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6 NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENNETT, MW AND PKOPHRIELOR. 2 OF FELYON AND NASSAU STS. Ma por copy + saturday, at Frvieconts pam’ $2 50 A» extra edpy wall be aeat to e t yonty omi2, to one address, one yoar, $35, and any b same price, An extra copy will be went ibs rates rake the WERKE Bignann ‘he coun:ry. The y Wednesday, at Five conts auim to any part of Great Britain, to any part of the Contineat, both to include » Cavroryta Eprmox, on tha 3d, 18th and 204 of t Sx conts per copy, or §3 per annum, path NEW YOR the proceedings which is given in gnother column will attract general interest. The meeting held yesterday was in the interest of Secretary Chase; to-day the Leagues favorable to Mr. Seward will hold a convention, and shortly the Lincoln Loyal League will develop their designa, ‘The very latest European news by the Asia, tele- graphed from Halifax, is published in the Heracp this morning. The United States steamer Wyo- ming struck ona rock in Swatow harbor, China, and sustained considerable damage. The Polish revolution was extending, and the military at- | tempts of Russia towards its repression were | growing more severe daily. Popular disturbances atill prevailed in Ragusa and Treligne, Turkey. The emigration of Irish to the United Statcs is now so extensive that, instead of four steamers leaving Cork harbor each fortnight, there will be seven in the same space of tithe, for some months, | A late letter from Cork says:—‘‘ The Inman Com- pany have increased their sailings by an additional vessel fortnightly, and the Cunard Company has advertised its intention of starting an cxtra steamer every second week. In addition to this increased conveyance, the Montreal Ocean Com- pany will this month resume its trade between the Cunard Company will despatch the steamship Sidon from Liverpool on Tuesaday, and Queens- town on Wednesday. On Wednesday and Friday veewents toa limited number, will be inserted Usaato, and in the European and Califor- x pia Fait VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import- ant news, soltcitod from any quarter of tho world: if derally paid for. gg Our Forman Con- RESPONDENTS ARY PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL LET- used, will be do vot return Volume XXVIEZ. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. —GuraLvine, WALLACK’S TUBATRE, Broadway. AMERICANS Ut Ponts BRKT. TER GARDUN, Broadway.—Bycusa Orera—On- we rune LAURA KL CLO a= Ni THEATRE. Broadway.—Kina oF La Boguetiene. jowery.—Tanee GuaRDs- MUSEUM, Broadway —Grn. ano Wives, Com. Nutr ann Mansie WARREN, Oavuows or Vatyeige—Atternoon and Bven- BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 672 Brond- | gx =! THioPiAN SONGS, BURLESQuEs. Dances, &c.—Biack RIGA, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadwar.—Etmioriam SCRGs, VaNous, XC—KUNNING THE BLOCKADE, THE Pacers, -—Soncs. BuRLESQUES, HERN REFUGEE. AMERICAN THE. No. 444 Broadway.—Batzers, Vawtowiuxs, Box esaums. 46. 613 Broadway.—Ccriosities, nO A.M. 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S Fongs, Dasces, Buaursa OPERA Hi te SE. Brooklyn.—Etmroriay 8, dec. . BROOKLYN ATHE: TRIPLE New York, W ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for EEKLY Hexatb must be band. 4 in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its Circulation among tbe enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, magufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly, Advertisements in- serted tn the Werxy Heratp will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THE SITUATION. There is no official account as yet of the capture of Vicksburg. The latest reliable news is up to Friday evening, the whole details of which we have already published. At that time Vicksburg was not taken. All the facts in connection with the battles fought during the advance of General Grant's army upon the city are fully confirmed in the despatches which we give to-day. Rebel ac- counts from Mobile state that our troops were re- pulsed at Vicksburg three times on Wednesday fast, and admit that Yazoo City was taken by Ad- miral Porter, the navy yard at that place being destroyed by the rebels. Our maps of the | operations around Vicksburg, including all the localities of General Grant's three weeks’ campaign, and of the enemy's works in and Ground the city, showing the great strength of the Place, will illustrate the difficult undertaking which General Grant has in hand. We give, also, another map of the Yazoo river, showing the ope- vations of Admiral Porter. “ The latest Topotligenice from Washington up to ten o'clock last night is that the President has re- | ceived no later news, and that it is not believed by the government that Genera! Grant himself has recently sext any telegrams to the goverument re- ting his movements. The President, Secretary of War, the Assistant | Secretary of the Navy, Gen. Halieck and Gen. sy Hooker held a council at the White House yester- | the steamships: City of Baltimore and.Kangaroo, belonging to the Inman Company, will leave Liver- pool and the following days Queenstown, and on Sunday the Cunard steamship will leave Cork har- bor.’’ Saunders’ News Letter, of Dublin, « British tory organ, remarks on this:—‘ From the facts which have lately transpired it is not expected that there willbe any further consular denials that this increase of transport is demanded by the en- listment of young men in Treland for service in the United States army.” The Zwam Herald, speaking of the exodus, says:—‘‘ The exodus of the people from Mayo and from this county (Galway) is becoming every week more extensive, Whether for good or for evil, the stream continues to swell and flow on uninterruptedly, and the emigrants may now be reckoned by hundreds from somelo- calities.”. A Dundalk paper says:—‘ No less than one thousand emigrants passed through Dundalk last week on theix way to America and Australia, They are rushing out of the country as if to avoid some terrible disaster.” The Western Star re- marks:—‘' We have never known so many people to leave this district withina week as from Sun- day tothe present. On Sunday long lines of cars, laden with emigrants and their friends, arrived in Ballinasloe, the former leaving by the evening train. On Monday and Tuesday there were similar arrivals—nearly all well dressed and comfortable looking young men and women, evidently belong- ing to the class of small farmers, The deati- nation of these people is generally New York.” The Clare (Ireland) Advertiser of the 13th of May says:—‘‘ We witnesscda novel feature on last Monday. The trades band of the town, ‘in full fig,’ escorting the emigrants to the quay, playing ‘Patrick’s Day,’ ‘Garryowen,’ ‘White Cock- ade,’ &c., in dashing style, and with such a mar- tial air as would be highly interesting to an Ame- rican recruiting sergeant, if he happened to be present. Acrowd of over three thonsand persons cheered loudly for America, and groaned the Brit- ish goversment.”’ eg ae A special méeting of the Board of Councilmed was held at three o'clock yesterday, By a vote of nineteen in the affirmative to two inthe negative a resolution was adopted tendering the hospita i- ties of the city to Brigadier General Thomas Francis. Meagher, late commander of the Irish Brigade, on the occasion of his return to this city. A communication” was received from the Mayor suggesting. the propriety of appointing delegates to represent the city in the National Convention to be held at Chicago on the first Tuesday in June, for the purpose of facilitating commercial inter- course between the cities on the Atlantic seaboard and the great West. Laid over, under the rules. A petition, numerously signed by the residents on Staten Island, was received, praying for municipal action to relieve them trom the bad management of the New York and Staten Island Ferry Compa- ny. Referred to the Committee on Wharves, Piers and Slips. The tax levy, as amended by the Legislature, was adopted by vote of fifteen in the affirmative to thirteen in the negative. After transacting a large amount of routine business, the Board adjourned until Thursday evening at five o'clock. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- noon. A report from the Committee on County Officers, recommending the appointment of two ad- ditional ee the office of the County Clerk, Gad Feceive ‘adopted. A message from the Mayor was read, vetoing the resolutions adopted on the 19th instant directing the Comptroller to pay several bills for the erection of the new Court House, amounting in the aggregate to $94,586 70; and another resolution, ordering the payment of #850 57 for work done on the same building. The | message was ordered to take the usual course, The other business of the Board was entirely rou- tine. - The reckless use of firearms and knives by our adult and youthful citizens has long been a source of great evil and the hasty cause of the loss of innocent lives. The Grand Jury of the Oyer and Terminer have at last taken the matter into their consideration, and made a presentment yesterday to the Court calling upon the authorities not only | to prevent their indiseriminate use by citizens, young and old, but even by the police. This is an important move towards a better state of civiliza- tion. The youths of the city should be disarmed; they would then be more likely to avoid street rows, and we are of opinion that the stern batons of the police are quite sufficient to preserve ore | der. The anniversary of the capture of Camp Jack- regard to the Presidential campaign, the report of Europe (via Queenstown) and Canada. Next week j es SPA pirate, Cyptain Kidd. A farmer, named Betts, 02 the 15th instant, ploughed up sixty-one silver table | apoons, which weighed one hundred and eighty- three ounces, The opinion of the inhabitants is | unanimons that they were buried by that old ras- cal Kidd, and that therg are plenty more of the same sort in the neighberhood. The railroad companies have all agreed to carry the delegates to the Chicago Canal Convention at | half fare. The Chieago Tribune, a rampant abolition jour- nal, speaking of the arrest of Vailandigham, says “there is danver in the precedent that General Burnside establishes, and in the occasion for the unnecessary challenging of the popular opinion in regard to the supremacy of the civil over the mili- tary power, even in @ time of war." According to the City Inspecter’s report, there were 437 deaths in the city during the past week— | a decrease of 54 as compared with the mortality | of the week previous, and 33 more than occurred ; during the corresponding week last year. The re- | capitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcoholism, 2 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 89 of the brain { and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 18 of | the heart and blood vessels, 149 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 5 of old age, 35 of diseases of the akin and eruptive fevers, 7 premature births, 73 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other diges- tive organs; 27 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 5 of diseases. of the, urinary organs, and 21-from violent causes. There were 286 natives of the United States, 11 of England, 90 of Ireland, 3 of. Scotland, 33 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The market for beof cattle was dull.and beavy on tho opening day, at a decline of nearly or quite 3c. per pound, But subsequently there was @ more'active de mand, and the market ruleda shade firmer. The range was from 90. a 12c.; but the of the offerings were placed at 103;c. a 113c., and the average price was about Itc. All.the cattle were sold by Tucaday noon. ‘The gov- ernment agents took about 200 head, at prices within the range. Milch cows wore tolerably active and firm at $25 a $50 a $65, Veals were in good demand, and though the receipts were heavy prices were, if anything, bigher, Sales varied from 43{c. a 63<c. a 7c., and some sales were made at 730. Sheep and lambs were scarce, active and higher. Prime wool sheep so'd awhigh as 10c. @ 10%c. a llc. per pound, while sheared realized 7c. a Tie. Swine were active at Sic. a 5c. for corn fed, and 53{c. a 5 3c. for still fed. The total receipts were 4,686 beef cattle, 105 cows, 1,181 veals, 3,479 sheep and lambs, and 9,270 swine, A detailed report of the market will be contained in the Weexiy HFRatp, published on Saturday. The depression in stocks which commonced on Monday lasted through the morning hours yesterday, and lower quotations were established in several instances; but in the afternoon the market rallied and prices were uni- formly better, with an upward tendency. Gold sold as low as 1413{, then rose to 14514, closing at five P. BM. at 144%, Exchange was in good demand at 155 in the morning, and 157 a 158 later in the day, Money was easy. Call loans 5 a G per cent on good collateral. The cotton market was very dull and irregular yester- day. The demand for breadstuffs was fair, but at easier rates for all other than oats, which were advancing. ‘There was more doing in hog products, Pork was higher and lard lower. The transactions in groceries, oils, metals and naval stores were limited. The sales of whiskey were heivier and the market firmer. The freight business exhibited more animation, shipowners baving made some further concessions to shippers. Our Latest Reports from Vicksbu 4 Our latest ae from Vicksburg are dowd to the 22d inst., at which date, according to de- apatches recciyed at Washington trom General Grant, everythii as going on well. He was gradually adv: his lines, and there was no doubt of the e 1 capture of the city. We bave some cloudy rebel .reports, by way of Richmond, to the contrary; but as they are several days behind Gen. Grant’s despatches, and are manifestly made up from distant con- jectures and idle rumors, they are hardly worth considering. Since the rebel army was enclosed at Vicksburg, on all sides, it is not probable that it has had any very reliable facilities of communication with Richmond. The rebel report of the capture of Yazoo City and the destruction of the navy yard there, on the other hand, is doubtless true, inasmuch ‘as Admiral Porter had detailed a sufficient number of gunboats to do the work, and as Yazoo City is not cut off from its communica- tions with the rest of the world. Ordnance Officer Lyford, under date of the 22d instant at Vicksburg, gives, like General Grant, a very satisfactory statement of the situ- ation of affairs around him. He says, “the rebels make a firm resistance,” but that he thinks “we shall have the place to-morrow;” that “if we take the town we shall take fifteen thousand prisoners, with Genera) Pemberton andall his stores.” We have no doubt that Pemberton’s forces two weeks ago amounted to | at least forty thousand men, from which, with only fifteen thousand in Vicksburg, it would appear that in killed, wounded, captur- ed, cut off and dispersed, in the recent battles he has lost some twenty-five thousand men. We presume that General Grant’s army encircling Vicksburg was hardly less than fifty thousand men; so that the issue of his investment must | inevitably be that of FortDonelson. The rebel | pickets on the Rappahannock appear to have been fully apprised of this result two days ago, | as we shall in all probability be to-day. The Commercial 1 Convention at Chicago—Its National Importance. On the 2d day of June next a convention will assemble at Chicago for the purpose of | taking under consideration the important sub- | | ject of constructing @ shipcanal or canals to | connect the Mother of Rivers with the lakes and ERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1863.—TRIPLE- SHEET. ee ee Sn a en ee ee Island, about the buried treasure of the celebrated | bave been made since the outbreak of the re- | Grane at Vicksburg—Hooker on His Way / iW LIAHGH AHOY f vellion, both at Albany and Washington, to to Richmond. secure the enlargement of the Erie Canal to a Grant's three weeks’ brilliant campaign sufficient capacity to admit the passage of gun-.| against Vicksburg proves him to bea general boats from the Hudson to the lakes, theace to | of no common order. He ia the only Union the Mississippi. ‘The defeat of that project in | general now in the field the celerityef whose Congress resulted in the calling of a conven: | operations can bear a comparison with the tion to assemble in Chicago on the 2d of June, | achievements of Napoleon in his campaigns in at which tho boards of commerce and trade | Italy and Germany. of all our principal cities, as well as other The Southern journals gencrally attribute societies for, the development of the country, | his success to the incompetence of Pemberton, will be represented. Several different projects | while it is whispered in Richmond and else- will be presented for consideration. Hence the | where in the confederacy that the rebel gene- importance of the convention, and the fear that | ral bas sold himself to Grant, and deliberate- those who have a voice in that body will not | Jy and wilfully made such disposition of his comprehend the project in all its magnitude. | troops as enabled the Union general to defeat In the first place, tho project to enlarge the | the rebel armies in a series of battles. The locks of the Erie Canal so as-to permit the pas- | game stories were told of Tighlman at Fort sage of gunboats from the Hudson to the lakes | Henry, and Buckner at Fort Donelson. But will be presented; second, the construction | the true secret is the superiority of Grant's of @ ship canal around Niagara Falls of a suffi- | generalship, which combines pluck, energy and cient capacity to admit the pissage of | skill, Some generals possess one of these quali- tesm vessels two hundred feet in length | ties, while they are wanting in the other two. and upwards of forty feet. in width; | It is the combination of them that consti- and then, either the enlargement of the canal | tutes'a good general. From the time tbat from Oswego to Troy to the same capacity, or | Grant landed ‘on the eastern bank of the the construction of a ship canal from some | Mississippi, covering, a period of three point near. Ogdensburg to Rouse’s Point, on | weeks, he has fought five battles, in all of Lake Champlain, and the enlargement of the | which he has been victorious, capturing the Champlain Canal to the Hudson, To carry out | capital of the State of Mississippi and closely this connection with the Mississippi two pro- | investing ite great strategic stronghold on the jects at least will be presented: one the con- | river, after first reducing the key thereof—the struction of a ship canal across the State of | formidable fortifications of Haines’ Bluff. Con- Tiinois from Chicago; the other, the improve- | trast with this success the failure of Sherman in ment of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers so as to | the vicinity of the same city, and the failure of form a ship canal from Green Bay to the Missis- | Hooker in his attempt to get within striking dis- sippt at the mouth of the Wisconsin river. | tance of Richmond, and it will be seen that There may be two or three other projects vary- | both suffer severely by the comparison, whatever ing in some points from the foregoing; but they | may be the reputation they have gained for their are sufficient to call public attention to the im- | campaigns against newspapers. ) portance of the subject. Hooker bas bad command of an army three or In the settlement upon the route to be taken, | four times the size of Grant's for the last five which must be done with the view of the re- | months—an army doubling in numbers that of sults that will follow, will be the point that | Lee. With far fewer and less formidable ob- will test and decide the comprebensiveness of | stacles in’ the way than were presented to the minds of the delegates and the ability of | Grant, he has not been able during this period the convention. The route around Niagara | to gain an inch in advance of the point at which Falls is proposed. to be. built of sufficient ca- | he assumed the command at the close of the last pacity not only to accommodate Vessels much | year. His first attempt to go forward has re- larger than those that can now pass through | sulted in the loss of a great battle from sheer Welland Canal, but vessels that will be able to | lack of generalship and ignorance of the art of weather the storms at sea, and thus cross the | war. He divided his strength, jeft his right ocean with the producgs that they loaded in | flank unprotected and unsupported, allowing it the West, extending to a greater extent | to be turned and driven in, and bis whole army than any other way the Atlantic Ocean | routed and forced back behind the Rappahan- half way across this continent; the sides | nock, suffering such loss as appears to have of the canal to be walled up, and the propelling | postponed indefinitely a renewal of the onward power used to be entirely steam: in other words, | movement to Richmond. So ashamed is Hooker a canal for the use of steam. On the otber hand, | of his case that he deems it indefensible, and to no such extensive project is intended by the | this day he has made no official report of his enlargement of the locks of the Erie Caual. | operations. According to Secretary Stanton, he With that project a smaller class of vessels is all | did not bring into the fight with Lee more than that they can accommodate, In fact, it cannot | one-third of his men. This was worse than the be otherwise without the enlargement of the | conduct of Morean at Hohenlinden, who with canal, the entire length; and, to attempt that, the | twelve divisions managed to bring into action damage that would arise to the navigation of | six, and would have lost the ‘battle but for the the Erie Canal would be neatly.as much as the | nexampled carelessness with which the Aus- original cost of the Niagara Falls route. The trians maneuvered, and the courage and talent question here arise, what are the advantages | of one of his subordinate generals, Richepanse, to be gained by a ship-catal? who, finding himself surrounded, possessed him- In the first place, everybody uttst Admit thé ! self, by a bold movement, of one hundred inestimable advantage to us of a ship canal in.| pieces of Austrian cannon while passing over a time of war asa means of public defence, | causeway. Hooker fights with one-third his enabbing ts to concenttate at any moment our} force; Grant fights with the whole. Onovof the iron-clads on the Northern frontier, the Atlantic | first principles of generalehip is to ‘bring all seaboard or the Gulf of Mexico, and thus head-') your force to bear against the enemy, ing the enemy at évery point. It also furnishes’ | and, if possible, against a portion of his a more expeditious and. cheaper mode for the | force, or against the point at which he is farmers of the West to send their produce to | weakest. In the late, hattle on the Rappahan- market, and will enable them to compete with | nock the generalship was all on the side of the all parts of the world in the markets at Liver-.| rebels. pool and London. ‘It willno doubt be urged.) white Hooker played the part of the Austrian that the construction of @ canal of that capacity | General Alvinzy, at Rivol!, Lee played the Will ruin ‘other investments in the carrying} ro/e of Napoleon on the same Geld. Napoleon trade of the West, such as the Erie Canal and’}5aq Wurmser, another Austrian general, be- the great trunk railroads communicating with | sieged in Mantua with a garrison of twenty the West. All who entertain these views) have | thousand men, of whom at least twelve tho but limited knowledge, or fail to compte- | sang were armed. At Rivoli, on the Upper hend the vast resources of that country | adige, he had Joubert, with ten thotsand men, known as the West. Less than one-half of the watcbing the enemy. On the Lower Adige he State of Mlinois is to-day under cultivation: | yer ten thousand for the same purpose and to therefore remains undeveloped. The same may | ouard the approaches to Mantua in that direc- be said of Wisconsin; and when you cross the | tion He was at Verona bimself when he Mississippi to those wide spreading prairies | jearned that Alvinzy was 1g against of Iowa, through to Kansas, Nebraska, to the | Rivoli with sixty thousand men, and Provera gold fields of the Rocky Mountaing, but a.com- | was ‘at the same time moving on the Lower paratively small portion has ever come under | qie, with nearly twenty thousand men, to the plough of the husbandmav, The furnishing | ofeot junction with Alvinzy and raise the means of transportation such as can be by ® | siege. If Napoleon had waited till those armies ship canal of the capacity that we bave re-| jnited, they would have numbered nearly one ferred to. will attract the attention of the emi- | pundred thousand—two or three to his one. grant, and will more filly develop the re-| He had only twenty thousand at Verona. With sources of the West, nntil the present facilities, | g part of these he hastened to the aid of with the addition of # ship canal, will be inade- | soypert, at Rivoli, and the balance he disposed quate to supply its wants. There fs no esti- | in’ strategic positions in the vicinity, #0 as! to mating the amount of products that can be | render the approachifg battle with the larger raised in the Mississippi valley and that section | force decisive. The enemy divided his force known as the West. It ie capable of becoming | into three bodies. One of them bad little or the granary of the world and supplying every | yo connection with the main battle, and was | nation with their food. The soil in its valleys posted on the opposite side of the river, play- and prairies is inexhaustible. Its broad fields ing at long taw against the Freach troops, but will roll forth their riches to reward the husband- | doing little damage. ° With the remainder man for generations to come. I addition to | Alyinzy attempted to surround and bag Napo- | this,a glance at the map of the world must | jeon's foree, on the anaconda principle. | Bona- suggest to every thinking mind the probability | parte, posted on a plateau, very quictly await- | at no distant day of the commerce of England, | 64 the development of the eneniy’s plan, and | with Asia and the islands of the Pacitic, instead | yermitted him to divide his force and surround t | son was celebrated at St. Louis on the 11th inst. f the . Cros i | the & with.the , with euflicient capa- | of going around the Capes, crossing this coun- | him. In this position Napoleon saw he could day of several hours’ duration, It was stated tha’ important inteliigence had been received to the effect that another line of defences in the rear of Vicksburg has been discovered, which it will be necessary to take by storm before the city can be captured. A despatch from Marfreesboro dated yesterday confirms the previous reports that the rebels are falling back all along their lines, and that only a very small force was between that city and Duck river. The rebel cavalry General Forrest, had gone with his command to Mississippi. The rebel force at Tullahoma is said to number 5,300 men, caval- ry and infantry. A @espatch from Cincinnati yesterday states that the enemy crossed the Cumberland river on Monday at Fishing Creek and Hartford, Ky., and, after some skirmishing with our troops, were driven back. Ohr correspondence from Arkansas describes in detail the recent expedition of Colonel Clayton, Fifth Kansas cavalry, the guerilins and the rebel Generals Marmaduke and Price, in which he wae remarkably successful. The map of the which accompanies the story of Colonel Clayton's adventure will be found of considerable value in following ap hie dashing raid throagh the enemy's try. COUMNY: WISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Convention of delegates of National Uticw yesterday, Aa A Stat Loyal Leagues was held at this Convention was the cpeaing demonstration in | to encounter ascertain the position of An immense procession, consisting of the mili- tary now in St. Louis, General Curtis and Gov. | Gamble, with their respective staffs, followed by | all those who took part in the capture, marched to | day was delivered by Charles D. Drake, Esq., of St. Louis, Speeches were made by other notabili- ties. It was @ curious feature of the celebration that several officers of Gov. Gamble’s staff, promi- nent in the cavalcade, were captured with General Frost at Camp Jackson two years ago. Governor Seymour has signed bill No. 513, which authorizes the construction of a railroad to and from and through the villages of Canarsie and Gravesend, on Long Island. ‘This is the auniversary week of the New Eng- land religious eocietios, They Boston. - ne a In the rebel service there are five full generals, ranking as follows:— pre Ss aL 3—Joseph E. Johnston. according to rank in the following order:— 6—John ©. gadier generals. | city to enable vessels propelled by steam to load in the far West and pass through our inland lakes and ship canals to the ocean, and thence to Europe, without breaking bulk, if so de- | try by the ship canal and the great Pacific | prevent a junction of the enemy's divisions, | Railroad, as the shortest, safest and most expe- | and, though numbering only sixteen thousand, | ditious route. It needs no stretch of imagination | ad surrounded by a foe of forty-five thousand, | to see this important revolution in the com- | he outnumbered each several body of troeps,and | merce of the world, and the consequent devel- | the Camp Jackson ground. The address of the | | sired. The bare mention of a plan of that kind opens @ wide and comprehensive field for our | the Pacific, to an extent that | ut few persons ‘ commercial men and 0-0 So waty: i 4 ever thought of or imagined, with San Francis: | a project of far greater share 59 iD ®' 60, the centre of the gold field, one of the military and omens poin 3 v nl than | largest cities in the world. With the accomplish- any other that has Presented to the Ame- | oot of this point—and the construction of a | rican public during the present century. It is | 41, canal is one of the first steps towards it -- the application, on @ large scale, of those plans | 162 person can see that the husiness of the and ideas entertained by George Washington tn | t lines of communication will be vastly 1785, when bis great mind was dwelling upon | contecting the Western waters, by artificial i fecrenned, ant Gs nation rot én lneitimadle opment of this country, from the Atlantic to attacking each separately, defeated the whole | with great slaughter. He then moved rapidly | to the Lower Adige, where Augereau was in dan- ger of being overwhelmed by Provera and the © | garrison of Mantua, wonder Wurmser, which had | | gallied out. Provera was captured, with bis army, and Wurmser, driven back to the strong- hold of Mantua, had no alternative left but to | surrender. | ‘Thus in three days Napoleon destroyed an Austrian army numbering more than double | ore all held ig , ‘There are six lieutenant generals, who stand In Connecticut the enrolling officers encounter more difficulty among the colored people thanthey qs a nation. It will strengthen us in a military ; channels, with the Po with the view of de- , | veloping and trade of the West to the ocean in that quarter; and also other ideas, af- | terwards so effectually enforced by DeWitt Clin- | ton and his comrades, of the great importance | of the construction of the Erie Canal, which has | since been of inestimable value in developing | the North and West, aswell as to the commerce of the nation and world. All that is necessary ‘There are also over two hundred major and bri- | jg that a comprebensive plan shall be adopted | | and carried out, and it will be impossible for tus to estimate the benefit that will accrue to us | advantage therefrom. | his own and captured the famous fortress of | | eae ae {pus becomes of 20 | yantua. Massena’s division, like Stonewall , | gninor Importance to the future of this country | Jackson's near Fredericksburg and Grant's in j and the commerce of the world. Let them | the rear of Vicksburg, never ceased, night and | | take a broad and comprehensive view of the | day, marching or fighting, for four days. Well | | whole subject, and look at the question as men | might Napoleon boast on this occasion that he | ne ee See ae | lind equalled the celerity of Cresar, and that, | enn take into yr soe rabteneninete-rdh | though the Austrians maneuvered well, he beat world, and not, as boys, see but one small local- | them because they failed to calculate the value ity, and they may make for themselves a name | of minutes, The generalehip of Hooker was eo 7 gt ol bg Gidhe oon | inferior even to that et site. ms Sout | hand, | hand Grant's generalship a consider it oes hn v ree g sas — | Napoleonie in it, and the completeness of the acterized oul » | do with the white population. They are stubborn, joint of view, and render,us, with the use of our | and in many instances pugnacious. Tn one case, | i. .5 clad Monitors, almost impregnable, ag well where an officer had called upon a colored Indy to ns be the means of more fully developing the get the name of her husband, she bluntly refused of the far West, and also revolu- to give it, and attacked the official with a broom. vast resource ; ; atick, saving, “There is no use a tryin’ you can’t, tonizing the commerce of the world, as we shall ‘ | presently show nmake soger out of a nigger, a . ae hs ‘Theres is a new excitement inCutchogue, Long | The public are familiar with the efforts that dle capacity, su that, when itis completed, it will | be a monument worthy of the nation and the | pride of the American people. The future will | then take care of itself. i arallel only faile because his army outoum- | Convention will be the laughing stock of the heck the rebels in every battle, though not to { | country. Whatever route is selected, let the canal to be constructed be of the largest possi. | Lee's army on the agreater extent than Hooker's outnumbered fight infinitely better than they will under an inferior commander. Now it 60 happens that Grant is one of the So-called “pro-slavery” gencrals constantly de- nounced by the Tribune and the otuer radical journals for the last two years as sympathizing with the Southern States, and being the chief cause of the failure of the war, while Hooker bas been lauded to the skies as a man after the'r own hearts. His opinions being all right on the negro question, it was concluded his general- ship was faultless, and that he would march straight into Richmond without halting. Graat, and the other generals who had the same politi- cal faith, have been regarded 2s little loss than traitors by the abolition presses. But we hope Hooker, inspired by the example of Grant, will now at last do something worthy of his old reputation as “Fighting Joe.” Now is the time for him to strike a blow while the rebels are staggering and disheartened under the blows of Grant. If be waits till Lee is fully reinforced from the reserves in the camps of instruction and from the other rebel armies, south and west of him, the fate of Pope will be sure to overtake him, and the cry of “Washington io danger” will be again heard througbout, the land—this time, perhaps, with good rearou. Those who have hitherto scoffed at this peril may find when too late that the cry of “wolf” in the fable is realized at last in the federal capital, ‘Taz Promotion ov Forsiansrs in Tus Ame- nican Armwy—How Ir Arrgcts Apistooratio Exotanp.—The English. press ia at present greatly exercised over the rapidly increasing tide of from Ireland to this country. Within the last two months. a new: and power- ful impulse has been given to the outpouring -from the Green Isle, and England, terror-etruck ‘at so formidable a blow at her own , ia looking anx! y around for the causes that have led to this “going out” of the Irish people. A good many fanciful, and in some cases very absurd, theories have been assigned for this tush of stalwart young Irishmen to these shores. One very plausible reason given by a sapient correspondent of an Irish newspaper is that it is “the result of the teachings of emissa- ries who have passed over from the other (this) side of the great ocean—their object being to provoke emigration and to get able-bodied men within the meshes of the provost marshal, who watches their arrival and hurries. them away to the field of battle.” Everybody knows that this is all nonsense, and the rawest emigrant in the country could not fail to see through the falsehood in a moment. The truth is that England is greatly alarmed at the apparently settled purpose of the Irish to leave their country for a time, and to take up their homes in a land where they. will not be doapised, but promoted to the highest honors in the gift of a free people. No young Irishman can live “at home” in misery and hear of the wonderful progress of his brethren in’ the great republic without anxiously desiring to follow in their footsteps and to gain the distinction which is opened to them all. When they think that Michael Corco- ran, a, youth almost unknown at homo, has risen from small beginnings in America to: the rank of brigadier general in the federal. army ; when they reflect that Thomas Francis Meagher, proscribed, sentenced to death, and banished from his own Jand, occupies the position of chief of the renowned Irish Brigade; hear of the myriads of their other friends who, from being next to nothing at home,.now occupy the positions of captains; ~ majors, colonels, &c., in the United. States, it is naturdl to suppose that their enthisiaem should be awakened, and that they should hasten¢o a country where such solid benefits are held, out to all who desire to compete for them: \''* The increase in the emigration from. Ireland is chiefly attributable to thisfact. Mem will not always sit down in penury and want whennew fields of industry and prosperity ‘are open to them. Tbe common desire of every mam'ts to improve bis material condition, and therefore he throws his labor into the market where, being best appreciated, it is most remunerated. This is the principle acting upon the minds of the healthy and vigorous young men of Ireland now fluckiag in large numbers to this friendly republic, They feel satisfied, from the carcer of their predecessors, tbat their exertions will meet with due reward, and many of them, ’no doubt, with the ambition of their race, look for- ward to the time when their names will rank as high in the military history of America as ‘any of those of their countrymen now occupying distinguished positionsin our army and navy. Nor is this yearning for American and appreciation confined to Ireland alone: The people ofGermany, to whom we owe much of our prosperity, are also bound to us by indisso- luble ties. They, too, have seen how we .have: honored out German citizens, and the names of Sigel, Steinwebr, and hundreds of . others who have risen to great distinction in America, will operate to cause a large increase of Ger- man emigration to America. So much for tho exclusiveism of absolute Europe. compared to the free and liberal principles of democratic America. Emigration from the Old to the New World must go on increasing, so long as there are radical causes on the one side to keep them miserable and on the other to make them pros- perous. 90 Carnyine axp Use of Daxcrrous Wearons.— In another column will be forind an important presentment by the Grand Jury, in the Court | of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, against the carrying of dangerous weapons by civilians as well as the use of firearms by the police. Tho number of woundings and deaths which have resulted from both practices during the Inet few months calls for stringent measures of pre~ vention on the part of the authorities. ‘What i’ the use of the law probibiting pone gion concealed weapons if, when the fact cam brought home to parties through the misehiets resulting from it, no effort le made to-caforee its penalties. We are aware that the law ts mot very popular, and that it bas been objected to, on the ground that in the absence of & large standing army it was essential for their own curity and integrity of the republic will depend ganizations than upon its But under no constitutional government should the right of the, private citizen to carry concealed »wea- pons, but especially firearms, be adiaitted. | The concession of such a privilege dan nc- Knowledgment that the law ia uneraal to his Ke He might say, with Coosar, «Vent, vidi, vici— “E bave come, I have seen, I have conquered.’ { Under such a maa ag Grant Qe troaps will ‘That it 1s so In out gity arisen | mainly from the fact that the mathorities have ia but too many instances dAlined to put it in ¢ more upon its regular military and naval or-, — i } a a