Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1865, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY, (EXCEPT 8UNDAY,) AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, Bowthwest corner of Pennsylvania av. and ith stret, By W. D. WALLAOH. _ eo b is served by the carriers to their sub, scrivert im. the Gy wad Dirice fF TWEUVE AND A HALF CENTS PER Nido orn ee MarLisc.—Single copy. ¢ ; month aventy Ave cents; three months, one dollar ond Afty cents; six months, three dollars; one year. siz dollars. No papers ‘ate sent from the office Jonger than for. Tus Ww Ts Srax one dollar anda half a year, TRAVELERS’ DIRECTORY. MORE & OHIO BB. CO. PrIOR BALE Lonmaean: December is, 1964, Ge SS: Se aa d after Sunday, Deeember 18, 1864, Passen- Pits Traine Detween "Washington Sad Baltimore ill be run as follews: = TRAINS MOVING NORTH. Bo. 1i-BALTIMORS, WAY STATION & HAR- BISBURG TRAIN—Leave Washington 6:15 a. M. Arrive at Baltimore #:00 4.™. No. 2-NEW YORK & PHILADELPHIA EX- RESS—Lrave Washingt n 7:30. Mu. Arrive at Philadelphis 1:56 p. ., New Yerk 5:30 Pr. mu, No Baltimore tickets sold No. S_BALTIMORE & WESTERn elprbaes ave Washington = A. M.. stopping at way satleom councctingat Relay with the Mail rein for the West,and reaching Baltimore at 10:00 a.™, No. 4—NEW YORK MAIL TRAIN—Leave Wash- ington 11:15 4.m. Arrive at Baltimore at 12:45 ?.M., Philadelphia 5:37 p.m., New York 10:00 P.M. No. 5—BALTIMORE TRAIN AND WAY STA- TIONS—Leave Washington 3:00 P.M., connect. ing st Relay with Frederick train, Arrive at Bal AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL. MUSIC. SOANTERBURY HALL,, AND BAL LIOANTERBURY HALL, { TH EATER LOUISIANA AVEXUE, NEAR SIxTH STREET, Rear of National and Metropolitan Hetets, GEORGE LEA.......__-. _., .__..... Proprietor New York, and Oanterbury ndris, Va. Also of the Varieties. Al JOBH HARTW...__._... - Btage Manager THE FURORE CONTINUES: timore 4:45 p No. ALTIMORE COMMUTATION AND PHILADELPHIA TRAIN—Leave Washington 4:30 P.M. Arrive st Haltimore 6:10 P.M. This train stops at Bladensburg, Beltsville, Laurel and Annapolis Junction only. HOUSES LITERALLY PACKED, No. 7—BOSTON, ALBANY & NEW YORK BX- PRESS TRAIN—Leave Wash m 6:00 P. M, Arrive at New York 4:00 a. ™. Passen- 8 by this train connect with all thi rly morn- lines leaving New York for the Bast, North af Wast. ‘Ro Philadelphia or Baltimore tickets wo) by this train. which is limited in capacity by rpmentorders to insure the mails. No, 8—BALTIMORE & HARRISBURG TRAIN Leave Washington 6:45 P.M. end arrive at Balti- . 325 PM No. 9-NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND WESTERN TRAIN—Leave Washington at 7:30 ®. M.; stopping at Re'ay House far Western passen- r8 to take Express Train for Grafton, Wheel-ag, Sirkersbure. and all points inthe West. Reaches New York at 6:15 a.m. FOR ANNAPOLIS the connegjjons will be made with the 8:15 a. M,and the 3 and 4:30 P. M. from Washington, No trains to or from Annapolis on Bunday. Sc RAINE. ABINGTON WE DEFY THE WORLD TO PRODUCE A MORE Sie paancgers canenas re the §:15 and 11:15 + VARIED ENTERTAINMENT. 4.¥é, and 3 P.M. for Baltimore. 7:30 P.M, for Baltimore, Philadelphia, and the West, and the 6 Pp. «for New York onty. ips H TICKETS co the West, as well as to Pravlubia, Now York, or Bostonscan Ve hat at the Station Ticket Office at all hours in the day, as well a4 at new office in the American Telegraph Building, Pennsylvania avenue, between 455 and oRAGGAGE will be checked at all hours. —also for throug points. to save trouble and confusion at the departure of 'be trains. ALL P. WE SPARE NEITHER PAINS NOR EXPBNSE TO PLEASE OUB PATRONS, Admiring hundreds nightly congregate within the walls of the OLD ESTABLISHED MUSIC TEMPLE. WE COURT COMPARISON AND DEPY ‘COMPETITION. e Manager, with a fall determination to please a cereus pablic: takes much pride in presenting, for the weeX commencing MONDAY, JANUARY 23, the following GRAND ALLIANCE GRAND ALLIANCE GBAND ALLIANCE G@BAND ALLIANCE or TALENTED ARTISTS, TALENTED ARTISTS, TALENTED AKTIBSTS, TALENTED ARTISTS, The greatest known to the profession, SSENGERS, whether soldiers orcitizens, are aes = ‘but earnestly requested te respect the rules of the Line, established for the general ad- vantage. such as the Keeping of one or more cars exclusively for ladies and their attendants. and the prevention of Cee ay any but the smoker’s @ars, and a'so to make a cheerfui compliance with the decisions of the agents or conductors am regard No Neee seats, maken etc.. especially in of starting the trains. =e ae. SMITH, Master of Transportation. ZL, M. COLE. General Ticket Agent. dec 0 (jREaT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST. On and after December 25, trains will leave Bal- timore from North Calvert Btation, as follows : Fast Mail at. —--- ---. 1 A.M, . Srey sock B Aceommodation First appearance in this city o! ‘isbar, rie and Efttsbured Expre Pinsbure and Blmir' 5A, M. TRAIN FROM WASHINGTON ZHE 615 4 Moa A.M. train from Baltimore MIS8 MAUDE STANLEY, MISS MAUDE STANLEY, MI58 MAS DE STANLEY, ee MAUDE STANLEY, i nd the West and for Elmira, 38 MaUDE STANLEY, for Bituburae chester, Dunkirk, Ganau- MISS MAUDE BTANLEY: dai ingara Falls, ty the most finished Lady Vocalist tage. Late of Weston’s Concert Hail. London, where she achieved the most brilliant triumph, and wasthe recipient of a magnificent Diamond Brooch, a gift trom the Royal of Music, London, s evidence of their appreci- ation of her superior merits as an artiste, "tor New York City. 7HE430 P.M. TRAIN PROM WASHINGTON i P. M_ train from Baltimore Senet? wittor pitheba and Erie. 6.45 P.M. TRAIN FROM WASHINGTON TOlaneets with the 10 P. M. Bxpress from Balti- more and runs through to Pittsburgh and Elmira, without change of ears. connecing at Pittsburgh for Cras? Catenan. AD ouis and al ira. for Buffalo, MB, FRANK LACY as DP and MR. RRANK LACY 8 MB. FRANK LAGY ONE THROUGH TRAIN ON SUNDAY. axp Hskting: Washingtos! st 6 clack FM. MISS FLORENCE REYNOLDS, SLEEPING CARs ON NIGHT TRAINS. From the American Theater, 444 Broadway, New W7-For Tickets and any information the Office of the Great Pennaylvania Rou’ Penusylvavia avenue and Sixth str National Hotel. and Depot House. No. 5 ington. pear New Jersey avenue, Wasnt BARRY aperintendent N OC. R. B. see E. J. WILKINS, Passenger and Ticket Agest. JNO. GILLETT, Passenger Agent, corner 6th street and Pa. dec 29 tf patapeuruia STEAMERS. New Express Line, sem Ayre PHIL- ADELPHIA and ALEXANDRIA, RASHINGTON and“ GEORGE. Bteariers Mayflower, Philadelphia and George i colar sailing days WEDNESDA’ First appearance of The unrivalled Negro Comedian, from Hooley’s Opera House, New York. One of the biggest cards in the business. First appearance of and SAr- HHINNY MACK and LITTLE MACK, URDAYS, from No. 14 North Wharves, Philad JOHNNY MACK and LITTLE MACK, phis. and No. 59 Water street, between Congress JOHNNY MACK and LITTLE MAOGK, and High, Georgetown. JOHNNY MACK and LITTLE MACK, For freight apply to JOHNNY MACK and LITTLE MACK, JOHN B. DAVIDSON, No. 59 Water street, George’ Agent in Philadelphia, WM. b. CLYDE Korth harves BOWEN Bové-tf ig | The immensely poplar double-act Rthiopian De- 14 | jineatcrs—one full sized mam, and the other @ 4 ii ti \e ‘Agents in Alexandria, FLOWERS & Tost basele To ateere No. 1 King st. = First appearance of DAMS EXPRESS COMPANY 5 . i WALTER WENTWORTH, Office 514 Pa. Avenue, Washington, D.C. WALTeR Wane wonee: The Champion Contortionist of the world, whose geretiaine teeta of unapproachable dexterity have beep th- wonder of the thousands who have wit- nessed them EAT EASTERN. NORTHERN. AND jT- = ERN EXPRESS FORWARDERS, Sido MERCHANDISE, MONEY, JEWELRY, VALU- ABLES, NOTES. STOCKS. BONDS. &c., Forwarded with SAFBTY AND DISPATCH to all accessible sections o' the eountry. This Company Bas agencies iz the Principal Railway Townsin the NORTH, EAST, WEST AND NORTHWEST. Its principal offices are WASHINGTON, b. C., NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, Mie CL ae ATI, BT. 8 __ VILLE, LEXINGTON, Connections are made at New York and Boston with lices forwarding to the CANADAS and the BRITISH PROVINCES ard other steamship lines to LIVERPOOL, SOUTHAMPTON id HAVRE, and thence by Eur« pean expresses to all promineat commercial towns in Great Britain and the Conti- Bent. Collection of NOTES, DRAF’ 4d BILLS mad atall secersible parts of the ated Bape” - ye23 ©. 0. DUNN, Agent, Washington, D.C. JOHN MULLIGAN, JOHN MULLIGAN, JOHN MULLIGAN, Celebrated {n the history of the profession as the Great Mogul of Ethiopian Comedians, JO&H HART OC. COVELLI ANDJ. 8, 0 JOSH HART, C, COVELLI AND J. 8.0 JO08H HART, C. COVELL! AND J. 8. in anew Drama. MONS. LOUIS SZOLLOSY, = MONS. LOUIS SZOLLOSY, MONS, LOUIS SZOLLGSY, W 458LNGTON CITY SAVINGS BANK, InconronaTED Mancu Stu, 1864° | qe justly celebrated French Ba let Master and EDWARD SIMMB, President and Treasurer. Dancer Comique, with his splendid Ballet Troupe BDW'D CLABK, Vice President es aud Becretary. | x TEEN KEATTIFUL YOUNG LADIES, DIREOTORS. XTEEN BEAUTIFNL YOUNG LaDIES, wM P. RTT J.J. COOMBS BINTEEN BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIx3: JOHN B.BLVANS. — THs. J. GARDNER 2 8. V. NILES. c' A cluster of diamonds of the first water. Is Bank is now Open for th Rivage the or the receipt of De. MIg88 LAURA LE CLAIRE, ‘The capital Protean Actress, , 58 Louisiana av., under Sim m’s New Buildi; me EDWARD CLARK, Becrotary MDWARE CURE (A SY. THE WESNER SISTERS, BANKERS. : ; “ eA The dashing and Artistic Danseuses, forming in all the Bavings Bank, No. 68 Louisiana av TRE LARGEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE DEALERS IN THE LARGEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE EXCHANGE, GOLD AND SILVER, THE LARGEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE And General Bankiog Business, COMBINATION Enwarp Ciaxx, Joum BR, Exvans, COMBINATION decl7-e0tm of talent ever seenin a Concert Hall, JAY COOKE & CO., BANKERS, FirrzeaTa Brawer, orrosirs U. 8. Tasasvay, Reeeive Subscriptions for the NEW UO. 8. 73-10 LOAN eutherised by the act ef June Sith, 1964. The notes will be issued under date of August Mth,i = nominations of 950, 9100, 500, 81,000 and 8 000, weyable te bearer or order, bearing interest at 7 $20 per centum per annum, payable semi-an scally, and will be convertible the option of the holder at maturity into six per cent, Pive- Last week of the magnificent Fairy Bpectacle of QUIN FANTASIO, HARLEGUIN FANTASIO, OR THE ‘Twenty Bonds. With new Tricks, Transformations, &c. We bay and sell— Ss ERNMENT unasuny norae, TARTEDLY ATTEREGRR. CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS, SATURDAY APTBRNOON, OeIN, RB FAMILY MATINEB venta a th Mab wm RECESS. UARTERMASTER’S CRRTIFIOATE CHRORS, + When the entire company will appear. dy 27-8 JAY COOKE & OO, Eben + OFFICIAL, The First Corps—Noetice te Veter: Heapevartess First Corps, } WasHincTon, D. C., Dec. 27, 1864. Veterans desiring to enlist in the ist Army Corps, should report m person at the office of Gol. C. F. Johnson, Soldiers’ Rest, Baltimore and @hio Railroad Depot, Washington, D. 0. Any Veteran who has served two years, hav been honorably diseharged, and is physically qualified, may enlist in the Corps for one, two or three years. Those enlisting will receive from the Gov- ernment a bounty of $300 as soon as they are mustered in, and, in addition, the regular in- stalments from the Government, in proportion to the period of enlistment, as follows: $100 for one year’s service, one-third paid on enlist- Ment; $200 for two years’ service, one-third on enlistment; $300 for three years’ service, one- third on enlistment. They will be credited to the quota of the district in which they or their families may be domiciled and will, therefore, be entitled to local bounties. Free transportation will be furnished them to Washington by any Provost Marshal. The best arms in the possession of the Government will be furnished these troops, and they will be allowed to retain their arms when honorably discharged, Headquarters Major General Hancock :—158 F street, between 19h And 20th streets. Office of the Board for the Examination of Officers :—Brigadier General John R. Brooke, president, 183 G street, between 19th and 20th streets. By order of Major General Hancock. FINLEY ANDERSON, Assistant Adjutant General, AMUSEMENTS. GROVER’ dec 27-tf THEATER. Pennsylvania Ave: near Willard’s Hotel, THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, January 27, BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT OF THE UNG, TALENTED, AND VERSA’ YOUNG WEB AND PEERLESS BEAG MISS LUCILLE WESTERN, MISS LUCILLE WESTERN: __. MISS LUCILLE WESTERN} Who will appear to night in Tragedy and Comedy, ‘pi: susta’ninsyO POPULAR CHARACTERS, The Performance will commence with Victor Hueo’s thrilling tragic play, in three acts, en- titled LUCRETIA BORGTA, LUCRETIA BORGIA, LUORETIA BORGIA, 1 ITALIAN. POISONER, , LLE WESTERN ax Ee BRT GRETTA BORGIA. URICAT GEMS BY KOPPITZ AN ror THE ORCHESTRA. cid Te conclude with the popular serio-comic Drama entitled DON OF-8AR DE BAZAN, DON GERAR DE BAZAN: DON C-#8AR DE BAZAN, A WIFE FOR ONE HOUR. 8 LUCILLE WESTERN 4s a LE WEEDON OSBAR DR BAZAN, ‘The original and only genuine play of EASTLYNNE. OR THE ELOPEMENT, Is being prepared in magnificent style, and will be produced at an early date, with a powerful cast, embracing several new members of the company. FORD'S NEW THEATER. Tenth street, above Pennsylvania agenus. LA8T NIGHT BUT FOUR of the eminent Tragedian, EDWIN FORREST, who will appear for the last time THIS (Friday) EVENING, Ja In his great Roman character of CORIOLANUS, 7 a 3 iN Volumaia, Mi RUS CAEAN ERIS Us valsmain tie LOUGH as Tullus, and the full strength of the unequalled Company. To-morrow will be prodnced for the first time in Washington the new contemporaneous drama en- titled 18 STREETS OF NEW YORK, i local senery by Mr. J. Lamb,and a cast Witharactern erobracicg the names of Mire ALTOR GRAY. Mr. C. B. BISHOP, and all the Favorites of the Company. THE OXFORD HALL OF MUSIC AND PINACOTHECA, Ninth street, fronting on Pennsylvania avenue The Management have pleagnre in announcingan engagement with the following talented iadiyi- beri ADD WEAVER, the best Song and Panes Man the World. the ‘Wonderfot foxes CE eh ads of Fifty Performers, who are artistes eee re diamonds of the 7, 1885, scintillating in refulgent corruscations, bedaz- zlipg the vision of the spectators. transporting them on the wings of bliss from the daily scenes of the every day world to some delightful, splen- in Fairy Land, . dorous real oH Is THE OXFORD! MATINEE FOR LADIES EVERY SATURDAY, when the Great Military Band will be in atten- dance. jan 23-6t WV ATCHES, JEWELRY, &o. LARMOUR & Oo., Lizht street, Baltimore, in- vites the attention of purchasers to their choice stock of No. 1 WATOHES, DIAMOND JEWELRY, &c., SILVER WARE, PLATED WARK, OPERA GLASSES, SPECTACLES, TABLE CUTLERY &c., at low prices, Watches ani Jewelry repaired in the best man- ner by the best workmen sud warranted, jan 24-tt ENDELL HOUSE LADIES’ AND GE TLE /EN’S DINING SALOON AND RESTAURANT, 495 Severn Srarer, KING & ENGLISH, Prorxigrors. Having refitted and renovated the House for- merly known as the “Hop Restaurant,” we respectfully inform our friends and ¥/9 the public that we are now prepared to serye up all the Celicacies of the season that cannot fail to please the most fastidious. Our WINKS, LIQUORS and CIGARS are of the most eboice brands, ‘ DINNER and 8U PPEB PARTIES served in the highest style of the art, either in the public sa- loon or private apartments. ja9-eodim ABHIONABLE MILLINERY AND DRESS Pea R ING Est ABLISHMENT. Mrs Darley, late of Baltimore. would re- spectfully inform the Ladies of Washington Vicinity, that she has opened at her rooms, 514 7th reet, opposite Intelligencer Building, a Fancy inery and D: Makiag Establishment, where e intends keeping constantly on hand the Latest and most Fashionable cuts aud styler; also, to man- ufscture to order every descrip'ion of the latest ntroduced. Bornets and Dress Patterns from Paris, London, and New York, ja 12-2W* A UTIBR'S BESTAURANT. Senators and members of Congress, and stran- ge?s, Who intend residing in this city for the win- ter. and wish to be ent=rtained. will find suites ef PRIVATE ROOMS always ready for private Din- ner and Supper parties at C. GAUTIEGS, Side 27-1m 252 Pennsylvania avenue. CH ARDEN; Illustrated Woodcliff; by Harriet B. McKeever. The Life Boat; atale of our Boat Heroes. Golden Leaves from the American Poets. John Godfrey’s Fortunes; by Bayard Taylor. Margaret’s Secret and its Suceess. dD is paugnter, of Lo! fee i” Marie Josephine, ~ ‘a T Rider, Bewut! jer’ Oorrelation and Contervation sf Soreue: piel ye ap adage! and others, lack wi ‘8 Magazine for ember, dew FRANCK’ TAYLOR. {OR BALE A GREAT BARGAIN.—The sab seribera wishing to decline Le a oN accoun of i!] health. offers their stock of Ghina, Glass, and Earthen ware at cost, Aoy person wishing to enter the business willdo well to call and examine for themee}ver, axa very liberal offer will be made at No. 2&4 7th street, (east side,) between L and M Jan 21-3t BENJ.8 BAYLY & 00. ANTE ALBUM; ty six Photograph Il- D Tustrations from Gaver iene The Wat ing Jew; Photogravh Iilustrations from Gusta’ Dore. Photograph Illustrations of Chateaubriand Ges sae Hessee a ' — Photograph vi Mae FRANOK TAYLOR. NATIONAL aT J Fiees in ial atlas, Loud 1 ° oie Jton's G of the 7 Co! on; *s Oct Atla* of the World. Puig? Colton’s Octave ate eS TOn TAYLOR, Tg WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1865. Star. N°. 3,716. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE, ————— ditien and th Under an Maryland—Her Present Future Prospects—The 8S: Emancipation Pelicy, &c. ON TEE CHOPTANK, Dorchester Uounty, Md., Jan 21, 1°65. Sufficieat time has elapsed to permit some conclusions to be drawn with reference to the immediate working or results of the recent ac- ticn of this State in summarily putting an end to the institution of domestic slayery within its limits. Having been anearnest advocate of the policy, I nave watched its operation (as 1 shall continue to do) with much solicitude, and shall, through the Star, take occasion to com- municate to the public such information con- cerning the effects of the change as 1 can gather, because the subject is fraught with abiding in- terest to the future of the whole land. If emancipation answers good ends in Mary” land (where slayery was as deeply annealed into the social and industrial status of society and business of every description as auy where eise on this continent), it cannot fail to con. tribute equally as much to the general well- being and the industrial progress and prosper- ity ef the community, throughout the South. That is, wherever among us it may uproot thee institution, as ene of the natural consequences of the paracidal rebellion gotten up to minister to the ambition, pride and avarice of the small class who assumed to be the sole guardians and best friends of its (sJavery’s) so-called rights and interests. If paid negro labor, with its sure eventual adjunct of an immense increase of white labor employed in work of which slave or uncompensated negro labor not long since enjoyed a monopoly, shall increase popu- lar intelligence and industry—speedily mul- tiplying ten-fold, the aggregate number of g00d schools accessible withont price to the poor, mechanical, and really to a considerable extent scientific as well as literary, throughout Maryland—it will inevitably increase ener- mously the results of all Maryland agricul- tural, mechanical and other business pursuits- I hold to the belief that such must speedily be the effect of emancipation here. I therefore see no valid reason for imagining that the adoption of the policy which the necessity of securing our country against another such waste of life and substance as the rebellion has brought about has rendered an absolute prerequisite before the war can be safely ter- minated, can fail to eyentuate similarly in Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippt. Andif it should so eventuate throughont the Sonth, the consequent changes in her methods and modes willin twenty years pay back to her not only what has been her pecuniary pen- alty of the war, but tothe loyal States every dollar which it has so far cost them. The preciens human lives sacrificed on both sides of our international strife are not to be recalled, But in the history of the progress of the world from barbarism, the life ef a generation in any one land weighs but asa feather. In twenty- five years but comparatively few will be left who will mourn for an hour in a thon- sand over the loss of loved ones sacrificed, In fifty years all will think on those who may have died martyrs for the rebellion, or for the cause of American liberty and national unity which the rebellion seeks to destroy, just as our present generation think and feel with reference to the martyrs of our original revo- lutionary times. Nevertheless, the great prin- ciples for which the nation is contending against the oligarchy of the South—the right of the masses in all pa:ts of the continent to self- government, and, consequent national progress in elevating ideas on every subject. industrial, moral and intellectual—will then be as dear to the hearts of our countrymen as to-day. Mil- lions of the South whose ancestors up to this time have drawn all their thoughts, all their comprehension of their duties to themselves their familiee, society, and their not rong since sincerely loved government, from the oligarchy and its exponents, will wonder, i ndeed, tha. these who £0 recently occupied their places as the people of the South, could have made such sacrifices of life’s blood and treasure to aidand abet this rebellion. That is, in a vain effort to destroy @ government that had made them the freest, happiest and, in the aggregate, the most prosperous people on the earth. in order to spread, increase and strengthen the one ele- mentof tneir own social and industrial condition which deprived them of many of the immense advantages (of cheap popular education,oppor- tunities for any and ali to beeome thoroughly skilled in any calling, and of the enjoyment of the condition of complete individual independ. ence,) which bave in the main resulted under our government, in the loyal States, from their earlier abolishment of slavery. They will ponder over that problem as long and earnest- ly as the intelligent and well-read of Europe do at this hour over the tact that ‘heir ancestors could have fought for decades, quarters and half centuries to gratify the ambition, pride and hatreds of oligarchies and dynasties, whom, all now realize, weresimply bent on sacrificing all else of value in the State to the preservation of their own unjust class privil- eges originally acquired py violence when the world was even more deepiy steeped than ar that time in the mental darkness of barbarism, But in writing fer the busy readers of the times, I may not thus yeuture to philosophize longer—to write of this rebellion as it will surely appear to all intelligent men after but those are left who know of it only as we now know of our original reyolution or of the civil and other wars which so frequently desolated Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire, The act of the pecnie of Maryland jn seek. ing, by promptly avolishing slavery, positive security for themselves against the possible success of the oligarchy in bringing them under the yoke which so heavily bears upon the South, created more temporary confusion than aughtelse. It did not, as alleged, deprive one elaveholder in a hundred of that which was of the leastpecuniary vaiue tohim, His every negro, except mothers of young families, who had been of pecuniary value, had either gone off or remained at home virtually free. Those so Temaining would not sell on the block for $5 apiece in the condition of uncertainty as to its future to which the oligarchy’s war had brought slavery in Maryland, The negroes remaining at home worked as little as they pleased. And that was little indeed; as their wants were necessarily supplied by theirown- ers simply as ‘the cordition precedent to their consenting to remain in nominal slavery, when they knew as well as their masters that free- dom, witha fair share of the world’s labor, was at any moment within their reach. Ever since the beginning of i862 the Mary- land master was the real slave, not the negro- | Thus, gotar as his immediate interest was con- cerned, emancipation by Maryland set him free rather than those who were his property beforethe war. Many Maryland slave holders and their foolish echoes entertained a vague hope that by-some interpcsition of Providence the rebellion’s work of destroying slavery in their State might be arrested, and therefore struggled «for the Chances” as it were, without baying any definite idea what those chances might be. They could not be persuaded to look the altered situation straight in the face but were constantly dreaming of negro prop erty as it was before the oligarchy’s conspira- ey ravg out its death knell. The class of them whose dependence upon the institution and coincidence of ideas with the conspirators rendered them aiders and abettorsof the re bellion to the extent to which they dared go— and few others in Maryland but themselves and their immediate dependents have been traitors at heart—were most clamorous through- out the recent brief canvas over the emancipa- tion question, notwitlstanding the fact that in sympathizing with the rebels they surrendered all their rights of American citizenship as surely as those elsewhere who have sought unsuccessfally to destroy their respective gov- ernments, have in the end paid similar penal- ties for so doing. They unfortunately found a multitude of co-laborers for the moment in an unthinking throng of Union men whocould uot comprehend how and why the continued existence of slavery in Maryland militated to prevent the speedy success of the arms of the Union cause. Though Unionists at heart, these latter could not suddenly unlearn the lessons of a lifetime acquired under slavery’s tuitien, though the new teacher was the death, desolation and pecuniary cost of slavery’s war against the principles of American liberty. They are, however, a hopeful class, and bid fair soon to comprehend that the evils they dreaded in the change were baseless as a dream. In this section of the State, which gave the heaviest yote (and majority) against emancipa- tion, they are already, for the most part, ex- pressing thelr acquiescence in the change, and evincing a disposition to aid the emancipation- ists in making the most of it for the benefit of all—white and black. Thus it is clear that they will now cheerfally accept the approach- ing changes in the tone of the State’s laws and in her policy of legislation, now that the former are no longer to,be tramed and her government (State and county) no longer to be administered almost solely for the aggrandizement of the elass of her citizens interested in negro prop- erty, at the heaviest conceivable cost to. every It is clear that, hourly, even on the Eastern Shore, where the nominal loss through emancipation has been heaviest, the sentiment of opposition to the policy is dying out with astonishing rapidity. It is creeping through the hair of those of the pro-slavery party whose negroes hbaye been liberated, that under the new order of things their farms will pay them better than under the old; especially in the condition to which slayery’s war had already brought the institation in their midst. They begin to com- prehend that it will prove more profitable to get their work well done for fair wages, than to getit half done with no pay directly to the labor, and with the cost and harrassment of provid- ing for numbers of negroes too old, too feeble, or too young to labor efficiently, if at all. They find, too, that most of the late slaves left in their respective counties are disposed to work faithfully for wages, and have had infused into them, by the magic of emancipation, an amount of manliness and energy properly directed, which the race was here previous- ly thought incapable of manifesting. Those notoriously idle and dissolute—whose bad influence and positive injuries to the com- munity heretofore went unpunished of the law through the shield of the slave-code of the State made for the benefit of the institu. tion, have been almost the only negro emi- grants from “The Shore” since the adoption of the New Constitution. Indeed I may write that with wonderfally few exceptions, such negroes, and those utterly idisposed to hard labor—much fewer in number than hasalways been alleged by persons who conceive that an indisposition to labor faithfully without com- pensation, involves necessarily an indisposi- tion to labor when fairly paid for so dotng— have gone off, principally to Baltimore. There they hope toget high wages for very light work; for doing odd jobs while loafing around the city’s streets. The severe competition of white labor there will soon either kill them off through ‘want, or will educate them into a practicaf re- alization that, when lightest, labor inthe city is far harder than in the country, and, though nominally better paid, the difference in the ex- other class of Maryland’s population. pense of living in city and ‘on the shore,’ makes the wages paid in the latter region much more remunerative than city rates. —————_+~ 02 + FROM THE JAMES RIVER. W.vDOW The Naval Raid from Richmond—Signual Failure of the Design—How our @bstruc- tions were Passed—Enemy’s 8 .bs: quent Discomiiture—Explosion of the Drewry's Magazvine—A General Retreat up the River. A letter dated “Meadquarters Army of the James, January 21,” says: Last night the enemy made an unsuccessfal taking ad- vantage of the storm and darkness to send down a ileet of eight vessels and three torpedo This flotilla consisted ot the Virginia, attempt to run past our batteries, boats. Fredericksburg, and Richmond, (iron-clads. mounting four guns each; the Drewry, Nans: mond, and Bompien, (woodew) two guns eac! the Buford, one gun; three torpedo boats. The following are the particulars, as far as they could be obtained from a deserter from the expedition, who came in soon after dayhght - this morning: The fleet left their moorings abont sixo’clock last evening, proceeding quietly until, getting near ur batteries, they were discovered, and immediately the batteries opened uv s to which they replied. . pene At abont 12 o’slock they suceeeded in cutting the chain in front of our obstructions, near the signal station, beyond the lower end of Datch Gap canal, when the Fredericksburg, under a full head of steam, passed through the obstruc- tions, completely demolishing one of the sunken canal boats. The Richmond, Virginia and Drewry, in attempting to follow, grounded, when the Fredericksburg had to go to their as- sistance. The Drewry could not be got off, and was obliged to be abandoned, as it was now daylight, and they were in range of Bat- tery Parsons. As soon as it became light, the battery opened on the Drewry, one of the shells falling in her magazine, which ex- Ploded, completely demolishing her. The re- mainder of the fleet again made their way back Up the river. It was supposed that an attempt would be Made to go through again to-night, though What their destination may be can merely be surmised. The only damage done was the dis- mounting of one gun on Fort Brady. The deserters report only one man Killed and two wounded by the explosion of the Drewry. Four deserters swam ashore and came into our lines, FROM THE FRONT AT PETERSBURG All Quiet at.Last Acc: ts—Numerous Deserti from the Enemy— Uniform Story of +‘Hard Times.’ (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) HEapquanters ABMNY OF THE PoTomac, Jan. 24—Evening.—Quiet still prevails along the lines of this army, the bad weather pre- vailing during thé past few days making it im- practicable to carry out any military move- ment, even if one were contemplated, Many persons have predicted that an evac- uation of Petersburg would take place before now, but as yet there are nosigns of such an even’ The deserters coming within onr lines are yery numerous, the number varying from a dozen to fifteen a day, all of whom tell the most dolefal stories of the hardships they bad to endure, the scarcity of provisions, ae Leg Predict the endjof the rebellion near Colone} Batchelder, Chief Quartermaster of -the Army of the P: Was to-night the re- Spent of mt from the officers ofthe Quartermastér's Degsr mans of the 2a corps. e testimonial consisted of a cost! vy Watch and chain, together with amagnifi- cent photographic album, contain’ ictures of the officers who participated nie affair. He was formerly ief Quartermaster"of the 2d corps and, since he has held his present po- sition, he has given pophttere not only to those connected care department, ae to. the commana er “amon The Colone} entertaine party ine! style. ) W. D. Motazoon. (0 A little boy in Trinity Church choir New York, getsasalary of $1,000 per annum for singing, e steamer Torpedo, and TELEGRAPHIO NEWS. FROM JAMES RIVER. Rebe} Naval Demenstration—Attempt te Pass Our Batteries—Utter failure ef Succe: The Rebel Gunbeat Drewry Destroyed—The Fleet Driven Back. (Dispatch to Baltimore American, A®Narovis, Jan. 26—I learn by the steamer Which arrived here this afterneom from the James river, that the demonstration of the Rebel iron-clads and rams on Tnesday morn- ing came near proving serious affair to us. Had the ram Richmond not grounded the whole of eur fleet of transports, with all the buildings and immense stores at City Point, would probably have been destroyed. The naval officer in charge of our fleet in the river is said to have turned tail and sam away. For this disgraceful conduct it is reported he has been dismissed the service. Yeurs, Mac. Another Acc: HOSTILE PREPARATIONS THE BNEMY'S FLEET IN JAMES RIVER. City Point, Va., Jan. 24—4 8. m.—Sirce the Withdrawal by Admiral Porter of large a Proportion of the nayal srmament heretofore on the James river and in Hampton Roads for offensive operations against Wilmington aud vicinity, grave apprehensions have arisen in many minds lest the enemy should take ad- vantage of their absence to precipitate their iron-clads upon us, and inflict more or less damage before the necessary concentration of gunboats to resist their advance could be con- veniently made. These fears have had addi- tiopal confirmation within a few days, by re- ports of scouts and deserters, who concur in stating that such an attack had been deter- mined on by the Rebel commanders, and that iis execution would be attempted during the present state of high water, Preparations have been quietly progressing on our part to give the buccaneers a much warmer reception than they seem to expect. Last night three rebel iron-clads, resembling the Atianta in size and appearance, dropped down the river from their anchorage, just below Fort Darling, and succeeded in ranning pest Fore Brady in the darkness and fog unin- jured. 2 At 3 o'clock this morning they were reported lying under cover of the Howlett House Hat- tery, busily engaged in removing the hulks of vessels sunk in the channel of the river by as lastsummer. They came with torpedoes, pre- pared for blowing up ail obstructions in the asiey and succseded inexploding one about daylight. me of the rebel craft managed to get past, With the assistance of lighters, it is supposed, and was acting as & cover to the rebel working parties on the sunken vessels. Siow but heavy firing has been goingon since the enemy’s intentions were discovered this morning. Comparatively but few guns can be brought to bear upon them from the north bank of @e James, but the right of General Ferrero’s line on the south side of the river is employing all the metal bearing upon the rebel craft. NinzB O’cLocK a. M.—General Ferrero re- fora thatthe guvs of Fort Parsons, on his ine, have exploded and sunk one of the rebel iron-clads and disabled another. The two re- maining vessels—there being four in the fleet, instead of three, as first reported—appear to be aground considerably up-stream from where his guns arein position. The shot from his batteries strike them fairly at every diseharge, but are shed off with little or noapparentdam- age thus far. The indications at this writing are that vig- orous co-operation of the navy would Insure the immediate and complete destruction of them all. The attempt wiil undonbtealy be made before morning, as the high tide at that hour would greatly expedite their escape. In no case need fears be entertained for the safety of tnis point, for ample arrangements are made for the stoppage and destruction of the vessels miles above here, Canadian Parliament—Atonement for late Outrages. Qvexpxc, Jan.26—In Parliament, last night, the Attorney General brought in a bill for the prevention and suppression of outrages on the frontier, the mannfacture and shipment of arms for uplawful purposes, providing for the seizure and punishment of suspected yeseels, and giving notice to persons proving unworthy of the hospitality of this country to remove from it. The bill is copied from an Imperial act, And is part of an actof the Congress of the United States in 1633. The bill was read for ee time, and passed for a second reading toeday. Ansther Destructive Fire. DETROIT, Jan. 26.—A disastrous fire occurred in east Saginaw this morning, destroying Hees’ Block and several other buildings. The prin- cipal losers are M. B. Hess, Gravier & Co., liquor dealers, Frizzle Bros., druggists, Farond. & Duncan, druggists, H. N. Duncan, clothier, F. M. Leroy, carriagewright. Total loss, $75,- 000. Insurance, $40,000. Retaliation on Rebel Prisoners, St. Lovis, Jan. 26.—The Missouri House of Representatives yesterday adopted ® eoncur- rent resolution instructing the members of Congress to introduce a bill for retaliatory treatment of rebel prisoners in our hands. Arrival of Five Hundred Rebel Prisoners. New YorE, Jan.26—The steamer General Lyon, with 500 prisoners trom Fort Fisher, ar- rived here this afternoon. She was ordered to Fort Delaware, but could not reach there on account of the Ice, New York Gold Market.” New York, Jan. 26, 10 p. m.—Gold, 207, After the call, 207 ¥; stocks and gold strong. Admiral Porter's Reply te Gen. Butler. Admiral Porter, in a letter to the Navy De- partment of January 22d, denies the statements made by Gen. Butler concerning affairs in the first Fort Fisher expeditien, and characterizes the General’s report as ‘a tissue of misstate- ments from beginning to end, scarcely equalled by the misstatements made regarding the Lieu- tenant General.” The Admiral then goes on to state that Gen. Butler’s name was never associated with the expedition except to fitit out; that the expe- dition started with the idea that the powder vessel (originally proposed by Gen. Batler) would blow the forts down, leaving our troops nothing to do but to walk in. He also says that the troops were embarked dari ag aheavy gale, against his advise and wish; that the troops remained on board four days before the expedition started; that Gen. Butler, contrary to his request, sailed before any of the fleet with the exception of the monitors, and instead of rendezvousing at Masonboro’ Inlet, showed his flag.ship, decked out with flags, to the en- emy at Fort Fisher, and had one of his trans- ports fired on. «There was no time,” he writes, « when any troops could have landed without danger up to the time the first attack took place. I was to be the judge of that, not Gen. Butler; for I had not that faith in his genera! hip which would induce me tofollow him blindly, though I determined todo all3 conid for him, and make the expedition a success if possible. «I soon saw, though, that Gen. Butler de- pended on the powder boat entirely, and I said we would baye no assault from the be- ginning.” The following paragraph of General Bat- ler’s report he declares to be & deliberate mis- statement: “ Admiral Porter was quite sanguine that he had silenced the guns of Fort Fisher, He was then urged, if that were so, torun by the bat- teriés into Cape Fear river, and then troops could land and hold the beach without diffical- ty, or without liability of being shelled by the enemy's gunboat Tallahassee, seen on the river.” = He never stw General Batler or hie staff after the landing on the beach, and if he had he could not have complied with any such re- quest, owing to the sand bars and torpedoes, which obstacles required three days to over- come af the forts had surrendered. The Ad- miral further says: ** All the next paragraph In General Butler's Teport, in relation to what the ‘Admiral’ said, and what the ‘Admiral’ declined to do, is false trom beginning to end. «“Tnever had any conversation of the kind with any one—indeed, the whole report is a tigeue of misrepresentations, inclading the part that says the instructions he received: did not contemplate a ‘siege, &c.,’ when he knows he never received any instructions, and joined the expedition without orders ” le asserts that the obstacles which General Terry surmounted were greater than any Gen- eral Butler met with, and concludes: “As it has turned ont, the first failure had its advantages, and the country will derive great comfort therefrom. “If General Butler had not descended to a subterfage to cover bis mistakes, I would wil- Nngly have allowed him to go into retirement with the bonors he has won; bat no man shall reflect unjustly on me or the corps to which I belong without his hearing from me in some ‘way or other.” i ieib os Bye She perm, ‘Was only 000 below that o! previous year, not- ‘withstanding the reduction of several millions in taxation. The estimated collections of revenue in New York city im the year 1965, mostly official, Amount to $30,250,000. The collections for 196% smounted to $18,000,000, wa The passenger railroad of phitadeiphia’s announce an intention the tare on the firstof Febraary toseven cents, The community feels much jan ncn | 2 hasa new sensation ina propo- sition now before a special committee an- nex the adjoining city of Roxbury to the “nub.”