The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1863, Page 6

: NEW YORK NEW YORK HERALD. —— whereupon Geoghegan was — the JAMES GORDON BENNETT | A convention of butebers from different sections of the country wil be held to-day im this city. BLITOR AND PKOPRIBIOR, TERMS cash in advance yoney sent vy matt will be | ganizations for all the elties, New York taken. Velume XXVIM . ba = ———— —— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Leau. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Sreanges. have injured the business to such an extent that it will but scarcely afford a bare subsistence to those engaged in it.’ At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors Yesterday a communication from the Comptroller recommended the appropriation of $12,383 for un- ttled claims, and a resolution making the appro- priation was accordingly adopted. The Mayor sent in a message vetoing the action of the Board appointing a committee of conference with the Supervisors of Westchester to determine the boundary line between the two counties, and to determine the proportion of the cost of Harlem , bridge to be borne by each county. A second veto from the Mayor opposed the paying of cer tain bills for furnishing the new Court House, because the bills were not properly certified. Both papers took the usual course. The Board adjourned to Tuesday next. The annual meeting of the Association of Medi- cal Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane was held at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday. Nineteen members were present, and the proceed- ings consisted of the reading of reports relative to the speciality of insanity. They will remain in session three days, and, before adjourning, will visit the different medical institutions of thia city. Tho, fifty-seventh anniversary of the Orphan Asylum of the city of New York was celebrated yesterday at the institution, in Bloomingdale, where a select audience of ladies and gentlemen, most of whom are the patrons of the parentless inmates, assembled to witness the exercises. This is one of our best and nedlest institutions, and it morchants, manufacturers and gentlemen threughout the | extends its protection at present to over two hun- country {a increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- | dred interesting children of both sexes, who grow sorted in the Waxy Henaco will thus be seen by a large | up into a moral and intellectual status under the Portion of the active and energette people of the United | Guardianship of Mr. and Mrs. Pell, who have WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Maratp Live—Sous- sopr's Coat, LAURA KBENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rors Divee- TISKMENT—UN AMANT DX TRor—Lxs IN FoRTUNus De Premnor. hiss raat: NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Diox Toertw in Faance—srxctas Baipcroom Rover's Bains. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Husnaw's Sow acos Leasuxn—Nokat Oaxina BARNUM'’S AMERICAN MUSBUM. Broadway —Pav- YREITK—STERROFTICON. Afternoon and Bvemng. BRY. MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. | bo ay aca Somes, Boxtssques. Daxcas 4¢.—Down w Op K-¥-ky, | WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadwav.—Ermioriag Soma, Dinos, &0.—RuNxinG Tux BLoceaDE. THE NEW IDEA, 485 Broalway.—Sonas. Buacrsques, Bataxts, &c.—Vou av Vu: SouTaKuN Rervoms. AMERICAN, THEATKE, No. 44 Broadway.—Baruure, Pantomiuns, Burinsaums. 46. . HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Erm Fonos, Daxcs, Bortasaues, £c. san i icapliees COSTINENTAL HALL. Pamavauit. New York, Waducming. Pe 20, ‘1803. EE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for ney ‘Wasxty Hanan must be hand- 4 in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its | ciroulation among the enterprisivg mechanics, farmers, States. charge of the establishment. The exercises yes- pennant eens ae terday were varicd and interesting. Rev. Mr. THE SITUATION. Daryee delivered an address to the children and read the annual report, which showed that the business matters of the institution had been man- aged in an economical manner. The expendi- tures from April, 1862, to April, 1863, amounted to $17,945 22, and the receipts during the same period were sufficient to meet all demands. The Excise Commissioners met yesterday, and organized with the same officers as last year. They received one application for a $30 license. ‘The schooner St. Georgé was condemned by de- fault yesterday in the United States District Court, before Judge Bette, for running the bleck- ade. -A case of quinine, captured on board*the steamer Marion, for New Orleans, wae also con- demned by default. Judge Nelson delivered an important opinion yesterday in the United States Circuit Court; in relation to the sale of prize property, which will be read with interest by the mercantile comma- nity here and abroad. Every movement connect- ed with these prize vessels is looked to with anxi- ety by the governments of America and Great Britain, and when the legal interpretations of the acts of Congress are so lucidly defined by our federal judiciary there will be little fear of a col- lision of those great Powers from any miscon- struction of the maritime laws. A mass copperhead State Convention of Indisna is called to meet to-day at Indianapolis. Among those who were invited to deliver addresses was the Hon. Clement L. Vallandgham; but we learn that he has declined the invitation, and will not be The latest news from General Grant's army re- ports that the Capitol at Jackson has been burned, but whether by the troops of General Grant, or by the rebels in retreating, or by accident, ie not stated. The official reports of General Grant's aotion at Jackson and the capture of that city, forwarded by General Hurlbut from Memphis, merely mentions that “the Capitol was burned,” but docs not state by whom. Gencral Hurlbut states that from five to ten thousand mounted men ‘are concentrated near Okoloma, threatening an sailvance in the direction of the Memphis Railroad. He also saysthat a citizen just up from Jackson reports that the enemy abandoned Vicksburg on Sanday, marching on the ridge northeast to Liv- ingaton, which is a post village twenty miles north- weat of Jackson. We give a map to-day of the city of Jackson and its surroundings—showing the Pearl river and the railroad and turnpikes leading to the city—accom- panied by sketches of the localities. The recent raid of Colonel Grierson through Mis- aissippi has provoked a most excited proclamation feom the rebel Governor Pettus, to his brother Mississippians, which we give in another column. The rebels are making a demonstration in Ken- tacky. Despatches from Cincinnati dated on Mon- day say that the rebel force in Wayne and Clinton counties is increasing. They are said to have seventeen thousand men and fourteen pieces of artillery. Four rebel regiments of infantry have passed through Jamestown, and twenty-four more regiments are reported at Morristown, East Tennessee. General Buckner is said to be at Clinten. ‘There are rebel pickets on the Cumberiand river at every available point. A let- ter from Richmond, Ky., says that the rebels have crossed the Cumberland, which is rapidly falling. These movements are regarded as indications of an attempt to outflank General Rosecrans at Murfreesboro. Our latest news from the latter point represent the situation as unchanged. The Positions and movements of the different rebel corps in that vicinity will be found in our des- patch from Murfreesboro, dated on Monday. It is said that three brigades had reinforced Gen. Bragg, but the probability is that those troops had gone to assist General Pemberton at Vicks- burg, and that they comprised those of Generals Churchill, Gist and Walker. Our Suffolk correspondence te-dey gives an interesting account of the late skirmish at Carrs- ville and the tearing up of the Seabrook and Roanoke Railroad, and the removal of the rails to Suffotk. the fight. The extracts which we give to-day from the Southern journals relative to the prices of pro- visions iu the markets and the prospects of the comin; crops are most curions and interesting. Pete frat rebel Congress went out of existence at Richmond at ten o’clock on the night of the Ist instant. The most important measures passed during the session were a Taxation act, for the support of the government, the army and the navy; & currency act, to promote the funding of Gonfede- rate notes in Confederate bonds; the Impreasment act, to authorize the seizure of all produce for army use; an act to organize a general staff for the army; the formation of s new flag, and the adoption of anew seal. The Dill making it a a penal offence to buy, sell or cir- culate United States bonds and Treasury notes, or «« greenbacks,” was rejected in the Senate, on the ground that the constitution did not authorize Congress to provide any punishment for the crime which the House bill created. The acte providing for the election of members of Congress by gene- ral ticket, to authorize the conscription of resi- dent foreigners, and for the repeal of all naturali- ration laws, were also rejected. The joint resolu- tions offering terms of peace to the Northwestern loyal States were defeated in both houses. ‘There are now three wandering Governors in the rebel States, who have skedaddied from the exe- cu.ive mansions in their respective capitals, and will be forced henceforth to issue their edicts and proclamations from the wayside. Their names are: Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee; Thomas Over- ton Moore, of Louisiana, and old Jacob Thempson, of Mississippi. Mr. John Reed Lambson was brought before the expressing disloyal sentiments. Upon examina- tion he admitted that he was oppored to the gov ernment of the United States and in favor of the rebel confederacy. He declined to go South, as he would much rather live in the North; he refused to take the oath of allegiance, and insisted that the constitution proteeted him in the liberty of speech. Fee was held to answer specific charges. Our correspondent was wounded in The call announces the object of the convention to be for the purpose of “ adopting a uniform sys- OFRIOE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND MASSAT BEB | tory in purchasing live stock, and to establish or- : eee to eradicate forever stthe risk of the sender. Noue but bank bilis current in | the great and growing imposition the butchers now suffer under—namely, the speculation in live | business of selling and buying of fat stock where it legitimately belongs—between the butoher, who prepares it for the consumer, and the grasier and feeder, who prepares it for the butcher—and to discard the army of speoulators or middle men who now infest every city in the Union, and who TIERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1863.—TRIP 6c, ‘The demand for the principal kinds of breadstiils | thousands more than her quota of soldiers, was active at buoyant prices early in the day, but townrd | while even warlike Massachusetts falls short of the close the ma ket was tame and tending dewnwa'l, ‘There was more doing iw provisions, and less in groceries, whiskey , oils, hops, fish, and iruit; while for hay and (al- low the inquiry was good. Metnis and naval stores were dull. ‘The freight engugements were lighter, and the tor dency of the market in favor of shippers. ‘The market for beef cattle ruled very buoyant, at al | advance in prices of half a cent per pound over last week’: quotations. The supply was light; but 800 to 1,000 hoa were detained on the Eric Railrond, and will not react this city until this (Wednesday) afternoon or to-morrow. Prices ranged from 9c. to 18¢c.; but scarcely any sold tr- low Lic.. white the bulk sold at lic. a 120. One drov averaged 120. Tho general average was about 11i<c Milch cows wero active and 68.2$5 per head higher Sales varied from $30 a $40 4 $60. Veals were active at full prices—4ic. to Tc, Bobs sold at $2a$3, Sheep ‘and lambs are dull and steadily declining. Prices range from $4 to $8 75 each, Sheared sheep vary from 4c. to 640. Swine were steady at last week's prices. The total receipts were 3,906 beef cattle, 117 cows, 671 v oals, 4,283 sheep and lambs and 9,600 swine, The Late Copperhead Meeting im Untoa Squarc—Drifting to Civil War. The proceedings of the democratic mass meeting of Monday evening in Union equare were very remarkable and significant. Ac- cording to its resolutions, the special object of the meeting was the denunciation of ‘the ar- rest of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, and his trial and sentence by a military commission, as 8 startling outrage upon the hitherto sacred rights of American citizenship,” although some of the speakers on the occasion launched off into all sorta of absurd revolutionary excesses. None of the recognized leaders of the de- mocracy took an active part in these proceed- ings. They all had their convenient excuses for keeping in the background. They lacked the moral ceurage to face the music. They put forward the lesser lights and ore reckless orators of the party by way of an experiment, and these too highly inflated individuals availed themselves of their privileges to the . fullest extent. Take, for example, the speech of Mr. J. A. McMaster, who forgets the broader issues of the public safety in his personal inspirations from Fort Lafayette. He said that “there was but one way to bring back the Union, and that was to put a stop to this accursed war;” that “the question here was not about the freedom of the Provost Marshal of Baltimore on the 15th inat. for | While the pricos of the necessaries of life are still quoted at enormous rates, the Southern papers are congratalating the people upon an immense fall in the markets, and the splendid promise of an approaching harvest, which wil atill further reduce the price of grain, flour, and vegetables. These flattering reports of the condi- | tion of the crops come from Virginia, Alabama, | Florida, North Caroline, South Carotina, Missis- | Davie. | consaian Ministry has been formed, | sippi and Georgia. It will be seen that the tone | @f the Southern press upon this question is most | hopefal and boastful. It is significant, however, that intelligence has been received at Washington of the sailing of a steamer from Liverpool on the 25th alt. laden with bread and bacon for the | rebel army, @ fact which does not look as if there | was a supersbundance of these essential matesials in the South. ‘ NEWS. The papers containing the charges against the Police Commissioners have not yet been placed in the hands of Mr. S. B. Garvin, the Assistant Dis- trict Attorney. Further proceedings in the cose will consequently be postponed for a few days. A prise fight for $250 a side, between Con. Orem, the champton of Coforado Territory, and Owen Geoghegan, of this city, took place yester- day morning, neer Cheese creek, Middlesex coun- ty, N.J. Nineteen spirited rounds were fought, when -Orom knocked Its opponent down, and struck him, it was alleged, as tre was falling. A pistol pointed at the head of the referee induced that fanctionary to deotie that the blow wase Gen. Burnside has issued an order (No. 66) di- recting the wives and families of all persons in | arms against the United States to remain within the rebel lines. On the 13th instant there were seven thousand two hundred and fifty Union prisoners of war in | Richmond. Of these ‘five thousand nine hundred | and fifty were taken at the recent engagements in the vicinity of Fredericksburg. We shall expect | soon to see another retaliatory message from Jeff. | and the following named members were sworn in by the Governor General at Quebec on the 16th instant: — UPPER CANADA. Attorney " General, Postmaster General. Commissioner of Crown Lands. Reosiver i , wie te How General. ‘A. Fergusson Blair, Provincial Secretary. Lewin Wallbridge, Solicitor General. LOWER CANADA. A. A. Dorion, Attorney Geveral. ister of Finance. 1a. Bonen, t of the Council. Luc Leteliier de &. Just, Bureau of Agriculture. ‘The Tycoon of Japan has sent a coat of mail as a giftto the President. Mr. Lincoln has not yet donned the new suit, but whon he dees the reader can tmagine Old Abe dressed up with an umbrella shaped helmet, made of steel and copper, on his head, copper vieor over his face, sleeves of cop- per chain work on his arms, metallic breastplate, ‘and steel network leggins. ‘There was the commencement of a reaction in the stock yeaterday , as was expected after the recent very advance. Marlem fell 10 per cent, other socks 2a Exchange 6. Gold fell to 14895, Closing at 140% at 6 was tame at 163 0 };. Money was active per cont. ‘Toere were po movements of moment reported im cotton vesteréay, (hough middlings were awoted down to tha « South,” but “the liberties ofthe people of the North. And how were they to maintain their liberties? By fighting. But not by street fight- ing or disorganized opposition. They should organize by tens and hundreds, by companies and regiments,-and they should send to their Governor and ask him for commissions as soon as they had their regiments formed. They ‘ahould keep their arms, and if they had them not they should get them, and be ready under their gallant Governor'to: defend the liberties of their State.’ ‘TRese are the ravings of: ® madman; ‘but when such revolutionary utter- ances ate applauded by a crowd 6f listeners there is mischief ‘in she wind, and some positive existing cause for publis discontent. ‘Whence arises this revolutionary excitement in the very heart of this loyal metropolis? It springs from these late military proceedings against a civilian of Obio, depriving’ him of his personal liberty and subjecting him to the penalties of a amilltary court. The public journals of this city, without distinction of party, and almost without an exception. have pronounced against these pro- ceedings as unnecessary, unlawful, unwise and dangerous. The military are still held to be subordinate to the civil authorities in the loyal States, and especially in all such cases as this of Vallandigham. Under the exigencies of a continental war, the people of the loyal States do not expect all the immupities and exemp- tions of « reign of peace; but they do expect that in every case within their borders where an individual not in the military service is accused of a crime against the general government he will be called to account, not by the mititary, but by the civil authorities, to which the juaris- diction over the case constitutionally belongs. In the fifth article of the amendments of the constitution of the United States it is declared that “no person shall be held to answer for a capi- tal, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a pre- sentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land and naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger.” Clearly we may con- strue this clause of the supreme law of the land as meaning that in the loyal States at least, even in this time of war and public danger, only cases of offence committed within the limits of the military service can be brought under the jurisdiction of the military authorities, and that all offending civilians, such as Vallandigham, are still within the dominion of the civil law. If General Burnside on his own responsibili- ty initiated these late military proceedings against Mr. Vallandigham, he has foolishly dashed himself against a stone wall much more difficult to carry than that along the heights of Fredericksburg. If he has acted under instruc- tions from Washington, the administration has committed the grave mistake. In either event it is within the power ef President | Lincoln to reverse these proceedings and to tarn over the party accused to the civil authorities. The Northern elections of last autumn involved |} a serious warning from the loyal States | | against these arbitrary arrests—a warning which, it was hoped, had put an end to them. Under this conviction the people of the several her proportion. Nor will New York be found wanting so long as the federal administration | administration stands between two fires—the recognizes the constitutional rights still belong- ing to the loyal States; but, on the other hand, the military precedent of Vallandigham’s cease must be abandoned, or the deeply excited popular elements of New York may be inflamed to the most fearful extremities of resistance. The policy of General Burnside means civil war in the North. The policy of a full recogni- tion of the civil law in all oases and places where it still prevails and is equal to the occa- sion is the policy of Northern harmony, unity and success. Mars and Melody—Maretzek and Hooker, Two brief but eventful and important cam- paigns have just been concluded. Hooker has finished up his nine days’ campaign upon the Bappahannock, and is again in quiet at his old camp. Maretzek ended his nine days’ campaign at the Academy of Music on Monday evening, and now rests for a while upon his laurels. Both these great campaigns are now matters of history and of criticism, That they resulted so differently is due, we presume, to the dif- ferent abilities of the leaders. Maretzek, the operatic Napoleon, vindicated his past fame by giving us a most brilliant season. Hooker, the radical Napoleon, has gained very little credit with his radical friends; and bas-not tost the confidence of the people simply because he never had it to lose. According to the “Lit- tle Villain” of the Times, Hooker crossed the Rappahannock with one hundred and fifty thousand men. Upon the same authority we learn that the rebels had only forty-cight thousand seven hundred troops. The Zribune states that our loss was seventeen thousand, and the rebel loss twenty-five thousand. As the Times and Tritune are the paid organs of the War Department, and have access to official in- formation, we are bound to believe these figures. But what do the figures show? Why, that the rebels, with forty-nine thousand men, held one hundred and fifty thousand Union troops in check, and that, admitting the loss on both sides to be correctly stated, Hooker withdrew his one hundred and thirty-three thousand sol- diers across the river rather than fight Lee’s twenty-three thousand seven hundred rebels. As Squeers would remark, “ Here’s general- ship!” Maretzek never would have been guilty of such a move as that. . In reviewing, the two campaigns, therefore, we find it impossible to inetitute any comparison between the two commanders. Maretzek and Hooker are as dissimilar as Solomonand Greeley, Washington and Wendell Phillips, William Pitt and Secretary Chase, Admiral Farragut and Rip Van Winkle Welles; an honest.man and a contract jobber, or a sunshiny day and a plutonian night. The two ¢ampaigns are only alike in thia: that Hooker's lasted mine days and was a failure, and Maretzek’s tested nine days and was @ great success. Both Hooker and Maretzek, however, had splendid armies. Hooker’s soldiers were veterans, and in physique and discipline were unsurpassed by any troops in the world. The fault was that Hooker did not know how to use this magnifi- cent material. Like a silly child playing with locomotive, he only succeeded in damaging himself and smashing things generally. Ma- retzek, on the contrary, was perfectly master of himself, his troupe and the situation. His fine artists needed only a competent general to manage them, and Maretzek supplied this. want. Consequentty the fashionable and musical worlds of New York were taken by sterm, as the Heights of Fredericksburg were taken by Sedgwick. In Signor Mazaoleni, @ tenor whose singing and acting are equally imcomparable, Maretzek found his Major Gene- ral Sickles. If there had been a panic or stam- pede im the Eleventh corps of the operatic army, Mazzoleni would have thrown himself into the breach and stemmed the torrent, as General Sickles did at Chancellorsville. But, as nosuch misfortune occurred, Mazzoleni led on the musical host to victory and triumph, as General Sickles would have led his coepe had Fate and Hooker alluwed. In Madame Guerrabella, as her very name expresses, Maretzek had bis beautiful goddess of war. Hooker had no such protecting divi- nity. In fact, none but Guerrabella’s self can be her parallel. The ladies whom Hooker had previously feted with champagne and liqueurs deserted him when the forward movement be- gan, and fortune fled with their smiles. During the past season, on the other hand, Guerrabella has especially distinguished herself. She has never sung 80 well as in “Ernani” and “Jone.” The announcement that the latter opera is to be repeated on Saturday next for Bellini’s bene- fit will therefore be gladly received. Indeed, we see no reason why Maretzek cannot resume his season and give “Ione” for at least two weeks more. The crowd on Monday evening assures the success of the en- terprise. The people are not yet ready to emi- grate to the watering places, nor are the sam- mer hotels yet ready for their reception. A few old houses have been put in some sort of order at Saratoga, and here and there a hotel advertises itself prepared for visitors; but in most cases the necessary house cleaning is still neglected, and the bedbugs are not cleared out of the couches upon which fair and manly forms will recline during the warm nights of rose up to sustain the sdministration and the | July and August. The coming season is to be war against all the peace clamors of the cop- perheads. In Connecticut, where these agita- ' tors were the most numerous and violent, they were most signally defeated. But this Vallan- | foe hgpem in our late spring elections { ' | these democratic radicals which they have most desired, and puts them in a constitutional | position from which they cannot be displaced. | The public sentiment of New York and of all | the loyal States on this point is with them, ‘ and the administration must quash these mili- digham affair furnishes the very capital to | the most brilliant on record, and we are not unwilling to second the weather and give the ‘landlords a little extra time for preparation. ‘ Let them beware how they misuse this indul- gence, however; for we shall have a corres- | pondent incognito at every fashionable resort. But in the interval, while these arrangements | are being periected, Mareteek might give us ' more opera. His notes are never too high | nor too low, but ‘always right. Unlike Hooker, he issues no advertising bulle- tary proceedings against Vallandigham, and \ recognize the vitality of the civil law in the { loyal States, or there will be civil war in the | North. | This is the great danger underlying all these apparently incoherent proceedings of the | radical democracy at Union square. A great principle is involved. They have dis- , covered their opportunity for indignation against the administration, and they have seized it. Let the President recede from the untenable position of General Burnside, and these radicals will be disarmed; and this is his only course of safety. The city and State of Now York bave been the strong right arm of the government in the prosecution of this for the Union, in men, money, ships and all the materials of war. The State, ‘aa we are informed. hea furalabed by several | tins promising what he does not per- | form. If the President can invite Hooker \ to retain command of the Army of the Potomac, | aftor all his recent failures, 80 may we invite Maretuek to still keep his baton in hand, after all hie recent successes. Maretrek starts again on Saturday next, and the President should put | our favorite army in motion by the same day. | ‘Then our one hundred and thirty-three thousand | remaining soldiers will eoon crush out the + twenty three thousand sevem hundred remaining | gebels, according to the estimates of the Times ‘and Zribune; and, while we are enjoying the sweet voices of Guerrabella and Mazzoleni, our ' army may be marching into Richmond. Thus | Mars and Melody, Hooker snd Maretzek, will be : in unison, and the Star Spangled Banner will | qave as gloriously, over the rebel capital aa it ' does ia our national song LE SHEET. Me continually get him into scrapes. Itisa pity that in this last affuir he did not imitate the prudence of his military judge, General — by rematning quietly in Falmouth le such hot work was in progress. VatianpianaAm anp Burnstop—Tue ADMINIs- tration ConpemyeD BY Ir3 Own Oroans.—In the case of Vallandigham and Burnside the fire of the democratic party and of the opposi- tion generally, and the fire of the chief organs of the republican party and a large proportion of the party itself—thus having concentrated upon it the hostility of nearly the whole com- munity. In truth, the proceedings in the case of Vallandigham are wholly indefensible, and cannot be sustained by any party. In another column we publish two condem- natory articlee—one from the Evening Post and tbe other from the Tribune, the principal or! gans of the administration in this city. That from the Post is particularly deserving of atten- tion. It shows that Mr. Vallandigbam was not within the jurisdiction of any military tribunal, and ought not to have been tried by a court martial. Besides, that freedom of discussion is essential to the very existence of « republic, and that “no governments and. no authorities are to be held as above criticlam or even de- nunciation.” Well does the Post goon to ask:— “If Vallandigham’s peace measure is treason- able, may not Greeley’s be equally so? Ifhe (Vatlandigham) cannot arraign the conduot of the war, can Mr. Schalk, who has written. a book on strategy which is the severest arraign- ment of it yet printed? If he may not ques- tion the justice or propriety of Burnside’s or- ders, may the Evening Post ora thousand other journals venture to hint a doubt of the super- | human military abilities of General Halleck ?” The Tribune holds that “our fedenal and State constitutions do not recognize perverse opin- ions or unpatriotic speeches as grounds of infliction,” and it “does not see how Mr. Vallandigham is to be lawfully punished for making a bad speech.” The Tribune eays that “Burnside has probably se- cured the nomination of Vallandigham as Governor of Ohio,” and the Post holds that his “penalty will make him a martyr, and rouse his old friends and others to earnest expres- sions of sympathy.” The meeting in Union equare is a eample. The fall elections of last year were a grave lesson to the administration that such acts are condemned by the country. But, like the Bourbons, they are incapable of learning any- thing or forgetting anything. They then ap- peared to have abandoned their arbitrary and high handed measures, in obedience to the rebuke of the people; but they returned, like hogs that were washed, to wallowing in the mire, The sooner they repudiate the course of General Burnside, and set Mr. Vallandigham free, the better for themselves and the cause of the republic. Srocx Jonnmo mw tae Army.—We understand that a couple of officiats from-the War Depart- ment have come om here to investigate cer- tain. charges of stoek jobbing in connection with the control of the telegraph during the recent operations of General Hooker on the Rappahannock. It appears that the transmis- sion of news from the field was suspended for twenty-four hours in order to further some heavy speculations entered into by the parties implicated. There are said to be a prominent officer in our army, some leading Wall street brokers anda couple of tadies, to whom, to avert suspicion, private despatches were ad- dressed. It was confidentty expected by the clique that General Hooker would win a great vietory, and on this anticipation they specu- lated for a fall in gold, their comtracts amount- ing in the aggregate to about $1,500,000. Gen. Hooker, however, made a flaseoof his campaign, and the consequence was thet his Wall street backers lost upwards of one hundred thousand dollars by the operation. In order to hedge and save themselves, they started the report in the Philadelphia Press and the Inquirer that Hooker had recrossed the Rappahannock and that Richmond was in possession of our forces. This monstrous canard, however, availed them nothing; and now, in addition to the loss of their money, they will have to pay the penalty of ex- posure. The President aud the Secretary of War are justly indignant that officers of the army should be concerned in such transactions, and that the telegraph lines wnder government control should be made to subserve them. For these reasons they have ordered an investiga- tion, and the inquiry will be at once proceeded with. We should like to hear from the Cheva- lier Forney in this matter. He can, no doubt, throw some light upon the facta. Tae InsrRvcrions For TH’ GOVERMENT OF THE Anuy—Tueik FALtacy ow THe Stavery Ques- TI0N.—Professor Lieber, a German, has compiled “Instructions for the Government of Armics of the United States in the Field;” and these in- structions have been adopted by the War De- partment and proclaimed to the army. We yesterday published » summary of them from Washington. Portions of them are very good—such, for in- stance, as those which enjoin protection to noa- combatants, especially women, and protection to religion, the arts and sciences, and which di- rect the punishment of crimes against the non- combatant inhabitants of hostile countries. But the portion which relates to the escape of fugi- tive slaves from the South into the lines of our armies, and insists that they thereby become for- ever free, isa complete fallacy. It is stated that such has always been the practice of belligerent nations. Tbatis a point which may be fairly disputed. For instance, at the conclusion of our war with England it did not hold goed; for the slaves taken by the belligerents were either returned or their price paid, in purse- ance of the treaty of peace. But, even if this were the universal prac- tice of belligerent nations, it would notapply in the present war. It is assumed by the compiler of the “Instructions” that the Southern States are a foreign enemy, and therefore neither our armies nor our govera- ment are bound to respect the right of any Southern citizen to property in slaves, no matter how much he may be devoted to the Union. But the inhabitants of the Southera States are not alien enemies, but citizens of the United States in insurrection, and con- sequently the alleged law of nations does not apply. It is not an international or foreign war, but an insurrectionary or domestic one. The whole theory of the war as- sumes that the Southern States are atill legally a part of the Union, and conse- quently under the jurisdiction of the con- stitution and laws of the Union, notwithstanding their secession and rebellion. The first proole- mation of the President calling for men de- clared that the object was “ to enforce the laws of the Union.” If this were not the case thea there would be no cause for war. But, accord- ing to the constitution of the’ United States, no citizen, South or North, can be’ deprived of hia property, in slaves or anything else, without due process of law; and because Jeff. Davis ‘& Co. have caused ‘an insurréction that is no reason why Southern citizens should be deprived of their rights guaranteed by the constitution. It seems ‘es if the abolition policy was. to in- culcate the idea that ditizens of the Southora States are ations, in order to: pave the way:fer peace on the basis of a separation of North and South, which was contemplated by the radicals from the beginning, end was their prime object in bringing about the war. Secretary Srayros awp THE CoNscRIPTION Acr.—It is stated ia the Washington corres- pondence of the Tribune and Times that Secre- tary Stanton will disregard the section of the Conscription act whick provides that a drafted person, on psyment of three hundred dollars or any emailer sum, in the discretion of the Secre tary of War, will be entitled to exemption. We are told that he will not receive any money whatever to pay for substitutes, and that all per- sons drafted must either serve or provide substi- tutes for themselves, The effect of this would be to raise the price of substitutes to an enormous figure, so that only the rich could procure them, and the middle and working classes would have to do the whole fighting. If Mr. Stanton undertakes to disregard a part of the section, he ought, in fair play, to disregard it wholly, and refuse to accept any substitutes, but in every instance compel the drafted persons to serve. That would place all on the same level, except that the poor man would still labor under the disadvantage of being unable to provide for his family in his absence by such pay as a soldier ‘receives, while the wealthy, if drafted, could leave their families comfortable, and go to the field without domestic anxiety. We cannot, however, understand by what right or authority the Secretary of War will venture to set aside a plain provision of a law of Con- gress, which, at the time it was adopted, was declared by the lawmakers to be for the bene- fit of the poor. It seems as ift he War Depart- juent could do nothing right, even by accident. Desrecction or Prorgxty Norta anv Soura.— We publish to-day a report from the proceed- ings of the rebel Congress.. The committee of thirteen, appointed at the last sesson of the rebel Senate, has now reported at length on “the outfages committed by the enemy upoa the persons and property of our (rebel) citizens, im violation of the tules of civilized warfare and the rights of hu- manity.”’ The people of the South who make this report, headed by Mr. Clay, of Alabama, with the concurrence, no doubt, of all the other members of the committee, are now complain- ing of the very things which they were the first to initiate. The evils that have fallen so heavily upen them are only the fruit of a just retaliation for their own acts. These are the natural results and part of the consequences of war. While they complain of the desecration ef edifices devoted to education, religion and charity, they forget that they themselves were the first to attempt the destruction of the great- est and grandest edifice the world has ever seen—the free North American republic itself ; that they have stolen the government arms, appropriated millions of public property, and destroyed eur railroad bridges and canals whenever they had an opportunity of doing so. They were, in fact, the first to begin the burning of our bridges and tho destruction of our rail- roads, The only way they can prevent @ con- tinuation of this righteous retaliation upon their own property, and save the country from further devastation, is by laying down their arms, coming back into the Union, and asking an outraged nation for forgiveness. GattantRy anp Devorepyess or Newsrarer Corresronpents.—We have just learned that during a reeent reconnoissance from Suffolk Mr. Denyse, one of our correspondents, was severely wounded, and had his horse killed under him. This is the gentleman who was court martialled and sentenced to hard labor on the Dry Torthgas by General Buttergeld, for pre- dicting a movement across the Rappahannock which did not take place, and who, no doubt, would have been still more severely dealt with if he had predicted the recrossing of (imt siver which did take place, much to the bumiliation of our brave army.’ The courage and seal of Mr.envee in our service and that of the oub- Fiaorss Do Nor Lis.—The Tribune says Lee’s army at the time Hooker crossed to give him battle only counted 50,000 men. The Times says Hooker’s army at the same time numbered 159,300 men. It thus appears that with more than three times Lee’s army Hooker was una- ble to whip him in the first fight, and unable to do it with twice and a half his number of men after he got his reinforcements. According to the statements of the Tribune and Times, Hook- er’s loss in killed and wounded, in the several battles, amounted to only from 17,000 to 18,000, which, with the prfsoners captured by the enemy, numbering five er six thousand more, would make the total loes from 23,000 to 24,000. Lee, it is stated by the same authorities, lost more than Hooker did, or about 30,000 men— exceeding half his original force. He could not have been reinforced by more than from 10,000 to 15,000 men. That would leave his whole force after his losses—including the lose of General Jackson, who was‘a host in himself— from 30,000 to 40,000 men. Before this small force Hooker retreated with an army which, after all his losses, still numbered 136,000 men, or about four to one of the enemy. So much for the generalship and fighting qualities of the new Napoleon. Tar New Naronzon Given Ur sy Hie Frimnos.—The Post and the Tribune long since abandoned the cause of General Hooker. But the Times, which is always behind the age, stuek to him for a while, in the face of facts aud public opinion. Mow, esrever, even that jour- nal gives him wp as an immense failure. Thus the new Napoleon did not keep as long ase fresh codfish in warm weather. Wuat 3 “ Tae Lorat Nattoxat Leacor?”— The Tribune says it is “like the great Com Law League of England.” It is very far from {t—it fe simply ® contractors’ league. ——— Prooasss ov tam Inscnmection Heu.— Mim Aan (not Dan) Dickinson delivers another political lecture at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday evening next