The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(F) ecin the Correspondent of the Times.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.

Ten days ago General Rosencranz was the only
genuine N apoleon of the war. All others, includ-
ing Gone. ral M'Clellan, were fictitious, or, in Ameri-
can purl, Ance, " bogus." Rosencranz was the man
of the he ,ur ; the non-political General who was to
win bat ,ties, pierce the heart :of the Coufederacy, ,
and br; tng the Southern leaders to their knees howl.

ing foe mercy. Bat General Bragg has wrought a
change 3, and Rosencranz has been thrown from his

pedestal, and will, unless he gain a victory even now
—which no one expects,—be consigned to the him-
ber-room where rest, more or less broken and
dilapidated, the once heroic statues labelled with
the names of M'Dowell, Welellan,Fitzjohn, Porter,
rope, Store, Butler, and others, who have served
their turn, and are now considered neither useful
nor ornamental. Disheartened by one reverse, the
supporters of the administration are calling for the
dismissal of :Rosencranz, and the appointment in his
place of General Thomas, whose division in the great
battle of Chickamauga on Sunday, the 20th inst.,
saved the army of the Cumberland from total rout
and annihilation. But the Administration, knowing
that it ordered Rosencranz to advance against his
better judgment, hesitates to adopt this course.
Knowing at the same time that a scapegoat of some
kind is necessary to appease the people, and help
to divert attention from its own mismanagement, it
has found the victim in the person of General
B amide, who, whether as military satrap of Ohio
or a leader in the field, has been without exception
the m ast unfortunate person the Federal Government
has river had in its employ. The General has had
a keener appreciation of his own demerits than the
Government. He has never willingly assumed high
command; he protested against his own nomination
to succeed General WClellan ; he went reluctantly
to Cincinnati to play the part of a dictator, but
having once tasted the sweets of arbitrary power,
ho appears to have become unfitted for a secondary
position,, and to have yielded but a grudging obe-
dience -to General Rosencranz, his junior in the ser-
vice. A fortnight ago he resigned his command,
but WI is persuaded by the Government to reconsider
his de eermination. He did so, and was ordered to
march from Knoxville to the support of Rosencranz.
This for some reason he failed to do. The battle of
Ciaickaix,auge was fought in his absence, and Rosen-
cranz was defeated. Though the same fate might
have be fallen the army of the Cumberland had Burn-
side be en present with his 25,000 man, the Govern-
ment assumes the reverse, and has marked its die-
plea:Aire at his ill luck, or his inability, by relieving
him of his command, and appointing General J oseph
Hooker, the defeated of Chancelloraville, in his place.
But General Burnside has not been allowed to fall
without a defender. Parson Brownlew, the most
profane "rowdy" that ever pretended to preach the
Gospel, or was dubbed " the reverend," a man who
would not be tolerated as a clergyman in any part
of the world but in America, has publicly declared
in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial that
Burnside has not been to blame, and that the Go-
vern went, in ordering him to advance, acted in the
prof nundest ignorance of the topography of the
couutry to be traversed. The " Parson" states that
" he has knoWn the country since 1829, when it was
possessed by the Cherokee Indians; that he has in
the interval travelted over it in every conceivable
way ;" and that a great deal more was expected of
Burnside titan it was possible for Burnside to per-
form. The distance from Knoxville to Chattanooga
is, he says, 110 miles, and from Chattanooga to La-
fayette---in the immediate vicinity of which the
battles of the 19th and 20th were fought-45 miles
more. Throughout this district all the bridges had
been burnt, by the Confederates ; the streams are
sluggish tend deep, and the banks high; and the
country thickly timbered with a heavy undergrowth,
A' makinK it rather impassable for the operations of
a large army." The " Parson" calls lustily for rein-
forcements for Rosencranz, and thinks, if he gets
them "in sufficient numbers," which is exceedingly
doubtful, that Rosencranz will " whip the whole
Confederacy." A 9 for himself, he has no fears of
the result. Blood, murder, fire, and extermination
are the weapons he recommends. "Greek fire for
the r easses of the Southern people, and hell fire for
their leaders"—so shrieks this minister of the Gospel,
this. man, who would be a shameless ruffian if he
were not a lunatic, which for the credit of Chris-
tieeaity and humanity it is to be charitably hoped
he= must be.

Public expectation has for weeks been on the
stretch to hear of great events on the Rapidan and
in the harbour of Charleston. Bat the war languishes
in both places. General Meade has not the means
to advance against General Lee, and though sorely
pressed by the fools of Washington to run his head
age.inst a wall, refuses to perform the Japanese
ceremony of Hari Mari. General Gilmore and
Admiral Dahlgren at Charleston are equally power•
less, or equally prudent, and find themselves so
effectually checkmated by General Beauregard and
the gallant defenders of the brave little city as to
be unable even to plant their banner upon the ruins
of Fort Sumter, or make a single move with their
monitors and ironclads against the formidable ob-
structions that might in one moment quench the
pride of Ericsson, and prove that great as the capa-
cities of science are for offensive warfare, they are
more than equalled by its capacities for defence.
Bat Charleston, the Rapidan, andChickaraauga—
all the phases of the war—have for the moment lost
their interest in comparison with that excited by the
Presence in New York harbour of a greater fleet of
foreign war vessels than was ever seen in those
vatetre
laliln.e, on
since the discovery of America. Admiral
board the Nile, arrived yesterday from
the West India station, accompanied by the gunboats
Immortalize
and Nimble. The French frigate
Oa erriere has suddenlyreturned from Halifax with
three others, and a Rua
sial, fleet of no less than seven
war ships has been
here
knows why this rendezvoours nearly a week. No one
has been appointed, or
what hostile or amicable puos are at the bottom
of it. Gen. Hiram Wallbridgee,sa corn dealer and
one of those haters of England, who tossed
eote of
riswold was
con-
temptuously his grain bags to the
Lanca-
shire a few months ago when GeorgeP
laden with ostentatious charity, toshw
rable English operatives were and howogenheorwonms aisned.
forgiving were the merchants of New York, has, it
lice
is true, taken upon himself to declare in presence of
some of the Russian officers (who, although
spoke English, and had previously addressed the
it
in that language, did not think
company - expe.
client to contradict him), that the object of the Czar
in sending such a fleet to New York was to have it
at a place " where, at a given signal, it could sweep
the commerce of Great. Britain and France from the
seas." But es
Gen. Hiram Wallbridge is no autho-
rity upon that or any other matter, except the price
of breadstuff's, the gratification that might have been
excited in the American heart by his pompous an-
nouncement is qualified by the misgiving, largely
prevalent, that the bloodless general spoke from the
exuberance of feeling excited by the flowing bowl,
rather than from knowledge or from any official
reempting, either Russian or American. Neverthe
EB,N4ere is much wonderment to pierce the mys-
tery Of the fleets. As no one can solve it, and as
gold is alarmed
modity has at the doubt, that tremulous com-
pile up horn 381 to a premium
per cent., ie„t and Russia
Great
Britain, France,
should,
after tatof 44
and conjointly (1 be in accord, and have severally
South for th® coetermined to notify to North and
harbour, that the war
position of New York
Elilri.
.ad lasted a great deal too
long, and that it
fiaac.az time for the 2,lorth to ad-
mit the logic of
and necessity,
the independence of the and consent to
South.
Among minor affairs the el Mr. Vallan-
digham for the Govereorshipeeetti.°P of
Off
gneenxttbleirtakes prece-
dence. The event comes
Administration week.Ev"tyo
to
tb:. His effort is and will be made by the
defeat the candidature of that
reputation
of suc-
cess would be a blow so damaging
of the Cabinet that no stone is left nnturnren
every knd of
to pre_
vent it. The State is "stumped" by
i
speaker and orator in the interest of the Republican
who can be persuaded or paid to
party declaim
against the men who in his exile gives Mr. Lincoln
and his friends almost as much uneasiness as Gen.
Lea or Gen. Beauregard. The services of the gentle
thing but her tongue
Anna Dickinson--'gentle in any