The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFION N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S CARDEN, Broadway.—Kini Uxsay IV. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Natap QusEN—SENTIVEL oy THE MIGHT. Es WALLACK'S THEATRE, No, 844 Broadway.—A Bop SPROKS FOR 4 Husuanv. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ovur Ameni- cam Cousin. WEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Inon Masx—Ra- FAXRLLE—Barsina THE WIND. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sricunur's Nationa Cipeus. Atteraovn and Bvening and v- 8 AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Day 472 Broad. BARNUM" Bvoning.—Onvina—Hirrorotaaus, WHALx, aNp OrugR RIOSITIES, BRYANTS’ ST! Mechanics’ ‘RBLS, Hall, way.—-Wao Stauck Bitty Partarson. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant Institute, No, 650 lway.—Erarortan Soxas, Dances, tc. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.— Sonos, Dances, Buxiesqves, £0.—Mo.ipar tN LkeLan ov. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Soxgs, Dances, Buaixsquns, &C.—Nigut’s ADVENTURES. GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Dra' Roou ENTERTAINMENTS, Balers, Pawromiaes, Falcus, £0. AMERICAN MUSIC BALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bat- usts, Paxtomrmas, &¢.—Por:Rair Painter, ORYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bo —— Boniesauxs, Songs, Daxcks, £0.—Buidann 3S Oars, — PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS Broad: — Open dally from 10 A. M. till P. M. he duaianiied NOVELTY MUSIC 616 Broadway. 8 dig HALL, iway.—-BURLzsquEs New York, Wednesday, January 22, 1862. THE SITUATION. Our despatches from Louisville, by way of Cin- cinnati, furnish some further particulars of the late glorious victory near Somerset, Kentucky. The rebels, after hastening across the river at Oak Springs, Mispersed in every direction, leaving two hundred of their dead and wounded on the field, together with all their artillery, ammunition and eighty wagon loads ofjquartermaster’s and medical stores. Gen. Zollicoffer was foand by our troops lgimg mortally wounded in a wagon. The loss on our side has not yet been ascertained, but it is presumed to be pretty heavy, as the battle was s very fierce one. We publish to-day @ map of that portion of Kentucky and Tennessee, which is about to become the scene of still further brilliant actions, ss our troops advance towards Nashville, and which, after the developements of the Burnside expedition, may prove to be the most exciting movements for some days to come. The deseription of this vicinity which accompanies the map is very clear and interesting, and will enable our readers to see what our victorious troops have yet before them. General Thomas has sccured the steamboat and barges on which the rebels escaped and which they did mot destroy in their hasty flight. He will doubtless use them to carry his own army over the river on their way southward. The rumor that the rebels had evacuated Manas- sas is untrue. General McClellan stated confident” ly yesterday that the condition of the roads there renders it impossible for them to fall back, even if such was their desire, which he does not believe. Forty-nine vessels of the Burnside expedition arrived safely at Pamlico Sound on Monday. It is thought that the tempestuous weather may have induced them to seek » temporary haven at that place. ‘The troops of General Butler's expedition which arrived at Fortress Monroe on the Constitution have been disembarked there, under permission of General Wool, and allowed to refresh themselves after their two weeks voyage by marching for several hours on terra firma. . A new military department, entitled the Depart- ment of Key West, has been created bythe War Department, whih is comprised within the follow- ing bounds:—Key West, Tortugas and the mainland on the west coast as faras Apalachicola, and ex- tending to Cape Canaveral on the east coast. General J. M. Brannan is placed in command of the new district. We learn from General Banks’ division at Fred- rick, that the retirement of the rebel General Jackson from Hancock towards Winchester was but a ruse, amd that he returned to Romney with a force of twelve thousand men. A despatch to Cairo from New Orleans on the 10th inst. states that the French residents of the latter place held a large meeting on that day to devise some means of leaving that city and the South, and that a committee was appointed to communicate with the Union commander, General Phelps, at Ship Island, upon the subject. If this be true it would prove that the condition of New Orleans is even more desperate than was sup- posed. Despatches from Kansas City state that a body of Texans marched on Fort Craig on the 4th, but on reaching within thirty miles of that post, re- treated without making an attack. Tho scouts from the fort had been called in and a serious bat- tle was anticipated. Governor Connelly had call. ed out the whole militia force. Colonel Canby, who commands at the fort, has 1,000 regulars and 1,500 volunteers and militia under him. Great ex- citement prevails at Santa Fe, and martial law had been proclaimed in the district. It will be seen by our Congressional news to-day that Mr. Morrill announced in the House yesterday the intention of the Committee of Ways and Means to levy a stamp duty on every copy of a newspaper issued, and every telegraphic despatch published, to raise a fand for the benefit of the Treasury, to aid in the support of the war. Mr. Colfax also spoke in favor of taxing newspapers sent outside the mails, for the benefit of the Postal Department exclusively—a bill which is decidedly objection. able, and which was defeated. The sub-committee of Ways and Means have re- ported to the committee a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue small notes at 8.65-100 per cent interest, large notes at 7.30-100 per cent, and twenty year six per cent bonds to the aggregate amount of three hundred millions; but the committee has not decided as to their ac- tion upon that recommendation. We publish in to-ay’s Hrra.n another instal- ment of Southern news from late Southern papers, ‘ {the Richmond Wiig and the New Orleans borate articles on the “Yankee” war, ,hellmatt 4 their v vt NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1862, the Bee thinks, as the result of the war, the federal government will be “cursed with an irredeemable currency of base shinplasters, and a huge seg- ment of the population out of employment and out of money.” On the 16th inst. the Virginia Senate went into secret session for the purpose of considering & biil to raise and organize Virginia's quota of the rebel army. The proposed act calls for ten thousand soldiers, to be employed exclusively in the pro- tection of such localities as may be exposed to sudden raids of the federal troops, to be enlisted for a term of six months, the troops to furnish their own arms, Ia the Virginia General Assembly a resolution was offered inquiring of the Attorney General whether the law of nations, as practised in this country, will be violated by subjecting persons domiciled in the rebel States, but not citizens, to military duty. A resolution begging the rebel volunteers whose terms of service have expired to re-enlist was laid over. Great distress, occasioned by the existing state of affairs, is reported ameng the inhabitants of York and Warwick counties, Va. This fact has procured a word of sympathy from the Richmond press. The rebel General Earl Van Dorn was recently seriously injured at Manaasas, by being thrown from his horse. The Richmond. Dispatch of the 16th inst. says the Confederate government, not being unmindful of the necessities of the people of Western Vir- ginia, intends to pursue a policy to reassure and encourage the people of that section. The rebels have @ first class powder mill at Raleigh, N.C. The Montgomery Advertiser of the 5th estimates the number of troops in the rebel army frem Ala- bama at 17,000. Governor Moore, in his October Message, puts it at 30,000. Which statement is true? The Quincy (Fls.) Dispatch of the Sth instant says the British steamer Gladiator, which recently ran the federal blockade, is safely moored in a Flo- ride port. Her cargo of arms is valued at two mil- lions of dollars. The Pensacola Observer of the 9th says that about one dozen slaves recently escaped to Fort Pickens. The Marshall (Texas) Republican of the 14th inst. learns of large mortality among the Texas troops on the Potomac. The Richmond Dispatch of the 15th inst. has ad- vices from New Mexico, from private sources, dated the 16th ult., stating that General Sibley had taken possession, by proclamation, of New Mexico and Arizona, and declared martial law therein. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, petitions in favor ofa continuance of the coast survey, for a naval depot at Sandusky, Ohio, and in favor of the emancipa- tion of slaves, were presented and referred. The resolution to allow certain naval officers to receive presents from the Japanese government was adopted. The Judiciary Committee were iastruct- ed to inquire into the expediency of amending the Naturalization laws, so as to confer the rights of citizenship on foreigners serving in the present war. A bill to regulate the compensation of District Attomeys was presented. A bill to authorize the examination of par- ties in the courts of the United States was presented and referred. The bill providing for the completion of the defences of Washington was taken up, and the amendment of the House agreed to. A new section, repealing the act allowing the discharge of enlisted minors, providing that no persons under eighteen years of age shal] be mus- tered into the military service, and that the oath of enlistment shall be conclusive as to age, was agreed to. Also, an amendment imposing the death penalty upon spies and persons forcing safe_ guards. The bill was then laid aside until to-day, A bill authorizing the President to appoint two ad- ditional Assistant Secretaries of War, to serve one year, at a salary of three thou- sand dollars, was passed. A resolution regu- lating the compensation of Collectors of Cus- toms and Naval Officers was referred. The consideration of the report of the Judiciary Com- mittee, adverse to the expulsion of Senator Bright, of Indians, was then resumed, and Messrs. Sum- ner, Lane of Indiana and Bright made interesting speeches on the subject; but without taking a vote on the report the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the Senate bill authorizing the appointment of two additional As- sistant Secretaries of War, was passed. The bill requiring postage to be paidon printed matter carried outside the mails was taken up. Mr. Colfax advocated its passage, and stated that he believed over a million dollars would be realized, and if so, with the franking privilege abolished, and the California mails paid for out of the Treasury, as provided by law, the Post Office would be nearly if not quite self-supporting. Several amendments, and a substitute offered by Mr. Colfax, were voted down, and finally, the original bill being before the House for action, on motion of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, it was laid on the table by a vote of seventy-five against sixty- six, thus effectually disposing of the subject and relieving the newspaper interest from the appre- hension of a vast deal of annoyance, without any corresponding benefit to the Treasury. In the course of the debate on the bill Mr. Morrill, of Ver- mont, a member of the Committee of Ways and Means, remarked that the committee propose levying # tax in some form—perhaps by stamp— on all newspapers, and also a tax on telegraphic communications. The views of the Hsraup with regard to a tax en newspapers have been laid be- fore the public on several occasions recently. A stampon each printed sheet is the only proper method of raising revenue from this source. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Ex-President John Tyler died at Richmond, Vir- ginia, on Friday, the 17th inst, after a brief illness. ‘The deceased was seventy-two years of age. An elaborate obituary notice of the deceased will be found under the appropriate head in to-day's Herarp. Subjoined is a list of the surviving ex- Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States:— VICE PRESIDENTS. Millard Fillmore. Jotn C, Breckinridge. Franklin Pierce. Martin Van Buren. James Buchanan. George M. Dallas. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday bills were introduced for incorporating a bank of savings and endowments in this city; to amend the King’s County Court act; to amend the usury laws, and various others of less interest to our readers. The supplementary bill for the exten- sion of Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, was ordered to @ third reading. A memorial for fortifying the mouth of Genesee river was presented. The Commissioner of the Land Office sent in a com- munication asking the passage of a law to authorize the sale of lands held by the same title asfWashington Market, which was referred to the Senators from this city. The Senate Com- mittee on Cities and Villages will hold a meeting to-morrow afternoon to hear arguments for and PRESIDENTS. Martin Van Buren. Millard Fillmore. oe laves avbjegs | ogaiass the gily, egncert. ealggus. Ja the Assom- bly a resolution was adopted that, if the Senate | the spirited battles and sieges in Missouri. The concur, the United States Seoretary of the Trea- sury be informed that this State assumes its quota of the national tax. Among the bills noticed for futere introduction were one for @ railroad in Spring street, one to fix the compensation of our city officials, one to stop the traffic in swill milk, and one to improve the navigation of Harlem river. A good portion of the day was taken up in @ discussion on a communication sent in by the District Attorney of Albany county, containing the evidence taken before the Grand Jury of Albany in reference to bribery and corruption in the last Legislature. The subject was finally referred to the Committee of the Whole. Among the transac- tions of the Assembly on Monday evening (a report of which failed to reach us in proper season, on ac- count of the telegraph wires being down), we may mention the defeat of the Passenger and Baggage Expreas bill. There is another expedition in embryo. We judge this from the fact that the State authorities of Massachusetts and Rhode Island have received communications from the War Department at Washington, inquiring what number of troops could be put into active service from those States within seven days. The work goos bravely on. Skating has not, as yet, been resumed at the Central Park since the thaw set in. At Brooklyn and Williamsburg the energy of the local clubs has been better manifested; for a large mumber of the members of both bodies were enabled to enjoy skating on their respective ponds during a portion of Monday and yesterdey. LincolnLake, in Jersey, and Silver Lake, on Staten Island, have also been partially used during the past few days. An interesting case of constructive grand lar- ceny was tried yesterday in the General Sessions, resulting in the conviction of Richard W. Dyer, who was charged by Ebenezer J. Weidman with feloniously obtaining a watch and $40 in money from him. It appears that Dyer met Weidman in Philadelphia, and, learning that he purposed visit- Ing New York, he represented that his father was United States Surveyor in this city, and accompa" nied him to New York, and soon after victimized him of his money. Judge McCunn sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment in the State prison for three years and two months. District Attorney Hall wishes the members of the bar to understand that he will cause notices of trials to be given to all counsel who will call at his office and have their appearances or names endorsed on the papers, or send notiee of retainers; and that the first Monday of every term will be de- voted to hearing applications from counsel or bail, to arrange days for trial. If there be no attendances on such days by counsel or bail, the District Attorney will be compelled to make his own provisions for trial, &c., in the premises, Ann McClusky, indicted for decoyinga child of Michael Greenen, in front of his residence, No. 61 James street, on the 28th of February last, pleaded guilty to the charge in the indictment. She was sent to Blackwell’s Island for one year. Thomas Williams pleaded guilty to an attempt at burglary in the third degree, and was sent tothe peniten- tiary for one year. John Glyn, who was charged with attempting to passa ten dollar counterfeit bill on the Commercial Bank of Bristol, R. I., pleaded guilty to forgery in the fourth degree, and ‘was remanded for sentence. Edward Madden, who stole a gold watch and seal, worth $150, from Christian B. Morrison, No. 63 West Twenty-second street, on the 1st of October last, pleaded guilty to an attempt at grand larceny, and was remanded. The Grand Jury brought ina large number of in- dictments. The cotton market yesterday, though somewhat irre- gular, exhibited rather more tone, while the sales em- braced between 200 and 300 bales, closing (chiefly) on the basis of 33c. a 8c. per Ib. for lots in store, while small parcels in transit from Liverpool were sold to ar- rive, deliverable on the dock, at about Sic. The chief porchasers were spinners, who dipped in sparingly. ‘The stock is so light that it is probable that, should one *housand bales be bought to go out of the market, it would send up prices two or three cents per pound. This the spinaers understand, end, in the present inactivity im eotton goods on hand or in possession of commission houses, they Go not feel inclined to make immediate ad- ditions to their present light supplies; and some, who count on @ mosth or two's stock in hand, prefer waiting the chances of importations from Europe, hoping that prices by some means or other may become reduced. In the meantime the largest and strongest holders of cetton are not offering to sell, unless they can realize 35c. a 36c, per Ib., at which thoy would, it is supposed, open the trade. They profess not to fear importations from abroad, contending that the advance in Liverpool, with freights, insurance, high rates of sterling exchange, will soon equalize the difference and check further receipts. Flour fell off yes- terday Sc. per bbi., with rather more doing at the concession. Wheat was heavy and rather lower at the close, Corn was heavy and nominal at 64c. for Western mixed. Pork was less active, but steady, with sales of new mess at $12 25 a $12 50,and at $9 25 a $9 50 for new prime. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 300 hdds. Coffee was firm, but quiet. The stock comprised 48,723 bags Rio and 77,827 bags of all descriptions. Freights were easier, whil engagements were , ‘The Battle of So t—The Most Import- ant Victory of the War. The additional details which we publish to- day confirm our first reports of the complete- ness of the victory of our gallant troops over the rebels, near Somerset, Kentucky. We are thus free to declare that, considering the spe- cific objects which brought these opposing forces into collision, and the immense advan- tages gained by the successful party, local and general, in reference to the active prosecution of the war, this victory at Somerset is more im- portant than anything else which has yet been achieved in the field towards the suppression of this great rebellion. First, it cuts the inland defensive line of the enemy—cuts it in two, and makes an opening through which our forces on the ground may pass into East Tennessee and occupy those im- portant railway and telegraphic communica. tions between the rebel government and the rebel army in Virginia and their confederates, supplies and reinforcements of the Southwestern States. Thus our army, from Somerset, is now in a position to march forward and completely separate the rebels in Virginia from the rebels of the Southwest, and to liberate in East Ten- nessee, and all that surrounding mountainous region, a hundred thousand loyal Union men. Secondly, through this opening General Buell may move up into the rear of Richmond, or over into South or North Carolina, in co-opera- tion with our seaboard land and water forces. Thirdly, the local advantages gained by this Somerset victory comprehend the control of the neighboring ooal mines and salt springs, the navigation of the Cumberland river down to Nashville, and easier work than we should otherwise have had before us in the reduction of the rebel camps at Bowling Green, Colum- bus, Nashville and Memphis. Such are the practical advantages secured by this victory at Somerset, in addition to its mora, prestige at home and abroad. In this compre- hensive view we may truly say that this victory is greater in its results than any other has been, on either side, since the beginning of this war, The battle of Bull ran amounted to nothing be- yond its moral effect in the South in the en- couragement of the rebels, and its moral effect in the North in dissipating the illusion that the rebels were not in earnest. The battles of General McClellan and General Rosecrans in Western Virginia, though decisive, were local in theix results; and the same may be said of affair at Cape Hatteras was a brilliant coup; but it effected only the suppression of a nest of pri. vateers and contraband traders. The victory at Port Royal was followed by much greater advantages over the enemy; but even these failed to produce any perceptible impression upon the rebel camp at Manassas. But this affair at Somerset, in breaking the rebel defensive line, will be felt from Memphis to Manassas, and thence to New Orleans. We suspect, too, that before the end of the week we shall have such newsfrom the Burnside expedi- tion as will convince both Davis, at Richmond, and Beauregard, at Centreville, that, while they have a formidable enemy in front, their imme- diate danger is from the rear—the dan- ger which menaces the seizure of thelr communications, railwa: and tele graphs with ‘the rebel tates. The magnificent military programme of General Mc- Clellan is now beginning to develope itself The main body of the rebel army is at Manassas. Drive it away, and leave the South open before it, and we may have to fight it from Richmond to New Orleans; but let it be bagged, and there is an end of it. The plans of General McClellan comprehend this idea of bagging his game; and henge, we infer, that significant remark of his some time ago, that “this war will be short, sharp and desperate,” and that the success of our cause is inevitable. The ships of General Burnside’s expedition are reported by the rebels as having assembled at Hatteras Inlet. This was on the 19th. At any moment, therefore, we may expect to hear of a terrible rattling among the dry bones of the rebels in Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, and simultaneously of some further operations in Kentucky, which will make a fearful sensa- tion at Richmond. It has taken some time to raise, arm, equip, organize and distribute the immense land and naval forces which we have now inmotion against this rebellion, around a seacoast and inland base line of twenty-five hundred miles in extent; but, being in motion, the first battle strongly foreshadows the general result, from the superior arms and fighting spirit of our troops, and the evidently dispirited and demoralized condition of the rebels. Just as we are beginning to develope our strength they are at the turning point of exhaustion. We fall back upon our old prediction, that there will be an end of this rebellion before the ist d¥ May. Brey. acy” The De of Ex-President Tyler. Our latest intelligence from the rebel States informs us that the venerable ex-President John Tyler departed this life at Richmond, Va., on Friday last, at the advanced age of seventy- two years. This announcement has no political or national significance or importance, and Mr. Tyler’s course in advocating rebellion had long since alienated from him all personal sympathy and respect—that due to age alone excepted. To the usual comparative obscurity which awaits the ex-Presidents of this republic, and to the shades of declining years, Mr. Tyler added the darker gloom of treason, and closed his life in the capital of the rebels, surrounded by armed traitors, and making the last weary days of his long life infamous by earnestly assisting a wretched attempt to breakup the government of that country over whose destinies he had once presided, and in whose service he had enjoyed atyleast official honors. He died, there- fore, unmourned and unhonored, and the in- teresting reminiseences which his career sug- gests alone make his death noticeable. Mr. Tyler has been most happily called an “accidental President.” He came of one of the first Virginia families, and, before the memora- ble “hard cider campaign,” had repre- sented his State in Congress, both in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, where he was noted chiefly as a democratic wit and a raconteur of choice, hu- morous stories. When the revulsion, of politics, consequent upon the crisis of ’37 and the defal- cations in Van Buren’s administration, carried Tippecanoe Harrison into the Presidential chair in 1840, the whigs selected Jobn Tyler as Vice President, merely because of his presumed influence in carrying the State of Virginia for their party, and not because of his political ante cedents—for he had always been a strong demo” crat—nor on account of his personal popularity. Asong prevalent at that time expresses the general opinion of Mr. Tyler’s qualifications n the couplet— ‘We vote for Tyler, therefore, Without a why or wherefore. That tremendous political campaign resulted in the election of Harrison and Tyler, as it would have resulted in the election of any can- didates supported by Harry Clay, hard cider, log cabins, coons and songs of unprecedented popularity. The enthusiasm of the people was unbounded, and from the outset Van Buren had not a ghost of achance of success, His requiem was chanted all over the land, in rude log cabins, with drinks of hard cider to clear the throats of the singers, in the glorious old chorus— Oh! what has caused this great commotion, Motion—motion—motion— All the country through? It is the ball a rolling on For Tipy 108 For Tippecaioe catioe and Tyler, too! 5 an ‘And with thom we'll beat little Van— ‘Van! Van! Van! For Van is a used up man! Without a why or a wherefore the whigs put into the Vice Presidential chair an anti-whig, anti-bank politician, who was designed to de- feat their most cherished schemes. Maddened with a greed for the offices to which they had seldom before had access, the whigs worried and badgered poor Harrison, whose simple campaigning experience little fitted him to en. counter this army of office hunters, until at the end of a month they had succeeded in effectu- ally ruining their own chances by killing the hero of Tippecanoe and making Tyler the “ac- cidental” President. It will be remembered that John Minor Botts, of Virginia, accompa- nied Tyler to Washington to assist him in as- suming the Presidential purple. Already ru- mors of Tyler’s democratic proalivities had taken wind, and Botts thought it prudent to sleep in the same bed with the “accidental” Chief Magistrate, so as to endeavor to keep him true to the whig faith, and see that he did not change his political coat upon the morning of his inauguration. This bedfellowship has become historical, and it is generally supposed that Tyler kicked Botts out upon the floor that night, so completely did the “accidental” President turn his back upon the party and veto empt at pure whig legislation, and so ally did Botts exclaim, in speaking of nd his vetoes, “We must head him or die! During his term of office, Mr. Tyler was a sensational President. Everything he did as | tonisbed his party, and took the couatry by sur. e prise, and he worked the official ,,"tillotine with | the time when the President recommended a” marvellous and unprecedented raph lity and zeal. He left office cordially hated by the wi “i8%, and so distrusted by the democrats that the,’ "fused to renominate him. At the age of fifty-\¥° Mr. Tyler continued bis sensational career by ."!- rying Miss Gardner, of Garduer’s Island, net this city, and many persons yet remember the excitement he created by driving down Broad- way, ina coach and four, on his wedding day- We believe that he had several children by this marriage ; the last child was born, we think, within the last year. Two sons by the first Mrs. Tyler have become knowa to the public from their connection with their father’s ad- ministration. The ex-President subsided, after his marriage, into comparative retirement, and became a roadmaster in Virginia. He was then thrown up among the old fossils which this rebellion has disinterred; aided in carrying Eastern Virginia out of the Union, in the State Convention, and, as one of the oldest of old fogies, was elected President of the Peace Convention, held at Washington. In the State Convention Mr. Tyler might have exerted a strong influence towards keeping Virginia true to her loyalty; but in the Peace Convention abolitionism and ultra secessionism rendered him powerless, and he only served as a blind shield for the rebel commissioners. Here Mr. Tyler’s record ceases; for we do not care to follow himsinto the darkness of rebellion or detail his participation in the rebel Congress. He had proved false to his country when all other means of notoriety failed him, and when he lacked the courage to become illustrious by doing right. The Circulation of the Herald and Its Contemporaries. We published a few days ago the following statement of the daily circulation of the Henan, as verified by our books, which are open to the inspection of advertisers who de- sire to satisfy themselves upon the question of our superiority over our contemporaries:— IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS. DAILY OIROULATION OF THE NEW YORK HERALD FOR THE MONTHS OF DECEMBER, 1960 AND 1861. 1860. December, 77,760 -1,970,980 sf Total... Average . RECAPITULATION. Aggregate December, 1861... Aggregate December, 1860... - 2,716,480 «+ 1,970,980 Monthly increase .. 745,500 Daily average increase. 28,673 This exhibit we have published, for the benefit of the advertising public, in the columns of all the other leading journals of this city. The bills from these papers for a single publication of the above advertisement amounted to about sixty or seventy dollars. Now, the same adver- tisement, if published in the Heratn, would have cost just ten dollars; and as the daily cir- culation of the Heratp exceeds that of all the other daily papers combined, the advertisement would have had a larger amount of circulation and a greater publicity; for the Heratp ave- rages five readers to each paper, and none of its contemporaries has this advantage. Upon such an advertisement, therefore, advertisers would save from fifty to sixty dollars, and gain a greater publicity, by patronizing the Herap exclusively. In effect, also, many of those who subscribe for other papers are reached bya Henrap advertisement; for almost all persons who take another daily paper read the Heratp also. It is thus demonstrated that, both in economy and publicity in advertising, the Herap maintains its superiority over not only any other daily paper in this city, but also over all the other daily papers in the city combined. The Times takes occasion to accompany the advertisement of our circulation with gratui- tous, malignant and impertinent remarks upon our “audacity” and “romance,” and then re~ iterates its offers to bet with us. The bets it offers are gambling bets, adroitly devised, and their character may be judged from the fact that they begin by abet of $250thatthe Herap’s daily circulation is not 135,000. Now, we never claimed that our circulation was 135,000 a day, but only that, upon one occasion, it reached that immense number. What our presses daily throw off the above figures show; and, though our books prove these figures to be cor- rect, yet the Times professes to doubt them, and declares them “designedly framed to mis- lead the public.” The Times knows our aver- sion to betting; but if we were to allow our- selves to be tempted for once, we would wager one thousand dollars ($1,000) that the above statement of the number of sheets worked is pre- cisely correct—the winner to pay the amount of the wager to a society for the relief of volun- teer soldiers’ families. The Times, or any other paper which doubts the accuracy of our state- ment, may take this for a bet if it pledses, and we will put up the money immediately. We have followed the Scriptural injunction, to “answer not a fool according to his folly, lest ye be like him,” quite long enough, and find our forbearance ineffectual. Now we shall try the other rule of Scripture, to “answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit’—and there is our statement, and one thousand dollars to back it. Come, Messteurs, if you are for fair betting you shall have enough of it. Stecarsmvess or Concress—Want or Imue- pute FinanctaL Learstation.—It is becoming more apparent every day, that, while the Presi- dent, Commander-in-Chief of the federal army, most of the members of the Cabinet, and the greater part of the executive officers connected with the government, are straining every nerve to prosecute the war with vigor, and crush out rebellion in the course of the coming spring, there exists a factious body of selfish, disorgan- izing abolitionists in Congress who are deter- mined to throw every obstacle in the way of a successful issue to the conflict in which the country is engaged. The national treasury is so depleted that it is becoming impossible to pay the most ordinary demands upon it, and, in a few days there will be no money whatever, from simpl lack of Congressional action. At increase of the army to four hundred thousand men, and an appropriation of four hundred mil- lions of dollars, Congress, with apparent alac- rity, voted the necessity of five hundred thou- sand men, and five hundred millions of dollars. There were then, however, but three hundred and ten thousand men in the field; appropria- ,tions were only made on the basis of that num- be.’ of troops, and no increased amount of money” 948 been voted since. Now, although, in the 3.°8t report of the Secretary of War, there are s{d to be six hundred and forty thou" sand men in tie field, the real number under psy by the county is close upon seven hundred thousand. Thus there are three hundred and ninety thousand men unprovided for, and on the basis of a hundred millions of dollars for every hundred thousand, three hundred and ninety millions of dollars more ought to be in- stantly voted, in order to put things ona proper footing. Mr. Chase, who is of course bound to confine his demands within the limits of Con- gressional legislation, asks for provision to meet the wants of am army of only five hundred thou- sand troops; but this is far from sufficient. It is the duty of Congress to legalize the enlist- ment of the whole seven hundred thousand ag- gregate, and to appropriate seven hundred mil- lions of dollars for their maintenance. Unless this is done the most serious embarrassmente must soon encompass our authorities, and the lethargy and want of patriotism of Congressional agitators will tend to neutralize the efforts of the vallant armies which under the leadership of General McClellan, supported by such heroee as Buell, Halleck, Burnside, Thomas, Schoepf and others, have begun to strike terrible blows at the very heart of the rebellion. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Defeat of the Bill Levying Postage on Newspapers Carried Out- side the Mails. Probable Imposition of a Tax on News- papers and Telegraphic Despatches. Two Additional Assistant Secretaries of War Authorized by Congress. Debate on the Euston of Senator Bright, Interesting Speeches of Mesers. Sumner, Bright and Lane, of Indiana, Rey ke Wasuinaton, Jan. 21, 1862. M'CLELLAN IN FAVOR OF ACTIVE OPERA- ‘TIONS. During the three hours that General McClellan was before the Committee on the Conduct of the War he stated positively that he was in favor, and always had. doen in favor, of active operations, and a speedy sup- pression of the rebellion, and was doing his utmest t® bring about such a result. THE REPORTED ABANDONMENT OF MANASSAS BY THD REBELS. ‘The report that the rebels have abandoned Manassas is @ great humbug. General McClellan knows better. The roads are 60 bad that they cannot leave Manassas if they would, and it is believed that they would not if they could. THE REPORTED INTENDED ATTACK ON NORFOLK. ‘The statement that General Wool gave notice to the authorities of Norfolk to remove all their women and children from the place is not true,nor was there any preparation of our vessels in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe for operations against Norfolk. RECONNOISSANCE TOWARDS FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE. Captain Mott, of Mott's battery, attached to General Smith’s division, in defiance of rain, darkness and mud, started out last evening on a reconnoissance towards Fairfax Court House, accompanted by Colonel Lord anda detachment of dragoons. He returned a little after daylight this morning. They scouted first about Hun- ter’s Mills and around Peacock and Freedom hills. Disgusted at coming across none of the enemy, they pushed for Fairfax Court House, where they found a body of cavalry pickets. Captain North threw up a signal Night and gave the command of “fire.” This bold de- monstration frightened the mounted pickets. Returning the fire, they plunged spurs into their horses and sped away at their utmost speed. Our men did not pursuey and none were hit by the exchange shots. Captain Mott ascertained the fact that the rebel picket lines bave beem removed considerably inside from where they were a short time ago. THE NEW MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF KEY WEST—IM- PORTANT ORDER TO RECRUITING OFFICERS. ‘According to General Order No. 3, issued from the Ad- jntant General's office, a now military department, to be mown as the Department of Key West, is constituted, with the following bounds:—Key West, the Tortugas, and the mainland on the west coast as far as Apalachicola, and to Cape Canaveral on the eastcoast. Brigadier Gene. ralJ.M. Brannan, of the Unitea States Volunteers, ia assigned to the command. It is also ordered that officers detailed for the volun- teer recruiting service, under General Order No. 105, of 1861, are to recruit for their own rogiments respec- tively, and not for the general volunteer service. They will, however, be under the direction of the general superintendent. ‘The fuli number of officers indicated for the recruiting service need not be detailed, if a less number will suffice to build up the several regiments. The selections will be made by the colonels, and the order for detail given by commanders of departments or corps d’armee. NECESSITY FOR ADDITIONAL ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF WAR. To-day a bill passed both houses of Congress creating two additional assistant secretaries of war. The evi- dence taken before the Committee on the Conduet of the ‘War, as well as tho statements made by those most con- ‘versant with the businese of the War Department, shows conclusively that the Secretary of War, who has Cabinet @uties to perform other than those connected with the war, cannot, aided by a single assistant, perform well all the important and arduous duties that should pro- perly pass under the direct supervision of a respon- sidlo beadg of the department, without taxing the energies beyond their natural capacity, and in the end doing great injustice to al) covcerned. Hence it wae determined to create the additional offices, which can easily be abolished at the close of the war. This will greatly relieve Colonel Scott, the present and only As- sistant Secretary of War, who has known no such thing ‘as release from the duties of his office during the day, the night or on Sunday, since the rebellion broke out. He is always at his post, is always busy, and possessing great oxceutive ability, manages to perform more busi. ess with more men during every twenty-four hours than any other officer in the government. His office is constantly crewded, se much #0 that he is compolied to oat his dinnors at his desk while transacting the publio business, The public do not ask this, and Congress has provided against it by the creation of two new secre- “Sao paieien ot this Dill was,according to @ statemeng mado in tho House, by request of the Secretary of War himself. This is preliminary to a thorough reorganiza- tion, by which nok omly will the transaction of all busi- ness of the army be facilitated, but visiters have an equal opportunity of obtaining access to the proper officers of the department without unnecessary delay. THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL. ‘The Committee of Ways and Means to.day concluded thoir labors on the Naval Appropriation bill, It will prow bably be reported to-morrow. THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL APPRO- PRIATION BILL, To-morrow Mr, Stevens, Chairman Committee of Ways ~