The New York herald., 1863-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.


of General Lees army, when it entered Pennsyl
vania. was ninety-fve thousand men. Seventy
five thousand passed through Hagerstown, and the
balance went by the way Of Hancock.
The Rochester Grays, an artillery company,
have been ordered to the forts in New York har-
Dor.
The thirty days militia who went from this
State for the defence of Pennsylvania are to be
credited and accounted for in the coming draft on
the basis Of three years Of service-thats, thirty
ak men counting as one.
Our veteran soldiers, or those who have been to
the war; must not be deceived in regard to the
government bounty of four hundred and two dol
lars offered for re.enlistments. If they join new
organizations they will not get this bounty. They
must enlist in old regiments, or in what 10 termed
the Veteran Corps" which will be limited to q
specified number of regiments.
The draft is announced to take place in Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island Immediately. Those
first to be called must be between the ages of
twenty and thirty -fve. and all unmarried men be-
tween thirty-fve and forty five years. If the war
continues this class must be exhausted before the
others are called upon. In Rhode Island it is said
that the draft will take about one half of the men
composing the first class.
| Two thousand three hundred dollars have been
raised in Virginia, Nevada Territory, for the Irish
relief fund.
A shovel handle factory in South Wayne. Maine,
was burned on the lst instant, with forty
outbuildings. stores. mills, factories, 60. Loss
| 100000.
| In consequence of the speculative demands of
coal dealers. consumers are clubbing together and
buying their coal by the cargo, at about seven
dollars for the long ton.
The fruit prospects in New Jersey continue to be
good.
special meeting of the Board Of Education
was held last evening, when, by twothirds vote,
they rescinded the resolution adopted at their last
meeting, to withhold the signatures Of the Presi-
dent and Clerk from all warrants drawn by the
School Trustees Of the Ninth ward until those
officers shall have restored Miss Kate McGean to
the school and class from which she was expelled
for refusing to sing the abolition hymn entitled the
"Batte Hymn of the Republic"
1t will be recollected that in the summer Of 1852
writ Of habeas corpus was applied for to bring
the Police Commissioners of Baltimore, confined
at that time in Fort Lafayette by order Of the
government. before Judge Garrison, of the County
Court of Kings county Sheriff Campbell attempt
ed to execute the writ, but, being met by armed
men at Fort Hamil ton, was unable to do SO, and
made return to that effect. The matter rested
until recently when counsel for the Commissioners
applied for an alias attachment in the arrest Of
Colonel Martin Burke. commandant Of the fortif-
cations at the Narrows, and hich has been grant
| ed by Judge Garrison. The writ has been placed
in the hands of the Sheriff. but no return had been
made up to last evening.
The stock market irregular yesterday, generally
lower in the morning and better in tie afternoon Gold
fell TO $780, closing four p lS0X. Exchange
/ was 144k las. Money was very easy.
Cotton dull, and quoted down to bSc. $50. for
middlings yesterday Flour and wheat inactive at
much ower prices Corn freely purchased but at
| heavy reduction In rates. There important
movements in groceries, oils naval stores The de-
mand for provisions mainly pork, which
| what hrmer Tho inquiry for most other commodities
was restricted. The freight engagements were light
| The Grandeur OF President Lineoln's
Position-Wni He Restore sho Unions
The rebellion is thrown upon its beam ends
among the breakers, and nothing can save 1t
from going to pieces. With the demolition of
, the army of General Lee, which is now ap-
parently reduced to . certainty, and with the
capture Of Vicksburg, involving the capture of
Port Hudson and the rebel army at both
Iplaces. the work of reducing the remaining
armies of jeff Davis becomes as simple and
easy as that of suppressing an Indian outbreak
on the Western frontier. In fact General
Meade, with the Army of the Potomac at Get
| tysburg, settled the fate Of the rebellion. So
decisive was the pressure against 1t in the South
| west with the advance of Lee into Pennsyl-
vania that upon the issue of his campaign de-
pended the fate Of JEFF. Davis and his Southern
confederacy. This campaign has resulted in
defeat and retreat so disastrous to Lee that
there is hardly the possibility Of an escape for
one-tenth Of his late grand army beyond the
flooded Potomac
In view, then, Of the important fact that the
| work Of putting down the armed forces Of the
rebellion may be considered substantially ac-
complished, the question recurs, what is the
Of speedy and harmonious restoration Of the
Unionf The position for good and evil which
President Lincoln commands at this momen-
tous juncturc In our history 10 . position Of
extraordinary power and of surprising gran
deur and responsibility. Does he still con-
template the restoration Of the Union under
our existing federal constitution, or has It be-
come his fixed purpose to pursue the war for
the more distant object Of q reconstruction
based upon the extinguishment Of Southern
slavery Assuming that he still aims at nothing
beyond the submission Of the rebellious States
, to the Union, and knowing, as we do. that Mr..
Lincoln Is humane man, and not . lover Of
, bloodshed, we think that the time has arrived
when he may advantageousy consider and act
upon the proposition Of an amnesty to the
people generally Of the rebellious States, on
the condition Of the return of those States
within specified time, to their allegiance to
the government Of The Union.
Let the leading conspirators, managers and