The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1862, Page 4

4 EW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 186%, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash in advenen, Money, a the ener “Nona but Bark TBE DAILY HERALD ¢ it pany wi wo cent sper cony. © $S.per emma, the Se eepy Baye annum to to amy part ofthe Continent, tah to fue postage, tha € the and 2le. “TE ae eee eee pes ace ene “ig Shaner meeomeson = wa . ‘any. quarter of the worlds tf wack iting Fs pant . Kap Our Forxios Conarsronpents ce ARPIOULARLY REQURSTED TO SEAL ALL Lurrers any Pack: “Nu wOrres taken of anonymeus correspondence. wr every ae ADVERTISI renewed + advertisements tne ecrtel és the Wore Humatp, Fautty Wawatny on! tn tho Gilifarnia and Po Editions. 228 PRINTING executed with neainess, cheapness and to wn wai part of Volume XXVII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—“ouLean Baws. a worse GARDEN, Broadway.—3xaiovus Famity—Piza- ant N eraHBoR. {WAULAOK'S THEATRE, ‘No, 844 Broadway.—Roap 10 LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Oce AueRt sm Cousin N&W BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ica Wircu—Har- Pe MaN—vmetL Ss cae, ‘BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sticexzr’s Nattonat ©imcvs. BARNUM’S AMERIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Cox Tr—Livinc Hireorotamus, WaaLa, 40. ure Ospina, afternoon aud Yeung, nee ' BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ dal, €72 Broad Way. Baw Kost Bear. NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—G orscuate’s Concent OOLEY'S. MINSTRELS, Stuyvesant Institute, No. 659 ao. B tway.—Ermiortan Soca, Daxcns, ‘ ODEON CONCERT HALL, No. 539 Broadway.— = Danoxs, BURLESQUES, &¢.—HoLipay in Laevanp. “UMLESQUES, AC —MACULS THE NGRT UWL. © Dances, b \ GAIRTIR Boou Evra MUSIC HA oP ' AMERICAN eas Ral? alten, sent ty mat will beatthe Viite Current tn New Yorks RBURY MUSTO HALL, 685 Broadway.—Sones, 53 CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—! TAIsunaTS, BALceTe, Patou: Fancesy we 444 Broadway.—Songs, Bat- direction of General Buell, are availing themselves of the evacuation of Bowling Green to press on sible, the railroad and turnpike bridges on Big Barren river. They, however, had all been de- stroyed when General Mitchell rea’hed the banks of the river. The brigades of General Breckia- ridge and Geueral Hindman were until Tharsday evening at Woodburn station, but subsequently moved on to Russelville, and are probably now in Nashville. It is believed now that no rebel forces exist in Kentucky east of the direct road from Bowling Green via Franklin— a town on the railroad, nine miles South of Woodburn Station—to Nashville. It is reported that General McCook and General Thomas left with their divisions by way of Salt river for the Cumberland on Saturday; General Buell, it is said, accompanied MeCook's division, to take command on the Cumberland river in per- son, where 80,000 of our troops were expected to arrive to-day. Wile he presses the enemy on the Cumberland with his tremendous force, their flank and rear are threatened by the heavy divisions under Generals Nelson and Mitchell. ty of Fort Hamilton by the national gov- southward. On learning that the rebels were |... ent, for public defence, was laid over evacuating that place, General Buell ordered 4 | for athe present. Tae Eric Railroad con, forced march by General Mitchell, to save, if pos | @ lidath bill was passed, In the Assembiy, favora- } Forty-second® treet Railroad. ‘The bill in refe jn nce to the purchase of lands in the vicini- bie reper tS Were made on the bills regulating our Court of ( “Heral Sessions, and to punish frauds on laborers. 4 ‘ills were introduced ‘for a railroad iy Tenth and ot, \¢r streets of this city; to prevent frauds in the ¢ pening of our city streets, and to ‘ to employ special police. to, reduce the fare on city railroads to provide for ythe apprehension and punish- mext of kidnapp &s, aud to regulate the public advertising ,in this city. On the au- nouncement of the ca ture of Fort Donelson and Savaunah, all the rules, of order were disregarded, and the members rose aa 4 g#ve cheer after cheer, which was accompanied b, ¥ @ general clapping of hands and throwing up of . hats on the part of the spectators in the galleria *- A resolution, con- gratulating the country on the victories, and di- recting an illumination of they Capitol, was finally, after various patriotic speeche * had been made, and amidst great excitement, a Jopted, when tho House a |journed. A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday, Supervisor Tw ‘ed in the chair protem, After transacting some roy ‘tine business, # communication was received from ) ‘is Honor the Mayor, stating that he had signed th ¢ resolution passed by the Board recommending ¢ ‘le issue of Thus surrounded by military cordon, and with their stronghold, Columbus, flanked, the fate of the rebels in that vicinity may be considered as sealed. Fresh troops are pouring down from Ohio and In- diana to support our armies. Three Indiana regiments and a battery of artillery left New Albany yesterday, and the men in the camps of instruction at Bardstown, Ky., embarked from Louisville at the same time for the Cumberland tiver. The aggregate of these reinforcements will amount to nearly 40,000 men. The map which we publish to-day, together with the accompanying description of Clarksville and the other prominent points yet to be assailed by our troops, will enable our readers to understand county revenue bonds in anticipation « £ the col- lection of the annual taxes. His Ha "or also recommended that the law be altered to, provide for the collection of the taxes at an cartier period of the year, an arrangement which woatd sa ve the payment of the intercat on said county req “enue bonds. Referred to the Committee om Aa ‘ual Taxes. -The Board then adjourned unt Tues Jay next, the 25th inst. \ The Board of Aldermen passed a regpintion ia +t evening to fire a salute of one hundred guns % - morrow, as an appreciation of the late suecesses of the Union arms. A resolution was offered in- structing the Comptroller to withhold payment for strect cleaning if, in the opinion of the Inspector, the contract has not been performed faithfully. The resolution was laid over. Muyor Opdyke sent ina veto of the bill prohibiting the use of salt on railroad tracks, on the ground of publicncecessity Bills | The Downfall of the Rebellion—The Policy of the Administration and of the Southern Peopte. The capture of Fort Donelson, with the bulk of its rebel garrison of fifteen thousand men, is indeed a great and decisive victory. Stand- ing alone it would be so; but, identified as it is with a succession of Union triumphs in the West and in the East, its importance is immensely extended. With the news of the brilliant little afuir near Somerset, in Southern Kentucky, on the 19th of January, in which the rebel General Zollicoffer was slain, we announced that batile as the first manifestation of General McClellan's infallible combinations and resources for a crushing campaign. Our subsequent victories in Tennessee, North Ca- rolina and Missouri, including the triumphal exploration of the Tennessee river into the State of Alabama, and culminating in this grand affair on the Cumberland, all confirm the accuracy of our estimate in designating that little battle near Somerset as the “be- ginning of the end.” For a month or more after our disastrous batile of Manassas the people of the loyal a Bota saphena Sess, eae ett aie 9 etme broken uj, and the Unlon men of the South | tribe or bigoted, spiteful abolitionists give thems will be in the ascendancy from Richmond to | the opportunity. To indulge # petty malic? New Orleans. ‘We respectfully submit to the egeinst a iady whose position prewten:spa President that rial 1 should shield her from insult, Hickman’s com- the sime has arrived for a procl® | jittes wastes tke public money, disgraces the mation of the character indicated; for we bave | nation and holds up the governmentto the no doubt that it would be followed by the mosg } bitter bat deserved satire and cena the lorious if civilized world. ress authoris eur 5 eee A: peaprene. onene a eourages pe el malicious and illtimed Mattes nn Mickmam’e Sitohom Comm | tia puibtiy’ Be Wh, ws Meenae’: orate Bean Hickman’s Kitchen Committee i» | Who conducts this investig ¥tlon or the logisla- making progress. It has finished its examina- tive body which endorser it. tion of the contemptnous Chevalier Wikoff, and A Day or Portico Cecesra.Uon or tax Re is now engaged with the floral Watts. Watts cavr Victorms.—In view of the recent suc- used to be the gardener of the White House, | cesses of the national arms, it is Witting that we and Bean Hickman expects to obtain @ great | showld set apart a day for their cxlebration in deal of information from him. We hope lie may. | this city; and as the annYversary of ‘he birth of What Watts don’t know about flowers and Washington occurs.on the 22d 09 the present Kitchen gardening is not worth knowing, and | month,. we suggest | that that is the proper one the longer the Paul Prys of the committee | to be selected. Pwiladelphia has elmady pump Watts the better they will he able to rival | decided upon it, and no doubt other olties rill Linawus or keep a hothouse on their own hooks. | do likewive. Such » demonstration orour jpa tt Naturally enough, the first questions Beaw } will be in eecordance withthe fast daye whie\? Hickman proposed te Watts were about the’| we observedlast year, and gvill give usrall aw flowers used at the White House ball. It is Opportunity of testifying our joy over therapid! amusing to observe how interested and | progress now making towards the restoration curious these long haired, uninvited abo- | of this Unionan@ the extinctios of the rotely litionists are about that ball, and how] tio The delight whieh the\ whole North” anxiously they endeavor to glean all the par- | hag felt over the victory of Noanoke and’ States were troubled concerning the safety of Washington, and apprehensive of an attack upon it by the army of Johnston and Beaure- gard. The efforts of the government, then, were necessarily directed, first te the security of our national capital, and secondly to the plan and the men and the means of a grand comprehensive campaign against the strong- ticulars in regard to it. The committee smelled | the capture of Port Donelson cam only be’ treason, stratagems or spoils in every flower | equalfed by the final satisfaction; whicit which adorned the White House tables upon | we shall soon experience, of having com- the night of the ball; and if this had been the | pletely’ reasserted the foueral authority old War of the Roses revived Beau Hickman | in every portion of the revolted States. could not have been more minute in his in- | We have imdeed real cause for congratulation; quizies about the White House garden. We | for virtuaify the game of rebellion is already are told in Scripture that great things some- | decided, and the flag of the Union floats proudly times come of a grain of mustard seed; and the | in all but three of the rebellious States. The \ Rivity, but by their accidental or incidentat vie- holds of the rebellion. While thus employed | Kitchen Committee evidently applies this prin- on our side, the hopes ef the rebels were ciple to flower and vegetable seeds as well. s The relation between turnips: and treason, trength a Bs css, . strengthened, not only by our apparent ingo- radishes and rebellion, salad‘and’ State secrets, . is as clear a8 amber to the inquiring mind of the tories of Springteld; Belmont and Lexington, | investigating Hickman. To him: catetias sug- Wiasouri, and by the bloody tragedy to cur | gest contracts; dahlias, dangerous delays to ad- the precise line of operations before us. In addition to the victory in Tennessee we have information from Fortress Monroe that severe fighting has been going on near Savannah, and that “ACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery.— % Danone, &6-—lidssucv nes ee NET OF wow! LUISE Me ne OO Broadway. ORYSTAL AL Boecuseves some PARIBEAN CABL Open daily from 1B, woventy Muse HALL, 616 Broadway.—Buacesauns Bonga, Dances, a: IRVING HALL, Ivy we Faor on Esouawa ‘8 Place.—La Mani pz ua Vevre— 1y, February 15, 1862. THE sri UATION. The fall of Fort Den °!ou—which, from the newa we published yes “day morning, must have been to our readersa, foregone conclusion— la the most important viet Fy yet achieved by the armies of the governn rent, and will most probably prove to be the ma %t disastrous defeat which the rebel cause has ) %ffered since the commericemenit of hostilities. That victory was complete, resulting as it did ix the capture of | justly proud of the success of his plans, went in 15,000 rebel'troops, an immense @ ™ount of war | person to the War Department with General Cal” material and the persons of Genera 's Pillow, A. f§. Johnstone and Buckner. Gen eral Floyd | tento # large number of visiters, and was wel- sneaked off. with his brigade of five thou" sand men on Saturday night, ana! is, in consequence, denounced by the more gallant officers who maintained their grdsind to the last moment and have fallen into our hands, as a black-hearted traitor and coward. The whole ation has already branded him in like terms. The fort surrendered at nine o'clock on Sunday orning. The loss on both sides was very heavy; , of the enemy must have amounted, in killed ‘Vrd wounded, to nenrly ten thousand, if the state- ment be true that the garrison consisted of thirty thousand men. General Cullam, in his despateh received by General McClellan yesterday, states that Com- modore Foote, although suffering from the wound he received, will immediately follow with two gun- boats and the mortar boats which he expects to overtake, and make an attack on Clarksville, an- other strong post of the rebels on the way to Nash- ville. fifty miles, in a northwesterly direction. It is for- tified pretty strongly from the bluffs surrounding it, and is by this time most probably held by a lerge force of the rebels. Clarksville is distant from Nashville about the city was reported to have been captured by the Union troops, most probably those of Gen. Wright and Capt. Davis, who, as we have previously stated, entered the Savannah river by Warsaw Sound and dispersed Tatnall’s rebel fleet. Immediately on the receipt of the news of the capture of Fort Donelson by the Secretary of War, he sent the name of General Grant te the President for promotion to a Major Generalship. Secretary Stanton has also issued an order thanking General Lander for his late services in Western Virginia, The receipt of the news of the Fort Donelson victory at Washington yesterday created the most jntense excitement. General McClellan, who felt fum’s despatch, which was read aloud by Mr. Stan- comed by three ringing cheers. In both houses of Congress the intelligence was received with the.' wildest enthusiasm, and when, in addition, the news of the capture of Savannah, as reported from} Norfolk by way of Fortress Monroe, was announced : in the Senate by Mr. Grimes, of lowa, loud mani- festations of applause buzst from the galleries and the floor of the Senate Chamber. The joy in the camps.and on the streets was not less demonstrative asthe news was read at the head of erzh regiment. And it will be seen by our reports of the effect of this glarious intelli- gence in the city ef New York and throughout the whole North yesterday that the entire people unite in one common voice of jubilee. In St’ Louis General Halleck made % specch to the ex, ultant crowd who assembled at his headquarters, in which he said:—“I promised, when I came here, with your aid, to drive the enemies of the flag from your State. This has beeu done, and it is now virtually out of Kentucky, and soon will be out of Tennessee.” Judge Holt is said to have wep for joy when he heard the news. Many of the stores were closed, the city decorated with flags, and evidence of the greatest joy was everywhere Additional particulars of the battle come to us | manifest. from Chicago, ina despatch dated at Fort Donel- non yesterday, which says:—General Smith led the charge on the lower end of the works, and was The Fort Henry th. first inside the fortifications. rcaaways were bagged here. The prisoners are loading on the steamers for Cairo. | Gor loss is heavy—probably four hundred killed avd eight handred wounded. We lose a large per contage of officers; among them are Lieutenant Colonela Irwin, of the Illinois Twentieth; White, ov the Thirty-first, and Smith, of the Forty-eighth. Colonela John A. Logan, Lawyer and Kan- som are wounded. Major Post, of the Eighth CONGRESS. The excitement yesterday in the Senate inci dent to the reception of the news of the glorious successes of the Union arms entirely unfitted that body for the transaction of public business. After some routine business, of little importance, they went into executive session, and soon after adjourned. The House participated in the general jubilee consequent upon the announcement of the news from Tennessee. No business was done beyond the passage of an amendment reducing the salary of the Commissioner of the Agricultural Depart- ment, and the bill authorizing the employment of a stenographer by the committee on the conduct of the war. The bill making an appropriation for and convenience, and that the charges of its dele- terious influence had little weight. The Board of Councilmen met last evening an disposed of considerable routine business. On mo- tion, the Special Committee upon the Celebration troops of Ball's Bluff, on the Upper Potomac. Tris true ‘that against these reverses we had secured a fut! equivatent in our newal victories of Washington's Birthday was increased. Mr. Ross-} @f Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal}: but, consi- offered a resolution in favor of making the } dering the vast means: employed in these expe- Herarp, Times and Tribune the only organs in F which the Corporation: proceedings shall be--pubt-| 100m the rebels ctilt consoled themselves that; lished; which was referred to the Committee on | 20t having caphureé*any importansseaboard Smad aoe Sauna eae pane of the | city, or eut off any, important Southern-railroad, ‘inance Committee ed to jischarged from x tus further consideration (ofthe Comptroller's :ea--| 0 Ue Socom Lane, Mnlo or nothing. timates for the taxes of the present year, which | We had done notking to take awey the = eae! cortame beregaselys made the-special | Northern humiliatioa or» the Southern prestige ler for Thu yy next, The Comptroilertrans. |, q s o leade: mitted'a detailed statement of the monesz received of Bull vem; sed nfpantnee the rebel “ig from the Corporation Attorney during the month | ‘limd:some reason to expeet, upon short notice, of pees and Nog that he paid red 47 to | the powerful sesistaitce of England. Thusthey meet the balance of expenses over collections in | , isti the office of the Corporation Attorney for the year have been e oe prepare for 1861. The Comptroller reported that the balance | ® well equipped Union army of six hundred vance; japonicas, jealousies of MoClellan; and ilacs, Mrs. Lincoln’s influence with the Presi- dent. Particular attention was directed to cabbages, their culture and use; for to fate of the Southern confedbracy- is sealed; treason is in‘its last throes, and’ the: restoration of the integrity of the Union: is inevitable, and only a matterof time—a few days or weeks, eooner or later. The loyal are triumphant, the traitors are defeated and driven back in confu- sion, and the great: republic has survived the trying ordeal intended for its deattuction. ‘Have we not, then, occasion for rejoicing: and’ thanks- giving? Let us unite in a genoral and! hearty expression of national feeling, andj while’ com the wise heads of the Kitchen Committee the | memorating the birthday of the: illustrious subject of cabbages includes Cameron, Cabinet | Father of the republic, look forward! hopefully eonfidences, closets, coteries and circumstances | to the speedy re-establishment of the Uniom generally. In fact, the whole examination of | Whose foundation he left to us as the glorious ‘Watts seemed to he conducted upom:the: plan | legacy of his labors. ‘of that children’s alphahet which begins “A aa ee #tands for archer, who carries a bow,” and ends “Z stands for Zany” or a member of Hickman’s Fiore—Our troops- have captured Fort Donelson, with its garrison; but: the immortal Floyd has shipped through their ommittee, except that a flower or a vegetable fingers. He was too obd‘e¢hief to be canght: yoe-substituted for a letter. napping, and so he stole of under cover-of the Rythis shrewd device Bean Hickman sve- | night with five thousand men. He beats Price ’ inelieiting many important facts, which | 9) hollow as a runner. In- the mountains’ may be included in the agricultural volumes of } of Western Virginia, last«sammer, Floyd’ waey the Patent Office reports at some future (ané | the thief who “ bothered sour boys intirely” by re hepe distant) day. He learned, also, that | stealing off in the dark. . His rebel associates upon one memorable day, Watts, having occe- | whom he left in the Iurch at’ Fort Donelson. in the city treasury up to February 8 way $3,125,059 25. The Corporation Counsel, in reply to a -sesolution inquiring 9 whether it was necessary to have the authority of the Legislature to impose taxes for the support of the city and county governments, gays that taxes cannot be imposed upon the people of this city or county for any purpose | thesefaots, it reasttred no prophet to foretell jenj the bl OL A:riublte beeablibdace. whatever without the authority of the Legislature. | the consequences with this great Union army: mee Reaeagped peace i toe - The Comptroller reported that during the last month the sum of $74,424 was distributed in aid of the familics of our voOunteer soldiers. The | posiiion-arounc] the whole defensive line of the the.sweet flowers of the President's rhetoric, Board, concurred with the Alder to invite some leading orater tv «eliver an oration on Washington's birthday. Thr) concurred in tho adoption of the patriotic resoluiens which will be found in the proceedings of the other Board, and also to make arrangements for the reception of Col. Corcoran and other distinguished prisoners. A number of decisions were rendered yesterday in the Supreme Court, General Term. in the case of Simon Katz, convicted of arson in the first degree about ten months since, and sen- teaced by Judge Leonard to imprisonment for life, in resolving and:fifty thousand jnen, ard a naval force of warships and gunt} oats which alone would be equal in-this war tods resisting army of two or even. three hundred. thousand Southern men, with their inferice artillery. But, consulting and its coopemsting naval forces placed. in rebellion, frore Missouri to Virginia, and from Fortross Monree down along the seaboard to. the outlets ef New Orleans. The revolted: States weve {hus reduced to the-condition of a beleaguered ;city, and a break in its defensive line at an;/ point would open the way to the citadel its fit. This def ensive line was broken. at. Somerset, and in tlsose later and still enlarging Union. sion-to read up a little upon the abstruse sub- | denounce him as “a binekhearted traitor and: tiect of dandelions, went to the Presidential coward; but they don't’ understand ‘his case, ‘library for that purpose, and saw lying upon a'| ond are very ungrateful. His -greatest trouble ‘table-the: forthcoming Message of the Presi- | jy that, as the chief of the Cabinet+traitors -and* dent. Tho Message being written out in-| thieves of Mr. Buchanam’s administration,: as- a goed. round band, and Watts having | the great stealer of government arms and arse- nels, he imagines there i» a price set‘upon his - y head, and that his fate-as a -prisoner of war document ia question; and he forthwith culled} would be a rope, witheat judge or jury. He- does not like the Mea o3istanding up in battle- formed them into » bouquet and treasured them { to be shot at; but he feass the hangman’s rope- in the flewerstand of memory. This was 84 above all other dangzes. Other rebels may greatdiseovory, to be sure. The proclivities of] expect to be treated secording to the laws servants-te-pry into their masters’ affairs is & | of war; but Floyd, ifeaught,expeote to. be- fact so new,.sousheard of and so startling that.{ punished as a thief andia robbes; and.so-Floyd Beau:Hiekman expects to be hailed as a sort of.| {snot the hero to surrender as spzisoner of war kitchen Columbus, and will pateat his discovery | while there is a chancs of stealing off.or run as soon.as possible. Excited with this triumph, | ning away. Finally, for the present, consider. he intends to.summon all the gardeners of the | ing his proficiency ard skill, and his cool de- -country: as: witnesses before his prying com--| liberation in stealing;amd running, the chances mittee. Awful Gardiner, whom Beau Hickman | are that Floyd will sili contrive-to steal oc ran vate, * the General Term of the Supreme Courtrendered @ | successes.at Fort Henry, Roanoke Islandandi| has-mistaken for @ horticulturist, but who.is decision yesterday reversing the conviction and Fort Dorselson we have only a fuller develope- | really: a reformed pugilist, is to be cross-ex- ordering a new trial. The principal witness against . Katy was his nephew, who testified that he fired | ment of General McClellan’s encircling combi- amined immediately. Some one has been kind enough to inform Hickman that Cliude the premises at the instigation of his uncle, who | nations, The rebel leaders have relied upon Melnotte was a gardener, and afterwards. be: ’ was not present when the offence was committed. * if The Court held that there was an error in trying their iriternal network of railroads; but they | came an officer. The coincidence between off, even if followed ap to the Mexican frontier. Eunernan Pcrroeag- Es Mextea.—The jounats of England and Vimaee have been argasing thomsetves for somo, time past with the. ‘dea of aking for Mexico. The pecgle of Bavaviu are in m terrible state of excitement over thoexpec- the prisoner as principal when the facts showed.| now discover that, with our absolute command that he was only accessory before the fact. of thes water, exterior and inland, we can cut Yesterday afternoon the United States Marshal / ws them/offeven from their railway communica- Melnotie and Watts—who was appointed to the army some time ago—strack Hickman as. remarkable, and he decided that the. matter tatiom that thy Apehduke Maximilian is to be the: monarch in cpestion. Im fact, we are told thata large itactsase to tie French. ‘orces in received a despatch from Washington stating that the motion pending before the Supreme Court o¢ | tions. Hence their late great railway protecting.| + orofore proceed at once to Washington. andj the United States in relation to Captain Gordon had | carpp at Bowling Green was abandoned when give the committee the worst possible repre-- been deniod; so that it is highly probable the exe- cution will take place Friday of this week. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 403 deaths in the city during the past week — a decrease of 19 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 6 less than occurred ought to be investigated. Edwin Forrest wih sentation of Claude. Nor is this matter to end hero All the servants of the White House are tos be bronght before the Kitchen Committee. President: they saw that the possession of Fort Donelson, in opening the Cumberland river, would give to ‘as the most convenient military way to Nash- Mexieo would siortly saily with a visw to this kingly project. Now we rogard all these move ments of Furogean Powars as simp'y farcical: No kingdom or empire cea ever be ostablished im Mexico.,thovgh Franca may sen4.fifty thou. bvand meny to accomplish it. But, let France », Spain andfEngjand go adead in thatline. Witlp ville. With the evacuation of Bowling Green, Lincoln was overheard repeating, certain por- during the corresponding week last year. The re- | howover, and the loss of their principal de- | tions. of his Message to the gartner of his. capitalation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 5 | fences on the Cumberland, they have placed | bosom while dressing, and so all the, yrotty. such vighrons blows es we are giring to thm. aebellion, it will be eatirely craghed out tg, June, apd cur immerse naval and milite:g Hivavia, with two hundred privates, are pri- of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 87 of the brain and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 12 of the both the railroads and the river leading to heart and blood vessels, 138 of the lungs, throat, | Nashville in our possession. de; 7 he = so = Cae tas gas yor and | It is needless at present toconjecture the pro- eruptive fevers, 2 prema‘ 8, ages of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; gressive developement of General McClellan's 28 of general fevers, 8 of diseases of the | programme. It is satisfactorily developing it- urinary organs, 2 unknown, and 10 from violent + It has confounded his abolition revil causes. There were 280 natives of the United ao ” iui chambermaids of the White Iamse are to.be examined. The bill of fare for the. White House dinner was written, ore day, ngon the back of an unfinished draft of the Message, and. therefore the White Houw cook and. the other members of the genu! wy Kitchen. Cabi- net are te ber questioned bg/Hickraan. The | forces Will be at liberty to stake anywhe e. | These /duropean Powers are oni. furnishing os with reascas for interfering inMexico; an kif we ovce bagin we wil not stop till we drive the Spawiards out of Cuba and Porto Rico. Tipy are making their own graves, and will be forved te,cecupy them., We now have 701900 soners, and have gone to Nashville, having been tsken the night before the surrender. The enemy's the signal service of the army was also passed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We give in another column a complete list of the members of the new rebel Congress, which is to States, 11 of England, 75 of Ireland, 28 of Germany, created a wholesome panic among the rebel Prosident tore up an unsatiai¥ ctory portion of the Message and threw the 2agments into. the 3 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign | leaders and armies, and will carry joy, hope ‘wpittoon, and therefore th2.@rudges and uader low is heavy, but not so large as ours, as they countries. Professor Agassiz, the well known savan, com- and courage tothe majority of our Southern | servants of the White Hbuse. are to be! men in the field, end a rapidly iacreasing vary ‘of neady four hendred vessels—some of them iron-chd—and transports. without ,nuaber. From the despandency evenywhere exbibited fought behind intrenchments, We should have taken them by storming on Saturday if our ammu- nition had not given out in the night. General McClernand’s division, composed of Generals Ogiesby’s, Wallace's and McArthur’s brigades, wilfered terribly. They were composed of the put itself into working operation at Richmond to- day. It consists of twenty-six S., ators and one hundred and seven representatives, the States of Missouri and Kentucky having an equal voice with those that regularly seceded. The members from Misaouri were not chosen from the Congressional districts, according to law, but were taken in a body from Sterling Price's rebel ragamuffins, and Highth, Ninth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, Twentieth’ will be admitted under the name of commission Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Forty-fifth, menced a series of loctures on ‘‘ Natural History,” | people, who have thus far been only the passive at Irving Hall, last evening, before a very large and helpless victims of Davis and his ruling andience, notwithstanding the inclement weather. His lecture was highly interesting, and was listened confederates. Let the honest Union people of to with the greatest pleasure by his hearers. The | the South now rise up and vindicate their loy- Professor will resume the subject te the vain alty ins bold and general movement for the 28at ished > 24, March 7, 14, 21 and 28 at the same Union, and » farther bh ial Skating was resumed yesterday mornipg; but | bellion will be extinguished. Otherwise we put upon the witness stevd, and tho spittoon will be offered in evidence and investigated by Beau Hickman. After completirg his Message, the President kicked off his slipper and put on his. boots, and therefore. the beotblack of the White House is to relrse befoce, the commitipe what transpired in regard to the Message upon by the rebel’, 1bis clear thes they must vey soon cave. in; and the same soldiers who age now fighting undenthe directionof Jeff. Davis would | ask, no better employment than to ratky under the old fiag for the finahexpulsion of Zuropeea from this condinent. Lot France, that ceeasion, and whether ‘the President con- fided to him its contents. Tho President rode Vorty-eighth and Forty-ninth Illinois regiments. General Lew. Wallace, with the Eleventh Indiana, ¥ chth Missouri and some Ohio regiments, pastici- pated. . Taylor's, Willard’s, McAllister’s, Schwartz's and Decesse’s batteries were in the fight from the tommencement. The enemy turned oar right for baif an hour; but our lost ground was more than ers. The Senators who will represent that State were elected by Claiborne F. Jackson's rump Le- gislature, which had a meeting at Neosho for that purpose, at which not one-fifth of the members were present. The Kentucky representatives pre- tend that they were regularly clected in the dis- tricts which they claim to hail from. In some of the districts in the south and southwestern sec- tions polls were no doubt opened and some few votes cast, but in nota single district throughout regained, General Lanman’s brigade, of General Bmith's division, was the first in the lower end of the enemy's works, which was done the whole northern part of the State was an elec- tion ever talked about or thought of, and the men who have allowed their names to be placed upon this black list as the representatives of Kentucky the storm of sleet which act in after one o'clock P.M. caused a stoppage of the amusement before the usual time. The ice will have been cleaned weather prove f favorable. Recext Vicrontes.—While the people of New York, and of all the loyal States, are rejoicing over the signal triumphs of the national arms, from Roanoke Island to the banks of the Cum- berland and Tennessee rivers, there are two cir- cumstances thag make us weep with tears of anguish and regret, and thewe are the escape of know not what terrible extremities of war may | out before the Mesenge was dalivered, and kingcraft Spain and Bngland make their own Rrocrustean bed. If they do not play their game vary sharply they may ho oalled upoa to enjay it before the end of the year. Tun Uxrorrcnate Drawnacks FROM OUR4 moombs are still to be followed in Georgia the be visited upon the people of the cottoa during the night, and skating renewed to-day if the | States by the desperation of their secession lead- ers; but we do know that if Howell Cobb and women and children therein will be requized. to burn their own houses over their heads, and their own substance, as the lest rescat for a Southern confederacy. The President of the United States, convinced that the rebellion “has culminated and is de Pustac Ormios. ws tuk Sovra—The people, of the Southern,States are rapidly beiag con vinced of the feily of any prolonged resiagance to the federal government, The facts coatained in our Baltimcae correspondenge yestendmy cloarly, show this. They see that the rebeliion is on ite last lege, and the great Unioa victories a Somerset, Roanoke Island acd Forts Honry and Donelson will conarm theie fears. Already have the rebels been compelled, by the superior strategy of our generals, to abandon their thenefore the White Hovse coashman is to ap- paar and tell all he kaows. The Chevalier Willis, of the Home Journal, saw “a gleam of white linen,” while up ® tree in the White House grounds, and he is to. be subpcenaed also; for Beau Hiekman thinks the apparent “white linen” may have been really a mannscript copy of the Message. As all of these wit- nesses are to be made to tell evarything that ‘tas occurred in the White House, whetzer it concefhs the Message or nod a charge of bayonets, As nine-tenths | *T cheating the people and perpetrating @ fraud 4 + reg upon the so-called Confederate government. Quite bs ee Wee eee ee ‘a namber of the members were representatives Fight, our forces on the right were ready all night | from the various seceded States in the last federal to recommence the attack. On Senday morning | Congress, but «large majority of them are new they were met on their approach by a white flag, | aspirants for a doubtful fame, Wise and of the thief Floyd. At the battle of Roanoke Island Wise saw danger ahead, and contrived to escape to Nags Head, leaving his poor son to fight for him. fought bravely, and fell, bur ~* saved himself by flight. Tis escape, however, clining.” fins issued @ proelamation of aunesiy and liberation to certain State prisoners. Let him now, in,4he same spirit of wisdom and mag neniasty , Sesue another proclamation to the Beag Hickman anticipates some astounding dewelopements. There never was each a chance of becoming acquainted with tho kitchey, the Jaundry, the chambers, the closets, tee coal. hole, the slopsewers, the cellars and every other private department of the White House, General Buckner having i i Our legislators at Albany yesterday, in common va “orangposdn et with all other classes of patriotic citizens, became infected with the enthnsiasm conseqnent upon the recent splendid victories of the Union forces, and but little business was transacted in either house. In the Seaate a favorable report was made on the bill regulating the powers and duties of the Port despatch to General Grant surrendering. The works of the fort extend sume five miles on the outside, The rebels lose forty-eight field pieces, peventeon heavy guns, twenty thousand stand et erme, besides ® large quantity of commissary Captain and Harbor Masters of this port. Notice stores.” was given of @ bill to authorize the selection of @ rebel agmies and the people of the rebelliows | heiore, and Beau Hickman hacws it, He. wi is only temporary. We will catch him yet, and bring him to Fort Latayette, where he might be | exhibited at six cents, As for Floyd, we do | most sincerely lameut his escape; for be ought to have been sent to Washington, and there | brought before the Criminal Court, put in, dock, and tried like any othor grand ‘sre ny | dare say tha Soutg, comprehending & liberal amnesty &nd be fully equal to the ocewion, and will tus +1, protection of the constitutien of the Onion prison any witness who js sensible and well. + to the revolted States, upon their return, to theig | UFed em vugh to refuse to anawer his importi- hent questions. Ute startling developeraent Mesatime pur agmics in Kentucky, under the | site for » new State prison; also to incorporate the | thief, and gont to the penitentiary. atrongiy fortified position at Bowling Green, while the army of the Union is closing in upon them everywiere. Why, then, do not Southern men show a little more pluck by rebelling against the rebellion? Now is their tine to act, if they would aid in restoring peace and pros. perity to their homes, by declaring for the Union of their fathers, and trampling treasom under foot. Sxnmae.— Mra. General C.F, Smith and fami:y wore cinuce withi 7 | last wight by the ciicers of the Bghih and | proper allegiauce witoin givon time wid we ave therefore cestain, ‘ i utntryaerning Forts Hun Eargete t before the cxplrntion oF twenty | No wonder European journals ridtonle our aud Kiehmome te te AAW & pal) a atey die | days the armed forces at this rebellion will b. | government, Buch fellows as Hick:nan and his -mith’s success at Fort Lonetson,