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g1eemcnt between him md the a,,thor;,,.. =,
to what mems are necessary to enable him tu
carry out the proposed enterprise, whlcl. i
no tsss than tie organization Of the negroes,
force capable Of holding both bunks and
keeping the river open to navigation This
job Gen. Butler believes tha. he Gu,
carry through. He lns shown himself esFaas eFaa'
to every tusk TINT has presented itssif; e. s.,
o1ea1s and especially such tasasl as.,;l treatment M mt
of ia the nefrocs roRs liz been there long
enough tofornl cor1f1,rh ,hat ,ens ol "iaat can DC
aene aarr ~ II aaesotnplish the object What means
SnsS .,n:S. Il no require. He requires nothing th.t
ssnot perfectly Just and proper, and intlis-
:pensably necessary to success. "Giyc me
= these Implement, = says Gen Butler, sand
~ will furnish yon *, 600 soldiers on the
Lower Mississippi, ready to do any kind Of
fighting, before the time Of enlistment Of
"pired-" It would do no harm, as conceive.
but much good, to tell every man In the loyaf
States exactly what 1t is that Gen. Butler re-
quests, but am required to rest content with
affirming merely that his demands ought to
be complied with. at the same time believe
they will not be complied with.
Gen. Butler has been unable to find out why
he was superseded. Those who know have
been quite yoluble in telling him that he was
not recalled for this, that aud the other rea-
son, but no response is obtained to the direct
interrogatory why he was recalled. Tie sum
tofnl Is that the Government has an elephant
IN Its hands, Of the largest and hungricst
known species 1t is impossible to dispose Of
him at rifle, and hardly less difficult TO pro-
vide hun with sustenance. Let us hope that
such connsels may prevail as will return to ac-
tive service the best administrative officer in
the arm{-one whose career has met the en-
thusiastic plaudits Of the people, and earned
the deepest hatred and most suiphurous curses
Of every traitor in the land.
Zen: Banks has entered upon tforny road
-wonld that he were well out Of it But is it
possible for any man to make head against the
rebellion who indulgcs in such rhetoric as
this 81 It will be left rs only to ass,,arc tho
Il horrors Of internecine conflict, and to pro-
"crastlnate the processes Of transition" I
had supposed that there were not two men in
the United States who were equal to the con-
struction Of such q sentence, and that the
name Of one Of them was William Il. Seward.
AS to Gen. Banks military operations it
should b. borne in mind that before he can CO.
.operate with Sherman, be or somebody else,
must reduce Port Hudson, some 800 miles be-
low Vickshnrg. place quite as strong Us
Vicksburg itself. The idea that he could, by
any possibility, take part in the siege Of Vicks-
burg WAS ridiculous. Gen. Sherman did not
!: FACTS n easiRD TO TIE MONITOR.
;. Ese::y body dcplores the loss of the Monitor,
the little iron knight that came, when ,devas.
tation aud despair had seized Us, and smashed
The III skull Of thc ugly giant. But, in the optn-
proves nothing against the seasoing qualities
Of that class ofvcssels. The huIt was in the
overlapping Of the *'raft," or iron covering III
the hull, der which the sea gained such a
leverage that nothing could hare resisted 1t.
1.-THE " raft" had been made to fit the hull, 80
as to present u smooth edge to the water,
there would have been no strnining, no leak
age, no sinking Of the noble, craft. The Pas.
sale, Weeliawken and Nahant will trY their
armor against ten-fnch colu1nbiads ere long
WASHINGTON RuMoNs--TuE sT0RT OF SHAW
Since the day Chicago went daft on the ru.
morcd taking Of Richmond, there has been
nothing 50 ridiculous Us the excitement crca.
ted in Washington to-day by report that
"Rosecrans Ind surrendered with 10000
men" This highly interesting narrative was
started by ShaW. Everybody knows Shau.
He is rcd haired man who frequently creates
m alarm of fire by rushing into the street
without his hat. He was formerly the N. 7,
He'dld's correspondent, but was discharged
sereral years ago for an accidental discovery
Of The truth: For this .tanr pos Shaw vas
gazetted N the Herald for two weeks in the
Washington correspondent Of the Herald, Is
no longer connected with this paper" Shaw
means we'll, but his proneness to error has
passed into o preyerb. Shaw came up to the
capital about O'Clock and calling Senator
uarris out Of his scat, told him that bulle-
Grams had surrendered with $4,000 men,"
Senator Harris entered the Senate chamber
and communicated the news privately, stating
hls authority. In less than i've minutes the