The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNETR BOITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE X. W. CORKER OF FULTON AND NASA OTS. ‘Welume XXIX.. AXRUSEMENTS THIS BYBNING, aqepexy OF MUSIO, Irving place.—Itavtax Orzra— ‘Un Bairo iv Mascara. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Doxn's Morro, WALLACK'’S TEEATRE. Broadway.—Monzy. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Couspy or Errors— Love ix Livtgy. OLEMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Marrin Cuvzsis- we KEW BOW; 1 ae. Bowery.—Bsssy Wito= Miuige ann His lore. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lysian—Decaarv- meav—ARrFUL Do OADWAY THEATB! = — EMPTIES tester rome BABNUN'S Giaxrs, Two TavMB—Two Nuw Yuan's Catus—Kore Day and Evening, BRT, fechanics'. Hall. Broa¢ way. Dies Bonessovee, c= Cnal wt WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 way. —Brmrorti Bones, Dances, AC.—RUNNING THE BLOCKADR. om CaMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201. VARIED anp Exciting Metance or EruioPian 01 DITIaS. * cy at alt ou Beane M. Broad AKLETHLVL NTS’ MINSTRELS, TRIOPIAN SONGS, aNus Dancn, BALLE DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosenr Heures AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Bauvei Zagpouam, BURLESQURS, &C.—SOENES ON THE NISSIS- Pri. ° HOPE CHAPEL. 72) Broadway.—Woopnorre’s Bouz- mtax Trours or Grass BLowEas. BEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 B: Cumiosinizs aNd jones, from 9a. M. til 10P, mS OPERA HOUS: Brool |. -Eraronaa Pag Boriesaves, f+ re eee ees ns New York, Wednesfay, October 12, 1864. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Weexty Heraxp must be hand- gin before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its ulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, morebavts, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements tn- werted in the Waskiy Heravp will thus bescen by a large Portion of the active and cnergetic people of the United Ebates. THE SITUATION. One of our correspondents at Fisher’s Hill, in o despatch which we publish this morning, gives the par- Houlars of the punishment which General Sheridat’s cavalry 80 magnificently inflicted on the forces of the rebel Rosser, the ‘new saviour of the valley,” on Sun- day last. By the accounts which we receive, it appears ‘that the guerilla system, which is nothing but organized Fobbery and asssepination, has finally met.some condem. ation at the hands of even the rebel commanders them- Selves, since they have found that their freebooter pro- teges steal from friends and foes alike. Some of the guerilias have recently been arrested by rebel officers in She valley for horse stealing. Our correspondence from in front of Petersburg and Richmond represents everything as unusually quiet, both ya the Army of the Potomas‘and the Army of the James, even firing between the opposing pickets being to a great extent suspended, General Doyle, Governor General of Nova Scotia, ts on a visi to General Grant, No despatches from General Sherman or his ar my later than those published in the Hmmarp yesterday morn- tng have bee received. A band of guerillas yesterday morning stopped a train on the Kentucky Central Railroad, midway between Paris nd Lexington, threw the engine off the track, burned Bhe cars, took $2,700 from Adams’ Exprees, and robbed Bil the passengers. ‘The rebel General Price, supposed to be at the head of the different fragmentary forces, variously estimated at Dotiween twonty and thirty thousand, now on an expedi- tion of invasion, pillage, devastation, robbery and mur- dor in Missourl, says he bas returned tq that State to Btay—which is quite probable, if we may rely on the ac. Sounts given of the arrangements of the Union forces for Srapping him. He appears to have abandoned for the present bis design of capturing Jefferson City the capital of that State; for, on Friday fast, when he had reached within ten miles Of It, ho turned his course westward, and on Satur- Gay Gencral Pleasanton, with eight thousand cavalry, ‘was reported to be whacking om his rear, while General Curtis, who bad come from Kansas, was engaging his Forces tn front Reports continue to be received of rebel Sepredations in various portions of the State. The most of the places named are ew and unknown to Eastern readers; but tho sufferings and spoliations of each are of Course known and felt by the inhabitants, and will go to make up the record of rebel invasion, which can only be written in the future, The contents of revel newspapers are just now pecu- Uarly oteresting, from the desperate efforts which they @re making to bolster up their almost fallen cause, and to twist a succession of the most aecisive defents into affairs OF little consequence, The Richmond Whig of the 7th inst., {p an article on the military situation in Georgia, alter laboring soverely to prove that Atlanta was no loss tothe rebels and vo gain to the Yankees, proceeds to Sperk of the recent movement of Hood's army tho Chattaboogbee, and exults in ite Passing entirely around Sberman’s right flack, establish- ang iteel! wpon bis rear, and entirely ontting off his com- munloation,” but, to wind up, says that it ‘is in a criti- cal position, it must be owned’? Sherman's pesition is acroRs Gescribed as that of Burgoyne in the Revolution, and the Febels are conjured to ratly now for the overthrow of the former aa the Yankees did then for the defeat Of the tatter, Sherman's effective force at At Janie Recme to ve decked upon By all the Rich. mond pepers as not more than fortyefive or fifty thou sand Toe Savannah Reywblican charges Hood’s army ‘With Leow touenses aud demoralization, and says that it is more feared by the intiabitants of the country through which it panses than are the Yankees. The Auguste Conditutional st, the pitack on congratulates that this place “bids put a the audacious luck of Farragut,’ oe “no more tremendous earthworks this eontinent than Chose that bulwark the Inlots of Cape Fear.” The Vilcbmond Wig gives up ull bope of the defoat of Pre dent Lincole is our approaching Presidential election, b ‘thinks thet it makes no great difference, since M. ‘an Setcoe himself to a prosecution of tho war, The rebel fa\vres to the Shenandoah valley are attributed by the | quire more to John Barleyoorn than the Yankeoe, as | druvhontens among their officers, of Ligh and low degree, fn that region bas become common, ‘el in the camp of the Ore Hundred and {2 referring to anticipated timington, ie readers fair to period to exist oo A corres Thirty eco w York Volunteers, tem miles from New- Korn, N.C, furnishes us some interegtise “ory caroting | Hees ZNS Geer Previa oxtoneively io the town oa vewber, the deaths being over forty per day, and Pearly «1! the inuabitagte Who could have lett (be place A cumber of Uuion prisoners who oseaped trom Ander . 1 otter unde, olay extracrdinary bard. recently arrived within the Vatoa | Witham Dwyer and Jobn Turner. | the crowd, and ao immediate camper took place. The NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 12, 1864, LUROPEAN NEWS. ‘Ihe eteamehip Europa, from Queenstown on the 2d of October, pacsed Cope Race Monday evening on her voy- age to Poston by way of Halifax, A telegraphic report of ber pews, which ts two days later, is published ‘p the Higratp to-day. ‘The financial crisis was ssiil severely felt iu England. ‘Three brokers on the Stock Exchange suspended at the fortnightly settlement. Several pew fallures, amounting to about two millions sterling, are reported. Employ- ment was getting scarce in the manufacturing districts, and considerable depression existed in Manchester. The London Post says that the American democrats could not bave nominated an ial peace candidate for the Presidency, as the Northern people would not yet <gubmit to the nocessity of putting an end to the war.” The Kearsafge was crbising in search of the privateer Florida. 7 George Peabody, the London-American banker, had formally retired from business life, The business of the house will be conducted by the two remaining partuers. An influential Madrid journal Spain to settle the war in 8t. Domingo, the Queen ing possession of the thyee principal cities. ‘The Japanese batterics had fred op the British war veasels which had been threatening them for some yo robe! cotton loan rallied @ little from the decline op the Doth of September. Consols closed in London on the ce October at £83 9 88% for money, ‘The Liverpool cotton m, ¢ was irregular and easier, with little inquiry, and prices were wgak on tbe Ist of October. Breadstuifs wore quict and steady. Provisions uiet, : : MIBCELLANEOUS NEWS. The returns of the State elections in Pennsylvania, Obio and Indiana, as far as received, will be found on the ‘Orst page of tis morping’s Hgraup. The republicans have no doubt succeeded in getting mojorities in cach Of those States, and have secured a Poljtical preponder- ance in the dologations thereof to tho Thirty-ninth Coa- gross. The threo States combined will cast sixty votes in the Presidential Electoral College, viz:—Pennsylvania, 26; Obio, 21; Indiana, 13, The prosent dologation tn Congress in each of the States named stand as followa:— Dem, Repub Pennsylvaniacen..+ a OBI0...eeeeee 2 iy 5 TMAIADA.. 6 eee erere eves A Nothing has yet been heard of the steamship Roanoke, which left Havana on the 29th ult. for New York. Our Navy Department has despatched orders to San Francisco for the arming aad equipment of a government steamer there, to proceed to the mouth of the Columbia river, Washington Territory, and render tho necessary aid in laying the submarine portion of the great Russo- American telegraph. ‘The Board of Supervisors met yesterday and appointed Inspectors of Election for nineteen ous of the twenty two wards of this city, They Adjourned till to-day to finish the business, ‘The tate raise of fare on our city railroads to six cents from five, siuce the people have bad the second day to consider on it, has créated considerable indignation, and & great many refuse on principle to pay the extra cent. Tn such Cases, as we stated yesterday, the conductors do Dot insist upon it, apparently in accordance with instruc- tion from fhe superior officers of the companies, who, apparently, show in their conduct a consciousness of the illegality of their proceedings. What will be the result of this raise of fare remains to be seen. Most of the ctage companies now charge tea cents. The stage tickete nuisance was sgain before United States Commissioner Osborne yesterday, on the com- Plaint of Mr. Martin 8. Van Leir against the driver of one of the stages of the Broadway and Bleecker street line. ‘The driver was arrested, and during his short detention by the Commissioner, till Ove hundred dollars bail for his appearance to-day at noon was given, bis stage and its ocoupants remained drawn up fn front of that offictal’s office, after which he and his passengers agafn rattled ‘of “over the stones’’ @t @n increased rate of speed, to make up for lost time, The issuance of the worthless ticket is in violation of the act of Augast 17, 1862, under which the charge wil! be proceeded with, ‘The late difficulties between employers and employes in this city, in most branches of business, have been amioably settled, in the main, as they should be, by compromise on each side, But in the tailoring businees there appears to bo still the same gulf separating the jJourneymen and their employers, ings of both clasees in thie trade are stil! held, the former being de- termined to adhere to thotr demands for increased prices, and the latter as firmly resolving not to grant them. The contracts for freightiug ashes and rubbish from the city have been awarded by tho Comptroller and City Inspector to Mr, George Elliott and Mr. Henry C, Jones. The former is to take the refuse from the Twenty-third street dump free, and the latter takes the refuse from all the other dumps upon the following terms:—From Vesey street dump and pay the city one aod a quarter cent por cart load; from Watts street and pay one cent per load; from Roosevelt street free, and from Stanton, Fifth and Sixtcenth streets and charge the city three and three-fourths cents per load. The eorner stone of a new Presbyterian church, to take the place of the one burced down on last Fourth of July, at the corner of Greene and Canal streets, was laid yes- terday afternoon with the usual appropriate ceremonies A colored waiter on board the Sound steamer Metropo- lig was arrested yesterday and commitied by Justice Dowling, of the Lower Police Court, ou charge of robbing & pessenger, Mr. John H. Bailey, merchant, at 338 and 330 Broadway, of $250. The Evening Erpress caso was resumed yesterday before Judge Daly. Tho plaintiff, S T. Clark, underwent & long examination on the subject of the disputed in- ‘Vorest in the paper, and vestified that the books of the concern had been mutilated after he left the establish- Ment €0 as to destroy the evidence of bis true interest, The books were produced in court, and the witncss poiuted out where these mutilations had taken piace. After some additional testimony the case was further ad- Jjourned until eleven o'clock this forevoon. In the General Sessions yesterday William Thompson ‘was placed on trial, charged with the homicide of M: el Murray. The jury was empanoelled and the Assistant District Attorney was proceeding to open the case when the prisotier, through bis counsel, Mossrs, Stuart and Coben, announced that ho was willing to plead guilty to manslaughter in the third dogroe. The ploa was accepted by the Court, and a juror was withdrawn, The facts which the prosecution wanted to prove were within a small compsss. -Thompson, who was a sailor, was peesing through Water stroct on the wight of the 18tb of May, and, according to tl Btato- ment of two witnesses, drow his ki and deliberately stabbed Murray in the neck, caus. fog almost instant deatb, whilo Thompeon (whose Previous character appeared to be good), affirms that a party of thieves attacked him, with intent, as he sup- posed, to rob him. The Kecorder remanded Thompson, tn order to make inquiries iuto tho repatation of some of “the witnessos for the provecution. Jobn Haley aad Thomas Lawlor, indicted for robbery in the first degree, pleoded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny. hey were cbarged with garroting Petor Cullum, reviding at No. 123 West Nineteenth street, on the night of (hi b Of August, while be was passing through Canc! street, and taking from bis person the sum of $588. Officer Paul came to bis aseistance and gave chase to the priron ers, who wore arrested an hour after. Thay were re manded for sentence. Ap important prize decision ba the United States District Cov Fiold, in the case of the stoar rebel privateer Retribution. recently been m w Jersey, by p Mitta, at one tine the The claim for restoration t by the United States government to @ British merchant Qt Nassau was diemissed, aul a decreo of foreitare ordered. Karly yesterday morning the police of Jersey City made a out on a party engaged in witnessing a prize fight cear Person Point, between two pugilists named Five rounds bad been fought wheo (he officers were discovered approaching by Principals were not arrested; but some thirty of the } spectators wore A Coroner's inquost was held yosterday in Jersey City 00 8 mother god child » wen, both of whom aed som Danglog. it dpvokre (hat the mottor first | SSajeuded her child by the geek from a bedpost, and | then bung hereelf. - The double turroted Monaduoc, built at the Charles. town Navy Yard, revived tiers yesterday. she is ex. | pected to loave soon for the North Atiantic equadron. The stoca market opened with a firmer tone yesterday mo widg aud soon became buoyant. The improvement continued daring the day, and the markot cloged active bat frregular. The gold markot was active and excited, fre quotations advanced from 198%; to 208%. Tue commercial sitwation remained about (be same yesterday as the day before, thoagh the coutinued high price of gold im the face of mpfiltary successes bad tho tendency to render holters of merchandise firmer ia their views; but the efforts to keep gold up are generally regarded as the dernier ressori to keep up prices and enable the speculators, who are threateued with heavy losses, to get rid of all the stuff they can before the crash comes. Hence the slight edects upon the markets of tbe high price of gold. Cotton, petroleum, &c., were without decided change, On ’Change the flour market was 100. a 200, better, with a good demand. Wheat was 3c. a 68 higher. Corn advanced 2c., with a fair demand, and oats were firmer, with a fair business doing, Pork was ratbor firmer. Beef irregular, while lard was more active and Girmor, Whiskey dull and depressed, and froights quiet. The market tor beef cattle was firmer this week, though the supply was again large. The cattle were of a better quality aud tho weather wag altogether more favorable, tn view of which the sellers had vo difloulty in getting Jc. advance all round, Prices varied from &i¢c. to 183¢c. @ 19¢., a8 LO quality, Mileh cows sold at last week's prices. Veuls were steady at Sc, a 12c, a 13° Sheep and lambs were in good demaud, and generally higher; $4 to $9 was the range. Hogs were active and higher—12c. a 1330. The total receipts were 6,437 beeves, 128 cows, 2,078 veals, 21,547 sheep and lambs, and 14,140 hogs. The Slavery Qu: m=—The Rebellion Turning Against Itself. The two great fundamental errors upon which the leading conspirators of the South plunged the Southern States into this suicidal rebellion were, first, that cotton was k and, secondly, that King Cotton, as the cham- pion of Southern slavery, brought to the test of war, would command an alliance, offensive and defensive from England and France, end an active political balance of power from the Northern pro-slavery wing of the old national democratic patty. But, in casting down the gauntlet of war at Fort Sumter, the leaders of the rebellion speedily discovered that upon this question of peace at the price of national dissolution, or war for the integrity of the Union, the people of the North were a unit for war. Jeff. Davis and bjs confederate rulers have since been taught that cotton is not king, and that their dreams of foreign intervention, through the mpgeney of cotton, were a lamentable delusion. Then, in their foolish self-conceit, they flattered themselves and their deluded followers with the fallacy that “the Yankees would not fight;” that they would soon be reduced to exhaustion and compelled to recognize a Southern confed- eracy. The people of the rebellious States In 1861 ran wild with this idea after the first Bull run, gnd were not cured of it until the terrible disasters to their Southern confederacy at Vicks- burg, Port Hudson and Gettysburg, in 1862. 3 Then their lofty pretensions and vain boast- ing were cut down to the declaration that, though their inland rivers and seaports might be occupied, and their towns and cities cap- tured by the enemy, the people of the South, fighling on their own soil, would still be able to wear out the ruthless invader and win their independence. But in this estimate they still kept shut their eyes to the inevitable conse- quences of the war upon their slave popula- tion; and this, too, while the great object of the war on their part was still the security, the perpetuation and expansion of their system of slavery. They had established the organic law of their new confederation on the corner stone of slavery; they had, after thirty years of wrangling with the anti-slavery faction of the North, gone into this war to save and maintain this system of slavery, and to give it up was to give up their whole case. But the terrible pressure of General Grant’s combinations of 1864, is, at last, bringing the rebel chiefs to broach the desperate alternative of abolishing slavery to save their confedera- cy—a proposition which, if adopted, abolishes the confederacy at once. Yet this proposition, as the last resort for Southern independence, has been madly put forward by the Richmond Enquirer. Its argument is substantially this:— Our reserves of able bodied white men are ex- hausted, and two-thirds of those enlisted in the army are now declared by President Davis as “absent without leave’—now, when‘they are more seriously needed in the field than ever before. What else, then, taa we do than “{gll back upon our slave population? and what else can we do, in making them soldiers, but to make them free? This is the alternative to which the chief organ of Davis at Richmond has been reduced. To escape the abolitionists Jeff. Davis is called upon to do their work of abolition; and to save the Sonth from subjuga- tion the confederacy is urged to cut its own throat. When such propositions come from Rich- mond, the negro soldier policy pursued by President Lincoln ceases to be a debatable question. He is vindicated by the rebels them- selves, and there is an end of the slavery dis- cussion in all its bearings, But, while the policy of arming the slaves of the South to fight as free nen for a pro-slavery confederacy is at last urged upon the rebel Congress, there is no probability that it will be adopted. The scheme involves too much of dead loss, and too much danger to the slaveholder to be tried; and the rebel Congress is made up of slave- holders. : The scheme is preposterous upon its face. The empire of Jeff. Davis is now practically razeed to about four millions of a suffering and demoralized population, one-half African slaves, The government, backed hy the active support of twenty-five millions of people, is resolved that Jeff. shall be put down. He will be, and his days are numbered. His negro population is wanted in the cornfields, and cannot be spared from them. His white de- serters can never be gathered into his service again. His cause is utterly hopeless. The Southern slaveholders, after sacrificing three or four cotton crops, equal in value to a thou- | sand millions of dollars, and slaves and slave- labor in other capacities equal to another thousand millions, and after having sacrificed a quarter ofa million of the white bone affd sinew of the South to the ruling despots of this rebellion, are now very near a wholesome change of mind. This proposition from Rich- mond to arm their slaves will be very apt to prove the turning point among Southern rebel slaveholders from Virginia to Texas, Surely, in their present situation, when they are asked to join “the tyrant Lincoln” in the military work of using their own slaves to aid in abol- ishing slavery, they will give up the contest in disgust. A Canpipats ror Conaress.—The Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for Con- gross, which fias on two occasions given Fer- ango Wood one yote, meets again to-night. Ge. Wood's eonds hope énd say that he will receive the nomination. If be does it will not be either asa statesman or as a politician, but as a small trafficker in votes. If tho Conven- tion sells this nomination ft will be seen that the people will not ratify the bargain that the Convention may make, The Military Situstion—Virginis the Last Field of the War. Virginia fs still the point of great and vital interest, in view of the operations of our armies. Though Hod and Sherman are once more at it; though we hear of Price in Missouri, almost as we did in the first year of the war; though there is a fight now and then in Tennessee, and even in Louisiana, still a)l these are operations of no great importance, or operations as to the result of which there can be no doubt. All the guerilla activity in Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky or elsewhere will die out. Itisa very vain attempt to galvanize the dead body of the rebellion in those States in which it has been fairly shot to death. As to the move- meats of Sherman and Mood, there can be no doubt of their result, Davis and the Richmond men generally have congratulated themselves that, though Atlanta was lost, they had saved the army that was expected to defend it, They are about to lose even this source of felicita- tion. Hood will be inevitably smashed up. He has set out on an attempt to which he is not equal. From the moment tlat he moved with his broken army and inadequate | resources, to try against Sherman that system of warfare that Sherman had so successfully practised against Johnston, he gave his ariny up to a ruin that he cannot be idiot enough not to foresee. Over the whole territory of the confederacy, then, outside of Virginia, the rebellion is so far put down that it has but one army worthy of the name—and that army has just been pu into the ds of General Sherman. Virginia, therefore, is to see the last of the struggle, as it saw the first, In Virginia—so justly called the pillar of the confederacy—the progress is slow; and though the event will not be immediate, it is not so far distant as the Northera copper- heads ang the rebels desire. Though the Rich- mond papers seem to hope more from Hood’s movements in Georgia than from Lee’s further reststance, we may have a more imme- diate result from Sherman than from Grant. Gur operations in Virginia have not yet reached thai point at which it can be said that onr suddeee Is beyond doubt, It is still possible for a battle won by the enemy to decide that campaign against us, But the enemy’s chance to win such a battle is infinitely small, and every day grows smalier, as does his ability to fight any great battle at al!. Iitherto Grant’s wonderful prescience has kept all safe. Lee’s desperate assault, just made against Birney’s lines, is perhaps the measure of bis present ability in that way; and this assault was better repulsed than those made weeks ago on the Weldon Railroad. Meade evidently failed in his part of the recent movement on Grant’s left; but Lee was not able to take any advantage of that failure, and now our whole line bas been advanced toward the Cockade City. Our pro- gress south of Richmond is, then, positive, and it is very doubtful if the enemy has the ability to atop us. On the north of Richmond, in the valley of the Shenandoah, the rebels have lately claimed that they were victorious. They pretended to believe that Larly’s routed army had stopped somewhere to wait for Sheridan, and that Sheri- dan, with his victorious army, came up, turned around and ran away without a battle. Sheridan’s last brilliant victory over a “new General” has finished that fiction. The true nature of Sheridan’s “retreat” will eoon be known. It is safe to predict that this retreat will entitle him to greater praise than even his recent victories. Honorina tue Parriors.—The democracy of the Fifth Congressional district in this State have nominated Gen. Nelson Taylor, one of the officers of Sickles’ division for Congress. He has rendered valuable service to the country when it was of practical value. The samo party have nominated Qol. Andrew J. McNett in the Twenty-seventh district—an officer who has tested his valor in every battle with Gen. Sherman, from Chattanoogo to Atlanta, losing aa arm at the latter place. In the Twenty- ninth district the democracy have nominated the gallant Col. James McClellan Willett, who sealed his patriotism in some of the first battles around Richmond uader Grant, receiving a severe wound at Coal Harbor. Several other soldiers, many of them crippled while in the front ranks of the battle, have been nominated for Assembly and county officers by the same party in different sections of the State. The republicans have nominated Col. John H. Ketcham, who is now serving with Geueral Sherman in Geofgia, for Congress: in the Twelfth district, and Col. Theodore B. Gates in the Thirteenth Congressional district. Thus we find the gallant and patriotic men who have loft their homes and friends, taken their lives in their own hands and placed them upon the altar of their country, remembered and honored at home. They have wrestled with the enemies of their country when the battle raged the fiercest and steel met steel. The people will rejoice to see them thus remembered. Let the citizeus when they come to the ballot box vote to give them the seat of honor—they have earned it. Canpipatrs ron Concress.—Many of the Con- gressional conventions in this city appear to have considerable trouble in making their nominations. In several districts the nomiaa- tions still hang fire, while in two or three instances those who have been placed in the field are only for temporary purposes. It is intended, at no distant day, to withdraw them and nominate some one else in their place. The developments, however, have pretty well established tho fact that the general sentiment of the city is opposed to the re-election of any of the present reprosentatives from this city. Their fiasco during the last session has caused the people generally to look upon them as failures of the worst kind. We trust that all parties will follow this up by presenting men for the suffrages of the people in every way qualified and worthy to represent the city. We want no sticks to disgrace this metropolis in Congress during revolutionary times like the present. We want men who can not only speak but comprehend the vast interests of this commercial metropolis. Canprpares ror County Crerx.—We see that two men have already received domecratic nominations for this position. One of these is Mr. Genet, a city politician, and the other Is private Miles O'Reilly. In the last three years Mr. Genet has won many borse honors by runs ning fast horses on the Fashion Course. That is what he has dona In the same time private Miles O'Reilly gs served his country neb\y and gallantly in half a dozen desperate cam- patgne. Tt is ensy teeny which of thesq men the large hegrted nqople wilbvgto fas ida’ a mild word for desertion. Changing All Round. The principle of change which underlies the current of our existence is no wire marked by more curious phases than in this: k: Events succeed each other with a rapidity which bas no parallel, while new men and reputations are being continually brongbt to the surface. The war has no doubt contributed to bring about this state of things, though the love of novelty may be said to bave been always an inherent feature of the American character. While the people of otber coun- tries venerate things for their antiquity, we love everything that is new. New houses, new carpets, new furniture, new carriages and pew servants are indispensable elements of our social comfort. Our friendships, too, are like our habits, We have but little veneration and no strong attachments. Since the commencement of the war how@ strongly bave all these character- istics been developed! We have set up and dethroned more idols than a people ever before indulged iu. The only false gods that we could not displace were, unfortunately, those that sat in the temple of State. But all others that obtained promi- nence through popular favor have been more or less made to feel its fickleness. Old gene- rals have been made to give place to new ones, and these in their tufn, after siving the nation, are being sheived by the politicians. And the tendency to fulfil this inexorable principle of our existence is to be observed as well in our social and artistic arrangements. Thus to our codfish aristocracy succeeded a shoddy aristocracy, and to our shoddy aris- tocracy succeeds in its turn an oi! or petroleum aristocracy—the one just as ignorant, pre- tentious and extravagant as the others. By and by some other discovery will be made by which new speculators will be brought to the surface anda fresh aristocracy created. It is satisfactory to srefiect that, when we pass into the condition of a monarchy or an empire, all these agglomerations of wealth and pretention cau be easily converted into orders of nobility, according to date. They will not be less iguoble in their grigin than the valets, cooks and bottle washers Who gerved nitors to the great familios of Haglai: e thea- trical world change, is no less the ordes of the day. To false idols, established by the aid of the Bolemiaas of the press, are succeeding a new class of actors who vindicate the claims of genius and present us models for the forma- tion of acorrect public taste, If any of our readers doubt the fact let them go to the Broad- way and pass an evening wiih Solon Shingle. They will thea see the difference between the true artist and the pretender. The theatre, which, under the veteran Wallack, effected the first reformation in this school of art has been appropriately selected for the admirable im- personations which signalize this its second stage of improvement. In operatic matters the spirit of change has worked similar marked results. The troupe at the Academy is not only almost entirely new in its personnel, but different in its charac- teristics from ‘any that we have had. The prima donna, Zucchi, isa splendid artist, bearing no resemblance, however, to any that have pre- ceded her—a fact enbancing the interest of her representations. The tenor’s voice presents a union of the qualities of Mazzoleni’s and Brig- noli’s organs, and fits him for almost any role in the Italian repertoire. If be had but the dramatic talents of Mazzoleni he would be the greatest acquisition we have ever had. Then, in addition to these features of novelty, we have the director taking up the pen and criti- cizing the critica. He does it so pleasantly and intelligently that we could almost wish that be would follow the example of M. Juignet and edit a theatrical Figato. 48 a on Tur PaliiaN Proves ano tHE Two Dercu> mun.—The revolutionary partisan journals of this city devoted conelderable space yosterday to two garrulous documents. The republican side dished up a wordy speech of General Carl Schurz, the hero of the runaway troops at Chancellorsville pager Hooker. The speech is a regular tirade Mout the negro. Schurz proved himself all absorbed about the nigger. A person would think that he never thought of anything else; that he sleeps with the nigger, eats with the nigger, has nigger dreams, nigger appetite, nigger tastes, nigger affinity, and is colored all over. with the nigger. This is provably what ailed him when he skedaddled at Chancellorsville. The other side spread out with great gusto a long winded manifesto from August Belmont. This apostle of the Chicago Convention sees in the suppression of an un- Leard of paper in Baltimore by the blockhead general in command there, also in the test oath of Johnson, the dandy of Tennessee, who as- pires to the Vico Presidency, sufficient cause lor the people to inaugurate a revolution as soon as the election is over. Sclinrz and Bei- mont are two dutchmen, imported from about Frankfort. They imagine that they are great politicians; but neither of them has yot learned the first rudiments of democratic America, which is to always obey the laws of the land and submit to the majority. Tae Desention In rae Reve, Anuy.—Jeff. Davis, in hie late speech at Macon, complained that two-thirds of his army were absent from duty, and many of them without leave. No doubt this fs true, and the mafa reasom for this temporary if not absolute desertion may be set down to disaffection to the rebel cause and despair of its success. But we have a clue to another reason for the unauthorized absence of the rebel soldiers, furnished by an or- der from Gen. Hood on straggling, in which he states that fully two-thirds of the men who abandoned him on his march from At- lanta did so not from fatigue by marching, but for the purpose of robbing their rebel friends——farmers and others—as they went along; in short, to get something to eat. The fact is that in the absence of an effictent com- missarlat the rebel soldiers, not only in Hood’s army, but all over the South, are compelled to provide for themselves or starve. So disor- ganized and demoralizod bave they become that when the necessities of hunger press upon them “Byery man for himself” is the ery, and they go off on independent foraging expedl- tions, from whioh half of thom never return. Hence it ls that Jeff. Davis has to bemoan the lose of two-thirds of bie army by “absentee. Caserta vs Give Hous uso Daruct A. ‘orney.—The a y have oan, mously nomina' af, nay led and Mr. A. Oakey for District — never ‘These aro good nominations. We 7 better city judge than Judgo Ruseel, and Mr. Biglh va cogs Distcigt .Astoson.sa.oeall oa a genial and accomplished gentleman—good in any capacity. Both these candidates will doubtless be elected by large majorities. SHENANDOAH. Details of the Battle and Vio- tory on Sunday Last. The Rebels Again in Swift. Retreat. The Cause of Sheridan’s Retre- grade Movement, &e., ae, a Mr. Finiecy Anderson's Despatch. Heanguarrers, Fisuge’s ir, Sarxannvan VaLtey, Oct. 2—Evening. ‘Tho brilliant achievements of our cavalry to-day have crowned Genera! Sheridan's victories in the valley. General Custer’s and Merritt's divisions of General Tor- Lert’s cavalry corps have defeated and driven the evemy over twenty miles of ground to day, capturing eloven guns, four caissons, forty-seven wagons and ambulances, and about four hundred prisoners, and a herd of cattle, ‘Tho enemy, defeated and demoralized, is once more im full retreat up the Shenandoah valley. In bis recont triumphant trip up the Shenandoah, General Sheridan did not pause in bfs parsuit of Early until he bad driven him contpletely from the valley. Sheridan bad gone so far that the subsistence for bie army had to be hauled in wagons a distance of almost a hundred miles, Having defeated Early, an@ upset the rebel plans for wintering an army in the valley, Shoridan commenced retiring nearer his sources of sup- plies. On his way he destroyed what remained of the harvest of the valley. Waving fields of yellow grain have been made a perfect waste, and overburdened barns burned to the ground, Many mills and barns have been burned within the last few days, Almost every- thing save private houses has been destroyed. The im habilnots, loyal and distoyal, have Mitle leftto subsist upon, They anticipate a good deal of misery during the approaching winter, Some who have heretofore enjoyed every luxury are now, by the inexorable demands of war, coinpelled to beg their bread. 1.3 =] Sherldan’s polloy practically {ilustrates the important principle that private interests must be subservient te ihe public good, Many families have followed our army down the alley, some going to thoir friends northward, and some cofins Simply to obtain subsistence, bas been rendered uéctem7Y bY the fact that, compara lively speaking, the smiling TRicy of Virginia is sows desert for ninety miles. Ree, ; s When ‘Sheridan commenced his retrogricd Mavamnae down the valley tho enomy manifested no disposition te follow. Nothing more than a few rebel cavalry appeared: hovering about our rear guard until yesterday, when @ large fogce, under the rebel General Roseer, was foun@ following us down the Shonandoah, Yosterday, whea Merritt’s division was coming down the turnpike, the | enemy audaciously attempted an attack, The engage- ment took place near Crabill’s Mill, on a smal! mountais stroam known as Tom’s brook. The cannon of theop- posing parties was posted on the surrounding hills, A spirited artillery duet formed a prominent feature in the operations of the day. The reverberations of the guns were hoard among the mountains until evening, Custer had some skirmishing further to the left, After an to- teresting little ght the enemy was everywhere hand- somely repulsed. The enemy, however, bivouacked lag@ night not far from where the fight closed last evening. Tbis morning General Sheridan, baving balted the principal portion of his commaod inthe vicinity of Fisk- er’s Hill, instructed General Torbert to attack the cnemy and drive bim away from such close proximity to our rear, Torbert wont to work immedidtely, and carried out both the letter and the spirit of tho order. Acoord- ingly Custer’s and Merritt's divisions made a vigorous assault onthe enemy at an early hour this morning. Oa the right Merritt’s division occupied a position near Tom's creek, on the Winchester turnpike, about midway be- tween Strasburg and Woodstock, and on tho left Custer’s division ocoupied a position near the samo stream on the back road, about two miles closer to the mountains. Custer advanced first with his cavalry and horse arti lory. He made a bold attack, and drove the enemy backs about a mile, to a strong position on the brook. ‘Tbore the cuemy made adotermined stand. The rebela. wero advantageously posted on a commanding bill. Parricades and breastworks of rails and stones cou*tibuted considerably to strengthon «4 position which was natuctUy Lormigavie.. _ Gegeral Custer, however, throw io his whole Command, made (oreo magnificent charges, and at last cariféd tho position by aséault, At the same timo a janctic# was formed with Gonoral "Merritt on the turnpike. Sharp skirmishing in the front did aot seem to indicate anything decisive uatil Devins? brigade succeeded io striking the enomy on the flank. This produced covsternation in the rel ranks in Mer- ritt’s front. The whole division Une then pushed for- ward and followed the enemy, who wes now in fall re treat. ‘The retreat was soon turned intoa perfect rout. Cuas- tor and Merritt pursued the flying fugitives. capturing guus, calssons, wagons, a herd of cattle and several handred prisoners. Among the wagons captured are sove-' Fal ammunition wagons, and those containing the baggage to the rebel Genorals Wickham and Lomax’s re. Some of the caunon were now throe ince rifled guns, just from the foundry in Richmond. Prison- ors say this was the first oocasion on which those caus had been used in the rebel service. The enemy was driven In great disorder through Woodstock, throughjTdonburg, and through Mount Jack. son—a distance of more than twenty miles from the scone of the commencement of this moraing’s oporationss The robe! General Lomax had a very nartow oscape from capture. One of our cavalrymen was chasiog two rebel officors who wero riding side by side. When be Teached the officer who wore tho brighter uniform, natu« rally supposing him to be the more important personage, bis horse was so much exhausted In the chase that he couig not catch the other officer. It was subsequently ascer- tained that he had captured a captain of artiliery, and that tho companion of the captain who made bis (ight effectaa! was the rebel General Lomax. General Merritt was in hot pursuit of another gun, the only one which the enemy seemed to have remaining. A Yhousand dollars were offered for the gua; but it was not captured. The operations of to-day have been of the most brillinné character, This evening the troops are exultant over the victory, and the bands are discoursing patriotic and inspiring music. Guerillas continue to infest the country; but it is bo lieved that oo organized rebel forces wil bave the vomerity to show themselves while Genoral Shoridao ts in the valley. Brooklym City THR MYSTERIOUS MURDRR—STILL MENTS—THE LIMBS OF A BUMA' GRAVESEND BAY. Another portion of the remains belonging to the body picked up at the foot of Little street, on the $4 Inst., wore found on Monday last, the 10th inst., floating in the waters af Gravesond Bay, L. 1. On opening the bundle two human legs were discovered. They wore wrapped up in the same kind of thick, brown paper and table oll cloth as those parts foand in Brookiys, and at tho foot of Corlears street, New York. There was also % piece of fron in the bundle, but not of suMcient weight to sink it. the remaing, and hed them encased Pe intention of taterring them; ieigeae td seca by ao with the . |