The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1862, Page 4

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WALLACK’S THEATRE, No. 844 Broadway.—A Cure ron ‘Tax rikaRr ACHE. \URA KEENE’S LAURA K THEATRE, Broadway.—Ovr Auxai- NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.— (A COVRENASS—. EIKR ORLL. iets Sqaeto-e Canon BOWERY THEA’ : rw TRE, Bowery.—Sticuzr's Narionat BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Day Brening.—Onvixa—Hirrororaucs, Watalz, axe Oruen Ov BRYANTS’ MIN! Mechanics’ Hall, ‘ way.—Wuo Sinvcx BILLY ParteRsox. vate HOOLEY'’S MINSTRELS, Stu; =. uae ent sesitintn, No. 650 MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 839 Broadway.— Bones, Dances, Buniesauns, &0.—Hotipay ix Linens, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDE! jroadway.— mdally trom 1A M.tihd PM OS Browdwray. NOVELTY MUSIC HAI ~] Somes. Dancus, be. LL, 616 Broadway.—Buriesaues New York, Tucsday, January 21, 1862. THE SITUATION. _ The most exciting and satisfactory news of to- day comes from our army in Kentucky, and it is of the utmost importance to the fortunes of the Union cause. The defeat and death of General Zollicoffer, the rebel General, alone, would be a matter of great interest; but being followed, as it has been, by the capture of the rebel positions at Mill Springs, it becomes a matter for increased congratulation. From our despatches it may be almost safe to as. sert that there were two battles fought—the one at Somerset, under General Schoepff, and the other at Well’s Roads, under Gencral Thomas. The former appears to have taken place on Saturday, and, if we examine the map given in this morn- ing’s Hrnaup, there can be but little doubt that the beaten army, having had toretrest during the night from Gen. Schoepff, followed the road from Somerset towards Bowling Green, the posses. sion of which had been already taken up by the Union troops under General Thomas, who had ad- vanced from Columbia. Finding these troops in their way the rebels doubtless made an attack epon them on Sunday morning, but a second defeat was the result, and General Thomas drove them to their defences at Mill Spring; but, being deprived of their leader, it is very probable that the rebels thought the place untenable for any length of time, and consequently effected a retreat under tover of the darkness of Sunday night; so that when the Union troops arrived at the fortifications @ Monday morning they found the enemy had made a precipitate retreat across the Cumberland river, leaving all thetr stores behind. The news of this Kentucky victory created the Greatest excitement in Washington yesterday on the arrival of the official report of it. The new Secretary of War (Mr. Stanton) as sumed his duties yesterday, and was waited upon by a large number of army officers in full uniform, in compliance with an order of General McClellan. The officers subsequently called on General Cam- eron to bid him farewell. Adjutant General Thomas spoke on behalf of the officers, in the ab- sence of the Commander-in-Chief, who was de tained at the War Department. i No official intelligence confirms the rumor set afloat a few days since that Gen. Wool had notified the rebel Gen. Huger te remove the women and children from Norfolk. Parties who arrived in Washington yesterday, direct from Manassas, state that the rebels had evacuated that place and fallen back to a point farther south. The exact position was not known, but it is supposed that the movement, if made, is designed to counteract the plans of the Union troops on the seaboard. Our European files by the Arabia contain full reporta of the news—dated on the 4th inst.—which was published inthe Heratp last Thursday morn- ing. The more complete information shows that the arrival of Mason and Slidell in England will not take the people by surprise, as that event was very fully anticipated, in their opinion, by an article in the New Yorke Hrratp of the 21st of Decem- ber, which was received at Southampton by the steamship Hansa on the 3d of January, some ten days prior to the departure of the Arabia from Queenstown. The comments made by the British journals on the news, in the interval, are of a tone which leads us to suppose that the announcement was regarded as of the highest importance and most agreeable character. The news of the Hansa was telegraphed to every part of the United Kingdom. A Dublin paper, on publishing it, adds :—‘The most import- ant indication of all is, however, the declaration of the New Yors Heraxp, that Mason and Slidell are likely to be given up and again placed under the ‘asylum’ of the English flag.” Thus, we think, that when the rebel Commissioners reach Europe they will find that they are of no particular conse_ quence, and that neither their names nor persons will excite any great curiosity or attention—it being taken as granted that there will be no war be. tween England and the United States, on the Trent affair question, unless England wishes it hersetf. Some of the most prominent writers in France still denounce the fierce and menacing attitude which England lately assumed towards our NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1862. ‘Third, and that the Prince Imperial was brought forth in order to receive the blessing of his Grace of New York. Count Bernstoff, Prassian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has addressed a circular to the King’s Am- ' passador at Washington, wherein he expresses the “apprehension” entertained by the Berlin go- vernment that the “legitimate interests of neutral | States” would be “‘injuriously affected’’ by the | Union blockade, as wellas the “unfortunate” jus- tification of this apprehension by the ‘carrying | away” of Mason und Slidell from the Trent. After 058 san” 0, bOTi taken QRORY meus correspondence. 1 sceorsmemntactions Wedeno ' roproducing the leading features of the case, the | Minister observes :—His Majesty the King, ani- mated by the sincerest wishes for the well being of -No. 29 | the United States of North America, has desired me to advocate the cause of peace with President | Lincoln, through you, in the most emphatic man- | | ner.” Mr. Seward has returned a fitting and dig- nified reply to the Prussian Minister, the sub" stance of which will be found in our Washington news to-day. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a petition was presented asking for the continuance of the Coast Survey; also a protest from citizens of New York against the appointment of a Solicitor of Customs for that city. Bills in regard to the pay of naval officers, providing for the appointment for one year of ad, sional Secretaries of War, to repeal the act except- ing witnesses examined before Congressional com- mittees from examination in a court of justice, authorizing payment for the property occupied by United States troops, and to promote the adminis- tration of justice, were introduced and referred. Resolutions were offered providing for an overland | daily mail between Utah and Oregon, and to authorize certain naval officers to accept presents from the Japanese government. The bill amenda. tory of the articles of war, imposing the penalty of death upon spies and those forcing safeguards, were discussed and laid over till to-day. The Consu" jar and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up, Several amendments from the Finance Committee adopted, and the bill passed. A communication from the government of Prussia, relative to the Trent affair, sustaining the English view of the case, was received from the President and re- ferred. The report of the Judiciary Committee, that no sufficient cause exists for the expulsion of Mr. Bright, a Senator from Indiana, was taken up and debated, but the Senate adjourned without taking action on the subject. In the House of Representatives a memorial from the mechanics and laborers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was presented. William A. Hall, member from the Third district of Missouri, was qualified and took his seat. A resolution from the Committee on Elections, thet Joseph Segar is not entitled to represent the First district of Virginia, was laid over. A bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to settle with the States for supplies furnished their troops, was referred. A resolution was adopted, that as Alabama has treasonably entered into the rebellion, the Committee on Public Lands inquire into the expediency of confiscating certain lands selected by that State under the law of Congress, and that the same be applied te the use of aseminary now in operation in that Territory. The Judiciary Committee were instructed to in- quire whether further legislation is necessary to secure to the relatives of volunteers killed or died, the bounty provided by the act@f July last. A bill discharging from service on the Ist of March all volunteer regimental bands, was re- ferred. The Secretary of War was directed to furnish the names of those who distinguished themselves in the battle of Dranesville. A bill to establish territorial governments in the revolted States was referred. Mr. Allen, of Ohie, offered resolution, that in the judgment of this House no part of the appropriation now or here- after made, nor of taxes now or hereafter to be laid by Congress, shall be used in or applied to the prosecution of the war for the emancipation of slaves in the slaveholding States of the Union. Mr. Blake, of Ohio, moved to lay this on the table. Carried, 91 against 37. Mr. Holman, from the Government Contract Committee, reported a reso- lution directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to bring be- fore the bar of the honse Henry Hickley. for an alleged contempt of its authority in not appearing before them as a witness at the time they held a meeting in Cincinnati. The resolution was adopt- Mr. Washburne, from the same committee, reported a bill for the payment of the expenses of the committee, appropriating ten thousand dollars therefor. The bill was passed. On motion of Mr. Lovejoy a resolution was adopted instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill making void all sales, transfers and disposition of property of every kind by per- sons engaged in insurrection against the United States. On motion of Mr. Blair, of Missouri, the Committee on Ways and Means were instructed to inquire into the expediency of levying a stamp tax on the notes of banks and other corporations cir- culating money. A bill to establish an additional judicial district in New York was referred. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up, and a debate on the rebellion and the slavery,question ensued, which contimued till the adjournment. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. To show that there is no probability of any speedy recognition by England of the South, w® are in a position to state that the three batteries of artillery which had been originally intended for British North America, and landed by the Arabia at Halifax, numbering yearly four hundred men, will be despatched to Bermuda, in the West Indies, as soon as the necessary means of transportation can be arranged. A telegraphic despatch from San Francisco pub- lished in another column, gives additional particu- lars of the disastrous flood which has recently pre- vailed in the valley of the Sacramento. At Sacra- mento City the water was from two to eleven feet deep in the streets, driving the inhabitants to the upper stories of their dwellings, and preventing them from making fires or cooking food. Large quantitles of cooked provisions were sent from San Francisco to the suffering families: The Legisla- ture was obliged to adjourn until the water subsid- ed. The inundation is beyond precedent, and the loss of property immense. At last accounts the water was receding, but the weather was still un- favorable. The following table exhibits the Union force now in the Southwestern part of Kentucky, from where we are in daily expectation of receiving some glorious news:— Infantry Cavalry : ‘ Artillery, 19 batterries. Total... . ° ‘ 2% .135,000 Besides the above there are fifteen or twenty gunboats, carrying about one hundred pieces of ordnance of the largest calibre, and a nuaber of mortar boats, expressly fitted for the distribution af ‘rotten shot’’ among the enemy. The Adjutant General of Connecticut bas ordered the Selectmen of the several towns to proceed to draft men for the State militia. This is not to recruit the army service, but to fill up the active government on this matter, and the journals index | militia force of the State. ‘that the heart of France is not with her in her policy towards America. Judge Bland Ballard, of the United States Dis. trict Court in Kentuoky, in his charge to the jary, at the opening in Frankfort on the 15th inst, said sympathy for the rebellion, or trading or trafficing with the rebels, were not acts of treason, and that the words in the constitution ‘adhering to its ene- mies, giving them aid and comfort,’ does not refer to or include the traitors who are now in arms against the government. It may be well for Becre- a Seward to keep a watchful eye on Judge Bal- d. A writ of habeas corpus has been issued against the Catholic convent known as the House of the Good Shepherd, in Chicago, to release a young girl named Mary Kelly, and her illegitimate child, who, _ it is alleged, are now held there by the Lady Supe- rior without authority of law. Forty-two persons were killed by the city rail- road cars in Philadelphia during the year 1861. This number is exclusive of those who died in the hospitals from injuries received by being run over, and of deaths caused by diptheria and consump- tion, contracted through the carelessness of con- ductors in opening the door at the front of the car while in motion, producing sudden drafts which prostrate so many persons with those diseases. The ice in the Delaware river moved off towards the ocean on the 19th inst. Sixty-four thousand four hundred of the present population of Canada are natives of the United States. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen last evening, a resolution was offered by Alderman Dayton providing for the appointment of a commit- tee to inquire into the truth of the statement made recently by Alderman Brady that he had bribed members of the Legislature. Some debate ensued, and the resolution was laid on the table. An or- dinance prohibiting the sprinkling of salt in the streets was passed. The standing committees were announced, and the Board adjourned till Mon- day next. The Board of Councilmen transacted a large amount of business last evening, as will be seen by our report elsewhere. A resolution in fa- vor of appropriating $20,000 to pay for uniforms for the Seventy-first regiment was referred, a8 was a resolution recommending the passage of an ordinance levying a toll of one cent upon adult and one half cent upon ju- venile passengers on our city railroads, the fund to be appropriated for the support of the city govern- ment. The ordinance passed by the Aldermen, preventing the sprinkling of salt upon the railroad tracks, was laid over. A,resolution was adopted instructing the Ctty Inspector to notify Mr. Hack- ley or his sureties to proceed at once to clean the streets, and in the event of their falling to do so the City Inspector was directed to enforce the pro- visions of the contract. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors held yesterday, Supervisor Elijah F. Purdy, democrat, was elected President of the Board for the ensuing year; Joseph B. Young, Clerk; R. E.Selms and E. A. Woodward, Assistant Clerks, and Henry Mathews, Sergeant-at-Arms. The New Court House Committee sent ina communication request- ing a further appropriation of $25,000. Referred to special committee. The Excise Commissioners sent in their annual report, from which it appears that the total amount received for granting licenses for the present year is $21,960. Ordered to be printed. The Board then adjourned until Monday, the 3d of February. According to the City Inspector’s report, there were 413 deaths in the city during the past week—an ificrease of 43 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 1 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 3 deaths of alcoholism, 3 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 74 of the brain and nerves, 5 of the gene- rative organs, 10 of the heart and blood ves- sels, 138 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 4 of old age, 65 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 8 prematare births, 53 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 20-of uncer- tain seat and general fevers, 11 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 19 from violent causes. There were 292 natives of the United States, 6 of England, 76 of Ireland, 18 of Germany, 5 of Scot- land, and the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The inclemency of the weather yesterday, combined with the desire to receive later news from Europo and to learn the extent of the contemplated change in the tariff duties, tended to check transactions in nearly all branches of the produce trade. The sales of cotton were confined to small lots to spinners, footing up about 150 a 200 bales, chiefly on the basis of 33c. a 34c. for middling uplands. Breadstuffs were generally heavy and lower, with little or nothing doing for export, the transactions being confined chiefly to the home trade, Flour fell off about Se. por bbl. Wheat was also heavy and prices easier. Corn was dull and nominal, at 64c. in store and 65c. (asked) delivered. Pork was heavy and dull, with limited sales of new mess at $12 25 s $1250, old at $11 75, new prime at $925 a $9 50, and city prime mess at $13 25. Sugars were quiet and sales limited, embrac- ing only 46 bhds. Cuba. Coffeo was quiet but firm, with sales of 1,200 bags Rio and 700 do. St. Domingo at p. t. Freights were less buoyant for grain, while engagements generally were moderate. Tue Sovrnern Press anp Our Financtat Poticy.—Yesterday we published some ex- tracts from the Southern journals, which show that they are in a high state of self-gratulation as far as their finances and ours are concerned They glorify the South on its prosperous finan- cial condition, and they ridicule the North be- cause of a collapse in its monetary affairs, which, however, has not yet taken place, and which probably never will. The Southern journals are at liberty to magnify and exagge- rate their own resources and financial condi- tion. That is a weakness in which, under the circumstances, we may fairly indulge them. But we must be permitted to know something of our own financial affairs. It is pretended that the Northern States will be flooded with paper money, and that the currency will be depreciated in con- sequence. The assumption of the secession journals is based on the fact that we are not willing or dble to tax ourselves. This is a pre- mature conclusion. We will tax ourselves to the utmost extent, and consequently the paper money already issued and to be issued is per- fectly secured. Jt may possibly decline eight or ten per cent in two years; but that is the ut most extremity. Why should it further de- cline, secured as it is by government six per cent bonds, into which it is convertible? We cannot, of course, expect a state of war to be as prosperous as peace. We must calculate upon derangement in our currency and in our commercial affairs during the progress of the war. But it is important to know that we can- not be materially injured, though for a time we may be deprived of a few luxuries not essen tial to our happiness. Henson River Raturoan Accommopations.— What is the reason that the Hudson River Rail- road Company does not run more accommoda- tion trains for the towns in the interior during the middle of the day—from ten to one o'clock? The great increase of freight during our late propitious season seems to have set them beside themselves, and they think that every arrange- ment must be made for fowls, beef cattle, hogs, pigs and such things, but that human beings are not entitled to any convenience at all. Why do not the company also run a train at night, after the theatres are closed? Hundreds, indeed thousands, of theatre goers live in the vicinity of the city, and would regularly patronize our places of amusement if they could be sure of conveyance home after the evening perform- It le maid that Archbishop Hughes had » ‘very that denoancing the government aad expressing | ances. OO 7 The First Battle of Our Winter Cam- paign—Defeat and Death of Zollicoffer. We congratulate our readers on the glorious news which we are enabled to lay before them this morning of a most significant vic- tory over the rebels in Kentucky. Not onl have they been defeated in their prices | attack upon the Union troops, but the Union soldiers under General Thomas have followed up that defeat in so complete a manner, that the retreating rebels have been driven into and through their own fortifications with great slaughter, and the flag of the United States now waves over what they deemed their impregnable stronghold. This is a victory the value of which can hardly be exagge- rated; for it comes directly within the line of General McClellan’s extensive combinations, and will contribute not a little, West, East and South, by land and water, to strengthen and advance his whole chain of aggressive move- ments for a crushing winter campaign. For the details received and the geographical location of this battle, we refer the reader to our news columns and our illustrative maps on the first page of this paper. We have no pre- cise information of the strength of the forces engaged on each side; but it is probable that Zollicoffer’s were not less than twelve thousand men, and that. the army of Gene- ral Thomas was a thousand or two more. It appears that, in leaving his strongly fortified position, some eight or ten miles below Somerset, to attack the Union troops near that village, Zollicoffer was assured of victory from the superiority of his forces, but that in season for the fight General Thomas came up to the relief of General Schoepff, and thus tarned the tide of victory the other way. It was a des- perate dash on the part of Zollicoffer to cut up our opposing detachments in detail, and had he succeeded he would have done very good setvice to the rebel cause. He would have prevented for some time the march of General Thomas over into Eastern Tennessee, an enter- prise which now we may next expect to hear has been carried out. Zollicoffer appears to have fully realized the supreme importance o¢ preventing our occupation of East Tennessee, He knew that once in there the loyal Union people of that section would enable even a small body of Union troops to hold all those important railways whereby the rebel armies of Virginia are fed and reinforced from the Southwestern States. That the incalculable advantages which will be gained to our cause from this occupation of those rebel railway communications of East Tennessee have been fully considered by Gene- ral McClellan, there can be no doubt; nor can he entertain any misgivings of imprudent delay in following up this late victory to the great object in view. With a strong Union force posted on those Tennessee railways, and with this force supported by the loyal Union population of all that region, Jelf Davis will be- gin to comprehend the fact that his rebel go- vernment at Richmond, his rebel Army of the Potomac, and his Utopian Southern confede- racy, are all melting away like castles in the clouds. The occupation, however, of this Union stronghold of East Tennessee, and its great arteries of communication with Virginia, although a leading object, is but apart of the campaign against the rebels in the West. Gen. Buel}, with the main body of his army, va- riously estimated at from seventy-five to over a hundred thousand, is steadily enciroling the fortified rebel position of Bowling Green, while another body of his troops, co-operating with those of General Grant and General McCler. nand from Cairo, and Captain Porter's gun- boat flotilla from St. Louis, and General Hal- leck’s column on the west side of the Missis- sippi, are rapidly concentrating their forces for a combined assault upon the earthworks and river defences of the rebel Bishop General Polk at Columbus. From all accounts our forces approaching Columbus and Bowling Green are so strong in numbers and artillery that the rebels from neither of these places can spare any reinforcements for the other. They must defend both, for with the loss of either the other inevitably falls. It is believed, too, that under the directions of General McClellan, so powerful and well devised are the forces and plans of Buell and Halleck, that they cannot possibly fail in routing the enemy from both Co lumbus and Bowling Green, and so completely as to open our way at once not only to Nash- ville and Memphis, but to Vicksburg and New Orleans, in conjunction with the ascending Mis- sissippi expedition of General Butler. Such is the comprehensive range of this late victory near that insignificant village of Somer- set, among the mountains of Southern Ken- tucky. Itis the initial blow of General Mc- Clellan’s grand system of combinations for a crushing and decisive winter campaign, includ- ing the movements of our Southern seaboard expeditions. It is the first direct move in this system of operations, which contemplates the cutting off those great arteries in East Ten- nessee and in the seaboard section of North Carolina, through which the rebel army and government in Virginia are kept alive. Cut off the railway communications between Beaure- gard and the rebel States south and west of Vir- ginia, and he will infallibly be smoked out of his intrenchments, either to be dashed to pieces against the defences of Washington, or to be demoralized and broken up in a retrograde movement. The ball of General McClellan’s winter cam- paign has opened. The fight at Somerset, it ap. pears, resulted in heavy losses on both sides ; but the victory to our side will carry with it a moral power which will be irresistible. We may reasonably anticipate during the next four weeks a succession of great engagements and great Union victories. The army is in motion ; it is vindicating itself and the plans of McClel- lan ; and so we call again upon Congress to proceed at once, and earnestly, to the conside- ration of those financial measures which are in- dispensable to the maintenance of our army and the solvency of the Treasury, and without which army, Treasury, banks and people will be pros- trated by a reign of bankruptey and shin- plasters. Caton Your Hane Berore You Coox Ir.—The Times and the World have got to fighting about the extent of their respective circulations. This reminds one of the story of the two cockney sportsmen who were so eager to anticipate each other in a battue that they fired at the same bird, and on running up to catch it found that it had flown away unhurt. The circulation of our contemporaries is just where that bird was: under aim, but not to be reached. One of these papers and the Tribune have been recrimi- nating against each other the charge of divulg- ing the secret of the destination of the Burnside A ED expedition. We would recommend, with Mrs, Glass, that the secret be first bagged before any one is accused of ventilating it. The English Press on War or Peace in America. The English journals received by the Ara- bia seem almost to carry us back to the time of the Reformation, or some other remote age, 80 old to us is the topic they are all discussing. The aflair of the Trent is still the absorbing theme, and we cannot help feeling amused at their anxiety to learn the result of the diplo- matic negotiations on the subjecj. For our own part, it is so long since we settled the thing, by the surrender of Mason and Slidell, that we have nearly forgotten the particulars, and we are travelling so rapidly in our career, and his. tory is making so fast on this continent, that it is not surprising that it should be so. The journals in question, and especially the leading organ of British opinion, display in the course of their speculations the same lack of information respecting our country and institutions as that to which we have been so long accustomed, and their hostility to the "United States has evidently undergone no diminution. They all appear perplexed and betogged about the calmness of the mob, by which, they are convinced, this country is gov- erned in this matter of Mason and Slidell, and in their surprise at the absence of a hooting, whooping, howling concourse of vagabonds dictating terms to the Cabinet at Washington, they ask, “Where is the mob?” Some of them think that it is now to be found in the army, and tell their readers solemnly that, however much the President and Cabinet may be in favor of re- storing the prisoners to the protection of ihe British flag, they can do nothing without con. sulting the Army of the Potomac, and if the latter is against it there is no alternative but an Anglo-American war. All this is very entertaining to us who know the facts, and can appreciate the ridiculousness of the idea of the government consulting the Army of the Potomac upon questions of foreign policy, or being coerced by a mob. Our trans- atlantic contemporaries have got to learn that our army is as subordinate and as much under control as any in Europe, and that the mob whose terrors they have conjured up and di- lated upon so freely has a purely mythical ex- jstence. There is an evident disposition on the part of the English press to exaggerate every- thing to our disadvantage, and underrate every- thing in our favor, and we cannot but think that it desires to see a quarrel between the two countries. It is just now throwing ridicule upon our navy; but it cautiously avoids allusion to the strength of our army. It is true that our navy is not what it might have been if our Western and Southern legislators had not persistently withdrawn every postal subsidy from American steamers, and left the monopoly of the mails in British hands- If it had not been for this we should have had a large and efficient fleet of ocean steamers by this time; and the only way to get such vessels is to subsidize them liberally. But our navy is being rapidly increased by the addition of new | steamers and gunboats, and before long we shall make avery creditable appearance in this branch of the service. For not referring dis- paragingly to the army the English press has sufficient reason. We have now seven hundred thousand men enrolled, and by next summer we shall have five hundred thousand veterans. This is an army greater than England could ever boast, and with it, whatever hostilities England may resort to, we shall be able at least to defend our own ports, and take possession of and an- nex Canada. We, however, by no means want to quarrel with England or any other foreign nation. We have at present enough fighting on our hands, and it would be folly to provoke another struggle elsewhere while the Southern rebellion remains unsubdued. We are disinclined to believe that the hos. tility shown by England towards this country since the commencement of the war originated entirely with herself. She has acted under the influence of France throughout, and Louis Na- poleon is still trying hard to make her a cats- paw in America, in order that he may carry out his schemes of aggrandizement in Eu- rope. It would be the most convenient thing in the world for him to get Great Britain involved in a war with the United States at the same time that Spain had her naval and military forces operating in Mexico. With two such naval Powers out of the way, and Russia on the verge of revolution, and, perhaps, insolvency, he could, in alliance with Victor Emanuel, make war upon Austria, do what he liked with Germany, and succeed in overthrowing the balance of power and estab- lishing that supremacy of France in Europe which would destroy the greatness and imperil the very existence of England. It will be well if the British press and government become aware of the objects for which the Inscrutable of the Tuileries is plotting when he urges England to accomplish her own destruction by breaking the blockade, and provoking a war with this country. Let it be remembered, also, that this rebellion cannot last very much longer. The army is at all points preparing to strike decisive blows, and the Union victory at Somerset, Kentucky, which was won on Saturday, is an earnest of what is to come. The war over, we shall be formida- ble in our strength, and with impulsive spirits ready to direct it into some new channel. It would be well, therefore, in view of the future, for the British press to calm down, and for the British government to disregard the sugges- tions of a sovereign anxious, only for his own selfish ends, to lead them into a fatal error, which not only England, but the world, would have occasion to deplore. Armine tue Neoroxs.—The celebrated Briga- dier General Greeley had another article in hig Tribune yesterday upon arming the negroes, The Gencral proves from Shak«pere that a nig- ger has eyes and hands, and he wants the gov- ernment to enlist six hundred thousand hardy niggers to form a “black army.” But why does not Brigadier General Greeley adopt our sug- gestion, and raise a brigade of five thousand niggers and march South? This would be a beginning, and if Greeley could increase his brigade to six hundred thousand black soldiers as he marched along he would be made a nig- ger Major General forthwith. Come, Brigadier General Greeley, let us have more action and less talk. Organize your nigger brigade and make tracks for Dixie. Instead of showing the white feather by this hesitancy, put on your uniform, stick a red feather in your hat, and start. We will givo one thousand dollars to see you, with your epaulets upon your shoul- ders anil your sabre by your side, marching down Broadway at the bead of your nigger brigade. ‘ Tux Prorosen Newsrarer Tax—Mr. Col- fax’s bill levying a postal tax upon news- papers carried outside the mails is meet- ing with favor nowhere. The reading pub- lic are just as indignant about it as the newspaper proprietors. Whilst the latter see in it an obstruction to their business which must greatly affect their circulation, the former cry out against it because of the inconveniences that it will entail upon them. The idea of hav- ing one’s newspaper subjected to the same de- lays as those to which letters are liable is one so vexatious in prospect that but few cam re- gard it with patience. But the more fatal ob- jection to the proposition is the incapacity of the Post Office to perform the duty sought to be imposed upon it. The organization neces- sary to enable it to do so would absorb far more than the revenue derived from the tax. No, the country does not desire re- forms which involve not waste of the publio money, but of the public temper. The present arrangements for the transmission of newspa- pers work very well, and if the free mailing of exchanges be put an end to all the economy will be effected that is desirable. The only way to levy a productive revenue from news- papers is by imposing a tax of half a cent, in the form of stamp duty, on each copy issued. This would yield from three to four millions, and_would be of great benefit to advertisers, by enabling them to ascertain with certainty the circulation of the journals with which they do business. Let Mr. Colfax remodel his bill and make this plan of taxation its main feature, and we promise him that it will meet with opposi- tion nowhere except from journals of fictitious circulation. More Bioopy Barries Exrzcrep.—We are entering upon the most exciting period of the war. Its real work is only just commencing, The victory just obtained by our troops at Som- erset has been a most sanguinary affair, and will be followed by a succession of other con” flicts of a similar character. Between this and May we shall either have to subdue the rebels, to deal with them as we please, or we shall have ourselves to submit to the Southern yoke. Day after day, then, for some months to come, we shall hear of fresh encounters involving a large loss of life. The next will probably be between General Burnside’s expedition and the enemy, to be followed by important movements by Gen- Buell’s columns in Kentucky; perhaps by an advance of the grand army of the Potomacit- self. From the indications that reach us from every point, it is certain that the operations just impending will render the campaign one of the bloodiest and most terrible on record. Whilst our gallant soldiers are thus fighting the. battles of the country it will not do for Congrea® to continue to waste its time in unprofitable dia- cussions. For a season at least there must be no further question of the nigger. Let its mem= bers apply themselves at once to the recon- struction of the public finances, and to pro- viding for the wants of our armies, or we promise them that the people will again have an uprising and make short work of them. Nuw1o’s Garpen.—To-night the tragedy of “Jane Shore” will be given at this house, tobe followed by «« Black-Eyed Susan,” in which Mr. Davenport will per- form his celobrated part of William. We are glad te learn that the management of this establishment have concluded an engagement with Mr. Hackett, who will make his first appearance to-morrow (Wednesday) even ing as Falstaff, in “King Henry IV.” Orzna.—The Grau Troupe will give a series of porform- ances in New York and Brooklyn, commencing in New York on the 27th and in Brooklyn on the 23th. Mad- ame Borchard, the new prima donna, will appear on both nights. ‘Woverse Garpen.—Last night an amusing little piece en- titled “The Sentinel of the Night’? was produced at the Winter Garden. It isa military story, illustrating somo of the terrors of the first Fronch Revolut.on,in which a father—a concealed royalist in the republican army—bas the satisfaction of knowing that his daughter is saved from death by the man who thought was his cnemy, but who turns out to be the husband of his daughter and an aristocrat, like himself, although a soldier in the republi- canarmy. The feature of this trifle is the acting of Mr. J. 3. fe in the character of Coco, an obese and drunken soldier. It was in, his usual inimita- bie manner and elicited shouts of laughter. Mrs. Joux Woop ix Brooxiyy.—Notwithstanding the continued rain of last evening, Mrs. John Wood’s opening performance at the Brooklyn Atheneum, drew avery full house. There were none of the shoddy aristocracy of the Heights present, but their places were filled by the really respectable citizens of Brooklyn, poople who do rot live by cheating the government, who do not keop up expensive establishments on the money of their creditors» and who do not cloak their social sins by scoking to turn a theatre into a church, whilst they but too often turn their churches into theatres. The audience, evidently impressed with the belief that the recent action of the Directors of the Academy in the case of Manager Fleming, was directed against Mrs. Wood personally, and not against the pieccs in which she plays, than which nothing can be more innocent, testified by the excessive warmth of her recoption thoir sense of this injustice. As s%0n she made hor ap- pearance she was greeted by several rounds of applause, which, on subsiding, wore again taken up ina manner that must have been exceedingly gratifying to her fecl- ings. ihe performances consisted of the well known little piece ‘Jenny Lind,” in which Mrs. Wood gave her famous imitations egg a Brignoli, Amodio and other opo- ratic celebrities, and Planche’s amusing comedictta, “Somebody Else.’’ They were capitally played, Mrs. Wood, Mrs. George Skerrett, Messrs. L. Baker, C. Wal- cot, Jr., H. Wall, T. Ferguson and others being in the casts. On Wednesday the second performance takes place, to be repeated, we believe, as soon as the previous engage- ments of the Hall will admit of it. Arrival of the Hibernian at St. John, N. B. Sr. Jouw, N. B., Jan. 20, 1862. Tho steamship Hibernian arrivod here to-day from Liverpool 2d via Londonderry on the morning of tho 4th. She experienced heavy weather. She brought 650 soldiers, who were well ploasod with the accommoda- tions. Her news anticipated. Tho Hibernian leaves to. morrow for Portland. City Intelligence. Covomm, T. B. Tnorrs’s Lacture ox Tar Reneuiion.— ‘The lecture going public had a treat last ovening in Col. ‘Thorpe’s lecture, at Dodworth’s Hall, on what he stylod «An inside view of the rebellion.” Some two or three years since we had occasion to culogize the Colonel's painting of Niagara, a ciever effort for an amatour, and we can accord him equal praise for his word pictures of last evening. Ono could readily imagine, from his rather rotund figure and genial face, that he could be comic enough, but we were not prepared for the display on his part at times of considerable tragic powers: ‘Those qualities, joined with excellent judgment, a rich fancy, intellectual experience and a singular power of grouping together illustrative incidents and touching stories, onabled him to afford his audience one of the greatest intellectual foasts of the season. Col. Thorpe was introduced by Hon. James Harper, and we noticed on the ‘Collector Barney, Mr. Gignoux, the artist, and a number of other distinguished gentlemen. ‘We hope the Colonel may be induced to repeat his lecture. ‘Tue Appness or Conpotance To Quien Vicronta.—Tho address of condolence to Queen Victoria, in consequence ofPrince Albert's death, adopted at tho lato meoting of British residents in this city, has received a very great of signatures, and preparations are being made toaeapa ich it to England at an early day. Mr. Arcbi- bald, the British Consul, has & competont per- son to engross the aidréss and nates on parchment, so that itmay remain as an heirloom in the archives of tho royal family. The ing, woaro informed, has beon performed 10 a splendid manner, and the address, with the signatures, is some yards in length. Descunt On Aw ALLRGED Dmornenty Hovsr.—Tho detec- tive police last evening, under direction of Sergeant Young, made a descent on an alleged disorderly house, No. 99 Mercer street, kept by a woman named Mrs. Hwan. ‘They arrested all the inmates of the house, including Mr. Swan, who re Serre to the hee offices and locked up for the night. Five y« girls wore among the party ‘amed "Anae Moore, Henrietta Hill, Dora Rodgers, Price and Miten Stack, The bartender and pianist were also '-ked up. Cnet