The New York Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1862, Page 1

~ Whe Italian Parliament to Meet in Naples in 1863. The Fight for the Championship of England. Mace ‘Rnocked Insensible and Could _ Not “Come te Time.” " new — I John C. Heenan to Fight King for £500 a Side, &e., &e., be. - Hauirax, Dec, 9, 1862. ‘Tbe steamship Arabia, from Liverpool on the 29tb, via ‘on the 80th of November, has arrived here. ‘Moe dates are one week Inter than those already received. ‘Meo Arabia arrived here at balf-past seven o'clock this ‘mauning and sailed again for Boston at ten o'clock, where she will be due at an early hour on Thursday morning. fhe Arabia has forty-five passengers and sixty-two @howsand pounds sterling for Halifax. Nw specie for ‘Boton. ‘The latest vespatch from London, dated ibe 20th of No. ‘vember, says:—There 13 no news of polttical importance, steamship Mississippi, abamd-ned at from New York to China, were fanded at the Cape of Good Hope. —_ ‘The bark Parana, for Shanghad, wae wrecked in Si- @nce’s Bay October 9. ‘The steamship Giasgow, from New York, arrived at @Qpeenstown on the 27th of November. ‘The stcamehip Hammonia, from New Yori, arrived at foutbampton on the 28th of November. ‘The steamship Scotia, from New York, arrived at ‘Queenstown on the 29th of November. ‘The neat Bohemia, from Quedec, arrived at Liver- peo) on the 36th of Novembe: ' The American Question. ‘The London News devotes av editorial to the refutation. @f the idea that the democratic party can be called con. mervative. It reviows the courso of the party'fn the part | @ show that the assumption of conservatism is absurd. The London Pest points out that the virtual want of | @onfidence in the gove:nment at Wasbington, which the Beeent elections in the Northern States indicate, furnish ‘What government witha plarsible pretext of retreating from We position with some semblance of dignity, It fears, Rowevor, that until that government is forcibly ejected from power, no hope can be entertained of the war being Brought to a conclusion. ‘The London Army and Navy Gazctie says that Gencral Barnskto’s change of base to Aquia Creek gives. it but Tue, confidence in the plans of the federal leaders, aud it dogs not believe that the?Confederates will quiotly submit te the movement. The Championship of FE: oo MACE BEATEN BY KING—KING CITALLENGED BY BRENAN. ‘The great prize fight for the championship of England, ‘Between Jem Mace and ‘om King, took place on the 26ih @f November. After fighting twenty-one rounds, most of which were favor of Mace, King put in one of his sledge hammer Wlows and knocked Macc insensible. Ikace could not come to ‘time’ when it was called, and Wing was declared the victor. Tt is reported that John ©. Heenan bas agreod to figbt ‘Bing for the Championship, each man te put up Sve hun- et pounds. ~ Great Britain. At a meeting of the Great Ship Compasy it was @tated that if £1,750 was nt immediately provided, the meamebip Great Fastern must pass into other hands. Be would also require £5,000 to bring her hoine. The di- We:ters propose’ to rai o £100,000 on a mortgage for Garee years. Tho ship earned £45,000 in one hundred ené cleven days. Scott Russell censured the general amanagedient of the company. ‘The proposal of the direc- ‘tore was adopted. Contributions for the relief of the distressed Lancashire ‘@peratives continced on a most mutiificent scale. The American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool voted £1,000 0 the relief fund. An extraordinary general meetivg of the Atlantic Tele- raph Company is called for the 12th of December, for the garpone of considering @ proposition for the issue of 000,000 new capital in preferential shares of £5 cach, Dearing eight per cent interest, guaranteed by the British gevervm:nt, in tho event of success,and any further Prefits to be first spplied to pay four per cent on the old @apital and the surplus to an equal division between the a and new and tho formation of a reserve fund. Grecee. ‘The Greck question continued to be the most prominent weptc. Great demonstrations continued to be made in various parts of Greece in favor 0: placing Prin:e A fred, of Eng- ead, upon the throne. It wag rumored that the Russian government intended to address a communication to the English government Beriously objecting to Prince Alfred being considered a eandidate for the Grecian throne. ‘The French journals represent that twelve Raglish war ‘veasels have assembled in Plerrans, but tho London Olode pronounces the statement utterly devoid of founda- thon. Loxpox, Nov. 29, 1862. ‘The excitement im Greece in favor of placing Prince 4 Alfred, of Kogland, upon the throne, continucs Italy. | The Italian Chamber of Depaties continued to debate the Roman question, Among other propositions adopted PROV! a ‘The came anthoritios call.the provision market steady, and quote beef quiet but steady. Pork dull and unchang- ed. Bacon quiet and steady. Lard active at 39¢. a 408. Tallow irregular and tending dowaward. PRODUCE MARKET. The Rrokers’ Circular repows:—Ashes steady,, pote, ° $3s.; pearls. 3&s. Rosin inactive. Spirits turpent bay ae very dull. Coffee steady. Rice steady, Linseed Linseed oil steady. Cod oil— no calea, Jute still advancing and 1s per pouna higher. LONDON MARKETS, Nov. 29, 1862. Baring’ Circular reports wheat firmer end le. a 28. igher; red Western, 47s. a 518, Jron firm. Sugar has au xpward tendency. ‘Tea ‘dull and unchanged. Coffee quiet, and 6d 8. lower; rice tending downward; fatlow firm, at 45a, 6d.; spirits turpentine inactive, at Hite. Jingeed oj) quiet,at 35a, 6d. a 898.5 sperm oil quiet, Groves & Todd report provisions very dull; rive quiet, but stendy; corn tending upward. THE LATEST MARKETS. Liverroon, Nov. Coxon quiet and 20—Evening. unchanged: sales to-day 3,000 bales, of which 1,000 were to speculators and exporters. ~*~ BReAD-TUFYS quiet and steady. Provisions inactive and tending downward. NAVRE COTTON MARKET. Havar, Nov. 27, 1862. Cotton drmer, and all deseriptions considerably higher: cloning, however, very dull. Sales of the woek, 8,000 bales; quotations nominal. Stock , 64,000 bales. THE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF COMMITTEE, tana tannnnnne ‘The International Relief’ Committee, for the aid of the suffering Lancashire operatives, beld an adjourned mect* iDg Atone o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce—John C, Green, Fsq., inthe chair, The mi- nutes of the last meeting having been read apd approved. the Treasurer, Mr. A. A. Low, read his report, which will ‘bp found below, Mr. Dover, Chairman of the Executive Committee, caid that the subgcription books were ready for delivery to the members of te oman The Cuainwan sald a ¢ tamittee fromthe Corn Exchange had waited upon their committec gt its present meeting, and expressed @ desire to cc->perate with them in the movement. Mr. Brow, in behalf of the Corn Exchange Committee, said that abeut $20,000 had already been collected by that committee. Whether to goon as a separate organization or have their funds added t> those of the International Re- Nef Committee. they had not yet decided. They came there more to learn what was to be doce than anything o'se., If there was oe the committee could suggest to ther better cath wat they were hg they would be gia for to ghow tha! oy! Regd eat A Ee ML eve mention that a gentleman from Massachusetts had sent them $650 to purchase one hundred barrels of flour witb. Mr. Senor: said it weu'd not be desirable to morge the corn ‘hange Committee with that committee, ag he er the former would oxcreise more influence by it- seit. ‘The Srcnerany here read letters from the Long Island Railroad Company; New Jersey Transportation Railroad ©ompany, and American Telegraph Company, offering their gratuitous services in the promotion of the move- ment. Mr. James Boorman sent in a letter euclosing a check for $2,000. Mr. Pavcock remarked that if they sent. relief to the operatives in the shape of corn, it be soldjfor cach or exchinge | for flour at. the other side, Mr. Curtexven said be hoped contributions in corn would be encouraged, Mr. Low said i corn was a very bulky article aud ‘would occupy space that might be used to better advan- After some further aesultory conversation the com- mittee l. ‘The following subscriptions, as reported er, have Noun Pacusraelate ner report of $5 Fabbri the T-easur- Israel Corse. Alex. Van Reneeliser. M. D. Jessup & Co. 260 Henry W. T. Mali. 250 Foster & Thompson.. 250 James W. Backman. 100 W. Bat'inian.. 2 N.B. 50 Robert Carter & Bro Vernon Brothers.... 50 a 2 oe 000 State strect Presbyte- James B. Jebnson J riao Cr seed 1 J.M.,a working man & A. Young & Co...... L. B. Binsse.......4. Pura Nye..,. ~ 20 Robert & Williams ‘The following table exhibits the contributions in full received up to yesterday by the commitiee of the Corp Exchange, appointed at the recent meeting in that Duilding, to aid the Lancashire operatives: — FE. K. Alburt! $1,000 Peter Rice & Co...... P. Balenstien’s Sons...1.000 Smith, Leech & Jewell, Wiltiama & Guion 50 bbis. flour ......+ ‘Thos. Duvbam. Joba Tweddle, Jr. & Co David Dows & Co, r W. &. Brown & Co... RP. Buck & Co. ie ¥ room pe ip , for very for't,000 ‘bin, four. Walsh, Carver & Co., 100 bbis. es nee Brush Geo, L. Heuser, B. B. Shorman,., |. Jones , 600 do. . Vande! biit willtight- er 5 bbls. to ship SESEzSxoetsee gee F c. Henry Kent... 100 Hope.. ............ 25 T MeNonald & Co. 100 John MeGulorick will D. B. &W. Moses...) 100 seal ship for graip.. 300 Jewell, Harrison & Co. 100 400 Potter & Chapman .... 100 500 J. M. Fiske & Co, 100 500 Cash. »” 500 G. C. Cecil seceee 50 500 Baldwin & Johnston... 50 Stephon W. Cary... 500 1D. G. Cartwright...... 26 Snow & re : 00 ery 4 Woodrcff & Robicsou.. 600 Total. weer ee $17,000 TRE BRITISH RESIDENTS’ FUND. ‘The committee of “British residents appointed to re- ceive subscriptions in aid of thely entering brethren in Lancashire have received the following sums since Monday :— Mrs. Robert Gordon Jas. Tinker Metall & F T. Richardson $250. H. Ludiow. 150 W. ‘was one that the Parliamentary session of 1863 shonid | ‘assemble at Naples. ‘the Belgium Parliament has voted that half a m tion francs of the appropriation for tho pablic works be ap- Plied to the reliof of its distressed cotton operatives. Cape of Good Hope. Cape ef Good Lope rails to the end of October had Leou Feosived, Very stormy weather had ‘prevailed at tne Cape, doing rach damage to shipping and dutorrupting businese | @onsiderably. Commercial Intelligence. TUR LONDO® MONKY MARKET. PRs ny ae 2S) sieady. Ly market waa x ¥ the arrive! of over £700,000 in specie from the West Indies and New York. ‘The vrain ot gold @outinues, but in a wodiiied jorm, Aiseount is moderate. ‘Coveols closed om Friday, Noy, 28, & 90 )¢ a 08%§ for money. The Vuillion In Wie Kank ef knglind tas decreased £146,000. AM RICAN MCU RETIN, | Baring the market for American cecurities | nominal, with small sales. They quote Krie stares 42), | 8 43; Iilinois Central, & _ ant NON, Nov. 29—kv oni Consels for inovey closed at 037% a 04, Erie dares nei Se © 4334; Minis Cenira!, 4255 0414 discount, LTVKRPOOL COTTON MARKET. / Laivervoon, Nov. 20-4, Mt. ‘Tho Brokers’ Cirvalor reports the sales of cotton for the week at 39,000 bales. The market opened buoyant, and ali descriptions advanced ¢ neiderably: but the was ly lost, the weok closing with rates 360 her than ott the previous Thursday for American, a. 8% for surats, Of the sales, 14,600 were apeculatore he sales of Frida: ‘were 2,000 and 2.600 to exportore. bales, the ma:kot being dull and prices on- banged. The authorized quotations aro — Par Miaating ‘ 28 , aly | The demand for | 1000 bales, of which | ¥ ©, LL Willintason Wim. Sergeaut Donean, Shere W. C, Liekersg 1 & Co... 600 M. 1, Nivholwou ww { Brekloman, Unger & Go don, Bruce A. W. Greenieat & : Aniif®)...... 100 KAS Fdward Walker, wo W. HL Power » 160 Jolin Doar 1” 8. McLean & Co 500 FR. Gritty 20 ‘J. 4. Milto, iS 100 jolt & Jorrance: lwo «100 Negroponte an Ageia: 100 Chas, HH. Going........ 100 canght & Frang- r. Anderson & Co. 100 100 a) 60 rane |”) yen ery $1,000 for the Fer of ‘ aay pur] sending one thousand dollars worth of pow Ms From the above it appears that Of these three committees tv rogaté subsory- «lv amounted to The Matis per the Africa. Bostox, Deco, 1868 The mails per the steammbip Afrien, for Liverpool, via Halifax, will clase at eight o'clock to-morrow (Wednes- | | day) morning: bat she will not eail until about: Munteipal Blections im Massach Boston, Deo, 0, 1962 The municipal elections whieh took piace in this State yesterday were not generally of a political character. In Lowell, H. Hosford, citivons’ candidate, was re-elect. 6d over Arthur B. Bonney by 557 majority, Roxbury chose George Lewis, citivens’ candidate for Mayor, by 900 plurality over 8. H. Williams, Mayor Neal was re-clected in Lynn nnanimonsly, Charléstows re-olected P, J. Stone Maror with but very: Me opposition, s 3 Fe Vida NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1862. WHWs FROM muxreo: CAPTURE OF TAMPICO. Spanish Opinion ef the Removal of McClellan, &., ae, ae. The steamship Creole, Capt. Cough, trom Now Orleans on the 20th uit. and Havana let inet., arrived at this port yesterday. Our Havana Correspondence. Havana, Dec, 4, 1802, McCkilan's Removal—Gen. Dulce mot yet Arrived—The Latest News from Mexico—Capture of Tampico—The | Premch Appear to Gain Ground in Popular Favor—, Operatic, be. ’ Quite unexpectedly to me, the steamer Creole leaves for New York jf about an hour, and I must necessarily be very brief. 1 enclose an article from the Diario dela Marina om ‘tho removal of Gen, MoClelian from command, which. ‘think worth publishing ae-an exponent not only of Bpanish, but I may say of Cuban, feeling on the ‘subject; for the other papers here Rave expressed the same opinion. Gen, Dulce, the new Captain General, has not yet ar rived, though hourly expected. His Excellency, the Duke dela Torre took leave of his administrative Council on Tuesday of last week, in a very feeling speech, in which he spoke in affectionate terms of the Isiand of Cubs, the native place of his wife and children. The good gentlo, man was 20 affucted that he shed tears. HM is hoped his successor may prove to be of the some stamp, ‘rhe civil governor of the city, Senor Mantilia, has also taken leave of his officials and delegated his powers to tho Conde de Canongo. There have been two or three arrivals from Mexico, the lastest bringing Vera Cruz dates to the 23d ult., and announcing the capture ef Tampico by a column of eight hundred men under Admiral La Graviere. The place was taken without a single shot being fired by cither party, the Mexicans retiring rather precipitately. Tho Admira} gave the people assurances of order and protection. A groat number of towns, the names of which need not be given, bave declared in favor of the French intervention. The town of Medellin was occupied on the 7th uit., a3 your readers probably know. In fact the guerillas aud troops appear satisfied with whatever provisions they can capture or carry off. As far as military operations are concerned, the Mexicans eeem to be either incapable or afraid. Juarez bas been 60 sick as to be thought in day- geF, ind Comonfort wanted him to resign for six months; ‘but old Juarez would not hear of the thing, It is eaid he intends posting htmee!f at Texcala, with three thou sand men and thirty pieces of artillery, to opposs the advance of the French on the capita by the way of Predras Negras. Ap attempt was made to get up a demon. ‘iaxcala tor Juarez and la pairia; but most of ried “*Vivan lop Franceses,”? What can you peo) do with such people? In my lust letter I said the opera company did not please tho people here; but, after hearing three or four of their performances, I am at a loss to know what fanlt can be found. Of course, every prima douna is not a Gasmer or Gazzaniga, br every tetior a Mari under Mareizek is very good, and i Dot think I over saw any better. Madamo Me: dori ie also a capital artist, and ber Lady Macbeth is ex- celient. Her voice is @ little hard; but the de ect ir co- vered by good training and taste. Iwill speak more of these artists again. The Removal of ral McClellan. {Translated from the Diario de la Marina, Nov. 26, for ‘the Naw Yorx Renatp.} ‘The news and details relating t» the removal of General McClellan having been already published tn the columns of the Diarie, it will be proper to add sone reflections which that event, very natural and customary tp ordi Bary circutnstances, suggested; but looking at the very extraordinary condition in which the neighboring ation is placed, it marks the beginuing of a new and graver crisis for that country, and minst exercise « powerful influence as well on the progress of events as on its future a And, in fact. the separation of # general in chief from an army in the fleid, when cansed by indiiferent iuck in the results of the war, whether from wact of harmony with tbe department charged with the conduct of mi'itury affairs in the manner of carrying it ou, or tor other motives which may determine such a chauge, is a matter which has nothing strange in it, and which we are weli accustomed to in the history | of all wars, even civil, whieh arc, of all those which at- | ford the commonest exampies, acourdiny to the shape | which opinion, under such changes, re to this or rn ] that favorite general, invariably assumes. the couree ; of the war in the United States we have seen this repeated on oue and the other side, without the changing of generals-in-cbief and secretaries of war p: ducing any other sensation than such as is peculiar to such events. But the removal—the diemiesal, rather, 1s the naiae it deserves—of General McCielian is very far from being one of those ordinary transections which call attention slightly to a principle, and presently take their place in | the list of acts more or jess ed by the different parties, aod upon which, according to the result ef the war, history subsequently passes judgment favor. able or adverse to the of the generals and the governmente which selected Te- moved scien eye a a teiee Joo army placed under his orders, U iid, 80 W @peak, of an opiuion which surrounded him with all the perfume of the most fiattering popular breath, with exalted protectors in the bosom of the Washingtoa Cabi- | } net, caressed even by Mr. Lincols himself, who, laying | i aside the Presidentia! scoptre, had repeatedly corde. scended to visit in person the camp ol the Army of the Potomac and treat with distiugnished courtesy ite Wom- mander-in-Chief. The unexpected announcement of bis removal, at the moment when be found bimse!f prepared and was pushing forward his lines to offer battle to the enemy, was certainly an event calculated to surprise public oxpectation; so much the more since ihe discourte- ous and unhandseme order which separated him from hiv troups had not been inmediately preceded by any of thove great reverses which, although the usual offspring of the varying fortune of war, are generally attributed by the crowd to unskilfuiness of jeaders. On the contrary, those very persoas who to da; censure MoCiellan as {ite less shan unit for a commaud, in order to jastity (ie rigorous treatmeut to which he hes been subjected, wore thove whoa sbort while iuce hailed dim in most ontbusiastic terms as the lero of Antietam and liberator of Marylaud. Those une persons bad vawed their childish enthusiasm to the pited of comparing: | him with Bonaparie. The new Bonaparte has alroaiy found his 8. Helena. He has Ween seut to a small towa in New Jersey, and they whoa fow days siuco glorified, Ventuse plebis suffragio ave happened that the government of Mr, Lincotn should tuve taken 80 grave a svep under existing circurastanoes , vot justified, ab has been seen, by immeaite miiitary acts which should case them to ine on such & measure’ This is what ‘¢ asked himselt on receiving the ews of and ail haye concurred im the belief 1 of McClellan has no ot Ler character than cidediy poiitics na battle delivered to the General-in-Chiel of the Army the Poiormac by the radi enl party; a complete retaliation for the rout which this | game party beg just suffered in tho recent ciections: & Datile fought aud won by the radicals for Presidcut Linoola, sitatod for some time to take this perilous step. This tost general and decided opinion to regnrt to this mach noised removal, whieh on the departure of the last steamer arrived from York, wrapped tho minds of oan agitarion. 10 the apititon of tho press in geueral, il we excopt some cadicul journals, expeciatly the New York Tribune, which attributes the fail of Mock wilitary disobedience of orders of the §& y ag much beye influenced thy oursel » hee 0 exalted a milic neasare shoald potent) iu winning by warll that the risk of dangerou | procuring wint the same general line of operations onde: | trezen to the depth of several | cle | @ thick crust of auow and icc, over sweeps cofd and cheeriess, coutent ourselves with oferring hia to MeClellan. » the resulte of this stop A 3 FS Fa z z = 3 2 R Fi 2 through which which veither apy assuined a very heavy reeponsibitity’ 4 eoneornnd, we do tivt believe it wit! pr Srvtts. af we cousider that, even Should the new Ge in-Chief be adorned with nalities his predecessor might posses®, the wo affeciion which the soldiers 6f the Potomac felt i feet for | MoCiollan wilt ever be An obstacle to his future enter: political world, in judgment eveat is destined to produce more important eousequen Puher we are much mistaken, or the femoval of MeCictlin i the prologue ty a drama whieh promises to be interosting—the first step on the road to at internal revolution, which is inevitable in a comntry larassed by civil war, when army chiefs, yolantortiy or invotuntarity, serve under party hanners Tu the agitated con@ition of that country—the demo. cratic party iriumphing iu the cleetions, a constitutional coniliet at tand, without result, since the majority in the now Congress will be hostile to the Prosident's policy there being No reason to expect speody and decisive tri umphs for the Union arms, with many othor serious dis ing motives which we pass over for (he present, who can foretell what happen in the neighboring ved lic? What we mey be assured of is, that events of the wert character are in ration, and that the official | of Gen, MeCielian » With too much reason, impreesed public opinion, whict immediately compre. | fended the transcendent In ete ae tance of that act—the Inet effort, probably, of the repul party? | Just across the river our evemies are rows Commodore Goldeborough, waited upou Col FRGR SORNEDS ARBY. Reports from the Army Headquarters. ‘Amarquanrens, Dec. 0, 1862. ‘The weather is milder and the snew hus melted consi. derabty. An officer, who came through from Alexandria by land WD a strong cecort, was told at Dumfries that sixteen sutlers, with their wagons, were captured by White's rebel cavalry last week, and tho owners made to drive their own teams to sume robel station in the wterior, White was represented as having a larga regiment of cavalry, It has, for several days, been considered unsafe ‘to pats beyond Dumfries without a strong escort. A special court martial met to-day vw try John W. Ir- vine on the charge of being a spy, he having been cap tnred within our lines, Ninth Virginia cavairy, aud was captured near bie father’s house, in the vicinity of Hartwood Court Houge- Tt 18 understood that the court havo agreed upon a tind * ing, the reauit of which ia not known. : Tho following general order has just been publishea:— No perzon will be allowed to croes the lines ip the div rection of the enemy without a post from these head” quarters, e ‘ tWIS RICHMOND, Abs tant Adjutant General. Our Special Army Correspondence ARMY OP tux Poromac, Des. 7, 1862." The Cold Snap—The Recent Rains and Snows--The Army Covered with Snow and Mud—Onc of (he Cold:st Nights Beer Known in Viryinta--Suferings of the Soldiers— the Roads Hard on Horsefleh—The Hifect on the Men Gt Aquia Creck—Continuation of the Cold Weather— Preparations for an Active Win'er Campaign, dc., dc, It is said that the Army of the Potomac will not go into winter quarters; but it is emphatically in winter quarters now. That is to say, the soldiers arc exp sed to alt the severities of winter without wiiiter accommodations, Every soldior ts painfully sensible of the fact that winter, with its rains and snows and frosts, is really upon us now. ‘The weather is extremely cold to-day. J.ast night tho cold was intense, I apprehend that the troops suilered amore on the live of tho Rappahannock last night than they did at any time during the winter months on tho line of the Potomac last year. The suitoring among the troops conrequent upon the revent sudden chango of the woather from the delightful air of tho Indian sainmer to thy bitter soveri- ties of winter cam hardly be imagined by our friends at home, and, indeod, could scarcely be fully realized by the | most aympathcetic and appreciative people in the army, ‘even, until the facta were mide known by the medicat authoriites. Friday was a wet and dreary day. Rain foll fast during She morning, end thy mad iv the aacempments and the roads, alroudy deep enough, was goon doepor than we bad eon {t here this year. In the afternoon the ruin was superseded by sleet, aud, Jater, t by snow, which continued to fall throughout th der of the after. noon and evening and a portion ol ube might. snow ceased, clear, cold weather came, in the thermometer bas » grad cally der. wards zero ever sine, Thia snow Sterin was which paid us a pa sin uch more revere than the one ait a mouth ago, during the time our urmy was advaneing under Me“lelin from Bor lin, Maryland, to Warrent ing His vrecaution io slotbing for his men before commencing that mach. was apprectsted by the soldiv undoubtedly saved many of ibeir iives. to realize the wisdom of that precaution now. Without new shoes aud overcoats the soldiers would be compelled to «ndure still greater hardships and privetions than they are enduring at the present time. fhe cxemps of the army along the line of the Rappahaniork are complete y covered with frozen snow, Shelter terts are protection the troops have now froin the severiti winer weather, Whi'st the rain and sicet aud sno falling gronps of soktiers could be ween in the grand aivision encampments standing in yr Shelter tents around Jog fites made of wet weod uncomfortable and cheerless at beet. Some had the © of their overcouis thrown over their beads, and | the: wore stamping their ieet to keep them worm. It was a dreary and diswal sight to see them, and their own {ce - ings ut the prospect must have been anything bt plea. sunt. They aul fett, practically, that we were reitly | in a winter catnpaiga. \t is trupossible to describe how completely was cuvered with suow wingled with mud. wero, aud are still, almost impassable. decidedly diMeutt: thing. mired in mudholes, and the horses and m: the teamsters, tug and toll to extricate the wagons A winter campaiza is expensive, lovking at tt in the light of damage to quartermaster 3 inaterials and horsetiesh alone, . Ou kriduy night the soldiers suffered exceeding), the cold and the dampoess. ‘The number of fever naticuts will be nec. ssarily muitiptied in consequence. Yesterday the weather was clear and coit, amd the men busty inakiug their quarters as comiortable as possible under the existing circumstuuces. Tho trees, bends trozeu snow aud icicles, make (ny surrouadiny country covered as it is With the bivouwes, present a strange and grotcsque appearance. The batteries erected by the enemy onthe hilis bebind Fredericksburg opposite are eucrusted with a covering of [rosiwork, ond contribute considerably to iucrease the picturesque anpearance of the winter warlike see Last night was the coldest and severest night ¢ ail The moun avd stars shove out bright!y over the bivouaes ; ‘vat the soldiers withia shivered and shook with the an expected cold. The wind, too, blew mard all night, and | sweptaway some of the shelter tents, so° thet seme sol- diers were compelled to remain exposed to the ehftting wrud and biting frost all night without auy she:ter at all. Pew know how inany sueriices our sold.c. 8 make without amuruur, Laat mgbt ts said te have been ene cf the coldest ever known in Virginia, The ground was frozen | hard; so were the ponds aud pools of water and the lcever creeks. In tact, almost everything congealable was scaled by the frost. The horses and moles, which must remain in the open air in most instances without auy covering whatever, also sullered greatly from the effects of the serere weather of the last few days and nights. A pumber of them have died from 13 ellects, while others, in consequence of the bad condition of the roads, Lave becu worked to death and have fallen in the harness completely ex! us ‘the roads At Aqnia creek soldiers aud laborers were expored per. | haps more than any oulers te the of due ¢ td sua, ‘hero. k 8 very wide at its meuth bleak winds swept in with fearful jury from the Poterae. Some of our soldiers temporarily pear Wie laneiug were cven no. 80 well provided with shelter as the worps |i the grant divisten emcumpments near the Rup, Wek, ard con. soycently eudured greater peivation tof then ever expected to endure. ‘This morning the weather still © ds cutting as it wae last mght,and the gr hard. Mow inany men and animals may hav to death 1s, of course, at present entirely that some fatal conse ne" awe Fosuitod Troi th'B Unex- pected and severe coll spell is by won ; i. Notwithstanding these great deawba army is ut spirits, that eau be of valuable rosults to tue Unie 4 der the management of Mr. Wright, plios the whoie army with rations (« for the horses. Receseury is (rom Lhe stations out this raitroad the army eoul 0 time on ite present line of operations. General is astive and energetic, and it is expectet that he wilt soon show the enemy that ihe winter ¢ Rappahannock will prove at lonst mo: results to our case than did the than The ratirond, Aguila creck, 0" grand Capen om Our Falmoath Correspondence. Farxorra, Dee, 7, 1863. Misery Likes Company—Prowst Marshal Troubles—Dr. Wirt—Affatrs at aquia —Rurmors—The S$. yp! Trains—Abindance of Supplicce-Gresubaels in Aun daner, de. Affairs remain quiet stong the lines, and the arin, of late busied itself solely im rendering uv comfortar bie as possible ite tiserabio sheltor 8. The enrth is fis covered with veh th But if ote sufbrings are gro intolerable; and philosophical refection tia’ ig. The rebels still oceupy the hills beyond Fredericksburg, though a those of the rebels must great portion of their camps have been removed, and | very Hetle if now seon of thelr operations There is no fores con‘runt- ne avkuown, doubt bat that they still have a formidal ing us; Dut its exwet numbers or pos save to the powers that bo De. Wirt, a son of William Wirt, and brother A taw of Grogg at King George ,andpeked permission to visit General furn- side, for the purpose of procuring a pate for his family to Balumore. Dr, Wirt w fa confinemnont a week dolore Lis cass was reported to snarters., Accompanying the charges of Col. ( that ne was limpticated yn the recent visit of the ling George and the capture of Our cavalry, wos as ment from the clerk of the commancer ot tho fl, charging tLe prisoner with bavin, instrament, his own ca, ture by the rebels im urment in iti mond at a former pertd. In the examination befor: General ick it was developed that Dr, Wirt knew nothing of the cavalry raid until it was ail over; that he was rofused to enter the Cont fo service, exeopt in case of dire necessity, and that he never agaist. od the enemy in any shape of form, save for a period of three months, during the peninsular campaien, when, prompted by dictates of humanity, be entercd the army And assisted In taking care of the wounded. 80 far from being ly of causing the arrest of the clerk, he was at the Specified a prisoner in , and, with the permajasion of thy Sepretary of the Navy, ihe The accused was a private in the * | res voneibility. army | ptinues COL, the wind | urnside on the | north wind , immediately arrested and kept | ‘| DECISIVE VICTORY malignity. Dee Wirt fe perfectly willing to give a parole not to Peal paged aap g Depart ey _, 80 fur us integrity of character is coneerned, eateem of ail. At creek the greatest activity prevails. craft innumerable constantly ¢ cores of stalworth contrabands swarm about, village of frame houses has 8, rung. .», aud others aro rapidly appreaching completion. ‘walls of the old en- gine house, twice sconrged by fre, are being again covored with a substantial roof, new wharves are strotching out inty tho rver, and the heels of eur transports stir the mid by the reedy ehores, where the perch and@ mullet for ages avo b coded thelr Hany tribes undisturbed, Every avaiia- dle nook is oceupied by a railway arnout, ae engines and lung traiag of cars, which jostle each other to ana fro, anu tons of grain, hay aud soldiers’ ratio, plied tier on tier obstruct the (horoughtares. ta the midst of alt this apfidirent confusion complete system ts maintained, and yast cargoes of supplies disappear as if by magic, only to make toom for mor, whiclf in their tarn vanish in the winding valley heading to the grand Army of tho Potomac, Yot Ajuia is not an attractive abiding place. Drinking water i8 a mile distant, and nothing but bard tack and ius accompapuneuts in soidior’s fare can be procured. A tradition prevails amung the (ops stationed there that invariably upon the appeararcs ot a respectable sutler & salute js fired inghonor of the event, and that no saintes baye born fired since the brilliant campaign of list sum- mer. It ts amusing to nove the wve stricken counle- nanced of hungry patrivty upow reaching tis Shaya in ‘their pilgrimage to the army. Fab:iloug gums are vainly oftered for Christian dinners, and maledictions beaped upon the heade of the powors Prohibiting the introduction of comestibles. Notwith- standing the embargo upon traitic, however, ap immense amount Of it is carried on, thongh in anew atylo and by a different cluss. Couvalesvents simuuggle in whiskey, to- Dducvo and seyurs in groat quantities, whch, sold to the troops at cnurmous profits renders brief furloughs highly desirabie, aud inauy u man gots through tw Washington for no other purpose than to supply himself with this merchandise, . Anew plin has been recently adopted in transporting supplics,and this far succeeds admirably. Two canal boats are lashed together, across which sic laid two or more tracks of railroad irom, Upon these are placed the empty enrs, which, upon being loaded at Alexandria, are vid, PUD Off on to tho railroad, aud theace to the transpor- tation of bay ond grain a great saving ic thus realized, as wo immense amouni is necessarily wasted at every place of Jouding or discharging. Several curgseso! straw are being unloaded at Aquia | for the comfort of the sick and wounded. This is tied in | small bundios and then bound in loops, like bales of bay. ‘Ab extousive dopot has also bon estabiished on the Maryland shore for use in case of emergenaies. ‘The army ut present, however, i# abundantly supplied. Colo nel Gark, Chiet Commissary, and his assistant, Captain Cox, have been indefatigably laboring = day night in b.stening forward supplies, and at’ levgth gveccetcd im furnishing the arn.y with a sufioent Ember of rations to sub through an extonzive campaign. Few are aware of gigantic proportions of this departinent of the se: Flour, meal, hard broad, beans, rice, pot beoi, 'povk, coffee, migar, molasses, v inust all ‘be transp rted. issued and a ol suet dvaw all these articles at one but otill th ave be kept on hand, and net until ag dt ¢ reatization be had resh horecs and new wagons ser’ and Comtuis tin ~ | we take into the dillieulties 1.1, Wangportatio: | the men, can ap } Statly arrivin, a y's dmpartiuents are crippled fur la ations ip the vyproa he troops, however, are al! auxious for the | start, and with enduve king and patiently if the end by these means can be mo-e ¥" fully aco mlt-hed. Mauy of the regiants have beon reeentiy poid off, and nbacks again abound, Much of the money has al y heen sont home, hongh largo sums are daily squat. | deved for trash tempungly displayed by thé sutlers. The deay of the paymastors hax ocoasioned great inconye menco, a number of officers having been compelled to resigh by, the wants of their families ut nore. ‘The siorin of Friday bas boen excoedingly severe upon the troops, their shelier tents having aiferded but very little protection, Kew cases of sickness have aud 4cOat fo be a been ropyrted. Gut diverse cannot fail to appour after such ebiling exposure. Brighter and warmer days ‘sre anxwusly voked for, though — the prospect of flonded etrerms aud Pathonsless roads, in ‘coxlout toa sudden disappearance af the snow, is far (rom pievaing. ‘The oorth is stili covered to the depth of two imebes, and the forests bend with their wintry drapery; Dut a few moro such days us yesterday will again give us geod roads ind a ¢.mfortab'e degree of Lemperature. roverul (honsand seldicrs ure cuployed felling timber, preparng the framework for the Rappahannock railroad | bridge. and making corduroy roads, Lhese wre made by | laying threo rows oc fine poles along in the direction takeu by the road, across Which poles of eqnal sizes aro | Inid olosely tuget Tk would avon a slow process of building highways but for the abundance of timber and the thousands of men engaged iv it; but labor here is cheap, and miles of Une solid though roug! highways are daily Completed, ‘the rebels havig driven all the ne- groes south, no coutrabands y come within our lines, Wo havo, however, an extensire corps of then employed | 48 teamsters aud laborers upon the wharves; but most ¢ | thom are extremely sdolent, and develop proclivities for iating the Gitects of viticers ina wont remarkable leg! ‘They are paid good wages, draw rauons and are clothed more cuwtortably than one-hual? of them ever wece by their misters, yet they are restices and uuess and cannot bo depended upon at all. Constantly 9) thelr plavrs of employment, they give une auce Ly the officers, nad are cousidered ts | the greatest nctaance af the an Music. ‘wonma’? av THK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. ly the exockholders of our Acade not patronize * couts, tiv ngh one and nti inay be seen the samo oppra is given st the usual A jms prices We wieh to 2 m that on ights the music | is precisely "hat the house is wutainted by the | etrange of und that tle only effect produced by their absence ig to mark promivently (they bare tue bert seater of course) thai the stockholders, there whem the public look »pon naturally as the most decided patroue of music, reste oft seats when tho 19) keoping them reverved, causing ty their house to look Toos Brilliant, as the most prominent eata remain vecaut, Notice should be given to the management npow aby occasion that stockholders will ot need their seats, as thus the bouge can he du + Peis may seom a matter of triling interest to the ‘the ttience, she ag they applanded mg the proper pla | ta’? hes ment of revie with to ay no evidences of lack oF taste for 1 « aud often Nor- <0 often since the,comunence- ns that iL is useless to make any detailed ppera. Lorin’, wx Norma, cng, as nsual, stall, Her style i parely Ttultan, and it is | proves idly ay wh wetend oF planted fotign The deo with ruee, We are iw of heart to leas ad wthan in other parts sho oat saceess. Bnt stilt Ler 1 y ¢ ie ar most pleasantly, @ rightly wm the public estimation. Signor cuss well: Inte voice is @ goo! ope, and W net Uhat he everacts lis votes ly soon be @ favorite with the New Yor ie baas » more and wet with less ener. wor he deserves. OL Surin! it vhaw that be wang with his usnal y always is, Mest «| thet wat tubaye ih the yo ore with hon ra tet the « ha sulew 1, Matinger Gr » Ceniirwex ov t Tan ’ e the goat, i the opera of“ Pnoorahy*’ J. GRAU. The ar Meme, Pamaomtvara, y malt,” The gout ts all COMETH, oro aa gat (hat has become famous. United States Marshal's Office. ANOTHER PRISONA SENT TO FORT LAFAYETTE. ‘Pear Adin pont hag transimitted to tao Marshal, ‘by the ship Courier, Sarauel Burrowes, who was captured on tho Seotta, and acknowledged bimseif a Charleston pilot. Burrowes wag sunt to Fort Lafayette. ene Le; i ‘The Cor New i. ), 1962. ‘The State Togislatore convened in session in this, city to-day houtes met (n joint convention at halfy eleven o'eluek, when Goveruor Duckivgtain del ered bis | Message, relating cuiedy to the military affhirs of tate, Steam- ere of al! eeecriptions, sghooners: bares, Sores and = hroms, the wuarves, unloading supplies or chattering around the tires @ Already quite & | YORK HERALD. PRICE THREE CENTS. IN ABRANSAS CR mnie Desperate General Engagement Near Fayetteville. The Flower of the Rebel Trang Mississippi Army Defeated. Triumph of the Union Generals Nerron and Blunt Over the Rebel Generals H.ndman, Parsons, . Raius. ‘Frost and Marmaduke. Six Hundred Unionists and Fifteen Huadred Rebels Killed and Wounded, ae, Ren ae Barna Fimo, wear Fayvprrgvitin, Ark. Deo. $, 1862. } General Herron’s forces, en route to reinforce Geneve) Blunt, mot the enemy yesterday on Crawford's Prairie, ten miles south of Fayetteville, Ark., and won a decisive victory. ‘The cnemy were 24,000 strong, divided in four divte sions, under Generals Parsons, Marmaduke, Frost and Rains, aH uoder Genera) Hindman, and embraced the flower of the rebel trans Mississippi amy, well supp!'ed, with eighteen pisces of artillery. The enemy flanked General Biunt’s position at Cane Hill, and made a suidep attack upon General Herron to prevent him uniting with @ neral Blunt. i General Herron’s force consisted of the Nivety-fourth and Thirty-firet Iitveis, Nimetcenth and Twentieth fowas ‘Twenty-aixth Indiana, Twentieth Wisconsin, a battaing or two of cavalry, in all 6,500 to 7,000 men, and twonty” four picves of artillery. The battle raged from ten A. M. until dark, ond was desperately fought throughout, Our artillery drove the rebels from two strong positions, and kept their over- whelming numbers at bay. The Twentieth Wiscouetm captured 9 rebel datlery of four heavy guns, bat were The also took the samo Hattery and fongbs dezperatoly, but were » obliged to yield it, Almoet every regiment distinguisied itself, About four o’eleck General Blunt arrived from cane Hill with flye thousiad men and & strong force of artile jery, and attacked the rebciv In the rear, Tho rebel pture his batlerice, but were forced to abandon them under a murderous lire Nineteenth To sade desperate efforts to ¢: | repulsed with terrible slaughter. We held the whole ileld at dark, and before nine o clocks j Urat night the entire rebel force were in full retreat over Boston Mountain, Our loss in killed and wounded was sit hundred = The rebel lors was fifteen bundred by their own admission, Several of the rebei field officers were killed, among them Colonel Ske, commanding a brigade, formerly a Rriea- dee of the Miss uri State Guard, Ouly a few prisoners were taken. We captured four caise ne Med with atomunit on. Lieutenant Colonel MuFarlan, of the Nineteenth lowe Fegimeut, was the ouly fell officer oh our side kiled. Major Hubbard, of the First Missouri cavalry, was token prismer, IMPORTANT FROM MISSISSIPPI Skicmtsa with the Rebels Near Oxford— The Main Body of the Rebels on Their March South, &c. Cano, ML, Wee. 8, 1862. esipp!) news to Tharaday tat states that r gumrd of bbe rebels, under the command of al Jackson, had a skirmivh on that morning with se free near the hn whe un 1 aciay, forty Mousand Strong, parsed throngh Oxtord twelve hours before ‘The number of the rebel sick and wounded js valet to be very Inrge. nny budy oi 4 Fight at Coffecville, Miss. Cicauo, Nov. 9, 1862. A special despatch. dated the Tth instant, from Uxford, Mise, , says that Colonel lickey's cavalry Bod a two boors? engagement with the rebels new Coltevilie on Friday night. ‘The rebels are said to have had 5,000 jufantry, cavalry and artillery Tho Union tose was five killed, fifty Wounded «nd saxty missing. ‘The rebe! lows was three hundred killed aod wonnd INTERESTING FROM TENNESSEE. | Confirmation of the Capture of a Union by Morgan’s Guerillas villesImportant Rebel Mov ments=The Buell Court Martial, &c. Loursvitim, Ky., Dec. &, 1942. A lolegram just received from Nasliville coudrins the capture of the One Hendred and Fourth Silinois regi the Une Handred and Sixth and One Hundred and Ohi» regiments, Nicklin’s battery, and a detachment of the Second Indiana cavalry, all under the command of Colonel Suore, on Sunday morning, after an hour's fight, at Hacteville, Teon., by the guerillas under John Morgan. The wamber of Morgau’s force is not stated. Nas#vitue, Tenn., Dec. 8, 1662 We have no (iether particulars of the disgracsful afar ‘at Hartsville, From all Loan gather, it appears that the new wfantry regiments fought bat little after relieving the Second indiana cavalry, except the linois regiment, which is eaid to have lost eighty killed. When tho infantry came up the cavalry was being | forced back, at whieh the former were seized with panic and fled to camp again, where thoy were surrounled wad taken, Tho logs if said to be about forty killed and wounded, the rebels retiring as reinforcements arrived itis rumored that Gen. Polk's rebel corps of Gen. Bragg’s army bas advanced up the Lebavon pike te Reard’s Mills, twelve miles south of Lebanon, while Kirhy Stuith’e corps (8 reported at Murfreesboro. These moves meots change the entire situation. Fastern money was refused ia this city to day at twenty five per cont discount, ‘The Buck Courtof Inquiry, in souret session, took the testimony of Gen. McCook. ‘The Court of Inquiry on Gen. Crittenfen, regarding the surrender of Murfreesboro, adjourned to-day. The result is not known. ‘he New York Central Reilroad Divie dend. Auaany, Dec. 9, 1862. ‘The New York Central Railroad Company bas declared a semi aunual dividend of three aud a half per cent, pay- abje on the 20th of February next, as usual; the govern. ment tax to be paid by the company. x Charles Osgood Disabled, Pwapenrma, Dec. 9, 1862. | The propeller Charles Osgood, with companies E and Ky Forty-second Massachusetts, put in for new sails, q lost two during the gales since leaving New York, Alp well ou board, Manchester, N. H., Municipal Biections Mancuneran, N. H., Dee. 9, 1562. ‘Thoodore P. Abbott (republican) was elected Mayor this city to-day: The Prope