The New York herald., 1862-11-20
=. ,ssked out in regard to General Banks
,rtained in his sententious reply

eH. =. ,ssked out in regard to General Banks
iss:e;a.t;a. |; A. ntained in his sententious reply
voss'ns'ion -vho was kindly and Off
20 an anxious inquirer, yssc
cially informed that the General was gomx--
South. Curious people will have to apply In
some other quarters for military orators, there
fore. Fremont is always on hand, hoyfyer, and
has recently been making severs,' long speeches
at st. Louis, in which he conquered the classics
as splendidly as he conquered the Con-
federates. Cassius NJ Clay is also cheap mill
tary lecturer, and has speech ready whenever
ahe public is willing to call and pay for it. We
Advise those concerned to content themselves
with Fremont and Clay, therefore, and leave
such generals as Mcclellan and Banks, whose
common sense is superior to their loquacious-
ness, to do their duty undsturbed.
IMPORTANT SOUTHERN RAILROAD CONNECTIONS
CoMPLETED-lt appears that at length the rebel
Confederate government has completed the
railroad connection Ia distance of forty miles
or SOY between Danville and Greensboro, in
North Carolina, and has also made connection
between the great central railway line from
Selma, in Alabama, across to the Mobile and
Ohio road in Mississippi. With these two breaks
closed up, the rebels secure an inland system
OF railways from Richmond through North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, to Vicksburg. We may seize
and hold their great railroad line which passes
through the northern borders of Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia and East Tennessee into
,s,;o
,scaboard lines; but still in the interior the
rebels will now have from Richmond to Vicks-
burg. continuous system OF connecting rail-
roads through the cotton States.
The rebel Congress gave the authority asked
to JEFF. Davis, and he has done the work. Presi.
dent Lincoln has not been so successful with
the present Congress OF the United States His
recommendations for a railroad from some eligi-
BILE point in Kentucky to Cumberland Gap, in
East Tennessee, and for another from Washing
ton to the Point of Rocks, Oh the Upper Poto-
mac for military purposes, were completely ig-
inored by the dominant Congressional party at
Washington; whereas, had the proposed railroad
from Washington to the Point of Rocks (be-
tween forty and fifty miles) been completed by
the lst of last September the rebel General
Lee would not have had the opportunity to re-
penish his exhausted army wagons from the
bounHful stores of provisions which he secured
in his Maryland invasion. His starving army
would have been driven back from the Potomac
into the military desert of Eastern Virginia.
There may be no military necessity now for the
railroads suggested by President Lincoln; but
it is to be hoped that some discretion at least
will be hereafter allowed him in reference to
Che comp zion or improvement Of important
ines ofmilitary communication.
Our QUOTA AND THE DRAFT.--The draft has
been indefinitely postponed in Connecticut.
There are now very great doubts whether it
will be enforced in this State. 1t is believed
in official circles, upon reliable data, that we
have more than filed up our quota already,
but that the men have been lost through the
negligence of the government in refusing to
rcovide them with proper transportation to
Washington. a squad Of recruits were recent
iy compelled to occupy hfty-sne hours in jour-
neying by railroad from this city to Washing
ton. The ordinary traveller goes through in
twelve hours. Is it any wonder, then, that the
men get fairly exhausted ON the journey, and
seize upon every opportunity to desert? Be-
sides this, there are gangs of men stationed at
philadelphia, Baltimore and other places along
She route who persuade our recruits to leave
che ranks and enlist again in those cities, to
get more bounty money. So patent are these
facts that many regiments enlist fourteen hum
dred men here so as to get one thousand safely
Shrough to Washington. We hold that the gov
ernment is responsible for this state of things,
and that it is unjust to force us to bear the
penalty. If the government would but refuse
all furloughs, and compel the absentees from
Che army to return 10 duty, there would be no
need of any draft. There are now enough sol
ders absent on leave to make large army Of
themselves. Let the government bring back
ahese soldiers, and provide proper transporta-
tion for recruits, and then il will be time enough
to Gil up any deficiencies by draft. If things
are allowed to go on in this way, however, we
shall have draft every month or two, and yet
have too few men in our armies
AcApzrY or Muslc.--The +" Flgia del Regeimentoi was
given LAST night TO an excellent house. Madame Guerra
bella appearing The role OF Marie. Although she Ind
been labcrng for the previous day or two under the
effects ndispositcn she sustained the part with great
spirit aud animation her charming qualities as an actress
finding eU scope FOR exercise in II, Indeed dramatic
iy speaking, question n the character has ever had
riquant ana graceful representative. The supzio
of susn marked by its usual elasticity and breadth
of humor II s Of those characters in which he es
pecay shines, and being excellent voice. he did full
Justice Br-no has but little 20 do In hs role Of Tonic,
and was consequently ana out OF his element
What he had 10 sing, however, most admirably and
effectively given.
Tomorrow FIGiy), Madame Iorni Whiting will per-
form Lucrezia B0a, this being stated to be her last