The New York Herald Newspaper, March 30, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Roberts, who was convicted of an assault with in tent to do bodily harm upon Thos, Wilson, in Ful- ton Market, was fined fifty doliars. Honeywell Vincent, who was convicted of larceny over a year ago, and sentenced to the State prison, was dis- charged. His counsel obtained a new trial, but owing to the impossibility of procuring the attend- ance of necessary witnesses for the prosecution, the Assistant Distriet Attorney acceded to the mo- tion for his discharge. ‘The stock market wag dull at the opeuing and at «ae first board yesterday, and prices declined {a 34 per cont. At the second beard there was a better demand, andthe morning's declive was partially recovered. Ex- change and goid were Both better, closing firm. Money without change. The export of the day was $534,075. The cotton market was steady yesterday, while (ho Sajes reached about 700 bales, nearly all of which were sold to spinners and to go gut of market, closing on the basis of 274c. @ 28c., chiefly at the latter figure. The dour market was irregular, with a moderate de- mand, chiefly (rom the home trade, Common grades wore heavy and neglected, while the higher and better clags of brands were firm. Wheat was inactive, and sales limited and confined to small lots, includ- ing red State and Jersey on the dock at $1 34,a $1 38 for amber Jersey, im store, and $t 43 for white Michigan. Corn was heavy and lower, with moderato sales, at 56c. a 58c. for Western mixed, in store and de- livered, and 57c. @ 58c. for New Jersey yellow, part quite dry. Pork was unchanged and less active. The sales were made at $13 a $1 12 for new mess, and small lots were reported at $1325, and.at $10 37% a $10 62); for ‘now prime. The government contract for 1,875 bbls. was taken at $13 50.0 $1375. Beef was steady, and lard was active and firm. Sugars were active aud prices quite steady.” Tho sales embraced £,800 bhds. , 800 boxes and 4,500 bags. Coffee was quiet, especial io. Asale of 200 mats of Java was made at 26c. Freights were inactive, while rates were without change of moment, OFFICE N Ww. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, Moncy sent by mvvil will be at the RMS cash in advance. sae ae 1 in New York risk of the sender. None but Bank bit! taken TUR DAILY BBRALD, fue conte h every ny part of reat Brit oth to include postage, ‘Bet of each month, at six ons F ser ARLE D. cn’ Wedneeday,, a) four omte per Copy. oF $2 per annum. Jon PRINTING cxccuted with neatnese, cheapness and des puch Volume KXVII AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, NIBLO’8 GARDEN, Broadway.Dauon anv Prraias— Tu vuom rst. WINTBR GARDEN, Broadway.- —Castute, WALLACK'S THEATRE, No, 644 Broadway,—O:.0 Heaps ano Youra Muaurs, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux Ma- OsRiny; OR, THE PRer oF Day. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery. —Hippsy Haxp— Rew Foormax—lnisi Extcnant. MARY PROVOST'S THEATRE, 435 Broadway— SH —Manercs Axe, eee BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. COM dasae ane Renae cece et ie BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mall, way.—Dowx 1x Ot mELS, 72 Broad. HOOLEY'S MINSTRELS, 3: esant Broadway.—Ewatortan Sones. nsyvoean pein al eet MELODEON CONCERT H. —~! ALL, 539 Broadway.—Soncs, “1 ” —De- Pang stlcmecing lly nay pont ty King Cotton” Meditating Suiclde—De bate in the Rebel Congress. “King Cotton” is in a bad way. Beleaguered by our encircling fleets and armies, powerless to arrest their advances into his dominions, and despairing of foreiga intervention, he has turned his thoughts upon suicide. Read the report of the interesting debate in the rebel Congress which we publjsh to-day. The rebel House of Representatives nad passed a resolution advising the planters in the CANTERBURY MUSIC E HALL, 685 Bi —So Danous, Boucesguss, ac—isavavestion Baten GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—D1 Evrmuranouents, Datiers, Paxtoursua, Fanci” hoe AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadwa: Dankey—RaumoaD—Couuisios—louy Mites ee CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, Bowiesques, Soxas, Dasors, &o.-tuo Crome MEXICAN MUSEUM, 63 Brontway.— ing —Coumoion OF CakseD. War Previa ie 0 Phan orm og OF confederacy of Jeff. Davis to abstain from plaut- ing cotton and tobacco this year, and to devote bette ne cielo HALL, 615 Brosaway.—Boriesqvxs | themselves exclusively to the production of Bonce. Di grain and provisions; and, this resoletion com- ing up in the rebel Senate, Mr. Brown, of Mis- sissippi, proposed to substitute a bill peremp- torily curtailing the cotton crop of 1862. The THE SIT UATION. the conclusion that, if within the next week or two Jeff. Davis and his rebel government are ignominiously expelled from Richmond, the cotton planters of the South, upon this single question of saving or sacrificing by next No- vember two crops of cotton, equal to three or four hundred millions of dollars, will resolve to save it by submission to the Union. Thus, let us hope, “ King Cotton” will be saved from suicide, and the South from scenes of wicked vandalism utterly ruinous to the planters, their agricultural interests, and their vital institu- tion of slavery. The London Times has denounced our sink- ing ofa few old hulks in the main channel to Charleston harbor, to aid usin our blockade, asan “outrage against civilization, humanity and the common rights of mankind.” What terms of denunciation, then, will be sufficient to express the outrage against civilization and hu- manity of this war policy of our Southern rebel rulers, of burning the stores on hand of the cot- ton, rice, tobacco and sugar of their people, and of suspending the cultivation of cotton, in order to be avenged against their rightful govern- ment and against the persistent neutrality of foreign nations in this war! These desperate extremities of vandalism botray the reckless ferocity of the rebel leaders. But let them be driven from Richmond, and the people of the cotton States will have the veil which still blinds them removed from their eyes, and they will see clearly enough to choose between the road to ruin and the way of safety. We trust that during this coming month of April the South, the Union, the American people, and the civilized world, will be relieved of the atroci- ties of the savage incendiaries who control the rebel government at Richmond, and the lives, the labor and the substance of the suffering peo- ple of our revolted States. Waar 13 to BE Doxe wita tue Sorprmrs AND THE NeGROES AT THE .END or THE Wan?— Now that the war will very soon be brought to an end, and there will be some 600,000 troops in the South, and the negroes idle on the plan- tations of their absentee masters, or running about the country as vagrants, the question arises, What is to be done with both? thing to be done with the soldiers is to induce them to remain at the South, by dividing among The best ‘The True Censorship of the Press. By the constitution of the United States the press is free to publish what it pleases, and is only responsible for its violation of the law of the land after publication. In this country the press must be free. But every honorable, pa- triotic man who owns a public journal will, of his own accord, abstain from publishing any- thing that can give aid to the enemy; and, were not so many of the papers controlled by agita- tors and low demagogues, there would be no necessity for a censorship which suspends the constitution and establishes most dangerous precedents in a free country. Now, there isa better remedy than censor- ship for correcting the evil, and Congress ought to take a leason from England and France. In England for the last thirtyryears there has been more of constitutional liberty than there ever was before, and the ‘reason is that the press, in consequence of the high tax upon newspapers, fell into the hands of men of intelligence and men of capital, men them the estates of the planters who have run away, and also the slaves. so that these nogroes may be set to work on the same plantations in the cultivation of cotton. The Northern troops would be the very life of the Union sentiment in the South, anda military government ought to be established in the beginning, after the manner of that in Tennessec, in order that the States may be reorganized under proper authori- ty and law, and cbedience to the federal go- vernment fully established. Witha view to this end, ‘the troops should take good care not to allow the minds of the slaves to be tampered with,-or any. foolish notions about equality in- culoated. On the contrary, they ought to drive the missionaries outof their lines at the point of the bayonet, a3 dangerous incendiaries, This is the way to restore the Union, to maintain order, and td preserve to the country the vast wealth which it has hitherto monopolired by the culture of cotton. Our Army of the Potomac is forcing back the rebels towards their defences. A portion of Gene- wal Sumaer's division drove a large body of them from the Warrenton Junction on Friday. A recon- moissance made beyond the railroad junction at this point was pushed as far as the Rappalennock river, the enemy's cavalry retreating before them, And burning the bridge over the river in their flight. Our troops shelled them at the bridge, but did not Prevent them from destroying it,” Much “more damage could have been done to the evemy while conveying their sick and wounded across the river, bat Lumanity forbade it. Our troops occapigd Shipping ‘Point on Frid, hohner egg eaten Oreriongg Everything at Fortes Monroe oe The anxiety. as to the tuture movements of the Merrimac naturalty remaius unabated. The rebels have beea very busy for the past two orthree days with their tagboats between Craney Island and Pig Point, the supposition being that they arc strengthening their fortifications and increasing their force in that vicinity. We publish to-day a pretty full liat, a9 far as ascertained, of the killed andjwounded at the battle of Winchester. The totaloss, including the missing, is put down at 718; but as many of ‘he regiments engaged pursued the enemy toStras- berg, it is impossible just now to obtaiman aceu- rake account of the killed in the absence of the mus. ‘er} rolls. Gea. Shields bas written an informal sceount of the battleto a friend in Washington, whigh we give in another column, showing the modé by which Jackson's forces were drawn into the trap, together with some further inaidents of the battle and the acenes on the fleld after the action. The news from the Mississippi is not very im- portant. Several of the rebel gunboats and trans- ports came up towards New Madrid on Wednesday, within range of our batteries at Biddle’s Point and »pened fire, but they were forced to retarn after a brief engagement. It is reported that the enemy yave constructed batteries on the opposite side of the river to prevent General Pope from crossing ind taking them inthe rear. The attack by oor gunboats was renewed on Friday with greater vigor than for some time past. The enemy ap- veared to have mounted gnns of longer range that (hose hitherto in use. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the State Senate at Albany yesterday, the bills to enable Westchester county to acquire ‘ands for the construction of Harlem bridge, and ‘mending the law of 1860 relative to the police 2ourts of this city, were passed. The bills author- ‘sing the Excise Board Clerks to take affidavits, and ‘mending the law relative to taking testimony of witnesses out of the State, as well as others of minor importance, received favorable reports. A bill to encourage investments in small sums in debate will explain what followed. In the end, the resolution, including Mr. Brown's proposition, was rejected, eight to eleven, from which we may conclude that the cotton planters of our rebellious States will be left to decide for themselves the extent of their cotton planting for the present year. We presume, however, that, with the last year’s crop still upon their hands, and with the so-called Confederate States shorn by our ad- vancing atmies of the grain ‘and provision pro- ducing districts of Kentucky,, Missouri, Vir- ginla: and Tennessee, the planters in the cotton States are now disposed to devote. the- bulk-of for this seagon to\Indian. cotn, Irish ‘and ” sweet potatoes, pers, beans, &e,, for the subsistence of their armies and peo- ple. “Heretofore, from the border slave States aforesaid, and from the great storehouses of the Northwest, our cotton States have been al- most exclusively supplied with their corn meal, flour, pork, beef, mutton and whiskey; but now, with our armies advancing in Virginia and North Carolina, and from Tennessee against the rebel frontier defences of Alabama and Mississippi, the cotton States must produce their own provisions for the presont year, or, should this war hold on so long, they will by September next be reduced to the straits of a famine. The season for cotton pianting is now at hand, and in a few weeks it will be over, when, in default of a crushing rebel de- feat in the interval, we shall most probably learn that not one-fourth of our average South” ern cotton crop has been planted. A great Union victory, meantime, in the Mississippi Valley, or in Virginia, resulting in the flight of | the rebel government from Richmond, may change the minds of the cotton planters, with the conviction that further resistance to the arms of the Union is vain, and that, if they are to dostroy their last year’s crop to save it from “the Yankees,” they may as well have a full crop of cotton for the inviting markets of the world next fall as anything else, especially as, with the Southern advances of our troops, the granaries of the Northwest will again be opened to the remotest corners of the South. Upon thisimportant question of planting a full or a small crop of cotton this season, the rebel Senstor Barawell, of South Carolina, contends in the debate before us that the South must sustain its cotton culture, that “all our interests appeal to us never to give it up. We must raise it, hold it, and fight for it." We must let the world know that we have it, and that we will sell it cheap, and that we will fight to keep it from our enemy and proteet it.” Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, taking the same view, said:—“The policy which diminishes the supply of cotton will hold out no inducements to England to break up the blockade;” but Mr. Semmes, of Louisiana, had given up all hope of English intervention, and he was therefore in favor of warning the Southern people “to prepare for the con- Axe TAE Nearoxs i Cuan Gangs at Pox Rovati—We observe it is stated in a New York journal, “on authority,” that the negroes at Port Royal are chained together in gangs. in order to compel them to work, as their minds were so perverted by the ‘false teachings of fanatical missionaries that they imagined they would have to work no more, and that in future the white men would work for them and spoon-feed them besides. This only proves what wedave often said—that the negro will only work on compulsion. If the legal owners of these lazy blacks had chained them in the manner de- scribed there would be a loud outcry against their inhumanity. We do noi believe there are any examples of the kind-—-an evidence that the Southern planter knows better how to ma- nage the negro, and can make him work with lesa cruelty, than Northern men. who do not understand his nature and are less kindly to him. If the statement be true, nothing can more clearly demonstrate the impossibility of giving freedom to the negroes of the South without such coercive laws as will force them to work. The negro’s idea of freedom and of Paradise is to have nothing to do. A New Aruantic Terecrapa Caste.—With- out doubt in the course of time the Old World and the New will be linked together by tele. graphic communication, and, if we may rely upon recent information from London, it will not be long before another attempt is made to lay anew cable between Ireland and New- foundland. It iscertain that the British gov- ernment are desirous of aiding and witnessing the consummation of the enterprise; and the cir- cumstance of Lord Palmerston having appoint- ed an interviow with Mr. Field and other gen- tlemen interested for taking the subject into consideration goes far to show that they are disposed to co-operate with the United States in the undertaking. Indeed, those referred to say that the prospect of a satisfactory termina- tion of negotiations with the government in re- Btate stocks—the same that was brought forward ‘n the Assembly the previous day—was introduced. Concurrent resolutions were introduced in favor of a commission of five, to be appointed by the Governor and Senate, to hear such cases pending in the Court of Appeals as may be referred to them by that Court. The resolution ‘wpproving the President's late special Mes- sage was made the special order for Wednesday evening next. In the Assembly, the bills amending the incorporation act of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Small Children, in relation to life insurance companies’ dividends, to facilitate the construction of the Adirondack Rail- road, and incorporating the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, were paseed. Third readings wore ordered on the bills to prohibit suspension bridges at ferry landings, and to increase the feos for hawkers and peddlers licenses. The bill to prevent the building of private wharves in this port was defeated. The Metropolitan Health bill was again considered. After a long debate, vari- ous amendments being proposed and rejected, progress was reported, and the bill referred to a select committee of nine, to report complete. The Speaker announced the select committee on the tinuance of a lengthy war, and that produce must be raised for our subsistence.” The pre- vailing idea, however, in the “Confederate” Senate seems to be that the South must continue the cotton culture, for fear that England may remove the throne of “King Cotton” to herown dominions. The question is a grand and comprehensive one, and is now in procese of solution by our Southern cotton planters themselves. By the lst of May the problem will be settled, and, from present appearances, it will be settled against the monopoly of the cotton culture in the South, by a crop there so short as to compel the expansion of this culture to a very great extent in all other available parts of the world. Meantime, it must be remembered that the rebel Congress at Richmond has enjoined the de- struction of the crop of last year, in every case where it cannot be saved by removal from the grasp of our stea- dily encroaching armies; and the same decree has gone forth concerning tobaceo, rice and sugar. These.staples are to be consumed, if they cannot otherwise be rescued from “the armed hordes of the Lincoln government;” so that, in point of fact, the planters of the South have at this moment before them the momen- Judge McCunn rendered a decision adverse to the motion of counsel for Dr. Chas. Cobel, for arrest of judgment, he having been convicted of a misde- meanor in causing the death of an infant while pro- ducing an abortion. Mr. Blankman moved for a mitigation of the sentence, which was also denied. The City Judge said that the defendant had been tried before for similar offences, but escaped pun- {shment, and that the penalty he was about to in- Gict was justly deserved. The sentence was one wear’s imprisonment in the penitentiary. William this rebellion, with all its other drawbacks, extortions and dangers, is or is not worth the the monopoly of this lucrative culture for all time to come. tous question whether the hopeless canse of sacrifice of two crops of cotton, and the loss of gard to raising the necessary capital to secure the proposed new cable is very encouraging. We need not refer to the great advantages of accomplishing the work which an unlucky ac- cident undid for us in 1857; and, as its perfect practicability has been sufficiently demon- strated, we look forward hopefully to the re- sult ofa second attempt to unite the two homis- phores by # speaking wire. Dvst axp Discomrort.—For the past two days the streets have been the sporting ground of blinding clouds of dust, which in their erratic ca- reer have penetrated into all our offices, stores and habitations, giving a sandy coat to provi- sions in corner groceries, whitening our black surtouts, filling our drawing rooms, and other- wise making free with everything not hermeti- cally sealed against it, as well as finding its way in considerable quantities to our lungs, as if the peck of dirt commonly said to be swal- lowed during a lifetime had to be taken ina day. Now, considering that we pay avery con- siderable sum for street cleaning and watering, we are unable to see why the streets are neither cleaned nor watered. Perhaps Mr..Hackley, the contractor for street cleaning, and the Cor- poration will turn their attention to this matter. We shall doubtless have much of the same gusty, dusty weather that we are now tasting from this time forward, and it is therefore the duty of the Corporation to commence watering the streets without delay, as well as to insist upon Mr. Hackley acting according to the strict letter of his contract, which hitherto he bas failed in In this view of the subject, we cannot avoid | doing who had a stake in the community, and would do nothing to endanger the general welfare or kindle the fires of revolution. Oftate the high tax has begn removed, and cheap papers of a revolutionary character have sprung up like mushrooms, and the once respectable press contaminated now imitates them, in conse- quence of the public taste having become vitiated and depraved. The result is that Eng- land is going rapidly down the hill, and will soon be atthe bottom. In France the cheap pressat the time of the Revolution, wielded by desperate demagogues like Marat, caused those frightful excesses which made the angels weep. In the last days of the reign of Louis Philippe it was the cheap press that revolutionized Paris and dethroned that monarch. Louis Napoleon, fearing the same result in regard to himeclf, pat a bridle in the mouth of the press and de- stroyed its freedom. It is a well ascertained truth of history that in France a free cheap press cannot exist without producing revolu- tion. Now the true remedy which Napoteon ought to have applied was that which was so long adopted in England, but is now unfortunately abandoned—taxation. And that is the reme- dy for the licentiousness of the press in the United States. It ought to be taxed like whis- key ov any other luxury. The press is a great luxury. A high tax on whiskey will have the effect of diminishing drunkenness, as its ten- dency will be to limit the use of the article to educated and intelligent men, who are not 80 likely to abuse it. Again, whiskey will be ofa better quality,and will not do so much injury as it does now. Letthe press in the same way be taxed, and such a price put on newspapers us will cause them to be read chiefly by intelectual men. The result will be that a better article must be produced; else it will not sell; and, consequently, the de. moralizing, poisonous sheet will be driven out of the market. Proprietors of- public journals, too, would be men of capital, men who would have something to lose by civil convulsion or by public corruption, and whose interest, therefore, would coingide with their duty in advocating the right and denouncing the wrong. The cheap and nasty demagogic pa- pers which now exist have done much to bring the couatry into its present deplorable condi- tion. The true remedy for the evil, the true censorship, is a high tax upon public journals. Nothing will so tend to the purification of pub- lic morals. “Republics,” says Montesquieu, “ace founded on virtue.” Let that be sapped by pernicious, low priced newspapers, and democratic institutions must perish and give place to despotism. On the otber- hand, jour- nals of high price and character, conducted by welt informed men of intellectual calibre, and men whose circumstances place them above the reach of corruption and the influence of the eanaitle, ave well calculated to preserve public virtne and save a republic from that degeno- racy of morals which is the sure precarsor of its fall. War tHe Oxaans ov tHe Ravicats Arrack vux Anuy.—The Evening Post and other radi- eat journals of this city first commenced their attacks on the army and its officers by adverse military criticisms. They now charge the offi- cers and men with being traitors. The reason of this hostility is that two-thirds, and even three-fourths, of the army are Northern demo- erats, and not more than one-fourth republicans. The radical revolutionary journals, finding the army and its officers intractable, assail themas having gone into the army for the purpose of preventing the success of the war, by which is meant the abolition of slavery in every State. These rabid organs of revolution are maddened just in proportion as they see the bloody vision of negro insurrection which they conjured up fading away from their sight like a sick man’s dream. The officers and the rank and file of the army know too well the value of our demo- cratic institutions to lend themselves to their overthrow, and they have too keen an appre- ciation of the negro’s character to disturb the relations which exist between him and the white man of the South. Their purpose is to fight the battles of the Union, and to restore it, with negro slavery and all—an idea perfectly awful to those who hold that “the constitution is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” Hence, in their blind rage, they open a fire in the rear of the army as it marches on to victory. Tax Virtcovs Potice—The police are just now influenced by one of those sudden revivals of virtue to which they are occasionally sub- ject, and accordingly they have commenced a crusade against all the Sunday liquor sellers, pickpockets and gamblers they can find. The proverb, “Give a dog s bad name and hang him,” derives additional force from the conduct of these well paid guardians of the public safety; for, knowing a man to have been once a thief, they arrest him in the most despotic manner, and contrary to all law. Thus, for instance, on Thursday a couple of them ar- rested three fashionably dressed men in Wall street, opposite the American Bank, we are told, merely because they supposed they were there to pick the pockets of those who came out of the bank; and it was not till writs of habeas corpus had been obtained by their counsel that they were brought before Re- corder Hoffman and discharged. We havo al- ways remarked that these periodical revivals of virtuous indignation on the part of the po- lice are followed by a worse instead of a bet- ter state of things; that all the gambling houses and dens of infamy doa more flourishing busi- ness than before, and that the police them- selves are then hail fellow well met with the victims of their previous persecution. It looks aa if the police had some little object of their i NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1862 - > ——— own to'serve in alt this display of exira ro- fined virtua. Tae BroapwaY Rauxoan.—If we are to have a Broadway Railroad, why not have a commis sion of three respectable citizens appointed to construct and manage it, and let the profits ac crue to the city? What possfble right have the impudent vagabonds whose names are inserted in the bill before the Legislature to claim a franchise worth five or six millions of dollars to this tax-ridden city’ us Intelligence. o YHUROUKS TO-DAY. “The Unity of Mankind.’’ Dr. Thompson wil preach on this subject at the Broadway Tabernacle chureh, this ‘ening at half-past seven o'clock. Special subject— “The Argument from Language.” “Tho End of the World about 1964-60." ‘The Rev. Mr. Baxter, Episcopal minister, will lecture this evening in room No. 20 Cooper Institute, at half-past seven o'clock; also on ‘Louis Napoleon, the Antichrist,” in the after- noon at four o'clock. ‘The Rov. Wm. Alvia Bartlett will preach tho funeral gormon of Wm. H. Bush this evening, at the Brooktyn Tabernacle. Services in (he morning at half-past ten o'clock, and ia the evening at half-past seven o'clock. ‘Tho Rev. Robort (livin, Chaplain of the United States steam frigate Roanoke, will preach in the York street Med&cdist Episcopal church, Jersey City, at balf-past ten o’elock this morning. Subject—gFhe Duty of the Church to the Army and Navy.’* The Rev. Wm. P. Corbit, the pastor, will preach his farewell sermon {a the oroning at half-past seven o'clock. In St. Ann's church, Rev, T. Gallaudet, rector, services aa usual to-day (Sunday)—with tho voice at half-past ten A. M. and half-past seven P. M., and in the sign lan. gage at half-past theoe P. M. The rector will preach in the morning, and the Rey. F. C. Ewer in (he evening. Rev. C. <8 will preach in Barnum’s Museum a, half-past seven o'clock this (Sunday) evening. Soveray important questions will be answered by tho speaker. Roy. G. T. Flanders wil! deliver tho third discourse on the “Origin, History and Destiny of the Devil,” this even- {ng at half-past seven o'clock, in the Second Universaliat church, Eleventh etreet, Second avenue. Aserinon, preached a few weeks since in the church of iho Messiah, in Adelphi street, Brooklyn, by tho rectors Rey. George K. Thrall, upon the text, “Trust ye not in ly- ing words, saying, the temple of tho Lord, the temple of tho Lord, tho temple of the Lord, are these,’ will be re- peated in the samo church this (Sunday) evening at half past seven o'clock. Asormon willbe preached in the Frea church of the Holy Martyrs, in Forsyth street, near Canal, by the Rey. John Morgan, rospecting the “ Errors Held by Some on the Millennium,’ this evening. P Tle Rey. Jobu A. Staunton, assistant minister of St. Potor’s church, will preach this evening in the Momorial church, Hammond street, coruer of Waverley place. Ser- vices will be held at half-past ten o'clock this forenoon, at half-past threo tris afternoon and at balf-past seven in tho evening. Rey. Dr. Holdich will preach a sermon in bebalf of the American Biblo Socioty, at half-past ten o'clock this morning, in the Hedding Methodist Episcopal church, Fast Seveuteenth strebt, batween First and Second avo- nues. Preaching also ia the evening at half‘past seven o’olocs, by tho pastor, Rev. Abel Sievens, D. D. Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch wit hold @ matinee conversa- tionale at Bodworth’s Hall, 806 Broadway, at haif-past ten o'clock this morning, om the subject of spiritualism, in which she will reply toad expound questious from the audience. In the evening at half-past seven o'clock she will discourse on the“ Deluge.’” Rev. A. G. Sawyor, of Charlestown, Mass., will preach to-day In the Bloocker street Universalist church ™ halt- past ten A. M. aud half-past seven P. M. Sormons to-day in the Broadway chapel,near Forty- fifth street, at half-past ten A.M. by Rev. Dr. Van Nost, at haif-past three P.M. by Rey. Mr. Van Doren,and at half-past seven in the evening by Rev. Mr. Henry. Services to-day in the Christian chapel, Seventeenth street, near Sixth avenue, at hall-past ten A.M. and halt pas! seven P. M. Preaching by tho pastor, Urban €. Brower, Subject in the morning, “The Church in Lao dicea;’? ovening, “The Contessien.”” Divine service will be held ia the church of the Trans- figuration, East Twenty-ninth street, near Fifth avenue, this evening and during Lent. Sermon by Rov. Alfred B. Reach, D. D., at halfpast seven this evening. Services will be hold in the church of the Resurrection (Protestant Episcbpa!), north side of Thirty-fifth street, enat of Sixth avenue. The rector, Rev. E. 0. Flagg, wil preach this morning at half-past ten, and Rev. J. Cotton Suwith, reetor of the church of the Ascension, in the evening at hait-past seven. Roy. Sidney A. Corey will preach ia tho atone chareh,, Twenty-oighth street, near Broadway, today at half- past three o'clock. « A sermon, on “The Recognition of Friends After Death,” will be given by Rov. E.G. Brooks, at the Twen- tieth street Universalist church, between Sixth and Se- venth avonues, this aftoriioon at three o'clock, rmon, of Mrs. Jeanie Emery,, will be preached this cvening in the Laight street church, cor- nex of Laight and Varick streets, by the Rev. I. 8. Kal- loch. Ho will also preach in the morning upon ‘‘Tho Christian Race."’ ‘The synagogue of the congregation Beth Elohim, Brook- lyn, will bo dedicated to-day. The new synagogue is locaied in Pearl street, botweon Nassau and Concord. ‘The consecration serinon will be delivered in English, by Rev. Dr. 8. M. Isaacs, and the lecture in German, by Rev. Joseph Sacha. By request, the Rev. Dr. Chapin will repeat, this even- lug, his able and eloquent discourse on “ The Soldier,’* Rev. C. Cravens, pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society of Brooklyn, will preach in their chapel, 274 Cumberland street, near Lafayette avenue, this morning and evening. Subject for the evening, “ the Stars and he Earth.”” Rey. Dr. Hague will deliver his fourth discourse on the Miracles of Christ,” in the Madison avenue Baptist church, this evening at half-past seven o'clock. Rev. Abie! Silver will discourse this evening at half past seven o'clock, ia the New Jerusalem (Swedenbor-. gian) house of worship, Thirty-Afth street, betwoon Fourth and Lexington avenues, Subject—‘ Honyon and Hell, as taught in the Holy Word. Acapamy or Musio—Granp Matixex.—Tho matince which closed the present season at the Academy was well attended yesterday. Owing to the continued ind: position of Susini, the opera of ‘Linda di Chamounix,’’ ori- ginally on the bills, had to be changed to “Lucia di Lam- mermoor ,’’ ich Miss Kellogg, Brignoii, Mancusi and Barili appe: Miss Kellogg and Brignoli sang ad- mirably. Madame D'Angri was afforded an opportunity during the porformance to sing the ‘Elena Valse,”’ and the «Non Pia Mesta’’ from ‘“‘Cenorentola,’”’ in which sho gave such unmistakable satisfaction on Friday night. Inthe ormer piece she was enthusiastically encored yesterday. ‘The ballot divertissement in which Senorita Cubas and Senor Ximenos, with «full corps de baile, participatea, made up tho programme of the day day's performance, which, upon the whole, was very complete and satixfactor; Tan Garwax Concent at Inviva Hatt.—The grand sacred concert by German artists, which was erroneously ‘announced in yesterday's paper to take place at Irvin’ Hell this (Sunday) evening, will come of on Sunday, April 6. Arrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS. _ Brauopa—Steamebip as Nolan, two children and -ARTURES. Livmnroor—8 =r and Mere Ire gamed Marion, apie Charter fi we if Pronngau, JC Taitiemoga, Ma Major’ wife, Satyuel Peel, W Arnistrongy vis, Mr a aa And two children, Morrison, W, Hem Nw sderson, rant ie i apoesrenn A Aa Gul wig modes, tn the snerage: Paul aay, i fi ay en ae eee aia kichemenn, bine ce sae bec | : EL cig t Mise Feat Sh aa ie pia a i TB ay ite nya news emer Louie MreMP fares. Since is; rene qd four oh eran, Bt Lo yo Henry ¥ Vey ey, baltimore; Baha Honry ‘Becker, Phila—and 63 in the tteerage—-Tratal Rod bent aD Harara—Steamship Karnak—D Nevins, Bos, ath Now Meech, Captain Waters, Galway; I y Bala lands Tehac Mecker,) N ork, Ba Flent, Batt yurke, Matanzas; Mre WR TJones, New vores and Mee Townsend Jones, do; Mr and. Mrs RM Baldwin, Kingston, N ¥; John Morales, Domingo Morales and Joseph Morales, Hayana; Mrs Van Renaselaer, Miss and Master Van Rensselaer, New York; Marshall Sewell, Hartford; C Bruy' Kingston; J F Jen ftthe: Charles Frodericks, New Yor Mrs Nevins, Boston; Mrs Blackburn, Mise Binckby Miss ‘Dechatx, Mie Sr IR Stuart, New Me and. Mrs York; John M Newburg, Mrs Samuel Whiting Nessou, Specie, 822,975, Fenny ie — Ais e ap Hi NYVi_N A Douuision, nao; Wasamcron, Match 20, 1608. _ THE REBEL FLOATING BATTERY MERBIMAG. No fear of tho sea mater Merrimac is felt at tho Navy Department. On the coutrary, a desire is expresmed that she may again expose hersolf to the Mouitor and other war veasols in Hampton Roads. THE MIDDLE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, A military department, to be called the Middle Dopart- mont, and to consist of the States of New Jersey, Peun- sylvauia, Delaware, the Eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, and the counties of Cecti, Harford, Baltimore and Anne Arundel, in Maryland, bas becw created. Major Gousral Dix, United Statea Volunteors, is assigned the cominand—headquarters at Baltimore. ANOTHSR BXCURBION TO MANASSAS—BURIED CANNON RECOVERED, ‘The following despatch, dated Manassas, Maret 20, hag been received:— Conductor Franks (0-day took out @ large exeursion party to Manassas, consisting of Colonel Baker,of the government detective police, with a number of ether Officials, accompanied by thoir tadies, The telegraph lines were comploted to Warrenton Junction last night, aad are working admirably, The Colonel this aftermeon found five cannon, which the rebels had buried abows amile anda half beyond the Junction, It appears that the car broke down, and the guns were tumbled of to one side of tho track and buried, and the ground sinoothed nicoly over ¢hem. Three of them are iron, the other brass, the heaviest weighing forty-six hundred pounds, The gume-wili be taken ¢o Alexandria to -anorrow. OBSTRUCTIONS ON THE MANASS4S uM ‘Tho freight train returniog from Manageas. to Alox-- Gndria last night found soveral rails placed across the “track, just above Fairfax station, and in the darkness ran over them, but without throwing the locomotive off. ‘Theso were evigontly placed there by secessioniats, as @ number of them live in the vicinity, who make Qo aecret of their disloyalty: ARMY OFFICERS LOUNGING ABOUT THE CAPITAL. Some of our generals and other officers have beon te the habit of koeping themselves before the public by ap- pearing in the hotels and on Ponnaytvania avenue almost daily. Visitors in the city aee no other officers, and are liable to entertain the mistaken notion that these are the most important officers of the army. It should be borne in mind, however, that those who remain in camp, attond. ing closely to the duties of their commands in person, are quite a8 officient as those who keep up a constant dress parade in town. TRADE RESUMED WITH LOUDON COUNTY, VA. Trade has been resumed between Loudon county, Vir. giuta, and Washington. The farmers aro beginning to bring butter, eggs, Sc., to market. A meeting of the farmors in tho uppor part of Fairfax county was hold yesterday, for the purpose of mutual aid in building fonces and for protection of theix crops. ARREST OF DISUNIONISTS, ‘Two mon, one from Alexandria, the other from Mhitn. delphia, wore arrested yosterday at Centreville, and are held in custody, upon tho charge of disloyal practices. THE NAVY. ‘Tho Secretary of tho Navy has made the following ap’ pointments, promotions, &e.:— Honry Thompson, of Rockland, Me., Acting Master. G. V. Casaidy, in the Gulf squadrom, promoted to Act’ 126 Master ou board the steamor National Guard. @. B. Warren and A. Blanchard, promoted to Acting Mastera on board the steamer J. 8. C, Chambers. Lieutenant A. A. Semmes is ordered to roport at Phila delphia for comt of the steamer Wamautta. EXCURSION OF ie COMMITTEES TO FORTRESS MONROE. Senator Hate, and moxt of the momabers of the Naval ‘Commitices of the Sonate and House, made an excursion to Fortreas Monroe to-day, Thoy were aecompanied by their ladies, and will spend the Sabbath: at Old Polat Comfort. BXAMINATION OF FEMALE STATE CRISONERS. ‘Tedey Mre. Greenhow and Mrs. Augusta Morris, alieg Mrs. Magom, appeared before the commission to examine prisoners of state, and aftor a long and iateresting ex- amivation they were recommittod. Some tatorevting facts, mot proper to be published ab present, wore elicited. THE BANKRUPT LAW. The committee on the bankrupt law held a session last evening, and agreed finally to Mr. Comkling’s bill, with some slight amendments. The bill wtil pro bably become a law substantially as tt was reported by Mr, Conkling. THR MASSACHUSETTS ALLOTMENT COMMISSION. ‘The Massachusetts Logislaturo, having receatly passed ‘an allotment law and appointed & commission, consist ing of Mosars. Harry Edwards, of Boston; Mayor F.B Fay, of Chelsea, and David Wilder, Jr., of Nowton, te visit the various camps and explain the nature of the law, those gentlemen are now engaged in the discharge of their duties. Mr. Pay has been with the First ane Eleventh rogimonts a fow days, and met with exceitent success. Theso reghnonts have allotted over seves thousand dollars each of their mouthly pay. Companp , First regiment, from Chelsea, Massachusetts, Magoo Fay’s city, allots nine hundred and sixty-five doilare monthly. This law differs from that of any other state im allowing mon-to.allot directly to the State Treasurer who holds it in trust for them, and on which the State pays Give per cent interest per annum. SALVE OWNERS AND THE EXCELSIOR BRIGADE. A day or two since a Marylander came into one of the Excelsior regimonts, seeking a runaway negro, who, seo- ing his mastor, attompted to run away, whoroupom the master fired upon him. Gen. Sickles, considering the lives of his own men jeopardized by the firing, ordered tho master out of camp. In another camps master te enforeo obedience commence belabvoring his alae, whoo the negro seized the cudgel and forced him to boat « hasty retreat. Tho slaveowners in the vicinity of Budd’: Forry, having suspicions that many of their simves are seoreted in the various camps, have organized » band, and intend making a grand sweep whonever the troops move and leave the contrabands behind. SNOW STORM IN WASHINGTON. ‘The dust, which has blinded the Washingtonians for several days, was allayed this afternoon by & smart snow storm. PASSES TO MARYLAND RESCINDED. The Military Governor of this district bas to-day issu dan order rescinding all passes to Persons, going inte Maryland. THE CONTRABAND QUESTION. ‘The contraband question begins to puzzle and deprom the minds of the wisest abolitionists hero. When Mesars: Sumner, Wilson, Hale, Lovejoy and others are asked how negroes who have already escaped, and those whc are expectod, shall be disposed of, they can give no prac tical instructions inthe matter. Tho darkoys may holg themselves toa large amount of freedom, but nobodp seems inclined to pay their current expenses. THE PASSAGE OF TROOPS THROUGH NEW YORK CITY. No troops in the United States service will hereafter pass through the city of New York without reporting ta tho United States military authorities entrusted with the duty of providing subsistence and transportation in tha. city. Reports must be made and information obtained ‘at the office, No. 79 White street. PRICE OF SOLDIERS’ CLOTHING. His Excollency the Governor of New York has docidod upon the following prices to be charged to the non-com- missioned offeers and privatos of the several regiments, from that State now in the fleld for articles of olothing heretofore furnished them by the State, The said prices have been fixed from tho average cost of the severalar seesseeste Damage from fouling ¥, frequent, and advances on freight are not usually mad¢. until all ia delivered, He advises that charters be t/ade to St. Nasaire, not Nantes, or to bevuf, aor Geasomn ON THE RIVER. ‘Tho steamo’s James Guy was run into yesterday after- noon by bt fe hooner, carrying away the upper forward dock, and/otherwise injuring the steamer to a consider- able 65’ ,ent. pati “rhe Anglo-Saxon Outward Bound. PortLanp, March 29, 1862. 4 ‘The stoamship Anglo-Saxon sailed for Liverpool at four 2 | o'clock this afternoon, oe) Sten