The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1863, Page 6

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The Cauirorsta Eperiow, on the $4, 13th and 23d of cich month, at Six cents per copy, or @3 per annum. ebt to YORK HERALD. | Our correspondence from General Dix's depart ment to-day will be found very inteyesting, giving in detail the description of Colonel Kilpatrick's brilliant cavalry raid into Matthews and Gloucester counties, The news from the Army of the Potomac is that allis “painfully quiet along the linea,’ and that is rather old news now, A despatch from St. Louis, dated yesterday, says that a’band of rebel gueritias captured the town of Richmond, Clay county, Mo., on Tuesday night. together with the Union force which occupied it, Two officers of the Twenty-fifth Missouri were killed in the fight, and another lieutenant was shot after the Union troops surrendered. It was feared that the whole force would be treated in the same matiner. The gueriilas made a clean sweep of the whole town. The same band also plundered the town of Plattsburg, Clinton county, on Thura- day night, and took $11,000 from the Court House belonging to the State. Mr. Vallandigham arrived at Murfreesboro about eleven o'clock on Sunday night by special train; and after some hours’ conversation with General Rosecrans and others, he was put into an open Apvsntisxanerms, to a Hentted number, will be inserted | wagon, and was thus conducted, surrounded by an to the Westy Hsranp, and in the European and Califor- | escort of cavalry, to the outposts of the Union bia Editions. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import- army, and delivered yesterday morning, at nine o’clock, into the hands of the enemy, according to ot news, solicited from any quarter of the world; i | ge Tincoln's fiat. A private soldier of the Con- aged, wilt be liberally paid for. ge Oca Foasion Cos- RERPONDENTS ARK PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SKAL ALL LER- VERS AND PACKAGES SENT U8. olume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING - NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Honomsacg. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Tus Wire. federate army received him, to whom Mr, Vallan- digham introduced himself as a citizen of Ohio, sent into the enemy's lines by force and without seresseeseeeceeeseN@e 145 | his consent, and therefore surrendéred himself as & prisoner of war. " Our advices from St. Thomas via Colon state that the Alabama is at the Moule (Guadaloupe), blockaded by the United States steamers Oneids WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Exauise Orars—On- | and Alabama. Admiral Wilkes reached St. *HEDS. 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New York, Puesday, May 26, 1863. "ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertiscments for the Weexty Heratp must be band- od in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. ite zirculation among tbe enterprising mechants, farmers, norchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the pountry is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements to- serted in the Waxxty Heratp will thus be seen by a large oortion of the active and energetic people of the United ‘States. THE SITUATION. The battles of General Grant in the vicinity of Vicksburg, and the brilliant victories of Admiral Porter on the Yazoo, have to be numbered amongst the most successful operations of the war. Admiral Porter, in his official despatch, dated from the Yazoo river on the 20th inst., de- tails the capture of Haines’ Bluff by Lieutenant Walker, of the gunboat DeKalb, who not only drove out the enemy, but secured all their guns, ammunition, camps and equipage. The defences consisted of fourteen forts, and took the enemy twelve months to construct. Admiral Porter destroyed the gun carriages, blew ap the magazines, and destroyed the works gen- erally, which he describes as a network of defences Admiral Porter, in his official despatch, also describes the close in- vestment of Vicksburg by Gen. Grant’s army, upon which city, he says, he hopes to be able to announce @ general assault very soon, and the capture thereof. He says, further, that there has never been a case during the war where the rebels have been so successfully beaten at all points, and that the patience and endurance shown by our army and navy for so many months are about being rewarded. The news received in Washington yesterday, al- ‘thongh it does not embody any official account of the capture of Vicksburg, all tends to the belief that General Grant has by this time become master of the place. The latest intelligence the govern- ment appears to have received was up to Friday last, at nine o'clock P.M., when it was supposed that the city must fall on the next day. At that time General McPherson's force, in the centre, was within one mile of the Court House at Vicks- burg, while General Sherman on the right, and General McClernand on the left, were each within a mile and a half of the town, and the gunboats such as he never saw before. were shelling it in front. Despatches from Cairo last night state that up to nine o’clock no boats from below had arrived at Memphis, and that some days may elapse be- fore they have positive information, as all the boats were sent up the Yazoo river on special service. The Southern journals, as will be seen by the extracts which we give to-day, speak despond- ingly of the state of affairs at Vicksburg. With- oat having any more official information evidently than that which we possess relative to the capture of that place, they predicate their arguments upon the assumption that it has fallen, that Port Hudson is abandoned, and even that the whole Mississippi is im possession of the federal troops, and argue from these stand- points that the rebellion can still maintain itself. The Richmond Whig says:—‘‘If we cannot bear defeat as well as the Yankees we are unwor- thy to be free. Until some one of our large armies has been beaten as often and as severely as the Yankee Army of the Potamac, we eannot say our courage has been fully tested, or our ability to conquer peave and independence has hoon established.” to Guadaloupe in the Vanderbilt, in search of the pirate. Should she. be metatthat place by the brave old Admiral, there will.be no chance of her committing fresh depredations on the merchant vessels of the United States. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Hibernian, from Londonderry on the 15th instant, arrived off Father Point yester- day morning, on her voyage to Quebec, and the steamship Asia, from Queenstown on the 17th inst., arrived at Halifax yesterday evening. The news by the Asia is one week ‘later than the adyices of the China. The stoamship City of Baltimore, Capt. McGui- gan, from Liverpool 13th and Queenstown 14th inst., arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. Her advices have been anticipated. English reports from America caused a heavy fall in the rebel loan in London. ‘At one moment it had gone down to four per cent discount. It subsequently closed at from three and a half to three discount, experiencing a fall of three per cent in one day. A “‘commissioner’’ from North Carolina had is- sued in Manchester an ‘‘invitation” for a subscrip- tion to cotton bonds of that State for the loan of three hundred thousand pounds sterling. The New York correspondent of the London Times informs ‘that journal that the telegraph censor in this city had prevented him from for- warding to Halifax the news of the commence- ment of General Hooker's advance to cross the Rappahannock. A correspondent of the London Times in Rich- mond, writing in March last, expresses the anxiety of the rebels lest Vicksburg should be captured by the Union troops. He also blames the military arrangements of the rebel war authorities relative to the disposition of the troops in the Southwest. A special correspondent of the London Herald had arrived in Richmond after passing the federal lines. He promises letters frequently, and with regularity, to that journal. In his first communi- cation he speaks rather nervously about the situa- tion at Vicksburg. It was reported that another rebel pirate cruiser was ready to leave the Clyde, under the command of Captain Bullock. Mr. Cornell Jewett had arrived in Paris in order to renew his ‘‘mediation” propositions. The French people spell his name with a Z. The Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool denied that they had actively employed their police authority in ‘hunting down’ Confederate agents in the town. The Palmerston Cabinet stated inthe House of Commons that government refused to permit the New York Associated Press to erect a “fog trumpet” off Cape Race because “it was not thought fit to allow a foreign company to do it.” “fences I never saw. The rebels were a year In — day th go'd, exchange, produce ‘and Atocks. Monts and Mlinois Central were bottler than on Saturday. Everything e'se was 3 a 4 por cont tower. Gold sold down to 142)¢ and exchange to 168. Money was abundant at 6 4 T per cent. ‘The heavy fali in gold and storling exchange, and the liberal arrivals of produce, had & depressing elfect on the breadstaffs market yesterday.” Flour fell off 100. ‘a 20¢., wheat 2c, a 30., and: corn Ic. @ 2c., with free wales of the latter article only, Cotton was much lower, and vory unsoltied. Groceries wore’ dull. ‘there was more doing in provisions, Pork closed Armly, ‘and fard and bacon heavily. Whiskey waa steady, with moderate sa'es. A brisk business waa reported in refined petroleum, which was advancing, The changes in other articles were not important. Freights were depresded and declining. The Fate of Vicksburg. ‘ As yet we have no official intelligence con- firmatory of the newa published yesterday of the actual capture of Vicksburg; but we have an important official despatch from Admiral Porter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated, the 20th instant, which fully confirms ‘all the at- counts we had previously recelyed of, the splendid achievements of Grant and his‘army, who defeated the rebels at all points and inench a manner as they have never been defeated be- fore. By his rapid Napoleonic movements he outgeneraled Johnston, Loring and Pemberton, preventing their junction, and whipping them separately. According to this despateh, “Gene- ral Grant had closely invested Vicksburg, bad possession of the best commanding, polnts, and in a very short time a, general assault, would take place.” In fact, the capture of the rebel stronghold was deemed. on’ Wednesday last but ‘the question of 's few hours;”and no doubt the next boat which arrives’ from Vicks- burg at Memphis will bring the news of its sur- tender or being taken by storm after a terrible battle, The:distance between the two cities is five hundred:miles, and against. the current the time occupied in making the passage éven' by a swift boat is from two to three “days: From Memphis there is telegraphi¢ communication. At'any moment, therefore, we ‘thay receive the most stirring vews, giving official’sonfirmation of yesterday’s report that the flag of the Union floats over the rebel Gibraltar of the West, How formidable. its inner fortifications are may be estimated from what Admiral Porter says of Haines’ Bluff:—“Such a network of de- constructing them, and all were rendered use- less in an kour.” Fourteen of the heaviest, kind of mounted eight and ten inch and seven and a halfinch rifled guns, with ammunition enough to last a long siege, were captured by the Admiral. And there can be no stronger proof of the rapidity and vigor of Grant's movements than the fact of the rebels abandon- ing such defences. without baving time to de- stroy or carry off the ammunition. It fs also evidence that the demoralisation. of .Pember- ton’s army is complete. Haines’ Bluff formerly resisted the most determined assaults from our gunboats. It has now fallen without any resistance at all. It is the key of the whole position, and, holding it, as he docs, Grant can get supplies, and more troops if he needs.them, through the mouth of the Yazoo. So that, even if he had not now sufficient force to ‘capture Vicksburg, be could hold Haines’ Bluff till, he. received such reinforcements as would render its speedy reduction a matter of certainty. je Admiral Porter desetves groat credit, not only for his energy and snccesstul 00-operation, but for his generous praise of the land forces and their heroic commander. Should the news be confirmed, as there is |: every reason to believe it will, the moral and military effect of the blow on the rebels will be tremendous: We have just received news .to the effect that they are prepar- ing to invade. Kentucky. The news of the fall of Vicksburg will speedily break up that ‘enterprise and compel them everywhere to contract their lines. Now is the time for activity in the army of Rosecrans and in that of Hooker. The dispersed insurgent forces in Mississippi will retreat to Bragg’s army. Before a junction can be effected Rosecrans ought to strike, and if he needs reinfercemente he ought to receive them at once. Hooker,too, ought to press Lee before he can be reinforced by the remnant of Bragg’s army, retreating from Tennessee. The fall of Vicksburg will render the rebels desperate, and they will en- deavor to concentrate all their forces in Vir- ginia for an advance upon Washington, in order to restore the equilibrium which they have now lost. If advantage be not taken of this favorable Francis Joseph of Austria had modified the sen- tence of persons convicted of high treason from 1844 to 1863. The conflict between the Prussian Chambers and the Cabinet of the King continued. It was said that the victory of the Russians over the Poles at Kaliesch onthe 12th inst. was attended with heavy loss to the Czar's forces. Prince Gortchakoff, in his replies to the notes of the rulers of Sweden, Italy and Spain on the Polish question, calls their attention to the influ- ence of ‘‘outside’’ agitation in prolonging the struggle in Poland, and illustrates the effects of the revolutionary movement by allusions perti- nent to the case of each of the sovereigns. It was said that Russia had conceded to Napoleon the | principle that a European congress should as- semble on the subject. Consols closed for money in London on the 16th of May at 9244 a 93%. The Liverpool cotton market closed, on the 16th of April, unsettled, with a slight decline on all qualities. Breadstufls were firmer. The provisions market was gene- rally quiet. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Great Eastern, Captain Walter Paton, from Liverpool 16th inst., will be due, via Long Island Sound, to-day. She will anchor in Flushing Bay. 1 is thought she will bring nearly opportunity to crush the rebellion by quickly repeated blows, not only will the capture of Vicksburg be in vain, but it may result in se- rious disasters. The capture of Fort Donelson, though a heavy blow to the rebels, was not fol- lowed up as it ought to have been by General Halleck, and it had only the effect of causing the Confederates to draw in and strengthen their lines, and levy a new army of conscripts, all of which General Halleck permitted them to do by his dilatory movements against Co- rinth. Now, therefore, is the moment for a simultaneous vigorous movement all along the line, and the armed rebellion will be put down before the fall of the leaf now green. Mean Journatisw.—The Chevalier Forney’s Washington Chronicle is the meanest and most contemptible journal published in this or any other country. It is not yet quite as mean and contemptible as the Chevalier Forney himself, however; but it promises to be 80 soon. In a recent issue of this miserable sheet we find the following:— Paper quoted by a newspaper. A late Richmond the Chromicle about Stoneman's raid, and introduced the item or quite fifteen hundred passengers. We have news direct from the city of Mexico to the 2d of May, contained in the regular review of the Revista Quincenal of the Mexican capital, with the official communications of Generals Orte- ga and Comonfort ,concerning the recent struggle for the possession of Puebla. From the léth of March, when the assault on the eity began, every effort of the French had been met by disaster, and on the 24 of May they had not yet accomplished anything worth naming. No less than nine assaulte shad been made on the Mexican works; but in al- most every case the assailants were repelled The French losses are put down at 6,000 men, 3,000 deserters and 242 prisoners. Among these we find seven officers. The Mexican Congress had been opened with a great deal of ceromony. The Board of Aldermen did not organize last evening, for want of a quorum. The Board of Councilmen likewise did not or- ganize last evening, for want of a quorum, but three methbers—Messrs, Hayes, Webster and Gaw— being present when the roll was called. The Board stands adjourned until Thorsday evening next at five o'clock. ‘The news from Vicksburg caused @ dopression yestor- by saying ‘the Washi Chromicle and ite ents a 4" ee. Hrratp copies the item entire, ‘Dut substitutes the name of the Hxraup for field and Hooker, and, with an honesty which Forney would do well to imitate, he credited the report to the paper in which he discovered it. Our correspondent, who forwarded us the Richmond paper, saw through Forney’s dirty trick, and corrected the Richmond editor’s error. Thus we expose the Chevalier Forney’ less ingenuity,”’ and nail him by the éars in the nillory. NEW YORK HERALD, TUMSDAY, MAY 25, 1863.—TRIPLK SHEET. G re + “ the WOE T na te ba ij era ham Etncola for the Next Presidency. ‘The captureof Vicksburg, incaleutably more than any other achievement of the war, weak- ens the armies Of the Febéllion, and simplifies the work of their subjugation. In recovering’ the whole line, of the Missigsippi we not only cut off the rebellious States on the west side of the river from their confederates on the eastern side, and secure ‘A ‘gafe, imipregnable and con- venient channel of transportation and base of operations for further aggressive movements | east or west, but we re-establish the free navi- gation of the river ¢o the complete satiaféction Of the Northwestern’ Staté, . The question’ whether their right of way down this “inland sea” phall be purchased at the price of a capitu- lation to Jeff. Davis or by s Northwesterm coa- lition with his so-called “Confederate States” is settled'against both these chimerical ideas, and permanently in. favor.of the Uaion. In every point of view the aolid advantages gained with the reduction of Vicksburg are such that it’ is only neceasary to follow them up with, some- thing of the r of General’ Grant's opera- tions in order ‘to bring this war to 9 apeedy and triumphant terminations : In this connection, the problem of the Preal- dential succession looms up into a’ question ‘of commanding importance. Our reconnoissance the other day has drawn the ‘fire’ from tte’ bat- teries of several of our newspaper contempo- rarles of this city, and, their remarks we have considered sufficiently intereating ‘to publish at length in out columns this’ morning... The New York Atlas, déep in all the: movements and plans of the-Albany Regency, boldly brings: out Governor Seymour as thé Presidential can- didate for 1864 of the war democracy. The Sunday Times, @ conservative independent de- mooratio journal, strongly leans to the: opinion that. President Lincola,.as “a. candidate, might unite the conservative eléments of the loyal States, and crush out the radicals, while the New York Express (copperhead), in a fit of de- spair, thinks that the approaching Presidential election. has already passed “from the hands of the people into the possession-of the army, and that some militaty satrap of President Lincoln will most probably step forward as the master of the situation and make short work of it asa military dictator. Permitting this dismal view of the subject to pass for what it may be worth in copperhead, currency, let us turn for a moment to Goyernor Seymour’s nomination. He is brought forward upon the platform of “a vigorous prosecution of the war till the rebels ask for peace”’ (good), and of “ uncompromising hostility to the rebels in the South as well as to the ‘abolitionists in the North.” (Good.) It will be remarked that: in this platform hostility to the rebels is put before hostility to the abolitionists, which is exactly the reverse of the copperhead platform. But in this curious distinction, and in “the prosecution of the war till the rebels ask:-for peace,” it is easy to discern that betweén the war democrats and the peace democrats there is a split which foreshadows a general division of the democracy and their inevitable defeat. In other words, in this nomination of Governor Seymour the Albany Regency declare war against the copperheads. It willbe accepted” by, them as a declaration of war, and hence- forth, from New’ York to the’ extreme West, thé breach -will widen, eo that by the year 1864 | the Northern democracy will most probably be. again divided into two ‘irreconcilable Presi: ential factions, as-they were in 1860. A similar breach already exists in the repub- lican camp between the conservatives, repre- sented by Mr. Seward in the Cabinet, and the abolition radicals, represented by Mr. Seoretaty Chase. Here we have already existing four’ different Presidential factions. If we Jet them go on without interruption in their conflicting intrigues and cross purposes for the spoils and plunder, they may disastrously embarrass «the administration in the prosecution of the war, and involve the loyal States in the most serious complications and political disorders. But if the friends.of President Lincola, those conser- vatives who have no ambition to gratify in the next Presidential election beyond the redemp- tion of their country, will only step forward and proclaim him as their candidate for 1864, these various demoralizing political factions will soon be reduced to their true value. Presi- dent Lincoln is a man upon whom all the con- servative elements of the country could be readily fused. His name asa Presidential can- didate would instantly dissipate all apprehen- sions of a radical abolition plurality eleetion, and all fears, even among the mass of the cop- perheads, of a possible military usurpation. Let him be brought out, and the great body of the people will feel secure against the fearful clashings of belligerent factions and their revo- lutionary conventions, which otherwise are sure to come. But there is still another view of the subject well worthy the public attention. President Lincoln, as the head of the government, has had the practical experience necessary to un- derstand this war and its management ‘n all its phases, and the work of restoring the Union at the end of the war. His views upon this great question are thoroughly conservative and satis- factory. His aim is to restore the Union, and under “the constitution as itis.” If the exi- | gencies and accidents of the war have rendered it impossible to restore the Union exactly as it was, we can still bring back the rebellious | States to their old status under the constitution, and leave it with them, gach for itself, to reor- ganize their local institutions as they may deem most wise and expedient, At all events, a new. | administration, involving a new division of the spoils, in the midst of the business of this war or pending the delicate work of a restoration | of the seceded States, would almost certainly in- volve the government and the country in great embarrassments and confusion. These embar- rassments, we fear, with @ change in the ad- ministration, would involve such changes in the financial policy of the government as would be sure to precipitate the country into a terrible financial convulsion and widespread ruin and bankruptcy. Hence, looking to their own safety, our finan- cial and commercial men, whose material in- terests depend upon the preservation of law and order, and upon the credit and good faith of the federal treasury, should take the initia- tive in this important work of simplifying and securing the next Presidency against all revo- lutionary disturbances by bringing forward he Abraham Lincoln for another term. We are secure against such disturbances, and against the fearful consequences of a financial collapse, repudiation and universal chaos and shame. | ruin, in holding on to President Lincoln until the groat and delicate work in his hands is fully |e aspliahed. Phe a 7. at Utica—Tricks of the Politicians. ‘there are two’ of these néw fangled political arrangements denominated "Joya! leagues in existence in this city; but it must be found ut- tery impossible for any one. not. familiar with the interna! machinery, and motive, power. of, these affairs to naserstand why, as both are emanations: from the: repablican party, there shoutd be.more thaw! one of: them: «We must: try and throw a liftte light. upon” the clonded atmosphere; and bring’ a' ttle order ott of the chaotic jumble, s6’that'the proceedings of these rivat léagtiés at ‘Utica to-day and to-morrow may be intelligible to our readers. The firet of these leagues, that was got. up was batched in the Tribune office. and seems to have been the joint production,of Greeley, Op- dyke and Barney, in the interest of Mr. Chase for the Presidency.. Weido'not know. whether it-was dubbed the Loyal League, or the League ‘of Loyal Union Citizens, or what elses! but it may be aptly designated the Ohase-Barney con- cern. The'friends of Seward, seeing that the thing was hecoming popular, and that, if not counteracted, the machinery of the republican party was likely to be worked for the benefit of the Secretary of the Treasury, set to work and got up another machine on the same model and. with an, almost identical name, the only difference:being, that it was to.be operated for the benefit of the Secretary of Stste. This’ is the Seward-Wetmore concern, and is jointly owned by’ Henry J. Raymond, James T. Brady and John’ ‘Van’ Buren.’ This,’ we ‘believe, was the otigin and"cduse of existence of the two leagues that are s0 puzzling to, the people and such Fivals to each other. The one got up @ great demonstration in Union, square, and. the, other immediately followed. sult..and repeated the performance on a larger theatre at Madiaon, square, baying, as an additional. attraction, General Scott sitting on a balcony of the Fifth: Avenue Hotel: ‘Thus these two institutions ‘have’ béen run- ning’ ‘a race;‘and trying to outdo each other by | such tricks a& are familiarly practised on ‘other trotting courses. The Seward:Wetmore team made arrahgements a month ago for a grand State demonstration at Utica. to-morrow, with barbecues, returned volunteers and off soldiers, of 1812 thrown in to swell the. attractions; ‘but: ho sooner'was the programme’ arranged than the Chase-Barney concern’ set’ to work to gain the advantage, and, with more cleveriess than fair dealing, got up a similar demonstration at the same place for the previous day. Thus the one league, with drums.and banners, and spout- rs and roast oxen, and bronzed soldiers and tottering veterans, is to have possession of Utica for to-day; and the other Jeague, with similar appliances, is to makes trotiiendous rumpus there to-morrow. That is the way the rival houses of Chase sod Seward are blazing ont their pretensions to the Presidency, and seeking to get the larger share of popular clamor. It will be very amusing to watch the perform- ances. The democrats are also split, like the republi: cans, into two hostile factions-—the anti-war men and the anti-peace men, the: copperheads and the silverheads—so that it would puzzle the heads of any people to know what these politi- , Gians are all about, We do not: think, however, that the great masses of tho people will trouble theirbheads uch about the antics of copperheads or silver- ‘Chase-Barney ‘leagues or Seward-Wet- ore leagues. The,people will be much more likely in times like thesé'to' prefer trusting the teins of power to the hands of one who has been already tested, and who, though -he may have made some mistakes’ which were perhaps inevi- table, has proved himself to be one who always alms well. The pretensions of the Secretaries must yield tothe meritorious claims of their chief, who has just added immensely to his re- putation by the successful movements onthe Mississippi. Against the reality, of Vicksburg the shams and shows of Utica are entirely powerless. Against Lincoln’s golden roll of merit the meretricious pretence: of Chase and Seward are but the merest tinsel and gewgaws. At all events, the Presidential ball is opening. Look out for the fragments. More Mepptino wire Minrrany Arpornt~ meNts.—In our despatches from Washington will be found some curious statements in con- nection with the recent military appointments in Missouri. Itappears that the radical republi- cans are disgusted with the selection of General Schofield as commander of the department, and are making desperate efforts to have him re- moved. Failing in this—for the President is understood to be firm on the subject--Jim Lane is to try te have Kansas made into » separate department. ¥ It is to be hoped that Mr. Lincoln will not again yield to the intrigues by which military appointments have been hitherto wrested from him and the war procrastinated. The evil re- sults of these influences are otherwise being made evident in the embarrassments in which the government has got itself involved by the proceedings of Generals Burnside and Hascall. No sooner had the former taken charge of the Department of the Ohio than he ex- hibited, in the deportation and trial of Vallandigbam, the same rashness and want of judgment which he displayed in the assault on Fredericksburg. As to Hascall, the idea of placing such a brainless fool in a military com- mand was worse than an error: it was a crime, and acrime that might bave been productive of the most fatal consequences. The practice of selecting commanders for anything but their military merits should be puta stop to, and we accept the President's determination in General Schofield’s case as an earnest of ite dis- continuance. Let the principle be acted upon of putting none but thoroughly qualified and discreet officers in command, and then let there be as little interference as possible with them ith the battle in place of the stars, ber the rest, or fen Bo igo » White ¥ our ain sen beet eee the rebel Congress soon adopt out the battle part. It will Ly) 11 white, and Joe Hooker should them to hoist it immediately at Richmond, “People generaliy have'#’contused ‘fae that’ en The Resutt in Kurope of the Freneh | yy pan, DOfeat Tn Mexico, : Napoleou the Third embarked in the Mexican. expedition with the fitm conviction that five or tea thousand-French troops were’ able to over- run te country.. He deemed it quite improba- ble that ‘the Mexicaus'corfa resist any diseiplin- ed force, and judged that, ax the United States government had with « few thousand troops faptured and held-Mexicoyaa might he with his picked regiments, the victors of Patestii, MA- genta and Solferino: |“ r Eogland eucouraged this delusion, and when.» once she saw Napoleon , fairly launched :in: the affair she hastened to Abandon bim to what her” . statesmen were aware was a hard task. Blinded: by ambition, overlooking the immense distance . separating-him from the’ field of operations, he made the fatal mistake of not withdrawing from the expedition thc.moment thet England and Spain withdrew from it. Disaster followed this step, and, whereas he thought the capture of Mexico ‘an easy matter, he found bimaelf com- . pelled to send thousands upon thousands of re- inforcementa, to spend millions of treasure;.im fact, to make such sacrifices that now to with- ” draw from the expedition were « move he dare not make. ‘The people of France have from the commencement viewed the Mexican expedition... with, ill favor, and they now complain of its « failure with intense ‘bitterness, It is fortunate for Napoleon, that ,,the terrible . defeat which has just overwhelined General Forey.at - Puebta will not be known in: France until efter.” the, elections, which take place at the emiof this month, else he would bave seen all the op- © Position candidates elected to, the, Chambera,... spite of his utmost efforts, ° Amit is, the onpo-" sition members—Jules, Kayre, Emile Olivier, Plichon and others—will ottack the policy "6 (hs government with flerce energy the moment..;: they hear of the defeat; and hear of it’they’™= will, spite of alkthe efforts whioh:may be made to keep the‘evil news'from the public: at | Napoléon ‘wiit'find hinisélf forced ‘to’ take "® somie décided stand as regards his, future moyo-., ments, else he, will be hurled from. his throne \: by some speedy revolution” The people with’ learn that his power is, not supreme; and bie prestige will ‘surely fall to the ground, unless he at once assumes some bold stand in peu" he news of the Puebla dofeat will affect the» ‘rench le as’ did the’ first rumors of the ~ retreat from Moscow. In their anger and an-«! noyance they will turn against’ those who have,” brought upon them the disgrace, and then woe to Napoleon, unless he gratifies the pride of the, nation by some bold action in Europe. He.» will have to head the revolutionary movement’ © which he started in Italy, and which is now... convulsing Poland. \He'will have to see that ” not only Poland becomes free and independent, but that the Hungarians’ also be ‘freé@. from the yoke of the Hapsburg; while ; , ’ 3 . Rome and Venetia must, by his influence, become part of the great ‘kingdom of Itaty. ‘* His disastrous defeat in Mexico, we repeat,'will inevitably force upon him immediate action im. ~ Europe of such a nature a8 to cause the people - of France to overlook the consequenres of, the) Mexican expedition. He will find England the great stumbling block: in bis way; but he cam escape ber by making with this country a alliance and using his influence to bring atéué" the cessation of the Davis rebellion, He must... cause the Southerners to understand: that im*" Europe they will meet. with no recognition amd: that their only chance for future p fe a speedy reconstruction of the Union. 7 . him leave England to our tender mercies, aad, we will see to it that she no longer be alowed to stand in the way of reform and liberal gov-. ernment in Europe. 2? We shall have the will and the means the» moment we have put down the rebellion t> teach England a lesson she needs an@ fully merits at our hands; and, by keeping her quiet, we will give Napoleon ample scope to . the great plans which the revolutionary party im Europe have evidently formed. The rotten , monarchies, we know, dread a cessation of our great civil strife; they would gladly seo us divided; but we know that, sooner or tater, we must conquer s peace, and then woe to » those nations which have shown us ill will or» stood between us ‘and’ success. © We ‘will! surely panish. the treachery of those who, ‘ while claiming to be our allies and friends, have’ in all conceivable manner granted encourage- ment or ald to out rebellious subjects, There mever was so grend an opportunity for a Euro- pean monarch to make himself powerful be...» yond all other nations on that continent as there is now for Napoleon to establish bimealf Grmig-. upon his throne by an alliunce with this govera-~ ment. We should keep him clear of England; © we would guarantee that her interference im Europe should cease. With oar powerfil navy” and immense land forces we should dictate to. — her a course consistent with our ideas of ad- vancement and progress, and we would see that sbe followed that course, and that hereafter hee treachery and deceit be no, longer allowed to, stay the welfare of those nations in Europe now longing fof reform and constitutional gow~ « ernment. Napoleon must abandon his Mexican expedi~ tion. He will learn, as will all Europe, that it is impossible for them to come to this conti- nent and successfully repressa people. We ” taught the Mexicans how to fight, and they are improving day by day in the science of war, am the French have found out to their cost, We cam have no foreign Powers on this continent. The Americans must andwill rule this hemisphere, So the sooner Napoleon withdraws from Mexico the better it will befor him and for the fof Mexico, and advise him to.seek an el jance with this countsy. It will be-bis only eal? f zt Ra = a i ee FL i BE i i i