The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1863, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON NNT T, EDITOR AND POPRIBIOR. OFt ck N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash fn advance Money sent by mati will be atthe risk of the sender. Noue but bauk bills current im New Yor's (akea. THE DAILY HERALD, Tamas conte per copy ‘Tile WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five conta per copy. Annual subdsoription price — One Copy . Five Copies, ‘Ten Coptes. Volume XXVIII . AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN Broadway,—Tax Doge's Morro. LAUCA KEENE'§ THEATRE, Broadway.—Wives oF Pan s—Youna Wipow=Tigur Korg Fears. NEW BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—Rugantino—A Dav ar aw Inn—Laritre—Sevns Escarms. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Avnona Frovp—Dous Bov or MaNongsTER—SCHOOLMASTER—FRLON's DREAM. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway —Gen. Tom a axo Wire, Com. Nort axp Minnie Wanren, re Duke's Beguxst, A and Evening. 'ANTS' MINSTRELS. Mechantos' Hall, 472 Broad- K7ntorian Songs, Buruxsquas, Dances, &¢.—Cuaw WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL. 514 Broadway.—Eraioriam NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1863—TRIPLE SHEET.’ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the steamer Champion we have dates from Aspinwall to the 17th instant, The news is of no immediate importance. From the South we learn that an attempt had been made to | overthrow the Urbina administration in Kouador; but the project signally failed. he Isthmus waa quiet. The new constitution of the Btates of Co- lombia accords perfect freedom of apeech and of the press to all citizens. The Champion brought nearly $200,000 in apeoie on freight. From Eouador we learn that crops are excellent. Cocoa is a little lower, owing to the more favorable reports from the crops up the river. [t now commands $12 25 612 50 per owt., ready to be shipped; coffee at $18.8 $20 per owt.; cotton, $19 $22 ginned, and $10 a #14 unginned, per owt. The cocoa crop ia estimated at 150,000 quintals thia year, and the cotton orop at about 800 quintala. Our European files, correspondence and apecial telegrams by the Canada reached this city from Boston yesterday evening. The advices are dated to the 13th instant, and contain some very inte- resting details of the news telegraphed from New- foundland after the Canada had passed Cape Race, and published in tho Huratp last Wednesday. The Turk's Island Royal Standard of the 30th of May says:—‘‘Since our last, a small quantity of salt has been shipped. The weather is now all that could be desired for salt gathering purposes, and many proprietors are bringing to market. Not having heard from East Harbor or Salt Cay, fOnGS, DaNous, BO—SiLvER TRUMPET. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—Tux Srarzorticon. THE NEW IDEA. 486 Broadway.—Sonas. Buacxsquas, Baverrs, &0.—HuNcusack. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.--Bac.ers, Partomimns, BuRLEsQUES, a6. 4 618 Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, Curtosrtes amp Lxcrunxe, from 9 A. M, ‘till 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklya.—Braoriux Sonex, Dances, BuRLESQUES, &c. TRIPLE SHEET. 'y. June 27, 1863. THE SITUATION. ‘The cuemy progresses slowly, but with large force, into Pennsylvania. Affairs at Harrisburg wore a more quiet aspect yesterday, although the country people, with droves of cattle and horses, were rushing into the city in large numbers. Pre- parations for defence were going on actively. General Knipe evacuated the town of Carlisle yesterday afternoon, not deeming his force strong enough to hold it against the approaching enemy, Who were reported to be from ten to twelve thou- sund strong. Up to nine o’clock last night, how- ever, it does not appear that the rebels were in possession, nor any nearer than within four miles ofthe place. Much perplexity exists as to the exact route the rebels have taken, The rebel force which occupied Gettysburg yes- terday belongs to Longstreet’s corps, General Eariy's division. It is believed that this force in- tends to strike the Northern Central Railroad, either at Hanover Junction or York, which is dis« tant about thirty miles. They comprise ten regi- ments of infantry, and with cavalry and artillery. Governor Curtin has received information that the rebeta hold all the passes of South Mouatain. This makes two corps which have crossed the Po- tomac. General Rhodes’ division of Ewell’s corps which now occupy Chambersburg is twelve thou- sand strong, with five batteries and an immense wagon train. It was raining hard all day yester- ay, and the Susquehanna was rising. This, should it continue, may obstruct the operations of the rebel armies for a time. Governor Curtin will issue a proclamation to-day oalling for sixty thousand volunteers to protect the State. It was reported at Harrisburg yesterday that Gen. Hooker's right wing is in the vicinity of Hagerstown. Gen. Milroy has been relieved of his command and Col. Pierce placed atthe head of the troops at Bloody run. We publish some very interesting news from Port Hudson to-day, received by the Creole from New Orleans, which arrived here yesterday. A second “aasault upon Port Hudson was made by the Union troops on the Mth instant, and they were again disastrously repulsed. The loss of field officers was very large in killed and wounded, amounting to less than five colonels. Our troops, though repulsed, fought bravely. It seems evident that General Banks has not force enough to accomplish what he so daringly at- tempts; and it is to be hoped that he will be speedily reinforced from some quarter. It wae expected that another assault would be made on the 19th. Our correspondent on the field states that Colonel Dudley has volunteered, and was to no lead a ‘forlorn hope” or Storming column of four thousand men, all picked men and volunteers. The result of this attack remains to be known. Our latest news from Vicksburg is to the 224. At that time everything was going on favorably and the navigation of the Mississippi was said to The Richmond Dis- patch, however, contains a telegram from General Jobnaton to Jeff. Davis, dated on the 224, which states that Kirby Smith had got possession of Milliken’s Bend, above Vicksburg. This does not tally with the news received at Washington. We give a fine map of Vicksburg and its defences to- day. We have received from Newbern, N. C., news to be clear ae far as Memphis, we are unable to say anything relative to the ponds at those places.’’ Mr. Anthony, who is Postmaster at Leaven- worth, Kansas, and Mayor of the city, on the 19th instant, by the aid of a brass band, succeeded in getting a crowd together in one of the public streets to witness the burning of a number of newspapers which had been suppressed in that district by Gen. Blunt. A formidable pile of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Chicago Times, New York World, and other copperhead journals, was made in the street, and when the Mayor applied the torch something like an Indian war dance was enjoyed around the fire by the jayhawkers and John Brownites who were congregated to witness the proceedings. The affair was carried through in true dramatic style. Governor Parker, of New Jersey, has issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to fill up the quota of the State under the previous oalls of the President. The colored male population of Detroit and the surrounding country has become so thinned out that hardly an able bodied negro can be met in @ day’s travel. They have all skedaddled to Cana- da to evade the draft. The returns of the election for members of the Canadian Parliament up to Tuesday show that forty-one ministerial candidates have been chosen, against forty-five opposition and thirteen indepen- dent. The difficulty which recently took place at the Clarendon Hotel, between a Mr. Pycock and Mr. Henry Wood, of Wood's Minstrels, was satisfactori- ly arranged yesterday. All the parties appeared before City Judge McCunn, and, after talking the matter over, it was mutually agreed to indefinitely postpone any further proceedings. John Ward, a bartender at the saloon No. 25 East Houston street, was brought before Justice Dowling yesterday on a charge of stealing a gold watch and $450 in cash from one of the patrons of the establishment, named W. H. Cowl, while the latter was taking asleep ina chair. The ma- gistrate committed the accused for trial. In the Kings County Court of Oyer and Termi- ner yesterday, Judge Brown announced that he would render his decision on the motion for arrest of judgment in the Ratzsky case at the next term of the Court, in August next. The stock market was excited yesterday, especially on Harlem, which rose about 26 per cent. Other shares were generally firm and bioyant at the close. Gold was dull, in the neighborhood of 144%. Exchange was 1573 8158. Money was active, but not close. Call loans 687 per cent. The demand for cotton yesterday was fair, and prices of middling ranged from 66c. a 67¢. The transactions in breadstuffs wore less extensive, though buyers had any existing advantage, The inquiry for provisions was g00d at buoyant rates. There was more activity in Rio coffte, salt, sugars and tallow, and decidedly lese in oils, whiskey and firecrackers. Hay, hops and wool were saleabie and steady. Metals, hemp, fish, candies and na val stores were lightly dealt in. The freight market was not quite so brisk. The dry goods business has exhibited increased activi. ty in the departments of domestic fabrics, especially do- mestic cottons, which, responding to the rapid rise in the raw material, have advanced 714 @ 16 per cont during the past week. The inquiry, which has been fair for the searon, has been mainly speculative and from reguiar dealers. The demand for domestic woollens bas not been very briek; but holders have been quite confident and bave been generally reluctaut to sell, unless at somewhat firmer prices. Transactions in foreign goods have been restricted, and prices have been irregular. The auction sales of the week have not been very attractive. Desira- dle goods sold well; but other articles went off at low and uneatifactory rates. The week's importa of foreign dry goods reached, in value, $781,147, including $472,757 entered for consumption direst, and $258,890 for ware. housing. The total amount of foreign dry goods actually marketed during the week was $616,307 Gen. Lee's M Richmo! We have at length received something more than a “general belief” in regard to the move- ments of the rebel army of Virginia. The very interesting letters from our Harper’s Ferry and Baltimore correspondents, which we publish this morning, remove all doubts upon the subject. Making due allowance for the probable exaggerations of the rebel prisoners. whose statements are furnished in our letter from Maryland Heights. we have no doubt that upon the main point of the movements of General Lee's forces this testimony is substan- tially correct. It is thus manifest that, in view of the despernte extremities of the rebellion, General Lee has been sent forward upon the desperate enterprise of recovering all that has the 234, which may possibly be published by other journals, Dut as it relates to military move- ments of importance we prefer withholding the facta. The destructive operations of the rebel priva- teers in Northern waters continue unabated. Our news columns to-day contain accounts of no less than four more vessels destroyed within 9 day or two, one of which was a side wheel steamer. Three rebel pirates—a large steamer, bark and a three masted schooner—were hard at work off the Bay of Fundy. The morchante of Boston offer a toward of $10,000 for the capture of the bark Ta- cony, which is doing so much mischief among the fishing boats. The rebel steamers Alabama and Georgia were still at Bahia on the 19th of May, conling from a British bark. The authorities had ordered them off; but there were no signs of their obeying the order at last accounts. Ae a set-off to these disasters we hear the news that the rebel steamer Hattie was captured off Wilmington on Saturday by the United States gun- boat Florids, with « large cargo of torpentine, foain and cotton. She reported that the Banshee, the fastest blockade runner afloat, was burned in Cape Fear river while about to ran out with a eargo of cotton and turventine. been lost or losing all that remains, of saving or sinking the cause of Jeff. Davie in a campaign against Washington. Itfurther appears that one-half of this ag: gressive army two days ago was on the north side of the Potomac, in Maryland and Penney)- vania, and that the other balf, immediately under the eye of General Lee, ‘Was some thirty talles south of the Potomac, in the Shenandoah valley. His whole army, in a military sense, may be described as being in the same valley, extending thirty miles from Winchester to the Potomac, and thence fifty miles northward to Chambersburg, where Genera) Ewell (invested with the corpse and the mantle of Stonewal) Jackson) had at the last secounte set up his headquarters. We do not, therefore, anticipate 6 collision between General Lee and Genera) Hooker for several days to come, and then we think it probable that the firs: active and serious hostilities will come off at | Harper’s Ferry. That point, with the advance of Lee beyond the Potomac, is essential to bis communications with the Shenandoah valley | and Richmond. His siege train will therefore, | we conjecture, be first brought into requisition | against Maryland Heights, in conjunction with | an assault by the reserved column of Long- street. We cannot imagine, however, that our mili. tary authorities at Washington will be found | unprepared for this emergency. Thev have had oufficiont time to bring up the whole Army of the Potomac within supporting distance of Harper's Ferry; and, from the very fact that our troops there have been and are engaged in atrengthening their dofences on Maryland Heighte, we conclude that they will not be loft this time unsupported, whatever may be the force which Lee may bring againat thom. As matters now stand, the advantages of the situation, as between Hooker and Loe, are do- cldedly in favor of Hooker; for, #0 long as ho holds Harper's Forry, with his army in good supporting distance, he is in « position from which he may either arrest the advance of Lee towards Washington or out off his rotroat. From tho reserves of Heinteelman at Washing- ton, and the forces of Schenck et Baltimore, in addition to General Hooker's army, General Halleck, we have no doubt, caa bring one hun- dred and fifty thousand experienced soldiers to bear against the army of Lee. Strategy, there- fore, must decide the campaign; and if our Goneral-in-Chief will only bring into practice a fow of the useful instructions embodied in his book on the “Elements of the War” he will surely gain the day. That the trial of strategy and arms will soon come on we may rest assured. Every day’s delay to General Lee is now « loss to him and ® gain to us. He has no reserves to draw upon, while from the reserves’ of Penasylvania alone Governor Curtin, under the exigencies of ‘the occasion, ought to be able te bring forward his fifty thousand militia within ten days. His proclamation will doubtless give increased activity to the movements of Lee, and vigilance and activity, therefore, should be the ordér of the day at Washington. Lee has resolved to risk the loss of Richmond to capture Washing- ton, and, while this prize is the only victory which can save the rebellion, the rebels, in se- curing it, can afford to sacrifice Richmond. All our advices from Washington, however, lead us to believe that our military authorities there feel confident that our capital is safe against all possible contingencies, or that otherwise our thirty or forty thousand troops in Southeastern Virginia and in North Caro- lina would have been called away. We hope that they have been ordered to a practical di- version under General Dix, which of itself will soon relieve Maryland and Pennsylvania of their rebel invaders. The administration has forces sufficient around Washington to destroy the army of Lee; Pennsylvania, with the twenty regiments of our State militia which Governor Seymour has sent to her relief, is surely competent to repel the enemy, at least from the Susquehanna. All the advantages of the situation on every side are with us, and this audacious invading army of Lee can only escape destruction through the imbecllity of our military authorities at Washington. Let them for once rise to the dangers of the crisis, and this campaign will be the last of the re- bellion. Let them fail to meet the exigencies of their situation, and the consequences may be a defeat, resulting in foreign intervention, dis- solution, and that disastrous peace which will involve us in perpetual war. Tue Tripoxe Exporsine Our Views apoct tHE Destaxs oF LEE AND THE GENERAISHIP OF Hooxer.—On Thursday, in the principal edito- rial article, we showed that the advance corps of Lee’s army had actually crossed into Mary- land, and that the sum of all the information in our possession showed that he was about to strike at the railroad communications between Washington and the Nerth, so as to isolate Hoeker and domineer over Pennsylvania and Maryland, or compel the Union general to come ont from the fortifications of the federal capital and fight a general battle. As to the generalsbip of Hooker we said:— & bold and rapid movement of the rebel geveral the theatre of war in Virginia has been transferred north- from the Rappahannock to the ‘operation of the enemy. Had Hoo} j~ the a poioey —_ bcoeappe dn gma in his fe nag irrepara end driven bim back in con! By moving on the chord of the are. with bis fine cavalry t ave seized the gaps in the Blue Ridge and as- sailed Lee's flank, cutting his army intwo,or he could have destroyed his trains and chopped up his rear. But Lee, without any considerable loss, has succeeded in making & circuit around the right flank of the Union army and getting in the rear of Washington. The Tribune of yesterday, adopting these views, says:— if it is urged against the probability of the Movement more and suggested = the van Sor beyiig Harrisburg, Balti- ‘ashington it hazardous, exposing flank and rear to assault, the answer is, that Lee has just accomplished @ march more extended, and in some re- ‘spects more dangerous than this, From Fredericksburg to Hagerstown is not less than one hundred and fifty miles. The route by which General Lee marched exposea his flank at @ dozen different points: yet be has reached the upper valley, not only without serious lets, which to could not reasonably have expected, but con withow'! an gor at interruption by General Hooker. The most perilous of military movements har been so successfully made pond to have been suspected until it was nearly completed. Thus the Tribune not only endorses our views about the designs of Lee, but the incompetency of Hooker. who has permit- ted himself to be completely outgeneraled by the rebel chieftain. But, having come to the conclusion that Hooker is not the man to cope with Lee, why does not the Tribune urge upon the government to recall to the cominand of the Army of the Potomac the man who did succeasfally cope with him—Gene- ral McClellan—whose removal is the chief cause of the present invasion, and of the two disasters on the Rappahanneck, which prepared the way for it* Tue Apatay or New Exoiaxn.-Where are now the Maseachneetts troops with whom Gov- ernor Andrew promised “the roads would swarm” if only Mr. Lincoln would strike up the hymn of freedom for the blacks? The eman- cipation proclamation has been issued, and now we are invaded as one of the consequences. ‘Where are the masses—black, white and mulat- to—who were to darken the ways and fill the air with clouds of dust from their march? ‘Where are Greeley’s 900,000 abolitionists who had never smelied battle, but whe were ready to advance against the rebels, making the welkin ring with the song of “Jobn Brown,” the moment the President complied with the @emands of the radicals? The President has done bie part; but the abolition leaders, like juggling fiends, have fatled him in the hour of need, and their myrmidone leave Pennsy)vania to ite fate. Bouxty ron Recrvrrs my rar Eroety-rovnry Reoment N. G.—We notice that resolutions have been offered in the Common Council to give one hundred dollars bounty to recruits for Colonel Conkling’s regimem, or Eighty-fourth regiment National Guard. That regiment is now filling up its ranke, with the intention of starting in a few days to the assistance of Penn- sylvania in ite hour of need. Here is a chance for our citizens to show their patriotiam. Fall into line. Fill wp the ranks of this regiment, and let there be no delay. The Peace Party North and South. ‘The rebel journals are exceedingly savage in their attacks upon the peace party of the North. They ridioule it, satirize it and call it al! man- ger of hard names. But tho evidence that there is a large peace party at the South is dally accumulating. In Woatern North Caro- lina, Western Virginia, Eastern Tonacasee, Northern Alabama and Northern Georgia many people have boldly declared for the old Union and the old flag, in spite of Jeff. Davis’ terror- fam and despotism. It is very evident, there- fore, that the object of these rebel newapaper attacks upon the Northern poace party is to create such @ feeling of hostility against this section of the country as to effectually suppress the Southera peace party, whioh is everywhere developing itself, and which has already as- sumed formidable proportions in the districts we have mentioned. It is @ curious faot that the abolitionists take great pains to re-echo and onderse these rebel diatribes and phillipios against the peace party. Neither Joff. Davis nor the abolitionists desire to have this war ended by the restoration of the Union. Joff. Davis and the other rebel leaders are struggling hard for a Southern confederacy, in which they can keop themselves in power. The abolition- ists are making equally earnest efforts to secure a Northern confederacy, in which they oan re- tain power by negro votes. This plot has been apparent for years past, and bas been showing its cloven' foot ever since the rebellion began. We have repeatedly asserted that the aboli- tionists and the fire-eating rebel leaders are working together for » common objeot, and upon no other hypothesis can their unanimity upon the subject of peace and their mutual assistance in breeding enmity and rage between the two sections of the country be satisfacto- rily explained. It is very natural, therefore, that the organs of the rebel government should assail the peace party of the North in bitter and malicious articles, and quite as natural that the abolitionists should use these weapons, supplied to them by the rebels, by publishing all such articles with exulting comments; by banishing and threatening to hang all peace orators, and by suppressing or forbidding the circulation of as many peace organs as pos- sible. Let any one suppose that a conspiracy ex- ists between the rebel and the abolition leaders to divide the Union and share the spoils, and he will find the present conduct of both par- ties precisely consistent with such a theory. Jeff. Davis is afraid of the Southern people. and his efforts are directed to keeping them in ignorance of the true state of feeling at the North, and to goading them to madness by misrepresenting the objects of the war and the character of the Union men. On the other hand, Greeley and his coadjutors devote them- selves to the task of verifying all that Jeff. Da- vis states. They attempt to repress the North- ern peace sentiment; they encourage the rebels by promising that the North will submit if our armies are defeated only once more, and they give the war double horrors by making it a war for the abolition of slavery and the exter- mination of slaveholders.. Thus, whenever the peace feeling at the South begins to gain ground, we find Greeley and his gang blowing Jeff. Davis’ bellows furieusly, and aiding him to fire the Southern heart and becloud the Southern mind. Every now and then we hear of rebel officers reading such abolition fulminations before their regiments before going into battle, or cheering on their troops by stating that the Northern men will give up after one defeat more. So this despi- cable game of mutual comfort and assistance has been played by the rebel leaders and the abolitionists since the outbreak of the war. On neither side have the masses of the people had a chanceto be heard. Whenever the soldiers of the Union and the rebel armies have met peacefully they have at once fraternized and united im a wish that the fire-eaters on the one side and the abolitionists on the other were hung together, and the fratricidal conflict thns ended. The time will come when this wish will be gratified. When the peace parties atthe North and the South are merged into one great party by the re-establishment of the Union, Jeff. Davie and poor Greeley will suffer the same fate. In their lives they are co- laborers, and in death they shall not be divided. Tue Pasic or Horace Greecey.—The Tribune is in a state of terrible trepidation about “the rebels coming North.” It says the decisive battle is at band, and, “if Lee can conquer us, 6o be it.” Will Greeley not bring out bie nine hundred thousand te contront the rebels before he passes under the Caudine fork of the South- ern confederacy? Will he not lead the black legion against the foe? Or is he prepared to become a meek and loyal subject of Jeff. Davis, and to eat all he ever said about nigger equality? But why is Greeley so scared! Lee has not yet crossed the Susquehatma, much less the Delaware and the Hudson. New York is still safe. Why is our philosopher so anxious about his own personal security’ It is because he is conscious that he and his radical fellow con- spirators have brought disgrace and misfortune upon the country. They eriginated the war, and then did their utmost to defest its object, jsafter men and meney without stint and the most arbitrary war powers had been conferred upon the administration. Leet McClellan should be succesaful in restoring the Union, they caused his removal from the command of the Army of the Potomac, and they have filled his brought to the . is now shivering in bie old boots, and fe doing his best to reconcile an excited population to the regime of Jeff. Davis. “If he conquer ue, Surely it ie time enough to fall down and lick the dust when the conqueror treads upon it, instead of anticipating him by swallowing it in advance of bis advent. Alas! poor Greeley. ‘We did not think he would have fallen #0 low. Evrecr ty New York or ru Invasion or Pews- ativania.—The price of coal is up dollar a ton in @ single day, in consequence of, inva- sion of Pennsylvania, and it is fea t the price will be soon much higher, a® railroad communication with the coal mines may he- come seriously Interrupted, and the mines | themselves perhans be destroyed. A Hore Fatien. Another bero has gene te his long home. ‘The country has to mourn tho loss of Admiral Foote. Perhaps there was no officer of our navy who was hold in auch high esteem. There was not ono, certainly, who deserved it more than the Christian horo who has just yielded his last breath, universally beloved and regretted. Admiral Foote's patriotism has always been of the most marked obaracter, and nobly and faithfully has he performed every duty assigned to him. He was the first offoer in our navy who practically demonstrated that in moral suasion there is great power; he was the first of our officers who made of his ship « temperance vessel; and, more than all, he was one of tho first to hurl the vengeance and justice of an outraged Union against © wayward and rehel- lious band of States. His every act, both public and private, was marked by that spirit of truth and equity which ennobles a man, while it has the happiest in- fluence on those by whom he is surrounded. In his personal intercourse he was as modest and unassuming as ho was brave and heroic in his profession, and we have yet to learn that ever an officer or sailor was heard to utter a word against him. On the Westera waters ho accomplished some of the moat brilliant achievements of the war, and he would. un- doubtedly have done much more, but; recelving @ severe wound in his foot, he was compelled to relinquish a commaed in which he had ren- dered the most important services to the government. He was out down in the very prime of life, and at a time when the eyes of the country were turned towards him for the accomplishment of one of the most arduous tasks yet assigned to the commander of a squadron. His death was caused by his overworking himself in the duties which the Navy Depart- ment had imposed upon him. He had not Sought the post; but, being ordered to perform certain work, he bent his utmost energies to it, and has fallen in the performance of his duty. His death is none the less glorious because he did not die in battle; and, although perhaps it might have been his desire to have ended his days in fighting for his country, yet he hus been taken from us while engaged as arduously u& though he stood upon the deok of his own flagship. Admiral Foote was a most exemplary Chris- tian, living up to his profession of religion with an exactitude quite uncommon; yet he never intruded his religious views upon a pro- miscuous assemblage or at an unseasonable time. He was eminently a God loving and God fearing man, aad as he lived so he died. But our loss is his gain. Tak Warerine Pract Stason.—We have here- tofore predicted a most brilliant season at the watering places this summer. As we do not claim prophetic ken, nor the gift of second sight, nor that clairvoyant power of which Judge Edmonds thinks so highly, we may as well ac- knowledge that our prediction was based upon the calculation that the war would last through the summer, and that the immense war expen- ditures, past, present and future, would enable our shod istocrate to enjoy themselves to the top of their bent. Unfortunately, however, we did not calculate upon much fighting this summer, and the invasion of Lee's army may now spoil our prediction about the watering Place season. The rebels have a very large army in Maryland. Hooker atiother large army to confront the rebels. But, as the pre- sent contest would seem to be one of strategy and manceuvring, no one can predict how it will result. If Hooker's military ability were as great as his own opinion of himself we should be very confident. As it is, each State may soon have to protect itself, and our citizens may be obliged to pack their knapsacks for an active campaign, instead of packing their trunks for the watering places. If Lee shotld by any chance isolate and capture Washington, break- ing up the federal government and taking Mr. Lincoln prisoner, matters would become very serious, and more people than the landlords of the watering place hotels would suffer. In this case, as in many others, however, those persons who have done the most mischief will receive the least harm. The abolitionists down East. who were largely instrumental in causing the war, will be the least affected by the rebel in- vasion. Very likely, therefore. the watering places in that section of the country will bave a glorious season, and be thronged with crowds of gay pleasure seekers, although the people of the Middle States may be fighting bravely in defence of their homes. This is an exceedingly curious world, and the-longer we live in it the more of a puzzie it appears. Tue Frieur ww Pesysyivania.—The alarm of the Pennsylvanians at the invasion of Lee ie extraordinary. The population along the Maryland State line are rasbing across the Sus- | quehanna in a state of panic, believing they are comparatively safe with that bar; between them and the exemy. But the citizens of Har- risburg and thoee in its vicinity residing on this side of the Susquebanna are packing up their valuables for flight, and seem to think they will not be secure till they have crossed the Dela- ware, It is said that the rebels openly pro- claim that they will notetop till they reach Philadelphia. We hope, however, that Gover- nor Curtin’s draft of 50,000 men will arrest many of the fugitives in their flight. How can Pennsylvanians expect the militia of New Jer- ey and New York to defend them if they will not defend their own flresides against invasion’ Peaneylvania ie famous for® vast amount of self-esieom. It calle itself the Keystone State, Let us see how ite population will now fight for the arch of the Union, of which Pennsyl- vania is the binding stone. There is no use in rupning away; for the fugitives will bave to turn round and give battle at last. The people @id not thus flee when McClellan was in com- gnand. Have they no confidence in the present commander of the Army of the Potomac? This ie & question that deserves investigation. Govervon Cormm’s Oat ror Firty Toy. taxp Minima Iw Prwnsyivaxis—It will be seen, by « telegraphic despatch from Harrisburg, that Governor Curtin bae called for the zation of fifty thousand militia in Pennsylvania to defend the State against invasion We * this step yesterday, and it seems strange thet it bas been delayed so long. Better late, however, than never. These fifty thousand men may yet do immense service, though not | available for present use. Last year, however, | I The Striking If the weather be Park will be orewded with elch oquipages. Drivieg lolsurely along the amooth roads, or sailing in pleasure boats on the beautiful lake, or wandering through the cool shades of the Ramble, or gathered around the grand stand where Dodworth’s band discourses most excel- lent music, our shoddy aristocrats will be found enjoying themselves im state and atyle. To thom war has brought only cicbes and luxury. Their prancing horses, their elegant carriages, their silks and laces and diamonds, are the re- sulta of the war. The breeze, elsewhere laden with the abrieka of tho wounded and the groans of the dying, brings to these wealthy contractors and their familids the aweet scents of tho flowers, the voluptuous strains of the music and the deli- cious coolness of the hills and the woods. Pro- bably the Park will never seem more enjoya- ble nor its throng of visitors more brilliant than on this bright day in June. But if trom this gay scene we turn our mind'a eye to the banka of the Susquehanna and the Potomac, we see one of the striking contrasts of this war. There two hundred and fifty thousand Americans are arrayed against each other in fratricidal conflict. Perhaps the great battle of the war is in pro gress, and, blinded by thick clouds of amoke and deafened by the thunders of cannon and the rattle of musketry, the Union aué rebel forces are encountering each other, while dead: bodies, fearfully distorted or rudely tram. pled under foot, and heaps of wounded sol- diers, enduring agonies more terrible than death, attest the violence and vindictiveness of the contest. The plains of Maryland and the fair flelds of Pennsylvania may even now bo reddening with the best blood of the country, and War, that terrific farmer, may be ploughing the earth with cannon shot and sowing it with corpses. If the shock does not come to-day, it cannot be very long delayed. The rebels are ravaging the border counties of Pennsylvania, and pushing on towards the interior of the State. Lee’s army is reported to have crossed the Potomac in force, menacing the rear of the national capital. This invasion must be met and resisted, and thousands of lives must be sacrificed and hundreds of happy homes deso- lated before the invaders can be defeated and destroyed. The terrors of civil war, which have so long appalled the land, are now ap- proaching our very doors. The grim and gory front of battle glares in our very faces. And yet the shoddy aristocracy roll luxuriously along the pleasant drives of the Park, and bask serenely in the golden sunshine of for- tune, undisturbed by the clouds which lower over the people of our neighboring States. This contrast is by no means new. It bas existed ever since the outbreak of the war. It is only stronger and more pertinent now be- cause the rebels have again transferred the scene of operations to the border States, and have again exchanged the devastated fields of Virginia for the overflowing granarios and woll stocked farms and thriving towns and villages of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and because ap immense rebel army, composed of veterans and led by the ablest general in the rebel service, again threatens Washington with capture aod the national government with dispersion. The Prospect was scarcely ever so dark; and, while we may hope for the best, it will be but pru. dent for each State to prepare for the worst. If Washington should be taken or Pennsylvania be overrun, New York and New Jersey will be next invaded, and must be ready to defend their own soil, which is not less sacred than that of any Southern State, and should be not les zealously protected. Our shoddy sybarite: may soon have to fight for the posses sion of the Park in which they now enjoy themselves so delightfully. Many of these “devil's dust” aristocrats are radical abolitionists, and aided in causing this war, which bas made them wealthy and the country miserable. Hitherto they have had ne desire that the war should cease. Every day that it bas been prolonged they have been able to coin more money from the distresses of their fellow citizens, and for this purpose they have assisted in prolonging it. Now, at length they will perbaps be taught by bitter experi: ence some of the woes which they have pre pared for other people; and, if they could all | be drafted, equipped in their own shoddy uni- forms, fed upon the hard tack and diseased meat they bave foisted upon our soldiers | armed with the defective rifles and useless muekets they have sold to the government, and sent to the frontier to be the first targets for the rebel cannon, the country would be greatly benefited by the operation. oy Tux Sikek or Port Hvpsoy—Posrrion ov Genenal Baxxs—The latest news from New Orleans and Port Hudson is of grave im- portance. Onr Correspondents accompanying | the army of investment, under General Banks, | supply full and interesting details of the most | recent operations against that stronghold. } From these it appears that, after a long and furious bombardment of the enemy's works, | the commanding general determined on a second assault along their whole line. The attempt was most heroically made. and doubt- Jese would have sueceeded if the Union forces bad been powerful enongh for the exigencies of the occasion. Unfortunately, the immense strength of the rebel works proved too much for the emall force which General Banks could bring to the attatk, and after a desperate and determined contest, in which our soldiers dis- played the greatest beroiem, the federal columns were compelled to fall back on their own intrenchments. Thus the second assault on Port Hudson, bike the first, hae failed, because troops enough have not been sent to operate against the place. ? But, though thie second advance has been ebecked, the defendersof the beleaguered city beve gained no advantage over us, but, on the contrary, have suffered severely in killed and wounded. This is no time for us to falter or fall back. Let the government immediately tee to it that strong reinforcemente be sent to Gen. Banks from the searest points whence they can be obtained. It is said that a heavy rebel force is concentrating in his rear to at- tack him and prevent his retreat upon Baton Rouge. This may be very true, as in their great extremity the rebels will Jose no chance to re- deem their failing fortunes. But the fate of Vicksburg is now almost decided, and before long the reduction of that city will release a | Curtin had fifty thousand militia on the flank of same men seem very tardy in com What is the reason Governor Cuttin | Tat him tall the teeth, | Lee, which was one of the causes that compelled | | him to retreat from Maryland. This year the | large portion of Gen. Grant's fine army, which will then be free to operate against Port Hud- eon. Insuch a case the fall of the place will be no longer doubtful. To make the matter knows, | doubly secure and certain, Gen. Banks should be immediately strenethened to quoh an extent