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6 NEWYORK HERALD, WEDN ESDAY, MARCH 5, 1862—TRIPLE SHEET. pec te oo nee ee eevee t-oneme-nopeesteniorsisan caedesv icine aides ribet NEW JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, No. 63 Volume XXVII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—CoLLeun Bawn. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Paut Pay—My Nerou BOK 5 Wik Unche 10m's \ AwIN, WALLACK’S THEATRE, No, 844 Broadway.—Witp Oars LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway,—Tux Ma- cinruy, Oijgrux Peer cr Day, EW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,~Uncuz Tow’s Casin—My bkhow Cinna. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sticxner’s Nationa: Cimcvs. 4 : NEW YORK ATHENUM, Broadway.—Uneus Tox's Can : Com 1D Bee "Broadway Cy at all wifage cs’ Hall, 472 Broad- S BARNUM’S AMERICA Nort—Livine Hirrorora: Bapak AND KALANany, afi ‘ANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mech Ww Roast Bese. ‘STRELS, 8: sant Institute, No. 63) sortan Songs, Dances, So. MELODEON CONCERT HALL, $39 Broadway.—Soxcs, Danbrs, Bouixsques, &¢.—Uonvicr Lis ON BuscKWELL*. CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Sovas, Dances, BURLESQUES, AC—O'FL\NNIGAN AT THE F Aik, GATETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawixa Room Enreutainwents, Bawuets, Pantomuces, Farces, &0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 414 Broadway.—Sonas, Bas- untt, Paxtomimes, &0.—KOcuR? Micat ox, CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery.— Buntesques, Songs, Dancus, &¢.—i' so CLowns. PARISIAN CARINET OF WONDERS 563 wis Cpen daily trom 10 A. M. til P.M ions Broadway. NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bunixsques Eones, Dances, &c. TRIPLE New York, Wednesday, March 5, 1862. THE SITUATION. Our reports from Washington last night repre- sent everything in the vicinity of the Potomac in a state of perfect quietude. Gen. McClellan has addressed to the army most touching and complimentary general order on the death of Brigadier General Lander, which we publish to-day: He recites all the brilliant deeds of the gallant dead, and announces in his demise the loss of a true and valued friend, a3 well as a soldier whose services to his country cannot be well spared. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Senator Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, as Brigadier Gene- eral, yesterday, at the nomination of the President, and the Senator at once proceeded to organize a provisional government for Tennessee, over which he is to preside as Military Governor until a regular civil government is organized. Tnstructions are in preparation in the Post Office and Treasury Departments to open postal and trade facilities in Tennessee as soon as possible, measures which the evacuation of Nashville and the strong Union sentiment prevailing on the Cum- berland and Tennessee rivers render desirable, but no orders have been yet issued as to that measure. The names of the following officers were nomi- nated to the Senate yesterday for promotion for merit:—Generals Buell, McDowell, Grant, McCler- nand, Curtis and C. F. Smith. The boat which arrived at Fortress Monroe on Monday brought neither news nor Union prison- ers. The arrival of our captured officers and soldiers, therefore, remains in uncertainty. In evacuating Columbus, Ky., it has posi- tively been ascertained that the rebels destroyed the town, demolishing everything which they could not carry off. The gunboat Benton, with General C.llum and Com. Foote on board, went down there on Monday, and found many of the guns removed and the town laid in ashes. They report that the guns from the island below, which they had fortified, were alzo removed. It was thought that the rebels had retreated to Fort Randolph. The Navy Department received an official despatch upon the subject from Com. Foote yesterda: ing that a large number of guns and cat with considerable quantity of ammunition, shot, shell, anchors, and torpedoes, fell into our hands. He represents the fortifications to be of great strength, consisting of formidable batterics on the water side, with a deep ditch and abattis on the land side. We publish to-day a map of the U: British Possessions and Mexico, s] and white’’ the portions of the rebel States stily outside the Union, and the States which acknow- ledge the supremacy of the government. The map sets forth not only the ‘loyal States, but very distinctly those portions of the rebel States where the dominion of treason has succumbed to the force of the Union army and navy. The fron- tiers of Canada, with all the fortifications known to us along the line, are also given, and the entire of Mexico, now in a state of war with foreign Powers, thus presenting as a whole the North American continent, which now occupies so much of the world's attention. It said that the rebel prisoner, General Buckner, while in Albany on his route to Fort Warren, stated that the battle of Bull run was a most disas- trous affair for the rebels but a very fortunate cir- cumstance for the North, inasmuch as it lulled the rebels into a false security and inspired them with a blind confidence, while it necessarily exasperated the Union troops, fe complained bitterly at the same time of the apathy of the Southern people. The news from the South to-day is not without importance. Our Richmond Dispatch of the 28th ult. etates that the people of Augusta, Ga., are taking vigo- rous measures to obstruct the river below their city with torpedoes, to blow up our gunboats, should they succeed in passing the Savannah bai- teries, The condition of the cities of Richmond and Pe- tersburg is most unenviable, judging from the fact that a number of robberies and midnight assassi- nations are reported in the papers, some of which state that these crimes are of frequent occurrence, and are occasioned in many instances by poverty, while it is alleged on the other hand that they are the result of a loose administration of the munict- pal laws. By the Norwegian at Portland we have news from Burope five days later than that received by the Arabia. American affairs were still debated in the Eng ited States, the owing ‘in black | YORK HERALD, | Partiament. ms. Bright made an energetic speech in condemnation of the outlay, added to the naval estimates, incurred by the policy which terminated in the surrender of Mason and Slidell: Mr. Bright evidently thinks, as a commercial liberal, that the game was not worth the cost charged to the British people. Lord Palmerston defended the course pursued by his Cabinet. Earl Russell acknowledges himself satisfied with the operation of the Union government in sinking the stone fleet off Charleston harbor. He says the measure was merely an aid to the blockade and was not intended to be permanent. Indeed he says that Charleston harbor could not be obliterated by artificial means, a$ the water will force an opening in another channel, and that Napoleon agrees with him in the opinion, : Lord Palmerston is confident that a vast deal of excellent cotton may be had from Africa if the at- tention of the natives on the coast can be directed to legitimate trade. He gives the United States government full credit for its honest endeavors to aid in the suppression of the slave trade, previous to the breaking out of the rebellion, and says he is confident they will be resumed when the war is over, The case of Mr. Shaver, another Englishman ar- rested in this country by government order, was noticed in the House of Lords. All the English gunboats made ready at Sheer- ness during the “war with America’? excitement are to be dismantled. Insurances are effected in Liverpool on British vessels chartered to “run the blockade,” the char- ter party selecting his port of entry. The rates are from ten to fifteen guineas. There is a batch of royal candidates—from Aus- tria, Spain and Belgium—for the throne of Mexico. It is also said that General Prim, of the Spanish army, in imitation of Iturbide when commissioned by Spain, may appropriate it to himself. A royal Aztec, descended from “a race of kings,’ now living in Mexico, will also claim the crown by vir- tue of hereditary right. He is engaged in teaching a grammar school in one of the provinces of the republic, and his name (translated into English) is “Smoking Buckler.” Our Paris correspondent states that the pre- sumed Union mission which some persons attached to the visit of Archbishop Hughes to Paris has injured the cause of our government scriously in the mind of Napoleon. In fact, he asserts that the Ultramontane Society, which was gathered around the Archbishop, after his landing under the guise of anamateur Union diplomat, induced the hostile tone assumed by many of the leading jour- nals of Paris towards us soon afterwards. Another Paris correspondent repeats his warn- ing that the Emperor is the enemy of the Union cause, and that he will show it after he has tho- roughly humbled England in Mexico. General de Montaudon, of the French army, has been appointed to the command of the sub- division of the Moselle, in the room of General Count de Lorencey, who has taken the command of the additional expeditionary comps which is to be sent by the Emperor to Mexico. In addition to the naval expedition to Mexico, the French government, it is said, contemplates sending one, though on a smaller scale, to Buenos Ayres. A Spanish paper now demands a demonstration against Peru by the Queen. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a memorial from mer- chants and others, of New York, doing business on the Pacific coast, asking Congress to provide immediately for the transportation of the mails between New York and San Francisco, via Aspin- wall and Panama, was presented and referred. A joint resolution to appeint Henry Barnard, of Con. necticut, a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to fill the vacancy occa- Sioned by the death of Professor Felton, was re- ferred to the Library Committee. The House bill adding an additional article to the Articles of War was reported by the Military Committee. The bill providing for the safe keeping and maintenance of United States prisoners was passed. The Dill authorizing the President to appoint a Commissioner to confer with British and Freach Commissioners, to take measures for the preservation of the Atlantic fisheries, was passed. A resolution that the presents from the King of Siam be kept among the curiosities of the Department of the Interior was adopted. A Dill providing for the codification and revision of the laws of the Disttict of Columbia was reported. The Confiscation bill was taken up, and Mr. McDou- gall, of California, concluded his speech in oppo- sition to it. Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania, also spoke against the bill. The Conference Committee on the bill relative to paying certain Western rail- roads for transporting troops made a report, which was agreed to. The Senate then went into executive session, and afterwards adjourned, In the House of Representatives, the Pennsylva- nia contested election case was taken up, and Mr. Verree, the sitting member, declared entitled to hia seat. The Senate’s amendments to the bill pro- viding additional clerks to the New York Assist- ant Treasurer's office, and for the appointment of a Deputy Assistant Treasurer, were agreed to: The select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Line reported a bill, which was referred and ordered to be printed. The resolutivn relative to government contracts was taken up, and Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, mado speech ia ¢ of General Fremont. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Arabia arrived at this port from Halifax yesterday, with our European. files and correspond- ence to the 15th of February. Some very inte- resting details of her news—English, Continental and Eastern—will be found in the Heraup this morning. The Bremen arrived at this port from South- ampton last night. She brings our files of the 19th ultimo. The Norwegian, from Liverpool on the 20th, and Londonderry the 2ist ult., arrived at Portland yesterday morning. Her news is five days later than that received by the Arabia; but the advices are not of much interest. Consols closed in London on the 21st ult. at 92% 4 93 for money. American stocks were without material change, Breadstuffs experienced a slight decline in Liverpool on the cist ult., and were looking downward. Provisions were qniet and steady. Cotton closed firm, after advancing from one-eighth to one-quarter of a penny during the week. It was hoped that the Galway Steamship Com- pany would still obtain the Atlantic mail subsidy from the English government. The now Italian loan was announced on the London Stock Ex- change. It amounts to $8,910,000. It is now said that Napoleon has assured the Pope that the French troops will not leave Rowe. The digision between Adstria and Prussia was widening daily. Jt is said that Prince Napoleon will explain the Italian policy of the empire in the Senate of France, We publish @ full report of the great English prize fight between Joe Goss and Bill Ryall in an- other column, In the State Senate yesterday the General Rail- road law received a favorable report. The New York and Brooklyn Steam Boiler Inspection bil! was reported adversely from the committe, and the report was agreed to. The Metropolitan Cab Company bill also received an unfavorable report; but the report was laid on the table. The bill pro. viding for the distribution of soldiers’ allotments was ordered toa third reading. The bill enforcing the responsibility of stockholders in banking asso- ciations was the subject of a discussion in Commit- tee of the Whole, after which, progress was re- ported onit. A bili was introduced authorizing the New York Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to sell certaim lands. In the Assembly the Annual Appropriation -bill occupied a considerable por- tion of the se: w, Considerable discussion was had and several amendmehts proposed, when pro- gress was reported and the subject laid over. The bill for the protection of wild game was passed; also that relative to the trial of offences against joint stock companies. The Speaker announced the select committee of five on the Excise and Pro- hibition bill. Consent was asked, but refused, to bring in a bill legalizing the primary elections. By a vote of the House, the Comptroller was re- quested to send a messenger to Washington to pro- cure a copy of the expenditures by the State Mili- tary Board under the Three Million bill of last ses- sion, the accounts having been transmitted to the War Department. The rebel Congress some days ago passed a law appropriating two millions of dollars for the bene- fit of Kentucky. We hope the provisions of the Dill will be carried out, and that the money will be spent forthe relief of those Union men who have been robbed by the rebels, and whose homes have been made desolate by the brutal invaders from Texas and Arkansas. If the two millions mean Confederate shinplastors, however, they might as well keep it; for the whole amount would not buy a bushel of corn north of the Tennessee line. Some of the runaway members of’ the Tennessee rebel Legislature got together in the City Hall in Memphis on the 21st ult., but could not transact any business for the want of a quorum. Genera, Buell is after the whole party. The rebel provisional government of Kentucky, which is Jocated in some part of Tennessee, con- sists of a Governor and Council, the latter having the power to fill all yacancies, and, in connection with the Executive, to appoint all officers. The name of the Governor is George W. Johnson; but who compose the Council is not generally known. The following table exhibits the number of slaves in each of the slaveholding States, according to the census of 1860; the number of slaveholders, and the average number held by each owner, leaving out the fractions:— Number of Stare. Average to States. Slaws. holders. each Owner. + 436,473 29,295 5 109,065 6,999 18 805 899 2 3,520 18 38,450 12 38,385 6 600 15 16,040 5 23,116 20 19,185 6 +303 11 25,596 6 33,864 8 1,147 4 k 9 347,525 —The average of the aggregate is eleven anda half to each owner. The average of the whole number in the eleven seceded States is thirteen and one-sixth to each holder, while in the non-seceded slave States the average is but five and three-quar- ters. We are a little curious to know what has become of the three or four daily papers that were pub- lished in Nashville. The Union, which was former- ly democratic ; the Banner and the Patriot, both of the Bell and Everett party, were all extensive concerns and had seen days of prosperity; but they tumbied into the slough of secessionism, and have probably disappeared. ‘0 The Democratic State Convention of Michigan will meet to-day in Detroit, for the purpose of nominating candidates for State officers. The ice of the Central Park having been thoroughly planed on Monday, was as thoroughly cleansed the same evening by the heavy fall of rain. A cold spell following the rain, caused a fine, clear surface to gather over the ice, and if the weather should not change, the best skating of the whole season will be found to-day. During the morning the ice will be in the best order; but if the rays of the sun should not be too ardent, the skating will not be very bad in the afternoon, The.Twelfth annual commencement of the New York Medical College and Charity Wospital took place last evening in the lecture room of the col- lege, in Thirteenth street. The degree of M.D. was conferred on a number of young gentlemen, and the exercises were very interesting. The New York Homeopathic Medical College had its second annual commencemen! yesterday afternoon, in the Historical Society building, Second avenue and Eleventh street. The cere- monies consisted of music, addresses and the conferring of the degrees on the graduates. A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors was held yesterday, Elijah F. Purdy, President, in the chair. A special committce of three was ap- pointed to devise some method to relieve the city of the annual charge of the Sheriff's term fees. On motion of the President the amount of the asseseed taxes on the Atlantic Bank was reduced to $300,- 000. The Board then adjourned until Tuesday next, the 11th inst. The trial of Captain Millett, of the ship Saracen, charged with shooting a sailor named John Dillon, while on the voyage from Cardiff to Hong Kong, was concluded yesterday in the United States Cir- cuit Court, before Judge Shipman, and resulted in averdict of acquittal. The Judge said he approved the verdict, and the accused was thereupon dis- charged. ‘The cace of a fraudulent bill of lading was spoken esterday in the street. It seems that a party saved a bill of exchange on Loudon for several wwadred pounds sterling, and pledged a bill of lading, which purported to have been signed inthe usual form by the captain of a vessel loading for Europe. The holder of the bill of lading, before sending it, with advices of having advanced on it by selling the party o bill of exchange, went to the agents or owners of the vessel in which it was alledged that the flour had been shipped, and exljbited the bill of lading and asked if it was genuine, when the firm pro” nounced ita fraud; that no such parcel of flour had been putin the vessel, and that the captain had signed no such bill of lading. The occurrence gave rise to a good deal of conversation in the street and on ’Change, and more or less anxiety was created by the discovery, from the fear that this act of fraud might be only one case out of a number of others perpetrated by the samo party or his associates. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 424 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase of 24 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 21 more than occurred during’ the corresponding week last year, The recapitulation table gives 10 deaths of alcohol- jam, 94 of diseases of the brain and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 8 of the heart and blood vessels, 140 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 9 of old age, 67 of diseases of the ekin and eruptive feyors, 7 premature Wists, 41 of digeases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 33 of general fevers, 5 of diseases of the urinary organs, 1 unknown, and 17 from violent causes. There were 299 natives of the United States, 11 of England, 81 of Ireland, 21 of Germany, 4 of Scotland, and the balance of various foreign coun- ye yer market yesterday was more active, with abotter demand from the trade generally, including spinners, while prices closed at an advance of lc. per 1b. The salos footed about 1,800 bales, closing on the basisof 25c. por lb. Flour was in fair demand, some grades wore rather easier, while prices for mos* descriptions were about the same, Wheat was unchanged; and gales moderate. Corn sold to a fair extent at 600. a G2cfor Wostern mixed, in store, and delivered, Pork was less buoyant and active, while sales of now mess were made at $14 25 &$14 3734, and new prime at $1075 a $11, Whiskey, int consequence of the proposed excise tax of 15c. per gal- Jon, took another jump, and with freo sales, closed a- 8lc, @ 32c, per gallon, Freights were rather firmer, with a fair amount of engagements. Sugars were firm and ac tive, withrsales of 2,150 hhds. at full prices. The Messra. Stuart’s quotations, for their refined goods, will be found in another ‘column, The Sinews of War—The ported to Congress. We published yesterday an abstract of the Tax bill reported to Congress by the Committee of Ways and Means. This is the most vital measure of the session, the basis of the finances by which the war for the Union is to be sus- tained. ‘Without it the gigantic military and naval organizations would soon collapse, and the secession of the slave States must be al- lowed to go by default. In its main features the bill is what we have recommended—a tax upon every species of property, except land, upon which we suppose a separate tax is to be imposed by another bill, upon every article of consumption, and upon every descrip- tion of income over $600. We do not, with our present information of the contents of the bill, endorse all its provisions. Before pro- nouncing an opinion upon the details, we shalt wait till we see the whole bill, which is very voluminous, extending to one thousand pages. It is evidently a very comprehensive x Bill Re- measure, as it ought to be; but it is possible |. that an improvement might be made in various items—that the tax on some might be increased, and the tax on others reduced with advantage- For instance, fifteen per cent on spirituous liquors manufactured in this country may on consideration be found entirely too small, and the same may be said of leaf tobacco, ten per cent on segars, and three per cent on articles which ought to be taxed highly, as being luxuries, and not necessaries of life. The true principle of taxation is that every man should pay for the defence of the nation in proportion to his stake in the com- munity. Under European governments the poor are too often taxed equally with the rich, and some times more. For instance, if the same specific tax, say twenty cents per pound, is im- posed on tea worth half a dollar per pound and tea worth a dollar, the rich man, who will, of course, purchase the high priced tea, only pays half as much as the poor man in proportion to the expenditure of each upon that article. ‘The poor man will consume as great a quantity of tea.as the rich; but he cannot afford to pay the price for the superior article. The ad valo- rem per cent principle is therefore the fair one, and it ought to be applied to the whole schedule of taxation. The tax on newspapers, for example, ought to be so much per copy, to be collected in the formof stamps. This would show which paper had the highest circula- tion, and in which it would be for the public interest to advertise. The committee seem to have adopted instead of this a general tax upon all printing paper, including that for books, and pamphlets, and bank notes, as well as that on which newspapers are printed. As far as the receipt of revenue is concerned, that mode will be as productive as the other, and equally fair to all classes of journals in regard to the equal distribution of the burden; but it isnot equally fair to the public, inasmuch as it leaves the cir- culation undetermined. There is, however, an- other way to arrive at that point, and that is the tax on advertisements and on income. As we have said, the general principle of the bill is good, and most of its‘ de- tails are all right. But the mode of collec- tion, if we rightly understand it, is highly objectionable, and that feature of the bill ought to be altered in the House. The bill provides that the President shall appoint a Commissioner of Intergal Revenue, with a sala- ry of $5,000 per annum, his office to be in the Treasury Department, with a suitable number of clerks. This is unobjectionable. But not so the further provision that the country is to be divided into convenient collection districts, with an assessor and collector appointed by the President for each district, who shall have power to appoint such deputieS as may be needed. Now this will alarm the people, who will be sure to regard it asa political engine, like the custom house, to say nothing of the enormous cost to the country. Such a swarm of taxgatherers would swallow up half the amount of their collection; and, considering the politicians who would probably be appoint- ed, there would be every danger of embezzle- ment of the public money. The true course is to let the different States collect it by the same machinery by which their own taxes are col- lected. This arrangement would scarcely add anything to their expense for collecting ‘their own taxes, certainly not more than five per cent, which might be allowed them by Con- gress, whilo it would save the money raised by the people from being devoured by political harpies and cormorants. It is estimated that a tax of two hundred mil- lions will be required, besides fifty millions expected from the tariff—two hundred and fifty millions in all. Whether the bill will produce the amount required cannot now be accurately determined, as such taxation is a new experi- ment in this country. But at the end of a year the schedule can be regulated by the experi- ence of the past. There can be no doubt that the country is able and willing to bear what- ever burthens are necessary for the sustain- ment of the war. It is better able than ever England was in her most palmy days. Her war taxes have far exceeded the present pro- gramme. Indeed, her present peace tax is far ahead of that now proposed as the financial basis for one of the most gigantic wars on re- cord. A year ago the taxes for the British government, on a péace fvoting, amounted to three hundred and eighty millions of dol- lars ($380,000,000). Our resources are far greater than those of the little Islands called Great Britain and Ireland. The capabilities of the republic were tested in improvising in a few months an army of 700,000 men, equallingnot only in valor and endurance, but in inilitary skill, any veteran troopsin Europe. By tue creation in the same brief time ofa navy which of Europe, by maintaining an effective blockade of coast measuring three thousand miles, we have further demonstrated our ability to cope with one of the most formidable difficulties pre- sented by the rebellion. It only remains for us to prove the capabilities of the national purse. We must show the world that we are able not only to raise armies and to calla navy into existence, but to pay the necessary ex- pensea. The property of the nation is estimated in the census of 1860 at sixteen thousand mil- lions of dollars. Upon this the tax proposed is only a small per centage, which can be easily paid without being even felt.by the simple plan of a retrenchment in our household and personal expenses. There is more money an. nually wasted than the amount of the whole tax. A little domestic economy would enable us to pay it twice over without being one dollar the poorer at the end of the year. The practice of economy is a national virtue which we have but little cultivated, and an effectual lesson in it would be cheap even at two hundred millions of dollars. There is another important benefit likely to arise from the tax, and that is a spirit of vigilance on the part of the people, who will henceforth take a greater interest in the duty of self-government, be more alert against corruption, and more careful as to the kind of men they send to Con- gress to dispose of the public money. Let, then, a heavy and comprehensive tax be laid on at once. It will be the cheapest course in the end, and nothing short of this will bring the country through its troubles or save the national credit, which has hitherto stood so high among the nations of the world. Ong Means or Raistno Revenve.—In the Tax bill it is proposed to tax gas twenty-five cents per one thousand feet. From returns which have reached us from twenty cities, and which we give in tabular form, it will be seen that from the gas consumed by these cities alone the government will derive a revenue of over six hundred thousand dollars:— PRINCIPAL LOYAL CITIES. Cities. Annual Consum; $288,830 108,000 50,000 40,750 1000 18,625 16,250 13,680 000, 13,000 San Francise: 50,000,000 12,500 Providence 41,000,000 10,250 Newark. . 40,500,000 10,125 Albany. 40,000,000 10,000 Buffalo. 40,000,000 10,000 Louisville. 34,000,000 8,500 Washington 30,000,000 7,500 Rochester. . 25,000,000 6,250 Cleveland . 20,000, 6,000 Detroit. . 5,000 Milwaukee 4,750 Total...... $663,010 Now, when we add to this sum the revenue from the gas consumption of other cities, and of towns and villages, and from Southern cities, which will be required to pay taxes as they are brought back into the Union, it is evident that . from this one source the government will receive a yearly revenue of over a million of dollars; and this tax is, as it should be, so equally dis- tributed that no one man will feel the additional burthen imposed upon him for the support of the government. Tae Feevine Zowarps THE Unirep States 1N Exotaxp axp Fraxce—The European news’ which we publish this morning indicates a very satisfactory state of fecling towards this coun- try in England and France. The speech of Mr. Bright in the House of Commons, censuring the government for its threatening action in the affair of the Trent, shows the current of public opinion to be running strongly in our favor. He told the ministry that the money expended in naval and military preparations had been worse than thrown away; that the menaces of the government were quite uncalled for, and that Lord Rusgell’s despatch read more like a declaration of war than a courteous demand for a jnst object, which America could not fail to comply with. He at the same time took the opportunity of correcting the idea that this country was ruled by a mob, and argued that the interests of England and the United States were so bound up that it was in every respect inadvisable to inflict a sting which it might take centuries to remove. The reply of Earl Russell to some inquiries respecting the imprisonment of British subjects shows that there is now a more perfect understanding of our rights at the other side, and no disposition whatever to provoke hostilities. The allusion in the address of the French Senate to the Em- peror is not without importance, as denoting the feeling towards us in that country—that of the government and the people being nearly iden- tical. It proves to us@hat France entertains no designs to interfere in any way with our domestic quarrel, and that she wishes speedy success to the Union arms. We may therefore congratulate ourselves on the sdtisfactory state of our foreign relations, and, with certain vic- tory before us, complete the restoration of the Union without any dread of external foes. Tux Proposep Destruction or tue Cotron aNxpD Tosacco Crops—Many of the Southern journals are just now calling upon the planters to burn their cotton and tobacco, as a measure of, expediency, in view of the near approach of the Northern hosts, and calls have been circulated among them to the same effect. We find, however, that most of the names appended to the latter are those of filibusters and others who have a des- perate stake in the rebellion, and whose only chance of escape from the penalties which they have incurred is in the success of the cause in which they have identified themselves as ring- leaders. Those are the men who have got the people of the South into their present trouble, and now, as a dernier resort, thoy advise the wanton destruction of two hundred and fifty millions worth of property. But we are greatly mistaken if the Southern people by this time do not know better than to trust any longer to the guidance of the authors of the overwhelming difficulties which surround them. A few of the more fanatical of these arch-conspirators may destroy their cotton and tobacco; but we vory much question if they will find many to follow their silly example. They find their own tails in the trap, and, on the principle that it is cheerful to have companions in misery, they want to get as many other tails in the trap with them as they can. But the bait will not succeed. The Union sentiment at the South is developing and asserting itself more and more every day, and the people generally are beginning to feel that they made a grand mistake in ever listening to the demagoguos who now wish them to com- Ploto thoir ruin by an outragequa conflagration. We publish to-day a skeleton map of the United States, in order to show at a glance the comparative area of the loyal and rebellious divisions of the Union. From this map it will be seen that in territory, as in poptilation, and in all the means, ap- Pliances and facilities for war, the superiority of the loyal division of the country over the Sao fully bears out the proportion of four one. In 8 military point of view it will next be observed, since the expulsion of the rebel forces from Kentucky, our succesaful invasion of Arkansas and our military occupation of Tennessee, that our rebellious States extend along in a single line from Virginia to Texas, exposed alike on the seaboard and along their northern boundary to the hazards of an over- whelming invasion. In other words, every one of our rebellious States now being ex- posed to our naval. ‘éxpeditions on one flank, and our land forces on the other, is called upon, against all demands from its confederates, first to look after its own defences on bothsides. The loss of Tennessee” to the rebels it will next be seen, on referring to our map, is an irreparable loss; for while Tennessee was held by them she stood a pro- tecting barrier on the northwest and north to North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, all of which States now on their land side are menaced by the immediate pre- sence of our armies. What hope, then, is there to veff. Davis, with his usurped authority reduced to this single tier of rebellious States, compressed between our naval forces on the one side and our land forces on the other side? What system of do- fences will avail to protect this long line of exposed States, or any one of them, against our overwhelming forces on both sides? The rebel managers at Richmond, with their eyes some- what opened to their desperatesituation, are discussing various expedients. One is a prac- tical commander-in-chief ,of all their forces, am idea which they have derived from the success- ful combinations of our fleets and armies under the comprehensive supervision of General Me- Clellan. We presume, therefore, that they wil, appoint a practical general-in-chief of their. forces, and we dare say that Beauregard will be their man, and that his first headquarters in this new capacity will be in the camp at Ma- nassas. In fact, it is altogether probable that he is even now directing the movements of all the rebel camps along the whole line of the Po- tomac. It is next proposed, by a learned tactician at Richmond, that the “so-called Confederate States,” as Earl Russell styles them, shall abandon the guerrilla system of warfare, which has so deplorably fallen short of their expecta- tions, and try the other system of immense masses of troops and great battles. For the sake of all parties concerned, it is to be hoped that the rebel managers will adopt this plan, and that they will try their first ex- periment of a great battle on the Pdétomao. Since their late disasters in the West, we have been apprehensive that if General McClellan were not very quick in his movements he would march upon Manassas only to discover that that desirable flock of secession pigeons had slipped out of the net which he has been so carefully set. ting to catch them. But our opinion now inclines to a great battle. We think it quite possible, in this view, that some of the rebel forces from Bowling Green, Nashville, Knoxville, North Carolina, and from Yorktown and thereabouts, have been hurried up to Manassas, and that the rebel batteries on the lower Potomac have also been levied upon for reinforcements to the im- mediate right wing of the Manassas rebel army. We dare say, however, thut if any such movements have been and’ are going on te strengthen tho great rebel camp of the Potomag, General McClellan has taken good care to be informed of them, and that, in any event, the movement of ‘our army “onward to Richmond” will, this time, find its most serious impediments in the wrecks, broken bridges and obstructed roads of a routed rebel army. Quick Ficutixa iy Missourt.—By despatches from General Halleck ‘we have information of seven brilliant skirmishes in Missouri and Ar- kansas in thirteen days. On the 14th of Fe- bruary it was announced that Springfield was occupied by our forces, and that the enemy, after a short engagement, had retreated. On the 18th the flag of the Union floated in Arkan- sas, and General Curtis was cutting up Price’s army and capturing prisoners and stores. On the 20th, Price, reinforced by McCulloch, made a stand at Sugar creek, was soundly whip- ped and again fled. On the 21st General Curtis captured Bentonville, Ark.,and the rebel stores gathered there. On the 25th Price’s army had been driven from its stronghold in Cross Hol- lows, and the rebels again took to their heels, burning their barracks and leaving their sick and wounded and army stores. On the 26th Colonel Wood’s detachment drove the rebels out of Dent, Texas and Howell counties; and on the 27th General Curtis had taken possession of Fayetteville, Ark., capturing a number of prisoners and driving out the enemy in great confusion. This is a bright list of exploits, of which General Halleck and General McClellan under whose direction these movements have been accomplished, may well feel proud. Union soldiers, under able and experienced Union officers, are irresistible. GeyeraL Fremont’s Derexce.—The Tribune yesterday, for the first time in its his tory, astonished its readers with an extra sheet; and this extraordinary bit of enter- prise was for the especial benefit of Greeley’s pet General—Fremont. Fremont’s defence of his expensive and disastrous term of office, as the head of the sjlitary Department of Missouri, makes up the difference between the ordinary and this extraordinary issue of the Tribune. We know nothing of the financial con- sequences of this experiment; but if Greeley has lost money by it he doubtless expects, im the long run, to indemnify himself and his radi- cal faction out of Fremont as a political party speculation. As for Fremont’s defence of bis military campaign in Missouri, although an able and ingenious vindication of his conduct, it fails to satisfy us that his expensive fortifica- tions around St. Louis were necessary, or that his costly retinue of aids, musicians and at- taches of all sorts were indispensable to the defence of Missouri, or that it was beyond his power to strengthen Lyon at Spring- field, and Mulligan at Lexington. We shall know more when the evidence on both sides, and a military judgment thereon, shall have been rendered in. For the prosont, a tho only thing in which General Fremont ox-.