The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-06

the Brooklyn ana Long Island Sanitary Fair ~ss ior-
nally closed last evening. II had besn kept open Tor
twelve days. aud the average amount OF receipts each
day about thirty thousand DOLLARS making grand
total Of about $500 ooo During r< two days OF this
week il will be reopened for tho benefit Of families
aud schools at an fec Of twenty 1--WE ceots.
| which win admit 10 all the departments except
the museum @ SEQ which additional twea-
\ ~ Eve cents viii be charged. The FAIR has
been q NEST successful one. and the Committee
Management deserve great credit cr the ability they
have displayed. large quantity OF goods still remain
unsold and will be disposed Of auction when the re
ccps will not fall far short or 500 900 The fair has
been the great sensation In Brooklyn during tho last
fortnight every body has talked OF tho FAIR and visited
the fair As luence thereof its results pccu
MARY point OF view very fair-vcry fair indeed for
Brooklyn, but nothing to what Intend doiug a tho
Metropolitan Pair The contributions handed by mir.
r. +. Do'ano, from the Navy Yard employees amounted
TO S3,0i2. and from outside parties to 81 9SS, max
ing a total OF S. 900.
The United States steamers Jacinto aud Toga wec
at Key West on the LIST inst. Inc Huntsville sailed
thence February 90 on cruise.
The Italan lneof battle ship Re di Gaautuomo sailed
from this port the Sd inst drawing feet
three inches water She plotted 70 sea by Mr..
Abraham Van Pet, Sandy Hook pilot
The Swedish steam corvette Gcle, Captain Adeborg,
fourteen days from ST. Bartholomew arrived this port
yesterday, and anchored 10 the North river She mounts
eight guns is or three hundred horse power and has
crew OF one hundred and sixty six mon.
There was general buoyancy in the markets for mer-
chandtse Saturday, and both imported and domestic
articles brought full! prices The gold tended 70
enhance the views Of holders materially
The Late Army NAovemcnts-Tho APP
proac hing Military and tho Political
Campaign.
Our late formidable looking army movements,
East and West, have become ''small by degrees
and beautifully less" until they have ended
ignominiously or resolved themselves into no.
thing. First, President Lincoln's political Flori-
da expedition resulted in disastrous defeat;
next, the Northern Mississippi cavalry columns
of Smith and Grierson were somewhat hurried
ly driven back into Tennessee; next, General
Sherman, instead of pushing forward to Mo-
bile or to Selma, Alabama, is said to have
fallen back to vicksburg; and lastly, the
grand cavalry raid from the Army of the Pc.
-tomac, from which we were led to anticipate
the sacking Of Richmond, the liberation of the
Union prisoners, and the capture Of JEFF
Davis, has ended in the failure of all these
objects Thus, East and West, our military
authorities have been playing again the old
game Of the King of France with his forty
thousand men.
All that was designed, perhaps, in these
military movements in the West was the dis
traction Of the enemy and the division of their
forces. From General Grants armies large
bodies of our veteran soldiers had been re.
turned home on short recruiting furloughs, and
during their absence it was, we conclude.
deemed expedient to occupy the attention of
the rebels and to prevent their concentration
at any point by active demonstrations against
them az various widely separated points.
Thus, instead of giving them the opportunity to |
muster their Western armies against Knoxville |
and Chattanooga, they have been compelled to
scatter them about in defensive detachments
from Georgia along their northern lines to Mis-
sssppi, and thence down to Mobile. The OBJ
jects OF this hide-snd-go-seek strategy having
thus been accomplished, we may be allowed
the conclusion that, with the return of General
Grants veterans to the field, and with the sub |
sidence of the spring rains and the drying of |
the roads, the practical substantial work of the
grand campaign Of 1864 will be actively COM
nenced and vigorously pushed forward into
The heart of the great cotton States of Georgia
and Alabama.
The objects of the late movements from the
Army Of the Potomac we have already at
enpted to explain, including the grand object
'f General Kilpatrick's cavalry expedition,
which was doubtless dash into Richmond.
But why it was not supported by stronger CO.
operating infantry column up the James river
and why it was not followed up by |
. general movement Of the Army of the Poto-
mac against the army Of Lee, we cannot under
lake to explain upon any rules of the art OF
war or principles of common sense. We oau
only infer, from the general result that this Kill
patrick expedition, like the late Florida adyen.
ture, was one Of those peculiar military expert
ments of President Lincoln, which invariably |
End in disaster or .fosco. The public
re once more required to come down from
heir lofty anticipations Of the taking Of Rich
nond by our advancing troops, to the soothing
ssurance that Richmond, excepting company
II two, has not taken them. In short, we con-
,ratuate our readers on Gen. Kilpatrick's
'scape II the enemy discovered his movement
n season to prepare for him warm reception
I was because it is somewhat difficult thing
or body Of six or eight thousand cavalry to
move through an enemy's country without
detection.
Seriously, however, the results Of these late
with all the preceding movements
o July lastss1rom the army Of Gen. Meade,
show that either he or his Commander-in-Ch ief,
,r the Washington Directory, or all Of them TO-
yether, are not competent to manage the busi-
ness of this war against that sly and vigilant
old rebel fox Gen. Lee. We would, therefore,