, 1870-03-12
HEW YORK.


epee@1 Despatch to The Chicago Tribune.
NEW ToRk, March H.
sCRAFs or WAR HISTORY.
Ine Tribune lonprrow will contain letter.
esioeo''y ffoEf aone ore intimately seqastnted
with fn:l!.s'J sec1ete, and friendly 10 General
seheaed, replying to the statements recently
published in the Cincinnati Ct.:rtts sud other pR-
pers, tc!assye to the battle Of Nashville. The lat
ter saJs that Bhte preparing TO attack Hood,
do1ft the siege. TIRE only practical question WAS
NJ 10 the strength tbat should be etven tue ATTACK.
hgfoFce, OF uunber Of men Necessary to 10 left
cGtnpalasStIy idle, and 10 this General Thamas
made miItake OF tun ten thousand men- Cpon
this error belr z explained to him he gave verbal
orders tot iss correction, 30 faz as to place
tie &uSpEs 600 msn IN IeseETe near the attack
rg force, while It lay icle from eal1g In the morn
Ing uLtt In the afternoon. At 1hat time Thomas
discovered that his attacking fcrce was NOT sum-
ttent, ard ordered On the reserve. Even this par
tai Correction Of nia error contributed largely 70
the success Of the n,st da3'a attack. Had the
er1or been fully cor-tcted b. putting IN 1A00s
ide neu IN the morntr g, II Il safe to say that the
tuccc.s would have tee1 much greater. TIE
VIl1er then c1lt1claea the character Of the pur-
tult Of Hood1 army, ard says
that amer Hood had elcsped Gen.
erai Thonaa al 1uouuced tho Campaign ended,
oEderet the troop INTO winter quarters. and be-
gan plannlrg campaign sRa,nst Costnkh ior the
rcxt Eprtrg atd summer. General Scho1eld, ap-
patiently not arpftclhurg such 8 mode Of prose-
cutitg tic var, on the e6th Of December, wrote
10 General Grant, sa.lt that Hood WAS then used
up. AID even By sprlpg could not reorgan.ze and
recruit up force capable CT coping With Thom ss'
army. less bis eoria, fhe T +. ent5 third urging
Mobile, Instead Of NaAhrlle, a. the point iron
which 10 operate against the Cali stltes, II, IN.
deed. Euch Of rerat1ous had not b con. unneoes.
Eary; that, IN fsce, Lee's army wa
ahous Ill there KAs lett Of the rebellion, and the
troe policy vss to concentrate against Lee, and
asllEg TO be transferred, With his corps, to The
Atlantic. On the 7sn Of Jatnary, 1863, General
Grant telezrapaed to General Thomas to send
schodeld aud his corps East. and about the aaue
tine ordered the Fourth Corps to the Gull. Thus
ended 1honas' rian for a campaign during the
summer. After The close VI TIC war the TRIBUNE
ed!to1taly t1aaroWed the aboTe corcluslon.of III
correspondent.
EDWARD Il, Pollard, the Confederate his
tosian. has written q letter to the Ttf.
buHt. tepl5irg to tie recent charge that
GcEeral Grart would h3ve been defeated
had be been in Mcclellan : place IN the nsas year
Of the var. lie says .na. IN February, 1859, Geu-
ernl Mcclellan had On his front, 10 dispute ht4
passage to Richmond, force which numbered, OF
Ill arms, little more than twenty. y.seyen tnousand
zen, ati when he went down TO yorktown sud
opened smother campaign, that the force that
sheo opEoaed him was exactly Eeven thousand
nye hundred mer, while the army to oppose
Grant, in 1864, was over sixty thousand at1oug,
aud OF the belt material, and the South Was re-
ally Conquered bJ the acts Of Jefferson Das.s, oo-
curing r1,rctpnl1y after General Grant had
fought the ncst Important bRttlea OF tue cam.
pa'gp.
oso@iugs Ut yesterdays hustness At the Gold
Room were sas,ooo, 600. Operations To-Day were
N q q m a1v f1f fhn
believe that ksa reaction ID permanent, and have
not yet covered their Shorts The lossea Of the
bears hare been over heavy, md some Of the
brokers' Bay that the ihort Interest Ia 30
large that II all the transactions
wefo settled On = basis Of lis
the bulls would Be ahead on the speca'htion- The
bears are getting teuosalizea, and from present
q tnoso VINO we're most esHtr 10 se,1 gold TWO
ee3s ss sf n91 ~ % su s
noItoW+
TIE oKKlDA D1sAsrE1.
ester from she wife OF : prominent merchant
q q fokoaama says: "csp:aia Eyre = relative
the bombay sDd oaelds, haa unfortunately been
made = national one, the Aner1cans and Russians
dehognsnx De-. Captain Eyte ~ dal'be:ase, whole
bsy that tne collision happened, aud the night was
Clear ard starlight The part Of the Oneida
carried away. as well as one 81 the ooats 10 theJ
had o'hlog tu do but 10 nEe mtnute-guus, which
we're heard here, evea 70 that Last amotnesed ono
49, 10 TnR Assoo1ArEo PRESS.
fCkTuKR ADVANCE IN GOLD. ...
sha1p reaction from lie eject Ct tns besr soecu.
lstlon in gold The sentiment II q1ite common
that the fluctuations In the premium have been
reseton nss1s set Il, s.is a9s ii9e; ae ~ e
revert back TO about the position nom which tho
pan!e s,uted. a large ahort inserea. has been