The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-05 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4. The Royal mail steamship Arabia has arrived, 'with the New York mail of the 23d, Boston of the 24th, and Halifax of the 26th ult., and 111,650 dols. in specie. In the Senate, on the 23d, Mr. Lane, of Kansas, gave notice of a bill to authorise the President to raise 200 regiments of infantry composed of per sons of African descent. In the House of Representatives on the 22d, Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, offered the following reso lution which he proposed to debate : " That this house most earnestly desire that most speedy and effectual measures be taken for the re storation of peace in America, and that no time be lost in proposing an immediate cessation of hostili ties in order for a speedy and final settlement of the unhappy controversies which brought about this unnecessary and injurious civil war, by just and adequate security against the return of like calami ties in time to come, and this house desire to offer most earnest assurances to the country that they will in due time cheerfully co-operate with the Exe cutive and States for the restoration of the Union, to make such explicit and most solemn amendments and provisions of the Constitution as may be found necessary for securing the rights of the several States and section s w i t hi n the Union un d e r the Constitution." Laid over. Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, offered a reso lution that a protest and remonstrance of 36 mem bers of the !louse, submitted therewith against the unconstitutionality and injustice of the bill recently passed indemnifying the President and others for suspending th e wr it of habeas corpus, be ente re d on the journal. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvani a , move d to table it. Carried 75 against 40. On th e 23d, M r. p en dleton, of Ohio, rising to a privilege question, moved the protest he offered on the previous day to be entered upon the journal. The Speaker stated that the House had refused the entering of it on the journal, and cited former precedents in support of his decision. Mr. Penbleton appealed. The Speaker was sustained-74 against 20. Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported the Legislative Judicial, and Exe cutive Appropriation Bill. It was made a special order for the sth of January. General Halleck had received the following re port of the affair at Fredericksburg : " To MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, GENERAL-IN-CHTEP, UNITED STATES ARMY, WASHINGTON. " Head. quarters. Army of the Potomac, Falmouth, Dec. 19, 1862. " General,—l have the honour to offer the follow ing reasons for moving the army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock sooner than was antici pated by the President, Secretary of War, and yourself, and for crossing at a point different from the one indicated to you at our last meeting at the President's : " During my preparations for crossing at the place I bad first selected, I discovered that the enemy had thrown a large portion of his force down the river and elsewhere, thus weakening his de fences in front, and also thought I discovered that he did not anticipate the crossing of our whole force at Fredericksburg, and I hoped, by rapidly throw ing the whole command over at that place, to sepa rate by a vigorous attack the forces of the enemy on the river below from the forces behind and on the crest in the rear of the town, in which case we could fight him with great advantage in our favour. To do this we had to gain a height on the extreme right of the crest, which height commanded a new road lately made by the enemy for the purpose of more rapid communication along his lines, which point gained his positions along the crest would have been scarcely tenable, and he could have been driven from them easily by an attack on his front, in connexion with a movement in rear of the crest. How near we came of accomplishing our object ; but for the fog and unexpected and unavoidable delay in building the bridges, which gave the enemy 24 hours more to concentrate his forces in his strong positions, we would almost certainly have succeeded. In which case the battle would have been, in my opinion, far more decisive than if we had crossed at the places first selected. As it was, we came very near success. Failing in accomplishing the main object, we remained in order of battle two days, long enough to decide that the enemy would not come out of his strongholds to fight us with his infantry, after which we re crossed to the side of the river unmolested and with out the loss of men or property. As the day broke our long lines of troops were seen marching to their different positions as if going on parade. Not the least demoralisation or disorganisation existed. " To the brave officers and soldiers who accom plished the feat of thus recrossing the river in the face of the enemy I owe everything. For the failure in attack I am responsible, as tho extreme gallantry, courage, and endurance shown by them was never exceeded, and would have carried the points had it been possible. To the families .and friends of the dead I can only offer my heartfelt sympathy, but for the wounded I can offer my ear nest prayers for their comfort and final recovery. " The fact that I decided to move from Warren ton on to this line rather against the opinion of the President, Secretary of War, and yourself, and that you left the whole movement in my hands, without giving me orders, makes me responsible. I will visit you very soon and give you more definite in formation, and finally I will send you my detailed report, in which a special acknowledgment will be made of the services of the different grand divi sions, corps, and my general and staff departments of the Army of the Potomac, to whim I am so much indebted for their support and hearty co-operation. I will' add here that the movement was made earlier than you expected, and after the President, Secre tary of War, and yourself requested me not to be in haste, for the reason that w e were supplied much sooner by the different staff departments than was anticipated when I last saw yo u . "Our killed amounts to 1,152, our wounded to about 9,000, and our prisoners 700, which last have been paroled and exchanged for about the same num ber taken by us. The wounded were all removed to this side of the river, and are being well cared for, and the dead were all buried under a flag of truce. The surgeons report a much larger proportion of s light wounds than usual, 1,632 only being treated in hospitals. , 4 I a m glad to represent the army at the present time in good condition. " Thanking the Government for that entire sup port and confidence, which I have always received from them, I remain, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, " A. E. BURNSIDE, Major-General com manding Army of Potomac." An official re 1,128 killed, 9,105 w ound port estimate s th e Federal loss a ed , and 2,078 missing; making a total of 12,311. President Lincoln had issued the following thanks to the Army of the Potomac : --. " Executive Mansion, as hiilgton, Dec. 22. "To the Army of the Poto mae,--I have i nst re • ceived your Commanding General's prAellitminuagryh yroeu port of the battle of Fredericksburg, Althoug h were not successful, the attempt was not an error, nor the failure other than an accident. The courage with which you, in an open field, maintained the contest against an intrenched foe, and the con onmmate skill and success with which you crossed and recrossed the river in the face of the enemy, s h o w that you possess all the qualities of a great army, w hich will yet give victory to the cause of the coup try and of popular government. "Condoling with the mourners for the dead, and sympathising with the severely wounded, I con gratulate you that the number of both is compara tively so small. I tende r to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation. " ABRAITAIIi LINCOLN." General Burnside tendered his resignation to the President, but it was no t accepted, and he returned to his command on the 22d. On the 16th the Rep lcubl* an members of the Senate met in caucus, a n d after a • session of four hours, during wbich several senators made fierce attacks upon Secretary Seward, making him re sponsible for the defeats, and declaring that the country was tired of the present conduct of the war, a resolution was offered by S3nator Grimes of lowa, deelaring a want of confidence in Secretary Seward and requesting the President t r remove him. This was passed by a vote of 13 37( as to 11 nays. A long discussion was entered into, Senator Sumner making a lengthy speech, at'i eking the foreign diplomacy of Secretary Seward. Others were made by Senators Sherman, Trumbull, Wade, &c. It was charged that Seward's policy was a Fabian one, that of delay ; that he had encouraged M'Clellan in his delays ; that his idea of surrounding the Confederates was a delusion ; that he was responsible for sending the Banks expedition away to the Gulf instead of to the James River. They then adjourned over to Wednesday, adjournment of th e S enate, they resume d thei r con sultations. Sena tor H i . rr i s a when, after me nded the resolution, the to read " Th a t, i n th e j u d g ment of the Senate, a reconstruction of the Cabinet would increase the confidence of the country." Senator Sherman ob jected, beca use this was too b road; that Secretary Chase would resign at f that were p asse d. once i par Senatortiool articular F e ssenden then r econstruction," and it to read, "A ' and upon that th e re oio wo re added, making it nine. O n t h e 18th Senator King informed Mr. Sew ar d o f t h e action of the sutn Afterwards Senators H owar d an d Harris formed.l passed, and a committee of seven was Senate, and he and the Assistant-Secretary at once sent to the President their resignations. In the evening the committee of nine waited on the Presi dent, and laid the matter before him. The com mittee retired, and left the matter in the hands of the President, believing that it was all sight. The committee from the senatorial caucus were invited by the President to meet him at the White House on the 19th. On their arrival they found the whole Cabinet there, excepting Secretary Seward. The Pres:dent introduced the subject and stated the object of the committee. Secretary Chase at once stated that he did not come there to be arraigned by senators. Senator Fessenden said he did not come there to arraign any one. The President said they were all there on an Equality, and invited an inter change of opinion. Senator Harris stated that he was not a personal friend of Secretary Seward, though formerly a law partner, and thought there were a large number of Republicans who would rejoice at his leaving the Cabinet, while an equally large number were in favour of his remaining. He thought it would be impolitic and uncalled for, be cause he quietly opposed any changes. Secretary Stanton said that the resolution was evidently aimed at some one else besides Secretary Seward. If any one supposed he was responsible for the disas ter that had occurred they were mistaken ; that all the charges made against him were false; that the President knew that the charge that he was respon sible for the movement on Fredericksburg was groundless; that neither he nor General Halleck was responsible. Senator Grimes made a fierce on slaught upon Mr. Seward. Mr. Fessenden was firm but determined. The meeting lasted until a late hour, and adjourned without any result being accomplished. Secretary Chase, however, tendered his resignation to the President, in order to place him in a position to use his own pleasure. Post master Blair refused to resign. In all the inter views the President defended Mr. Seward warmly, denying that he had actively interfered with the military movements, or that his policy had been detrimental to the conduct of war. He expressed the most unbounded confidence in Secretaries Stan ton and Chase, and thought Secretary Welles had done all that could be done. The following extracts from a letter from Mr. Henry S. Raymond, which was published in the New York Times, gives an account of the Cabinet crisis and its causes:— "On Thursday evening the committee from the Senate caucus had their first interview with the President. Senator Collamer, as the chair ► man, read a brief paper which embodied the senti ments of the entire committee. Its general purport was to urge the importance of a Cabinet which should be united in its views of public policy, and which should insist upon a vigorous prosecution of the war. It avoided all reference to individual members. After this had been read each member of the committee expressed his individual views on the subject; they were such as would naturally be ex pected from the antecedents and known opinions of the several senators. President Lincoln listened with attention to all that was said. He then ex pressed the profound solicitude which he felt on the subject they had brought before him, and the overwhelming anxiety which oppressed him con cerning the condition of the country and the pro gress of the war. What the country wanted, he said, was military success. Without that nothing could go right ; with that nothing could go wrong, He did not yet see how the measure proposed by the committee would furnish the remedy required; if he had a Cabinet of angels they could not give the country military successes, and that was what was wanted and what must be had. But he promised his most careful attention to the subject, and an other interview was appointed for the next even ing in presence of the Cabinet. Last evening (Friday) this interview took place, and lasted four hours—Mr. Seward, of course, not being present. The President at the outset said that what he de sired to know was whether more harm or good would result from the acceptance of Mr. Seward's resignation, and each member of the committee was desired to express his opinion, with the grounds on which it rested, upon that practical point. Mr. Fes senden declined to do so, saying he did not feel called upon to discuss the question. Mr. Grimes de clined, because his views were sufficiently under stood. Mr. Wade, Mr. Trumbull, and Mr. Sum ner were unequivocally for its acceptance. Mr. Collamer, Mr. Harris, and one or two others were against it, mainly on the ground that his exclusion from the Cabinet, under exist ing circumstances, would seem to the country ike the triumph of a faction, and would lead to still further divisions among the loyal people of the North, and thus increase rather than diminish the evils that afflict the country." A despatch from Washington of the 22d states that the President had acknowledged the reception of the resignation of the Secretary of State, Mr, Seward, and the Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Chase, and had informed them that, after due deli beration, he had come to the conclusion that the acceptance of their resignations would be incompa tible with the public welfare. The President, there fore, requested both Mr, Seward and Mr. Chase to resume their respective functions as Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury. The two secre taries accordingly resumed their places as heads of theirTh eremsppecotiviveendaenp and Porter Court of Inquiry was still proceeding. From the Army of the Potomac we have the fol lowing despatches:-- ! f , Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Dec. 20. ig Yesterday morning, about daylight, about 100 of Hampton's rebel cavalry entered Occoquan, and captured a lieutenant and 30 privates of the 10th N e w York Cavalry, who were guarding the tele graph lines. Eleven cutlers and six sutlers' Wag.. gone were also seized by the rebels. All i s qu i et to-night. Members of the Sanitary Commissi on an d others who were at Falmout h on the day succeed i d n ed g a th s e oldll view, and their uni forms s p blue lay re colour that wasin fall ground on which ou r t to the field until the rebels had stripp e d the bodies of their clothin g. No new move ments of th e enemy have been obse rved since we evacuat e d the south side. Everything is quiet along the li nes. Although the stock of sutlers in thi , camp i N nearly exhausted, and s u pplies are much need e d, i t is not deemed judicious by them to transport their goods by the overland route. " Falmouth, Dec. 21. I "This day has been a clear and cold specimen of Virginia December, and a good specimen of the Sabbath in the army. Aside from the usual Sun day morning inspections, no duty has been required of the men. Divine service was attended in a few of the regiments, but the weather was too cold to secure large audiences. "Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Dec. 23. " By comparing an official copy of Gen. Burn side's report to Gen. Halleck with the publication of the same in the Washington papers this morning several important errors are noticed. In the first paragraph, in the last line but one, the word ' by' melted, unless, which no one expects, some heaven born general shall arise in the interval to lead it to victory. The publication of General Burnside's letter, in which he assumes the entire responsibility of the unhappy movement against Fredericksburg, has not satisfied either the army or the public that he is the proper man to command so large a force. Everyone admires his courage; everyone applauds the fearless avowals which he makes in his singular letter; but most people shake their heads with mis trust when they learn that the President has refused to accept the very proper resigna tion of so indiscreet and unfortunate a leader. There did not need at this time so unlucky a proof of Mr. Lincoln's kindness of heart as a man, and his incapacity as a states man to deal with great events. It is sufficient for him that a man does his best in the position in which he has been placed. General Burnside has done his best, and, therefore, should neither be blamed nor displaced. Such appears to be the rea soning and the motive in the President's mind ; but such a course of action is not the one that in the great crises of a nation's destiny brings out great soldiers or great statesmen, and that turns the de feat of to-day into the victory of to-morrow. Mercy to proved incompetency may be cruelty to the na tion; and to continue General Burnside in chief command, instead of placing him in that subordi nate position where he might achieve success, under the direction of a more judicious superior, may here after cost the lives of thrice as many men as perished uselessly at Fredericksburg; if not the total col lapse and failure of the war. The seal of secrecy on the objects and destination of the expedition under General Banks has at length been removed. The General has gone to Ship Island to prepare for an attack upon Mobile, and is to supersede Gen. Butler at New Orleans. But Gen. Butler, though removed, is not to be dis graced. He stands high in the President's estima tion—higher even than Mr. Stanton—and is thought among all the worthy soldiers of the Republic to be the most worthy of reward and dignity. Perhaps amid the new complications that are certain to arise in the Ministry, when the President shall have either withdrawn, modified, or renewed his procla mation of slave emancipation on Jan. I,a place may be found in the Cabinet for the President's fa vourite. Gen. Butler, though odious to the Demo cratic party, is the idol of the Republicans and ex terminators, and if he were appointed to succeed Gen. Halleck-..which is not an improbable result— the appointment would be hailed with delight, not only by the ultra-Republicans, but by a large class of people, who look upon vigour as the one thing needful, and who are content to condone Butler's numerous offences, in consideration of his great virtues of strength and firmness, if not of success. The part which some of the preachers of New York and New England have played in this war has not been creditable to their Christian charity. The Episcopalian and Roman Catholic clergy have not fanned the flames of dissension, but have for the most part confined themselves to their proper function—the cure of souls. Not so the Puritans and ultra-Evangelicals, of whom the Rev. Dr. Cheever, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and the Rev. Dr Tyng are the types. These gentlemen have made themselves political partizans, converted their pul pits into arenas of strife, and angled for the applause and sometimes caught the hisses of their congrega tions, as playactors do with their audiences. Not contented with their own liberty, and with the absence of slavery in the North, they have sought to enforce their own ideas upon a different people , living in a different state of society—not-by the in fluence of persuasion, but by the aid of the sword, the rifle, and the torch. They have been intolerant, persecuting, rabid, and relentless. They have evinced the spirit of Mahomet and the Caliph Omar, and of their own Puritanic ancestors who burned witches in Salem. Were they priests of Rome they would be Jesuits and Grand Inquisitors, and had they lived in Spain in the days when the auto da fe was a recognised institution they would have burned heretics for the glory of God and the ad vancement of truth with all the zeal and gusto of their prototypes and predecessors. Many of them hold slavery, intemperance, and the consumption of animal food to be equally sinful in the sight of Heaven, and invoke the aid of the civil magistrate to free the negroes and to prohibit the sale of alco hol, if not of mutton chops. They hold it to be their duty to God and to man to be intolerant of that which they believe to be pernicious to the body and hurtful to the soul ; and in the execu tion of that supposed duty preach doctrines which not only tend to prolong and embitter the war in which their country is engaged, but to destroy all liberty whatsoever, except such as they may be graciously pleased to concede to an oppressed peo ple. The Rev. Dr. Tyng declared on Thanksgiv ing -day from his pulpit that it was not merely the duty of the clergy to restrain " but to uproot the crimes of the wicked," and among the crimes of the wicked he enumerated the holding of negroes in bondage and the sale or use of alcoholic liquors, both of which crimes were to be " uprooted," not by the tongue of the zealous preacher, but by the sword of the civil magistrate, urged into action by the dicta tion of the priest. He did not explain how the sword of the civil magistrate could be properly em ployed in punishing acts recognised to be legal and constitutional by the very same law which appointed the civil magistrate and allowed liberty of con science and of worship to all men, but simply noti fied that if he, and such as he, had the power, they would usurp the functions of the Executive and es tablish a theocracy upon the ruins of the republic. On Sunday last Dr. Cheever, commenting upon the disaster at Fredericksburg in the church of the Puritans, declaimed against the folly of intrusting the war power to military men, and stated that if Congress, acting as Dr. Cheever would have had it act, had passed a decree of universal emaneipation, all the defeats of the Federal arms would have been converted into victories. Because this had not been done by Congress the wrath of God was upon the Northern people, and would continue to be upon it. War, he added, was a beneficent power in proportion to its destructiveness. And as for the policy of not inciting slaves to insurrection, he laughed it to scorn. The mischief done by New England clergymen of this stamp, in originally ex asperating the Southern people, and in continuing to inflame sectional animosities in the North, has begun to excite the notice and the anger of all who really love liberty, and who object, as men of Eng lish blood and extraction are generally found to do, to no form of tyranny and domination so greatly and so abhorrently as to the tyranny and domina tion of priests, and has led to the proposal, far more serious than it appears, to reconstruct the Union without including the Puritanic State. In alluding to this subject at the anniversary meeting of the New England Puritans last night, the Rev. Mr. Beecher said, according to the report in this morn• . . _ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY RVENING, JANUARY 5, should be substituted for to, so that it may read, crossing at a point different from the one indicated by you at our last meeting at the President's.' " A flag of truce crossed the Rappahannock this afternoon to communicate with Gen. Lee, the pur port of which has not been made public. The Richmond papers of yesterday and to-day have found their way hero. The lizelintond Inquirer says the loss in A. P. Hill's division on the 13th was 211 killed, 1,494 wounded, and 417 missing. This division was con fronted by Gen. Frankli n ' s l e f t, and consisted of six brigades with artillery. More than half the Confederate loss occurred in this division. Intelligence from below is to the effect that the Confederates have considerably strengthened their forces near Front Royal. The enemy maintain a contraband communica tion with their northern friends via the Potomac and Mattox Creek, crossing the peninsula and the Rappahannock at Leeds, about 30 miles below this point. No shots have been exchanged with the rebels for several days. The river pickets maintain a friendly disposition towards each other. The soldiers along the southern coast and in Virginia were complaining that they have not been paid a cent for five months. Gen. Foster has reported as follows his capture of Kingston, North Carolina : " To Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief. "Headquarters, Department of North Carolina, Kingston, Dec. 14. "I have the honour to inform you that I left Newbern for this place on the 11th inst., but owing to bad roads and consequent delays to my trains, &e,, I did not reach the South-west Creek, five miles from this town, until the afternoon of the 13th inst. The enemy were posted there, but by a heavy artillery fire in front and a vigorous infantry attack on either flank I succeeded in forcing a pas sage, and without much loss. This morning I advanced on this town and found the enemy strongly posted at a defile through a marsh bordering on a creek. The position was so well chosen that very little of our artillery could be brought in play. The main attack, therefore, was made by the infantry, assisted by a few guns pushed forward in the roads. After a five hours' hard fight we succeeded in driving the enemy from their position. We fol lowed them rapidly to the river. The bridge over the Neuse at that point was prepared for firing, and was fired in six places, but we were so close behind them that we saved the bridge. The enemy re treated precipitately by the Goldsborough and Pikeville roads. Their force was about 6,000 men, with 20 pieces of artillery. The result is we have taken Kingston, captured 11 pieces of artillery, and taken from 400 to 600 prisoners, and found a large amount of Quartermaster and Commissary stores. Our loss will probably not exceed 200 killed and wounded--I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, 2‘ S. G. FOSTER, Major-General Commanding." "MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, GENERAL-IN-CHIEF, WASHINGTON. " Head-quarters, Department of North Carolina, Dec. 20. "My expedition was a perfect success. I burnt the railroad bridge at Goldsborough and Mount Olive, and tore up several miles of the track of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. We fought four engagements—viz., at South-west Creek, King ston, Whitehall, and Goldsborough, and whipped the enemy handsomely each time. "S. G. FOSTER, Brigadier• General Commanding." Advices from St. Louis of the 19th state that General Curtis, the Federal Commander, had re ceived a demand from President Davis for an in quiry into the facts relative to the shooting of ten Confederate citizens, by order of General M'Neil. Enclosed with the communication was a printed slip from the Grenada Appeal, containing a passage credited to the Palmyra (Missouri) Courier. The Confederate Government desired to know whether the statements in that journal were correct. It was positively asserted that General Banks would supersede General Butler at New Orleans, and that he had instructions to capture Mobile and counteract and schemes of France in the Southern States. He would also co-operate in the reopening of the Mississippi. A despatch from Cairo, Illinois, of the 20th, re• ports that on the previous day a troop of Confede rate cavalry made a raid on the railway three miles from Jackson, Tennessee, and destroyed the track and a quantity of stores. A successful attack had also been made on Trenton, Carroll Station, Hum boldt, and Kenton, and at Columbia apprehensions were entertained of a visit from the Confederates. From Nashville we learn that on the 21st there was some brisk skirmishing with the Confederates. The authorities at Charleston had constructed a number of shanties and barracks at Greenfield and Somerville for the temporary shelter of the poorer classes of the inhabitants, most of whom were dependent upon public charity for support. The Richmond papers contain accounts of the defeat of Burnside at Fredericksburg. The Rich mond Dispatch says:— " Our loss has been heavy, but bears no compari son whatever to that of the enemy. We have to regret about 2,500 killed, wounded, and missing, while, according to the report of those best skilled in making estimates of this description, their loss does not certainly fall short of 10,000, and in all probability greatly exceeds it. This will not be regarded as at all improbable when we take into consideration the relative position of the opposing armies. The Confederates were on the heights, which rendered them less accessible to cannon. The Yankees were in the low grounds, subjected to a murderous fire of artillery and musketry as they advanced. Every shot told, and those who wit nessed it say that the slaughter was awful beyond anything yet witnessed in the war. General Long street succeeded in getting possession of a long stone wall on the outskirts of Fredericksburg, and in placing a whole division behind it. The Yankees, with more boldness than they usually exhibit on such occasions, attempted to get possession of it. They were repulsed with unparalleled slaughter in every attempt, and at last broke and fled in confu sion " A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner writes on the 14th : " From Fredericksburg the Rappahannock flows nearly due east. The valley of the river, lying mostly on the south side, is a mile in width near the town, and widening as you go down stream. At Hamilton's crossing on the railroad the valley is three miles across. From Hamilton's crossing to Fredericksburg the railroad and the old Richmond stage road, both running parallel with the river, skirt this valley. South of the railroad, beginning near the town and running to a point at Hamil ton's crossing, and also parallel with the river, is a range of hills covered with oak forest, fringed on its northern border by pine thickets. Our forces occu pied the whole length of this forest. Longstreet's ' corps occupied the highlands above, opposite, and for a mile below the town. Jackson's corps rested on Longstreet's right, and extended away to the i e n a g s t tward,he ra i t l n e a e d x a t t r e H m a e m r i i l g t o h n t ,e u e n r d o e e r a i A ng . n i d l l e l t , r e e r t o e s h s : ing into the valley across the river. Our front was about six miles in length. Most of the batteries of both corps were posted in the skirts of the forest, along the line of railroad, and seven batteries in Colonel Lindsey Walker's regiment and Stuart's horse artillery being stationed in the valley between the railroad at Hamilton's crossing and the river. The enemy's forces occupied the v t a o lle vv y i n u o ii r n th h o a f l t f h a e g . His light n r l a i i l l e roa o ( f l from our e F x r t e re d m er e ick r s i b g u h r t bat teries were posted over the southern extremity of q t i h ia e rt h er ill o e f oanmthilee ntoorathmeirine tfromhe val le y,th e at railroad, from a banks o f th e r i ver f ro m Falmouth to Fitzhu g h' s studded at i ntervals of half a m il e w ith hi s b a tt er i es r o while foafrin, heavy fiv g e un m s. iles below Fredericksburg, were The opinion had prevailed on the our lines on yeste r d ay morning, but when the day k without the sou n d of a gun being heard in front it night befo re t h at the enemy was to attack began to be tho ug h t that he had deferred hibsraod-e ad vance until this morning. The sun rose clear, but a dim fog shrouded the valley, limiting the vision to a short half mile. The enemy was supposed to be within a mile of the railroad at Hamilton's cross- ing, but these were no indications of his presence. At half-past 8 a.m. General Lee, attended by his staff, rode slowly along the front of our lines from west to east, and halted in the valley a mile to the east of Hamilton's crossing and half a mile in the rear of our batteries on the extreme right. At 9 o'clock a column of our troops, which proved to be Ewell's division, General Early commanding, ad vanced up the valley from the direction of Port Royal, and defiled into the woods to the left of Hamilton's crossing. The men were marching at a very leisurely pace, with a careless, swinging gait ; but there was that in their quiet dignity of de meanour which told that each, though undaunted, was conscious that the next hour might be one of stern battle and death. Scarcely has the rear of this division disappeared in the woods when directly in their front the artillery of the Old Stonewall brigade—Woodis, Braxton's and three other bat teries—opened a brisk fire on the enemy's batteries north of the railroad. At this time, owing to the fog, few of the enemy'sinfantry were visible. After events proved that they were lying close to the south bank of the river. The cannonading:soon be came general along the front of both armies. In 10 minutes from the time of firing their first gin the Danville Battery, Captain Woodis, had lost 15 men killed and wounded, a number of horses, and had two guns disabled. The enemy's battery 800 yards dis tant had the exact range from the first fire. In the beginning of the action the loss of the other batteries of Taliaferro's division were also quite heavy. Ou men fired with groat precision, their shells bursting in front or directly above the opposing batteries. In the course of an hour the artillery fight had become so general that it was almost impossible for an ob server to distinguish what particular battery of the enemy was engaging the attention of any given bat tery of ours, and vice versa. Scarcely a battery that had been unmasked on either side but was ex posed to a direct and enfilading fire. The roar of cannon along a line of six miles was tremendous. The air was resonant with the savage music of shells and solid shot. The white smoke wreath of explod ing shells were everywhere visible among the trees of the forest, which hid our forces in the valley and away beyond the river in Stafford. Lines of ambu lances could be seen bearing off the wounded of both armies, but there was nothing by which to judge that the advantage rested with either side. At noon the fog had cleared away, but there was a thick haze in the atmosphere. About this time the enemy's infantry moved forward from the river towards our batteries on the hills. As they pressed forward across the valley Stuart's horse artillery from our extreme right opened upon them a destructive en filading fire of round shot. This fire, which annoyed them sorely, was kept up in spi te of six batteries which were directed against the horse artillery as soon as it was unmasked. By one o'clock the Yankee columns had crossed the valley and entered the woods south of the railroad. The batteries on both sides slackened their fire, and musketry, at first scatter ing, but quickly increasing to a crash and roar, sounded through the woods. Dense volumes of smoke rose above the trees, and volley succeeded volley, sometimes so rapidly as to blend into a prolonged and continuous roar. A. P. Hill's division sustained the first shock of battle. The rest of Jackson's corps were in different lines of reserves. D. H. Hill's division was drawn up in J. L. Maryo's field, under a long hill, in rear of our line of battle. Here they re mained during most of the day, being moved from time to time to the right or left as the exigencies of the battle dictated. Shortly after the infantry fight began a brigade of this division was moved at quick a mil e an d a h a lf t o th e r i g h t, an d posted u i b na dense clump of pines in supporting dis tance of Stuart's horse artillery. In 10 minutes they were brought back to their original position. The celerity of this movement would be ineredible to any one who had not witnessed it. To an observer the sight was singular and exciting. A long black line shoots from the position of the reserves, crosses the railroad at Hamilton's station, skims across the valley, and in a few moments is lost in the pines, nearly two miles away. After scarcely a breathing spell, the same line emerges from the pines, and retraces its steps into its original position. As this brigade resumed its position in rsserve, the firo of musketry directly in its front slackened. A few crackling shots were heard to our left, along Long street's division, and then a succession of volleys, which were kept up at intervals during the re mainder of the evening. The musketry fire on our right was soon renewed, and the battle raged with increased fury. Our batteries along our whole front agair. reopened, and Col. Walker's artillery regi ment, composed of Latham's, Letcher's, Braxton's, Pegram's, Crenshaw's, Johnson's, and M'lntosh's batteries, stationed in the open low grounds to the east of the railroad at Hamilton's station, moved forward several hundred yards in the direction of Fredericksburg. Hill's and Early's troops had driven the enemy from the woods and across the railroad in the direction of the pontoon bridges, near Deep run. Our men pursued them a mile and a half across the bottom land, and fell back only when they had gotten under the shelter of their batteries. Our troops then retired to the south side of the rail road. Again theenemy rallied and returned to renew the contest, but were again, about 5 o'clock p.m., driven back. All the batteries of Jackson's corps were at this time in full play, and in the approaching twilight the blaze of the guns and the quick flashes of the shells were more distinctly visible. The scene along the valley was at once splendid and terrific. The result of the fight on our right wing may b e summed up briefly. We drove the enemy b ack, kill ing three to one, and at night held the ground oc cupied by the enemy's batteries in the morning. The enemy had 20,000 men engaged on this wing, while altogether, from first to last, we had no t more than 10,000 in th e li n e of fire. Long s t reet ' s victory was even more complete. He drove th e enemy into the streets of Fredericksburg, killing at least five to one. At dusk the firing ceased simultaneously on both sides. General Stonewall Jackson, whom many almost believe leads a charmed life, had a very narrow escape. He was watching the battle, and standing at the time near an oak tree, when a bullet struck not more than two inches above his head. The old hero continued his observations unmoved by the incident. An incident occurred at the summit on yesterday which is worth recording. A Frenchman in our service rode to this point just as au amputation was about to be performed upon a Yankee, who was suffering great pain. Said the Frenchman, on the impulse of the moment, which fully overcame him, By Gar ! what a warfare ; medicine is a contraband article; a shame ! Who ever heard of the like ? Hottentots would not do worse. If our surgeons had chloroform that opera tion could be performed with little or no pain to the sufferer. Lincoln, one dog; oh, that he could see this suffering l"Ehe force of this remark needs no comment to show its pertinency. A group of offi cers, consisting of General Cobb, his adjutant, Captain Herring, General Cook and his adjutant, Captain Butler, and Captain Brewster, were stand ing in the telegraph road, near the scene of action, when a shell exploded in their midst, a piece of which struck General Cobb on the thigh, the same piece also striking General Cook on the left temple, fracturing his skull. By the same explosion Captain Brewster was badly wounded, just above the knee, and Captain Herring seriously in the hip. General Cobb on being struck quietly asked for a torniquet. A silk handkerchief was made to servo the purpose so far as possible, but to little avail. He was led from the field, and all the aid rendered that medical skill could devise, but in vain. He expired in a few hours, freely giving up his life in defence of his country's freedom." HORRIBLE SCENE.—On the 16th tilt. one Thos Cook, a blind man, was executed at Woodstock, Canada West, for the murder of his wife. The rope used on the occasion being above o feet long, caused a very groat fall, and the result was that when the drop was withdrawn the vertebrm and muscles of the neck gave way, and the head actually rolled off, While the body fell with a heavy plunge into the interior of the scaffold. The life-blood poured out in streams from the headless trunk, and the torn muscles and gaping arteries presented a sickening spectacle For some minutes the body lay as it fell, the authorities ap • parently shrinking from the task of touching it; but it was at length raised and put into a coffin. This shocking oc currence was attributed to the man's emaciated condition the effect of dissipation and bad living, and to the diseased atAto of the body. 1863. THE WAR, IN AMERICA, (From the 21mes' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, DEC. 23. From Saturday morning until last night the town has been in a state of unusual political excitement in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase. The disruption of the Cabinet from any action of either of those important mem bers was not expected, though the public was quite prepared to learn that Mr. Lincoln had " put his foot down" on General Halleck and Mr. Stanton, and replaced those very unpopular officials by new men. To-day the excitement has subsided; the difficulty in the Cabinet has been temporarily smoothed over; Messrs. Seward and Chase have consented to resume office upon conditions, which conditions are surmised but not publicly stated. Gen. Halleck and Mr. Stanton have been relieved of responsibility for the failure and butchery of Fredericksburg by the valorous avowal of General Burnside—that no one prompted him, no one coun selled him, no one interfered with him, and that he, and he only, is to blame for the disaster. Good, easy Mr. Lincoln, has thus made things pleasant again, though only for a little while. His inhar monious Cabinet will support and adhere to him until his Abolitionist drivers shall become obstre perous, or until some new disgrace or calamity to the Federal arms shall arouse the slumbering anger of the patient and sorely abused people of the North. There will bo then a second crisis, and a far severer one than that which has jest terminated. It was not so much the announcement of Mr. Seward's resignation as of the underhand agencies by which it was effected that excited people's alarm and wonder, and caused reflective men to shudder at the chaotic state of public affairs, and the all but hopeless anarchy into which the Government is drifting. While people, according to their reason or their passion, were calling for peace, an armistice, or a vigorous prosecution of the war, and while both parties were indignant and dis gusted at the flagrant incompetency popularly attributed to the whole Cabinet, but more espe cially to General Halleck and Mr. Stanton, a se cret caucus of the ultra-Republican and Abolitionist members of the Senate was held, at which it was resolved to make Mr. Seward the scapegoat of the disaster at Fredericksburg, and to urge upon the President the dismissal of that Minister. Mr. Seward heard of the proceedings in spite of all the care that was taken to prevent their coming to his knowledge, and, being apparently as much dis gusted with his colleagues, with the Republican Senators, and with the state of the nation as the outer public is with the conduct of the war and the general aspect of affairs, he prevented the further action of the conclave by sending in his resigna tion. The results were of a nature that the sena tors did not anticipate, and placed the President in a dilemma from which it was not easy either for his friends or his opponents to discover how he could extricate himself without damage or danger. Mr. Chase alleged, perhaps unjustly, to be playing a game of his own, in which Mr. Seward was his opponent, unexpectedly followed Mr. Seward's 'example, and placed his resignation in Mr. Lin coln's hands. But neither Mr. Stanton nor General Halleck thought it necessary or expedient to ease the President of the load of opprobrium which they, and they principally, had contrived to cast upon the Administration by retiring, and leaving him free to appoint more popular if not more efficient Ministers. Had they done so, the President by se lecting Gen. M'Clellan to succeed Gen. Halleck, and Gen. Banks or Gen. Dix to succeed Mr. Stan ton, might have satisfied the country for a time, persuaded Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase to recall their resignations, and patched up a truce in his Cabinet, by which it might have been held to gether until the spring, or until General M'Clellan had either achieved a great victory or suffered a great defeat. But the President had had enough of Gen. M'Clellan, and did not desire to call into hi councils a man who would infallibly have come in as the master and dictator, if he had consented to come in at all ; and he had, besides, personal reasons for not wishing to deprive himself of the services of Mr. Stanton, whom he thinks to be as honest, as efficient, and as vigorous as he is unpopular, and whom he resolves shall not, if he can help it, be sacrificed to an unjust clamour. He had also a very reasonable and well-founded objection to the dicta torial attitude assumed by the anti-slavery doctrin aires and "exterminators" in the senate, who had taken it upon themselves to usurp his functions of Cabinet making, and pres - cribe to him what Secre taries he should appoint or dismiss. Believing, moreover, as he appears to have done, that although his cabinet might not be a very good one, he would fail in constructing a better from the ranks of either the Democratic or the Republican party, he resolved to defeat the dictators of the secret caucus, the friends of M'Clellan, and the enemies of Stanton, by one and the same course of action, which was no other than the very simple expedient of persuading Messrs. Seward and Chase to withdraw their resig nations. In this he succeeded after a struggle of three days, commanding them with "pleasant impe riousness" to resume their portfolios. The two obeyed with equally pleasant submissiveness, and once more Mr. Lincoln stands before the country as master of the situation. But the unpleasant part of the business, as events will speedily show, is that the situation is a very bad and untenable one. It is true he has asserted his authority against the unwise and violent theorists who are pushing him along the facile grooves of revolution, and refused to part with the most Con servative of the politicians who share bis confidence; but he has not succeeded either in satisfying the Ultra-Abolitionists, who have his soul in their keep • ing, as Mephistopheles had that of Faust, or in persuading the public that his administration can or ought to stand, or that he or any of his Secre taries can save the country from the countless perils that environ it. After the Ist of January some of these perils will take a formidable shape, if he issues on that day his threatened proclamation of freedom to the slaves of rebels. This and many other dangers will have in due time to be con fronted, not only with a diminished support on the part of the people, but, worst of all, with a dimi nished and diminishing army. It is, in fact, the military, rather than the politi cal, situation that causes disquiet. The telegraphic reports that are permitted to reach New York from the headquarters of the Army of Potomac represent the troops to be in " high spirits," and "eager for a renewal of battle." Were it possible to make peo ple believe these statements, or to hide from them the real state of matters, the military censors of the telegraph might flatter themselves with the notion that, if they had not inspired confidence, they had at all events prevented mistrust, and done some thing to render unfashionable the crime of despair ing of the republic. But these reports deceive no body. The tell falsehoods in the evening, which the Post-office in the morning succeeds in dissipating. According to the newspapers, General Burnside's army is in nowise daunted by its late disastrous re pulse, but, like the war-horse of Scripture, snuffs the battle from afar, and rejoices in the hope and prospect of victory. But between the published telegram and the private and unpublished letters from soldiers in the field there is a wide discrepancy. The one is all optimism--the other all pessimism. The one speaks of valour, strength, and discipline —the other tells a tale of discouragement, weak ness, and desertion. General Burnside admits a loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of nearly 10,000 men. Reports from the camp, while they do not assert a much greater loss under these seve- -al head, introduces a new element to account for ,he rapid depletion of the Federal ranks. Ten thousand only may have been killed and wounded; but twice the number have disappeared since the day of battle. Twenty thousand soldiers have, i n American parlance, "skedaddled" by ones, twos, and threes ; and, in some i ns t ance, by whole cora -1 panies. In fact, if these letters from officers as well as from soldiers may be believed, the once great Army of the Potomac is rapidly melting away. It has no longer its former confidence in General Burnside ; it never had any in the subordinate briga diers, colonels, and captains appointed by political influence to command it, and threatens to disappear altogether before the winter scows shall lar4Te , ing's Herald :—" He understood that an effort was to be made to placate the South to induce the rebels to lay down their arms, by our setting the example, and to have the West, Per.nsylvania, and New York come in, and New England left out in the cold. He defied them to keep her out. New England was the pickpockt of the globe—the picklock of the world_ She could go where air could go; she could fly where birds could fly; she would be found where the seasons could travel. Did they think that by geographical and political lines they could keep New England at home? Why, New England would vex them more by the printing press after she was sepa rated from them than she had ever done before. There should be a murrain of it. Did they think they could keep New England's daughters from being fair, and would they have a league and cove nant that Southern and Western men should not love :hem ? It they would not allow New England to regenerate the rest of the oountry by her religion she would immediately marry her daughters to them, and do it by the original process of—[Mr. Beecher dropped his voice to a whisper, so as not to be heard by the score or two of ladies just behind him, and amid a general outburst of laughter repeated the word ' regeneration,' without the first syllable.]" The phrase "pickpocket of the globe," though apt enough to describe the New England contrac tors, who have grown enormously rich out of the profits And plunders of the war, was probably a lapses lingua; but what is to be said of the modest,' of the proposal that New England should regene rate the rest of the Union by her religion-4e,, her Puritanibm, or of the vulgar indecency of the joke with which the irreverend gentleman concluded his speech—if it be not in congratulation of Americo, —that though it have many Tyngs it has but one Beecher P SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE CIIESTER CUP. 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The game had been driven up to corner of the wood, a thick hedge separating it from the fields. A boy named Walter Birch, who was acting as brusher, had been stationed on the other side of the fence, and, seeing a rabbit running towards him from the wood stooped to be in readiness to prevent it. At the same me ment Count roloweski fired at the rabbit, and a portion of the charge, penetrating the brushwood, was lodged in the boy's body. On removing the clothes it was found that the extent of his injuries were only three slight flesh wounds. The boy was immediately taken to his house and before returning from the sport Count Polowesk visited him and gave him £3OO in six £5O notes. The Count also promised that if, when the lad recovered, he liked to enter his service, he would give him £6O a year for life. 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White wheat. ..... 48s to ölt , Red wheat 44 s t o 488 Malting barley ... 36s to 37s Chevalier barley 33 s t o 350 Distilling do . 28s to 30s Oats.. 24s to 28J Flour, 34s Od to --s Od per sack from the miller. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Aus'attlia and Mauritius, via Southampton. J an. 18. via BrazilMarseies Jan. 12. Brazil and Cap e V er d e, by British ll packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good H ope, A scension, and St. Helena Feb. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via South am pt on J an. 18. via Marseilles J an, 12. Falkland Isl an d s ....... .. ............. Jan. 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton.. ..................Jan. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampt on .. J an. 18. lndia Bomba via Marseilles.... J an. 12. (y), via Southampton ............ Jan. 10. via Marseilles ................ Jan. 4. Portugal.... .................... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10. Newfoundland via Marseille s J an, 4. Oporto and Vigo .............. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. pa c k e t J an. 7. — 'by U.S. packet b Ca —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and T y eneanritfedian packet Ja n . Jan. 10. Bahamas, via New York , Mexico.. Jan. 15. All parts of West Indi es , i nc l u di ng Chili, Peru, Jan. 28. California, and Briti s h C01umbia....... I Jan. 28. BLACKBURN.— Births, the 2d inst., at 19, Orsett.c park, the wif e o f H erbert C. Blackburn, of a terra son.e, Hyde FARRELL—On the Ist inst., at Leinster-street, D u b lin, the lion. M rs. F arrell, of a son. NEWDICIATE.—On the 31st ult., at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, th e w i fe of Lieutenant-Colonel l s tewthgate, of a son. Craven•hill- gar d ens, WoLRIGE.—On the Ist inst., at 39, the wife of Henry Wokip), Esq., of a son, Marriages. HOMEWOOD—MERCER On the I s t i nst., at St. John's, South Hackney, Henry Stephenson, second son of Th os . Homewood, Esq., of Palestine -place, Carnbridge-heath, to Fanny Emma, eldest daughte r o f F rancis J. Mercer, Esq., East India Chambers, city. VTALLS—PODMORE.—On the 3d inst., at George s, Hanovor-squar e , Ch arles Marsh Vial's, Esq., s, of No. George 59, Chester - square, to Ch ar l otte Kaye, (laughter of General Podrnore, of Osborne House, Cheltenham. Deaths. BARBER.—On the Ist inst., at 'Pulse-hill, Surrey, Thomas Barber, Esq., aged 68. BARROW.—On the 30th ult., at Hyde, LW., Simon Bar row, Esq., agod 75, BRIGGS.—On th 3 28th ult., Frederick, son of the late Mr. Henry Briggs, of the Ordnance Office, Tower, aged 41. FORD,—On the 30th ult., at his re s id ence, Heathfield Lodge, Shirley, H an t s, B. W. Ford, Esq., aged 63. PRINGLE Emmerson Prin.—On the 31st ult., at Bessbo roug h -gardens, J. gle, Esq., aged 34, Timms,—On the 2d inst., at Spohr Lodge, Upper Tulse hill, Jas. Timms, Esq., late one of her Majesty's Fuisne Judges of Newfoundland, aged 83. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SuN Office, No. 112, Strand, In the ;Precinct of the Savoy, iu the County of llicialctex.--Almaay, January 6,1683. LEICE STER---SA.TURDA.T. Old white wheat, 50s to 56s ; new, 478 to 51s per 36 stone. Old red, 50s to 54s'per 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 34s to 388 per qr.; grinding, 28s to 318; old oats, 28s to 325; new oats, 21s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, new, —s to —s ; old, 428 to 44s per 38 stone. NO RTHAMP TON—SATURDAY. New wheat, 46s to 51i; old, 50s to 565. Barley, 290 to 39s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 278; old, 28e to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 428; new, 32s to 38s. Peas, 368 to 44s per qr. --- NOTTING' Un--SATURDAY. White wheat, from 46s to 638; red wheat, 40s to 550. Barley—malting, 34s to 42s ; grinding, 28s to 30s. oats old, at 258 to 31s Od; new, 22s to 265. Beans sold at 340 to 458 per qr. Flour, 41s to 445. YORK— SATURDAY. 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