The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1862, Page 4

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ADVERTISEMENTS renewed very day: advertisements ine fisnatn, and in the Sar fee eee BaeAD, (Famity ‘ia and Buropean Biitions. JOB PRINTING executed with neainess, cheapness and de Volame XXVII. "AMUSEMENTS THIS BVEN(NG, | rgd GARDEN, Broadway.—-Tur Wire—Biace Erep, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Camitie. WALLAOK’S THEATBE, No, 64 Broadway.<Tus Rivals. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—! Kae Lios—Firing Dutcuaan- picasa MARY PROYOSTS THEATRE, P No. — z = No, 485 Broadway. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Com lurr—Living Hirrorotamus, Waaus, &0., at al! bours.—- pms Kavanapy, afternoon and evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRE/9, Mechanics? 3 ay.—DOWN IN OLD Deer aca ost as MELODEON CONCERT HALL, 639 Broadway —: Dances, Burtesques, &0--ContRazann Career CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Som Davos, Busissques, £0.—ixaveun ation Baty san GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.— Room Kytertainaents, Baruets, Parrouiaes, Pancha be, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 44 Broa rs ALOU: DAnxeY—Kaitxoad—Coutisiox—Jonny Misenee ORYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. <5Bowery. — Buntasqss, Soncs, Daxces, &0.—Two Clowns. sa MEXICAN MUSEUM, 663 Broadway.—1 : Ox OF Canvap Wax Flovars St Even PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, Open daily from 104 MUST Mee 8 Broadway. — LEY MUSIO HALL, 616 Brosdway.—Buatesaors Mew York, Saturday, April 5, 1862, ——_————— THE SITUATION. Tro new military departments have been cre- ated. The first comprises that portion of Virginia and Maryland lying between the Mountain Depart- ment (General Fremont's) and the Blue Ridge, whioh is to be called the Department of the She- mandoah, to be under command of-General Banks. ‘The other is to be designated the Department of the Rappahannock, and will comprise the portion of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge and west of the Petomac and the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, including the district of Columbia and the Patuxant. General MeDowell is placed in command of this dis- trict. Thus General McClellan is relieved from the esponsibility of commanding in that portion of Virginia where there is now little or nothing to be Gone, and is at liberty to employ himself in active service farther South, where the real work is about to be accomplished. Commodore Foote despatched yesterday to the Seoretary of the Navy that in the morning three of ‘Dur gunboats and three mortar boats opened a heavy fire on the floating battery of the rebels @t Island No. 10, and continued to pour (m shell and shot so briskly that the bat- tery was cut loose from her mooringa and Grifted some three miles down the river. The tebel steamer Winchester was set on fire and burned to the water's edge on Saturday. The enemy are erecting batteries all along the Ten- Qessee shore, to prevent the landing of our troops. Prom the Lower Potomac we have intelligence that the rebels have abandoned Fort Lowry, on the Rappahannock; and that they have entirely disappeared from the mouth of the river to the town of Rappahannock. The approaching battle at Corinth, Miss., pro- mises to be an important affair. The St. Louis Republican says that General Halleck will com- mand our troops in person. It adds that ‘the plans for the coming operations are grand and magnificent, and if they should only partially suc- ceed we shall be able to chronicle most important resulta."" The Chicago Tribune says “that no army ever engaged in battle on this con- tinent with half the number of that which is at this day under the General's direction. We do not know how he may be op- posed, but from the fact that all the remaining energies of the South have been drawn upon to make head against him, we cannot hope that the battle which impends will be anything but obsti- | Qate and bloody.”’ Our troops had # brush with the rebels in Ar- kansas, at Putnam's Ferry, on Tuesday last, in which fivo of the latter were taken prisoners and one officer killed. A large quantity of smali arms, camp equipage, horses and forage fell into our hands. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, Mr. Hale gave notice of anew rule, which he proposed to offer—that during the existing rebellion the majority of the Benate may fix the time when debate on any enb- fect shall cease, and the Senate shall then vote on the question, without further discussion. A bill to aid in the constrection of a railroad and elegraph line to the Pacific was reported by the special committee on the subject. A resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency of providing compensation for horses, baggage, dc., lost at Hatteras, was referred. The remainder of the sension was devoted to District of Columiia aces. In the House of Representatives, the co tion of the Tax bill was resumed in Commitice the Whole. An amendment, offered by Mr. Blair, of Missouri, proposing to tax slaves two dollars per head, gave rise to an animated discussion: bet was rejected bya vote of 47 to The bill Was then reported to the House by the committee, The amendments were ordered to be printed, and the bill made the special order for Monday next. A bill establishing a branch mint at Deny City, Colorado Territory, was passed Noth houses adjourned till Monday MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Ia the State Benaie at Albany yesterday, the bilis to reappropriate n moneys for canal enlargement; to declare the enlargements comple- tod on the Ist of Beptombor, and reduce the hrimn- ber of engineors, and incorporating the Pr eaby- ran Board of Foreign Missions, wore passed, wel. er | on that his veto would simply lead to a w | | | were passed. A favorable report was made on the bill making appropriations for the support of the State government and to abolish the office of State Assessor, The bill to authorize the New York Dis- trict Court clerks to appoint deputies received an adverse report, and was rejected. The bill to incor- porate the Universalist State Convention wasor- ered to a third reading. A general bill, amending the Excise laws, was reported. Also one for the creation of a commission to examine the accounts of the State Treasurer's office and of the Banking Department. The Congres- sional reapportionment was again under con- sideration. Little progress was made in it, however. In the Assembly, the bill to extend and complete the Chenango Canal was debated in Com- mittee of the Whole, and ordered to a third read" ing. The bill to create the office of Commissioner of Lunacy was sent to a select committee of five, to report complete. ‘he bill for the sale of the Staten Island Quarantine grounds was taken up in Committee of the Whole and debated at length, after which it was referred to the Judiciary Com- mittee, to be reported to the House complete. Ship Northampton, at Philadelphia, reports, Feb. 20, lat. 47 40, lon. 31.50, eight A. M., saw a bark about five miles distant, in distress. Ran down to her, when she proved to be the W. B. Dean, of Yarmouth, N. 8., from New York for Ross Ieland, loaded with corn, She had four feet water inher hold, one pump choked and entirely useless, the\other in bad order; had lost onc man over- board; the remainder were frostbitten and ex- hausted. The captain and crew were taken on board the Northampton and brought to this port. In the suit before the Supreme Court of the Mayor, &c., va.the Third Avenue Railroad Compa- ny, the defendants demurred to the confirmation of the ordinance of the Common Council imposing a tax of fifty dollars a year on each of the de- fendants’ cars. The General Term overruled the demurrer, and held that the taxation was legal without State legislation, and that the Common Council had a right to impose the fee. Five hundred and fifty thousand hogs have been packed in Chicago during the present sea- son. An election for city officers will take place to day in Louisville. Wall street continues extremely dul!, in consequence of the want of newa from the army. Stocks were gene- rally 3¢ a 3< lower yesterday. Money continued easy at 6a7. Exchange was dull: the quotations for bankors’ was ll2a 112% and 5.02}{a 5.05 Gold was 3; lower. ‘Phe Sub-Treasurer is sending large amounts of Trea- sury notes to the West, and they are becoming scarce here. The cotton market was steady yesterday, with eaics of 700 bales, mostly to spinners, closing om the basis of 27¢c. a 28c. for middling uplands. It was stated that the samples of cotton on the Magnolia showed that a considerable portion of the cargo was of an ordinary quality, and that some was inferior and partially damaged. Samples will be on exhibition to-day at Mr. Benner’s, 113 Wall street, when parties interested will be able to judge for themselves. Under the influence of the Niagara’s news flour was heavy, and fell off five cents per barrel, especially for common and me- dium grades, while sales were fair, chiefly to the domestio trade. Wheat was inactive, and prices were unchanged. Prime tochoice lots were scarce and firmly held. Corn was better, and sales somewhat checked by tne higher views of holders. Sales of West- ern mixed were made at 50c., in store, and at 603<c. a @1}e., delivered, and 62c. was asked by seme parties. Pork was rather firmer, with sales of new mees at $13 a $13 1234, and new-prime at $10 25 a $10 60. Sugars wore firm and active, with sales of about 2,000 bhds., at rates Given im another column, Coffee was more freely dealt in. Two cargoes of Rio were sold, embracing together 7,000 bags,on private terms. Freights were dull and engagements moderate, and with the turn of rates in vor of shippers va ry in the District of Columbia. The dominant party of the United States Senate, by the decisive vote of 29 to 14, have passed their peremptory bill fer the immediate abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, every proposition for gradual emancipation and for the submission of the question to the vote of the people of the District having been indignantly rejected. Practically, the liberation of the slaves of said District, as provided for in this bill, isa small matter. There are, perhaps, to-day less than a thousand of them, against a free negro population in the District of some fifteen thou- sand; so that in any case a negro slave inthe midst of this overwhelming free black popula- tion would be henceforward a very slippery and uncertain article of property. How, then, is the fact to be explained that the vote of every Senator from every border slave State was cast against this bill, from frst to last, and that those border slave State Senators, from first to last, fought the bill as if it werea measure full of mischief to slavery in said States? This question may be readily answered. Those border slave State Senators regard this bill as the entering wedge of an abolition pro- gramme embracing all the slave States. It is feared, for example, that the next experiment of the anti-slavery league in Congress will be the abolition of slavery in all the forts, dock- yards, &c., of the Unified States, and that the next will be the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, and the next, under the power to “regulate cém- merce” a bill of abolition pains and penalties con- cerning the traffic in slaves between the several States, and so on until this institution of slavery shall become practically outlawed by the general government. We know, too, that there is good ground for these apprehensions, con- sidering the implacable fanaticism of our aboli- tion demagognes and disorganizers in their chosen work of “emancipation or separation.” Against their incendiary schemes, however, we are sure that, during the present administration, our border slave States may rely upon the bonest and steadfast Union principles of Abraham Lineoln, and that our loyal conservative people, North and South, in the next administration, will take care to retain these Union principles as the practical policy of the government. Over the District of Columbia Congress, in the words of the constitution, Has “ exclusive power of legislation in all cases whatsoever ;” and hence there is an express legal justification for this bill which cannot be found in behalf of the other abolition meas: ee we have indicated. considering the lincoln, he may The Abolition o: But even upon this mensire. ah well known views of Pr suggest the expediency ty of a rati- fying vote of the people in stely concerned. We say now that he may—not that he wijl— return this bill to the Senate with this sngges- for should it pass the House aa it has parted the Senaie, by a two-thirds vote, his views upon the inexpediency of the measure as it stands may be overruled by the considera- o) of time in Congress which might be more pro- fitably expended upon other subjects. In any event, however, whether this Senate } bill for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, with or without any materiel modification, is to become a law, we hope the subject will be ventilated by the President, if | called upon to sign this peremptory measure, His recorded views upon the subject are suf. ficient to explain his present position; but Ne ton Geuiioa (hese, a number of private and local billg | oven, if necessary, against a two-thirds yote of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1862. both houses, the country would derive a high degree of satisfaction from his reaffirmation in this case of the ruling idea of his late emauclpa- tion message, to wit—the submission of this question of the abolition of slavery to the peo- ple directly concerned. Poor Poros Trivmpaant at Last.—Dr. Hop- kins, of Detroit, in November last procured for himself free lodgings in Fort Lafayette by overdoing a practical joke in the shape of a myaterious letter, full of suggestive insinuations and initials, and dashes and signs, in regard to @ treasonable league of the K. G. C's (Knights of the Golden Circle) in Detroit and there- abouts. Some of his initials in said letter, when examined by the State Department, were supposed to apply to ex-President Pierce, and forthwith, from the Department, a letter was addressed to poor Pierce, calling for an ex- planation. Poor Pierce was not slow to answer it, and in his correspondence on the subject he pays off Secretary Seward with considerable interest. In fact, poor Pierce, in this matter, has enveloped himself in the first positive blaze of glory by which he has ever been surrounded. He did nothing in the Mexican war, and nothing while he was President, to satisfy anybody that there was such good stuff inhim. He leaves “Old Buck” at last completely in the shade as a man of pluck and spirit. As for Dr. Hopkins, having caught himself in his own ingenious mousetrap, he has doubtless learned by‘this time the good old maxim that “fools should not meddle with edged tools.” We presume that, as he has made a full confes- sion of his folly, he is out upon his parole; and we recoiffmend him now to proceed to the organization of a new golden circle, the Knights of the Golden Ass, and that Senator Chandler, of Michigan, be made the Grand High Priest of the order, and Bull Run Russell the Grand High Corresponding Secretary, LL.D. and A.SS. Greetey a Seceysionist-—Poor Greeley seems to have periodical fits of penitence, and rushes to the confessional to try to atone for months of misdemeanors by a moment's frank- ness. He issued his “Just Once” confession during one of these lucid intervals, and in Thursday's Tribune he repeats his doleful pec- cavi. The poor fellow writes a long and un- necessary letter to the Hon. Garrett Davis, and prints it in the Tribune, partly because he feared that the gentleman addressed would return it unopened and unread if it were sent through the Post Office, and partly because of his irro- sistible propensity to trouble the public with his private correspondence. In the course of the letter he says:—“I am one of the few Northern men who, to avoid this war, would have preferred that the cotton States should leave us in peace.” This is a very candid con- fession, and we congratulate poor Grecley upon having made it. But what can he say now to the repeated denials the Tribune has given to us when we made just the very charge against him to which be now pleads guilty? All abolitionists are secessionists and disunionists as a matter of course, and Greeley is not only one of the Northern abolitionists who ad- vocated disunion, bat also one of the few men who unhappily escaped Fort Lafayette for their treason. Tue Tax ox Counsry Newsrarers.—The coun- try papers ought to be taxed as well as city papers of large circulation. By the bill before Congress the tax on the income of news- papers is limited to those whose circulation exceeds two thousand. Now, this is giving a premium to the country presses to which they have no claim. Why should the income of a man owning a newspaper with a circulation of less than two thousand be exempt from taxa- tion, unless under the general rule that income is to be taxed only when it exceeds six hundred dollars? What claim for exemption does the possession of a small paper give to its pro- prieter’ If there be anything in the nature of a public journal that ought to relieve it from taxation, bas not the paper with three thousand circulation, or twenty thousand, or one hundred thousand, as good a right to exemption as the paper of two thousand circulation? Now, the rule proposed in the bill would throw the whole tax upon about one hundred or one hundred and fifty journals, and remove it from the bal- ance, numbering some eighteen hundred or nineteen hundred. This is manifestly unjust, and contrary to every principle of taxation. The tax on the blank paper used is fair enough, and so is the tax on telegraphic messages, and the tax upon advertisements. These taxes are a per centage on the value, and operate uniformly and equitably. But to pay a bonus to a journal for having a small circulation—in other words, to let it go scot free—is an extraordinary mode of raising revenue. Uniformity is the only true principle of taxation. Instead of exempt- ing the small country papers from the burthens of the war, they ought to be made to pay smartly; for, notwithstanding their ignorance, they have been the principal agents in pro- ducing civil convulsion. They have sown the wind, and to reap the whirlwind would be their just desert. Leoistatme, Loe Rowe ann Rixore.— There is a jobbing Ring in the Corporation which has juet made the Timesa present of 20,000 in the torm of the Corporation adver- tising. This Ring is understood to be controlled by County Clerk Alderman Genet. There is also a Ring in the Legislature, which has the power to put the nice little sum of sixty ora hundred thoueand dollars into the tax levy for the purpose of paying the salaries of our city officials. This Ring is managed by Speaker Raymond, of the Times. To conceal the move- ments of these Rings there isa feint made of an intention to give the Corporation printing, by act of the Legislature, to the three papers having the largest circulation. While this strategical feint is made to delude outsiders, ihe real movement takes place behind, the Cor- poration Ring giving Raymond the city adver- tising, and the legislative Ring giving the city officials their salaries. Put that and that together, add them up quietly, and see to what they amount. Savoe vor THE Broapwar Goosen axp Nowe yor THe Bowery Ganner.—Speaker Raymond bas been making @ speech up at Albany, in which he advocates shutting up all the Irish and American concert saloons on Broadway, and leaving open all the German concert sa- loons in the Bowery. What is the difference between them, pray? They sell liquor at both the Bowery and Broadway saloons; they have pretty or ugly waiter girls at both the Bowery and Broadway saloons; all sorts of people, good bad and indifferent, frequent both the Bowery and Broadway saloous. Now, why ehovld the Broadway saloons be closed and the Bowery saloons be left open’ What ia the dilerguce between them: Suanes mw Tue Trmone ror Sace.—We learn upon good authority that there are sevoral shares in the Tribune for sale, We cannot say how many, but from ten upwards, The pro- prietors are about w baker's dozen, and the whole number of shares is supposed to be fifty. Before the present troubles commenced shares | in the Tribune sold for $3,500; but now they can be had for $3,000, and, if that is considered too much, $2,000 will be very acceptable; in fact they will go at any price they will bring, and Greeley himself will be thrown into the scale as a makeweight. The melancholy truth must bo told that the concern is fast losing money. We advise all the fanatical nigger worshippers to come forward now and take advantage of so good an opportunity to invest in a red republican organ of destruction. The antecedents of the paper have been of the right kind, and al) the issues have been advocated in turna—Fourrier- ism,'free-loveism, Maine Liquor lawism, Graham breadism, woman’s rightsism, abolitionism, amalgamationism and revolutionism of the most bloody kind. Let all who aspire to an owner- ship in the propagandist of black fraternity and equality, of human humbng and human insanity, ‘come forward and buy the shares now for sale. Let them come quick; for, judging from its dimin- ishing columas, growing small by degrees and beautifully less, and judging from the low diet on which it feeds, in a very short time the niggers’ journal will vanish completely out of sight, and the place that knew it will know it no more It is already dwindled almost to a skeleton: it will soon be # wandoring ghost. Waar is Tae Matter wit tae Press Gana at Atuany?—A mysterious announcement recently appeared in the papers, to the effect that a con- vention had been called at Albany of the editors and publishers of journals in this State, to take measures to protect their interests. We won- dered against what the mutual protection was needed, when, lo! a “strictly confidential” cir- cular informs all “publishers, editors and re- porters of the State of New York” that “the customary and legitimate rights and privileges of the press” have been repeatedly attacked o late by the Legislature. Of these attacks we were in a state of blissful ignorance; and even now we can only make a guess as to their na- ture. For our own part we do not feel aggrieved. The Legislature has taken away no privileges from us; for we never enjoyed any at its hands. But we suppose the country editors have been deprived of their rights in the lobby, together with free paper, pens and ink, free drinks and chewing tobacco, free board at the hotels, free travelling by railroad, and everything free; for is not this an age of universal freedom? Their privileges have been transferred to Wall street. We pity the sorrows of the press-gang of the Albany lobby for being thus curtailed of their “customary and legitimate rights and privi- leges,” and their suffering in consequence “many financial evils.” But how the proposed combination, or “mutual understanding,” is to “remedy” their disasters, we are ata loss to know. Let us have a little light on the subject. Peortze Rosxinc Man vrom Reaptve Anoui- tion Newsrarers.—Ono of the Brooklyn jour- nals reports the arrest of a raving lunatic, who has been going about the streets of that city proclaiming that he was on his way to Wasb- ington to depose Genoral McClellan and take the command of the Army of the Potomac. His friends stated that he had been brought to this melancholy condition by reading the Tri- bune. The unfortunate man was consigned to one of the county institutions for proper safe keeping and medical treatment. We are afraid that as the hot weather approaches the same predisposing cause of insanity will produce many such cases. Let, therefore, the State and private lunatic asylums at once enlarge their means of accommodation. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Ser ee Avnaxy, April 4, 1862. Mr. Buu. reported favorably the bili to make appro- Printions for the support of the Siate government, and to abolish the office of State Assessor. ‘The bill to authorize the New York District Cour, clerks to appoint deputies was reported adversely, and the Dili was rejected. Mr, Fotos reported a general bill t amend the Excise laws. ‘ The bill to incorporate the State Convention of Uuiver- salists was ordered to a third reading. BILIA PASSED, To extend the time for the completion of the Buffalo ‘and Alleghany Railroad. To jucorporate the Brooklyn Pharmaceutical Society. To incorporate the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyteria® church of the United States, To incorporate the Mutual Aid Society of the Genesee Annual Conference. ‘To increase the duties and compensations of physicians of the State prisons, ‘To declare the canal enlargement completed on the Lat of September, and re the nutaber of engineers. ‘To reappropriate certain money for the enlargement and completion of the canal. ‘The Congressional Apportionment bill was taken up, and Mr. Bell's substitute adopted by @ vote of 16 to 9. Anumber of amendments were proposed, debated and jected. ir, Batt, By consent, reported a bill to create a com. miasion for the examination of the accounts of (he State ‘Treasurer, Bank Dopartment, kc. ‘The entire session was consumed io the consideration of one Private Claim bill. Adjourned. Assembly. ALBANY, April 4, 1862. Toe Supply bill was made the special order fur to morrow, ‘The bill to provide for the extension and completion of the Chenango Canal was taken up as the special order in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Beadle in the chair. ‘After dobate the bill was ordered toa third reading by & vote of 69 to 19, The bill to create the office of Commissioner of Linacy was sent to a select eommitice of five to report complete, Messrs. Pringlo, Bowen, Cowles, Benedict and Tracey were appointed as such select committee, EVENING SHSSION. The Committes of the Whole, Mr. Olvaney in the chair took up the bill to convey the Quarantine ground Staten Island for public uses. Mr. Ect made a statement in favor of the bill. Mr. Stwrson favored the bill, New York State did not desire to turn land speculator. It had had use of the innd for along term of years, and it should be willing now to give it back to the county, upon receiving the money paid for it. Mr. Scuorsrimtn epoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Pueres said the it when the ighiborbood was e@ wild the Delougs to the State as much as any man’s farm belongs to him. He did not want the House to be led off on false fesues. The idea of Richmond county setting itself up ‘As injured by the State, is absurd. The quarantine waa a positive benefit to Richmond county up to 1856 ete residences to Y jand was = quarantined thirty years Then there were no see there, = It all very well to desire to id of Cuarantine, but do not say the gov ent hag injured ‘county that hag injured the State. He would eng! forget and forgive the out- rage ogainst law and humanity perpetrated by the burning f the Quarantine buildings, if the county came ‘with a fair proposal to offer for the property. Bat when they demand the land for nothing, they esuld not con- wont to grant the request. The proposition to sell the land for $60,000 was merely placing @ technical price upon it, Pattor along debate progress was reported, and the bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee to report complete. Me. Kranyer moved to refer the bill to incorporate the New York Firemon's Saving Institution to tho first Committee of the Whole, He advocated the which was carried. The bill was then consider ordered to # third réadin, the county, where it ist! New York Court of Appeals. Aunany, April 4, 1962, silow ing is tho calendar of the Court of Appeata %. 34, 35, 93, 3814, 99, 40, 48, 40, itate bought this land and paid for | | close app THE MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, | The Farewell Address of General Rosecrans to His Companions in Arms, Testimonial to the Retiring Generals and His Reply. Sketches of General Rosecrans and His Chief of Staff, General Hartsnff. GEN. KELLEY's NEW COMMAND, he Rees he. General Fremont having been appointed to be chief of the Mountain Department, and having assumed command, General Rosecrans issued the following farowoll order on the cocasion of his resigning the command of his dopart- ment, formerly known as the ‘‘ Department of Western Virginia,’ and which is now embraced in the Mountain Department :— Farewell of Brigadier General Rosecrans tothe 0: md Soldie: His Command. ei mer (ss ov Tite Mountain DaraRTaant, ‘Wauxstina, March 29, 1862. i ORDER Xo. 4. Baorner Orricers aNnp Soupiees:—Departmont Order No. 11, published the President's War Order No. 3, announced the change in the limits and stylos of this department and the assignment of an officer of superior rank to its 01 Major General John C. Fremont, United States Army, having arrived at Wheeling to assume the command, I now take leave of you in the only mavner in which cir- cumstances permit—viz: in general order. Companions in Arms—In this vast department of moun- tains and forests, in the rains of summer, the cold .and storms of winter, for nine months, I have witnessed your uncompiaining zeal and activity, your watchings, your marchings aud your combats. Under God, to your bravery. and good conduct it is due that not a single reverse has attended our arms in all these vast regions. Wherever I gol shall bear with me the remembrance of mon who, leaving home and its endearmonts against the force of all formor tastes and habita, have undertaken to inure themselves to the toils, privations, hardships and dangers of a military life, and have succeeded. But, comrades, proud as [ am of the manly energy you have thus displayed, I am prouder still to bear testimony to the pure and lofty patriotism which has calied it forth. No mean and sectional spirit, no low truckling to reck- less leadership, no blind and’ ignorant fanaticism, has animated you. ‘By your intolligence, your magnanimity and forbearance towards those whom the rebellion has misied, lope have shown that you enterod into the con- flict with a conviction that tho interests of free govern- ment and even of human om itself, opposed by arbitrary and despotic will, by rebellion in favor of des- tism, lay in the issue, and that you fought for the iberties of all—both North and South. ‘Such men deserve to be—and will be—free themselves; or, dying, will bequeath liberty and a glorious name to their posterity. ° That it may be your happy lot,in the Union and the constitution and the laws, to be free and happy your- Selves, and to bequeath freedom, happiness and a glorious ‘name to your childrep, is my eee wish and hope. . 8. ROSECRANS, Brigadier General United States Army. Testimonial to Genoral Rosecrans. As a tribute of respect, the officers of the Department of Western Virginia held a meeting and resolved upon the following:— ‘Waxkuina, March 31, 1862. At a resting of the officers connected with the staff of Brig. Gen. W. 8. Rosecrans, held at the headquartere of the Mountain Department, Brig.Gen. Geo. L. Hartstuff re ae to the chair, and Maj. Joseph Darr, Jr., ap- Pom motioa It was Resolved, That the President appoint a committee to draft a series of resolutions expressive of the sentiments of the officers of the staff of Brig. Gea. Rosecrans on parting with him, and to report upon a suitable testi- monial to be presented to him. 7 The President spoon as the committee Major 8. W. Crawford, Acting Inspector General; Major D. H. McPhail, Pay Department, United States Army; Major Joseph Darr, Je. First ey Cavalry, Provost Marshal; First Lieut: ©. Goddard, A. D. C., who reported the following resolu- tions, which were unanimously adopted, and the same committee retained to procure the testimonial. Resolved, That in terminating our official intercourse with Brigadier General tender to him thanks for and private. Resolved, That while we cannot but regret that our connection with him ts thus terminated, we willever che- rish @ remembrance of our association with him with feelings of the de attachment and regard, and will over honor him as the maa, the soldier and the Christian. Resolved, further, That a committee be appointed to pours @ suitable testimonial to be presented to Brigadier al Rosecrans, as a slight token of our regard; that a of these resolutions be presented to him, and also published in the baie i rie and New York pa- pers. GEO. L. HARTSUFF, Chairman. Jcs. Darr, Jr., Secretary. GENERAL ROSECRANS’ REPLY. Wueruiso, March 31, 1862. Gavitxmey—Your favor, enclosing a copy of the pro- ceeding of a meeting of the members of my late staff is just received. The oxpression of such sentiments by such men, and at such @ time, adds one more to the (les which bind me to those who composed the meeting. To say that I bear testimony that they have displayed, in the degree becoming their standing as members of the stall, the patriotism, courage and endurance which have distinguished the troops of this department, is not euffi- cieat to satisly ny judgment or my heart. I found ia you all, gentlemen, such high intelligent ap- preciation of suggestions for the good of the service, and = such prompt, cheerful and Cary efforts to render your respective branches efficient?that I cannot help say- ing to you, in at measure, our troops qwe order, comfort and suecet ‘That God may bless you, one and all, gentlemen of my late staff, is the wich of your friend W. 8. ROSECRANS, Brigadier Gener nited States Army. To Brigadior General G. L. Hartsvvy, Major 8, W. Craw. rorv, Major R.E.Cuany, Major D. H. McPuait, Major Joz. Darr, Jr., and the other officers of my late staff, Wheeling, Va. General Rosecrans Not Yet Assigned a Command. {From the Whooler Intelligencer, April 2.) believe that no command hus yet been assigned to | Rosecrans. For the present stopping at the 1 House, remont has i# taf, and will at once take charge of this, the “ Moontain Department,” tw which he has beeu assigned. A portion of this de- partment has, until the arrival of Genera! Fremont, been under the command of Brigadier General Roseerang, and is known as the Department of Western Virginia, ast. ern Kentucky and Eastern Tenn have been added to the department, and we havo #aid, “ the Mountain Departme: mand in Western Vir, tistay ‘out, furnishes us with an int From it we quote as followe:— William Starke Rosecrans was born in Kingston town- ship, Delaware county, Ohio, on the 6th of December, 1819: His parents were Crandall Rosecrans, whove an’ cestors were origiua'ly from Ams! 1 " Jemima Hopking, the f ley. Pa., who ew ed im the game b woidier of the Re ofvered bis life an A little volume, j ing abstract of bik life. aicorntry, end jon, Who had for ive ti ent General were passed iu ation to hie tudiea, so that at the age of eighteen he was well Utted for bis appointent as cadet at the Military Academy at We eted with high honors in 1842, merit, ioe niehed ce at Ist of July, 1 roe, as free of Lieut t 6 E ud to dnity ab Wert ent Professor of Engiveering. period Generel Rosecrans was united in Jenne church, in New York city, to the complished Mire A. EB. Hegemon, only drian Hegel long “known aud re- hi had charge ©: (he depariment to which witt had been aitached, while that officer for nine months Post to Newport in 1847, and ions and the reconstruc. h bad previouriy been ty devoived upon him gineering, eer iartermaster. Sere took charge of the for. tion of @ large military whe, destroyed during @ storm. 7b on account of bie recognised abiilty ag an enginecr, and was then looked wpon compliment. He rev mained there until 1# he was charged with the survey of New Medford and l'rovidence harbors, and ‘Taunton fiver, under an act of Congresa, appropriating a Th Aprill atated sum for the porposes ef improvement 1864, he was ordere: the Navy s then ase as Consiructing Engineer, at Wachington’ Nevy Yard watil November, 1663, when, on account of ill health, he felt compelled to resi¢n his po cn gltion and tendered his resignation to the Secretary of War, Joffereon Davis. The resignation was not ascepted froin a desire to retain so valuable an officer in the wer ico and a leave of absence was granted, with the un- derstanding that at its terminus, if the resigt wistod upon, it would tly done in April, 1 om that date to Ju pied an office in Cincinn architect, In Jue, 1855, ‘ot the interests of the Un with other parties, were eng dams, and endeavoring to elfuct © a ( ™, times on-Coal river, in Westorn Virginia, A, 7 of the works’ and Ysenideat es ae Seperatontons 86me contro! of einnati Coal Off ‘one ue maxting propar 8 for an extensive busivess, in which ho was dieotiy couce:ned. The many improvements perfecied by him whie in this capacily furnish ample evidence of the fertility of bia inventive genius, dopth of hig rewearches ind tho activity of bia energetic mind. But tho threa‘eno! storm of rebellion at last burst upon the country, calling to arms the neb!e heroes who were propared to shed exultiugly their last drop of blood in the effort to matutein the government and pro- serve the constitution, When General M.Clellan was appointed bo at once solvcted General Tosecrans &s bis aid and acting Chief Engineer, with tho rank of Major. ‘Tho Legislature of Obio then purposely created the offlee of Chief Engineer of the Stato, which was intended for General Roseorane and accepted by him. Gn the 10th of Juno, 1861, he wag ty Gj appointed by Governor Dennison Colonel of the Tw third regiment Ohio Volunteers, amd was sent up. mission to Washington city to arrange for the mainte- nance and payment of the Uhio contingent for On the 20th of June he was nominated by the lent @ Brigadier General in the regular army, @ promotion uni- versally acknowledgod to be as rapid a8 it was deserved, and attended with the spontanoous approbation of all classes and creeds of citizens, who kuew his worth and estimated bis mer! When the advance into Western Virginia was made Goneral Rosecrans was entristed with a brigade, com- posed of the following rogimonts:—The Eighth and ‘Pent Indiana, Seventeenth and Nineteenth Ohio, and is command at Parkprepare, Here, from an eye witness, wo find this testimony of his energy:— “Our General is an incessant worker. He is ip his saddle almost constantly. He has not had a full ‘a sleep since he bas been in Virginia, and he as often his meals on horseback as at table. His genialit; ae es endear him to atl who come in him. ia soldiers recognize in him a com~ afterwards led to Buekhangon, and cn the 22th of Jaly morabie battle of Rich Mountain, quently Leelee: ney matter ‘dout of Western Virginia, and Socially ,the General is a refined gentleman, trenuucearantemtand: an tie aetie ihe Won! person he is a little above es ty it, rather road forehead the army of Wi ‘ ginia, being appointed 24th of July. On the Ist of August General Rosecrans telegraphed to the War Der partment at Washington that the Valley of the wha ‘was freed from rebels, and his forces had captured one thousand muskets, a quantity of ammunition, &c. the 10th of Soptember he wounded and routed Floyd, who had sixteen pieces of artilfery and five or six thoul sand men at Carnifex Ferry, and again rid his depart- ment of rebela, Goneral Rosecrans’ headquarters are at Wheoling, where he has beén actively proparing for the apr! campaign. His forces are in such a ition as to terror to the quaking miscreants who have made theit eye aed vast scene of treason and blood. Brigadicr Genoral George L. Ha! re This r ig well known to the citizena of — not in his new capacity of a Brigadier General, but a@ Captain Harteuff, Adjutant on the staff of General crang. He bas been in this city all wintor, presiding in the chief office at ,the General’ nominated and confirmed day last,on account of services capacity. We are indebted to one of his brother i , following floers of Genstal Rovocrans stafffor the J 1854, having been tenant in the Second % ‘was ordered to Florida in June, 1854; served tinually in the fleld until July, 1886, having tl himself in several bloody contests eporene oe ipa wounded once so severly ae ubtished ine its vapers reo t was jn the excited m interest. He feo 4 servod in feo Be of that malarious wards went with a detachment to Fort ber, 1866, itructor in artillery: tactics. Ho remained at West Point up to J when he was relieved at his own request, and reut Wel to join bis company at Mackinaw, serving there until Oc , 1860. The Captain was asurvivor of the disaster to the Lady Elgin, on Lake Michigan, exhibiting on that occasion the coolness and courage for which be is dist January, 1861, he was ordered on duty at and was there appointed Assistant Adjutant the 22d of March following. On the ae ieee, wae e under orders for Santa Fe, he was with an order to join a secret expedition, the of whieh was unknown at the time, but afterwards proved to be Fort Pickens, ida. He returned to Wash! ton on the 16th of July, and received orders to join ral rans in Westorn Virginia, arriving at Clarke burg on the 6th of August last. tain Hartsuff greatly distinguished himself doring the late campaign under Gencral Rosecrans, hig name being prominently mentioned fn tere. His nomination is looked upon ag one of the and most promising yet made, as he is on every hand aged to be every inch a soldier. A hee ef his life is due to the Captain for will, we understand, soon be presented to the General Kellcy’s Command. Genera! Fremont has issued the following order ae signing @ command to Brigadier General B, F. Kelley: GENERAL ORDER, NO. 6. -ARTERS, MOUNTAIN DEPARTMENT, AERLING, March 29, 1862. All of Western Virginia, north and east of the count: of Jackson, Roane, Calhoun, Braxton, Lewis, Barbour Tucker inclusive, and west of the Alleghanies, Marylan aud Penusylyania, will, until further orders, constitute the Railroad District. Brigadier General B. F. Kelley, Volunteers, is assigned Lo the command. MAJOR GENERAL FREMONT. al issued the jeapquartens Raitroap Drsrricr, Wausuva, Va., April 1, 1862. Iu accordance with General Order No. 6, from Hoad- quarters Mountain Department, the undersigned assumes command of the Railroad District. ‘The following territory 1s comprised in the Railroad District, vit— All of Western Virginia north and east of the counties of Jackson, Roane, Calhoun, Braxton, Lewis, Barbour and ‘Tucker, inclusive and west of tho Alleghanlos, Maryland and Peunsyivania. It is directed that the commanding officera of the seve. ral stations, detachments and posts in this district, will cause to be made out and forwarded tothese rters: weekly reports, and such other communications required by army regulations. Attention of officers is called to paragraphs 460 and 452 of revised Army Regulations. By ordet Bi | KELLEY. rigadier Genel ’ W. B. Katizy, Aid-de-Camp, Acting Asgistant Adjutant General. GENERAL ORDER NO. 1. SPECIAL ORDER NO, 2. Heapquanrers, Rairoap Dasrnict, Wirxun, Va., April 1, 1862. The rebels having been driven from the entire line of the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad, the track repaired, the bridges rebuilt and the read put in complete running or der, eMctently protected by ral troops, the road is now open for trade, travel and the transportat of go- vernment troops, ordnance and eupplies tht from Wheeling aud Parkersburg to Baltimore and Washington city. Tie General commanding the district congratulates the government upon the great advantages presented in the reopening of this great national thorough(are. Too much credit cannot be awarded to the President and other offt- cers of the road for their hearty co-operation in accom- plishing 80 important a work to the great commercial in- teresis of the country; and his thanks are also due the troope of the Upper Potomac and the line of the road recently engaged with him im thie service for their dustry and endurance; and, in compliment directs that Capt. Buell, First Virginia cake one hundred guns to be fired ol of the firet through passenger train from Baltimore to-morrow morning at five o'clock. LS Brigadier General KELLEY. ALA. A. Gen, Wy. B. Emtry, A. D. The Steamship: America. Hauiwax, April 3, 1862. The steamship Niagara sailed at a quarter past ten this evening for Boston, where she will be due iy iy on Saturday morning. araship America bas not yet arrived here from ——— Navigation udsom River. ALsast, April 4, 1862. ‘The cteamboat isaac Newton, from New York, arrived here in good season to-day. ‘The ice in the river is all offers no obstraction (0 navigation. The ice in the Mohawk river has also broken up ‘Vhere is no freak tt ROE a3 tn Arrival of the Gunboas Seut& Carolina at Bos Bostow, April 4, 1862. arcived, gunboat South Carolina, Captain Hopkins, from Key West on the i The Pay of the Governor's Staff. Aunany, April 4, 1802. The statement hevieg bean made, in noticing the re~ port of the Select Commityes to oxamine the gots of the | wate Military Boayd uwder the Three Million bill, that tho officers of Governor Morgan's sia receiued double pay’, it is proger to state, on inquiry at the Comptrolier's office, that Ahe staf ofcors have only received the pay of majors of infantry, although theit rank entitied thou ¢@ ths Qay of brigadier generality