The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-03-12

mand of the Seventh Regiment New York State
Militia, in consequence Of the increasing demands
made on his time by family cares and business re-
lations. His farewell order viii be found in
another part of to-day's paper.
Charles Smith and II. SANFORD, seamsn on
board the American ship Talisman, charged with
murder on the high seas. were taken before
Commissioner White yesterday and the examina-
ton commenced They are accused of the murder
ofthe third mate, Ezra Thomas, while on voyage
from London to New York. From the testimony
taken 1t appeared that the deceased was on duty;
some alteration snsued, and cry was heard Of
Man overboardi" Every effort was made TO
find the missing man, but without avail. Next
morning spots Of blood were found on the deck
near where deceased stood. The investigation
was adjourned to Saturday next. ~ -
The jury in the case Of Cormack, for the muir
der of policeman Williams failed to agree and
were discharged yesterday morning. The pri-
soner will be tried again on Wednesday next.
The trial Of DR.. Brown, for causing the death Of
lady bysillcgal treatment under certain delicate
circumstances, is set down for to-day, addition.
alpanelo Of Jurors having been ordered for tho
Oyer and Ternliner by Judge Barnard. 81
The stock market was dull and generally lower yester
day, the oxceptionsto the rule being Pacific MAIL Moh
gan Central and guaranteed Gold nuotuated between
157x and l6sK, closing 1917 bid. Exchange declined
to TIA ajax. Money was very easy indeed many osil
loans made At 8 per cent.
There was less doing in cotton, which was shade
easier yesterday, closing at &c., 885<c. for mddngs,
with sales Of 900 bales Tho breadstufs trade de-
pressed, and light sales were Effected reduction OF
&C. &c. on flour, &c. on wheat, and To- &C.
Provisions attracted less attention. mess pork do.
dincd 26c. per bb and primo lard &c. &c per pound
Sugars, moasses rice and whiskoy were moderately
tive, while cose hides, hops, metals, oils seeds and
fruit quiet The demand fish was fair and tho
market firm. Hay was steady. but Inactive. Spirits
turpsntine lower and irregular. Limited freight
gagements were reported at reduced quotations
The Administra tlon and she Country.
The winter is drawing to close. 1t has
been season which, with its unprecedented
impedimcnts Of rains, and SHOWS, and thaws,
and mud, has sorely tried the strength, pa
tence and endurance of our gallant soldiers
in the tented field. But our unfailing bright
skies and drying northwest winds Of March are
at hand, at least in the South. We thus expect
soon to hear that the noble army of General
Hooker has been extricated from its miry en-
campment on the Rappahannock, and Is adj
vancing successfully upon the enemy; that the
| splendid army Of General Rosocrans is vic
toriously moving southwark; that General
Grant and Admiral Porter and Gen. Banks
and Admiral Farragut are actively clearing
out the rebels from the Mississippi; that the
ball has been opened against Savannah or
Charleston, and that the Union tirunders of the
spring campaign are reverberating around the
entire circle Of the beleagured rebellion.
And this ia the reasonable expectation of the
people Of the loyal States. On the side Of the
government the history Of the war thus far
involves heavy budget Of blunders. In the
beginning, General Mcdowell was pushed for
ward to Bull run with less than twenty-five
thousand men, when there were twenty
Eve thousand moro within convenient dis
lance which ought to have been ordered to join
him on the way to the battle ground. Thus
the rebel army would have been cut to pieces
or captured and Richmond would have been
ours, and the rebellion would have been speedi-
ly crushed. Next, in the same year, from
under the very guns of the rebel de-
fences Of Norfolk, a great expedition Of
Union land and naval forces was sent
down to Port Royal, South Carolina, when, by
dashing it against Norfolk, that city would have
been easily captured, including twenty-five
hundred heavy cannon, subsequently removed
by the rebels to the Mississippi river and other
defensive lines; and from Norfolk the expedi-
ton codld have gone directly up to Richmond
while the rebel army Of Virginia was at Manassas,
with Gen. Mcclellan and his army close behind
it. Next, in 1862, If one-half of the sixty thou
sand men employed in sBatchipg and hunting
Stonewall Jackson, between Fredericksburg
and the Shenandoah valley, had been sent to
reinforce General Mcclellan in front of Rich
mond, he would hse entered and occupied the
city. In fact, all our army disasters, from the
first one at Bull run down to that most bloody
and depressing one on the heights of Frede-
ricksburg, may be traced and justly charged to
the mismanagement of the war, including the
neglect of their duties by the supreme authori--
ties at Washington.
The people of the loyal States are not in q
frame Of mind TO tolerate the repetition in 1863
of the blunders and military disasters Of 1861 and
1862. military success" is imperiously demand
ed, and is the one thing needful to save the
administration and the country from shipwreck.
President Lincoln, in the event of any further
military failures or defeats, can have no excuse
to offer Of want Of men, or means, or money,
or want of power to raise either men, money
or means. The powers granted by Congress
are almost unlimited for the purposes Of
vigorous and successful war. Let him not fail
to exercise these discretionary powers prompt
ly and earnestly, in order to make this
spring campaign Overwhelmingly successful
East and West. Let him, for example, pro-
coed at once TO draft for two hundred thou
sand fresh troops from the militia reserves Of
the loyal States, SO that the losses of our armies
in the field may, when required, be promptly
repaired, ana so that after another series of bat
ties and sleges the war may still be pushed VIC