The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-09-21

| chAnged, dS u unamHsOus vote OF the Duuu -
CURED for that purpose In return the German
Princes have demanded of Denmark the restOra-
ton Of the provincial form Of government. both 70
Schleswig and Holstein. Denmark has replied that
this will be effected only at the point Of tho
bayonets Of the Germans. She seeks to ally her
self with Sweden 70 prevent it; and great OWL
struggle, even European war. may ensue from
the facts stated by our correspondent.
We give to-day . very interesting and conclusive
statement from Colonel Sir Percy Wyndhsm tho
brilliant cavalry officer Of the Army Of the Psto-
mac, in reply to communication published in the
HRaALD on Wednesday last, signed "Percy 8.
Wyndham, H. p"
The Lndell Hotel, now nearly completed in
St Louis, will be the largest on this continent,
and will exceed in dimensions any other hotel in
the world, except one in France. 1t will cost five
hundred Thousand dollars. is 279 feet front. 23T
feet deep, seven stories high, and will be capable
of accommodating one thousand four hundred
guests.
The draft in Albany. which was to have com
menced to-day, has been postponed.
General Ben. f. Loan, member of Congress elect
in Missouri has given up the sword and opened q
law Office in st. Joseph.
Emancipation movements are very lively in Mis-.
souri,. Slaves 60 into Kansas at the rate Of one
hundred and fifty day.
The stock market dull Saturday but very strong
especially New York Central Gold rose to 1856 aud ex
change to lss H. Money easy pcr cent FOR call
ioans
Cotton was active and advancing on Saturday. Flour,
wheat md corn sought after and higher In
price Provisions Arm, with fair inquiry Wits.
key was heays' and trihe cheaper. Coffee teas and
molasses were in moderate demand, while sugars
were in brisk request at rising prices There moro
doing In hay, hops, wool, taiow and tobacco, which
were quoted hrmer Hides, leather and skins 10
fair demand Manila hemp inquired Tor. Fish at
racted more attention. There activity the
freight market
Important from Rosecrams-Severe Bat.
tie nenr Chattanooga.
The news from Chattanooga, given 10 another
column, is important. The great conflict in
that section between Rosecrans' Union army
and the combined rebel forces of Johnston,
Bragg, Hill, Longstreet and Polk, began on
Saturday morning, and is probably in progress
now. The first days fighting was in our favor.
For some days past the reports and rumors
Of the depletion Of the rebel army of Virginia,
to strengthen Bragg In Georgia and Beauregard
at Charleston, have been thickeniug upon us,
until at length they are magnifed into the
statement, at Fortress Monroe, that the enemy
are evacuating Richmond Nor do we think this
information to q certain extent incredible, con.
siderihg the present desperate situation Of the
rebellion, although we adhere to the opinion
that Richmond and Virginia will not be sur
rendered without another struggle.
ho. har. &c
the vital Importance to the rebellion of those
lines of railroads which centre at Atlanta,
Georgia--that with that point in the possession
Of Rosecrans and with Charleston in the pos
session of Gilmore the Davis cOnfederacy will
be cut In two again IA efcctually as ii was
divided with our reopening Of the Mississippi
river. In this connection we have shown
the danger to the rebel establishment in
Virginia from the active and Mnmstakeable
resctionary Union movements which are ag-
tsting the people OF North Carolina, and the
urgent necessity on the part Of General Lee
either 10 advance once more against Washing
ton or to detach at least portion of his army
to the relief of Bragg and Beaurcgard Any
intelligent observer OF the late events Of the
war will now perceive that Lee cannot afford
to stand simply upon the defensive watching
the movements of the Union army in bis front,
while Rosecrans. Burnside, Gilmore, Foster
and the people Of North Carolina threaten his
destruction from the rear.
Hence we believe these numerous concur
rent reports from Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Georgia, that Bragg's army has
been materially strengthened from the army of
Lee, and that desperate effort will be made
to crush the army Of Rosecrans or to prevent
its further advance But it does not follow
that to secure this object Richmond and vir-
ginia are to be absolutely abandoned On the
contrary, while il is probable that the local
demands Of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi for their own troops for their
own defence have resulted in the movement Of
those troops to the assistance of Bragg, John
ston and Bsauregard, we do not think IL proba-
BILE that the forty or fifty thousand rebel
soldiers in Virginia, whose homes are in that
State, have been, or will consent TO be, en-
ployed In the defence OF coutederacy which
involves the abandonment OF Virginia TO the
"old Union" We know that when Bragg
abandoned Tennessee his soldiers from that
State abandoned him by hundreds and by
thousands. They had been fighting for q
Southern confederscy but what was this con-
federacy 10 them with Tennessee left out in the
cold! The same Was the case in Kentucky aud
Missouri, aud more recently in Mississippi,
with the overthrow Of the rebel armies therein.
We conclude. therefore, that the Virginia
soldiers Of the rebel army will remain in vir-
gnia still to fight for their sinking cause
while they conccde the justice Of allowing their
confedcratcs from Georgia, &c. to return home
to defend their States against the invading
Yankees This arrangement may involve