New-York daily tribune., 1863-08-01

FROM Our Special Correspondent
CAigo Wednesday. July q. 1863
know that many OF your Western readers will
be glad TO learn that deserving soldiers in General
Grauis army are getting fprloughs for the purpose
OF visiting their homes. Tho,e included in this grant
are the ones who have been in service since the
war, who have seen scores Of battles and who have
not seen their homes and loved ones DOW nearly
two years. The cars are filed with them going
North. In addition, the sick are removed from all
points Glow ths TO the Mound City and Saint Louis
hospitals. A branch Of the Sanitary Department
here recently has made arrangements for keeping a
complete ist o. sick 20 diors brought from below,
thai their friends certainly may learn where they
can oe ioUDd.
1t Is TO he gathered from this that stirring
news may be expected from Nick-burg for some
tire. Tho army requires reet and dnriog the warm
weather will enjoy II. Meanwhile, tho-e regiments
more recently oulsted Will be engaged in holding
our onquests and in keeping the navigation OF the
river free.
The plan adopted is: A feet of transports will
leave this place every Monday morning, conveyed
hv one or more Cunboa;s, destined for Now Oflraus
and intermediate points; meanwhile, occasional
tran sorts will be conveyed. II practcabe but they
ay be subject 10 detentOne, snch hs ing by at
night. Hence the guerrlas Ill have nothing to do.
Gen. John a. Logan came up from Nickrturg q
few dtys sgO aud lnsiehd OF resting at home be en-
ters upon stamping campaign through the State.
The amount Of Rood he can and will do 1t will be
hard 10 estimate.
Gen. Ben Prentiss, tie hero Of Helena, goes
down might 60 resnme his command. l had a
long couy,I .ation with hin, and was struck with
his unassuuing department. In the remarks he
made | was interested in plan ne has for striking
the rebellion deadly blow. When II is considered
that he wss tie Grst officer in command, in the
West ct the opening OF the war, that except when
he was held as n prisoner, nearly year IN the
South he has constantly been IN service be has had
good OF; ortuniiies OF forming correct opinions tic
say- be would like better Amusement than 10 be
nut IN command OF l0UGJ cavalry, tLGt with tois
force he could 20 frou Texas to richmond, aud that
when be comes out he will have 1000 mnl-s with
an able-bodied negro on every one. In addition he
would bring Thousands Of fighting Union men. lie
would destroy all their communications ana burn
their factories, arsenals, aud foundefes.
The Board Of Trade at Memphis II making efforts,
in connection with that Of St Louis 10 remove some
Of the restrictions on trade.
In lie Ggbt at jackson, Miss.. the 4lsi Illioon
suffered severely losing nearly one hundred men.
Tie Lieut. Col. Commanding Wa killed, she Vi ,jor
wounded, taken prisoner, and bad bis les amputs-
ted, when he dIed By all accounts, ths capital Of
Nisnsippi 10 70 T1iuod that u can never ag in be.
come habtable till rebuilt. 1t had population o;
ebout 600.
Briefly, here, permit me TO speak Of what many
think they see that TO- the IfOyidences oi ibs war.
Hooen society pr3gresses, Slavery 10 to cease. a
General-in. Chief commands, whO is above Ffes
idenis and Kings. At trst, we were unwilling 20
DO Justice 70 tue slave. The defeats at Bethel
Bull Kun, Balls Bluff, were oIdered by this Gcn-
er..lin.C chef t. make US wiling. They were the
same as the successive plaques the Eg!puaus, 10
make u em lei an oppressed people go. kopca!-
edy was the Army of the Potomac Unit
ten, that the Nation might ieoI that II
il did not free and call upon TIE slave II would oe
lOsl. some yictof.s were granted that We might
no. ne wholly discouraged. But the Great GeneTsl-
in-Cbiei 10 10 visi, judgnen, upon those who baye
trsfic sed in The sous and bodies OF men, There Ia
hasyee; Of fields, Il harvest OF the life Of every
uan and above all harvest Of socIety. The lat 81
notable Providence was tie mob in your city, that
tie Northern PrO-Slayery heart might be made bare
and ioaihed ty all houert men, AZ our one hundred
thousand negro eoders are getting ready 70 come on
the field, this GeneTa-iu-Ch.ef gives us at Nicks-
bur-, at Gettysburg, and elsewhere foreiaste o.
tue Victories when are 10 crown our hrins. lhe
final victory will be this wonder Increasif s
through every ago, that men could be DO disboicsy
unjust and 30 usleakably mean US TO wHge THIS war
tDst they nigh, have he privilege Of making mel
work Tor taeir whole lives without pay. &C. 81.