The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1862, Page 4

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DODWORTH’S _H. 806 Broad OC in Lnoroes on tHe Insioe Vinw or Tan Toutmune Romero New York, Sunday, January 19, 1862. THE SITUATION. General McClellan has issued a peremptory order ‘to commandants of divisions and brigades, enjoin- ing the absolute necessity of keeping every officer and soldier at his post at this critical juncture. Nothing but medical certificates of ill health and other urgent reasons shall entitle any officer to furlough or leave of absence. This order would seem to foreshadow the approach of some immedi- ate movement of importance. The information which General McClellan laid before the Committee on the Conduct of the War is said to have worked a complete revolution of ©pinion in those who were dissatisfied with the Proceedings of the army. It appears that he has convinced them of the efficiency of his plans, of the thorough organization of the army under his com- mand, and the certainty of success which is to fol- low the mode of operations he has decided upon. It has been confidently stated at Fortress Mon- Toe that General Wool has notified the rebel Gene- ral Huger, at Norfolk, to. remove all the women and children from that city. This report, if true, is highly important, inasmuch as it would mean an immediate attack upon Norfolk by the Union troops. The tone of the rebel press betrays the utmost excitement and consternation with regard to the Burnside expedition. The mystery which sur- rounds it, and its non-appearance in any Southern port, evidently keep the rebels in a ferment of anxiety, not knowing where or when it may strike. From the Upper Potomac we learn the pleasing intelligence that the rebel General Jackson, with all his force, has vanished from the vicinity of Han- cock, and it is reported that he has retired to Win- chester. Our news from the Army of the West is interest- ing to-day. General Grant made a reconnoisance in large force yesterday afternoon in the direction of Columbus, Ky., surveying all the roads leading from that place to Blandville and the neighboring towns. He passed over, with his troops, a dis- tance of forty miles in six hours; and although they reached a point within five miles of Columbus, no traces of the rebels were discovered. The move- ment of the Union troops from Cairo had created great consternation among rebels. We have received another large and interesting instalment of Southern papers, from which we make copious extracts in to-day’s paper. They will be found highly interesting. The Richmond Fxaminer of the 16th inst. has a highly interesting article, which contains more truth than it usually gives to the public, contrast- ing the rebel and Union situations. It says that since the war began the rebels have been acting strictly on the defensive—they have gained noth- ing. The rebels now find themselves in the face of superior forces wherever they look, whether to the North, West, East or to the South itself. The Examiner tacitly admits that “Generals Johnston nd Beauregard are held by McClellan on the Po- tomac as in a vice.” The New Orlegns Bulletin of the 7th inst. has a Jong and labored editorial on the blockade of New Orleans. It admits that the port is hermetically sealed to the commerce of the world. It seems to despair of foreign aid to raise the blockade, and thinks the only resource for the rebels is to build a navy and do it themselves. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Second Ohio cavalry, Colonel Doubleday, with 1,240 officers and men, and 1,184 horses, left Cincinnati on the 15th inst., bound for Leaven- worth, Kansas. This regiment is to form part of ral Lane’s expedition. A-song the prisoners taken by the Union t sin their attack on @ portion of Humphrey all's rebels, near Paintville, Ky., was ano- Vegram. This last is named Enoch, and he third of the name that has been taken pri- inee the commencement of the rebellion. umber of released revel prisoners from Fort \ n, who were on their way home to the South- er tes, had a fashionable and brilliant entertain- mont given them on Wednesday evening, in Balti- more, by @ prominent secessionist of that city. Among the party were Colonel Pegram and Captain ‘Tapsall, of the rebel army. A party of twenty-five secessionists, who had chartered @ schooner and had their arrangements pearly completed for starting for the South, Were | and introdnee bills, resolutions and debates on the night of the 15th inst. and sent to Fort McHenry. One of them, named David Sommers, ‘was arrested some time since for being engaged in sending war materials to the rebels, but was sub- released from Fort Lafayette on taking the oath of allegiance. According to the report of Postmaster General Money sent ry mait will beatthe | Reagan, of the bogus confederacy, the cost of transporting the mails in the eleven seceded States | ‘one month was $200,937, and the receipts during | the same time were $92,387. At this rate the an- nual cost would be $2,411,244, and the yearly re- ceipts only $1,108,644—excess of expenses over receipts, $1,302,600. The Jayhawkers have penetrated Nebraska, and are committing all sorts of depredations apon the inhabitants. Governor Saunders has issued @ pro- clamation ordering them off. A fire occurred in New Brunswick, N. J., om the 15th inst., which destroyed seven stores in Com- merce square. Loss $50,000. There are ninety-three savings banks in hue setts, which have an aggregate of 225,008 depo” sitors, aud $44,785,438.0n deposit. During the month of December of last year, and thus far in this month, we have recorded the loss of some twenty-five grain loaded British vessels going from this port to Europe, whose cargoes were insured on the other side. In every case these vessels were loaded by means of the eleva- tors, and so rapid is this method that but s few hours is necessary to load the largest class ship. The grain thus runin cannot be properly stowed by men in hold, in consequence of the danger they run of suffocation from the grain overwhelming them, and from the dust arising from it, it being impossible for them to remain below longer thatan hour atatime. It has no opportunity to settle or to become packed, as in the old style of stovedoring, and thus, when the vessel proceeds to sea and is in motion, the grain shifts to leeward, almost invariably works through the ceiling into the pump wells, and so chokes up the boxes. There is no agent of Lloyds in this city whose special business it is to see to this matter. American vessels loading grain, and others whose cargoes are insured on this side, are under the im- mediate supervision of Captain Thomas D. Taylor, of the Board of Underwriters, a large portion be- ing taken in in bags and the balance in bulk. Ex- perience has taught our underwriters the necessity of this measure. The steamship Kangaroo, which sailed from this port yesterday for Liverpool, carried out $339,000 in specie. i ‘The cotton market was quiet yesterday, and quotations without change of moment. The sales, in smal! lots, em- braced about 200 bales within the neighborhood of 383¢¢. a S4c. for middling uplands. The flour market was steady but inactive, the sales being light and chiefly to the domes- tic trade. Extra State ranged from $5 75 a $5 85 for me- dium to good grades, and $5 85 a $5 90 for choice and fancy qualities. Wheat was dull and sales limited, closing at easier prices. Corn was lower and inactive, with sales of Western mixed at 64c. Pork was in fair demand, with sales of new mess at $12 25a $12 50, and $11 75 a $12 for old mess, and $9 25 a $9 50 for new prime. Prime mess was at $13, and city do. at $13 50. Sugars were steady, while sales were limited and embraced about 200 hhds. of Cuba and 200 bags of Manila. Coffee was firmly hold, with sales of about 1,100 bags Rio at 184¢c. a 20c. jacluded in the sales were 600 bags for export, Freights were steady, with moderate engagements. Our Atlantic and Miesissippi Expeditions and the Duty of Congress. Rebellion is already surrounded with a cor” don of Union forces, and, while the Army of the Potomac holds Beauregard in chepk, new expeditions upon the Atlantic and Mississippi are moving rapidly and irresistibly forward. Those persons who complain of inactivity and tardiness in our Commander-in-Chief should giance at our telegraphic and other intelli- gence, and mark that not only do our forces hold many strong points along the rebel borders, but that also General Burnside’s ex- pedition may at any hour report a Union vic- tory, General Buell’s forces are advancing in Kentucky, and in General Halleck’s division the greatest activity is discoverable. Now, all these movements are predetermined at Wash- ington, are ordered by General McClellan, and form parts of a great general plan, the result of which will be the speedy and triumphant crushing out of the rebellion. Public attention seems altogether too much concerned about the Army of the Potomac, and should take into se. rious account these extensive advances else- where. General McClellan, like an experienced chess player, is placing his forces in position all over the board, and thus prepares fora sudden and inevitable checkmate. He has promised us a short and desperate war, and will keep his promise. Only, like Morphy, he takes time to carefully arrange his men before making the quick, decisive, conclusive moves which insure victory. Indeed, our only fear is that time enough ha not been taken for careful preparation. Only ignorant or unthinking men clamor for hasty onward movements; and, for ourselves, we should have preferred waiting until April next before making a general advance. The time thus occupied in drilling our soldiers and ac- cumulating our strength would have been more than regained in the brevity of our final move- ments, and more than balanced by the in- creasing weakness of the rebels, with whom gunpowder is becoming a mere matter of faith: No good general would be guilty of the folly of moving before he was ready, if he were left to his own judgment and discre- tion. Napoleon was able to strike quickly simply because he took pains to pre- pare slowly. The present Napoleon, who in- herits no little of his uncle’s military genius, prepared a long time for his Italian campaign ; was all ready for action in January, but did not hurl his splendid army upon the enemy until the next summer. McClellan’s campaign has been devised upon the same plan, and, if the harassing fanatics have not hurried him, we may expect a like brilliant result. But w@ would prefer giving him even more time, Other generals have occupied a much longer period in preparation, even with the advantages of veterans instead of raw soldiers, and com- plete instead of hastily constructed armaments. Vulcan slowly forged the ‘ thunderbolts which Jove flung so rapidly. The start has been made, however, and we hope that it has not been made too soon. It now remains for Congress to move as ra- pidly and as effectively as our expeditions. Heaven knows that Congress, at least, has spent a long enough period in preparation, and it is quite time that something were done. It is the plain duty of Congress to support and assist our armies; and this can only be accomplished by the prompt passage of well considered finan- cial measures, and by action calculated to fos- ter, cherish and develope the Union sentiment at the South. This Congress is bound by a re lution, passed at the special session, not to in- terfere with glayery. This is very well; but | something more is required. It is perfectly idle to talk of the friendly feoling of Congress to- | wards the Union sentiment in the rebel States 80 long as it permits its fanatical members to perpetually discuss the inevitable nigger, Sara wees Let Congress rise with the oocasion,. and be, a it should be, an aid to the Union cause instead of @ great impediment. Silly. ctiticisms of generals and of battles, about which Congress- men know as little as the “onward to Rich- mond” organs from which they derive their ideas ; idle discussions of slavery ; speeches about the proper and improper conduct of the war—these can never help our armies, but do really hinder any genuine progress, and breeda — distrust in everybody and every- Our expeditions are moving. Now let Con- gress move also. Provide means to pay the expenses of. the war; repress fanatical inter- meddling and intermeddlers; encourage the Union sentiment of the South, and assure honest Southern men that we are endeavoring to force them back to the Union as it was, and not to a national abolition society, and then attend to your regular business, and, having settled it, go home in peace. That is what the country demands of you, Messeurs Congressmen. Will you do it or not ? The Policy of England Towards the Itis the gonerabbelief, not only in this coun- try, but on the other side of the Atlantic, tha, the settlement of the Trent difficulty by the surrender of Mason and Slidell will have little influence in securing peace between England and the United States. The conduct of the British government and press in assuming so belligerent an attitude in this affair was only in character with the hostility they have always shown towards us, and particularly since the outbreak of the present war, and that hostility will not subside with the event which provoked its last remarkable display. It is the desire of the British government to pick a quarrel with the United States as early as possible, and on the slightest plausible pretext, and we have reason to believe that they have now under consideration the recognition of the Southern confederacy and the forcing of our block- ade. There are two motives which we may attribute to them in their contemplated action in this matter: one is in order that a blow may be struck at republicanism, and the other in order that the Southern ports may be opened to British trade and for the export of cotton- The one object is political, the other commer- cial. We are of course aware that there isa good deal of suffering in the manufacturing districts in England in consequence of this war, but more owing to diminished imports into the American market than to the non-exportation of cotton; for, by a return made last month, it was shown that the supply of cotton ware- housed in Liverpool was larger than at the game period last year; and it was only a few days ago that we heard of ten thousand bales being purchased there for shipment to New York. The main commercial object, therefore, pending the exhaustion of the supply already in England, of Great Britain in breaking our blockade, would be the re-establishment of her export trade with the South. But if the war was prolonged fill after the Liver- pool and Manchester cotton warehouses became empty, then the inducements to vio- late the blockade would be much stronger; and necessarily so, as the fact that more than five millions of souls, or one-sixth of the population of the British islands, are dependent on the cot- ton manufacture for the means of subsistence, sufficiently demonstrates. England, however, before undertaking such a step, would not for- get that by so doing she would be sacrificing her interests with the North, not only closing the door to her own manufactures, but to the export of grain and other commodities of which she is a large purchaser. She would of course weigh the chances for and against her in en- gaging in hostilities with the United States; but her choice might nevertheless be unwise, however much the object aimed at might grati- fy the enemies of republicanism. Now, towards this line of policy it is clear England is being urged on by France. Louis Napoleon, not satisfied with leading her into the Russian war, and making her a passive spectator of his own exploits against Austria, is plotting to involve her in a war with this country. It is all in accordance with the Idees Napoliennes; but England, strange to say» seems blind to his machinations. The First Na- poleon, when he overran the continent of Eu- rope, had still one great enemy remaining un- conquered in England, and to overthrow that Power was the acme of his ambition ; but, al- though he strove hard to do it, he failed. His nephew has the same programme to carry out; but, profiting by the example of his uncle, in- stead of acting in open hostility with Great Bri- tain, he does exactly the reverse, and by pro- fessions of friendship and treaties of commerce tries to win her confidence and make her pliable to his will. This is the diplomatic way of gain- ing a point, and the political Mephistopheles of the Tuileries doubtless thinks it quite proper. He is jealous of the power of England, and has al- ways been jealous of it, just as was the First Na- poleon. France would never have sold Louisiana to the United States but for the desire to strengthen a Power on this-continent which might act as a counterpoise to that of England on the ocean. Napoleon, from the commencement of the present rebellion, has influenced the policy of England towards the United States. Ifit had not been for his instigation her royal proclama- tion of neutrality would not have been issued. While urging that course upon per he promised to adopt the same himself, and the British Mi- nistry swallowed the bait. With England en- gaged in awar with this country, and Spain committed to a long struggle with Mexico, he could make himself master of Germany, and ex- tend the frontiers of France without any formi- dable opposition; for, with the new Italian king- dom as his tgol and ally, he could easily subdue Austria and Prussia; and Russia, being on the verge of revolution would be almost impotent to oppose him. Yet in the face of all these designs the statesmen and press of England raised their voices in favor of the nation falling into the Na- poleonic snarl, and are doing all they can to bring about that state of things which would make France mistress of the Continent and the supreme power in Europe. Where thon would be the vaunted supremacy of England? Gone, and forever How to Secure tHe Svocess or Our Arma— | We seriously suggest to the government and the people the duty of encouraging the Union sentiment in the South We have no right whatever to destroy the social institutions of the rebel States, and the question of the libe- ration of the slaves, if it ever comes up, must be left to the decision of each State, just as it waa in those Northern States which formerly Aaiiseied M4 © house on the outskirts of Baltimore | upon the subjogt of tha emancipation. of wlavon, byeld olavey, Wo cnauol, suerelere, Jnvertong NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1862. with slavery, and should at once those fanatics who aid Jeff. Davis by continually agi- tating the inevitable negro, Let such men as Garrison, Greeley, Beecher, Brownson, Wendell Phillips and Cheever be at once arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, and the result would be a Union revolution at the South, and the entire and glorious success of our great expeditions, Mr. Cameron’s Confirmation—His Great Mission to Europe. The United States Senate, after a tull debate in secret session, having, by an overwhelming majority, confirmed the nomination of Mr, Cameron as our Minister to Russia, the question haturally recurs, what advantages are antici. pated from this appointment in reference to the interests of our government at this crisis on the other side of the Atlantic? This inquiry may be readily answered to the satisfaction of the intelligent reader. Mr. Cameron, as our late Secretary of War, will command unusual attention and respect, not only in St. Petersburg, but in every other Euro- pean capital which he may think it convenient or expédient to visit. “It is probable, too, thats en route to hia destination, he will not only give a few days of his society to Mr, Adams at London, and Mr. Dayton at Paris, but that he may take Berlin and Vienna in the line of his outward journey, and even cross the Alps for a personal observation of the progress and prospects, especially in regard to Ame- rican affairs, of the new and flourishing kingdom of Italy. In this view we may infer that, while the officlal credentials of Mr. Cameron are limited to Russia, his mission in reality may comprehend all the leading nations of Europe. Considering, too, the past experience and positive knowledge of Mr. Cameron, in refe- rence to this Southern rebellion, in connection with his active patriotism, his political sagacity and his industrious habits, we may safely assume that at every point in Europe where He may be brought into contact with “the powers that be” he will contribute“not a little to correct existing European misapprehensions as to the capabilities of Jeff. Davis and his rebellious confederates to make good their ex- | periment of an independent Southern confede- Thus far, notwithstanding the superior abili- ties of Messrs. Adams and Dayton, as states- men of enlarged views, experience and learn- ing, they have permitted themselves, touching the causes, objects, means and prospects of this Southern rebellion, to be eclipsed and over- shadowed by the ingenious pamphlets, blan- dishments, fictions and incessant intrigues of such Southern fire-eaters as William L. Yancey, Thomas Butler King and A. Dudley Mann. Thus, with their Southern cotton and their com- mercial statistics of the Southern States, and their specious arguments illustrating the advan- tages to England and France of free trade with an independent Southern federation, these men have more than neutralized the contemptuous dignity and indifference of Messrs. Adams and Dayton. Mr. Cassius M. Clay, in his patriotic indignation, did not mend the matter, and Mr. Thurlow Weed, in his silly letters to the London Times, only afforded the materials to that ma- lignant and unscrupulous journal for renewed assaults upon our government, our army and our cause. The presence of General Scott in Paris, and his name while there to a single well considered letter in defence of our government, produced, on the other hand, a sensible effect in France and England in our favor, notwith- standing the menacing face of the Trent affair It was the name, the world-wide reputation and the late position of General Scott as the head of our army that gave to his words the weight of convincing truth. So we believe it will be with Mr. Cameron in Europe. Whether at London, Paris, Berlin, Vi- enna or St. Petersburg, he will be recognized as that head of our War Department who, within a few months, from the ranks of a people devoted for fifty years to the uninterrupted enterprises of peace, mustered a volunteer army for the Union of six hundred and fifty thousand men, or- ganized it, equipped it, and distributed it along a line of operations of twenty-five hundred miles in extent. Thus recognized in Europe, and going there with"a more intimate and positive knowledge of the exact state of things in this country at this crisis than any other man pos- sesses, excepting President Lincoln, General McClellan, and perhaps one or two others, Mr, Cameron’s views and opinions of American affairs, on the other side of the Atlantic, cannot fail to produce good fruit from London to St. Petersburg. We have no doubt that his ap- pointment will be considered by our sagacious and generous friend the Czar as a special manifestation of the high regard of our govern- ment for his spontaneous expressions of sym- pathy in behalf of our sacred cause of the Union. But, as it may be asked what are we to do with these charges and insinuations against Mr. Cameron of jobs and speculations? It may not be amiss, even here, to give them some little attention. We have not heard of asingle dis- tinct specification of official corruption on the part of Mr. Cameron, as Secretary of War ; and: notwithstanding he hag been responsible for the war disbursements of four or five hundred mil- lions of dollars, we doubt whether a single spe- cification of private jobbing in public contracts can be made good against him. Mr. Cameron's chief accusers are from the interior of Pennsyl- vania—a section of that State which is afllicted with the meanest, sourviest, basest cliques of dirty politicians of any place in the country, hardly excepting the base political party ruffi- ans of the Five Points of this city. From the outset to this day, these despicable Pennsylva- nia politicians (and we speak of their baseness from personal experience) have pursued Mr. Cameron with their filthy denunciations and li- bels. He has, however, continued to rise and to prosper in spite of them, and was made “Honest Abe Lincoln's” Secretary of War against a hue and cry of opposition which few men are called to encounter. He was appointed because the President believed him honest and capable, and he is now appointed to Russia because he still commands not only the con- fidence but the grateful esteem of Mr. Lincoln, in consideration of his Herculean labors in the War Office. We have never joined in any of these par- tisan outeries against Mr. Cameron, because wo have never believed them, knowing, as we do, the utterly corrupt and vindictive character of our contemptible trading Pennsylvania poli- ticians. On the other hand, believing that “Honest Abe Lincoln” is a man of observation and sagacity, we promise a good report of this mission of Mr. Cameron to Russia, We consider him the fight man in the right plage at the Rigbhslane, ond. Waal of ai men Le ia. the man 1 away from the minds of Eyropean states- men the flimsy secession cobwebs woven there by a band’ of industrious secession spiders of the stripe of Yancey. The stubborn facts of Cameron will be apt to shake even Lord Pal- merston’s delusions of the triumph of Jeff. Davis, and a British trading monopoly and millenium of a Southern confederacy. Axsonprrmes iw Our Posran Sysreu.—If our members of Congress wish to see a few of the absurdities of our posta] rates and regulations, let thom read a letter in to-day’s Haraup from Mr. Pliny Miles, the Secretary of the New York Postal Reform Committee, and the indefatiga- ble leader ‘and advocate of postal reform. Let them explain, if they can, why the plainest rules and principles ef commercial operations are utterly ignored by those who frame our postal laws. What mortal who was not a fit candidate for an idiot asylum would think of having eighty different “regular” rates of post- age on transient printed matter, and for pack- ages that do not exceed sixteen dunces in weight? How long will it be that. the outside public will be so well informed—through. the public journals—on postal affairs, and the Post Office the subject of unceasing complaint from the people, withoutsome member of Congress from a large city taking the matter up and. giving us a good postal law? One-half of the intelligence, tenacity of purpose and perse- verance in a member of Congress that have been shown by Mr. Miles, and we might have hada good postal system long ago, with low and uniform rates of postage, a good letter delivery, a money order system and an abolition of the franking privilege. Who will give us this great boon? All réformers of every effete and rotten system must be outsiders, like Row- land Hill and Pliny Miles. We read in the official reports that the people of Great Britain send through the Post Office 564,000,000 letters in a year, while an equal population with us only write about one hundred and fifty millions. In other words, the English write an average of twenty-five letters for each person of the gross population, while in America our population write five. The English are taxed eighty mil- lions sterling, or $400,000,000, a year for the support of the government. We shall soon be obliged to raise an equal sum here. What in_ stitution or branch of government that contri- butes so much to aid and foster the trade, { commerce, manufactures and financial resources of the country as a postal system like the one in Great Britain? It is emphatically muzzling the ox that treads out the corn to allow any scale of postal rates, high charges or inconve- nient regulations to stand in the way of the largest commercial intercourse between the people of different sections of the country. Arming THE NeGRoEs.—Why has the Hon, Massa Greeley taken no steps towards obtain- ing his commission as a Brigadier General, raising a brigade of five thousand negroes and starting South? Is it possible that he has not been inearnest in his hubbub about arming the negroes? Does he shrink from becoming an officer of the army, and yet assume to criticise General McClellan’s plans? Is he loth to ex- pend the $76,000 of the Irish Relief Fund? Let Massa Greeley take heart and put on his uni- form. We will guarantee him a commission from Governor Davis, ‘of Coney Island. Five thousand negroes can easily be raised in this city to aid their enslaved brethren, if Greeley sounds his bugle. Numbers of our leading merchants will subscribe largely toward® any fund to get Massa Greeley down South, and we ourselves will give $1,000. As for talent, Greeley is Napoleon, Wellington, Scott and all the West Point officers consolidated. Let the gallant Greeley take the field and carry out.his great plans of hasty campaigning. Stick a feather in your cap at once, General Greeley. General Abner Doubleday. We have received intimation by telegraph that Major Doubleday was on Friday appointed a Brigadier General of volunteers. As he holds an important position on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief we append a short de- scription of his military services:— SKETCH OF GENERAL DOUBLEDAY. General Abner Doubleday is about forty-two years of age, and is a native of Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York. At an early age ho gave evidences of being a good mathematical scholar, and chose civil engineoring asa profession. Ho was engaged in Canada in the survey of ‘he Toronto and Lake Huron Railroad, but the rebeilion breaking out he had to leave the province, and found on his arrival home that during his absence he had been ap" pointed a cadet at Wost Point, which academy he entered {® Sgptember, 1838. His classmates were Rosecrans, Poot and Meade, Union generals, aud Van Dora, Long Street, Anderson and Hill, gonerals of the rebel army. in Jyly, 1842, ho was breveted Second Lieutenant of the qhird artillory, and was made a full Second Lieutenant in tho Firet artillery in February, 1 was promoted to the First Lioutenaney of his regiment, and in March, 1855, to the Captaincy, This rauk ho held while aiding in the glorious defence of Fort Sum- ter, in company with the then Major Anderson. 1 wil! bo remembered that ho visited this city, with his su- porior officers and took a nt part in the great Union oe ne ce eee ae ; : fing, Ta Vnion sqha He itth of May, 1861, ho was appointed the first Major of the newly organized Seventeenth regiment of Unitod States infantry, Colonel (now General) Hointzol nd being appointed to the post, took charge of tho artillery forces of Gen. Patter: son's division of the Upper Potomac, and also that of Gen. Banks’ when he assumed command of that depart ment, He was subsequently appointed Assistant to the Chief of Artillery on Gon. MocClelian’s staff, and had as- signed to him the special charge of the armament of the fortifications of tho Virginia side of tho Potomac, On the 17th day of January, 1862, ho was appointed a Brigadier General, the date of his commission not yet having been reported. Descent on GaMurixa SBs.—Last evening the polices under direction of General Superintendent Kennedy, at- tempted a descent upon the various gambling houses of note throughout the city. Unfortunately for the officers, most of the proprietors of these places got wind of their intended visit and closed their houses to all strangers during the evening. It was understood that every faro game in tho city waa to be broken up last night, but for once the ‘sports’’ have beon a little too sharp for our vigilant police. An Eprtor Victazap ny Pocket Book Drorrers.—Tho idea of an cditor being ‘taken in and done for'’ by pocket book droppers, is rather refreshing. The thing looks a littic proposterous at first, but it is true, never, theless, This latest novelty in police matters transpired yesterday, and the victim proved to be no less than Mr- N. A. Tripp, of the Fall River Press. The editor had come on from Yankeeland for the good of mak ing collections, 3 inaking a tour of West street whon was upon by a couple of experts, and swindled out of oloven dollars—all the ready money he had about him. ‘The manner in which the green journalist was taken in has been repeated over and over agaia in these columns, for the last twenty-five years. It is as familiar to the public ag housetiold words, so tt is hardly necessary to Varrate the details, Upon discovering that ho had been gold, Mr. Tripp made his way to the detoctive's oflice, ‘and gave an accurate description of the swiudiers, which will probably result in their arrest some fine day, when tho dupe will flad it inconvenient to appear to prosecute, The Chairs on the Contral Park Skating Pond, 70 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, Jan. 18, 1962. Would it not be well for the Central Park Commissirmn ors to remove the icochairs from the Skating Pond, o¢ to assign thom a certain portion, #0 ag not to interfere with the skaters? Theas chair fire nob only # decked nui- nonce, but really dangerovs, ag the acgident of yastor day, in tha bronking of Mr, Righard Brown's aukle, peared, In March, 1847, he | Religious Intelligence. . CITY CHURCHES 10-Day. B clot church, Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, rector, ices the voice at half-past ten o’clock A. M. and half-past seven P. M., and in the sign language st three P.M. ‘The rector will preach in the morning and the Rev. F. C. Ewor in the evening. “Sensation Preaching’’ will be the subject of this even- ing’s discourse at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, pastor, will preach at half-past ten A. M. ‘and half-past seven P. M. Rev. H. D. Northrup will preach in the lecture room of Barnum’s Museum at three o'clock. Hereafter the ser- vices will be in the evening, the proprictor having given: the free use of the room for that purpose. In the State street Congregational chureh, near Hoyt, Brooklyn, the pastor, Rev. Newton Heston, will preach at half-past ten A. M.,and im the evening at half-pass seven o'clock. In Phillips’ new Broadway Hall, betweon Forty-Atta and Forty-sixth streets, the Rev. J. Halsted Carroll wi? preach at three o'clock this afternoon. Rev. G. T. Flanders will deliver a discourse this evem- ing before the Second Universalist Society , Eleventhstrest, and Second avenue, on the ‘ Karthly and Heavenly Hort- zons.”’ Morning service at a quarter to eleven o'clock. Rey. 8. A. Corey will preach in the Murray Hill Baptis® church, Thirty-fifth street, between Fifth and Sixth ave- nues, at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven'P. M. In the ovening ‘Sixth Lecture to: Young Men.” » The Rev..M. Fivélz, pastor of the’ Frefch church, willpreach in French this evening’ at seven o'clock, in’Dr. Parker’s chutch, west sideof Fourth avenue, corubé ‘of Twonty-socond strect. The Sunday morning service in Crosby street, corner of Grand, @ _gontinued as usual, at half-past ten o'clock. Divine service will be hold according to the rites of the” Protestant Episcipal church, at Trenor Hall, No. 65 Weet Thirty-fourth street, near Broadway, to-day. Morning services at half-past ten o'clock and evening services at half-past seven o’clock. The Rev. E. U. Flagg will preach morning and evening. Mrs. E. J. French wilt lecture in the Cooper Institute, room No. 20, at three P.M. Subject to be chosen by the audience. Miss Kmma Hardinge will lecture in Clinton Hall, Astor place, at half-past ten A.M. and half-past sevon P. M> Subject, morming—‘Psychology ;”’ evening—*The Gran@ Man.” In the Memoria! church, Hammond street, corner of Waverley place, the Rey. A. Bloomer Hart, rector of th® Church of the Advent, will preach this evening. Ser- vices at half-past ten A. M. and at half-past three an@ half-past seven P. M. Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch will speak at Dodworth Hall, 806 Broadway, at half-past ton o’clock this morning and at half-past seven this evening. Subject for tho morning— “Christianity, Its Theory and Practice.” Evening sub- ject—'‘A True Exposition of Spiritualism, Its Theory and Practicos."” In the Free Mission church, corner of Madison an@ Gouverneur streets, under the care of Rev. Dr. Harden- bergh, service this morning at balf-past ten o'clock. The Rey. John Downing, D. D., may be expected to preach this evening at half-past soven o'clock. In the Christian chapel, Seventeenth street, near Sixt avenue, services this morning at half-past ten o'clock and this evening at half-past seven. Elder J. 0. Beards- leo, of Jamaica, W. I., will preach morning and evening. In the Hedding Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Fast Seventeenth street, north side, between First and Second avenues, near Stuyvesant square, Dr. Abel Ste- ‘vens, pastor, will preach at half-past ten o'clock, the last sermon of the course on “The Incarnation;” and in the evening at seven o'clock, on the ‘‘ Final Judgment.” The famous parable of the “Sheep and Goats” will be considered at the Bleecker street Universalist church this evening, by Rev. Moses Ballou. Rev. Mr. Cravens preaches in the morning. A sermon will be delivered before the Young Men's As- sociation of the Fourteenth street Presbyterian chureh, corner of Second avenue, this evening at half-past seven o'clock, by Rev. Dr. Hutton. At the Laight street church, St. John’s Park, the Rey. Isaac S. Kalloch will preach this morning, upon “Distress and Its Remedy, 93 Seen in tho Case of Esther,” and in ¢ the evening upon ‘‘Scarcely Saved.” “Appeals to the Young.” Rev. E. G. Brooks will give the fifth discourse of this series at the Twentioth street Universalist church, between Sixth and Seventh avenues’ thia afternoon. Subject—‘*Means and Ends, or Tools an@ Life.” Services at three o'clock. Sermgn in the morning at half-past ten o'clock. Swedenborg’s Theology.—“‘The Nature and Character of the Divine Trinity, as clearly Taught in the Word and Works of God,’’ by Rev. Abiel Silver, at the New Jerusa- lem houso of worship, Thirty fifth street, between Fourth and Lexington avenues, this evening. The Sailing of the Arabia for New York. Hauirax, Jan. 18, 1862. = The Arabia has beon detained, here landing troops. Sho sailed last night at haif-paat seven o'clock for New York. Affairs at the Custom House. RETRENCHMENT THE ORDER OF THE DAY—SEIZURES BY THE PORT SURVEYOR, ETC. Collector Barney has decided not to make any addi- tional appointments in the Custom House. Those who have passed a proparatory examination will, it is thought, have their appointments confirmed, but these are the only persons in whose favor an exception will bo made, ‘The work of curtailing the number of clerks and reducing the salaties of those retained will be resumed this week. ‘The removal of the markers about a week ago created an immense sensation throughout the entire establishment. Sevoral of them visited the building during the week, being @ little on the “rampage,” and rushing about in a distracted sort of way from pillar to post, or, in other words, hovering anxiously between the offices of the Collector and his private secre. tary, Mr. Palmer, to find out tho roason of , their sudden and unexpected removal. The latter gentleman in answer to their inquiries had but one answer to give— | th orders of the heal of the department at Washington wore imperative; that the establishment must be reduc. ed ax much as possible, and the removal of the markers: was buta preparatory step in the system of retrench- mont which ts rendered necessary by the enormous out- lay of public mouey at the present time for warlike In the Surveyors department all the changes haye been mado, and the department reduced ag muoh as possible, consistent with the requiroments of the pubiic service. Deputy Surveyor Thomas J. Browm poiedd the following vessels yesterday, by order of Sur- veyor Andrews :-— ‘ho bark Powhatan, bound to Boston from Marsoil but sailing without papers, which renders her liable fiseation; and the schooner Fekford Webb, six re of which are owned by John J. Kelly, and nbor of shares by Henry Brigham, of Savanuah, Goorgia City Intelligence. Dawiet, Weasrer's Birtapay.—Yesterday being the ane niversary of Daniel Webster's birthday, the proprietors of the Astor House hoisted the old Webster flag, which, during his life, wasa mark of the presence of the illus triow that hotel. It is @ largo white ban- ner, witha jpe above and a biue ar below, with the motto, “Liberty aud Union, now and forever, one and inseparable,’”’ in the centro. Tux Croton Water Revts.—The income from Crotom water routs during 1861 shows only a very trifling decrease: as compared with that of the year preesding. The whole ‘amount of receipts for last year foots up $765,000, being fa docroase of only $1,200, although the Croton Board ex- pected that, in consequence of the hard timos, the re- coipts would fall short $100,000. ACCIDENTALLY Porsonep.—Coroper Ranney was notified to hold an inquest yosterday, at Bellevue Hospital, upom « the body of Aimira Carley, who was accidentally poison od at Blackwell's Isiand the day previous. Correctiox.—The advertisement which appeared in the Hrnato of Saturday, stating that Father Mooney would Acliver a lecture inSt, Bridget’s church, om Sunday eve fhing, January 26, on the late Aldermanic elestion in the Tweitth Aldsrmanie district, was entirely wanuthorised. lore Slave “Traders Arrested tm New y aaatiasory ston Journal 0 . BOYS slopementa which have been since the gov- or entered earnestly upon the work. of ferreting out those engaged in the slave trade, show that New Bedford has bean the centre of active operations, and that the of fitting outas unsuspicions whalors vessels real "a for the siave trade has been carried on tow ‘oxtont; Dut the reyitation of that city is re- fact that the money and moans used im o daaitiees have been furnished by parties in New Yorle. tday two parties, Jabez . Hathaway and Zou vested (n'that city by Deputy United States Cou, on ‘a warrant for having fittod ont tho ship ‘oo for tho purpose of ongaging in the slave trade. he offence was,alloged to bave talken place in 1860, whea the Tahimiroo aailed for dt ostensibly ae @ whaler, but atter catching a fe s went twee to the coast of Africa to cbtain nogroe , and afterward to tho const of Cuba, to make the arraugementa for the re- Coption of a carga of slaves, hat was finally competion Yo felurn without obtaining them, and the vessel was sotd ft Fayal, On this voyage Hathaway was the master and out agent. The partios were brought ates Commissioner A. S.Cuehman, and y, and were hold fo ation baforg nor On the 221 inet, Kelly in the sam of Maa way in $5,000 8 y wud Lin | : | |