The New York Herald Newspaper, November 28, 1863, Page 6

6 *. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR sent for the relief of our imprisoned soldiers. It is said that the ‘government will not forward any more until some guarantee iq given that the agreement entered into shall be faith- fully carried out. The sufferings of the unhappy prisoners are set forth in’ most painful terms by the reports of the surgeons who have been re- leased from Libby prison, ‘Ghe mortality in the hospitals amounts to fifty a day, and the food sup- plied to the sick is wholly inadequate and unfit for the patients. The surgeons referred to, however, state that the rebel surgeons in charge of the hos- pitals are not responsible for this state of things, as their kindness and humanity in the performance of their duties are fully equal to the limited means at their command. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our correspondent in Havana, writing on No- vember 21, says:—‘There has been a report flying TERMS cash in advance, sent by mail will be eb the risk of the souder. Nowe but bank bills current io Now York taken, Volume xxw seeeeeeeeneesessN@, 330 | AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving Placo.—Martixex at 1. Taw Orums—La Sommamaura. RIBLO'S GARDEN. Broad: ov tum CountarPat's Buu: WALLACK'S THEATEK, broadway,—Rosepacy. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Karariey Mavove- wuaa—Youna Aornuss—Reroanen Vouunrzen, —Fater Cincie—Customs ns, OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Ouxa's Morro— Ava Cuansorrs’s Maip. vice versa, but I think we have no certain infor- | mation here, though as the St. Louis and Georgia are both in the. neighborhood of the Canary Islands there may be some truth in it. Two car- goes of slaves have been landed on the island lately—one on the north and the other on the south coast.” From our files of Bahamas papers, dated to the 21st of November, we learn that the Anglo-rebel trade between Nassau and the port of Wilming- ton, N. C., and vice versa; was exceedingly brisk, the steamers engaged in the traffic running be- tween the ports with great regularity, as will be BBW BOWERY. THEATRE, BATH —JACK AND iLyw. Murpae. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo: Oassm Bor—Four Loveus—! Bowery—Tau " Hus Stexp—Guance at New Yous Foneer or Boxpy— tux Pires. "s_ Saloon—La Marsow RuNTS:ssrt Sous px M. Montov- UM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—, Guinr Gin. Giawr Boy, Liuurorisie core eee ra, Suape—Rovan Diamonv—Afternoon and Evening. BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, Broad | aes veg Bones, Dancus, ‘Buncesquia, hoot ground, that the St. Louis sunk the Georgia, and” ‘WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 51¢ Broadway. —! Gouas, Dances, te bamtes, alia GEO. OWRISTY'S MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—Bur- Soxas, Dancms, &0.—Miscutsvous Moncare ? AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway,—Batcers, Pawromiuue, BUnLKaguns. &C.--Mountain OUviaw BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Gru- Mast O amp Kaugstkian Panvoewancas,—Afiernoon and Evening. HOPS CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tam Brenzoscorrican. IRVING HALL, Irving piace.—Coxceur ey tum Anton Soormry. NEW YORK MUSBUM UF ANATOMY, 61 — Cvmosimms amp Luctunxs, trom 9 a. M. nor a HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, B: I Boxes, Daxcas, LS reecucnnaiias seen from néws report given this morning. There was nothing of local interest occurring at the islands. From St. Domingo we learn that the insurgents had organized a provisional government. The Spaniards had four thousand troops in Puerto Plata. A large number of the most respectable inhabitants of St. Domingo City had been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the revolu- tion, About seven hundred Dominican refugees had landed at Turks Island. General Ramon Mellor commanded the insurgent forces. Some hundreds of Chinese had arrived in St. Doniingo from Cuba, to be employed as laborers with the Spanish army. The Spanish blockade of the coast was only partial for want of force, the three chief ports of the island being still open—a fact which shows that the Queen’s army cannot hold the towns. There was a very large and enthusiastic demon- stration of the united democracy at Cooper Insti- tute last evening to ratify the nomination of Mr. Boole for the Mayoralty. We give a report of the proceedings. % In the Surrogate’s Court yesterday the ac- counts of the estates of Jacob Aims, deceased, amounting to $98,000, and of Charles Hamilton, deceased, were settled; also the accounts of the guardians of W. H. Forbes and Frederick A. Starr, who have come of age. The Surrogate heard argument in the contested accounts of James Daly's estate, and also upon the probate of the will of Rebecca Kelley. ET. New York, Saturday, Nov. %8, 1863, THE SiTVATION,. The news from Chattanooga represents the ab- solute destruction of General Bragg's army as beyond doubt. Gencral Grant very briefly an- nonnces, ina dospatch dated at one o'clock yes- torday morning, that he has just returned from tho front; that the rout of the enemy is most com- plete. Abandoned wagons,@aissons and occa- sional pieces of artillery are cverywhere to be found. Bragg’s loss, ho pays, will fully reach sixty pieces of artillery, and the pursuit will con- tinue to Red Clay in the morning, for which place he would start at once. The work upon the rear‘of the flying enemy oontinuod to be more disastrous as our troops pursacd. The rebels flung down their arms and were captured ia hundreds, leaving artillery, am- munition und caiasons behind them. They set fire to their stores to prevent thom from falling into our hands, so that at different points during Thurs- day night the progress of our troops was illumin- ated by the flames. It is said that what is now loft of Bragg’s army is but a panic stricken mob, rashing like a herd of frightencd buffaloes, and epparently perfectly M@capabile of making any further resistance. Last night Hooker's and Sherman's commands were ten miles beyond Chickamauga creek. Ins sharp figut yesterday morning Gencral Palmer took four gans and three hundred prisoners. Gene- ral Sherman advanced on the left yesterday from ‘Tyne’s Station, and cut off two thousand of the enemy. The cavalry command of Colonel Lang has just returned from a raid on the East Tennes- sce Railroad, fifteen miles of which they cut, below and above Cleveland; burned a rebel foun- dry at that place, stored with large quantities of munitions of war, and captured one hundred ‘wagons of supplies. . Our total loss in the three days’ fighting is said not to exceed three thousand. We give a fine map to-day of the whole country from Knoxville to Atlanta, and the scene of Gene- ra) Grant's brilliant operations, and another giving & profile view of Lookout Mountain, with all the points of interest in the late assaults, with the rebel defences. The highest ridge of the mountain is one thousand seven hundred feet above the level of Chattanooga, and distant from it, in « straight line, about a mile and a quarter. latest news from the Rapidan shows that the whole army of General Meade had crossed the river at three points and advanced southward, skirmishing with the enemy as they went, and defeating them in every instance. Lee seemed to be shunning a general action, and is reported to be falling back stubbornly. There was a rumor at Rappahannock Station last evening at seven @ clock that General Meade had captured four- teen thousand of the enemy,sbut. it could not be traced to @ reliable source. No opposition to the crossing of our army was made except at one of the upper fords. The right, consisting of the Third corps, supported by the Bixth, crossed at Jacobs’ Ford; the Second corps at Germanna Ford, and the Fifth, supported by tho First, at Culpepper Ford, between Ger- manna and Bly's Fords. The centre column ar- rived at Germanna about noon. Only o small picket of Georgia cavalry were seen on the other side. The headquarters of Gene- ral Meade were moved across the river before nine, o'clock yesterday morning. Shortly after that hour heavy cannonading com- menced and continued up to five o’olock in the af- ternoon without intermission, but no particulars of the engagement had been received at Washing- ton up to date last night. It was probably along both sides of the plank road in front of Orange Court House, as this was expected to be the bat tle fleld. ‘Tho guerrilla Mosby is still active in the vicinity of Brandy Station. On Thursday night he made 1 dash upon @ forage train, destroyed the fornge, captured one handred and thirty-nine mules and Gfteen wagont, agd set fire to nineteen other wa- ons of the train. Union officers just returned from Richmond state that the rebel authorities are acting in bad faith with the prisoners and the government in the didtribucion of the provisions and clothing The observance of Thursday as@ day of “Thanksgiy- ing,” or a holiday, and the great fall in gold occasioned by the sucoess of General Grant, unsettled the markets for merenandise, both foreign and domestic, and but lit- tle business was done yesterday in any department. At the Produce Exchange there was almoss a panic. Flour declined 10c. 200. , and grain 2c, a 4c. Provisions were tlso rather lower. Cotton wag dull, lower and nominal. | Petroleum was dull and almost nominal. Groceries wore also dull. There was very little movement in anything. Froights were dull, as usual, and very little business was reported, . General Grant’s Great Victory—A Fatal Blow to the Rebellion. The completeness and the importance of General Grant's great victery at Chat can hardly be exaggerated. His captures of prisoners, artillery, small arms and the various materials of war incident toa great army will eclipse in the amount the spoils of any other field engagoment since the beginning of the war, and are only exceeded by his captures of Fort Donelson and Vicksburg. But at this stage of the struggle this utter rout ef Bragg’s army will operate far more disastrously against Jeff. Davis than did even Grant’s ‘Mississippi campaign, culminating in the surrender of the rebel Sebastopol of the West. That victory cut the Davis confederacy in twain by the line of the Mississippi river; but this victory strikes home to the very heart of the rebellion. Failing, with his profitless battle of Chicka-. mauga, to recover the commanding position of Chattanooga, Bragg, it was confessed by lead- ing rebel journals, would have done better had he not fought tha: battle at all. The graiu and cattle of Middle Tennessee, and the saltpetre caves and salt works of East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia, were pronounced indis- pensable for the winter’s supplies of food and ammunition for Bragg’s army, and without their recovery bis victory would prove a seri- ous defeat. Hence the desperate expedient, no doubt dictated by Jeff. Davis himself, of divid- ing the army of Bragg for a flank movement by Longstreet against Burnside’s isolated army at Knoxville. Subsistence had more to do with this enterprise than military strategy, or surely Bragg would hot have been weakened by the withdrawal of one-third of his troops, when he knew that reinforcements by thou- sands were daily arriving to the Union army in his front, and that General Grant had been ap- pointed to command them. In this view the failure of Longstreet and the complete over- throw of Bragg’s army must be immeasurably more disastrous than such misfortunes could be to an army with abundant supplies to fall back upon. When an army enters upon a campaign for subsistence, and is signally defeated, we may pronounce it angemy destroyed. Bat, in # more stridtly military view, Bragg’s repulse from Chattanooga was a fatal disaster, not only to him, but to the so-called “Confede- rate States.” His defeat secures to us East Ten- nessee and Southwestern Virginia, and opens an easy way for General Grant to Atlanta, to Charleston, to Savannah or Mobile. The whole country, from North Carolina to Mobile, is now open to his victorious army, and there are no opposing forges within it competent to resist his advance to the Atlantic or to the Gulf by any route that he,may choose to take. Ex- hausted of their able bodied men by sweep- ing conscriptions, the cotton States are, with this defeat of Bragg, virtually disarmed; for we cannot doubt that the remnant of his army, in- eluding the column of Longstreet, will be cut off or followed up till completely dispersed. In this extremity what becomes of the rebel Confederate establishment at Richmond? We are momentarily expecting the tidings of a vio- tory by the Army of the Potomac which will speedily settle this question. General Meade, we understand, has a force in his hands as far superior to that of Lee as are the forces of Grant compared with those of Bragg. A bat- tle, therefore, if accepted by Lee, will almost certainly be the last great battle of the rebel- lion. But should Lee, “fighting stubbornly backward,” escape without a crushing defeat to Richmond, is he likely to remain there to try the fortunes of asiewe? We think it quite as e . Probable that the catastrophe which has fallen upon the army of Bragg will ocom- pel Jeff. Davis to sbandon Virginis, with Lee’s army, for a junction with Bragg's remaining forces in. North or South Carolina; and ,thus we think it possible that the death aud burial of the rebellion may take place in the ewampy State in which the mon- ster was born. Unless Gen. Gillmore shall aa- ticipate and cut off the transfer of the “con- federacy” to Charleston, Beauregard, who was the presiding genius of its nativity, may be the chief mourner at its funeral, In any event, from every consideration of wisdom, charity and humanity, we would ap- peal to the long deluded, intensely’ suffering and dangerously situated people of the rebel- lious States to reflect upon the hopeless cause of Jeff. Davis, to revolt against him, and to submit at discretion to the Union, trusting to the clemency of the government, and to the fraternal forgiveness of the loyal States. Sui- cidal madness alone will counsel continued re- -sistance, when resistance oan only increase ten- fold the terrible consequences to the States concerned. Our armies are now within the reach of the immense stores of the movable wealth of the cotton States, and it will be sao- rificed and the people of those States will be reduce® to the common level of beggary .with @ continued redistance to the overwhelming strength of the Union. They have made.a most heroic struggle in the worst of causes. Against disadvantages and dangers positively appalling, they have exhibited aspirit of en- durance, a degree ef energy, ingenuity and bravery, and a fertility of resources, really astonishing. But against the power of the loyal States their struggles have been as delu- sive as those of an active Liliputian in the hands of a long-forbearing giant. Let the people of the rebellious States give up this vain struggle and declare at once for submia- sion, and they will save millions of wealth which may otherwise be lost, and avoid the ruin and confusion of absolute subjugation. With their submission the emancipation pro- clamation—a mere military measure—will be- come a dead letter, and they will be restored to the Union, with the right to reconstruct their local institutions to the practical necessities of their condition, as the war will have left them. In returning their representatives to Congress they will have a potential voice in the work of re-establishing the general government upon a solid basis of internal peace. There is not the shadow of a hope for a Southern confederacy, in foreign intervention, Northern divisions or Southern endurance. The seizure of Laird’s rams, our late elections, Bragg’s decisive de- feat, and the exhaustion of the rebellion, have settled all these questions. The only alterna- tive of safety to the people involved in this re- volt is their revolt against Davis and their submission to the Union. Oar Prisone: Stanton the tention. The voluminous correspondence, the last of which wq published in the Henaxp of the 19th inst., between General Meredith, the United States Commissioner of Exchange, and Robert Ould, the rebel Commissioner, relative to the release of our prisoners, purports to give the Riehmond—Secretary Cause of Their De- - public some light on the subject, but in. reality - has signelly failed to demonstrate more than a | stubbornness and nerrow minded feeling on the part of the former, and a spirit of resentment in the latter’s case. We can readily trace the entire matter to its proper. source, which is no less than the dicta- tion of Secretary Stanton, from whom all or- ders to General Meredith emanate, and who, for some reason best known to himself, desires to prolong the captivity of the r suffering prisoners for an indefinite period. We are as- sured that the rebels are not only anxious to release our captured soldiers, but have offered fair terms, which the austere Secretary of War refuses to entertain. Being unable to provide for so large a body of prisoners, they were compelled to send them south, and a few days age the Richmond dungeons were emptied, and the prisens at Danville, Salisbury, &c., are now crowded with the hapless captured Union men. ‘ A few days ago aprominent gentleman visit- ed City Point, by permission of the President, to supply the soldiers from his State with ne- cessaries of lifeand clothing. There he met Ould, and had a conference—of course unoffi; cial—with him. He was told that the rebels were willing to exchange man for man as soon as our government chose to accept the offer. On his return he sought and obtained an interview with Major General Benjamin F. But- ler, the new commander of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, and laid these facts before him, also acquainting him with other material and, important points on this much contested question. General Batler at once took a decided step, and is now combatting Secretary Stanton, with view to force him to deviate from his chosen ground, and proceed at once to effect the re- lease of our prisoners. In order to judge of the suffering endured by Union prisoners in Richmond, we feel author- ized to state, on high and competent authority, that tevo thousand of these men have offered to give their parole until the end of the war, to save themselves «from actual death. This information, coupled with the utter imbe- ciligy of the War Department on the question of the cartel, has caused General Butler to take such a decisive stand against Mr. Stanton— and he has the undivided sympathy of the pub- lie with him—that, from his well known firm- ness in everything he undertakes, it is to be antici; his intended policy will have a fa- orable impression on the sound judgment of the President. The rebels hold at this moment some fifteen thousand of our men, while we have more than double that number, and five times as many officers. Nearly every family in the loyal States Tis some re languishing in rebel dun- geons, and the vow populi is interested in having the prisoners released. The Secretary of War has assumed to manage this business all by himself and his confidants, and he is the person, even if it requires some sacrifice of dignity on our part, to take the initiative in having our prisoners released. Enlistments have been greatly retarded by the fact of volunteers, who enter our army, not being assured of a speody release in case of capture; but, if they find that prisoners are exchanged immediately after capture, recruits will readily come forward and swell the ranks of our victorious armies, ‘This is the true state of affairs, which can be properly authenticated, and we again repeat that Secretary Stanton is the only and sole + cause of the estoppage on exchange. Bings 1m Gemeral and the Mayoralty ee: in Particutar., Just at present there is considerable disous- sion about rings. This is hardly to be wondered at. Rings are very useful as well #8 orna- mental articles. Almost everybody has ene ef some kind or other, Babies cut their teeth on tings. Young women and men wear rings and exchange rings. Loving couples are married with rings, When people die rings or wreatl.s of flowers are laid on their coffins, and a ring is the emblem of the eternity which we enter after death. From the cradle to the grave, therefore, mankind has a great dea) to do with rings. Very naturally, then, the newspapers and the politicians find rings a popular subject about which to talk. The use of ringe is universal. Indians and nogroes wear them in their ears and noses, and on weir arms and ankles. Civilized people are balf barbarous in regard to rings, as bracelets, earrings and finger rings abundantly testify. The ancients used to wear rings, and had some which were endowed with magical properties. The “Arabian Nights” tells us of rings which you had only to rub in order to summon a genius, who would build you a palace in the twinkling of an eye. Our Common Council and our sheddy contrac- tors have some rings of the same‘kind. The ancients had prize rings, and so bave wo. Heenan and Tom King are going to fight in one before long. There is another aort of prize ring, which poor Greeley bad in bis Fribune ‘>t- teries; but these were of brass, and we are only speaking of the genuine article. Kings wear rings on their heads, and swine wear rings through their snouts, Fairies have rings in Which they dance, and our ladies dance in rings also; but, unlike the fairies, they carry their rings about with them, and call them hoops. Scarcely any article, of whatever sub- stance, is without its ring—if you can hit it hard enough to get.the ring out. Bells, for in- stance, have as many rings as belles. a a word, every person and thing in eyery age and every country is connected in some way oF other with rings. White undergoing the course of training ne- cessary in order to write this article, we have had to consult eighty-five dictionaries, thirty-two encyclopedias and the entire Astor Library. The resiilt of this reagarch was complimentary to us, but unsatisfactory on the whole. We found nothing about rings which we did not know before, and which we could not have printed tong ago if we had had the a; and the dispo- sition. One of the dictionaries, however, says rather a good thing. It declares that the original meaning of ring was a stretch or strain. That explains how the Tribune cameto apply the subject of rings to the Mayoralty con- test. It must, indeed, have required a stretch of poor Greeley’s imagination and a strain upon his already weakened mind. Greeley objects to Boole upon the ground that he bas had something to do with the ring. We have just shown that atl mankind are in the same predicament. What then becomes of poor Greeley’s objection? Let him trot us out a can- didate, if he can, who has never had anything to do with rings. Is it Gunther? Is it Blunt? We are ready to take the Tribune philosopher upon either horn of the dilemma. Gunter is backed by three rings at least. There is the McKeon ring, which professes to be a very nice ring, and whose only object is to ring all the other rings out, so that it may ring itself in. ‘Then there is the peace ring, which ie not teuo metal, and was badly broken at the late elec- tions. Thirdly, there is the constitutional ring, which is as bogus asa Bowery diamond, and is composed of links of office hunters. These three rings back Gunther, and Blunt leads quite as many of adifferent sort, What nonsense it | is, then, to talk about Boole’s being the candi- date of a ring. And yet this nonsensical charge is the only one brought against Mr. Boole. Every one ad- mits that he is a competent man, an able man, asmart man. The Tribune has said as much halfa dozen times. He is very competent, says poor Greeley, and would make an excel- lent Mayor, if it were not for that ring—that dreadful ring. Humbug! There is a ring up at Albany called the lobby, and Greeley be- longs to it. There is a financial ring against | the Central Railroad, and Greeley belongs to it. There used to be a ring to put jobs thwpugh Congress, and Greeley be- longed to it. Vide the Matteson draft and Sam. Wilkeson’s report about the Tribune Contract Bureau. With all these rings to his back, poor Greeley must have the impu- dence of,the —— Wendell Phillips to object to Boole’s ring, if such a thing be in existence. What if Boole did once belong to a ring? There are rings in every business—in churches, in theological seminaries, in the House of Bishops. Aring, in this sense, is simply a number of men who egree to work together for a certain object. Thatis the whole secret of the ring. The mystery which some people bave tried to throw about it has given it great terrors to timid peo- ple; but that is all it amounts to, we can as- sure them. Boole, like a circus rider, has gone through this ring, and knows all about it. When he is elected Mayor he can easily oblige the ring to behave itself properly, and thus succeed, as all other mathematicians have not, in making the circle square. The Tribune, we" remember, raised this same fuss about the ring when Comptroller Brennan was a candidate for his present office; but we have heard no complaints since from any quarter in re- gard to Brennan’s honesty, integrity and inde- pendence. There will be no complaints about Boole. He has been the most popular City Inspector we have hadin « very long while, and he will be the most popular “Mayor. It only remains to ring him in on Tuesday next, and then we shall have aman at the head of the city government able to take good care of as all, ready to do his utmost for the preserva- tion of the Union, and anxious to vindicate his character against unjust slanders by re- ducing the taxes as low as circumstances will permit. Gexerat Grayt anv .tum. Dimecrorr at Wasumatoy.—The great secret of General Grant’s magnificent victories lies in the fact that in the movements of his armies he has not permitted himself to be entrapped or ombar- rassed by instructions from the Directory at Washington. In this respect he has followed the example of Napoleon in regard to the French Directory, and with equally grand re- sults, President Lincoln last summer magnani- mously confessed that Grant, in following out his own general plan, instead of that suggested by the Prosident himself, for the capture of Vicksburg, acted wisely, as the grand result had proved. We congratulate the country in the possession of one @aneral, at toast. who, | Directory, bas rebellion. Napoteon on the Polish Question. ‘The Emperor of the French is certainly a most astute and cunning politician. Foiled in his Mexican scheme, afraid to meddle in our affairs by recognizing Davis and his fellow traitors, Napoleon found himself injured in prestige, and with the certainty of a powerful and systematic opposition daring him in the face. He knew tht the thirty or forty new members in the French Chamber of Deputies would surely take bold of the weak point akeve re erred to, and that ere the season end e minds of the French people would have been embittered against his rule to a degree which would render a continuance of it very problo- matical. He felt that some bold step was necessary to save him, and he has taken that step. By assuming the role of defender of the tyrannized Poles he takes a "position which insures him not only the sympathy of his own people, but that of all the civilized world. Napoleon asserted in bis speech to the French / Chamber that the Polish question was one which disturbed the peace of all Europe, an: that, even ata risk of great sacrifices, it muy besettled. In Venetia, in Prussia and Hungan where a spirit of opposition to the rulig Powers is rife—where, in other words, the po- ple are all in favor of revolutionary princip|, these remarks of the Emperor of the Fréch nificent Vicksb that resulted in the fall of and the capture of Pembertea’s qrmy. other is row added to the list of this soldier’successes that is in every way worthy of the Bociation; that will rank in the combt- nationg involved in its completeness with any victorof modern wars; that will stamp Gene- ral Gat as one of the great soldiers of the age, and ve him without am equal in the list of ngs now alive. If there, be any man wony to be called the Napoleon of the time it iD lyases Grant. pout sixty days ago General Grant assumed th/command that he new holds. His central o@nization—Thomas’ army—then held a point ghost vital te the success of our Western ad- nce; but it had just been beaten ip a great attle; it was weakened in numbers and stores; communications were in danger. He bad a force in Tennessee necessary to hold that coun- try, just redeemed from the enemy; he had the - force under Hooker en route to joim Thomas, and he had the force under Sherman, then in Mississippi, two hundred and fifty miles distant from the scene of action. But some time was necessary for the enemy to recover from the effects of the battle then just fought, and in that time Hooker was brought up, and by a beautiful and simple mancwuvre was - will meet with beartfelt sympathy./ In this country they are accepted as a prog that Blabed'ie © pesitlow that aseared the y : Po- | of supply to Thomas’ army, and put out of the ai re Seishtae eter ae in our | @estion all doubt as to our ability to hold the loyal States will France meet with engutaze- et teers ee oe oat ment should she engage ina war againg Russia, with pine Si , A oak bs du a by ey Rin to stay her barbarous treatment of apinhappy were ~ aso dba Besar and nob!e race. We ever have symp; ized and Meastlme:ierrelay (aati Soriees en ~* ever shall deeply aympathize with th/Poles, and Tees ae bile bird os we think that it were advisable at Ais moment to the beatin Abe ‘e a on ye erat for the leading members of our /mmunity to a pee eo in id meee a wie i oi “al meet and pass resolutions settin/forth clearly Fares wat ene ee i mane our feelings as regards the iniquipus and barba- snd Prent pee oh cee hee rous war Russia is urging againsfoland. Lot the commands at Chattanooga in masterly rel Powers of Europe know, beyofl a doubt, that bec herestgenr th we gst ne “4 we are the friends of the opprésed Poles. Let this fact be made apparent ly 8 movement on the part of the people whio’ shall be unequi- vocal, It is due to oursel@s that we should pronounce upon this great (uestion. Napoleon, by retreati m his ill-advised Mexican expedition, and/taking up firmly the cause of. Poland, will atbace regain the favor of the American people/ Between the French and the barbarous Resians we have never hesitated in our feelings of friendship. France was our mtural ‘ally ti Napo- leon by his course in Mexico jeopardized that alliance. Lethim retrieve his error, and he shall find that, fough we fete the Russians and treat them witl the courtesy we show to all the moat decisive character. Such is the out line of the movoments that resulted in the re cent battles. B ”g army, there appears every reason to suppose, ia utterly broken to pieces, Ouréarliest accounts represented that the rebel retreat was upon Dalton, Georgia, which, as it ts upou the road to Atlanta, is the enemy’s natu, ral line, But by Gen. Grant's despatch, dated the’ 27th, at one o'clock A. M., it would seem that at least a portion of the onemy’s force was at Red Clay, which ison tho Georgie State line, and on the railroad that leads to Daltom and Atlanta in the one direction and to Knoz- ville in the ether. Both accounts may be traey and these facts would then indicate a dispersion of the enemy's forces. No force at Red Clay our guests, atill these barbarians are not by any means favorite with us. Leading in the march of civilizatiyn, we cannot be expected to sympathize with the most backward of Euro- pean nations; ani this fact the world may at once take for granted. , In any war be- tween Vrance and Russia, having for its object the redemption of Poland, Napoleon may de- pend upon our good will. Russia will never have our sympathy while she contjnues to treat espana for his victory inasmuch as it is at oncee Lost Orrortunriea—Now, with the rebel- | triumph over the enemy and over the Wash Non on its last legs, it is provoking to think of | ington uthorities. He hes repeated the ous lent eppeetunitiag far beinging lt to am ond | achievements of Napoleon in Italy in a double in a single decisive blow:— sense. He bas besten the enemy everywhere, 1, The rebellion might have been crushed at | and, just as Napoleon got rid of the interference the first Bull run, had the War Office in season | of the Directory, and laughed at: it, so General, moved down the army of General Patterson to | Grant has triumplted despite the miserable a junction with Genefal McDowell. 2. Had the Port Royal expedition, while in | the successes of all our.other geverals. front of Norfolk, turned its batteries against | ‘It 1s scarcely possible to overestimate the could get to Atlanta by way of Dalton witheut a battle with Hooker, who ought to be there first; and we euppose the force at Red Clay te be only a fraction of the enemy's army, as it le scarcely possible to believe that Bragg would abandon Atlanta, and inde¢d the whole State of Georgia, for the doubtiul advautage that he might anticipate from a junotion with Long: street at Knoaville. General Grant is entitled to the more honee Washington “Directory,” that bas prevented - that place, we might have captured it with o | effect thatthis latest of General Grant’s sue single day’s bombardment; and in securing its | cesses will have politically, especially with he immense stores of artillery and ammunition | people of the great Northwest. He will be re the rebellion would hate been substantially | garded as the great man of the country; and, disarmed, the way would have been opened to | once nominated for the Presidency, who cam Richmond, and Sherman’s land force could | question his success? Ho has never had « fall have easily taken possession of the city; for | ure, and would triumph over all opposition, aa the rebel defensive army whs then one hun- | he always has over the rebel forces. dred miles off at Manassas. 3. Had General McDowell’s column from | Scoot. Orricuns.—A desperate effort is be Fredericksburg been moved, in June, 1862, to | ing made in almost every ward in the city by the support of McClellan, we have no doubt | the street corner and pothouse politicians ta that Richmond would have been ours by the | get possession of the public schools in this city, Fourth of July. The means adopted are in many instances toe 4. Had McClellan been properly reinforced, as | disreputable to be mentioned. In some of the he could have been, at Harrison’s Landing, be | Wards they have already suchscomplete control might have taken Richmond while the army of | that female teachers are required by the officers Lee was yet staggering from its terrible re- | to pay percentages upon their salaries, in others pulse of Malvern Hill. to debase themselves of lose their positions. 5. In recalling Gen. McClellan from the pen- | These are startling facts to relate in regard to the insula, had the War Office at the same time | educational department of the commercial me- recalled Gen. Pope from the Rapidan to Cen- | tropolis of this country, but no less startling treville, with orders to avoid a battle, the | than true. What exists in some of our wards junction of McClellan’s with Pope’s unbroken | Will in all unless the people are awake to their army would have been the destruction of the | interests, and so vote as to correet this evil. exbausted army of Lee. There is no reason under flenven why these 6. Had Gen. Hooker, after his three days’ bat- | men should carry on their nefarious work in tles on the south side of the Rappahannock, re- | say ward of this gity. Let our citizens drop solyed upon still another day’s fighting, and | politics in school affairs, and where good mes with his whole force, it is morally certain that | are nominated cast their votes for them with- he could have demolished the rebel army. out regard to party, and in those wards where 7. Had'Gen. Meade promptly attacked the | disreputable nominations have been made om army of Lee when it was hemmed in between | ll sides bring forward some reliable citizen, our victorious army and the flooded Potomac, | 80d a great improvement ean be made, or af there can be no doubt that the result would | least such « foothold gained ‘as will enable have been the capture or destruction of the | them to accomplish the desired result by enemy’s forces and the collapse-of the re- | apother year. bellion. In many of the wards good nominations 8. Had the half or the third of Grant’s army | have been made by one party or another, and in been promptly moved to iunction with Rose- | some few instances by all parties, whilst is crans, Bragg might have been pulverized at | other wards it is Hobson’s choice. So muct the battle of Chickamauga, and thus the way | the more is the necessity that every voter should to Richmond from the Southwest might have } throw aside party politics in voting for school been opened two months ago. officers—commiasioners ae well as trustees. Ne The prolongation of the war has thus result- | department of our goverament more demaads ed from s succession of hairbreadth escapes of | the constant vigilance of the better class of ous fhe main army of the rebellion, due to a succes- | citizens than that whieh has the management sion of military blunders on our side, all of | of our public schools. Will the public awake whioh may be traced to Washington. Grant,in | to their duty and leok to the education of the fighting his own battles in his own way, has | youth of this metropolis? achieved that decisive blow which might have, been given to the rebellion in any one of seven, eight or ten different opportunities in Virginia tho pegple of the rebellious States would save vines something from t.e wreck of thelr fortunes im ee ie bosinntng of the. weebus this war they will now rise on masse ageinet for the blunders of the Washington Direstory. Jeff. Davis and declare for the Union. Thus Tue Fata Bioxper or Braco.—In detail- | they may still rescue from capture or deatrue. ing Longstreet’s column from Chattanooga to } tion cotton to the extent of four or five handreg East Tennessee to “gobble up” Burnside, | millions of dollars in value, and « remasat of Bragg, or rather Jeff. Davis, committed the | their institution of slavery equal at least to four most disastrous blunder of the rebellion. It | or five hundred millions more. If they submit | ington Directory, Jeff, Davis took the road to * swift destruct... resistance on the sart of the people of the re erie + Now Lar tar Sovrnenn Prorar Scer.—B , Soe