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The official response of the civic authorities of Fredericksburg to General Sumner's demand for the surrender of that city is published in full in our columns to-day. The delay allowed by General Sumner for the removal of the women and chil dren was occupied by the rebels in throwing up earthworks to the right and rear of the town, as the daylight yesterday morning revealed. Up to Friday night we had not opened fire on the city. The civic authorities conceded all within their power, but the military force occupying the hills defending the town -that is to aay, the army corps of General Loagstrcet?would not consent to ita occupation by General Rurnside's troops without offering an obstinate resistance, and so the matter Htood at last accounts. Intelligence from Rigel'a corps, near Fairfax Court House, up to- Friday night states that the rebels still hang about our flanks in that direction. Stuart was at Warrenton on the previous night with a large force and pushed his pickets on the Manassas Junction road and the Warrenton "pike." They were driven back by our cavalry under Lieu tenant Koenig. It is confidently stated that Stuart's headquarters are at Warrenton. and that White'* cavalry, numbering five hundred men, is at Lees burg. The working parties of our army in front of Harper's Ferry were attacked yesterday morning by the rebel cavalry near Tlalltown; but General Geary opened a masked battery of six guns on the assailants, and drove them back, shelling them as fnr as our guns conld reach thorn in their retreat. Gen. Geary is very active in the prosecution of the defensive works around Harper's Ferry. I here is considerable news of a stirring charac ter from the Southwest. Despa'cbes from Cairo at ite that reconnaissances Irom Lagrange to Rip ley. Miss., have just returned, having occupied that place and Orizaba eight miles south of it, in tw eiity-four hours. Our forces took sixty or sev enty prisoners and seventy hor-es and mules, with out losing a man. Imports from Nashville on Friday state that Generals Bragg, Cheatham and Ituckner had eva cuated Murfreesboro, and were falling back on Tullalioma; but more recent, despatches state that General Bragg is advancing upon Murfrees b?ro and not abandoning it. Heavy cannonading wis heard yesterday morning in the direction of I^ebanon; hut the cause w?? not known. It is said that Jeff. Davis required Bragg to light every inch of Tennessee soil. General Breckinridge's divi sion bad occupied Bbelbyville. The rest of the rebel at my is reported to be south of Duck river, fortifying R'k Ridge. A grand expedition down the Mississippi river is now being organised at Colnmbus, Ky., by Gen. WcClernand. It is designed to open the whole river as far as New Orleans, and will consist of a force of 40,000 men. The gunboat fleet of Com m dure Porter will participate in the movement. The fleet consists of ten gunboats, carrying 121 guns. Vicksburg will probably be the dob important point of attack: but with each a force, an 1 Commodore Farragnt, with his fleet of gun l . ,t- below that eity to co operate wit^ Porter ai'i* MoClernand, the defences At Vicksburg will any very formidable obstacles. j bombardment and partial destruction of th* city of St. Marys, Florida, on the 9th inataat, by the United States gunboat Mohawk, is graphi cally described in our Fcrnandina correspondence to-day. The treachery of the inhabitanta de manded this terrible retaliation at the hands of Captain Hughes. Our map of the locality will be found of much importance in connection with this affair. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A despatch from San Francisco, dated 21st inst., at tics that thirty thousand dollars had been for w inded on that day, by the steamer Constitution, fui the fund of the National Sanitary Commission, ?i,..king the total amount sent from the Pacific < i sst for the relief of sick and wounded Union e tiers half a million dollars i lis Coroner's investigation into the circum ?t..'i' e? attending th> death of Miss Clementina .A demon was concluded yesterday, and resulted ft a vvrdi' t of the jury against I'r Edward M. Liiowne, the alleged abort i .niet, and Ang istne I,. Hi.una, as accessory betors and after .? fart. Browne was committed to prison ? he net n of the Grand Jury. si?i Lis fe.li/ , Gordon, w?s held *s a Report of the testimony '.urn w . t? m to-dav's bnpci. Mgr de Me rode, the Pope's Minister War, has disbanded the small remnant of the l\~iah vo lunteers called the I<egion of 81. Patrick, %which was already reduced to some twenty men, '& Rome. The draft in Milwaukee took place on the l!Rh inat., without any serious Put ward opposition. There were two amendments to the constitution ot" Wisconsin voted on at the last election. One i was to increase the Governor's salary from $1,2">0 a year to 12,500. and the other was to reduce the rate of interest from ten to seven per cent. The latter was adopted and the former defeated. The Legislature of Vermont has elected the fob lowing State officers:?Secretary of State, George i W. Bailey, Jr., of Montpelier; Auditor of Ao- j I counts, Jeptha Bradley, of St. Albans; Superin ! tendent of the State I'ri*' ??, Hiram Harlow, of Windsor; Commissioner ol the Insane. Dr. E. N. S. Morgan, of Pownal; B ik Commissioner, J. E. Dicktrtnan; State Prison Directors, C. C. Martin, of Finiaburg; Lucius Robinson, of Newport, and Daniel Stearns, of Windsor. In the Bnnks expedition New York will certainly have five regiments, Connecticut five regiments, Maine three regiments, and Massachusetts eight regiments of infantry, one of cavalry and three batteries of artillery. Gen. MeClernand'a body guard, under the com mand of Captain Francis Jackson, has baen in creased to a battalion, for the purpose of taking part in the proposed expedition against Vicks btirg. It is stated that one of the victims ordered to be executed at Palmyra, Missouri, on the lKtli in stant, was a man who had a wife and several chil dren dependent altogether upon his daily labor for their support. A young man, knowing the condi tion of the family, offered himself as a substitute for the husband and father, was accepted, and was one of the ten who were shot. The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad to Green Ba was formally opened on the 12th inst. The eoal dealers of Boston have advanced the price to nine dollars per ton. Upland (otton brought sixty-eight cents per pound at n sale in Philadelphia on Monday last. This is the highest price the article has as yet sold for. Mr. A. L. Fessenden, of Wisconsin, was ordered to be released from the military prison in St. I.ouis. unconditionally, on the 10th instant, " the charges against hirn not having been sustained." The order for his release arrived at the prison bos pita! an the same day of, but a few hours aubse. quent to his death. The stock market was better yesterday, and cJosed with a very buoyant tone, Harlom preferred and Illinois Central being the favorites. Money wus a shade easier than yesterday,but still very close. Gold closed at 130?^; exchange at 144>?. The specie export of the day waB $589,360. Saturday's cotton market was an extremely dull one. though middlings were quoted down to 66c. a 66 '-j'c. There was a fair degree of activity in bre&dsluffs, with sales ro liorted of 15.000 bbls. flour at full previous prices; 150.000 bushels wheat and 115,000 bushels corn at an advance of lc. per bushel. Only 450 bbls. pork found buyers.at un changed rates. The sales of beer reached 850 bbls.; f lard, 1,500 pkgs , and or baeon 320 boxes, at uniform quo tations. Butler aDd cheese were active and Arm. Whis key was stiffly held at 37c. a 37He-, with sales of 1,250 bbls. Moderate sales of sugars, hay, bops, hides, seeds and tallow were reported at former figures. Coffee, rice and molasses were quiet. Sols leather was in good de mand and very Arm, as were likewise fish, wool and to bacco. There was less activity in freights, but otherwise no noticeable alteration. The Campaign In Virginia?The Lmmi and Profile of Experience. Our latest authentic advices from Virginia are aatisfactory and encouraging. The army of General Burnside, in prime condition, is con centrating its massive columns near its new base of operations at Fredericksburg. The work of repairing the connecting railroad to Aquia creek landing, on the Potomac (nine miles), is rapidly progressing. The rebels threaten to resist the passage of Burn side's troops, and there may, therefore, be a battle and a victory. The next thing will be the construction of several bridges over the Rappahannock, to replace those destroyed by the Union forces in their evacuation of Fredericksburg last August. The railroad and the bridges may detain the army several days ; but this will be time well spent, especially as the late rains have rendered the ?? sacred soil " of Virginia temporarily impassable to heavy army wagons and artillery over her common roads. With the shifting of the grand army of Gene ral Burnside from its late interior base, at the foot of the Blue Ridge chain of moun tains. down to the navigable waters of Chesapeake Bay, all the intervening and utterly exhausted region of forty miles be tween Centreville and the Blue Ridge and be yond has been wisely abandoned. Stonewall Jackson may thus amuse himself to bis heart'B rontent in dashing up and down the Shenan doah valley for a hundred miles, and across the gaps of the Blue Ridge, and through the deso lated counties of Loudon, Fauquier, Culpepper and Prince William on the eastern side; but he will gain nothing but starvation by such enter' prises. Last spring and summer be gathered at Front Royal. Strasburg. Winchester and other points a rich harvest of provisions, cloth ing. ammunition and hospital stores in conse quence of the vain efforts of our War Depart ment to bold the Shenandoah valley and the extensive region indicated east of the Blue Ridge, with forces inadequate to the task, in conjunction with General McClellaa's move ments upon Richmond. Thus the rebel army of Jackson was maintained largely at the expense of the federal treasury; and the different de tachments of Union troops, scattered about over a region of one hundred miles square to catch bim, though insufficient for their object, ? drew so largely upon the army of General Mc Clellan as to defeat his great expedition. We are gratified that General Hal leek has taken counsel from these dearly bought lesions of experience, in abandoning the Shenandoah valley and the intervening country, from the Blue Ridge to Centreville. ae a free range, for the time being, to Stonewall Jaekson. Thus a Union force in the aggregate of sixty thousand men, mere or less, which was frittered away last summer in playing hide-and-seek with Jackson, is more usefully employed at Harper's Ferry and in the Immediate front of the Virginia fortifications of Washington. If Jacksen chooses to assail either of these pesitions be must coma prspared for a siege, or be joined by the whole army of Lee. That Lee, as a last resort, would sacrifice Richmond for the prospect of capturing or abelling Wash ington, Is altogether probable. But, If he enter tains any such design, these late extensive and Mberal rains have rendered its execution, for some day? st least. Impossible. Tl ere Is now, too, such a volume of water In the Upper Poto mac as makes it secure, not only between Lees burg and Harper's Ferry, but up to Cumber land against rebel marauders. w >? ? ok it altogether likely, therefore, as - but a ? in ill prospect of am pi fi e purpoM* of cutting in, m opportunities may e o ered, b.-t weeu our army and its traius and pote of supplies. He u a vigilant and active . ranger, and is very apt to turn up. like Stuart, ^ n unexpected places, at the luckiest moment | r success. It will be seen, however, that the I present advance of General Burn-ode towards Richmond is well devised for victory in the front and security in the rear.' We pie<ume, too, that, after the narrow escape of Washington last summer, he will tale good care that, in advancing upon Richmond, he does not alvance upon an abandoned citv, with the rebel army on the back track, two hundred thousand strong, and hungry and desperate, pushing for Arlington Heights. When General McClellan advanced from Fortress Monroe up the Richmond peuinsnla. Norfolk was in possession of the rebels, and. with the steamer Merriinao and other iron clads, they controlled the James river. They also hoid the York river in holding the fort fica tiona of Yorktown. from which it required the approaches of a regular siege to expel them Now, with Norfolk, Yorktown and the two rivers in bur possession, the work required to cairy General McClellan to tiie Gbickahominy holds good, and remains so much work done in behalf of General Rurnside; for that his ad vance will be supported from the Jamos and ^ ork rivers is too much feared by the enemy to be doubled. Everything looks well lor the suc cess ot the present enterprise of the grand Army of the Potomac, and the country demands that it be pushed forward with energy and with the sagacity taught by experience, aud -without delay. | "Making a Gn at People.'* The Opinion Rationale. the organ of Prince Napoleon, has a very sarcastic article, which we print in another column upon the pretended object of the Kmperor of the French, in bis war with the Mexicans, to -'make tbein a great peo ple.'" This is rather-a novel idea in making war to "thrust greatness"'upon a people. Many wars have been undertaken to destroy a great people; but it is the first time we have ever heard of a war waged against a people for the purpose of making them great. | It is true that war sometimes does develop the j greatness of a people; but, then, that is not the I case when they are conquered, but when they come off victorious. To subjugate a people by fori e ot arms, and impose upon them a govern ment. is not to make them great, but only to enslave and degrade them. But this is the greatness meditated by Louis Napoleon for the Mexicans. He does not. of course, intend that they ehould conquer his armies, and thus be come great. But it is quite possible that after all the Mexicans may become great in a way that the Emperor least designs. Their military qualities, their heroism, their patriotism, may be developed, aud they become what they have not been for many years?a united people?and they may whip the French to their hearts' con tent. In this manner they may become as great as the heterogeneous and hybrid races of which they are composed will permit them But, as the French journal suggests, if there be any infallible receipt for making a people great, why should not General Forey begin at home? The elements of a great people are great virtues, great characters and great talents. But the French do not possess those in such a superabundance that they can afford to export them to Mexico. It required a Oersicen to eliminate the elements of order out of chaos l after the first French Revolution; and it seems that it needed a man of the same blood to hold 1 the reins after the Revolution of 1848. Had the French been abundantly blessed with great virtues, great characters and great talents, such lame and impotent conclusions could never have resulted from those two revolutions. The truth is that a people's greatness must spring from themselves: and their institutions, which are a test of their greatness, must, if worth anything, spring from the same source. Insti tutions imposed by conquerors, and not spring ing out of the national life of a people, cannot make them happy or great. The idea that any people can be made great to order, by suffering conquest at the hands of another people, is one of the most absurd notions that ever entered the head of a statesman. To subjugate a people cannot make tbem great; but the attempt and the failure have often done so. Is this the sly meaning that lurks in the words of the Constitution*el * If it is. we hope the Emperor's project will be crowned with success. The seven United Pro vinces of the Netherlands were made great on the same plan by Philip II.; and George III. j was eminently successful in making his North American colonies great by n seven years' war. Perhaps the Emperor Napoleon may do the same for the Mexican people. Mork Light.?Several day.' since we called tbe attention of the city authorities to the fact that carriages were allowed to circulate through the street* after dark without having lighted lanterns. We earnestly recommended that strict measures be taken to enforce that rule or regu' lation which, must exist?to the effect that all vehicles passing through the streets of the city after nightfall should bear in some conspicuous place a light. This measure is one involving life or death, and should meet with tbe earnest attention of those whose duty it is to watch over the public welfare. At Central Park such a measure has become an imperative necessity Each day we hear of aome accident having occurred from tbe fact that in the evening car riages unavoidably come in contact in the crowded streets and avenues leading from the Park. They remain in the smooth, pleasant drives of that great rendezvous of tbe fashion of New York until it is dark; then comes a general rush for the city, and crowds of carriages get mixed la almost inextricable confusion. The drivers shout and swear at haphazard; for they have no lights and cannot distinguish where they are goiag; they dash on, and come in violent con* tact with other vehicles, jeopardizing the limbs and lives of our wives and children, to say nothing of our own. Why should this danger be daily, or rather nightly, incurred, when, by a simple measure of police regulation, it may be easily avoided T Let but tbe policemen arrest each driver whose lanterns are not lighted at nighti and fine fcim for the offence against public safety, and we shall soon see one and all attend ing carefully to the lighting of their lamps at tbe proper hour. We shall thus be saved from a danger which is greater than is perhaps sup posed. and shall hear less of accidents caused by a want of attention to a municipal regula tion which is called for by common sense and i law. We are determined to keep up this de mand for more light until it has been duly a*tended to. MBd appeal to the city aulhorltle m i n- n this " aMi i Involving as it does the , I,' (k ?rl tv mot WfiOwi Ill* Mew, Abmklag T?pl? ?? ??? Iliad. The philosopher who discovered tbat there was but e step between the sublime end the ridiculous must have been a careful student of j the English papers. Until very recently the | absorbing topic of discussion in England has j been our civil war. Russell, Palmeraton. GHad | stone and other official .worthies have made long ; speeches about it, and written any number of letters explaining and qualifying their speeches, i That great debating society, the British l'arkia mcnt, and that premature parliament, the Oxlord Debating Society, have been laboring in vain to fully understand and fairly discuss this great question of the day. Those districts in which tho cotton famine prevails have been blessed with public meetings and public lec tures bencvolontly calculated to show the peo ple why they are starving, and to eneourage them to starve on uutit this plan, or tbat plan, or the other plan, has been adopted for their relief. The English papers have mingled daily doses of sophistical argument, tawdry rhetoric and violent invective, and, with the self-satistied air of a low comedy physician, have adminis tered these remedies for rebellion to the sick man of America and the starving men of Eng land. only to make matters worse and the patients more unwell by their quack medi cines. A new and more exciting topic has at length come upon the Englisn tapis, however' and. according to the London Times, '"is dis cussed with more vivacity in clubs nnd social circles than any question of politics, whether foreign or domestic." This great, absorbing siibj< ct is the decision of a bet about the spell, ing of the word '-reindeer." Not only the clubs and social sircles, but the whole press of England is deeply interested in this momentous affair. Our English files by the Persia treat of very little else. The jour nals are tilled with communications pro and con., explanations, corrections and contradictions The London Times and its leading contempora ries devote long and solemn editorials to the subject, and argue about it with that sublime and ponderous gravity becoming a lierd of ele phants in chase of a fly, or Mrs. Partington dis cussing the nbstruse pvoblem whether or not the moon is inhabited if it be made of green cheese. Of course there is a Yankee at the bottom of this important business, upon the proper settlement of which each tremendous consequences depend; and we shrewdly suspect that Mr. Ten Broeck?the Yankee in question is deliberately and maliciously perpetrating a terrible hoax upon our British relatives, in order to obtain a fair equivalent in amusement for the one hundred pounds out of which he has been swindled. The facta of the affair, as far as developed, seem to be these:?Colonel Bur naby and the Hon. Captain Stewart, of the Eng lish army?illustrious as men about town and on the turf?had a horse named Talm Oil. Sitting at the Jockey Club Room one day, they determined to change the name of their horse to Reindeer, very naturally preferring that title to the slippery cognomen previously selected. Unfortunately the English fashiona bles are not very remarkable In an educational point of view, and neither the Colonel nor the Captain could spell reindeer. A waiter was therefore despatched for a dictionary, and re turned with Dr. Johnson's slightly obsolete pro duction, in which the word is spelled r-a-ln d-e-e-r. This point decided, the horse was named, and no more was then said about the matter. Both Colonel Burnaby and Captain Stewart wee struck with a brilliant idea, however, and prepared to put it into execution. By and by Mr. Ten Broeck drops into the club, and after some off hand talk the conver sation is adroitly turned to the newly named horse, and Mr. Ten Broeck is informed of the rechristening. Then Colonel Burnaby takes out his betting book and asks, " How do you spell that word. Stewart?" Captain Stewart re. plies, "Why I spell It r-e-l-u-d-e-e-r." "Bet you five pounds it's r-a-i-n-d-e-e-r," says Bur naby, ' and we'll decide it by Johnson's Diction ary." " Done." says Captain Stewart; and the bet is booked. Mr. Ten Broeck. coming from the land of free schools, knows that Burnaby is wrong, and tells him so. Burnaby offers to bet Ten Broeck any sum he likes. Ten Broeck loth to take advantage of his friend's ignorance' but willing to humor his evident desire for a bet. wagers one hundred pounds against ana on r-e-in-d-e-e-r. Johnson's Dictionary is again procured, and Ten Broeck loses bis one hundred pounds, which the Colonel and the Captain divide between them. This is what is called a < pdt up," or a '? bubble " bat, and is obviously unfair, since two persons, having previously ascertained a fact, inveigle a third person into betting about it by pretending to get up a bet between themselves. Our thimble riggers and patent sale operators, and their high born imi" tators in the English aristocracy, practise this dodge exclusively, and it is never attempted by an honorable sporting man. This, then, is the subject which now engrosses the English mind. Admiral Rons, the Hon. Ar. thur Annesley and the Hon. Robert Law ley (brother of Frank Lawley, the London Times' Baltimore correspondent) are Inter ested as witnesses, and the Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief of the British army, threatens that unless the affair is fully explain ed he will issue a general order prohibiting army officers from belonging to sporting clubs or societies. The sensation thus created in aristocratic circles may readily be imagined. Very probably Parliament will be called upon to interfere, and we should not be surprised if the Queen settled the discussion by a procla mation. The London Time* could very easily satisfy all parties, however, by engaging Bur naby, Stewart and the Hon. Mr. Lawley (" who repudiates his own formal testimony") as its special foreign correspondents. The Times seems to prefer stock gamblers?like Russell? and dishonest private eecretariee?like Frank Lawley?for ita American representatives, and why should it not send over these perpetrators of a swindling bet to help write down this na. aristocratic country, and teach ui. by example how to relinquish eur insane worship of the al mighty dollar? Certainly no other proceeding could be more appropriate or more character istic of English journalism. The War in the Southwest.?Since the ex pulsion of the rebel Gen. Bragg and his grand invading host of seventy-five thousand men from Kentucky into the northe*9t corner of Tennes see, his army seems to have melted away. A portion of it may have been sent East to strengthen Geo. Lee at Richmond; but the main body, it appears, has been broken up into detachments, and scattered along the country ?oiith and we?t of Knoxville. for# the ii,dispen sable object of subsistence The great federal i depots of provb ' Miuruiition, Ac., ut Natb rifle and Memphis trere the spesia! objects of Bragg in hie rapid retreat from Kentucky ; but, as Buell headed him off at Louisville in hie northern march, bo Rosecrant has anticipated lum in hia retreat. Consequently Bragg hae b'-en compelled to move down nearer the bor ders of Georgia and Alabama, and to divide his foroen, in order to feed them from tbe impove rished country around him. Further West, the demoralized rebel forces of Van Dora, Price and Lovell. which were so ter ribly defeated in their concentrated attack upon Corinth, have been pursued by Gen. Grant to Holly Springs, Mississippi. We dare say that when the combined land and naval forces un. der Gen. McClernand and Admiral Porter get under way, they will, in conjunction with Gen. Grant, very soon clear out the armed forces of tbe rebellion from the entire State of Missis sippi, including Vicksburg, the last remaining point on the Mississippi river where the rebels now command a crossing. Meantime, under the general direction of Gen. Butler^ the work ef ferreting out and breaking up the squads of rebol guerillas in the swamps of Louisiana has been going on successfully; and simultane ously our naval forces have cleaned up the whole coast of Texas, including a heavy cata logue of warlike spoils Little remains to be done to complete the suppression of the rebel lion in the Southwest, beyond the capture of Vicksburg and Mobile ; for the loss to the rebela of these two important military positions will, under the pressure of our laud and naval forces from tbe Gulf coast and from the North, involve the loss of Mississippi and Alabama. Whore, then, will be the hope of rescue tc the rebel cause in Arkansas, Northern Louisiana and Texas ? They will all go by the board. Thus, while in the East a decisive victory on tbe part of Geu. Burnside will be followed by a general collapse of the rebellion, from Virginia to Georgia, it only needs a telling blow or two in the Southwest to settle the question, from Georgia to Texas East and West, too, best of all. the Union has the men and the means in mo tion competent for the work. Rebel Appeals to English Fears.?Now that King Cotton has been found an ineffective agent in securing the forcible intervention of England, the rebel journals are shifting their tactics and are appealing to her timidity. The last number of the Richmond Dispatch has an avticle in which it conjures up a fearful picture of her doom in the event of a reunion being ef fected between tbe Nooth and South. In the first place she is to lose Canada; next, her fleets are to bo swept from the ocean, and then the loss of all ber colonial possessions?the West In dies, Australia and India?is to follow. As the reconstruction of the Union will inevitably take place, whatever course England may choose to pursue in our regard, we present tbe above recapitulation of facts to the careful attention of Englishmen, with a recommendation for them to consider whether it will not be well for them to conciliate tbe good feeling of the North by pursuing a frank and honest policy towards it whilst yet it is in their power. From the present language of the rebel journals they can see how ready Southerners would be to concur in a war against them in revenge for tbe insin cerity of their conduct towards them. Those who play a double game must expect to reap a double harvest of enmities. English Military Criticisms on the Was.? The London Army and Navy Qazette, in an ar ticle on the progress of the war, has the follow ing remarks on the inaction of our army in Vir ginia :? There Is the North, with double the white population of the South, all dying to die for the Union, without any foreign and internal element to distract their strength and attention?with the command of the sea, aud with a free intercourse with all the nations of the world,-which can soli thagi munitions of war or furnish them with merce nary?with the control or the great inland rivers aud water communications?with the most virtuous, intelli gent, rich, prosperous and enlightened citizens?with all the armories, dockyards, foundries and manufactories? with sulphur, saltpetre, charcoal, iron, steel, lead, the New Yore Hkr>li>. and everything that ought to com mand success, standing at bay on the Northern frontier* of Virginia before an enemy winc h has all the disad vantages, and all the advantages which have fallen to the lot of the federals. The above is all true, or was so at the time it was written, the only thing in connection with it to which exception is to be taken being the writer's speculations as to the causes of the in action which excites bis wonderment. The North has had all the powerful auxiliaries of which be speaks, the New York Herald in cluded ; but tbey have been paralyzed by in fluences which have been left out of his calcula tions. Had he read the debates in Congress in March last, and followed the articles of the Union journals since, be would have seen that the inaction of our forces in Virginia was causodi not by any want of competency or energy on the part of our commanders, or of a spirit of enthusiasm on the part of our troops, but by the obstacles thrown in the way of General McClellan *>y the radicals, and the pressure brought to bear on the President for his re moval?a pressure which he declared himself unable to resist. The New York Herald used its most strenuous efforts to defeat those malign influences, and therefore our English military contemporary is correct in setting it down as one of the most effective of the forces employed in the vigorous prosecution of the war. Operatic. The weather cleared up a little last evening, and gave manager Grau a good night for bis gala performance. The public appreciated thia favor, and Irving place thundered with the ramble of carriage!. * The performance began half an hour earlier than usual, and so the house filled up rather slowly at flrat. By the regular hour of opening, however, a very select and fashionable audience crowded every part of the Academy. Although Mr. Grau had not advertised the fact, It seemed to be generally understood that General McClet' jan would bo preaeot last evening. The General did not attend, howsver, although Mm. McClellan was In a re tired private box In the Arena circle, and Mrs. President Lincoln waa present for a abort time during the evening. At wa aeml-officially announced that tba General's pre*, eact was anticipated, It Is but fair to state that General MeClellaa at first accepted Mr. Grau's Invita tion to attend, bnt, being detained by other en gagement*, neat Mr. Gran the following note, of which no mention waa nude to the audience, because no official notice had been given on the subject:? Firm Avaxne Hover., 1 Nnw Tom Citt, Nov. S3,1803. / Ms. J. Gastr itis?I tm directed ny General McClellan to express bis regrets that he is compelled to deny himself the pleasure of attending the Opera this evening, aa proposed, and to tender you hie thanks Tor yoar invitatloa. I am,air, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ^ N. B. BWK1TZKR, Lieut. Ool. and A. D. 0. Aa la ntnal upon such occasions, tbera were many rumors that tba brave aod popular General was bare, there and everywhere?In the parquet, the dress circle, the boxes; but he sould not be fonnd, though nt every pause In the performance opera glasses wer* anxiously levelled to cslih a glimpse of him, aod enthusiastic in dividuals rushed up stairs and down stairs sad through the cerridars to hunt him out Evidently the large au dience desired rathe* to see McClellan than to listen to the perrormanco: hot the performance was amply suffl ciont to repay th?m for their attendance The programme began with the liret ac? and a scano fiom the (bird set ef "N rma," In which Lorlnl.kte renal, f^slnl end Mir<-aferri appeared. I^rlal wet In good voice, be did not smr w woll as in "Lucre*:* Borgut,'' Ml the ?e?mtag gmioua Moreaai m, aa usual, nd?web!c, and {taartlly ?n<1 dmervedly ap plauded. SuMM did well,ma' Maccaferri did aa well aa he could. "La Travlata" &?*???*- wlth Querrabelta aa the heroine and Brignoli m \ Alftodo. We eao only repeat our former notice of this latU r ?P?rR- Guerrabefi? arted splendidly and sang enjoyabty. Brtgnoli'a excellent renditiou of bia part ia familiar to "le public. Beth artists, aa well as Amodlu, were greatly' ^PPlauded. The extraordinary care with which Bignov tfk *'? affected to conduct the orchoelra was equally Inatt active aad amusing. HEWS FROM WASHINOTMT. . Washwotoh, Nor T~, lVtif MOVEMENTS OP STONEWALL J AOKSON?OBN. rfMiNV ZKI.ltAN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIM. An impression prevailed quite extensively in Trout yes terday and Lb in forenoon that General Early's and Gi neral Marshall's divisions of Stooewall Jackson's corps were advancing upon Washington, and had arrived in the vici nity of Middieburg and Leesburg. We, however, state what we know in saying that If "Stonewall" comes in this direction with less than one hundred thousand v men that General Helntzelmne will hardly let him get bark to the mountains age in, so Mint there ueed be little foar that we shall hear the report of his artillery in this city. We are ne believers that the rebel troops who now hover around our immediate front are In any considerable force what ever. TBI Sl'PPLT or POSTAL CURRENCY, The agent of the National Bank Note Company state* that tbey are now striking off daily oue t?und"red thousand dollars of the postal currency, and Secretary Chase kae direc ted snob a multiplication of the plates that twe hundred thousand dollars shall be issued daily At the former figure the public will get two and a half milli >bb of dollars a raout-h. et the lattor, five millions; so the day is cot far distant when it would seem that a proper sup ply will be at band. These figures shew how imtnenw an amount of small change is needed tor the purposes el trade, and bow much of publts debt will be thus db' sorbed. In tbis city there has ever beeu such a supply of the postal currency that the mise able postage stumps, which are causing such mischief and loss in the North, have scarcely beeu needed. THE CASE OF GFNKRA1. M'DOWBLL. The Court of Inquiry in 'the case of General MeDoweH met and organized tins morning The President asked the Recorder If he had any charge* against General Mo Poveli fur the Court to act upon, and was answered in the negative. The Recorder was directed to apply to the Adjutaut General for all charges or other papers referring to the caso, and the Court adjourned until Monday next. The request ol General McDowell was for a court tf Inquiry into his general conduct, but R appears that by some error in the phraseology of (ho order the Court Is dire-tea to investigate charges against him, when ike re are none in existence. There are OR* two sorts of courts known to the military service?ooorls of Inquiry and courts martial. The military commiaskM* which have recmtly been instituted are an iunovatiea, and there does not appear to be any authority for tbem The order In the McDowell case authorized a quasi court martial The fact was developed In the official interroga tory to General McDowell this morning by the Recorder, "Whether he had any objection to any of the officers ?f the court detailed to try bis case?" to which General McDowell replied that he was "not on trial." Under tha language of the order it is probable that the court will he compelled to adjourn without action or await a new order. THE CASE OF GEN. FITZ JOHN PORTEB. General Fits John Porter's trial is delayed by the non arrival of witnesses THE SENATE AND THE NEW BRIGADIERS. It Is understood that the Military Committee will eorn tinize very closely the appointments oi brigadier gene rals made during the vaoation of Congress, and that many of those named will fail to receive confirmation. Be those of democratic lineage and faith net much merey will be shown. LIEUT. COL. COLBUBM. Lieutenant Colonel Oolburn, of General McClellan's staff, who was summoned here a few days ago to show upon what authority be bad left the Army of the Pete mac, was assigned to duty in the offlee of the Adjutant General, from which he was relieved this morning, and is again waiting orders. Colonel Coiburn is oue of the most efflcieut officers in the field who are new in the service, and it was probably regretted that his particular abilities for field duty at this Important eriati should be buried In the office of the Adjutant General. It has been many years since he enjoyed a furlough, and while the military authorities are determining where to place him he may perhaps obtain that privtlige. BIDDEN DEATH OF GENERAL PATTERSON. Brigadier General Frank Patterson, of Philadelphia, was found dead to-day In his tent, at Fairfax Ceurt House. The cause ef his death ie not known. TBI NUMBER OP DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. The number of soldiers recently discharged aad paid off has been greatly underrated by the New York Tribune. The number paid off by Paymaster Andrews last week was eighteen hundred M'CLRLLAN'a BODY GUARD MUSTERED OUT OF SSKYIOB. TheSturgts RiCes, who have acted as General McClel lan's body guard during bis campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, at his request are to be mustered out Of the service next Monday. General McClellan claimed this privilege for his household trooia, who will doubtless re enter the service in positions suited to their several eapa cities. stonewall jaceson's sermon. Stonewall Jacksou Ik reported to have delivered to hie troops last Sunday a discourse upon tent Irons Joel, chap, ter S, verse 20, as follows ? But I will remove far off from you the Northern nraajr, and will drive him Into a land barren and desolate., with bis face toward the east sea and his hinder part toward the utmoet sea,and his stink shall come up, and his III savour shall come up, because be hath done great things. OFFICIAL REPORTS OF TBI CAPTURE OF REEEL VESSELS. The Navy Department has been informed of the capture by the steamer Rale, In Nassau river, of the schooner Wave, laden with turpentine and cotton. The Daylight boarded the Racer, of Nassau, N. P., off Wilmington. The crew of the latter made their escape, and arterwards ineffectually fired upon the boats' crews of the Daylight. The Racer had to be abandoned In eon sequence, but her enrgo. principally of salt, was saved. It Is serertalned froas other despatches that the expe dition which fired the Alieghanlan was led by Lieut. Wood, formerly of the United Stat mi Navy. Several of the ln cendlaries have been captured, one of whom confessed he was the rebel pilot in the expedition. A PRESENT TO TBI PRESIDENT, Mr. Lincoln has been presented by n leading roprsson tative or the Hebrews of the West with an elegant paint. Ing of the American flag, baring upon Its stripes aa la. acriptlon la Hebrew, from the book of Joebua, chapter first, voreee four to mne inclusive. A SPECIMEN OP BEITISB NEUTRALITY. An lllaalratlon of the shallowness of the protenoe of British neutrality will be found lu the following notes din covered on board the last prise which arrived el New Tork?vis: the schooner Water Witch, which wan cap tured while attempting to run the blockade. Berelayn A McDowell ere leading merchants at Kingston, Jamaica, and seem to take II for granted It la the duty of n commo dore ill tbo British Navy to give Information sad advina to recilKato the delivery of cargoes of mere bead lee In the blockaded porta of tbe South:? To Captain Kino, of I be Water Witch ? Mr Dm** Sit?1 send you herewith a note tar Commo dore Dun lop, and bo:* you may get MM ue-TW iaforma tmn from him. Your messenger takes the demijohn ef r im sgeln. Wishing you e epeedy nod prosperous voy V.W.mRl*. J AMIS R. MoDOVKLL, To Cotnmoder# Dcstor, C B., Ac., Ac., Port Royal Kingston, June 12, IMS. gn?Captain Thomas King, of tbe British schooner Water Wlteb, is about to proceed wltb e cargo or mar cbandtse la bis vassal tc a port In the Southern States ef America, sad being anxious to get advice from yon tat ble guidance, we use tbe liberty of giving blm thto In troduction, end will feel obliged for such counsel as yoe caa give blm under tbe circumstance*. We are sir. year obedient servants, BARCLAYS A MoDOWKLL. Court of General Sees tome. Before City Judge MeCunn. SENTENCES. Nov. H?1Tbe tallowing prisoners, oonvloted during tbe last week, were brought up this morning before City Judge McCunn tar sentence :? Isabella Hughes ^convicted of grand larceoy, was sen' tenced to the Ntate Prleon lor ,lwo your*. Henry Klump. convicted or tbe sums offence, was sentenced to two year* sod six months imprisonment In ih?- dime Prison f?bad rack Reld, the comred man, ooevistee of manslaughter hi tha third degree, was sentenced to the Stele Prison for four yetre. ? The Nova fleollen Onlward Bound, Movrss l., Nsv 2.', list rue steamship NsfiBmtiai sailed fiom Qubec *t elevee ,i rVibe morning, 'amng out ten cabin and iblrtp 1 ,?rr? *t?e- ig* awrogers for Liverpool.