The New York herald., 1861-12-28
TRIPLE SHEET,
New York, Saturday, Dece.ns.r as, 1861.
THE SITUATION.

AH1A SITUATION.
We have nothing new to-day from the army of
sne Potomac. The President and Captain Dahl
sren vent down the river yesterday on the trial
trip OF the Pensacola. The names Of Colonel Tho
mas Francis Meagher and Colonel Asboath have
been sent TO the Senate for confirmation as Brga
dier Generals
report was prevalent in Washington that the
Mason and a!dell affair has been adjusted but no
Details Of such news have reached u.s.
The report that the rebels had thirteen thousand
men at Dranesville proves to be incorrect, our re-
connoitering squadrons failing to find them; but it
has been ascertaned that there are about ten thou
sand of them near Parkhurst's Mills about midway
between Vienna and Dranesville
BY our dispatches from Missouri We learn that as
soon as the intelligence of General Popes cavalry
having driven in the pickets of General Rains
reached the camp of the rebel General Price the
utmost CONSERVATION prevailed. and sudden
dight took place in great confusion. The army
made direct for the Arkansas border, burning the
bridges behind them. including the new bridge
built BY General Fremont over the Usage river.
Vhe last accounts of General Price and his troops
were that they had passed hurriedly through
Springfield en- route for Arkansas from which
State they are not expected again to emerge
resume Of the successes of the Union army in
Missouri for the past two weeks shows that we
have captured $500 rebels, including seventy COM
mssioned officers, 1900 horses and mules, !, 100
stand Of arms. ten tons Of powder hundred ne.
groes and an immense amount Of commissary
stores and camp equipage, and all this with the
loss only of hundred men killed and wounded
The result the campaign is now about completed
by the dispersion of Gen. Prices army and their
flight into Arkansas. This is not bad record for
our army in the West
Our news from New Mexico is of q cheering cha
racter. Colonel Candy who is In command Of the
military department there has retaken the two
forts on the Messilla border-forts Cray and Stan.
ton-and was at last accounts on his way to Fort
Fillmore, some months ago surrendered by Major
Lynde. who has been dismissed the service in con.
sequence. Colonel Candy is driving the rebel
Texans before him, and intends to press on into
Arizona.
1 By the Edinburgh, at New York, and Nova
6cotisn, at Portland, yesterday, we received files
Of European journals with full details Of the 70.
reign news to the 18th instant. So far as the re.
ports relate to the position of the American ques.
tion abroad, they are very important and sig-
hiHcant
The compilation published in the HERALD this
morning shows that the consideration of our pre-
Sent and future relations with England, as modi-
Fed and likely to be altered by tho
Trent affair, engaged the attention of cabi.
bets, statesmen, legislators, merchants, clergy.
Inen. jurists and newspaper writers in England,
France Ireland. Scotland, Portugal and other coun-
tries. almost universally. powerful party in
England was apparently organizing in opposition
Do Lord Palmerston's attempt to retain Office on
pho strength of the anti American excitements.
while it ID evident that the best interests in
Great Britain were alarmed at the prospect Of
Far between che two countries The Enolish
P'peace party" together with many popular pul
pit orators in that country, condemned the idea Of
bostilites and it is quite apparent that her toIna
masses have become impressed with the notion
hhat the attitude Of our Cabinet viii, in the end
benefit their condition. This feeling on their part
IS TO be readily observed in their impatience to
draw forth an expression Of opinion on america
from the member for Lambeth, when he eyinced a