The New York Herald Newspaper, September 25, 1863, Page 6

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cumosities 4xv Lecreres. irom 9A, Mt 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA H Brook} n, -Eznrorsax fosas, Dances, BURLESGURS, Sept. 25, 186% New York, Frida: TO THE PUBLIC. — Ail advertisements, in order to save time and seeure proper classification, should te sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. THE SIT General Rosecrans telegraphed from his head- : NE Se ne Lee | killed und wounded, including the captain who led the forces, ‘The President has by proclamation declared tha! on and efter the 24th of September, 1863, the port of Alexandria shall cease to be blockadéd, | and that commercial intercourse, except contra- band of war, shall be carried on in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the bark Eliza Baras we have later news from Bermuda. On the Sth inst. the steamer Cornubia arrived from Wilmington, North Carolina, with three hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton, A gale of some severity occurred on the 4th, but did no damage worth mentioning. The steamship Scotia will cafl off Cape Race, the weather permitting, and may be looked for there on Saturday afternoon, Captain Judkins, her commander, will be happy to take chargé of any despatches that may be forwarded on that day. The Board of Aldermen did not organize yester- day, for want of a quorum, In the Board of Councilmen last evening a communication was received from the Comp- troller, containing a statement of payments made to the families of volunteers during the fortnight ending on the 19th inst., from which it appears that 31,056 persons were relieved, ‘at an expenso of $58,045. The balance remaining unexpended on that date was $70,759 36. After transacting a large amount of routine business, the Board ad- journed until Monday evening next at four o'clock. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday afternoon, A communication, ad- dressed by Mr. Draper, the President, to the Comptroller, was read, This communication stat- ed. that there is $100,000 to the credit of the Boord, of the sum appropriated for their use this year, which it will not be necessary to draw. The Comptroller's reply was read. He expressed the hope that the public would appreciate this econo-' my. The number in the institutions this week is 413, a decrease of 34 since the last report. The NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY | exceed tive thousand men. This is a most extraordinary disproportion of generals to the rank and file. There is not euch another case on record. How are we to account for it? Only in this way: that the private soldiers of the rebellion have lost all: confidence in their sinking cause; that they have discovered the cheat, and are sick and tired of sacrificing their lives for nothing ; tbat, consequently, their officers, including their generals, found it ne- cessary in these late engagements to go first, in order to bring their men up to the work. This is the secret of Bragg’s unparalleled loss of genorals, Failing to renew his assaults after the con- centration of the Union army—making no effort to dislodge or to provoke it to battle on Tucs- day or Wednesday—we cannot believe that he is in a condition to risk the experiment, or that Rosecrans is in danger of another assault. We expect that our next intelligence concerning Bragg will be that he has withdrawn from tho field to a defensive position, in anticipation of an attack from the reinforced and reinvigorated army of his stubborn and determined adver- sary. ' Resting upon the assurance from the govern- ment that every possible Contingency in regard to the army has been amply provided for, and that its irrepressible commander, with the coming in of Burnside’s column from the north, and. other detachments from the west- ward, is by this time strong enough to reas- sume tho offensive, we turn to the inquiry: What about the Army of the Potomac? The troops called off to New York have returned, and we are glad to hear that the army is in motion. The returns of the late baitles show that Longstreet’s corps, or a considcrable portion of it, and D. If. Hill’s corps, of Lee's army, are in Georgia, This latter cerps was left behind to guard his communications with number admitted was 1,486, and the number who left for various causes was 1,520, In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, before City Judge MeCunn, Lena Pfifer, an inte- resting looking girl, about seventeen years of age, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged her with having stolen some. money, clothing and jewelry, to the amount of $29, from Fanny Mat- tras, of 26 avenue B, on the 11th of August last. She was sentenced to the Penitentiary for two yours. Sarah Ann Hanrahan, a waiter girl twen- ty-two years of age, was sent to the Penitentiary for six months, for assaulting Mary Welsh with a pair of scissors. Henry Rodgers, a colored la- borer, twenty-two years of age, was sent to the same place for one year, for assaulting George Jobnson, also colored, with a butcher's cleaver. The Court stands adjourned until this morning at eleven o'clock, ‘The stock market was Detter yesterday morning, but hardiy so strong in the afternoon. Gold fell to 13635, closing At 1367,. Exchange was about 151 at the close, Money was easy ; call loans 6 per eent. Cotton was in good demand yeste-day, at full prices. Flour aud wheat were quiet, and tho lattor was much lower. The transactions in corn were very beavy, and prices closed firmer. Oats were cheaper, with only mo- dorate sales. There was less activity in groceries, oils, | hops and tallow, the latter t¢hding downward. Pork and lard were sold o a fairextent, but at easier rates, while | other kinds of provisions were easentiaily waaltered. A fair business was reported in hay, rice, tobacco and quarters on Wednesday night that there had been no fighting on that day. Ie further stated that he could not be dis!odged from the position he had taken up. A NashviMo despateh states the damage the Union army has received is trifling compared with that which accompanied the first day's batile at Stone river. The rebel accounts give the view of the battic near Chattanooga taken from their side of the lines. General Bragg reports, on the 2Ist instant, the Union loss as “very large in mon, artillery, small arms and colors. He also admits the rebel loss to be heavy, and reports the names of three gene- rals killed and four wounded, as far as then ascer- tained, The newspaper accounts plainly show the fighting to have been most desperate, and the Union resistance stubborn. The rebels claim to have captured forty-two pieces of artillery and |, vate whatever to. those anonymous rebel | tlon to Washington he made up his mind to as: from five to six thousand prisoners. leather, which wore firm. Fruit attracted moro atten- tin, at advancing prices. Rides and whiskey were quiet, owing partly to the high clatmsof tiolders. The feeiyht market was iaactive, without any important al- | teration in rates, The receipts of produce were e* ‘reme- ly light. ¥ The Army of Tal Rosecrans—A Sub- stantial Victory—Now for the Army of the Potomac. We have the official assurance from General Rosecrans that iis army is in a position from which it cannot be dislodged; and, from the fact | that he was not disturbed in it from Tuesday till Wednesday evening, the date of his des pateh, we may safely assume that Bragg had arrived at the same conclusion. Considering all the circumstances, therefore, {| of the situation, and the Josses and gains on both | sides, we may set down the issue of this late | terrible struggle as ay “stantial Union victory, and of the very highest importance. We attach j rumors of their capture of five thonsand pri- | Richmond when Lee advanced to Pennsylvania last June; but Longstreet’s constituted nearly half bis army. Let General Meade, then, ad- vance. The opportunity and the season invite him forward, Ten days’ delay may result in bringing back ten thousand men from the army of Bragg, and twenty days may strengthen Lee to the extent of thirty thousand men. Now, therefore, is thetime for a decisive on- ward movement by the Army of the Potomac. { willbe on ours: ‘The Apprehemsions of Foreign War There bas been for some time past 4 growing feeling of uneasiness in the public mind that this country was Grifting inevitably into a war with either France or Sagzand, or perbaps with both these Powers, and that apprehension bas had grest influence in keeping up the price of gold. We do not believe that there is eause for any cuch uneasiness; not because we think there is any very friendly feeling entertained towards us by the gavernments of either of those countries, but beeause the risk of making war upon us is too great. The French Emperor is well aware that the initiation by him of a war against the United Statesewould be attended with the utmest danger to his throne and dy- nasty. There is now, as there always has been, a most friendly spirit existing between the two peoples. The French are gratified by the re- flection that they @ave played a considerable part in the attainment of American indepen- dence. They are in love, theoretically at least, with republican institutions, and would not patiently submit to the national power of France being used for the overthrow of the great American republic. Finally, they are animated by a sentimental antipathy to negro slavery, and nothing would be so repugnant to them us to find their navy and army employed in-the work of propping up that decaying insti- tution. We hold, therefore, that for these political reasons at home, if not for still weightier reasons connected with the cost, the chances and the international results of such a war, Louls Napoleon will be no more anxious to precipitate it on kis side than we We certainly will not perpetrate the folly of making the Mexican in- vasion and change of government a casus belli so loug as there is a rebel army in the field or the remotest fear that a rebel confederacy may be established; as in the latter case the exist- ence of a strong, stable monarchical govern- ment in Mexico would be an advantage to us, by acting as a breakwater to the waves of Southern fliibusterism. If, then, it is so clearly opposed to the interests of France and of the United States that there should be war between them, there need be little fear that there will be. Se, too, with England. Her government has really given us the strongest provocation to re- ! Now we may freely ery “Onward to Rich- mond!” Slidell’s Successor at the Tulleries. We published the other day a letter from one of our Washington correspondents containing some remarkable and important statements respecting the movements of the rebel Vice President, Alexander H. Stephens, and the certainty of a mutual arrangement by which the Southern confederacy was to give an official recognition to the unfledged Mexican empire, which, on its side, was to return the compliment to the Richmond oligarchy. These statements receive confirmation in the Paris correspondence of the Liverpool Journal, which we transfer to our columns to-day. Ac- cording to this letter, orders have been sent out to Mexico for the recognition of the South by the Council of Notables, and the intelligence that that order had been carried out was ex- pected to be received at the Tuileries by the first mafl from Vera Cruz. The correspondent hits off the political importance of the Mexican project by the ironical question:—“What can the Tuileries do, then, but acknowledge the South deed, accompany it; for the iegal principle “what one does ¥y another be docs by himself” is applicable to the case. The present Mexican its own government is. On another point our Washington corres- pondent of this English paper. The former | stated that after Mr. Vice President Stephens returned discomfited from his proposed expedi- sent to the terms proposed by France in return The telegram from General Sam Jones, at Zol- | soners and thirty pieces of artillery; for we re- | for hernaval and mililary aid in assuring South- licoffer, Teum., to the rebel Adjutant General at { as Richmond, reports that the Union cavalry attack- | tare, by Lee, of forty thousand prisoners at | the whole trans-Missi ed the rebel position at that place on the 20th inst., and were repulsed after four hours’ fighting. Zolticoffer is not many miles from the border line between A second attack was hourly expected. Virginia and East Tennessee, and is situated on the railroad to Knoxville, but is over one hnndred miles distant therefrom. Buford’s have General cavalry, of the Army of the Potomac, to headquar- ters. [While absent on their gppedition they, on Tuesday last, the rebel pickets through Madison Court House, and when three miles beyond that position met and engaged the rebel cavalry, forcing tem to retreat across the Rapidan and by the Gordonsville pike. The Union casualties during the moveinent were but one killed and twenty wounded, while the rebel loss was heavy, including forty-five prisoners, among whom was a lientenant colonel of Cobb's Georgia Legion. The rebel guerillas are atill operating on the outskirts of the army and around Washing- ton. returned drove member the jubilee at Richmond over the cap- | the battle of Gettysburg, and the complete dis- persion of the Union army. Bragg bas evident- ly failed in his grand design, and this failure | amounts in reality to an irreparable disaster to the rebel cause. . What was the design of this late formidable, desperate and terrible assault upon the army of Rosecrans? It comprebended vothing less than : the destruction of his army, the rebel reocot pation of East Tennessee, and, by a rapid junc- tion of the army of Bragg with the army of Lee, the overthrow of our Army of the Poto- H mae, a victorious march upon Washington, and the triumph of the so-called “Confederate | States,” through the intervention of England and France. The chances, too, were apparently all in favor of the success of this magnificent scheme. The armies of Grant and Banks, from Vicksburg ond Port Hudson, had withdrawn in broken detachments to the west side of the Mississippi. Thus all the rebel forces of all descriptions be- tweon the Mississippi river and the Georgia seaboard were at liberty to go to the rescue of Bragg. At the eame time the thirty or forty ern independence-—namely, the concession of ppiregion to her—and had gone to Paris with full powers to ratify | such a treaty. - This Paris correspondent writes on that - point—“it is certain the Florida brought over a couple of Southern diplomats, delegates of Jeff. Davis. * * He (one of them) told me that the said , envoy (the other) had come to assist, if not replace, Slidell in his misston to the Tuileries, and that Europe would be astonished some day * when it shonld come to learn the name of that plenipotentiary.” It is a very fair inference that the envoy who is to astonish Europe is ‘ neither more nor less than the little, shvill- voiced Vice President of the rebel confederacy; and tie astonishment must arise, not from the high rank or talents of this magnate—for he is an ordinary specimen of the ranting Southern ' democratic politician—but from the wonder that a man who had made such an unanswer- able argament as he did against secession should have had the audacity to become second in the movement, and should now be asking a foreign Power to help it on. Circumstances have changed, however, since | Mr. Stephens thought himself justified in seek- According to the rebel accounts the “bellige- | thousand men withdrawn from the army of . ing an opportunity to propose terms of compro- rents’ at the Rapidan are drawn up in battle ar- ray within half a mile of each other, and a fight is expected almost hourly. The Richmond Enquire: states that ‘General Lee will be prepared for Mea readiness for battle.’ Important revelations from Dixie have been for- warded to us in the shepe of a narrative from one who has spent Over six months within the rebel lines. He asserts that Richmond is not evacuated, and gives his reasous why it should not be. The words of the rebel Speretary of War to the narra- tor are all important, especially in that part he that when the racy was recognized and peace with the Northern States “Napoleon would not be long in finding out that the Southern people are not to be made the tools of any Baropean monar- chy, and that the relations of their country and Mexico, as well as their commercial interests, de- mand that they should be of the same nations ality.” had conveyed the positive assurance’ to the rebel State Department “that the confederacy would be recognize’ by France on or before January 10, 1864." A body of rebel cavalry crossed into Upper Maryland on Tuesday, but ww; e whenever the latter shall announce his where asserted cor establ defeated, by @ force of tho Union cavalry operat. General Meade, to secure the execution of | the draft in the city of New York, suggested to Lee the opportunity for detailing a corps or two ofhis army, and espe- cially aheavy sapply of fielfi artillery, to the great enterprise on foot in Georgia. He doubt- less calculated that before the return of Meade’s absent regiments, or at least before his army would be ready to advance, Rosecrans could be demolished, and that then, between Bragg and Leo, the task of a decisive march upon Meade would be a simple and easy operation, We have no doubt that this was the rebel | programme: and the brief statement we have | given will satisfy the intelligent reader that it was more encouraging and promised a broader | fold of victory to the enemy than any opportu- nity since the first battle of Manassas. They saw, too, at Richmond, that it was their only chance; that Rosecrans, threatening their last pieces. We contend, therefore, that the failure of | West, in a more desperate situation than they | were a month ago. We have the report from | eight wounded, Bragg’s total log jn killed agg mise involving separation to our government. * The capture of all the rebel strongholds on the Mississippi, the cutting in two of the confede- racy, the capture of Knoxville and Chattanooga, giving us possession of the whole of Tennessee, and the wonderful performances of our artillery + against the Charleston forts, have so completely modified the situation that even Mr. Stephens’ confidence in the success of the rebellion must have considerably abated; and foreign Powers . will think twice before they provoke a war ‘ with a nation capable of such things. It is : very questionable, therefore, whether the ! Franco-Mexican-rebel programme will be car- ried out. Fravps Uron Union Soumtens.—We pudlish elsewhere a communication from « Union sol- dier in camp on Staten Island, developing S some of the petty frauds practised by recruft- | ing officers upon the men who eniist to fight Frauds like these are discourag- government is as much the agent of France as } pondent is also confirmed by the Paris corres- , sort to hostile measures; but yet, acting on the sound doctrine of “one war at a time,” we have borne with her treacherous hostility in the mat- ter of Anglo-rebel pirate ships until endurance ceased to be a virtue, and we appeared re- cently to be on the very threshold of a war with her, dependent upon the question of whether the iron-plated steam rams built by Laird for tke rebel pirate service would be permitted to leave a British port. That would probably have been immediately fol- lowed by the issuing of commissions to one or two hundred American privateers, who would have soon squared up accounts and made things even by clearing the seas of the English mer- cantile marine. But the latest news from Europe indicates a desire on the part of the English government to avoid that peril by put- ting a stop to the sailing of the iron-plated pirate vessels; and if that is done all danger from that quarter will be at an end. It is therefore apparent that neither from France nor from England need there be any apprehension of foreign war. We have quite as much on hand in the military and naval lines of business as we can attend to, and it is so Vikewise?”? Undoubtedly the French recogni- \ clearly our policy to avoid further complica- tion would follew the Mexican, if it did not. in- | tions that there is no fear of our government committing the gross mistake of making or of provoking another war. The Germanic Contederation—Its Influ- ence Upon the Affairs of Kurope. | {n another columa we publish a most inte- resting account of the organization, territorial extent, population and military strength of the _ Germanic Confederation, giving also a doscrip- tion of itstulers. These matters are of great import at this moment, when Prussia and Anslaia are cach so strenuously endeavoring to ‘ obtain the lead of this great union of power. It must be apparent to all that should Austria suceced in Ler scheme she will at onee rank as secoud to none of the European nations, and that from this very accession of strength she will have an extraordinary influence upon the destinies of Europe. ‘holds aloof from France. whose offers of alli- avee she but a short time since seemed to listen to with favor. Since the meeting of the Con- gress. of Princes at Frankfort, Austria has changed her tone towards France, and, whereas it was deemed a matter of certainty that she would consent to the acceptance by Prince ' Movimilian of the Mexican throne, we now ob- serve that in France hope of such a result is nearly abandoned. Alone, Austria stood in need of the influence of her recent enemy, Nane- leon. At the head of the Germanic Confedera- tion, she wit! scorn his alliance, and become a menace to the continuance of bis power. Out of this now position of affairs, brought about by the late Congress of Princes, good must arise for our cause. The Germans are mostly in favor of the North. thousands of Germans have become citizens of this country, and their relatives in Europe _ most naturally sympathize with the govern- ment of their ,adoption. Francis Joseph of Austria is well aware that if he wishes to ob- . tain the lead of the German States he must | abstain from all evidences of enmity towards | thie country; and hence he will not act with | Napoleon against us in Mexico. By so doing ' he would lose the good will of the very people | he is making every effort to please. This sud- ' den change of policy on the part of Austria ‘vastly embarrasses France, who finds her ' chanees of getting ont of the Mexican dilemma ‘ tesa promising than when it was supposed ‘ Maximilian would, in the most confiding man- | + her, assume a throne which, of course, France . Would at once abandon. | It is evident that we benedit by the change of | policy occasioned in Austria by the Congress | of Princes, as it lessens the number of our ene- | mies and Increases the perplexities of one foe— | most determined and unscrupulous ‘Napoleon. He tried in vain to persnade Eng- eee Would go to show he hag fniled, That she is likely to suc- | coed we are inclined to believe, as she now | Hundreds of | » SEPTEMBER 25, 1863.—TRIPLE ‘SHEET. ———— luctance betrayed by Austria to’ side with Na- poleon will have its effect on Europe; and herein we gain by her action most un doubtedly. The Moetropelis im the Indian Same mer, New York city is full” The last Vagering metropolitan has returned from the rural dis- tricts, and has évidently brought a crowd of hia country cousins with him. Broadway is now in all its glory. The sidewalk, on what is popularly termed “the dollar side,” is thronged with gayly dressed ladies and scarcely less gayly dressed gentlemen. It used to be said, by way of satire upon our national costume of black hat, black coat, black vest and black trowsers, that we were a republic of clergymen. Fashion bas changed all that, however, and now our citizens walk the streets decked with all the hues of the rainbow. This metamorphosis and the brilliant uniforms. of our officers and sol- diers greatly increase the liveliness of our promenades. Nor does.the immense number of country people in town detract from the gorgeous effect. On the contrary, all the grass which Grantley Munchausen Berkeley imagined he saw growing in our thoroughfares could not add so singular and rustic a charm to the many beauties of Broadway. Yesterday the fall and winter seasons were inaugurated by the fashionable openings. We give, in another part of our paper, a column or 80 of profound dissertations upon colors, and shades, and styles, and of glowing descriptions of bonnets, and dresses, and cloaks. In some circles “opening day” is more scrupulously ob- served than the Fourth of July, and a bonnet provokes more discussion than a battle. It is in compliance with this taste that we adorn our columns to-day with ribbons, and laces, and feathers, and finery, and mingle Chattanooga and cuir color, Meade and mantillas, Gillmore and gloves, Palmerston and plumes, rebellion and robes, politics and parasols, iron-clads and illusion, French intervention and French modes, Seward and silks, Lincoln and tho ladies, in strange but delightful confusion. The old Latin maxim tells us that laws are silent amid the clash of arms; but the laws of fashion are not abrogated by war, The battle trumpets flourish; but the milliners, dressmakers and dry goods dealers flourish also. The specula- tors in Wall street coin the bloodiest conflicts into greenbacks, and the wives and danghters of the speculators soon transform the green- backs into robes, and bonnets, and shawls, and diamonds. All of our merchants bear testi- mony that the only trouble about business Is that they have too much to do, Really, we cannot imagine a state of affairs more pleasant for all concerned. But all our places of amusement are not less crowded than the stores and the hotels. For- rest, puffing and panting like a locomotive, draws a long train of full houses every weck. Booth, at the Winter Garden, inherits all of his father’s, popularity, with some of his father’s genius. Baudmann, having made a small { tune ont of the sarcastic madness of Narclase, is now about to assume the melancholy mad- ness of Hamlet. Wallack announces, in that elegant style peculiar to theatrical advertise- ments, that he will soon open his theatre, “re- painted, regilt and redecorated with all the usual talented artists and many new aspirants,”” How he will be able to “regilt” his house “with all the usual talented artists” is perhaps a mystery; but the theatre will certainly be rede- corated with a brilliant audience as soon as the veteran is ready to throw open its doors. Mrs. John Wood is fitting up her new Olympic, and will begin her season about the 5th of October, with light plays and laugbable travesties of the old Olympic school. The lecture season will commence at nearly the same time, and Arte- mas Ward, the vade mecum of President Lincoln and the Joe Miller of the nineteenth century, leads off, at Niblo’s Saloon, next week, with a terrific struggle with the ghosts. Then comes the Fg managed by Maretzek, Grau and -Ansefiutz, each of whom will have a good tronpe of bis own and no connection with any other impressario. What with the splendid weather, the Park, the theatres, the lectures, ; the concerts and the Opera, therefore, New | York will spend an Indian summer worth re- | membering, It is almost too soon, perbaps, to say anything very definite about the Opera season, except | that it can scarcely fail to be successful. Ma- } retzek will open the campaign at the Academy, ; and his coffers and subscription books are now | ready to be filled. Anschutz will follow, at the | same place, and in the German language, and | is already rehearsing his choruses and testing | his leading artists. Gran is somewhere in Eu- | rope, engaging all the available singers, and he | will doubtless organize a sudden guerilla raid | and try to cut off Maretzek’s supply trains by | giving a better performance at another theatre, if he can secure one. But, in one opera alone, j Maretzek has a tower of strength equal to such | an emergency. The opera to which we refer is | the “Esmeralda” of William H. Fry, of the Tribune. This gentleman was recently drafted, and upen hearing of the fact we immediately offered to make him general band master of our | entire army. Our liberal offer, as well as that | of the Secretaryzhip of the Italian Legation, he , decidedly refused, on account of his devotion | to art. He wanted to stay at home to complete ' his opera. He has completed it, and it is now in Maretzek’s hands. The role of Esmeralda, a | Sylph-like gypsy dancing girl, is of course just suited to the graceful Medori, The music isa magnificent combination of the best melodies of Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Mosart, Beethoven, Meyerbeer, Petrella and all other aneient and | modern composers. Such a work as this can only be written once ina century and per- | formed once in a century. It is to operas what the American aloe is to plants. For this reason. “Esmeralda” will be withdrawn after a splen | much for our distracted country. Our grand , children may possibly bear it again, some time | in 1963; but the present generation will cer- tainly not have that pleasure, “Esimeralda, then, will crown the other glories of the season, and be the grarid sensation of this Indian sum remaining lines of communication with alf | the battles of our country, We give publicity | land to join him in his Mexican scheme. Failing | mer in the mtropolis. their confederacy, from Georgia to the Missis- | to this communication for the purpore of call- tn that, be endeavored to persuade Austria into sippi, must be demolished, or that Richmond ing the attention of the proper officials to this a certain complicity in the matter. Here again The refugee states, also, that “Mr. Slidell | would be cut off and the confederacy cut to , subject. A Resstaw Sqvapron | Russian steam frigate Osliaba bas been lying ‘ing the Union cause, and the sooner all re. * and now he has but Spain as a last resort, and at anchor in our harbor for the last week or _ cruiting officers connected with any such ope- | she will keep out of the affair, because Cuba is | two, and during that time the most friendly , thorities should move in this matter without { delay. By dealing with these army sharks as ; take an fag in that region. The rebel loss wos thirty-four ‘ wougded om Saturday and Sunday did not volunteer system. ” this well considered concentration of the rebel | rations are dealt with as they deserve the better | very accessible to our forces, and Spain would | courtesies have been interchanged between her forces against Rosecrans leaves them, East and | it will be for the recruiting service. The au- much dislike to see the Stars and Stripes float- officers “nd those of the national, State and city | "40 ing over the Moro. mba in the hand is worth | gov“rnments and our citizens generally. Yes., ; ""#* more to Spain thay, all the prospective bonefita _ <erday the Oslinba was joined by two of'aoy GE Bets fought and | Richmiond that, with six generals killed and justice and public decency demand, they will | which the wilty ruler of France may cause to | Russian steam frigates—the Alexander ¥ eysyy, important step towards reviving the | glimmer bfore her greedy gaze in gsc she monnting fifty-one guns, and the ‘eresvict, , . should, aid in the Mexican scheme, The ra.’ mounting forty-six gans. This sydadron rad Seta NS reinforced im a few days by the corvettes Variag and Vitesse, each carrying sixteen guns, and the clippers Alinos, Isoumvood and Jabont, each carrying niné guns. We have beemre cently visited by British, French, Spanish, Por- tuguese and Brazilian war vessels; but never have we had, in time of peace, so large a squadron of foreign inen-of-war in our barbor as we shall have when all these Russian vessels rendezvous here, and perhaps never did our people feel so warm @ friendship for such visi- tants as they now feel for the naval representa- tives of the Emperor of Russia. This unusual gathering of Russian vessels in our waters will doubtless be regarded in Europe as an incident haying more or less political significance, particularly when coupled with our not very. friendly relations with England and France, and with the rumors of an alliance between Russia dnd the United States. It may possibly be capable of such an interpretation, or, on the contrary, it may be nothing more than such an experimental trip as the English Chan- nel squadron sometimes indulges in. What- ever be its significance, whether of war o1 peace, our citizens will have no words for out Russian visitors but. those of friendly welcome. How Nor to Do Ir.—By our late European news we receive intelligence that the rebel steamer Florida’ has been “provisionally seized” in a French port, at the suit of a French shipowner, who claims very heavy damages, because the Florida had stopped one of his ves- sels at sea, The great and slippery Slidell Hind hurried away from the pleasures of Paris to arrange this important matter, and public in- terest was in its usual exquisite attitude—on tiptoe. All this looks very nice in the papers, and if Brother Jonathan is not delighted and does not turn two or three double summersanits to think that the French courts have got hold of one of the pirates, what a brute he must be, But then it is said very positively that the decision of the courts will be in favor of the Florida. Even in the present monthe French tribunal has decided that one of the rebel vessels is not a pirate, They are all alike, and, if national vessels, they cannot be subject to such suits as the above. So what becomes ot the great case of the French shipowner versus thé Florida? Only that the Florida is detained for seven or eight days, until a decision is bad. And what barm does the detention do the Florida? As for the barm, it Is difficult to see it. French neutrality would only permit the Florida to remain one day ina French pert. Now, if a ship is in dock for repairs, and has to be repatred much and refitted generally, and victualled and got ready for a voyage inall the various ways, twenty-four hours is but a very short time. Moreover, if she wants to send part of her crew and some officers to. Eng- land to take charge of recently purchased rams, &c., and to ship some hardy fellows in place of these detachments, then twenty-four hours is especially a short time. So to the one day that neutrality gives the courts add a good halt dozen or more, by. the nice little arrangement described above, The Florida bas plenty of time, and all goes well, This is another of the beauties of neutrality. Derention or Reset Rams anv THe Feecwa at Wasttxcron.—It is announced in our Wash- ington despatches that the report that the Eng- lish government had detained the rebel rama at Birkenhead is sustained by the despatehes recelved at the State Department ; also that this faet has“ produced a kindly feeling to- wards Great Britain on the part of our govern- ment.”* The British government, ever since the com. mencement of the war, or as long as there was any doubt about the issue on this continent, have sympathized with the South. They have clandestinely sent the rebels all the supplies and munitions of war within their power. En. field rifles, Blakeley guns and other improved implements of warfare have been forwarded without number. Floridas, Alabamas and other piratical craft have been let loose to de. stroy our commerce. All this was continued until the great victories at Vicksburg, Gettys« burg, Port Hudson and Charleston demon- strated the great power of the North. We have now shown to the world that our Union armies will eventually crush out the rebels, and proven by the effect of our guns on the walls of Fort Sumter that we have the most powerful ordnance in the world, and bare reach- ed that perfection that even England is unpre- pared to compete with us. And now England comes ont and detains two or three rebel rams. | did run of one consecutive night. Twonights of , Fry's last and largest production would be too | iy Ocr Hinnow.—The ; Having done us all the mischief within her power, she now takes the back track, and de- tains these rams, no doubt thinking that she may want them herself, In doing ‘this act, out of fear more than friendship, we sre informed that it has pro- duced a kindly feeling on the part of the ad- ministration ! Rew Mastic. Signor Muzio, the popolar conductor and composer, has just received from Europe orders for several of his works. Yatti achieved her greatest triumphs in the /Unignolo,”’ written for her expressly by» j Signor Muzio, Among the latest productions of this g pa- Heman, which have been received with great fave ¢ by the pablie, may be mentioned tho “Rrindim” ( watz duet), which was sung by Mile. Cariotta Patti and ‘yme. Strekoseh; the “Great Uprising Galop” (for four ' panda), the Emilie’’ potka mazourka, the « Pen: ner aud the “Bhadew Song’ trom berived for the pisao, All works nently Of We near that by next spring Signor Mur 4, wit) havo com) en Boglish opera in Unree acts. 6 lady papil of — Mario 1 Sarete tons ty pe ny «| the Gotterhalk concerts. Thore defre dice thas the ledy will be inostauconaeful., '@4 P08 pre Booksellers’ Trade Sate—T nira Day, The third day of the sale opened w* in wins P. Ha zard’ainvoice, which wae freely CY pijcated in nearly every Ime, and was reported by tha soljep ag one of the | best sales he had ever made. AMY . (he dlapoeal of Mr. | Gowan’s litt, the romaind | er of YY day and evening w: aa taken up with D. 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