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2 mond and four miles from the Sevea Pines. Te commands | chantn of Ralrimore wore wo longer able to GuPMy thos» ‘the main road from Williamsburg and tho Charioa Cily road, and mounts 14 guus. No. 23.—Fort Daring, cavematod, sheatbed with rail Toad ireu and mounted with No. 24.—Fort Davis, two 1 city, commanding the railroad {rom letersburé No. 25.—A Jort, three uiles soutnwest o! the guns. No. 25,—A fort three miles and a half southwest of the city—16 gans. —Fort 1.20, immodiately south of the city, on * bank of the James river, mounted wre 14 guns 3 gups ty—18 of very jyeayy' calibre. No. 23 —A’small redoubt, monntimg 4 guns Last OY THE PORTS AROUND RICHMOND, WITH THAI ARTA Ports. Cun Forts. oy. Total... ynty-cight forts is thus If the administration iqnores the ex- powerful means of defence, and has, in cuce, made inadequate provision for overcoming 203 295 ¢ these how success be expected? After'tbe reputse ab icksburg Burnside was compelled to admit that the e s means of defence were much greater than he hed supposed. But the trouble was, a8 the. Hmaaty has ofteu observed, our failures have always been owing to the fact that the enemy’s strength and resources havo been constantly underrat if they choose to send omissaries among us-4e tell us plat there is only one han- at Richmond the administration is much more to credit Uhat assertion than to make the proper old. Even dispose prepa: ations for the reduction of that stroi 1 our army could succeed in getting as near Richmond as IeCiolian’s army was the city would not then be. takea. reat battle would still have to be fought under the walls ot Richmond. And when that battle is fought that much desjused weapon, the spade, will play as important ‘@ part as the cannon, Us musketor the bayonet. It will ily so, Ricumond will haye to be regularly 0 und besieged. ‘the Richmond of to-day is five tumos etronger than the Richmond of laat July. Such ete tho (roita of Haileck’s strategy. Oav Baltimore Correspondence. Batnimori, May 22, 1363. Sirength of the Confederate Army—Wian of the Com federaies for he Summer Campaign—General Lee Wilh Som Assume the Offensive, and Meve on Washington with Gne Hundred and Fifty Thousand Croops, or bse Invade Lenneyivonia—General Johnston's Pian jor the Defeat af General Grant, fe. from the sources of information mentioned in my last. Jetier { have derived the following facts in regard to the present strength and position of the rebel wrimies in the field, a od their plang for the summer campaign :— Genoral Lec, on the line of the Rappahannock, has one hundred fifty Uhousand trovps. ‘There are twenty. five thouswnd at and near Richmond, General Beauregard lias forcy (uousand troops at Charleston and Savannah. General Jos. E. Johnston has one hundred and cighty five thousaud troops in the West, including those at Vicks- burg and Port Hudson and those under General Bragg. TT are ten thousand at Mobile, and ¢wenty thousaud at various other detached points, This makes ¢ total of fouc hundred and thirty thousand troops, which is the effective strength of the Confederate army for the sum- mor campaigu. Ibey are all disciplined troops, in the highest state of eflicieacy. ‘their general plan of the campaign is that described in my jetters of March 13 and April 7—namely, to defend ‘ehmoud, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Vicksburg and tort Hudson; to prevent the opening of the Mississippi river) to defeat the armies of Hooker, Grant aud Kose- crana at points ag iar south as possible, and then to in- vade Qhio, uear Cincinnati or Louisville, and Pennsylva- nia, between Harper’s Ferry and Cumberland, This pro- ‘amune has been remarkably successtul up t@ this time. ‘Since it was adopted Charieston has been atacked and suc- cessfully defended, and the attack has not been, resumed; ali the manoeuvres against Vicksburg, including the vari- ous Yazoo Pass expeditions, Sunflower expeditiens, Talla- hatchie expeditions, Vicksburg camals aod Lake J’rovi- deuce cauals, have been defeated aud abandoned. Ail the attempts to divert the Misetssippi into new channels through the Toasas and Atchafalaya have failed, owing to the topographical and geological reasons set forth iu my Jetter of March 25, at the time when those attempts were ‘The opening of the Mississippi has been prevevted; Hooker has been defeated, and that so badly Chat he caunot possibly resuine the offensive before June; Rosecraus and Nashville are to peril, and Grant, lured boing made. down to Jackson, has beon compelled hastily to evacuate that place ia order to get out of the trap that General Johaston lad se: tor him. Such \s (he {uation at present, and my information ts to the eilect that General Lee will very soon assume the offensive aad move northwards either co attack Washing- tou or to invade Pennsyivania, He had. less than 75,000 troops when he invaded Maryland last September. He will move now with fulty 160,000. His ieft wing already rests ata point om the Upper Rappahannock opposite the Ruiplur Springs, seven miles southwest of Warrenton and culy fifty auiles from Washington, It is supposed to be his imteation to move his whole army rapidly towards Centreville and Fairfax, over the Warrenton turnpike, and to move (uence either direct on the works on Arlington Hoights, or else by way of Vienna to Matildaville ; to cross the jotomac at Coon’s Ford, twelve miles above Wasb- ington, then to move directly cast to Bladensburg, tear up the raiiroaa there, 80 as to cut off all communication with tae North and Fast, aud then to attack Washington from that direction. Or gise it is supposed that, making & fernt on Washington, he will move really either on Balti- , more or at once into Vennsyivania, by way of the National road, through Rockville, Frederick City and Hagerstown, with the view of drawing atver him the Union forces at Washington. If he succeeds in doing that he will then surely return and attack that city. Indeed, it is conti. dently believed by those from whom my informants got this information, that by the 4th of July the Confederate | ‘Ibis may be mere gascon- | tiag will float over the Capitol. ade, but is well to remember what the Confederates have already accomplished since this programme was adopted. 1 6 (0 Uis, at the Nerth, that there are two great dit- ficulties in General Lee's way in carrying out this design rst, the ditheulty of sustaining such a large army in an the idea of carrying sup- Predericksburg to Culpepper, aud from Culpepper north. wards, ie uncovers Ricluaond, and jeaves Hooker a fine chance to eweep down upou that city. But the Southern | view © (he cage is that these dilficulties are only ap- parent, and nol real. Their idea i@ that the whole of Coueral (co's army, Moving together, can overcome any ried resistance, aod that they will move so rapidly can be easily qustained by the products of the ntry through which they will pase, A moment’s that th rich reilection will conyines any one that im maching through any part ot Maryland or Pennsylvanta an army would be in no lack of food. In regard to the other diffoulty, General Lee es, with General MeCiellan, that the defences of Washington are before Richmond, aud that the detences of Richmond are deforo Washington. If Hooker or Halleck had deen wise enough to have insti tated a peninsula campaign this spring, Gen, Lee would | now be iaside ef Richmond, defending that ¢ It i owing 0 tho fact that they did not do so that ten. Lee ix now able to meoace Washington, and that Hooker has to act on the defensive. Gen. Lee believes that the moment he threatens Washington seriously Hooker will hasten to defend that city, which indeed. will be quite necessary for him to do; for ouless he does, Lee will certainly cap- ture Washington, while Hooker, just as certainty , will not capture Richmoud. All the stories about the defencoless conditiow of Richmond, whether published in the Rich mond papers or not, are the merest blinds and lures, The tofence of Richmond, in event, has been well provided for, ag apy army that marches against it will find. In regard to Operations in the West, my information is to the effect that Gen, Johnston bas concentrated all bis forces for an attack on Gen. Grant, and that if the latter does not retreat northwards a bloody battle may be daily | expected, The Capabilitics of the Seuth to Main- tain the War, Barnigone, May 20, 1863 {o former times, and for many yeare before the war, ai immense trade was carried on by merchants in Baltt- @ in the article of Richmond flour. The flour was maontaetared at mills jm and near Richmond, and was Chen oithor brought bere and shipped of else was shipped dircet at Richmond in Baltimore vessele for its Gnai des- timation. This destination was either to Kurope, to be thence transhipped to the East ludies, or else tw Central | Arkansas, Lieutenant Colouel Reynolds, and the Twelfth | tho West Indies, or South America, The four omde at and near Baltimore, although widely renowned for its excellence, could pot for a moment compete with Amer Roeomond dour in this foreign trade, The reason was 1 from which the two kinds of flour were made. ce win th mad Virginia south of the latitade of Washington (com wth Carolina and in Georgia, The harvest of thi hogins on the Ist and ends with the last of Ju inary seasons, and is never more than a week later erence Of many years demonstrated that fou ths wheat kept perfectly sweet in the hotter whe in The x wih which it was sought after, ww Jeg anda half south of the question; second, that in moving from | at Richmond was from wheat raised in that | | and when be had crossed the river, and 40 developed his plans, the purpose was to check his immediate advance | gc! : noarly the whole of that immense State), io North | and give timo to wase our troops and prapare to most Bim | this State to allow himself to bo wheedied into any auct limare (or any length of time, and hence the cagernens ‘The flour made in and + Hiege ‘NEW YORK HERALD, WSDNESD. A ports of those countries. It was trade whiob the mer | flour could ve brought up (o the same standard of oxcol fence that the Righmond flour nad reached, In ordor to aitain this object efforts bave bean made, attonded with sous measure of aiccess. 1 am aot at lib erty speak more dolinitely on this point, Bus Loxn cay that it hag been owing to those offucts in @ certain direc. information in regard to the capabttitiea of the Sout for regarded a8 confirmatory and suyplomientesy w thay my loiter o: March 19. It ix bighly tmportaut in mi tary point of viow, as it have direot Dearing on the ques. tion of bow long the rebels can carry on the war It affords tho most unequivocal proof that the war has nob materially aifecled the produciive Capacity of the South. ‘The 0. PO,uation of the Southern states, alter doduo| ig the loyal people of Maryland, Kentucky, Migsouri the Northwestern part of Virginia, ts ton millions of 140 plo. Of these four muilions are slavos and aix millions are white people. Of tho latter one aud a half anillions are belwoen the aes of eighteen and forty bye, and ure, therefore, able to bear arms. But of these only one-third have as yet been called out, for the rebel army consis of only 427,000 troops, drawn (rom the Slates as follows: + 85, Florida. 6,000 20,000 Georgia . 44,000 000 Kentucky . 15,000 Louisiana, . 30,000 9 Misc os Pare ‘Totat. 427,000 iy +. 30 431 Thore are this loft in the: Souther states a million of able bodied moa from which to recruit their armios, and keop them constaatly up to the of four byndred thousand troops, which hag boon , and which will continue to be done, in ¥ Lae’ ecoordance with 6 system, desoribed in my letter of the 26th of July last—a plan which, though based upoa a arg org) ia inGoite- the orguatzatious of all-tho, Ok cogimonte,. Keone, she wilote atiny always In an officiont state of disciplie, antl avoids the nocessity of ever suspend military opera- tious for tho me of drilling oy Bry of raw re- cruits, Duriug the last three years the. Southorn people bave abaudoned the cultivation of cotton, and, toa largo extent, of sugar, and have devoted all their Mand and all their energies to tho raising of whoat,cora, beef and pork. in these labora they have been dependent on what they have always had before—namely, their negro slaves: With few and unimportant exceptions, the emancipation” proclamations haye not or affected them, And even tf tho war should last two years longer, aud the whole availabic arm bearing population of the South be called to the field, these agricultural operations would still continue to be conducied by the glaves, uwder the direction of the old men between the ageg of forty-Ave and sixty ard the young mou between sixteemaud eighteen. Y! "tue lotters of all the correspondents who have accom. panied the Union armies to those parts of the south not yet devastated by the wac, all speak of the immense productiveness of the land, ‘Ihe correspondents who ac. companied the various Yaz00, Sunilower, Coldwater, Tal- Jahatchie ard other expeditions in the vailoy of the Mis- \ 8 sippi; those who accompanied Griergon’s cavalry raid; those who went with the various Hanks expeditiona, thoss who went wita the expeditions aloag the Cumberland and ‘lonneasee rivers; those who accompanied the Stoneman expedition to Gordonsville, and the late reconaviter: expeditions of General Dix: and even those with sume. General Stabe.’s recent expeditions in Loudon and Fanquier counties—ali speak in ing terms of the exceeding richness, and fertility, and ivenesa Of the land, as ev denced by the barns and storehouses filled with abuad- auce, and the flocks and herds, the turkeys, chickens and Roese which everywhoro abonnd, besides the immense quantities that the armies on both sides have already de- voured. it is the small portions ot the territories where the armics have operated that are desolated and - waste. The great interior of the South yet remains un- ‘The amount of wheat raised in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North und South Carolina, Tennessee, Texts and Virginia, fo 1860, was 31,326,874 bushels. dn 1861 it was ‘35,000,000; z m3, it was 40,000,000; aud in 1863 it will be 50,000,000 usbeis. ‘The amount of corn raised in. the same Staten was, in 1369, 280,000,000 bushels; in 1861 it was 300,000,000: in eral 340,000,000; and in 1863 it will be 380,000,000 Here, then, it is shown that there will be this year, and has been for the Jast three years, forty bushels of wheat and cora for each man, woman and child, black and white, in the South. They could not eat one-half the quantity, It is @ great deal more, indeed, than the Northern people have; for the North, in 1860, only ratsed 640,000,000 bushels of wheat and corn, which, divided ‘among the twenty millions of people at tbe North, would only give each one twenty-seven bushels. ‘The above facts and figures chew, therefore, that the talk about starving out the South is utter nonsense; ana that all military operatious for 1863, based upon supposed destitution at the South, will fail. Tho story originated at Washington about the rebels importing from Europe is about as reitable as the canard that Hooker had crossed the river again, and was no doubt started by the same parties. The Late Battles in Missise 4 {trom the Jackson prec maee feu Grant has moved a large body of troops across pen- insula, opposite Vicksburg, 80 as to obtain a river cross: ing, by means of boats which had run our batteries, at a point below all our Vicksburg, Warrenton and Grand Gulf garrisons. His first effort was to silence our battery at Grand Gulf, and then force a landing at that point. Hence i a flerce and terrific bombardment at that point for six hours, with His whole iron-clad fleet cits up within | three hundred yards and within long range of our sharp- | shooters, Bravely the late nel Wade and his can- | poneers stood to it; and the result was, although Colonel | Wade was killed, tho batteries drove the fleet off, badly injuring one boat and sinking another—a fact which has | not Leen previously noticed. Grant was forced to select a point ten miles below | Grand Gui for a landing, which was effected during the night. General Bowen eont forward a portion of General Green's brigade to skirmish with the enemy's advance, which began early on Thursday night. The enemy was kept in check until more of our troops ceuld be brought up. The force at Grand Gulf, betore the arrival of reinforcements, consisted of two small a jes, the fret brigade commanded by Colonel Cockerell , consisting of the First, Second, Third, Fifth and Sixth | Missourt infantry, and the Second brigado, commanded by | General Green, consisting of the Fifteenth and Twenty- tirst Arkansas, Twelfth Arkansas battalion, First Missouri cayalry, dismounted, and the —— Missouri infantry, Colonel Samuels, and the Sixth Mississippi. Of unis lit force one regiment, the Secoud Missouri, Lieutenant olo- | nel Sentney, In the intrenchments at the Gulf, to protect the batteries and prevent a movement in our rear; the others were distributed to guard bridges and passes ‘on the Bayou Pierre. ‘The ronte to the scene of action was nearly fifteen miles. Gevera! Green's command, which was firat brought into action, was nearly exhaust ed. and the remainder of the force met the enemy in cue of the most flerce and sangumary conticts, contending with the advance of at least twenty live thousand men, Karly on Friday two brigades arrived, com: by € ral Tracy avd General Baldwin, much exhausted by a tong forced march, making the eflective force ou our | side at any time leas than 6,000. After forming Into something like a general line of battle, Tracy's brigade (General T. having alroady fallen), was pressed bard by | superior numbers: Colonel Krwtu, Sixth Missouri, arriving , On their right, without orders (acting on Goueral Beaure- | gard’s guggestion to move im the absence of orders to the j heaviest firing), charged the enemy, drove him back, re capturadt a section of Captain Johns n's Virginia battery , ‘and bold good the ground foc one and a half hours agaiust fearful odds. At tho same inoment ‘Tracy’s brigade re- ceived orders to fait back, und setired, leaving Colonel | Erwin to contend slona, and the orticer in command deomed it afterwards havardous arf useless to attempt to port Colovel Kewi. At the expiration of an hour and If Colonel E. retired, and bad vo leave the re-captured vin for want of men and horses to bring them away. 8 ‘this chargé most gallant and daring feats of valor ever witnessed. Lows of the Sixth more than eighty men } was saved, At auotker point of the line it was necessary | to dislodge the foe, and ® charge was made by | the Third Missouri, Colonel Gauge and Lieutenant Colo. | nol Hubbell, and Fifth Missourt, Colonel McGowan and | Lieutenant Colonel Revier, aad ted by General Bowen | and Colonel Cockereil, against two brigades of the foe. | The nature of the ground precluded the possibility of closing with the foo, and these two regiments held the ground, mowing down the ranks of the foe, who could not advance further Newer the day. All heya ite accomplished unde: these circumstapers was chee! advance of Ure foe uatt! Grand Guif could be evacuated, and our stores removed acroma the Big As our forces retired over Bayou Pierre, the bri were de- markots with ftichmond flour, the most serious Comniaints wore sout to thom from their agents and faclorw io the chants of Rattimors could not give up without great ipjary, to thor busimess. Dut they would be obliged to give tt up if means could aos be devised by which tho Baltimore tion that Tcamo into possession today of the following tho raising of wheat and cora. This information may be if of the Sixth Missouri was deomed oue of the ; ‘Tracy's brigade {| defences, aud the probability < along its whole longeh 4 tho same timo, wecan easily comprobeud tbat be with nexd every man of ‘then Generai Johnson im the Field. ‘The army aad tho poole will rejoice with as when they learn that wo are to have the benefit of ho great military experience and ability of General Joseph It, Johnston ta the present emergency. Lic will arrive in the city to-day, aud, we prosume, a: Ongd joa Li the of our com: manding officors. ~ ack aied _ On reaching bie baw fol. of labors, General Johnston (will tind @ magnificent (orce organized for work. General {Pomberton has not beoa id ¢, but has given & hie depart- ‘mont the most unremitting attention. As’ ap exocutive hag proven pineal Laferior to none, Cee vie mn 1o wityaliO is acmy is jone—ready for Niet aad with the asmstance wo know to be at hand, wo have overy coufidonce as t the ult. In the struggle before us every man has & part to per- orm. The citizen and the soldier must act in concert. @take.as one 12 which aii are alike interested, Let us I Btrengthen the bands of eur geverals, implicitiv follow: their suggestions, and the myader will be driven back. he Funeral of Licuienant Qénerar. J. Frou she Richsond Whir, May 28) ‘om the y 23 f " Lieutenant ‘Tha romaine Of our great and good 1. J. Jackson were.commitied tothe tomy tp Lexingtoa, (Va., on Friday, the 15th inat. The body, enveloped in the Confederate fiag and covertd with flowers, was borne oua cian th Canes battery» ie én mourning. lazele Bays:—" company of the proceasion consisted of; sue omen: find. ol: cle ot rater ngae wal Bri Um ie county. ehattored a tandard. regima mand which tbat regiment carried in jumph over tha bioody field of Manassas.on the cvor paeenicatia Qlat day.of July. Ani peri of ot was der) deatly @cenes th wi General Gust w. {From the Richmond Whig, May 23. t This gentleman has been chosen president of the Etowah Iron Mining Company, Bartow county, Georgia, who have one among the finest works of the kind in the Country. 1¢ is said that in order towecure hia services tho company transferred to him stock to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, besides, voting him an an- Bual galary of soven thousand dollars. | The Wheat Crop—A Note of Warning. ! {From the Augusta Constitutionaltst. | AB the supply of old flour is nearly oxtmustod, and not uch is to be made or lost in it, we see-a depression in article, mainly bought of thomse! ves by speculators of their dupes, the shrewd onea holding on amd not tiing the come in. At the.same time the atory ja Circulated wit incredible activity that we are to have an overwhelmingeorop of wheat, and this is kept ap by the mowapapers, either in sheer stupidity or, trom foterest. Correspondents who do not know wheat field from un oat fic write the moat gi ing accounts of the wheat Crop, aothing like it ever vhoard, of. . .Woll, shal e in Georgia and shi t have any eurplus. On tho contrary, wo slall produce uth. of Virginia and, east of Mississippi about eight or ‘Bine monthe supply only , porhaps uot Ko much, and it the @opreasion in price could rowuit w Lavor of the army. ernment and the of the Danke would be sincere rejoiting. itis the eld tale.’ | @ny one recollect a year whon these extravagant proa- pects were not hold out just before wheatcame in? Now, ‘when the speculators, having dopressed the little remain- ing flour infmnafket—about a thirty days’ supply in Goor- gin, or less—aud bave also got. the wheat crop in thelr hauds by 81 = begs ty legen ny of ie then © sorew will bo onthe; other. log; we that the crop is not.no large. *Euttounpiecl, takers f a scarcity, that the ctrculation was (rightfully @xpand- @d, and that prices aro gomg up—up—up, like a sky- ket. Theo farmers will be humbugged, tho speciil riched, avd government and be forced to pay my Asa Ge Seenone te ir ie a Ger tarmecs ‘and planters id sal toeie wheat at what thoy consider, undef the circumstances, a fair rico ta the agents of the government , until ite wants are jupplied, and if with wu. verop4han last yoar, aud ict Circulation, comparatively high prices must Still prevail, they certainly are the perauns. entitled to feceive thei, Tather than the speculators, 'who are moving beaven and earth, in conjunction with other par- ties, to get she fa Ag premature ongagoment into their | own hanas, iw ‘that. they may enrich themselves ‘at the cost of the goverument and poople. {From the Houston (Texas) News. Planters from the country give the must ing ac counts of crop prospects. ‘They are said never before to have been 60 promising. Thore is aaid yet to bon great undance of old corn left, and will be even whea the Rew crop comes in. The price of corm bas down much, and it is said it will not bo worth Mity conta @ bushel tn the country two moaths hence. Virginia Politics. The Richmond Why announces the following ticket for the ensuing State election:— Fer Gocernor—Thos. Stanhope Flournoy. For Lieutenant Governor—Samuel Price. For Attomey General—Jobn R. ‘Vecker. Por © ‘William C. Wickbam. For State Senate—Geo. W. Randolph. For House of Delegates—Wyndtam Robertson, Richard F. Watker, David J. Saunders. Seu bes Bee , A manufacturer in Wilmington ., fs making good black writing ink by boiling tn water the bark ‘of the bay or dwarf magnolia. The price of ink bas fallen considera- . bly. it is now sold ia Richmond at $1 50 a gallon. A Mr. Dorovaxy , of Columbus, 13 making gine. ‘The Committee of Safety in Mobile End have resolved to Publish the names of all persons who refuse .to accept Confederate money in payment of dobt or obligations. Butter ig advertised for sale in Richmond at $1 25 por pound. i Jet’ Davis has lately been presented with @ pair of spurs. He must be on the high horse these t'mes. Shinplasters deluge the city of Richmond. ‘The refusal of the State and Confederate authorities to authorize the isene of small notes his emboldened the hoarders of State and city “change! to push out and invite the introduc tion of the uncouth and ridicuious looking paper currency of Southern savings banka, which once before variegated the carrency in the city. The Southern Baptist Biennia! Convention met in con vention, in Richmond, Inst weok. ‘The prospect for a’ heavy crop of fruit, rye and wheat in Northeast Georgin was never so promising, and tne most extensive crops of corn and potatoes are planted. Mrs. fhomas Gibson, of Warren nty, Ga., hae made and ix making a good sewing silk, She has now pots to produce five hundred skeins | $0,000 worms and expe INTERESTING FROM MISSOURI. Oar 5t,. Lo Correspondence. St, Lovas, May 20, 1963. General Schofield Versus General Curtis~The Radicals In- censed—Supposed Change in Policy—Rebel Guerilias Kitled—Steamboota Fired Into, de. ‘The event of the day in this department is the appoint- meat of General John M. Schofield as the successor of } General Cartis. The removal of Curtis has been antici- pated for several weeks ast; but the appointment of Behofield, though known te be favored by Governor Gamble and the cousetvative politicians of this State, was | entirely unexpected, It has already produced a bitterness of feeling between the radical friends of the retiring Gene- ral and the adherents of Governor Gamble which bodes no good to the future harmony of the department, It is a triumph over (he radicals which they were unprepared for, and the Germans bave worked (hemselvesiuto a pow | erful passion, protestiog against the change, ed, All the troops behaved with great gallautty. | she ideg exprosted by ali partion is that (he poliey pur he loss of the First brigade was {wo ual twen- 7 pe , Fy as the whole oes on our side, about aye, | sued by General Curtis will be cRanged immediately, and regiments which sudered most were—the Third, 4.) and Sixth Missouri; Fitteentn, Twenty-first and ‘Tw vu batiery suffered much, and Captains Landis, Guibar and Lioutonant Welsh, and their batteries reapec. tively fought suffered neverciy The Twenty-first Arkansds, Colonel Cravens, Fifteenth Arkansas battalton, Captain Bayne (dangerously wound ed), Vehaved with great gallantry, and oxhibited the | Mont devermined courage. ‘The First brigade, with Colo- | net Gates’ and Colonel Krwin'x regiments, covered the re- | treat, andl on the inst day the brigade marched thirty two miles. It was hmporsible to prevent Grant from landing at some point op a river const of over one hundred miles; for a trial of strength, , ine done, That is procisoly what is now be- S gh the apyearanee A threatening aspect at present, the confidence with whict 0d. ‘The proepecta did perhaps interraixed w The Seige of V Atuto wear G 0 | ie gratit ac remutan' att Arkansas; Sixth Mississippi; Captain Johoron’s | —A Rebel View. things about Vickaburg » | be ' there is a report current that General Fremout's famous | proctamation declaring Mimourt under martial aw, which | still remaiva in force, will be revoked, thes surrendering | the goveroment of the State to the civil authorities This is the, popular expectation and may be realized. ‘ihe policy of such a change, however, may be questioned; and howevor desirable it may be that the civil power resune | ite sway over Mixeouri, the (ect is that the rebels will be. the principal gainers by it. wer the State in the interior | counties wieked and deaperate rebels are smothering their | treason from fear of miliary law. ‘The surreuder of uke | pains of power into the bands of rebel patbizers, | holding the oficgs of coustabien, sheriffs and magistragos, ‘would be the signal for « grand outbreak of rebels, Gen. |, however, hat seen too much of the rebe:iionin pol | Geworal | General Schodetd at major gonerala, wilt probably be as. a to other commands when the latter arrives. ‘Their cownection with Gea. Schofield in the Army of (he Froatier, particularly after the battle of Prairve Grave, was not of the pleagantest character, and the cordiality between them hot worthy of imitation, There are otter ariny itt 8 who have never hesitated to express an opinion ad Fepeated and douperate near ttaitimore was ufactured from wheat figut Ids evident (hat Gor department commandant | vorso to General Schoteld, whose iciioxtions sbould lead preflinaneioeorcr om wheat ralged ia i "preparing fot & roqular old faxitioned 81 th a de them to ark for another position. It is tun possible Maryloud, (0 (hose parte of Virginia lying near the tine of | formation te t Wik point iC ail tho balance Of the — that the arrival of the new oommtandor 0 the caitmore and Ohio Railroad aod ia Penosy wania. When euch doverm may cauno a variety of intererting dinclo: his th portions sia the Mv @ COL BUFDTINGd to aon wil enanges 1 F. vartionlarly the Fiticott Mille and te Howard | tire ‘army @xoreunal to Mand by thee bored The radicala art doing their Daal wo bask down Gover street branda, acquired, during many years, a deserved | Conceal nor Gamble # ablackol for rexmmnbling the Waiobrity all over the Union for ite superior tuces | The seunon of tho ye durate army at. | Stata Convent jon weve commanded the ig n “Te 7 wave we, and ony Te ie cortan sere hud om he highest market pr But | peo mona Ng, portion of rebels, wh {ie howe J Ulat it would not stand tong sen voyages, | and yo aut of ina affecting the loy them s tke he itriow, wueh as the Kast | abled to bli a fac) ox tiem (oom Chee Coun a v Indve ¢ South America, it was} VOR th t peoolivities, abv The ‘ 4s how ang ae ‘ wer, savtuer na 4 sour, Whea thin 4 na at one hundred and Lasnty foe tenite of bie ft wnt of the eee due feat (We yoare, Yao ung. | Mrownand, Fktow te view Uo vaBt extent of Gur tum tow bere Aree GImSe bhA ARR Y RR wu that an assault watt be mado | the members nave of Silk Selma, Alabama, is being put ima state of defence by | | the arming of citizens and operatives in goveramout employ. ! "th ‘nd Mountaim tron Works, lately destroyed by | the Yankeos, is being rapidly rebuilt. | Herron and General Blunt, who both ovtranic | assumed new positions, which, ia many inatances, are bostile to the ‘government. ‘The rebels have been horees in North Missourt ttpoa such aD extensive acale the lst of this month that the alarm for fear of an impending uprising of villas i6 spreading like =a. Many Union havo gold gut their goods oved to this city withia the last tow days, aud others wore coming in covery day. ‘The organization of the enrolled m:litis is available only nines araliaunede et rebenane regiments cannot be coa- atrabod wit ity to + the mnischiet AGiTan CToInckad 3 Msgs Pedr al wanted gui las might accomplien, ‘There is one thing tw favor of peace. All the old guerilla loaders are in the South, ex- cepting Quantrel. No recognized leader of spirit and re- nown 18 among them to plan aad oxecute movements oa weak military poste. It ts proper to. parations to stem the dit a eee 9 BS EES, 13 Simply a system of land piracy. This deaned adequate to the emergency. Suahwhackt easortion ia ilustrated by the history of a gang of miscresals who broke up the stags line between Rolla aad Springfeld by robbing vho mails aod rupping he horses. When tho stage reaymed ita trip & cav- fi Springs from Useir own friends, the seceagiontsts, along the road: In cases they plundered the mou who had given r@akiasts and shelter many times, ‘Tho farmors collected together about forty armed men and tracked the robbefs to their camp. isight ol tho #0called guo- riilag.were killed aud eight more escaped. . Miasouri river soamer on hor Lous, ‘The usual rumors bavo turnistga pab; for the rebel sympathisers daring the isst week. reat i intgatla ty clean out Heiens t aa well ‘try to cleanse the Augean etables) and Chen @ouri—a pretty place no doubt, but one which may be spotled in its incipiency. name of Price, howevor, is doing the rebels am immense service in Missourt. - sands of rebel aympathizors awear by Prico as afftc- tiomately aa if he wore a combination of Julius Casar, Goo, Washington, the Duke of Wollington and Napoloon Bonaparte. The hope of his cotura at the head of an army still Lives va their hearts and no diwaster can remove it. eee the exile of a more handfull. of seceasiousita, the prisonment of new subjecta bag almost ceused, and nearly all of on parole the arrested individuals are ont among their frinds, Some have been released Rev. Mr. McAnally, a noted Mothodjat. soco-sion editor, whe has been arrested twice for disloyalty, and was one Of tho tateat arrested in the new batch, has boca relcased @n tho recommendation ora militia colouel, and Rev. 8. J.P. Anderson, of the Cen| Presbyterian church of this city (of which the Attorney Genoral of the United States, Kdward Bates, member aad pewholder), 13 “now in for pers®tent distoyalty. 1t ia presumed that tho order for the removal of General Curtia has caused 4 sud pousion of the baniabment busingas. ‘ta rush’of merchants down tbe river, in aoticifation of securing more-cotton when Vicksburg falls, bas recom- monged. THE NA VAL ACADEMY. Progress of the Kxamination—New Text Books fer the Academy—Arrival of the Macedonian, déc., dice OUR NAVAL AUADEMY CORRKBPONDENOS. Newroer, R. 1, May 24, 1363. (Friday was such @ very wisi day that almost overy 008 Toit the effects of the heat'so much that scarcely aoy ‘thing was dono, yet the examinativa progressed with con- siderable spirit. The thermometer on board of Cue Santee stood’ at 113 degrees dp the deck im tbe sto, and ot 83 Gegrees on the gun deck, which iq used as the study” room for the juntor classes. It wasintended to exercise & portion-of the midsbipmeu in-‘flect eailing’ with tho yachts America and-Malabow, with three or four of the ship launches, buttho lack of wiud and the clossness of the atmosphere proveated it. ‘The second division of the sgcond class wore oxawined in infantry tactics, and made a very creditabio exhibition of their progress in that branch of military ectence, but, a8 a goneral rule, seafaring people have @ distuste for any ‘thing whigh teada"to assimilate them vo atmy adairs. ‘This feeling was engendered centuries ago, and has boon handed down from generation to generation; but, upon the whole, we are inclined to think that perbaps it is. about as well that they should have a general acquaintance with the rules of infantry service on shore. In angiytie geometry the exercises wore traly intercat- ing. and showed ins marked maanor the studiousness of the gentlemen of this class. Tho examinations of the third olnaa in trigonometry, French and rhetoric bave given eatire satisfaction to the Board, and reflect credit alike upon the professors and the midshipmea, In the study of mechanics and stoam ongincoring, by the second ciass, the young gentlomon are mueh aided by Second Assistant David M. Groene, who ts @ thorough and Practcial engineer, and baving been a professor at an fwatitution at Troy, N.Y., is of great service in inatruct ing the young gontiemen, He is the Grst officer of the Rngineor corps who has been connected with vhe Academy. in relation to the steam engine the ‘‘youngstera’’ are taught its general priuct ples; early engines and gradual improvements; Watt's iavontions; condensing and non- gines; marine cagines; the parts of an engine and their uses; bovlers; tue and tubular boilers; parts and accesso. ries ot ler; yetting up steam ; duties of the eaginvor while the steam is on; estimation of power. ties of fuel; rapairtag an engine; different pelling—by paddle wheel, screw , sec. ‘While writing on this subject | am reminded @f an exhi- bition of genius displayed by a colored n min Boardley, who is a servant in the pb and who has built 4 suintature oogive, whieh ix deserving of a passing notice boiler is two and a hail incbes high and two :nchea im diameier. ‘The cylinder hax a di ameter.of one-tenth of an inch, with threeeights of aa inch stroke, the driving wheel is one inch anda half in diameter; the stroke of the valves is one-thirty second partor an inch, and the weight of the engine is three quarters of an ones troy. Yet this wondertul little en gine makes tts foar hundred revolutions per minute with all ease, 1 saw It working, and am tree t confess that in | its way it ts truly a wouder. Une of the most Intorestiag of the evaminations has been in connection with the hstory of the | nited states. | The young gentienea ext bited al most thorough know | ledge of the historical deimils of their mative land, ite laws and advano*mont, and ali that renders it so tn teresting aut wustructrye. The Hoard ol Visitors express ed themselves highly gratified at the knowledge of the youngsters in this branch of thoit studies. Saturday afternoon closed the examination of the second division of the second class, and the Board are highly pleased with the exhibiting of the protieiaucy shown On Monday the branches mm which they show vheir talents more parti firet class will be examined. The te larly wilt be ag follows —Navigation and Surveying, Phys aud Steam, Holitical Science, Spanish , Seamanship im gunnery the midsdipmeu use for a text ve on Ordnance aud Naval Gumerg "oom: ranged by Lieutenant Commander Kaward Simpson, U.S N., which is probably the best and mos thorough work on the subject ever published. Tt isa work of nearly five hundred pages, beautifully illustrated, and is glear and comprehons:ve. In seamanship their lext byok is a work just issuing from the preas, by Lieutenant Commander Siepben B. Luce, United states Navy, which is « compilation from the best suthors on the subject, aud is certaimly one of the best works extant; and as it is adaptedfior the mid- shipmen of our mavy it makes it doubly valuable. Here- tofore we have been obliged to use the works of English authors to a great extent, but the time has come when our own naval officers are putting us in posension of works whieh are in keeping with the tone and character of our own fnatitutions. We need now a text book on steam engineering adapted to our own style of marine aud Stationary engines, aud a good opeuing now ofers itself to prepare a work on this subject which can be used as a text book for the Academy and for general purposes. Cannot some good Rive us one at an earty The Macedonian arrived from Boston last evening, having been fitted out there (or the practice ship of the Naval Academy. ‘The following is a list of the officers who brought her around from Boston — Lhertenant Commandar—Kamund 0 Matinews. Liem nent—Aitred T. Maban. JAewtenant—lioory ¥. Pecking. sient Sargon. Tava TY tickatte Asmsont P Acnng — — tattle, On sur T attended divine service at the Academy, ‘and listened to an able sermon from the Chaplain, Rev. Mason Noble. One of the prominent features of the exor cines waa the music by the choir, composed entirely of yo gentiomen connected with the school: a melodeon Teaieted them, and the singing was of an ox cotteat ' both im tone = and in time. The sermon was a practical one, and was listened with marked attention. A majority of the Board of te vi ali'day, and the very sudden change bas caused quile a deal of ile whiqh are common to weakly persome It ts onderstood that the Hon. Faward Kverett will deliver an address before the gratuating class during the wool, and of courne it will be full of interest ax wall as an | intedieetual treat of a high order, The Quota of Now York, (Femme uve Aibany Journal, may 2.) New York ts now to reap the benefit Governor Mor gau'a persiatent refusal to allow of the ealiiment of ning onthe’ men wnt tae Lat moment, under the previvns call (or troops. The War Departaeat bas deciied (hat (hres years ia to be made the basie Of ine catimete of a State's quota. That i, 2.000 three yours’ men are to be counted me the equivalent of 3,000 two yoars’ men and 4,000 nine months mon. , tha rule 4 emineatiy just, and undor it, instoad of being dafloient 30,000 or 60,009 men, abo is oiliciaily deciaced to have Blind ber quoka ‘Covernor Margao uot Only ingistad upon all ealistments boing tor three years (with the exception of three or four rod militia regimenta), but, tm conjuncWon with f and Ceveral Sprague, haa folio the War Departmen nt! Y, MAY 27, 1863.~TRIPLE SHEST. iaitors were present. The weather hag been quite cold — VIRGINIA Three State Gevernmoentse—Blections Te- morrow. ‘The olections ia the various portions of what was two years ago the proud old State of Virginia will take place to-morrew. There will be three distinct sote of Btate oMcers elected, and each, whenchosen, will be formally inaugurated and subsequently maintaia separate govoru- mental organizations. The firat, aad to us the most im- portant, Ws Une aew State of waer Vin@Uta, _m this section there ‘© be no rogular organiza- tion ia” Sppoaion Gnoonditional Union party, although thore are plenty of individuals of the cop. Perhead stripe who would gtadiy eater the canvass a8 opponeata if thers appearod tho loast chance of creating & diffoulty. ‘Tho foliowing ta tho only ticket nominated, and those mamos, in accordance with party usage, came through e rogular State conveation which agserabled at Parkersburg on the 6th inat:+ Governor,,...... of Anditor. Attorney Gevoral . ‘Three Judges of tho Court of Appeals are to be oleotod 0m the gonoral ticket, for which positioas the following named ‘geatiomen are aominated Hf, -Horkabire; W. A. Harrisoa, James 4. Brown. A now Logialature witt also be choson, willbe 12 readiness, with the machinory ia proper’ tra and order, ‘by the 19th-of June,on which day West Vir Ginia takes her position among the loyal States of ihe Uuiva., , ‘RSBAL VIRGINIA. In tho rebel of central and southora portions of the Ota Dominion there appears to be a regular. scramble for the Oxecutive chair, o0.leas than @ix candidates being in the fehl. As far as we bays loarnod there wore no nominating conventions beid, and cach asptrant is therefore what ts termed an iadepeadeat or stump candidate, with no rogular party orgaaization to back him. The following are their names:— Honry A. Wise.—Now a brigadior geadral in the rebel army ; was olovted Governor of the State in 1466, and re- mained in office until 1859. Wm L. Goggin.—This geatieman was a candijate Cor the same Office at the last election, Cour yoara ago. fle ran on the Know Nothing ticket, in opposition to John Letchor, tho present oxocutive, and was beaten over five thousand votes. He is now the old line whig candidate, tho name of the old party bavtog been revived (ur tha occasion. William Smith, tamiliarty known aa ‘Extea Billy.” — Ho was formorly a mombor of the Cedaral Congroas at Washington, representing the Raatern Shore, the sectioa ‘Of this old State which is now loyal. Billy is tho candi- date of the unterrilled and unwashed demoorapy, and is probably tbe most formidable opponent of Gogain. George W. Randolph calls himself tho people's candi- date. Colones! Thomas 3. Hournoy is the war-to-tho-kaifs caa- didate. Golonet George Wythe Munford, also one of tho laat Gitchors, seema to have put forwerd bis vame meroly try bia strongth among the Grst Camition, He ‘probably. does not except much. For the office of Lioutenaat Governor we find the aames of Joba D. Imboden, Joba Kchots, James W. Shelley and Samuel Prico From (he Congreasional districts our accounts are very moagre, and even the Richmond papers are considerably purviod to make out what is going oa im most of them. ‘Thero are sixteen members to be choven t the rebel ‘Howse of Representatives, and tomake the dolegation complete the members are to be voted for iw all parts of the State, as \ was Gefore the robvilion, bub as tue countics west of tho Alleghany Mountains, which cow form the now State, and those lying on the extreme oaat, soknowledge no aliogiance to the Commonwoaith as at present orgaained, there will be some difficulty in getting reproacatateves from those quarters, except through the influcace and votes of a fow rebel officers and goldiors ia the army whe may bail from those sections. Nearly ali the representatives iu the frat Congrons wiil run for re-siection. Amoug the now candidates we notice tho ames of Genoral William Mahone, Thomas Hume, Sr.,W. 4. Parham, aod D. J. Godwin w the Second dia- trtot; W. C. Wickham and George Dabacy Wotton in the ‘Third; William Martin in the Sixth; J. Y. Moaofes in the Ninth; John Letcher, present Governor, ia the Tenth Legion, now known as the Keventh district ; James Har- dour in the Culpepper district; H. A. Kdmuadaon «a the Twelfth, and +. A. Miltor in the Fourteenth. Very few of the candidates have pledged thomaclves to any partioular course of policy which they intead to pur- sue, but appear to depend entirely upon morit, personal popularity, impudeute in come cases, services in the field, devotion to the interorte of the State, and ‘woll known political sontimonts.” One, however, declares that “‘oa general politics he is opposed to tho course of the Richmond Znquérer, oa Ube poace question, and is im favor of the policy advocated by the Sentinet, and the Whig, and that is to make the peace party of the North, on the grounds of Christian forbearance, to stop this war. Another declares that the military sbould always be aub- secrient to civil power, and he recoramends the poopie to Oppose every Congressman who ever voted to suspend the right of Aabeas corpus under any circumstances. Hoe a “Remember Vatiandigham in the North. The less wo of the South imitate Lincoln, the better. Deo, vindice vincemus, Remember your ancestors, and carry out their principies on election day.’ ‘The following are the names of (he Virgmia roprescata. tives in the last rebel Congress, which ondod ita axistonce on the Ist inptant:— District. 1—Jobn R. Cham biiss. 2—M. R. MM. Garnett, 3—James Lyons, 4— —-- Colner 5— Thomas S. Dutrie 9—Wm. Smith. 10--A. K Botolor. 1i—-Joho 8. Baldwia 12—W. R, Staples 13-—Wallor Preaton LOYAL V@&Gtnia. Jhis section of the Old Dominion embraces some five or fix counties add parts of counties in the southeast corner of ihe State, commonly known as the Lastera Shore, On the 16th iast. @ convention wax hold at Alexandria, which placed iu oomtinution the folowing ticket— Governor Francis H. Plorpotat. Tieutenan' kdmund Peadietoa. Attorney General . §. Ferguson Beach, Mr Pierpoint is at present the Provieional Governor of Woat Virginia, Mr. Pondieton, the candidate (or Lieute pant Governor, bay declined to rao, B. M. Kitchen aad Joho S. Gallaher are tue candidstes for Congress, the dia trict being the old Seventh. ‘The utility of saddiing (hese Avo or six countios, which have already been stripped of evorything but lhe naked Jand , with the expense of a Biate government at this time, in doubted by many who are inclined to the study of do meatic ecouogy. In addition to the vid State and local laws under which (hey are working, the people are subject, more or less, to stringent military rules and orders, sed if these should prove ‘sufficicat for thew propar control, we cannot see that 2 one horse State organization would benefit them to any great axtent, nor Address of the Women's National Leyal League. TO THE SOLOMRS OF OCK SROOND ERVOLUTION. Brennen —A thousand of your iters, in a convention representing (he loyal womee of the uation, greet you with profound tude. Your ateuggies, daring, heroic self-devetion aod sublune sohievemenis we exit im thee all. To you, especially, whose terms of serviee have ox pired of are soon UW OxXpiTe, we dexire to Kpeak of (he shifting acenes now acting in the nation's tragedy. ‘This war of slavery against freedom dit uot hogin with the firwt shot at Sumter; it did not begin when the wlavocracy broke up the Charteston Convention, i ostier to nectre the election of Mr. Lincoln, aud thus pom Southern nasser a false protenoe for rebellion, upon the 1 did not begin with nullification in {53% u0r th (he cowvention tht Cramed Ure Caderal constitution: wor yet in that whieh adopted the article of coplederation: but it be. whoa the Mayflower landed our fathers on ‘Kk, 20d (de first slave ship Tonded its Boman and yan im 16% iymonth cargo in Virginia, Thom, Cor ythe frat tune, fiverty slavery stood face te (Ree oo Chin ew tll NOW these sftagoniomes have gtru confit. Two yours since the slaveooracy mele of violence, afear long wed Chew perfidy by perry, ty govarnmeut property that cost $10,000,000. aud then burst into open rebeitiog ‘This war t# MOL, as the South falsely pretewds, oo” races, nor 0; sections, nor of politionl partion, but a war of principles, ® warupon the working diasieg, whothor white or bivek # war agalost man the warld over, In thie war Che DIRCK map WAM the frat victim, the work Jog than, Of WhALEvEr Color, Lhe HeRt: and Gow alt who conwead for tae rights of labor, for free apesol, tree Kohools, free ®ullFagd and a free government, securine to all fife, Hberty aed Che porsait of happiness, are driv. on to do battle In defence of these, or te fait with them, victims Of phe sare vislowee that for two centurios haw held tho binck man & prigonor of war, While the sth has waged thie war jet human ree the North faa slood 7 Ce garments of who wore swning Wberty to death. It was in vain that «few as the Nort dencuneed the e7een Set Ore neces to copantance. ta vain did they point lo the programs of the larg ower, aod warn Whe vovgle Wal thes owa , hese: | of tho Pature, eternal pil oe Golda of tis Foro ‘ lutiom, to your hands is committed the gaored duty of carrying out in these latter days the ideal of ‘our fathers, which was to secure toil * Iiio, borty and the pursuit of bappiness,'"’ and to evory State “@republican form of government."’ To break tho power of this rebellion calls for overy available (orcs. You know how oxtonsively black men aro now being armed, Some regiments are already in tho tield, twenty more are pow under driiL Will you uot in this hour of national peril, gcatetuily weicome the wid whiob they so oa crushing you? Will you not abjure that vulgar bate wieich bes conspired with slavery againat liberty in our (and, and thus roit from the sepuichro, whore thoy have buried it alive, the stone wuich has 60 long impriconed thoir victim, The army of the North will thus become brs Mar of delireren, Eroning he calew from the Compromise, aad refound upon the 00k Of juatice. peyote Some.of you have beeu mmatered out of ‘service, many Mero 46 Koon to return to your homes. All hail 0 yout fouor and gratitude for what yon havo dove and aullered, Enough ‘it you thave only been fighting for the Union as th was. But is ib-euough, uf the work for which the war ts Ow proaeculed 18 nut acouraplished’ Your country aeeda your power of soidierly endurance and accomplieh- ment your hard oarned experience, your varied tact and trained akill, yeur practiced eye and hand, ip a word, all, that maces you velorams—ripe mi discipline and educated power Raw recruits cannot til your places, Bravo msn, your mise) far advanced, @ not accom piabed Vou will not, cannot, abide at home, while your Peart in arms carry victory and liberty down tw the 1 : With joy and admiration ‘wo greet you on your Lome ward way, whilo your loved ues await your comiag with mingicd delight and pride. When, after « brief sojourn, you go bagk xgain, convoyed by the gratoful acclaim an: Godspeed of millions, to consummate at freedom’s call her holy worlc, the mightivat of all time, aud now Ho now ita ond, with oxultant shouts your brothers in the told will hail your coming w share witb them the glory of the fina) victory. It will pe the victory of free government, suored rights, justice, liberty aud law, over (he perfidien, perjurick, ly'og protences, and frantic revolrics in inno: cent blood, of the foolest national crime that over reeked to Hesven--the overthrow of the most atrocious yot Ube meanoet Jospotism that over tortured the groaning earth. im behalf of tho Women’s Natioun! Loyal League. R ft, CADY STANTON, Promideat SuNAN B. Anraomy, Seorotary. wae addrous was propared by Mrs. Aogotias Grimke al AFFAIRS IN SWITZERLAND. Our Zurich Correspoddence. Zoe, Switreriand, May 9, 1368. The Groat Festiwal of the ree Shooters—Preparations amt Innitations—Gita—Ratern Frena Visit to Garwalai— Discowraging [ports of the G-ueral’s Heallh— Visors to the Liberator—His Present to an American Ludg— Wagner in Ruisia--The Uhland #estemics, dc. ‘Tho national festival of tho Froe Shooters, whose gt grntic celobrations are givea once tn two yoars im can- tons offering ths best inducemanta the committca, is to be hold thia yoar at Chanx do Foods, im tho canton of Nenachatel, beginning on the 12th of july. The mest magnificent preparations are being made to the vicinity of the shooting grounds for the accommodation of te, thousands of questa who bave alroady signtiied their in- tontions of being present. Deputationa of Free Shooters from all parts of Germany wi!! meet at Frankfort on the Main, undor the great natioual Free Shoeters’ flag, from whence they will proceed to Qhaux de Fonds to a body. Tho organization of the German Free Shuoters ia increas- ing in oumbers at a fabaious rate. Their secret prepare tions for future action J wilt not and am uxt permitted te anticipate. Suffice it to say that their levers are Already planted boneath certain § fountations thas evon aow begin to trembie, for the gallant shooters are got without the most decided political tendencies and aims, and tho hue of their banaer te by no means that of lilies Oficial invitations have been extended by the organiza- tion’s committee to the Italians and l'reuch—that to the Frenoh sayiag:—'‘In inviting you to our featival wo act ia tho apirit and sympathy which bas long united our coun- tres. Ia a moment wherein France and Switzerland are signing oew commorcial contracts, let ths shooters alae outatretch to cach other the hand of brotherhood. Come & the land of William Tel!,and take part in the armed committes of a free people.” Ag invitation which, if uxt officially accepted, will undowbtedly be cordially answered by independent deputations of the Freach snooters Gifts for the shooting prizes are being received from all quarters of the earth, their value at the present momeat having reashod a hundred thousand francs. Bars of gold, worth two thousand eight hundred francs, have bese oat by fourteca Switzors from Shanghae, China. St. Vetorsburg has sent valuable goblets of silver; the city a> Bromen an oiegavt goblet, and twelve botties of the choicest old Rhine wine from its famous Rathakellr. Tne ladies of Chaux do Fouds bava coatribuws 4 silvor “geachire’’ worth 1,200 francs—undoubtedly a coflee or toa urn. one aro 7 the gifts that havo been announe- ed ag yet. come pouring in by the score now until the feate val touiee: The Free Shooters’ secieties throughout the land are | Practising at tuoir usual piaces every Sunday afternoce with the most unusual cuthusiasm. They are ovidentipy detormined that the protossional -hooters shall oot carry off all the prizes, as they invariably do—tho greater part ‘at feast—oo sitnilar occasions. Brigadier Colouel Ww. Kustow, of Zurich, oue of Gari- baidi's offcers in his Southern italy campaigns, pod just Lae pore from a visit rings rather disqpuraging reports the ue ral health of Garibatdi which has been geaiy injured by the immense quantities of quinine adtninw tered during bis sickness, Ife walks about bia house ow crutobes, and ts very much debilitated, though bopetui ia rogard this ultimate recovery. A distinguished Germas physician, however, nas receutly expressed the opinion that cousumption already fastened upon him, ase “nataral consequence to the great amount of modicine.’* The burthea of a little anecdote which bas just caught my eye iv this morning’s Lucorner Zeilung may be hore nose ivappropriaiwly reiated, -‘Movher,” satd little Marili, “when God wants be sends word to the doctors, does’nt her’ Sensible child. Colonel Rustow informa mo that Garibaldi has a hacklag cough, and his checks are dushed oo the slightest oxeriion, The amount of hw daily visitors, mosuly lishinea, avorages thirty. They generally jand upon the island of Magaaicoa, uear by, and ‘come over to Caprera in litte boats. Monotti often brings over passengera in his little sloop The Kari of Sunderiand receutly came from Kagland ia bigown yacht, in which he dwett during a tbroe days’ stay, bul most of the visitors are of occewity Gert baldi's guests, there being pv bouses save his own and those of one or two of bia lieutenants upon the wland. Garibaldi intends spending @ part of the coming summer da one of the baths of Switzeriaad—ho thinks at ih ; but i@ most inclined to the formor, most delightful spot, by the way, whose principal bath haus or hotel bas lgg ree Re gy age own] hands of Mr Heury Von Struve, brother of the bistorian, Gustave Struve, now ttving at Siaten isiand. Kossuth, who speat most of last summer at Ragutz, is thinking of returning there for the forthcoming bathing season, his bea allowing Fle w in ognsumptiva. that Garibeldi, who will the time, may be ind in Chaux de Fouds. An American lady, for several years past a resident of Zurich, bas just received from Garibaldi bis ikonges, with his auto written beneath it, im ae- written by her during a sojoure pe at the time of bis imp! y ht to his motice by a German cous of his delicate reovgnition, and com Garibald: imprisoned | And yet the hile Are as tree as they wore at morn Add & mountain soul in fotvern—God ( ‘The Alpe grow pale with scorn | ‘They think of the gieam of the first ausbeem, When tho wakening world was young, When the little bills lay down to dream, And the stags of the morning sung Aad of bow, at the sound of the (reedom sng, They rose up into space, And stood by the side of (he starry throng, And looked God in Ue face. do great in the onthusigam of the Zurichers for thie, thew musical favorite, nat whenever a opere of Wag nor's in advertived the tickets go of ag a ne frequeatiy at greatly advanced prices. Licket of admission on the evening of represoutation , te (hing is impossible, As the 40 called ‘musical reformer Appeared in the orchestra, which he personally directed, without notes, ia the great of St. Poteraiurg, the hele audience rose en meme vb the 6 nae. AL the iaat concert of the cores of tuning inagesoding (he enurmens prodts of the er sine ghowered upon the compuser by audieuce Were OF priesioNs worth, Conminiag Yroamented Raut Wixcs of gold, lauret perlormance, the adaleiuy _ with jewel spangiod leaves, with count tone ‘and gome in the most licurious profusion, tneluding bubelies Of Bowers vom poned of god and pre. eroun (he many admirers of the emineut cumposse of © Muxie Hichard Wagner, are rajviomg at bin ro ‘cont beidlinat suqpesses t Russia, Many € bis finest ‘an were written while a resident of Zurich, and hie qwonderfal creation of “Tanohauser'’ was fest brought Gut ab our Clty theatre, under hie own direction, bs ww porviaing tho minutost dotaiis of stage arrangements, and overlooking 10h seperate article of dress, oven to the atock ings ofthe chorus gwhich ho mperatively demantst should in no inatance be othor than suk. His dwelling Downe was situated upon charting hii! on the western bank of Lake Zarich, on the very spot formeriy coup ed by & little nummer house, where Lavater ured to ory Saturday afternoon to propare hia sermon for the succesting day. Ft commands one of the fovet and trou. vicinity, including & whole half croie of A wailing vations were aley (Ede oo te ye huow,