The New York Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1862, Page 1

nee ’ THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9568. Interview Between the Authoritie Fredericksburg and Gen. Patrick. The City Councils Accompanied by Rebe} Officers. Partber Time Asked for the Removal of Nov-fombatams, dn Extension Grantea Until Bleven o’Cloch Sunday. Rebels, &o.,. &., &e. Fasmourn, Va., Nov. 23, 1662. ‘The enemy stil! occupy Fredericksbur:, his pickets ex_ tending to the river bunks. On Friday night, after the ‘nterview of Ge :eral Patrick ‘With the civi) antborities, Geveral Sumner in orired them het i tbey bed avy tiurther communication to pre. | SewsGeneral Patrick would meet them axzain the vext Morping. Yesterday, at the Lacy House, accordingly, the Mayor and Councils came over, accompanied vy General Bershaw, Celone} Biand and Capt. King, of Georgia. These datter gentiemen claimed that the civil authorities coula make no proposition to us, unless the same was epproved by them. Generai Patrick declined to reseive hese officers. Subsequently, however, Genera) Burnside | ‘ammented to their reception, and the parties returned. ‘Mo Lacy House is a large, elegantly constructed brick | Duil€ing, a private residence standing upon the biuff im_ medinicly oppowite Fredericksburg. At the foot of this biuff the parties lauded, aud were @eaducted up the steps into the rear of the Lacy House @nd shown intu a room looking towards the city, thus @Merding them no opportunity to observe any of our mevemente, as they could not observe a single encamp- | ment after leaving the hills beyond the city. ‘Me civil authorities demanded an extension of the time @ilowed for the removai of the women and children, alleg- ug that the trains had been frightened off by our artillery, and that it would be impossible for a train to leave be- Pore night, as it was necessary to send for st several miles | ‘down the road. The city being absolutely destitute of @ber means of transportation. their request was complied ‘with, and the time extended until eleven o'clock this wacrning. As thie repert must be sent to Aquiacreek at ten Welock to-day, in order to reach Washington in season to | ‘Be telegraphed threugh to-night, the result will probably | We sent by the military telegraph from headquarters. | It baving been annetinced yesterday that the time | (granted the rebels in which toclear the city would ex- | Pireat twelve o'clock, ao little excitement prevaiied | @hrough the camps as the hour approached. Batteries Were in readiness to move, wagon trains were removed Grom the vicinity of the river, end every tent within ange of the enemy’s artillery vanished. Im Falmouth great alarm was felt, especially by the fe male portion of its population, many of whom left the place and bave gove back into the country for safety. Fredericksburg appea:s utterly deserted, and last night @et a light was visible in the whole eity. The camp fires ‘Maat night indicated the presence of a considerable ferce ‘ta our front. Bince Friday the rebels hav: evidently received large @eceasions to their forees in our fromt, and there is 20 | pom | people and press of the Northeru States, musi be , ed We @certain extent as a representative Americas @oadt but tbat Lee and Longstreet are in our immediate ‘wieinity. During the night the rebels erected earthworks along ‘She ridge beyoud the city, and their canoen have been | Plainly visible since yesterday morning. Both parties | Rave admirable positions for their artillery, and there ‘Will undoubtedly be a lively artillery Oght before we can {The impression increases here that Jackson ie actually } 0D Bie way down from the mountains, and is now not far | [tne mae @oing the musical honors, speeches | halting. This morning, beiere daybreak, we recom, ‘There have been no collisions Between the piomete to-day. ‘The Potomac is not riing. The Rumored Movements of Stemewal? Jackson om Washington. Yamrax Sranion, Va., Nov. 23, 26¢2. from Leesburg, with forty thousand men, designing to make a dash upon some portion of the defences on Ar- tington Heights, with the hope of getting into them by ap wnexpected coup, and turning their guns upon your city. ‘Twenty-four heurs will determine whether he is or is not Dept on any such feo}’s errand. Presentation of a Horse and Equipments te General Sigel. Cayrnewnie, Nov. 23, 1862. Yeaterday being General Sigel’s birthday, the officers of his staff presented the General with a fine horse and equipments. In the evening the event was made an oc- casio of general hilarity; the baud of the Thirty-third being made by the Genera) and all hands, All quiet here. Our Stafford Court House Correspondence, __ Newres’s Division, 1 ae} Neon Starronn Covar House, Va. ; Nev,,18, Long March ana Attending Discomforts—Want of Piavers—Iuprevised Reads and Bridges, de. At last I bave an opportunity of writing you again, apd hasten to ipferm you of my whereabouts and the doings of the ¢ivision to which] am attached. During the last Ubree days we have been kept so coutinually on the march , only halting when darkness came, and rising and stirtng again before the first faint sign of dawn, that } found myself glad, with the rest, to spread my blanket on ‘he damp grouna and sink into a welcome elcep. At nine o’clock op Sunday morning, the 16th, we struck tents at our eamp near New Baltimore, and, taking the position assigned us in our corps, marched, by means of by-roads and open fields, to Weaversville, where we eneamped for the night. At five A. M. on Monday we started off, marching until dark, and then 4 menced our stealthy march, through woods and fields, erossmg Aquia creck so pear its source that it seemed but ‘8 brook, and halted at noon within twe miles of Stafford Court House and fourteen of Fredericksburg. During oor march on Sunday General Burnside aud staff passed us near Catlett’s Station, and the Genera) ‘was grec'ed with hearty cheers by the troops. The weather for the last few days has been most disa_ greeable to us all. Without absolutely pouring rain, “here hus been an unbealthy humidity in the air, which 4a the generator of numerous colds, conghs and affections of the lungs. As | write this dampness bas settled into 8 cold, uncomfertable dri::zie, which seems to penetrate to «Mes very bones; but, as we have been promised to-mor - Tow for rest, we have some little comfort to hope for. for the first time since the peninsular campaign our army (eels the necessity of a pioneer corps—such a ove asx was disbanded at Harrison’s Landing. On our march hither streams of no little magnitude were crossed, and trees to be felled for the passage of artillery and men. In | | building roads and bridges of rails our march was neces- 4 ‘sarily delayed for hours on hours, and even then the work | was incomplete. Yur supplies now reach us by way of the Potomac aud | Aquia creck. Of the enemy wothing has been heard or | seep. Not even the usnal camnonading haw been heard jn | the distance. Genera) Frankia baving been asaigved command of the | whole leit wing of this army, consisting. | believe, of , Reynolds’, Smith’s (Franklin’s) and Stoneman’s corps, General Kranklin’s old pesitien, while Brigadier General | Howe holds the reins ‘over Siaitt's division. ‘The gloomy storm which is now setting in so sullenly bas promise of being of tong duration. The roads we have | pasved over have given us every evideave of the approwch- | ‘ng reign of mud, and the future movements of our army will be attended with the greatest difficulties in the event Of a severe rain storm. General Smith, formerly commanding First division, takes | | | THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST. Alarm of the Rebels in Mississippi—Re- m Of Governor Rector, ef Ar- Camo, Nov. 28, 1863. The Grevada Appeal of the 18th instent ix greatly exercised about the future of Mississippi, amd appeais to the peopie of Mississippi to rally en masse areuud Genera! Pemberton, and says in this way our army wouki be increased to one hundred thousand men, thereby vir- ( } tually ackuowledging that at the present time it is much less than that number. Governor Rector, of Arkansas, has resigned. Judge Fletch is acting until ihe Governor elect, Colonel Flam gan, is installed General Subjects a (From the Loudon Times (city article), Nox General Butler, wlio, look ng at the = .pport he © the President and ‘abinet at Washingtoa anu tue { just brought himse!f into the prospect of « collision at ‘New Orieaus wity the Prussian government. ‘The vase seems exceedingly clear, aad were it not for the fact tha: | the federal goverument appear fe have ne herifalim in ve | pudiasing any act of their principal offirers, while they are | still ready to continue them in honorable empivyrrent, { thus escaping respousibility while they retain the oneue Uhere could be little doubt that either Mruscian war reasels would soon have to operate in thal region, or the fonctions | of General Butler would be terminated. establish our pontoon bridge and move across thy river. After the rebels have been driven irom ‘heir present Poaition, it is thought that they will give.us battle again adong the Massaponax, eight miles beyond the city. At | ‘Gat point the creek runs through a morass between two vanges of hills, along ene of which it will be remembered | the rebels established their lines of defouce last June, | when Gen. McDowell wae daily expected to advance. The gtound at Macsaponax is admirably adapted for vigorous | Gefensive operations. They may, however, fall back at qnce to the junction of the Fredericksburg and Central railroads. ‘There is no doubt but that the rebels have availed | Ghempclves of the time allowed for the removai of the mon-combatants. to carry of everything that could pow, Gibly be of service to them or to us @n Friday night loud explosions were heard beyond Brederiekeburg, but the cance has not yot been ascer- faleed ‘The river has risen bul very little since the recemt term peased off, and the roads are rapidly drying up, ‘The inhabitante living along the route of tbe military Qelegraph line have already commeaced cuiting ibe wires te annoy and delay us in our operations. Tue sever. eet pavishment will be promptly administered to every porsen detected in the act, and steps bave been taken to Dring those already guilty to justice. The owners and eccupants of the iands fronting upee the tine, 0: over which the lines may pass, will be beld responsivie for Saat portion of i whiek is upon or mear their promises, — Aquia Cauax, Nov. 23, 1662, ‘rere is nothing of special importance from the front vessived here to-day. It is not believed that the shelling of | Fredericksburg war commenced to-day, aiihough it is Seourly expected. ‘The Consiruction corps are still very busily engaged fapen the work necessary to be done to rendor this a feast, ble base of supplies. The bridge, it is thought, will be so fer finished to-morrow as to enable them to lay the rail. reed track to the end of it and commence placing the day and more are constantly arriving. ‘The restrictions placed apon the passage ef civilians to this point has largely and profitably reduced the umber of passengers arriving here by the mail boats from ‘Weabington and Alexandria, Nove, except employes of the coversment, officers and soldiers, are allowed to come (here, except upon the passer of Seoretary Stanton, Quar- Aermantor General Meign, and they aro granted only in | g4th of Angust last with a ci | @ cargo (or Liverpool {thi i ‘The Prussian ship Essex arrived at New Orteaus on the , which was d) discharged on the 2d of She then, Laving obtained the reqitisite authority, commenced towdiog with Custom House officer being =1a tioned on board to supervise the entire operation, © veing completed, application was made tos the Cis- tom House on the Lith of September for a clearaure; but this, withoot assigning any reason, the Collector of Cus. toms positively refused. An application from the Prus. sian Consul, however, brought forth a verbal answer that ° | the sip would net be allowed to proceed aniess the (ol. | lowing five items of her cargo were taken out:— Shiyyped by Robert Clark, silver ware, one package, valued ar $5100, anid one valued ai $40), cousigaed W George Green Sous & Vo, Liverpon ‘Shipped by Hogiton, Ri ; fainily plated ware and tay pi valiied at $3,008, 4 Ve., Liverpool. ‘ eonmgned to Rankin, Gilmor Shipped by J, B. Ehlers. wo, betes of old sliver, ware, valued st $6,000, sealed and consigned to Messrs, A. Divan &Co., Liverpool, as Brivish proper {ped by Francis Olroyd, two boxes containing ball lued at $4.06, consigord to James Harris. Sun” Lite Ln surance office, London, care of Bahr, Behrens & Co.. Livers y, ool. Peghipped by Cramer & Co.. 38 Hamburg property. une box, said to-contain in gold $4,745, in suver $620, consgmed to order. For further iuformation tho aapiain was reterred io Major General Butler, but every attempt to obtain « repiy | from or an interview with that personage Laviug tati the Prussian Consul made application to hima in writing. On the 20th this ation that the General was then “sifting” the watte:, ao¢ would in the course of the day give @ list »{ the articles ‘contraband’ which | should be taken oat. and iu the alternoen an oficer on board to demand tbe surrender @ the severa! just named, ‘The captain refused t> obey, wnless the Dilis ‘of lading he had given for the:n were simultanenasiy de livered up to him by tbe shippers, aud pon this he wax informed that other measures would be taken without deiay, Mere the matter stood at the date of (he last ad views, ‘The captaia has made the reguia* protest holding Gen, Butler responsible for dama.-s a the rate of $100 per diora for detention, and ail (her proceedings must turn oo the promptitie of the protection to be adorded him by hisowe goverpment. Alth-uga wide latitude tw: been given to the definition of “contraband,” the world has never ytheard of family plated good:, shipped 10 a dimant und neutral country, coming within ils range | aud if this new rending of international law is to be ad: mitted or tolerated there {8 Got au article Ofiuman use which can be safe on the high seas. Wheo the foderal goverament captured New Cricaus they raised « cry that Ae they had (hus restored that piace 10 legitimate com merce neutra! nations could mo longer complain of the ab- sence Of the means of (rading, 40 (ar as these meaus could depend on the power of the Union authorities, but a port | whence bulliom may not be abipped i* practically sealed for all ordinary purposes (be probability is (hat as the | Confiscation act, by hick all the distoyal subjects of Presideut Lincein are ( be stripped ef their pro- | perty was to come into operation at New Origans on the | 2d of ber, General Butler (heught Ot to tisregard every legal right that mignt interfere with is prey by | eeizing these articles (entered ant stowed under the, sanction of his own officers) in a foreign ship, whieh was ready te sal eight days previously. He cou)! iafer from the result of sore Of bis own former violations f law, as well as Crom that of the proceeding of Commodore Wilkes. | that he conld carry bis will into exerution, aad thus effect | hie object for the mement.and thet the United States | Ament would then. upoa sirong mensures being | en, pay all demanded. and reward him for the misconduct thus confessed by assuring of their continued admiration and éoafidence, and _b: him, if possible, with enlarged powers. Waite Genera, ‘Stuart is scaring the Northern popalation by his daring | personal courage in carrying off the folerai Almost in the face of the Coderal army, Butie?, Characteristically, it seems, takes care that history ehall find a counterpeise in his raid upon (amily spoons. ‘The Corcoran Legion, All officers and privates of the Corcoran Legion are or. dered to report at the headquarters in this city at noon today. Those set complying with the grder wil) be con- ilgre 1d tromged an depicts. ~* 4 er —<$<$<— — , force and arms has reaiated oF | But his anticipations were not realized. ' wheo they are | yet you will read their secunnte as giorions victories.” WAR GAZETTE OrriolaL. Important Order in Regard to Perse! Present Under Arrest. GENERAL ORDERS. Wan Devancennr, Wasnamron, Now, 22, 1862. Ordered, first.—That all persons now in military eusto_ @y, who have been arrested fer discouraging volunteer enlistments, opposing the draft, or otherwise giving aid and comfort to the enemy in States where the draft has Deen made, or the queta of volunteers and wilitia has been furnished, shall be discharged from further military restraint. ‘Scoond—That persons who, by authority of the military commander or Governor iu rebel States, have been arrest. ed, and sent from euch State for disloyalty or hostility wo the government of the Cuited! States, arid are now in military custody, may albo We discharged updn giving their parole to de ro act of hostility, against the gévern™ ment of the United States, tor. render aid to its enemies; |, Dut. such persons shall remain subject @ military sur- veillance and Hable to arrest op breach of their parolé; and if any such persons shall prefer v6 leave the: loyal Btates, on condition of their aot returning agaisl.dur- ‘ug the.war, or un special leave for that purpose be obtained from the President, then such person shall at his option be released and depart from the United States, or be conveyed beyond the military lines of the United States forces. » ‘This order shall not operate to discharge apy person whe bas been ip arms against the gevernment, or by te regint the draft, nor relieve person from Hability to trial and punishment by ivi) tribunals, or by court martials or miliary commission, who may be amenable to sued tri ‘bunals for offences commitied. By order of the SEORETARY OF WAR. ¥. D. Townsxwp, Assistant Adjutant General. GENERAL NEWS. Wasmmcton, Nov. 28, 1862. PUBLICATION OP THE NAMES OF OFFICERS DISMI-3ED PROM THB SERVICE FOR CAUSES. The War Department hes commenced the publication of the names of dismissed office:s, for, among other causes, being absent without leave, intoxication, disrespectfu! | language towards the President and commanding officers, cowardice, &c. The first privted list comprises eighty-one | captains and tieutenants. THE RUMORS OP MEDITATION 42D INTEKVENTION. ‘The sensation baten of rumors of meditation and inter- vention wrought by the Persia is spurious. THE MOVEMENT TOWARDS RICHMOND. ‘There is reliable information from below to the effect that rapid progrees is making in the construction of the rajiroad from Aquia creek to Fredericksburg. It is not understood that any contrabands are engaged on the road; meantime many needed supplies are beiug subjects: Of requisition tothe department bere. In respect to a movement on Kichmond, it ia to be remembered that we have winter weather here fully two weeke carlier than at Richmond. if ‘Tbe ginbeat Currituck bas just received 2 new propel- ler at the Navy Yard here, and bas gone down the river. ‘THE €0MING SESSION OF CONGRESS BXPECTED 70 BR STORMY AND EXCITING. It is expected bere that the next session of Congress will be exciting and stormy. The radicals are deter- rained to make @ last desperate effort to use to the fulles, extent the few remaing days of their ascendancy. The | conservatives are preparing to organize for the purpose of cheekmating any obnoxious movement on the part of the extremists among their opponents. A vory Jarge number of the members of both houses are already in the city, and as the President and Cabinet are burrying for- ward the Message and accompanying reports, it is proba” bie that Congress will get fairly to work without delay and that the business remaining over from iast ses’ sion will be promptly taken up and disposed of Tn the meantime it is the determination of the govern: ment to push its military movements with the utmos, possible rapidity, in order that the rebellion may be vir- | ¢aally crushed out before the expiration of the present | repndlican Congress, and the credit of the reduction of the rebellion be thus saved to that party. | CAPTURE ORQINTERESTING REBEL CORRESPONDENCE. ‘There has been received iv this city a package of rebe, correspondence, Cousisting for the most part of severa) lettore of different dates, addressed to his family in Flo- rence, by Thomas J. e, fermeriy of the United States Navy, commander of ihe American expedition (or the explera® tion of the La Plata and its tributaries. Accompanying these severa! epistles from the father are also two from other members of the family. Something is said in these letters concerning the transmission of rebsi commu- tious ou the persons of females from the French Con- eat Ricbiaond, and by means of the British maits from Tampico. ‘Tbe letters are not of recent date, and refer to snbjects which bave ceased to be discussed. The coptain expresses she opinion that if Engiand were to send fifteen men-of-war into the Chesapeake Bay, nex ther Old Polat nor Washington city could hold out three ni + weeks. Old Point would be starved out wad the army would be campelled to abandon Washington, because: withoat the sijptics By navigation through the bay. it cmaot possibly be supplied through the railroads, He has no doubt Fnropeans sympathize with the North, because noarly all they read and hear comes from the North in their bitterest strains; bat be is glad to cee the writers in British papers fully under stand the condition of things, and will soou learn that all | the civilization does vot centre at the North. Captain Page prediot® a good many naval victories for the con- federacy, having very much faith m the turtles and rams. dae captain, im a letter to his wife, dated Richmond, tells her of his mili tary experience as the commander of & battery, aud says, speaking of the United States soldiers: —“We whip | im almost every more than three sonndiy vat engagement to owe, and them most This is done by the government to induce the peopie to furnish money. That goverament, with all its boasted resources, is ten times worse o% than this. You must write to Mr. Mason, my dear wife, and Mrs. Si ask thet (o forward your letters)’ In a eurt critigiem on the Trent affair he says, “Old Seward, I anepert, 1¢ too cunving and astute tor Lord Lyons.” The tnmediate female relatives of the captain bave a! vary contemptible opiuion of the Yankees, and ove of | them say*:—They find (8 6 tongher work conquering the South than they at Grst imagmei. aud the rebels heve shown very unexperted courage, pluck aad determiuation ORDER FROM THS COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. {ue Commissioger of internal Revenue Was addresved « letter to each of the assessors, that when the anaval as- seeoment (or September, and the return thereof of their assistants are complete, they will comsider whether the services of a portion of their assistants caunot be dis. | pensed with, at least until May 163, retaining those best | qualified for the duty consequent upon business relating to maaulactures. {f any assessor Gad such a reduct! his ae ats impracticable, he is reqeested te communi. cate the citeumetonces for the consideration ef the bu: | | romu. THR NAVY. Lientooant Commander De Haven has been ordered to the command ef the Penobscot. gion Irving has been ordered to the THE SUPPERINGS OF THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT CAMP MIGERY. it 1s stated by parties who have been to Camp Misery: as the convalescent catap is called, that although greatly improved, its old cognomen is still deservediy character. | (atic, There are about twelre thousand men there, a large aumber of whom are capable of being sent to their regiments, and asking to ge there, while some are more Atted for (the Gospitels frem which they were promataroly discharged. A large mumber ought to be sent to the States from whence they came, and ‘allowed an opportunity to recuperate there, or be dis charged the service altogether, being for the most part wrecks of bumansity, probably imourable. About a thou. sand are daily reported on the sick Het. It ise scene Nab theses ROROyUBUL WAVE De Aled LATA, uBlgpe NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOV nd during the years 1853, 1854, 1855 and 1356 | oll, amd | a EMBER 24, 1862. ee PRICE TWO CENTS. he bad goverament eupplies large quaatities ab Nis command (0 mimister to (he many wante of the noble fe+ Jews whe Baye staked their lives in defence of the oki fing, Warm clothing of al binds i especially needed ‘hero. It said that a large quantity of condemned stores, atthough unsuited tw the wants of the regular army, perfectly adapied to the wants of these conva Jesconts, is in the government storehouses here. [t ‘Would be woll for the country if this crying evil were speedily remedied ABRWATS OF HTRAGGLENS AND CONVALBKUENTS. Captain Waldron, of the Military Governer’s staf, has sept within tho last sixty days about twenty-five thou- sand stragglers and conyalescents to the convalesconts’ camp in Alexandria from the barracks at the railroad depot im this vity. About the same number have been sent to their regiments. ‘The management of these bar- Yacks, where the werst specimens of demoralized sol diery are collected, requwes much patience and good Jhdemient. and the work tias boon well done. THE REPORTKO APYOINTMENT OF DAMA 48 ASBISTANT SECRETARY OY WAS. ‘The is no fougidation whaguver for the romor tha Charles A. Dana, late of the Trigiie, i to go into the War Department as ono of thie Assistant Secretariés of War. 16 @ true that the heaith or Mr. Wolcott bas been muck in” | Paired by the severity of his kabor, but thete # no imme. diate prospect of his retiring from the position, the duties of which he hag 80 efficiently performed. Even if ho should be compelled by il! health to do eo, it is not proba- ble that the vacancy will be immodiately filled. ANXIETY TO HEAR FROM FREDRRICKSBURG. ‘The whole population here has been on the qui vive to- day in expectation of stirring news from the Rappahan, j moek. None, however, has ea yet beon received, and the expectant crowds about the corridors of the botels will be som, Hed to wait the further development of the for ree mévemont, slabs THE CASt OF CAPTAIN LOUDON, Kt is uow definitely ascertained that Capt of Company #, Hvrris Light Cavalry, mentioned a few days sioco as having mysteriously disappeared from Glebe cottage, Virginia, hop been vapturod by the rebels, while tocautiousty wandering beyond eur lines. RE-ARREST OF PAROLED REBELS. Last night four rebel soldiers, who had been released upon parole from the Olé Capitol prison, took lodgings at the National Hote} and indulged quite freely in remarks to the vrowd about the sugeriority of the Southern troops, until one of the clerks of hotel introducod them to the police, who.cut short their discourse by taking them to the station house. THE RISE IN TRE POTOMAC. There has not been much rise of the Potomac, but what riso there has been has evabled several borts to come down with Cumberland coal. Movements of Ocean St Morrnuat, Nov. 23, 1862. ‘The Anglo-Saxon passed Father Pott at forty minutes past eleven last night, with twenty-three cabin and eighty-seven steerage pascengers. She was detained by fog for twenty-four hours, She reached Quebce at half past three this afternoon, ‘The Nova Scotian passed Father Point, outward bound, at forty minutes past three this mornin, Nomination for Mayor—Fatal Affray. Bosrow, ‘The republican Ward and City Committeo Inst night pominated George B. Upton for Mayor. Barney Ford, a notorious North Knd rough, was killed last night in afight with Mike Sulhvan, Tac latter was_ Ford’s brother-in-law, anda barkeeper. It is said Sulli van acted in self-defence Cc TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Usinmo Srarge Ixrnyat REVECE,) ‘Sexra Durrnict, Starz or Naw Yorx, Nuw You, Nov. 22, 1862. Lbave just been informed that a gang of ewindiers. taking advantage of the operation of the [nternal Revenue law, have commenced @ new line of business by tasely Tepresenting themselves as assessors, collectors, &c., and im these guises re already succecdod in defrauding several! parties ia thie city out of small sums. You will be domg the public a service, for which 1 confident: they will be gratefn!, by uttering @ word of caution | against this fresh species of villauy. Permit me to add:— 1. That assessors have no right w receive money from tuxpayers under ciroumstances. AJ) payments fur taxes mast be made to the collector, or to one holding his commission as de) 1) 2. The tax for I:coner t carry on a trade or occupation is Oxed by law, vad cannwi + reduced 1 the discretion of either the collector or anessor. Uherefore any persen ' offering to proonre a license ior tive doliars to conduct a business required bv law te pay teu in consequence of the party having # son tn the army, or a Jicenge to sel! lager bier or porter for fifesn doliars, when the iegal (ax is twenty, because te Gealer is a weman Or the busine = 0 small, may be set down as a rascal, aad should b: promptly handed over to tue police, . All taxes, when due, are payable at the collector's It is only to those who wegiect to cali there and | pay within the proper time that he sends bts deputy t make a demand, ‘The surest way to escape being de- iranded by sharke apd iaposters 18 to go tn the collec- | tor’s ufee—say witniu ton days after signing an applica- tion for ticense or making a return of manufactures sold, Xxc.—and pay the tax thus actflowloaged to be cine. ‘The } license itself is the receipt for the sum paid for it, and | the collector is required by iaw to give w receipt im all | other cases. Very respectfulty, yours, &.. ILLLAM TON: Coliscter Sixth Histriet, New York Tas Pesrace Connexcy.—The Postmaster, we under stand, bas perfected ail the arrangements ior redeeming the postage stamp currency, and will begin operatieas on next Wednesday or Thursday. This amnouncewent wil! | Be hailed with pleasure by thotsance of onr citizens who ( have found diffcul ; in passing the > Maay persons, especially storekeepers and ether peopic duiag a large retail Dusivess, nave as mnch as ove hundred doi- Jars worth of these stamps in their posse: can rid thomsrlves of t ptable, even hoogh thoy | to suffer a great loss by the redemption. Mr. Wakeman has wade arrangements Dy which aj! taome stamps which ad have not born taken the Post Office, will be how badly effaced <tarars dos not appear ‘Tas Coming Wivtkk asi THR SO FRRLNG POOR, —W' | je rapidly approaching, and thonsands of snferivg poor, | besidas the widows and orphams of our soldiers, are to be | cared tor. Kaowing this, would it not be well to orga nize ® society eimMlar to the Lardies’ Union Aid Associa- | tion, with a fair tebe held, as of t | would come forward merchants would ny ladies of New York shi ¢ for the time is rapidly approaching when every penny | that can be spared will be aeedod to relieve the wauts of | those who will be for the on | Lat us not forget the poor, but Keep t: + mind. and endeavor to do at! weean to | sutteri | Fine a Masoay Lane.—Beiween four audi Ove o'clock | om Sanday mornjag 4 Are broke out ic the attic story of ; building No. 1: Maiden lane, in the premises occupied by Witham Ruhl, who occupied the third, fonrth and attic | foore—wanufacturing jeweller. Before the flames were | extinguisaed the upper dour and roof wore burned. The | to Mr. Raht's steck, tools and fixtures will be about $4,000; insured for $11,500, as (oliows Liver Ee and London, $4.00; Hagiv, $2,000 Relief, $2,000; Jerchaots , $3,600. ihere is aso an insurance of $51 QUO | en Jewelry ia the iron safes, to whick there is ao damage. | The second Boor is occupied vy Man! A. Brez, watches. Slight by wster, ineured. | oor is occupied by M. M. Backus a* a (ur store. Stock damaged by water sbout $608. fully meured. The buiid- ing is owned by Benjamin Swan. {tis damaged about $1,000; insured. ‘Yee re Cawtae Sraver.—i te alarm of fire for the sev, enth district, shortly after @ve o'clock on Sunday mora ing, Originated from Rxempt Kngiae house, in the Park on Contre street. It appears that a Gre was made under the steam engine oa the siarm being given for the fire ia | Maidea lane, and the heat from the amoke pipe set fre to the floor beams and wooden casiog oa the second floor. ‘The fire was soon extinguished. building, which ix owned by the city, is damaged about $190. Pine iw Part Seaetr.—Shortly after cleven o'clock on of Freeman & Robinson, No. 18 Poli street. ten were at work in the place at the time. The fre jicker, supposed from friction. The ty at the promises, aad extinguished the floors of re. $200; The Political Complexion ef State Le-~ gislatares. MLEOTION @F UNWED STATES SENATORS. SEW YORK. ‘Tho Legisiature of New York will prebably be repubiica® in Both branches—the Sennte standing tem conservatives and twenty-two republicans, and the Aesembly sixty-threc consorvatives, sixty-four republicans, and one doubt ful. ‘This will probably insuro a republican United Btaten Senate in place of Hen, Preston King, whose | seat boeomes vacant en the 4th of binreh next. WARS ACHUSETTS, | Pil) stand one hundred and winety-cigmi so ; and forty-one conservatives, and the Senate 8 wd five conservatives, Charles ly have opposit ‘the publica thirty-fivo republies Sumner's re-cieotion will eee KRW JEW ‘Tho Senate wilt contam iweivo conservatives, vight re publicans and one indepondeng democrat, and the House forty threo conservatives and seventeon repubi'cans— giving a conservative mejority on joint hallot of twenty- nine, Tho soat of the tate John R, Themson is tO be flied for the balance of iho torm, which ex- pires with tho present Won,/ress, and a suecessor is 10 be ebosea for six years (yom the 4th of Mareb, 1863, by the Legisiaturé jast elected. Roth will, of course, be conserva. tive im politics, The name oy tieneral George B. MeClel- law feis been mentioned for sho long term, and the au- Hovritomént{ as iar as we havo heard, has been received with faver among the vonservativer. nasi, The Senate wil} stmid fonrtoen conservatives to ten re pudlicans, and the House ffty‘six conservatives and twenty-nine republicans. A United States Senator is to bo chosen to serve out tho unexpired ‘term of the late Stepheo A: Douglas, which ends in 1865. The seat ts now held under exveutive appointment by Hon. 0. H. Brown. ing. Colonel W. A, Richardeon is spoken of. atl, Ae INDIANA. = ‘The Legislature will bs GomserVative, but not of the cop. Perhcad stripe, although it is asserted that Josse D. Bright will be returned to serve out the term in the United States Senate for which he was originally ebosen. Thomas A. Hendricks teat present the most prominent candidate for the succession, and if chosen he ‘will occupy Mr. Rright’s sent in the next Congress. Jehu A. Bingham, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, is also mentioned. toy MiCHE AN. ‘The Sonate is a vie—sixtoon conservatives aud sixtean republicans, The Honse will have fifty-eight republicans ‘and forty-one conservatives, with one vacancy. If the Senate should retuse to go into ballot for United States Senator, the election wil! stand over until 1864, and “blood letting”? Chandler, whose term expires op the 4th of March, wi!l have a poor ehance for re-election. Both branches of the Segiclatnre will staud so close that neither party can ctaim a working majority, or even venture to spectinte with any dezree of certainty upon the chances of their respecitve favorites for the United | States Senatorship. ‘The returns show the political com: | plexion of the to jowses to be es Va Senate. Honse. Conservatives. i 47 Republicans + 6 a7 Deubtfol.. 4, (2 6} A United States Senator is to be ohosen in plico of Hons James R. Deolitile, repndiican, who will etter himself for re-election im /ppesivon to Jokn F. Potter, who was de- feared in the canvues tor Representative. The democrats, it is said, will bring forrward Judge Dion and Judge Vilas+ acisSOURI. ‘There in no doubt that the euanoi)rationists wil! wave a small majority in the Legislature. 4 must noy be under- | stood, however, that an emancipatienisy iv Missouri is on abolitionist: or a radica) repubiican, ‘There are many staunch State rights democrats who vored tor the eraanci- pation oandidates, vader the conviviiongtnat it would ve the imterest of Missonti to get rid of slavery and bring ber into the free state ranks. Very little hus as yot been suid about the camdidates for te United States Senate, althenga (are Senators are te be chosen--two for the pieces in tho praseat Con, | E formerly ocenpied vy Trusten Polk and Waldo B. Johnson, both expelled, and oue for the noxt { Congress, the term ior which Mr. Pox was elected @ ] piring on the #thof March. The seats are now held by Robert Wilson aud Jobo . Hendersea, undor executive appointments. ‘The name! che later gentleman, ani those of Willard P. Hail, ¥rank P. Blair, Jr., and B te, Brown, bave been mentioned as candidates onto. ‘The Logisiatnre is vepnblicaa, having been elected a yearago, andthe Hon. 4ajamin F, Wade will probably be returned to the United States Senate tor siz years from the 41b of March uvxt. DELAWARE. ‘The Legislature of this State will, of cut the democrats will beve & strovg force, but anid! eke aappose thet tha? prrty hue omey feelite acti | fo camamon with radical repabiicunism. ‘The rena of Hon James A. Bay expires on the 440 of Macck, aud | tne games of P. Mo Hatew, George R. Diadie and Et Saulsbury are ueutioued for the successieu. Mr Bayard will also be a condidate for re-election, and wil! no deubt distance all Bis competitors,as it is a-serted thet there ix or ent the Senate stauding sixteen t five, and te House thirty toiwelve. The charces of Alexander Rameay for the seat in the United States Senate new oconpied vy Hoa, Henry M. Rice, conservative, hardly admit of a doust of bis election, althongh there is + faction m the republicun ranks that qill endeavor to defeat him. rows. The Legislature of lowa will be republican; but, as wo United States Senator is to be elected, it is # matier of very litve (mportance ontside the State limits what the political comploxton of the Tegislatare may chance (o be. axes. atare will have large repub- ‘» being mestly of the Jin | Both branches of the hican majorities, the mou! ' Lane schoe! of radicalism. svators eLxore James Dixon, republican, of Conneeticnt; Reverdy Johnsow, conwrvative.e! Meryland; Wm Sprague, deme. cratic republicav, of Rhode istand, and Solomon Foot, republican, of Vermont, lave been alroady elected by their respective State Logislaiares to serve in the (nited ‘or six years (rom 1863. Stonewall Jackson aud His Fa Law. er: Under the besd of religions services in yesterday's bit D. D., late President of William and Mary College, Vir- ginia, father-in-law to Stomewall Jackson, and whe, ior bis lowe for the old @ag and joyaity te the Uniou, was forced to leave Virginia, would preach im the Canal street Presbyterian church Strangers were invited to attend: ‘The invitation brought together about twe hundred and | fifty persons, a great addition to the regular congregation, if we were iutormed aright—that three-fourths @f chore present were strangers. If, beyond the mere accoptanee of the invitation, it was expected that the discourse of the reverend (atherin-iaw of the famous Stonewall would touch upon the all absorbing topic ef the rebeilions and io which Gis ootorious son-in-law performs 40 important a part, disappointment must have fallee upon fis hearers, Che discourse was altogether devote to the oxemplification of the text, takea fromthe eleventh chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew, consisting of the | trcaty-cighth and (ew follow: verses, ewnbracieg our Suviour’s appeat to sitiners:— (Come unto me all ye that tabor and areheavy laden,” &c. The preacher is a small, ‘old man, having sppareotly jived the allotted term* three score yoara aud ten.” His vous is firm afd exceedingly clear tor bis age. and his energetic deciamation in the: pond re we evidence of one who, ia his youth, would do and who, if driven trom | vecunere | vauive. The republicans claim thet he party opvosed wo | TMPORTANT FROM THE The Rebel Military Prepara- tions in Virginia. The New Railroad Facilities of the South. Opening the Mississippi in a Rebel Point of View. NEWS FROM TEXAS, Interesting Statement of a Texan Refugee. Vice President Stephens’ Mode for Breaking the Blockade. HIGH PREMIUM ON GOLD IN RICHMOND, &e., &e., &e., Our Baltimore Correspondence. Barrons, Nov. 19, 1862. Theory of a Rebel “Ificer in Regard to General Lee's De- signs—The Revels Apprehend Another Peninawlar Con prignPrebubie Keaggeration of the Rivar Defences of Richwond—N-ws from Mobile—The Defences of that City , dc. , de. A few days ago, auaeng the parcled rebel offecera then in thi city, there was une—a gentieman from Ala- Duna, a man of unusual intelliyeuce and splendid educa- tion—-with whom J bei aconversation just befere he left to ve exchanged. He bas velatives both io Winchester an@ tm Richmond, and vs well acquainted witb the conmtry @reund both places. He bas served with distinction ip the rebel army ‘luring the whole war, and made the campaign against Pope in August and September last- Without professing to be in the secrets of the redeb mili tury leaders, be has @ theory ip regard w the presen, campuign which is at least worthy of being recorded, as it is based upon his Kuowledge of General Lee’s character ‘and reseurecs. It is remarkable that,up to this time, his prognesis of eveats has heen completely verified. His theery is us foliows:—Thar it is in General Lee’s pewer to avoid « battle entirely if he wishes to do #0; that by moans cf the three military roads which he has constructed he withdraw his whole army te Staun ton and Gordonsville, while the troops now at and near Calpepper keep the Union army im check; and that, once cu the south bank of the Rapidan or Rappahannock , he will bave suck a force massed there as will make it tm possible for the Union army to advance further south ward; and that he will take this course if he is convinced that the Unton army now pressing bim exceeds a certain numerical figute, Ur else be will manwovre in such a way, by (eigned retreats, 98 to draw the Un‘on army as ‘ {ar from Washington as possible, and then, engaging thoiy attontion with the treops near Culpepper, will make a forced march with iis maim body, and, by commg through Ashby’s or Suicker’s Gap, and moving on }ces- burg or Aldie, will got in the rear of the Union army, and attack them iu rear, while the troops vear Culpepper attack them ip ‘ront; and that he will take this course he i* satisfied that the Calon army does not exceed certaiv Mutwerwal force. What Unis gamerieat fgare is the vifieer did not state. To regard tw the idea of the Union army now ip the field in Virgiuia movi down to Richi d: Culpepper and Gordyriville, or by way of Freder: aud Hanover, or by auy other route across the Rappa havnock, this offices holds that the route will be found to be entirely impyn ‘ticable, The operations which wok place along the line of the Rappahinnock river last August have rebels sora levsoris which they have not tailed ( hy The whole lire of that river, Aud of the Rapidar also #2 fay west as Stawnat ile , bas been fortified ta cach a manner 13 Lo render ite pas. suge extremely difficult. Bor the dofenee of this line he say the revels Dave fuliy 200,000 troops, inctding, ot course, Lee's avmy.and the weeps at Culpepper. He says that B entirely convinoed is the rebel government of the eificieviey of the defences of Richmond from from that direction that they are under no apprehen- sion whatove t aice ‘i ne That Mest Span OUs OUleers others whore for the attack tat our eem formed by convey ug troops 10 wit and tet it be remenb Bhvats sailed up U pd thet ther@has not a majority of his friends 1a bot bowen. | West Poiui omiy uf maine. } been the si!catest W ehatrh ct even the ‘The term ot Hon. Lott M. Morrill im the United Stare | Mimiake 7 Se ~ I Sonate will expire with the proseat Congress, and, az the | rbatraevions ta the rhave vem very sitoan; be will geoteh { amuch exiga and that the hasted screugth uf Fort Lapwlature of the State is republican, be will probably be j,i salt won't sucetn® beture a proper mi tacts {rom re-slected to sere nncil 1969, Bey ym Seat MINNBAOTA 1 ceria tet —_ are gonvineed thas eter ean im both brauches— | thr peuinsitla is Able point. and tat the longer Tho Legisistare will Oa sapantionn in. Doth branclee— | oo ietase stoi her peninkalar campaign the harder and more ditteult it will be ve make it whee it shalt be at ed In connection with this subject Fought to mention a other fact. Tt ie sart by those who ave supposed! to la rebel sources that # large portion uf Gene- ral Brage’s army arrived at Lynchburg about a week or two age @ state of the highest ethcieney. aud that they hav been sent eitber to reinforce Genera) Lee or to strongtueu the rebel lorces now at Culpepper. This stutermout, if true, is highly important, principally to connection with the movements of Generai Resecrens to- warde Fastern Tennessee, Barmmone, Nov. 20, 1862. inside View of Rebeidom—Roats ant Railroads in the South—Marufactories of Kaiirvad Iron and of Rolling Stock for Ratroai--The Redet Cannon Foundry at Knoreilie, dic {have recentiy bad 4 (ong conversation with @ geuwine refugee from Rebeldom. | say & genuine refugee because: }bave ne doubt tat the storios which are Often palmed ofon the public pretending to be the relations of persons who bave made their excape from rebel tyranny, are er wilful fabrications or else are got up by cunning and designing persous, in order to-excite the sympathy oy kind bearted people at the North, an@ wo extort money from them. ‘n thie case the party to whom [allude exhibited to me the most unequivocal evidences of ® resi- deace ia Reveldom during the whote‘of the last two years: and the proofs alse of his escape therefrom, the manner ‘end means of which indicated at ence « high sense of honor and ingenulty equal tc that of Baron Trenek. He arrived bere iv the garb of sailor, and is no doubt by this time with his friends in one of the Northern States My informant was cover in the rebel army, and eacap. od the conseriptien ia spite of the nature of tis business, or porbape in conseatence of it; for it required him to travel agreat part of hie time. Inside of the confede- racy, aagerding to his acount there ia 20 restriction om travel aod Moulty in getting fram piace to place. The exception to this rule is io the case of abelitioniote,; emissaries of abolitionista or surpected persone. Of theee he suys there were a great number in the diferent Southern States when tbe war broke out, Most ef them were koown, had long been marked, and were promptly sent North, after being rt stripped of avy valuables. which they may have possessed. Some of them (very few, however) were the owners of real estate, and thie of course has been lost to them, for the present at least, ‘Most of them had borses or other valuable personal pro- perty, sad these were taken from them without cere mony. In every cage, Bowever, the party was sudjecte® to some kind of a trial or form of so examination, gene- news thro