The New York Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1862, Page 5

| important that Congress should, arrange and settle the Tax bill, on which thé stability of our Rational securities may be sald wholly to de- pend. Let Congress make snch amendments and improvements as the short experience we have already had proves to be necessary. There is here room for some important reforms. Above all, however, let Congress take for its polar star in this work the happiness and good of the great and poorer masses of the people, and avoid playing into the hands of great com- panies, great interests or great people. The Arrival of Greeley’s Guillotines. A reliable correspondent of that candid and voracious journal, the London Herald, informs the’world that a recent steamer from Liverpool ook out twenty-four Freneh guillotines, con” signed to a confidential agent of President Lin” coln in this city. To those at all. informed in regard to the affairs of this country, it ia very clear that this confidential agent of President Lincoln is no other person than poor Massa Greeley, of the New York Tribune. We long ago predicted that Greeley would resort to the guillotine, sooner or later, and we are not-at all surprised that our. prediction has so speedily been verified. The recent elections have soured Greetey mightily. . Even before the elections he ‘was in 60 exasperated a condition thgt he could , talk end write of nothing but blood, gallows and guillotines. Consider, then, how greatly his wrath must have increased since bis nine hundred thousand allies went over to the enemy on election day, in November, and left him a mere corporal’s guard at the charter election, last Tuesday, and since the Presiflent has dared to defy him by a message which recognizes claves as property, “acquired by descent or purchase, like any other property,” and post- pones emancipation until the year 1900, when the _Jast of the abolitionists, like Barnum’s “What is it?” will be shown about the couatry as a curiosity. No wonder that Greeley is now a8 savage as a meat axe, chews tenpenny «nails as a substitute for Virginia tobacco, and is ready to guillotine everybody and everything indiscriminately. No conservative head will henceforth be safe within a block of the Tribune We presume that these twenty-four guillotines will be managed by a stock company, like the Tribune, or like Greeley’s gun factory. Poor Greeley’s strength is not equal to his ambition, and, much as he has always desired to bea little Robe-pierre, he certainly could not manage twenty-four guillotines single handed. Besides this, Grecley could not pay for the guillotincs, even if he could work them, and so he is obliged to take certain other radicals into the business, just as he took Snow, Almy and Wilkeson into his gun company. Cassius Mar- cellus Clay is one of these guillotine stockhold- ers, having gracefully relinquished his publicly ‘avowed preference for the gallows. That “Little Villain,” Raymond, of. the Times, is another stockholder, and upon him devolves-the duty of picking the pockets of the conservative victima after Clay has cut off their heads, Beecher and Cheever, with the dther abolition ministers of the gospel according to John Brown, will act as chaplains. Wendell Phillips, the incomparable cold, bas also a hand in the affair, though he will doubtless be, as usual, a great deal more ornamental than useful. Secretary Stanton must also have an interest in the matter; for the Tribune announces that the firat guillotine will be erected in the Capitol square; at Wash- ington; that it is tobe worked by steam, and that it bas six axes, with which to chop off six heads simultaneously. It is perfectly natural that Stanton should make a pet of such a ma- chine as this. He has become tired of Bastiles, which are, after all, not adapted to his style of operations. You may lock a man up; but he . can think and remember, nevertheless. By and | by be must be released, and then he tells terri- ble tales, and resorts te warrants and suits and all sorts of obsolete means of obtaining justice for what he is pleased to call his wrongs. This sometimes leads to investigations, as in the case of Mrs. Brinsmade, and is a nuisance and an an- noyance. The guillotine, on the contrary, does its duty thoroughly. Dead men tell no tales. The tongue cannot reveal anything after the head is separated from the body. For these reasons Stanton prefers the guillotine to the dungeon, and has recently released all State prisoners, ie emg to executing thei, as a cat allows a”mouse a little liberty before she gives it the coup de mort. The radicals intend that Governor Seymour shall be the first victim of Greeley’s thirst for blood. It is rumored, however, that on the + night after the reading of the President’s anti- radical message a red cross was chalked upon the door of the White House. This looks omi- nous; and so, also, does the fact that General McClellan has been telegraphed to go on to Washington immediately. We know that Wen- dell Phillips has joined the Tribune guillotine association for the express purpose of securing the execution of Secretary Seward, against whom he is still indulging in vindictive tirades. Cassius M. Clay insists that Richard O’German shall die, and the Count Adonis Gurowski is endeavoring to put John Van Buren’s name at the head of the list of the condemned. It is useless to speculate in regard to this aubjeet, however, for the execution of all the conservatives is @ mete question of time. What does it matter to our conservative read- ers whether their turn will come the day after the guillotines arrive, or whether they will be reserved as holiday sacrifices, to give eclat to the celebration of the Istof January? The radicals have evidently determined to kill off all the white people in the South by negro insurrec- tions, and to annihilate conservatism in the North by the guillotine. Let us be thankful that our English friends have warned us in time to make our wills and bid our wives and children farewell. In return for this favor we earnestly beg all Britishers not to venture to eet foot in this distracted country until the negroes and the abolitionists share it equally, and we have a substantial and everlasting peace, disturbed only by the ghosts of departed white men. With all our regard for the neutral flag of England, which now floate so gloriously from the peak of the Alabama, we cannot answer for the safety of Englishmen when Greeley gets bdiinded with gore and furious with slayghter. Under these circumstances « foreigner might be seized at the pier, and deprived of his headand his portmanteau before he had time to assert his cationality and demand the protection of his consul. All Europe knows how frequently Gene- ral Butler makes such mistakes at New Orleans, and we assure Europe that Butler is a saint compared to the sanguinary Greeley. It is very probable, however, that, just as Dr. Guillotin, who introduced the guillotine into France, be- came one of the first victims of his own inven- ton, 80 poor Greeley may encounter a similar fate in this country. If so, transatlantic com- munication may again be resumed, and the Eng- lish will be received in this regenerated coun- try in the manner aad with the honors that their kindness towards and sympathy for us have so richly deserved. Inaugaration of the Governors of New York and New Jersey, and #neir Policy. On the first of next month, and with the com- mencement of the new year, Horatio Seymour, of this State,and Joel Parker, of New Jersey, will be inaugurated Governors of their respec- tive States. They were both nominated and elected by the conservative citizens of their States after one of the most important cam- paigns in the history of the nation. They were supported by that portion of the people who had become disgusted with the mismanagement of the war by the radicals. They were selected as the representatives of the anti-abolition, anti- radical sentiment of the people, They were elected to the important positions of Governors as conservative men, and as a rebuke to the in- trigues of the radicals at Washington, the real Marplots of the war. The vote cast in their favor was a censure and an indictment of the mismanagers of the war. ; Occupying that high position, chosen as a reprimand to the radicals for betraying the trusts committed to their care, the public are looking forward with more than ordinary in- terest for the policy that they will pursue. They are not looked to as men, but as the official mouthpieces of the majority of the citi- zens of their respective States, and as one of the mediums through which the national land- marks laid down by our forefathers, but trodden upon and almost destroyed by the radicals, shall be restored. No Governors in modern times have had so important duties to perform as these two officials. In consideration of these facts, Horatio Seymour and Joel Parker ought by all means to meet and have a consultation with each other, and, after due consultation, careful and candid consideration of the trusts committed to their care, weighing fully the in, terests of their constituents and the future of the country, mark out some line of policy to be pursued by each in their official capacity, and to be inaugurated with their taking the oath of office. They should consider the amount of men and money that has been furnished by the people in their respective States to aid in putting down the rebellion, and also bow the money has been squandered and the valuable lives of tte volun- teers sacrificed by the radicals in their efforis to disgrace conservative generals and foist upon our armies abolitionists and abolitionism. In deciding their policy they should bear in mind that the people have repudiated the radicals for dividing our armies and refusing McClellan the support on the Chickahominy that would have enabled him Jast spring to have captured Rich- mond and crushed out the rebelliev, and that the radicals are directly responsible for the sacrifice of Iife and the expenses-of the war, which has been prolonged by reason of their breaking up and defeating McClellan’s plans on the peninsula. The duty of the Governors elect in this State and New Jersey is plain and straightforward. By all monns let them meet and consult toge- ther at an early day, and mark out a conserva- tive policy to be pursued in unison, and thus better meet the expectations of the people and more fully discharge their duties to their States and the nation. Let their policy be such that future generations cannot say that important trusts were committed to their care in vain. A ror Tas Lancasnire Oreratives.—We publish elsewhere a report of the mecting of merchants held yesterday to consider the best form in which relief can be sent from this country to the starving operatives of Lanca- shire. An objection was started that the move- went might be misrepresented by the English press; but this was properly overruled, and all our leading merchants present concurred in expressing their readinces, not only to contri- bute their money, but to lend their personal services in carrying out the ebjects of the meet- ing. One merchant sent a letter offering the free use of one of his ships of 1,800 tons to con- vey food free of charge to Kngland, in case it is decided to send relief ia that shape. From the spirit manifested by the meeting, there is no doubt that almost any sum can be raised for this benevolent purpose. There is one suggestion that we would make to the gentle- men having this matter in hand, and that is to offer to provide facilities for the transportation of such ofthese operatives as wish to emigrate to this country. Here they will find a wide field for their skill and full securit y against the- periodical suspensions of work to which they are subject in England. There are many small manufacturers that could, no doubt, be induced to accompany their workmen and bring their machinery with them. This seems to us one of the most practical and effective modes of re- lieving the pressure in the English manufac- turing districts. News from the Pacific. San Francisco, Dec. 2, 1862. Arrived, ship Tempest, from Philadeiphia. Trade is dull. ‘The Grand Jury of San Francisco have indicted thirty- six gamblers, causing a stampede among the sporting fraternity. A rigid anti-gambling law will be the principal reform mousure asked of the uext Legislature. Sandwich Islands dates to the 16th of November are received. Twenty-three whalors bad arrived—tweive from the Arctic regions and seven from Ochotek—with an average catch of 980 barrels of oll and 13,400 pounds of bone. Fourteen more were expected from Ochotsk. San Franco, Dec, 3, 1862. Markets are dall. Dried apples declined 63¢c. per pound. Crushed sugar offeredat 133¢c. American brandy Belling at 4735c. @ 60c.; do. gin, 460. Split peas, Tc. ‘The Presidcnt's Message was published in the San Fran- Citeo and Sacramento papers to-day. It was telegraphed from Chicago in eight hours. Saw Franoiaco, Dec. 4, 1862. Sailed ship Magellan, for Liverpool, with a cargo of 19,000 sacks of wheat and 150 sacks of copper ore. ‘The markets are flat. New hops, received via Panama, are dull at 26c, Dry hides 14%. Crashed sugar 133¢¢. ‘The Ophir sitver mine has declared » December divi- dond of $72 per foot. General Wright bas ordered the troops to protect the Bumbeldt region. + Personal Intelligence. Major D.C, Houston and Dr. John H. Rauch, United _NEW. YORE HERALD, ‘FRIDAY, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasumrarox, Doc. 4, 1802. THE RBrORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TRRACURT— FAVORABLE CONDITION OF THE FINANCES. ‘The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will be sev to Congress to-morrow. Copics of it have been forwarded to the press, but ngne have yet been distributed hore. Some verbal alterations have been made this evening. It will exhibit the gratifying fact that during the last fiscal year—the first year of the war—the expenditures have been less than they were estimated in the list anual Mes-- sage, while the reecipte have considerably exceeded the ‘eotimatos. : ‘TMB COURT MARTIAL OF GENERAL FITZ JOHN POR- ‘TBR—TRATIMONY OF GENERAL POPE--PATRIOTIO LETTER FROM GENERAL M’'OLELLAN TO GENERAL PORTEK. Tn the Portor Court to-day General Pope was on the stand as a witnoss, and iestified that General Porter had failed to render him assistance when it was in his power to have done so at Manassas apd Gaincsville. General Pope said General Porter was well aware of his plang and the objeots of his campaign; that he bad fought several battles against auporior numbers of the enemy, which he would not have fought under other circumstances than that he considered the capital in danger; and on one occa- sion, at Fairfax, censured General Porter {n unqualified terms for his faituré to co-operate. General Pope was subjected toa rigid cross-examina’ tiom by Hon. Reverdy Johnson, General Porter’s counsel. Genoral Pope objected to a question as to why he, know- ing the capital to be in such danger, did not at the time take steps to have Genoral Porter dismissed, and the question was overruled. . General Porter offered a protest, which was read, and the Court went into secret eeession upon the point of re- ceiving and entering it upon the record. During the sitting to-day General Porter offered in evi- dence, after the evidenes of General Pope in chief, the fol- lowing letter from General McClellan: — ‘War Drrarruxnr, Sept. 1—5:30 P. M. Major General Porrkr, Centreville, Commanding Sixth corps:— Lavk of you, for my sake, that of Potomac, that tho old Army of the you ‘and most cordial oo-eperation to will lend the fullest General rope tu all the now goingon. The dis- of our armies, are at how upon the cheerful co-operation This week is the crisis of our, Say the same to all my friends in the Army of the Potomac, and that the last re- nest I have to make of them is that for if country’s sake they will extend to General Pope the same support they ever have to me. Iam in charge of the de‘ences of Washington, and am doing all I can to render your retreat safe, should that become necessary. GEO. B. MoCLELLAN, Major General. Some rich developments are expected during this trial, as well as that of General McDowell. It is rumored that witnesses are to be summoned be. fore the court martial to tcatify as to the sound character of General Pope for truth and veracity. THE M'DOWELL COURT OF INQUIRY. ‘The McDowell Court did nothing to-day of tmportance, though they had an unusually lengthy sessiou. Colonel R. D. Goodwin wae the prinotpal witness. It seemed dif- ficult for the Court to get him to confine himself to direct answers to questions propounded. His testimony to-day the country and of ail friends of all in the fic! |, chiefly concerned his connection with a regiment, of which heglaimed to be colonel in New York city. Bivoet Ruggles, formerly Assistant Adjutant General on General Pope’s staff, was questioned as to the character of witness. ‘The Court discussed the propriety of allowing the ques- tion to be put as proposed by General McDowell, and over. ruled it, as it allowed of too much latitude of inquiry. THE DOCUMENTS RESPECTING THE OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Senator Sherman’s resolution is regarded as an offset to the paper of Gen. Hallock. If the resolution is answered we shall have a full statement of the affairs of the Army of the Potomac since its departure from before Richmond, and nota partial one. There is a strong feeling here for the production of the whole correspondence since the army started for the peninsula, THE SENATE RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE BMANCI- PATION PROCLAMATION, Mr. Clark’s resolution in the Senate is significant. In approving the policy of the proclamation, it is intended, as is supposed, to condemn the later idea of compensated emancipation. THE COSTA RICA CLAIMG COMMISSION. ‘The Chevatier Bertinatti, umpire of the joint commis. sion for the adjudication of the claims against Costa Rica. to-day notified the Secretary of the Commission as fob lows:—I will receive no observations, cither verbal, printed or written, from either party interosted after the 16th of the present month. COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE DONE TO A FRENCH ‘VESSEL. ‘The President sent a brief message to tho house to-day, which was referred to the Committe on Foreign Affairs, relative to the collision of the war steamer San Jacinto with the French brig Jules et Mara, off the const of Cuba, in November last. He recommends an appropriation ef $9,600 for reparation of damages to the latter, through neglect on the part of the officers of the San Jacinto, tin accordance with the verdict of a nava commission, composed of officers of this country, France and Italy, and the United States Consul at Havana and th® Consul of France. THR LOYAL INDIANS IN THE MILITARY &BRVICE. There are three Indian regiments in the service of the government in the West. The newspapers usually speek of them as “Indianians,” not Indians. They fight well, but when a retreat is ordered they fal! into confu" sion and are unroliable. In the late unsuccessful expedi- tion into the Cherokee country the two regimentsof whites wore first to retreat, and the Indian regiments followed: bringing off with them some two or three thousand refugecs—old men, women and chiléren—who had com. promised themselves by rallying under the Union stand- ard. ‘There are now fullly ten thousand Indian refugees in Kansas that are supported by the goverrment. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is satisfied that the ma- jority of the‘fndians in the Cherokee eountry are loyal, and be proposes to organize yet other Indian regiments from the 4ribbs of the Central Superintendency, who, in conjunction with white regiments, shall reconquer and réoccupy the Cherokee country. PUNISHMENT OF THE REBELLIOUS S10UX. Senator Wilkinson, of Minnesota, to-day presented an earnest but respectful protest to the President against the pardon or reprieve of the {condemned Indivng in that State. After reading this paper to the President, Messrs Wiudorn and Aldrich being present and hearvity endors. jog his it, decided to join therein with Senator Wilkinson, thus making the unanimous action of the en- tire republican delegation in Congress from that State The President, having determined to make an example of some of the ringleaders in the Jate Sioux insurrection, he bas turned over to Mr. Holt the duty of designating the cases of greater crime. After that the parties that are most clamorous for blced will probably have an op” portunity to select the victims for execution. AN ALLEGED REBEL SPY. Johan Irwin, @ private of tho Ninth Vir; cavalry, is im close confinement, charged with being aspy. Hoe was captured by our pickets in citizen’s dress, but claims to have left his tattered uniform at the house of his uncle to be repaired, and was on his way home, for the purpose of precuring clothing and a horse. He will be tried by court martial, but imstances already proven indicate thet the charge will not be established. His parents are loyal and highly respected by eur officers. EXECUTION OF A SOLDIER. To-merrow, at twelve o'clock, John Krissman will be executed at the Old Capitol, for killing his officer with a bayonet. DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS FROM THE OLD CAPITOL. Tweive persons were discharged from the Old Capitol to-day. Two of them were Jews, who were let out on parole, with the understanding that they would leave for Europe. SMUGGLING LIQUOR INTO PRION. The sympathizers with some of the inmates in the U!d Capitol having been detected in the act of smuggling |i- quor into the prison, in the form of brandy drops or aWeetments, a rigid search is now made of all packages. SICK SOLDIERS. ‘The sick of the Army of the Potomac are to be daily transferred to hospitals here, and many convalescente are being sent hence to the North. REFORMS OF THE CONVALESCENT CAMP. Major Wood, of the Provost marshal General’s Depart- ment, yesterday visited Alexandria for the purpose of ia- troducing reforms into the Convalescent Camp at that place. Great diMoulties have been experienced in its relations between that establishment and the army in the field, and his visit ewan In great good. It i reported that the Mi ‘be assigned to an impertant station in his department near Washington, where his services can facilitate the removal of convalescent and exchanged prisoners to their respective commands. POSTAGE CURRENCY, About the 8th of January the Treasury Departmen, ‘will Iasae two hundred dollars daily in posta carrency, and rinng that gum in one aad two dollar notes’ ‘DECEMBER 5, tevs and Oves the department is now isuging five or six handred thousand dollars daily SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN JONN BLWOOD. The May contains the particulars of the suitide of Cape John Elwood, of the regular army. It says the affair waa truly deplorable, and calls for 4 thorough investigation, the deceased having been confined in priaon for am offeace entirely unconnected with the public enemy or presecu- tioe of the war. CBRISTMAS DINNER FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED. Mrs, Caleb B, Smith is initiating steps whereby all the sick amd wounded or ether suidiors who may bo at this point om Christmas Day shall havea suitable dinner ov the ogeasion. This lady has honorably distinguished her- self as @ pioneer in acts of oxtreme kindmess to the suffer- ing soldier. ° THE ARMY SUBSISTANCE BUREAU. Aneffort will be mado during the present session of Congress to place tho Subsistence Bureau in the War Department upon an cquality with the other bureaus, by conferring upon the Commissary Geuveral of Subsistence the rank of brigadier general, and adding to the bureau ‘one lioutenant co} +"! and two majors. It is only just that the officers of this important branch of tho service sbould have rank equivalent to that recently conferred upon those of tho A/jutaut Genoral’s and Quartermastor’s offices. . DEATHS OF SOLDIERS. ‘The following deaths of soldiers are announced — George Weeks, Co. H, Ninth New r0. Gawald Tursor, Co. D, Sevenity New York. 3. 0d. I, One Hundred and Forty seventh Now York. ‘Wm. Robinaon, teamater. AL Wiloox, Co. 1, Ninoty-ffth New York. ‘3 Daher f First Now York. i “ a low York. Guarloe Khow, Boe T Forty. Pounsytvania, HL Faxter, Oo. B, Firat Rhvde island artillery. Robert Bennett, Co. H, First Naw York. G. 8. Elkins, Co. E, Second New Hainpsbiro. con ‘HL. Bowman , Co, C, One Hundred and Sixty-soventh lo. Corporal Matthew Crow, Co. G, O@e Hundred and ‘Thirty eoventh Pennsylvania. Poter 8. dokes, Co. B, Twenty-third New York. James Ben smin, Co. &, Nineteenth Michigan. Daniel Dcien, Oo. ©, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Pennsylvan: jeant H. ¢. Rowell, Co. I, Eleventh Massachusetts. Mic Magraw, Co. F, Sixth Ponnaylvania. ‘News from Sigel’s Corps. GENGRAL BIGRL DFUANDS A COUBT OF INQUIRY CON- CERNING THE STATKNENTS OF GENERAL POPE, BTO., BTC. Cryrnavnzx, Va., Dec. 4, 1862. It ig understood that Major General Sige! has demande @ court of inquiry to investigate the statements regard. fog his conduct by Gevoral Pope, and embodied in the report of Genera! Hallsek. Adrill of six regiments eslected from six brigades of this corps took place tq-day, in the presence of General Bigel, ‘The regiments’ selgcted were the Twenty-ninth, Forty-firat and One Hundred and Fifty seveath New York. the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania, the Thirty third Mas- sachusctts,and the Fifty-fifth Ohio. Blank-cartriges bad been issued to the men, and they were practised in the various firings in skirmishing and other movements par- ticularly incident to the field of battle. Ali the regiments acquitted themselves creditably, and especially the ekir, mishing of the Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania, and the Airing of the Thirty-third Massachusetts, excited universal admiration. Operatio: m the Mississippi. Camo, Dec. 2, 1862. The United States gunboat Kastport has beeu con" demned by Admiral Porter, and declared unfit for ser- vice. She will be put out of commission here. Her officers and crew are now being shifted to more services. blo boats. Captain Shirk, of the gunboat Lexington, had « ‘skirmish with the rebels at a plantation twen:y miles be- low Helena, on Tuesday Inst. He was firod upon by abou, one hundred infantry, assisted by cannon, and the wood work of the Lexington perfectly riddled with musket and cannon balls. No one was killed.on the boat. ‘The guns of the Lexington were quickly brought to bear, and soon sent thé rebels fying from their position, doaving several killed and wounded. Captain Shirk ‘went on shore with» boat’s crew soon efterwitds, and captured twenty conrabands and sixteon bales of cotton, all of which he cerr.ed to Helena. The cotton has arrived here by the steamer V. P. Wilson. The Lexingtom’can easily be repaired, and although a wooden gunbuat tho rebels will hereafter give her and her brave captain and gallant men a wide berth. ‘They don’t altogether like the looks of her guns. 186%. a Goneral Hovey has moved again from Helena, bound down the river. He left on the 27th. His destination is unknowo, Some say Vicksburg, as usual, and some say Little Rock. Cairo, Dec. 4, 1862. Memphis papers say that General Holmes crossed (rom Arkansas to Mississippi at Vicksburg, last week, with a force estimated at 40,000. Guerilias pre stik vory troublesome in the vicinity of Memphis, who continue to burn cotton and press men into the rebel service. They have also picked up a num- ber of stragglers (rom our army. expedition which lett Helena last week, said te have num_ bered 20,000 men, landed twelve miles below, to move on land toward Grenada. ‘‘DINORAR” AT THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF musiC. We should feel greatly obliged if any one would inform us why Brook!yn erécted an Academy of Music. Not for the evcouragement of opera, surely; for the people of (ha; suburban town do not patronize opera, not even the mos’ repnted and favorite operas, such as “ Norma,” “¢ Lu- crezia Borgia!’ or ‘‘ Trovatore,” to say nothing of Mey- erbeer’s *‘ Dinorab,”” which is so pleasing, so charming an opera—one wiunine upon the public of New York at each reception. Manager Grau engaged the Academy ot Brooklyn for four nigh's, and has given a differeut opera ‘gach night, including + Dindrah,” for which he was at grout expense in moving scenery, goat and all the acces- sories—torrent, thunder and electric light. On the inau- guration night the louse was fairly filled. On each suc- ceeding bight, and in cpite of such attractions as we have recapitulated above, the empty seats looked ominous. ‘The best Mtentioned, most devoted friend of the Opera cruld but style the three last Opera nights at Brooklya as baving been attended by fashionable audiences. To add to the shortcomings of the Brvvkiyuites ia this Opera mater, two ont of the four vights were splendid mooa- light evenings, bright as day, torpting to the ladice, who could safely wear the! ya's cloaks aud laces, set their bonnets aside aud appoar ws all the glory of full colffures, And yet the houses were slim—moet elim, as Manager Grau’s casbior could prove, +» dare assert. But now we come to the worst part of Manager @rau’s Brooklyd ex- rience. ‘The people in charge of the Academy mado ti house than in the habit of charging to theatrical mavagors, thus ally taxing the | Opera instead of encouraging§it. We would advise the good people ef Brooklyn to turn their Asademy into a market house, if they canuot manage to patronize opera with sueh artiste as Guerrabe.ia, Lerini, Morensi, Cordier, | EBrignoli, Amodio and Susini. j Last evening ‘‘Dinorah’ was splendidly rendered | to a_ rather slim house in the Brooklyn Academy | of Music. Mile. Cordier, the Dinorah, was, | 8 usual, most charming and graceful, and sang | the music of ber role with great purity and suc- cose, she stirred the very cold Brooklyn andience thusiasm, especially with 80 much sweet- ia.” Tho applause wes tu- multuous, cuttt g the arifete short in ber sung, and when she retired from the stage it was Kept up until she reap- peared and sang io. Phe maiody of that air grasps the mind at once,%ad haunts us uu,il we fod ourselves whistiiog or Lumming it continually. Signor Brignoli, who ‘8 cold, nevertheless sang bis role dolightiully, and gave more evidence of @ desire tu be evmio than we bad as yet witnessed in his part in this He played the ipea as long as he have played them, and when Hoel (Amodio) gave him that bono scudo to buy the bottle of ine wine he rvllicked off in great glee. Really, | the artists seemed to be more than usually t night in the rendition of this moet pleasing opera. terzetio at the end of the second act was fally rendered by Cordier, Brignoli a:1d Amodio, a curtain went down upon contioued applause. The act, with ite great arteactions—Susini in bis splendid rendition of the “Hunter's Song,” Brigaoli With, the famous “Reaper's Song,” and Mile. Morensi avd Mies Stockton in the ‘Goatherd’”’ duetto—was most animated, and when the curtain fell at tbe end of the ver- formance the applause of those present pronounced ta most decided success. “Dinorah’? matinee will be On saturday next a given at our Academy of Music. are to have arepetition of ‘La Favorita,’’ with Guerrabella, Brignolt and Susini. | aylvania | Captains | Liewtonant H Tonight we ‘Tuesday evening of next week ‘Norma’ will be.. oaaced at the ‘Academ: ot Musto, with Lorini and . Upon this the seats will be the usual theatrical prices. ‘On Saturday evening, the 6th, the first grand concert of Heimsmaller’s Twonty-second regiment band will take place at Irving Halt. OF Thanksgiving Day in Canada, d&c. Mowtanat., Dec. 4, 1862. To-day being Thanksgiving Day, it will be observed as a holiday throughont the province. ‘The weather has been vory severe here for che last two days. Tho thermometer at sight o'clock this mornin; stood at four degrees above zero. Navigation is closed. ‘The Int river steamer leaves here today for winter quarters, ‘ vy IMPOBTANT FROM Lk INDIAN TERRITORY, Bloody Fight et Fort Cobv Between KRebe! and Loyal Indfians—The Rebels Defeated with Groat Slaughter, and their Leader Killed, &e., dic. ‘Wasmnarow, Dec. 4, 102 ‘The Indian office is in reooips of @ slatewent (ro Kan a8, 08 follows — On tho 2%! of October chiefy and braves of the Wichitas and Boohies, to the numbor of eighty, arrived at Leroy to ask for the protection of tho Uvited States government ‘Thy left tho rost of their band, numbering seven hun- red in all, om Walnut creek, eighty miles south of Leroy, ‘These Indians being with them & large number of scalps, and the intelligonce of a bloody fight at Fort Covb, in the Indian territory, on the 2st of October. The loyal forces compowed three bundred and forty Wichitas, ono hundred aud sixty-throe Towakonos, one hundred and thirty-seven Kakas, sixty-soven Kechics, a fow Kados and about thirty Shawnees. The rebel wore led by Colouel Leper, at the heud of six hundred of the Tonkawoa, Loper is a promi- nent citizen of Arkansas, and the Confederate agont of the affiliated tries. ‘The loyal Indiana wore ontirely successful, having defeated their opponents and slaugh- tered large iumbors of them, amonggthem Colonel Loper. Gotting nows that Chief Molntosh was approaching with a large force of Texans and Indians, the Wiebitas fied to Missouri. They accomplished the Journey of ‘about three hundred miles ina month andaday, Thoy bring with them papers of the head chief of the Tonckn- was, allof which were captured, These papers cover @ period of thirty years, and some of thom boar the signa- tures of Sam: Houstoa, Governor Lamar, Albert er woll known Southern men. Twi romembered that Fort Cobh was cvacuates by-tho United states troops in Marl), 1861, and was goon after taken poenession of by the texi.s. Wichitas have always been roproscnted as friendly tudians, and the Laat report issued by the Indian Bureau shows thoy wero among tho last to accept the overtures made to them by the Conferate agents. ‘This fight shows the rebels have a more serious foe to contead with in the Indians of the Bouthwost than that encountered by uz in Minnesota. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Rebel Defences at Pctersburg and Be- Olty and Richmond—Ob- fa Chariston Harbor, &. Fortarss Monnos, Dee. 3, 1862. We learn from those who have had an opportunity of teeing for themselves that Petersburg anc along tho Toute between there and Richmond is being fortified by digging rifle pits and throwing yp strong earthworks Large forces are at work upon them day and night. We also learn, from a reliable source, that the channe! through the stone blockade at Charleston is temporarily obstructed by the use of railroad iron, go that the rebels can readily remove it for their own use. — The steamboat City of Hudson toox fire this morning, soon after ber arrival from Norfolk, but was extinguished with slight damage. ‘The steamboat, New York, with a flag of truce, left this afternoon for City Polat, with 100 rebel prisoners. Astorm commenced here this morning. Gur Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fortress Monon, Dec. 2, 1862. Arrival of Gen. Foster from Newbern—Visit of Gen. Diz to Yorktown—The Bortifications There—Gen. Keyes’ Sta’, ec. Major General Foster, commanding the Union forces in the Department of North Carolina, arrived here at a late hour lust night, from Newbern, in the little stoampr kmily, and left again this morning at eight o'clock. ‘The nature of his visit ig, a8 a matter of course, a mystery. Gen. Foster has been in telegraphic commanication with the department at. Washington most of the short period of bis stay, and spent the night pleasantiy with Chief Quartermaster Lieut. Col. C. W. Thomas. . ‘The long expected and put off trip to to Yorktown by Major Genoral Dix and staff came off at last yesterday At nine o'clock A. M. the Major General, accompanicd by the following staff—Licut. Colonel W. H. Ludiow, In. spector General; Iieut. Colonel C. W. Thomas, Chief Quartermaster, Major Chas. Temple Dix, A. D. C.; Captaios G. Von Kickstedt and Thomas Lord, Jr., Aide-de-Camp— embarked on the fine steamer City of Hedson, Captain George W. Livingston, and arrived at Yorktown le after eleven o'clock. On the arrival of General Dix, Major General Erasmus D. Keyes, surrounded by his brilliant staff, awaited his coming, and, landing, the two generals at once proceeded to the parade ground, where the command of Major General Keys was drat ip in line ready fer review, and commanded by ‘igadior General Negley. The two major generals and staff rode before the troops, and ‘ing made the round took up a position in the centre, when the corps marched by in review. The weather being somewhat unpropitious, a slight rain storm baving wet in, Lhe parade was dismissed, ac 1 General Did proceeded to inspect the fortifications. It is almost imporsible to imagine the immense amount ef labor spent by Major General Keyos in perfecting the jmmense forts, commanding, as they do, every avenue of ‘approach on the peninsula, Toil of the most gignntic kiud, ond engineering skill without limit, has beou be. stowed upon these breastworks, and the only thing re quired now by Major General Keyes and his vatiant and weil tried corps isan attack of the enemy, to try the efficacy of the etronghold and the mettle “of the anxious itt sate to assert that no force, however numerous, could possibly gain a foothold at Yorktown, and 60,000 rebels could be hurled back with terrible lors wey hey foolhardy enough to attempt an attack ‘The Fs tory ractice, as exemplified by Colonel RM. West, of the First Pennsylvania artillery, Chiet of Artillery to Gen, Keyes, co.ps, with mortars and Leavy Parrott guns, was accu rate and skilful, and olicited great encomiums from Gen. Dix and all the spectators. After inspecting the forts, aud (he firing of the artillery at targets, Major General Dix and staff, alo Ger Keyes and stuf, sat down to m sumptuous dinner prepared by General Keyes to his guests. Lioutenant % Assistant Adjutant General of the ributed not # little to the com a corps, fort of bis guests, while Major Genoral Keyes gracefully done the honors of the repast. Brigadicr Governl Negley ‘was algo especially invited te the dipner, and cccupicd & seat at tho side of Major General Dix. The entire arrangements attending upon the visit of Gen. Dix to the peninsula were marked with great eclat, and the Courmanding General expressed himself highly pleased witit the administration of Major Gereral Keyes. Owing te the rain Geo. Dix was unable to visit Gloveester Point, but will do so in avery few days, when he will inspect the troops stationed there. Sportly after three o'clock Gen. Dix and staff ro-em- barked on board of the City of Hudson, and arrived at Fortress Mooroe about half-past five o'clock. Capt. Liv- ingston, commanding the City of Hudson, and Capt. J Acker, formerly joint proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel, in your city, and owner of the boat, spared no pains to make Major Gen. Dix and staff comfortable on board the boat, The City of Hudson is a favorite, and the best ap- pointed and fitted up craft in Hampton Roads. The fvllowing named gentlemen comprise the statfof Major General Krasmus D. Keyes, ll of whom bave ie this smelied powder, and proved themselves good and officient fiers:—Iteutenant Colonel C. C, Say- dam, Assistant Adjutant Goneral; Major B. C. Chetwoed, Senior Aid-de-Camp; Captain Oswald J ckson. Aid-de- Camp; Fliret Lieutenant G. Irvine Whitehead, Sixth Pennsylvania cavalry, Aid.de-Camp; First Lieutenant 1. 3 , Twenty-third Penneylvania Volunteers, ‘Acting Aid-de-Camp; Colonel R. M. West, First Peau- rtillery, Chief of Artillery and Ordvance; Dr, United States Armyy Medical Director; Farnaworth, Chief Quartermaster; Second ‘W. Bensen, Signal Officer. H. Getly, Fortress Mownor, Deo. 3, 1862. Return of the Steamer Adelaide—The Flag of Truce Boa’ Neo York—Another Trip—Departure of the British War Vessels, de. ‘Tho steamer Adelaide, one of the favorite bay steamers of the Baltimore live, made her first appearance this morning after having been undergoing repairs for about two months, She is commanded by Captain James Can- ‘non, an old and favorite commander of this line, and Mr. Charles Klassen, the polite and geutlemanly clerk, is also attached to #@%, and has charge of the Gnancial depart- meat, Mr. Klassen is a great favorite with the travelling community between this poiot and Baltimore, and his endeavors to make all the passengers comfortable richly tation . oe ee ee cn John FE. Mulford, will leave for City Point, to take up a number of released rebel prisoners. Among the passen- gers to go to Dixie is Moos. bag ha Consul at Rich- , who came from there about ten or twelve days ‘ago to confer with Mons, Merceir at Washi . ‘The British corvette Cadmus, Cay sloop-of-war Petrell, ‘on Ronde for some past, took their departure to- day for a cruise to Charleston, 8. 0. The commanders of the two English ships alleged that they wanted to be present at the bombardment oj that city, which they aver ‘will take phiee in @ very short time. ‘The wtcamer Mystic, Capt. H. N. T, Arnold, U. 8. Nx now occtpiee the position of blockade sbip in the steaa of the Wyandot, All vessels having the permission of ¥énjor Geveral Dix may now enter or depart from the ‘sarbor ibiting their passes to the officers of the Ip. Movements of the Governor @iect. ALnANY, Deo. 4, 1862. Mr. Soymour arrived in town to-day. Ho wil! remaia wntit Saturday evening. Hq te aot likely to visit New York at preseny, EE EEE City Interligenés. Carram Wevan ACun —The vigilant Captain Wengh agate detvcted parsons retrbing the Navy Department Of Cefiee on Saturday. Oiocr Winkh, Of the watch polleo, iso caught another thief at tho same business. The coffee was taken from the culprits, both of whom werk im the Navy Yard. Stealing was earriod ou extensively some (ime wince, thousands of dollars worth of government property having boca purloined. if is now of rare we currence, however, owlng to the etrict watch kept on the Kate by the marines and Captain Waugh. Srocnaa.—A wrestling match took place yesterday ab twelve o'clock, at 429 He: ston etroet, Henry Wilson's, bé- twoou Frank Clark and Joho Harly, for one hundred dot- lare aside. ‘The bet was that Hurly was to tLrow Frank Clark five times oat of six; but Clark threw Hurly the vory fires two rounds, and of course was the winner of tho contest and the alakes without avy farther exertion William Welsh and James Bowers acted aa Judgos, and James Conway was the referee. Ecuirax ov Tm Moon —Thore will be @ total ccipse oF the moon, visible th t the United States, at am early hour to-morrow morning, Tho obscuration wit begin at about ope o'clock A. M., and continue about am hour and ten minutes. Ma. Tram’ Lacrors To-wicnr.—inis evening Mr. Goorge Francie Train gives one of bw epicy lectures a6 the Coopor Institute. This is to be his lust in New York, before starting for Richmond, with the coffin of the abolt- tionista in his pocket. It will, wo doubt, be as racy and funny as ever. ‘Sauee ov Rest Estate at auction by Adrian Hi. Muller, P. R. 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