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4 NEW YC JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EITOR AND PROPRIETOR. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Loxpow ASSURANCE, =ik Bogihti keh DECUALUMEAU, ce bs A FIN—Love, AMMTION AND RETRIBUTION. ATRE ose ov Brrick VaLe. s AMERICAN MUSSUM. Broadway.—Gem. any Wirx, Com. Norr ax> Minnix Warren, s Hagvust StokM—Nenvous Man. BRYA ‘MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 ‘we).—Evurorian Sonca, Bi Ax. You, Guexyracks? WOOD'S MINSTREL Bi fence. Dances, &6.—Wane 614 Broadwar.. ir Wutian Henry. THE NEW IDEA. 48 Broadway.—! | Buresques, Bauuwrs, &c.—Tuk SuRrRisK. sti ie AMERICAN THEATRE, Ni 7. —BALeErs, phomues, Boxssooea aot Sondway.—B Bovy Lirp-Coxcearr sy tax OLp Fouxs. MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 ‘Woxvxns anp Lecrures, from HOOLEY'S OPERA HO! fcnes, Daxcea, BuRixsauxs, &c. Broadway.—C: -M-uiOe. day, June 11, 1863. ‘THE NILE IS SETTLED. morning. THE SITUATION. near Beverly Ford, on Tucsday morning—the re- sults of which we before published—and which put a sudden check upon the enemy’s intention to in- vade Maryland and Pennsylvania with a powerful force of Stuart’s famous cavalry. General Buford, of General Pleasanton’s corps, commanded our troops, together with General Gregg and Colonel B. F. Davis. They crossed the ford ten thousand strong at daylight, and cleared the woods of the enemy after a desperate hand to hand con- test.- The fight lasted till twglve o'clock, noon, when our artillery opened on the rebels and drove them back six miles towards Culpepper Court House. Our loss is stated to be cousiderable, including Colonel Davis, of the Eighth New York cavalry, who is reported killed. That of the enemy is said to be fearful.’ It was undoubtedly a desperate and bloody combat; but it succeeded in thwarting the plans of General Lee to get into the rear of the army of the Rap- pahannock, and lay waste the fertile counties of Maryland and Pennsylvania. General Stuart and Colonel Fitzhugh Lee commanded the enemy. ‘We give a pretty full list of our killed and wounded in another column. The position of affairs at Fredericksburg remains ‘anchanged. The enemy opened their batteries on ‘Tuesday upon our camps for a few minutes with shell, but did no material damage. Some myste- rious movements on the part of both armies are ‘evidently going. on, and important developments may be expected at any moment. Despatches from Vicksburg, by way of Cincin- ati yesterday, represent the condition of affairs there as still favorable, and the expectation of ‘the’ army that Vicksburg must fall was confident. “The total loss of our forces since crossing the river is said to amount to 7,000 at the utmost. Our news from other parts of the West is not very exciting. Everything is quiet at Murfrees- boro, Tenn. No indications of new movements sre telegraphed from there. At Monticello Gene- wal Carter's forces, who have been guarding the aorth bank of the Cumberland river, crossed over on Tuesday and drove the rebel General Pegram’s troops out of the place, and at last accounts ‘were pursuing them and capturing prisoners and horses. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Fox, reports somewhat favorably of the action of our Dlockading squadron. He states that up to the Ist oi June they captured 855 rebel vessels, which shows that the Department has not been asleep all the time. The British steamer Africa, which arrived at Halifax on Tuesday, reports that the Alabama had destroyed during the month of April, south of the equator, four United States vessels. the Dorcas Prince, Sea Lark, Union Jack and Nye, with valuable cargoes. The transport Cahawba, which arrived here yes- terday from New Orleans and Fortress Monroe, with the Sixth New York Volunteers, brought quite a large number of rebel prisonets. News from Port Royal of the 3d inst. states that the Second South Carolina regiment (negroes), under Colonel Montgomery, had defeated the re- bels at Pocotalico, amd were holding the railroad bridge between Savannah and Charleston. The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts (colored regiment), ‘was to be sent to reinforce Colonel Montgomery. Admiral Farragut, at his own request, is now to be relieved of his command on the Mississippi, and is to be succeeded by Admiral Dahlgren. General Fremont writes a long letter to the ecretary of War going to prove that General Butler does not rank him, as the latter was ap- pointed major general on the 16th of May, 1961, while General McClellan and General Fremont ‘were appointed on the 14th of the same month, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Mayor, Comptroller, City Inspector and Counsel to the Corporation met at the Mayor's office yesterday, and decided upon measures for cleaning our dirty streets which will probably be carried out to-day. The Board of Aldermen held a special meeting yesterday at two o'clock, and received from the Councilmen a joint communication transmitted by the Mayor, Comptroller, City Inspector and Corporation Counsel, recommending the Common Council to direct the City Inspector to proceed with the cleaning of the streets at the expense of the sureties for the fulfilment of the Hackley con. tract; and on motion of Alderman Boole the sum of $32,913 71 was appropriated for the purpose of aying the workmen employed by Hackley for the bor already done by them. A special meeting of the Board of Councilmen waa YORK HERALD. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 878. nVAURA KEENK'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Taxx Mu phtW powEny THEATRS, Bowery.—Duxe's S1GNaL— 0 Bowory.—Tue Duke's Devicr— Broad. oRLESQUES, Dances. 40.—How HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway—Panonama oF THE » Brooklyn.Brmsorian The highly interesting sketch of the discoveries made in the interior of Africa, by Captains Speke and Grant, delivered by Sir Roderick Murchison before the Royal Geographical Society, will be published in the Wresxuy Hzraxp on Saturday ‘We give to-day very full details of the brilliant and successful cavalry fight on the Rappahannock, SRG SvassPhen. <2 held at one o'clock yesterday, for the purpose of taking action on a communication signed by the Mayor, Comptroller, City Inspector and Corpora tion Counsel, proposing that the Common Council | should passa resolution appropriating about $32,000 to pay the street cleaners already employed by the City Inspector, and also to give that officer power to do the work, and, as the bills become due, pre- sent the same for payment tothe sureties of the Hackley contract. In case the sureties refuse to pay the City Inspector is to sue for the amount, and while the action is pending the Comptroller shall advance the funds necessary to pay the workmen, It also proposes to take measures to break the Hackley contract and substitute a new one in its stead. The communioation was refer- red to the Committee on Finance. The President (Mr. Jones) offered as a substitute a resolution transferring all authority in the matter to the Comptroller. A long and spicy debate ensued, during which the City Inspector's character for veracity was freely handled by Mr. Jones, and the lie direct was given by Mr. Sanford to that gentle- | man. Order being restored, the subject under | discussion was made the special order for this evening at four o’clook, to’ which “hour the Board adjourned. The upper rooms of the building No. 266 Eighth avenue were crowded Jast evening to hear an ad- dress from Mra. Van Benthuysen, of Tennessee, another female candidate for oratorical honors of the Ann Dickinson school. Mrs. Van Benthuysen is a regular Yankee, according to her own state- ment. She is about thirty years of age, calm and dispassionate in her address, pleasing in her ap- pearance, and apparently a lady of considerable information. The hall was nearly half filled with ladies. The fair orator’s addresg was a very lengthy one, but it did not treat of any particular idea which merits distinct notice. She said that the people of the South are very confident of their ability to achieve independence, giving many of the arguments which they adduce to this effect. At the same time she expressed her own serious doubts that such a consummation could ever be accomplished, and went largely into data to show that whenever and however the rebellion may end, human liberty would be triumphant, coming out purified by the fire. She was loudly applauded. Mr. F. Montgomery, of the Vicksburg Whig, next made a few remarks, but we learn he will speak at length on a future occasion. The trotting match for $5,000, mile heats, best three in five, to wagons, between George M. Patchen and General Butler, came off yesterday afternoon at the Fashion Pleasure Grounds. Patchen won the race. Five closely contested heats—time, 2:2734, 2:29, 2:3224, 2:30 and 2:32-+ were trotted, the stallion winning the first, fourth and fifth; General Butler won the second and third heats. “ln the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Betts, the prize schooner Neptune was condemned for running the blockade. The veterinary surgeons held their second meet- ing yesterday atthe Astor House, and unanimously adopted a constitution and by-laws reported by the committee appointed for that purpose. The orga- nization will be known as the ‘‘ United States Ve- terinary Medical Association.”” Its principal ob- ject is to contribute to the diftusion of the science of veterinary surgery. Dr. J. H. Stickney, of Boston, was elected President for the ensuing year. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before Recorder Hoffman, Maria Burke was ar- raigned for murder, in causing the death of Eliza- beth Dunn, by beating her on the 29th of March last. Maria was allowed to plead guilty to the minor offence of manslaughter in the fourth de- gree. The trial of William Gurney, alias Newton, indicted for forgery, occupied the Court during the whole day, and the jury, after remaining out nearly two hours, brought in @ verdict of not guilty. + ‘The heavy fall in gold and eterling WMhalige ha a very depressing effect on the produce market yesterday. Flour, wheat, corn, cotton and most kinds of provisions were cheaper, with limited sales reported. Whiskey and su- gare'were in moderate request at drooping rates, while coffee, teas, rice, molasses, oil, metals and naval stores ‘were very sparingly pyrchased, and were unsettled. Hay and hops were saleable and steady. Tatlow was plenty and heavy. The freight market was quite dull. ‘The stock and gold markets were greatly depressed yes- terday, the fall in the former being from 1% to3 per cent. Inthe afternoon, however, there was a general rally, and the indications were rather that ‘bottom’ had ‘been touched for the present. Money was very active all morning at 7 per cent. Exebange was 153% a 1543¢. The usual trade tables for the month of May will be found in ‘the money article. The Late Cavairy Fight on the Rappa- hannock—Mysterious Movements of the Rebels. We give to our readers this morning such de- tails as have come to hand of the late severely contested and sanguinary cavalry fight on the Rappahannock. As the force on the Union side engaged was probably not less than ten thou- sand men, and as the struggle—hand to hand— continued from an early hour in the morning until noon, and as the losses on our side are rep- resented to be heavy, and on the part of the enemy fearful, this contest, compared with any of our previous wars, would be a battle of the first magnitude. In this gigantic war, however, it dwindles down in importance to a chance collision between a reconnoitering detachment from each of the two great armies confronting each other some twenty-five miles lower down the river. But the main result of this engagement—the repulse and retreat of Stuart’s cavalry force— is claimed to be a matter of very considerable moment. It was discovered that Stuart was organizing on the Upper Rappahannock an im- mense cavalry expedition, with the evident de- sign of a dashing and destructive raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania, and that, unless speedily checked, the expedition would be off and probably beyond pursuit. Accordingly General Hooker detailed the detachments of cavalry, artillery and infantry indicated in our despatches to defeat this scheme of Stuart, by meeting him and cutting him up while yet within striking distance. In this view it is claimed a very important object bas been achieved, being no lees, for the time being at least, than the defeat of the contemplated de- structive rebel foray into Maryland and the rear of Washington, and perhaps into some of the richest counties of Pennsylvania. . | In connection with this cavalry battle up the river theré have been some very mysterious movements on both sides down in the neighbor- hood of Fredericksburg. All that we can make out of them is that the opposing generals— like Napoleon and the Austrian General Melas— have been moving their columns about simply to deceive each other. Itis probable that the real object of Lee in strengthening bis works on Fredericksburg heights is to leave tl in charge of a small force for the amusement of his army, headed by Stuart’s cavalry, an at- tempt is to be made to sweep round and get in between General Hooker and Washington. But it is also conjectured that all these men- acing demonstrations of Lee are merely in- tended to deceive Hooker with the ides of a heavily reinforced rebel army, while in re- ality it has perbaps been heavily reduced in or- der to strengthen Joe Jobnston in Mississippi. At all events we are ratified that the main NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1863. result of thie late stubborn and sanguinary | cavalry fight is a positive advantage to the Army of the Potomac, and a positive defeat of the forces and the plans of the enemy; and we hope that before long affairs on the Rappahan- nock will assume such a shape as to relieve the | heads of the War Office and the people of Wash- ington, Maryland and Pennsylvania of all ap- prehensions of danger. Tus Frencu mw Mexico—Puebla has fallen, but the French will find it no easy matter to conquer the city of Mexice. The people are roused and will defend themselves with despe- ration, struggling with death for every foot of ground. The troops of General Forey will perhaps succeed in reaching the capital, but it will only be with a fearful loss of life; and when they do enter Mexico they will not have the whole country insubjection by any means. The Mexicans have been for years fighting among his adversary, while, with the main body of themselves. The French invasion has caused them to cease their war of factions and begin a patriotic etruggle, which has proved them to be quite capable of brave deeds. Eight.millions of people will not be held’ in subjection by a hundred thousand troopé, be they the best in the world; and Napoleon will find, when te has. captured the city of Mexico, that the difficulties of his position on this continent have but begun. The Mexicans will cut off his supplies, and will begin a fearful guerilla warfare against their in- vaders, poisoning them, destroying their ad- vanced guards and overwhelming their convoys. It will be a war ofextermination, and Napoleon will find bimeelf too far removed from the seat of operations. : It is more than likely, however, that the Em- peror of the French has abandoned all idea of holding Mexice. He will no doubt offer terms to the Mexicans which they can accept the moment he has retrieved the stigma of his long continued non-success. He must know that obstinacy in this matter would be a dangerous course to pursue, and must recall to mind the disasters which overwhelmed the great Napo- leon from a stubborn persistence in a far off campaign. Napoleon is also well aware that, were he to hold Mexico, the government of the United States would at no very distant date have something to say in the matter, and that when once it turned its attention that way: he would inevitably have to retreat from this continent, as he could never undertake to battle against our forces combined with the Mexicans. The rebellion is fast approaching its end, and the moment our civil war is terminated we can but cause France to leave this continent, a hold upon which she has obtained in our hour of intestine warfare. The American people cannot allow Napoleon to insult the majesty of this governmont with impunity; and they will not, as he will find to his cost, unless he retires from Mexico at his first opportunity. The capture of the city will redeem him from the disgrace which the previous failure of the expedition had entailed upon France. This much accomplished, he will, if not blinded by fate, leave this continent. GREELEY nN AnorHeR Fir or ExcrreMent.— Poor Greeley seems to be composed of too excitable materials for this warm weather. He will be quite ready for a lunatic asylum by the next Presidential election. His present ex- citement is caused by our refusal to attend the editors’ meeting last Monday, in order to accept the hospitalities of the Astor House and join in making a fuss about the liberty of the press. Poor Greeley was a blockhead to call such a meeting, and those who attended it deserve the same appellation. Meehan, the Irish edi- tor, seemed to bave a pretty good general no- tion of what he was talking about; but the rest of the party were mere drivelling partisans, who by no means represented the intelligence of the newspaper press of this city. For proof of this, if any be needed, we have only to refer te the ridiculous speeches of Brooks and Greeley, and the still more ridiculous resolu- tions prepared for transmission to the Presi- dent. As far as we are concerned we want nothing whatever to do with such meetings. We practice the rights and duties of public journalists under the constitution every day of our lives, and do not care to waste time in talking about them. Any man who is compe- tent to conduct a paper upon philosophical, statesmanlike and constitutional principles re- quires no instruction nor assistance from such twopenny partisan editors. _ Tue Bronverine Woriv.—For some time past the World, at different intervals, has apoken of Fitz John Porter as being in this city. That journal is very correct in some things. It ean quote with accuracy “Plutarch’s Lives,” “Blackstone’s Commentaries,” and the Encyclopedias, which is easy enough when it, has the books at its elbow. But as a live newspaper, giving an account of the current events of the day, it is nowhere. Fitz John Porter was not here at the time mentioned. He was in the country, and bides his time— and his time will assuredly come. And as for General McClellan, he consorts with non but his own family. If Barlow, Buncombe * Co., who sink so much money in the World and get nothing back, would only put a little common sense and sagacity into it they might retrieve a great deal of the cash which is now lavished upon the concern in vain. Appr MoMaster anv Fernaxvo Woov.—The redoubtable Abbe McMaster, who took his de- grees at Fort Lafayette, and is therefore enti- tled to an opinion, denies that Fernando Wood is a good peace man. The Abbe says that the Peace Convention resolutions and the Railroad Regency resolutions are both mere trash and milk and water. The Abbe furthermore de- clares that both conventions are entirely bogus, and that no man has s right to express an opinion about peace unless he has a diploma from Fort Lafayette, Fort Warren or Fort MeHenry. There may be something in this. The Abbe may be right fer once. Let us wait and see. i ‘Tur On Senrrion Law Revivep—The reso- lutions passed by the meeting of partisan editors at the Astor House last Monday admit the right of the President te stop any paper which he may think seditious or treasonable. This ad- mission surrenders the whole question of the liberty of the press. It is a thousand times worse than the old Sedition law; for that only authorized seditious editors to be arrested, tried and fined, but did not allow the suppree- sion of newspapers. Well, if these editors are anxious to give the President all the powerover the press which Napoleon or the Russian Czar Claims, let them do so. Wait until a democratic President is elected, and see if the svditiousand stopned. treasonable Trine be not the first paper puns.—There have retarned to this city and State from the Army of the Petomaoc within the last few weeks from twelve to @fteen thousand of its best soldiers. Most, if not all of these, are men of education and intelligence. They went to the war from motives of patriotism and without any views of self-advancoment; they ‘thave participated in all the hardships and dan- gere of the sanguinary campaigns of Virginis and Maryland, and from superior disci- pline and valor have the designation ac- corded by Napoleon to his veterans of “ the Old Guard.” Now, we know no class whose views and sentiments it is more important to consult in the present position of our affairs than these men. They have studied attentively the course of the administration in connection with the conduct of the war; they have been personally affected by the various changes that it has been thought proper to effect in the command of the army to which they belonged; they have had the fullest opportunities of sppreciating the merits and demerits of the successive gene- rats under whom they have served; and, as their lives have been staked on. the competency and energy of their commanders, their opinions have, upon'all these points, an incontestable value. In. the present vascillating and mis- trusting condition ofthe public mind, and with an administration utterly without judgment or military foresight, we must seek for guidance where experience and freedom from political prejudices unite to point the way. These re- turned soldiers of the Army of the Potomac are the opportunely arrived Nestors of our difficul- ties. They are the practical statesmen who are to find a eolution for the obstacles that have hitherto prevented the triumph of our arms. That the radicals are fully sensible of this ia evident from the efforts made by the broken down politicians of the party to prevent them paying a tribute of their respect, on their arrival in this city, to their old commander, McClellan. There is nothing that they dread more just now than any mani- festation of this kind. The sensitiveness thus exhibited renders it all the more impertant that we should en- deavor to get at the real sentiments of the army. This can now be done without violating the rules of military discipline or introducing politics into the army. The gallant veterans who bave just completed their term of service will probably remain home for a month or two before they again volunteer, as no doubtethe great majority of them will do. Let them be convened together in a mass meeting from al) parts of the State—arrangements being pre- viously made for their transport here—in order that we may obtain a full and untrammelled expression of their sentiments on the conduct of the campaigns through which they have passed with so much honor to themselves, but, unfortunately, with so little advantage to the country. The opinions enuneiated there will have a powerful influence in dispelling the illusions created by the misrepresentations of partisan journals, and may have the effect of sbaping the future course of the President and of inducing him to cast out from his adminis- tration the men whose imbecility and foolish ambition have been the main obstacles to the successful prosecution of the war. Tur Cxicaco Times anp THE LIBERTY or ue Press Acarx.—The Chicago Tribune, the meanest radical newspaper in the country, un- grateful that its own establishment was saved from popular vengeance by the act of the Pre- sident in rescinding the foolish order of Burn- side against the Chicago Times, denounces Mr. Lincoln because he would not lend himself to its scheme fer the destruction of a rival concern. It was at the instigation and through the machi- nations of the Tribune that the Times became involved in trouble; and because the President would not complete the silly werk which Burnside had begun he is bitterly assailed by the organ of Chase, Stanton & Co. The object of these attacks upon the Presi- dent, and all the other attacks by abolition journals and orators, is to get rid of Mr. Lincoln as a candidate for the next Presidential term. But if the President had only the resolution of Andrew-Jackson he would speedily clear out the whole Cabinet and construct a new one with materials more in harmony with the wishes of the people and the fitness of things. By taking this step and denouncing and repudiating the entire proceedings of the present adminis- tration Mr. Lincoln would make himself so popular that there is little doubt he would be renominated by the voice of the people and be elected by their ballots. He owes itto himself as well as to the country to cut loose from a Cabinet which is like millstone around his neck to drag him down to political perdition. Let him at once free himself from this dead weight, and he will rise upon the crest of the popular wave, and in November, 1864, be borne triumphantly into power for the next four years. Fortunes Mave By THE War.—'!t is generally believed, and with truth, that large fortuncs have been made out of the war during the past eighteen months. We have seen a list of the names of one hundred and fifty persons who have made fortunes, varying from one hundred thousand toa million anda half of dollars during that period—some by stocks, some by contracts, some by shoddy, some by selling bad vessels to the government, some by crackers and cheese for the army and some by disposing of good offices. These*shoddy aristocrats have added about two hundred brilliant new equi- pages to the Ring at the Park, and will soon figure largely at the watering places. Jay Cooke, the banker, is said to have cleared three hundred thousand dollars—minus eight or ten thousand dollars for advertisements—by the conversion of government bonds alone. So we go. Money is as plenty as dirt. It will soon be time to spend this spare cash at the summer retreats, and the season will be a splendid one. Gaartzy Lrme Aaan.—Poor Greeley says that McClellan excluded that miserable aboli- tion paper, the Tribune, ftom the Army of the Po- tomac. We believe this to be an impudent and unquelifed falsehood. General McClellan never interfered with the newspapers. The soldiers themselves refused to read the Tribune or to re- ceive itin their camps. When Pope had com- mand of that army the Tribune could notbe dis- posed of at any price, and lay round rotting in piles. Still later, under Heoker, seven thousand bare or there, ‘ribunes were sent down to the army, and the soldiers collected gs many of them as possible and burned them, calling the blaaing heap “Poor Greeléy’s funeral pyre.” These facts show how the Tribune fs excluded from the army. No sensible man will buy and read it either Neen eee nnn eS EEEIneneInnInannISIIEnnmemeessneenmne= ea aaa Gamat Mass Meerma or Retveven Sor-| Tas Tuxsaraven Ermrmc:—Now that the very warm weather has returned we may look for a fearful increase of sickness in the city if the filth accumulating in our streets so rapidly is not at once removed. The Mayor, Comp- troller, Corporation Counsel and Board of Al dermen did their duty on the subject yesterday. Let the Board of Councilmen act to-day, and we shall be eafe. Throughout the entire city there are thousand of barrels upon the eide- walks containing garbage which in the heat of the sun is putrifying. The air is even now tainted, and we may anticipate a pestilence if the cause is not immediately removed. There will be a responsibility resting heavily upon some one unless steps are taken at once to save us from the menaced danger, and the people will surely see to it that due punishment is meted out to the guilty parties. WAR GAZETTE. - o The Conseription—Opinion of the Hon. ‘William Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department. ICTAL. ‘Wasmmarox, June 10, 1863. ‘The following official orders have beoh promulgated:— War Davanraenr, Orne Provost Manemat. Gumsnat, June 9, 1863. } ‘Tne following opinion of Hon. Wm. Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department, has beer ordered to be published by the Secretary of War:— ‘The national forces, liable to perform military duty, in- clude all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and persons of foreign birth who have declared their in tention to become citizens according to law, being be- tween twenty and forty-five years of age. Certain per- sons are excepted, divided into eight classes. No per- sons but such us are therein excepted shall be exempt. (Sec. 2. It ia declared the duty of the enrolling officers to enrol all persons subject to military duty. (Sec. 9.) All per- sons thus enrolled shall be subject for two years after July 1, succeeding the enrolment, to be called into the military service. (Sec. 11.) The metional forces (not ‘now 1m the military service) enrolied under the act shall be divided into two classes, &o. (Seo. 3. Those of the second class shall not be called out until Uhose of the firat class shall have been exhausted. ‘Thus it seems by the true construction of this act, while all persons coming within its provisions are to be enrolled in the national forces, nevertheless, under the first enrolment, those who were in the military service atthe time the act went- into effect are not to be in- cluded in that class which is subject to the firat draft. Several provisions of this statute are incovsistent to the idea that persons then in the service were to be treat- ed aa linble to draft from the first class. ‘Thus it is provided ip the seventh section that regulars, volunteers, militiamen , or persons called isto i undor tis or any other act of Congress, wel 3 rested as deserters wherever they might be found by the Provost Marshal, and to be sent to the nearest military post, thus admitting a pisin distinction betweon these different classes of persons, viz., those who ‘were then in the service and those who were to be drafted in. The same distinction between those who were in the service und those who were to be drafted in is recogni- zed im section 18, which provides bounties to Ee: being then in the service, should volunteer to re- enlist. ‘The statute, in providing for the classification of troops from which drafts are to be made, enacts as follows :— . ion 3). That the national forces of the United tates, not now in the military service, enrolled under this act, shall be divided into twocinsses. Thus those who are “now” (that is to say, on the Sd of March, 1803), in the milltary service, are not to be inciuded in either of these classes. And as those then ts arch 3) in the service, were not included in either of these two clisses, they may be said to constitute a class of persons to be enrolied under the provisions of this act. As between the first and second class, the law (section 3) requires that the second class shall not in any district be calle:! into the service of the United States until of the first class shell have been thus called in. Volinteers or regulars, who had been in the service, and who had been discharged therefrom, or had resigned prior to the Sd day of March, 1863, are liable to be dratt- ed in the same manner as if they bad never been in the service. No regard is to be paid to their former period of service, or to the length or brevity of the period be- tween the date of their discharge and that of the draft. Volunteers who were in the service of the United States on the 3d of March, 1863, and have since that time been discharged, are not, therefore, included in the first class from which the first draft is intended to be made, and are, therefore, not now liable to be called on bya draft which is to be made from that class of the forces of the United States under the provisions of this act. ‘ Solicitor of the War Depertiient, icitor of ‘ar Jauss B. Fry, Provost Marshal General. War Derantuxnt, Provost MARSHAL GENERAL'S OvricE, Wasnincren, D. C. June 6, 1863. ‘The following opinion of Hon. William Whiting, Solici- tor of the War Department, has been ordered to be pub- Mahed by the Secretary of War:— OPINION. It is made the duty of Jawful orders and regulations wf the Provost Marshal General, and such as shall be prescribed by law concern- Sethe eat ee to service of the national jorcen. United States, or shall counsel or aid any person to resiat any such draft, or shall assault or obstruct apy officer in ing such draft, or in the pertormance any service in relation thereto, or shall counsel any per- gon to assault or obstruct any such officer, or shall coun- sel any drafted man not to appear at the place of rendez. ‘vous, or wilfully pursuade them from the of military duty as required by law, such person shall be subject to summary arrest by the Provost Marshal, and shall be forthwith delivered to the civil authorities, and ‘upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not execed- ing five bundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed- bes Boe years, or by both of said punishments '’ ‘do any act which will prevent or impede the enrol- ment of the national forces (which enrolment is prelimi. nary and essontial to the dratt), is to prevent or impede the draft itself. The enrniment is a service to be performed by the Pro. ‘vost Marshal in relation to the draft. It is not the act of drawing ballots out of a ballot box itself, but it is “in re. lation to it,” and is the first step that must by law be taken preparatory tothe draft. It is therefore clearly within the duty of the Provost Marshal to subject all per- sons who obstruct the enrolment, the mecting of the Doard, or any other proceeding which is preliminary and essential to the draft, to summary arrest according to the provisions of section 25. ‘There are many ways of obstructing officers in the per- formance of their services or duties in making, or in rela- tion to the draft, without employing pbsyical force, The neglect or refusal to doan act required by law to be dene, may itself be such an obstruction as to subject the offender to arrest. Suppose a person to be stand. ing ina through which the drafting officers are Fequired to enter into a place designated by law as the place for the draft. and suppose that his standing in that place would prevent access by these officers to the Jace of draft. If they request him to move away and neglects or refuses to do 90, for the purpose of prevent- ing the draft, the non-; of the act of removal would be of itself an ‘‘obstruction of the draft, or of an officer in the performance of his duty in relation to it.”” Standing mute in civil courts is, under certain circam- stances, a punishable offence And so if a person, with intent to prevent the draft, refuses to give his true name when lawfully requested so to do by an officer whose legal duty it is to ascertain and enrol it, it 1 an ob- Struction of that officer in the ot one of his duties in relation to the dratt. So also is the giving of false names, with the same illegal intent, and the offender will in either case be subject Dag by the Provost Marshal. WILLIAM WHITING, Solicitor of the War Department. Jauns B. Fry, Provost Marshal General. GENERAL NE:WSB. Waammar ox , Juno 10, 1863. REINFORCEMENTS FOR GR? ERAL LEE. ‘An officer who has just returned from Richmand states ‘that recently twenty-one regiments passed through there on their way to reinforce Gen. Lees, and that several regi- ments of North Carolina cavalry, subsequently passed through Richmond for the same ¢ estination. DEPARTURE OF THE SECOND. NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR THR ARMY OF Tit POTOMAC. ‘The Secona New Hamehire regiment, which has recent- ly retarned from that State, he ving been home to recruit, will leave for the Army of the Potomac to-morrow morn- Sansa DABLGREN 70 TAKER COMMAND OF THE LOWER MISSIAY.IFPI SQUADRON. It has been determined 90 accede to the request of Ad mirat Farragut to be retiey ed from his present command. Admiral Dabigren, it is urderstood, will take his place as goon as the Vicksburg spatter is settled. Tt is stated also thet neither Admiral ‘Vabigren nor Admiral Foote, al- though assigned to ac¥ive sea service, is to abandon his position as bead ofa Ww ureau in the Navy Departmen: AY.RESTS OF SPIES. Seven men were rirrested here to-day as spies. They are in the custody of Colonel Baker. ‘TY.8 BLOCKADE RUNNERS. ‘The character of the blockade running has undergone a great change 0 late, Instead of the employment of large steamers contrabandists, about one half of which tately of their object, very small craft have deen substituted, which get in and out of small inlets with comparative aafets. A vessel of this kind wes re- cently taken off Charleston, with a dozen of our eraisers {m sig/at, Of course the prize money in such & case would ok be worth distributing. The rebel military ser- trifling cargoes into (ttle Doris. soatrered agong a thon vive camnot be much advanced by the introduction of and or two miles of coast, witheat any means of coms. munication with the head of the country other than com- mon country roads. DBFEAT OF INDIANS IN UTAH—THE MORONS, ETO. Cotone: Evans, of the Socomd California regiment, im @ despatch, dated Camp Dougias, Utah Territory, April 11, while officially communicating a splen- did victory over the Indians, repeats chat the Mormons stood around the Streot corners im eho town of Pleasant Grove, and on the tops of houses and baystacks, complacently looking on and appa - rently well pleased at the prospect of eix Gentile soldiers being murdered by seventy-fiveor oe hundrod Indians He adds:—Comment is unnecessary further than to’ say that Lieutenant Honeyman believes and thinks that ho has prima facie evidence of the faet upon which to found his belief that the savages were mformed by the Mer- mons of nis precence in the town with only five mon, and, as they supposed, a wagon load of provisions, bound for Fort Bridger, and that it was an arrangement between gome of the Mormons and Indians to murder his little party, take the property and divide the spoils. PARDONS BY THE PRESIDENT. ‘The Prosident to-day pardoned James Baird, convicted at the April term of the United States District Court tor Delaware of attempting to rob the mail, by assaulting the person having charge thereof, and sentenced to two yeare’ imprisonment in the penitentiary of said State. ‘The President hes also, pardoned Willian W, Bain, com- wicted at the Ootober term. of the United States District Court for Minnesota of counterfetting onim, and sentenced .t imprisonment in the State popiteutiary for .e period of five yoara. NAVAL ORDERS. Capt: Thomas F.-Craven tins beoh ordered to relieve Commodore ‘Turner-of the- command: of the’ iron-clad steamer New Ironsides, and Commander F. A. M. Oravem has been ordered to the command of the iren-cied steam. or Passaic. A NEW ARTILLERY BRIGADE. Brigadier Genoral Lediie yesterday received suthority from the War Department to reise a brigade of two regt- monts of artillery in the place of the Third! New York ae- tillery, recently mustered out of service from Geners® Jchn G. Foster's department, General Ledlie ts one of the best artillerists in the service, and will retuen to New York and commence recruiting immediately, He expects tovhave his brigade io the field in four weelts: DECISIVK ACTION REQUIRED IN THE TERRITORIES. ‘The: attention of the government ig fixed'in:the dires- tion of Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, &c., Frenek con- quests in Mexico menacing the last mentioned’ Territories, and the guerrilla warfare to the south of Kansas pre- venting the return of the Cherokee refugees, and other- wise threatening the policy of the goverument, require decisive steps in that direction. THR DISUSE OF CALOMEL IN THE MEDICAL. DEPRET- MENT. ‘The-order of Surgeon Gcneral Hammond, striking oale- mel from tbe supply table of the Medical Departmont, hes occasioned quite a stir in some portions of that branch ef the service. The disuse of this preparation of mercary is intended to avoid very serious results from: ite injudl- cious use, when other mercurial preparations would better serve the purpose. Its discontinuance ts generally re garded us in accordance with all the recent and most ap- proved teachings in medicine. THE MAGAZIN?. EXPLOSION AT FORT LYON. ‘Tho President and Secretary of War visited Fort Lyom to-day. The explosion yesterday did no serious damage, except to the magazine, which Colonel Alexandor, Ontet Engineer of the Defences of Washington, is already busy in replacing with oac much more perfoctly constructed. PERSONAL. A distinguished party, composed of Miss Kate Chase, accompanied by Mrs. Bailey, Miss Albrecht, Senator Sher- man and Mr. Slade, paid a visit yesterday to the head- quarters of the Army of the Potomac and returned 'to-day. While on the Rappahannock the ladies crossed the river. ‘on one of the pontoons, and went into the rifle pite from which the rebels had been driven by our troops the day. mens OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GE- NERAL. Mr. A. N. Zevoly, Third Assistant Postmaster General, has been for some days precluded from office duty by ii bealth. PROMOTION. Orderly Sergeant Bould, of the Sixth regular cavalry, has been promoted to a lieutenancy for distinguished an@ galiaat conduct ia. the field. IMPORTANT FROM ILLINOIS. ‘The Legisiatere Prerogued by the Gove ernor Until 1865—The Act Declared Re- volutionary by the Members, d&c., die. Sraimarmcp, Iil., June 10, 1868. ‘The Governor this morning issued an unconstitutional: and revolutionary proclamation prorogaing the ture until 1865. The republicans left the halls there. by broxe the quorunr in eaoh, but the democrats refuse@ to recognize the prerogation and continued the: ses- sions. Tho Governor's pretext is that there: i» @ disagreement between the two Houses on the subject of adjournment, but there was no parilamentary disagree. ment whatever. The democrats in the afternoon finding themselves powerless to do any further business, entered ‘& protest upon the record reciting the facts, and! arrsign- ing the governor for his usurpation and unconstitational acts, and informally left their seats, not recognizing en ad- journment but a revolutionary breaking up of the Legislature. The Governor’s proclamation was intended to and did defeat the one hundred thousand dollar appre- priation for sick and wounded soldiers. The final:pas- ‘sage of that bill was pending in the House when it dis- solved. There is-great excitetnent here and deopindig nation against the Governor. pennatatetchcstini ar Mean wea The Regatta of the Sew York Yacht Clab. ‘The fourteenth annual regatta of the New. York Yacht. Club will take place to-day, The following ia @-list of the entries of yachts: — give them at this time. ‘The regatta committee consists of Charles H. Haswell, Fletcher Westray and John T. Roltins, who will no doubt give the greatest satistaction to all parties. From pre- sent appearances we are to have one of the old fashioned affairs, and one which will reflect great credit upon our New York Yacht Club. A fine day anda good breeze are all that is now needed to make up one of the finest affairs of the season. Military Affairs. General Ward B. Barnett has been authorized by the Governor of the State of New York to receive a sufficient number of regiments from Colone! Lansing, the Superin- tendent of recruiting service at the cantonment at New Dorp, Staten Island, to organize a brigade. ‘The President of the United States has agreed to accept said brigade, under the command of General Ward B. Burnett, who is well known to New York and to the Mediator (Rev. Mr. Tynes) Mesers. King and Mory. Sb tivo of the best players Nan coumuey. orth ponerse. ‘Tae Union Hown Scn00..—The second anniversary of this institution took place Iast evening at the Aendemy of Music. The Geventh regiment band discoursed its sweet est strains, Tho children of the Twelfth street school, their best, while the littie orphans Union Homa ig thereat badges of binky presented cad rie sel E ‘ 3 i

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