New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-10
THE LEGAL TENDER IN THE OLD NOTES
REBELS REINFORCING MANASSAS
They are Falling Back from the Potomac
THE ADVANCE OF OUR TROOPS.

Special Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune
wAsHrssros March o. 1882.
MASON AND sLIDEILs PROPOSITIONS FOR
RECOGNITION.
The Slavery question has new interest from
tho letters received last night from Europe.
II il now understood that Mason and Sldell
have made propositions in London aud Paris
calculated to enlist the sympathes of religious
people and of liberal. They offer IS the con.
dition Of recognition:
First: The protection Of the marriage relation
Second. The removal Of al statutory impediments
70 manumission.
Thud Prospective emancipation.
OF course free trade 10 thrown in to boot.
1t is fortunate that the emancipation propo-
sition Of our sagaciOus President has antici-
pated tho indefatigable and crafty Commission
ers. From other sources it appears that the
Slavery question is engrossng attention IN
Europe. 1t is felt there in the highest quar-
ters. that this war cannot DO ended until We
grapple face to face with Slavery; and this
contest ought not to be postponed. The result
of careful canv assng of the House of Commons,
after a fortnishts session, is found in two con.
illusions by one Of its ablest members. First,
tina. the North is tight in the present contest
Second, that the North cannot succeed in bring
ing back the South to the Union. Tho propo-
sitons of the Rebel Commissioners show that
Slavery is tottering. Our hands can topple it
down at any moment.
BEN. WADE AND TIE TENNESSEE RAILROAD
CORRUPTION.
No greater injustice was ever done public
man than tho recent attempt by the enemies OF
Ben. Wade in Ohio, to dishonoraoly connect
him as the Chairman of the Committee on the
Conduct of the War, with an act Of legislation
alleged to be corrupt, whereby q suspended
railroad enterprise in Tennessee was to
10 completed at the expense of the
Federal Treasury. If any dispatch in
TnE TRIBUNE has been used to sus-
tain a charge against Mr.. Wades integrity or
fidelity, we repndiate every word Of it. Our
opinion Of MIN should by this time be well
known, that he is one Of the truest and
staunchest men that ever had 5 seat in the
United States Senate. We know that there is
no single man in this nation to whom the sue
cessful issue Of the war, through the crisis it
i, lust emerging from, will be more due than
to Bon. Wade. We know that he is honored
and confded in by every department of the
Government, and We know that wherever The
TRIBUNE is read, the name Of Ben. Wade is
the synonym Of honesty, courage, and love
of freedom
THE POTOMAC ARMY.
The President has determined to perfect the
organization Of the Army of tho Potmac by
dividing 1t into five corps d armfe, commanded
by the senior Generals of division, namely
Major. Gen. Banks, Brigader-Generals in the
Regular Army-Sumner and Mcdowell; Brig.
Generals of Volunteers Iieinizelman and Keyes.
The two la.t-named outrank all the other
Brigadier- Generals of Volunteers. Next 10
them ON the Army register sand the names Of
Generals Andrew and Ftz john Porter, and
below them again, those Of Generals Franklin,
Mccall, Hooker and Blenker. Cen. Scott, who
was always averse to what he called "new.
tangled notions" aud who had never com.
lnanded I'm army sufficiently large to admit Of
division into several bodies, thirty or forty
thousand strong, opposed the organization Of
corps u armies while he was Genera.iu. Chief
Upon his retirement it WAS supposed that Gen.
Mcclellan, who, up to that time, had beer
strongly in favor of an organization, the value
of which he had observed abroad, would al
once constitute them, aud at one time be did
according to common report, indicate tho Gen
erals whom he desired TO put in command OF
the several corps which he was about to con.
stitute Only one or two Of those then named
are among the five selected by the President
The division was not then made, however, and
further postponements have taken place from
time to time on various PrcteXts, and for
reasons past finding out, or which 1t would not
be wise to name until the President, knowing
that every one of his Generals, seconded by the
Joint Committee on tho Conduct Of the War,
desired tho organization of the army to be per.
fscted, did it himself consulting no one except
Secretary Stanton, and not announcing his de-.
termination to Gen. Mcclellan until the
several commanders had been designated.
Every ono Of tho objects that could DO Of.