The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1863, Page 8

aul | i ce {Al id HU" R U.J/AARH INUuyY - Wan 6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY MAY. 30, 1863.--TRIPLE SHERRY, _ | conned tupessem Snqek ink we sits | a be f Bitte art | ee chal int renee a Oar lili a SES ET The Presidential Hlection of 1864—Mr. | Spirituation atthe White HouseePne Lincoin and His Cabinct. « ‘Meow Religious Paosophy. The late Union Loagiie and Loyal League We publish fm another column ‘this morning NEW YORK HERALD. with a very friendly fecling at the Bouth, it is not likely that he will conform to Mr, Jefferson Davia? movements now being made by the Confederate army of Virginia, go to show that Lee, eo The Military Situation in the South— The Moves on the Chessboard. The military situation of the South at the demand, so that we may see him back again be- ” A far from retreating from Virginia, is con-, .. The | an account, which we presume to JAMES GORDON BENNETT, iy pres . “ ’ Conventions at Utica haye blown over. b 5 2 pi e be true, of EDITOR AND PHOPRIK(OR. fore long, to be once more adjudicated upon and piney ramet potion grb swe bra Binaaryret politicians concerned in them assembled to- au interview which President Lincola recently OVPICE N.W. CORNER OF FOLTON AND NASSAU 878, | disposed of by the United States‘ government. wits ware ae 705 ‘sout by maii will be | TB¢ recent raids of the privateer Alabama of 2 of tuo sender. None but bank bills current in | the coast of Brazil have provoked the authorities of w York take: that country to remove the commander at Fernando wery Saturday, at Five cents de Noronha, for permitting her to commit, depre- iption price:— dations in Bradilian waters, and her presence in $? | that region was forbidden by bis successor. The Navy Department sent the Vanderbilt down there to look after the Alabama, with a view especially to Fernando de Noronha; but as soon as she got <== | to the West Indies Admiral Wilkes took potsession AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING of her as his flagship, and she was cruising under NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Huxcusace. his direction at last accounts. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Twe Were, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. eB eee pe By the law the income tax was to have been Onin Onvuntae EvcniageDenokaw nen Me | paid bofore the first of June; but the government % “ aaa has not furnished the collectors with the necessary PE tna ona boqusrtenss Broadway. —Kind OF | banks, and thus far very little has been received NEW BOWERY TEEATRR Bowery.—Consrcax Bro. | PY it from that source. It ig thought that the bills; THLKs—Ganx Cock or Tx Witpersxss—Inisn Hama- | will not be made out for forced collection cd gether, talked ovor their schemés confidentially, | held with the spiritsof Knox, Franklin, Napo- made their speeches and passed their resolu- | leom and Douglas at the White House. Our tions intended for the public eye, and dispersed, | reader will find the ‘cdtiversation betwéen the atoutly disclaiming all’ the time any object or President and thé spirits extremely curious, purpose beyond the suppression of the rebel- | amusing and interesting, Honest Old Abe was lion. But, with all their disclaimers, it is no- | not at all daunted by the supernatural revela- torious that the Convention of Tuesday was,a | tions, but cracked his jokes with his usual samty- Presidential movement of the friends of Mr. |froid; and bebeld the’ miraculous and pictorial Beérétary Chase, and that the Convention of | prediction of the fate of the pirate Alabama Wednesday was under the auspices of the | with his customary complacency. ‘This spirit- friends of Mr. Seward, as « rival republican | ual seance at the White House will attract even organization. mote genoral attention to the new system of re- Betwoen Mr. Obase and Mr. Seward, and be- | ligious philosophy of which Judge Edmonds tween the republican radicals and conserva- appears to be the Newton or Bacon. It will re- tives, there has been a division in the Cabinet | vive and excite popular interest in the enhjert since the day. of its appointment, Mesars. | of spiritualism, and- will give the “Life of Seward, Chase, Cameron. and Bates, as Presi- | Home,” which Judge Edmonds has just intre- dential candidates, each had their supporters in | duced to us, and Howitt's “History of the Su- the Republican National Convention. of 1860, | pernatiirai,” which has just been ‘published ta and, according to their respective claims, | Philadelphia, a very wide and potential ciroa- thus certified by the magnates of the party, | lation. o % they were placed in his‘Cabinet by President | _ Homtois espirituat medinm, and his wonderful Lincoln. His object was a party compromise; book is made up of incidents in bis life. He was but it was a failure from, the outset. Cameron born in Scotland, and brought to this 4a disposed of, Bates. stands in. nobody's. way; | When@ child. Atvan darly age he was known te but there has beer: nothing bat trouble from | have inberited the gift of second sight from’ the beginning, in consequence of the appoin- | Mother.- ‘At the age of seventeen, while UiViig mont. of Messrs. Seward and:Chase: ‘The abo- | With bis auat in Connecticut, rappings begewto former with » tuoatility, , and the | danced playfully about the room: ‘Plows republican porrmepr have looked. with dis- | Unt clapped the family Bible upon. terpaicho- trust upon the latter,from_ the start. The suc- | Team fensive positions, it has at least equal strength with the North for this campaign. They have four principal armies—First, the chief army, in Northern Virginia, under Lee, co-operating with a subofdinate’ army in Southern Virginia aud North Carolina; second, an army in South Carolina and Georgia, under Beauregard; third, the army under Bragg, in Tennessee; and, fourth, the army under Johns- ton, in Mississippi. These armies, with their subordinate armica and reserves, are like so many pieces of chess on the board, and upon the. skill and sagacity in moving them depends the fate of the tremendous campaign which has now begun and must be concluded during the en- suing month. Napoleon so plated’ the various divisions of his troops on the chessboard that the enemy was rarely ‘able to divine his, py , 80. complicated did the problem seem,: usually took great delight in this appareat confusion, saying, “the chess- board is well confused; I alone can understand it;” and he was suse to solve'the problem, by rapid moves, tothe sitisfaction of himself and the astonishmeat of his enemies. Without equalling the gehius of Napoleon, the problem of the present ‘campaign must be’ solved by strategy, elther by the erate generals or aap hag “Grant and Johnston are pitted against each other on the Mississippi, and from capture of Harrisburg and Philadelphia. The Confederate journals in'the secret have lately boasted that Lee was about to do something which would eclipse the eapture of Vicksburg. No doubt this is what they meant. In the inva- sion of the rich State of Pennsylvania, Lee would have a great advantage over the federal generals going South. They must take their supplies with them. He would find ample pro- visions wherever he went, The principal ‘ob- ject of this movement would be to terrify: the North imto a peace by-carrying the ‘ravages of war into its own territory. Bat to accomplish this he must first defeat and destroy the army of Hogker, which is double his present strength. “Aud Mow therefore isthe time for Hooker to strike before Lee’s army outnumbers his by reinforcements from the South. We have in- formation that Stuart is organizing « body of Rappahannock. What is their destination? SEu-WARLOCK OF Tink Gus. the Ist of September. insurgent chiefs are desperate, and let .no Three bushwhackers made their appearanc among ® number of contraband wood choppers, jashville, on the 22d inst., and s stampode: onsued. The running of the negroes, and their cries’ of ‘* secesh,”” created a panic among the market men.and women who wore on the Franklin} turnpike, and all started, pell-mell, towards Nash- ville, producing a scene of disorder never before witnessed. The road was strewn with axes, boote, shoes, coats, canteens, blankets, broken wagons, government ambulances, horses, mules, harness, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Macantny—CaMILut- Carrauy Kipp. BARNUM'’S AMERICAN MUS&UM, Broad: —Grn. Tom Tune axp Wier, Com. Nutr ano: Moen Warnen, 2 allhours, Onriusgs or VaLNkIge—Afternoes and Bven- ns ‘YANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 47% Broad- ‘Smmtorian Sones, Borexsquas, Dances. &¢.~Buice ¥, any head, and what kind of # head, make the counter moves at Washington? WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadwar.. Semce, Vanoxs, £0.—KUNNING TUX BLOCEADE. THE NEW IDEA. 68 Broadway.—Songs. Bumiesgtzs, Bareers, &¢.—UuNcuBack—Souruxun Rervgee. Gererr Sura at Urica.—We publish in = : All appearances we are led to beliove that the | another column the. patriotic speech of Gerrit piand flings end - rityomase barisconan aa” “Mt Breednar “Baten | anddion, garden truok, bags of Cowl bree om great battle of-the war. will be fought: in the | smith, delivered at the League Convention hela | Ctl spacer tine bee repens be beer sst'wver eb eit stead doe eee quiet ARNO ANATONE OF Peete egtommm | ore womnded by runway toame, and lap one | TOM! OF Wlcabisg, Our tateet Intalio 5, then. lat uowday. ‘Mr. Smith, in thi | Srpeme Maven Tmnons tr the good wom shows that Pemberton, within that can probably bald out for tan days. or 6 fort- | natriot of them all. He dropped all his formér aight’ to coms; tft "Johnston arrives. ‘with 0 | inns, and declared himself has been. maintained with England, has | ™nlators sent for to prey;over iy against him as @ sufficient cause | Prayers, lectures and sermons availed noting, . it ii roadside until the panic was over, when they were picked up and properly cared for. The Cincinnati Enquirer has authority for deny- HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Srmortan Foxes, Dancus, Burcxsavrs, &0, BROOKLYN ATHENZUM.—Camrsutu's Munstaei i in remo’ ‘radical. faction ‘the’ however, and the spiritual manifestations wera Pica has seroeee's MINSTRELE jad cho senctithat Gate elise 06 Maca apt ken teen oor favor of putting down thia rebellion, even if by aniseed ine Sonate naan es violent’ as’ ever. Finally Mr, Home's anst TRIPLE SHEET red me gene de eed Me “ be - tolig tempo) nega . proved themselves utterly incompetent to con- turned: him out of doors, spirits and'atl; | and, ee ¢ | bond's arrest. ‘ > Seta Me dt oke Glee ik ever was betore. Ho cared nothing | Ti". “wat. and yet tn addition. to oar | Sfter various adventures-in thle country, he aaa oa Hon, Joshua R. Giddings, United States reinforcements) trom, fate of avery, or what was to be slanted fox SOS sotah New York, Saturday, May 30, 1863, General for British North, hat was taken sud- Trine ts 1eaiuahansaas eaoania eon toe —_ rebels of ‘hele alaves. Ho was | 20mestic concerns, they have insisted and still ‘yd j see ! demand the absolute control. in the Cabinet of | teputation as the greatest: medium for our foreign affairs, manifestations of the spiritual power. \He has And. thus “the irrepressible conflict’! between| | Cured the sick, predicted deaths, floated in’ wld the Chase faction and the Seward or conserva. | #itand-developedall: the phenoméns tive faction has been going on, until it bas | Of Spiritualism at’ will—tf his own account and gssumed the shape of two rival Presidential | the narratives of his friends are to be believed. eleotioneering movements, in these Utica Con- | Rappings, table tippings, the appearances of the ventions. We think the time has arrived for | hands and arms of spirits, the ringing of hélle President Lincoln to make an example of these | #24 the writing by invisible correspondents are disturbers of the harmony of the administration, | With him familiar wonders, and he details. them and to put anvend to their premature and mis- | With remarkable circumstantiality, giving chievous plottings and counter-plottings for | "mes tnd dates in full, and supporting -bie the next Presidency. His remedy for a dis-|°W2 story by the evidence of appareutly cordant and wrangling Cabinet is the remedy | disinterested observers. His book rends like = applied by. General Jackson, When he dis- | firy tale, and the biography, upon which these covered that. between’ John C7 Calhoun—-then | *Piritual incidents are threaded, is of itself very Vice President~and his adherents in the Cabi- | Tomantic. We find Home, the young Scottish net, on the one side, snd’ Martin Van Buren, | 184, translated to the palace,of Napoleon, mev- Secretary of Staté,’ onthe’ other; there was | 198 among the nobility of France, Italy ail nothing but discords, and that there was no | Russia, and marrying’s young lady of rank ait hope of peace without a change of his minis-\| because of spiritualism. “The. only blot apom try, Old Hickory promptly ‘solved’ ‘the dimi- | Home’s book is his silly slur. at, the Henao. culty by’ packing off every’ meinber “of that | For that he alone is responsible. °‘The apixtts Cabinet, and, by appointing a now one, from | Would endorse no such mistaken:opinion» «. the Secretary of State’ down ‘to the ‘Attoriey | William Howitt’s “History of the Superaste. General. We need not here. repeat. the good | *#!,” to which Homo refers us'as to text-bopl: results which followed this masterly proceed- | Of spiritualism, ia a work of quite another order. ing, nor ilustrate here how much it had to do | Mr. Howitt attacks all the opponents of spirit- with General Jackson's re-election, We think | U#liam—es Grant. attacked Vicksburg: and that all the facts ip the case and‘all the advan- | Hooker attempted to attack Frederioksburg— tages will at once reour to. President | y taking them-in the rear. He endeavors ‘te Lincoln, in calling his attention to the subject, | Show that all religions, all magical and. saper- He bas but to follow in the footsteps of: Gene- | 2*tural marvels, all church miracles, are tobe ral Jackson if he would, have.» harmonious |'¢*Plsined by spiritualism, and cannot, there- Cebinet and ® degree of popalar confidence | fre; contradict or oppose it. The prophecies nail ipbort diqndl to all ensengencies, and miracles of the Old and New Inthe meantime we are gratified to bear that | ‘be orecles, divinations and soothsayings of the there is a movement afoot in this city which is | *Clent Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Greske, calculated speedily and completely to check- | Romans end Egyptians; the dresmy mysticiems mato all the schemes and estimates of all the | of the Germans; the. astrology, denly ill at his residénce in Quebec on the 20th instant. The attack was of the natureof apo-- plexy. He was better on the following day, and was in a fair way of recovery. Major Frank Cleary; who belongs to therebel army, andis said to have been attached to the command of Henry A. Wise, was arrested in Bal- timore on the 25th inst. The Major had beep on'a visit to this city, in order to get married, and when arrested was on his return to Dixie with his bride. Col. Chester Harding, Jr., commanding the St. Joseph (Missouri) district, has ordered the arrest of all Southern sympathizers. He says that it ts the duty of every loyal man to do something for his government, and all who admit that they have done nothing are rebels. The Fourth of July oration at Boston will be de- livered by Dr. 0. W. Holmes, and the Declaration of Independence will be read by William Everett, son of Hon. Edward ‘Everett. The Frankfort Yeoman, the old central organ of the copperhead democracy of Kentucky, has gone entirely out of existence. It followed the lead of Beriah Magoffin until he.was forced to resign the Governorship, and. then it subsided ‘from daily to a weekly. It thus struggled along for a few months, and was finally compelled'to give up the ghost. . Five per egnt of General Hunter’s army at Port Royal are to have furloughs for thirty deys. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsyiva- nia will meet at Harrisburg on the 17th of June. The gold snuff box which was presented to General Andrew Jackson by the Common Council of this city, in 1819, has been deposited by Gene- ral Ward B. Burnett in the State Library at Al- bany. The deed which conveyed the Mine farm, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, to the Manhan Silver Lead Mining Company, of this city, requir- ed nine hundred and eighty dollars worth of reve- nue stamps upon it. « The bill allewing dummy engines to run on At- lantic avenue, Brooklyn, will not be signed by the Governor. i The open air concerts at the Park recommence to-day. The Park Band, under the leadership of Harvey Dodworth, will be on the Mall at four o’clock this afternoon, (weather permitting,) and perform a select collection of operatic and na- tional airs. The anniversary celebration of the society known as “The Sons of Rhode Island” was held last evening in the spacious halls of the New York Historical Society, in the Second avenue. There was a large attendance of the friends of the so- ciety. The proceedings of the meeting, however, were of an informal kind. The Rev. Dr. Vinton, of Trinity church, delivered a sound and substan- tial address appropriate to the oecasion. Thin was followed by a patriotic poem, so well adapted to the flitting scenes of the present day that it was loudly applauded. The financial review of the so- ciety’s proceedings shows that its labore have been highly successful. 3 The United States District Attorney filed a libel yesterday against the schooner Angelina, captar- ed off Charleston in May last. A writ of habeas corpus, for the discharge of a man named Brady from the navy, on the plea that he had enlisted while in a state of intoxica- tion, was dismissed by Judge Betts yesterday, and the unwilling son of Neptune was sent back to the custody of the naval officer. The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court have rendered five bills of indictment against Solomon Kohnstamm, for frauds on the government, as already reported. Testimonials from her ‘ Britannic Majesty's government have been received by Hiram Barney, Esq., Collector of this Port, through the Depart: ment of State, for presentation to the following named persons, in consideration of services ren- dered by them to her Majesty's subjects when in peril at sea:—Captain Daniel B. Traman, of ship Calhoun; Captain Thomas J. Leavitt, of ship Ga- Jena; Captain Samuel Harvey Rawley, of schooner Ralph Post; Captain William B. Moore, of ship Patrick Henry; Joseph Franklin Clyne, mate of ship Patrick Henry. The crops on Long Island were never more pro- mising than at present. The stock market was better yesterday morning, and quite buoyant at an advance in the afternoon. At the close it looked as though the decline bad exhausted it- self and the market would sgain move upward. Gold rose to 145, closing at five P. M. atabeut 144%. mx. obange was 167}¢ 8158. Money was abundant; call loans to good borrowers 5 a 6 per cent. ‘The transactions in eotton yesterday were limited, though prices were unchanged. The demand was good for breadstuff, which were gradually advancing; as also for bay, tallow, whiskey, lard oil, fab and raisins, There was less doing in provisions; pork foli of apd lard improved slightly, The inqui- ry for grocerics, hops, spices and whalebone was limited. Ip candles, hops, seeds and wool there was pot much activity. The freight market was quite heavy, with a decided downward tendency in rates. The chief feature of the dry goods trade was the heavy fall in prices of domestic cottons, which were geverally from 10 8 26 per cont lower than in the middie of the month; ippi, which Iahd’ at ‘Haines’ Bluff, on |. putting down: ths rebellion; and’ declared loft flank of the’ enemy, and some # inet he asked no condition in regard: to'any of up the Mississippi, which ere landing at War- | 13. hobbies: renton, on his right flank. It thus becomes be- | What 9 rnarked difference between his posi- tween the contending forces a question of speed | tion and the fanatics who. control and write the and numbers, complicated with two other ques- | srticlog of the fanatical journals, like the ‘Tri- tions—the endurance of the fortressandGrant’s | june and Independent. They demanded and action inan approaching great battle. hounded the administration, declaring that the BubVideiburg aad the whole State of Missis- masses would not enlist until an emancipation sippi are but « small portion of the theatre of proclamation was issued. Gerrit Smith, on Wad; "did if tas 'béeh waggested ‘that’ the ‘rebel the other hand, announces that he does not stop chiefs do not care about holding {t, and are only | +, consider the fate of siavery, but is in favor making a noise about ft in order to divert and | or putting down the rebellion unconditionally, employ in its capture a large number of fede- | ror the simple reason that the putting down’ of ral troops, while Bragg, reinforced, pounces | ¢,4 rebellion can alone save the blessings of our upon Rosecrans and may capture Nestiville, and country tous, and the triumph of the rebellion Lee, reinforced, takes the offensive against | wii) rob'us of them all. Hooker and may‘tapture Washington. But this Here then we find one true patriot in the re- is'a superficial and erroneotis view of the case. publican party. “Had the war been conducted! The rebel government can dispense with the tak- according to his views all these divisions and) ing of Nashville. It would be of small account | 1 i-:erings at the North would: have been. pre- to thom, and Washington would be a barren | vented; the ‘war long since brought toa sio- victory, soon to, be relinquished if Vicksburg, | cessful issue, and tens of thousands of valuable and with it the line of the Mississippi, were lost. | tives been saved. ‘Having taken the bold. and The loss of Vicksburg would be equivalent to | natriotic position that he has, he is just the man; the abandonment of the great river and all the for the republicans to run for Governor next tertitory' west of it—one half the area ef ther year. If they are honest in their determination whole ‘confederacy. Hence it is that the to put down the rebellion, they can make that Southern papers are unanimous in dectating | ranirest # thousandfold. better by nominating that it would be far better to lose Mobile, Sa- Mr. Smith than bya tt a days spent in vannah, Charleston, or even Richmond itself. tongue patriotism, like that at Utica. Let your But Mississippi is the State of Jeff. Davis, and | waasworths, Cooks and all other candidates be uae: ey mena > dropped, end trot out Gerrit Smith, if you de- r ia , some » made, & igri VIL wieliabad as (enemas Sn Eae ee Vicksburg would be defended to the last, and that his hold om the Mississippi river would never be relaxed. It is reported that he has now gone to that region again, in order to personally superintend the movements which are made to defeat and capture Grant's nny, interest, therefore, Cbhdentrates it- self around Vicksburg. If Grant should be overthrown a large por- tion of Johnston’s army could be sent to rein- force Bragg in Tennessee, so as to drive out Rosecrans, and invade Kentucky once more, and perhaps Ohio. If, on the other hand, Vicksburg should fall before Johnston comes to its aid, and Pemberton’s army should be cap- tured, Rosecrans would be master of the situa- tion in Tennessee, and would probably soon penetrate into Alabama. Tf, in addition to the loss of Pemberton’s army, Johnston’s should also be destroyed, after being heavily rein- forced by Bragg, that would go far to seal the fate of the rebellion. In such @ contingency, either the Hine of the Mississippi must be abandoned or Virginia must be evacuated by Lee. But the purpose of the rebels isto hold both Virginia and the line of the Mississippi. The temporary loss of the greater part of Ten- nessee would be comparatively unimportant to them; for they could easily recover it again if successful at other points. It would be only necessary to retain the stronghold and vitel point of Chattanooga, which could be done by a small number of troops against a larger army moving from the West. The balance of Bragg’s army could go to reinforce eitkgr Johnston or Lee, or both, as might be required. Such is the advantage of interior lines, enhanced by rail- THE SITUATION. Despatches from General Grant were received at the War Department yesterday, which are more satisfactory because of an official and reliable cha- racter relative to the condition of affairs at Vicks- burg. General Grant’s despatches are dated Mon- day, the 25th instant, three days later than the previous despatches received by the government, and they represent the siege as progressing “‘satis- factorily ’ up to that time, and that General Grant was quite able to mantain the investment of the city and repel any attack in his rear. This is the latest news we have from that quarter. The intelligence to Friday last, the 22d instant, telegraphed from the field on Satur- day, was that Grant’s army had been repulsed in all parts of its lines, that the repulse was com- plete; but the troops were then intrenching ‘them- selves and building rifle pits. The final success of the Union army was, however, fully assured. General Grant is reported, by despatches from Memphis, as having captured all the redoubts, taking some of them by means of scaling Jadders. Frightful havoc was done by the enemy’s shells during the storming. A telegraph from Mur- freesboro yesterday says that General Grant had made something like a. general attack upon the rebel works at Vicksburg since Sunday and failed to carry them; that he had thereupon concluded that the place was too strong to be taken by as- sault, and had opened a terrible and sustained fire upon it with his artillery. General Johnston had not then attacked General Grant, but was still col- lecting forces in his rear. He had managed to send word to the garrison that if they should hold out for fifteen days he would raise the siege with an army of one hundred thousand men. He also said he would do this if he abandoned every other point in his department. The most interesting news from Gen. Hooker's army is that a balloon reconnoissance yesterday failed to discover any indication of a move on the part of the cnemy, although their camps and the whole country were clearly visible. It was be- lieved, however, that a portion of the rebel forces had passed up the Rappahannock. Our marine brigade in the West has been distin- guishing itself. An official despatch to the War Department yesterday from General Killet, commanding the ram fleet, dated He- lena, Arkansas, »May 25, says that as his com:- mand was descending the river from Mem- pais, May 23, the Commissary and Quartermaster’s doat was fired into from the Mississippi side bya ‘band of the enemy, with two pieces of artillery, about six miles above Austria. He returned next day and landed his troops, when the cavalry under Major Hubbard, two hundred strong, came up with the enemy, one thousand strong, all mounted, and eight miles out, The fight lasted nearly two hours. The Major was compelled to take shelter in a favorable position, where he succeeded in re- pulsing the enemy, and finally drove them off be- fore the infantry could come to his relief. General Ellet burned the town of Austria, Baying first searched every building. As the fire progressed the discharge of loaded firearms was like volleys of musketry as the fire reached their hiding places, and two heavy explosions of powder also occurred. The loss of our troops was only two killed and nineteen wounded. The enemy lost five killed and three prisoners. Our army correspondence from different sources, which we give to-day, presents an excellent his- Jy, ia detail, of all the minor incidents and movements, which combine to make up the pic- ture of camp life tn all ite curious vicissitudes, from Virginia to the Far West—the courtesies between corps and corps; the interesting cere- monies of flag presentations; the distribution of medals and crosses to the brave, and the dan- gerous irregular coflicta with guerillas snd hos- tile pickets, Mr. Vallandigbam appears by the latest reports to ve in a very uncomfortable position. He is at present reported to be at General Bragg’s head- quarters, at Ghelbyvif, Tenn., awaiting the flat of Mr. Davis. It is sald that the /atter gentleman, in reply to a question of General Bragg as to the dis- Iupontant Paace Movement or Tae New Yorn Dzwocracy.—A mass meeting of the democracy of this State is called in this city for Wedneaday next. The call was signed by two democrats from cach Senatorial district of the State, and the action is endorsed by Fer- nando Wood and Mozart Hall. The object of the Convention is to take measures for “the vigorous prosecution of peace.” We have just seen how the republican party is broken up’ into two factions, one called a Loyal League and the other a Union League, whose repre- sentatives met this week at Utica. We have seen how the brave soldiers, who were paraded there to give eclat to. the proceedings, turned the tables against the leaguers by pronouncing in favor of General McClellan and rebuking the ingratitude which ignored his services, abilities agd patriotiem. Thus the republican party is shattered to pieces by faction. The case is the same in the democratic party. It is split into a war party anda peace party. The Regency belongs to the war party; but ft is now'so {tightened that ite organ, the Albany Atlas, in beginning to chime in for peace, too, or for an armistice or something of that sort, in order to soothe the peace party and win it from revolt. While it professes to be for war, it is constantly denouncing the war measures. of the administration. It will be observed that the mannet in which the Peace Convention is called is unusual, and not “regular,” according to the usages of the party. That in itself is evidence of disaffection: and the Regency may well be alarmed. There will be a peace or- ganization totally distinct from that of the Re- gency, and it will have its candidate for the Presidency. There will be thus two demo- cratic candidates, and the republican party will have at least two more—tour in all. Who will be the nominees for President, and what will be the result of the election, it is difficult to say. Tas Tarscne Catuive Our Rerernep Sot pisrs Coprennmaps.—Mossa Grefley, in an edi- torial in yesterday’s Tribune relative to the the radicals. We understand that quite a num- | ‘e medicine men among ber of aur influential citizens of the: conserva- | indians; the modern miracl tive school are moving in bebalf of a State whet eattietin short, re Kt convention in this State during the present eraatural power. in. summer in behalf of Mr. Lincoln’s administra- | Countries of the world, from the time of Adam tion and in support of his claims to a second | 1°W to the debut of the Twenty-seventh street term. We believe that it will only be necessary | host, Mr Howitt attributes to spiritualiom,and to get up such a convention in this State, or in | ‘bus leaves his enemies nots: leg to stead any other loyal State, In order to secure such a | UPO™. According: to bis theory, Jesus Ct general rally to President Lincoln as will | Abraham, Moses, all the prophets and apostles, speedily settle the question of the succession in | Mabomet, Confucius, Zorosster, ‘the Quaker the public estimation, and enable the adminis- | Fox, John Bunyan, Whitfield and hundreds of tration and the loyal States to prosecute with | ther great saints and great men were merely renewed vigor aud energy the war for the | *Piritual mediums. To support this new view Union. Otherwise, with ® discordant Cabinet, | Of religious philosophy Mr. Howitt hes com- and four different factions at work fer the next | Piled an immense number of remarkable facts Presidency, we can hardly expect anything but | 4 traditions, and those who doubt his con- divided counsels at Washington, continued fail- | “ustons can at loast admire his industry, enter- tures and disasters in the field, and endless dis- | Prise and ability, and enjoy his very readable cords und confusion throughout the North. book. Mr. Howitt ahows that all of Mr. Home's Let President Lincoln imitate the example of | Wonders are as old as the hills. “Spirit rap- General Jackson, in a complete reconstruction | Ping, table tipping, and even the use of the of his Cabinet upon a sound, conservative basis | SPiritual alphabet, he traces as far and of harmonious elements, and the people A. D. 371, and he. states. that the will not be very long in determining who is the Ezekiel, Enoch and Elijah were lifted up in most available man for the succession. the air just as Mr. Home is now. Enoch aad Elijah did not come down, however, and Mr. Lyixa JovpNatish—Genenat. Scuvnz ann | Home may be missing in the same way some Hrs Divistos,—The New York Times and the | time. If President Lincoln had’ read’ either Tribune have a habit of assailing the veracity | or both of these books we do not wonder at of the war correspondents of other journals, | his feeling interest enough in the subject to moved, we suppose, by the same motives by | holda seance in his own house. No doubt bis which women of doubtful reputation are induced | example will be followed: by many anxious to slander well conducted persons of their | inquirers, and for their benefit. we shall recur own sex. One thing fe certain, that there are | to this matter again, when the press of war ho two journals in the Union, the Chicago and | ®®¥* RO eck cteas.ssoteeantioke Philadelphia papers not excepted, more men- Tue Hemanity or THe Prestwewr.—Theee dacious, unserupulous and given to loose ways. | cases of treason have been tried in the Armg of There is hardly an issue of either which does | the Potomac of prisoners captured/in the rebel not contain enforced contradictions of misstate- | service while still citizens of the loyal States’ League Convention at Utica, makes use of the ments either carelessly or wilfully made. Asa | One of them is the case of James R. Oliver, whe,: following expression:—“A score or two of specimen of the manner in which they are fre- | being a citizen of Maryland, was taken ptise- copperheads prowling and hissing around the quently competied to eat their own words, we | ner while in arms in the ranks end unifoomef edges of the vast assemblage, trying to foment copy from the New York Times a letter from | the rebel army, at Rappahannock Ford, Feere Gistractions by impertinent cheers for MoCiel- | Mr. L. L. Crownse, its correspondent with the | ary 15, 1963. Upon these facts a.court mantle’ lan.” Army of the Potomac. This person was, we | found him guilty of treason, aad sentenced hiss Now who waa it that cheered for MeClellant | believe, the first to circulate the report of the | to be hanged. Nothing could be: mose iideged All who were there know very well that it was | bad behavior of General Scburs/s division, | or absurd. The offence was one clearly for o the returned soldiers. Ask Tremain who it | when in fact it was another division of the | civil court, as provided in the.constitutien, an@ was that interrupted his speech with cheers for Eleventh corps that gave way and produced | the trial must take place in the distriet where, McClellan, and he will say that it was the sol- | the panic. Under the influence-of a reminder | the offence was committed. The Gading wig alors. Greeley, therefore, makes a wholesale | from General Hooker, the Times man’s memory | forwarded by General. Hooker to the Preside nt, charge against those men who, in numerous has bees suddenly freshened: up, and he now | with the endorsement “strongly approved.” battles, have staked their lives for their coun- gives a statement of the facts which exonerates Mr. Lincoln returned the papers disappry,ved, try, aa being copperheads. How do the gallant General Seburs’s division from the imputatioas and doolaring that the man in question was a and brave boys of the Tenth rogiment, who | cast upon it. Why the amende was not made Prisoner of war, and sit treated ‘as such cheered for MeClelian more thaa any others, | before, and was only elicited by a sharp letter | and exchanged. This — of common relish the reward of being called copperheads | from the Adjutant Generel, are questions every sense as well os humanity. Waioa army for the service they have rendered the country at | lover of justice will ask. Those who have | pax far more men from the Confederate States i If this view be correct, the question arises, why then was Vicksburg left to be defended by so few troops, and why was Grant permitted so easily to get in its rear and lay slege to it? The Shelbyville correspondence of the Savannah News, and a Vicksburg letter in the Mobile Advertiser, which we published yesterday, fur- nish the solution to the whole matter. The rebel generals were led to believe that Grant, wearled by so many attempts to circum- vent Vicksburg, had given it up im despair, and ‘that, therefore, = large number of troops could be spared from Mississippi and Alabama to reinforce the army of Bragg, so that Johnston, placing himself at its head, eoukd wipe out the army of Rosecrans. Preparations were being made for this movement when the rebel chiefs were startled and surprised by the landing of Grant on the eastern shore of the Mississippi, below Vicksburg, an operation which they deemed almost impossible. They were thus outgeneraled, and Johnston at the Jest moment, instead of fighting Rosecrans, was directed by Davis to do battle against Grant, and the reinforcements sent to Tennessee from Mobile and Vicksburg were ordered back. This left Bragg’s army too weak for offensive he was even compelled position of Mr. V., slated that if he took the oath | yet tbe demand was hot utve, ss bayors were afraid to prewar great battle tn Semuitoe “ep the peti of theirlivest How wil the brave boys | Watched, the coves, ct the Mines and Trbwne ws Satan wat wiifoee en, th, se amy of allegiance to the Southern confederacy he might oe yaa oa Ditmas fend sessce:s nom thus prevented. General Grant has the dis | of the Fourth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth, who | cerned, ane capaci tn et ‘with the | has men —-¥ joyal 7 gy < romain within ite Jur'sdlction, bot if he refused he | ggxcriptious of imported dry goods, the movementa ware | tingnished merit of changing the rebel pro- | also united in the cheers for McCleltan, relish Se tbe kind from thera pon oe vor the Northern army weet ba’ ~ mast be sent back within the federal lines, As Mr. | quite limitod, with consiterable irragularity in priees. | gramme. being called coppetheads by Greeley because | }o Hooker's shortcomings in other’ re- loser by such 4 course than the South Valiandigham bas alwags professed to be an uncom- oo > caus aah OF citone wat Meantime all the indications from the Sonth- they entertain great admiration for their old spects, he has done a ot = aang hea, 82 as rng a ean promising Univu man, and ss bo is not regarded | gaao.sis. arn pepors, and reliable information of gsrtaia | eomimand.t’ made these journals oat own benedit gould coeult from oe