The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1863, Page 6

ee 6 NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1963.~TRIPLE SHieT.’ NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, on an extraordinary French mission relative to Poland. Several revolutionary bands of Polish troops had been dispersed by the Russians. Austria and Prussia refused all interferonce by England in the Dano-German difficulty. The King of Denmark made a speech, in which he said that, if overpowered by Germany, be would proclaim a Danish republic. The cotton market of India waa considorably excited. Consola closed in London on the 27th of October at 93 a 93'¢ for money. Cotton advanced one- fourth of a penny in Liverpool on the 26th ultimo, the market closing buoyant. On the 27th of October the market was ‘‘atill advancing.” MISCELLANEOUS NEWB The steamship Tubal Cain arrived at this port yesterday evening, with late news from the West Indies. The advices from St. Domingo City are dated on the 18th of Ootober. The rebels held possession of the entire island, with the exception of the capital and the east end, The opinion in St. Thomas, however, was to the effect that Spain would in the end conquer the natives. The Spaniards claim two recent victories. Don Carlos de Vargas, a’ Marshal of Spain, bad been appointed Captain General of St. Domingo. Large numbers of the revolutioniste had been ex- iled and landed ia St. Thomas. At Mayaguez, Porto Rico, the fall rains had set in. The sugar crop was looking well. Coffee was coming in, There were many political prisoners from St. Domingo in St. Johns, P. R., and many refugees from the island in a state of extreme des- titution. Mrs. Ex-President Tyler was at Bermuda Octo- ber 31. There were a number of blockade run- hers atthe island. . Admiral Milne, R. N., was at Bermuda. The United States steamer Rhode Island, Cap- tain Trenchard, was at St. Thomas on the 23d ult. Our correspondent in British Honduras, dating at Belize on the 13th of October, says that the ex- port trade of the settlement was almost entirely diverted from the United States to Liverpool and London, owing to the advanced charges experi- enced in American ports consequent on the war for the Union. The interests of the inhabitants of Belize suffered severely. Heavy rains, which were expected in June or July, had fallen incessantly during twenty days. The floods would liberate the mahogany crop, but the rains would cause very heavy damage to the cotton, just maturing, and the experimental planters would endure heavy losses. There were no American vessels in port, the Honduras, from New York on the 2d of Sep- tember, not having arrived. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, and transacted some routine business. By a commu- nication from the Comptroller, it appears that the balance in the treasury, October 31, was $2,774,- 929, The Board adjourned to Monday. The Board of Councilmen did not organize last evening, for want of a quorum. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction met yesterday, and read the report of the Com- mittee of the Whole, which was adopted. The estimate of expenditure for next year is $700,000, which includes $40,000 for an inebriate asylum, which the Commissioners propose to erect if they are authorized. The number of inmates in the institutions at present is 6,104, a decrease of 122 from the past week. The number admitted last week was 1,454, and the number discharged, transferred, or who died, was 1,576. Surrogate Tucker resumed the sessions of his court yesterday, and the two wills of Mrs. Sophia Dayton came on for trial. The first of these in- struments leaves the bulk of the decedent’s pro- perty to her daughter; the second gives it to her cousin. The dispute is as to the soundness of her mind. Attachmentswere ordered issued against the executers of E. J. Hayes and Jeremiah Hickey, for failure to file inventories. The income of Michael Dougherty’s children was ordered paid to their guardian for their support. During the month of October fifty-two wills were admitted to probate in the Surrogate’s office of this county. W. W. Halleck, the brother of General Halleck, who was nominated for Assembly in the Third Assembly district of Oneida county, was defeated bythe republican candidate by over three hun- dred majority. Money was still active yesterday, and relief reaches the market but slowly. Gold was more active, and closed at ab advance. Exchange was aleo in better demand. The business on the Stock Exebange was limited and prices again show a decline. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Volume XXVIIT AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Tae Orzna—~ Mantua. \NIBLO’S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Coniocanve, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rosepace. GINERD, OAR Broadway, —| ae ounevous ANNIK—RETURNED VoLUnTmea ey ANPE MIS OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Po-c4-10K: Ply Sf a, RE, way. —P0-04-HON-TAS— NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. . wass—Purina Doroumat Tus Intmiuon OY SOPH BOWERY THBATRE, Bowery.—Ni Guise Sonooaines” Guose—Miciitans Housat. e BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Tnr Mi Fiovags, Giawr Bor, Prrnon, ‘ta. ns atl hou Oana mas Evs—Runvesvovs. Afterneon and Bvening. NANT’ MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall. «73 way etnorsas rk i Bo Sravox Bucy Parrersont * sree, WOOD's MINSTREL HALL, 514 & foncs, Dances, 4c,—Panonama or tan Nowra ree GEO, OHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—! — Sones, Dances, 40.—How Anu You” coring AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 44 Broadway.— ‘i Pawroutnes, BUNLESQUES, Ae-Harue Mase eset HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tua Srereoscorrican HOOLEY’S OPERA HO! Brooklyn. —! Bones, Dancus, Buntasauee a” niet TRIPLE SHEET. November 6, 1863. ITUATION. There is but little news yet of moment from Gen. Meade’s army. The guerillas seem to gain boldness every day. On the night before last they captured a Major of our army within two miles of our headquarters on the roan to Auburn, and the same band seized a quartermaster and four men almost within sight of headquarters. A part of them made a raid upon Edsall’s Station, five miles from Alexandria, on the same day, and carried off several horses and mules. Several parties of rebel cavalry dashed through the lines of our deft, and committed depredations in Prince William county. The division of General Kilpatrick’s cavalry went out on a reconnoissance on Wednesday towards Falmouth, and when near Hartwood Church they fell in with two regiments of South Carolina and Georgia cavalry, who ensconced themselves behind a hill. They were flanked and dislodged, and after half an hour's skirmishing were driven across the Rappahannock, with a loss of three killed and aeveral,wounded. The recon- noissance resulted in discovering no large force of the enemy in that region. The rebels made another attack on the Colliers- ville, Memphis and Charleston Railroad on the 34 instant, and were repulsed. The rebel General Geary and thirteen of his staff were captured. The news from East Tennessee is important. A despatch from Knoxville, dated the 4th instant, says that East Tennessee is once more clear of rebels, with the exception of guerillas, who hover @round our wagon trains and infest our mail routes abeve. The fight at Roam Spring resulted in the rout of the rebels. We lost seventeen killed and fafty,two wounded. Colonel Garrard pursued the rebels beyond Kingsport. A despatch from Nashville, dated on the 4th, (confirmed by an official from General Thomas to General Halleck), reports that on the day previous, Major Fitzgibbon, of the Fourteenth Michigan cavalry, with one hundred and twenty men, met at Lawrenceburg, thirty-five miles beyond Colum- bia, the combined forces of the rebels Cook, Kirk, Williams and Scott, numbering four hundred missary General. cavalry, and after four very desparate charges, The bread question in the rebellious States, resulting in a loss to the rebels of eight | we have frequently comtended since the begin- killed, seven wounded and twenty-four prisoners, | Ning of the war, would inevitably become a Grove them before him without any loss on his | Powerful ally of the Union cause. In confir- ails, except tees wounded, Giustal Brike's mation of this oft-repeated opinion, so far as i the problem of Southern destitution is con- proeg “gay cont ap Se Dee arte cerned, we submit to our readers this morning of his position, was captured. The train was sent | 4 wel] authenticated letter from “L. B. North- to camp. rop, Commissary General, C.S. A.” addressed The full details of the battle of Lookout Moun- to “Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War, tain—the midnight expedition of General Hooker | Richmond, Va.,” and written from Athens, and its happy results—are given by our corres- | Tenn., on the 25th of g —_ ;| Commissary General Northrop commences pondents to-da: ther with a map of the scene . of action. eioee irate: this suggestive letter with a reference to ‘the “ lies in this department;” Advices from Arkansas by way of Memphis and ee oe ni abe) yet he writes from the heart of East Tennessee, Cairo, state that General Marmaduke attacked | that very section of country which the rebel Pine Bluffs on the 28th ult. with three thousand | journals, from Atlanta to Richmond, declare men, and was repulsed by the garrison, which } now to be indispensable to the subsistence of numbered only seven hundred men, under Colonel | Bragg’s army through the winter. But then Clayton. He lost twelve killed and fifteen | Bragg had eaten up only the crops of last year, wounded. General Price's forces are said to have | *@ crops = br rere as ‘ium aa retreated beyond Red river, leaving only his ewane sett compe ka oa cotton phat bisa ends planters “evince no disposition to seed for The rebel division of General Loring, consisting more than the usual quantity of grain and of eight thousand infantry, is now lying around Can- | other artioles necessary for the subsistence of ton, Miss., while three thousand men are said te | the army and the people,” notwithstanding the be guarding Mobile and the railroads running to} resolutions of their revel Congress and other ‘the South. appeals on the subject. “It is lamentable,” EUROPEAN NEWS. says this anxious writer, “that the people are The steamship Adriatic, from Galway on the | so deaf to the appeals of their representatives ‘3th of October, arrived at St. Johns, Newfound- | and so blind to their own interests. It is land, last Wednesday evening, en route to New |} obvious that something must be done imme- York, after a roagh passage from the Irish coast. | diately, or both the people and army must The nows by the Adriasic, which is two days starve next winter. This,” he further says, “is aun deride be an alarming reflection; but it is fully warranted graphed i j ——— Ue yy the situation. A few days more and it will the Hmmaxp to-day. The reports of General Lee's late movement | be toolate’”—that is, the season for planting towards the Army of the Potomac, under General | the great Southern etandby of Indian corn Meade, excited considerable attention iu England, | would be at an end. being regarded as an advance in force. The writer next proceeds to discuss various Tho London Post of the 27th Itimo, the gov- } plans suggested by General Bragg for cempel- ling the planters to give up cotton and plant ernment organ, (says that if the Union army sus- corp, and finally recommends Bragg’s third tains any serious reverses just now, neutrals will have no alternative but to recognize the South. “ Mr. Lindsay, M. P., denounced the course of the p scape gen aa aovermees woe oe English government towards the Union as “incon- session o! plantations, or such portions of sistent with neutrality and honor.” them as the owners do not intend to seed with The London Times thinks that the army lately | grain, &c., and employ the negroes belonging under Rosecrans will have to capitulate. thereto in raising such products as may be deem- Mr. Beecher was entertained at a farewell | ed necessary. Officers and soldiers who have breakfast in Manchester. been rendered by wounds and disease unfit for The Paris Moniteur reports the feception of the | further service in the fleld could be employed aus aus ts te oma lee ee a8 superintendents and overseers.” The rebel manner. ph the French Legislatare would refuse sight of War is admonished that it is only the guarantees demanded by Maximilian. y “arbitrary measures that we can prevent Napoleon, in June last, officially proposed to distress in our towns, and subsist the armies in guarantee Austria against any eventualities from | the Geld, through the winter and spring.” Next Russie, should the Czar refuse to accede to the | We are informed that this year’s wheat harvests ailied suggestions respecting Poland. of the South have produced not even half a Mpiaba Neil bad Lely Korie for 6t. Petersburg } crop, and thai au iaventory taken by Governor The Bread Question in the South—Im- portant Confessions of the Rebel Com. Browa, of Georgia, of the stock of bacon (which is eaten morning, noon end night by Southern people when they have it) “shows the well nigh expausted condition of taal State; and yet, beyond peradventure, it is lea nearly exhausted than any other State in the con- foderacy.” 1 Such is the testimony gives im A; by the rebel Commissary General of ence touching the prospects of Southern aub- sistence through the coming winter and spring. He presents @ dismal picture to the rebel gov- ernment, and the six months which have since elapsed have only contributed to make it darker and gloomier. Immense cora props were planted last spring on the rich alluvial bottoms of the Yazoo and Big Black rivers, in Mississippi; but they have been devoured or destroyed by the contending armies that have desolated that State. The abundant supplies of wheat, cora, beef cattle, sheep and swine which last year were brought to the rebel armies east of the Mississippi from Arkan- eas, Western Louisiana and Texas are now, end have been since last July, as completely cut off as if the Mississippi were a river of liquid fire. The army of Bragg, which last winter was subsisted from the crops and cattle of Tennessee, is now compelled to depend upon the scanty supplies of Georgia. The rebel Army of Virginia is in the midst of a desert, and the demands of empty stomachs and naked feet will largely account for the daring forays of rebel guerillas within the lines of General Meade’s plentifully supplied army: The area upon which the armies of Jeff Davis east of the Mississippi have now to de pend for their subsistence is limited to South ern Virginia, North and South Caroling Georgia and Alabama; and within these States, in addition to their own fixed population, are thousands of rebel white emigrants, and hun- dreds of thousands of negro slaves, from Mis- souri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Misais- sippi and Louisiana, Northern Virginia and Maryland, on account of the pressure of the advancing fleets and armies of the Union. The consumers of food and clothing, whites and blacks, thus added to the population proper of Georgia and Alabama, would probably, all summed up, exceed two hundred thousand souls. And when, in connection with all these facts, we consider the wastages of the rebel armies, their losses of production from the loss of horses, and that, down to the out- break of this rebellion, the cotten States, ex- cepting the articles of “hog and homminy” und sweet potatoes, were almost entirely sup- plied with their provisions from Tennessee, Kentucky and the great Northwest, it will not be difficult to believe that the rebellion is on the verge of a general and terrible famine. If any further evidence were demanded to satisfy the intelligent reader, we would refer him to those unfortunate Union soldiers who, as paroled prisoners, were recently shipped to Annapolis from Richmond, and who are dying. by scores from the effects of starvation. We would also refer him to the starvation prices ruling in the rebel capital. The public journals of that city and Lynchburg are beginning broadly to hint that the Union soldiers held as prisoners in those two cities are not worth a tithe of the scanty allowance of coarse food which is grudgingly given them. We can hardly regard this a mat- ter of astonishment, when, according to the Richmond Examiner of the 2d instant, “at an early hour on Saturday morning the meat sup- plies at the city market gave out, and nume- rous families in consequence had to dine off Grahamite dinners.” The simple truth-is that the rebellion is already beginning to feel the pangs of a famine, and the winter has not yet set in. How is the poor barefooted rebel soldier's family to live through it, when his month’s pay in rebel scrip will only buy them two or three pounds of bacon and a few pounds of flour, or a peck or two of corn meal? When the meat market at Richmond, even at two or three dollars a pound, is exhausted at “an early hour in the morning,” surely the time is at hand when “the’ Yankees” under General Meade will be bailed in that city as a liberating army. The facts we have recited, at all events, are sufficient to show the exhausted condition of the rebellion,. and that, if within the ensuing six months of consumption without production the rebellious States are not subdued, the country will aeed nothing further to prove the incompetency and imbecility of President Lincoln’s administra- tion. Tax Catt. ror Vouonreers.—The response to the President’s call for three hundred thou- sand volunteers is likely to be all that could be wished, and it is not at all improbable that New York State will be ahead of all others in fur- nishing her quota. The ,bounties offered are most liberal. The veteran volunteer who has served before will receive the sum of $402, and those who have not been in the service $302, which sums will be paid in eight regular instal- ments during the term of service—the first being paid before leaving the rendezvous and the last at the expiration of the three years for which volunteers are called into the field. With these inducements there cannot be much difficulty in raising the required number. But the go- vernment should see that these bounties are faithfully and punctually paid. There must be no distrust in the mind of the volunteer or his family upon that point. Nor should bounty agents—those middle men who stand between the government and the volunter, and who for the most part are mere sharks and shysters— be tolerated under amy circumstances. They should be shunned and discouraged. Let the money come from a direct source to the volun- teer, undiminished by any fees or impositions, and all will be well. Gov. Seymour has appointed committees in each Assembly district to act with the recruiting agents of the Provost Marsbal and disburse the Btate bounty of $75 to each tecruit. Now that the bustle of the election is over, and we have shaken off the dust of local politics, recruiting for the national cause will no doubt commence with earnestness all through the State, and the quote of one hundred and eight thousand will be forthcoming by the 5th of January. The official returns show that the govern- ment has raised, for the different terms of fer- vice, up to the Ist of January, 1863, no less than 1,276,246 volunteers; and this withent counting the enlistments in California, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland and Delaware, from which States no returns have yet been made. There are plenty more men where these came from, and if proper care is taken te fulfil the pro- mises held out in the shape of bounties we shall see three hundred thousand fresh troops in the field and ready for action before spring opens. These mea will not have much fighting to do; for the war is nearly at its ead ow, and their presence in the ranks of the veteran army will 0 © groat way to Gnigh it. Secretary Seward'’s Auburn Specch— Kssuce Tavolved ia War and Peace. As the British Secretary of Foreign Affairs found aa opportunity regeatly of expressing his viows of the American rebellion at a little village in Scotland, 60 the American Secretary of State has found, “‘by accident, and not by design” —aa be himself states—a like opportu- nity of giving to the world, through a speech in the village of Auburn, the sentiments of him- self and of the administration which he repre- sents on the same great topic. That speech we roproduce this morning; and we have n0 doubt that its interest and importance will be generally recognized,{ not only at home, but also abroad. The minor toplo of this address was the elec- tion which was to come off in this State the fol- lowing day. And here Mr. Seward indulged in his favorite pastime of prophesying; but this time he actually happessd to prophesy cor- rectly. He foretold, by signs and tokens which he had etudied, that the republican party would aucceed in the election. But it needed no pro- phet from Washington or elsewhere to make that event of the future palpable to the most obtuse understanding. The copperheads had so disgusted all loyal citizens that their utter defeat was foregone conclusion. Therefore Mr. Seward was quite safe in venturing this time once more upon the domain of sooth- saying. The Secretary of State does not show himself very loyal or respectful to the man who sits in the chair which he himself once filled. He puts Governor Seymour and Mr. Clement Vallandigham on exactly the same footing —and that is one of hostility to the gov- ernment and of friendship to the rebellion. We care very little, however, about copper- heads, great or small, and would be very glad to see the vermin-banishing miracle of St. Patrick repeated upon them. On the great question of the rebellion and the war Mr. Seward’s outgivings are more im- portant. There is to be no peace or quiet until Abraham Lincoln is President of the whole United States. The rebels might, at the begin- ning, have retained the whole of their slaves if they had submitted to the laws; but “submission, coming too late, will leave neither slavery nor slaves in the land.” This is an indication of the policy to be pursued with the border States as wellas with the rebel States, and it differs some- what from the programme announced by Post- master General Blair. There is another important suggestion in this speech. The parable of the Prodigal Son is used in it, as it has been used before, to illus- trate the position of the rebels. The doors are to be always open to him, and neither man nor angel could prevent the fatted calf being slain for his welcome; but no invitations are to be sent after him. That means that Governor Sey- mour’s idea of the war being carried on by the government with a sword\in the one band and an olive branch in the other is not to be real- ized; that there shall be no offers of pardon be- fore pardon is‘asked; that the rich man is not to go in search of his prodigal son to coax him back, but will simply wait for him at his door, until, seeing him yet afar off, coming back dis- gusted and penitent, he can receive him with open arms and make a feast in honor of his re- turn. That is the polley whioh the administra- tion has resolved upon, if Mr. Seward is to be regarded as speaking for it, and it may as well be understood of all men, loyal, rebel and cop- perheadish. Cost 4np Consequences or Evrorean In- TERVENTION IN AMERICAN AFFAIRS.—It appears, by our last European advices, that the Span- ish oceupation of San Domingo has already cost the Madrid government upwards of six millions of dollars, and that heavy appro- priations will have to be made to meet the deficit created by the expenses of the war now being carried on there. The invasion of Mexico has cost the French government upwards of seventy millfons, and we now learn that it is compelled to go into the English market for a loan of eighty millions to enable it to meet a similar deficit. This rate of ex- penditure will be quadrupled as soon as the Mexican forces which are now being collected by Juarez are thoroughly organized and placed in the field. Neither Spain nor France is in a con- dition to sustain such drains upon their re- sources for enterprises which are purely specu- lative, and which will be knocked in the head 48 se0n as our governnfent is free to devote its attention to them. What would be their posi- tion if circumstances should bring them into collision with this country? Twelve months of war with us would utterly ruin and bankrupt the finances of both. Louls Napoleon is about to have this truth unpleasantly ferced upon his attention and that of the French people. The opposition, which gained'such large additional elements of strength in the last election, has an- nounced its intention of making the Mexican question its cheval de bataille. It is susceptible of such a damaging influence in the hands of skilful adversaries like Thiers and Jules Favre that the Emperor may well feel con- cerned at the prospect before him. The rumor that he is contemplating the withdrawal of the French forces is not at all improbable. It is the only step by which he can defeat the plans of the most powerful and dangerous opposition that has as yet been organized against his gov- ernment. Tae New Eurine tx Curva.—There have been for some time past a number of adventurous Yankees in China fighting to aid in putting down the big Chinese rebellion. England and France have been not a little jealous of the en- terprise of these Americans, and they interfered at Pekin to the injury of Yankee influence. The result was that after the death of Ward, the great American Mandarin, the Emperor became opposed to Burgevine, an officer who had always been the companion of Ward in his campaigns. He tried to arrange the matter with the Emperor, but could aot. So one fine morning he coolly marshalled his body of two or three hundred trained soldiers and went over to the rebels. The Emperor has thus put his foot into a serious scrape, and he is natu- rally greatly terrified at the probable result of Burgevine’s secession, having already offered a reward of three thousand taels for his appre- hension, dead or alive. There is no doubt that this bold American will gather a strong party round him, and unless the Emperor looks very sharp be will beat him in the Celestial war; and then England and France will be atill more astonished to find that Russia and Ame- rica are carrying everything before them in China, teasons for this shelving of General Roseorend abort of an investigation of his late campaign by the Congressional Committer on the Com duct of the War; and such aa investigation, wo guess, in deference to General Halleck, will be indefinitely postponed. Battoonne mw Evrors.—Two or three bal- loon ascents have recently been made in Lon- don, and grand one in Paris, under the aus- pices of the Emperor. His Majesty carefully examined the machine and all its parapherna- lia before it went up; and he must have bees somewhat astonished to hear that it had come down so soon after with such violence. He bas, however, sent up another balloon, which willl shortly come down in the same way. We exrect that his Mexican expedition will ehare the same fate as the Giant balloon—come dows with .« smash, to the peril of the life of every one im the car. Ifthe Emperor be shrewd he will sawo his balloon by getting out of the way in time; and by giving up ballooning alte gether in France, as well as in Mexico, he will stand a better chance with the universal Yam kee nation. Tux Grea? Bostonian Exorremenr.—The Bow ton people bave had a sensation. The “Hub of the Universe” has been in a state of ecstacy. HK has not been about banquets and balls in hones of the Russians, nor about the elections, nos about sending twenty or thirty thousand troope to the relief of Pennsytvania, nor about any- thing of this kind. Their sensation was alf about an organ, and may well be said to be organio in its way. The organ was inaugurated at their Music Hall; and so anxious were they that the place should be filled that they sent out. invitations on all sides. They had ne less than two or three hundred from New York. Well, the organ was a very big ove, and the affair altogether was a big one—for Boston. The Great Political’ Plot ta Bince the three historic ta'tlors met in « gar- ret in Tooley atreet, in the oit,v of London, and there took measures, in the name of “We, the people of England,” to overthaow the great edifice of the British constituth’®, We have never heard or read of uch @ conspiracy against established authority as that which has just been brought to light by the on wiscient detective police of Cincinnati. This ¢, ttraor- dinary case of treason, aa the telegraph’e Te- perter calls it, had for programme the rek se of the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase, \‘be seigure of the arsenal at Columbus, the storm’ ing ofthe Bastile, or Penitentiary, the release therefrom of John Morgan and the other gue- rillas confined there, a grand plundering and masaacreing raid through Ohio, the overthrow of the State government, and, as a matter of course, the annexation of the State to the em- pire of Jeff. Davis. Through what powerful agencies was this most magnificent programme to be carried out? The keen-eyed, ready-witted, ubiquitous de- tectives, headed by the United States Marshal and a provost marshal, probed the mysterious plot to ita vast depth and through all its varied ramifications, and arrested all the concocters and principal managers of it. Who were they? Not the valorous Vallandigham, who is watch- ing and waiting on the border; not Sunset Cox, who happened to be in the East making politi- cal speeches against the administration and in favor of the copperheads; not any other des- perado ever heard of before in public life, on the stump, on the bloody battle field, or in plundering expeditions of the Quantrell type. Not all nor any of such people appear to be implicated in this plot to blow up the political edifice of Ohio, and shatter it i From turret to foundation stone. The Guy Fawkeses of the dark November plot are a schoolmaster ef Columbus—one whose suspicious business it is to “teach the young idea how to shoot;” a sutler of the same vicinage, who may be supposed to be perfectly familiar with ardent spirits; a rebel agent and rebel mail carrier from Kentucky, a Cincinnati tailor and his wife, and, finally, a muscular washerwoman, who carried on her oc- cupation around the camps of the latter city. These are the vile conspirators who had banded together to bring war’s desolation upon the peaceful hearths of a great community. How shocking to think of it! Well may the people of Ohio be grateful to the police whose vigi- lance frustrated this treasonable conspiracy against the peace and sovereignty of their State. What might not have happened if the washerwoman and the tailor’s wife, the tallor himself and the schoolmaster, the letter carrier and the rebel agent, had been allowed to ma- ture their plot and levy war against the Com- monwealth? For the deliverance of the people of Ohio from this terrible danger may they be truly thankful; and we would suggest to them to set apart in their calendar the Ist of Novem- ber, to be observed throughout all time in com- memoration of the event, just as the 5th of November is observed in England in perpetual remembrance of “the Gunpowder Plot.” Theatrical. LENT’S AMPHITHKATRS, Tho building recently called tho New York theatre, but better known as Wallack’s old house, bas undergone « great many mutations since the veteran left it for freak fields and pastures, higher up town. If wo had the time and space at our disposal, we might give somo vory euri- ous items in regard to these changes. Brevity, however, is the soul of wit and newspapers; and 80 wo content oursolves with stating that the splendid pantomime aud ballet troupe which has recently occupied this theatre has now departea for Canada, and that the house 13 closed for tho prosont. We tbink that if this troupe bad succeeded as wollas it deserved, the city would have gained a very ploasamt entertainment and, the Marzotti and Martioetti families would have realized « fortune. The =f and the public decided adversely, however, and Harle- quin and Columbine have tripped away for the winter. Circus horses and circus riders are goon to take their places, Mr. Lent, the manager of the Kquescurriculum, or the Equesridiculum, now performing in Brook- lyn, will open an amphitbeatre at this old stand, on or about the 16th of November. By tearing away the private boxes and rearranging the stage, Mr. Lent will make room for a large ring, and he intends to secure am excellent company and present @ constantly varted per- formance. This ts the first timo that we have had such an establishment on Broadway since the circus at the old Broadway theatre, and, if well conducted, cam ecarcely fail to be popular. Brooklyn Academy of Masic. “LUCIA DE LAMM&RMOOR.'’ This popular opera, so woll known to the musical world, but which has not always been sufficiently appre- ciated, was last evening presented to a Brooklya audience in a style and mani here to be excelled. The orchestral part of the entertainment was in every way unexceptionable. The overture was admirably performed and loudly applauded. The important contributions of @ well appointed orchestra to the representation of the more difficult music of tne Italian masters are frequeatly passed over in the necessary praise of deserving vooal artists. We are pleased to-day, howover,to pay the highest tribute to the gentlemen composing the orchestra last night, as well as to Sig. J. Nuno, their talented and able leader. Of the vocal partof this choice opera we bave only to say that it surpassed the best expectations of the public, Madame Ortolaui Brignoli, as Lucia, was in most excellent voice, ond sustained the diMcult rote ‘assigned her with uausual grace and eflect. The vim an@ fire of Bellini never shone out with greater brilliancy than last night. We were glad to seo that Coletti was in bis proper place as Raimondo, and that he discharged bis duties with as much satisfaction to the audience. In the second and third acts of the opera Signora Brignoli and Signor Belitnd threw their whole souls into their acting and singing, and drew forth loud and tumultuous applause. The opera was well put on the stage, and ail the che racters announced were in their places, except Signer Mazzoleni, who, being unwell, was ably replaced by Signor Lotti. ‘The audience was a very fashionable one, crowding the house (rom parquet to gallery. The next great attraction at the Brooklyn Academy te Gottachalk’s grand concert, on Saturday (to-morrow) evening. It will bea brilliant affair, Tar Remova or Generat Rosecrans.—The Washington correspondent of an evening con- temporary says that “the President disclaims any connection with the statements made against General Rosecrans’ character as a man or a soldier;” that “he was satisfied with his conduct at Chickamauga;” that “General Rose- crans was removed, as he himself has said, ‘ be- cause of a military necessity;’”’ that “General Grant was the only man who could command the consolidated armies, and for a year the per- senal relations of General Rosecrans and General Grant have not been pleasant;” that “Rosecrans could not well serve under Grant,” “did not like to do so;” that “the government knew it, and therefore relieved General Rose- crans temporarily from command.” This statement of the case, emanating appa- rently from a well informed source, demolishes all the slanders of Chevalier Forney, the New York Tribune and other over zealous and super- serviceable hangers-on around the War Office. They instantly discovered the reasons of the re- moval of Rosecrans. He had disobeyed orders; he had moved toa disastrous battle when he was told to stand still; he was asleep in Chattanooga when Gen. Thomas, single handed, was fighting his unequal battle. Rosecrans, moreover, bad been inoapacitated in the crisis of the fight by a sudden attack of sickness; he had been disparagingly spoken of by McCook and Crittenden; the police system of his army was shockingly corrupt; be was addicted to opium; ‘and, in addition to all these charges, there was an old score against him of his failure to make a diversion in support of Grant at Vicksburg. All these accusations have been very quietly and effectively answered by Gen. Rosecrans himself, and especially in his public declara- tion that the President had approved bis con- duct in regard to the battle of Chickamauga. The General could not make such a declaration without authority; and now we find it amply confirmed in this later testimony from Wash- ington. The Chevalier Forney, the Tribune and other radicals, in their hot haste to cover up the blunders of the War Office, are thus denounced ‘as false accusers by a witness of their own party. It therefore devolves upon Forney, Greeley and all concerned to plead guilty to Arrival of the United States Steamer Da- cotah. ‘The United States stermer Dacotah arrived yesterday evening, having left Wilmington bar October 24, stopping io Hampton Roads. Her officers are-— Lirwenant Command 8. D. Aumes. Acting Master —Wm. Earle aud Win. Mosiander. Ensign—G. W. Wood. ‘Aciing Ration —S Barnes. Surgeom— 2 Chiet Engineer—A. Greer Escape from a Richmond Prison. UNION PRISONERS STARVING. (From the Cincinoati Gazette, Oct. 30.) ‘There arrived in the city day before yesterday, from Washington, Edwin Ballou, a member of Captain stacy’s company of the Second regiment Kentucky infantry. Young Ballou (for he is not yot eighteen years of age) has been in the service for more than two years. He wounded in the hand early on the first day of the ments at Chicuamanga, but fought throughout the resting bis gun, when firing, upon bis . He taken prisoper toward evening, during a Sbarge made by his regiment, and carried by @ circuitous route to Richmond, passing so near to distinctly the firing of cannon. He found the prisons at Richmond crowded with prisoners, dying daily for want of food. But one ration a day was served, consisting of @ email piece of bacon anda hard, unpalatable cracker, ii if cape or starve, be, in company with two others, eluded the guard, and, creeping upon their bands and kpeew their unfounded accusations, and to ask | through iong passage, aropped iy batehway absolution of General Rosecrans. He is | (peas tt Rettend a eereende thelr escape inte ichmond. Ry carrying Uhelr blouses ow their arma, and removing the oum from their they eluded observation, passed throngh the city, and themselvesjia the woods. They travelied several days ia @ northeasterly direction, betng guided by the sun discou ; & good Catholic, and will grant it, if satisfied of a sincere repentance. We still ad- here, however, to the opinion that General B underwent mock hardship aad ' some 5 it; 5 alleck has had a good deal to do with this Saved in even aes a % aw ered thea. removal of General Rosecrans, and for the pur- pose of making him the scapegoat of an unfor- tunate campaign, which, like all the rest of our unfortunate campaigns, was the result of the blundering inatructions from the War Office. We have positive testimony from the field that, instead of disobeying instruetions, General Rosecrans fought the late battle in pursuance of instructions, though against his own judg- ment, and that, had his suggestions been strict- ly adopted at Washington in reference to the army of General Burnside, the field of Chicka- manga would have been the scene of a victory, which would have carried our army without further serious resistance to Atlanta, and thence to Bavaanah, Charlestéa or Mobile, as might have been deemed most expedient. ‘The country is entirely satisfied with General Thomas; but it bas not been satisfied with the reasons assigned for the removal of Rose- crans. This incompatibility of temper between him and General Grant is plausible ; for we know that all men of the military profession are more or leas puactilious and precise about matters of rank and official dignity ; but it is Probable that we shall got get at all the other upon potatoes taken from the fields, or furnished them . who in every instance treated them with ki bess, giving them matches and such trifles as they could spare. After several days’ trial they reached WiiMams- burg, whence pen BO sent to Washington via Fortress: Monroe, The authorities at Washington ordered Balloe te 5 Cleve- land. Money and opportunity were offered t0 him here te visit bis home, but he preferred to do bis duty asaegol 5 dier, and is now on bi to join bis company. Coroners’ Inquests. Favat Fats Down Starma.—Michael Delaney, a native ct Ireland, agod fifty-one years, fell down stairs at his reste dence in Fifty-sixth street, pear Sixth avenue, and frec~ tured bis sk The unfortunate man lived but « few Collin belt em hours after receiving the injury. juest.