The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1863, Page 6

6 NEW YOKK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 1Z, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET.” NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Lxam WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—StTRANGER, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Paut Par—Hx's Jack Suxrraxp. LAURA KS) Saurieuo—T NEW BOWERY T Sictu¥—Tox anv JeRui ZATRE, Broadway.—La SxILuKt— RE, Bowery.—Tug Moon oF pe BEL. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Duvu’s Ring—Mac- = BuTu—My Wire § Sacoxp Foon. MUSEUM, Broadway. —Banr ARNUM’S AMERICAN Re p House at Home—S:xexorti- Snow, &c., at all hours. cox, ‘Afternoon and BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanios’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Ermior:an Songs, BontEsquas, Dances. 40.—Down i Ow K-v-xx. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Etuiorian Fones, Dances, &0.—KaiLuoan Exrrosion, THE NEW IDEA, 4% Broadway.—Sonas, Buntesevrs, Batexrs, cc. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batiera, Panvomumms, Bontssgues. £0. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 863 Broadway.< Open daiiv from 10a. M. iL 19. Me. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermrormx Fores, Dances, Buni.xsaues, &c, New York, Tucsday, May 12, 1863. THE SITUATION. There is nothing to report from General Hooker's advance to-day. The rebels were at work in considerable force yesterday on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, repairing the bridge over the Rapidan. The Stoneman cavalry expedition is immortal. We have given heretofore very full accounts from army correspoudents, embracing nearly all the leading facts of interest in that brilliant raid. To- day we publish the official report of Colonel Kilpat- rick, describing his portion of the expedition from Louisa Court House to Gloucester Point. We commend it to eur readers as a specimen of the succingt style which well befits a soldier. ‘The story is as aimply and plainly told as the deeds therein recounted were boldly executed. Wher- ever ho met the enemy in his hasty ride of five days he defeated and scattered them. He destroy- ed their commissary stores at every point he touched upon; captured prisoners within the lines of the enemy; out up their communications at the different railroad bridges, and, to sum’ up in his own tanguago, “‘at ten o'clock A. M. on the 7thI found safety and reat under our brave old figg, within our lines at Gloucester Point.” Ramore were prevalent in Washington yesterday that Genoral Halleck was about to take the field’ in person. It was not stated that General Hooker was to be superseded, the impression being that the presence of General Halleck at the scene ot future operations would have a salutary effect upon the direction of affairs. The rebel accounts, which we publish to-day from the Richmond papers, of the battle at Chan- cellorsville are full and interesting. While claim- ing, of course, & great victory, they admit a severe Joss and the wounding of Generals Jackson, A. P. Hill, MoGowan Heth and McLaws. The news from Mississippi is highly important, manifesting as it does that the movements of Gen- eral Grant between Jackson and Vicksburg are bringing matters to an issue there. A despatch from Cairo last night says that according to the Memphis Bulletin Jackson is already invested, and that the rebels have no way of getting out of Vioksburg but by cutting their way through the national forces. Our map to-day will show the relative positions of these two points. A rebel despatch from Jackson to Richmond, dated the Sth, says that the Union troops were repulsed the day previous at Ankerson’s Ferry, on the Big Black, after four hours severe fighting. The fate of the news- paper correspondents on board the barges which were demolished by the rebel batteries at Vicks- burg is cleared up by a despatch from General Pemberton, commanding there, to Adjutant Gene- ral Cooper, stating that twenty-four prisoners were taken from the barges, among whom were one correspondent of the New York World, two of the New York Tribune and one of the Cincin- nati Times, % General Braxton Bragg also sends an official account to Richmond of our cavalry raid in Geor- gia. He describes the resistance offered to our troops as stubborn, and boldly maintained from point to point, resulting, as we know, in the cap- ture of Colonel Streight’s command by General Forrest, near Rome. General Bragg claims one thousand six hundred prisoners, with all their horses and rifles- By the arrival of the United States transport Oriole from Port Royal yesterday we have dates to the 6th inst, All our iron-clads had left there for North Edisto, their recent damages received at Charleston having been repaired. Folly Island, Seabrook’s and Coles’ islands were occupied by General Hunter's troops, who were intrenching themselves at those points. The Ironsides is still at anchor inside the bar in Charleston harbor. We have also news from Newbern, N. C., up to the 7th, by the arrival of the transports General Meigs and Ellen 8. Terry—the former with dates from Hilton Head 6th, Newbern 7th, and Fortress Monroe 9th; the latter from Newbern 6th and Fortress Monroe 9th. Everything was quiet at Newhbern at last accounts. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Bohemian, from Londonderry on the Ist of May, passed Cape Race yesterday morning on her voyage to Quebec. She was boarded by our news agent, and her report— whieh is five days later than the advices of the Australasian, telegraphed from 8. Johns, New: foundland—is published in the Heaton to-day. It was said in Londom that Mr. Adams, the United States Minister, had made @ “ frank ex- planation” respecting ‘‘ ticket of leave’ lotters to the Mexicantraders, and that no diplomatic pro- teat on the part of England was necessary in con- sequence. France, it was stated, on the contrary, ‘was offended, and demanded an explanation. The London Times of the ist of May says that, Rotwithstanding contradictory reports from New ‘York, the Cabinet im Washington would not irri- tate England to such @ point ‘as to render a con- tinged exercise of forbearance impossitte.”” Earl Russel! had stated that Lord Lyons would be instructed to inform the governmént of the United States that the British government consid- ered that ‘ful! reparation” is due to all partios aggrieved by the seizure of the Peterhoff. The mails of the Peterhoff “ were to be forwarded to their destination unopened,” France, it was said, would reduce both her ar- my and navy in the next year. , Affuirs in Poland remained unchanged. Russia had renewed her propositions to Prussia for an of- fensive and defensive alliance, A Russian courier had arrived in London, bear- ing, it was supposed, the Ozar's reply to Earl Rus- sell's despatch on Polish affairs, The despatch it- self had been submitted to Parliament and pub- lished. The London Stock Exchange was closed on the Ist of May. Consols closed onthe 30th of April at 933¢ a 93% for money. The Bank of England had reduced the rate of discount to three per cent, The Liverpool cotton market had been dull for the week ending April 30, and prices were from one-fourth to one-half of a penny lower. On the 1st of May the market was firmer; but prices re- | mained at the decline. There were three hundred and seventy thousand bales on hand, Breadstufls were quiet and steady, Provisions were inactive, - The steamship City of Washingtan, from Liver- pool on the 29th and Queenstown on the 30th of April, arrived at this port last night. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The amount of legal tender notes and postal cur- rency issued up to the first day of May is as fol- lows :— Postal eurrency about... : 16.000 000 There can be about twenty-five or thirty millions more issued under the resolution of Congress -to pay soldiers. Nearly a half million per day is now being issued, and will probably continue until the balance of the twenty-five or thirty millions is issued. Should the war continue for two years more twice the amount will have to be issued to carry the war on, exclusive of cectificates of in- debtedness, two or three hundred millions of which will be kept afloat nearly all the time. The Bermuda Gazette of the 29th of April says:— “ Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K. C0. B., will leave Bermuda for Halifax, Nova Scotia, in a few days. Hér Majesty’s ship Greyhound, from Charleston, ig hourly looked for. Her Majesty's ship Baracouta is to leave Nassau, New Provi- dence, shortly, on a cruise.”” The Governor of Ber- muda, in his speech delivered on the oc- casion of the opening of the legislative session, said:—‘I am glad to be able to ac- quaint you that the revenue of the past yoar shows @ very satisfactory result. There is no doubt but that this is largely due to circumstances of an exceptional character, arising out of the ex- isting state of affairs in the neighboring continent of North America, and it will be unwise not to be prepared for that reaction which must ensue on their rearrangement." Mr. Wendell Phillips made a speech last night, at the Cooper Institute, on the “‘Lesson of the Hour;’’ but was not so brilliant and did not prove so at- tractive as bis young and good looking fellow apos- tle of abolitionism, Miss Ann E.-Dickinson. His ideas, too, appeared to be rather a recast of hers, and ran principally upon the necd of getting rid of Gen. Halleck and Secretary Seward, Postmaster Blair, and even the Massachusetts Senators. He did not believe in the exhaustion of the, South... Before it .came to that. point with the rebels they would inscribe ‘on their: banners gradual emancipation, and, arm their slaves, He declared himself for con- ciliation of the slaves, not of the slaveholders. “Death to the system and death to the master” he announced as his motto. God grant—he prayed— that the war might never end until it left us on the solid granite of impartial liberty and justice. Mr. Greeley and Mr. Lloyd Garrison also made short addresses. The latter declared himself for the abolition of the rebellion, the abolition of slavery and the abolition of the Anti Slavery Society. The weather yesterday indicated in an unmis- takable manner that spring had made a some- what sudden jump into summer, and the change was felt all the greater in consequence of the damp and very disagreeable weather of the pre- vious few days. At noon yesterday the thermome- ter showed eighty degrees of heat. On the motion of ex-Judge Dean, yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas, Judge Hilton granted an injunction against the Harlem Railroad Com- pany and the Mayor and Commonalty of New York, restraining them from any further action under the city ordinance giving the grant to lay the tracks. The tracks partially laid in Broad- way, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, by the Harlem Railroad Company, were completed yesterday afternoon by a number of laborers, The Board of Aldermen did not meet last even- ing for want of a quorum. A special meeting is called for this day at twelve M. The Board of Councilmen did not organize yes- terday, in consequence of a quorum not being present when the roll was called. The anniversary mecting of the Universalist Sunday schools of this city was held yesterday af- ternoon in Dr. Chapin’s church. There were six schools represented on the occasion; but the num- ber of pupils was not near as large as in former years. Rev. Moses Ballou presided. The exer- cises consisted of prayer, singing and addresses, the latter being delivered by Revs. Moses Ballou, E. G. Brooks, L. J. Fletcher and G, T. Flanders. The thirty-fifth anniversary of the American Seamen’s Friend Society was hold at Irving Hall last evening. The receipts during the year were $54,614 27, which were largely above the expendi- tures. *From statements made upen the occasion it appears that the society is in quite a flourishing condition. Addresses were made by Rev. Messrs. Boughton, Hitchoock and others. The twenty-sixth anniversary of the Union Theo- logical Seminary was celebrated last evening in the Wooster street Presbyterian church. De- lightful music filled up the pauses in the exercises, which consisted principally of orations on “The Cross and the Corner Stone,” by Mr. Albert C, Bishop, of New York; ‘‘ The Two Revelations,” by Mr. G. M. Boynton, of Brooklyn; “ Spiritualism the Characteristic of Modern Infidelity,” &&., &c. Professor Henry H. Hadley delivered the address to the graduating class, which consisted of the following named gentlomen:—Charles T. Berry, Albert G. Bishop, George M. Boynton, Frederic A. M. Brown, George F. Chapin, William H. Clark, Henry J. Crane, Bishop Falkner, James B, Finch, Henry M. Grant, Elsworth J. Hill, Joel J. Hough, John McVey, W. Wisner Martin, John H. Meacham, Edwin E. Meriam, Almon B. Merwin, William D. Morton, Alexander Nesbit, Abram J. Quick, A. Judson Rich, Leonard BE. Richards, Robert H. Richardson, Evra D, Shaw, John P, Torrey, John Walker, William White Williams. The case of the British prize Peterhoff was still further postponed yesterday by Judge Botts, of the | United States Diatrict Court, in consequence of the continued engagement of Mr. Upton, counsel for the captors. The Judge granted an order that fa the meantime Mr. Samuel J. Redgate should be examined before the Prize Commissioners, the | questions propounded by the counsel, and the answers of the witness to be taken in writing and submitted to the Court. In the case of the prize vessel Springbok, Judge Betts docided that where @ vessel is suspected of carrying contraband goods, even if she had not attempted to run the blockade, her cargo-might be examined to determine whether it was contra- band or not. Several prisoners, indicted for grand and petty larceny, fer forgery and recoiving stolen goods. wore put forward to plead yesterday in the Court of Oyer and Torminer, and were remanded for trial, Amonget them was Sergeant Joseph Lennon, of a United States cavalry regiment, indicted for’ stealing a horse and buggy, valued at $200. - An interesting piece of evidence was developed on Saturday in the Christy will case. . E. B, Chris- ty, son of the deceased, testified that his father surreptitiously removed the family Biblo prior to his alleged second marriage, and that this Bible contained the records of the births; marriages, &c., of the family, and, among the rest, the mar- riage of the deceased with H. E. Harrington, the witness’ mother. A. W. Bradfotd for the will; Benj. F. Blankman and C, K. Smith for the contest- ents. According to the City Inspector's report, there wore 422 deaths in the city during the past week— @ decrease of 13 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 9 more than oocurred during the corresponding week laat year. The re- capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 3 of diseases of the bones, joints, &,; 90 of the brain and nerves, 6 of the generative organs, 19 of the heart and blood vessels, 154 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 4 of old age, 23 of diseascs of the skin and eruptive fevers, 3 premature births, 66 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other diges- tive organs; 39 of uncertain seat aud genoral fevers, 6 of diseases of the urinary organs, and, 18 ‘frbm violent causes. ‘Phere were 278 natives of the United States, 12 of England, 87’of Ireland, 1 of Scotland, 87/of Germany, and the balance of, various foreign countries. Tho stock market was very buoyant yesterday, and, stooks gencrally wore highcr, with an tncrease of busi ness. Money was casior, Gold was dultat 1483, @ 14834. Excbange, 1633 a 164. Business was generally very dail yesterday. Trausac- tions in all kinds of produce and merohandis0 were on an extremely limited ecale, Prices of breadetufis and pro- visicns favored buyors, and groceries wore Ics buoyant. ‘The changes in most other branohes of trade were uaim portant, ‘Mo a tas coqsnehalta tet Saahg The Virginia Campaign—Another Ad- vance—The Prospect Brightening. The report that- General Hooker’s army is again on the south side of the Rappahannock, and advancing, gives general satisfaction. It was feared that his return to this side signified the suspension of any offensive operations on our part in Virginia for several months to come; but it is now believed that we are to have not only a resumption of active hostilities, but that, pursuing the combinations entered into under the present condition of the rebel army, we can hardly fail to secure the most decisive and comprehensive victories, In the single fact that General Hooker's re- treat across a rapid flooded river on two nar. row pontoon bridges was undisturbed by the enemy we have conclusive evidence that the rebel army bad been too badly shattered to disturb him. Otherwise General Lee could not have asked a better opportunity for a de- cisive blow. His official reports show that he was fully apprised of the movement; and- yet during the two days and nights occupied in accomplishing it he refrained from. any positive interference, permitting even our rear guard, bag and baggage, to cross,without molestation. , "Had Lee bean in « condition to sélee the oppor- | 2 “tunity to cut our army in two, and then to destroy it in detail, he would have attempted it. The fact that he did not attempt it shows that Gene- ral Hooker’s retreat was unnecessary. To this extraordinary discovery, and to the important achievements and disclosures of General Stone- man’s brilliant cavalry expedition to the very doors of Richmond, we are indebted for this re- turn of our army to the south side of the Rappa- hannock. It is also very evident that Stoneman’s unex- pected operations, and the reported movements of our peninsular forces, instantly demanded of Lee the removal of his whole army southward, or a division of his columns to strengthen Rich- mond, extremely dangerous to his already seri- ously depleted army. Meantime, cut off from his base of supplies, and with numerous inter- mediate trains and depots of stores destroyed, the necessities of subsistence to his army by Sunday evening last had probably become aos urgent upon Lee as the safety of the rebel capi- tal. And here we have another reason why General Hooker’s retreat over the Rappaban- nock was not interrupted. During this retreat, his enemy, to save Richmond and to secure sub- sistence, was doubtless moving in the opposite direction. But Richmond and Lee’s army are both now within our grasp, with any degree of general- ship and activity on the part of the War Office and our leaders in the field. Lee has perhaps left General Hooker several days’ march be- hind him; but, in this event, with Stoneman’s cavalry detachments on hand, supplied with fresh horses, the rebel rear may be so harassed as to make their retreat as disastrous as the loss of a great battle. General Hooker, however, must move faster than in his first advance upon Chancellorsville, or the whole rebel army may teach the peninsula without serious loss. Had our commander known how to handle his mag- nificent army, the grand result of these late battles would have been the death blow to Jeff. Davis. But in the tactics of the battle field, and in his strategy, Gen. Hooker has shown him- self 20 manifestly deficient as to inspire but little confidence in his future movements. We have, on the other hand, unbounded confidence in his greatand heroic army. We hold that,-4f with one-third of it during his three days’ fighting he was strong enough to resist the shocks of all the legions of the enemy, he can destroy them by bringing the other two-thirds of his soldiers into the work when next the battle is joined. We had hoped that some officer of his army who had displayed the practical qualities of a great commander in the late battles would be appointed to lead the army in this advance. But, as it appears that General Hooker is to be tried again, we can only hope that he ‘will promptly atone for his late blunders and misfortunes in a series of great successes. Now is his time, and the golden opportunity for the administration and the Union. The army is all right. Let it only be properly handled, and the end of this campaign in Virginia will yet be the end of the rebellion. Stoneman’s operations between Lee aud Richmond have placed the | zebot army and the rebel capital within our | grasp, and the glory or the disgrace of this campaiga will belong to the War Office. Hooker aNv THR Nixcomroors opmus Toxka.— Tho only paper in this city which stands by Hooker fe the Times. Yesterday morning the Tribune renewed its attacks on his blunders, and the Evening Post has long since thrown him overboard. But the nincompoops of the Times continue to hold him up as « military | idol, when the whole world’ gives him up as a bad case, “Here is the Young Napoleon,” they cry; “let us fall down and worship him.” This is worthy of the military critic who once made such « muddle of “the elbows of the Min- clo,” “the sympathies of youth” and “the for- tifications of Paria.“ The Grent Uprising of the Women of the North. Since the rebellion broke out we have bade great many uprisings atthe North, ' There have been uprisings of the men of the North, the pa- triots of the North, the politicians of the Nerth, the contractors of the North, the stock jobbers of the North, the gold gamblers of the North, the“ editors of the North, the orators of the North, the abolitionists of the North, and so on, not only ad infinitum, but also ad nauseam. Still, none of these uprisings seems to have amounted to anything practical, and we have not yet subdued the South, where there have as yet been no uprisings at all. Now, however, the proper war spirit appears to be about to de- velop itself in the proper quarter. An upris- ing of the women of the North ought certainly to be effectual in putting down rebellion. That such an uprising is at hand is evident from the following circular, addreased by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the loyal women of the na- tion:— Jn this crisis of our country's destiny tt ts tho duty Of every citizen to consider the peculiar blessings of , Publican form of goverument, and decide what sacril Pr wealth and life are déenanded for its defence and pre- for ‘The policy of tho war, our whole future life, depends on a universal, clearly defined idea of the end proposed, and the immense wavantages to be secured to oursotves and all mankind by its accom) be mere apot We bias right of Creedom, and keep it a thisond we ask the loyal free; seven o'clock P. M., admittance the Woman’s Central i N, B.—Communicatlons relative to and for the morting should be addressed to Susan B. Anthony, 48 Bookmag treet, New York. The meeting called by Mrs. Stanton will be of quite ‘a different character from that address- ed by Wendell Phillips at the Cooper Institute lastevening. Wendell Phillips is a destructive. The spirit of God creates order, harmony, peace and happiness from chaos. The spirit of mony, and attempts to reduce all things to angels, with them—that it is not at fal they should endeavor to It would. be unreasonable to say that they will not succeed. We have tried men and found them sadly wanting. Now let us try Mrs. Eliza- beth Cady Stanton, Miss Anna Mctilda Dick- inson and the other women who join in this up- rising. We hope that all the women of New York and vicinity, including a fair representa- tion from Brooklyn, Jersey City, Harlem, Ho- boken, Weehawken and Staten Island, will at tend the meetings at Cheever’s churchend the Cooper Institute, next Thursday, and put their beautiful heads and spring bonnets together on our behalf. it We presume that Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anna Matilda Dickinson and other charming orator- eases’ will speak at the meetings. If so we shall hear words of wisdom delivered in the sweetest possible tones, and with the greatest possible effect. But we urge upon Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anna Matilda Dickinson the necessity of sending a committee to Washington to confer with President Lin- coln in regard to a change of Cabinet. The nationgl troubles, although originating with the abolitionists, are perpetuated by the hopeless imbecility of the present Cabinet members. If Stanton; Halleck, Welles and ail the other old women who form the present ad- ministration were immediately turned adrift, and their places supplied by such young and pretty women as thie uprising will bring for- ward, both the President and the country would be greatly relieved. Under the guidance of men we have become more and more deeply in- volved in the horrors ef this civil war. Men are too fond of speculating in gold and stocks, maneuvering for offices, intriguing for posi- tions in the army, and making money by shoddy and gun contracts, to care much for patriotism or do much for the Union. If the glorious old patriotic spirit of the first Revolution has not utterly deserted us, it must have taken in the breasts of the women of the North, for none of it is to be found among the men. There is no good reason, therefore, why we should not rely upon the women for our national as well as our individaal and social salvation, happi- ness and prosperity. In any event we could not be worse off than we are; and, with the aid of Providence and the women of the North, we may soon be a thousand times better. far enetantmmnatiamnetantn Tux Exeventa Corrs anp Irs Gawsrats.— General Howard, commanding the Eleventh corps, and Carl Schurz, commanding a division thereof, have taken exception to the descriptions of their personal action at the battle of Chancel- loraville, as contained in several other morn- ing papers as well as the Herat. They claim that, personally, their conduct was brave and proper in the field. We are glad to seo them 80 sensitive to criticiém. It is'a good sign, and we are willing to admit that there have been mistakes nade as regards their personal conduct in the battle in questo. They showed bravery enough, but very little brains. They are re- sponsible for the behavior of the Eleventh corps. Had they trained their men morally and physi- cally as they ought, the result would have been different. Had they properly drilled their troops, and inspired them with a true morale, they would not have run away. American troops when properly handled never behave in this manner in battle. Generals Howard and Schurz must therefore shoulder the responsi- bility of the disorderly flight of the Eleventh | Tae ee corps, which was ® principal cause of the} term. In like manner the sttategy of Hoo loss of the battle of Chancellorsville | is at fault in bis late attempt to advance agai and of the forced retreat of Hooker across the | Richmond via Fredericksburg. The best m Rappahannock. They ought to be removed | tary minds have that route | | immediately, and their places given to superior | practicable, Besides, he allowed Lee to % men. But, while the brief campaign of nine | centrate all his force upon him, and, accord) ; ‘days brought to light. inferior generals, it algo | to all accounts, outnumber him in battle. Fr / developed the capabilities of men of @ higher | the beginning to the present time blunder af calibre; and Sedgwick, Sickles and Stoneman | blunder hasbeen perpetrated, from ignorance may be regarded as reserve generals, com-| the nature of the art of war. Lither fut petent to hold posts of high command in the | attempts have beon mado to achieve rest! 7 Army of the Potomae when opportunity opens | with inadequate means, or there has bé the way for them. ph iw fighting without a plan, by “4 : The Lesson stor on the Rap- | ® nothing could be accomplished but 1" oct pe rs of the Two | tual destruction, R Campaigns, ‘ One fundamental error has hitherto pervad) The late catastrophe on the Rappahannock | our system of campaign, and that is to quiey is full of instruction, if the authorities at Wash- | yield the enemy the benefit of interior lines, & ington cou'd only profit by it and amend their | to take the disadvantage of exterior lines for ¢ ways. The criticism on the battle by Mr. Emil | armies, And this hag been the cause of mA; Schalk, in the letter which we published on | other errors, to say nothing of the loss Sunday, is well deserving of attention. This | time and the many disasters it has Cash gentleman evidently understands his subject, | The fact ot the Confederates Poasessing | and has a military mind of no common order. | terior lines enables them to concentrate th He is the author of “Campaigns of 1862 and | forces rapidly, and, with three hundred th ‘ 1863, Illustrating the Principles of Strategy,” | sand men, to be superior in battle to the fede! @ book which ought to be in the hands of all | generale with “Ylouble the number of troo 4 our gencrals. ‘His comments on the recent fight | Yor example: the rebel generals have au on the Rappohannock are well reasoned. He | between Fredericksburg and Richmond, ¢ Classes it among other battles fought during |-other at Suffolk and in. North Carolina, 9, this'war, in which thousands and thousands of | another at Chattanooga. So long as commu brave soldiers are immolated, without any ade- | cation is open between these three armies, quate result for the enormous loss of life, and | they cam reinforce each other at will which may be traced directly to the mistakes of | form a junction of them if necessary or desi the generals anding. Of the rebel gene- | they possess the interior lines; while, on ral he says: Lee has certainly | other hand, our army on the northern bank of @ gained for himeelf by this battle the name of { one of the ablest generals of the present while of Hooker he remarks:—“The idea ol general who is on the offensive, whose avowed object is the eapture or destruction of a whole army, making six miles in thirty-six hours, just at the most critical moment of ‘his operationa, and finally, after intrenching himself without be- ing on the communications of his enemy, tells his coldiers that the enemy has to run away or to at- tack him on his own ground, where he will de- stroy him, bas not its parallel in modern times.” These observations are undoubtedly just; but there is one point on which we do not agree with Mr. Schalk. It is his depreciation of the movement of Stoneman. If Hooker had not enough of troops without this large cavalry force, there might be some force in the ohjec- tion; but when we are told by Mr. Stanton that only one-third of his men were brought into action, the case is entirely altered. It is true, perhaps, that all Stoncrnan’s cavalry were not needed to cut Lee’s communications and co- operate with the Union troops in North Caro- lina and those under General Dix in capturing Richmond. But Stoneman’s operations were singularly successful; and had our infantry force in the vicinity of James river been equally enterprising, or had Hooker done his duty on the Rappahannock, Riobmond, Frede- rickebutg and the whole of Lee’s army would > haxe beon captured together. The plan, as'we | ing; say, from Port Royal, in South Understand it, was to hold Lee in check by | < x means of Hooker's army, if it was not possible to defeat him in a pitched battle, while Stone- man and the forces in Southern Virginia and North Carolina combined their operations against the rebel capital. The plan was good, and only failed in the execution from the ineffi- ciency of the generals. Sedgwick, too, did his duty and behaved nobly; but he was not sup- ported by Hooker, and his corps was’ conse- victimized. bry lao of remark that Lee did not at- tack Hooker on Monday or Tuesday. Why? Because Jeff. Davis sent the rebel general a message that his communications were cut off, and also made a demand upon him for troups to save Richmond. Lee was only too glad, there- fore, to let Hooker cross the river as soon as possible, lest he should find out what had been done. Hooker might have known that Lee had some peculiar motive for his apparently strange course, and he ought to have held his ground, and, if Lee attempted to retreat, hung upon his rear. Thus was the campaign lost, and with it hecatombs of human beings sacrificed in vuin. In the campaign of the last year time was wasted and preatige lost because those who di- rected it did not understand the principles of the art of war. We had hoped that the inaugu- ration of the coming campaign would mark the dawa of a new era, and that the military opera- tions of the generals of the Union would be conducted thenceforth in conformity with those maxims and rules which cannot be vioiated with impunity. Had true military ideas pre- vailed there would be no necessity for an at- tack on Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Charleston or Riehmond. With the success of our main armies in the field, these places would have fallen without a blow. Without the destruction of the principal armies of the enemy in decisive battles, the capture of Richmond, Charleston, Mobile, Vicksburg, and other cities similarly situated, would avail little towards the over- throw of the rebellion or towards bringing the war to a successful issue. Mismanagement and incapacity have blundered at every step since the struggle began. In the war of the Revolution great ability was displayed in the feld as well as in politics by the same men. The ge nerals were all states- men and men of character and mark. Hence their success. The same cause operated to the triumph of the Roman erms,~ Superior mea ruled the country and led the armies by turns. In the next generation after the American Revo- fution a race of statesmen succeeded to Wash- ington and the rest; but they displayed no apti- tude for military affairs, probably because there was no scope for the exercise of such talents, In the present time we have neither statesmen nor generals, butfor the most part a set ef small men who play at soldiers, and play at politics with equal ignorance and stupidity. The consequence is that everything has gone wrong. The only man who has shown ability in war, or who appears to have understood the business he undertook, is General McClellan, whose plans and purposes have been defeated by jeal- ous rivals and party politicians of very small calibre, The idéa of some of our has been simply to kill or be killed, without considering what benefit is to result from the slaughter. Such fighting can never achieve the object of the war. A French general who saw Lord Cardigan make the famous charge upon the Russian batteries at Balaklava ex- claimed, “It is magnificent, but it is not war.” And so the attempt of Burnside to-storm the heights of Fredericksburg; that of Dupont, um- boro, have exterior lines, because they have communication with cach other, cannot reinfor, each other, and ere liable to be crushed aoj"| rately by the united force of the three armies. . If either or all the Confede: armies are pressed they can retreat till effect a junction, by which they oan firstdea deadly blow to one hostile army, and then the other. The only way that this result cou be prevented is to have each of our arm}. & > even command of the sea to remedy the ter. But if half the time and energy bed concentrated om this that has been vain, isolated efforta upon the capture of on the external boundaries of the con own, and the rebellious armies therefore oy, only be overthrown by the science whi can bring to bear upon the decisive point the theatre of operations a much larger for than theenemy. This is most easily done b internal lines. Napoleon’s usual.plan of wi ning a decisive battle, after by his strategy t had compelled the enemy to fight wher he wanted him, was to penetrate his line b tween one of the wings and the centre, and, th div it, to attack and defeat each in suoce: sion his whole force. The same rule aj Plies to the whole theatre of war. By gettin interior lines and a central position the enemy armies may be all beaten in detail. Then ther; is a vast difference between winning a battl after it has been brought on by strategic marche and winning it without strategy. stance, if Burnside had the had got south of the rebel army, am compelled it to fight with its back to the nerth in that event, if it were defeated, it would bx utterly destroyed, as it would have no place o safety upon which to retreat, with its communi cations, reinforcements and supplies all cu‘ off. Had Hooker held Chancellorsville and de feated Lee the ‘battle would have been deci sive, because Lee’ could not retreat south, an his army would have been lost. But Hooke: did not make the right use of : at his command to Fe ness by those who are as ignorant of his pur. pose as they are of the elements of the art off war, and because he does not publish his plan they foolishly imagine he has no plan at all. In two publications Mr. Schalk has theee principles to the campaigns of 1862 k i i H } 3 z i Z E 3 53 5 it fal i 32 é z 3 i i HT Haile i H Haines’ bluff, like a med bull against wall, may be grand displays of courage; but such is not war in the scientific sense of i { i ff