The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1863, Page 6

7 56 2 a NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNEPT, EDITOR AND PROPRIE(OK, OFT .OE N. W. COBNGR OF FULTON AND NASBAU BTS. Volume XAVIL ... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Italian Opeta— Mat'wer 2° Une o'Glark—Anoivo. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Iroadway.—Lxan WALLACK'S THE Tue Sreancen. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Pavr Pax=He's Jace Suavetnp. roadway. —MERCHANT OF DAURA K 7 2eGn OOM eee SEW PROWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Rospens—BEn, ee eee eae Wilt anp I=PAcrouY StmiEE, BOWERY ‘HE Bowery, SATAN IN Paris— rsx ox Erniox Vaux, OVER Po err Macarer— NUM'S AMERICAN MUSRUM, Broadway.—-Mpots eee Nur acy at ali hours —sisten's RE veer ‘Alterngon and By ning ury MINS! KELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. was. Bruiorian SoNGs, BURLRSQURS, Daxoes, &¢.—Hivt Daw V Oob’s MINSTREL HALL, 614 Broadway.—Eraiorias foaca, Danors, &C—Bivak BuGanr, IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Tusopore moms’ Con eRT, THE NEW IDEA. 485 Broadway.—Sonas, Burcesavus, Batnrrs. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batents, Pastoxrmes, Bortzsoves. £6. PARISIAN CABINET 0! ‘Cpen daily from 10 A. M. il HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU fonds, Dances, Burcxsa! THE SITUATION. The officialreport of Admiral Porter, recording his great success in the capture of Grand Gulf, Miss., was received at the Navy Department yes- terday,and created much excitement in Washing- ton. The possession of this point places the for- midable rebel strongholds at Vicksburg and Port Hudson at our mercy, Admiral Porter saya that he now holds the door to Vicksburg. The fight lasted five hours and a half. ‘The forts were literally torn to pieces by the fire of our vessels, but all the guns captured by our forces were in good condition. The works at Grand Gulf wore the most formidable ones the rebels possessed in the vicinity of Vicksburg. Ad- miral Porter and General Grant now hold them, and are remounting the guns. General Grant is reported by despatches from Cairo to have reach- ed Port Gibson. Many of the rebels who fied from Grand Gulf were captured by our pursuing forces. We have the authority of the Secretary of War, in his despatch to Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl- vania, yesterday, that the Army of the Potomac will speedily resume offensive operations; that, although the principal operations of General Hooker failed, there has been no serious disaster to the organization and efficiency of the army, and that not more than one-third of General Hooker's force was engaged. The movements of General Stoneman’s cavalry force, which formed the most brilliant episode in the nine days’ fight of Hooker’s army, are finely illustrated in the map which we publish to-day. It shows the different routes taken by the several divisions of the cavairy corps under Generals Stoneman, Averill and Buford, and Colonels Kilpatrick, Davis, end Wyndham. &tarting from Kelly's Ford on the northwest, the lines of march are faithfully portrayed, (marked wit the design of arrows) to all the points touched at—the portions of the track torn up, the bridges de- stroyed, and the spot where the canal was ‘cut, near Columbia. The latest news reports Colonel Kilkpatrick as having reached Gloucester Point, through Tunstal’s Station, neat Yorktown, where he joined General King. Of the brilliant movement of Colonel Kilpatrick’s command, General King says in his official notice of his arrival at Gloucester Point:—“They burned the bridges over the Chickahominy, destroyed three large trains of provisions in the rear of Lee's army, drove in the rebel pickets to within two miles of Richmond, and have lost only one lieutenant and thirty men, hav- ing captured and paroled upwards of three hun- dred prisoners. They have marched nearly two hundred miles since the 3d of May. They were in- side of the fortifications of Richmond on the 4th, burned all the stores at Aylett’s Station on the Mattapony on the 5th, destroyed all the ferries over tho Pamunky and Mattapony and a@ large depot of commissary stores near and above the Rappahannock, and came in here in good con- dition.” A splendid record this for any officer. ‘The roads to Gloucester and Tunstall’s will be found indionted on the map. The operations of General Hooker are also carefully illustrated— the localities ot the battles of Marye’s Hill, Salem Heights and Chancellorsville—and the points on the Rappahannock where the army crossed and recrossed. ‘The rebela admit the loss of eighteen thousand men in the late battles. This brings the returns very close to the figures estimated in the state. ments made on our side, which put the loss of the enemy at about twenty thousand. The story of our special army correspondents is continued in our columns to-day, and we need do no more than refer to it here. As an evidence of enterprise, assiduity’and brilliant descriptive power, from beginning to end, it is unmatehed on the records of war correspondence. Not the least remarkable in this interesting badget, is the account of our captured correspon- Gent, his oxperiences in Richmond, and his trip to and fro while ia the hands of the Philistines. The President has issued a Proclamation pre- liminary to the enforcement of the Conscription act, defining the position and obligations of in- choste citizens under that law. Persons of for. eign birth who have declared their intentions to become citizens, are, by this proclamation, pro- nounced liable to be drafted, if after the expira- tion of sixty-five days from the date thoreof they still remain within the territory of the Unitea | Btates. In connection with the Proclamation, we give to-day a list of those classes who are gxempt owing to physical disability. ’ The defences of New York harbor have been the subject of much attention from committees of vthe State, the United States and the city. Plans yond suggestions have been presented com gf ow partion. One of the designs for the elfodtive | Protection of the harbor we give to-day ou our first page, and we recommend our readers to the careful study of it MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. While entering the harbor on Thursday, the agent in charge of our packages fell overboard, losing most of the late despatches brought by the steamship Columbia from New Orleans and Havana. Fortunately the news was not of imme- diate importance. ‘The packages were alti- mately recovered; but there iso news from Mex- ico or Havana to report. The next steamer from Vora Cruz will probably bring stirring news con- cerning the operations of the French army against Puebla. We begleave to return our thanks to Mr. David Snediker for his kind efforts to save our packages, which he afterwards delivered at our office, The great Texas expedition, which was original- ly started by Jim Lane for the purpose of liberat- ing slaves, has been again revived under General Blunt, and is now in course of reorganization at Fort Scott, in Kansas. It will contain, besides a couple of colored regiments, volunteers from Kan- sas and Nebraska, a regiment from Colorado Ter- ritory, and about five thousand Indians. Its march, as originally designed, will be through the Indian Territory, Ar) uses and Louisiana into the heart of Texas. The Washington papers report that a large nam- ber of the rebel prisoners taken near Fredericks- burg have expressed a desire to'take the oath of allegiance, and a still larger number, not wishing tobe exchanged, are willing to give their parole not to trouble the South again with their presence during the war. Jennie De Harte Orderly Sergeant of Company D, Jenkins’ rebel cavalry; Mary Jane Green, who was employed by Gen. Lee to out telegraph wires, and Maria Murphy, a rebel mail carrier and spy, were arrested at Point of Rocks, Md., on the 6th inst., and taken to Baltimore. They are rep- resented as being three fine specimens of Southern female chivalry. : Major James H. O'Conner, of the Third Illino! cavalry, has captured a confederate widow, named Mrs. Laura Briscoe.. They were married last month, at the encampment of the regiment, near Helena, Arkansas. The bride is a near relative of the rebel General Hindman, and owns consider- able property at Helena, besides a good share of the Southern “ peculiar institution.”’ John C. Keliher was brought before Justice Dodge, at the Tombs, yesterday, on a charge of stealing $1,000 worth of silks from his late em- ployers, Messrs. Arnold, Constable & Co., of Canal street. The accused was arrested in Philadelphia, where he had gone to dispose of the goods and hide*himself from the police. A man and his wife and five children (slaves) were burned to death in a barn which had been set on fire, at Cumberland, Maryland, on the night of the 26th ult. The losses by the fire in Denver City, Colorado Territory, on the 19th ult., amounted to only about two hundred thousand dollars, instead of a million, as first reported. The destruction was confined to Blake, McGaa and F streets. Twenty-two divorces were granted by the Su- preme Court of Connecticut at its April sitting. The General Assembly of the Old School branch of the Presbyterian Church will meet at Peoria, Mlinois, on the 24th inst. The New School Assem- bly will be held on the same day in Philadelphia. The official returns of the late election in Con- necticut show that Thomas H. Seymonr, the cop- perhead candidate for'Governor, ran three hundred and twelve votes behind his ticket. Mr. Lewis Smyser, who was arrested in Loulis- ville for talking*treason, has been required to sign @ parole and give-bonds in one hundred thousand dollars, in order to gain his liberty. He will pro- bably now keep quiet. In the United States Court at Cincinnati, on the 28th ult., fourteen suits to collect ‘internal revenue from parties refusing to pay were decided in favor of the government. The persons who held back will thereby be saddled with nearly five times the vriginal amount. The Provost Marshal of Ste. Genevieve county, Missouri, has issued an order suppressing, st all the post offices in that county, the New York Freeman's Journal, the New York Cducasian, the Dubuque (lowa) Herald, and the Chester (Ill.) Picket Guard, Thirteen negroes were sold in Lonisville on the 27th ult. at prices averaging five hundred Vollars each. The sale was made by the Sheriff, in oppo- sition to the orders of the Provost Marshal. Thomas M. Campbell, who was recently eon- victed by @ court martial at Cincinnati on the charge of being a spy, will be hung next Friday. In the Merchant will case the claimants have rested their testimony, and the contestants are bu- sily engaged furnishing evidence against the al‘ leged will. A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen will be held at two o'clock to-day for the purpose of taking some action in reference to the recent decease of Mr. John Hogan, ex-Councilman for the First ward, who died at an early hour yesterday morning, from congestion of the brain. The funeral will take place from his late residence, No. 4 Bowling Green, on Sunday. The building No. 9 Pell street, now in process of demolition, fell about eight o’clock last evening and buried two lads beneath the ruins. Captain Jourdan, of the Sixth precinct, was promptly on hand, with a “platoon of men, and succeeded in rescuing the sufferers from their perilous situation. Neither of the lads were fatally injured. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, before Judge Ingraham, Asa Crosby, indicted for the murder of his wife, but convicted of man- slaughter in the second degree, was sentenced to hard labor in the State prison for five years. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore City Judge McCunn, Thomas Roache, tried on an indictment for receiving stolen goeds, was ac- quitted. Wiliam Hegner was tried on an indict- ment for grand larceny, which charged him with having stolen forty yards of Kentucky jean, valued at $30, from 259 Greenwich street, on the 24th of March last. The jury brought in a verdict con- victing the prisoner of an attempt at grand lar- ceny. George Langdon, a Virginian contraband, who guessed he was about forty years of age, pleaded guilty toan indictment charging him with having assaulted Theodore H. Peterson, another “gentleman of color, residing at 79 Laurens street, on the 16th of March last. Ernest Hambold, alias Ernest Helmath, a German, about thirty years of age, employed as a clerk at 261 Bowery, pleaded guilty to an indictment for grand larceny which him with having stolen gold and silver coin, United States Treasury notes, bank bills and jewelry, to the amount of $1,087 75, from his em- ployer’s store, on the 24th of March last. The prisoners will be brought up for sentence to-day, ‘The stock market was again very buoyant, yesterday; everything rose, and closed bigher than the day previous, Pittsburg rose 9 per cent. Gold was again tame and lower, closing at five P.M, at about 152%, Exchange closed at 10634 © 167, Money wae setive, and worth about 6 per cent on call. Cotton was dull and heavy yesterday. There was loss activity in breadstuffs and provisions at declining prices. | Heavier sales of sugars, molasses, tallow, fire crackers business was reported in fruit, bay, East India rice, ish and chemicals, with modorate transactions im meat and other articles. The freight ongageménts werecheckod by | tho high claims of ship owners. The chief business in dry goods was that transacted by the jobbers and through the auction rooms, but the sales were on @ restricted scale; as usual toward the end of a season of active trade, prices wero in favor of purvhasers, The week's imports of dry goods gmounted jn value to $1,084,604; and the | wpouns marketed was $359,120, ‘and ingot copperywore effected at bueyant rates. A fair | ‘The Secretary of War, in his despatch of yes terday to the Governor of Pennsylvania, ys that although “the principal operations of Gene ral Hooker failed, there bas been no serious dis aster to the organization and efficiency of the army;” that “not more than one-third of Gene- ral Hooker's fore> was engaged;” that “General Stoneman’s operations have been a brilliant success,” and that “the Army of the Potomac will speedily resume offensive operations.” These official statements are encouraging if we may accept them as involving a new com- mander to the army; but otherwise they amovat to nothing, Under the circumstances, it may be something to boast of that the army has suffered no serious disaster, and is atill strong, compact and efficient; but no more damaging.confession could be made in regard to General Hooker than that “not more than one-third” of his army was engaged in all his three days’ battles around Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. In this fact alone it is evident that his army was two-thirds larger than his abilities to manage it. We would not be cruel towards General Hook- er. He is sufficiently punished ‘by his depler- able failure where he had promised and had the means and the epportunity for a glorious success. We may say, however, that in the di- vision of his forces when he should have massed them against the enemy; in his movements to avoid a general engagement where he ehould have tried it; in fighting upon the de fensive with only one-third of his forces, when he should have acted upon the offensive with his whole army; that in bis delay to bring out the enemy after crossing the river, and .in permitting them, en masse, to operate first upon one flank and then upon the other; and that, finally, in recrossing the river, when by the concentration of his columns the enemy dared not attack him, it is abundantly proved that General Hooker has‘neither the skill, the grasp of mind, nor the steadiness or self-possggston which ought to belong to the commander of the Army of the Potomac. 80 conclusively do we regard the facts against him that we take it for granted that General Hooker is to be set aside. He has had @ fair trial, a splendid opportunity; he has signally failed, and simple justice to the brave army which he has 80} grievously disappointed demands his removal. Who, then, is the man to command the Army of the Potomac General Sedgwick, with his detached corps, done wonders; all the other corps commanders are, | so far as we know, entitled to honorable men- tion. General Butterfield, chief of General Hooker's staff, appears to have distinguished himself only in keeping out of range of the enemy’s fire. As for General Carl Schurz, that noisy politician, who brought, disgrace upon his division of brave Germans, he is not fit to command anything, and ought to be turned adrift. What officer in the Army of the Potomac is the proper man to lead it? The very interesting photographic details which we have published from our correspond- ents on the field of Saturday’s and Sunday’s engagements around Chancellorsville indicate the individual. General Daniel E. Sickles, commander of the Third Army corps, is that man. Had his advance upon the enemy on Saturday been promptly and strongly supported by General Hooker the stampede of the Eleventh corps might bave been avoided, and the day might have closed with our army on the high road to a decisive victory. In all the details of Saturday’s and Sunday’s operations the reader will perceive that General Sickles ‘holds four horses, guiding and control | and alt, busied himself on the field about trivial detafls which belonged to. subordinates, “He has proved his total incapacity to,.lead a army, It is stated by Mr. Stanton that. Army of the Potomac will speedily ie offensive operations.” “We'trust it will not be under Hooker, who ought to be at once re- moved, and his place filled by Stoneman or Sickles. To send the army, already demoralized, to fight under-Hooker again would be highly criminal. 7 For what bas been already done they owe a very large share of the responsibility. The plan of the late campaign looks beautiful on paper. It is the anaconda system again. An army in North Carolina, au army south of the James river in the vicinity of Suffolk, and an army under General Dix operating up the peninsula, were all to concentrate on Richmond in co-operation with Stoneman’s cavalry, whose business it was to cut the communications be- tween Lee’s army and all the rebel troops south of him. If the rebels were strong at Richmond or beyond the James, then Lee would of course be weak, and Hooker could bag him. If, on the contrary, there was only a small force near Richmond, then Hooker could hold Lee in check while Stoneman’s cavalry and the Union. infantry in the vicinity would be sufficient to capture the rebel capital. That they failed to do eo is owing to the defective nature of the arrangements made by the military authorities at Washington. Simulta- neous co-operation was wanting, and the rebela were allowed to hold their interior lines, unless 60 far as the communication was interrupted by a temporary raid, which was rendered of no atrategic value from~the failure of other armies to co-operate at the same time; and while a handful of rebel troops, magnified into a great army, kept large Union forces at bay in Southern Virginia Hooker was over- powered by Lee on the Rappahannock with an immense host. And such is the way the War Department has blundered in every campaign from the beginning of the struggle. generalship of test. It was au ensy matter for-bim toVeriticise the generalship-ef Bugnside and McCietlan in leading an army Of’ 100,000 men’ against Rick- mond. Buthe now finds it a very different af- fair to lead the same army himself to the came destination. He was confident, when examined before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, that heyoould have march- ed into Richmond gt any time at his ease had he been at the head of the Army of the Poto- mac instead of Genewal McClellan; and if he had bad command instead of Burnside he would have achieved wonders. He had reoettly stated that the army he led was “the fiueston the planet,” “an army of veterans,” as the Tri- dune remarks, “superior to that of the peninsu- la;”" and eo large was it that Mr. Stanton, in his despatch to Governor Curtin, asserts that not more than one-third of the force was en- gaged in the late struggle—in other words, that Hooker had more troops than he knew what * to do with. Nor is this all. He is allowed ‘by Lee to cross the Rappahannock without op- position and without loss, and to have secured & position he deemed impregnable—one which, according to the order he issued on Thursday, the 30th of April, had rendered it necessary that “the enemy must either ingloriously fly or come out from behind his defences and give us (the Union army) battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits him’—an or- der which, in view of the events that followed, reminds us of the bombast'of Pope. The enemy did not ingloriously fly, but gave the Union army battle on its own ground, and, so far from “certain destruction” being his fate, he com- pelled “Fighting Joe” to recross the Rappahan- nock, with a loss variously estimated at twelve, twenty and thirty thousand men. By the occu- pation of Chancellorsville we were told the re- treat of Lee was cut off over the turnpike road to Gordonsville, and if Stoneman should gply prove successful in his mission, and cut the railroad, the whole army of Lee must be killed or captured. It tvrnn out that Stoneman did his subordinate part well. But how was the principal role in the drama performed? How did the Commanding General acquit himself and redeem the pledges he gave? He had everything his own way; his communications with his rear intact, and not even threatened. Why did he fail? There is a despatch from the opposing general, which we published yesterday; but from Hooker not aword. It is stated for him, indeed, by some anonymous correspondent, that his defeat and retreat are owing to three causes: First, the flight of the Eleventh corps; second, the rising of the Rappahannock; and third, his ignorance of the success of Stoneman’s expedition. It has also been stated by others that he has com- plained of Sedgwick’s corps not gaining the heights of Fredericksburg in time. Now, it is evident that if these reasons are founded in fact, they still resolve themselves into the ques- tion of generalship, and prove that Hooker was really outgeneralled, when Lee, playing a far deeper game of strategy, only seemed to be in o dangerous position, and very soon turned thetables against his adversary. Before cross- ing the Rappahannock Hooker had calculated that Lee had not more than half the army with which he bad fought Burnside; that a latge portion of it had gone south ef the James river to the vicinity of Suffolk, to North Carolina, and even to Tennessee, and that the residue would therefore fall an easy prey. He was cenfirmed in his delusion by the faci- lity with whieh he had been permitted to effect the crossing. What then must have been his astonishment to find before he had his line of defenge completely formed that Lee was upon him in overwhelming numbers, and instead of having turned. the left flank of the rebel gene- ‘ral bis own right flank was turned, hie right wing driven in with confusion, ,and the panic extending to bis centre; thus losing possession of Chancellorsville, and with it the road to Gordonsville, and being compelled to change his front and contract his line to save his army from being. cut off from the fords and the pontoons? Before he had struck a single blow he found himself on the defensive, and his communica- tions seriously menaced. Instead of advancing rapidly against Lee he waited for Lee to attack him, forgetting the maxim that ceteris paribus, time confuted—an prepare practically for another campaign, Th preliminary order for 4 draft is issued te day; but that és notenough. Thore mist b- radical changes in the Cabinet and among ou commanders. The War Department ‘ especial attention, and some such General Banks must take the place of Stanton and E leck before auytiing can-be accom either among the people or against the 1 The President bas another grand opportuni to act decisively and. insure success, Let bi take advantage of it at once, and we will care of Greeley and Raymond and the rascal; crew of abolitionists who ere now dividing bitter leek of popular contempt with this of Pistols. ° Our News from Nassau—The Eutropet Scocasion, We publish to-day a very interesting let- ter from our apecial correepondent at this! } now historic home of secession. The news con- tained in this letter will be found:to be of great public interest. The traffic in cotton-be- — tween the rebel States and this nest of seces- sion has increased ‘to an extent almost incon- celvable. Aceording to our correspondent, the people of the Northern States can form ne ideaot - the lucrative trade thus carriéd on between the — rebels and our “ neutral” English cousins, ‘The | fact is that Nassau has become the.centreof am | illicit trade in cotton—a staple of so much im- | portance to British capitalists andminufac- turers—producing immense advantages to the rebel cause and throwing millfond of dollar - annually into the pockels of their mmegobante. The importance of Nassau to the rebela hastong since been admitted by friend and foe. ‘There is no othcr island in the West Indies, Cube acarcely excepted, that exercises’ such, & dan- gerous influence against the commerce of the North. The trade between Nassau..and the | ports of the Southern confederacy'ts most ex- — tensive, and there is’ no chaunel through ‘Which the rebel cause has so largely benefitted.” All the news ¢hat wedhave hitherto. received from this hotbed of secession has come through governmental and other official sources. ‘This of itself may well account for thé “irrégilarity — of our information and the unreliable guise in | which it has frequently come, Nassau, we — know, is one of the most importantposi- tious to the cotton trade of the South, and therefore, at ut own expense, we have thought it proper to send out a special correspondent to keep. the public in- formed as to everything that Is progressing there. Of course the government of the United Btates is,and has been. fully represented af Nassau through its consular agents; but. gontiemen, being necessarily clroumsoribed ia their views and facilities, have. -only*been able to transmit such information as they could obtain through official sources. Our valued correspondent now sends us the ‘ hie own personal observations, and the facts which he discloses are worthy of the attention of the government, while they are of the, highest inter- est to the people. The letter published to-day will be gene- rally read. It is the first from a place ‘Where intelligence is*as ‘rare as itis importunt, Is discharging the duties of a first class.paper, the Hwratp scatters ita correspondents every- where, and from ‘Nassau, the British hotbed of secessionism, we may now expect information that will startle rebels and aid. to strengthen the cause of the Union. ‘ Tus Broapway Rattkoap— The" "e veto on the Broadway Railroad peel a very general satisfaction. We say thison breed grounds, and not in reference to the demerits of the measure in question. All the schemes, in fact, that have been *brought ‘forward for appropriating our great central thoronghfare to this use have, with one exception (that.of the property holders), been stock jobbingspeeula- tions. The struggle with them all hasbeen to give as little as they could in return’for this valuable franchise. The Legislature showed by its recent action that it was bought up almost to aman by the money of these concerns;and that the rights and interests of the city had not the slightest weight with it. The voto of the Greeley and Raymond Eating the Bitter Leck. While the retreat of the Army of the Potomac is a source of deep regret to the whole country, it is difficult to restrain a smile at the evident chagrin of Greeley, Raymond and the radical faction at the discomfiture, not of the army, but of their favorite General Joe Hooker. After all their blusterings and braggadocia, their praises of Hooker’s boldness and brilliant strategy, their contemptuous references to other and slower generals, and their prediotions that he would capture or annihilate the whole rebel army, they are now forced, like Ancient Pistol, to eat the bitter leek and acknowledge them- selves arrant braggarts and boasters. To them may be aptly addressed the words of Fiuellen to Pistol:—“I beseech you heartily, seurvy, lousy knaves, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek; because, look you, you do not love it, nor your affec- tions, and your appetites, and your digestions do not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it.” And eat it they do, with a vengeance, in yesterday’s edition of their papers. Raymond, the Little Villain, tries to wriggle out of the affair by saying that we ought to keep silent about it until further developments. He then proceeds to neglect his own advice by devoting several columns to the subject. We think his example better that his precept. Why should we say nothing about Hooker's failure? The result of a battle is as decisive as the verdict of @ jury, and, the battle being over, the case is 0; to comment. On the whole, Raymond believes that “the great rise in the river, consequent upon the tremendous and most unseasonable storm, was, perhaps, the one fatal cause” ef Hooker's defeat. Poor Greeley, on the contrary, makes a scapegoat of the Eleventh corps, which he wishes to have “decimated and disbanded,” and says that “General Hooker was doubtless keenly dis- appointed and greatly disconcerted by the panic ffight of the Eleventh corps on Saturdey, by which his combinstions were defeated and victory snatched away when it seemed already within his grasp.” Apparently conseious of the weakness of this theory, and anxious to dodge the bitter leek by some other device, poor Greeley continues: If Hooker Commander. Against the possible objection that be bas had no education at « military acad- emy, we need only say that Julius Cesar, Oliver Cromwell, General Washington, General Jack- sen, General Scott, and a host of other distin- guished military chieftains of the past and the Present, may be placed in the same category. Active campaigning is the school in which the man of true military geniuéWoon learns more of the art of war than can be gained by most men in a lifetime at West Point. [We despair of that complete reorganization of the War Office and its system of warfare which is so much demanded to overthrow the armies of the rebellion. We fear that President Lincoln’s amiable weakness for Stanton and Halleck is a weakness which cannot be ‘We presume that pride of opinion will the assailing army in a battle has more courage | made any grave mistake—and we lack the re- creer poor orn ve Bogie ee 4 case against Mc@lellan; that no other general |,thanthe army defending itself, and that only | quisite knowledge, even if we had the strategic weit. ges en my ist ) the who has been tried and dropped will be taken } the possession of some very strong position can | ability to determine whether he did or did not | “de pees community. It not merely rebnkes the shameless corrup- tion by which it was passed, but it re-establishes our municipal righte of se-government, which since the republicans have been in power have been gradually ‘ignored and set aside, until they have become almost entirely absorbed in a central despotism at Albany.. We have labored steadily to counteract this fatal influ- ence, and we now gladly acknowledge the eminent service which Govertior Seymour haa rendered the community by giving practical ‘ effect to our recommendations. up again to command the Army of the Potomac, and we conclude that, with the dropping of Hooker, some other officer of his army will be appointed in his place. We therefore would call the attention of President Lincoln to Gene- ral Sickles as the man for this pesition, for he has shown in the recent nine days’ campaign on the Rappahannock the skill and coolness of a great commander in the hour of action and the crisis of danger. Party Tacrics—Tue Last Move.—The Mo- zart wing of the democracy held a pow-wow the other night, at which some very spirit- ed resolutions were passed in favor of peace. James Brooks was present and made a strong’ speech in their support. Fernando Wood was, for some reason or other, out of the way; but it was understood that he fully concurred in them. Neither did Horace Greeley show his face, which caused a good deal of surprise in view of his declaration that if the war was not over by the Ist of May he would go in for a compromise with the rebels. The real object of the meeting, however, was not to accommodate matters with the South, but to checkmate the Albany Regeney. The move was, in peint of time,a blunder. The Mosart men should bave waited until a few weeks before the Presidential election of 1864. (By taking this course they would have been ‘able to talk out as they pleased, for so great will be the'excitement of the public mind by that time that would never to interfere with thom. bai ay) <a counterbalance the disadvantage of waiting to be assailed. Napoleon understood this; for in almost every battle he was the assailant. Stonewall Jackson follows bis example. But Hooker, who earned the sobriquet of ‘Fighting Joe,” both as s division and as a corps com- mander, appears to fight rather shy at the head of an army of a hundred thousand men. Great credit is assumed for the successful strategy by which Hooker crossed to the south side of the Reppahannock. But it is highly probable that this is due less to him than to the rebel general, who preferred fighting him on his own side of the river, in the hope of capturing his whole army; and that he escaped was probably owing, in a great degree, to the severe wound which disabled Stomewall Jack- son, the right orm of Lee. Hooker’s attribut- ing his failure to not hearing from Stoneman is only saying that he did not send him on his we should say that it was his inaction en Mon- day.’ But why blame the unreasonable rise of the river, or the panic of the Eleventh corps, or the inaction of Monday? Why not boldly admit that Hooker failed because he was out- generalled? If a conservative General stood in Hooker's boots would Greeley and Raymond be so excessively mealy-mouthed? Why not charge Hooker with “imbecilty” or with “treason,” as they have charged other gene- rals? Are politics and prejudices to be thus allowed to warp their judgments and stifle their'utterances? Is the leek so very bitter and unpalatable? General Hooker publicly stated some time ago that he had “the finest army on the planet.” He took this army across the Rappahannock, and issued a general order in which he de- clared that “the enemy must ingloriously fly or come out from behind their defences and give us battle on our own ground, where certain destruction awaits them.” The eaemy did not “ingloriously fly.” They “came out” and gave Hooker battle “on his own ground,” but the .“‘certain destruction” did not follow, at least on the rebel side. Now, when a former failed, General Hooker said, under oath, that the failure “was to be attributed to want of gen- eralship on the part of the commander.” “did not hesitate to say’ this; ead why Mastcat. “BRNANI'’ AT THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. The sgmouncement of Verdi's most picasing opera, ‘“Er- SP eee crete Ry at all; for'the presence of so large a body of ca- valry on the field would have saved his right fiank, and perhaps turned the scale of battle in bis favor. Nor will it do to say that he did not cre hat ra ei before the curtain after cach act. ‘Next week we are to have ‘‘ Ione,’ with Mae. HE Burnside is now rasbly dashing himself against Rmows.” the law: as be did against the rebel fortifications rete at Predericksburg. But it is the policy of the rains, and democracy to beep cool and be quiet. Allsuch was, there- cases will tell in their favor in the next eleo- fs curious tion. When they have control of the govern- ment, in 1864, they can take Wendell Greeley and a few other fanatics, ang them higher than Haman, under the very laws which the fanatics themselves have passed. | Oxe Tatxa Dectnev.—That Joe Hooker is not | s competent person to criticise the campaigns | ef General McClellan, ef rat issue another Emancipation Proclamation. have proceeded as far as Providence already ia, g