The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1862, Page 4

ce 4 Rt NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. GEFIC N. W. CONNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash opener: ‘Money sent by mail will be ‘at the risk of the sender. None but Bank bills current io New York taken, THE DAILY HERALD, Taree cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents Per copy. Annual subscription price-— ‘Ono Gopy.... ‘Three Copies. Five Copies. ‘Fen Copies... Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, BL 50 cach. An oxtra copy will be sent to every club of ton. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and ‘any larger number at same price, An extra copy will be Bent to cluds of twenty. These rates make the WEEKLY Himnacy the cheapest publication in the country. | ‘The Evrorzax Epimoy, evory Wednesday, at Five conts (por copy; @@ per annum to any part of Great Britain, pr $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. The Caurorsia Enrnion, on the Ist, 11th and 2ist of each month, at Six conte per copy, or $3 per annum. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be inserted in the Waeary Heraup, and im the European and Cali- fornia Editions. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import ant news, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used, will be liberally paid for. gg- Ove Forticn Cor- RASPONDKNTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO SEAT, ALt, LET- The steamer Lake City was set on fire and de- destroyed by # band of guerilins at Concordia, ‘Ark,, fifteen miles above the mouth of White river, on Monday last. The next day the United States naval despatch boat De Soto took terrible vengeance. It went to Concordia and burned forty-two houses. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, resolutions declaring that this government will maintain the payment in coin of any interest or indebted ness, and will consider ita breach of the public faith to do other- wise, and that the duties on imports shall continue to be collected in coin and the old issue of demand notes, and when the latter shall not be sufficient for the purpose of such payment they shall there- after be payable in coin, were introduced by ‘Mr. McDougal and referred to the Finance Com- mittee. The resolution censuring exPresident Buchanan for his course respecting the rebellion was laid on the table. Ar resolution of thanks to Lieutenant Ringgold and the officers ahd crew of the frigate Sabine was referred to the Naval Com- mittee. Resolutions granting lands to Minnesota to aid in improving the navigation of the Minne- sota and Ked River of the North, and con- necting them by a canal, and to promote the efficiency of the subsistence depart- | ment, were appropriately referred. Bills for the | removal of the Minnesota Indians and the sale of | their lands; granting relief for damages sustained at the hands of the Indians; and to improve the | organization of the cavalry forces, were intro- duced and referred. Resolutions calling for cor- ‘TERS AND PACKAGES GENT US, NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We do pot return rejected communications. No, 348 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway—Bosox FRienps. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Witue Rinry—Cus- fons or THE CoUNTAY—I'4T 5 BLUNDERS. LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE. Broadway.—Bioxpezts. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Covxt Foor— BxyKocKkeTS~HARLEQUIN JACK SHEPPARD. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Roetx Hoop—Cawitir —licur House riexp. GERMAN OPERA HOUSE. Broadway.—Fipe1.10. BAKNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Drirs- Bacu’s PrerorvinG BrAaRS—GiaNt Girt, &c.. at all hours, Drama, Co..een Bown, | 7h o'clock P.M. BRYAN@S' MINSTRE! Mechanics’ Halli, 472 Broad — Soxos, Burceseuss, Dances, &¢.—licu AD OY. : 1, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Braiorran Bonus, Dances, &C.—Kixv Hunteas. “pPAULACE OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Canren.i’s ‘Muvsrenis—Sonos, Dances ano Bor.esqces. \ BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broudway.—Livino Witp | ANtwALa. | AMBRICAN MUSIC HALL, No. 444 Broadway.—Bat- | txts, Pasroumas, Bualesques, &c. { PARIGLAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 653 Broadway.-- ‘Open daily trom 10 A. Mf. till 10 P.M | HOOLEY'S OPERA TOUSE, Brooklyn.—Rraioriax Goxas, Daxcas, Buniasaves &c New York, Woincsday, December 17, 1862 THE SITUATION. During the storm and darkness of Monday night General Burnside succeeded in making good his ‘vetreat across the Rappahannock without attract- ing the attention of the enemy. The artillery was first moved over, the infantry bringing up the fear, and reaching the north bank safely ® short time after daylight. The pontoon bridges ‘Were then removed, hetween the two shores was effectually cut off. ‘The retreat and evacuation of Fredericksburg, which were rendered necessary by the disaster of Ba@aay and the ascertained strength and extent ‘of the enemy's fortifications, was a perilous ad- ‘venture, but was conducted in safety. It may Be ‘vonsoling, however, to know that, although the Union forces suffered a loss of some ten or twelve thousand brave men in this fruitless attack upon the enemy's position, General Burnside did not fall too deeply into the trap laid for him *by General Lee; but retired in time to save his army from the | ‘chances of annihilation. It is but just, perhaps, to General Burnside to #ay that the advance movement upon Fredericks- ‘burg was not undertaken in accordance with his Own judgment, but was peremptorily ordered by the military authorities in Washington, who, of cour: ¢ alone responsible for the result. It is stated upon reliable authority that the rebels sent a notification to our army on Sunday that they fntended to shell the town, and requested that our wounded should be removed. We give to-day an claboreted account of the ter- | rific battle of Saturday, which will be found much fuller and more crowded with those incidents which render the story of a great conflict more intensely interesting than the descriptions which we have been enabled to furnish previously by telegraph. This highly graphic and detailed history reaches us by mail, from our several correspondents in the ficld. In the reduced map of the battle field which Bccompanies it the reader can easily trace all the important points referred toin the story, and a reference thereto will greatly assist in a thorough comprehension of the whole terrible affair. With reference to the Banks expedition we learn that one of the vessels—the Niagara—had ran fo'o Philadelphia on Monday leaky, rotten and wholly unseaworthy. She had five companies og Fhe Fiftieth Massachusetts on board. This is the wecond vessel of this expedition in which the ma- Chinations of the jobbers have been manifested ‘The Thames and the Niagara h@ve both been proved entirely unfit for the service in which they were engaged, and it wos only by their timely ar rival in port that the lives of hundreds of our troops were saved. The Old Point boat, which xeached Baltimore yesterday, reports that the British steamer Cadmus had seen a large fleet en- tering Cape Fear river. Whether this was a por i tion of the Banks expedition remains to be seen, The news from the Southwest to-day is important, From Cairo we learn that General Movey’s expedi- tion on the Mississippi has returned to Helena, | Arkanase, The results of the expedition are one | Tvrndved and sixty rebels killed, wounded ond vecptured, and our loss thirty-four killed, wounded ‘Cid missing. ‘veturfied to Memphis. The rebel army of Micsis- wipni fe said to be between Jackson and Canton. | - 42 wera! Grant is still 8t Oxford with his forces. two regiments of Union infantry and one com- { Paay o( cavalry surprised a band of rebels num- Berlug two thousand at Tuscumbia on Saturday, | sempevoly routing them. Their Joss in killed and | Wounded * uaknown. Our forces captured seven | ey % #0 oumber of | horsess gud burned we and the communication The army of General Sherman has | ‘ yespondence on the culture of cotton in Asia | Minor and Egypt, and directing inquiry as to the | expediency of publishing Captain Muilin’s report of his wagon road expedition across the Rocky | Mountains, were adopted. The consideration of | the subject of arbitrary arrests of citizens was | postponed till to-day. The death of Representa- | tive Luther Hanchett, of Wisconsin, was then an- | nounced, the customary resolutions of respect and | condolence adopted, and the Senate adjourned. | Inthe House of Representatives, on motion of Mr. Cox, of Ohio, it was résolved that the Secre- | tary of the Treasury be dirggted to furnish to the | House a statement of the amount of the United | | States loan created in 1841, and extended by act | of April 15, 1842, which falls dae during the prt- | sent year, and also the names of those who are | registered as the owners thereof, and such infor- mation as the department may possess as to the actual ownership thereof; and that he communi- | ' cate to this House a copy or copies of any memo- rial or memorials addressed to him or to the Trea- | sury Department, proposing or'soliciting a specia, medium of payment to the owners or holders of | said loan, and whether he proposes to pay said Joan in coin. The consideration of Mr. Stevens’ ' resolution, declaring that the Union must be and remain one and indivisible forever, and that it would be a high crime to advise or accept peace | propositions on any other terms, was postponed for three weeks. The West Point Academy ap- propriation bill was passed. A bill for the re- moval of the Sioux Indians, and the sale of their lands, wasreferred. The decease of Mr. Hanchett, | of Wisconsin, was announced, the usual resolutions | Were adopted, and the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. } | There are four Kuropeau mail steamships due at | American ports to-day. They sailed from ‘the | Day of Satting. Destination. Dee. -New York. as Should the Scotia arrive first, the news will be a full week later than the advices of the Arabia. Accounts from San Francisco state that the steamship Moses ‘'aylor returned to that port on Monday morning, having broken her*shaft on the 12th inst., when five hundred miles down the coast. | She will be laid up until a new shaft is procured from New York. In the Manual prepared usually by the Clerk of the Assembly, the members elect to the next | House are classified, politically, as follows:— | Democrats. - 63 Union. . ‘ ~& Union democrat .8 Union republican: 12 Republicans... : 46 Total MAE ide i cee Pee 128 Tie National War Committee has sent a memo. rial to Congrees in reference to the depredations of the pirate Alabama and the building of rebel iron-clad gunboats in England, The memorial is signed by Mayor Opdyke, Chairman of the Com- mittee. The Board of Aldermen met last evening, Presi- dent Henry in the chair. A great deal of routine business was transacted. The sum of $10,000 was appropriated to the Sixty-ninth regiment, out of the fund of #500,000, as one of the militia regi- ments reorganized for the war. The sum of $1,000 Was appropriated to procure a portrait of ex- Governor Myron H. Clark. The Board adjourned to meet again this day. At an adjourned meeting of the Board of Coun- cilmen last evening a large number of routine papers were acted on. A resolution was adopted to increase the salary of the Deputy Street Com- missioner to $5,000, and the Board adjourned until this afternoon at four o'clock. In the case of the United States against a quan- tity of gold and silver watches—for which Mr+ Weitzenstein was claimant, Messrs. Webster and Craig appearing for Mr. Weitzenstein, and Mr, Andrews for the government—the jury yesterday found that there was no imposition, and gave a verdict returping the property to the owner. George M. Drake, of Newton, New Jersey, hae been acquitted by the jury of the charge of mur- dering Clara L.,. Vansickle by poison, administer- ed, as was alleged, Ly him, just previous to her giving birth to ap illegitimate child. The Court ordered himto be rearrested, and held to bail to appear in court at the April term, to answer any new charges which may be preferred against him by the State, It ie thonght that the indictment will be so framed then as to inelnde the accusation of manslanghter done by endeavoring to pro- duce an abortion. The market for beef cattle wae overstocked and prices accordingly declined from half to three- | quarters of a cent per pound. The receipts were enormous—reaching upwards of 6,000 head and, with one exception, execed those of any weck this year. The range of prices was trom Ge, to Se. a 9 ,¢., but the average prices were nearly if not quite as high ns last wee portion of prime cattle, extras, eold at 10c. a 12%c. Milch cows and veals were steady and unchanged, Sheep and lambs were heavy at a decline of 12c. a 500. each, Fancy heep sold a $8 a $10, and other kinds from $3 to $7. Swine were in enormous supply, bat prices ‘Wore supported. The receipts were 6,246 heel | eatile, 69 cows, 406 veals, 3,871 sleop and lambs, | and 63,778 swine, | The stock market opened iower and dul! yesterday, but betweon the boards wivenced, and beoame strong on the news of the retreat of Burnside, Gold rove to 133, clos. 1464, There wore ghly moderate gales of cotton reported yee | terday, aud the market wae withous pny remarkable changes. Flovr, wheat and corn meal were firmer in | Price and more active, with more liberal receipts. There were only moderate movements in pork, lard and bacon, at unchanged prices, while beef, rice, coffee, molasses, teas, metals, oli8, hemp, fish, fruit, wool and apices were quiet, The demand was very limited for owing to the Jarge pro- i Christmas stock | 2 152%, and the fancy stocks rose M4 per | tonoy was 6 26 per cent on call, | y Per cent on call. Exchange, 1468 | 15+, brigade; T. G. Howell, of the Sixtieth | leather and whiskey. There was no inquiry for naval Stores, which were very dull, There was more activity im the freight market, but the depression in rates con- cotntable ‘he army ofthe etme ‘ 8 the of the was the cause. The Unweicome Nows from Fredericks- burg—The Blunders of the War Office. Early yesterday forenoon we received the inforthation, dated “Falmouth, 8:45 A. M.,” that “it is raining very fast, and the river is rising very rapidly,” that “our troops are all on this side the river,” and that “the pontoons are up.” Here we had a whole volume of matter in a nutshell, nor did it ‘heed the inspiration of a Daniel to translate it. We accepted it as signi- fying that General Burnside, with the loss of en thousand men, killed, wounded and miss ing, having failed on Saturday last to carry by etorm the enemy’s works on the range of hills amile or so to the south of Fredericksburg, and finding his army in an untenable position on the narrow and exposed plain between the river and the commanding semicircle of rebel batteries in front, and finding that those batteries were beyond the effective range of his heavy guns on the hills on this side the river, with- drew all his forces from Fredéricksburg and the south bank of the stream under cover of the night, and took up his pontoon bridges because they will not be wanted any more in that lo- cality. Briefly, an advaftice towards Richmond from Fredericksburg has been tried, to the ex- tent of a sacrifice of ten thousand men, and has failed, and has been, at least temporarily, aban- doned. It is needless to say that this intelligence of the falling back of General Burnside produced in this community a profound and fearful im- pression. But the manifestations of public opinion touching the responsibility for this new chapter to the hoavy catalogue of our army disasters in Virginia are well worthy the spe- cial attention of President Lincola. Public opinion fixes this responsibility upon the War Office, and upon its glering blunders in the matter of this Virginia campaign, beginning with the removal of General McClellan. Of all these blunders, however, resulting from the dictation of the abolition radicals, the most foolish, costly and fatal one, has been a per- sistent under-estimate of the number and strength of the rebel forces in Virginia. Thus, upon the conclusion that the rebel General Lee would not musier over a hundred thousand men to dispute the road to Richmond: it was determined at Washington that an op posing force exceeding his by one half, and with a corps d’armee or two in the way of re- serves here and there, would be amply suffi- | cient to remove the rebel capital out of Vir- ginia. Accordingly thousands of Union troops have been sent away in expeditions around the outer borders of the rebellious States, while the rebels from every point, as in May and June last, bave been pushing up their thousands to protect Richmond, “the heart of the rebellion.” Thus we venture the opinion that this day the | rebel forces in Virginia directly under Genera! | Lee amount to not less than a quarter of a mil- lion of men. We must urge upon President Lincoln not | only the duty but the imperious necessity de- | volving upon him to change this policy of the War Department of frittering and | dribbling our overwhelming warlike forces ‘and resources ‘away in secondary enter- | prises around the edges of the rebellion, while Jeff. Davis still laughs at the follies of our military directors, defies their power and menaces our natiqpal capital. A column of fifty thousand men moving down upon the left flank of the rebel forces at Fredericksburg, while General Burnside assailed their works from the front and upon the other flank, would undoubtedly have giveu us a crowning victory; | or the movement of a co-operating army of « | hundred thousand men and a fleet of gunboats up the James river, with the advance of Burn- side upon Fredericksburg, would have certain- ly cleared our way to Richmond from the east or the north. As it is, the federal diversions in progress by way of Suffolk, Petersburg, Yorktown, &c., are small affairs, which will probably make no more impression upon the main army of Lee than was made by the capture of Port Royal upon the rebel army then encamped at Manassas, With a million of men in the field, and a naval force equal to the addition of a half of a million of men to this stupendous army, the country expects of President Lincoln the cap- ture of Richmond without further serious checks, reverses or disasters. The patience of the people with regard to the disorganizing abolition faction of Congress, and its blunder” ing tools in the Cabinet, is nearly exhausted. The President must reorganize the war direct- jhe agencies immediately sround him, or this present grand campaign against the rebellion will continue to bring disappointments to the country and disgrace to his administration. Tee Ki.ey axp Worxpen at Faepentons- nrne.— In the long lists of the killed and wounded at the battles before Fredericksburg, published in the Henan since last Friday, we find among the names of loyal soldiers from New | ' York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware, the names of four revels from North Carolina and Georgia. These rebels ave Colonel EB. N. Atkinson, Twen- ty-#ixth Georgia Voluntecrs, commanding Law- | Georgia, and Charles Hagler, of the Seventh, , and G. W. Ridley, of the Thirty-third North | Carolina, who, having been wounded and cap- | | tared by our forces, are now being cared for | with our own men. It is singular that these names should have been included in our liste, ore sing it, wi WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, of these four men, of the seven hundred prisoners captured in Fredericksburg, we have no information whatever in regard to the rebel losses, while our own are estimated at from eight to twelve thousand. The rebels fought behind |. intrenchments, however, and their loss is pro- bably as comparatively small as was that of Jackson at New Orleans, where Pakenham suf- fered severely, while we lost only seven men, Grand Masical Missionto Burope. Napoleon Ullman is once more on the musical war path. On this occasion he goes to invade the Old World with the talented artistes of the New. A fresh and brilliant idea has filled the mind of this great operatic tactician, and on Saturday next he leaves our shores on a grand rousical mission to Europe. His tour will em- brace the classio and distant regions of France, Germany, England, Russia and Italy; and after | traversing these countries, and delighting their people with the sweet notes of tho beautiful | warblers of America, he will once more turn his face to the West, and come back to us with those great celebrities, Mlle. Titiens and Madame Ristori. This combined movement of the Napoleon of the Opera must greatly commend itself to the musical and even to the political world. Such a mission to Europe is big with importance. What Thurlow Weed failed to do, Uliman wilt easily accomplish. He will bring harmony to ali the orowned heads of Europe, cause their | discord to cease, and make them think of war no more; he will startle the fashionable world | of London, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Ber- lin and Milan with the rich voices of the | “gweet singers” of the far West; he will lift up our young and talented American artistes to the ' position of power and fame held by the beautiful Titiens; and: all this Napoleon will do by his magic wand— ‘The silvor key of the fountatn of tears, Where the spirii, care, like a drowsy child, Is Jaid asleep in flowers. Thus, then, Napoleon Ullman starts boldly | +cal disorganizers who have brought ruin on gv Bonvama ax tux Iu Reramat 2 Pression m New Yoru—Yesterday wes & From Sunday the gloomy day in this city. gloom had been gathering. No satisfactory news on tit day had rewched us of 2 events of Saturday, and on Monday she intetligens’ “** still meagre. It was not till yesterday that ‘9 truth came to be fully realized—that the Slaughter of our troops had been immense, and the situation altogether so discouraging that it was necessary to recross the Rappahannock to insure the safety of the remnant of the army. These facts caused the deepest depression, mingled with intense indignation and smother- ed murmurs. Everybody seemed to feel that the best blood of the country had been shed in vain through the imbecility which directs our armies from the city of Washington. Controlling vast resources, such as no other | nation possesses; wielding an army and navy casting into the shade the armaments of mo- dern times, the government has utterly failed | in the war, and failed most of all in this critical moment, when everything is staked on the . hazard of the die, and the Powers of Europe | are watching the progress of events with a | view to a recognition of the Southern con- federacy if they can finda decent,excuse. The duty of the President, under these cir- | cumstances, is very plain. He alone is directly | responsible to the country. His Cabinet Minis- ters are responsible indirectly, and will have to | render an account hereafter, as sure as there is | & God in heaven or an incensed, outraged poo- | ple here on earth. Mr. Lincoln is honest. Let him at once provide for the safety of the republic by cutting loose from the radi- the country. Let h'm clear out the depart- ments of the imbeciles who are mismanaging the affairs of the republic in this terrible crisis of its fate, and let him appoint honest, conser- vative and capable men, in whoin the country | will have confidence, and who will bring the | war to a speedy and successful issue, instend of and favorably on his new mission, while the | eyes of all Europe and America are fixed upon | him. And in order that our readers may better understand the magnitude and importance of the movement, we give them all the particulars of the case, Napoleon has engaged Miss Kel- ogg as tho leading prima donna at Her Majesty's | theatre, London. She is to occupy an equal ee with Mademoiselle Titiens, and will re- ea salary of thirty thousand francs ($6,000) for twenty-four nights. Flotow, the celebrated composer of “Martha,” is arranging the opera of “Stradella” for her. Ullman offered Miss Kellogg an engagement for four years, with a gradually increasing salary; but her family were unwilling that she sheuld bind hervelf under any conditions, ex- ; tractors, who are bleeding the country to death, | the people. protracting it for the benefit of greedy con- and for the protection of the politicians @ho sce no safety for themselves but in keeping up ® standing army to repress the disoontent of The delivery of the country is in the hands of the President, and the people who elected him will look to him for the proper ad- ministration of their affairs, and the sacrifice of men in office who are incompetent to the task they have undertaken. It is the republic and not the Cabinet that must be preserved. God save the Commonwealth. Tue Canarps or THE Paicapenrita Press Anovr THE Banks Exreprrioy,-~When the ad- vance in the Southwest commenced last winter The Transport Niagara Puts inte Phisje- delphia Leaky. Pumspairma, Deo. 16, 1063 ‘The United States steam transport Niagara, which It New York on Saturday for the Banks expedition, with five companies of the Fiftieth Massachusetts regiment om board, pat into the Breakwater yesterday leaky, Bince then the Niagara bas arrived up to port, She is "© be entirely unseaworthy, and ‘was built in the year 1840. for the lake tise. ‘The soldiors, While of the Niagara, discowered erayrcernimraays ™ The Steamer Niagsra and the wa ‘tech Massachusetts Regiment, ‘ Inquiries at headquarters of the Banks expeviition, i@ New York, have elieited the following facts relative to the steamer Niagara:— +The steamer was carefully inspected by competeng naval officers appointed by the authorities at Washington to inspect all vessels for this expedition, and no defective- ‘ness was visible, and must have been-carefully concealed. ‘The vessel was reported to the Commanding General as ready to receive troops, and. a portion of the Fiftietl: Massachusotts regiment was placed on beard. After em- barking one company was disembarked by General An- drews, in order to insure more room and comfort Ya those remaining. She satled for the South, and © the first day's experience, with a smooth soa, gave evidence (by the ripping up of deck-plankings showing rotten deck timbers,) of her unscawoathiness, added te which, it is reported, that the mato and pilot, together with the sea-faring men in the regiment, pronounce her as unfit to safely transport troops on the ocean. The men‘ have been disembarked, and Gen. Andrews has promptly ordered a seaworthy vessel to proceed an@ forward tho troops to their destination. All are safe an@ well, and none of the cargo was injured. Entering Cape Fear River. Battowore, Dec. 16 , 1862. I: {8 reported by the Old Point boat that the ugliest stoamer Cadmus had arrived there, aud reported having son a largo fleet entering Cape Fear river. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Fortress Monrog, Va., Dec. 16, 1862. Thirty rebel prisoners of war arrived here to-day om the steamboat Adelaide, from Baltimore, Major Genoral John A. Dix and staff left this morning for Newport's News for the review of troops. “4 A foraging party, sont out from Yorktown last Friday, returned this morning with large droves, of cattle, sheep and swine, having been very successful. IMPORTANT FROM ARKANSAS. Destruction of the Steamer Lake City by the Rebelsa—Forty-two Houses at Come cordia Set on Fire by the De Soto, Cano, HL, Dec. 16, 1862. The steamer Lake City was set on fire and destroyed by ‘a band of guerillas at Concordia, Ark., fittoen miles above the mouth of White river, on Mouday last. ‘The next day the United States naval despatch boat De Soto went to Concordia and burned forty-two houses. Most of the baggage belonging to the passengers of the Lake City was recovered, we OR Te aes! The citizens of Con6ordia clater that (iy did all dunt ‘was in their power to proveus thie burtilng-of the Lake * in pumping the water ous, her timbe.’* to baxers rete. Large Fleet cept they were from year to year. This is UU- | the Chicago papers set afloat the most extraordi- | City, and bad eont a courier to Mitena, Arle, to ask pro- man’s first move. The next is the engagement | nary reports from day today, which so mystified of Carlotia Patti, through Ullman, by Messrs. | and bewildered the press of the whole country Beale & Guy, of Covent Garden, London. She | and the people that nobody could distinguish is to receive a salary of 80,000 francs a year | truth from errorin future reports from the same ($16,000), and expenses paid for three persons. This, it will be seen, is nota very bad move. Next we have Napoleon engaging Morensi for three years for London, Paris and St. Peters- burg. This is one of those brilliant coups that have rendered the name of Napoleon Ullman famous in the history of musical strategy. Mo- rensi will, however, remain here until the month of October, and in the meantime will prosecute her studies under Signor Abella and Madame d’Angri, who have taken charge of her altogether. Angri, it is known, is the greatest living contralto, and of course it is of the greatest advantage tagMorensi that she is under the guidance of so accomplished a singer. In laying out his plain of campaign, Napoleon has not forgotten Brignoli. The handsome tenor has given Ullman carte blanche to make arrangements and sign contracts for him in Europe. On his last return from Europe there were potnis in them in reference to operas which the tenor did not like nor approve, and we have the artistic movement from this side of the Atlantic. In reference to the non-arrival of Madame | Ristori and Mile. Titiens, this season, Napoleon | | Carolina, and no doubt any Jonger oxists of the is not altogether silent. He summarily dis- poses of all popular objections by the ing documentar? evidence, which effe ion on the subject :— ons have been assigned for the | Madame Ristort and Mille. | 1 hindness for pace tv define | my position with regard to these celobrities. Certain artists occupy a rank in the art world so ex- etnally | | Ce; Uonaily high, and their profeesional Income in Karope | is bo large, thal bo American manager caa possibly en- | gage thein atc sa he may arti-ts of ordinary talent. Ibe only way td indice them to cone to. this comntry 13 to give them nn estimate of the probable fin’ ncia! results of Uae cuterprise, to allow Uncm a large | proportion of ihe r to insure them a minimem | of profits, Iu ig to this | country Mada) Mr. Thalborg. } A similar area’ Mr. Barnum &@ d Jeany Liv + Conte 8 bagis were sigue! by me with Madame Ristori in June, 1861, and with Mile. Vitiens also last ‘The stipulated cash advances and securities for the ment of my part. a e agreements have been r lady furniche hrough the banking house of Mersrs. August nder the supervision o the Italian’ ides, ail arrangements were completed with for choir passages to | this country by the © turbed atate of the country and the high promium and exchange made itob.igatory on me, at the Tequest of Madame Risvori ani! Mile, Titiens my contracts with them wutil a more propi things in this country, The anvexed documen ample evidence of this {act — MENTARY CONTRACT BETWEEN MADAME RISTORI AND MR. ULLMAN. it de la re dang les Erats Unie rendaat tres perilleuse Vexecation du pr contrat, ila ete cunvenu de commun accord ve qui uit: Le dit contrat est transporte, ave toutes ses Clauses compris les changements qui y out ete | elles le 30 Mars; 1802, al'aunee prochaine, 2. Les donx parties declarent de nonyean de confirmer et respecter Je dit contrat dans tons les autres articles et dans toute aa force ot RO CORTICELLL. Approuvee Pecriture, : Terese Bun, Temoin, B ULLMAN, Approuvee en ve qui me concerne, ADELAIDE RISTORL, Marqnise del Grillo. Jautorise ma femmen la dite signature, GUILIANO CAPR ‘Ay Marquis illo, PUWREN MIE. TITIENY AND MR. | SUPPLEMENTARY CONTRACT t In view of the present turbed state United States it has been mutually agreed epee be tween the undersigned, that should 'B. flit on hia | arrival in New York, find that the political financial ejrettinstonces of the country be likely to interfere with the expected suceese of their jomt enterprise, he has the right to trensfer the carrying ont of | between them in London the 10th of | or any other year that may ve mut GrovciTn, Sept. 10, 1862. B. | In this way Napoleon Ullinan shatters all the | | batteries of his opponents, He does not leave i | one of them “a leg to stand upon.” Therumors | | that he had no contracts with Ristori or Titiens, | and that he did not or could not furnish the re- | quisite securities, ave exploded at one shot, Na- | poleon was only waiting his proper opportunity | | to bring these great artistes novess the water, | He thinks he sees that the war is drawing to | a close; and, like a good general, he takes time by the forelock, seizes his opportunity, and starts on his‘great musical mission to Europe. We will watch his operations on the other side with much interest, | so that everything tb | the respectable press of the country quarter, till at length one of the generals or- | dered an arrest, and the attention of the coun- try was directed tothe guilty party, and the public learned to discredit intelligence emanat. ing from sources so unreliable. In the same way the opening of the winter campaign in: the East is now characterized by similar canards, promulgated for a mean purpose, by the Phila- delphia papers. As an instance, we may refer to the Banks expedition, whose destination these very journals long since announced, when it was important to conceal it from the enemy. They now pretend, when no good object can be served by the report, that ithas landed at Win- ton, in the Chowan river, North Carolina, with a view to effect a junction with Generals Fos- ter, Peck and Augur, and to make a movement on Weldon, preliminary to the capture of Pe- tersburg, and ultimately of Richmond. This was too good news to be true, and was the last Ullman did bring Brignoli_some contracts; but | thing that was to be expected from the imbe- | cility that reles at Washington. The shipping in” | telligence in the Heratp of yesterday morning which have therefore tobe amended. Thas far | exploded the frauds The vexsels of the Banks | | expedition were met far to tite south of North nature of the fabrications of the Philadelphia journals. They sent foyth this bogus news be marked in future, like the Chicago papers, Y publish nay he received with a very large allowance, and telegraphic agents ought to be more careful in muleting dexpatebes containing such trash. NEWS FROM MiSSISSIPPI, Avrival of Gen. Hovey’s Expedition at Melena—fecturn of General Sherman's Army to Memphis—An Immetiate Ad- Yanee Not Expected—Rout of the Rehels at Tuscumbia, &. i ff 10, General Hovey's expeditior Arkau: The results of the expeditio sixty revels killed, wounded ptnred, and our lows thirty-four kilied, wounded and missing. The army of eral Sherman has returwed to Mem phis. The rebel ariny of Mississippi ix said to be between Jackson and Canton, General Grant is still at Oxford with hie forces. An immediate advance of our forces is not expected. Two regiments of Union infantry and one company of up one hundred and cavalry surprised a band of rebel; numbering two thon | eaud, at Tuscumbia on Saturday, completely routing them. ‘Their toss in Killed amd wounded ie unknown. Oar forees captured soventy prigonors, @ uumber of horses, and burned the baggage of the rebels, Our love ie four killed and fourteen wounded. | The San Jacinto in Search of the Pirate Al Captain Wellington, of ! this port yesterday from St. Kitts, states that when off St. ‘Thomas, on the 30th ultimo, he passed the steamer San | Jacinto in eearch of the Alabama. Captain Wellington also reports that news had veen re- ceived at St. Kitts of the return of the Alavema to Marti. | pique on November 26, where she was taking jn coal from. @ British bark lying off the barbor ‘The San Jaeinto woe at St. Martine on the 22d ult, in wearob of the Al abuima. ‘Theatrical. Matilda Heroo repeated her new play, “kdith,” Jast evening, at Niblo's 6 to a very crowded house, Un ' Saturday evening next Mise Heron's Jast appearance in this city, for the prosent, is announced. Her last night should be an ovation, for Niblo’s haa witnessed no en- engagement 80 entirely succeratul for some time. ‘On Monday evening next Mr. Wheatley will produce, for the holidays,a grand ppectacte called “Fanat and for ; deer, arrived at | tection. Bofore the return of the courier, hbwever, tho De Goto had accomplished the destractioa'of'thertown. THE NAVWY. Trial Trip ef the Iron-Clad Bat- tery Montauk. The iron clad battery Montauk startedeon her trial trip yesterday morning. In order that thore should be a0 doubt about the result of the important experiments | Secretary Welles appointed a naval commission to wit- | ness the trial trip and report upon it. The commission consisted of the following officers, all gentlemen of the | highest professional reputation in the service:—Commo- dore Stephen C. Rowan, commander of the iron-clad frigate Roatioke; Captain Rogers, late of the Galena, aad Captain John Rogers, of the Ericrson battery Catskill. The following distinguished officers were algo on board: Captain Lacoffski, of the Imperial Navy of Russie; Captain Erzenleoff, Naval Constructor in the same service and a Russian Colonel of Ordnance, Commodore Gregory, Engineer Stimers, Captain Worden and others. Annoxed is a list of the officers of the Montauk:— Commander—John L. Worden. Lietlenant Commander and Ezecutive Officer—Charies B. man. Moster—Piorre Giraud. Ensigns—J. J. McKiniey and @. P. Avery. Assistant Paymaster—S. F. Browne. S. N. Brayton. sistant, Robt. Potts (Acting Chi " d Assistants, D, P. Cartney | At ten o'clock all embarked on the Stontauk at the Nuvy Yard, and at half-past ten o'clock, amid a severe | shower of drizzling rain, the vessel shoved off, unaided, | and headed up the North river. Hor engines wore put In + quick motion, and, with twenty-seven pounds of steam | in order that if might be cirenfated by othe? | ga, gave fiity revolutions a minute. This was the first follow- | journals all over the country. They onghi to report, Tbé distance from t Navy Yard to the Batters was accomplished at the f='* Of @ pout Ove and a ball miles an hour. Soon after the speed WAS Increased to six, and she was ordered to be driven even tasters” when the boilers began to foam. As the revolutions van be put up to seventy at least, with the remaining wnicsted power of steam, the speed of the Montaak will be almost exactly that of the Passaic, seven miles an | hour, The tide was ogainst her yesterday, and. also a | very stiff breeze, but their infuence in reterding a crate 80 low down, and # ‘*setticd,” wos. not very great. We stapped at the foot of Thirteenth stro@ to take on board ‘rico#n's representatives, who came At twelve o'clock, off Thirty- pormds of steam only produced ons, toventy-seven pounds having pre- viously obtained fity, or two revolitions more; but the foaming of the boilers hid not commenced during the | ae forty-vight revols first balv hour, From street up the river the pregr » Six miles an hour Was easily a the newness of the botlers. + familiarize Steninboat travellers w evinced all the characteristics of y paged. Alter a cold sail we rea y about one o'clock, and made preparations to anchor; sonndinge were taken, and fiitcen fathoms of chain run out, «hich aeoured the vessel. The Naval Commission then adjourned to the turret, and dirceted the initiatory movements for firing: Powder was taken fi tog. whieh brought it from Bedioe’s 1, At about hall-past two or three cll lock firing com- Three hollow shots, two solid ones, and two js were Bent into the borom of the Palisades. They acinally shook tho entire shore for hundreds of . and whore the sold shot fell rocks and gravel, for Dearly a quarter of @ mile, rolled into the river, A’ gentleman eame from shore and stated that the shots tore up the earth feartuliy. He also informed parties on board that during the Paseak’s trial, one of her shot struck a tre- er ck and seut it jo fragments jutthe air. The sion intended firing ten shote. only fred seven, foliow ing statement of t give no comfort or information to the enemy :— |” FivetThe various principles involved ‘in the experi- | mont are proved practicable, Second=That the tarret porthole need not ve widened | is new eat@blished beyond all doubt | DhirdaThe Montauk, in her prese sea, on active service, this week. 0 ‘aud Captain Rogers expressed themselver individually | highly satisfied with the general success of the experi- ments. hong a re gave way during the entire Lied The commission, of course , suggests ‘my ts in various | dotaile, which can be offected in rorty-élaht hours. The work of the day being over, proparations were made toreturn. Tho pilot, however, did not wish to incur the responsibility of anchori the length of chain available, and as steaming up to the Navy Yard at so late an hour was out of the question {6 was deemed best to leave the vessel off the Palisades. | The party on board then returned to the city in the tow- | boat, ail tp excellent humor. | ‘The Montauk will arrive off the Navy Yard to-day at | nine A. M. and prepare to leave for sea, She will proba- bly be off in two or three days. nae international Relicf Fand. ‘The following additional sums were received in aid of the international relief fond on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1862:— results of the experiment can Magueritey? in which Mr. J.B. Roborts wil) appear. Mr. | Me P. #200 Wheatley has been preparing thie piece for several | p: Wi 4 months, and we are promined that the liberality which he | W.T. 50 has hitherto displayed will not be wanting in the acenio BAY! namo 8 orrangemente. | Cae Opps 8.00 ie At Wallack’s, the newiy imported comedy, ‘Bosom, Vigher, Donnelly & ea Friends,” will be played for the lest time this evening. | [Vag H The comedy is excellently written and better acted. Now that Grau hes taken away his goat and Mr, Wallack | proposes to withdraw bis fox, we must be dependont upon Barnum for our natural curiosities,” Mr. Wallack ai noupoes a translation of one of Seribe's dramas for the