The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1862, Page 4

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AITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC BALL, Oanai vet.—Sones, Dances, BuRLEserEs, dc. iAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.—Deawine oom BXTBRTAINMEN TS, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. — Open daily trom 10 A. M. till 10 1°. M. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Erarorian Bowas, Dancas, BuRLEsauEs &c New York, Saturday, November 15, THE SITUATION. The news from Burnside’s army, although not Getailing any advance movement, is interesting, as far as the positions assumed by the enemy are con- cerned. Stonewall Jackson has moved his forces from the vicinity of Front Royal. The march was made on Monday end Tuesday last. His army is Dew encamped at Pewtown, seven miles from Win- chester, on the Romney turnpike. His force is va- riously estimated at from twenty-five to forty thousand, and forty pieces of artillery. A report is current that the Union pickets be- tween Alexandria and Fairfax Court Honse were attacked yesterday, but there has been no con- Grmation of the rumor, It is stated in despatches from Harper's Ferry chester and Harper's inchester and our sco! that Jackson is between Wi Ferry. P all report that Jackson passed through that town on Monday, and that General liill followed him on ‘Tuesday. A rebel brigade, which has been hovering around Culpepper for some time past, was driven from there yesterday by aforce of Pieasauton’s Cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Colburn and Lieutenant Colo- l Duane, of General McCle'! ated at Trenton yesterday and sont to Washing- 4, and it is reported that other members of his fare also to be arrested. The charges against eugae officers are unknown, and the cause of their 8 from ts ‘Y's stail, were ar- arrest remains mystery, which only the govern- ment, in its arbitrary excreise of power, can solve. Generali Wright despatches to the War Depart- ment, from his headquarters in Cincinnati, that General Kelly, on the 10th inst., attacked Colonel Imbodien’s camp, eighteen miles south of Moore- field, Hardy couniy, Va., routed him completely, jailing and wounding many and capturing hie camp, fifty prisoners, a quantity of arms and a large nomber of hot ‘The rebels, he says, were entirely dispersed and fied to the mountains. The rebels are said to be concentrating in lerge force at Murfreesboro’, with a view to resist the advance of our troops from Nashville or to obtain supplies, which is most likely. Colonel Kennett, of the Fourth Ohio cavalry, commanding the re- gion about Hartsville, reports the capture of large quantities of rebel supplies, and that their forag ing parties are skedaddling as rapidly as possible. Our extracts from the Sovthern papers to-day are intensely interesting. The Grenada Appeal in its Richmond correspondense says that General Lee is about to go into winter quarters within s few miles of Righmond. The condition of the city is represented as frightful. We are told that ‘‘garot- (8, burglary, drunkenness, in spite of the Provost Marshel, and all manner of villany are on the in- crease most alarmingly, and provisions are con- @tantly advancing in price. Flour is $26 « barrel hore, in sight of the largest mills in the world, and butter is difficult to obtain at $1 50 per pound; that Richmond is worse than Naples, worse than Baltimore was when Winter Davis was the Wilkes of the Plug Ugly swell mob of that lawless city. No one thinks of going into the Cimmerian streets efter nightfall without arms. A large and weil organized gang of cut throats has ‘taken the town.’ ‘They lie in wait at almost every corner, weil pro- cattle, hogs and wazons. Vided with slang shots, billies, brass knuckles, and | all the other devilish implements of mischief which the city highwayman uses to disable his vietims, and they attack sverybody that walks | alone, oftentimes gentlemen when attended by ladies." The Charleston Mercury says the South should sot encourage their expectation as to recognition ry foreign Powers. The Courier discusses the evils of peace, re- oarking, in conclusion, “If we permit them to impose upon us again with their false professions, the Yankees will do us infinitely greater injury @iter the war has terminated than they can do us while the conflict is going on.” ‘The Buropa, at Halifax, brings news from Eu- rope to the 2d of November—two days later. The ship Jupiter, from New York for Antwerp, reports that she was spoken by an iron rebi'l pric vateer steamer off Sable Island. The English journals have little of interest on Amorivon Maire Firing | | States government for the rapid organiza’ a very powerful and efficient fleet. The writer says that Great Britain could ‘‘do five times as much by setting every navy yard to work without stint or scrutiny.’" Earl Carlisle, in his capacity of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, openly approved of the non-interven- | tion policy of England towards the United States | Mr. Bentinck, M. P., denounces American de- moeracy and the Northern States ag its exponent. The London Globe says that the English Cabinet will, probably, shortly give expression to its views concerning the proceedings of the Alabama—the No. “ 290" pirate. The famous debating club of Cambridge Univer- sity (the Union), debated the American war sub- ject during two evenings. The question was put thus:—‘That the Cause of the North ie the Cause of Human Progress.’’ The proposition was nega- tived by a vote of one hundred and seventeen to thirty-three—Earl Russell's eldest son speaking with the majority against it. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. : The steamer Orizaba, which left San Francisco for Panama on the th instant, has on board $1,200,000, instead of $130,000, as previously re- ported. $400,000 of the amount was on English account. Tie steamship Europa, from Queenstown on the 2d instant, arrived at Halifax at alate hour last Thursday night, on her voyage to Boston, Her news is two days later. Console closed in London on the 3st of Octo- ber at 9244 a 9254 for money. The Stock-Ex- change was closed on Saturday, the lst of Novem. ber. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant on the Ist inst., and prices advanced two pence sterling per pound for American descriptions over the depressed quotations reported by the Nova Scotian. Surats went up from one-half to three- fourths of a penny per pound. Breadstufis were steady and provisions dull on the same day. President Lopez, of Paraguay, isdead. His son, Francisco Lopez, filled the government chair pro- visionally. Elections were to be held in Greeceon the 10th of November. France, England and Rus- sia had agreed on @ common cause of non-interven- tion in the affairs of Greece. Each Power wishes to respeot the treaty of 1856, The departure of the French fleet for the Greek coast had been de- layed. Seventeen surgeons had met in consulta- tion and examined Garibaldi’s wound. They separated without being able to tell whether the bullet was in his foot or ankle or not. The Russian government had discovered a central revolution- ary comnitiee in Warsaw. The Chinese authorities having detained the teas which were under export order for Europe, a Brit- ish gunboat was sent to Tan-Kan, which seized the mandarin and war junks stationed there, with the custom house officials, and liberated all the as. tee continue to-day the interesting historical account of the Prince de Joinville of the opera- tions of the federal army under General McClel- lan on the Virginia peninsula. The portion of the narrative we give this morning possesses many yoints of more than ordinary interest. It brings the army from its arrivel at Fortress Monroe to the siege of Yorktown, detailing the retreat of the Confederates and their pursuit by the whole Union army. The remarks of the Prince on the with- drawal of McDowell's corps from McClellan's com mand, and on the alliance between France and America, will commend themselves to all our readers. Another torn has been given to the wheel con- taining the returns for members of the New York Assembly, and the figures now stand sixty-three conservatives ond sixty-five republicans. A grand Union demonstration, ineluding a pro- cession, was held in Memphis on the 10th inst. The election of Owen Lovejoy is claimed by the republicans, though it is stated that a snfficient number of fraudulent votes have been discovered in Henry county to give his opponent a majority 'n the district. Nine hundred and thirty-two bales of cotton ar- rived at St. Louis on the 10th inst. from the Low- or Mississippi. Cotton begins to come North very frvely, and the Eastern mills have resumed their usual activity. The government bas contracted for twenty thonsand barrels of flour at St. Louis, at prices ranging from $1 69 to $5 14 per barrel. The bo- gus confederacy government have « standing con, tract with the Richmond milla for the » arti- cle at $20 per barrel, payable in © scrip’ redeem- able two years after the close of the war. There are now as many persous employed in the cotton mills at Lawrence; Massachusetts, as there were before the breaking out of the rebellion. Daring the months of April, May and June there were manufactured at the Watertown (Mass.) Ar. senal 9S field gun earriages, 1 carriage fora 12- inch rifled gun, 29 casemate carriages for 8-inch guns, 9 mortar beds, 21,292 rounds of field gun ammunition, 10,500 fuses, 4,050 brass fuse plugs with mouth pieces 7,000 rifle cartridges, 1,846,900 musket cartridges, and 714 war rockets. The Aldermanic Ordinance Committee again had the petroleum question under consideration yesterday, a large number of shippers and dealers incrude and manufactured petroleum being pre- sent. Several gentlemen interested in the busi- ness gave their views to the committee on the subject, but failed to prove that petroleam was not # dangereus volatile article at its present markotable vaporizing point. Mr. Finch, one of ihe directors of the Union Cosi and Oil Company, of Maysville, Kentucky, who has devoted two years to the analytical study of combustible oils, and particularly petroleum, expressed himself emphatically in favor of increasing the vaporizing point of munufactured petroleum to 120 or 126 degrees in order to insure safety to public life and property. This seemed to meet the views of the committee, who adjourned to next Thursday. The Board of Supervisors met again yesterday in the capacity of County Canvassers, when the Eighth, Fourteenth and Kighteenth wards were canvassed. In the Ninth and Tenth districts of the Eighth ward the returns were found incom- plete, and the Clerk was directed to notify the canvagsers of those districts to appear before the Board at twelve o'clock to-day. The trial of Amanda Thompson, the young colored woman indicted in the Court of General Sessions, before City Judge McCunn, for the mur- der of het husband, on the 29th of September last, was oonciuded yesterday. The jury, after being, out about three hours, brought in a verdict of | manslaughter in the fourth degree. The prisoner will be sentenced to-day. ‘The stock market opened lower yesterday, but rallied and closed at about the prices of the evening previous, though with a better tone and more tendency to buy for & rise. Money was very close at geven per cent, Ex- change closed at about 1464 \y,and gold at 131%, The import of dry goods for the week was $761,718 ‘The demand for cotton continued astive, and prices of middlings advanced to 64'c. a 650, per pound, with wales reported of 5,000 Leos. There was leas dv flour, which was Se. @ 10c. por barrel lower, Wheat and corn were plenty and lower, with more extensive sales, Pork deciined to $12 76 & $13 for mese, and §11 50 for prime, with eles of 1,600 bbls, There was considerable animation in lad and bacon, the former cloving cheaper. Butter ond chose were also active and advancing. Reef was tn fair request, but heavy in price. Afair b ees was transacted ip coffee, sugars, hay, hides, fish, hops, ingot copper, spices, tallow, whalebone , tobacco and whiskey at buoyant prices. The principal kinds of frait, oils, wool, lathe and jumber were in good request. The engagements of freight, mainly for Liver. ool and London, were fa, See eee Ot flour, tion of | The Financial Extgenetes of the Nation— Bew Plan of Public Credit and Cur- reacy. The finances of the country are so rapidly Going to ruin as to create the most serious alarm in the minds of the busineas men of this commercial capital. The currency of the coun- try is 60 depreciated that a paper doliar is worth only from sixty-eight to seventy cents in specie, and the wages of the clerk, the me- chanic and the laborer is to that extent cut down, so that discontent is universal; while the national credit has so suffered that the govern- ment is embarrassed for the means of carrying on the war. According to a statement in the Tribune, the sum of fifty millions was due to the army a month ago, and it is still due, with the exception of twelve millions paid a few days ago, having been raised by # temporary loan in Wall street. There is, probably, the same amount due to the navy—perhaps to both arms of the service one bundred millions-—with no immediate prospect of payment. The troops and sailors are naturally dissatisfied. What the national debt now is, including outstanding bills as well as those audited, cannot be aseer- tained. While Secretary Chase says it is less than seven hundred millions, Thaddeus Stevens, Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, asserts that ié will reach two thousand millions by the end of the year, which is no emall difference. Of the whole debt there are only one hundred and forty millions funded, while the rest is floating about in Treasury bonds, certificates, United States legal tender notes, &c., to the amount of about five hundred millions. This enormous currency, added to the currency of the State banks, already sufficient for the wants of the country, has produced a depreciation of the whole and an inflation of prices which press upon the masses of the people with great severity. Either the issues of the State banks ought to have been prohibited or check- ed by a tax, or the demand notes of the govern- ment ought never to have been issued. The prime cause of the evil is the doubling of the currency. For this Secretary Chase is responsible. He came here a lawyer from Ohio, utterly ignorant of finance. We endeavored to enlighten his darkness, and so did the financiers of Wall street, who at the same time gave him one hun- dred and fifty millions of money to help him along in his department. But the instruction and the money were thrown away upon him, His financial schemes, adopted by Congress in its last session, have proved equally ruinous to the national credit and to individual interests. History was written in vain for him. Instead of imitating the plan of Pitt at the time of the great war of England with the ‘French ve- public, by raising loans and levying a tax to pay one-half of the principal and the interest on the funded balance, which would have the double effect of keeping down the national debt and buoying up the national credit, by prompt payment of the interest in spesie, Mr Chase flooded the country with irredeemable puper, some of it bearing interest and some of it not, and making no provision, by any system of taxation, to pay either principal or interest in gold, but merely on the kiting sysiem, pay- ing with one piece of inconvertible paper the interest due on another. He'depended upon temporary loans to supply the funds required for the expenses of the government beyond its income from revyenue—a foolish and shortsight- ed plan of living from hand to mouth. And whereas it is equally customary among govern- ments and business men to make short loans when money is dear and long loans when money is cheap, Mr. Chase reverses this prao- tice, und makes short loans now when moncy is cheap, in consequeuce of capital being with- drawn from business. Of the whole war debt there are only sixty-eight millions funded for twenty years. Now the question is, what is to be done un- der these circumstances? Congress, upon as- sembling in the beginning of the next month, ought to take up the matter immed) , Te- viewing its whole action in the last session aud repealing ita enormous blunders. To this ead we would direct its attention to the ably written memorial to bejpresented to it, which we publish in another column, and which is being numerously signed by the finan. ciere of Wall street, the merchants, the mem- bers of Congress and the members of Con- gress elect of the Empire City, This plan— drawn up by men who know what finance is— is remarkable for its comprehensive simplicity and its admirable adaptation te the peculiar condition and wants of the American people. The plan consists of two parts. First, to issue legal teoder bonds; and, secondly, to return to speci¢é payments tor all United States bills from twenty dollars down to one. The modus operandi is this:—The new funded securities to be twenty years coupon bonds, bearing four and one-half per cent interest, into which the present irredeemable demand notes are to be convertible within a limited time, and thus to be withdrawn from circulation. The bonds ranging from twenty dollars to five thousand dollars to be @ legal tender for debts due by the goverament or by one citizen to another. it is a law of finanoe that, when we float more money than can be profitably employed in trads, we must make it bear interest or it will depreciate in eurrent value, The proposed bonds answer to this condition, and will make @ merchantable as well as a legal par value, to be used in business instead of bills of ex- change. They will be money at the same time that they bear interest. The govern- ment can poy them out for all its in- debtedness, and need never again resort to a loan. The specie payment part of the plan will consist in the issue of a limited number of legal tender small notes of the denomina- tion of tens, fives, threes, twos and ones, bear- ing no interest, but payable on demand in gold. But it may be asked, where is the government to get the gold? We answer, by purchasing it withthe legal tender bonds for whatever they will bring. These notes will thus be equal to gold, and the people, finding them to be so, will not care to demand it, any more than they de- manded gold from the State banks for their bills before the commencement of the war. The State banks would be thus competied to fesume specie payment; otherwise nobody would take their notes; and the result would be that the curreney would be restored as if by magic to its former value, and, ® paper doliar in a poor man’s pocket being worth one hundred cents, prices would fall thirty per cont. If it should be deemed necessary for the government to issue the whole currency needed by the community, in order to preserve uni- formity of value in every State, as well as to give the government the benefit of the cireulation, * ‘7 t+ saevmatamt far Conarems to DABA law prohibiting any further issue of the notes of State banks, and compelling them to redeem in gold or United States bills the notes already in circulation. The constitution probibits the issue of State money, and it has been hitherto tolerated because there seemed to be no ne. cessity for enforcing the prohibition. But if national exigencies require it the constitution ought to be put in force, and the operations of banks in future limited to discount and deposit. As is well observed in the memorial, it is not the amount of bonds bearing interest thet creates inflation, but the large quantity of irre- deemable bills forced upon the public as cur- rency and bearing no interest. The saving to the government by this new plan would be immense. Now it is losing from thirty to thirty-two per cent on everything it purchases. That would pay seven yearw’ interest on the legal tender bonds. Again: on two thousand millions worth of bonds the interest at four anda half por cent would be ninety millions; whereas the present ratea of six and seven per cent interest would require one hun- dred and twenty millions, thus saving in interest thirty millions per annum. The income of the government, from the tax and revenue, will amount to two hundred millions per annum. Of this less than half would suffice to pay the interest on the bonds, and the balance might be applied to the gradual ex- tinction of the principal by a sinking fund. Thus the people and the government would be relieved together, the currency and the national credit would be restored, and there would be no lack of means to carry on the gigantic war in which the republic is eugaged. Instead, therefore, of wasting its precious time with dis- cussions about the everlasting nigger, let Con- gress, upon its reassembling in the first week of December, take up this all important question at once, and save the country from the financial ruin with which it is threatened, by adopting the excellent plan presented in the memorial by the practical men of the great commercial metropolis of the Union. Something like this must be done without delay, or the republic is lost. Tas Arrest or GengraL McCreuuan’s Starr Orricers—A telegram from Trenton, New Jersey, informs us that two of General McClellan’s staff officers have been arrested and conveyed to Washington; that the charges against them are unknown, and that other ar- rests are to follow. Hitherto the arbitrary ar- rests made by the administration have been merely laughable or contemptible. Women who sing songs not pleasant to Kennedy’s ears, newspaper correspondents, country editors and poor fellows who would have remained nobo- dies had not the administration made martyrs of them and given them a place in history— these are the sort of people heretofore visited with the divine wrath of our energetic rulers: Now, however, the War Department seems to have had its dander raised, and is striking at higher game. But why not arrest McClellan himself, and put him in Fort Lafayette, where he will be on hand if another ery of “Washing- ton in danger” makes his services necessary * What is the use of confining members of his staff, when McClellan himselJ, the head of the staff, can be secured? Now that it is deter- mined to have a vigorous prosecution of the war, both in the North and in the South, let the administration stop meddling with the small fry and imprison some of the yreat men of the couatry. We understand teat President Lincoln be- lieves that changes should be made in his Cabi- net, now that changes in the: my have been so well inaugurated. Is it not fully time that these Cabinet changes wewe made? The coun_ try has been sick of the peesent Cabinet for along time. No one can speak of its most pro- mineat members without involuntary qualms of the stomach. The President himself ought to be pretty thoroughly disgusted with the sort of men he has had about him. The result of the recent elections shows what the people think of the present Cabinet members. They have nearly ruined the country, and are fast making that ruin complete. The President cannot but be aware of this state of affairs; and why he has so long neglected to remedy it by construst- ing’a new Cabinet we are at @ oss to explain. Doubtless be may have had bis reasons; but every day/ makes delay more unreasonable. The greatest calamity which can ever befall the couatry during a crisis like this is to have the President surrounded by a Cabinet which has so entirely lost not only the confidence, but even the respect ef the people, that every act of the administration is received with open and undisguised suspicion; and measures, taken with perhaps the best intentions, are regarded with the strongest and most invincible popular prejudice. Tue Harrre’s Ferry Ixvestiaatiov.—When the news of the surrender of Harper's Ferry first reached this city we charged the War De- partment with being mainly responsible for that disaster. That we were correct in that opinion is borne out by General Wool’s letter, which wo published yesterday. The commis- sion, in their report, censure the General for appointing so incapable an ofiicer as Colonel Miles to the command of the post. It turns out that not only did General Wool not appoint that officer, but that he was divested of all con- trol over him, by an order of the Secretary of War directing Colonel Miles to make daily reports of the state of bis command to the department. Such are the grounds on which the commission have flung broadcast to tho world their censures upon some of our best officers. In the case of General McClellan nothing can be more ridiculous than the charge of slowness which they bring against him in connection with this affair of Harper's Ferry, We should like to know how a general, eccu- pied in reorganizing and re-equipping an army that had been demoralized by a succcasion of reverses, could move at any more rapid rate than he did? These perversions.of fact destroy all confidence’ in the conclusions of the report, It is rarely that so much rashness of judgment and boldness are to be found united in a docu- ment of this quasi judicial character. - On Drr-—That General Burnside will be re- moved and General Hooker appointed in his place as soon as wind or weather permits. Why does not the administration adopt tho Athenian plan, and let all the generals take the chief command by turns, each one keeping it for one day? This plan worked woll fm the Athenian army; for by and by the turn came to General Miltiades, and he spent bis day in giving the Persian army ® tremendous flogging at Mara- thon. Let us have a new general-in-chief every day, and we may find our Milliades and win our Merathon after a while,j DEW TORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1862. a a nD ‘The Virginia Campaign—The .Demands and Expectations of the Coun ‘¥* The present campaign in Virginia is &"° ey contracts in Paris, and gua contraots in Bek- +| gium—the five per cent commission and ull. The American Consul in the former place ‘and the absorbing topic of the day, The best 4% | American Minister in the Intter are said plined, the best organized, the best equipped and the most powerful army ever mustered on this continent awaits only the word from its new commander, General Burnside, to advance upon the enemy. It appears that the headquar- ters of the two armies are within twenty miles of each other, with only the insignificant barrier of the Upper Rappahannock between them. The weather is favorable, the Union soldiers are eager for battle, the country demands an im- mediate forward movement, and expects that the rebel army of Virginia will, before the lapse of many days, be beaten and routed, and that General Burnside will eat his Christmas dinner in the city of Richmond. All the advantages of prompt action are with us; all the advantages of delay are with the enemy. General Lee has not recovered from the damages which he suffered at South Moun- tain and Antietam. General Burnside has twice the forces with which those victo- ries were won. The rebel troops are still suffering severely for want of shoes and ‘clothing, and from scanty supplies of subsistence; the Union soldiers, comfortably clad and well fed, are in the best condition of health and vigor. The region of country now occupied by the rebels affords them no position for defence which may not be readily turned; but if they are permitted, without a battle, to return to Richmond, their defeat and the occupation of that city may involve another siege of Se- bastopol. The financial condition of the gov- ernment and the disordered state of the cur- rency of the country demand the relief which only @ great and comprehensive victory in the field can bring. Such a victory now, as compared with suoh a victory next spring, will be worth a thousand millions of money to the Union cause, and will save us, perhaps, half a million of men. Nor can we ignore in this connection the unsettled and ominous position of England and france. Only « heavy and crushing blow upon the main army of the rebellion, before the expiration of tke present year, will secure us against the threateued contingencies of European interven- tion. Our land forces in the field can herdly fall short of seven hundred thousand men. Our naval forces are equal to another army of three hundred thousand. Our fleets and armies coni- pletely encircle the rebellion, and are steadily gaining ground on every side. Every jim- portant point that we have gained we continue to hold; no position of any consequence, once recovered from the rebels, is now in their hands. Since the battle of Antietam, East and West, they have been expelled from a region of a buridred thousand square miles in extent, which they had temporarily overrun. The rebel army which advanced in view of Cincin- Nati a few weeks ago has been repulsed to the borders of Georgia, and that which had enteied Missouri, en rowte for St. Louis, has been driven down a hundred miles into Arkansas. Best of all, in every quarter and in every encounter, the superiority of the Union forces now in the field is fully established. We only require, then, a decisive vietory over the rebel army of Virginia to open the eyes of the ‘Southern people to their hopeless situation, and to convince. the world that the -days of Jeff. Davis and his: Southern cou. federacy are numbered; that they have weighed in the balance and found want- The dofeat of the rebel army charged with the defence of Richmond will be the hand writing upon the wall which it will require no Daniel to interpret. With the loss of Richmond the so-called “Confederate government” will become a beggarly vagrant, and, once adrift, its Confederate scrip will soon become worth- less even in South Carolina. Tho deivat of the army of Lee secures Richmond, demolishes the paper money system upon which the armies of the rebellion are maintained, releases the people of the South from their obligations to Jeff. Davis, and will speedily convince them of the folly of farther resistance. Not only so, but with the destruction of the prestige of Southern invincibility in the field, which will follow a great victory by Burnside, the people of the re- betlious States, looking at the results of the late Northern elections, will feel assnved that the only safely for them and theiralocal institu- tions is in the ark of the Union, and that there, undor the guarantoes of the fedoral constitution, they will be perfectly secure. Finally, the appointment of Generai Burn- side is accepted by the country as inwolving the promise of an immediate settlemcat with the rebel army of Virginia. It is believed, too, that General Burnside is able and willing to ad- vance at once, and that if delayed it will be from the same intermeddling Marplots who so frequently disarranged the plans and defeated the skilful combinations of McClellan. In a word, the country expects that President Lin- coln will allow no mischiefmaking politicians again to retard the forward movement of the Army of the Potomac for Richmond, but that evory facility will be afforded to General Burn” side to advance at once and bring this wat to a glorious conclusion. Iurortant Removat.—Sam. Wilkeson, the Trivune’s correspondent, has been transferred from Washington to Albany, in order te lobby for the radical candidate fer Unitod States Senator, The Tribune contract bureau will therefore be removed from our national to our State capital, and will remain under Mr. Wilke- son’s able charge. Lobby and contract jobs, railroad or other charters, aad all sorts of out- side legislative business; arranged in the best poesible manner. Bills of any kind put through the Legislature (or the legislators) at short no- tice. Offices aud appointments procured very cheaply. Commissions very low, considering the times. All business transacted with neat- ness, secresy and despatch. Small favors gladly received, and punctually attended to. The well known experience of Sam. Wilkeson and the Tribune editors and proprietors in this sort of work readers references almost unnecessary; but O. B. Matteson, Beq., and numerous other reputable citizens, may be referred to if de sired. Please give him a call. A Foraotren Eprroniat.—We forgot to ask yesterday, ina prominent part of our paper, why the celebrated Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, does not follow the shining example of Senator Simmons, and resign bis seat before Congress assembles. We ask that question now. Will anybody in little Rhody be good enough to answer it? TavmLow Ween ox rue Wiva.—We henr that Thurlow Weed is going to England again on t know something about these matters. 2 Ciry Comrrnoiier.—The charter election in Nais ety 18 now near at hand. ‘The republ- cans a fin't in the. field, and have nominated \ Comptroiier Ewe for re-election. Mozart and \| Tammany—‘he Political Siamese twins—are | engaged in a te: tible struggle about the Comp- trollership, and haX@ not yet made a nomina- tion. Boole, and Cowaolly are the rivalcan | didates; but there are swo Connollys who j want the office, and which sf the tyro is the original Jacobs wo! are not informed, Weare — very well content to let this fight rage ob, and those who expect us to do anything tv ent iu will be very greatly disappointed. Compéred ler Haws is a very good sort of a man, in spit of his republican antecedents In fact be & altogether too good a man to be supported—o rather weighed down—by such, men as Greeley Kvarts, Noyes and other orazy radicals. If tb citizens decide to kick politicians to Pluto, an elect an honest Comptroller, without at ¢ regarding ‘his political affinities, we certain’ have no objections. Complimentary Reception of Gen. Bank Numerous citizens and friends of Mojor General Ben and tady having expressed a desire to testify to him the high appreciation of his services in the cause of our c+ try—in the councils of the nation az well as to the fled tho General was requested to name a day when thoy oo do s0 without detriment to his public dutics. Gen Banks was pleased to name Wodneaday next, and & m- ing will be held at the Astor House this afternoon ag the o'clock, when a committee will be formed to carry oul an appropriatejmanner, the arrangements for grand ception, ‘The gentlemen most active in this comptimen:s movement are our most distinguishod litorary, judy and military citizens, and they cordially invite'all - sons wisbing to do honor to our distinguished statcsn- general to meet with them this afternoon. ‘Grofula’e full band has been engaged for the coca: and the reception will take place in tho Ing diotag & of the Astor, which will be tastefully and app: , ornamented for the oocus'on. Ut will Atocd an oe nity for the many hundreds of our citizens, with de wives, to pay their respects to the General and his ¢- mable lady, prior to bis leaving for‘more inhozpltag shores, whore his reception may probably be of a waiver but not of go cordial a nature. Academy of Music. DEBUT OF MADAME LOKINI WHITING. ‘The first appearance of Madame Lorini, aftor an of several yoars from hor native city, attracted a laj. / and brilliant audience to this house last night. The # cesses that she had achieved in London, Paris, Barcel Milan, Brussels and othor European cities had by | watched with interest, and prepared for her a cordial flattering reception. There is an incident «4 nection with her career abroad which will to show the estimation in which her tals4 are hold both by tho profession and the pubii She was engaged by M. Calzado, of tho Itator in Paris,and made her debut in “Semiramido.”” 8 was received with marked favor,and the opera was © peated the next night. On the occasion of the dew Madame Penoo did not happen to be present; but on second represeniation of the opera she took care to there, and witnessed the groat success of “ the Amorig lrtist,"’ as Madame Lorini was styled. The fyyorad impression made by Madame Lorini on both those of”) sions induced M. Calzado to put up her nate Fr Leonora in the ‘ Trovatore.” Crowds flocked to © theatre to enjoy her rendition of the part, why to the geurprise of overy one, Madame Penco » peared upow the scene as the Loonora of the eveng ‘Tho explanation was (his:—-Madame Penco, joaloas of ® triamphs of her American rival, had, the same day, gf before the Tribunal of Commerce and cbtained, an ver dirocting M. Calzado to allow hor to take she page of p, nora that night, as, according w her signed with him, she bad the exciusive right to the pole « had, whon so requested by the director, agree tha’ dame Lorini should appear in this part; but tliat wage foro sho had beard her sing. There could be no strom tribute to Madame Lorini’s merits agan artis} than exhibition of jealousy on tho part of 80 well eetablishd favorite as Madame Penco. We should add that Mads Lorint gave up bor engagement in l’aris in comequeng this lady's hostility, ard went to Milan, where she ca» jished @ reputation for herself that coon procired hene gagements in ali tho leading cities of Italy. It follows, as a matter of course, {rom wiat we be just stated, that Madame Lorini’s debut last might was sucecsa. She had sung but a few paesagd when autience recoguized the beautiful quality off lr voi pure, round and fresh—and, though not as powerfu a® one would wish to bear tu Norma, still vith voluse exhibite evidences of hor italian traiuing. AU er face and Sgure are not favorable to dramac eifect, ber artistic intelligence and earncstnoss enable her to sw. mount these obstacles and present us wih a Nor ch, if not dramatiouly striking, is at lest above the age of the impersonations that we are @customed t witness by Italian artists, Hor “Casta Divi" wos give with groat brio and artistic finish, and drewdown entBa- fiat Aereane throughout tho opera, and te general 6s: vesak on imuie was co favrable that aho wa called botee the curtain at the end of every aot. Milo. Morensi as Adalgisa gave More. Loint most off. cient support in the conce:ted part of the core, and re ceived a Large #hare of the applause of Lay piewry 2 Tw tenor, Macowterri, did the beat that ho coud with his laa. ited resources, and Susini was in magaifiomt voice ‘We were in choruses, which exhibited more than on Grst two mighis. Broon.yw Acapeny or Mvsic.—This owning, after av interval ocoupled by Mr. Forrest's thre: porformancer, Matiida Heron will repoat hor cxoelient Atorpretation the character of the unhappy but gaerous Camille ‘The honse bids fair to boas woil aitadod ag on the first night of her porfermance, when every seat was ecoupied. Mr. Forrest has, as usda, been arawing large audionces to his ropresentations. fle will »ppear again on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Mriday Ca ext week, Miss Heron playing on Tuos@y and Saturday. ‘Tas Orena Matnowe.—That charming artist, Madame | Guerrabolla, repeats tho role of Loonom, in which she won 60 much applause on her second tppearance, at te- day's matinee, She will be supported by the now con. tralto, Mile, Moroni, and Brignoli, whtse misrere it te im (taolf a treat to hear, Lavrcn.—Thore will be launched is aftorneon, Ne- vember 26, at three o’clook, from the tlipyard of Mesare, James C. Jowott & Os., foot of Nor Second atreet, te Use | tho Atlantic dook, South Brooklyn, to and machinery, built by D. McLeod, Police Intell Dayavovina raw Sonpimw’ Rawimy —Mary Ker t gan was brought before Justice on charge«f de frauding the Soldior’s Reliof Fund out $18. The defend the Andrew Kerrigan, a regiment] New York velunteors, and ipon such succoeded in gotting $5 a weok Crom Ue Rolief Comnities. ‘The fraud was aot discovered until Mey had draws weeks pay, and wae making appliction for the vurth, It is alleged that Andrew Kerrigan isnot & marriol man, ahd that Mary, who is his sister-in-iey, " the fact. The magistrate committedtho accusedfor ex | amination, ; Pasa Countearat Moxar.—Goorp Kyers, aliarCrosse was takom into Custody by detestivalowcy, on olarge of passing a counterfeit $100 bill en th Bank of Nrwalk, n., @t Barnum’s clothing storein Chathamstrost. al aad lo staat fo ona ‘@ coat at the above on $20, and not having the amount in stall bills tondcod the salesmen the coanterfett in coun! ‘The bill wean ox cellent imitation of the gonuine was casily assed, accused The was Len oy the potle hoadquartes aud 1 locked up for examination. x qi Avimanp Atraurt to Kin a" Orrtee.—Farly Int Oven i ing an ex-policeman, named Howarl Baldwin, ces! Sullivan street, got into a diapate th ear ote « Kighth whon Raldwin poring a inrge odeyg kal tal to ata UE abow, oes the sean’ of anving his lifoand, with ibe r} ro sistance, Baldwin was arres| A ‘wpe tb Bighth ward station house. Bark The De Scheowr BD, Back. Dae We ‘Tao bark Resolution aud the schoner D. De We hence for Now Orleaus, wore brought back to day by teve another important mission. Before he starts wo | gue cutter. They aro supposed to Rave qopirad & qvoty " Cruiitice to have Cull citurne gf those plothieg 98 baer