The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1862. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FOLTON AND NASSAU STS, nt by matt will beatthe TiRuS advan eS tt ville Current én New York wth of the sender. None but em CONTE DAILY HERALD. (wo cent=per copm. ST per annum, TRE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturaay, at stxceuts per fe py, 01 $B per annum, the Luropean Edition aver wea gamle pevcon Or $6 12 to any par &« Ba sd per anuin to any part of Great Kritain, the Conciment, both to include postage; tha ia Ust, Vth anid 21st a/' cack monid, at vie per ans ALD, on Wedneviay, at four cents per ‘anntan ‘NY CORRESPONDENCE, ining fr from ony quarter of wld; eile p for.” Kap OUR FORKIGN CoRREsron: ‘ARE 2 WOLARLY REQUESTED TO SEAL ALL LETTERS AND PACK: Cr 8 SEN NOTICE taken of enonymeus correspondence. Wedone We ry rejected communications LDV ERTISEMEN TS 0) Bich i the Ware Ht Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. 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NOVELTY M ALL, 616 E Sen ae HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bonisqves: Pee oDWORTE:S HALL, Broadway.—Vocat ayp Ivstzv" New York, Monday, January 13, 1862. — THE SITUATION. The new banking scheme isa matter of great moment at the prescnt crisis, and one that should ‘be duly weighed and considered by all parties. It Must be borne in mind that the bank represen- tatives of Boston and Philadelphia are elected by the banking corporations of those cities, while those from this city are self-constituted. In the conference of these moneyed gentlemen, held in Washington on Saturday, with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Finance Committee of the Benate and the House Committee of Ways and Means, the bank “men submitted a proposition Comprising the following points:— 1. That in lieu of the proposed issue of one hun- @red and fifty. millions of demand notes and making them a legal tender, the government shall Assue fifty millions of demand notes, convertible Into seven per cent stock, redeemable in ten years, @nd one hundred and fifty millions of small notes, bearing six per cent interest, and payable in two years. 2. That the Sub-Treasury law shall be repealed, and the banks shall be used as depositories of all the public money, except that received from cus- toms. 3. That Congress shall pass a joint resolution, Geclaring that it will pass a revenue bill providing Yor the raising of one hundred and twenty-five mil- lions per annum by taxation, &c., in addition to the receipts from customs. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be @uthorized to negotiate further Joans, without re- Btriction as to terms or rate of interest, and also fo obtain temporary loans by hypothecating stocks anticipation of sales. : What ultimate action may be taken on these Poiats time alone can show. We refer our readers, Biso, to our money article for a consideration of the question. The steamer Pensacola succeeded in running the blockade of the Potomac on Saturday morning asfar Bs Indian Head, where she remained until yesterday Morning, at which time she again started on her Way. She was fired at by the rebel batteries, and twenty-two shots were aimed at her, but none hit the mark. She did not retarn the fire, although heavily laden with cannon and other appliances of ar, and fully prepared for hostile service. The Bafe passage of the vessel is a source of great Batisfaction to all parties concerned. The rumors relative to the burning of Bath, Va., Gre untrue. The rebel General Jackson has, how- @ver, burned Crist’s Mill and some other build- ings, but any further destruction is not authen- ticated. ‘ The news from ‘rebeldom is very important. From the usual files of Southern (rebel) news- Papers received at the Hxraxp office it appears Bhat the rebellion is on the wane, and that nothing but the mendacity of the rebel press and the extra Dombastic proclamations of the rebel generals pre- @ent a powerful reaction against Jeff. Davis and bis co-traitors. The rebel volunteer system has proved a failure Many regiments whose time is nearly up look for- (ward with anxiety for the expiration of their term bf service. The Richmond Zraminer regards this Bact with serious apprehension. That journal Strongly advocates the adoption of measures not to Bllow these rebel volunteers to return home, but Becommends that a “commanding” system be Bdopted—that is, to make the rebel soldiers re- Main in service, nolens volens. | The progress of the federal troops on the north- era frontier of the South, and the late defeat of the Rebels at Dranesville, have contributed largely to Bhe discomfort of the rebels. They regard Che federal expeditions now organized as intent Ppon mischief, The Mobile Register of the 30th alt. has received #rom London 8 copy of o letter addressed to Lord Vohn Russell by T. Butler King, a rebel agent now {n Europe, on the subject of the adoption of Eng- Aish manufactures in the South in opposition to the Northern States. The rebel agent tempts the Pre- Mier by saying, “You have only to hold out you, ‘Band and take them.” The Burnside expedition and its destination gives e rebels much concern. They are evidently un- ir the impression that it is destined for Norfolk forkiowa. ‘The Norfolk Day Book thinks wo 4 $y Wednesday, | former willbe the point of attack, and expects us to attack in front and rear. The presence of twenty federal gunboats in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, has confirmed this impression. By the brig Lucy Darling, Captain Souper, from Nassau, New Providence, we are in receipt of important information. It appears that the steamer Ella Warley, formerly the Isabel, of Charleston’ had sailed, previous to the 4th of January, from Nassau, apparently for St. John, N. B., but very little doubt existed that she was actually bound for Charleston, as she had on board the cargo of the ship Eliza Bonsall from Liverpool. Thiaship had sailed from England via Charleston, where she had made an attempt to run the blockade, but failed to accomplish thatTobject. The British steamer Gladiator was at Nassau, waiting to sail fora Southern port; on the 29th ult. the British ship-of- war Conqueror, 101 guns, struck on a sunken rock on the east side of Rum Key, and when last heard from the rock had pierced five feet through her bottom. The frigate Bull Dog had gone to her as- sistance. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We publish in to-day’s Henap copious extracts from rebel newspapers, not for their intrinsic me- rit, but to show our readers the style of literature they adopt to bolster up a bad cause. The rumored attempt to blow up the Mansion House Hospital at Alexandria with a barre! of gun- powder seems to be an attempt to hoax. The story grew out of the fact that a barrel of safety fuse, which was part of the stock of a broken down firm in that city, was found by @ guard of soldiers among 8 quantity of other merchandise which had been stored in the building and wae held for the benefit of creditors. A fog of unusual density set in early yesterday morning, with wind very light from the eastward, and continued during the day and night. Naviga- tion was rendered very dangerous, and a large number of inward bound vessels are detained be. low, awaiting a change of weather. In conse- quence of the fog and the drift ice in the rivers, the ferry boats to the neighboring cities were more oF less retarded in their trips. The Staten Island boats ceased running at ten o'clock in the forenoon, making but two trips during the entire day. The Eastern boats arrived at an early hour in the morn- ing. There was very good ice in the Central Park on Saturday, and it has even been thought that no better has existed this season. Skating was allowed from noon until ten o’clock P. M., when the hail storm set in and saved the police the trouble of clearing the pond. Several thousand persons enjoyed the pleasure of skating during the interval. An attempt was made last night to clean off the fallen hail from the ice; but owing to the fog we fear the attempt was a failure. Last night, about eleven o'clock, @ fire broke out in the seven story buildings Nos. 22 and 24 Frankfort street, owned and occupied by Charles H. Jenkins & Brother. - The whole of the premises were destroyed, with their contents. Loss esti- mated from $60,000 to $70,000. Said to be partly covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is at present unknown. A correspondent at Port au Prince, Hayti, writ- ing under date of December 12, informs us that the threatened revolution had béen suppressed, in con- sequence of its discovery before the plan was well matured. Emigrants from the United States, ac- quainted with the rice and cotton culture, were warmly welcomed in Hayti, and it was thought the cotton culture would eventually exercise a powerful influence over the country. At Port au Prince the deliveries of coffee were large, the prin- cipal part of which was shipped to Europe. Ame- rican produce was dull, with the exception of sugar and tobacco. ‘The Union men of the Baltimore Corn Exchange have withdrawn, and have formed a new associa- tion, called the Maryland Flour and Corn Ex- change. The Maryland Legislature has ratified the amendment to the constitution of the United States which was passed by Congress in February last. The pay of the laborers in the Portsmouth (N. H.) Navy Yard has been reduced from $1 50 and $1 25 to $1 25 and $1. . The rebels have renewed the barbarous practice of shooting Union pickets, and yet they pretend to carry on the war according to the rules of civiliza- tion and chivalry. The regiment of lancers which was raised in Michigan by Colonel Rankin, of Canada, in conse- quence of his resignation, are to be disbanded. The Massachusetts men in California have sent to Boston two thousand dollars to be distributed among the families of volunteers. The Seventh New Hampshire regiment will leave Manchester this week for Washington. Miss Sarah F. Wilson, seventeen years of age, employed in the Manchester Mills, committed sui- cide by drowning herself on the 9th instant. The death of a young soldier belonging to the New Hampshire Fourth regiment was the cause. We are under obligations to Mr. James Currie, of the United States Subsistence Department at Fortress Monroe, for copies of late Southern news- papers. The cotton market was somewhat irregular on Saturday, while the sales embraced about 450 bales, including 300 bales recently imported from Bremon, lying on the wharf, and classed as middliug uplands, at 34 3c. mainder was sold, in store, on the basis of 36¢. a 36c. for the same grade. The eflect upon the Liverpool market by the return of Mason and Slidell was looked forward to with some anxiety, as it was supposed that it would pos. sibly lead toa material advance. The flour market was less active and buoyant for common brands of State and Western, while extra brands were unchanged. Wheat was more active, while prime lots were quite firm. Corn was firm and in some better demand, with sales of West ern mixed at 66¢. a 66',c.,from store and de ivi Pork was more active and rather firmer for new. of mess, old and new, were male at $11 75 a $12 25, and for uninspected at $12 43.a $13 for city prime. Sugars were steady, with sales of 400 a 500 hhds. and 3,000 bags ‘and 300 boxes at full prices. Coffeo was quiet. Froights were steady, with a fair amount of engagemeats. Tue Errecr or tue War ox Trapkt.—No traveller through the North, ignorant of the fact, would imagine the possibility of our being engaged in a stupendous war, and having on foot an army of from 600,000 to 700,000 men, besides an immense naval force. Shops are crowded with customers, money is abundant, poverty is discoverable nowhere, the festivities of New Year's Day, never were celebrated with greater signs of rejoicing, and manufactures and trade have received a healthy impulse, which will be of lasting service to the Union. We give elsewhere the result of inquiries which we have lately caused to be made on the sub- ject of the prosperity of the Northern States, and which shows that our prediction, made when the insurrection first broke out, that trade and labor would receive a great impetus, is fully verified. It appears that our capitalists have $160,000,000 invested in cotton and woollen mills; that the profit on manufactures of these articles, during the last six months alone, has been over $20,000,000, and that $2,500,000 have been expended in wages for making up army clothing alone. This does not look like a falling off in trade, or show @ likelihood of any want, this winter, among our laboring claswes. The Abolition Conspiracy Against the Administration and the Army. With each succeeding day the evidence still accumulates upon our hands that our Union cause is in danger, not so much from the ragged regiments of Jeff. Davis as from a Northern abo- tition conspiracy against Mr. Lincoln’s conserva- tive administration: and the integrity of our army. The war policy of the administration is simply the restoration of our revolted States to the Union under our federal constitution as they left it, slavery included—nothing less, but nothing more. In pursuance o: this simple and patriotic programme, our six hundred and fifty thousand Union volunteers have entered into the military service of the government. The moral contract between them and the govern- ment is that they are te fight for “ the integrity of the Union.” The administration and the army so understand it, and hence, from the Potomac river to the Mississippi, there is the happiest accord and co-operation between them in the prosecution of this war. Thus the slave State of Maryland, from the gripe of secession has been plucked like s brand from the fire, and restored to the Union without any other armed resistance than that of a despicable Balti- more mob ; thus the loyalty of Western Virginia aed Eastern Tennessee has stood the test of the soreat trials of a savage Confederate despotism; thus the loyalty of the powerful border slave State, Kentucky, has proved to the Union cause more valuable than an army column of ahundred thousand men ; and thus we have been enabled to hold the ruling hand in the equally important slaveholding State of Missouri. ‘These advantages and many others we have gained from President Lincolu’s patriotic war policy, “the integrity of the Union.” Its moral influence has been greater in the border slave States than would have been all the soldiers we could have brought to bear against them for the overthrow of their domestic institutions. With the advancement of our armies south- ward the same moral influence will bring us the powerful co-operation of the Union men of all the other slave States. In coming among them as soldiers fighting for “the in- tegrity of the Union,” our troops will be wel- comed by a large body of our Southern Union citizens as friends and deliverers, and not as enemies. According to the testimony of some of our most intelligent soldiers from the prisons of Richmond, it will only require a single de- feat of the rebels in that State on a large scale to develope there a popular Union reaction which will save us the trouble of any further fighting to reclaim the “Old Dominion.” Ina word, we have every reason to hope that upon this invincible policy, the restoration of the Union, we have only to leave the President and the army undisturbed in order to secure the ex- tinguishment of this beleaguered rebellion be- fore the return of spring. Meantime, however, the administration and the army are suffering from “a fire in the rear,” from a Northern abolition disunion conspiracy, which, if not arrested in season, may bring us to the dreadful alternative of a revolution at Washington, or the recognition of a Southern confederacy. The war cry of this abolition holy alliance is “emancipation or separation” — the abolition of Southern slavery by fire and sword, or the recognition of the Davis govern- ment ofour rebellious States. In either event the abolition fanatic tells us we of the free States will be relieved of the curse of slavery; and, as he denounces the Union under our fede" ral constitution as “a league with death and a covenant with hell,” we cannot doubt that he prefers a dissolution of the Union to its restora- tion with the institution of slavery. The abo- lition fanatic assumes: first, that in making this war a crusade against Southern slavery we shall at once secure four millions of Union al- lies in the slaves of the South, and that with these allies this rebellion will speedily be end- ed; or, secondly, that should this experiment fail, and should we be finally reduced from ex- haustion to recognise a Southern confederacy, it would soon come to an end, slavery and all, from its own internal convulsions, and that thus our revolted States, relieved, or in order to be relieved, of the troubles of slavery, would be rapidly restored to the Union. Upon this impracticable and preposterous theory of “emancipation or separation,” there is a conspiracy at work against the consistent and conservative war programme of the admin- istration, and the headquarters of this conspi- racy are in the two houses of Congress. Hence the delay of the House of Representatives in providing suitable remedies for the financial embarrassments of the Treasury and the coun- try ; hence the abolition intrigues to break up “Honest Abe Lincoln’s” Cabinet, and to re- construct it on the abolition platform ; hence those Congressional resolutions and speeches levelled at General McClellan, General Halleck, General Sherman and other army officers prac- tically carrying out the war programme of the President ; hence the abolition war lectures at Washington of such vagrant emancipation apos- tles as Dr. Greeley and Dr. Cheever ; and hence the unceasing hue and cry of all our abolition organs, great and small, against the inactivity of our army. All these abolition movement and proceedings are directed to the abolition of dethats slavery, even though this work may require the division of the United States into two hostile confederacies, or a revolution in our federal government, and its reconstruction upon an abolition basis. But with this abolition faction holding the reins of power in one branch, and-a decided majority in the other branch of Congress, what are the natural tendencies of all these proceed- ings? They threaten nothing less than the de- moralization of the government and the army; and a wasteful and profitless war, to be ended only by European intervention. How are these evils to be avoided? They can only be avoid. ed, we fear, by the prompt uprising of the con- servative masses of our loyal States in support of the administration and the army, and in be- half of the prosecution of this war, not for “ emancipation or separation,” but for “ the in- tegrity of the Union.” Under this impression, and while from the cross purposes of the aboli- tion factions of Congress we are in danger of all the evils of national bankruptcy and univer- sal ruin from a worthless shinplaster currency, wo call upon the loyal Union people of this great and powerful metropolis to unite in a grand public demonstration in support of the President and the army. Let the patriotic citizens of New York—finan- ciers, capitalists, merchants, manufacturers and business and laboring men of all descriptions— come together, then, ina grand mass meeting, to make known the public opinion of this city in reference to the objects and purposes of this WM, dud We blall pega bingle @ Came in all gue loyal States which will serve to light the two houses of Congress to the plain path of duty which lies before them. It is the right and duty of New York city to lead the way in regard to the business of this war, with its expenditures of six hundred millions a year; and, accordingly, we recommend a mass meeting of our loyal citizens upon the subject without further delay. The of the American Rebel- Mion in Europe—The United States the Observed of all Observers. Since the outbreak of the rebellion in this country public attention in Europe has been directed from the affairs of the Old World and fixed upon those of the New, and never was a rebellion or a war regarded with greater interest than our own. As in private life, so with nations, it is the tendency of one great trouble to hide a multitude of small ones, to diminish the importance of lesser evils, and hold spell-bound the imagi- nation, The mind is thus absorbed by the one to the exclusion of the rest. A rebellion of such magnitude, among such a people, and of such a peculiar character as that which now distracts ‘this continent, has not unnaturally made the United States the cynosure of all eyes. Before the commencement of this insur- rection, trouble, it could be plainly scen, was brewing all over Europe. Garibaldi was burn- ing to join swords with the Hungarians against Austria, with the double object of accomplish. ing Italian unity by wresting the Quadrilateral from the tyrant yoke, and restoring to the form- er their ancient kingdom. The Hungarians were on the verge of insurrection, and only awaiting the proper moment to rise with one accord and strike the fatal blow at Austrian dominion. But the American war broke out» and there was a solemn pause, and Austria still lives, and Hungary and Venetia are still Aus- trian, and Garibaldi has turned his sword into @ pruning hook. Asolution of the Roman question was de- cided unon, by which France was to withdraw her troops from Rome, in order that Victor Emanuel might make it the capital of the Italian kingdom, in consideration of his paying the Pope an annual subsidy, and allowing him one bank of the Tiber for his residence. But events in America, adding to the uncertainty of the future, made Louis Napoleon defer a step that might arouse the indignation of Catholic Christendom at a time when he could illy afford to brave it; for troubles seldom come alone, and wars breed wars. Russia and France were meditat- ing joint action in the affairs of Turkey, from which there was some prospect of a general European war; but the same causes that ope- rated in favor of Austria and the Pope suspend- ed all movements towards the execution of the design. Even that little great difficulty be. tween Germany and Denmark, known as the Schleswig-Holstein question, which Prussia stepped out in such a warlike manner to settle, has escaped notice, and been left over for Prur- sia to handle at some more favorable season+ All Powers appear to have been equally afraid to meddle in European affairs pending the set- tlement of our own. The immense naval and military armaments of France, which were in- creased with such unprecedented and alarming rapidity before the commencement of the war in America, have not been employed in the work of aggression for which all Europe be lieved them designed, but are quietly heid in reserve. This being the general state of the Continent, England stood in no immediate dan. ger of having to take part in a European war, as was threatened only a year ago. The war in America thus secured the peace of Europe. It is true that Spain bas been profiting by a peculiar opportunity for promoting her schemes of aggrandizement in American waters by the annexation of St, Domingo, and that she is the leader of the triple coalition against Mexico; but these are of secondary importance, and only show still further the influences of the present war; for, had it not existed, Spain would not have dared to plant her flag on the soil cf St. Do- mingo, nor, however deplorable Mexican anar- chy might be, would the expedition against Mex- ico have been undertaken, especially with Spain as a party toit. Had Mexico been less near to the United States, and Vera Cruza less conveni- ent rendezvous for ships-of-war that, so far as their respective governments knew, might pos- sibly be required to operate on our own coast, the expedition would have been deferred. Just now, however, the opportunity was doubtless considered by those concerned to be very de- sirable. The more intrinsically important effects of the war have, however, been felt commercially, and not politically, and these have very reason- ably occasioned the governments of Europe, and particularly England and France, great anxiety. The closing of the Southern market, and the reduced demand for articles of foreign manufacture at the North, have more or less seriously impaired the trade of the world. The cotton mills of Lancashire have, in many in- stances, been entirely closed, and the majority of those still open are working on only half time. A direct consequence of this is that there is an army of disbanded operatives and great distress in the manufacturing districts. But it is not cotton spinning alone that has suffered so much disaster. The cutlers of Sheffield, the hardware makers of Birminghman, the silk weavers of Coventry and the cloth and stocking weavers of Nottingham and Paisley have felt with equal severity the falling off in the Ame- rican trade, Besides, many other branches of British industry have been partially ruined by the same causes. The shipping trade, the cus- toms revenues and the business of the country generally have been seriously affected by the reduction of our imports. But, fortunately for us, our internal prosperity has been such that, during all this eventful time, the exports of the Northern States have been larger than at any former period of our history. In France the result has been as bad in pro- portion to her trade as in England, and to add to all the failure of her crops has forced her into this market as an extensive buyer of bread- stuffs, by which a large amount of specie is ne- cessarily withdrawn from her own coffers. Thus we see that on all sides our domestic troubles have exercised an important influence over the political as well as the commercial condition of Europe, and that the United States are, not without reason, the observed of all na- tions. Sanrrary Negiect—Great complaint is being made about the neglect of proper sanitary regu- lations in the military hospitals at Washington, and indeed in the Army of the Potomac general- ly. The Surgeon General in charge of the Modical Bureau is blamed for the ineMciency with which Le performs the duties of his de- partment, oud jhe fact that there arg now’ four hundred cases of smallpox among the civilians of the federal capital is attributed chiefly to his bad management. The Sanitary Commission ought to inquire into this important matter without delay, as well as into the practice com> mon among contractors of sending out army clothing to be made up in all the pestiferous dens of New York and elsewhere, where small- pox and other contagious diseases are very prevalent, and by which means they are com. municated to our soldiers. Prevention is better than cure, and it is a positive sin to allow any- thing so dangerous to the health of the army as either bad hospital management or the practice to which we have just referred. Legislation Upon Morals. Several of our very pious and sanctimonious contemporaries have been recently engaged in running a muck upon the “concert saloons” of this city, and are urging the Legislature to sup- press these places of amusement. It seems that, in this world of intermeddling, no person can catch the influenza of a certain sort of blatant morality without immediately insisting that everybody else shall catoh the influenza algo, or olse be esteemed the worst of sinners. Conse- quently our contemporaries have becn indulging in invectives towards us, recently, and have en- deavored to induce us alse to join the hue and cry against “concert saloons.” Now, as far as the Heratp is concerned, the “concert saloons” stand upon their owa bottoms, and it appears to us time enough to use such very harsh words about them when the Mayor revokes their licenses and the law its approbation, and these “saloons” become as illegal and pernicious as they are now said to be. But if our pious contemporaries still insist that such “promiscuous assemblages of the sexes” are bad, and still urge legislative interference, we are ready, with our customary willingness to oblige, to join our amiable religious friends in procuring Albany legislation upon morals. We have never turned away from the calls of the needy journals which, we are afraid, envy and seek to injure us, and we overlook a great’ many doubtful transactions of theirs in order to preserve our faith in their piety and respectabili- ty. For example, it strikes us as strange that a newspaper which subsisted for some time upon ale and porter for the army should first puff and then oppose “concert saloons.” It is strange, also, to see the “Little Villain” of the Times offering gambling bets, publishing licen- tious advertisements and preaching morality at the same time. It scems singular that the hero of “seven up” and Bull run should get up a lot tery for gold pens, dollar jewelry and the Weekly Tribune, and yet insist so strongly upoa legislation upon morals. If we are to favor our angelic contemporaries in their little affair, we must respectfully ask of them that the Legisla- ture shall also be encouraged to suppress gambling houses and gambling betters, lotte. ries and gift enterprises, licentious advertise- ments and the Times that publishes them, deal- ers in bogus army stores and Cummingses of every degree. Doubtless they will agree with us in this. That matter being scttled, therefore, we are ready to aid our evangelical friends to legislate down all “promiscuous assemblages of the sexes.” Of course we should include the “con- cert saloons; but there are many other as- semblages of the sexes just as promiscuous and as dangerous. Is it not a shameful thing, for instance, that the sexes should be allowed to assemble promiscuously in omnibuses, on ferry- boats, in railroad cars and on steamers? We call upon the Legislature to abolish this dread- fulevil. Why, in each of these veliicles of pub- lic conveyance the best and the worst of both sexes are brought into close and una. voidable contact. One can stay away from a “concert saloon” if he likes; but there are oc- casions when it is impossible to avoid entering a stage, a car ora boat. There is no privacy or seclusion possible. The bad woman and the good, the honest man and the thief, are com. pelled to ride together, and especially men and women are promiscuously mingled. This is a very sad state of affairs,and we must insist, with our saintly contemporaries, that separate omnibuses, cars and boats shall be provided, by legislative act, for the two sexes, labelled separately, like our cars now for negroes. In our churches, too, and in our theatres and opera houses, the same promiscuous assemblage is permitted. Even at our Artists’ Receptions the ladies mix with the gentlemen, and true art is thus debauched into a conniver at promiscuous assemblages. O, worthy and cherubic contem- poraries ! raise your voices with ours and be_ seech the Legislature to pass an act abolishing this awful state of affairs ! These evils are not for the first time brought to the attention of the public. Years ago the Methodists—as straightiaced and scrupulous a sect as that to which our archangelic contempo- raries belong—ordered that the men and women should sit upon different sides of their churches ; and if evil could come of “promiscuous assem- blages of the sexes” in the holy houses of wor- ship, how fearful must be the effect of the gatherings of men and women in theatres, at balls and at concerts! Let us have separate churches, theatres and halls, at once and by law. There are two sides to Broadway, and the sexes should be made to keep separate and distinct, on the right and left hand pavements, Everywhere, all the pretty women should be h@iden from the sight of men, lest men should be tempted—and vice versa. Would that ou, dear contemporaries were able to prevent the promiscuous assemblages of men and women at home and in families; but we fear for them that, in this degraded age, this would be impos. sible. Separate cars, stages, boats, theatres, churches and concert halls we may have, how- ever, and therefore we join our seraphic contem- poraries in their efforts to get such a bill passed, and inaugurate here, as they desire, the high moral tone prevalent in Constantinople, where the sexes are separated by seraglios and harems. Brethren, let us pray that, some day or other, all distinction of sexes may be abolished entire- ly by act of the Legislature ! SreccLation ts Srecte.—Certain speculators in gold have lately been hoist, like an unskil- ful engineer, by their own petard. Trying to make money out of the necessities of the coun- try, they ran gold up to a premium of five per cont ina few days after the banks suspended specie payment. Now they have met with a collapse, however, and gold has fallen to two per cent premium, and will doubtless fall still lower. This is as it should be. Gold, like any other coin, is only worth par. There are three hundred millions of it in. the country, and very litue is going out. California sends us more gold than we now seyd away. In the faco of these facts mon ate blinded with gold dust who attempt to exact @ premium upoa gold. In our restaurants and barrooms, where specio change is a commodity, no want of it is yet felt. The only advantage of a high premi- um is that it makes an export of gold unprofit- able, even if desired. Tue West Powr Muntrany Acapemy—Wuar Tr Has Done For tae Counrry.—We publish this morning the first complete, graphic and succinct history of the Military Academy of West Point, and its new and curious detaila will amply repay careful perusal. From this account it will be seen that the West Point Academy is not of such recent origin as is gone- rally supposed. The idea of such an institution originated with Washington, and the first ele- borate plan of the Academy was drawn up by the lamented Hamilton. In 1802 Congress passed an act authorizing the establishment of such a school for military officers, and West Point was selected, almost unan’ mously, as its location. There was for merly some opposition to this Academy, and efforts were made in Congress to break -it up; but the Mexican war so demonstrated the efficiency of its graduates that: all opposi- tion was thenceforward silenced, and. those of the Southern States which had determined te -secede founded academies of their own—minia- ture West Points in effect. It is noticeable that Beauregard, the military chief of the rebels, was a graduate of West Point, and was, for the short space of two days, the superintendent of that institution. McClellan, our Commander- in-Chief, was also a graduate; and Scott, though he was never a student at our military academy, is and has been one of its most earnest advocates and supporters...We commend ous readers to this article upon the Academy for much valuable information, therefore. In times of peace the usefulness of such an institution is evident; for by it we are prepared for times of war. Now we have ageand West Point, is which 650,000 students are educated to armsé and it is singular that, in both the Union and rebel armies, West Point graduates are at the head of the military forces. It is hardly neces- sary to add that we havea naval academy al Newport—formerly at Annapolis—upon the same plan as the Military Academy at West Point. Thus we are taught the science of both branches of the service; and that we under. stand the art as well experience will show. Massa Greetsy on Nationa, Economy.— The Honorable Massa Greeley is getting econo mical. Perhaps he judges of the approaching circumstances and probable bankruptcy of everything in the land from a “Tribune standard. It must be so. He sees all objects through Tribune spectacies. It is very natural, then, that everything should look gloomy and som- bre. Hardly fair, Master Greeley. The jatest trouble is, that Congress has undes consideration the grant of a paltry $35,000 te promote the interests of our manufactures and commerce, and keep up our credit and our re- spectable position as a great nation at the World's Fair in London the coming season, To save so insignificant a sum, because we are obliged to spend a thousand millions or so in a terrible rebellion, would be like the man whe should go without his supper or sell his last shirt because he was about becoming a bank- rupt for $100,000. But there are other reasone why the money should not be appropriated for this exhibition. We are not going to become an insolvent people or a nation of defaulters in consequence of any small items of necessary expenditure; bat we are going to keep up our commercial supremacy by greasing the wheels of manufac- tures and commerce in every legitimate and landable manner. We could show the nations of the world that, though we have a very respec: table war on our hands, we could still afford to spend a few thousands to keep up our prestige a3 an ingenious, inventive and enterprising peo- ple, if such a plan be necessary. Starving the ox that ploughs the land is not the most judi- cious way to increase the produce of the culti- vated field ; but, under the circumstances, why should we fritter our time and attention in such matters just now. Let our great exhibition for the world be the suppression of the rebellion by May next, and then we can have a World’s Fair of our own. That's the view to take of the matter, Massa Greeley. SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT N, Y. 8. M. At an eloction of Company J, of this regiment, held a their armory, Fssex market, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, the fot lowing gentlemen wore elected:—First Sergeant, J. J Foster, vice Scanlan, resigned; Second Sorgeant, Donohoe, vieo Foster, prom: Third Yorgeant, James son,’ vice Morris, resigned; First Corporal, James »wan, vice Donohoe, promoted; Second Corporal, iam Norris, vieo McGowan, promoted. All of the above were through the three months campaign last sununer, Sergeant Foster acting as glerk to Col. Coree- ran from the day after the regiment Ieft New York. ANOTHER CONNECTICUT BATTERY COMING. Asplendid battery of artillery will leave New Haven this afternoon (Monday), by the steamer City of Hart. ford, and land at Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, carly tomorrow morning. The battery is fully armed and pound brouze riflod guneé equipped, there boing four six-) and two twelve-pound howitzors,one hundret and tea+ horses and one hundred and fifty-six men. Tt is said to, be unequalled by any battery which has left New Bug- land, and reflects great credit upon Gen. Tyler, under whose immediate supervision it bas been raised. VERMONT ALLOTMENT COMMISSIONERS. Prosident Lincoln has appointed Hon. Joseph Poland, J. B. Page, State Treasurer, and John Howe, Jr., of Veer- mont, as Commissionors under the new law to visit the Vermont troops in camp and obtain thoir signatures to the aliotment rolls, These geatiemen have boon fora week past visiting the camps, with gratifying success, vory few refusing to assign anything, and noarly all as- signing at least half of their pay for the boueiit of thele families. Fires in New York. EXTENSIVE VIRE IN FRANKFORT STREET —DsSTRUC- TION OF A SEVEN STORY BUILDING—1088 ABOUT SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. Shortiy before eleven o'clock last night, a fro was dis- covered in the fourth story of the seven story building Nos, 22 and 24 Frankfort street. The firemen woreearly at work, but powiny hed the dense smoke they were unable to reach the main body of the fro. The flamos-spread from floor to floor until it broke through the roa. The wall fronting om Frankfort street sprang out at about tho fourth story, end in a few seconds the whole frout ave way and fell with a tr crash. ‘Tho wall falling suddenly was the means of stopping the sproad of the fire. The building, however, extended at least one hundred fost back, coming alnrost in contact with several lager bier saloons on William street. Now. 204, 206 sed 208 Witten throes are leas, by tho falling walls. The oc out in 4 summary manper. The bit!!! Nos, 22 and 24 Frankfort street gre owned by Edward @. Jenkins, and. tho promises wére occupied by Chaclos H. Jenkins, printer; also by a marble paper manufaeturing company ‘and a bookbindery. The lateness of the hour idem our reporter obtaining any more datails. Globe Hotel, adjoining, damage, conaiderable excite -, Tent, however,’ prevailed among ths boarders. White Wo go to presa the ruins aro still Durning. ‘The origin OF the tira 8 at present unknown, Fine 1s Taowrson Sreest—A Covormo Woman BORRED zo Daati.—Shortly before seven o'clock last evening a iscovered in the apartments of St,ean Thomp- Se eure woman, in the rear of No. ‘¢1 Thompsoa Street, ‘The alarm was given, and on ent aring tho room the policeman found the deceased on the, floor enveloped in flames. Her clothing was completely burned off, and Ne of her porson was burned «ha frightful maa- phe pt st. Hor shows remained h tho exception of her fect. on, aly slightly soorched, Decea’ oq was twenty-three |, more or pants were hurried ‘Of age, and had been io “eeble health for some | ent lala ja supposed 8h® fainted and accidentally fot fire to hor clothes. The eyed tho body to the Fighth precinct polteo *, ce Willay wilt hold an inquest on the boyy this day