The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1863, Page 7

2 i ey img morning. Im afdition government vosscls NEW YORK HERALD. are constantly passing both pointa in going to and returning from Vicksburg. From Momphis there is now telegraphic communication with all JABS GORDON WENNETY, epliok AND PHOPRIBSTOR. » points inthe North. Were there any foundation © CORNER OF FULTON AND NASBAU STB. —. . | in the despatch tlie intelligence would have been received from Memphis on the day following the reported full of the town, ,or before the 30th ult. | As no auch intelligence bas been received through thia direct route, the whole atory may be safely considered & canard. ‘The steamer Sheldrake, from Havana, which er- v WINTEX GARDEN, B: ro x _ | tlved at this port last evening, has brought us ade eepen te Pa Brandneg MTS! ee, important news from Peubla, if all the de- QEATRE, Boweey.—Tax Dvan's | tails can be fully relied upon. According to these ri gc lta advices the French have ultimately succeeded BOWERY CHEATRE. Howers—Tax Duaw's Device | in the capture of Puebla with {ts com = vot -in-chi Gr int Heawi— Twas I, afternoon and diers. The garrison artillery, by the same ac- | counts, had also fallen into their hands. It is said that immediately on the arrival of his heavy siege eee NEED Bang mit Broceas orem | artillery, General Forey opened a tremendous = sd | bombardment on the city, and on the 17th ult. ordered a general assault. The garrison, how- 5 MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. BRYA way —! rare Soxcs, Boruesqugs, Dances, &¢.—I am ae i IDEA. 485 Broadway.—Sonas, Bur.esques, HH UNCHBACK—SOUTHERN REFUGEE, THE NE Baar es, & AMBRICAN THEATRE, No, “a Broadway.~Batuers, | ever, made but little resistance, and the whole Parrouwes, Buxtxsqums, £6, MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.—Currositins, force, commander, oflcers, soldiers sad artillery, Worx pens axv Lucrunes, from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M. unconditionally surrendered. This may be all very true; but we may at least wait a few days for some confirmation of such extraordinary news. We give full particulars in another part of to-day’s paper. HOOLES'S OPERA HOUSE, Breotlyn.—Ermroriun Bones, Daxcus, Bontesaues, &c. TRIPLE SHEET. | New York, Tuesday, June 2, 1863. ADVERTISEMENTS MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our very latest advices by the Jura, at Father Point, state that the bullion in the Bank of Eng- land had decreased by £123,600 in the week. The King of Prussia had sent a royal message to the Chamber of Deputies, advising members to modify their course towards the Cabinet ministers. A member asserted that the ministers had misinform- ed the King, and moved that the message be re- ferred to a committee on an address to his Majes- ty. This motion was adopted. The“letter of our Havana correspondent, detail- ing the progress of matters in Havana, will be found to be very interesting to all who are inte- rested in the island of Cuba. We publish to-day a brief account of the highly ‘The map on the first page of this morning’s pa- | important pa ie caer piatd ae made Oe by the adventurous English explorers, Captains per 0 kee a glance the present actual boundaries | 8 EAE saniatici: Tebplabark vances facta of the Southern confederacy. Every frontier po- accompanied by a finely engraved map, showing sition of importance held by the enemy is indi- | the supposed course taken by the expedition. vated by the rebel ensign, and the line of arrows Our obfect has been to condense all the most im- which intersects these various points and encircles portant facts relative to this great scientilic the whole shows the extreme limit of territory | tritmph, and the plain: statement. we give to-day now held by the rebel armies. in connection with the lucid map we publish, will, From Madison, in Arkansas, just west of the Mis- we hope, be of some interest to our readers. In pursuance of an order from the Postmaster sissippi, and opposite the southern boundary of ec, the headquarters of General Marma- General, a commission of special agents of the Post Office Department was to have beon held ees yesterday at the Post Office, for the purpose of the line crosses the Mississippi some below Memphis, passes through North- ern Mississippi south of Corinth, turns north- FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the WeeKkLy Heracp must be hand- 0d ia before ten o’clock every Wednesday evening. Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchavts, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the ountry is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- wortod in the Weeaty Herarp will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United Btetes. ‘Teanes duke way effecting some changes in our postal system: but as only a few of those composing the commission bad arrived in town the mecting was postponed ward so as to incinde Bragg’s headquar- ters at Shelbyville, in Tennessee; going to the safely south of Murfreesboro, near Sparta, in Eastern Tennessee, it again goes northward, by Buckner, at Knoxville, to Monticello, in Kentucky—the headquarters of Pegram; thence eastward into Virginia, and again to the north to Staunton aud Mount Jackson, where General Jones holds the outposts of Rebeldom almost as far north as Washington. Thence the line runs by Fredericksburg, Yorktown, Suffolk, Newbern, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah, and so down the Atlantic coast, crosses Florida near St. Augastine, winds along the Gulf coast, and reaches the Mississippi between Baton Rouge and Port Hudson. This is a territorial summary of Rebeldom. Not @ singlo State is held entirely by the rebels. Nar- eastward row as the limits are, when compared with the- magnificent dreams of the Southern leaders, they are in a fair way to be much narrower; for by the capture of Vicksburg we render Louisiana, Ar- until this morning. It is understood that the prin- cipal business of the commission will consist in changing the locations of the distributing offices in the interior of the country. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day a comnunication was received from City In- spector Delavan, stating that a large number of the laborers employed in cleaning the streets have re- fused to work un‘il they are paid the arrearages due them by the late contractor, and that unless their wrongs are speedily redressed, aud their families thus saved from destitution, other la- borers will probably stop work, and the public health be jeopardized. A resolution from the Councilmen requesting the Comptroller to confer with the assignee of the Hackley contract for the purpose of obtaining his consent to pay the men was agreed to. A resolution to revoke all'licenses for the storage of ganpowder was adopted. ‘Gene- ral Sickles was granted the use of the Governor's Room to receive the congratulations of his fellow citizens. An ordinance appropriating an addi- tional $500,000 for the relief of the families of volunteers was adopted. After the transaction of some other business the Beard adjourned. The futare meetings will be held on Mondays and Thursdays at one o'clock. Inthe Board of Councilmen last evening Mr. Webster offered a resolution directing the Comp- troller to confer with the assignee of the Hackley street cleaning contract for the purpose of ob- taining hia consent to pay the sub-contractors and laborers, and if such consent is obtained then the Comptroller is to draw his warrant for the amount paid out for that purpose and deduct it from the sum due the assignee by the city. Adopted. Mr. O'Brien offered a resolution directing the Comp- tions around Vicksburg are to the 27th, | troller to pay the laborers who have been engaged by way of Cincinnati, to the effect that three | in cleaning the streets under the direction of the assaults had been made by our forces on the | City Inspector. A long and animated debate en- sued, during which the President and several other members, in speaking against the resolution, said that the City Inspector had no legal right to undertake the work, but if it were really do- sirons to pay the men an nendment had better be adopted, directing the Comptroller, in the absence of any appropriation for the"parpose, to pay them out of the contingencies of the City Inspector's and kansas and Texas untenable to the Southern forces, ‘and compel them to relinquish the greater part of Mississippi. So the Southern empire grows small by de- grees und beautifully less. = ———_ ae THE SITUATION. The latest reports from the scene of opera- rebel stronghold, in all of which we were | repulsed. ‘the last assault was made by General Shorman, with twenty thousand men, in which we Joat six hundred killed wounded. Qur outer line is within one hundred | yards of the rebel works. “Our sharpshooters pre- vent the rebels from working their guns. The and @ large number f necessary, is salary rebel works in the rear of the cityare farmore for. alse. ‘The amendment was lost, and the subject mabdinbth than Uhoss ta treet, was then dropped. Mr. Sandford offered a resolu. } 1 Joe Joh pe th ighbork tion directing the Street Commissioner to remove General Joe Johnston is in the neighborhood of 6 can ith th ss Welatiieda Min oria ta Wee Braet Jackaon with about fifteen thousand men, and is Barracks, in uence of their not being now reported to be short of provisions and ammunition. efor which they were ori- General Grant has taken 8,400 prisoners and S4 are now used for the unlawful pooner ene. fe Sire t The main fortifications of Vicksburg consist of a wlinOut dilatéc, “A dosolb- a chain of forts, about eight hundred yards apart on was ado requesting the members of the connected by deep intrenchments, and extending uble at eleven o'clock this (Tuesday) the purpose of waiting on the Mayor to convene the Board of Health. \ resolution of concurrence was adopted tender. of the ¢ rnor’s Room to Brigadier . in which to receive the his friends. After transacting of a routine*nature the Board ad- journes! until this morning at eleven o'clock. ihe Tammany Society met at their headquarters lust cvening, for the purpose of installing their new Grand Sachem, The session was very long and very merry. The old democratic War Horse, Flijah F. Purdy, wes installed Grand Sachem with all the honors, and made a suitable spe turn for the compliment. The society h journed at ten o'clock last evening. ‘The June term of the Court of General Sessions for seven miles, Despatches from headquarters in the batt! field ocar Vicksburg, dated on the publich to-day, give some thrilling ants of the‘ progress of the siege up to that time. The fight was evidently a fierce and sanguinary one, involv- ii wavy lows om both sides. attacking the outet works, our troops were within twenty-five feet of the enemy. Telegrams from the headquarters of General Hooker state that afiag of truce was sent across the Rapp inock on Sunday. The rebel officers thon stated that General Grant had been repulsed | at Vicksburg, but refused to allow any Richmond d, Which we | ing the use one 0 some Wusine At oue time, while papers to be seonor brought across the river, Where they got this information is difficult to tell, | A despatch from Louisville, dated Jane 1, based on information received from Murfreesboré, Tenn., May 30, announces that the rebel General Merma- duke is roported to have captured Helena, Arkan- | sas, and a regiment of negro soldiers, whom, together with the white officers commanding them, he has hanged. The direct route of com- commenced yesterday, Recorder Hoffman on the bench. The panel of Grand Jurors wae called, | when, @ quorum not being present, they were dis- charged until thie morning at eleven o'clock, | Twenty-nine prisoners, fifteen of them being bail | cases, were arraigned atthe bar on indictments | for various offences, three of which were for mard: In the operations of General Grant and Admiral Porter, in the vicinity of Vicksburg, they captured | eight thousand five hundred prisoners and one hun- | dred and nineteen cannon. munication with Helena is via Cairo and Memphis. | qy,5 greqt Chicago Ship Canal Convention will ‘Tho distance from Helena to Memphis is but about | ve opened to-day. ninety miles. There is a regular line of mail The Sportsmen's State Convention will com- steamers plying between the two points, ™"’* Lo Pieri aerators po . ill be trial leaving Holona every evening at five o'clock, and There will be trials of «kill at shooting and at fly throwing: Aetiting ot Momphis ot daylight the follow. ' vinsy Pay--OfF-hand rifle shooting. with oven round. vf Tamp Dar—The Foreater Olub rime of $100 for the three best shots, according to rules laid down in the ive three @ trial to programme, prise medal, to be shot for at ten double 8, one man from each club to be admitted to contest. The annual dinner will be given on Thursday evening, at which time Judge Clinton will deliver an address, and the prizes will be delivered. The venerable Gen. Cass has recovered his health, left Newport, and gone to his home in De- troit. United States Commissioner J. B. Henry yester- day committed John Holland, of the American ship Victoria, on a charge of stabbing William 8. Jenkins, mate of that vessel, with a knife. The Second Colored regiment of Massachusetts has now between five and six hundred men, and Gov. Andrew is exceedingly rejoiced thereat. It is said that he did not take as much pains to receive and honor the returned white soldiers who had been fighting for the country as he did to honor the departure of the black soldiers. Gov. Andrew has his likes and his dislikes. The following are the names of the loyal State officers who were elected in Fastern Virginia on the 28th ult.:-- Governor—F. H. Peirpont. Tieutenant Governor—, C. P. Cowper. Attorney General—J, BR. Bowden, Major General Butler was in Boston on Friday last, and left for Lowell in the afternoon. General Humphrey Marshall, the Kentucky fat mau, has been arrested for disloyalty to the rebel’ confederacy, and sent to Richmond. It is said that Jeff, Davis wants tosend him North, in ex- change for Vallandigham. According te the City Inapector's report, there were 347 deaths in the city during the past week— adecrease of 90 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 7 more than oc- eurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcoholism, 83 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 1 of the generative organs, 8 of the heart and blood vessels, 110 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 8 of old age, 19 of diseases of the akin and eruptive fevers, 8 premature births, 56 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other diges- tive organs; 26 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 4 of diseases of the urinary organs, 25 from violent causes, and 2 unknown. There were 208 natives of the United States, 11 of England, 97 of Ireland, 5 of Scotland, 22 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The stock market was active aud buoyant yesterday morning, and priges were all considerably higher. In the afternoon there was some reaction, byt not in any case eqnal to the advance, aud at the close everything was frm again, Gold rose as high at one time as 148), but rexcted, and clesed at five P. M, at about 1477,. Fx change fivetuated between 161 and 163, without much activity. Money was easy; call loans 5 a 6 per cent. The bank statement shows an increase of $506,006 in foans, and a decrease of $1,394,557 in deposits and $852,231 in apecie. ‘The demand for cotton was more ac tive yesterday, and middlings advanced to 52c.a68c. ‘here were heavier sales of breadstafs effected at generally higher prices. ‘The business in provisions was active ovly in lard, which was « trifle higher, other articles haying been depressed. The demand for groceries was mainly confined to sugars and teas, which woro firm, Whiskey heavy at 4454, @ 45¢. Tallow was * active, Caleutta tin- seed: wae in more request, but lower. , Moderate freight eugagoments were effected. The Rebel Gon other Scare in W: The mysterious and threatening movements of the rebel army of Virginia have created the suspicion that it is. the intention of General Lee to repeat immediately bis aggressive campaign of last summer. Under this idea we are as- sured there is another great scare in Washing- ton. According to our information the Cabinet are really apprehensive that, getting round or getting over the superior army of General Hook- or, the terrible rebel General Lee may not only invade Maryland again, but that, more success- ful than he was the last time, he may possibly be able this time to get into Washington by way of Frederick city or Baltimore. The deplorable failure of General Hooker at Chancellorsville, on his own chosen ground, against a rebel army not more than one-half his own in point of numbers, appears, from all that wo can learn, to have completely demoralized the administration in regard to the further prosecution of the war in Virginia. In the first place, General Hooker's rashness placed him in ® position where the house in front of which he was standing was knocked to pieces by the enomy’s shells, and he was prostrated by one of the falling timbers, and lay for some time in a helpless and doubtful condition in the very crisis of the batile. Otherwise, perhaps, he might have seer his opportunity, and by send- ing up an unemployed army corps at hand to the support of General Sickles he might have cut the rebel army in twain, and utterly routed itin that Saturday's fight. In the next place, in recovering from his fall, it seems that Gene- ral Hooker did not recover his balance of mind, but that from this unfortunate accident, and from the breaking of his lines by the enemy, he saw no safety except ina retreat, when by a general engagement at any time frem Sanday morning to Monday evening he might have ob- | tained a decisive victory. Rash when he should have been pradent, and | timid when he should have been bold, we can | hardly wonder that General Hooker's capabili- ties to resist an advence by General Lee are doubted by our supreme military authorities at Washington. They ave afraid of him: but they are afraid to make @ ebange, and they know not what to do, The reinstatement of McClellan would instantly scatter afl doubts aud misgiv- ings to the winds, and put the Army of the Po- tomac again on the trail of the rebel army: but | this sensible and patriotic proceeding would in- volve so much of wounded pride et Washing- ton and partisan humiliation that it ie not to be thought of. What, then, is to be done? We have no donbt that it is the intention of General Lee to resume offensive operations. Action with him has become a necessity. He cannot afford to await the convenience of our military authorities. He must do something In the way of a diversion to strengthen bis confederates in the Southwest, where General Grant bes driven them to the wall, even if nothing more can be done by the rebel army of V: ia in support of Vicksburg. But if Gen. Lee, by « dank move- ment towards Washington end Maryland, can so frighten our federal authorities as to induce a recall of the Army of the Potomac, and a gene- ral concentration around Wasbington and along the Maryland border of all our available forces within a circuit of five or six hundred miles, while at the same time Jeff. Davis is sending off to the Southwest pis reinforcements from Vir- ginia to Joe Johnaton by thousands, a great deal will be accomplished ‘wards arresting our victorious progress in the West, as well as to strengthen the rebellion in the East. Some designs of this sort are doubtless en- tertained by General Lee ; and from the scare which is reported to exist at Washington we —$——— Pe NE: should conjecture that his wholo army te close | once. This would cleo take the wind out of | to his assistance Evidently thin gront strate again upon the old battle deld of Bull run. Meantime in the Oonsoription law the adminis- tration has had the power so ¢o strengthen our armies tn every quarter as to render them ab- solutely irresistible, Kast and West, But the administration has hesitated, and still hesitates, to resort to the consoription in advance of some encouraging viotory or another disastrous de- feat; and so we presume that while the Presi- dent and his Cabinet are waiting for the nows of the capture of Vicksburg they have resolved to risk another grand rebel foraging foray into Maryland, rather than boldly and energetically exercise the powors which Congress has placed in their hands to sweop this rebellion from tho field. These are humiliating reflections; but we cannot avoid them. Where is the remedy against this shuffling, timid and temporizing policy of the goverament? We see no remedy except in a reconstruction of the Cabinet of strong, consistent and harmonious war men, excluding all pedling and tricky Presidential politicians, all miserable political cliques, and all auch Marplots in the conduct of the war as the Wades and Chandlers and their impertinent instructions. But let the President boldly meet the demands of the orisis in this way, and, vol- unteers or eonsoripts, there will be no dif- Goulty in reinforcing the army to the extent, if needed, of another mi The Case of Val the Government, and How to Meet It. It is stated that Jeff. Davis has offered permission to Vallandigham to remain at large in the Southern States if he will take the oath of allegiance to the confederacy; but if not, not. Vallandigham, of course, will not take the oath, and he will be thus reduced to one of two courses—either he will recross our lines under a flag of truce and be sent to Fort Warren, according to the intimation he received from Gen. Rosecrans, er he will be permitted to escape from the confederacy to Canada by way of Nassau. He might in that event take up his abode on the frontier just opposite Ohio, and be enabled to hold frequent communication with the democracy of his State. The probability would be that he would get the nomination for Governor, and, if elected next fall, he would be sure to find means to cross ever, and then he would be sure to bid defiance to the President and jo Burnaide; and it would be impossible to take him out of the State unless by producing civil war in the Westeru States. Such are the perilous or humiliating conse- quences to which the first wrong step in- variably leads. No good can be derived from the course pursned by General Burnside, through the influences of Ghase and the ord of the War Department, and it may be pro- ductive of incalculable evil. {t will make a martyr of Vallandigham, and be the means of elovating him to positions of honor whieh ctherwise he uever would have attained. But "3 tho sails of Chase, aud make the President ox- Ceedingly popular. Tho prisonor set free would do far les harm than he would if he wore in duranod at Fort Warren, at largo boyond the enemy's lings, or in Canada, an exile in sight of the shores of hia uative state. Let the bill of rights guaganteed by the amond- ments to the constitution be aacredly respected, and all will be well. There is no necessity for their violatiou, and, after the warnings which have been borne to the ears of the adininistration, to persist in auch a course oan be regarded aa nothing short of that madnoss which ever precedes the destruction of its victima. The financial condition of the country ia highly pros- perous, and the final success of the federal arms and the restoration of the Union are only ques- tions of time, if ordinary prudence guide the national councils. Let not our hopes, thérefore, be blighted by any insane policy caloulated to foment civil war at the North The wisest plan which the President can pursue is to cut loose from the radicals, stand by the con- stitution aud throw himself upon the people, who will enthusiastically sustain him fn a con- servative policy. By such a course, in view of the disorganized and confused atate of partios, broken into antagonistic factions, Mr. Lincoln would not only gave the republic, but become the popular candidate for the sucdesaion, and wand a better chance of election than any com- petitor whose name has yel appeared bofore the public. Hooker as a General. When General Hooker was before the Con- gressional committee sundry questions were put to him which accomplished what they were intend , and brought out, not the truth, but Gefferal Hooker. He was purposely given an opportunity to say to the country, from a high standpoint, whatever he had to aay about the war. He was asked about Yorktown. Upon that subject his opinions were positive, and after some preliminary queries he was squarely requested to state what he would have done at Yorktown had he then been in com- mand of the army. He cited the battle of Wil- liamsbirg as the indication of what he would have done. He invited the country ot works stronger than the line at Yorktown. Here is a military opinion of the relative strength of those two lines. Can it be credited that the finest army in the United States is now under the con dof aman who is sucha tyro in military iatiers as not to kaow which of those two lines the stronger, and not to kuow that this statement was absurdly false? Well, Gen. Hooker advanced, and this is what came of it: he fought all day, lost seventeen buadved meu, aud failed-—disastrously, misera- bly failed ‘y the postt ‘That is what he would have done at Yorkiowa—that is the battle Lo ow to judge of his abilities by that bat- tle. There, he said, he had advanced with his single division against a line it will be sure to damage the governinent The people, in their elections, have already ex- pressgd their disapprobation of thege arbitrary Aid unconstitutional arrests in the loyal States, and it was not prudent to continue them. . The last Congress, sensible of the curreal of public opinion which had set in against the adminis- tration, passed an act, which was signed by the President and became the law of the land, pro- hibditing all such military arrests aad trials in future, and directing that political offenders should be dealt with by the civil law aud bave a speedy trial by jury. In the face of this law Vallandigham was arrested, at dead of night, by « file of soldiers, in a peaceful, loyal State, where martial law had not been proclaimed, where the habeas corpug bad ggt been suspend- sed, and, being carried off to another State, way there tried and sentenced by court martial. Such proceedings have not only no warrant of law, but are directly contrary to law and the con- stitution, and have not even the merit of ex- pediency to recommend them. They are ex- tremely dangerous, and the sooner the ad- he desires to be kaowa by, With all deference to those who ave wise in war, we are of the opinion that aay one gould do that. Yet such was in reality Gen. Hovker's part in the great battle by which he iirst became widely known. Moreover, his battle had been fought in de- fiance of orders. Now, when a general fights in violation of orders, loses heavily, and does not accomplish his object, it is, or ought to be, a serious matter. Charges were accordingly made out against Gen. Hooker by the proper persons, and he wasin a fair way t> be dis- missed the service, or worse. But in the mean-. time the battle had been trumpeted as a great victory, and Gen. Hooker was a very large battle had been gained-—-Gen. Hooker helped to gain it, and he was to be dismissed the ser- vice. That would never do. So the General's violation of grdere—his failure and his heavy loss—only helped to make his fame, Thus ended Hooker's first notorious essay asa gene- ral. He made another nearly upon the anniver- hero. How would it look to the country—a gist and fighter has a limited confidence in his own abilities. Lee is now represouted as on tho march for offensive oporations—perhaps for invasion. He Cai see very well that an army under General Nooker is not 4 serious obstacle, and he will scatter it as he did the army wader Pope. Whon Pope was beaten, and all in disorder, bicCtol- a , and then ensued the Mary- land campaiga, full of disgater to the rebels, aud closed by the battle of Antietain. But here also Lee feels secure. Under’ no cireune stances can McClellan be recalled. After all that has taken place it is a moral impousibility for the President to put that man atthe bead of the army. It is only against Hooker or some newer experiment that Lee must atrag- gle, and he advances with confidence Steavan Vagarins ov Poartoiani—-Tae Peace Gorpseurap Convention To-Mornow.—Vo mor- row will be held in this city the Coppérhoad Convention in the interest of peace, called in an irregular manner by two democrals from every Senatorial district of the State. It is worthy of remark that the radical journals of this city do not offer any opposition to the meeting. Oa the contrary, fer the Jast two or three days, they have beon giving it support in @ icft handed wag. . One ceason for this probably iethat the ultimate objects of the niggorhonds and the copperheadsare tho same. Both want peace and a final separation by the live which is the boundary between the free andalave- holding States. Greeley has said, duriag the spring, that if the South should not be whipped by the Ist of May it would be better to givs the business up. The copperheads say wo cam never whip the South, and they too want te give it up. But there is another motive which influences the conduct of the radical press. They have entered upon an electioneering campaign, aad are making preparations to secure a favorable result. Their object in taking the copperheads under their patronage and encouraging thom te go ahead is to drive home the wedge which is already dividing the democratic party. If it can be completely split, then the radicals will have no trouble in carrying their point an@ breaking up the majority which resulted in the election of Seymour last fall. It is worthy of remark that the organs of the niggorheads ne longer call the copperberds rebels; and the Tribune even says that Fernando Wood is not a disunionist. This goes to show that there is @ sympathy and a connection of some kind ‘ho tween the two factions, and that they are play- ing into each other's hands. Time will socom develop their plans, and then we shall sce how the pieces stand on the political obese board, and who it ia that is going Lo get check: mated. ro! AninG tuk Nearo—Wuorrsgts Meagonas ov Rerartarion wx tHe Resers.—A dose patch from . Murfreesboro, received . by way of St. Louis, announces the taking of Helena, Arkansas, by General Matma- duke, and the capture and hanging of aa entire regiment of negro soldiers, with’ thele white officers. It should be premised, how- ever, that the report coming to us by this coule is not to-be accepted fs ‘at all reliable. The taking of Helena is of: course quite possible, as Marmaduke was known to be a large force for ite capture. But there aré reasons for discrediting the perpetration ef such an atrocity as that ascribed to him. In the first place, it would lead to retaliatory measures that-in the end must tell worse against the South than the North, and, secondly, the ne groes reported to be thus disposed of would be of more value to the confederacy living than dead. Of eourse there is no what a general of fana' gt fe induced to do in the siesta cued by his being called to confront in the field for the first time this hitherto despised race. The fact that such a wholesale act of vengeance is, under visers of the President take the back track the better for themselves and for the peace and harmony of the loyal States. - Let not excessive confidence in the armies now under its control influence the administra- tion to a series of fatal steps which must termi- nate at Inst im a bloody anarchy. In 1848 France was more prosperous than it had ever been before. Louis Philippe, King of the French, false tv the people who elected him, and false to his own interests, blindly retied on his new fortifications around Paris, which he deemed impregnable, and on 2 powerful, well organized army, to enable him to trample popular rights, as he did by the advice counsellors. This “king of the barricad he was cailed, prevented first the assembly of political meetings in opposition to his policy. The leaders of the opposition then proceeded to get around {he royal edicts by announcing public dinners, These, too by the advice of a perverse cabinet, were prevented at the point of the bayonet... The people. ac- | customed to a representative government and to freedom of discussion for a period of eighteen years, would stand it no longer. It is | the last feather on the overloaded camel which breaks his back. Lonig Philippe violated the | constitution; he broke their charter. The patience of the French people gave way under | this last act of their king, and there were plenty of reckless desperadoes ready for their own purposes to spur them on After three days’ fighting in the streets of J’aris, notwithstanding hie large standing army and | fortifications, the Bourbon was compelled to | seek safety in flight, under the disguise of a wig upon * evil — B and asailor’s jacket. The revolution was com- plete. The English, from whom the French | in modern times borrowed the idea of public } discussion and representative popular govern- ment, have been always extremely tenacious of the right of free speech, even to revolution and civil war. Nor will their kindred of America ever endure its infringement: and whosoever advises the President to sanction the overthrow of the right by bayonets is his mortal enemy and the enemy of the country. A republican Anglo-Saxon government, in or war, can never be carried on upon the same principles as those which regulate the of Austria and Russia. Let not the President, therefore, permit the administration to put him in the wrong. There are evil men who will be sure to take advantage of the errer and inflame the passions of the people; and Heaven only knows what may follow. The chief organs of the republican party are com- pelled to condema the military arrest, trial and punishment of Vallandigham. Let the Presi- dent take the wind out of the eails of Vallandig- ham by issuing on order cancelling the sen- | genge gag permitting bim to return to Ohin wt sary of the first. Near Falmouth, he had, as | any circumstances, possible, is, however, suffl- our readers know, a magnificent army. He said it was “ the finest on the planet.” In front of bim was a rebel army half the size of his own. Gen. Hooker had--and knew that he had—two one for every man under Lee. His first was to throw away this ad- 4 “ na vantage in & great measur his force. He divided bis army and put Mi it terval of ten miles between the two parts. He next put the enemy in that interval, covered on faee by * intrenchments, and his strategy amounted to this: Under the delu- sion {hat he was about to operate on the ene- my’s rear le lessened his effective strength by a whole corps. and made the parts of his army aci separately against a ceateal force. foreseen, and as events have prov to one + these etail, and absolute annihilation was only prevented by his great superiovity in numbers, his hasty re- treat and the stubborn fight of the Sixth corp For the meits of this movement strategically it is claimed that it nulli the strong position on the heights behind J vedericksburg, and com- pelled the enemy to come out into the field and fight. Bat it is very easy to make your enemy come out of his stronghold when you put your- self in w position where he sees that you are at his merey—and that is the way that Hooker ight Tee out everal Hooker marched and mancuvred for | four days. occupied that time in his advance against the enemy, and then the enemy fought an offensive battle in afield of which thes knew every squace juch. He chose his position, vest- ed in it, and was beaten there without a battle. For, if his stvategy is bad. his grand tactice are parts of hia army were fought or guidance from General Hooker is implied the battle was not fought at all. Surprised by the attack on one flank when he had prepared against it on the other, he seems to have become bewildered, and lost all comprehension of the state of affairs. Indeed, Hooker seemed to bave placed himeelf at the head of one corps only, and bud no ides of the great army under As was | ~. | Yet 4 great deal worse, and so far as any direction | cient to inspire disquietude. The reported ap- pointment of John C. Fremont to the command of the-black troops in South Carolina shows that the experiments that have been made ia the raising of negro regiments, at the pressing instances of the radicals, are becoming part of By the division of | the settled military policy of the goverhment, and it will therefore cee 5 a to pro- tect these troops fn the even The Papeis gt tempting to carry out thelr threats. Itis use- less, however, to speculate further on this sub- ject until we Lave a confirmation of the Mur- freesboro despatch. It will then assume an as- pect which will necessitate careful considera- tion and discussion. x Tux Coxsenipriox—Waar Is rum War De PART WENT \AnouT —Every day, on an average, | & regiment is leaving the Army of the Potomac, | and the result will soon be that Hooker will | be too weak for vigorous offensive opérations, the War Department is inactive, and | nothing is being done to supply the places | of the troops returning home. Mr. Stanton in as helpless as a child. If « spouting politician | like Vallandigbam talks nonsense, or if a man | like Ives gets hold of some of the secrets of the government without any fault of bis and blabs about them in barrooms, the Secretary of | War displays uncommon vigor, and he is brave as black bear in his den. But when a true difficulty presents itself—when any task worthy of a statesman or even of a man of business is | to be accomplished—then we find Mr. Stanton an imbecile, who does not know how to deal with the matter in hand, and he allows the ship to drift with the wind and tide, like a be- wildered, frightened mariner in a storm who gives himself up for lost. The last Congress passed a Conscription bill to fill up the vacan- | cles in the ranks of our armies, thinned by bat- | tle and sickness and by the expiration of the | term of service of great numbers of soldiers. | But the War Department, instead of having the new troops drafted and drilled, ready to recruit and reinforce the army, have not yet taken the preliminary steps, though we are in the month his command. Different corps fought without | any unity of purpose whatever, and he who should ma inal all overlooked BT cob beadaslem only an isolated struggle, until he wae knocked Ccntots Letter or Mr. down by ® post. Less than one-third of bis other page we publishasingular force was taken into battle, nnd with six corps son Etheridge, formerly. under his command be did not maintain so | from Tennessee, and late ¢ stout « fight as General Sedgwick did on the | Representatives. It is ant of June, and only four weeks remain for the next day with only one, General Hooker even | tire on the conduct of the war, and? Well done expected assistance from Sedgwick in his fight | that the reader must frequently fhe to ascor, on Sunday, May 3. Lee had sixty-four thou- | tain whether it le irony or not,®o apparentip sand men, and Hooker, with over a hundred | sincere is the eulogy, when it turns out, after a reflection, to be bitter sarcasm. The | thousand, was on Lee’s “rear.” And, while | moment’s with « hundred thousand he fought sixty-four | letter bite all round, but particularly dissects, thousand, he expested that Sedgwick, with « | with a keen knife, the abolition measures that single corps and one division of anether, should | have been adopted, and the general misconduct stoua arye’s Hill, march ton miles end ogme | of the wer,