The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1862, Page 4

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M. til 10 P.M. a ia HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorias Songs, Dancus, Buriesaves £c Now York, Satara ay, THE SITUATION. Our despatches from the Potomac Army announce no changes at the front. The enemy appear to have left the section of country north of the Rap- pahannock, although they occasionally throw emali sccuting parties across the river, which | make a dash upon our outposts and then retire. | The Banks expedition was expected to have | completed its departure yesterday. It is proba- ble, however, that the vessels which had not al” ready left were detained by the storm of lastnight. A portion of the fleet sailed in the morning, and a | few vessels the night previous. General Banks | is on board the North Star, the flagship of the fleet. We have already published a list of some of the vessels which comprise the expedition. Among others are the North Star (flagship,) j Haze, Northern Light, Eastern Queen, Quincy, Moses Taylor, Suwannee, M. Sandford, Decatur, Chas. Osgood, Shetucket, Albany, Jersey Blue and | Saxon, all laden with troops and subsistence stores, forming a military and naval expedition from which great things may justly be antici- pated, jf it only strikes in the right quarter, Another fleet, consisting of seven vessels and | two iron-clads, also sailed from Fortress Monroe | i yesterday, under sealed orders, for some unknown | destination. Daring the trial of General Fitz John Porter yesterday General Pope was submitted to a rigid cross-examination by the counsel for the accused, and many interesting incidents were elicited. Among others the fact that General Pope de- clined to send by telegraph the answer of Porter to General McClellan's letter which we published yesterday. lows :— You may rest assured that all your friends, as well as every lover of his country, will ever give, as they have given, to General Pope their cordial co-operation and constant support in the execu- tion of all orders and plans. Our killed, wounded and enfeebled troops attest our devoted duty. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury is given in full in our columns to-day. As we treat very elaborately of it editorially, the document demands no comment here. The veteran General Scott has finally replied, in brief terms, to Mr. Buchanan. He denies that be das any private resentments to gratify, and states that be has received many official courtesies from the late President of the United States; but to vindicate justice and the truth of history isa paramount obligation. He then showe that cer- tain Southern States received an undue propor. tion of arms, and that many of them were not worthless nor condemned. CONGRESS. The annual report of the Seeretary of the Trea- sury on the financial condition of the nation was transmitted to both Houses of Congress yesterday. This important document is given in full in to- day's Heracp. in the Senate yesterday, the House bill requiring payments in gold and silver for all judgments re. covered by the United States, was referred to the Fiusnee Committee. The resolntion calling for all documents relating to the operations of the Army © the Potomac and the surrender of Harper's ry, Was adopted. Mr. Powell's resolution 2, pecting the ilega! arrest of citizens of Ken- tucky was adopted. A pealing the provision © (ow fimiting the number of major generals was Fesarved aud referred, as was ales a bill concern- General Porter's answer was as fol- i | invitation to be present, at half past nine o'clock | dermen will also attend, on the special invitation of ing sppointments in the navy. A resolution call- ing on the President for all the information in his possession touching the Indian outbreak in Minne- sota was agreed to. An executive session was held, and afterwards the Senate adjourned. In the House of , Mr. Stevens in. troduced @ bill indemnifying and protecting the President and other public officers from arrest: imprisonment and other consequences growing out of the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Owing to a slight informality Mr. Stevens with- drew the bill for the present. Mr. Morrill offered aresolution declaring ‘that, at no time since the existence of the rebellion, have the forces and material in the hands of the Executive of the government been so ample to and abundant for the speedy termination of the war as at the present moment; and that it is the duty of all loyal Ameri- can citizens, regardic$s*of minor differences of opinion, and especially isit the duty of every officer and soldier, and of those in every branch of the government, including the legislative, cordially to strike the assassins at once who have conspired to destroy our existence, prosperity and freedom, of which we are justly proud at home and abroad, and which we stand pledged to perpetuate for- ever.’ This was adopted, but one member voting in the negative. The Committee of Ways and Means were instructed to inquire as to the reduc” tion of the tax entering into manufactures, apart from that on manufactured articles, so that the material shall not be twice taxed. The Military Committee were instructed to inquire whether some method cannot be adopted by the Secretary of War and Surgeon General by which furloughs and discharges can be more speedily effected. An inquiry into the causes of the Indian outbreak in the Northwest was ordered, and a call was made for all correspondence on the present condition of Mexican affairs. The Commissioner of Agriculture was requested to inform the House how many clesks had been appointed since he entered upon his duties, their salaries, &c.; also in what manner the $60,000 appropriated for seeds and cuttings had been expended. The Committee en Military Affairs were instructed to inquire what legislation was necessary to secure the pay of soldiers in the convalescent camps, Mr. Allen, of Illinois, asked» but failed to obtain leave, to offer a resolution in- structing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into the alleged right of the federal government to set at defiance the constitution, laws and senti- ments of the people of Illinois, in importing negroes into that State, and to consider what action is necessary to bring about the deportation of said negroes, Both houses adjoarned till Monday next. MISCELLANEOUS NEWB. Tho steamships China and City of Manchester, from Queenstown, reached this port early yester- day morning. Our European files are dated to the 22d of November. The United States Minister in Turin has loft the city and taken up his residence near Genoa. As the people expect that Turin will not be the capi- tal of Italy, all building improvements have ceased in and around the city, and rents have gone up enormously in consequence—say to two hundred and forty dollars a month for a third floor. The holders of apartments, however, decline to let them unless on leases of from three to nine years, The English Ambassador has had to leave his house because the landlord wanted to pin him down to a nine years’ lease, and the sanguine friends of Italy think that the court will be in Rome before a ninth of that period has expired. Captain Lipari and wife, and first mate of brig Winthrop, it Is stated, were murdered by the second mate aWout the first of October last, while on her passage from Paranagua for Montevideo. ‘rhe Board of Aldermen met yesterday at oue | o'clock P. M. A communication from Major Gib- | son, asking for an appropriation for the purpose of purchasing a big Sun for artillery practice, was | sent in by the Mayor, and referred to the Commit- tee on National Affairs. The sum of $2,203 50 | was appropriated for frescoeing and painting the chamber of the Board. The report of the Finance Committe, in favor of appropriating $5,000 for the St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum was adopted, and the Board adjourned, to meet this day at one o'clock P. M. After the adjournment of the Board of Can- vassers on Thursday afternoon, the members re- | solved themselves into the Board of Aldermen, and on motion of Alderman Smith it was agreed to pay to the widow of the late Thomas Byrnes the salary of his office up to the end of the year An adjourned meeting of the Board of Council- men was held last evening, when the Board con- curred with the Board of Aldermen, in favor of accepting the offer of the Trustees of St. Patrick’s Cathedral to inter, free of charge, all Roman Ca- tholic soldiers from this city who may be killed ; during the war. A resolution to appropriate the | sum of $500 for the purchase of a eword for Gene- ral Sigel, was lost for want of a constitutional vote, and laid over. The members a dan this morning, at the launch of an iron clad war vessel from the yard of Mr. Jerome Underhill, at the foot of Eleventh street, East river. ‘The Al- Alderman Boole. A resolution to makt the Satats Zeitung a Corporation paper was adopted withstanding the Mayor had vetoed the m some time since. After transacting a large amount of routine business, the Board adjourned until Monday evening next, at four o'clock. Itis reported that the government is in posses- sion of letters which passed between Governor | Moore, of Louisiana, and Jeff Davis, in November, in which Governor Moore appeals to the rebel President to allow the people of Louisiana to trade with New Orleans, exc ng cotton and sugar for salt, clothes, and some of the necessaries of life; that there was the greatest suffering among all classes, mostly for the want of salt. Davis re- fused, and stated that no proposition of the kind could be entertained until after the firet of Janua- ry. When Lincoln's policy would be developed, then he might consider it. The Governar replied that the people would not stand it until then; that sickness and death were raging, and they were powerless to help themselves; that they must have saltand medicine, or di This letter, imploring him to relent, closed witp a defiance of his autho- rity if it was not granted. The constitutionality of the law of Congress which declares that Treasury notes shall be legal tender, is to be tested in Cleveland, Obio. Government officers have seized four hundred bales of cotton, valued at upwards of one hundred thousand dollars, at Bt. Louis. ‘The stock market opeued lower yesterday merning fell 1a 134 per cent, then rallied 4 a losed weak and heavy. Gold opened at 152, fell vo 15 1d elored at 19134. Exchange closed at 1463. Money was in de mand at six percent. A review of the Treasurygeport will be found in the money article Cotton was quiet yesterday, but was steady. he de chine in gold caused inuch depreesion in breadetuftr, the wales of which embraced only 16,500 bbis. four, atare duction of 6c. a 10c.; 125,000 buehele wheat, ata de- cline of 1e, a 2e., and 128,000 bushels corn at drooping prices. Pork, beef and tard were in fair demand: meas pork closed atgi3 25 a 37; beef was steady and lard rather cheaper. The salos of Rio coffee wore 5,000 bags at, In part, 300. a 82e., and of eugars, 760 hhde., at pre. vious prices. Spices wero in good request, as well as brandies, wines, whiekey, hides, hay, ingot copper and tallow. There was very little doing in hemp, drugs and dyes, iron, lead, tin, zinc, spelter, coals, candles, rices cilé, tobacco and whalebone. The freight market was Jax ative. Tue CoNrnanayp Sri, on Haxp—Notwith- standing the extensive circulation which we gave in the Henatp yesterday, gratuitously (with the same benevolence which actuated us in the case of poor Greeley’s advertisement), the contraband still remains on the hands of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DEUVEMBER 6, | the government. Not o single abolitionist has come forward to offer peor Jobn Highgrass an Treasury Department. We publish to-day the report of the Secretary of the Treasury in extenso. It is, on the whole: @ decent public document. All that is valu- able im it is transferred from tho columns of the New Yorx Herarp, For-thia we give Mr. Chase credit, and wish he were equally wise in his political allusions and inspirations. Apart from the condition of the national finances, and as if to show what is uppermost in his mind, in the very first paragraph of his report Mr. Chase assails tho doctrine of State rights. He speaks of “the maintenance of the Constitutional supremacy of the whole people, through their national government, over every State and every citizen.” That is the cardinal error of the radical republicans. There is no supremacy. The federal and State governments are each sovereign and each co-ordinate. There is no supremacy. Lach one in its sphere, which is accurately designated by the constitu- tion, is supreme. The idea of Mr. Chase, that State lines and State governments can be effaced to allow a central government at Washington to do as it pleases, is not only nonsense,"but very dangerous doctrine for ita advocates. The peo- ple will not permit consolidated government, and Mr. Chase will utterly fail in insinuating it by aside wind. The State governments, and the rights they hold under the constitution, and the rights they have reserved, over which even the Constitution has no control, are the great basis of American liberty. The federal government, let Mr. Chase understand, is only an arrange- ment of the sovereign States, in their united capacity, to cavry out their will, which they have the power to modify or change at ang time they may think proper. The State institu- tions are of permanent duration, and can only | be changed respectively by the people of each State. The political dictum of Mr. Chase, therefore, is unsound, and ,it would have been much better for his reputation had he con- fined himself to the dry figures of finance, and left political matters to be dealt with by othors who are more conservative in their doctrines and less dangerous to the nation. But what does Mr. Chase say of our financial condition! He admits that his “estimates have been rendered inaccurate by changed circum- stances.” What changed the circumstances? His own action and that of other leading aboli- tionists in meddling with the generals, and thus destroying the plans of campaigns. He says:— «The necessities of the war rendered it expedi- ent to call for three hundred thousand addi- tional volunteers, and make a draft of three hundred thousand men in addition to these- The estimates, of course, must prove inade- quate.”’ What is the true explanation of this? The radicals, of whom Mr. Uhase is a leader, are not content to restore the Union as it was under the constitution as it is; they desire to abolish slavery, and | head of a great and formidable armament. Yesterday this great expedition, on which are founded so many hopes and expectations, took ita departure for; at present,, parts un- known. It is singular, and we deem it fortu- nate, that hitherto the destination of this ox- pedition has been kept a profound secret. bas now set sail, either for Richmond, or Charleston, or Mobile, or Texas, but to which of those places no one can tell. It can only be told where it is not going, The remarks of Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, at the leave-taking referred to, if not indicative of the destination of this expedition, are at least significant and suggestive. He observed that “to crush this rebellion it was necessary to strike at the heart of their rebellious countiy, to purge the viper’s nest; or, in short, to take Richmond, the capital of the so-called Con federate States. An expedition to Texas could do no good at the present time, and until Richmond was taken we could not hope to put au end to the rebellion er expect the restora- tion of Union. This is no trifling affair, and heretofore we have failed because we have not aa steadily and earnestly engaged in the work as we should.” For our own part we have all along be- lieved that ita destination is Richmond. At all events, if it is not we think that it ought to be. When Commodore Vanderbilt rose to speak, General Banks is said to have romarked:—“He ig the only man who knows where the expedi- tion is going.” But the mystery will soon be cleared up, and we have confident hopes that when the clouds which environ it are dissipated it will be by the rising of a brilliant aun of successful ex- ploits and great results, bringing “glorious sum- mer” to the dark horizon and wintry aspect of our political hemisphere. We entertain great hopes for the results of this expedition, from the known and proved ebaracter of the General in command. It bas been said of General Banks, by those compe- tent to judge, that he is the greatest general officer that has been taken from the ranks of civil life. He possesses, also, what the Romans, in their superstition, deemed the highest and most necessary quality of a general—‘good luck.” He has been hitherto eminently felix or lucky, in all his undertakings. At Cedar Mountain, during the short and unfortunate campaign of General Pope, he successfully withstood with his division the furious on- slaught of the whole of Stonewall Jackson’s rebel army; and his prudent and succeasful re- treat ona previous occasion along the valley of the Shenandoah, in which he brought off his army safely, even to its baggage, is worthy of being compared with the famous retreat of Mo- reau, and is equal to that of Xenophon and his famous ten thousand in ancient history. will go all lengths to accomplish it. | Hence the difficulty of subduing the rebellien | in the Southern States. Moreover, they have disastrously meddled with well conceived cam- paigns, have made footballs of great armies, | and, after thwarting and baffling, have removed | the ablest and most successful generals of the | day, who possessed the confidence of the troops, | The result of such a policy must be to protract the war, to load the nation with debt; and, if long enough continued, to break its back at last. The estimate of the public debt on the | Ist of July, 1863, heretofore submitted, says Mr. Chase, must now be advanced, in view of the unexpected increase in expenditures, au- thorized and incurred, or likely to be incurred, to $1,122,297,403—upwards of eleven hundred miliions of dollars; and on the supposition that the war may be continued till the Ist of July, 1864, the debt must be estimated at $1,744,685,580—upwards of seventeen hundred millions. The probability is that it will be near- er to four thousand millions. The ascertained | and audited debt is no criterion of the reai debt: and those who desire to prolong the war, | either to make money out of the calamity of | the country or to abolish slavery, have an in- terest in concealing the truth from the people, who will. lave to bear the burden. The total ceipts and anticiyated means for the present | year, expected to be sufheient for all purposes, are, in round numbers, 3500,000,000. The | amount of debt incurred is now estimated to be nearly one thousand ‘{ Hence Mr. Chase fairly enough warns the country that in the ensuing year “the estimates must be in | great part conjectugal.” Consequently, ac- | cording to the political and financial systems of | the present Cabinet, there is no knowing where the coumiry may be landed at the end of the next fiscal year. | It is worthy of remark that Secretary Chases as if acting in concert with Secreiury Stanton, General Halleck and the radical press, attri- butes the increased expenditures of the govern- ment to “unexpected military delays.” This is a fling at General McClellan, which the country will know how to appreciate, and is meanly introduced into a financial statement, with which it has nothing to do. The real canses of the increased expenditure,, however, are well known to the people, as the vote at the recent elections has amply demonstrated. Auidst his political bewilderment it ia grati- fying to find the Secretary of the Treasury adopting the sound suggestions of the Heratp as to the waye and means of providing the sinews of war and the regulation of the cur- rency. Itis true he does not confess his errors, but he abandons many of them. He is opposed to any further issue of demand notes, and he looks to interest bearing loans as the means of supplyfbg the Treasury. Upon whe currency question be bes equally profited from our advice. He thinks the State banks are a nuisance, and that their currency ought to be abolished in order to give place to the notes of the United States. Mr. Chase does not propose that the govern- ment should issue the notes directly, but that banking associations should be permitted, by act of Congress, to incorporate themselves and issue United States currency, te be purchased by United States bonds, at the same time that a tax should be imposed on the issues of the prée- gent State banks. This it,good as far as it goes, But decidedly the best and the simplest plan would be to abolish in toto the issues of all State banks, which are clearly unconstitutional, and, though tolerated in time of peace, onght not to exist in a period of war. In the adoption of our ideas in finanee we have some hope that Mr. Chase will soon see the error of bis way in national politics ,and out all connection with those fanatical journals whose financial séhemes he now begins to repudiate. mille, | | of a campaign carried on over such an immense We heartily join in the general feeling of the public in wishing unalloyed success to this, the greatest expedition which ever left our North- ern shores. We look for solid results from its action—no less than the taking of Richmond, while Lee and his army are quietly detained at Fredericksburg—no less than outflanking the enemy, taking them in their rear, while Burn- side is in their front, leaving them no chance of retreat or escape, and obliging them to surren- der, and thus effectually breaking the very backbone of the rebellion. Who can tell whe- ther General Banks may not turn out, after all, to be the Napoleon of the age whom the nation has 60 long been looking for? LireraTcreE oF THE AMERICAN War.—Under this head an Edinburg contemporary—Cham- bers’ Journal for the People— offers the first testi- mony that we have met with, either in our own or in the European newspapers, to the extra- ordinary energy and enterprise exhibited by the American press in connection with the war. It says:— The New Yorx Heravp bas had thirty corres- nts in the several departments of naval aud military tien, each provided with a horse, fleid giags and amp eqdipege. It has launched three beats to overhaul vessels, and hag established a courier system that the interference of government or the mutations of | steam, wind and tide. It is singular enough that a journal published t such a distance should be the first to give a description of the extensive o quired to keep our readers posted on the events extent of territory. But, correct as it is ir some particulars, it hax understated the magnitude of the undertakifg. ‘The number of our corres pondents now largely exceeds the figures at nization re. | | aristocracy, since the outbreak of our unhappy | The meeting of New York merchants, at the hall of the Chamber of Commerce, on Thurs- day, was more than ordinarily important, The object of the meeting waa to devise means aud raise supplies for the relief of the suffering operatives of Lancashire, England. The sad story of these English workingmen has often been related in our columns and by the Eng- lish press, and is already familiar to our readers. The~Southern rebels, by assailing this government, have brought on a civil war— oneof the results of which has been a stringent blockade of the cotton ports and a consequent stoppage of the cotton manufactories in Fng- land. The operatives in these factories, thus deprived of employment, are now in the most wretched and even starving condition. With their familios and dependents they number be- tween two and three millions of people. Of these persons, according to the reports by the last steamers, three hundred and thirty thou- saud are receiving relief from the guardians ofthe Poor and the local commitiees. The others are aided as much as possible by charitable folk, in England, who subscribe mo- neys and contribute boxes, bales and bundles of clothing ané provisions, which are collected at certain designated depots and distributed by suitable agents. No country, however, can Manage such an immense mass of pnuperisin single handed, and the victims of the cotton famine appeal to the whole world for sympathy and assistance. In answering this appeal we present an example of munificence and magna- nimity which history will be proud to record. Involved in a tremendous war, we have yet the spirit to be generous; and, while with one hand we battle with rebellion, with the other hand we alleviate the sufferings which the rebellion has brought upon Englishmen. The merchants who called and attended the meeting on Thursday were true to the tradi- tions of their country. During the Greek revo- lution, which began in’ 1824, the Polish revolution in 1830, and the Hungarian revolution in 1848, the American people gave every possible encouragement, and liberal supplies of money and material, to the suffering people. To the starving Por- tuguese of the Cape de Verde Islands we sent shipload after shipload of provisions and thou- sands upon thousands of dollars. When famine devastated Ireland, in 1847, nothing could ex- ceed the energy with which our government and our people labored to remove the distresses which the failure of crops and the cupidity of Engiish landlords had brought upon the inha- bitants of the Green Isle. Ships were loaded with breadstuffs and sent out to Ireland from New York and Boston. The government de- spatched the sloop-of-war Macedonian with a cargo of provisions for the same purpose. Meetings were held and funds raised in all our principal cities, and the contributions were so general that after the wants of Ireland had been supplied there was a fund of thirty thousand dollars left in the hands of trustees in this city, This sum, avith its inte- rest, will probably be devoted to the bene- fit of the Lancashire sufferers, and we call upon the trustees to produce it imme- diately. Still more recently, when the yel- low fever raged at Norfolk and other Southern cities, in 1855, the Northern States sent them not only money, provisions, clothing and all sorts of necessaries, but even physicians and nurses, who braved the dreadful pestilence for sweet charity’s sake. Nor must we forget the magnificent donations which the citizens of Cali- fornia, far removed from the horrors of the present conflict, have bestowed upon our Sani- tary Commission. In a word, the people of the United States never stop to discuss nationali- ties in matters of benevolence, but instantly and generously respond to the appeals of the distressed, not only of our own country, but of the world. In the present case the Lancashire opera- ives have special claims upon us. We know how inimical to the North and how friendly to the rebellion has been the course of the Hng!'sh government, tho English press and the I which it estimates them, and our weekly expenses under this head alone are two thousand doila without including the cost of the telegraphic correspondence , furnished us by the Associated Press. Every new military and naval expedition adds to this expense; for it is impossible to leave im- portant points uncovered by transferring cor- respondents from place to place as fresh exi- gencies arise. A great fuss was at one time made about the enterprise of the London Times, and one or two other leading London newspapers. in sending each a correspondent to the Crimea; but it is reserved for the candor of an Edinburg publication to pay a scant tribute to that of a New York journal which maintains a whole army of correspondents, and ‘pends a princely revenue in keeping the world informed as to the progress of events in which the European nations feel almost as deep an interest as our own. Newsrapers, War axp Taxps.—One of the direct fruite of the rebellion and the war has been the enormoue increase in the price of the paper upon which newspapers are printed. It bas advanced in price over one bundred per cent during the lest twelve months, with every indication of a still further rise. This has added largely to the expense of conducting a pewspa- per, whieb, taken in connection with the taxes on advertisements, taxes on telegraph de- epatches, taxes on the receipts, as well as all | kinds of material used, will have a wonderful effect upon the press throughout the North, | eausing an enormous amount of mortality among them. Thus the abolition agitating journals, like the Tribune, Independent and other incendiary sheets, which have been instrumental in bring- ing upon us the rebellion and the war, by their meddlesome, agitating and dictatorial course in reference to the institutions of the South, are now reaping their reward. No other class of journals are affected by this state of affairs or feel it as much as the abolition sheets. They have sown their seed, and are now reaping their harvest in an enormous increase in the prices of the mate- rials for their papers, loss of circulation and advertisements and heavy taxes, In order to avoid the doom that awaits them, they are raising war. If by relieving these starving operatives we also benefit their English rulers, our charity will be all the more conspict’ous; for we shali be performing the highest Christfan duty of doing good to our enemies, who hate and | despitefully use us, and shall thus heap coals of fire on their heads. The Lancashire opera- tives, however, have neyer endorsef the anti- American sentiments and proceedings of the English aristocracy. Undeceived by the sophis- tries with which the dominant classes have sought to delude them, they have rightly un- derstood the origin and the issues of this war, and have recognized in the democracy of the North their beet and most faithful allies. When the rebel emissary, Mason, sent a letter toa Lancashire meeting and tried to enlist their sympathies by adroitly charging us with the Ee One of ee vor cae te a } erry affair in which states tat he “directed troops within his reach, without tegard to de- partmental lines,” and infers from*it that Col Miles was thereby rendered subj. ‘ot to his orders. The disingenuousness of the origins! statement, and the inference te which {'points, are the more atriking when we take into a. ‘count the fact that there is abundance of eviden: © om record to show that, in regard to Miles, Gon. wal Halleok’s order had no such . Ine letter published by General Wool, dofendm,¥ himself against the censhre of the Harper’s* Ferry Investigation Commission, he states that he had no control over Colonel Miles, as that” officer had instructions to ‘report direct to the War Department.’ The statement ef General Halleck “that he directed General McClellan to assume control of all troops within his reach, without regard to departmental lines,” does not show ‘that the special instructions given to Colenel Miles by Secretary Stanton were re- scinded by this order. Indecd, we haye evt- dence tothe contrary in the statement; 'in the report of the Harper’s Ferry Commission, that when, ‘on'the 11th of September, just before the battle of South Mountain, and three days before the attack on Harper's Ferry, McClellan tele- graphed to Halleck to allow Miles and his force to join him, the General-in-Chief positively re- fused to do so. Had the 11,000 men with Miles been added to McClellan's force he might have followed up the advantages gained at the battle of Antietam. At all events, we should have been spared the disgrace of the surrender of so large a body of our best troops, without any military grounds for the humiliation. Lavncurs.—The fron.clad Keokuk will be launched this |-morning, at half.past nine o’olock, from the foot of Eleventh atroet, Fast river. The Rricaaon battery Kaate- kill will bo launched from tha Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, at half-past nine A. M. The Eclipse of tho Moon. ‘Thore was a grand total eclipse of the moon fast night, which was to be visibie all o1 the United States. If any one could be found with the eyes of Lynceus of old, who, it was said, could see through a stone wall, in this particular region of the country he might have observed ‘the interesting phenomenon. The shadow of the earth was to have touched the disc of the moon at cloves minutes to one o'clock this morning. At two minutes before two the eclipse was to have been total and at twenty-one minutes to four the obsoura- tion would have passed away, and the Queen of the Night have resumed her wonted brilliancy. No doubt this whole programme was faithfully gone through with, for astronomers and almanacs rarely err, and itis certain that in the cage of the last total tunar eclipse, they were found, by our careful observations, to be true tothe second of time im all the variations of the observation, but it | was dono under the dim veil of a snow storm, and like a drama performed behind the curtain, lost all its charms for the audience. Jersey City News. 1 &x Soupiers Ssor anp Bayoweren.—Yesterday noon # detachment of United States regulars arrived at the Jersey City epot from Fort Henry, Boston, having im charge one hundred and twenty deserters, who were being taken back to the army. Some of the prisoners had suc- ceeded in procuring liquor, which they had partaken of pretty freely, and in consequence, were disorderly and unmanageable by mild moans. Ono of them, named Daniel Day, of the Ninth Massachusetts regiment, refused” to enter the car when ordered to by his superior officer, and, as is alleged, attempted to strike him, when the officer drew his sword and cut him over the head, inflict- img a severe wound. One of the soldiers then bayonoted Day, inflicting @ slight wound in his stomach and a severe one in bis hip. Tho wounded man was conveyed to Tay- lor's Hotel, where his wounds were dressed, and subse- quently he was taken to the house of a friend in. J City. On the trip from Boston the deserters gave juards a great deal of trouble, and at New London three of them were shot; but for what causg was not stated. Two others, one known as Scotty, attempted to escape by jumping from the cars while in motion, and was shot. In ‘the language of one of the guards, when Scotty was shot, he ‘‘tied himself up in a knot.’? City Intelligence. Caprain Josxrn Dowie For Pouce Josmoe.—Captain Joseph Dowling, of the Sixth ward police, is strongly urged for the ppsition of Police Justice, made vacant by the election of Matthew T. Brennan to the Comptroller. ship. Captain Dowling is one of the oldest and most eficieat captains connected with the Metropolitan ferce. He has held the position for the past ten years, and has al been considered one of the leading officers under ex- of Police George W. Matsell. ‘There is no man connected with the present force who has a moro extensive kuow- pen of police matters than Capiain Dowling, and he ie eminently fitted in respect for the place. Should Governor Seymour favor bim with the sppotntment, It will receive the endorsement of the entire public. ‘Tux Sxow Stora.—The rain which visited us yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, turned into snow about dark, and at seven o’clock last evening the ‘tallest kind’ of finkes were failing. The tem) however,and the result was that the snow melted just about as fast as it reached the ground. It was exceed- ing wet and unpleasent under foot aartog the night, and at the hour of writing this paragraph the weather’ was still unsettied. ALLYGEgD Post Orrick Ronskay.—For some time past let- ters have been missed by wounded soldiers in our hospitals, addressed to thom by their familics and friends. Sus picion somehow fell upon the mail messonger of the Com, missiovers of Public Charities, and accordingly this per- gon.ge was arrested the day before by an of- ticer of the Pést Office Department. A full investigation of the matter will take place jinme iy, and if the suspected party be proved wotly, the most summary jua- tice will be dealt out to pim. Tae New YORK Saw7any As*ocriniow.—A regniar meet. ing of this asseaiation was held lst Thursday evening, when the fellowing Board of officers wore elected: President, Robt. H. McCurdy: Vice Presidents, Dr. A.C, Post and C. C. Wimple: Secretaries, Dr. Elisha Harris and Dr. W. B. Bebuins; Treasurer, Nathaniel Hayden. ‘The following gentlemen were also chosen as the coun- Prosper M. Wetmore, Peter McMartin, , Isaac M. b.; John H. Gris- ; John P. Batcheider, Brooklyn City News. SpeciAL ELECTION FOR ALDERMAN OF THS Furr Wanp.—A special election was held in the Fifth ward yesterday, for the purpose of electing an Alderman to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. James Lynch, olected ‘Auditor at the general election in November last. The nt. There wae no excitement and not much Jauerest manifested ,except by the candidates themselves. ‘and those interested in the offices to be given by the Board of Aldermen. The following is the vote by dis- responsibility of their sufferings, these starving operatives voted down a resolution based upon this letter, and, unmoved by the pangs of bun- ger and the terrors of want, unasimously adhered to their first and true opinion—that the rebels wee the sole authors of the miseries of the cotton famine, Such men as these will not ask for relief in vain so long as an American citizen bas a Joaf of bread to share with them. At the merchants’ meeting on Thursday twenty-six thousand dollars in money and a thousand barrels of flour were at once con- n ed, and the firm of N. L. & George Griewold offered a new veseel, of eighteen bun- dred tons burden—the services of which are worth twenty thousand dollare—to carry over the supplies. Since then other large eubscriptions have been received, and when the movement is fairly understood throughout the country bun- dreds of thousnads of dollars in food will be of- fered in a very short time. Such deeds as these are the greatest glory of a nation. We shall now demonstrate, beyond the possibility of a doubts the upparalleled magnitude of our ineahausti ble resources, and we may rely upon it that, while we relieve our Lancashire friends, we eball most effectually conquer and disarm our European foes. McCLELLAN ano His Assatiaxts.—The more the charges and inuendoes of Halleck’s re- port against MoClellan are stirred up, tho more their aptmus and utter groundlessnoss are tricts:— Candidaies. Dit, 1. Dist. 2. Dist. 8. Dist, & Total. ‘Thomas Ennis, dem 1% (1618. Wm. Marrin, dem}. ...128 70 36 «(138-372 ‘Wim. L. Hallock, rep.. 26 0 52 3 17 Garret Braisted, rep... 3 $3 13. Ennis is elected by 277 majority over Marrin, and lacks only eight votcs of a majority over ail the candidates, ‘The new Board of Aldermen, which meets on the fret Monday sp Jannary next, will stand eleven democrats to sab republioans -eivil the rormer full control of all the tmenta, the moet Important of which are Corpora ten Coenselir, City Clerk and Health officer. Disrnesana Accinant.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jamee Ranoue, a farmer reakling in the town of New Lotts, camo in collision with a railroad ear in Fulton avenue, near street, and was thrown with great violence from * nigle. "He jell ander the car wheels and was rum over, resulting inalmore instant death. Ihe body was taken in charge by the @rende of the family of de coneed, and Departures. rs 2 x or—Steamship China—Ms Emma ee pata Misa Provost and sister, Nr Andros LV} Mr Bae M Livana, ru Aan Ryehmai rother, Sivag, Mr Dogirarden, WE Mrs JJ Mise liver, tendant mb, wife and ebfid: heesbrough, Byron Bode, Yoriel, iehel, J 8 Plumer, Mr Wickham, Janes Clark, Allen Gilmour, Lewis, S ineke, Mr Be yuck, Hy Gi! 4 Mr Laat Tweedie, B M Erickson, ell {sinner Mi Bingham, Michael Doyle, Mr Rawson—Toial, *7, seumrooye-Btcamship Sty of ManehesterMrs Babet, A Wright Mr Cuminiggs and lady, Uitiain Moody and indy, ze Nsom, CSnd'and ladys Bay; Mi , Meg Carew, three ol , O Han, veer" od Wiad 4 a Mins ove, Mise "tebe, Nichaivon, nt t Resteay beaten At ; Nippany a Nelson,’ M. Paltper, vl aud name,