The New York Herald Newspaper, October 14, 1863, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNET®, EO'TOR AND PROPRIETOR, OPFIOS N. W. CORNBR OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Velume S% AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 1 AQADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Iratiax Oran. (One. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Jacx Caps. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway. —Rospaur. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Rur Buas—Tu curing Lauaor. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Baoruse AND Sts- tTeR—Two HONS YcasTLEs. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Six Decnexs or Catme—Srnit ov tHe Rup MANTHL—ALARMING SACKIFICE, p—Ja0k AND THE BEAN- joL.DAY BOWERY THEATRE, StALK—OLD Avan—MILLINE! BARNUM’S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Ixpian Cw Wasurors anp Squaws, Grant Rov, Ox, £6. Ot al hours. Tis MsnvxcLovs Gutost, Epgic ANp tue Durcuxan’s Guost, Afternoon and Bvening. BRYANT'S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. yay Brworsas Soxcs, Danoas, Buuasques, &e—Hion ADDY. WOOD'S MINSTREL BALL St¢ Broadway.—Brmiortan fonas, Dances, &c.—Tax Guost, GEO. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. 685 Broadway.—Bur- susquus, Soxas, Dances, &¢.—Scuxmaxkuonn's Bor. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Baiers PAntomians, BuvLysques, &0.—Hauntep Cave, NEW YORK THEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Exprwion’s Dagsam—Rrp Groxr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 018 Broadway.— Cumosrims axp Lictupes, from 94. M. "till 10 P.M. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eturorias Bones, Daxcis, Burtusques, &e. TRIPLE SHE New York, Wednesday, October 14, 2863. TO THE PUBLIC. All afvertisements, in order to save time and seoure proper ification, should be sent to the office before nine o'clock in the evening. "COUNTRY. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE Advertisements for the Wxexty Hear must be band. €d in before ten o'clock every Wednewday evening. Its circulation among tbe enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, 0 country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in tho Wxxxty Hxrato will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THE ELECTIONS YESTERDAY. The Contcstin Pennsylvania and Ohio— Curtin and Brough Elected. From all the returns which have reached us up to alate hour this morning, there can be no doubt that Gov. Curtin, republican, has been re-elected by a-considereble majority to the gubernatorial chait of Pennsylvania. In Ohio, Mr. Brough the conservative candidate, has received an im- to have made a very small show, and Brough isno doubt elected Governor. The returns of the dif- ferent cities, counties and townships from the two Statea will be found in another column, as far as heard from. The reports yet to be received will not, probably, change the result above stated. THE SITUATION. The recent fight on the line of the Rapidan, which has been going on since Saturday, is fully described in our correspondents’ despatches to- day. The gallantry of our cavalry and the lead- ing officers—Generals Kilpatrick, Buford, Plea- santon and Gregg, are described a8 almost | swine have sold freely, at higher prices, Woe quote The infantry was not in | corn fed from Sc.a 5%c., and still fed at 5i<c. a 5K. without parallel. action. After a series of severe and desperately contested fights our main army has fallen back to the Rappahannock. We give to-day a list of the casualties. Despatches of yesterday shew that our eavalry encamped on Saturday night a few miles beyond Germania Ford, and on Sunday morning were attacked by the enemy in largo force, and were compelled to withdraw towards the river, and crossed at Marston’s Ford. But it ap- pears that in the meantime the rebels had crossed ed in force at Raccoon Ford, and in overwhelm- ing numbers, upon our right flank, rendering it necessary for Gen. Buford to fall back still farther. At Stevensburg, eight miles soatheast of Culpep per, another fight was had, Gen. Custer reinfore- ing Genera! Buford and driving the enemy. Con- tinuing to fail back, the rebels overtook our troops again at Brandy Station, but after another severe fight,in which the enemy was repulsed with heavy loss, o&r command was allowed to reach the Rappshannock without further damage. Our loss in Buford’s corps is about three hun- dred. The two armies at last accounts were still lying in ¢leee proximity to each other, and a general engagement is daily expected. There are rumors that the enemy’s cavalry has appeared at Dumfries, with the view of operating upon our left flank and rear, but these lack confirmation. By the steamship Continental, from Hilton Head, we have news from Charleston to the 9th, An attempt was made by the rebels on the day previous to blow up the Tronsides with a torpedo, which was sent down on a raft; but the effort failed todo any very serious damage, be- yond putting out the fires, throwing a large quan- tity of water on her deck, killing an officer and wounding two seamen. +e ufacturers and gentlemen throughout the | filled two vacancies in the Inspectors of Registry. cheese, as likowiso in tallow, tobacco, leather, wool, bay and hops, at rising figures. Black teas wore more inquired | ment was overrun with claims from ataff officers for. Euzars were firm, but not very brisk. Unifeo, rice | who held no other appointment or commission than a note from Senator Jim ; and there were no less than fourteen regiments and three bat- talions of Kansas troops—on paper—these or- genizations having a full and superabundant supply of officers, but the average strength of the regiments being less than three hundred and fifty effective men. It was of no use for the chief paymaster to protest that the staff officers were irregularly appointed, held no commis- sions and had no duties, that time “in cohoot” with Secretary Cameron, and all such objections were overruled as 8c., while the poorest wont at 6c. a 7c, Milch cows | frivolous. It was the same with the chief were steady at $30 a $50.9 $60. Voals were steady | quartermaster and chief commissary, if they at bo. a Tc. T}c. Shoop and lambs were in good | refused to issue on Lane's irregular requisi- tions. Mr. Cameron first rapped them over the knuckles for causing unnecessary trouble, and Senator Jim next set himself and his adberents The total receipts are—5,547 beeves, 102 cows, 657 | to work inthe manufacture of affidavits teat these officers were in the pay of Jeff. Davis, and were eagerly awaiting the approach of General Sterling Price to deliver up to him Fort Leavenworth and all of stores, money, di and ordnance material that it con- journey southward. We think his mission-may as f and molasses were inactive, Fish, trait, laths, liteg and mense vote over Mr. Vallandigham, who appears | Mautla. hemp wore saleable and buoyant, Whiskey wag dociaedly cheaper and in less request. Very light freight engagements were reported. The woek's exports of do- ‘This description of cattle were scarce and much was making a large quantity of water. The British government may with great trath be held answerable for the occurrence of this very serious and dangerous accident to a Cunard steamer, for when the members of the New York iated Press made application lately to the Cabinet for permission to erect, at their own ex- pense, a Daboll’s fog signal, near the very point where the Africa struck, they were refused on the ground that British territory could uot be con- ceded for such.a purpose, Maximilian replied to the Mexican depatation on the 3d inst, He is “‘ ready to accept the throne on @ free, spontaneous expression of the populs- tion, and by a guarantee for integrity in the inde- pendence of the country.” ‘The Paris Siecle predicts that if Alexander H. Stephens expects pis mission to France to lead to récognition he willbe disappointed, as “ the time for that had passed, if it ever existed.” The London News says that General Bragg must achieve much more than the delay of Rosecrans’ march if he expects to benefit the rebel cause by his sword. Consols closed in London, on the 3d instant, at 9324 a 98% for money. The Paris Bourse was heavy. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant on the 3d inst. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were quiet at former prices. The rebel cotton loan advanced five per cent on the receipt of the news of Rosecrans’ check, but subsequently declined, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, Late advices from St. Domingo City report that’ the war in San Domingo was virtually at an end, Points and quiet restored. Our accounts from San Francisco state that the town of Weaverville was destroyed by fire on Saturday last, for the third time. \ The loss is es- timated at $400,000. Three of the crew of the rebel privateer Chapman, captured last winter, have been found guilty, after a trial which lasted ten days. The extreme penalty is ten years im- pri steamer arrived at San Francisco from the north- ern coast onSunday with $230,000 in treasure. ‘two railroad conventions will be held at the St. Nicholas Hotel during the present week. To-day the presidents and managers of all the lines in the loyal States will assemble for the purpose of re- vising the time table for the winter months. On Thursday the general ticket agents will meet at the same place, having adjourned in Philadelphia for that purpose. The closing of the canals and the consequent changes to be made in the rate of freights, and various details in the sale of passen- ger tickets, will then be arranged. The Boagd of Supervisors met yesterday, and at che first board, at a govoral advance in the leading shares; but at the cloge of the call a heavy decline took place in Harlem, and i the afternoon the market gone closed at.i62, Exchange touchod 1725, and closed at 160 2170, with cuasiderable transactions. The cotton market exhibited more firmness yostorday, with @ fair inquiry. Flour, whoat and oats opened at higher prices, with s livery demand, but closed quietly, with a downward tendency. Corn fell off materially in was extraordinary activity in pork and lard,-at im: Proved quotations, with a lively btqinoss in butter and mestic produce amounted to $3,229,534. The aggregate receipta of beef cattle this weok show 8 large falling off, in view of which tho market ruled do- cldedly more active and buoyant, while prices declined fully half @ cent per poundon all descriptions. The bull of the offerings sold on Monday, and the balance sold early yesterday. The range of prices was from 6c. a Ic. Good cattle brought 7c. ® 10c., while primo fat corn fed steers brought 10c. a 100. a Ile. wanted at these rates. Common cattle brought Tic. a demand at from $325 a $5 a $550 each, or about 53g0. @ 6Xc. for sheop, :and 7c. a Se. for lambs, veals, 16,221 sbeep and lambs, and 22,465 swine. Jerr. Davis Goss Soura.—We have the news from Richmond that Jeff. Davis, looking lively and cheerful, had left that city on another be readily guessed. Last fall he made a South- ern tour to Vicksburg, stopping te regulate, en route, the army of Bragg, th€n in the neigh- borhood of Nashville; and then he stopped at Jackson, the State capital of Mississippi, where he declared that however great the sacri- fices the maintenance of Vicksburg and Port Hudson might require, they would and must be made, because the possession of those points was of vital importance to “the confede- racy.” Now we have no doubt Jeff's special mission is the army ot Bragg and the expulsion of Rosecrans, if possible, from East Tennessee. We have it from rebel authority that Davis has declared that this thing must and shall be done if it requires.| all the armies of the “Confederate States.” We presume that the administration will take a note of this expedition of Davis, and prepare for the possible contingency of the increase of Bragg’s forces to an army of a hundred and twenty or thirty thousand men. A Reser Sreamer at Haritax—Wrar's tv tas Winn Now?—The rebel steamer R. E. Lee, from Wilmington, N.C., six days out, is re- ported as having arrived at Halifax, N. S.,-with ’ thirty passengers. Why to Halifax? And what thirty passengers are these? We guess that they are in part the High and Mighty special Ambassador for France, Alexander H. Stephens, the so-called Vice President of the so-called Confederate States, and suite, and that this steamer bas carried them to Halifax for transshipment to one of the outward Cu- narders stopping at that port. The special mission of Stephens, it is possible, is a treaty, a guess I'l have to plough around these Kansas- Missouri troubles also. They are both good States—vory good land in them—very good men in them; but there are some very bad stumps, of which Jim Lane is about the worst, and I the Spanish troops having been successful at all | guess they’ll have to be ploughed round the good opinion of the servative millions of the American people, he will not hesitate to ejeet Senator Jim onment atid a fine of ten thousand dollars. a | Lane and all bis tools, whether military or civil, from connection with the affairs of the Kansas and Missouri department. Senator Jim is not only a nuisance, but a malignant and irrepressible power of evil. merciless and cunning, he is a true representa- tive of the “jayhawking” or highway robber and horse thief clement which forms so conspi- cuous a part of the Kansas “character. the veritable Jean Paul Marat of the Jacobin wing of his party, with only a keener instinct for plunder and pelf than history attributes to that diseased and miserable miscreant. since the breaking out of the war Lane has steadily aimed—and for the most part success- There was @ largo business done yesterday in stocks | fully—to obtain control of the Quartermaster, Commissary and Pay departments of the army having its headquarters in Kausas; and all the ray fell off, and closed weak. Gold was active, and at | patronage and plunder thus obtained have been one tmp touched 166, bat subsequently declined, and | consistently devoted to his personal benefit and the advancement of his political aspirations. took command of Kansas and the Territories, he found tho whole male population clothed in ar- my jackets, inexpressibles and shoes; while all, Price, the speculative demand waving subsided. There | both male and female, slept under army blan- kets, and were subsisted on supplies furnished from the army commissariat. The Pay Depart- of Fort Leavenworth twenty years before Senator Jim ever saw it, and who had also been on duty in Kansas during all the “border ruffan” troubles of the iufant State, straightened out matters, so far as the War De- ful reformation. paymaster refused to pay illegal accounts to that | Senator ¢ | services never rendered. The chief quarter- master and chief commissary renewod their ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1663,—TRIPLE SHEET. [ PO ti ek ee Os T. Lo 484 BEL mival of Devastation and PI ~ The Missouri-Kansas imbrogtte is causing much trouble to Mr. Lincoln, and is likely to Cause moro to the country. How the wrangling factions are to be reconciled; how the preten- sions of Senator Jim Lane and his gang of abo- lition marauders aro (o be disposed of; how the border Jayhawkers are to be held back from the continued plunder aud devastation of the “debatable land” on both sides of the Miasoyri rivert—these are questions demanding in no ordinary degree the exercise of that homely, but keen and honest wisdom which “honest Abe” so undoubtedly possesses. What be thinks about the matter himself may be best illustrated by is remark to a prominent gen- tloman of this city, who asked him. a few days ago what he intended doing in regard to the Missouri-Kansas troubles. “They remind me,’ said Mr. Lincoln, “of a field I once had when I was farming in Sangammon county. It was a very good field—very good land in it; but in one corner there were some stumps, so tough and long-rooted that they couldn’t be grubbed up with the hatchet and axe; so wet that they couldn’t be burned out. Well, what could I do? Loould only plough round them, and I Senator Jim has had things very nearly bis own way; and % is neither his fault nor that of his abolition claqueurs if he has failed to become omnipotent. All will remember the incredible reports of victorics achieved by certain Kan- 6as commanders known to be in Laae’s interest. In several fights it was gravely stated that these doughty warriors bad kjlled more of the enemy than-their own numbers ; that two thonsund men had fought twenty thon- sand for two successive days “ by Shrewsbury clock,” and that the enemy were at length forced to retire pellmell, leaving unspeakable amounts of artillery and stores bebind them, and no less than “three thousand of their dead” upon the field. These and similar re- ports were common at the time when Senator Jim was laboring to have one of his tools made major general and placed in undisputed com- mand of the department. They were eagerly swallowed by the abolition press, and were quoted in disparagement of the less brilliant battles fought by conservative generals of the regular army. But at last, after the promo- tion sought by Lane/had been. made, the truth leaked out through the rebel journals and other sources, and the country finally woke up to a knowledge that it had been ly, per- sistently and deliberately duped by an organ- ized system of wholesale lying. We venture to affirm that there is not an officer who served with or near Lane in the early, campaign of Missouri, and not a Missouri citizen aequainted with the facts and entitled to credit for pis state- ments in a court of justice, who will not testify to-day, ifcalled upon, that Lane’s march through Missouri at the head of his Kansas brigade was a simple devastation—a sort of grand carnival of highway robbery and burflary—the very apotheosis of jaybawking. Political principles were held in profound contempt so long as there was & good horse to be stolen, a farmyard to be devastated, a bureau to be ransacked, g strong box to be carried off. The slaves of the most, devdted Unionists shared the fate of those own- ed by generals in Price’s army; and eo far was Lane’s enormity in this respect carried thateven Gen. Hunter--who certaia!y is not over squeam- ish where slave property is at stake, though otherwise an honest man—was compelled to in- terfere and to issue orders of restitution. The present efforts to secure Gen. Schofield’ removal, or to have Kanshs erected into a sepa- rate department, under command of some jay- hawking general, are only the last manifesta- tions of Senator Jim’s desire to obtain control of the Quartermaster, Commiasary and Pay departments of the army in Kansas and the Territories, with a carte blanche for plunder in the border counties of Missouri and Arkansas. Red handed, rapacious, utterly unscrupulous as to veracity, making a joke of homicide, and ready to base political power on the devasta- tion of a region half as large as Europ¢—Sena- tor Jim Lane is a true type of the kind of mon evolved by the workings of abolition prinoci- ples in the hotbed of a frontier population. Let our upright President spura his insolent pretensions, and kick him and his horde of harpies into outer darkness. There can be no peace in Kansas, no quiet or security, except that of and death, along the Missouri border, while this great archetype of the fanati- cal party is permitted to roam and ravage un- whipt of justice. Work on the Rappanannock—Signs of an Impending Battie. The details which we publish this morning of the sharp, desultory skirmishes since Satur- day last, chiefly between the opposing cavalry forces in the country of the Upper Rappahan- nock, near Culpepper, speak well of the admi- rable conduct of General Kilpatrick and his gallant troopers and of all the Union troops engaged. But the overshadowing fact that General Meade’s whole army has fallen back some fifteen or twenty miles nearer Wash- ington appears to have created some appre- hension in the public mind that he has been weakened to such an extent as to be unable to grapple with the superior army of Lee, and is therefore retreating rapidly in order to escape the fate of General Pope. As we understand these late operations, they do not admit of this interpretation. There was a movement of the enemy in considerable foree to tura the right flank of General Meade and get in behind him; and to avoid this he was compelled to fall baek; but, having by this ret- rograde movement defeated the enemy's de- sign, General Meade, at the last accounts, was fully prepared for any furtuer demonstrations against him. There is no danger that he is about to repeat the disastrous campaign of General Pope, in any event. It must not be forgotten that in bis Vir- ginia campaign General Pope, with aa army of less than forty thousand men, under. took to resist’ the advance of Lee with an army of at least one hundred and fifty thou- sand men, Pope, having two days the start from Culpepper, could have retreated, without loss of men or supplies, to the fortifications of Washington; but he preferred to fight, and per- sisted in fighting till his army was cut to pieces. But now the case is bravely altered. General Meade has an army which we have no doubt is largely superior to that of the enemy; our officers know the country thoroughly our army holds the interior line, in a forward or retro- grade movement, and Genetal Meade has a body of cavalry which of itself, if added to the forces of Pope, would have enabled him to defeat the flank movements oi Stuart and Stonewall Jackson. Assuming that he believes the reports cur- rent at Richmond thet Meade’s army has been depleted to the extent of four entire army corps, it is probable that Lee may be manceu- vring fora general engagement. It is possible best way we can.” Giving this stgsy for what it may be worth, lot us say seridusly that, if Mr. Lincoln in the least values or wishes to retain the intelligent and con- Lank, cadaverous, He is Ever In the winter of 1861, when General Hunter Senator Jim was at General Hunter, who had been in dommand soon partment would let him, and worked a wonder- Supported by him, the chief Jim’s political aids, for military vows of fidelity to the book of Army Regula- tions, and no requisitions for stores or supplies that were not en regle and correct could receive attontion, The fourteen skeleton regiments and three skeleton battalions were at once con- solidated into six effective regiments and one battalion—this change in itself saving to the United States Treasury the pay, forage and subsistence of eight colonels, ten lieutenant colonels, eight majors, eight chaplains, eight surgeons, ten assistant surgeons, ninety cap- tains, one hundred and eighty lieutenants, and the non-commiasioned staff in proportion. * It also converted info military organizations, sub- ject to discipline, what had previously been a mere armed rabble of jayhawkers, scattered at will over the country, and for the most part en- gaged in pursuits having nothing whatever to say to the profeseion of soldiering. Changes so radical as this and so beneficial to the service were more than Senator Jim could stand. The officers mustered out were his political adherents—half the State Senators of Kansas drawing pay as field officers of va- “$+ | fromgommand in Kansas; and elaee that hour | ‘Phe Position of Hoscorans~The MMerts There is nothing of importance from Chatta- | oronsive and defensive, with Louis Napoleon, | rious grades, while the captaincies were embracing the recognition of the confederacy | distributed through the lower House, EUROPEAN NEWS. on the one side, and the surrender of Toxasas | and the Jieutenancies held in reserve The stenmship Africa, from Queenstown on the | 4 equivalent on the other side. Atallevents,| for the «mall fry of wirepullers in 4th instant, put into St. Johns, N. F., yesterday | the escape of this rebel steamer from Wilming- | State and district conventions. Not one out afternoon, on her voyage to Boston by way of | ton adds another leaf to the laurel crown of | of every ten of these officers could tell a pla- Halifax. glory of old Mr, Welles. toon from a battalion, or “ knew his horse’s tail The news of the Africa is two days later, and a a co Manna « from his sabre.” They were purely political telegraphic ptecirye i scaaaeal, ella endorsement emigre appointments, made by Senator Jim while exer- . y our agent | wij) read the sketch we published yesterday 1 Mehta % ‘at St, Johns, appears in the Henan this morning. | of the “modern miracles” mankind are now cising trregular bona in th rigadier gone- Tho Africa strack on the rogks near Cape Race | undertaking or have accomplished, the labors ral, without commission, in the early days of the at ten o'clock last Monday night, during a dense of Hercules will indeed dwindle into insignia- | “*": And here let us say, that, although two fog. Sho was put about before she struck, but the Alps are ied, of the Kansas regiments did well at the battle took ground fore, aft and amidships, and re. | 800: Nowadays ond tunnelled, | of Wilson's creek, they wore two (the First and mained on the rocks during balf an hour. There | telegraphs stretch over the world, canals oon- Second) with which Lane had no connection, and was a cousiderable soa ranning, with southerly | mect mighty oceans. In fact, to change all! 1 14 teem raised and were commanded wind at the time. The steamer's boats were got | nature is now with us but a matter of money, on that occasion by sound democratic officers— ady but not launched. The Afri SD - siter an hour, and was speedily indie of ener New Prosectizes.—We have received the ao- | Conolels Deltsler and Mitchell—who held the nooga. by her pamps. Captain Stone then headed her | C°UDt of a new gun which will throw ball Jacobin Senator at his true worth, asa jay- for Halifax, but soon hawker only anxious for plunder. into 8t. Johus, Newfoundland. Both cargo and Nese ara hilly damaied, When out lal} dt it pradeat to pat | through on eight inch fron plate. With such Means of attack even Gibraltar, thet oatural General Hunter, to the intense delight of Lane and all his crow, was at length relieved ' of our cruisers there tog? ‘ that such an engagement may thus be brought on at any moment. Let it come. We have no fears of the result, General Meade will not be caught napping; and we know that in the management of @ great battle he is a cool, skilful and reliable leader. Our only apprehension in this matter is that the rebels, though represented to be in strong force, are playing a bold game of bluff with the mere skeleton of an army, and that these offensive demonstrations against Meade are only intended to gain time in the work of reinforcing the army of Bragg. In this view, we think that if Lee should dealine to opena general battle, Meade should, and probably will, compel him to fight or t6 face about for the refuge of Richmond, nox permit him to rest this side of its fortifications, Rent Parvarwers—Woe seo that the rebel | privateers are going to the China seas, Will not Secretary Welles wake np and send some { ef the Rebels. General Rosecrans’ actual whothor we view it in respect to ite danger to the enemy or ig respect to the safety of his own army, is one of intense interest. Supplied with all that is necessary for an army in active service, and with a force atleast equal to the whole force that could possibiy be concentrated at any point on his line of operations, the general who had gone from Murfreesboro to the Chickamauga river without a battle might, before he left the Position at Chattanooga, bave drawa up the achedule of conditions to be offered to the rebel leaders in any city he chose. But if that gene- ral is the servant of a government that gives to party intrigue the attention it ought to give to its armies—that fiddles and laughs irrespective of the ruin that may ensue—then he will neither be furnished with adequate supplies nor with adequate force. In that casé he will have to relinquish any hopes that be might have to close the war by a great success, and will find it necessary to look after the aafety of his own position with all the éarnestness with which he sought to de- atroy the enemy. Such is, to a certain extent, ‘General Rosecrans’ situation now. We give to-day a map by which the reader may see at a glance the whole theatre of war ia the Southwest, and the relations of Chattanooga with “Murfreesboro, Kingston (in Tennessee), Rome, Atlanta, and the three points at which the respective parts of the rebel force are now held in hand—Dalton, Lafayette and Trenton. How much danger there is to the confederacy in our continued possession of Chattanooga as a base for a future advance by the Valley of the Chickamauga to Rome, and thence to Atlan- ta, will be seen at a glance. But exactly in proportion as such a position is valuable to us for active operations against the enemy so is it dangerous to us when matters are the other way, when we are compelled to stand on the de- fensive and the enemy threatens. What peril there is under such circumstances in such @ line as that from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga may be seen in the recent achievement of the rebel Wheeler, who crossed the Tennessee river near Bridgeport, and burned wagons at McMinnville. Elsewhere we print a letter from Baltimore which gives from rebel sources what the rebels are doing and hope to do in their operations against General Rosecrans. Upon this autho- rity the rebel force now in the field in Georgia, drawn for the emergency from every part of the Southern States, numbers one hundred and seventy-five thousand men and nearly two hun- dred and fifty pieces of artillery. With this force, under Jobnston, Bragg and Longzstreet, and now disposed in a semicircle around Chat- tanooga on the south side of the river, the rebels propose to completely invest that town and capture General Rosecrans and his whole army, and to do for us on the Tennessee what Grant did for them on the Mississippi. In the numbers that our Baltimore correspondent gives we do not believe. People in Richmond may think that the rebel general in Georgia bas such @ ferce; but it is because the thought is in consonance with their wishes, and not be- cause they have any better reason to think it. But lessen the numbers, for exaggeration, by one-third, and that will still make 4 very for- midable army. Salvation for the confederacy lies naw in successful resistance to Rosecrans ; but to cap- ture bis army-would be a triumph equal to the most that the most sanguine rebel could bope for. As the plan is one full of temptation, we may be certain that the attempt will be made to carry it out. We have seen hitherto with what earnestness and energy the rebels go about a favorite project, and we have seen the lethargy of our government on all critical oc- casions, and while we remember these we cer- tainly cannot regard the rebel plan as a very wild one. But we sball see. The Russians in New York—A Word Before Dinner. Two or three hundred of the leading mer- chants and business men of this city gave the Russian officers a splendid banquet at the Astor House on Monday evening. Nearly every even- ing the Russians are entertained at the private residences of some of our citizens, and, as we stated the other-day, they are engaged for ten evenings ahead, But all these festivities, excel- lent as they may be, are only preliminary to the grand municipal banquet at the Astor House next Monday, and to the magnificent ball which will take place at the Academy of Music in the course of a week or two. In order to prevent any such crush and jam as those at the Japanese and the Prince of Wales balls, only two thoji- sand tickets will be*issued for this brilliant re- ception, which is intended to surpass any simi- lar affair ever given in this city. The time for this ball is not yet definitely fixed. Indeed, there need be no burry about our entertainment of the Russians; for a des- patch boat reached the fleet on Monday with the intelligence that half a dozea more Russian vessels are on their way to this port. When the Ozar hears of the manner in which we have received this ficet, it is more than probable that he will send over his whole navy. In the “meantime, however, we understand that Ad- miral Lisovski has determined to winter here; and this insures us a most delightful series of balls, parties, dinners and receptions, public and private, formal and informal. Our people were never richer than’ now, and never better prepared to exercise the utmost hospitality to- wards their foreign friends. It is always best to take things in their natural order, and sct- tle accounts first with our friends, and then with our foes. We are attending to the Rus- sians now. By and by we shall be ready to take up the cases of the English and the French, and we hope to pay eff the little balance we owe them in a way which will be satisfactory to us, if not to all concerned. Apropos of this subject, it may be well to remark that our Russian visitors have a great deal to learn from us, and particularly in re- gard to seamanship. The Russian sailors do not compare with the English and French as ‘The e navy has plenty of green sailors, but few good seamen. Peter the Great rushed for the water as soon as he could walk, just as a yeung Newfoundland dog would do; but Peter ‘was born a sailor and a genius, and the Russian peasants do not generally resemble their te eepecrrstesesee~sesenesnttagnnsteencaseenenesesias> favorite monarch in this respect. The system Of taking only those men for sailors who ex- hibit some predisposition for the profession ie the system which must be adopted in Russia in ordbr toseoure a good navy. Nor should such schools for sailors as our New England fisheries and the French and English fisheries at St. Pierre and Newfoundland be neglected. Fin- land is a capita’ place for such a school, and the Fins, ag their xame indicates, always make admirable sailors. This advice, however, is only by way of a little before dinner conversa tion. Now let us prepare ourselves for the grand banquet. Continued War in the Cabimet—Cock Pighéing and “Coppering the Red.” There is a paper in existence called the Chroni- cle of the Turf, though the ansouncement may be news to our readers, It professes to be the American. sporting gentlemsm’s organ, and in this capacity is patronized by the brilliant ohief of the Treasury Department, who finds im it a fit vehicle for communicating with bis friends, the big and little stoek gamblers of Wall street and the sporting fraternity im General. Onerglance through its pages shows that it is an “organ’’ ia the most intense sense of th&t obnoxious: term. It is partisan im everything, just: or fair in nothing, and ite partioular favorites are a somewhat speckled assemblage, embracing Billy Mulligan, S. P. Chase, the Benicia Boy, Secretary Stanton, Mr. John Morrissey, Gideon: Welles, Fighting Joe, » Mrs. Beile Blivins, of Buffalo, and Senator Jim Lane, of Kansas. Itelibrary contains “Vistiana,” “Boxiana,” “The State Papers of Secretary Chase,” “The Derby Racing Oalendar,” “Re- ports of the Committee: on the Conduct of the War,” “History of Oock. Fighting,” “The Chi- cago Platform, with Notes by Greeley;”’ “Lives of the Milling Heroes,” “Hoyle on Whist,” “Halleck on War,” “Helper on the Crisis,” and “The Newgate Calendar,” in seventy yellow covered volumes, with colored prints. As the organ of Con. Orem, Tom Hyer and other illustrious “handlers of the daddies,” the Chronicle of the Turf goes lurgely into prize fights and sparring matches. On behalf of “ Fighting Joe,” it gives McClellan “two on the nob” with several “tappers. of the claret” whenever it can get a chance. To please Billy Mulligan and Jonny Ling, it devotes attention to “coppering the red,” “forking out the chips” and “going its thousands better on three aces with s pair”’ Mr. S. P.Chase, in its columns, predicts with solemnity that the weakness of Mr. Lincaln and the treason of Seward will soon cause “gold to be atapremium of two hundred per cent”—a calamity only to be averted by the surrender “within thirty days” of Missouri and Kansas to the abolition plunder schemes of Senator Jean Paul Murat Lane. Mrs. Belle Blivins, in jockey hat and feather, trots out her “long-tailed sorrel.” Genio C. Scott docs the trout fishing and cock fighting. Comments op the imbecility and mismanagement of the State Department are the special business of the Count Adonis Gurowski; while the editor ir person attends to the “base, grovelling and dirty” democrats, “besotted devotees of iphr- ty,” “gridiron railroad speculators,” “publie sharpers,” “central sachems,” “notorious swin- diers” and “firm of rogues” who have brought Tammany Hall into “obscene communion with Mozart for the local defilement of this city.’ Take it for all in all, the organ of the Amo- rican sporting gentleman presents 9 quite re- freshing variety of subject matter. ‘From grave to gay, from lively to severe,” was never better illustrated. Its only fault is—and this we speak in the interest of its largest class of patrons—that it gives'up too much space to the ponderous: lucubrations of the Treasury De- partment. “What care its patrons—the men with rufiled shirt fronts, diamond pins and dyed mustaches, who may be seen assembled any fine day on the Fashion. race track, or whe gather at night in every haunt where “a little game is: kept moving ”—what care they for the “conservative plot,” of which Mr. Chase writes column after column every week? What in- terest have they in urging that Senator Fessen- den’s defeated proposition for an “ open Sena- torial vote,” requesting Mr. Lincoln to kick out Seward, shall be revived? Every one knows that Mr. John Morrissey is a devoted Seward man, and that he “bets bis little pile” at every election undor the direct tutelage of Thurlow Weed. Mr. Morrissey is an American sporting gentleman of large influence—a re- presentative “ sport,” so to speak; and in a perfectly friendly spirit we adtise the editor of the Chronicle of the Turf to consult Mr. J. M. much more and Mr. S. P. C. much less than he has latterly done. Surely, too, the astute Secretary of the Treasury displays less than his usual acumen in the selection of the paper under notice as his organ. The “sports” of the country are a free handed, liberal class, led more by the heart than by the head, and Mr. Chase can never in- jure Mr. Seward in their eyes by proving, ashe tries to do, that the “little juggler of tue State Department” is “in favor of rescinding the emancipation proclamation” and Confiscation bill, and that he is “willing to deal with slavery within the Union if he could not get along without”—in o word, that Mr. Seward makes the slavery question subordinate to ‘that of the Union, while Mr. Chase prefers to have civil war and disunion forever rather than to allow the return of any Southern State under the pro- tection of the Stars and Stripes with its “domes- tic institution” still In existence. The“sports,” upon this point, are toa man of Mr. Seward’s way of thinking; and if their ergan would tell them more of the “little joker under she thimbles,” and less of “Little Mac” and the “lit tle juggler of the State Department,” they would be far better satisfed. Seriously, however—for there ‘s a serious as well as comic side to this, am to all other mundane matters—it is high time that Mr. Lincoln should either change his Cabinet or compel its members to live in harmony. Mr. Chase is talked of for the seas on the Supreme Bench now occupied by Chief Justice Taney; and it isnot seemly for him to keep pouring out billingsgate from week to week against an associate whom be acknowledges to be Mr. Lineoln’s “most confidential minister” and “the architéet of the conservative party.” He should be rubbing up his law, studying the amenities and eharities of life under an accredited minister of the Gospel, and the decencies of langeage and metaphor under some master of rhetoric wholly destitute of anatomical knowledge, This last remark is made in view of that sentence’in which.Mr. Chase pursues the image of tearing away “the horrid afterbirth of Southern treason” to a point and with @ minuteness of description which aze absolutely revolting. Let Mr. Lincoln either give himself up to Chase aod make '