The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1862, Page 4

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Baunday, February 16. ++ 104,016 Monday, February 17. 118,080 ‘Tuesday, February 18 . 118,968 Wednesday, February 19. ++ 117,720 ‘Thursday, February 20.. «+ 113,328 Wriday, February 21.... +» 112,896 Saturday, February 22.. +» 118,800 803,808 114,829 ' Phe above figures, which can be verified from our books, give the circulation of the New Yorr Humatp for the week just past. We believe that Mt more than equals the aggregate circulation of all the other daily papers in this city, and of vowses it far surpasses that of any one of them. The ad- vantages which the Heratp affords to advertisers are self-evident. THE SITUATION. ‘The right wing of the grand army, in General Banks’ division, on the Upper Potomac, has made an advance. Crossing the river from Sandy Hook on Monday night to Harper's Ferry, the ad- Vance guard, consisting of the Twenty-cighth Pennsylvania regiment, took possession of the town. Strong reinforcements went over on Tues- Gay and occupied the towns of Bolivar and Charlestown, and a considerable portion of the country on both banks of the Shenandoah. The rebels, with the exception of a few who were captured, retired on the approach of our army. The sentiment among the people ts strongly in favor of the Union. General Banks has established his headquarters on the road from Har- per’s Ferry to Bolivar. The rebels shelled the trains yesterday, near Berlin, on their way to Bal. timore, but the firing was so bad that they did no damage. These facta of the unobstructed advance of Major General Banks’ division into Virginia ye received by a telegraphic despatch from Bolivar, by way of Sandy Hook, last night, which we publish elsewhere, and they definitely set at rest the ramors circulated in the ‘city yesterday, for interested purposes, of battles and defeats sustained by the right wing of the army. It is hardly necessary to state that we do not violate the recent order of the War Depart- ment in giving publicity to this information of the movement of our troops, norto mention that, in the conscientious discharge of our duty to the gov- ernment and the sacred cause in which it is en- gaged, we do not, or shall not publish anything concerning any important movements of the army unauthorized. It will be seen that onr despatch from Bolivar mentions that up to last night “all goes well’ in that vicinity. The occupation of Nashville by our troops is now officially confirmed. A despatch was received at General McClellan's headquarters yesterday an- nouncing that General Buell arrived at the north Dank of the Cumberland, directly opposite Nash- ville, on Tuesday, where some of the rebel pickets were found, who immediately retired. On Thurs- day the brigades of Generals Nelson and Critten- den marched through Nashville, and en- camped four miles beyond it on the road towards Murfreesboro’ without encountering any opposition. Reports reached Cairo yesterday that the rebels had concentrated at the latter place, ‘and that General Buell had surrounded them so as to render escape impossible. The rebels offered to surrender their position if allowed to march out with the honors of war. General Buell refused, and demanded an unconditional surrender, and paid that he would allow two days for considera- tion, and if the place was not surrendered at that time he would open fire upon them. The time expired yesterday morning, and the probability is that the town is now in possession of our treops. General Nelson commands at Nash. ville, where his troops are welcomed with great cordiality by the people. It is said that the rebel Sroops committed many excesses in plundering hhouses and stores, before abandoning the city, and he citizens were filled with indignation at this con- duct. ” «| With regard to the evacuation of Columbus, the Momphis papers of the 19th say that the rebel Sorgen yrove ordered to fall back upon oa island (No. 10) forty-t miles below the city, which they supposed could be so fortified and mounted with heavy guns as to command the Mississippi river at that point; and that General Polk had or- dered the track of the Ohio and Memphis Railroad to be torn up, and the fortifications at Columbus to be destroyed, preparatory to the evacuation of the place. We publish to-day the first message of Jeff. Davis to the new rebel Congress, which, like his recent inaugural, betrays great distress of mind as to the future fortunes of the confederacy, and dis- plays, at the same time, no little deviation from the strict line of truth in reference to the resources of the South and the conduct of our government and ourarmy. He admits that events have proved that the rebel government attempted more than it could achieve; that the Southern people had no idea of the continuance ef the war beyond a brief period, nor of the overwhelmiag force which has been brought against them. To this fact he attributes the unwillingness of the people to enlist for along term, but he hopes that this “ fruitful cause of disaster,” short enlistments, wiB, not again occur, In referring to the defeats at Roanoke Island and Fort Donelson, he speaka of the former as humiliating (which may be inter- preted as a rebuke to General Wise); and of the fall of Donelson he says that, in the absence of official information, he can forn no judgment, but cannot believe that an army of ‘‘our people’ could surrendered without an effort to cut their way through the enemy (which probably means an allusion to Floyd and his ignominious flight). The strength of the rebel army he puts down, some- what indefinitely, at four hundred regiments of in- fantry, with proportionate cavalry and artillery. He relies greatly upon the new enlistments to make up the force of the army, and expresses & confident.epinion that the war is going to last for seve! to come. Our néws from Fortress Monroe, under date of the 27th, puts us in possession of some interesting information from the South. A meeting of cotton and tobacco planters was held on Wednesday evening, at the City Hall, Richmond, to discuss the question of destroying the cotton and tobacco crops in the State; but the discussion, after a necessary estimates of The pro- viding additional clerks for the office of the Assistant Treasurer at New York, and fora De- puty Assistant Treasurer, at a salary not exceed- ing $3,000 per annum, was passed. The bill pro- viding for receiving engineers into the volunteer service of the government was rejected by a vote of 67 to 66. The bill granting homesteads to ac- tual settlers, and providing bounty for soldiers in lieu ef lands, was amended so as to take effect on the Ist of January, 1963, and then passed—105 against 16. Both houses adjourned till Mondays MISCELLANEOUS NEWS The State Senate yesterday passed the bill au- thorizing attorneys of other States to practice in the courts of this; also the Albany and Susque- hanna Railroad bill, the bill relative to the rights and liabilities of husbands and wives, the Kings County Court House bill, and several others of minor interest to our readers. Notice was givenofa bill to regulate the Fire Department of this city. In the Assembly a large number of bills were report- ed from the committees, among which were re- ported favorably those to enable wives to effct in- surance on the lives of their husbands, to pro- tect witnesses before the Legislatare from- criminal prosécxtion on their own testimony, to amend the election taws for this city, te incor- porate the Metropolitan Medical College, to pre- vent the swill milk traffic, and for the sale of the Quarantine grounds, Several bills were passed, mostly of only local interest. Notices were given, among various others, of bills to make the 22d of February a legal holiday, to regulate our Quoran- tine, toamend the act relating to the New York Police Courts, relative to the Sheriff of New York, to amend our city charter, and to authorize rail- roads in all the streets, avenues and lanes of this city. Among the remonstrances presented were a number against the Broadway Railroad. In favor of the Metropolitan Health bill several petitions were presented, and also a memorial from the Mayor and Common Council of Providence, R. I., praying that the health of New York city be regu- lated. The Etna, from Liverpool on the 13th and Queenstown on the 14th of February, reached this port yesterday evening. As she sailed simulta. neously with the Hibernian, her news has been an- ticipated by our telegraphic report from Port- land, given yesterday morning. Warren, the second mate of the Erie, who pleaded guilty to voluntarily serving on board that slave veasel, was sentenced by Judge Shipman to eight months imprisonment and to pay a fine of one dollar. One of the candidates for President at the elec- tion in 1860 now occupies the White House in Washington, and is industriously at work striving to save his country from ruin. Another, John C. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, is at the head of a band of traitors, whose aim it is to overthrow and de- stroy the Union. It is reported that he isa con- firmed inebriate, and most of the time unfit to command himself. A third, John Bell, of Tennes- see,is a rebel of the meanest deacription—too cowardly to fight and too contemptible to attract much notice. He was the ‘‘Union”’ candidate, and by the confiscation of his property in Pittsburg, and the destruction of his main support in Tennes- see, he is reaping, sick, weak and disconsolate, the reward of his treachery. The fourth candidate, Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, only lived to see the rebellion commence, and to declare his senti- ments to be om the side of the Union: Of the candidates for Vice President, Hanni- bal Hamlin, of Maine, occupies the President's seat in the Senate of the United States. The part- ner of Breckinridge in the race, Joseph Lane, of Oregon, is probably hidden away in some of the Tecessce of the Rocky Mountains on the Pacific slope. Edward Everett, who ran with the traitor Bell, is nobly battling for the Union to the extent of his abilities. Herschel V. Johnson, who was coupled with Douglas, has not been very con- spicuous since the troubles began, and, allowing him the benefit of a doubt, we will presume that he is quietly superintending his extensive planta- tion inGeorgia, and looking after the welfare of ; variety of speeches were delivered pro and con., resulted in transferring the matter to a com- mittee for report at an adjourned meeting the next night, the business of which has not yet reached us. A resolution was offered in the rebel Congress on the same day providing for compensation by the government for all to- bacco and cotton so burned to avoid its falling into the hands of the United States government. The tone of the Southern press continues to be most doleful and despairing. The Raleigh (N.C.) Re- gister of Wednesday says that it would be cri- minal to deny that the present is the most gloomy time that the rebel confederacy has experienced since the commencement of the war. It appeals most strenuously to the people of the South to make » desparate stand, and to resist to the last. The Lynchburg Virginian puvtishoa a special despatch from Bristol, Tenn., stating that our troops are in possession of Nashville, a fact which our official news to-day fully confirms. The Norfolk Day Book has despatches from Memphis admitting that Fayetteville, Arkansas, was burned by General McCulloch before its aban’ donment to the Union troops under General Curtis as we stated yesterday. We publish, in another column, full particulars respecting the capture of the English steamer Lebnau, at Becia Chica, near Rio Grande, by the United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth. The prize, which was brought safely to our waters yesterday morning, is a most valuable one. We publish to-day a full report of the speeches delivered in the English House of Lords, on the 10th ult., by Earls Carnarvon, Russell (Lord John), Derby and Donoughmore, relative to the arrests of British subjects in the United States, the efficiency or inefficiency of the blockade of the Southern ports, and the effect of the maritime clauses of the Convention of Paris in time of war between great naval Powers. Mr. Mason, the rebel Commissioner, having stated to Earl Russell that from six to seven hundred ves- sels entered and left the blockaded ports. The Earl told the House that he had asked Mr. Mason what was the tonnage of the vessels to which allusion had been made, and to that question Mr. Mason was unable to give him any answer. That, said the Earl, was a matter of great importance in the question, because the seven ports blockaded were connected with several other smaller ports, and it was possible that vessels carrying small cargoes might run from one to the other; but these could hardly be called vessels running or breaking the blockade. The British State papers relative to Mexico, just presented to Parliament, are also published elsewhere. A Paris letter, of the 6th ult., published in the London Herald, says Colonel Charras, Minister of War in France under the republic of 1848, has been offered a command in the army of the United States. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a bill was reported to carry into effect the treaty with Hanover for the abolition of the Stadt dues. Mr. Starke, the new member from Oregon, offered a resolution instruct- ing the Judiciary Committee to investigate the charges of disloyalty that have been alleged against him. A debate ensued, which was continued till the expiration of the morning hour. The House bill providing additional clerks for the New York Assistant Treasurer's office, and the appointment of a Deputy Assistant Treasurer, was passed. The Le- gislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill wastakenup. Several amendments reported by the Finance Committee were agreed to. An amend- ment appropriating $100,000 for a new jail in Wash- ington, another creating the office of Assistant Se- cretary of the Interior, and another abolishing the office of Recorder of the Land Office, were adopt- ed, and the bill passed. A bill to encourage en- listments in the regular army was introduced. In the House of Representatives, the special committee on the establishment of a national ar- mory reported a resolution, which was referred to the Committee of the Whole, providing for the appointment of a commission by the President to locate a national foundry east of the Alle- ganies, an’ a foundry, armory and manu- facturing arsenal west of the Alleganies, said commission to report within sixty days from their appointment to the Secretary of War, and the Secretaty to report to Congress, with the Ten- pounder Twelve-pounders Seventeen- his slaves. Since the commencement of the war the three foundries at West Point, South Boston and Pitts- burg, Pa., have together manufactured for the go- vernment— ‘Twelve-inch rifled can'n 1 Elov ch. 230 Total number Of ea0DON.........0.004 eeeeeeeeee 1,046 Of mortars and howitzers they have made— Thirteen-inch mortars.. 54 Eight-inch mortars... .. 36 Ten-inch mortars ...., + 61 Eight-inch howitzers... 10 They have also turned out the following number of shot and shell: — ‘Thirteen-inch shells FEleven-inch shel! Ten-inch shell: Nine-inch 8) Eight-inch s! 3/200 Shot and shell of smaller calibre 51,727 ‘Total numbor of shot and shell............++++ 173,226 At last accounts there were three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight bales of cotton at Memphis, Tenn. At present prices this is worth over four hundred thousand dollars. The recent cold snap has greatly improved the skating; but the fall of snow on Thursday last put a false surface on the ice yesterday very disagree- able to skaters. Park were engaged on Thursday night eleaning the ice, which was thrown open yesterday for the sport; and if no serious change should occur it will be further cleaned and skating be resumed to-day. An attempt has been made to obtain a band of music for to-day, but with what success we have not yet learned. The workmen of the Centra' Counterfeit five dollar Treasury notes made their appearance in this city yesterday. They are ex- cellent imitations of the genuine, but can be de- tected, the letters U.S.—one within the other— on the shield of the Goddess of Liberty, being left out. The cotton market was firm yesterday and more acy tive, The sales embraced about 1,500 bales, at 22340. a %c. for middling, closing inthe afternoon at tho latter figure, with an upward tendency in prices. Freight was engaged for about 640 bales to Liverpool at 6-324, Flour was heavy under the news, and for some de- scriptions was 5c. per bbl. lower. Wheat was inactive and prices were unsettled. Corn was heavy and lower, closing at 6le. a 63c.for mixed, in store and delivered, mostly at 6lc. @ 62c. Pork was some less so- tive, while prices were steady, with sales of mess at $14 3734 9 $14 50. Sugars were firm, closing at an ad- vance on the week's sales of ic. a 4c. The sales em- braced about 2,000 hhds. An account of stock will bo found in another colamn. Coffee was firm, with sales of 1,500 bags Rio at 193¢c. @ 21c. An account of stock will be found in another place. Freights were steady, with engagements. TetecraPuic Faprications sy THe Lmrrie Virtatx—The Times of yesterday, notwith- standing the order of the Secretary of War, published what purported to be two tele- aphic despatches from Washington, one ‘about “Warm Work in Virginia,” and the other about “Rumors of General Banks.” Both are puré fabrications, and could not have come by telegraph; for the telegraph is in possession of @ government officer, who is instructed to pre- yent all such communications for the present, The public ought to be on itsguard against these unauthorized reports, particularly those flying through Wall street, which are of a stock jobbing character, and intended either to de- press or to inflote the prices of stocks in the marke’. Our Rebellious States—-What Shall Do with Them whem Recovered? What shalt we do with our revolted States with the euppression of the rebellion therein and their restoration to the supreme authority of the Uniont What is the prevailing idea in Congresat What is the programme of the ad- ministration? What plan is most likely to be adopted? These are now among the most interesting questions of this crisis, convinced, as we are, that the day of the re-establishment of the Union in its territorial integrity is close at hand. Mr. Senater Sumner, upon tho theory that the States involved in this rebellion have forfeited all their rights and claims to protec- tion under the constitution, slavery included, proposes to treat them as conquered provinces. His plan is to put them back te the condition of Territories, and to put their inhabitants, whites and blacks, under the supreme authority of Congress, upon a common footing of political equality. According to this plan, in the read- mission of the States concerned into the Union Geranoo of the black vote ia. so many districts, and four black members to the Senate, in con- sequence of the popular majority of the black over the white population of South Carolina and Mississippi. Mr. Sumner, no doubt, would be pleased to see Cuffee in the seat in the United States Senate lately occupied by Jeff. Davis, and Sam- bo in the seat co long filled, down to 1850, by John C. Calhoun. But this sweeping abolition scheme of negro “liberty, equality and frater. nity” suggests to the reflecting mind such scenes of confusion, demoralization and anar- chy, political and social, that we cannot be- lieve its consummation within the bounds of probability; notwithstanding the favor which it commands among the abolition faction of Con- gress. Against this pestilential faction there is ®& conservative body of members in both houses, which prefers the simple and the emi- nently practicable and desirable Union policy of our present patriotic and sagacious federal administration. From President Lincoln’s first war proclama- tion of last April, and in all his subsequent State papers, including his last Message to Con- gress, his policy is clearly defined to be the restoration of the old Union. Nor do we think it necessary to dwell upon any intermediate projects between this simple, easy and safe plan of Mr. Lincoln, and the radical, violent, sweep- ing and anarchical abolition scheme of Senator Sumner. The President holds that the States in rebellion are still in the Union. And how can any one deny this, without recognizing said States as under the government of an inde- pendent: confederacy? It follows, therefore, that with the suppression or the expulsion of the rebels in arms from any State it is at once restored to its former condition, and the people of any such State may at once proceed to re- store their former State government under the Union, and their representation in the two houses of Congress. But, halting between the government of the Union and that of Jeff. Davis how are the peo- ple to proceed to the work of formally resum- ing their allegiance to the Union in a revolted State, although said State may be fully occu- pied by ourarmed forces. If the man recog- nized by the people concerned as the Governor of the State refuses to call any election, who is to call it? That question may be answered by the simple fact that if the Governor is a rebel he is anullity, and so with every State officer who might otherwise take his place. In the absence, then, of any legitimate State officer competent to call an election, the United States military commander in a recovered State, under the au- thority of the President, or the President, by proclamation, may appoint a day for the elec- tion of a new Governor, State officers, Legisla- ture and members of Congress, under the old order of things existing in said State down to the day of her plunge into the Dismal Swamp of secession. Assuming, for example, that the State of Ten- nessee is now substantially reconquered from the rebels by the heroic troops of General Hal- leck and General Buell, can any one doubt the immediate and complete success of the plan of action we have indicated? We are confident that the President’s call of an election would be promptly responded to by the Union men of the State, and thet some such intrepid and faith- ful Union leader as Andy Jobnsun, tried in the hottest fires of secession vengeance, would supersede that infamous rebel Governor, Harris, by an almost unanimous popular vote; and so to the end of the catalogue. Thus Tennessee would at once be reinstated as she was in the Union; and, considering the quiet and satisfac- tory settlement of the slavery question which would thus be secured in that State, we dare say that this example of her restoration would instantly bring about an overwhelming popular revolution against Jeff. Davis in every other slave State, including even South Carolina. The events of the present week may bring this subject prominently before Congress; and in this anticipation we submit our plan for reinstating our revolted States in the full enjoyment of the Union, as the simplest, safest and best that could be adopted. In its essential features it is the only plan, in our humble opinion, whereby the Union policy of “Honest Abe Lincoln” can be consummated without disaster, disturbance or danger to our popular institutions, with the re-establishment of the territorial integrity of the Union. Tae Proctamations or Our Gensrats.—It speaks well for the country, and for the com- mon sense of our military commanders, that most of the proclamations issued by the chiefs of our army have been of the most conservative character, and in the best possible,taste. The proclamations of McClellan, Halleck, Buell, Grant, Sherman, Burnside and ofher leaders are instances of this,and every one of these Generals has proven that he can fight as well as he can write. General Wool is too old and ex- perienced a soldier to issue any proclamation atall. Poor Fremont, who managed to do no fighting, not only issued silly proclamation, but refused to correct it when ordered by the President, and is now practically retired. Poor Phelps, away down on Ship Island, tried his hand at an abolition proclamation also, and has effected very little by it. Phelps is said to be an excellent officer and a very superior man; but he is crazy in regard to two great per- sonages, the Pope and the inevitable negro. We hope, however, that he will soon have an opportunity to redeem his proclamation, and prove himself a man of better deeds than words NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1662. Committee. The inquisitorial Kitchen Committee of Beau Hickman has completed its arduous labors, closed its minute investigations, and is nearly ready to present its voluminous reports. From the direction which the examinatio.w of the [ committee have taken, and from certain fore- shadowings of the forthcoming report, it is evi- dent that Beau Hickman’s production will be 48 readable as a piquant French novel, as full of details as a cook book, as elaborate as a Patent Office report, as comprehensive as Hum- boldt’s “Coamos,” and as important as Beau Hickman himself, The public awaits its ap- pearance with anxious and natural impatience. The Russians give a little lunch just before dinner, in order to whet appetite; and, upon the same principle, we are inclined to hint at a few of the subjects of which Beau Hickman treats, in order that we may stimulate, without quite satisfying, the laudable ‘curiosity of the public. The Kitchen Committee was originally instructed to investigate the government cen- sorship of the press, and .we presume that a few. “pages of the report will be’ devoted to’ this sub-. | foot, although it has recently become'the cus. tom of investigating committees to entirely ignore the legitimate object of their re- eearch and branch off into new and un- expected paths of inquiry. All of the sup- pressed telegrams will be published in full by Hickman, and a rich and rare collection they must be. From the time of Harvey, the Tribune's Washington correspondent, down to the present, the telltale telegrams will show who has been endeavoring to give aid and com- fort to the enemy, and what abolition journals have been covering up their treason by a thin mask of loyalty. Who sends the abolition at- tacks upon General McClellan and the family of the President will then be fully revealed ; and we are not at all surprised that the Tribune and its abolition contemporaries are striving to suppress Hickman’s report, as the censor sup- pressed their despatches. It has always been the aim of the abolition papers to prostitute the liberty of the press into treasonable licentious- ness, and no one outside of Jeff. Davis’ do- minions regrets that Secretary Stanton has silenced them for a while by his emphatic ukase. But the Kitchen Committee by no means re- stricted its investigations to the censorship of the press. On the contrary, Hickman has pin- ned all sorts of miscellaneous matters to his original plan, as a washerwoman hangs out linen sundries on a clothesline. His report will be so varied and extensive in its range of information that the “Edinburg Encyclo- pedia” will degenerate into a mere schoolbook, and a copy of Hickman’s miscellany will be equivalent to a complete Astor Library. Of course it was necessary for Hickman to find out the truth or falsity of each suppressed des- patch, and he was therefore compelled to ex- amine the person who sent the telegram, the individual to whom it was addressed, the man who told the telegrapher about the fact or ru- mor stated, and every une who knew, or was supposed to know, or might have known, or, under the circumstances, ought to have known, anything about it. Then, to test the reliability of these necessary witnesses, Hickman had to inquire about their private affairs, their break- fasts, dinners and suppers, their valets, cham- bermaids and cooks, their houses, lands and horses, and also about the affairs, breakfasts, valets, houses and so forth of every person with whom the witnesses had any. acquaintance. A less able or less conscientious gentleman might have thought this particularity unneces- sary; but*Hickman always does his whole duty, and we verily believe that it was want oftime,and not lack of inclination and ability, which prevent- ed him from summoning to Washington every man, woman and child in the country, making an inventory of the contents of every closet, cupboard, drawer and dusthole of every houge on this continent, and covering himself all over with ink, dirt and glory in writing up the details of his examinations. In the time he had, however, Hickman has done a great deal towards this universal in- vestigation. Consequently his report is as mul- tifarious in its subjects as it is voluminous in its size, and before his overshadowing fame all other investigators will sink into insignifi- cance, As the dim candles die at noon. Why, Hickman has examined Watts, the White House gardener, whose connection with the telegraphic censorship is as remote as that of Dull Run Russell with truth. The results of this examination are so minutely noted that Hickman’s report will become a standard bo- tanical work, and there will be no higher au- thority upon vegetable, market and landscape gardenifig, flowers, herbs and fruits, grass- plots, borders and shrubbery, pots, rakes and rollers. Hickman has examined the White House cooks, and his report will supersede the cook book of Mrs. Glass, and be in every dwelling where roasts, broils and stews, ovens, gtidirons and turnspits, frying pans, kettles and toasting forks are matters of interest. Hickman has examined the White House chambermaids, and especially investi- gated their utensils, in order to report upon mops, brooms and slop.pails. From the White House coachman Hickman has elicited many valuable facts about spavins, glanders and heaves, bits, bridles and bellybands, wheels, whips and whiffletrees, and talks as learnedly about these matters as the judge of a country horse show or a retired stable boy. In short, it is like attempting to detail the nauseous odors of an apothecary shop to describe the subjects treated of in Beau Hickman’s report, which will be accompanied bya table of contents itself as long as the equinoctial line. The art military, however, is fully elucidated in this report, ina style rivalling the “Idees Napoleoniennes,” and the Clievalier Wikoff has had to turn himself inside out, and detail the current conversations of the White House, and reveal all his diplomatic secrets, in order to give eclat to Beau Hickman’s great work. We have received from the Chevalier # full report of his contributions; and really, to pacify the public, we are afraid we will have to forestall Hickman and publish the Chevalier’s part of the miscellaneous report first. Tax Taxation But—Tae Great Dirricunty Auravi—Compared with the Taxation bill, soon to be brought before Congress, all the other financial measures of the government sink into insignificance. This bili, the most important of all, will be the most difficult to adjust properly. One hundred and fifty millions of dollars a year will have to be raised by taxation, in order to pay the intorest upon the government debt and provide the means for carrying on tho war. ‘Tho mode of arranging this immense ta.’ into & aystem, the objects to be taxed, and the m\aner of collecting the revenue, will give rise to more Controversy, discussion and difficulty than gil the other measures combined. Naturally and inevitably every interest of the country will endeavor to escape the tax and put the burthen upon other shoulders, and the complications which will arise from this clashing of interests will be startling and per- plexing. Tho wealthy interest will oppose the laboring interest; the banking and the mining, the manufacturing and the commercial, the business and the corporation, the railroad and the whiskey, the newspaper and the publishing interests will be at variance, and each will . insist upon entire or partial exemption for itself, and double taxation for all the rest. Hence the difflculty of determining upon @ general system satisfactory to all concerned. It .is impossible to satisfy every one, and to attempt to do so in regard to this Taxation bill will make matters’ thousand times worse. It is possible, however, to satisfy the: reasonable majority of interests; and this can-only be dene-by adhering to the principle, ‘which holds good univeraally, .that. taxation must be general, and must be imposed upon'all interests, without one special exception. In taxing newspapers, for instance, endeavors will be made to discriminate petween different classes; but the only fair, just and practicable mode is to serve all alike, and tax them accord- ing to their circulations. This would satisfac- torily dispose of that interest at once; for the papers with large circulations would have the largest tax to pay, and the burthens of small papers would be light. Upon this general principle, which includes all interests, and serves them all alike, the com- mittee of Congress must base their report; and, as the subject will have to be disoussed for some time, in and out of Congress, the sooner the committee report the better. Rioats or Be.ticerents at Sea.—We see © that Mr. Cobden is about to bring under the consideration of the English Parliament the present ill-defined and unsatisfactory state of international and maritime law, as affecting the rights of belligerents. There is no doubt that this question will be warmly taken up by the English liberals, in order to put it out of the power of the tories to get up another excite- ment against this country, based on the capri- clous interpretation of a code which no one very clearly understands, and which England herself only observes as it suits her convenience. Con- tinental publicists, but more particularly M. d@’Hautefeuille, the well known writer on inter- national law, have also taken up the subject, and it is not likely that it will be allowed to drop, until some convention is arrived at be- tween the different governments which will serve to curb the arrogant pretensions of Eng- land. Should this anticipation be verified, the Trent difficulty will have proved a double tri- umph to us. Whilst it has blocked the game of the rebels abroad, it will establish beyond the chance of further controversy the principles of maritime law which this country has always contended for. Tae Revo.orionary Gromeiinas.—The abo- lition journals are still grumbling about Secre- tary Stanton’s order restricting the publication of war news, and are endeavoring to throw ridicule and contempt upon a measure which only the wicked and treasonable folly of such journals as the Tribune, Times, World and Post has rendered necessary. Long ago all the newspapers agreed with General McClellan up- ona certain line of action in regard to the pub- lication of war news, and the departure of the revolutionary abolition journals from their ex- press agreement has provoked the order against which they so bitterly remonstrate. The most amazingly and amusingly impudent feature of this affair is the attempt of the revolutionary nigger organs to represent that Secretary Stan- ton has issued his order in consequence of the Herato’s revelations. We know that the fact is just the reverse; for the Heratp has always strictly adhered to the agreement with General McClellan, and has no changes to make in its news columns. When investigating Hickman’s report is published we shall see what journals made a government censorship of the telegraph necessary, and whose despatches have been suppressed. The Latest European News by the Hi- bernian. RUSSIAN POLAND. ‘Tuorx, Fob. 13, 1862. Archbishop Felinski has arrived at Warsaw. Heyras received by adeputation from the clergy, whom he cordially addressed. In Warsaw the public mind is still much depressed. Serious difficulties are said to be still - ponding between the principal ecolosiastical dignitaries and the Governor. An early oponing of the churches, however, is expected. It is reported that Count Lambert will goon return to his post, and that General Luders will leave Warsaw. ‘ PARIS BOURSE. Paris, Fob. 13—3:30 P. M. The Bourse opened flat, but was firm at the close. Rentes closed at “If. 15c., or 1c. lower than yesterday. INDIA MARKETS, Bomeay, Jan. 27, 1862. Shirtings dull and declining. Mule twist dull and un- changed. Cotton advancing. Copper—Sheathing in fair inquiry, prices stationary; tile dull and ged. Exchange on London, 2s. 54. Freights aivancing. Caxcutta, Jan. 25, 1862. Shirtings doll and declining. Twist dull and un- changed. bis oe advancing; tile dull and ——— indigo active and advancing. Linsoed u| ward. ‘ice dull oighisw-Beeds to Le on Lon. don, 2s. %d. Froighte—Seeds to London, 80s. New Yorx AcApgmy or Mostc.—The gala performances, as they were termed in the bills, drew a full but not over crowded attendance at this house last night. The first appearance of Miss Kellogg in the Lucia naturally at- tracted a good deal of interest, and she certainly did not disappoint the expectations of her admirers. She played the part with the samo high degree of artistic intelli- gence that she displayed in her Violetta, though with less scope, for the display of the dramatic talent which sho possesses she could not, of course, impart to it the samo force and impressiveness. The cavatina and duet with Brignoli in the first act were admirably given, and throughout the opera, in fact, she loft nothing to be de sired, oithor as regards vocal execution or dramatic ac. tion. She was ably supported by Brignoli, whose Fd- gardo is one of his most spirited parts. He was in de- lictous voice, and sung admirably throughout. The Ash- ton of Signor Mancusi a very fine performance, soma” what lacking in spirit, it is true, but still creditable. Botwoon the acts Mr. Gottschalk performed first with Mr. Sanderson the ‘Ojos Criollos,” which we have before ‘80 frequently noticed, and secondly, ® grand fantasia om Italian themes, composed by himself. Both wero exe- cuted with his usual brilliancy and precision, and wore ree encored. ‘another Gottschalk matinee takes place at thie establishment, and on Monday there will be a grand gala hight at. the Brooklyn Academy of Music, when Mr. Gottschalk qill again appear, Tho management has wisely resolved to secure seats without extra charge on this the plan having been found to succeed so well in Now York. New Yore Atimsaum, (LAT® WALLACK'S OLD THEATRE. J— ‘This Gstablishment reopens this evening, under a now management, and with a very excollent company. The ‘moral and religious drama, with ‘ Unclo Tom”? as the,{n. auguratory piece, will, it is calculated, seouro for tt all tho patronage that can be desired. Tha ‘pioca will be brought out with a variety of now oO Jota and auxilia« ties, In tho way of music and tablor.ys, whioh will add |, Vory rauch to its interest