The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-03-24

there were at Nassau, N. p, ths following
blockade runners and privsteens-The Victory,
Anna Childs, Minna, Granite City, Antonics,
Havelock Formerly Douglas) and Georgiana.
This last vessel, which as yet has done no harm,
having only just arrived out from the mother
country, is to be powerful privateer, steam
or, equal, If not superior, In speed and arma-
ment, to the Alabama and the Florida. 1t will
be observed that the name Georgiana has been
purposely chosen, SO as to change it easily to
Georgia by cutting off tho two final letters.
The 200 was changed to the Alabama, the
Oreto to the Florida, and now the Georgiana is
to be the Georgia. Her captain Davison) and
her mate (Wilson) have returned to England in
the British Queen, to bring out the South Caro-
lima as the next privateer; and 80 we presume
these operations will be continued till there are
war vessels afloat in the waters of the West In
dies with the name of every State In the coufe-
deracy. And Of all these things the British
government is fully aware So much for the
neutrality OF John Bull, which is all at one side
like the handle of pitcher. But we hope that
the squadron of Commodore Wilkes, AZ we'll as
the blockading feet, will keep bright lookout
for the Anglo-rebel pirates.
SPLENDID AND DECISIVE UNION VICTORIES EAST
AND WEsT.-"Fighting Joe" Hooker has opened
his campaign against Richmond in magnificent
style. He has not crossed the Rappahannock
nor captured fredericksburg but, according to
the Tribune, the official organ of the War De-
partment, he has covered himself all over with
glory by the capture of one of our two hundred
able army correspondents The Importance of
this forward movement cannot be exaggerated
Ii General Hooker had captured the correspon-
dent of any other paper it would have been
nothing wonderful; but it required rare mill
tary tactics to eircunvent one of the formidable
ready-writers of the invincible HERALD.
The Tribune informs us that Mr.. Denyse, the
correspondent in question, was put in irons, in
carcerated in the prison-ship at Aqua Greek,
and tried before military commission, as i'm
partial as the Porter Court Martial, on the
charge of publishing information calculated to
give aid and comfort to the enemy" Upon
this charge he was found guilty aud sentenced
to six months imprisonment at hard labor in the
Quartermastsr's Department; but General
Hooker magnanimously commuted the sentence
into perpetual Punishment from the lines of the
Army of the Potomac. Now the information
which Mr.. Denyse published was that the army
would move as soon as the mud dried up. and
would not take much baggage with it. The
rebels must have been aware Of this news be-
fore it was published; for common sense would
have taught them that the army intended to
move some time and somewhere. But, as weeks
have gone by, and the army has not moved, We
begin to believe that Mr.. Denyse has misin-
formed us, and he is now on trial before the
HERALD court martial. We have every conf
dence in him, and if he has led us astray we
shall not put him in irons or incarcerate
him, but shall probably send him of beyond
the lines of the HERALD Office on some foreign
mission-perhaps to Russia.
Scarcely have we recovered from the enthu-
the East when the record Of an equally decisive
triumph in the West dazzles our eager eyes
from the same column of the official Tribune
General Sherman, the man who did not take
Vicksburg, has won for himself niche in the
temple of fame by capturing another of the glo-
rious two hundred A HERALD correspondent,
named Mr.. Thomas w. Knox, was arrested and
court martialled by General Sherman, on the
charge of violating an old regulation Of the War
Department by publishing a letter giving an
account Of our repulse at Vicksburg, without
first showing the letter to Sherman, the COM
handing general The Tribune adds that ''the
regulation is practically obsolete everywhere;
but the letter Of the law was against Mr.. Knox,
and he was sentenced to leave the department
and not to return on pain Of Imprisonment. The
President has so far revoked the sentence as to
issue an order permitting him to return to the
department, aud to remain there with the con-
sent of Major General Grant, Who says that
General Sherman ia not great man now
What would the capture Of Vicksburg have
been in comparison with this tremendous ex
plot of court martialing HERALD correspond
ent Ii is o good thing 10 have enterprising
and sagacious generals in the field Let the
nation rejoice.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE REBELs.-
The Tribune, the official organ of the War De.
partment stated yesterday that there were one
hundred and thirty thousand deserters from our
armies. This is most important information for
the rebels, and will aid and comfort them re-
markably. The rebel leaders will doubtless
conclude that our soldiers are tired of the war,
and that now is the time to advance, before these
one hundred and thirty thousand deserters are
brought back. When Mcclellan was on the
peninsula it was stated that there we're thirty
thousand absentees from his army, and this was
one of the gravest charges brought against that
much abused general We wonder who Is re-
sponsible for the absence Of these one hundred
and thirty thousand desertsrs. Is it the War
Department. And is it the War Department
which now gives this aid and comfort to the