subscribed thirty-four dollars and twenty-five™ cents towards the fund for the relief of the Irish sufferers. The offerings of the poorer classes are very liberal. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore Recorder Hoffman, Myron North pleaded guilty to an indictment for assault and battery, amd was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. John Kelly was indicted for grand larceny, and af- ter a trial the jury brought in a verdict for the minor offence of petty larceny. Sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months. Thomas O’Brien was tried and convicted of grand larceny, in stealing & gold watch and chain, valued at $400, from Wil- liam E. Demarest, in February last. Michael Coyle was tried and convicted of a similar offence, in stealing a chest of tea, valued at $48 60, from No. 156 Bowery, in March last. Remanded for sentence. Twenty-three bushwhackers, belonging mostly to Porter's gang, have been tried by military com- missions in Loulaville, on the various charges of violating their oaths, horse stealing and murder, and sentenced to the Alton prison. One of them ‘was condemned to be shot. 3 Judge William F. Bullock, of Louisville, is spo- ken of ag an indepondent candidate for Governor of Kentuoky, in opposition to Hon. Joshua F. Bell, the nominee at the late State Convention. . The One Hundred and Eighteenth, One Hundred and Fifty-second and One Hundred and Sixty-ninth ‘New York Volunteers, and the Tenth New Jersey Votunteors, for some time past doing duty in Washington, have orders to leave for some other locality. Their places will be eupplied by a bri- gade.ef Pennsylvania reserves. The market for beef cattle ruled duit and heavy this ‘week, ané,as butchers carly oxpreased their determina. ton not to pay eo high as lest week’s prices, sellers were comspeticd to grant a concession of j¢o. a 3c. per pound on alt kinds. , The range of prices was from 8}<c. a-12¢., the goneral selling prices 10c. a llc., and the average Price wae about 10%c., or about sc. per pound om the Sverage price, with fewer poor caitie of hand. Milch cows sold all tho way from $25 to $70, but mostly at $36.0 9. Calves were steady at about last week's Prices, or @3c. a 63;c. a Te. Bobs of course sold nwor. Sheep and lambs wore active, and ‘about 26c. higher. ‘The best sheep brought 10c. per pound. Prices varied’ from $6 to'$10; but the majority of thesaies were at $7 a $0. Swine were-active for prithe corn fod at Bic. 3 5c. Other kinds were duit at 43c. = 53;c. for corn fed, and 4340. @53¢0. for atilt fed. The total receipta were 6,602 12,915 swino. ' The London Times correspondent at Vicksburg, Miss., describes the rebel fortifications at that Place as being most formidable and elegant. He considers the town and works ds almost ' ble against the attacks of the Union troops. De- sertions from the federal. army; he says, are ex- ® | tremely numerous, while the rebelé- have a fine cavalry force, numbering twenty thousand sabres, under General Van Dorn, with which they intend, 7 as-the writer says, to run into Indiana. Langiewiog, the Polish leader, was stil. confined | tm the'fortress-of Cracow, ‘He-applied for leave to- retire to England, but wae refused. The latest reports sey shat the insurgent chiefs hed given uy the contest with Russia: as-hepeless. The Czar- promised reforms immediately after Langiewios was arrested; but it was said that Nispéteon de- mands the complete indopendence of Poland. England, France and Austria were likely to mai tain the freedom of the country, against-.Russie- and Prussia, in a diplomatic Congress. The National Assembly of Greece had deerced Prince William George of Denmark Hing of Greece, under the name of George the First. Prince George is the third child of Prince Chris- tian of Denmark, brother of the Princess of Wales, ‘and yephew of the King of Denmark. Ho was born on the 24th of December, 1645, and is a cadet in the Danish navy. . M. Magne had resigned his seat in the Finance Department of the French Cabinet, in consequence of differences with M.Fould. Napoleon compli- mented him in a letter, and appointed him a Privy Councillor. Consols closed in London on the 2a of April at 924% a 92% for money. The Liverpool cotton mar- ket closed firm on the 2d instant, atan advance ex- perienced on the previous day. Breadstaffs were "active and prices steady. Provisions were very dull. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday a number of bills received their third reading, and many of them were passed. They were principally, though, only of # local or private character. Among them, however, were the bills incorporating the Soldiers’ Home and the Soldiers’ Rest, and those creating a Bureau of Licences in this city, relative to the New York city public schools, and in re- ference to deposits by savings banks in banks of issue in this and Kings counties. A favorable re- port was made on the bill authorizing the exten- sion of streeta between Fourteenth and Thirty- first streets to the North river bulkhead line. A resolution was offered—in effect similar to those pending in the Assembly—in favor of so altering the constitution as to permit soldiers in the field to vote. The resolution was tabled. The New York city tax levy was ordered to. third read- ing. In the Assembly, among the bills passed were those providing relief for indigent famflies of sol- diers, the Excise law, the Appropriation bill, with the Senate amendments; in reference to commissioners of deeds in this city, and amend- ing the act relative to courts of this city. The bill to prevent frauds in the opening of our city streets was defeated. The Senate bill to im- prove the defences of our harbor was passed, with the important ameadment making the sum to be appropriaied one million of dollars, instead of half a million, as passed by the Senate. The An- nual Tax bill was reported to the House. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 4 The steamship Ocean Queen arrived at this port yesterday from Aspinwall, with $217;601 in traa- America. Among her passengers was a battalion of cavalry from California, numbering three hun- dred and thirty men. The New Granadian Na- ments from reaching Gen. Fosterin his perilous | tional Convention was occupied in revising the Position at Washington, N. C., and to cut off our forces at Suffolk from communication with Ni . which latter place no doubt the rebels intend 'to compact of Union. All the Central American Btates, except Costa Rica, are either engaged in actual war or preparing for hostilities. The Committee on Water Defences of the Har- Invest. Intelligence reached Fortress Monroe on | bor Defence Commission met yesterday, and pri- the 13th that the enemy had retreated four miles | Yetely gave Commodore Ed from Snffolk, and that the gunboats sent to Fos- A. Stevens a hear- ing in regard to the design and capacities of his celebrated floating battery, and also in regard to ter's assistance had succeeded in running the rebel | the sale of it which he proposes to the Commis- batteries. sion. It was decided to visit the battery and in- General McClernand took possession of the little | spect it at an early day, when Mr. Stevens will town of Richmond, Miss., on the 30th ult., with a small force, driving the rebel cavalry from the tions, containing plans and suggestions relating to place after twe hours’ sharp fighting. It ts said that skirmishing bas been going on at Pairfax Court House between General Stahel’s forces and the rebels since Sanday, without much result. There fs no other news from Gen. Hooker's | son square, on the 20th instant,gras received. Af. ter a discussion on the subject, a vote was taken, which stood four to four, and the President decided dour days inter than the advices of the Africa. Ra ey oe ae Wered two speeches in that city—one to the stn. dav, and the laborers, both white ang black, re- explain the details of its construction A large number of communica- personally and the defence of the harbor, was submitted, League, to Board was offered by Mr. Bly, and tabled. The Board adjourned shortly after. f sure and news from New Granada and Central | At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes. terday, ap invitation from the Loyal National atiend the anniversary mecting of the prising of 1861 in favor of the Union, at Madi- Comparative quiet reigned ‘longshore yester. ‘Tho stock market wae-strong yesterdey, anc nearly ail’ theraitwsy sharcs were highor; Erie taking the lead. Governments were quiet. “Gold was weak, and doclined IS per eaht, closing about 154%... Exchange wae toactive, and at the close'was about 166a 260: Moncy'was osay; eati foans 6 a 6 per cent. " . Cotton was down 10 680. .@:10e, for middling, with light tn more Toquest, The~demand’ for most othe? Kinas of | erase eee, Se oe e ‘are trict 2 ‘The repulse of AduiiretDupont's iromclad fieet at Chatieston indefinitely postpones, .we suspect, the resumption of active operations against that rebel stronghold. The door will doubtless-be kept more closely guarded than heretofore against English blockade ranners, with their “aid and comfort te the enemy;’” but, as the sickly summer season ina few, weeks wit revisit the South Carolina seaboard, we conclude that nothing but some overwhetming Union successes in other quarters will seeure the capture of Charleston before the return of the malaria killing frests of autumn. Indeed, it is broadly hinted in a leading abolition jeur- nal that the idea of a crushing spring campaign has been abandoned at Washington, and that probably our military operations, until the end of the summer, wilt be limited to pegging a little here and pegging a little there, as the oc- casion may invite or demand. the failure at Vicksburg, to gain any decisive advantage over the enemy, has, at all events, put an end to the late confident expectations of the country in regard to a vigorous and decisive ‘prosecution of the war. A month ago it wasabelieved that the reduction of Vicksburg and Chariestom would open the way southward to the army of Gen. Hooker from the Rappahannock and the army of Gen. Rosecrans from Murfreesboro. But now, while it is manifest that Gen. Rose- crans, enveloped by rebel bands of guerillas on his flanks and rear, and with a powerful rebel army, well posted, in his front, is not ina oon- dition to advance, we are compelled to rely upon Gen. Hooker to move forward and turn the fortunes of war in our favor. The great disappointment, however, which we fear awaits us in Virginia is that when Gen. Hooker does advance he will find that the enemy have been playing upon him their old game of Manassas end Corinth, and that he will discover that while he has been waiting for the roads to dry a con- siderable portion of Lee's troops, in order to find useful employment, have been moved south- ward to overwlielm by superior numbers the army of Gen. Foster in North ‘Carolina, after the style of Harper's Ferry. . But Vicksburg and Charleston render all con- jectures of impending operations on our side so very doubtful that they will probably be shaped more by the movements of the enemy than in pursuance of the combinations of the War Office, which invariably seem te be, when reduced to o trial, a lamentable budget of blunders. Meantime, as the terms of service of large numbers of our soldiers expire in May, their constrained inactivity at this time is to us utterly incomprehensible, especially in comnec- tion with the fact that not the first step has been taken to supply impending deficiencies East or West. President Lincoln has been invested by Congress with the dictatorial powers of a Cesar; but he hesitates to use them. He is too modest entirely. If he could only pluck up a little of the spirit of a Cesar, or a Napoleon, or of Oli- ver Cromwell, or of Old Hickory, he might play the Emperor, the Puritan or the dictato- rial backwoodsman with impunity for the time being while doing the great work of trampling this Southern rebellion in the dust. The coun- try would support him. He would become the idol of the people. Why he hesitates and shrinks from using the great war powers with which he is invested, when upon their employ- ment depends the success of his administration and the salvation of the country, we cannot divine. It cannot be that President Lincoln has fallen back upon the miserable, imbecile policy of James Buchanan—that most despicable alterna- legacy to his successor in offee. Yet, as things are now going on, this result appears'to be in- evitable, or a condition of general anarchy Reeves, 218 Gows, 696-calves, 4,088 sheep find Inmbs, and |: tances. ranging from three-hundred to six hun- | dred yards, and for haif au hous maintained a . most unequal contest against it. From Sumter, Moultrie and three other powerful defensive rounds of. > enol! vessel. counting‘as : fellows:— oS 2 New Ironside: . Catekill | Nantucket The failure st Charleston, together with |. his authority to secune this great ebject; and we must again earnestly admonish him that, failing to do his duty, with allyhe means required to do it thoroughly, he will ,be called to a strict account, and that thus, perhaps, before the close of his appointed term, ke may be consti- tutionally set aside, The comntry is getting sick of the laboring mountain which only pro- duces a mouse, . The Fight off Charteston Hervor—Its Practical and Sotemtific Lesson 5 The extraordinary combat maintaimed\ last week by eight emall iron-clads, carrying etm'cen guns, with the innumerable batteries and power- ful forts by which the entrance to Charlestqn harbor is defended, is one of the most remarks able events of the great rebellion, prolific a» it has been in prodigies of various kind&® Nothing like it is to be found in the whole his tory of maval warfare; and the’ fact that the || \ attack was repulsed, and that the pigmy assail- ants were forced to,haul off, does: not detract from the marvellousnese of the enverprive, but only adds to the lessons which may be learned from the.experiment, and which may be pro- fited by in our future operations. little turreted Monitors, each carrying two guns; another equally diminutive vessel, built om a different modei—the Keokuk—and an armored vessel-of-war—the New. Ironsides—carrying as many guns a6 all the rest combined, moved: from their anchorage within the bar of Charleston on Tuesday, the 7th inst. and headed directly te- ward the city, with instructions to get intoa good position to emgage Fort Sumter. In'en- @eavoring to get into the desired position the propeller screw of the foremost of them became entangled in a rope netting which the defenders: had placed across the channel. This renderedi the veasel entirely unmanageable, and for some: time she drifted, without aay motive power of her own, till at last she-got extricated. The other’ vessels avoided being caught in the same trap. They looked about for another opening, but in | vain, ‘They could not get to the north of Fort |, Sumter without penetrating this network barri- cade; and to attempt that would have been to vender the whole fleet powerless. In this di- lemmas they drew up against Fort Sumtar at dis- works they. were subjected to, concentric fire which would have sent. to-the bottom -any wooden fibot that ever tiveasted: thé waves of ecean. No lessthan three thousand five hun- dred. rounds were fired: af them, which they could. only: return at tho rate of. one to twenty. the effect of their guns on Fort Sumter was render the city as impregnable as natuie and art-could make it. When it was made not leas than a score of Monitors should have been ent- ployed. Fortifications are of no avail against Monitors if the channel is clear. _ In future opé- rations there must’be means employed for clearing out obstructions. The hdrbor of New York may, with the aid of half a dozen Monj- tors at Sandy Hook, be made absolutely anap- proachable to all hostile figets. And, finally, wooden war ships, except intended for piratical purposes, like the Alabama, or to’overtake euch fleet-footed corsairs, are entirely bebind the age.” These are the leading principles, practical and scientific, to be deduced from the conflict off the harbor of Charleston. Our Relations with Engiand fn « Ticklish Condition—The Duty of Presi- dent Lincoln, We have four days later intelligence fira'm England by the City of New York fro. which it will be seen that Lord Palla verston, in a speech at Glasgow, reite- rates\ his disgusting and lypooritical profes- sions gf strict neutrality between the United “In @ previous ‘audacious speech, in the House of Commons, March e debates” about the Alabama, the goverament was assailed for delivetod' 27, im in widob its conni ce at the violation of the, neutrali- ty laws in tla? interest of the Southern coafede- tracy, andite & ie prejudice of the United States, the Premier q4toutly denies the accusation. He says the \ law requires: an affidavit be- fore the ‘rnment can act, that Mr. Adhms warunala'e to furnish this, and that if theeAlabama,.thes efore, had been seized with- out it the goxerma ont would be liable to an action resulting fa \ heavy costs and damages, But when did the [British government ever tecruple to violate the spirit, i not the letter, of any law, nationat of internationa, that com 'thicted with its-inteneste?. Werliave nothing to do with the nentualiy laws of” England. We hold the government respons®b¥e-for the viola- tien, or connivance at the vielutton; of inter- national laws. It is a cause af! war, aud whether we shall: make it so is question of convenience and oppertunity. There can be: litte doubt that the Prime Minister and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Eeai Russell,-have beem privy all alcang:to the building of war vessels for the Coidederate States; but there are none so blind as these who do not want to-sce;amd-none co deaf assthose spirit of the: neutrality, Jaws ia permittingew- pecled: vessels. to:leave port before Meir -honesty is determined. ‘They want the: rebels ito obtaln a fleet by degfées, bécanee it will ‘assiat in achieving theisrindependence and in: _| permatently dividing the-sourtry—the foregone” conclusion on which John Bull has eet his heart.” Hence, too, the British government is —— | encouraging the’ Confederate loan, which is to } "Ue pay fon the ships—a leantbased upon cotton which cannot. be delivered, and is not-under who:wish not-to hear..-Phey are-violating-the | ton to linge in tae lap of spring this year the contrary, he has pleared off without waiting tili the Ist of May. The skic bright and blue, the suxhine warm and go Already the trees begin £0 bud, the sing, and the early flowers peep Put s but timidly, as if half distreting # Weather. Before many weeks more We all be packing our trunks for Places. Just at present we are all tiyin make up our minds which roval retreat to with our patronage. Shall we go to Springs, or to the Kaatakill Mountains, little Manchester, on the Grean Mo Or, forsaking these deep, cool hades for glare and glitter of a fashionable” place, shall we sojourn at Newport, Sarato Long Branch? Nature and the hotel k are busily preparing all these places for summer visitants, and, judging by present pearances, they will be more crowded mer than ever before. : Certain of the administration organs nouncing that there will be no more fightia any conagquence until next fall. As # nothing to do, then, during the su Bol) but to enjoy our offum, cum es much di as-is. possible under the circumstances.* have not taken Vicksburg, nor Charlesto Richmond, and, as the country bumpkin. Daniel Webster, when told that the great had caught no fish, “that is: not the worst by any’ means.” We are’ getting ready great’ empire, and must take things as come. By and by we may find an in Crsanor Napoleon among our generals, canting Cromwell among the radical and then the change from @ republic to an ‘pire will follow, ae ia ancient Rome, the satisfaction of all advocates of « centraj government. In the interval , Clapse before this discovery and 0 } we haves chance for the watering place Sar niente. The plan for the sumrmer'c of our eymios and navies is happily e: -fp the romark of President Lincoln toa vivitor:—‘We must keep pegging away a6 rettels:’’. After pegging sway the time next fall, we will probably proceed ty’ serices business: Let us muke ourselves fortatde; therefore, during Jane, July and? gast; somewhers in the pleswent country: may te advisable; however, to keep as far from: theweacoast: ae possible, test among shells o6'the: ceca” we may emoounter ten-inch> affaire- from 9 rebel cruiser. Im’ poiat of view. Newpert and Lom ‘Intetior rivals, But if tho-wa? baswet'beon « suc tees, ms ally congitered,;. it- has-been « great be: crowd! oury Opera Howse, crowd Rifth crowd: the - Central. Park drives; will crowd: the- watoring places. It] impoasibte-to-sralk Broaderay- without -jo 96 destructive that if they could have kept up | the control of the British government. This | *8inst a: milifonaire-er-two on every the fight foran houror two longer the rebel fértress would ‘have been rendered untenable. Now let us examine the result of the half hour's fring on them. The guns of the forts were of theheaviest calibre and most approved is a'fraud ahd a juggle.» The cotton may be confiscated by our government, for which there is a precedent In point, About a year ago Mr. Belpront, agent in New York of the Roths- childs, claimed a large queatity of tobacco at The: shoddy;. the: gum: comtenst, the army'b in the ascendant. The former” leaders of f fon are supplinted: by: newvsevereigns ton, many of whom ought te-be.: 4 patterns—the English alijes.of tho rebels having | Richmond as belonging to French merchants, | State prisons-itstead of living in brown sdpplied them with some of their best orduance. The artillery practice was excellent, as is who have s monopoly of its sale under the laws of France. But Jeff. Davis insisted that easily as-they-bave made: ity. and-will dash proved. by the fact that our nine vessels were | tiie preperty belonged to Belmont himself, | magnificently. at the fashiounble haunts struck five hundred and twenty times, the favore. being distributed as follows :— ‘Weehawken x “ “ “ « “ “« “ damaged by this terrific fire; and even she, pierced and torn as she was, with nineteen shots on the water line, had euough vitality left to obey the signal to vetire-and rejoin the flagship, and it was not till next morning that she sank in the waves. The New Ironsides was unmanageable all the day, refusing to answer her helm, and therefore she took no active part in the fight, discharging only one solitary broad- side at Fort Moultrie. Bat theseven vessels of the Monitor'pattern came out of the flery ordeal almost unscathed. The only injury sustained by them was by the indenting of the turrets of some of them to such an extent as to prevent their revolving. What chance would fleet of wooden war vessels have stood in such a belt of fire and under such a weight of artillery, delivered at close quarters? Why, half a bundred ships-of- war, subjected to such a test, would have gone to the bottom or been blown up. And, there. fore, for all such purposes of offence, the wooden walls of England are of no more value: than so many Roman galleys. The fight off Charleston harbor has seunded the knell of wooden war ships. That fight ls pregnant with other lessons. It teaches us that vessels of the Monitor pattern are comparatively impregnable, and that no forts or defensive works can prevent their pas- sage, if the channels remain unobstructed. If they could have been kept moving in a cirele, as were the gunboats that captured the forte at Hilton Head, delivering their fire as they manceuvre before Fort Sumter. Still, profiting by that lesson, they should in any future attack be kept moving up and down. Looking over the whole field, what was pivotal point on which the failure or success of the attack depended? Clearly it was the chan- nel Against the guns of the forts the armor of the iron-clads might bave been a complete defence; but, like Achilles, they were vulnerable in the heel. We do not see, how- ever, why the same inventive gonius that de- vised the Monitors camnot overcome the new difficulty. We suppose it would not require. any great exercise of mechanical skill to con- struct s machine by which grappling icons might be thrown out from the mouth of a mor- tar one or two bundaed yards ahead of a vessel, and then drawn in by the capstan, thus getting rid of torpedges and all similar obstructions. ‘We bave no “doubt that some such plan will be Gevised ars4 put into executing, sa that our Monitor ¢ may bave another chemce at Charles. | ton 1.04 her defences. ‘ “We may sum up the practical and solentifze | 44 worse thag the myst stringent despotiom. Tha \essons imparted by this extraordinary cotest | of & naturalized citizen of the: Northern States, and accordingly confiscated it. Now there is Rp reason why our government cannot follow the example thus set, and confiscate the cotton which is the basis of an illegal loan. Meantime, as the language of Lord Palmers- ton is of a very unaccommodating, not to ssy of s menacing nature—langnage in which he warns us that ‘we are playing “a dangerous game” with England, which “has a great tendency to endanger the friendly rela- tions existing between the two countries,” and that be hopes it will not be carried further— it is the duty of the Président to call the new Congress together, in extra seasion, to consider what measures ought to be adopted in the event of a collision with Great Britain. The Prime Minister not only-insinuates a threat, but ostentatiously refuses, without being asked, to consent to such alteration in the neutrality laws-as would render them effective, though he admits that, interpreted literally, they are whol- ly impotent. The tone of the speech of the. Solicitor General was-equally combative, and a violent tirade was made by Mr. Fitzgerald touching the capture, by Admiral Wilkes, of the British steamship. Peterhof, on a lawful voyage to Matamoros, which the speaker regards. spect for neutral rights.” states that the law officers of the crown had de- of a similar preeeeding; and that meantime a demand would be made for the surrender of the Peterhoff, which will be probably complied with on the part of the American government with as much promptitude as was exhibited in the Trent affair. is thus danger ahead, and a bright ought to be kept for breakers. Let is essen’ | re | Preskaset to be prepared for the west, and aot ‘qwith him the responsibility of a war with { if such ® course the United States, summer: Indeed, we: venture: the | that abl past seasons will bosuspasged in and extravagance. President: Lincoln rn must come on.and see the show, Let bim Secretary-Seward in Washinggoa to p drifting iato » foreign war, andtbring all of the Cabinet along with hina Stanton and B leck have nething to do; for, although we bh a voarylarge army on papor,it is never to seen where it is needed—at Charleston, for stance, ot in North Carolina—and may be to take care of itself. Probably it wo be much more efficieas if Stanton Halleck were to stop bothering what they do not understand. Chase ceased: to take ‘any action in regard to o finances, and may as well be relieved the dog days. Since the eheck or Fort Sumter Secretary Welles is more befo than ever, and should: be allowed to t vacation and comb his- long beard in Gonsequently we see nothing to prevent: President's inviting this. quartette of ii H tentsto spend their time with him at some ing place until fall. We have gained by their presence st Washington, and Nothing by their abmenee. Turning thea to: grass for while- may put some tife Since an empire- seems to be inavitabia, intervening administration bad gone to work: im the way, and not: divided its attention. between the almighty dolfar, oe expedition to Mexico, Far from having as bivouacked in the Halls of the Monéesamas, Napolean | iti lee ! j 5 i