The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1864, Page 4

4 NKW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1864, oe NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDUN BENNETB al DITOR AND PROPRIETUR OFFIC“ K. W. COKNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. w York, Saturday, October 22, 1864. THE BITUVUATION. Genera! Sheridan, ia another despatch, gives ws some furthor particalars of the important vietory won by bis army over the enemy at Cedar crock oo Weduesd iy last. His decisive attack was mado, be says, by a leit wheel of the whole line as it advanced, a division of cavalry turning cach flank of the Yebcis, who made a stubbora Fesistance at first; but they soon broke and dled, when they were vigorously pushed, ‘The udditiodal Heraro despatches descriptive of the battle which we Publish this morning will be found exceedingly terest ing. The number of pieccs of artillery cajtured is greater than at first repuried, it being now ascertsived tofoot up over Gfiy, The guns taken froin tue Ualon forces in the beginving of the battie, amounting to about twenty, were recaptured, and ore included In tae whole number stated as being taken by our meu. Tho next morning after the battle our civalry took the works of the rebels at Fisher's Hill, which wore evacuated by the main body of their srmy on the vight previous, only a small rear guard being found when our troopers Gashed ito them. UU), to eleven o’ciock in the forenoon of Thursday sixteen hundred rebel prisoners baa beew Drougtit into our lines, avd large numbers of captured whgons ainvulaness, 0. pers was Considerable: but we have not yer to obtain any exit Genera} Shorid.n's joss in off been able estimate of the cisu ities n cither side, The reve! Geveral Kamsour. who was captured after boing wounded, died ov | after the battle, Salutes of one hundred guus wr oF this victory were fired ia eacu of the armies of the James gndof the Potomac on ibursday. pls despatch to the War Department, says tbat Glorious success “atamps Sheridan, what [ bave Blways thought him, ove of (he avlest of generais.” We @lve to-day another map of 4 poriion of the Shevandoat valley, showing Fisher's Aill and the surroundiog region, Adespatch from Jefiersen City, Missouri, says that Genera! Curtis was fighting tue rebel Geceral Price’s ad vance all yesterday, on the Little Blue river, too miles from Independence. Gen Curtis moved eastward sume days.ago, with a considerabte body of troops, from Kaas:s City, ou the western border of the Stute, and it appears that be bas now met and checked the advence of Price, ‘who te said to have an army of thirty thousand. Curtis holds a good position, and is prepared (or a regular en- pagement if Price will stand to it. Rosecrans, ‘with another considerable army. is close on Prico's rear, and will soon be upon bim if Curtis can succeed in holding the rede! chieftaia where he now is, The rebcis have occupied and plundered a numer of additional towns in the interior of the State. Genera! gantorn was Generci Graot, in skirmishing with the rebel Sheiby ali diy yesterday be-* Swoon Booneville aud Waverley. By the steamship Emily B, Souder, which arrived here from New Orleans last pizht, we have the important rumor that Walker's division of the rebel Trans-Mi-sis- Sippi army bas crogeed tte river and is on its way to reluforce Hood m Georgia. This, of course, needs con: firmation, There is another report in copsection wit this which (brows dtecredit on both. It is that two hundred of the rebel troops belonging to this division ‘were shot for refusing to cross. It tg said that the French took possession of Matamoros, Mexico, ov the 20th ult,” without opposition, and that Geaeral Mejia was appointed to the command of the town. Everything ie reported quiet there at tho date of the latest accounts. Ibere are @aid to be twenty thousand baics of cotton at Matamoros Secretary Stanton states that ibe War Department bas pow univterrupted telegraphic cofamunicatia with Atlanta, but that no later reports have bees received from that place. Our Chattanooga despatches, whien we publish to-day give some interesting particulars of recent events in General Sherman’s military division, and serve to clear away tbe mist which bas been hanging ground many of the late occurrences in that region. The youch vaunted captures of Dalton and innumerade other towns which the rebels olaim to have takeo are disposed of very brielyg Most of these places, having emsli garrisons, were temporarily evacuated by our forces, @a the approach of a large body of retels, afier our supplies in them had been cauveyed io points of safety. The rebels came slong, marched to, but, Gnding little to capturc, soon marched out agsio, after each such performance, cifM@jed a great achieve ment. Nearly all these towns are again re- occupied by Union soldiers, and their garrisoas and stores bave beeu saved. Now the latest rebel papers we bave received are even cougratulating themsclves,on the anticipated early captare of Atlanta, boasting that their pickets are within ® wile of that piace, and endeavoriog to moxe Shemeeives believe that our troops there bave nothing Dut hard tack, and very little of that, te eat, One paper says that “the eiiuation on both sides is critical. ‘Dut if Food can keep up bis supplies Shermisn musi evacuate Georgin in no great’ length of time.” Is «admits, bowever, that the position Shor. man ococupies bas cut off Hood's commupica- tion with bis base on the Atlanta and West Pott Ratiroad, but consoles iteclf witb the asgertion that ‘he has amother base—where, we need not mention.”’ A Macoo paper bas @ “rumor’’ that Geveral Sborman has been captured by Forrest. The Georgia militia have been again called for by iced, and erdered to rendez- ‘vous at once at Macon. Our epocial despatches from before Richmond and Petersburg bring the history of affaire there down to ‘Thursday of thie week; but there is nothing of particular militery importance to refer to. Botn our own end the ene may's working parties are as busily engaged as ever in the strengthening and extension of their immense defensive ‘works. Some new batverics of te rebels in frout of the Fitth corps were recently discovered. For two nights there bad been more than tho usoal artillery Oring in front of Petersburg, which is suppored to have been mere ly tnteaded to loterfore with work on the fortifications. One Of our ¥ortress Monroe corrprpoudents gives an fajeresting account of a suveesstul expedition of a por- Hon of the Twentieth Now York cavalry, which was re- wontly despatched from Suttolk, Va, to break up contra- ‘pand trae with North Carolins. They had some vory Dively skirmishes with the rebels, destroyed targe stores of. cotton, tobaceo, brandy, shoes, clothing aod small arms, goome balidings ased for their storage, and a rajirond sta ‘Bon, and captured ove hundred and forty-Ave beet cattle, ‘poverst prisoners, come telograp) apparatus tod various piher things of value, wb all of which they returved to ‘Bafotx. ‘We sive this morning cory interesting extracts from papers of the latoes dates received. in a letter yaloh My. Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury of the ‘ "eek cane” bas written, be informs ue tbat @etird funded and od public debt of @ Bist of the coming [evar ber, ove thousand five hundred aod seventy five dcbere confederacy will be, on interests i# taken in Rebeldom in our SP | Dhe Presidential Contest ~ Tne Weak proaching residential eleotivn, and the re.clec- tion of Mr, Lincoln seems to be oduceded Sowe of the papers think Genera! MoClcilan would be a dapgerous: man for the South. The recont shelling of the city of Charleston by the Union guns is stated wp be very severe, doing much damage to buildings and considerable iojury to persons, On one night lately the cannonadiag lasted from six till ten o'clock, the shots averaging ever forty per hour. The Richmond Examiner of the 19th inst, bas & long article on the utter demoratization of the rebel cay- alry and the complete efficiency of ours, whiob, it says, ig*perbaps not exceeded by that of any nation in the world, The Chariestoa papers report that one of our Monitore beiow that city was recently disabled, and had to be towed oil by a guuboat, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. President Lincoln has issued proclamation recom- mending tbe iast Thursday in Novewber next asaday of thanksgiving for our victories end many national blessings. Toe mystery relative to the steamabip Rownoke, which leit Ravana for this port ou the {ub vit., appears to be fivally dissolved, The master of tbe brigaoting Mathilde, which arrived at Halifax, doy be'ere yosterday, reports that while ou the passuge from Bermuda be ordered to heave to by a steamer which proved to be the Roanoke, Ninety-five passengers and the crew of the Steamer were put on board his vessel, aud tho Roanoke was a‘terwards burucd. The pussengors and crew be landed at Berinvda, 3 Four more of the rebét raiders who came down into St. Albans, io* Vermo t, from Canada, and robbed -the banks, murdered cilizeus and committed other outrages, buve been arrested, These make fourteen in ail, Canadian authorities are said to be giving ali assist. Ance in their power towards the capture of the ro- maiader of the gang. The » rrested persons are to have an examination before a juice iu St. Jobns today. They Bay they belong to the revel gervice,claim their release 02 We grounds uf the decision im the Chesapeske cage, aud have engorged counsel of ability, Several persons have beeo arrested in St. Albans as accessories of the rauers, Dut all, excepting two, have been released. There ig to be @ convention and mss meetiag of the democracy opposed W the Cuicago platform at the Cooper Justitute on Tuesday, the Ist of November, “to consider the proper course to be pursued ia tue present exigeacies Of pobuc alates, aad of p-eserving the houor and soteg rity of our countey.’’ the Hou, Francis B, Cutting is to preside, aud General Joho A, Dix 1s to deliver an address to the democtacy of tue Union, ¢ Mresbyteriaa Synod, which baz just closed its aa. nual session, bas beea cousiderably exercised by a pre ambie and resolutions, oilered by Rev. Mr. Van Dyke, of Brooklya, tn which he charges the General Assembly witb politica! partisanship in diemissiog Rev. Pr Me Pheeters, of St. Louis, on the ground of disloyalty, Mr. Van Dyke asserts in the resolutions which he offered that the Gencral Assembly has authority ‘‘to hondle or con- clude nothing but that which is ecclesiagtical.” Mr. Van Dyke's résolutions were voted down on the last day of the session by the decisive vote of cighty-eight to fil teon, after which the Synod adjourned. The regular business of the United States Circuit Court was yesterday inaugurated by the order of @ Grand Jury panel, made returvable for Wednesday. Judge Nelson will Preside during the term. An application was made to the Court that the case of Christian Kilseper, indicted for frauds upon the government, in connection with Solo- mon Kohystomm, be set down for trial, or that the ec- @used be discharged, The District Attorney said he would communicate the notice of motion to the parties taving more direct charge of the muticr. In the Supreme Court, Circuit, befére Judge Sutherland, yesterday, Moses S. Beach, of the Sun, obtained a judg- ment of $1,250 agaipst William Reoney, being payment in fall for sixty-five tonsjof bay delivered to the defend- aot by the plaintiff, The detence set up was that the comtract was for ope hundred tons, and that tbe piaiatir was not entitled to receive any money uatif the whole was delivers. James Betts Metcalf was yesterday appointed by Juace ‘Nelson, in the United States Cirouit Court, Unitod States Commissioner in this district, ‘The Brooklyo Central McClellan Assoctation held a munp meeting in the Academy of Music Inct evening, which was a very enthusiastic gathering. Senator Beverdy Jobasoa and Mr. Joba . Anthos made speeches. A letter bas been received by Mr. W. H. Webb, ofthis city, from Naples, Italy, toforming Dim thas the Itslian ironclad frigate Re don Luigi di Portogallo had arrived at that place direct from New York. Shetmade the pas- sage tn twenty days and twenty two hours, Coroner Norris, of Brookign, bas pubiished a detailed account of the Inte mysterious murder, accompanied by acarefully prepared description of the rematnps and the localities where found. Photographs of the head aod face bave been taken, with a view to give better oppor- tunities for identification. Nearly alt the Philadelphia banks organized under charters from the State of Penosy!vania baye resolved to reorganize and continue business, under the Basking act of Cougress, as vations! banks. The stock market was dull yesterday morning: but it a‘terwards underwent @ slight improvement. The gold market was steady, and the fluctuations were from 20734 to 2003{. Goveroment securities were, om the whole, strong. Business continues to be réstricted within ite par- rowest limits, acd the markets arej almost inva- tiably reported dull, white prices ere nominal. At the auction sales of dry goods yesterday day there wae more firmness, and prices showed an ad vance of 5410 per cent; but N other departments but little business was done. The Presidentiat elec- tion and the military situation hold nearly all exmmerclal operations in obeyanes, and but little bosiness is looked for wftil after these matters aball baye been eeitied. Groceries, cot- ton, petroleum, Ac, were quiet yesterday, aud prices favored the buyers, On ’Change the four market was uli and 5c, @ 10c. lower, Wheat was scarce and 2c. a Se. bigher, with a fair demand, Corn was lc. higher. Oats were 2c, higher, with alight supp.y. The pork market was leas active and lower. Beof was quict. Lard was steady, w & moderate demand. Whiskey was fiat. Freights extremely dull. THe ANNIVERSARY OF THE SuRnENDER oF Lorp Corswatiis—A Sixoviar Corncipence.—Any one who knows suything of the war of Amer- ican Independence knows that on the 19th day of October, 1781, the British army of Lord Cornwallis, of seven thousand men, at York- town, Va., surrendered to the Americans aud their French allies, under Washington and Count Rochambeau, and that this was the decisive and crowning victory of that war. In this connec- tion we submit to our readers the following extract from an editorial of the Richmond (rebel) Whig of Oct. 17. The editor is speak- ing of General Grant. Hear him:— Alter the disgraceful rout of bis troops Jast Friday week be claimed a great victory, He will be very apt to repeat the lie this time; for be is ing a gave. At any rate, this is but the prelude to grand’eombined Inod and pevai atteck which he is preparing, and which some think he ts deferring te the 19th of October, that being the anniversary of Cornwoitis' surrender at,¥¢ s said to be superstitious and a believer in eoincideaces, ‘commpleted the disgrace of our arms at Vicksburg Inst y on the 4tb of July, and he Ropes to repeal the spectace hereon the 19th of October. There is some difference in the commanders, and wo venture to suggest there may be some diilerence in the issue. Now, is not this man a prophet, or the son of & prophet? for, eure enough, on that historic day, the 19th of October, General Sheridan tore the boastful army of Longstreet, in the Shenandoah valley, all to pieces. Is not this a most remarkable and suggestive coincidence? A Diviven Sovrs.—It has the constaat boast of the rebel journals and statesmen that the “North was divided and the South was a unit. The North indeed is divided in the newspapers, but not on the battle fleld—while it is evident the South, so far from being a unit, is distracted at this moment by discue- eons among its public men. Stephene and Brown want one thing; Johnston, of Georgia another; and Boyce, of Carolina, another; Jeff. Davie another; while the newspapers are abusing the five. . If this is unity of sentiment, then indeed the South is in state of biiss‘ul Potats on Both oo At a orisis like this which should have brought out, a6 the candidates of the rival par- ties for the Presidency, scidiers or statesmen distinginsbed for their successes, we have noth- ing better before us from which to make an election than military and political failures, This is a singular fact; but we bave another equa'ly remarkable, in this, that the people ave required to choose, not upon the positive, but upon the negative merits of the admints- tration and the party seekiug to supplant it. The question is, not which party presents the superior claims of statesmanship, but which is the leas objectionable in its ticket and policy as it stands before the country? In the things done and in the things at- tempted by President Lincoln and the party in powes, we have bad a lamentable budget of blunders since the beginning of the war. In departing from that. simpie and satisfactory Union war policy which was proclaimed in the outset by the executive aud by Congress, and in yielding to the revolutionary demands of tie radical abolition war faction, the adminiatra- tion exposed itselfto a flank movement, which, under skilful and sagacious opposition leaders, would bave secured its overthrow. This was plainly manifest -in the Northern State elections of 1862, But in 1863 the splendid victories of Grant-and other Union generals in the West, and of the heroic old Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, satisfied the country as to the prosecution of the war; while the de- parture of the democracy from their vigorous war policy of 1862, to the treacherous jack-o’- lanterns of peace-at-any-price, shocked the patriotic instincts of the people, and the result was a universal popular reaction in favor of the adininistration in the elections of 1863. But those olections, after all, were rather a. rebuke of the copperhead peace faction than an endorsement of Mr. Lincoln. Wo know this from the extensive disaffections developed in his own camp in 1864—defections which still threatened the dissolution of bis party down to the wretched fiasco of the shent-per- shent Chicago Convention. ‘There was discord in the Cabinet; in both houses of Congress Mr. Lincoln had lost the confidence of a ma- jority of the republican members, and a large proportion of the most active outside leaders and influential organs of the party were ar- rayed against him. And the radical abolition trumpeters, in and out of Congress who had ted him astray—such as Wade, Winter Davis, Pomeroy, Chase, Greeley, Bryant and Wendell Phillips—were anong the first to desert him. But in spite of all these opposing and intrigu- ing elements Mr. Lincoln was unanimously nominated at Baltimore for a re-election. This was so very strnge that it was not surprising tbat these elements of discontent still existed, and still intrigued for a change down to August Belmont’s fiasco at Chicago on the verge of September. This brief review, touching the administra- tion, will suffice to expose the inexplicable stupidity of the managers of thesdemocratic party, from the autumn elections of 1862 down to the present day. Had this party heid tast to that vigorous war platform, upon which they reached the inside track in 1862, they would have beld it and gained in strength from that day t@this. Or bad the leaders of the party even at Chicago, consulting the defec- tions and dissensions in the republican camp, adopted a strong war and Union plat form, with a consiatént and ucquestionable Union war ticket, there can be little doubt that instead of losing, they would bave carried all these late elections, from Maine to Indiana inclusive. But the unparalleled stupidity of the democrats in adhering to their copperhead peace-at-any-price leaders, has overbalanced all the blunders of the administration, and very nearly united all the late discordant elements on that side of the house, inspite of themselves and their readiness for any movement promis- ing a wholesome change. What is to be done?—the perplexed de- mocracy may well-inquire. The short interval of sixteen days remains between us and the Presidential election. The late election re- sults, especially in Indiana and Ohio, disclose the fatal weakness in the democratic pro- gtamme. It lies in its ppace-st-any-price Chi- cago platform and its affiliations. How is this “evil now to be remedied? This is a question which Mr. Belmont is the man to answer, Rigitly and promptly considered and acted upon, he may yet accomplish wonderful things in strengthening and uniting the masses of the democracy and other conservatives, East and West, upon General McClellan. But there is no time to be lost; for the tide is evidently setting in the opposite direction, though still it may be turned. ——S=— Tus Brinsa American ConrepERation.— Oar latest news from the Quebec Conference would show that all the knotty questions under discussion concerning tho contemplated new form of government under whioh the British North American colonies are to exist in future have .beep settled, and the confederation is fully established. It appears that the upper House is to be composed of mot more than seventy or eighty members. The Canadas and Newfoundland each come in separately; and the other colonies—New Branswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Is}and—come in as « group, known as Acadis. The representation in the lower House was decided upon yester- day, and if the despatch be correct, which puts it down as one hundred and ainety-four mem- bers, the representation is most liberal. The total population of all the States of the confederation is, in round nambers, three mil- fions. Thus there will be one representative to every fifteen thousand of ‘the population, while in the United States we have only a representative to every ninety-three thousand of our population. The inhabitants of the new British United States of America then will havea much more potent voice in their Con- grees than we have in ours, It is curious to seo at this moment, while the British people pretend to despise our form of government and to regard it as a failure, that they have themse!res consummated almost « similar one in their own colonies; for although the Exeoutive of the new coufederation will, of course, be invested with » vice regal dig- nity, 80 as to preserve the appearance of a monarechical government, yet in all probablity there will soon be an innovation upon thet system, and the republican complexion of tbe government will be manifested. In short we regard the amelgamation of the British colo- nies into « confederation as but « preliminary atep to anpexation te the United States. . Gur Public Amusements—fne Fall Sca- son Fairly Opoued. The mon:: » October is considered in Rome to be the pleaautest of the year. ‘The popu- lace then, deavius their toil, devote their days to harmless recreation and their evenings to the theatre and the opera louse. Every- body is happy, everybody is determined to be pieased, and he who is the gayest is recognized as the nobles: Roman of them all. Tn this respect Now York is not unlike the Etergal City; for October Is our gala month, when everything and everybody appear to the bestadvantage. The glorious October weather, neither too warm sor too cold, enables people to dress well, diapensizg with the light but easily soiled fabrics of suminer wear, but not yet demanding the clumsy and heavy overcoats and cloaks which the rigors of our climate will’ require a few weeks later. Fashion then -can display all her brillisncy out of doors as weil as in. Of course in such a season our city amuse- ments flourish. Tho citizen can then leave is home for an evening’s entertainment without dreading the freezing atmosphere of January. on his way to the theatre, or ihe stifling heats of August when he gels there, Society in this metropolis reverses the usual order of things and hybernates not in winter but in summer. Relieved trom the comatose period of country life it awakens in the fall to renewed vigor, and blooms out in fresh brilliancy just when nature begins to take her winter sleep. The caterers for the public amusement, 'per- fectly familiar with the habits of society, have their traps ready baited for ifs return. The Esquimaux, quetly perched on a cake of ice, patiently watches for the seal, and the moment the creature pops his bead out of tbe air-hole to breathe, transfixes bim with a spear; and, in like@munner, the theatrical manager waits with careful anxiety the moment that society pops out of Newport, Saratoga, Sharon, Cats- Kill and minor country resorts into the inspir- ing atmosphere of city life. In these days of Arctic explorations, when Kune and Hall have made Greenland and Labrador items of fushion- able gossip, and when Baffin’s Bay is as familiar to the geverat reader as Boffin’s Bower, Mar- etzek, for instance, like the Esquimaux seal hunter, flings bis harpoon at tho returning public in the shape of a new opera troupe. While it cannot be said the public is quite stunned by fhe shock, it is certainly well pleased. 1n Caroszi-Zucchi the operatic man- ager has secured one of those brilliant and finished artistes that even Italy but rarely pro- duces. Her reputation is entirely transalpine. She does not come te us after having sungfor years before the fretfal ‘audiences in Paris, or after baying ruined her voice in the humid at- mosphere of London, where, as the Berlin singer, Lucca, has said, ove cannot smell a rose witbout blackening the nose with coal smoke. Zucchi comes direct from the land of song itself. Her latest recotlections are of the Tiber and the Arno, not of the Seine or the Thames. By and by the manager of Les Italiens or of Covent Garden will secure tue prize, and he indebted to America for one of the greatest artists of the age; and the London and Paris critics will declare that the race of great lyric artists-the line of women who knew at once how to dress with exquisite tasie, to sing with grand expression, to act with passionate fer- vor, and thus realize the ideals of the leading compostrs of the age—did not disappear when Malibran died in a swan-like death song, or when Grisi retired from the stage of which for so many years she bad been the brightest ornament, se Massimiliani possesses a reserved power of which he should not be too reticent. Our American audiences like action and fire; and the new singer needs only to add these qualities to his present style of performance. His voice is rich as w#il as robust, and bis inethod is good; but, through his timidity, thé life and passion of his predecessor are lacking. It is time that Richard were himself again. As soon as the South American tenor will sing as he was wont’ to sitfg, he will find that our opera goers will smile as they wore wont to smile on Brignoli and Mazzoleni. A personal resemblance to a Presidential candidate is very good; but vocal intensity is still better when an opera singer is in question. The company now at the Academy of Music, it should be remembered, never met together till a few weeks ago, and tue season opened after but one rehearsal. There were necessa- rily rough places to be made smooth before the performances would go off with entire ease; but ali thie hes now been accomplished. As soon as the promised novelties are brought out the house will be as crowded as in the palmiest days of its history. As it is, Faust, with Miss Keilogg’s exquisite personation of Marguerite— a lyric delineation which, in grace of statuesque attitude, ia motion and repose, as well as mere vocalization, cannot be surpassed—fills the auditorium whenever it is performed. The theatres vie vigorously with the opera house. At the Olympic the successful effort of ® talented young dramatist is interpreted by a gtoup of actors and actresses, who, in almost every instance, prove to be the right men and the right women in the right places. Tho readers of Martin Chuzzlewit, to be sure, will miss in the play the charagter—in some points autobiographical of Dickens himself—of Jeffer- son Brick. The novel invelves two central figures, Pecksniff and Brick, with their re- spective satellites. In the Olympic version only the former faction is represented. The latter should not be left out in the cold, and so we have a right to expect from the dramatist a sequel, in which Jefferson Brick should be the hero, as his more emphatic brother humbug, the other Jefferson, is in the drama of the Great Rebellion. At the Broadway theatre John Owens and Solon Shingle are the attractions of the gala month. At Wallack’s the popular Rosedale will soon be revived, to take the place of the foppishly dressed bandits of the Compact. At Winter Garden Clarke Is about to drop from Shakspere to Morton, from Dromio to Bob Tyke. Forrest leaves Niblo’s in favor of that gushing Western lady, Maggie Mitchol); Wheat- ley having in the meantime fntroduced in Me- thua Scheller a Pauline, who acta with true taste and delicacy to a managerial Claude Mol- notte, who is not one hundred and odd years of age, as the would-be critical attacke of an obscure journal of this city would lead its haif dozou readers to suppose. We ought also to eee ond hear agaia an actress who, to an early experience on the stage, has lately added several years of study in France, where she witnessed the ablest dramatic representations of the day; and as all this acquired informa- tlon is added to the natural genius which alone makes it valuable, we may expect to Gad in Miss Olive Logan a star which witt shine with no ordinary light. Thus the opera and the drama cocabine to add to the uttractions of this gay auSimnal month, We hear, too, of varioas concert som- panies aud English opera troupes organizing’ to invade the provinces. Of course all such en- torprises have their source in New York, which can weil spare for the country at large some of the superabuudant talent that naturally concentrates here. Victory at Cedar Creek— ers HLL Siormed—Thne Revel Re- treat. Sheridan’s latest desputch gives some further particulars of his victory. Longstreet’s at- tempt to “crush Sheridan opt of the valley” has turned out very badly for Longstreet. The despatoh indicates that the rout of the enemy was fully as complete on this occasion as it was at the Opequav in September, or at Fisu- er’s Hill. Indeed, Fisher’s Hill has once again been the scone of a rebel rout. It will be remembered thut the enemy’s forces were oon- ventrated at Fisher’s Hill four days before the recent battle, and dufing those four days the, euemy was busy on intregohments, intended to strengthen’ that position. He bad deter- mined to fight end to advance to battle from that point, and, iu case of disuster, he wanted 4 strong place to retire upon, and in which he could get time to rally and: reform. So be added new fortifications to those that had proved inadequate before at that place. His four days of labor were lost. His forces were 60 broken to pieces by Wednesday's defeat that even Fisher’s Hill could wot arrest the rear- ward stream of demoralized rebeis., Many ot those badly beaten svidiers bad beoit at Fish- er’s Hill before, aunicnow all about that place; 80 when they came ,to it they wenton. Buta rearguard. was organized and posted there to stop the pursuing Yuukees and give time tora raily further on, and tie main revel force kept on its march on Wednesday night. How bitter must bave beca the thouglis in that column on that moonlight night. Less than tweaty hours before they bad jelt the exutta- tioa of triumpb-every one there bad !urrahed over a glorious victory; and now, crushed by absolute defeat, they murched tor their lives. The rebel rearguard at Fisher’s Hill was no impediment to Sheridan’s oavalry. That place was carried at a blow, and the cavalry is doubtless now barassing the rear of tue main body. General Graot’s declaration that Sheridan is “one of the ablest of generals” is worthy both of Sheridan and of Grant. It is a little euthu- siastic; but it ie the geverous enthusiasm of a large aud noble nature that does not restrain or moderate its admiration of heroic achieve- ments, It Is the expression of the conqueror of Persia, saying “Haplestion also is an Alex- ander.” Sheridan’s arrival on this field of battle, and the wondetiul change that he imme- divtety brought abbdut, has induced in some quariers a reference to the battle of Marengo, aud to the great victory thet was there won by the French army—after tbat army was certainly beaten, Compurison bas thence been drawn betweeu Sheridan and Des- saix; but the comparison is eminentiy u:just to-our valley hero, There is no paralled at all in the two cases. Dessaix came up to Marengo with a reinforcement. He brought a corps @armee, and that tresh corps won the buattic, even while the Austrian commander, far iv the rear, wag receiving congratulations upon h’s victory. But Sheridan did not come with a corps d’armea He brought only the brains of a general and the heart of a hero. It was hs single Brennus sword that turned the scale in our favor. . His personal presence won the battle. It was his ride down the lines, that the soldiers might see him and know that he was there, which inspired tuém once more with the old and invincible ardor that bad carried them on to former victories. It bas been stated also that Sheridan was Qrought from Winchester by couriers seat from the field. Couriers may have been sent from the field, but they were not what started Sheridan from Winchester. The only couriers that found this hero there were couriers that came on the wings of the morn- ig to bis quick soldier's ear. it was the grand slogan of battie, roared from the throats of the artillery of bis army, that told Sheridan be was wanted. He rode toward the sound of the cannon. And it is not possivie to conceive that such a man could hear tiose cannon, could know that theTe was @ battle in progress, and stay away. It is well worthy of notice in this connection that Geueral Sheridan has before this shown the same maguetic power over bis men that this battle so signally illustrates. He commanded a division ia General’ McCook’s corps at the battle of Murfreesboro or Stove river. McCook’s corps, our readers will re- member, was on the right, and was smaslied up on the first day. Sheridan’s division of that corps was rallied, and a large part of it went through the whole three days of the buttle, while theother two divisions never stopped till they got to Nashville. It was the same at Chickamauga. McCook’s corps was broken, and only one of its divisions was kept together. That one, of course, was Sheridaa’s. Tue Post Orrice Anvertistxo.—Some of the republican journals are, we sec, endeavoring to create an impression that the Post Office list of Jetters was taken from the Henra.p and given to an administration organ because of the superior circulation of the latter. This is refreshing. Tue journal that has got it takes care to make no assertion of this kind itself, for the very good reason that its circulation is inferior to two other city papers that rank next after the Henan. Were it in a condition to do ro it would have paraded the fact as @ jnstification of the action of the Post Office authorities, The fact is, as we before stated, we declined to con- tinue the publication of the list because the government refused to pay us more than a fifth of ita actual cost. To a journal cramped for space for its news, because of its heavy adver- tising business, the further occupation of its columns by @ long list of this kind on such conditions was not possible. After we declined it, Mr. Wakeman, the Postmaster, sent to usand reqnested that for the few wecks he was to remain in office we would continue it. We did 80 out of courtesy to that gentleman, and after his resignation of his functions we were about to omit it, when Mr. James Kelly, the new Postmaster, came to us and requested we would not do so until he had time to communicate with the Post Office Department, «Again we yielded; but, after reasonable delay, and hearing nothing further from Mr. Kelly on the subject, we put our determination into execu- tion. We must say that, not only did the new Postwpaater violate the rules of courtesy in pot, communicating the tous, as agreed upo bus be grossly violated the law i ving liat to a journal which is only thit ciren! tion to the two city papers that rank afer us circulation. This is all that we have to say the matter. : Tus Rever Canavtan Raw upon St. ALBA It is understood that General Dix has rece: mended te the government that an immedia and peremptory demand be made upon Le Lyons snd the Canadian authorities for the #. reader of Jacob Thompson, formerly Secrate of tie Interior under Buchanan, who is now | Canada as the agent of the’ rebel governmer aud whose direct complicity with the late ro bing and murdering raid upon St. Albar together with the former piratical expeditio) and attempted expeditions upon our Northe lakes, is abundantly established. Mr. Stant: is in favor of General Dix’s. proposition, ar thoroughly sustains the order given by thi officer to the troops stationed near St. Alba to cross the Canadian lines in pursuit of $ rebel bandits—an order under which eiz of them have been already captured by 0 forces, ten miles within British Canadian ter tory. Secretary Stanton agrees with Gene, Dix that the precedent established the case of the McLeod attempted reb: lion, and the crossing over to Ame can soil of British troops for the pr pose of seizing the steamer Caroline, may cited as precedent to justify American troo in pursuing rebel robbers and cutthroats w) invade our.soil, back over the Canadian Mir to any extent and in any numbers that may neggpsary for their capture. Mr. Seward, ho} ever, is greatly alarmed at the vigorous acti of General Dix, and is believed to be now p paring an apology which is to.be immediat« sent to England by some confidential mess« ger. Stanton, it is added, threatens to resi if the President alfows this course to be f| lowed; and the hope is expressed that pub opinion will be so emphatically brou; to bear upon Mr. Lincoln, in support of { course of Gen. Dix, that Mr. Seward’s apolo| will be nipped in the bud and our coun! spared this'last aod worst humiliation. Dismat Srate or THR SovrHeRrn Finances} We publish to-day a document of Mr. Ti holm, the rebel Secretary of the Treesn) endeavoring to regulate prices in the South] as to keep them down to ao fixed stand This bas been repeatedly tried; but it is oj urged with great emphasis, as a measure of cessity, by the Secretary of the Treasury, 5 many facts are set forth to convince the peo that they should accede to it. It happens t} these facts show most conclusively the diay state of the rebel finances, present and fut although perbaps such was not directly the tention of Mr. Trenholm. For iustance, cites one case in which a contractor for government received $300.000 in bonds, sup, lies furnished, and so!d the same td foreigner for $15,000 in gold, which he im dimely shipped. to Enrope. Mr. Trenhd regards this act as worthy of reprobation, coinplains hard about it. It is to be presua that @ government contractor would at leas! a loyal secessionist, and would have some q fidence in the government; but it appears this individual beld its bonds at very eq] value. Mr. Trenholm afgues that while contractor will only obtain interest to amount of a little over a thousdnd doll: seven per ceat on his gold, the rebel gov ment will have to pay $21,000 interest on bonds. Thus, in this transaction, it is m that the value of rebel boads is only abj one-twentieth on the dollar; and in face of this fact the Secretary—a Sduth C lina banker—asks the people to reduce price of their goods. The. rebel debt on first of December next will be fifteen head millions of dollars, ‘and if the war is contin) for another year it will be two thou millions according to this rebel financier. THE STEAMSHIP ROANOKE. Her Fate fusitively Ascertained6h: a Barned by the Rebe re and Crow Landed Hauivax, N8., Oct. 21, If Tho brigantine Mathilde, which arrived from Bermuda, reports that ou the 7th, while on the sage from Bermuda to Halifax -was ordered to heave @ steamer, which atterwards proved to be the capt steanrerjRoaooke. Ninety-five parsngess and the Cluding Fix women, were put on bis vesse!, and 0 Bermuda, where be janced them oo Saturday. The! auoke was a'terwards burned, The ‘ever at St. George was abating, It still badly at Haariton. z THE MISSOURI RAID. Gemeralt Curtis Reported as F git the Hebel Prices’s Advan thing Working Finety—Ge mishing with ville and Wa Sr, Lori, Oct. The Democrat's Jefierson City special sys that G Curtis has been fighting Price’s advance all day om Little Blue river, ten miles from Independence. Cy holds a good position and will stand for a regular eo; ment if Price will continue $1e conflict. Koseot be near or at Lexington, ‘The “amine bridge will be repaired and traine to Warrensburg in two or three daye, Everything is working finely. Reinforoomente w' at the rigmt piace at the proper time. General Sendoro was reported skirmishing with Bt to.day between Booneville and Waveriey. Sr. Locis, Oct. 21, ‘The Democrat's Jefferson City special saya that rebels recroesed the Missouri river at Bormuda daj yesterday. They now hold Brunswicg, K ‘and Carrollton, and are plundering them. Colonel kina 1s encamped at Fayette, Howard county, witha ment] of bushwhackers, General Fisk is repairing railroad west of Jefferson City. The last hoard from Prioo was that his camp Waverley, in the northeastern corner of Lafayotte ty. Rosectant is following him closely, His train bors over four hundred wagons, which ho Is ev! rough the southwestern portion of PE leet 088 through Rantas, Price the bogus Govervor Reynolds are reported to have two quarrela,.(he latter thinking It practicable te they will not go back to Arkanses, iszeurl whether he does or nut, Br. Louis, Mo., Oot. 20, 186 A Jefferson City correspondont ander date of the ingt., says that everything looks mach more fat to night ‘The vows from Gonera! Curtis Is mont ebeoring. Goteral Rosecrans took the Adid today and to-night many miles from here. General Price hes declared an amnesty to all dee from hisarmy who hyve been busbwhacking, and are joining bim. Bill Anderson will join him to a fow days, Quantrell is to be promoted to a brigadier general Jackinan Is to have a division. Holtrelaw fs also to report to Price. ‘This clearly chows that the gueriila leaders ta State are commiesioned officers in the regular rebel teutooant Colonel Bynes, Soveotegn n ‘veteran cavairy, who a G for thee, He noo says haa tiles