The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1864, Page 4

JAMES sa agian BuSxeTR BOTTOR AND NEW YORK HERALD. | OFFICER H. W. CORRAR OF FULTON AXD NASSAU STS. ‘Teomes cver tbe rebel forces under Genera! Hood, in Middle Fennessee. About four o'clock om the aftervcoa Of Wednesday of this week twe oorps of Hood’s army, made a heavy attack on the troops commanded by Gene. fel Sobofisid, ot Frankl, twenty miles noath of Nash- ville, . This assault was Persistently follpwed up by the Tebels im three subsequent furious charges on the Union Line of marked batteries, ‘Bot Schoficid’s men were pre- Dared lor them, and repuised them at every point, in- ficting on-them very sevore losses, From the sccounts Feoelved, the battle, which lasted till dark, ap- pears to aye been = hotly contested and sanguloary QMair; but it proved a dear experiment for Rood; for ‘while, according eo Genoral Soboicid’s official @eepaton, tbe Union casualtios were bly. Nttlo over ove thousand, between five pny Chousand revels were gkilled, wounded and cap. tured, OF these about one thousand were made prisocers by our army, including among the cun- Wer two brigadier geacrals. Previous to this battle there bad beee beavy skirmishing for several days, the Union forces gradually falling back before Hood, first, from Pulaski, seventy-three miles south of Nashville, to Oo lambia, about thirty miles north of Pulaski and over forty from Nashville. Pulaski was evacuated on the 234 inst, end on the night of the 26th, Saturday lest; a further falling back took place from Columbia to the ‘vicinity of Franklin, about twonty mites south of Nash- ‘Vitte, fighting of a desultory character being kept up Berrly all the time, and the rebels atill steadily ; moving northward as our troops receded. Thomas’ de- * sign im this retrograde movement was to effect a concea- Gratton of his forces, in whtoh important particular the rebel commander Dad the advantage of him, both at Pu. Usski and Columbia. But by the time Franklin was Peached by the nucious of ‘biseotire army a sofficient @onsolidation was flected, it appears, to risk @ general @ngagement; and therefore that portion of it under Scho- Bold made « stand, anda most determined and gallant ne, as our despatches show. The rebel General Forest is said to have been on the Held, rallying his mea, avd Sere is a rumor that he was killed. Great panic pre vails among the people in the country around Nasbville, ‘and they aro Jeeing to thas, city in crowds for safety. ‘They say Hoof is gathering up all the horses, hogs, mules, cattle, &0.7 be oan find, and tenting them South, On the night ater the engage- ment the Union troops retired from New York, Friday, Dee. 2, 1864. Paka ES THE SITUATION. ‘ A splondid apd very important victory bas been fchioved by @ porjion of the watioual army under General Sf the previous day, arrived in Nas:ville yesterday ‘gnerning. Another great battle ts m-mentarily expected: ‘Dut there ts perfvet eoafdence on the part of our officers Gnd men that it can only resalt it another Union victory. ‘We give this moratg im eoanection with our sateresting Geep itches @escriptive of the stirring events im that Fegwon, and skete es of the promiven: towns, a map @howing that portion of the country ia which the two Opposing armies of Thomas and Hood are now oper- We pablish this morning 1:0 her large supply o ‘extrscts from Georgia pazers up to the 26th uit., and {rom Richmond p.yer: ‘Goneral Sherman’s movements. While Sherman 1s no ‘doubt steadily advancing across the state of Georgia, in Jull accordance with the programme which he Prepared for bimseli before leaving Atlanta, if a judgment was formed of his movement’ by the recoras of those fright ened rebel newspaper men we might Gousider his course @ very erratic one. His army is omuipresent, ana then @gain it is nowhere, It is bere, there aod everywhere, etretobtng its terrific limes across tne State, and anon it has ‘Vanisbed entirely, Richmond papers of last Tuesday aay tbat the rebels stil! occupy Maéon, and that on Satur- sday last Sherman bad pot approached Auguste. Qoonee river on the Zist ult. The Auguste Chronicle Gays tbat cn the same day the Yankees left the line that General Siocum was moving bis column to form a junction with that of Howard. Sberman’s move- ments have cut Governor Brown off from interoourso ™ the eastern portion of the State, and the President ome Cushing apd Chief Engineer Wood for their conduct in the destruction of be rebel ram Afpemarie at Viymouth, N.C. “ot the State Senate, Mr. Wright, apparently detizhted, in one respect at feast, by this occurrence, has taken advan age Of it, acd sasumed, +2 ficio, gubernatorial contro! over Eastern Georgia, and issuod frou Augusta a procia- ‘mation revokirg the Governor's orders regarding the Large quantities of crude ta: im the pite forests, and it wag w ‘would: be realized in the export York and other cities. The colony was Dy Gel{-supportiug by the production of larger Gam. suger, tobacco, rum aud cotton, cioB Of beimg connected with the plot to burn this city is Bow proceeding daily before a military commission, and a Sumber Of important fects, which it would not be pru- dent to make public, have been developed, The registra tion of Southerners at General Peck’s headquarters, ia Bleecker street, continues, been registered up to th:s time. Of atuempting t» act fro to the Memphis aud ‘Charleston Sp to the 29:n ult., regarding | Rajroad depot and government warobou-es, containiog property worth two million dollars, It io said that these emissaries were to receive from the rebel overament the amount of ton per cent of the valne of property destroyed by them, Thoy will be tried by a military commission, and, bong. Dr. McMillan, proprietor of the Chariesion House, im Memphis, charged with belug tinplicated in the plot, 1s ‘among (bose arrested. nesday seizd some boxes, which wero found to coutste a gun carriage and artillery ammunition, supposed to be intended for our Soutbern rebels. merce was beld yesterday aternoow, A communication It ts | was read from the Britis Consul and merchants at Bahia Claimed that Kiipatrick’s cavalry were repulsed at the | relative to tho capture of the Florida, The document, after some debate, was referred to a committee of the Chamber. the Kearsarge, thanking the mombers of the Cham ber, in Of the Georgia Railroad, going southward, which means | penailf of iuis officers and men, for the complimentary notice taken of their action in tho destruction of the Ala- bama. A report was also read from the committee ap. vein to look after trade rogulations with the rebel wikbont trapssctiug any business of Importancs. resointion from the Board ward for the detection of the botel ingeadiaries was laid over under the rule. ACSI tis ofa rogers af hi take onscenaful euvairy oxredi- | ton mito «he taterter of Losisiava, says th.t be nad @ strong Oght at Libersy, and captured two hundred pris- oners, tnciuding twonty-live officers; tures presen Of ar. tillery, between six ama eight buadccd horses aud « Bumber of negroes, aud destroyed imwense rebel army ‘stores ca on the railroad. 4 Waesbivgtou newspaper of yesterday says thet General Banks, who is shortly to leave for New Orleans, ‘wil, om bis arrivalat that place, reassume command of the Department of the Galf, inciuding Louisisna, Ar- Kavegg aod Mississippi, as subordinate to General Gundy, commanding the West diississippi Military Division, AD interesting account of rebel operations along the Red river, im Louisiana, and particularly at aod around Alexandria, is furnished tm our Natchez Gespatch, The rebel General Buckner commands in thas region, ena has his boadquerters at Alex- andria, where additional formidable defeusive works have, been erected, for the purpose of ren- jedering it impossible for the Union gunboats to again ascend Red river. The dams which General Bailey con- structed to release the flset accompanying Geoeral Banka’ army have been used to form «part of these fortifica- tions, and apparently with very good elfect (or the rebel desigas. In ali the country as far around Alexandria as General Buckver’s autbority reaches an indiscriminate ‘and merciless conscription of ail the male inhabitants is enforced. Old men and young boys, foreigners and pa. tives, the liables and tbe exempts, are ail alike gathered in te swell the ranks of the rebel armies. A Cairo despatch says that information, of a seemingly Tellable character, has been received that Captain Semmes, of pirate Alabama notoriety, arrived at Dagdad, Mexico, on the 16th of Uotober, on his way to Richmond, ‘vie Matamoros, One of our Fortress Monroe correspondents gives an aceount of a small Union cavalry expedition which went out from Williamsburg, oo tbe Virgiaia Peoinagla, on the ‘27th ult., for the purpose of breaking up a gang of bush- whackers and murderers who bave recently been very abnoying to our troops in that vieluity, They succeeded in arresting some of the Party, and the cases of others u attended is Grant and Butler | SAL MperHy Dp, $e, .Cgpere ors “| number of persons on Wednesday evening, at‘ various ‘visited Fortrese Monroe and Norfolk on Tueaday last. In the rebel House of Representatives on Monday last Mr. Foote offered his Monroe doctrine resolutions in a new form, and began a speech im favor of them; but while he was talking the House went into secret session. jus NEWS. The President yesterday appointed Hon. Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, Attorney General of the United States, in Place of Hon. Edward Bates, resi;ned. Tho steamship Matanzas, which arrived here yester- day from New Orieans, reports passing ot gen, in a dis- abled condition, and in tow of the guubout convoying her, the steamship North star, (rom Aspinwail for this Prt, with passeogers, mals anf specte, She will pro. bably ‘rrive bere during this forenoon. By an arrival at thia port we have advices from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, tothe 13th of October. Gn the 10th of fhat month the city was visited by a most violent tor- nado, accompanied by a bail and rein storm. The hail stones were of an eudrmeous size and the rain was very beavy. Many Houses were blows down, and others were completely riddied by the hail. A numbar of lives were lostp and much damage was done to the shipping io the barbor. Oar banc. on the lst he, » Doig exceedingly warm correspim‘°3t fa British Honduras, dating at “ovember, reports the weatuer as gud the local trade very dull, nentine bad been collectea Sought that good profits the article to New coming more “tities of ‘The examination of the prisoners arrested on caspl: About five Bundred have Oue day this week rebel agents were caaght in the act in Memphis, Tenn. found gailty, probably The custom officers at Collingwood, Canada, on Wea- The regular m ntbly meoting of the Obamber of Com- A letter wae read from Captain Wioslow, of Resolytions were adopted complimentary to The Board of Aldermed met yostorday, but adjourced The of Couccilmen, offering a re- eee 128 EE sh hi ee bat EE es i So GB A OA ‘militia, Mr, Wright directs the militia to report to him, kod wot to Generr! Smxb, as Brown bud ordered coral Wade Hampton, from Virginia, and ra R from North Carolina, are reinfuret The steamship Me'vilio, Captaim Watlington, from Port Royal, S.0., 27th ult,,arrived «t this port about mid- ight Jest wight. She reports that on the 25th ult. Gene ral Foster issued orders for all citizens’ at tbat place to be enrolled and report for duty the next day, when they were to be formed into companies for home protection. Ene United Biates forces there were to move immediate- ly, probably to create a diversio: in favor of General Bhorman. Thy Melville reports that after leaving port, st about six o'clock tm the evening, beard hoavy and quick firing at Port Royal. Frankia, @od took up a position about thre> miles s uth of Nash- ‘Ville, whore they formed ia live of battle, skirmishing’ ‘Was goiug'on during all yes:erday about Ave miles south Of the latter place, aud heavy cannozadiog oould be Board im the oty, One boadred and seven rebel officers and on» thousand rebel Privates, ‘ppturea fa the battie ‘The Board of Councilmen were in session yeeterday, and acted upon arumber of routine papers. Mr. Hiyes (the President) called up the ordinanes for the better regula tion of the New York ‘Fire Department, and moved an Lede, tiot eight, to the effect that assistant engineers sal be elected every three years. The paper was again laid over; but it will be calied up at the next meeting and finally acted upon, After receiving & number of papers from the Board of Aldermen, the Board ad- } joured till Monday. A libel was filed in the United States Divtrict Court yesterday, by the District Attorney, agaiowt the prize scboover Sybil and cargo, captured on November 20, £64, off Wilmington, N. ©., by the United States steamer Josco, Commander John Guest, The Sybil bad on board when captured a cargo of three hasnred apé seven bales of cotton. She arrived here yesterday in charge of Prize Mastor Paul Ware, and is now lying off the Buttery: Our latest despatches from in front of Richmond show ‘The case of the United States against Philip B. Marsh was yesterday referred from the miiftary authorities to Coat the artillery Brigg on last Tuesday, alluded 10 1m | 11 niied Staton Uvmmissioners’ Odice for examminition osterday's Hxnatp, did pot result in anything eerlous, Marah was some time ago arrested and confined in Fort The enemy opeced both ia front of the Second corps and | Lafayette, by order of Goneral Dix, on a charge of mal- on the sae side of James river, in the vicinity of | versstion in office, he being at the time a special officer Dateh Gap. Their shots, however, did no damage, bat | # 'B* Atting Assiatant Provost Marshal General's oi oe, , bs oa etented to have tried the socused by military they wore responded to by the Union guns, our MoDiLOr® | commission; but, the exigencies of the service at the taking part. ‘There bave been slight changes of posi- | present time not permitting this, the casé bas beea lone at the front of the Army of we Potomac, by some turned over to the hands of United States. Commissioner troops relieving others who have had severe service; Osborne, whe yesterday admitted the defendant to bail bah urbe bas taken place. 4 | yaterday the jurors of the General Sessions were dis. new Intrecohing tool, to be used for digging rifle and | charged for the term, counsel having moved off tne cases of prisoners will skirmish pits, bas been introduced into the army. tts | that were ready for tris. A number a very simple affair, but wil be very usefal to the sol. be seatenced this morning by Judge Rassel, The De- comber term commences vext Monday. John Meyer, Giore, The troops are agein enjoying warm, mony 487%, | neory wiser and Cbarien MoCabe, Indicted for stealing ® after the recent cola weather. ‘vox of Balmoral shoes from tbe premises of David Stera, Jum the Sbenandosh valley affairs remaia undisturbed 44 Dey wtreot,on the 4th ult., pleaded guilty to an at- ‘Tue rebols were 00 closely followed up after their raids tom at grand larceny and wore remandel for seateree, on Now Oreck and Piodmo:t tbat they have pot deemed Im the case of Louies Uslleway va George T. Caila~ ‘way, where tne plaintiff sues for a divores, on the ground ‘Gt pradent to attempt any similar et toes Of 1 treatment, a motion was made yesteraay, before Jeage C orke, (or alimony and counsel fees, pending the waft. The plaintify alleges that on the 20th of October ere en sr amin SB Sates ess a eras we froet teath out. The defendant, in extesuation, pleaded erver of Louisiana, bed organized ten regiments of Be | inet tne tooth were false, amd that he was inivelled to @roee at Shreveport, A’ present they are employed tm | the commission of the assault by the overbearing com. reing the Georgia revels. Se SS ay, CSE i etrengibening the defences cf that place, but are tn- eirvoted tm the regular military Critl, and Alien expecta goon to receive autboriz ition from Richmond for putting Ave inio the rebel army. The Union General Lee, ia duct of thd plaintiff, The Court took the papers and re. served ite decision John Shepherd, third mate of the Ne Plas Ultra, was yesterday brought up befure United States Commissioner CeRaiaes oh Geren wy Ravina Commas Sree Gener, ¢ — © AxdMa0ad @ seamen of the seid vessel. with a deadly jnstroment. ‘There wus Do evidevoe 10 show the character oF the 10 strument, cr that the » mpiswant ws ia apy way sork lousty burt by the Mow he Bind recéived: Yeteadauc ae- maiitivg tbat bedid strike bim. The caseappoaiiug (0 be one of common assacit, was @ismissed, the Uvilet ‘States Commusstover’s Quart Bot beieg the piace tor tue adjadication ot such, ‘The members of tho Veteran Union Soldiers’ Club and thelr friends assembied lust eveping at she Academy of Musto, to celebrate the success @f the Ualon party at the recent election, Geveral Jobn Codbrane and others e- livered addresses, in the intervals of which @ band of mus C discoursed some excelleut musig, The audieoce was ‘1 t large, but exceedingly select, aad the exercises were rory toteresting, includiog.im addition te the sperchcs snd instrumental music, come very choice opera singing dy Mile, Morensi. A meeting of citizens wag beld test evening at the Cooper Instituse, under the auspices of the Citizens’ As- sociation for reforming ou® cl;y government, The at | tendance was not large, The object and’purposes of the Association wore ably set forth and advosa‘ea by the chairman of the meeting, R. B. Roosevelt, and James R. Whiting. A series of resolutions wag adopied pledging the meeting (o support the candidates of the association Ou Tuesday next, ‘The Geographical and Statistical Society had no meet- ing last evening for want of a quorum. The number in the public insticutions ef the city at present is etx thousand six hundred and sixtg-four—aa focrease of seventy-six in a fortnight, The number ad- mitted last week was one thousamd one hundred and seventy-five, and the namber disokarged, transierred or who died, one tLousand and seventy-nine. During a guerre! over some money matters yesterday afternoon between two brothers named Dennis and Pat rick Keating, af 204 South street, the latter received a severe wound in the abdomen by a ball fired from a pistol in the hand of the former, Tho wounded naan was taken to the hospital, where hs subsequently expired. His Drother was arrested and detained to await the result of the Coroner’s inquest. ‘William Harris, of 894 Broadway, was early yesterday morning assaulted and severely beaten, while passing through Twenty-eighth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, by three highwaymeg, who, after stealing his watch 4ine bat, fled, Qne of them,a backmap, who gave bis name as William Smith, was pursued apd cap» tured by the police, and was yesterday committed for tris, Robert Connolly and Willam H. Jacobi were yesterday arrested and committed on the charge of attempting to pars countcrfeit five doliar bills on the,Farmera’ Bank of Hudson, Attempts were made to pass these bills by Places in the city; but only these two arieats have yet been mate. Joseph Hamilton, the husband of Bridget Hamilton, lately arrested on the charge of committing numerous robberies in Brooklyn; Alexander Matthews and his wife, were yesterday arrested by the police at their rest- denee in Harrison street, in this city. It is alleged that they also are as fully implicated in this extensive thiev- ing ap Bridget. The property already recovered, sup: posed to bo the result of these robberies, is valued at between three and four thousand dollars. The stock market was dull yesterday. Gold was firmer, but variable, and, after opening ut 228, closed at 228%. Government securities were steady. ‘There was little or no change in the commercial stctys yesterday as compared with the previous day, Very little business was done in foreiga merchandise, and not much in domestic produce, and nearly all kinds were Bomival. Petroleum was firmer but quiet. Cotton, &c., ‘were nominally unchanged. Qa ‘Change the flour mar. ket wes 10c,a15c. lower, Wheat was dull, upsetticd and pominally lower. Corn was duil and lowor, while oats were less sctive 3nd decliping. Pork quite active but $l per bbl. lower, Beef quick but firm, while lard was lower and in limited demand, Freights quiet, Whiskey “] dull and drooping, The Military Situation-gVictory messcomSherm a1 Another Union victory is thrown’ in the balance against the rebel cause. Thomas has given a satisfactory illustration of his ability to take care of Tennessee. As will be seen by ~w Nashville despatches, and by Geveral sch -\d’s report to General Thomas, General Hood ‘ead an assault oa the Union position at Franklins e Gees, on ihe $0th ult., and’ was repulsed withthe 088 of probably six thousand men. Franklins situn’ed on the south side of wfordablo stream, bout tore tty miles south of Neshvilfe. On the n orth side of mw eam, op- posite the town, the gi.%und is high anu forti- fied, and it was doubtle@ against this pon. that Hood’s attempt was made. Probably the assault was made against this position in front with a view to cover 4 movement on Thomas’ right, though it may prove that LXeod had sof- ficient confidence im his own power to venture his main attempt on this assauitein front. Thomas’ movements have been such is to en- courage the confidesce that Hood felt, and Hood has perhape drawn from the re- cent retirement of Thomhs, step.by step, the inference that Sherman had left Thomas very weak, and that -he could strike and win atence. Thomas,as we kvow, had force enough, and-¢n the morning of this very battle he was joined by the veteran com- mand of A, J. Smith, aud was thus, porhaps, made much stronger than Hood, im numbers. Thia repulse is, theref8re,. im all probability, but the first of the series of disasters to the rebel force by which it will be utterly over- whelmed., And while Thomas thus hold» Hood in the hollow of his hand, away scross the country, almost at the other extremity of the apace be- tween the Mississippi and the Atlantic, Sher- man still goes on splendidly, crashing ‘and cleaviag his way through. the helpless and prostrate mass of the confederacy. Notwith- standing the determination of the rebel jour- nals 20¢ to give us any more news of Sber- man, they give us a great deal. They are such ingrained seolds that they canact held their tongues. It is curious, also, to observe. how contradictory are the conclusions that they draw from this news. Sherman is re- ported to hava burned the town of Madison, from which we have to infer that some attempt had been made near that place to obstruct his progress. There is some-appearance that this action was baving a good effect, and that there was, consequently, less disposition to resist him atthe moze impertant point—Auguste. The “greatest. vigilance” of the rebel authorities at that place is thought to be necessary to keep the citinens out of Sherman’s camp. Forrest is reported to be at Sherman’s rear. The Richmond Whig of the 28th informs us that Sherman is moving only at the rate of seven miles a day, and that neither Charlesten, Savannah, Augusta nor Macon had yet been threatened by his forces, and that be’ has mot found sweet potatoes very abundant in Georgia. It insists that he did not either carry or find supptie, and that, therefore, he must now be in distress, ‘This is the worst “news” that the Whig hea TACO CLANS r ¥ ‘ N@W.. YORK . HERALD, FRIDAY, DESEMBER 2, 1864 ANLUT Wank Toe Richmond Examiner of the 26thiytnd of the TusheS in at 4 rate resterday wholly unpre 26th xifords « remarkable contrast Ja” their | ordewod. ae te, Clases near “a bundred epiviom. On the 26in it thought that i Sher- pe oe ew pte er cond isan shom@ reach Beanfort he “will Bave | 40, of the eommistes, to keep paca with Fails severed every reilroad between Georgia and | denmmd ma@e by patriots. This creat rush Virginiay” and shut, operating from Beau (ost, was doubtless owing to a desire not only te be coutd destroy those roads repeatedly. fer the flog, but to see how our.next can- pet erin that it we “high! “a sha F aGete for Mayor look and acts, They iound aoree 7 "POF" | bie. goed booking and: bis aotien free—with the tant that Sherman should mover take Augusts } greou backs, or reach Beavfort.” On the 38th, it thougot | yp, Incendinry and Rebel F Te meket Besen im cin’ that he could only ‘march scress the country, Rortine and could do “absolately nothing,” but that Ba sr foe perrt eg : were a rega that would pot aor the rE ye and that it the main of tiéeJulon, and the was not worth while to disturb: “Lee’s army, | suppression.ot.the rebellion... The dieutionisis or any other army, on’ Stierman’s acgount.” | und rebel- sympathize Were’ swept into ob- It is very evident that. the Richmond papers oe rn et al renter The civil meksures' ‘Wun policy of the "govera- bardly know what to make of it. thet were endeesed, ‘aed the peopln- etamped The War—Prestdent Lincoin’s “tmme- | +6 edminisirstion: of Mri: Linoolw wit toeir diate Daty—More Soldiers. approvi le Opposition in the Dem was , How goes the wart The prospect is encour- | subdued. Prominent mew: in the Mort, and aging. Our armies are still advancing, still ail the newspaper press, oxcepé the rebel and pressing upon the atrongholds of the enemy, | iacéndiary press of New York city, acqubesced and still winolig victories. General’ Thomas | 17 the decision of the petpie, aad‘ a: @etermina- has just administered a sound thrashing td | tion bas been almost universally expressed. to Hoed in Tennesse, from whioh we have: ph Ben lend s cordia! support to the governuteal, to to anticipate. the most..importent results; | the end that the-war ehallybe prosecuted with General Sherman, brushing ‘away all im- | Vigor untilan houcrable. peseo ean: he secured pediments pefore him, is. moving steadily | 9nd the integrity of the Uhion: be feuly re- established... on to the Atlantic seaboard; General Rose~ crans bas swept Price and. his army of twenty |... We have indicated the~ charseter of the op- thousand border rufftans from Missouri, dnd dis- | Position to'thie patristic sentiment, Ee is con- pensed them in Arkansas; Generat Canby is | fined, we say, to the-incondiary and neve! press profitably at work among the guerillas of Lou- | in New York city, It: is-tarough the eolumns isiana and Mississippi; but. still the rebel | of these treason-hatching ebecte that the rebels. army of Lee, the main stay of Jeff. Davis, holds | receive encouragement, to protrast their strug- fast to Richmond and Petersburg, and bafties | gle. . It is.these journals-which fan the flamon all the movements of General Grant. How Is this? Why is it that-Gon.Grant still | Jeted to embarrass the’ goverament, belittie: so be lingers before the triple lines of fortifications | our victories and muguity-our reverses, Waite which protect the rebel 2 We know | the rabid copperhead press of the West bive- that with the dislodgement, defeat and disper- sion of Lee’s army, the Davis confederacy will collapse amd full to pieces, and we know that | pages to the detafle of stirring events of the until we shall have demolished that army the | day aud to the cultivation of a manly and war will goon; and why, then, is it that Gene- | honorable national pride, the incendiaryy and ral Grant delays the decisive blow? There | rebel press of New York eity are doing alt in can be but one answer to this question. He } their power to incite insurrection in the North, delays the decisive blow suggested because he | aud by the torch: of the incendiary create a has not men enough to justify either a general | ‘consternation among’our citizens whivh only assault upon the enemy’s elaborate works, or j.the seat of actual hostilities should be oom- auother flank movement, which would cut off | péiled to suffer. They talk of the “failure of Lee’s remaining lines of subsistenee and cap- | the war,” “the miscarriage of’the war,” and ture bis army. This is the secret of General | Present our first. Uuion generals in. the: light of Grant's delay. He wants more men to accom- | third and fourth rate military men. They plish this final blow, and while waiting extol the abilities of the rebel officers, for them the best that he can do is to.| od laud the rebel genercls as peecrléss hold the ground he has gained, and watch | 2™ong peers in all that relates to military art his opportunity to ‘strike. If we sre ‘not | andscience. They are continually reflecting mstaken he distinctly. intimated some two | desparagingly upon General Grant;. accuse months ago that if he could be strengthened | Sherman of being a second Attila, under the to the extent of fifty thousand men the cap- | hoofs of whose horse no blade of grass ever ture of Richmond and the capture or disper- | gtew;, they ridicule the idca of Thomas coping sion of Lee’s army would become a simple and | With Hood, even when the wires were convey- easy task. All that Grant would have to do,.| ing the intelligenee that Thomas bad fozged if strengthened as proposed, wonld be to move Hood most. thoroughly, and redeemed, pro- a column of fifty thousand men upon Lee’s re- | bably forever, Middle Tennessee from rebel maining lines of communication, and hold them. tyravny.. Genbral Batler is calted a beast,and Thus Leé would speedily be compelled to | the columns of one of these sheals only yester- abandon his — , secure supplies, and | day contained a tirade of abuse against we ret Men sale MLS roast atraalets Tot to wel masterly withdrawal and. retreat under cover of the night wonld savé him@from swift de- | arrivgl of a notorious character with loog bair struction. and s base reputation:as if he were:a patriot Why is ft, ‘then, that after two>ynenths’ | anda hero. They are the only rebel organs in notice Genoral Grant has not been furnished | the North—the only opposition to the govern- with those fifty thousand men? We ean only | meat in this city. They are the vehicles for guppose that at the time this hint’ was} Conveying Information’ of military movements thrown out by General Grant the political | to thé iémy, nd there is good reason tobe- business of the Presidential election stood in | !eve that they are in secret concert with.the his way. | But as that business is now satisfao- énemy to effect the overthrow of the govern- has been emphatically instructed, in the popa- as any of their confederates in the Southern yn” Verdict of the late election, to push gpr-| States, and they as openly oppose ands de-, ward tm WF with energy, and to cath ‘Upon nounds. the measiires Sf his administration as the loyal Stefee, without mincing the matter, | ®7Y Mg the Jatt Davis. press in the city of Rich: for pA the mei Moncey and means required to | mond. - mer Png the warto a spcedy conclusion, Jem | There fe po. knowing to what lengths Davis having declared repeawdly duriog the | *beir vindictive passions may lead them; for Inte Presidential canvags . that nitimatum — the idea of treason once enters a- bad yras Southern Isdependence or subjugation, man’s brain it is a difficult task te harness or the people of the loyal States have, with an uamistakable voice, reiterated their determt- nation that he and bis rebel armies shall be subdued. Mz. Lincoishas thus been re-elected upor the promise of carrying out the popular will in a vigorous prosecution of the war. ‘The first duty, them; devolving apoa the ministration is the reinforsement of our armies, and especially’the army in front of Riehmond and Petersburg. But all ear armies, Eastand West, should be at once. heavily, strengthened, not only to fil up their losses from battles and disease, dut.in order that the war may be'|, bave received the prospectta of a new paper pusbed (orward without’ relaxetion to the end. | about to be issued in this city somewhat on the It is provable that ony armies ae they stand are | plan of the London Punch and the Parie strong enoagh to: ovorthrow Jef. Davis if we | Figaro, after whieh latter journal it is to be give them time enough. Bat why should the | named. It-is to be edited by “a gentleman war thus be permitted, “like a wounded snakey } from Europe, of great literary abilities and of to drag ite slow ling¢h slong” for another | note in both the musical and dramatic world.” year, when it may be fiaished in six months or:| It is to have correspondents in Lendon, Paris, in three months, by a strong infusien of fresh | Leipsic, Moscow, Nenkin and Canton, and wili volunteers into our voteran armies? We all | publish supplements, catalogues of music, &c. want peace; and whether we look at it from a'} It is to be to New York what Aristopbanes was military, financial of lamanitarian point of ' Athens, what Terence was to Rome, what view, our true peace policy is that of making inch is to London, and Figaro is to Paris. the war “short, sharp and.decisive.” We wish this attempt Godspeed; but we have Mg. Lincola, then, in his fortueoming annual | some experience of witty newspapers which message to Congress, we hope, will recom- | have been started every now and then in New mend, in view: of an immediate call for more | York for thirty years post, and we never knew soldiers, the necessary ways and means for se- | one of them that did not end in failure, after a curing them by the volunteer and bounty sys- | brief and stsuggling existence. ‘ However, this tem. The system of drafting is obnoxious, | one may be destined for the exception to this expensive, harassing, aud yields no compen- |.rale. It may prove like-boring for oil in the sating returns. The volunteer and bounty [,petroleum regions. We know thst the oil is system’ has proved more satisfactory in every | there; but we must make a good many holes way. A cali'for volunteers for twelve months’ | before we strike it. This last bore:du the witty lying and slanderous attacks upon our brave Union officers and soldiers, a strong point would be gained toward suppressing the aiders and wae abettors of the rebellion who are living in our midst. Bat thére is a time coming—and it can- not be too scon—when they will be properly dealt with for their merereneine and re penaay, practices. Arremur at 4 New Awmxaican . Powon.—We dred dollave, at this stage of the war, will speedily secure the two, three or even five hundred thousand able-bodied men. We have more men in the loyal States to-day, by thou- sands upon thousands, than we had at the be- ginning of thé war. Let Mr. Lincoln, then, put in the recommendation indicated to Con- gress; and if he should fail te'de this, let the two houses take the initiative in providing for & new levy of five hundred thonmad men, and then we may look for a speedy peace. Not one- half,not one-third this number may be actually required; but make. a levy for half a million of twelve months volunteers, and we shall have © speedy poace against all sm phage tingencies from any quarter, Huta rr Riowt.—The Hxnatp most have hit the nail-equore on the head when {it named Sapervisor Blunt, chairman of our Volanteer- CONS ORIFTION. ; Beery one, botbrold.and young, | " Removal ef’ Muckinery te ax, ‘he ' ~ meee rE * Bir, George W. Brewa’s Naqass, Yom, 1904, Brom a well teformed gentieman, wo! oie bis escape {rom the vicinity of @@, the Res viver,1 icarn the subjoined iteme of eows, whicn J veliewe sirictly sevaraie and relist My fEtorment with much difiowky reached protege, . are tance above Pork Adams, where Be mms recelved or: eRe SRE Ne PRD ee Jecks0e’s Potat:— General’ Debraix, of Texad, Dae be - Marksville, ead! ts tm commandos: andeout- ‘poots along the-eotime line down: thelowes Red river te the Atebatalaya, ne@ from there, along woe yolnt some Cistance below Sinameporh.— threetaousesd men sev seer nw onemet, s very energetic in eafurc'ng the regulations aed pear saaannw *g ma abate ace te pm os a ’ a Gnindooe ona elne forced, and it ie- General a eer tn cominend of the country’ Bide of he ous to attempt, te retarm vo big away. i is toes the ar Continue and morease t heney, bert realy the perpen Ne ure eal Ll away into tke pAb ered nes Mesh mead ees ve eatin te ane on tos Seana oes they use this Seltkgtn lapguege:—* ments do Dos resognize us, so we eau neither youn relieve yea from sharing wa: us ‘the burdens of the war.” ae at re batteries peur ribo 8 xiver, whieb die tance, and particularly “that part.where. Bailey Jad bis tamous dame last spring ‘o float oat our heavy armored gunboats, © They Rive, moregver, up the timbers of theso dams with bricks sod ng 4 maak be Bo Chek SY MES ERROOUS VANE. soli And tn Order to.prevon) Our gunboats getting ‘past tpis formimabie barrier and beyond, | ‘steamer is constantly Kept ie the champet between Ube coda af the lower dam, which, when’ sunk” wpon’t! it dam, will ‘clove ft' up. ‘This fast precaution has bees it very lately takea upon ® ramor ery Ale: of our eukteane TY bere ry direction. ha a 4 . ‘TREATMENT OF DESERTERS WIVES.) The wives of -all rebel deserters had been odtiected tm camps at various points, and were ordered to {wprisoned at Siiraveport; but before shey be removed from these places the judges of ai parishes succeeded, with gost urgent getting them released, They were thea homes, but, it may be supposed, very nearly’: Such ishuman cruelty as this Gan bave no extuse. REBEL CURRENCY, ‘The rebel currency is almost entirely disused by the about Alexandria, agit bad become, se worthless, people ba eee » mechanics, and Lec eewen h eed ‘make Bese with i eam "aa ei coeeary nescestty or business Fequirea > caus onaueea or been from the ei Red riversto o seremeueges safety, Zags Aan “> am os a Pa IMPORTANT FROM 18. Memphis pepérs of yesterday give & plot by rebel «gents to burs the Mpmphis ‘Onaries- toa Railroad depot aad gevernmest steres, worth twe tives,to whom the, yas entrasied by General Washbarne; and the incendiaries wee caugin in the ad 61 Bring"the butldings, Jt is allegod that these emissaries were to receive fromp the revel government tea per cent of a ae Property thus desteoyed. Dr. McMillan, proprietor of the Chartenton House, of Mowyhis; 1 among those arrested. Bets Sarged with, being the agent of the rebel ens }. the plas. Tbe prisovers have been confived in Irving They Major General Banks to Hebeme nis Command in New Oricams. ; \ : ‘Wasunpton, Ded, 1, 1804, ‘Tne Deity Chronicle of this morningyspealting of Ma- * jor General Banks’ preparations to shortly ledte here fer New Orieaps, to resume bis position as bead of the De | partment of toe Gait, including Locisiana, ArBansas and | Missiestppi, says:— cae Ais civil policy has met the approval of the Presiden®: Of the United States, and he returns to'his at the re questiof the Fxecutive; and- 1 le.nojeas it 16 am nounce that the kindlistt’ relatioha oxist be¥ween Majer General Banks and Major Generat Canby, in of the millitary operations in iesbiesica. oe Misote- sippl. SYV Chm Prmor ir Fy Niblo’s Garden. This te the Inet week of the magniécent spectacle, Re Corsiean }, With ite fine ecesery, fige baliet, fine fencing and funny hariequinade. Next Monday Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams begin an engagement 29 appearing in the Connie’ whion wif splendid style, Mr. and . Will Kio jan encmese ‘an ongagerweat wt the Arch sired, theatre, Philadelphia, where they drew over twonty.#@, shovsdoa dollars to four weeks—an average of more-ttam @ thousand doliars ® night. ‘The question in regard to bow many people Nibio’s Garden will hold—and how, many cap be turned away to cume again another will D@definitely decided during this engagement. tm .—Don Sebastiane will be repeated to-night for the fourth time, with the original cast, aplendy scenery, chorus and spectacle, at the-Acaéemy ef Mes) ig New York Ow to-morrow evesing 1 will be prodesé. aces Seceaepatatee |p Violent Ternade at Rito a) By the arrival of the bask Marige, Captain Merni],/© Rave aivioes from Rio Janeiro to October 13. The tp Alexander, Captain 1: Brown, arrived.the night prevas from Cardiff, and while off she port Onptan i] washed overboard by, a cee and drowned, $ |