The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1862, Page 4

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Danexs, Buriusavus, £0.—0'FLNNIGAN At Ts Fan GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broad: 1] WING Room ENTRETAINMENTS, BALLETS, FaNTOMIM=a Famers, be, | AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Sonas, Bau- Luts, Pawtomiuxs, &¢.~HKouxRt Macarux. % CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery, — Burresques, Sonas, Dances, 40.—Two ee PARISIAN CABINET OF WOND! - Open daily rom WAMU ee NOVELTY MUSIC as) i aan = HALL, Broadway.—Buaesqves New York, Thursday, March 6, 1962. THE SITUATION. The success of the right wing of our army on the Upper Potomac is complete. A despatch from Charlcatown—General Banks’ headquarters—last night informs us that Leetown «2d Lovettsville are now added to the points held by the Union troops. Not less than $20,000 worth of provisions and forage has been captured from the rebels since our army crossed the Potomac. Another brilliant event on Tuesday night added fresh eclat to the movement* of this portion of the grand army. A squadron of the First Michigan cavalry advanced as fa as Berryville, on the Win- chester turnpike, and there lying in ambush sur- prised a party of the rebel cavalry, routing them, killing three, and capturing nine horses as trophies, without the loss ofa man. One of the horses was Fecognized as the celebrated black steed rode by Colonel Ashley. General Shields passed through Chariestown on Tuesday, on his way to take com- mand of the late General Lander’s brigade. Advices from the Lower Potomac yesterday state.positively that the rebels are concentrating in large force opposite General Hooker's division. It is believed in Washington that their forces on the Potomac have been: greatly increased since the late victories of our armies in Tennessee, Ken- tucky and Missouri, as though the rebel leaders Were now convinced that their last grand stand must be made on the Potomac, where their most powerful strongholds and the pick and choice of their army are located. The Union sentiment in Richmond appears to be growing too strong for the comfort of the rebcl shiefs. It will be remembered that Jeff. Davis pro- tlaimod martial law in Norfolk and Portsmouth a Jew days ago, and on Saturday last a proclamation put Richmond also under military rule. John Minor Botts and twenty other leading citizens have been arrested and imprisoned on charges of be‘ng con- nected with a Union conspiracy. The streets of Richmond are placarded with calis upon tie Union mec to watch and wait, that the day is dawing, and proclaiming ‘‘The Union forever.’ The Rich- mond Dispatch advocates the execution of the con- spirators. A great panic prevails in the city, consequent upon the late defeats of the rebel arms. Our news from Tennessee is highly cheerful, Nashville remains perfectly tranquil under the gentle rule of General Buell, whose headquarters are at Edgefield, across the river. The people are agreeably surprised at the moderation of our troops. The Mayor had formally surrendered the city to General Buell, and issued a proclamation to the citizens requesting that business be re- sumed, assuring them of the protection of Gen. Buell, announcing that the elections will take place on the regular day, and inviting the country people to bring in their produce as usual. An agent of the Post Office Department had arrived from Washington, and will open the Nashville Post Oiiice to-day. He has had forty applications for clerkships already. Colonel Corcoran and Colonel Wilcox and a amber of other Union prisoners just released arrived at Richmond on Friday last from Colum- bia, 8. C., en route for Fortress Monroe. During their passage through Petersburg, Va., quite a sensation was created in the city from the fact that Colonel Corcoran met some old friends there, by whom he was cordially received, and in whose company be walked through the streets, and visited some houses and stores. The good people of Petersburg became alarmed, and the gentle- man who chaperoned the New York Colonel, and | who, it appeared, gave him a letter to some friend hore, was arrested and brought before the Mayor; | but he accounted for himgelf satisfactorily, as did | Colonel Corcoran, who wes also sent for, and pro- duced the harmless letter of which he was the bearer. The Petersburg Virginian gives a fal account of this episode in the transit of the Uni Officers in an article which we publish to-day, The Memphis Appeal hasa despatch from Clarks. | ville, Arkansas, dated Febroary 25, a point con siderably farther down than Fayctteville, an- Bouncing the approach of our troops, 59,000 strong, toward that place, and aaticipating a des- | Perate campaign in that section of country. Ar- | kansas is thus being rapidly added to the re- Geemed States; and we fancy that as Genera Curtis advances he will find the resistance offered | by Price and McCulloch growing less and less. We have further details of the evacuation of Co” fambus. The rebel garrison there amounted to 19,000 men, who fled on transports and on the railroad. They destroyed the track and bridges for oix miles in their fight. Their destination is net positively known. {By the arrival of the transport Ericsson, from Port Rope pootecdag, 70 borg recived gage ippostant | news from Savannah. The citizensthere are in such a state of terrorat the ne: proach of our troops, who were within seven miles of Savannah, that they are sending their property and their slaves into the interior. Hundreds of people have already fled, and hundreds more are about to follow. It was said that the rebels had concentrated a force of about sixty thousand men under Generals Jack- son, Walker and Lawton, between Savannah and Skidaway, where they were hourly expecting to be attacked. Obstructions had been placed in the river opposite Fort Jackson, to intercept our gunboats, while several heavy guns are planted on both sides of the river. The rebel navy at Savannah amounts to three small gunboats, mounting two guns each. Governor Brown has issued a call- for 15,000 more troops, which, if not responded to, will be followed by an order for drafting from the population. These interesting facts we learn from a refugee from Savannah, a passenger on board the Ericsson. The Savannah News of the 28th ult. says that our gunboats have becn very active for the previous forty-eight hours, and adds that “last evening all had departed from the Carolina side except three in Mud river, which have not changed their positions for weeks past. Probably we shall hear of the former in the course of a day or two. In the meantime it would be well to keep a sharp lookout at all points on our coast.’? Our special correspondence from Key West, of the date of February 23, will be found to-day full of interest, detailing, as it does, all the operations onthe Gulf coast for some time past. General Brannan, Commander of the military district of Florida, had arrived. Several rebel vessels, laden with valuable cargoes of cotton, had been captured by our gunboats. By the Canoda, at Halifax, we learn that The O'Donogtue, M. P., brought forward his motion relative to the violation of the blockade and the neutrality proclamation of the Queen, by British vessels running from the rebel ports to Nassau, N. P., and other West Indian harbors, on the 20th ultimo. He moved Yor a return of the names of these vessels, their commanders and owners. Mr. Layard, for the government, said he wouid not then discuss the blockade, as notice haf been given referring toa “solution” of it. He declined to accede to the motion, and ref.:sed the information asked for for two reasons:—The government had not obtained it, and it was not the office of Ministers to produce lists of violators of the law. Sir Robert Peel, Chief Secretary of Ireland, took oceasion to illustrate the contented condition and loyal feeling of Ireland to the crown, by stating that during the late agitation towards a war with the United States Ireland was filled with American emissaries trying to raise ap a spirit of disloyalty, and ‘‘minikin traitors” tried to imitate the “Cabbage Garden heroes of 48,” but failed signally. Mr. Slidell has had interviews with almost all the Cabinet Ministers of France; but bas not been re- ceived by the Emperor. Washington's Birthday was celebrated in London ina becoming manner. The Biskop of Ohio pre- sided. Mr. Adams, United States Minister, made a speech, in which he said the United States are “throwing off the burden of a malign power,” and would ‘‘gather up, as of yore, the moral fruits of self-devotion.”* . Forty-five Spanish war vessels are to sail for the Pacific in April. They are to rendezvous first at Montevideo, and then start for other parts of the American coast. Onr latest intelligence of the pirate Sumter is from Gibraltar, February 13, where she was stil! lying. Her captain had offered twelve dollars a ton for coal, but althongh the regular price was only eight dollars, all parties refused to sell to him. CONGEESS. In the Senate yesterday, petitions in favor of a general bankrupt law, and asking for the transmis- sion of the California mails via Panama, were pre- sented and referred. A bill*to provide for carry- ing the mails to foreign ports was referred, The Naval Committee reported a bill regulating the pay of the Navy Depariment. A bill granting pay, pensions and bounty to the Kentucky Home rd was introduced by Mr. Davis. The joint resolution transferving the superintendence of the work on the Capitol extension from the War to the Interior Department, was taken up and discussed. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, then made a speech in favor of the Confiscation bill, and the further considera- tion of the subject was postponed until to-day. A joint resoiution authorizing equitable settlements with contractors who have failed to construct machinery by the day stipulated in their contracts, was referred to the Naval Committee. The bill for the codification and revision of the laws of tue District of Columbia, was passed. The bill defining the pay and emoluments of cer- tain army officers, was taken up, and several un- jmportant amendinents adopted. The pay of all chaplains was fixed at $1,200 per annum, and the bil! then laid aside until to-day. The report of the Conference Commniitce on the subject of the payment of the war claims of the Department of the West was agreed to. After an executive sea- sion the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a bill increas- ing the number of cadets at the West Point Academy was introduced. A bill appropriating 53 to carry out the treaty for the abolition of it dues was passed. The joint resolution providing for the rethoval of the army bakeries from the Capitol was laid on the table. A bill to discoutinne pensions to the children of officers and soldiers of the Revolution was passed. A joint | resolution authorizing the sale of all unsuitable army supplies was adopted. The Committee on Military Affairs reported a bill to define the pay and emoluments of army officers, and also a bill to compensate loyal citizens for property de- stroyed, and to prevent the same being used by the enemy. A bil providing for the appointment of hospital chaplains was passed. Several amend- ments to the Executive, Judicial and Legislative | Appropriation bill were then adopted, and the Honse adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Canada, from Liverpool the 22d and Queens” town the 95d ult., reached Malifax yesterday, on her passage to Boston. Her mews is two days later than that by the Norwegian. Consols closed in London on the 22d ult. at 93% 93% for money. The Liverpool cotton market remained firm and unchanged. Breadstuffs ruled very dull. Prince Napoleon made an important speech in the French Senate on the liberty of the press and in defence of the government. He said the em- pire signified to him the glory of France abroad, Spo deptraptign of thy treren Of 61S ond the NEW YORK HEKALD; THURSDAY, MARCH 6. 1862!" “ unity of Italy. The empire has but “one justifi tion, and that is when it becomes an application of the principles of the revolution.’”” The Papal government was removing a portion of the sacred archives from Rome. ‘The Gazette de Cologne observes:—At his last audience with his Holiness the following significant words struck upon the Marquis de Lavalette’s startled ear:—“We are thinking of repairing to Vienna, when we can no longer remain here with our full dignity.”” The Marquis is reported to have exclaimed in alarm, ‘Surely, Holy Father, you would not occasion_a universal war; to which no answer was returned. At Rome an attempt has been made upon the life of the Marquis de Layalette. The assassins, who all belong to the legitimist party—one being @ Belgian, the second a Bavarian, and the thirda Neapolitan—have all been arrested and will be tried by French military tribunal. The Marquis was not injured, The Journal de Iberia of Spain gives the fol- lowing:—‘‘We are informed that the Sumter has ron down a ship which, although bearing Ameri- can colors, contained a cargo of coals for Spain: The commander of the Squadron of Instruction at Algesiras has consequently sent an agent to require explanations of the commander of the Sumter.’ It is stated that the government has opened ne- gotiations with the great Powers for the purpose of having Spain acknowledged as a Power of the first class. The insurrection in Greece was still progressing. The British infantry regiments serving at home are to be reduced. Those doing duty in Canada are to be kept at their full strength. By the Columbia, at this port, from Havana, yesterday, we have important news from Mexico, dated at Vera Cruzon the 20th of February. The Spanish General Prim and the Mexican General Doblado had held a conference at Soledad on the part of the European Powers and the government of the republic. The result was that the allied troops are to be permitted to pass the Chiquihuiti—the key of the valley of Mexico—and to garrison the cities of Cordova, Orizaba and Te- huacan. When they are in these positions the conferences are to be resumed, Spain and France promising to resume their status in quo at Vera Cruz, provided they are not satisfactory. The Allies were in much distress at Vera Cruz just before, An opinion prevailed in some minds that General Doblado had betrayed Juarez, but others, again, thought the Allies would be in dangerous places should _ hostili- ties be resumed. General Prim had an- nounced that the Austrian Archduke Maximilian would be placed on the throne of Mexico. From Havana we learn that some of the Spanish legisla- tors dreaded the movement of France and England in Mexico as dangerous to Cuba. Southern rebel accounts from the Rio Grande, say that England is to hold Matamoras and France Tampico. Our Havana correspondent, writing on the Ist of March, states that the United States steamer Har- riet Lane arrived there that afternoon with a prize. Messrs. Preston and Baker, rebel agents to Europe before Mason and Slidell were commissioned, reach- ed'Havana from St. Thomas on their way home. The latest. news from Cuba, witha trade report from Havana, are given elsewhere. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday, the bills to provide for the distribution of soldiers’ allotments, and appropriating the proceeds of State tax to the support of schools, were passed: Anumber of bills were introduced, but only a few of particular interest to our readers. Among them were bills to provide for the formation of cab com” panies in this city and Brooklyn, and to amend the act creating the Board of Appeals of the New York Fire Department. The latter of these, by unanimous consent, was immediately read a third time and passed. Notice was given of a bill for a railroad in Grand street, in this eity. InCom- mittee of the Whole, the bill appropriating $10,000 annually from the Common School Fund to the People’s College wis taken up and discussed, but the Senate adjourned without making any disposi- tion of it. In the Assembly the discussion of the Public Defence bill occupied a great por- tion of the session. Speeches were delivered by several members, and it was finally made the special order for Wednesday, the 19th inst. Petitions were presented, among a number of others, in favor of the Metropolitan Health bill. A petition and bill to compel vaccination were presented and ordered to be printed. Bills were introduced for the incorporation of the Blind Me- chanics’ Association, and to extend the rules and regulations of the Supreme Court over the Marine and District Courts of this city. The State “En- gineer sent in his annual report of the companies navigating the canals and rivers of the State. Keports come to us that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will be in operation again along the whole line, from Baltimore to Wheeling and from Grafton to Parkersburg, in less than three weeks. This will be cheering news for the people of the West, a portion of whom have suffered considerably for the want of transportation. Not a train has passed over the entire length of the road since the 1vth of April, 1861, Aregular meeting of the Board of Education was held last evening, William E. Curtis, Fsq., Pre- sident, inthe chair, The school officers of the First ward sent ina communication complaining of the existence of several honses of ill fame in the imime- dinte vicinity of Ward school No. 29, situated in Greenwich street. The scandalous and disreputa- ble acenes there enacted will, it is feared, have a tendency to corrupt and demoralize the minds of the pupils attending said school. The communica- tion was ordcred to be sent to the Police Commis- sioners. By unanimous consent of the Board, a preamble and resolution, referring ina suitable manner to the late Dr. A. V. Williams, formerly School Commissioner from the Twelfth ward, was ordered to be placed on the record. A copy was also ordered to be sent, under the seal of the Board, to the family of the deceased. After trans- acting a large amount of routine business, the Board then adjourned. The market for beef cattle was rather heavy yesterday, and prices were a shade lower, ranging from Ge. a 9c. a 9%c., and a few choice brought ec. Milch cows and veal calves were un- changed. Sheep and lambs were active and rather higher—ranging from $3 50 a $5 a #6 50, and choice extras $7 a $10. Swine were active at 4840. @ 4%. for corn fed, and 4\ye. a 4%4e. for still fed. The receipta comprised 3,965 heoves, 135 cows, 335 yeas, 6,69 sheep and lambs and 17, The cotton market continuod to rule quite Grm yeater- day, with a good demand, in part from spinners and in part on apecniation. The sales footed up sbout 1,000 Dales, closing on the basix of 2c. for middling uplands, while good middling was firmly holt at 26c. The gov. ernment public sale of 104 bales of Sea Isiand cotton, from Port Royal, came off yosterdsy, particulars ( which will be found in another column; the pricee ou tained wore from 12. to le, por nd below the highest prices of former sake of the sem: grade. Among Ue names of the producers on the bales wold were those of Seabrook, | raytony Pope, Graham, Lawton and Van ——— The chief purchasers at the salo wore the. Messrs. Tabor, Mr. ‘Adis, Mes#rs. Truesdale & Greon, and Mr. Reynolds, Tho chief purchases were made for shi; to Bu: Under the Canada’s nows from Europ: heavy, and 6c. por bbl. lower for common to medium grades, | while primo extra brands wore unchanged. Wheat was dull and heavy, and eales limited, Corn was rather firmer and in good request, with tales of mixed at 00),0. 0 62}g0. in store and delivered. Pork was steady, alos of new mess at $14 26,2 $14 37 js, and at $14 50 do liverable io June, aud prime at $10 87)¢ a $11. Sugars wore firm, with sales of about 1,200 hhds., 100 boxes and 630 bags of Siam. Coffee was firm but quiet. Froighte were unchanged, while engagements wore moderate, The Union Policy ofthe Administration. The appointment by the President of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, as a Brigadier General, and his transfer from the Senate to the position of Provisional Military Governor of said State, is a proceeding which will be hearti- ly approved by every honest believer in and advocate of “the integrity of the Union.” Governor Jobnson, in maintaining his loyalty to the Union, and his place in our national Con- gress as a Senator from Tennessee, in defiance of the secession ordinance of her traitorous Governor and Legislature, has been the chosen victim of the most malignant secession ‘perse- cutions. Narrowly escaping with his life from his home in East Tennessee, over the mountains into Kentucky, and by that way to Washington, he has been since last summer an exile from his State. In the mean- time his family, and the familios of his married sons and daughters, have been eaten out of house and home by secession marauders, and scattered he knows not where; his property has been sequestrated, and a price has been set upon his head by the rebel ruffians in the service of the traitor Governor Harris and his confederates. It is eminently proper, there fore, that this faithful Union man, Johnson, should be returned, with an overwhelming Union army at his back, as the Governor of Tennes- see, and with the discretionary powers of a mili- tary commander over all the rebel conspira- tors and ruffians of the State. With his return they will know that they have a superintendent over them who is not to be trifled with; and, better still, the downtrodden Union men of Tennessee will hail their new Governor with an enthusiasm which, perhaps, no other man could command. Best of all, we have the most satisfactory evidence in this appointment that “Honest Abe Lincoln,” repudiating all the disorganizing schemes of our mischievous abolitionists, in- tends, in the recovery of our rebellious States, to adhere to his own well considered, simple, safe and practical policy of the restora- tion of the Union in its integrity. Andrew Johnson is a conservative man on the slavery question. He will not meddle with the con- stitutional landmarks of the institution in Ten- nessee; but he will proceed -to reinstate the Commonwealth as it was under the Union down to the unlucky day when it was dragged into the morass of secession. Thus we may expect, in a very short time, to find Tennessee, like Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, safe and sound back again in the Union, without other injury than the ordinary casualties of war to her peculiar domestic institution of slavery. We think it very probable that one of the immediate consequences of this war will be an emancipation pressure upon the border slave States which will rapidly operate to the abo- lition of slavery therein; and by the action of these States themselves, in view of the changed condition of things around them, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and. Missouri, with tbe restoration of ‘the Union, will, we think, find it to their advantage to slough off this institution of slavery as quick- ly as possible consistent with the public tran- quillity. We think, too, that such will be the course of said States, with the issue in their hands; and the question should be left to them, and to everyother slave State of the present day, as it was left originally to the slave States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and others. This is the policy of “Honest Abe Lin- coln;” and as it has been consistently pursued in the reclamation of Maryland, Missouri, Ken- tucky and Tennessee from the gripe of this re- bellion, we may venture the opinion that it will still be adhered to, all the emancipation schemes of Suinner, Trumbull, Lovejoy, Cheever, Beecher and Greeley to the contrary notwithstanding. It is this policy which has broken down the strongholds of the rebellion in-the West, and which, if not disturbed, will speedily break up the whole concern. We expect shortly to find it fully developed in the complete restoration of Tennessee to the laws and benefits of the Union. In this connection we would suggest, however. that no State convention is necessary. Tennessee is not inthe condition of a province wrested from a foreign enemy. She has not. in fact, been ont of the Union. Her functions as « State adhering to the Union have simply been suspended by a lawless armed mob. We have beaten off this mob, and its spurious State officers and axe vis, and all that remains to be done is to fili the vacancies which we find in the personnel of the legitimate State government. and in the repre- sentation of the State in the two houses of Con- gress. We dare say, however, that under the instructions of the President, and with a power~ ful army to support him, Governor Johnson will fulfil the public expectations in the restora- tion of the law and order of the Union in Ten- nes-ee. A Reies or Terror i Ricanonn—Desrrra- TION or THE ReseLs—The rebellion is in the last terrible agonies of a violent dissolution. Kichmond is getting too hot to hold it. Read the exciting information which we publish this morning from the Richmond papers. The Union men of that city are beginning to put the handwriting on the wall. “Attention, Union Men!” “Watch and Wait!” “The Union For- ever!” “The Hour of Deliverance Approaches!” are among the mysterious and significant in- scriptions which Davis and his despotic cabal of usurpers find written under their very noses, And there is a great panic in Richmond, No wonder. Cut off at Nashville, invested at Savan- nah, threatened by Burnside and by Wool, and “held as ina vice by McClellan,” the rebels are truly in a desperate situation at every point, and especially at Richmond. And they have arrested Jobn Minor Botts and twenty other Union men on they charge of treason. We are gratified to hear that Dotts not only still lives, Hut fs still a living terror to real traitors. And martial Jaw bas been proclaimed within and for ten miles around Richmond. Another good sions for it shows that the people of that ety vod tor ten miles around it are so danger- ously sick of Jeif. Davis that nothing but the civil law of the bayonet will keep them quiet. What a charming little city to live in has Richmond become under the beneficent despot- ism of Davis! What a beautiful illustration it is of the delights of that happy valley of Ras- sclas, as promised by Yancey, with the millen- nium of his Southern confederacy! AH distiila- tions of epirituous liquors, and all sales of the same under the ban of martial law! Can anything be imagined more disgusting to the rollicking champions of Southern independence, suc! as the rubiound and highiy perfumed Govern: Leteli ¢, for example? No liquor to be gold jy | Military Governor of Tonmessee— | law! Does Davis know whathe is doing? Does he not know that in stopping the grog of his subjects and victims he is ina very fair way to raise the devil in a whirlwind? The Sepoys conspired and brought about that horrible mutiny in India because they were required to take cartridges between their teeth which had been greased with sacrilegious hog’s lard, an in- tolerable insult to Brahma! Take away from the true sons of secession chivalry their whiskey, and you attack their religion. Truly, Jeff. Davis is on his last legs, and his days are num- bered. A Southern confederacy and no whiskey! That fixes him. The Proposed Tax Upon Newspapers. We have already intimated our entire con- currence in the details of the Tax bill intro- duced by the Hon. Mr. Stevens, of the House of Representatives, and especiall¥ we heartily ap- prove of those portions of the bill which place several heavy taxes upon newspapers. The mode in which newspapers are taxed is very novel and effective. In the first place there is a tax of three mills per pound, or about fifteen cents per ream, upon the white paper. Then there is a tax of five per cent upon the annual receipts from advertisements. Thirdly, there isa stamp duty upon telegraphic mes- sages; and, fourthly, comes a tax of three per cent upon the aggregate income of the newspa- per establishment. Altogether these taxes constitute a pretty heavy burthen upon a news- paper. The Heratp, for example, will pay from, thirty-five to forty thousand dollars a year, in the form of taxes, for the sup- port of the government. This is no small sum for one newspaper to contribute; but we shall pay it cheerfully, and hope that the bill may soon become a law, and the govern- ment be able to realize this large sum. The Tribune states that its annual taxes will amount to about twenty-five thousand dollars, and the Times and World will have to pay pro- portionate sums. As the Tribune confesses that it is now loging money every day of its publication, it will of course be unable to con- tribute its twenty-five thousand dollars, and the Times and. World ave both in the same pecu- liarly perplexing pecuniary perdicament. For the benefit of this impoverished and,ruined trio, therefore, we revive our former sugges- tion, which they would have done well to regard some time ago, and kindly advise them to make a copartnership of the three establishments, and issue only one paper. They must either com- bine or collapse, and we are anxious that they shall combine. Together their aggregate circula- tion would become almost respectable, their advertising would occupy several columns, their expenses for editors and reporters, print- ers and pressmen, would be diminished, and they would make a most harmonious trio, and work together, as“ usual, for the abolition of everything generally, under the pleasing and appropriate title of the greatest newspaper on earth—“the World, the Flesh and the Devil.” As for the evening. papers, thé Post and Commercial are least: able to endure any pe- cuniary strain, and will have to coalesce, upon the Christian principle of bearing one another's burthens. The Journal of Commerce will die, no doubt, having killed many of its readers lately with ennui. It has been diseased a long time, and its decease will be very natural, not weexpected, and very little regretted. The Express will probably be able to pay its little tax of about ten thousand dollars from the re- ceipts of its ninety-nine editions, and the well known patriotism, liberality and public spirit of its proprietors leave no doubt that its contribution will be cheerfully paid, and even doubled if the government requires the sacri- fice. The Sunday papers, however, must either unite or become extinct. On the part of the public we sincercly desire that the Sunday press may decide upon the latter alternative; but, if all the Sunday papers bundle together we suggest that the result be called the Sunday Sewer, and wish it all the sueceas it deserves and can obtain as a new rival to Darnum’s “Happy Family.” _ By all means, then, let the Tax bill pass im- mediately. The government needs the money it will realize from the taxes, and the public is anxious for the newspaper reforms the taxes will inaugur: Tue Tax on Rear Esrare.—There seems to be an impression that the government has im- posed no direet tax on the real estate of the country. By the law entitled “An act to provide increased revenne from imports, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes,” passed on the 5tb of August, 1861, it is provided “that a direct tax of twenty millions of dollars be and is hereby annually laid upon the United States, and the same shall be and is hereby ap- portioned in the manner following:— Rhode Island. Connecticut. New Yor New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware consin. Maryland. California. Virgini Minnesota. North Carolina. Oregon... New Mexico. 7 Uteh ve Washington ... Nebraska. } Nevada, Colorado ) Dacoteh, Tennessec..... 669,498 Dist. of C The law further declares that this tax “shall be assessed and laid on the value of all lands and lots of ground, with their improvements and dwelling houses, at the rate each of them is worth in money on the first day of April, 1862.” There is a provision, however, in the law which allows the States and Territories to assume the payment of the amount apportioned to them respectively, in which case a deduction of fifteen per cent is allowed. The sam annually required from the State of New York under this law is $2,603,918; but if our Legislature assumes the payment, and puts the amount in the tax list of the State to be collected in the ordinary way, a saving will be effected of $390,587. Browine Hor snp Browina Corn—A few days ago the abolition journals were elevating Secretary Stanton upon the very highest pedes- tal, and now they are doing their very utmostto put him down and prove him a blunderer. We need hardly say that the abolition journals are as wrong about the Secretary now as they were wrong before. They praised him for organizing victory when they should have praised General McClellan. Now they blame him for his order in regard to the press, when in fact his order 4% vory judicious, and he is doing the best he ¢an with a delicate and difficult business. So the » Hilioniats co by contraries always, and the otery is only right when they assert that South Carolina. 363 Georgia... 9 Alabama Richmond! A Maine law there by martial | he i wrong. PORTANT Conference Between Generals Prids and Doblado at Sol The Allies to Occupy the Key of the Valley of Mexico. General Prim Announces a Monarchy. The English to Hold Matamoros and the French Tampico, Our Vera Cruz and siavana Correspondence, &., &e., &. By the steamship Columbia we have received the fol- lowing very important correspondence from Vera Orus and Havana. Our Vera Cruz Correspondence. ‘Vera Cruz, Feb. 20, 1863. ‘The Mexican Oause Betrayed to the Allies—Negotiations with General Doblado—European 2roops Permitted to Pass (ha Chiquihuiti—Importance to Them of Their New Position— The Foreign Army Saved by Treachery—General Prim Announces a King for the Republic—Spain to Interfere with the Monroe Doctrine—Arrival of a United States Frigate, de. . A Spanish steamer leaves in the morning for Havana, and I have just time to pen a few lines to notea most unexpected and important turn in affairs here, and resulg- sing ina decided though bloodless victory to tho Allies. ‘tho negotiations which were commenced a month since af the city of Mexico, having fuiled of accomplishing the desired end of the Allies, wero discontinued, and matters have remained quiet, but in a very undecided and unsatia- factory state on the part of the Allies, until yesterday. when General Doblado arrived from the city of Mexico. Soledad, a town about seventy miles distant from here, and which is at present the headquarters of the Mexican forces. At this place he was mot by the representatives of the allied Powers, and negotiations were reopened. & definite agreement has not been arrived at; but enough is made known by the Spanish extra, which was issued this evening (and a copy of which I send you) to con- vince any one who iaat all conversant with the history of this country that Mewico is again the victim of @ base treachery. Gen. Doblado, who was empowered to act on the part of the Mexicans, bas agreed to allow the forces of the Al- lies vo pass unmolested the stronghold of Mexico—namely , the Ghiquibuiti—and ‘occupy the clties of Cordova, Ori and Tehvacan—which are the principal and strongest fortified points to the interior—until negotiations now pending and a future conference, to be held, shall have been concluded, upon condition that should the result of the above named conferences be unfavorable to the Allies they promise to withdraw their troops to their present posi {peeking the Mexicans their at ard No won Spaniards send up a shout of victory, aad no wonder the poor Mexicans are dishcartened aud diepoorsget After holding the enemy here for two months, in such a position as to oblige him to accept of any terms—in a starving condition, entirely at their mer- cy, and, in fact, almost ready to evacuate—afoe by the cli all this to have theinvaders and harmlessly placed in the land of plenty, inside: fortifications, Out of all danger, and where they never could have got without large roinforcements . mense sacrifice of life. Surely hi does not r anotber such an act; and it yet remains to be seen if Mexican people will sustain Gen. Doblado in this, and unheard of A ‘Once occupying these places; the A liies have gained their'point, ‘Tehuacan {is the contral position; it is one hundred and fifty miles from thia place to eagle cy |, the same dis- tance to Vera Cruz, and sixty miles to Orizaba. Once they will not- be very anxious to bring negotiations to a close until have gathered ‘ound them a party. which still exists in the interior, to- with reinforcements, have made good their th and position they willdictate terms to the Mexicans. -This is the progra: the expedition a secret any longer; that it was the intention of the Em to place @ crowned head over this people; and that Archduke Maximilian of Austria is to rule hore; and General Prim hat Sever ts e opely it asthe a fname Un the Mowroe doctrine a are vaguo ‘brit are from reliablo parties aud well sustained: ‘The permission given by Doblado tothe Allies bag taken everybody py Satria, ean es people are anxious ly waiting to see if he is to be sustained. Mrs. General Prim arrived hero on the 14th. She is not at all satisfied with the condition of things. She is a native of this place, and owns a great deal of property here. Ap yet not a person has visited her. The Unitel Siates frigate Potomac, Captain Powell, arrived here on the 15th. All well. Our Havana Correspondence. . Havana, March 1, 1862. Neios from Merico—Generals Prim and Doblade in Com ference—The Altics lo Hold the Key of the Valley of Mext- ‘co—War Between the Church Party andthe Literals— ‘The Canvass for the Crown—A Spanish Legislator Thinks the United States Have It ,dc., &c. ‘The latest news from Mexico serves to confirm the idea that there will not be any armed resistance to the allied invaders. ‘The result of the conference betwoen Prim and Doblado at Soledad is the surrender of the strong poste of Cor- dova, Orizaba and iehuscan, and thoy aro doubtless by this timo occupied by foreign garrisons, Some ory treachery; others think it supreme prudence. True, the oecepation of those points was intended to be only tem- porary—that is, while negotiations aro pending—and as @ sign that the attitude of boch parties is friendly towards each other, the Mexican flag is to float side by side with those of the allied Powers; yet if negotiations should be b:oken off, and hostilities actually break out, the Allies would be in the best possible position. And even though jt has been stipulated that in case ot the happening of any such contingoucy the Allics should fall back and oc- cupy their original positions, they would be very loth, to say tho least of it, to quit the key of the valley Mexico. In that case they will be apt to find some pre- text for staying where they are, ‘TVhore is still great scarcity of provisions at Vora Cruz, and consequently a great deal of suffering und privation. Genoral Vidasrri, Governor of New Leon and one | has been appointed Military Commandant of the State ps The er 1 war between the government and churol party nues. Marquez, the ion of the jatter, is said to hive been again victorious, and to be an attack on tho capital, This docs not look like a uni country, fronting a foreign invasion, The church part will never unite with the liberals, but, in fact, wish wel to the Spaniarde. or have. learned, from an apparently well informod source, that Admiral de la Graviere is on bad terfs with General Prim, and I find a kind ef confirmation of that intelligeree in the fact that the Adiniral will not take a direct part in any of the conferences, but ‘will be en sented by a person of trust,” to quote the language of an extract in the Diario de Part? of the 27th. Zoos quam num et uam jucundum , de. Wrihore ida great deal sald about the crown of Moxico, What is it? Where isity What is itmade of? Who has gotit? Barnum, perhaps. But will Barnum have to give itap? That must be a question with the United States, But then Austria talks about it in her council chamber, it has beon spoken of mysteriously in the Tuilerios, Eng- land believes in it ited as in Magna Charta, and Spain cusses it in open . ‘te Co veapene 4a of Madrid publishes a conversation or discussion between a certain Senor Castro and the ‘Ministor of State which took piace in the Chambers om January 24. The former remarked that tho correspon- dence pablished in foreign journals in regard to this mat- ter states positively that the French und English vernments, particularly the former, had not only docited, on a change of government in Mexico, bnt had dosignated the person who was to cccupy tho throne of that comntry. He then asks the Mintster:—'Is the (Spanish) government inn perfectly fioe positicn to exercise a vigosous, import- ant and enicasions influence = eee dine inte~ rests which may be opposed to those of certain Knropoam, nations? ors the gcvernment believe that a. solntion, such as is proposed, may be fatal not ouly to oar late. reats in Mexico, but to the tsland of Cul ‘The goverment is bound to calculate the awhich anew form of guvernment in Mexico, with tts ng cir. cumatcnee, magn present, concerning the preservation oF Spanish Antilles.” str Castro, $00, aanahe crown of Mexico. in the keoping of the Unites 5 The Minister in his reply , gota rid of the unpleasant ques tion by remarking that what newspapers may say ia no® official, and that the Spanish governraent is in possession of 1o such information from any officialsouree. Ho raya, however, that the government has proposed to a from the commencement, ‘to proserve absolito. respec for the independence of that covatry; the government: dosires that tho integrity of hgr territory shail bo pro- sorved ; that now , a8 always, joxicans may givethem- Guives the form of government thoy may judgo suitable, ® ® * Spain bas aothing to do but declare hor desire that Moxico may use, freely and unrestrainedly, the liberty to arrange her internal affairs. The government will not depart fram gf soma ‘The Minister and Mr. Cas#ro are apparently of one mind in regard to the custody of the crown of Mexioo, ‘The next news may bring oe tho aottloment, by diplo- inacy, of the difficulties between Mexico and her in- yaders. Juarez will come ont right side up. a Havana, March 1, 1962. No Advance Yel of the Allied Army—-Continusd Sickness Among the Buropean Troops—The Con serence at Soledad Between Generals Prim and DobladomThe Decision Ar+ rived at—The Allies to be Allowed to March into the In- terior, de. , de. ‘Tho steamer Isabel la Catolion came in from Vera Cram On the night of the 96th alt. Hor advices are Important,