The New York Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1863, Page 4

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Brooklyn.—Ermorian Fones, Dances, BunuEsaves, ac. CONTINENTAL HALL, Paterson.—Campari’s Mine sTueLa in Etarortan Songs, Dances, BURLESQUKS, &C. New York, Sunday, July 26, 1863. THE SITUATION. Despatches received from Washington late last night siate that it was believed that General Lee, with his whole army, had escaped, and was then at Culpepper (or Orange) Court House. During the afternoon they were endeavoring to cross the Blue Ridge at Chester Gap, where a fight occurred with their rear guard. It was positively stated in Washington that General Lee had only been delayed on the Upper Potomac to enable him to Get away safely with the plunder he had collected in Maryland and Pennsylvania; and because his foroes have been gathering the new crop of grain | in the Shenandoah valley that he is now moving towards Richmond with immfense trains of, supplies, the necessity of procuring which was increased by the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and is now intensified by the cutting of the Tenessee and Vir- ginia Railroad, which was a great medium for pro- inst. The enemy was overtaken at Elk creek, five thousand strong, under General Cooper, and was there vigorously attaoked by twenty-five hundred men and twelve guns of General Blunt's command. ‘The fight was an obstinate one; but by a bold charge it was finished in the flight of the rebels, who left all their stores in our possession. Our cavalry were pursuing the fleeing rebels when the express left. The rebel loss was sixty killed and twenty-four wounded. Colonel Williams, of the First colored Kansas, was severely wounded. EUROPEAN NEWS. The news from Europe which we publish to- day has been received by the telegraph from the Steamer Scotia, at Cape Race, and the City of New York and Olympus, which have arrived at this port. The intelligence is four days later, and possesses many features of interest. The City of New York made one of the fustest passages on record across the Atlantic, for a screw steamer, accomplishing, the voyage from Liverpool to Queenstown and New York in eight days and twenty-three hours. The most interesting and important part of the news is the withdrawal of Mr. Roebuck’s motion for the recognition of the Southern confederacy, after a spicy debate in the House of Commons, which will be found fully ro- ported in another part of to-day’s paper. The remarks of the O’Donohue on that occasion were characterized by much friendliness to America. A discussion had also arisen on the case of a Bri- tish vessel—the Margaret and Jessie—alleged to have been sunk by a federal war steamer off the Bahamas, and the matter referred to Lord Lyons, to demand explanations and redress from our government. The other branches of news are of general interest to the reading public. Queen Victoria will visit Germany for four weeks in August, staying at the Castle of Rose- nau. She will travel as Duchess of Lancaster, and will visit the King of the Belgians for a day en route. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Spanish frigate Princessa arrived at this port yesterday, and anchored in the bay. At noon all the men-of-war lying off the Battery hoisted the Spanish national ensign at the fore and fired a salute as a mark of respect to the Princessa.. The Commissioners of Excise receiyed and ap- proved a large number of applications for liquor license last week. As they will shortly hold their last session for the current year, all persons who need license had better apply therefor imme- diately. The Position of the Rebel Army of Vir- ginia. After much mystery as to the whereabouts of General Lee’s army, it would now appear that he has given the slip to General Meade, and, after a slight conflict be- tween his rear guard and our forces at Thornton’s Gap, has succeeded in crossing the Blue Ridge at that point, and was safe at Culpepper (or Orange) Court House at a late hour last night. General Lee was undoubtedly in pretty strong force at or near Front Royal on Friday, and his cavalry was driven from Ma- nassas Gap about sunset on that day. From Front Royal he appears to have pushed on to Chester (or Thornton) Gap, through which, ‘notwith- standing the obstacles he was supposed to have met with there, he passed in safety. Under these circumstances, what is to be the policy of the administration? ‘The army of General Grant is amply sufficient to take care of the debris of Joe Johnston’s late army of odds and ends and the demoralized and retreating army of Bragg. This will leave the splendid army of General Rosecrans free for a liberating campaign through East Tennes- see and Southwestern Virginia, and so on to Lynchburg and Richmond. Perhaps the late cutting of the Virginia and Tennessee Rail- road at Wytheville may have been the initial step to a movement against Lee on the part of Gen. curing supplies for his army. We have four days later news from Charleston through rebel sources, viz:—General Beauregard’s official despatches and telegrams from Charleston Rosecrans. The time has certainly arrived for the liberation of the long suffering and cruelly " persecuted loyal people of East Tennessee; and this duty, not less than the policy of a powerful to the Richmond papers. The attacks of our forces upon Fort Wagner are represented as most dise; astrous to our side. Our loss is put down at two thousand, including Colonels Putnam and Shaw. A | despatch from Charleston of the 19th inst. says:— “The bombardment of battery Wagner yesterday was terrific. Five Monitors, the Ironsides, seven wooden gunboats and two land batteries maintained concentrated fire foreleven hours. At dark the enemy, numbering ten regiments, made a deter- mined assault on our works. After a desperate struggle, lasting until eleven o’clock P. M., they were repulsed with heavy loss. Our loss is about one hundred killed and wounded. The enemy’s is estimated at fifteen hundred. We captured over two hundred prisoners, including some black troops engaged in the assault. All quiet to-day—burying the dead.” News received in Washington yesterday, how- ever, shows that no assault was made on Fort Wagner on the 18th, as above described by the rebel authorities. The whole story is looked upon as a canard, as the telegraphic commuication be- tween Charleston and Richmond was cy off. It is ascertained, however, that our secom@ assault on Fort Wagner, which was to have been made on the 19th, was not a success, although our loss is not known. The destruction of Wytheville, Va., by, our forces under Colonel Tollandj‘which we announced yes- terday, is officially reported by General. Scammon to the War Department. It is also confirmed by a despatch from the rebel General Jones to the Confederate government, which we publish in another column, We have news from rebel sources to the 18th instant, relative to the evacuation of Jackson and the retreat of the enemy. The sick and wounded were all removed, and the rebels, steording to their own accounts, moved out of the city very quietly at ten o'clock on the night of the 16th, our forces not being aware of the fact until daylight next morning. ‘The official report of Admiral Porter which: we publish to-day shows that the Red river expedition which he sent out under the charge of Lieutenant Commander Selfridge has been most successful, completely cutting off the supplies and ammuni- tion of the rebel General Walker. Lieutenant Sel- fridge captured two rebel steamers, with large cargoes of sugar, rum and general stores. He aiso seized at Trinity fifteen thousand rounds of smooth bore cartridges, ten thousand rounds of Pofield’s and other ammunition, gans, sugar, ram, palt and flour belonging to the Confederate gov- ernment. Despatches from Leavenworth, Kansas, to the ‘95th, report @ victory for General Biont over the rebols in the Indian Territory on the i¢th diversion from the Southwest against Richmond, is, we hope, at the bottom of the new campaign of our Army of the Cumberland. A crushing defeat or dispersion of the rebel army of Virginia is all that is now required to bring this war to an end, or to a contemptible guerilla warfare which will soon exhaust itself. All the movements of all our armies between Virginia and Mississippi should therefore be now mainly directed, not against Mobile, or Charleston, or Wilmington, or Richmond, but against the rebel army of Virginia, the destruc- tion or dispersion of which, in a single blow, secures all*the strongholds of the rebellion. There is now no place of refuge in the cotton States for Jeff. Davis and his government, his Confederate scrip and his books and papers. He is not wanted in North Carolina. He has no choice, therefore, as it appears to us, but to “die in the last ditch” at Richmond; and hence the supreme importance of now allowing neither time nor facilities in any direction to Lee for the recuperation and reinforcement of his army. Evrorran Views or THe Sovtyern Repet- Liwx.—Our telegraphic advices from Cape Race inform us of the arrival of the steamer Scotia off that place. Her mails will not come to hand for a few days more; but as the steam vessels which left this and other ports of the United States with details of the battles of Gettysburg have arrived in England, we are bati hat the European public are now fully informed of the results of that splendid victory to the arma of the Union. The£nglish press will naturally be greatly dissatisfied with the results of this battle. As a decisive victory in our favor it proves nothing to them against the Southern rebellion; had our forces been re- pulsed and defeated it would have proved everything against us. Now our European friends are looking forward to the fate of Vicksburg and Port Hudson as the decisive test of the campaign. We have not kept our transatlantic cousins in doubt very long. The next mail that arrived at Southampton in- formed them of the fall of these strongholds of the rebels on the Mississippi, and very shortly after they will hear of the active resumption of | trade and commerce along the whole extent of that magnificent river. Then, according to the | prophecy of the London Times, “the question | will be settled.” the official reports of the military officers en- gaged in putting down the recent disturbances | in this city one by one come in, the proof accu- mulates that the course of the radical press only increased our difficulties. The report of Major General Sandford will be found in another | column, which throws further light on the mys- | Rerort or Mason Genera Sanpronp—As | terious events of the week of terror in this city. , He also gives special notice to those officers who rendered valuable assistance in his depart- | ment, and who should be remembered by a grateful public. _ NEW ‘The Blatherskite Journals of Richmona. ‘Phe Richmond journals, crushed by the over- whelming defeats the rebel arms have lately en- dured, are compelled to acknowledge that the Southera confederacy has met with “incaleu- lable and wholly irreparable losses.” The cap- tures by our troops of Vicksburg, of Port Hud- son, the defeat of Lee's army, the defeat of Johnston, the loss of Tennessee, and the tre- mendous fiasco of Morgan, the guerilla, all crowd down upen the vainglorious boasters of the Richmond journals with irresistible weight. They acknowledge their desperate condition; but, true to their instincts, they now prate about the brave deeds of Paul Jones, and compare their sinking and rotten confederacy to the old ship Bon Homme Richard. Like Paul Jones, they will, say the blatant editors above referred to, nail their colors to the mast, and go on from victory to victory. Now that they are “ irre- trievably used up” they will let the world see what Southerners can do. This balderdash will fleceive no one. The people of the South are now fully aware that their violent and selfish leaders have deceived them, and are, the ma- jority of them, quite ready to come back iato the Union. The logs of the Mississippi railroads will terri- bly hamper the movements of the rebels and” render their chances for obtaining food precari- ous in the extreme. They can no longer draw provisions, from the rich plains of Tennessee; and whereas they have been for some time obliged to pay the moat extravagant prices for the necessaries of life, what will they do now that their communications are cut off? At Natchez we captured five thousand head of cattle. A few more such achievements and the South will find itself upon the verge of starva- tion. Independent of the food question must be taken into consideration the fact that we seized forty locomotives and all the rolling stock of the Mississippi railroads. These losses the rebels cannot repair, as the people of the South are fully aware, and we dare assert that they are as much disgusted with the humbug and bombast of the Richmond journals as all thinking men both here and abroad. The rebel authorities will in vain endeavor to raise more troops. If they take away all the white men the negroes will not work, and thus, even if servile insurrection should not eccur, starvation would ensue. Within the past three or four weeks the rebels have lost at least one hundred thousand men, and, we repeat, they cannot replace them. This fact is as patent to the people of the South as to ourselves, and they know that the hour of submission is near. When our government shall see fit to extend a hand to the misgnided South that hand will be grasped, and Davis and his com- peers will find themselves left alone. The blatherskiting of the Richmond journals will have no effect upon people who hear the stern voice of necessity. We would advise the said journals to make the most of a very bad bar- “gain, and would suggest that they urge upon the people the wisdom of submission. Ait that brave men could do against fearful odds and a good cause they have attempted. Let them now give a proof of good sense by abandoning their rebellious schemes and once more rallying around the old flag. In the face of the losses they have endured, the curtailing of their territory and the inevita- ble sufferings they must undergo if they still prosecute the rebellion, no true friend of the Southern people would hound them on to fur- ther resistance. That the journals of Rich- mond, which are fed upon the pap of the War Office, should do so is not singular; that the aiders and abettors of the rebellion in Eng- land—those members of Parliament who want to speculate in cotton and who wish to sell steamships to the confederacy, to say nothing of their privateering propensities— should prate about recognition is to be ex- pected; but men of sense and feeling will deprecate a struggle which can end but with the success of the one party and the good cause. The Richmond journals will find it a hard matter to convince the people of the South that “the deluge was but a shower after all.” Scammon’s Cavatry Raip.—The recent cap ture of Wytheville, Virginia, by the cavalry and mounted infantry under General Scammon, is a success of great importance. Wytheville is located upon the great Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, which runs from Richmond down to Knoxville and Chattanooga, and by which the rebels could either reinforce Bragg’s army or bring that army on to Richmond to reinforce Lee. During the first year of the war over thirty thousand rebel troops came into Virginia from the Southwest by this road. So important a point was Wytheville then considered by the rebels that Floyd, the thieving Secretary and rebel general, was sent there immediately after Virginia seceded, and there issued his first order calling for armsand men. Wytheville has been carefully guarded by the rebels ever since that time, although the railroad has been tapped by our cavalry at various other points, and espe- cially by General Carter, near Knoxville, The recent attack upon Wytheville is the first we have made, however, and, as it proved success- ful, it may materially assist Rosecrans in coming up with Bragg and giving him that decisive thrashing which has been long impend- | | ing, but cannot be much longer delayed. ! Tue Orzxine oF THe Mississiert.—The arri- | { val of the steamboat Imperial at New Orleans | | fromBt. Lous isthe frst substantial proof that | { | ! | | the Mississippi river has been opened to com- | merce, after having been cl for two and a { half years by rebel batte: is reopening j ; of the Mississippi is also the practical result of | | the victories of Grant at Vicksburg and Banks | j at Port Hudson. Rear Admiral Porter has jast { issued an order at Cairo promising a regular } i weekly convoy from Cairo to Vicksburg, and | | from Vicksburg to New Orleans, for all com- | ! mercial vessels; and it is said that the Post- | master General will soon send the United States | j mail by this route. These proceedings insure | | the { the free passage of the Father of Waters, and : ' mark a great era in the history of this rebel- | } lion. The West has done its share of the work © ‘ nobly. Now let us do as nobly at the East, ; and clear out Charleston, Savannah and Rich- | mond. ! ‘Tur Scrrerinas or Tux Sovrn.—Some days \ since we made a comparison betweon prices ' here and in Richmond. The difference ranged from five tc seven thousand per cent, and yet ‘the Richmond journals have the audacity to assert that prices in the capital of the con- + federncy compare favorabiy with those in the ! North. The absurdity of such statements ia the ' ‘face of facts must disgust the people of the ! South, who, knowing that their late losses have ' Sefton is in Europe, playing “ From London to Paris and . ate the premises before the fual crash came, been oforwheliaing, must anticipate the most fearful euffering-in case the war is not speedily brought to an end. The territories lost to the rebels by our victories were indispensable to them, and with their capture even the most sanguine friends of the South must recognize tho uselessness of any further resistance. ————________ Generat Woot’s Ovrroue, Rerort.—We pub- lish this morning the official report of General Wool, giving in detail his operations, as well as those officers and men under him, in aiding the authorities to quell the recent riot and restore order in this city. We specially com- mend it to the attention of our readers, confi- dent that they will find in it a careful, full and considerate explanation of many points upon which the radical press have been doing their best to befog and bewilder the public. A perusal of this well prepared report will satisfy the most fastidious that, notwithstanding the determined and persistent efforts to bring about a collision between the State and national authorities and the establishment of martial law in this city, together with the fact of one or two of the officers under General Wool dis- obeying orders, perfect harmony of action existed between the local, State and national officials .in. this city. That harmonious feeling and mutual understanding has been strengthen- ed and made doubly sure since the arrival of Generals Dix and Canby. This fact is no doubt one of the causes of the anger of the radical editors. The administra- tion, in sending prudent and practical men here to take charge of the military affairs, have de- feated the projects of the bloodthirsty radicals; hence their rage and venomous articles. To General Wool, for bis considerate course during the late trying scenes, our citizens owe a debt of gratitude. It must hereafter reflect great honor upon General Wool that his last act in the active military service of his country, after a long and successful career, was discharged with a careful and considerate regard for the welfare and interest of his native State. Tue Common Covuncm, anp THe EXxeMPrion Monry.—The ordinance introduced into the Board of Aldermen by Alderman Hardy, pro- viding for the appropriation of $2,500,000 for the payment of the exemption money of poor men who may be drafted, is to be considered in the Common Council to-morrow. The last sec- tion of this ordinance nullifies the rest, for it directs that the Comptroller shall not pay this exemption money until the Conscription law is decided to be constitutional. The delays of the law are proverbial, and the whole quota of this city might be drafted, taken to the wars and marched triumphantly home again, before the decision of the Supreme Court as to the constitutionality of the Conscription law could be obtained.” This last nullifying clause, there- fore, makes the ordinance appear like a mere political trap set by Alderman Hardy and his co-operators to catch a few poor men’s votes. Of course, if municipal bounties are legal, some such an ordinance as that offered must be legal also; but it would be better to so arrange its provisions as to pay the three hundred dol- lars only to thoée drafted men who go in per- son or send a substitute to the army. This would obviate the only objection to the plan of paying exemption money, for it would supply us with soldiers instead of greenbacks. Thus amended, and with the last clause revised and corrected, Hardy’s ordinance may do; but in its present form it practically amounts to nothing. It will probably be conrected to- morrow. Theatrical. “The Duke's Motto” still holds the stage at Niblo's. Mrs. Shewell bas taken Mrs. George Jordan’s Gypsy part and plays it admirably. Mr. Frank Wood’s bur- lesque, “Leah, the Forsook,” draws crowded houses at the Winter Garden. The acting is excellent, Mr. Sol. Smith bas assumed the part of Nathao the Apostate, vice Mr. Harry Pearson, resigned on account of disafiection, ‘The New Idea gives its usual variety of performances, Barnum’s Museum is more attractive than ever. ‘The New Bowery will soon be reopened with ite dra- matic company. Manager Fox, of the Old Bowery, is Preparing great attractions for his next seasom. Annetta Galetti, the danscuse, has just finished a One engagement at Boston, and bes returned to this city. Mrs. Jobn Wood is at the New Chestnut, Philadelphia, the only the- atre pow open in that city. Mr. Barton Hill is at Buck- land's theatre, Montreal, for the summer, Mr. William Florerce is in Exgland, but will play in this city in the fall. He has secured a new sensation play by Jobn Brougham, and sevoral Yankee und protean pieces for Mrs. Florence. Quite a colony of actors and actresses have settled at Long Bronch for the summer. Mr. John Back” for his owh private amusement. Macready, the tragedian, is not dead, as reported, the name of Mulrea. dy, the artist, having beea mistaken for Macready’s. Bourcicault is bankrupt. Cubas will shortly appear as the hero of a new play. Vestvali is studying an English part, said tovbe that of Captain Logardere. Launch of the Steamer Western metngt polis. There was launched on Saturday afternoon, from the Atlantic Marine Railway Company's yard, Red Hook, Brooklyn, for Mesars. Beni Brown, N. G. Griewold and others. Sbe was built under the entire direction of Capt. F. Z. Tucker, and does him great credit. She is 290 feet long, 40 feot beam, and 23 feet deep. She has a frame entirely ef oak. Her top is of chest- nut and hackmatack; her cefling and plank are aiso of oak, and is diagonally braced; and in fact she is a very fine vessel, and is built in the most substantial manner, ‘and for beauty of model and workmanship ts unsurpassed. She has been visited by a large number of prominent shipbuilders, and the underwriters have also given her more than @ passing examination. She is a side wheel steamer of 2,260 tons register, and has a working beam engine, 76 inch diameter, 12 feet stroke, and has Lighthail’s Decalarator or Refrigerator. This Decalarator fs indesed a SS SSS ee bra Bstropot by She was afterwards wharf, whore she will take Zand | aaeeee corres The vessela in the ting, and as abe alid in cheer ning, at which they adopted the following resolution — Rosolved, That a committee be appointed by tho ! chair, with power to procure counsel and take such ' other measures #8 may be coemed proper, to test the | constitutionality of the Conscription act, corner of Greenwich and Morris streets, fell with a loud crash, alarming the entire neighborhood. Upon examina- tion it waa found that the third and fourth floors had | given way, in consequence of the heavy pressure of a lot of tobacco and four, carrying with them the lower floors, ‘and reducing the building to a complete wreck. wali on Morris street being unsupported gave way, and now blocks up the passage between wich stroet. Strange to say, nobody was hurt, all ‘had suf ions time to cupanta of the store having « YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 3863. Wasmmoron, July 25, 1868. THE OFENING OF THE MISSISSIPPI. ‘The Navy Department has received no intelligence of the thorough navigation of the Mississippi by any steam. ere. The attention of the naval authorities is also called to the fact that General Grant made no mention of the action of Admiral Porter in sending vessels to o0-operate with the land force in the attack upon Yazoo City. SOME OF THE OONTHMPLATED DISADVANTAGES OF THE DRAFT. The operation of the conscription is likely to embarrass both the military and nava! branches of the government service, by taking skilled laborers from positions where their labors are of great value and putting them in the ranks, whore an ordinary laborer would be as officieat. From Colt’s armory, at Hartford, one hundred and eighty men have been drafted. Those works are run ning wight and day on government work. From the Springfield armory, and from the thousands employed in armories, navy yards, &c., large numbers most, of course, be taken, and it will be difficult, if not impossible, to fill their places, and much delay and in terruption to work imperatively necessary to be done must be experienced. There is aclause in the Conscription act under which these drafted men might be retained in their places and still bo liable to service in the army whenever they should cease to be employed on govern- mont work, = - THE EFFIOINNOY OF THE STEAMER SANTIAGO DE CUBA. It is worthy of notice that the United States steamer Santiago de Cuba, which it was claimed could render no service as 8 portion of Admiral Wilkes’ fleet in the West Indies, on,account of being an old worn out affair, has since he wag relieved from the command of the squadron made three captures, in one instance chasing a blockade runner sixty thiles and capturing her, although she was considered # fast steamer, and distanced two other United States steamers which startod in pursnit of her at the same time. Two of the three prizes referred to have been taken by the Naval Department for tho naval service. CAPTAIN WALKE, OF THE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON. Captain Henry Walke has been detached from the Mis- sissippi squadron, and ordered to the command of the steamer Fort Jackson. NEW WAR POLICY. Under the fuspiration of the generalissimo command- ing that “ nine hundred thousand mon” the authorities here are greatly pressed to enter upon a new war policy, having for its basis the double ideas of the division and simplification of labor. We all know that, while ove pip- maker can make but ten pins s day, ata cost of some- thiog like a quarter of a dollar egch, ten pinmakers, di- viding and simplifying their labors,can make five or six or seven hundred gross of pins a day, and sell them for ten cents per package. This is the great truth which has brought home to the mind of the generalissimo that con- viction of the necessity for a change of our war policy which he is now laboring t impress on the reluctant ‘minds of our authorities. Hereafter, says the generalissi- mo, when a commander of any army in the field shall have guccecded indriving the enemy to take refuge inside fortified lines the fleld commandor should be immediate ly superseded by the senior engineer officer upon his staff—* the job to be done” being clearly “ an engineor- ing job.” The engineer wilt then remain in command of the whole army until he shall have completed his at- tacking wenches, parallels and earthworles, upon which, as the next ‘job to be done’ will bea bombardment andan affair of artillery, the engineer commander will be superseded by the chief artillery officer upon his atafl, who will have supreme command of the whole ar- my until that moment when the guns ana mines shail ave prepared the way fora storming column of infant- ry. Aa this critical juncture the command will bo again changed, ** the job to be done’’ being one for the bayo- net; and therefore, on the <evoralissimo’s plan, some stalwart grenadior or Zouave, well skilled in McClellan's or Kolton’s ‘ Bayonet Exercise,” will be the man for “the job,” and to him will ** the job” be entrusted. After the victory 1s gained, the works successfully storm- ed and captured, the next ‘+ job’ on the list will be to feed the men—thus superseding the Zouave or grenadier commandant by the chief commissary, who will tn tura be succeeded by the chief quartermaster whenever it shall become nesessary to re-clothe and oquip the ragged but glorious coborts. Aiter such a series of changes as this in the command it is altogether more than probable that half the original forces will be ia need of medical help; whereupon the chief disciple of Haculapius pre- sent—otherwise called the Medical Director—will be sum- moned to assume the doubdie stars and baton of autbori- ty—this last commander only yielding to the ehief sex- toa, whowill perform (with a brigade of contrabands) the last sad solemnities for the last mon of the grand ar my thus manipulated. What Halleck thinks of this pro- gramme it would be hard to say. He ouly shrugs his shoulders, and says: ‘ Let it work—let it work. Time ‘settles all these affairs!’ Whenever the matter is men- tioned to Stanton that choleric little man immediately puts his hand under his obin, and, pushing up his vast beard, hides his face, an explosive sound breaking con- tinually through the hairy veil,so that his hearers know not whether he is laughing at the joke, cursing the gene- ralissimo, or hiding his blushes for his poor, crazy friend’s sbare in the transaction. Nevertheless the gen- eralissimo’s plan is as I tell you; and you will see proofs of the exact accuracy of this statement before many weeks—perhaps before many days. When the “ pian of distinct jobs’ was laid before the President he only smiled, and repeated his well known objections to ‘‘swop- ping horses while swimming the stream.” MAJOR GENERALS WITHOUT COMMANDS. 1.—Major General George B. McClellan. 2.—Major Genera! Jubn C. Freemont. 3.—Major General Pen) F. Butler. 4.—Major General Joseph Hooker. 5.—Major General David Hunter. 6.—Major General Don Carlos Buell, ¥7.—Major General Irvin McDowell. —Major General William B. Franklin. 9.—Major General John A. McClernard. 10.—Major General Samuel R. Curtis. .—Major General George Cadwallader. ,—Major General Geo. W. Morell. 13 —Major General R. H. Milroy. STRINGENT TREASURY DEPARTMENT ORDER RELATIVE TO ARMY ACCOUNTS. The Second Comptrolier of the Treasury has made a de- cisién which is of importance to military disbursing Officers, He must hereafter scrutinize the character of orders of commanding officers to pay out money, and unless they are for something for the public service he will not be credited for the disbursement. CLERICAL AFFAIRS IN THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENTS. Of late a considerabie number of excellent clorks in the Interior Department have been removed to give place to Partisans. “ THE VETERAN GRANITE STATE REGIMENTS AT POINT LooKour. Ps Three of the four New Hampshire regiments that are detailed under General Marston to guard the rebel en- campment at Point Lookout are reduced to one or two hapared effective mep each. They aro to be filled up by conscripts, and thus the regiments will be much more of. fective than if raised anew in the States, with fresh and WOUNDED REBELS IN HOSPITAL. Among the rebels in hospital here ts Colonel Poler @. Evans, of Newbern, N. ©., @ son-in-law of Governor Morehead , of State. Ho was severcly wounded in one of the recent battles. He has been recetving every attention whieh bis severe case needs; but notwithstand. ing this bis physieal condition is now considered ox- tremely critical. Lieutenant Bryan, of Raleigh, ia also among the inmates of the Stanton Hospital. COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE SOUTH. Hanson A. Risley, Superintendent of the Treasury De- partment for the second special agency, has gone to Nor- folk for the purpose of arranging matters connected with commercial intercouse Within the lines of military occu. pation by our forces, TMs gentleman is from New York, and finely illustrates the character of gontieman in all his official proosedings. ‘THR INVALID Corrs. ‘Two hundred of the Invalid Corps have been detailed to guard the public buildings in the western part of the city, ‘They have their barracks in the neighborhood of the War Department. CONDITION OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF Wan. Mr. P. H. Watson is still anable, from the ofects of over fatigue, to resumo his duties as Assistant Secretary ‘War. Wet: carrunn oF ER OTmaMen Lizain, Ne received information that the tieusaee ae de Cuba sae A Bue teamer Lizzie, easan, after tagy tym bes }- formerly owned in Wilmington, N. C., and was ‘Tae Broapwar PaRattm. Rartroan commenced running on Friday, onBeventh avenveand Broadway to Broome | have only ® dozen > iS Ls mre but the num- Magwous, 6 —The Magnolia bas ,000 out of commist ston and will be thoroughly repaired. Fort Jacasom, 13.—This steamer is rece'ving her arma- ment, which consists of ten eight-inch guns,one one-hun- dred pounder Parrott, and two thirty-pounder Pan vtts, ‘Wanasu, 40.—The late Commander-in-Chief of the Svutt. Atlantic blockading fleet, recommended thut this fine \ vs- sel should be brought home and repaired. We undexd stand she is to be relieved soon by a first class steam frigate. The Wabash, Colorado and Minnesota are the only vessels of the great screw fleet of 1855 which retain their original rank and appearance; the Niagara, Merrt- mac and Roanoke having all been razeed and altered. Vssxis Unoer Oxpers ror Sea.—The following vessels at this station are under orders for sea forthwith:— 1—Granite City. 1—Creeus. 2—Adela. 8—~onoma. 3—Fort Jackson. 9—Gertrude, 4—Sebago. 10—Newborn, 5—Fuechia. T—“ahkee. €—Pulip. 12—Mary Sandford. Tuur, Acting Master Sluyter commanding, returned last evening, and anchored off the yard. This vessol has been lying at the foot of Wall street, 80 as to protect the federal buildings in that street. Fuscmu, Acting Master Livingston, just returned to the yard, has been on similar service. Both these vessels will be kept here until the draft excitement bas subsided. Ononpaca.—The Quintard battery Onondaga—the first two-turretted battery built in the world—will be laupck- ed at the Continental Iron- Works, at Greenpoint, om Wednesday morning, at eight ok. ‘Tux Ocrax Inon-Ciaps,—The Navy Department has im- structed the officers superintending the construction of ironclad vessels, intended for ocean navigation, to expedite as rapidly axpossible the work upon them. The Puritan and Dictator are consequently progressing very fast, and will be ready for launching some months sooner than was ex- pected. The Roanoke, New Ironsides and the two above named are the only armored ships in the United States Navy that rank as frigates; but the government has re- ceived from the different contractors in the country models , of three thousand ton craft, which will probably be accopt- ed as types for another fleet. The ides of butiding the seven thousand ton vessels, for which proposals were asked in the dopartmentul advertisements, seems to have been abandoned as impracticable. Manasxa.—The United States steam gunboat Mahaska, J. Blakeley Creighton commander, having in tow the Monitor Lehigh, John C. Howell commander, arrived yes- terday morning from Fortress Monroe, in forty-clght hours. ‘The following is a list of officers of the Mahaska:— Commander—J. Blakeley Creighton. Lieutenant and Brecutive Officcr—E. C, V. Blake. ‘Acting Master—Bonjamin Dyer. Assistant Surgeon—H. Stauley Pitkin, Acting Assistant Paymaster—Charles Fairchild. Acting Ensigns—Fred. Elliott and N. W. Blaok. Acting Master's Mates—G. K. French aud Wm. White, Gunner—Peter Barritt Captain's Clerk—Wm. Paymaster’s W. H. Torboss. Chief Engineer—Geo. E. Ashly. Second Assistant Engincer—Filsha Harsen; Third Assistant Engineers—Thos, La Blanc, Edward L. Hewitt and Nicholas H. Lambden. Lxuig8.—The Ericsson battery Lebigh arrived yester day for repairs and a new gun. The following is a list of her officers: — Commander—John E. Howell, Lieutenant Commander—Robdt. L. Phythian ‘Acting Master—Jobn Ewer. Assistant Surgeon—J. Howell Mears, Acting Assistant Paymaster—F. Clarence Imlay. Acting Ensign—Ricbard Burke. pas Assistant Enginesrs—Newton Champion, Alfre r Third Assistant Benj. F. Wood, Wm. A! Mintzer ane9 age x ‘an Lome Acting Masier’s dlate—Chris, P. Hovey. Paymaster's Clerk—Chas. H. Wright. R. R. Cuvixr.—The screw steamer R. R. Cuyior arrived Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard early yesterday morning, from the blockading squadron off Mobile. She carries eteven guns, and is officered as follows:— Lieutenant is lames EF. Jewett. Lieutenant and ez-; mes “Acting Has'ere-Padt ©. Gibba abd James F. Alcon ‘Master—Wititam Collins. Acting Assistant Wright. Aciing Assistant Surgeon—Heor: Ww ating Ensigns—Charies C. Gill and Jobn 0. Morse. Pngineers—Chiof, Henry Waite; Assistants, Thee- dore fuits, F, W. Ballman and O- Conner. 4 ‘Acting Masier's Mate—N. R. Da vis. ‘The R. R. Cuyler left Pensacola on the 11th of July, an: fell in with the rebel steamer Alabama, @ blockade run- ner. She chased her during the entire day, during which sho fired sixty-nine rifle shell at her, and forced her to heave overboad threo hundred and twenty-five bales of cotton. The chase continued until the darkness of night, when she was lost sight of. The Cuyler was thea stecred for tho Tortugas, where she soon arrived. At this piace they saw the rebel steamer Kate Dalo, having come up with her on the 15th of July, about half-past twelve o’clock. Sbe was bound to Havana,and had on board a cargo of eight hundred und twenty-four bales of cotton. Before reaching this vessel the crew threw overboard twenty four bales of cotcon in order to escape the Cuyler, but her cfforts proved abortive. After capturing the Kate Dale, the engine of the R. R. Cuylor broke, when the Captain of the Dale was ordered to steer to Key Wont, where the damage was repaired, after which the Cuyler saiied, ou the 18th instant, with the prize, valued in all as $200,000, and reached Philadelphia ag stated above. A New War Veseut.—A novel vessel has been con- structed at Cincinnati, called “Elliott’s War Turtle,” It is shaped like a large punch bow!, with the propelier in the form of a turbine wheel, placed at the bottom, and so arranged as to take water in through eight radial tubes which may be opened or closed by valves, sald tubes connecting with the propeller and the outer edge or hull of the voesel. The propeller preeses the water downward from its cylinder, and revolves always in the same diroe- tion ; and when the vessel is to be moved forward in aay direction, one or more of the valves is opened, thereby roheving the pressure on that ‘hile the pressure till remains on the opposite side to propel the vessel. ‘The turret is very similar in appearance to thone on the Monitors, but is built fixedly and firmly upon the top of the veasel, and lined inside with heavy timbers. It re- volves with the boat by the action of the water upon the rudders placed in the mouth of the radial tubes. It mounts four guns. Grawrre Ciry—6.—This fast vessel and the steamer Gertrude have been ordered to reinforce the Missie«ppt squadron. They aro ready for sea at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and will sail from the Battery to morrow. Persons having friends in Admiral Porter's fleet have hereby am opportunity to send them letters, papers and parcels, whi be forwarded gratuitously. i. a ‘sailing eloop-of-war Vandalia is being fitted every possible despatch. She is ordered to he Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard, where, it is said, she 1s to be permanently stationed. * Mackixaw.—The new double bowed steamboat Mackt' naw is being masted and got ready to be taken to Bultt- more for her machinery. The masts of this vessel are provided at the lower masthends with sheet iron guards, 80 as to protect riflemen and lookout men from the enemy's sharpshooters. ‘Worx at Tur Brooxits Nav Yarn.—The steam gua- boats Quaker City, Commander Fruligh, and Connecticut, Commander Almy,are receiving their armaments and part of their machinery under the derrick. ‘The steam gunboats Sonoma, Commander G. H. Conper, and Sebago, Commander Duncan, will be got ready ina week or ten days. Besides the above mentioned vessels there are at the yard the steam frigate Susquehanna, stexmboats Dawn, Pembina, Unens, steamers Kensington, Fahkee, Mary Sandford and Crocus, undergoing repairs; while the double bowed gunboat Shamrock is being coppered in the dry dock The work on the new vessels building at the yard ie getting along fincly, and in afew weeks hence the large troneclad Miantonomah ts to be launched. The new crane wharf is completed, and the workmen are now engaged in erecting the crane, which is to be one of the heaviest in tho country, A turret and pilot house for one of the Monitors hes just been completed and shipped to Admiral Dabigrea ‘at Port Royal. Personal Intel! nee Governor Seymour is spending s few days with his family at New Branawick, N. 3. Hon. D, W. Gooch, Meirose, H. K. Horton, Boston ; Hon. i. A, Ristey, Dunkirk; La B. Ol, pf cA 3.9 id lady , Quebee ; . by hag hes lon Ween Aibany We 8. Boyoe and lady, layresust ped iL Guy Vaseer, y Are mopping at ithe Astor General Shepley, New Orleans; Captain Thornton, Ni Ondine General J. T. Miller, New York: P. i. fica, Cleveland; 1. Sanger, Mlinois; Dr. A. E. Holmus, Mem: ; 3..W. Puller, Troy, , British Aria t.sea,