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N??y York, Sunday, Slay 19, 1804,
TI.11C SITUATION.
The latest news from General McClellan's army
is I hat he is pushing on as fast as practicable.
General Wool was in Norfolk yesterday, and is
a bunt to move liis headquarters from Fortress
Mouroe to that city. A number of the crew o^.
the departed Morrimac arrived at Baltimore from
OIJ Point yesterday. Some of them, who are
men horn in the North, state that they were im
pressed into the rebel service.
A despatch was received at the War Depart
ment yesterday from Colonel David Campbell, of
the Fifth cavalry, dated at Williamsburg, and en
dorsed by General McClellan, to the effect that
on Friday our whole fleet*, of iron gunboats?
the Monitor, Galena, N-ugatuek, Aroostook
and Port Royal?were repulsed from For
Darling, on the Jamea river, seven miles be
low Richmond. This inteMigcncc came fVom Lieut.
Morris, of the Port Royal, who sent to Williams
burg for assistance to bury the dead. The one
hundred-pound gun of the Naugataek exploded at
the first Are. Seventeen were buried on shore,
and it is said that a number of wounded are on
board the boats, some of which have returned to
Jamestown Island, near Williamsburg.
The only news from Gen. Banks' division is con"
taiiied in a despatch from Brigadier General Gea
ry. received at the War Department, dated from
Rectortown on Friday, to the effect that a portion
of a company of infantry belonging to his com
mand had a skirmish with a large body of rebel
cavalry, numbering from three hundred to six hun
dred, at Linden, in which the Union troops were
overpowered. Gen. Geary says that Gen. Shields
aLo had a *kirmisli with the same party.
The despatch from Commander Davis, of the
M s-?' --ippi gunboat squadron, to the Navy Depart
ment, furnishes another evidence of the daring and
efficiency of our river navy. Eight iron-c!ad rebel
st. amers, four of them fitted with ran.s, advanced
up the river at Fort Wright on the 10th iust., and
made an unexpected attack on Captain Davis*
fotilla: but the vigor with which his men met the
enemy was too much for them. Two of the rebel
boats were disabled almost at the opening of the
-otiflirt and drifted down the river, while a f.fty
pound rifle shot, fired by Commodore Walke, went
thi ongh the boilers of another and put her hors <>u
rt,nihil. The result was thnt the rebels withdrew
their boat* very hastily to a point below the fort.
General Pope's division ha* advanced to within
three miles of Corinth. Deserters say that dis
a le. ti?n exists to an alarming extent among the
Tennessee and Missouri regiments in Beanreg.'.rd's
at my. who are contending that they have nothing
to fight fi?r, as their States arc already restored to
the Union.
A portion of the celebrated Jeff. Thompson's
gueiilla hand has been captured near Bloomfleld,
Mo. The captives number one hundred, half of
whom gave theiu.?elvc? up voluntarily.
i Hir Kuropean correspondence and newspape,.
reports, received by the Niagara and Great East
ern, contain Important matter with reference to
the progress of the Idea of direct intervention on
the part of Napoleon and England ill the affairs of
the United Stites government.
ft is evident that, up to the 5th initant, the die
tress existing in the manufacturing districts of
Fiance and Hugland was of a very serious ch.ira<
ter. ind that neither government could devi-e any
hone means for its relief. Our advices allege that
inl'r incv it had become even dangerous to the
throne, ?ful would be more aggravated in this di
rection daily unless the capitalists could receive a
supply of :otton and the export trade to the
United States be improved.
Un'W these circumstances It Is generally eon
reded tli.it Napoleon has made some overtures to
the British Cabinet, asking its support in a'scheme
fin putl r f mi end to the rebellion in this country.
The writers <11 connect the late visit of M. Mereier,
the Kreneh Minister in Washington, to Richmond
with thi# subject. The Paris Putt ie of the 4th
iintaiit a? <?:rfj that tint gentleman had a long in
terview with JcftVrs/w Davis, and that President
Lincoln was well Mvnr of the political character
of his mission, hot the journalist does net intimate
under whut form the intervention offer is to be
JH'COtltf
'II* GfMnliiirg Seotnuon, however, says thnt
tho rmp#ror will soon address a remonstrance to
both the Northern find Southern governments on
the 'Juration nnl effects of the war. This remon
it. Aiiv v, it is said, will bo designedly offensive to
1 our government, should hostilities be continued
utter its reception; and that then the Emperor
will propose that a vote be takcu by States on the
(juestion of tlual separation or reunion, tho vote
to be conducted on his favorito Italian plan of
"universal suffrage."
England, it is said, will not join the emperor in
any such scheme.
Forty deaths from destitution have been re
ported by the Irish Coroners from one district of
that island. The cases were submitted to the
House of Commons by Mr. Maguire, M. P. A
Spitalfields (England) weaver had just died from
starvation. The report of the case is melancholy.
He worked, independently and manfully, at his
loom, the earning! of himself and his wife being
only one do'.lar and a quarter a week, until he sank
with hunger and died in a few minutes. Ilia family
had sold and pawned all their clothing sooner tha'i
go to the poorhouse. AlUthia suffering is attributed
in England to the war in America, and the work
people were becoming greatly agitated on the
subject.
MISCELLANEOUS NEW3.
The Great Eastern made licr dock at this port
yesterday afternoon. She reports having sailed
from Milford Iluven, England, at two o'clock on
the afternoon of the 7th instant. Her very latest
news?which is two day*-laterthan the advice#
by the Niagara?is dated at Liverpool on the Gth
instant, and was telegraphed to Miltord Haven.
The Liverpool cotton market was dull, and un
changed from easier rate?. On the 5th inst. the
market closed with a dscline of from one-eighth
to one-fourth of a penny. Flour declined sixpence
per barrel on the Cth instant. Provisions were
heavy. Consols closed in London on the Gth in
stant at {)V/t a 94.
Victor Emanuel enjoyed a fine reception in Na
ples. He assured the people that, anxious as
Italy was for the possession of Home, Napoleon
was equally anxious to withdraw from tho milita
ry occupation of it. Garibaldi had resigned the
chief command of the Genoese volunteers. The
Pope returned to Rome v>n the 3d instant. Twenty
two persons had been arrested in Warsaw, by or
der of the Russian authorities, for singing Polish
national songs.
The British West India irflpil steamship Planta
genet arrived at this port last evening. She
brings files from Jamaica dated at Kingston on the
7th of May. Her Britanuic Majesty's steamer Ed
gar, with the flag of Rear Admiral Sir C. I>acres,
was to leave Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 8th in
stant, for Bermuda. There are complaints of dry
weather from all parts of Jamaicn. There have
been light and refreshing showers generally; but in
the agricultural districts they have worked but lit
tle advantage. The sugar estates In Trelawney,
which depend upon the rivers for vtheir motive
power in working their mills, have afi becu com
pelled to suspend operations.
A very large ami enthusiastic meeting of the
members of the New York bar yestarday re
sponded to a call of Mr. Edwin James, ex-Queen's
Counsel, and e\-Member of Parliament, Ingland,
to hear his explanation of several smuiymous
eharges that have been made against him,*ind his
response to a committee of live of the Law Insti
tute, who have moved his expulsion frosn the
Xew York bar in consequence of those "accusa
tions. A report of the proceedings is given in
another column of our paper this morning.
In the General Sessions yesterday, Recorder
Hoffman sentenced Edward Riley to the State Pri
son for five years, he having been convicted in
February of forgery in the second degree. James
Walker, convicted in April of forgery in the fourth
degree, was sent to the State Trison lor two yearn.
Joseph Myers, who was engaged with others in
robbing John Kreuan of $30, wa? sent to the Peni
tentiary for one year, by the City Judge. Joeeph
Hart, proprietor of the Volks Garden, in the Bow
ery, was brought before Judge McCunn on a writ
of-habeas corpus, charged with violating the Con
cert Saloon act, in permitting lager bier to be sold
during a theatrical performance. Ilia counsel con
tended that the Legislature meant only to exclude
intoxicating drinks, ami, as the Court of Appeals
li.td decided that the national beverage of the
Teutons was not intoxicating, the defendant
ought to be discharged. Assistant District Attor
ii-y Whitehead briefly replied, contending for a
strict interpretation of the statute. The Judge
reserved hi* decision.
war* -teadjr yesterday, without materia!
iiai g?. I'ai-iflc Mail roSi- per cent, closing 115>4'
d Bonds w?-te actUe ami higher. M< ney w >s very
?as.. ?l previous quotations. Hills on I^ndun, 1I3\' a J,,
tioid, 103.', a '4. The bulli.ai export of the day was
$7?l,703.
The cotton market was unch.in*ed yesterday, wbito
?i.e ?al'-a eiubaced ;ibout 350 balus. closiig on the basis
?-f 27)?c. a 28c. per lb. for middling uplands. The mar
ketfor breadstuff* was heavy and drooping. Including
-alee before and after the receipt of the <;r?at Ustwn's
tisws, the flour market exhi bited a dccline of a'x>ut 5c
a 10c. ier bbt. Wheat was heavy and lower, with
a fair holiness doing at. the ooncesaloo. Corn
nas alfO lower, with ?ales of Western mixed
at 50c a 51,in store, ami at 52c. a 52,delivered,
and at tor round yellow, and at 55c. a fttic. for Jer
^y yellow. Pork wn dull and heavy, and pricaa in
cliued to droep. Bales of mess were made at $12 *>0.
nixi of prima at $0 75 a <9 87,*<. Sugars were in go>*l
dem.iud. with a si ecuiatlve movement. TUe sales em
braced 3,168 hhda. and 155 b"taa at full prices. CofTeo
as "iare active. Sales of 8,000 bags Rio wer? made at
p. t., said to have been at full prlres, and 2 200 do.
Choirs quality do. at 22c. Freights were quite steady,
vltu a fair amount of engagom -tits.
President Lincoln and Hla Happy
fakiasti
It Is a "orniiktMo character!-tic of those
proi.i' 11 assemblages of various aninuils
knowi "Happy Families," that, though there
are o 11 squabbles and disputes, it is seldom
found necessary to turn one of the animals out
of tbc cage. The mastor mind of the showman
k?eps all his curiosities in order. He feeds
tbeni well, pokes them up occasionally, and
sometimes flogs them, but is hardly ever
obliged to entirely dismiss them. Now, President
Lincoln's happy Cabinet very much resembles
Earn urn's "Happy Family," in the diverse and
conflicting opinions, the personal jealousies
and dispute? of its members, and in the style of
management required for its proper adminis
tration. Therefore. although the entire Cabi
net may now be divided upon the question of
withdrawing General Hunter's silly abolition
i proclamation, yet we altogether discredit the
currcnt rumors that the President will turn out
one of his Cabinet adyisors, or that ono of tho
secretaric s will resign bis position.
That General Hunter's proclamation will bo
disavowed by the President is a matter of
course; and it may lead either to tho recall of
this General 01 a statement from him that be
was directed to issue such an absurd ordor by
his superior officer, one of the officials at Wash
ington. The ordor changes the whole policy
of the government It assumes powers which
do not exist in sny but U10 frftato governments.
It accomplishes just about as much, practically,
ss i! it had proclaimed the freedom of the
slaves of interior Africa. By implication it is
an insult, over General Hunter's signature, to
?\cry other military officer, and a rebuke to
the President himself. Therefore it must be
instantly withdrawn, and the General who signed
it must be punished. Hut this does not necessi
tate a bioakin# up of tb? Cabinet. Fremont
was recalled under similar circumstance*; but
no Cabinet officer resigned iu consequence,
j The Cabinet is altogether too weak to break
up. When a bar of iron is violently struck it
: breaks in tins weakest part. But the Cabinet
has no weakest puit. It it all weak alike, and
liuist give way to the President, who controls
and manages everything, and who is his own
adviser and his own Cabinet. We have the
facts on record, and shall publish them when
we deem it expedient, to prove that throughout
tLia whole war President Lincoln has conducted
tho affairs of this nation for himself?doing what
he judged right, in spite of the members of his
Cabinet. If he had not done so God only knows
where we should have been now. It is a bless
ing to the country and the world that Heaven
gave us in Mr. Lincoln the man for the crisis,
and that the Presidential chair was filled by no
old fogy politician of tho style of those in the
Cabinet.
Newspapers ana niggers are tne stumming
blocks of all small politicians In this country.
The members of tbe Cabinet are all very well
in their own departments; but the moment they
attempt to manage either of these difficult sub
jects they find their heels tripped up and them
selves in the mire. T!i"re is Secretary Seward,
for instance. Ilia management of our foreign
affairs has been, thus far, beyond all praise.
We confess that we never supposed Seward had
such talents or knew so well how to use tbe
talents lie had. Certainly ho never showed any
such genius in political life. And why? Because
there he was trying to manage the irrepressible
nigger. And whenever, during his diplomatic
career, he has left bis own department to dabble
with other matters, he has blundered most fear
fully. Ilis interference with the "peace organ''
newspapers was a blunder. His system of po
litical arrests was a blunder. Hi* letter about
Bull Run Russell was a blunder. His issuing
of passports was a bluudcr. His management
of the press censorship was a blunder. Seward,
however, had sense enough to see this and to get
rid of these troublesome matters as speedily
as possible. Consequently he has made an
admirable Secretary of State, and has dis
played a genius for the management of foreign
affairs which, if we were the first to doubt, wo
were also the first to discover and acknowledge.
The press censorship Seward banded over to
Cameron, who sunk beneath its weight of re
sponsibility; and now Secretary Stanton like
Hercules relieving Atlas; is trying to support
the same burden, with kittle better success.
Or take, again, the case of Secretary Chase.
As a Secretary of the Treasury Mr. Chase has
proven himself a statesmanlike financier of the
very highest order. If all the ability and
all the labors of half a dozen of his imme
diate predecessors in office were combined
they could not rival the extraordinary ability
and the splendid financial achievements of Mr.
Chase. And yet what is this Secretary worth
when he leaves the almighty dollar to manage
the almighty nigger? Just nothing at
all. His schemes for making educated
saints of the contrabands at Hilton
Head have resulted in notiiing but expense,
failure and the personal chastisement of Chase's
man Friday, the Reverend Fierce. Mr. Chase,
therefore, has turned the nigger question over
to Secretary Stanton and retreated to his own
department. He will do well to remain there
acd become famous. Secretary Welles has had
nothing to do with either niggers or news
papers, but has amused himself by managing
his ofllce business just as be would ftave done
lifty years ago; while the President has direct
ed, and our gallant sailors have accomplished,
those glorious exploits which shall aever be
forgotteu while Americans have a country.
There may be other members of the Cabinet
besides those mentioned, and doubtless we
could find their names in some almanac or
other; but they amount to nothing, and need
not be considered.
Now, if the Cabinet is to break up, who is to
go out? Not theso unnamed nobudies, who
never heard of General Hunter or his procla
mation until they read about ft in the
Herald. Not Secretary Welles; for he
has nothing to do with slaves, aud only wants
to be allowed to doze in peace. Not Secretary
Chase: for he lias given up the nigger business,
and loves his financial labors too well to leave
thoin voluntarily upon another man's quarrel.
Not Secretary Seward; for he, too, finds enough
to do in his own department, and is content to
re?t his faino upon hi# diplomatic achievements.
Who, then, remains? Only Sesretary Stanton,
to whom both Seward and Chase have thrown
their dirty linen?tbo newspapers and the nig
gers and who has since been kept at the wash
tub, splashing and scolding in a style more
ridiculous than imposing. We do not think
Stanton will go. He has backed dou*u very
often, and must do so again. If he left the
Cabinet he would lose a good salary, become a
nobody and be everywhere la'igho?t at. Jie
will not be foolNh enough to exohan je liii? pre
sent position for such a prospect. J inch as he
may admire Hunter's proelamatiou. lie will not
risk his ofll<e by opposing the Presi<l ent's wi?be
in regard to it. Stanton blusters t<>o much to
be a determined man and a man ol/ settled prin
ciples, and is altogether too shre ad to give up
a seat in Lincoln's Cabinet for tb t bird in the
bush of aa abolition nominatio n for the Presi
dency. On the whole, therefor e, we conclude
that, although General Hunter* order will be
withdrawn, thero will bo n-? change in the
Cabinet. We congratulate t ie country, how
ever, upon having so excellent a President
that, if all the Cabinet should resign at once,
no one need be at all alar ined for the safety
and we 1 faro of the nation.
Waiwwortii and tiik, Conthaiumw.?It Is
reported that General V/adsworth, the Military
Governor of the Distrust of Columbia. is cloth
ing and feeding tho contraband negroes at
Washington at the gr/vermnent expense, adding
another chapter to the abolition measures to
deplete the Treasury. The money thus ex
pended on the la/y and shiftless black contra
bands would be. very acceptable end of real
benefit to tho uhite wives and children of the
Irish and German soldiers who compose to a
great extent, the rank and filo of our armies.
The IiUh and German soldiers are doing great
service to the country, and if General Wads
worth is charitably inclined ho can do his
country far better service by expending the
government money on their wives and children,
many of whom aro really suffering. The money
that be is said to bo squandering would do aa
immense amount of good if given to the f.?i.
lies of our gallant volunteers; but rfcen w? v.ip.
pose there is no use of talking about it^ for no
doubt General Wads worth, like all, the other
abolition humanitarians, believes that every,
thing depeuds upon color*
??" 'V
i This TainitMit'a Mi:asm -is asp Mauonitt.?A
short time ago >y? published exclusively Beau
regard's important cypher despatch, sent to us,
in advance of all I**? other papers, by our
Xashyillo correspondent Tho Tribune imme
diately pronounced this cfeayatch a forgery,
though it has since been obliged to copy it as
undoubtedly authentic. On Friday lost we
published a letter from Mr. S. II. (Jay, the lead
ing editor of the Tribune, to one of his corres
pondents, admitting that "the Herald is con
stantly ahead." This letter was dropped on
the battle field of Williamsburg by the Tribune
reporter, who either ran away, like Raymond
and Russell, or deserted in haste to the rebel
side. One of the Union soldiers found tho let
ter among a lot of rebel trash, handed it to
our correspondent, and we published it as a
curiosity, just as we have published rebel love
letters. The Tribune admits that its leading
editor wrote the letter, byt says that wo stole
U. Really, the manners and the language of
'he Tribune writers can only be paralleled by
those of the inmates of our State prisons.
'? i'ou lie, villain!" "You forged that de
spatch !" " You're a base villain I" " You stole
that letter 1" These are specimens of the
Tribune's slang. Such language befits swindlers,
thieves and jobbers, but not conductors of re
spectable journals. Only men who know their
own character to bo worthless ever make such
base charges against better people. Mr. Gay's
letter, like the Tribune's conscience, shows that
be and his associates know their editorials
against us to be as untrue as they are unman
nerly, and frankly owns that " the Herald is
constantly ahead. We are obliged to copy
from it."
Tna Tribune Acknowledging thh Corn.?
On Friday we published an epistle, entirely
unique, from Master Gay, successor to Dana as
managing editor of the Tribune, addressed to
the reporter of that journal taking notes of the
operations of General McClellan on the penin
sula between James and York rivers. Tho
editor complained that the Herald was always
ahead of the Tribune in its intelligence from
the seat of war. This fact was, of course, a
true bill, known and recognized by all men.
But some persons doubted the genuineness of
the lettor from the affected quaininess of the
spelling, imitating the manner of authors
old as the poet Chaucer, whoso ortho
graphy is as obsolete as are their opinions
and ideas. But it occurs to ns that this
mode of spelling is a very proper indica
tion of the character of a journal always
behindhand in its intelligence, and putting for
ward in its editorial columns the exploded po
litical and social heresies of past generations.
The Tribune itself, however, settles the matter.
It candidly admits the genuineness of the
epistle lost on the battle field in the precipi
tate flight of the reporter. No donbt it would
be denied but that the manuscript is written on
the note vapor manufactured for the Tribune,
and having the imprint of the office upon it,
and that the handwritiug of Mr. Gay fe too well
known to leave room for any question. We
have the document to produco to any one who
may be skeptical on the subject. But the Trir
hunc admits it; and thus, by its own confession,
it is always behind the Herald in its war intelli
gence, as it is in every other kind of news from
all parts of the world.
Tue Late Union Demonstration at Nash
vii.i.e?Thk IIkkalu and Om Contemporaries.?
The only regular report thus far given to the
public in this quarter of the late great Union
demonstration at Nashville was that published
in the Herald yesterday. In th's important
matter, as in very many others, our contempo
raries "come up missing." Tho Herald wa? in
advance of them, and in advance of them and of
the government itself with our graphic report
of tho battle of Shiloh. Next, our slow-paced
competitors were as badly beaten by us in the
matter of that confidential despatch of Beau
regard, and hi the details of the battles of Lee's
Mills, Yorktowu, Williamsburg, West Point (a
battle in regard to which tho o!d women of the
Jouriwi of Commtivr are yet waiting for the
news) and New Orleans. Ac. Mr. Gay. of the
Trifjiu w, in confessing to the slow correspond
ents of that journal that he had to get the re
port of the battle of the 1CMi from the Herald,
was only telliug an every-day story. This is
the secret of the wonderful success and popu
larity'of the Hkiiaj.d; and, after having won so
many'battles against all sorts of coalitions dur
ing tile last quarter of a century, the Hkrai.d
has secured the knowledge, tho mean- and the
pow?fp to defy all opposition as the leading
public journal of the present day.
BSKJAMTN. WOOD OX TUB CONDITION Ot' THK
Union.?The Hon. Bon. Wood has at length got
a speoeh. and has obtained the permission of
Congress to print it. He charges the rebellion
upon the abolitionists, and lays everything at
thoir door, h is true that they ure partially
responsible; for their incendiary proceeding*
stirred up the South: but the leading secession
ists are likewise KuiltJ with them, and Mr.
Wood, while he was about it, should have paid
his respects to them. lie also urges upon Con
gress to briug about a cessation of hostilities,
for the purpose of negotiating for peace. Ces
sation of hostilities and peace can be obtained
in a very simple way. II his friends in the
South will surrender, lay down their arms and
return to loyalty to the Union, that will be very
readily accomplished. Peace will not only
exist throughout the whole country, but all
those now in rebellion, with the exception of
the leaders, will be fully protected in all their
right* and interests. It is not necessary that
we should have negotiations. If his friends
desire peace they can have it at once by simply
surrendering and becoming loyal citizens. Then
they can have the protection of one of the boat
governments that ever existed, and that is the
only way that they can obtain peace.
John Bill's American Flvnicky Vkrsis Par
son Brownlow.?The hero of Solferino and
Bull run. and more recently the Flunkey of
John Bull, to be found at the offico of the Now
York TiuiM, does not like the patriotic expres
sions made by Parson Brownlow, at the Aciwle
iny of Music, in reference to tfce attitude of
England. Since tho "Little Villain" assumed
the attitude of Flunkey in the Legislature he
boeomos quite nervous tho moment anything is
?laid against his masters across the watev, and
labors very bard to prove that tlie rounds of
applause given the I'arseu for the censure of
Kuglnnd wore not an endorsement of the ' bel
ligerent sentiment.'' We would advi?e Pars.in
Brownlow t<> cook and disia up the "Little Vil
lain" in the same style that he dishes up the
rebels, in his Mond i^ evening's speech at the
Cooper Inititite, and we will give him Un
b.'iiolit of a full report.
INTERESTING FROM THE *OUTH.
KTt>#n?tIon or Pensarola by lite
The Union Troop* In Poiseialon ot' tii<
Cil)'_4aU're?Ung Report* front M<n<
plil?~A9rfti>g?uiciit for mi GxcbanK? uf
Frinonerv, &c,, &c.
CtttaAco, May IT, 1862.
?A special despatch /rom Cairo says:??
The steamer Slitagliis, with forty Memphis refugees,
has arrived. Tfioy report thai hundreds of others are
making their way Nortli as thoy best can.
Governor Morton an<V Adjutant General Noble, of In
diana, arrived to-duy,
CintO,MayJ7,l $02,
Tile steamer Diligent, fraft' Hickmun, brought up a
second load of refugees from Memphis and other points
south to-day. All tell tho war.'# story* of hardships en
dured in travelling on foot through tho woods and
swamps, and subsisting on such provisions aseould be
carried in thoir pockets. Tho pwty Is almost entirely
composed of men in the prime of lif* They bring iftrn
phis papers of the 13th.
We learn from the telegraphic colut ins of theso papers
that Pensaeola was evacuated on t!to 12th. On the
morning of that duy the batterios of ?&ata Rosa Island,
together with the flcot, commeucod shotting tho works,
but no response was made. After a sh^rt but vigorous
cannonade a fag of truco was sont ashore to discover -
the cause. No enemy whatever was founcT. Tho Union
troops wero to take possession the following day.
No mention is made of tho direction taken by the rebels.
The evacuation of Vorlctown and Norfolk are pro
liouuoed strategical movement?, by no moans indicating
a rebel defeat. Williamsburg is claimed as a rebol vic
tory. According to thoir accounts tho Yankees <.?er# re
puted with great loss.
Refugees say that officers from Corinth, who are fre
quently in Memphis, complain bitterly of the l>ss the
Southern ce.uso sustained by tho dclayof General Ilalleek
iu making an attack upon tliem. Beauregard has been
ready for a week. Every day,that passes weakens him.
He has recolved all the reinforcements that it is possible
for him to procure except raw levies, wbilo sickness
rages throughout his camp to an alarming extent.
Beauregard has placcd aa imperative oinbargo on
letter writing from his camp. No soldier Is permitted to
send any written communication to his friends.
The whole country for one hundred miles below Co"
rinth has been swept tO' obtain supplies for the rebel
army, and is now noarly exhausted. Serious embarrass
ments from this cause are anticipated.
Arrangements have been effected between Genera'
Hillock and Beauregard for an exchange of surgeons
One hundred and fourteen prisoners were sent on by
Beauregard to-day ui.der a flag of truce, borne by Colo
net Pcgram, of the Army of Western Virginia. Not
only those prisoners, but others havo been conli:>ed at
Columbus, Mississippi. Some of them wero tako > in
Missouri last summer. Before leaving Corinth one of
them wo.- rccognizcd by one of Price's men as a mem
ber of tho Twenty-fifth Illinois. paroled at Lexington,
and Boauregard ordered him to be heavily ironed.
Tho Union people in Memphis are reported sorely dis
pirited ut the delay of our fleets. Many, in anticipation
or thoir arrival, have been emboldened to the utterance
of Union sentiments, which got them into serious
trouble.
Speaking of the foil of Norfolk , tl.o Memphis Aixtlanche
of the J3th inst. says:?"But worse tHan all, the Vir
ginia, on which we so confidently rested, wits burned
at Cranoy Inland on Saturday night. S-'ireb is th ? tenor
of the brief but painf .l intelligence flushed over the
wires."
Theio were three co-ok of yellow fever at Now Orleans
at last accounts? two at tho e'harity Hospital and one in
tho Kreneh Hospital.
Tho Av.r.'uneh". says it has boon formally derided that
Savannah Is never to bo surrendered.
The Prevoft Marshal of M "tiiphis has reerived inftruc
tions from tho military authority s to t-<k? Confederate
u >tes at c rroruy, and to arrost as disloyal all per* ns
who refuse to receive them in ordinary broine-w trans
actions.
Hour was quoted $20, $21 nnd $2-: bicon ."!0 en's for
sides and hams; sugar 0 rents; molasses 21 cats; of
cotton and tobacco no sales, revolts or shipments;
corn $1 40, oats ?1 25.
'? Notwithstanding the federal progre-.v," says the
AmUtncke, "we feel all confidence that Wncruder will
ret to Richmond some time before Mm:|?lUn." Ad
vances it thinks our real ami be-t security. It urges
rawieybolders to invest in real estate.
Religions Intelligence.
CITY VHUKCBM TO-DAY.
Parson Browulow will preach in the Hedding Methodist
Episcopal church, Fast Seventeenth street, this evening
at seven o'clock, and Geo. R. Crookes, 1>. D., at ba!f-past
ten o'clock in the morning.
In the church of the Redeemer, Rev. Wllifam J. Frost
rector,on Kighty-flfth street, between Secoad and Third
avenues, services this morning at half-past ? ten o'clock;
evening ut half-past seven o'clock.
In St. Ann's church, Rev. Thomas Gnllaudet rector,
service* as usual, with the voice at half-past ton in the
in rning and quarter to eight In the evening, anil iu the
sign language at h*lf-pa.?t throe in the afternoon. The
rector will proach in tho morning, and the Rev. Morgan
Disc, as-ls!ant rector of Trinity church, la the evening.
In the Second rnlveraallst church, Eleventh street and
Seem; 1 avenue, Rev. G. T. Flanders paster,si<rvicos in
the uii'rtiiiic at a quart or to eleven o'clock, and iu the
??veiling at half-past .'even o'ebek. Subject?" Eoot"
falls on the Boundary of Another World.''
In the Memorial church, Hammond street, corner of
Wavcrley place, tho Rev. Samuel Maxwell, Jr., assistant
in in ler of St. Mark'* church, will pruai it this ovenlng.
?en lee- at ba!f-pa?t ten o'clock in the morning, lialf
1 u?t throe, .n.d hali'-p:iFt s?vcn o'clock ii? the evonlrg.
Rev. Sidtiejr A. Corey will preach in the Stone church,
Twenty-eighth street, near Broadwaj . tlilj afternoon at
halt'-pr.st three o'clock, ami in tho evening it half-part
yeven o'cl ck.
Rev. Pr. VmNe.-t will ] ro.xh to-day in the church l:i
Hftieth street, between 1'rondway and Eighth avenue,
services commence at bulf-pust ion o'clork in the morn
ing and al four o'clock in the afternoon.
?' Ity lire and the sword will the l/>rd plead with al
flesh. Before and at the advent ot Christ,ii'iout 1*61
CM." A lecture upon this at lecture room No. 20 Oiojicr
lm-tltuta. at half past ioven o'clock in the evening, by
1 ev. M. Baxter.
At tho Viva Points House of Induatry, 153 Worth
tlraet, religions services thla afternoon at three o'clcck.
,-hort addrasaeseai ecially adapted to childreu instead of
a sermon.
?? A >erics of sermons on tho t.nidei.s of the Bible."
" l".d? ii, the Uarden of Itefcat," will lie the subject this
evening at tho Brwklyn T?i>?irnac!e. Rev. William Alvin
i-artlelt will pre?'k at naif pa-t teu o'clock in the
morning and al a quarter to eight o'clock iu the evening.
m the church of the Resurrectioa (Protostant Epis<o
pal), north side or Thirty-flfth street and east or Sixth
avenue, Btvine service at half-past ten oVI-x-k la the
morning, md r.t hal 'past seven o'clock in the evening.
The rector, Kev. E. O. l'lasrg, will pratch in the morning,
and the i:ov. John II. Hopkins, Jr., will preach In the
evening
At the I-aiglit street church, corner of I.alght and Va
rick streets, the Rev. f. S. Kalloch will preach to young
men this 'evening upon the life of Joseph. Subject for
the tnorning?' Tha Boor have the Guapel Preached to
Them."
"Are Moral Rebellion and Secession to Triumph in God s
Kmplraf" Rev. K. G. Brooks will preach on this subject,
at the Twentieth street I'niversalist church, between
Sixth snd Seventh avenues, this afternoon at hair |>a#
threa o'clock. Petmon in the morning at balf-piut ten
o'clock.
An army meeting will be held this evrning In the Re
formed Butch < burch, Bergen, N. J.,lnaidof tho Board of
Publication for ariny and navy purposes. Kev. Br. Tay
lor will preside and conduct the services. Addresses
and Htatementl by tho agent, an army chaplain and
othere may be expected.
"Our Religion* Work In Army Hiapilals."?'There will
be a special meeting in aid of this work in behalf of the
American Sunday School Union, tt? supply our hospitals
for the sick frud wounded with "'{he Silent C> inferior,"
?'Bible Readers," Ac., in the Svond Avonuo Baptist Ta.
bvrnaele, corner of Tenth street, this evening at h.Uf
past Mven o'clock. iddreMftst will be ma<ie by the Rev.
B. W. Chldlaw, Sunday schocimissionary, and the Rev.
Edward Lalhrop, D. B.
Esther licesan will preach in Ebbltt'a Hall, IWV West
Xbirty thitd street, thia ovenlng, at a quarter before
right o'clock. I.ttvoqua lill sing appropriate pleoes.and
a co lection will be taken in furtherance of hus mission
for th- Indians.
Rot. C. C'rav tia wU> preach In the chapel of thcE. u th
rnlversaii tSociety,Brooklyn, Cumberland atreet,near
l.tf^yetio av nue^i at ha'f pa?t ten o'clock In the morn
ing and h df paat saven o'< lock III lha evening. The
liesracordially Invitud to attend.
M a <V?* 1.. V. Hat' ii will hold a matinee jonvarsa
tl .nale at Pod warily Hell, S<M Broadway ( m ha (past
to > tho ror.-i o ta. At l.a ^pa*t feveu tin- evening
slit wind!-?c.i.trtv on " soi|i, Spiiita?d Minn?their i>m
i met 91,"
?THE CASE OF MR. ElT'^JN JAMES.
Meeting of Members of the New fart: B?f
at the A&tor House.
ELWiL'EM SPEECH OF MR. JAMES,
The Ifor: Zts Morality and XVXcde
of Purification
Speeches of Judge Hearne, J. H, WliHe,
Hon. Levi S. Cbatfield, Mr. Lowrie
and Mr. Malcolm Campbell,
&C., &(r, 4tC,
, A? enthusiastic and atimeroua meeting of ifro mcnr
bora of the New York tar was convened ^yesterday, aff
2 o'cl ek P. M., In tho tooth dintvg hall of tlm Anior
House. The attendance wm respons e, ofjd ultHougb
tlio Judietury and tho ri-,ingTr?mhenr of the prolesixliw
wore woll represented, somo of the ot# toads?4ha sym
pathizers with tho committor of Ave of the Ijw Insti
tute?wore mining. The Irisll clement?ic rothar
a rarity in this city on occasion of this W*wl?wa? pro
d ?iriinaiit, though Ihoro was a i.-ixt'irc of 4ufg?i3!i with tho
American mudU-nce. All seemod irianimonm i'liore wero
letuoen four at*d Ave hundred persons premMDt, among
wlimrwcre notk-cd Hon. Judges McCarthy, fUpwrne, Mo
Cunn aud O'Connor; Messrs. John Iv White.-Wm. Allen,
G.C. Genet, Corporation Attorney; J; Ashjjwatfo, Van
Winkle, "Iiowrie, Frank Byrno, JjL* 1 Sar-go, 'i'honias
Hurley, John Hirritig:on, Assistant Corporation, attor
ney; Mr. Hunt, Assistant Corporation Attorney; Jcfchard
K. Underbill; H> my lire water, Charl*3'*H. Hunt, ex
Unit' d States Assistant District Attorney ; Charl'M-tflpn
cnr.O.vens, Malcolm Campbell, Petor B.'Svoi'n?y, ok
1)1-trlet Attorney; ox-Justice Drinker, Jamffsr 3 dlnyrtar,
Hon. I.oviS. C'hatlleld, ox-Attorney Cioneral* IV Moflft
hon, iAtlirop, Coh H. W. Shopard, aid to Gov. M?ngaaf
Morrison, MeKeag, Diltenhoolt'er, Kiohard Chirk; Wash
ington Murray, Byrne, Bryant, &c.
Mr. llKtiRY Bavwaricu, Having been called apon tfrpret
side, said:?
Ckntikmx?'This call npon m# to preside at tUia moot
ing!-quite unexpected 0:1 my part. I hardly knetvth'at
it wo9 to be callo'i until I acci'lentally hearil of it'on yea1
terday. The object of tho meeting, as I understand iVj if
togivoMr. James, whose standing in lili profession i?>
England was very high, a:* opiiorlunity to makQ on ex
plauation of certain matters that have been published Isn
somo of the English porio lieals to his prejudice, and tO'
state to the persons hero assembled tho circomstahett*
that gave rise to those publications to hia prejudico.
Mr. Edwin Jambs on rising.,was greeted wilb applauMr
and spoke as follows:?
Mr. Chairman avd (Ikntismiv?I hare not boon Ire*
periencod in add c?shig public meetings upon great and
important questions in the country I havo left forth*'
generous country Hutvc adopted; but it is the first time"
that 1 have had the honor to apiw.tr before any moo ting of "
American gentlemen?to appear boio'o th-m upon a >
question which will elicit, 1 am serum, tho cordial kind
ness and sympathy of every one wh h ars mo?viz: the ?
attacks made upon'me, which I will show were prompted .
in the country I left by feolinga of tho most malignant
animosity: un<l 1 wiH show that the arrows which have
been sent here from the country*! loft were barbed and 1
p<<isohed by the gentleman who'lm pursued me in the -
maimer in which he has, as tO'whicb I wish to take the
sense of the meeting I n >w h ive tl*e honor of addressing.
(Applarse.) Gentloincn, l am bore before the bar of
the country that I have bad the honor to join. I bar* '
called this meeting that there shall bo nothing done in
private, nothing irresponsible; but, in the presence of
the broad day and responsible t? ptiblio opinion, I am
here to give 'any ex sanation which an.v hoaorab'e gen
tleman may ask of me Willi reference to the libels which
have cruelly pursued aud defame*! me, from motives,
aa I have slated to you before, which I will make appa
rent In the course of tho few remarks I shall have the
honor ta make. (Applause.) Cuntlemi-n, I arrived la
this country in August. It was known in Eugland that
I had le!'t tor America, and It appeared in tho public jour
nals that l was about to seek the honor of practicing la
courts where I should receive moregonerosltr and mora
liberality, as I thought, than in those courts where lb*
cold shade of aristocracy frowns upon any man wba
dares to be independent. (Great applause.) It waa
known that I waa about to come to this country. H ap
peared iu the public journals that I mold aeek the honor
at the proper lime of'adinisilun to the bar of the Ktata
and city of New York. I romainud here, endeavoring to
study your laws aiwl to aequo ml myaeif with your coa
slitultoii, and, on tho 6th of Novemh*r,I wan admitted
by the Supreme Court a niimbor of tho bar of the Slata
aud city of New York. (Applause.) It came to my know
ledge, in the evening of ihat day, th*t>certain gentlemen,
who:.0 name* the gentleman who gave hi* the information
told me hu waa not at liberty lo <U?cl?so, bad wailo4
upon two of tho leading public Journals of this
city to protest against my admi-sion lo tha
bar. I cannot deal with anonymous slanderers. No
man can deal with the dark assassins.of bis reputation.
(Appla sc.) The gentleman who made that cmuiunioa
tion to me stated that he was not at liberty to divulge
the names : but 1 h ive hau reason to behove that two of
tho fix e individuals tt bo hav-: now appeared against me,
and who pretend th it they represent tho feelings of tha
l>ar of the city of New York, wcie ihotwo iu lividuala who
waited upon those public, journals to protest ugainst mjr
admission. There was lcif oil" ouurjie upon 10 in>>. I re
quested my honorable friend, who bought ni? that la
formati< n,to Hay, that a* the nauins were not niade
known U> me, I couid not deal with.Ui<-tn ; but I reipn at
edhim to tell them that I would defer enrolling my nam*
as or>uii8' Hi .r o;" the Nuw York bar lor three week*,
and 1 challenged rny tiiuji *h? had a protect to
make against ro.v admission to meet me in the .-mpreme
Court. I usk the go loroslty and ihegeut omanliko feeling
ot the bar of New York if I cxiid have tikjn any other
oovrse? I waited for that length of lime. Noon,- i,j.
|tear"d. I slguod the roil, and wa? admitted. 1 thin! n
tho :id of November. 1 had waited the throe
No, gentleilien, tho attacks upon lue, as 1 will show,
Uavo boon dark ft id ni.-id iuun. and they came from Mm
oilier hide of the water,aad I blush tu liud ibatan Kng
lish gentleman, wlw i? enjoj ing your generous hospuali
ty, and availing himself of tlm same rofupo tint I seek,
vis, to run iKMilion.. by his industry ami honor?thai
Mil Kiigli-h t-ontlcmaii, Mr. diaries hwards?iual the
bottom oi thi.i attack upon luo. (Applause aud linisea).
1 am not here to day toatta-.k sii> individual. Persona.'
vitup-ration and invtxitlve f no.or use,except as an
advocate, wli.'re I behove it ludosurved, and I trust 1
shall conduct the tew remarks I shall make to-day with
due rcfdNnce to my.own houor an 1 dignity. 1 lu.ivo t?,
public opinion and the good s<'ii.^?i of the bar of Now York
to form iheir own .judgment as to wh..t tho motives are
o; the live individual.) who bave ventured in thi? mtu>
ucr to attack WC. (Applause.) I w is admitted to th?~
bar or New York aud competed my admis. Ion on (ha
Md of November. 1 appeared In court shortly after
wards. 1 was admitted li< the I'm ted .States J'istcict.
Court in l-ehrunry of this year, belug engaged
with an honorable friend, whs ha* roally been
kind to me although i Ml then a stronger
Mr. Charles Sp-ncur. t? tho 14th of February ot:
this year I received the llrstlotter c: iUatcorrexiioadoiioe
which 1 will not weary your |>aiieiica by reading, be
causu I <lare s?y ewery gentleman here has done iuo the.
honor and kindness to read?from an Liouorablo. high,
minded gentleman (Judge l.dmouds), who not only tepti '
distes I his action against nv , but, I believe Is ashameifc f'
that s :ch a course should b*i'do;-ted lowaiils a man wh? '?
has not done a human being an injury since he l?a?
been hero. He bad moved my admission, addressed met
a letter, and communced the cnr.SHttoiideMce. whickf
you have done me thu h nor ai d kluiiuess to roa4^J
The result of that correspondence you havo biwt
be!ore you. It was satisfactory to htm; you wUI
form your opinion, as gentlen en and kind lMt?< ,
men, whether It is satisfactory to yourselves. Wlttf ,
that ftorres|>onduiire I thought that all these "Umt ?
would coase, but 1 was surprised to flud au lutliniutir ,n
that they wore to bo renowed from a gentleman wJio.U ,id
tne in his letter that ho represented the UtW iustiLuW 0f
N>'w York, or represented ratln-r a committee of the I ,:tw
liistitutc?a letter which was primed, clrciti.Usii, ?nd
which you liave bjfore yoit. Now, gentlemoa, M M t
very remarkable thing that,after 1 h ivo i>evn us prac
tice here for some six months?alter to a l?!gJi t dnded
and honorable goutleinan every difllculty. W . boon
cleared up?they should b i ve exhumed these I# ,s|v ail(|
submitted them to a bench uot the same a* UW ,i which
?dmllMil like to tlie bar, a bench diilorotiUy <*.* siituted,
but allow mo to say, a bench in W,io<>o im
part'aiiiy and honor 1 h^ve tl\? sue ie coiid
deuce?libels which I state here ? ro p?blie
defamatory libels, that contain ronv trnih , but whlcb
pervert and suppiess.as I rr|1| show you p*?jantly, most
liniK>rt.ij.t facta?nbe.s wr.ttcn In the /,iw .i/o,Wiinc by
a man who Is my |*rss4i*l enemy tflov | snow the.
author), and who fins b.sn struggilnj^Tor th" place In.
Westminster Hall that 1 lott, and/libels which, up.
to th* moment,I am In entire Ignor ^rcc of. h It to
endured that In this country libels a, d papers cou be?
submitted to a court, Mid that the'man whose repuln.,
tai.ion Is to be woutuled by Ut?m shall bu tlioluu
know them, for to Uds n*mi-nt I |/iei|gc you tnv honor (j
am ignorant of those papers! '^Applause.) | vt \>ba?
had occurred In Knglnndc 1 ecpressed my opj^vfu as
udopted citizen of tijla county?sn opinU-n
which I still conscientiously entertain at
low tue hero to say that when gen'4'micb wltn
whom I am assjeiated a; tlw bar know iu? betu>r, they
will know thu; it Is my course a id habit to \?rno tilwa.s
over my own signaturc)-?- l ex| ro- od mn,opinV?n In pub
lie in the eaiiy i??rt of l/*oetnber,overmfl owsisignaiuro,
that tho ccjlduct of Kngb\nd ha?l o d boon gouorous to
wards this oountry in perompiory niumior In which
she treated the csptureef Mussrs. Mwon, snd Sildoll. 1
gave a *<0in| ers'.c Oplit^'ii'I ndhere Ml tW?? opinion now,
>Vhal was th* result? Why, the w!it>ie lonal lvng:iu)|
prs-notiniitiei.oed todefsmo and s/tack me. Tho whu!e
ma' lev had #1 nnbered iroiu th>//revlens June, bucanre,
ywi will iMuember, Judge VJUionde teds you la U<?
letter ibst be saw, even in Jily. Hbl ,tlM wh le itf tl* sa
Clrriiiu-iaDC' S which are ?'.?* exhuoied against mo. Tue
%bo)e lecil Kngllsh vxvt* att ?cked tne bocause I flared
to exp ess a temperate opinion that the
country I blCd adopted for my home bad
b. en in generously trsite i?nno; I ii .u uWcb I svuion
te tain i?vi will pionotinee.lf no o ar*,loih?instbo'.?
of inv tt/.'isie:ioe. (Applause.) Whal, dM I bring upp?
me In /.nglsnd ? Attacks from tin lo^?. press?auaclu
In p?i irs'li v.htch I v as called a fti)(ltiv? Ins dveui-.te
tli*t 1 Mil sUude ptof-ouily -4Snd m whlcU I was held
?i< t > imVliQ Rn 1 ywT Ubeie tntt Mr, |k>