The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1863, Page 4

4 — NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIELOR OFFICE H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU @TS. TERMB cash in advance Money sont Dy mali will be ettbe risk Of the sender. None but bank dilis current 10 New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD Tumse cents er copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Fivscoat Per copy, Apoual subscription price: Postage five cents per copy for three months. Any larger number, addressed to autnes of subscribers, G2 FOcach Av extra copy will be sont to every oiub of tem. Twoaty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and bay targer number at same price, An extra copy will D6 wont to clubs of twenty, These rales make (he WURKLY ‘Bmmap (he cheapest publication im (Ae counir. Velume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. “NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brondway.—Hamuer, WALLACKS THEATRE, Broadway.—Tavg ro rue Last. pn ey WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lapy Aupixr’s Sxcret BEW BOWERY THEATRR. Bowery.—Gor Fawxrs— New York bitiaan—vear ay a Post. BOWERY THSATRE. 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Gilimore dug out and captured seventy-five men from their rifle pits in front of Fort Wagner on the Ist. Desert- ers to our lines represent that the people of Charleston ere anxious to surrender the city; but Beauregard is determined to de- vote it to destruction. It has bee: “sscer- tained’ that the first shell fred frdm~ the marsh battery entered a house occupied by a number of officers, killing several and destroying the house. Some of the shells went to the far- thest extremity of the city, and destroyed a large cotton warehouse and other buildiugs. It is stated that there are but twenty-five men in Sumter, and ‘that it will be blown up as soon as an attempt is made to take possession. ‘The intelligence from the army ef General Meade is not indicative of any immediate move- ment. ‘Information comes from deserters that General Lee’s army is scattered over a wide ex- tent of country from the Biue Ridge to the mouth of the Rappshannock. Between this and the Ra- pidan rivers only a few pickets are posted. It is pretty well a:: .\ained that no important force of ‘Lee's army has crossed the Rappshannock. A despatch received at Cincinnati yesterday says that General Burnside had entered and taken possession of Knoxville on Thursday. If this statement be true it is most important, and settles the question with the rebels in Eastern Tennessee. ‘The news may be premature; but the investment of Knoxville was so represented at last accounts that its occupation by our troops might have taken place at any moment. The forces of Generals Steele and Davidson are still pursuing the rebels in the vicinity of the White river. A despatch from Memphis on the 5th says that General Davidson drove the enemy, seven thousand strong, *across the Bayou Metairie bridge, on the 28th ult., killing and wounding one hundred and capturing two hundred. The rebels burned the bridge over the bayou in their retreat. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship City of New York, from Queens- town on the 27th of August, arrived at this port at an early hour on Sunday morning. A summary of her news, which is four days later, was pub- lished in the Hakaup immediately after her arrival, and the details, which are very important and in- teresting, with letters from our special correspon- dents in London and Queenstown are given to-day. The rebel agents in Europe were straining every nerve in order to turn out a large fleet of pirates to prey on American commerce. Two powerful stec!-plated rams were ready for sea at Liverpool. A memorial had been forwarded te the English government praying for their detention under the Foreign Enlistment act. Our correspondent in Queenstown, however, states that one of them had already put to sea, The Florida appeared again off Cork on the 23d ult. On the same day long, black hulled steamer was seen running swiftly down the channel, towards the Old Head of Kinsale, It may have been the Florida or a new privateer. France had opened the port of Brest to the privateer Atlanta to repair damages, and a number of vessels, modelled after the Alabama, are on the stocks at Havre and Bordeaux, supposed to be intended for the rebel service. France and En. land were still agitated on the subject of the conclusion of a Russo-American alliance, The Paris correspondents of the London Times and the Paris Debdats newspaper assert that the New Yore Hanatp oricinated the idea of this diplomatic policy, although the Invalide Russe, the organ of the Czar, has threatened both countries with such @ result for some time paat, The London Times fondly anticipates 4 general resistance to the draft in the Northern States of the Union. Secretary Seward had replied to an address for- warded by the Anti-Slavery Conference of England to President Lincoln in June last. Mr Seward @ays:—''The President readily accepts and atowa, asan additional and irresistible motive, the sug: gestion made by the friends of our country in Europe, that the success of the insurrection would result in the establishment, for the first time in the history of thé human race, of a State based upon the exclusive foundation of African stavery.” The rebel ‘Recognition Soctety” of Manchester had issued # circular to the English peopie, in- viting them to form « “Central Recognition Asso. eiation.” NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, Our very latest despatch from London states that the United States Minister in Paria had been instructed to protest against Napoleon's proceed- | ings in Mexico. The London Times of the 27th of August says the United States cannot make war on France om | account of Mexico, as the “first really offensive threat against Napoleon would be the signal for | the delivery of the Confederates."’ It is said that a European loan has been pro- posed in order to start Maximilian as Emperor in Mexico. The new notes of France, England and Austria to Russia on the Polish question had been pre- sented. They deny the position takea by Prince again firmly assert that Russia has not fulfilled her engagements entered into in 1815. The Czar is warned of the gravity of the present situation. In the German congress the Emperor Francis Joseph's scheme of federal reform seemed to en- counter more approval than was first predicted for it. The sovereigns at Frankfort are said to have accepted, with some modifications of no great importance, that portion of the proposa] which re- lates to the composition of the fod directory. Consols closed in Lopéch, on the 27th of August, at 93 a 93% for money. The market for American securities was firm but quiet. ‘The rebel cotton loan experienced another slight advance. The Liverpool cotton market was firm, with quotations unchanged on the 27th of August. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisious steady. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Champion, Captain Tinklepaugh, from Aspinwall 27th ult., arrived at this port yes- terday morning. The Champion brings the mails and $279,043 in treasure. The news from Central America is not important, being mostly taken up with the movements of rival chieftains and politi- cal aspirants. From Nicaragua there i# nothing new, except that the government had put a stop tothe sche yy of the Transit Company of dam- the water in%o the San Juan. In Chile a great deal of excitement prevailed in regard to recent disco- veries of gold and silver mines. The Deuglas and Breckinridge Executive Com- mittees of the National Democratic Committees will meet to-day, at twelve o’clock, at the St. Nicholas Hotel in this city, for the purpose of en- Gortschakoff in his reply to the first notes, and | of the ourrency is placed where the conati- tution designed it to be placed—vis: in the Department of the Treasury.. This is perfectly | legal and constitutional, and ‘it is useless to | waste words in grumbling about it. Nor do we think that the State bank mana- gers and their Wall street organs will find any sympathy in their objections to the new system. Although we believe that Secretary Chase might have managed our finances better in some respecta, yet we give him oredit for a | loan, and we must side with him, and not with ' the State bank interest, in regard to this matter. The fact is that a uniform currency bas been one of the greatest blessings secured to us by this unhappy war. We bave not the glightest hesitation in pronouncing the local bank currency system. an immense nuisance. It entailed a heavy burthen of inconveniences in travelling or in remitting money. Brokers and money changers fattened upon, jt like vermin upon carrion. It gngiob# ‘coun- terfeiters and counterfeit detectors, and we have no doubt that a protest against its abolition would be signed by all the disciples of Monroe Edwards. Bills perfectly good in one State were partly or entirely worthless in another. ; Business men were obliged to make the subject ® special study in order to distinguish good bills from bad and current from uncurrent money. The notes of hand of well known in- { dividuals were preferred out West to any of the j issues of the local banks. The people in that and every other section of the country hailed greenbacks as a godsend, because they could travel with them, remit them, hold them or make purchases with them without fear of hear- ing that the bank had broken or suspended, and without suffering from the shaves of brokers. ming up the -@lorado in order to turn the bulk of | y¢ we were to go back to the old system upon the resumption of specie payments, we should be pestered with the same annoyances and in- conveniences. Paper money is more used than specie in business transactions, and there is no reason why it should not be as uniform as specie. Or, to take the comparison the other deavoring to settle up old difficulties and fixing the | way, the various States might as well authorize time and place for holding the next Presidential corporations to issue various kinds of specie nominating convention. The following are the | money as to authorize them to issue various names of the gentlemen forming the committees:— DOUGLAS COMMITTER. BRACKINRIDGE 00! IDOE COMMITTEE, Sylvanus R. Lyman, Maine, Moses Mclonald, Maine, Alfous F. Suow, N. B. Paul R. Geor: Hampsh. Chas. G. Vermont. H. F Stor 0, Verment. Fred. C, Price, Mss. Isaac A. Wright, Jacob Babbitt, Rhode Island W. Beach Lawrence, R. I. Wm. F. Converse. Con. Wm. W. , Conn. August Belmont, N. York. Augustua Schell, New York. Jacod Van Nosdale, N. J’sey Jona 0. y, N. r. Rich’d. Haliemao, a . Be A Vit ick, Ai Moore, Floric Geo, W. Call, Oatley H. Bynum, Alabama, T. J. Burnett, At ‘Thos. Cottman, Louisiana. ¥. H. Hatch, (oulsiana. Thomas Flournoy ,Ai Robt. W. Johnson, Arkan’s. James Craig, Missouri. —— Hunter, Mi i. Hy Harrlsss) K Hoary © Hard suoky. ¥ ° a , Kent '. J. Jewett, Ohio. W. 8, V. Prentias, Ohio. FW. Aa . Totans. Wo. H. Talbot, Indiana, Murray MeKupneil, lilinois. H. 8. Fitch, iiitno! Bon). Follett, Michigan, Cornelius 0, . Mich, Joho K. Sharpetein, Wisc’n. Dr. 0, Everts, Wisconrin. Wm. Henle; Towa. Hearty Mina. Jes. A. McDougal California. eae : © ‘Wm. 4. Whi Delaware. Joseph R. Daele, Mine . Davis. H.R. Kunnells, Texas, The examination of kinds of paper money, and the recent “copper token” mania gave us an idea of the muddle such s course would produce. Now, as the new national banking system is undoubtedly constitutional, legal, popular and beneficial, what can the State banks and their organs do about it? Let them fold their togas about them and die gracefully and silently. War with England and France—De- parture of Une of the Angle-Rebel Rams from the Mersey. It will be seen by our Queenstown cerres- pondence that the event anticipated in our pre- vious advices from England has already taken place, One of the two formidable rebel rama which was being constructed in the Mersey for the “Emperor of China” has, despite the Front Siecr Minnenota, | Temonstrances addressed to the English gov- ernment, been suffered to depart, and is, no doubt, now on her way to our coast. The At- lanta, which was stated to have put inte Brest to repair damages, turns out to be the Florida, Grafted men in the Fifth | and not a federal vessel, as represented; and Congressional district of Massachusetts has been | there is no doubt of the fact that several vessels completed, and the following is the result :. Number drafted. 1 “er Paid commutation. . . of large size are being secretly constructed in French porte for the rebel navy. These proceedings must at once be put 32 | a stop to. Better war thousand times Rev. Dr. Chapin preached his first sermon to his | With the governments which are guilty congregation yesterday since his return from Nu- rope. The church was very much crowded on the {| to of these mean and treacherous acts than allow them to continue to farnish eccasion. A synopsis of his sermon will be found | our enemies with the means of destroying us. in another column. By their present underband contrivances they There was s better feeling in the stock market on Se- | secure all the advantages of a war of aggres- turday, and prices generally wore higher than on Friday. In the afternoon the market was very buoyant, This was sion without any of its risks. A great nation mainly due to the improvement 10 the muney market, | must not allow its life blood to be drawn from which worked more smoothly. Borrowers were ali able | it by such vampire-like operations. If the ma- to supply themselves wifbout too great a sacrifice. Gold | ritime resources of England and France are was 131, and exchange 143%. Cotton was firm and in moderate request on Saturday. ‘The Dreadstuffs trade was less active, and there was decidedly less firmness in prices of flour and wheat, while corn was doing better. A fair business was reported in the principal kinds of groceries and provi. to be thus employed against us, those furnish- ing them must not be allowed to escape barm- less. The duty of our government in this emer- genoy is plain. In another fortnight we will sions. Pork closed higher, with some speculative inqul- | brobably have this iron-clad monster thunder- ry. The market was steady for hay, hops, sceds and to- becco, which were in good demand. ‘Tallow was less ac ing at the entrance to our harbor. Whether Hive and rather lower. Whiskey was hela above the | the preparations made to resist such attacks views of most buyers, and was quiet. Oils, fish and sole | are sufficiently far advanced to be effective re- Jeather were saleable at uniform quotations. Hides were | mains to be seen. A good deal has, we know, im less request. The freight engagements were limited; | boon dene to strengthen the defences at Sandy ‘Dut rates wore steady. The Approaching Revol Banking System. Hook and at the Narrows, and we have at fon im Oar | Present on the spot a large force of artillery. But we must not confine ourselves to mere local Tiis is the period of revolutions—social, po- | efforts of defence. The danger has to be con- litical, commercial and financial. Among the laws passed by the last Congress was one com- pletely revolutionizing our banking system and authorizing a new national currency. For the first time since the establishment of the old United States Bank the national govern- ment has assumed the control of the currency, fronted by bolder and broader measures. What we propose is this:—As soon as this Anglo-rebel iron-clad attacks any one of our Northern forts an embargo should at once be laid on English shipping to compensate for the damage that may be inflicted upon us. All property belonging to purely English and theState banks must suffer in consequence. | firms here should be sequestrated until a set- The capitalists seem to have discovered the existence of this law only recently ; but, al- though only four or five banks are now actu- ally doing business under the new system, and tlement of our claims against the British gov- ernment is arrived at. We have already a heavy bill of damages against it for the losses occasioned to our commerce none of the currency is as yet issued, yet from | by its privateers; for English these vessels fifty to sixty banks bave filed their papers with the Comptroller of the Currency, and will start ‘as soon as the new currency is ready for them, which will be in October, The banks are mostly small, with capitals of from $100,000 to $300,000. The largest bank organized under the act will be the Third National Bank of New unquestionably are, though furnished with rebel letters of marque. By supplying nearly their entire crews, by the well established prin- ciples of international law, they become respon- sible for their devastations. If John Bull is determined to aid the rebels in sweeping our commerce from the ocean we must retaliate. York, which will begin with a capital of | With the seven or eight hundred millions in- $5,000,000, with the privilege of increasing it to fifty millions. Of this bank Mr. Freeman Clarke, of Rochester, will be President, and it will be the greatest bank in the country. vested by Englishmen in property in this coun- try, ahd an embargo upon such vessels as hap- pen to be in our ports, we can easily bring England to her senses, or amply compen- Of course the Wall street papers, the organs | sate ourselves for these and the other damages of the State banks, object to this new order of | that may be inflicted upon us by the formidable things, and grumble at the changes it will make in the currency. vain, however. We remember that the substi- tution of the State stock banking system for war vessels which British shipowners, with the Such objections are all in | connivance of their government, are now launching against us. The same measures of reprisal should be instantiy adopted against the safety fund system in this State provoked | France the moment that we have satisfactory | the same sort of interested remonstrances. | evidence that the iron-clads building in ber Nevertheless it was successfully carried out. | ports aré intended to operate against us. Now this new system simply substitutes United | Let as impress upon the government the ne- | earthly use, unless a blockade runner should, in States stock for the stock of individual States | ceasity of its being prompt and decisive in this as the basis of our paper currency, and places | matter. The time for diplomatic remonstrances the control of this currency in the hands of the | has passed by when these rams make their | two of the vessels are always engaged in duties’ national instead of the State authorities. Every one who knows anything of the conati- tution is aware that the present State banking system isa mere evasion of the article prohi- Diting the separate States from issuing money. This evasion has been allowed because it hap- to be thought convenient and expe- dient The time has now come when it would be extremely inconvenient an@ Mexpe dient to allow ft to continue any longer. Con- sequontly the general government proposes to asenme the powers delegated to it by the con. | equal to the emergency, or the country will | It ia the duty of Mr. Welles stit and by an act of Congress the control appearance, and the moment for action has arrived. We cannot afford to have our existence imperilied by squeamishness as to the means of meeting this new danger. If our enemies wilkineur the risk of straining international law to subserve their treacherous and ambitions Gesigns, we must not stand upon points of di- plomatic nicety todefeat them. A bold, vigor- ous decision on the part of our government is all that is wanting to crush out the foreign con- spiracy that is maturing against us. Let it rise hold it to a heavy regponsibility. little ability, especially in regard to his first ; | | | The Results of the Hebellion. It was the silly boast, for many years before the commencement of the rebellion in the South, that the people of the Northern States were an inferior race; that the South was the birthplace of a race of gentlemen, aud the North produced naught but grasping men of commerce, without refinement, without educa- tion, with no intelligence except that for soraping together the dollars; and so the people of the South revelled in the idea of their superiority, and had learned to look upon the North almost as a dependency. When the rebellion first reared its venomous head the South prophesied the speedy downfall of the loyal States. They affirmed that one rebel was worth three Northern soldiers, and indulged with evident pleasure in the idea that ruin was soon to overtake the rash and misguided meq who dared to suppose that they could sucdeas- fully compete with the chivalrous and altogeth- $f superior race claiming the South as their birthplace. Grass to grow in the streets of the Northern capital® the prosperity of the North was to dwindle down—in fact, a total ces- jon of commerce was inevitable. and watering places, deprived of the patronage of the South, were to fall to decay. Utter desola- tion and ruin were to overtake the loyal States, who madly imagined that the South could be coerced. How different has been the result so far of the rebellion. Throughout the North there is a prosperity ao enormous as almost to challenge belief. Never before was money so plentiful, commerce so extended; never before hag the travel upon our railways and steamers been so great; never before have our hotels and watering places been so crowded. Our places of amusement are enjoying a share of public patronage such as never before fell to their lot. We see on all sides evidences of a prosperity and rapidly increasing wealth such as must astound the world. No foreigner arriving now in New York could for a moment imagine that we are carrying on at this moment the most tremendous struggle the world ever witnessed; that we are keeping up armies in such numbers as would bankrupt any European government, while we are perfectly aware that as yet our resources have not been seriously called into effect. Wenow know our real power, our enor- mous strength, and almost wonder ourselves at thele extent. The people of the South fondly imagined that on their side would be found all the great generals, naval heroes and statesmen. The rebellion in its course has proved the fallacy of these opinions. The South has produced but one really great soldier; and he is gone—we refer to Stonewall Jackson; while the North has now such generals as McClellan, Grant, Banks, Rosecrans, Meade, Gillmore, and others of great promise, whereupon to count in time of need. Assailors we have Farragut, Bupont, Porter, Worden, Rodgers, Blake, Foote— whom we have lost, but whose record 4s so glorious—not to mention a host of others whose merits are well know and ap- preciated by our people. In the face of these facts the world will say that it is the North that has produced the greatest number of men of note, and that it is the North which possesses the resources and the power. The South has known the miseries of war. The privations and deso- lations of war have taught them tbat lesson which their vanity woutd not admit. They now realize that in the North were the power, enter- prise and strength of the great American re- public, which their parricidal efforts can never destroy. This and many an equally bitter lesson hes the rebellion taught the misguided, rash, unthinking people of the South, who must have learned that chivalry and courage, patriotism and good faith, are the attributes of the loyal States of the North. As far as the statesmen are concerned, we have, alas, but little to say. We cannot dis- cover that the rebellion has produced any evi- dences of statesmansbip either North or South. There may be lying fallow any amount of the material; but as yet it remains undiscovered. The genius of the people, however, has been amply evinced. Never before were such dis- coveries made as those which have endowed us with the most formidable ordnance and vessels- of-war which the world ever witnessed. Our iron-clads are the object of universal wonder; and it must be taken inte consideration that these discoveries and improvements have taken place, as it were, in spite of the blundering and inefficient measures of the departments whose daty it is to protect and foster them, but who, on the contrary,seem to ever take such steps as magnify the obstacles in the way of advance and progress. In spite, we say, of these ob- stacles, we are at this period, beyond all doubt, the most formidable Power existing; and this as the result of that rebellion which eur enemies imagined was to be our utter ruin and disgrace. Tur Witmincton Biockape.—No one can doubt the efficiency of the blockade at Charles- ton or at Mobile, nor have they had reason to do so for some weeks past; but we would again call the attention of Mr. Welles to the inca- pacity of our blockaders off Wilmington to pre- vent @ constant and regular communication being kept up between that port and the British West India Islands. Within a few days no less than six armed steamers have arrived there, besides the regulur mail steamers between that place and Bermuda. The entrances to this rebel port of entry ex- tend over a coast line of more than twenty miles, and to guard it the Navy Department has only eight effective vessels on the ground. These vessels are commanded by careful, vigi- lant and loyal officers, who are anxious to do their whole duty, but who are not able to prevent the British vessels going in. Most of our vessels on that blockade are of heavy draught, and are not able to run in upon the shoals, and the light draught vessels, when they do go in, are subjected to a heavy fire from rebel batteries located along shore. The steam frigate Minnesota is there, a floating hotel, of no the dark or in a fog, ran into her. The Iroquois ig sent in chase of “ black smoke,” and one or: on the station, so that they are not there when ‘The hotels’ 1863. the port, and thus out off the main supplies from the rebels. From this port are sent the men and means to carry on the war. The crews for the new iron-clads lately built in England are to be despatched from that port, and the mails to and from Rebeldom go out and in there, and yet our blockaders are rendered powerless by the lack of a sufficient force of veasels. Aorrviry or Tae Rese. Agents ABRoAD— The rebels are working like beavers in the foreign courts to advance the interests of the confederacy, Their agetts are industriously employed in every fountry of Europe, wht alone in diplomatic missions, but in tbe con- struction of fron-clads, the purchase of arms, and the disposal of Southern bonds. In sddi- tion to the regular military and neval gents Scattered thickly all over the continent, there are numerous representatives of the rebel interest engaged in furthering the cause of the Confederate government. The pirate Florida recently landed three of these parties at Cork, and it hasbeen rumored and believed in Paria that one of them was Alex. H. Stephens. It is not very prabable, however, that Mr. Stephens was one of the party, Tecent thovements here would not ‘Indfeate that he was a passenger on the Florida, as he would scarcely have had time since bis last ap- pearance in public to accomplish a Faropean voyage in the rebel privatcer. Besides, his name is not among those mentioned by our cor- respondent as one of the three gentlemen landed from the Florida; nor is it likely that Mr. Stephens would conceal his name, which would be needless, as his person would be well known to most Americans in Europe. But, whether the Vice President of the rebel government has gone to Europe or not, it is certain tbat ita agents are to be found everywhere abroad, working industriously in behalf of treason. It is said that |R. M. T. Hunter is about proceed- ing to Mexico, to represent the South with the new government there. Nor are these agents idle. One of the rams recently built in the English dockyards is now on her way to our shores, and it has just been discovered that several gunboats for the rebels are being fitted out in the ports of France. Thus, while our armies are putting down the Tebellion at home, it is evident that there is trouble brewing on the sea, and that the integ- rity of the United States may have to be main- tained upon the ocean as well as upon land. | Therefore it will not do for Mr. Secretary Welles to stroke his long beard complacently in the office of the Navy Department, or to pay flying visits to the navy yards and take a survey of our war ships from quarter deck to forecastle, and return to Washington, knowing as much about the condition of the navy as when he etarted on his tour. He must be vigor- ous and prompt: to meet the impending emer- gency. There is danger on the ocean and dan- ger on .our coasts‘ and in our harbors, which must be provided against by the speedy equip- ment of all our naval force now in the sbip- yatds and the active oceupation of the vessels afigat, as well as the protection of our coast defences. We cautioned.the government be- fore upon the proceedings going on in the dockyards of Europe. We warn them now, and especially Mr. Welles, to be prepared for approaching trouble, and uot to be caaght nap- ping when events demand that they should be wide awake. Disorrtins oy Our Army.—No one who has observed the soldierly bearing of the troops who have been encamped in and around the city for the last three wevks can fail to have been struck with the contrast presented by them to the raw levies, brave but undisciplined, wao responded to their country’s call two years ago. Then our volunteer regiments were little better than an «rm d mob. Now they are trained to a degree that makes their movements as regular as clockwork. One of these old war- worn regiments, with tattered banner, marched past our office yesterday. It was the First Miunesota—a regiment that lost all ite field officers at Gettysburg—and, although the men were in heavy marching order, they moved with an elasticity, a regularity and a soldierly bearing that would bave elicited praise from the strictest martinet. And it is so with all our army. Two years of war on a magnificent acale have given to our population martial at- tributes and wrought us into the foremost mili- tary nation of the earth. When the day comes— as we trust it will come before long—that the army of the Union and the army of‘ the “confederacy” shall march under the same banner, then those nations that have mocked at us in our calamity, and sought to degrade and injure us, may well quake for fear of the coming retribution. We shall at least claim to be predominant on this continent, and our claim will hardly be contested. Desertions From THE Axmy.—We notice, with satisfaction, an order from the War De- partment which will correct a grievance that has not been unfrequent of late. Men belong- ing to regiments that have been mustered out of the service have in several instances been taken up and tried for desertion. To spare our brave veterans the humiliation of such an ordeal, the order directs that a military com- mission of from one to three officers, detailed by the officer under whose command the alleged offender is held in confinement, shall be ap- pointed to investigate his case. If the facts are as stated above, the penalty of desertion Is to be remitted without trial, and the man sent to the nearest place of enrolment to be mustered out. If,on the contrary, the accused cannot clear himvelf of the charge, he is to be assigned and sent to one of the regiments from the same State serving in the same corps or department in which the regiment to which he formerly be- longed served, for trial or such disposition as the division or corps commander may make of him, according to regulations, to serve out the time lost by desertion. This will have the ef- fect of doing away in ® measure with the extreme penalties inflicted by courts martial, and of restoring to the service many a brave fellow. a sail Assionwmxt or Conscuirts To OLp Rear | weners.—"The order issued by General Canby, they are wanted; and in this way the blockade | permitting drafted mea or substitutes to enter runners have it their own way. The Wilmington blockade is of vast import- ance to us, as Charleston does not now afford the rebels a port by which to receive supplies. Nearly all of the goods received in Rebeldom are how obtained through this entrance; and yet, with ail the knowledge in the possession of the Navy Department, they suffer this blockade to be #0 outtageously and shabbily provided for. ‘at once to send ves- sels enough to that place to effectually shat up | any of the old regiments from the regular army ot volunteer regiments from’ the State of New York at present on duty hefe, is likely/to have a very good effect. Already we hear ‘of many | conscripts who have determined to profit | by ft. ‘The regulation preventing any interfe- | rence with the decision of the men is a,judicious | one. It is but right that the iments which | have established a character in fiald hall ' pe allowed the benefit of the addition to atrongth to which their reputation jee ‘ them, . ———— CHARLESTON. Arrival of the Oleander at Fortress Monroe. EVERYTHING PROGRESSING FAVORABLY, Severity-five Rebels Dug Out of Their Rifle Pits and Captured. Effects of the Bombardment of Charleston, ae, Poarans Monaon, Sept. 6, 1963. ‘The United States despatch steamer Oleander, Just er rived from off Charleston September 4, reports “Sumter perfectly demoliahed,” but the reba flag stilt flying. General Gilimore dug out and captured seventy ive men from their rifle pits in front of Fort Wagner lsat ‘Tuesday. rery thing '0 progressing tayorgbly. A letter from Morris Island, dated Augngs 2p, states that Gesorters, several of whom reach our lined eyery 7, represent that the poople of Charleston are anxious to surrender tho city; but Boauregard is determined te de- vote it to destruclion. > The abe'ling process caused general surprise, Beau- regard having pledged bis reputation that it was an im- possibility und mere Yankee bravato. Tt has been ascertsined that the first shell fired from the marsh battery entered @ house ocoupied by a number of officers, killing several and destroying the house, Some of the shells went to the farthest extremity of the olty and destroyed a large cotton warehouse and other build- ings. Deeerters say that there are but twenty-five men in ‘Sumter, and that it wil! be blown up as soon as an at- tempt is made to tako possession. NEWS FROM TENNESSEE, ported in Knoxville. Cincormatt, Sept. 6, 1868. A despatoh has boen received in this city to day, an- nouncing that General Burnside entered Knoxville, East ‘Tennessee, on the 4th inst. No particulars. Mmurnm, Sept. 3, 1868. Brigadier Genoral Carr reported here or duty last night, and bas been assizned to the command of the left wing of Geveral Hurlbut’s army, with beadquarters at Corinth. Every thing is quiet along our lines. Considerable cotton has arrived here during the past three weeks. | The September Term of the Law Courts. ‘The wonted business, bustle and bullying which are so | characteristic of our law courts, have net yet been re- | ®umed, although the lawyrs, bigwigs and mall fry, are gathering into the city, where, previous to resuming t., be. General Burnside their legal functions, they will have ample time to con- trast the com‘orts of a town home with the scam ble of fashionable watering plave hotels, the insolence of ser- vants, and ihe miserable and seanty fare of « farmiouse Fetreat. ‘The courts are at present confined to chamber busi- pegs, writs of habeas corpus, &c. Of these missives Jndge Leonard has issned during the past term some eight or'a dozen a day for minors who hed enlisted with out the conseat of their pasents or guardians, thus ghowing that while our chivalrous youths have their ‘fgouls in arms,” and are ‘‘ eager for the fray,’’ the adult population hold hack, aad whea conscripted look anxiously for “ that $300." Judge Leonard bas invaria- Diy held that minors enlisting without the consent of parents or guardians could nos be compelied to serve; Dutthat they were Hable to prosecuoton fer obtaining money under false pretences and also for perjury, io swearing at the t’me of entistment tbat they were twea- ty one years of age. ‘The attachment against Provost Marshal Nugent for failing to produce the body of Barrett, an alleged desert er, and the habeas corpus in the case of Mr. Verran’ another alleged deserter, will be brought before the Se preme Court this morning, Judge Clerke presiding; but 1t is usderstoed they will be moved on writs to the federal courts, where the legality of their arrest will be fully tented, ‘The judicial term of several of the judge: expires at the end of this year; ‘ut they areal candidates for re- election, The rrereat presiding Justice of the Supreme Court— Ton, Josiah Sutberiand—will be in the field again, wih very confidence ia his past career to his title for Tenomination. He will be opposed by City Judge Me- Cunn, w one influence in «| « demmoratic party, and the Wood sectioa ia partieular, is all powerful aud pecuniarily potent. Mr. Cardoz is also spoken of as demooratio candidate for © same ben The name of a republ can candidate bas not yet been whispered to the halls. Ib the election for the Superior Gourt Ovben, (uel Jas tice Posworth wili not be opposed by uny democrat. Mr. dustice White’s (republican) term alsv expires; but there ‘will be six democratic Richmonds in the field for him te slay. In the Conrt of Common Pleas Judge Hilton’s term ex- pires. He ts confident of renomination and ultimate sue cess. There is no opposing candidate named, Im the Marine Court Judge Florence McCarthy, the old favorite of the general public, the judiciary and the lawyers, will get the nomination of both branches of the democratic party by acciamation, No one thicks of op. posing bim. ‘There will mot be any jury trials i. the Superior Court or Common Pteas until the first Monday in October; nor tm the Supreme Court Circuit watil the third Monday in the present month. ‘The Marine Court ts in full force. ‘The United States Circait Court will be opened to-day, before Judge Shipman, and the United States District Court to-morrow , be‘ore Judge Retts, The Court of Oyer and Terminer will be opened on the first Monday of October, when the rioters who opposed the draft and committed depredations on person and pro perty in July last will be brought up for trial, The win ter campaign in the courts, civil and crimioal, promises to be one of universal importance. The September term of the Court of General Sessions will commence this morning at eleven o'clock, Hon. Jobm H. MoCunn, City Judge, on the bench, and Assistant Dts trict Attorney 0, C. Stuart as proseouting officer. The calendar for the month is a very heavy one, embracing an unvsvally large number of grand aud petit larceny, assault aod battery and other similar cise. The indiot mets found against alleged partictpants in the late ricte have all Deen ordered to the Court of Oyer and Terminer which will sit in October next. The September Session of the Common Council. ‘The next meeting of the Board of Aléermen must be by special call, as at the Inet senaion they adjourned without day. The action of the Counci!men, however, tn parsing the $3,000,000 conscript fund over the Mayors veto, and irreapeetive of the $2,000,000 appropriation for the same- parpose sandwiched ip By the Supervisors, will reader an immodiate meeting of the Aldermen necessary. Masteal. ‘We iearn that Mme. Medori, the popular prims donna. @ Mr. Maretseu’s opera troupe, was to. sail in the Are Dia, from Liverpool, and that she will arrive here abeat the sixteenth of this month, Aj! of Maretask’s aptints, save Mme. Medori,are already here, and are studying ®. number of operas mever given in this enuntry Before ‘We are, beyond ai) doubt, to heve the most brilli iat ope season New York has ever known. veitie ramored that Mr. Gran, whole new tn Furope, Rew Penoo me prima donna of ‘cad co Friday (be festival, ef the Chereh of prt” sharon (oe Second arenas, tan Scorimm Qamm.—The anneal “games” of the Cale- dowtan Gud ‘will take place on Wedaeaday next, at Jonas’ ‘Wood, The usual feate of “jumping the tnrdie,” ~ recta fa mecks,”” “tbrowing ue hammer,” &e., will De gue throngh, SBvnld eald gequaimaace be forgot? We thick, nok