The New York Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1862, Page 4

years # NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. ‘at tho risk of the sender.” None but Bank DW? 2 rrong in Now York taken. 4 THE DAILY HERALD, Tangs 097!ts por copy. THE WEEKLY H&RALD, ovey Saturday, at Five cents foer copy. Aunual subseripsa price:— ” @2B GO cach. An oxtra copy will be sont t every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one addross, one year, $35, and ay larger uumber at same price. An extra copy will be @emt to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WKLY Himatp the cheapest publication in the country. | FULTON aNp NASSAU STS, b the Secretary of War to report te, the Judiciary Committee, A resolution calling ‘for information ys to wether any soldiers were sent into theBtate oF Delaware to be present at the eiection in November last, pecsesbed plage A jon, @rder>, ko., was laid over. A se meme authorized the organization of the Home Gui in Delaware, and if so by what authority, was also laid over. The consideration of the bill providing for the discharge of State prisoners, and allowing | judges of United States courts to take bail to se- | cure their trial, was postponed till Monday next | aud the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means reported a bill to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for 1863, which was made the special order for Tues- day. The bill making appropriations for invalid and other pensions was reported, and Monday next assigned for its consideration. The Senate reso- lution instructing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to report thereon with all convenient speed was adopted. A bill was introduced, amen. datory of the Confiscation act, ao that in all oases Tee Evgorsan Evirox, every Wednesday, at Frvz cents | pending, or which may hereafter arise, wherein any pet copy; $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, ship, vessel or other property may be condemned, er OG to any part of the Continent, both to include the court rendering judgment shall, before making »™ Cyraroaxta Eormom, on the Ist, Ith and ist of ‘Goh month, at Sux conte per copy, or $B per annum. Aprmatauxrts, to a limited number, will be inserted fm the Weextr Henao, and ia the European and oP. the President's Message to the v: forala Editious. VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing import- .| award, firet-provide for the payment of any bona fide claim filed by any loyal citizen or friendly foreigner, where proof of the claim shall be estab- lished. It was reforred to the Judiciary Com- mittee, The resolution nore the topics of jous committees was taken up. Mr. Noell, of Missouri, made o strong speech in support of the war policy of the ant nows, solicited from any quarter of the world; it | Sdministration. At the conclusion of Mr. Noell’s ‘ased, will be liberally paid for. gg Our Forsicn Cor- RESPONDENTS ARE PARTICULARLY REQUESTED TO BEAL ALL LET- BRS AND PACKAGES SENT US. NO NOTICE takon of anonymous correspondence. We Go not return rejected communications, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irri lace. —Masom JONES Luorvi WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway—Sreep =n '.00Ga WINTER GARDEN, Broadwar.—Wuure Rirer—Cus- TOMS OF THN COUNTKY- ‘3 BLUNDERS. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway —Bionpezte. NEW BOWEKY THEATEL, Bowery.—Ipior or tar Mouwrat.—Maw avout TOwN—HaRmingury Jack SHEPPARD BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Camiits—Sxow Binp-= Rouinsox Cnisox. j GERMAN OVERA HOUSE. Broadway,—Nozzx ti Ficaro AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Dxirs- FORMING BKARS- IANT ( IRL, &C.. At wll ROUTE, CoLUREN Bown, at ii and 734 @ clock P. M. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hu’ a Songs, BonLeseres, Danci aor. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 51 Broxdway.—Brasor1ay Danogs, &£0.—o019 Hontens. PALACE OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Camrssut’s Mustrets—Sones, Dances axp Bunirsgues, 472 Broad aom ii IRVING HALL, Erving piace.—Eucaxim Barnzrem’s Conc nr. BROADWAY NENAGERIE, Broadway.—laring Witp Amiaass, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL. No. 44 Brosdway.—Bat- tam, Pawroxinrs, Bunun: aves, AC. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS. 663 Broadway. Opon daits trom 10 A. M. tu 10 P.M et HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brookiynedicuoriax | Gongs, Dances, Buxtesauxs be HOWARD UALL, Providence.—Bucxter's Sercxapees Now York, Thursday, December 15, 1863 THE SITUATION, The condition of Gen. Burnside’s army in its old position on this sifle of the Rappahannock is reported to be quite comfortable under the pro- tection of their shelter tents. he wounded are remarks the resolution was adopted, and the House adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Four large tows from Albany arrived at the city yesterday, making nearly or quite one hundred craft, all deeply laden with the various kinds of produce usually received from the northern and western part of our State. These vessels had been shutup in the ice in the neighborhood of Albany. There are probably one hundred and. fifty more on their way and te come, all of whom will no doubt be got safely through. Several heavy tows left Albany last evening, and there are snap steamers cnough gone up from this city to pull through all the remaining vessels. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, Presi- dent Henry in the chair. A resolution in favor of appropriating $——- to pay the funeral expenses of Captains Hoagland, Wehle and Dodge, of the Sixty-sixth regiment, killed at the battle of Frede- ricksburg, was adopted. A communication was received from the Finance Department, showing that the eum of $68,476 was distributed during the fortnight emling December 18, to the families of voluateers. A report was received from the Com- mittee on the Croton Aqueduct Department, stat- ing that the committee have examined the ac- counts of said department and found them to be correct. The report was adopted. The list of Conunissioners of Deeds prepared by the Board of Councilmen was concurred in, and the Board ad- journed to five o'clock P. M. on Thursday. Th Board of Councilmen met last evening, when a large amount of routine business was transacted. A resolution of concurrence was adopted, do- nating the sum of $10,000 to the Blind Mechanics’ Association. The resolution to increase the sala- ries of the several police justices to $5,000 per annum was concurred in, and the Board adjourned antil four o'clock this afternoon. The Board of Education met at five o'clock last evening, the President, E. Curtis, Esq., in tho chair. Mg, Waterbury proposed a resolution to the effuct that all bills be properly attended to, in | view of the approaching close of the year, and that the President be authorized to refer all bills to which he had objection to the Committee on Finance. This was adopted. The subject of mili- tary instruction in the public schools was laid over until next year. It was also resolved that being rapidly sent on to Washington, ond at many | the Free Academy Library be opened to the points the dead have been buried under a flag of | Teachers’ Association on Thursdays and Sat ar trace -fe G L G B ® te | days. A report from the Finance Committee @ from Gen. Lee twGen. Burnside, withthe | 4. presented, accompanied by a resolution request that the latter would detail men for this | to the efect that the sum of $2,839 98 might Purpose in front of Gon. Sumnner's grand division. | be needed for paying off balances of the yearly fmmediately acknowledg dead in front of his line were respectfully cared for. The retreat of our army, it would appear, took the enemy by surprise. They had no ey Another ficg of tr ged by the enemy, and the picion sent by Gen. Franklin was | 4P) | be iw that Genera! Burnside’would cross the river in the | darknees of Monday Genera! ight. Lee, finding the city his pickets to a point near the banks of the river On Tuesday night the enczay increared their in- trouchments on the terrace in the rear of Fr sioksburg, and threw up rifle pits near the ri On the left of the city. Grills wére visible to th General Buruside has : partrcrt ip a modest off terday morning ted, advanced wir battalion neked eye oo the plain. ported to the War De> Yesterday | despatch the fact that the Army of the Potomuc had been compelled, Qs a military necessi.y, to retreat across the Rap- pahansock, it being i my’s works, and a rej stances being reg: vossible to carry the ene- under existing cireum- Le etates that the retreat was conducted without d by hin as disostroas, Jose of either men or property. Another glimpse of light is thrown upon the probable destination of the Ranks expedition by the report of the bark Anns, from New Orleans, which @ ived at this port yesterday morning. She saw on the 9th inst., at six A. M., off St. Au- gustine, Florida, six large steamers bound south. Tt not being sufficiently light, she could not distin- guish them particularly, but judged from the course they were steermg that they were bound further south than Fiorida, The news from the Southwest to-day does not possess its usuel interest. Nothing of importance ds reported. Despatches from Cairo state that a large force of rebel cavalry have appeared in the vicinity of Jackson, Tenn.; but ample preparations ‘were made to resist any attack which they nay make. The revel steamer Alabama appears to be still hovering about Martinique. The United States @teamer Sar Jacinto is on the lookout fer her. On the 28th ult. the Alabama wes off Dominica, fnto whieh port she lad chased a schooner, the Mary F:. Morgan, which got eafely ont of her clutches. CONGRESS. Tw the Senate yesterday, the reports of the com. Mision appointed to ascertain the adaptability of Beague txland as a naval depot were ordered to be Printed. Bills to forfeit the pay of officers of the Bros w atsent from duty, to imprgye the or PRenizave thw cavalry forces, and to faci\itate Bie dis f disabled soldiers and the inspee- Mou of ccononent camps and hospitals, were eporte ‘oe Militwry Committe, A bil pre 4 branch mint at Port- 2 s referral) to the Finance © vite A tw aiory of the act estublieniug # yaelia he grade of Pine vitivcere of the vJ 18 Teferred to Que XN Gemour allowing “of in ain wuite iu favor ob loge: r) propriations. A resolution was adopted that all Jances or sums set apart and appropriated re- maining at the termination of the year 1862 to the debit or credit of the several specific objects for ich such sums were appropriated be transferred te the general account in the books of the Yinance Department. After the transaction of some rou- tine business the Board adjourned to the 30th inst. The Commissioners of Emigration met yesterday at Castle Garden when the following statement ubmitred:--Number of emigrants arrived to num- island 7; in 1860, 977; in 1859, ved @ balance on ber of inmates in th in 1862, 643; in 1861, ie The Treasurer's r receipts to the 10th inst., $168,021 41; re since to 17th inst., for commutation of passe: £2,520; disbursements as per previous acco 10th inst. Ap yesterd ived jon was made befure Judge Barnard inthe Supreme Court, to admit Simms, the alleged seducer and accessory to the death of | Miss Anderson, to bail. The Judge did not wish to interfere in the matter, and thought that the case should be properly brought before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The District’ Attorney, Mr. A. Oakey Hali, consented to the prisoner be- ing admitted to bail in the sum of $2,500. The parties then left to perfect the bail. in the casé of Russell Sturges, against Spofford & Tileston, for commission as agent between plain- tif and defendants to negotixte the employment of the ship Marion as a transport, the jury were unable toagree. The vessel was engaged hy the government at $1,000 a day, with the privilege of purchasing her at the expiration of the first voy- age for $100,000; but it appears that the vessel was omployed for one hundred and sixty-eight for which $168,000 were paid, and the vessel © returned to the owners. Thos the govern- ment has been muleted in paying $65,000 and the loss of the vessel. The rebels under Morgan, who captured the bri- gade of Union soldicrs at Harisville, took from them all their overcoats and blankets, and paid for them in Confederate treasury notes and bills on the exploded Exchange Bank of Murfreesboro, Gen. Rosecrans sent a sharp protest to Gen, Bragg for this gross violation of the terme inthe cartel of exchange adopted by both parties. Seventeen hundved and fifty of the paroled pri soners arrived at Nashville on the 12th inst. The two gunboats Agawam and Pentuosac, now building at Portland, Maine, will be ready for Depth of hold. Draft when ready for The Charleston authorities tack upon the city, have conatracte a a large nan hantios wnd barracks at (ree field and Somerville, for the temporary she the poorer classes of the inhabitants, the mogt of whom are dependent upon public charity fo support. The Quarantine regulations at Port Royal, South Carolina, have been suspended, and the healt of the port fis reported) woo? Judge E. B.D. Ogden, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, hav devided that a par annot his son, who is over vigiteca years old, out of the army, on the plea thit he is @ minor and en- lets Wae referred | tered the service without hie consent, because the . | part of the militia of the cowntry, and liable to do | military service, either as a volunteer or as a con- script. © x The Provost Marshal of Massachusetts, in an , oficial notice, says the deserters from Massachu- sctts regiments are Siffisfent in number to form a respectable brigade, Returns from seven regi- ments show that twelve hundred and fifty have skeedaddled. ‘The newspaper publishers of Connecticut held @ State Convention on Tuesday, and nearly every newspaper in the State was represented. Acom- mittee was appointed to memorialize Congress to remove the duty onthe importation of foreign pa- Per, and also to reduce the tax imposed upon printers by the Excise law. A riot occurred at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, on the 16th instant, originating in the demand by the employes on the railroad for an advance of wages. A portion of the railroad was destroyed and the hotel was much injured. The New Bruns- wick military were ordered to the scene. The keel for another government side-wheel steamer has just been laid in Boston. She is in- tended for service in the Southern rivers, and will be two hundred and forty feet long, thirty-five feet wide and twelve feet deep. General McClellan and wife, it is said, contem- plate visiting Boston. The City Inspector's report states that there were 351 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase of 31 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 50 less than occurred during the corresponding week last yoar. The re~ capitulation table gives § deaths of alcoholism, 2 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 58 of the brain and nerves, 2 of the generative organs, 8 of the heart and blood vessels, 133 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 9 of old age, 23 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 6 premature births, 56 of diseases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 29 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 6 of disease of the urinary organs, and 11 from violent causes. There were 227 natives of the United States, 7 of England, 83 of Ireland, 1 of Wales, 21 of Ger- many, and the balance of various foreign coun- tries, 2 The stock market was steady yesterday, and better upon gome descriptions, thé buyers being partics who are satisfied that Congress is going to ruin the country by further issues of United States irredeemable paper. Money was worth 6 per cent per annum. Exchange wag 146 a 3. Goldsold in the morning at 133; in the after- noon at 183, and olosed 132% bid. The cotton market was very quiet yesterday. Prices were essentially unchanged. Flour, wheat and corn ad- vanced elightly, with more oxtensive sales and very moderate receipts. Pork was heavy, and mess closed at $13 8Ta$14. Eeef was dull. Lard was less active, and ‘bacon in more demand at steady prices. Sugars sold to ube extent of 750 hhds. New Orleans at drooping rates. Molaases was rather more freely purchased, There was a good inquiry for hay, hops and tallow, with a very limited demand for fish, fruit, hemp ,oils, coffee, rice and naval stores. Whiskey was inactive. The auction sale of Canton flannels resulted in the disposal of most of the Offerings at an average reduction of about 15 per cent from private trade prices. There wore very light freight engagements reported. The Country in Danger—What the Pree sident is Called Upon to Do. The country is in danger. With the most powerful army afoot which any nation on the face of the globe has ever brought into the field, ond with a navy afloat which is compe- tent to grappfe with the thousand war ships of England, the country is still in danger. It is not the peril of another advance of the ragged nor the danger of foreign intervention, but it is the greater danger of the total loss of the confidence of our loyal people in the success of this war under President Lincoln's adminis- tration. The public mind—with the full comprehen- sion of the terrible battle of Saturday last, and the unavailing sacrifice therein of over ten thousand killed and wounded soldiers—has been éxcited toa degree of despondency and indignation which is truly appalling. The de- pressing sensation produced by the seven days battles in front of Richmond, and that resulting from Lee's subsequent pursuit of another branch of our army to the very gates of the na- tional capital. were comparatively light and This fearful and useless slaughter of our brave young Union soldiers at Frede- evanescent. ricksburg has kindled the new element of wrath in the seethifg currents of public opinion which | President Lincoln cannot safely disregard. No man dovbts his patriotism—all men admit his amiable and generons nature; but the country now demands of him that amiubility shall give way to resolution, and that the malign influ- ences around him, which have brought upon the national cause ail its disasters and dicappoint- | ments, shall be discarded and turmed adrift. Nor will this suffice to restore the public Something more is demanded. Able men, commanding the confidence of the country, must take the places of the blundering fanatics and scheming politicians who distract the counsels of the Cabinet, and the places, too, of tife incompetent martinets of the War Office; and there must be no further dictation to the Exe- cutive by the abolition Marplots of the legis- | lative branch of the government. In @ word, the President is called upon to reconstruct the working elements of his administration upon the basis of an intelligent, consistent and prac- tical prosecution of the war; and in doing this he will regain the esteem and cheerful support of the people. As he stands this day, we earn- estly admonish him that, from his loss of this public confidenee, his administration and the | country are in danger. i Only look at our present situation. With a lavish generosity and enthusiasm never before exhibited by any people under the sun, the loyal people of the powerful North have met every requisition of their President in behalf of | the great work of stippressing this Southern re- , confidence in the administration. i hellion They have poured out their treastzes and their blood like water: until the record will show a sacrifice of two hundred thousand of their gallant Union volunteors and twelve hundred millions of money for their sacred cause. This devoted people, too, have .cheerfully submitted to war taxes, war prices, derangements of business, and all (he financial disorders of an exclusive paper currency; and for ail these sacrifices of eighteen months of this most dreadful war, what have we | goined? We have gained much, and yet we have gained nothing while a victorious rebel rebel armies of Jeff. Davis upon Washington, | NEW 1xORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ‘18, 1862. laws of the United States make the said minor a | army holds its ground within sixty miles of | Greetey asm Political Cheat and = Hy- Washington. 3 This. is the public judgment, and the over- ruling popuiar idea in the loyal North is the recessity for a new departure on the part of President Lincoln, beginning with the unsound timbers of his Cabinet. Time is precious The drain upon the country of nearly three millions of dollars a day admits of no further trifling. With the land and naval forces which he now commands, President Lincoln may put down this rebellion within three months. Old Hickory, in his place, would have done it in sixty days. Lef Mr. Lincoln put on the mantle of Old Hickory, “assume the responsi- bility,” strike out boldly for the confideace of the people, and all will soon be right and bright again. Otherwise the country will become more and more involved in danger, untll the great cause of the Union and of popular rights and free institutions may be lost in endless divisions and universal anarchy. The loyal States have given him the means, and they look to President Lincoln to save the life of the}: nation. The Blocdthirsty Atrocity of the Radi- cals. That infamous radical organ, the New York. Tribune, says that “We have by telegraph the gratifying announcement that General Burn- side has regained his old position on this side of the Rappahannock,” and adds that “in this last movement against the rebels we see much cause for public satisfaction.” Is it of a great victory, gloriously won by the national arms, that the radical editor of the Tribune writes? Is it over a triumph of the Union forces, which has made rebellion stagger to its death, that the radical organ rejoices? For the credit of human nature one would fain bolieve so. But, alas! no self-deception could conceal the truth. The “gratifying announce- ment” which the Tribune had to make yester- day morning was the announcement of the most overwhelming Union defeat of the war. The “movement against the rebels,” over which the radicals tauntingly exult, was the retreat of our army across the Rappahannock. The news in ‘which the abolitionists “see much cause for public satisfaction” is the slaughter of ten or twelve thousand Union soldiers by the insane command of the radicals of the War Depart- ment. We hold the Tribune editor and his fellow conspirators among the radicals responsible be- fore God and the country for the disastrous issue of the Fredericksburg battles. They and their instruments in the War Department led our gallant army into the trap which the rebels had set for it, and caused the wanton and de- liberate butchery of our brave soldiers. The radicals of the War Department practically superseded General Burnside, as they had effeo- tually superseded General ‘McClellan, in the command of the Asmy of the Potomac. All that Burnside could do was to remain with the army and try to save it from utter annihilation. This he has fortunately accomplished, and for this he deserves the credit. Upon the radicals of the War Department and their colleagues falls the whole crushing weight of the failure. If the army was delayed before Fredericksburg, either by the want of supplies or the non- arrival of the pontoon trains, the radicals are responsible; for it was the duty of the War De partment to have the sapplies ready and the pontoon trains on the bank of the river, so that the army might immediately cross. When several weeks had passed, and the rebels had made a Gibraltar of the low hills back of Fredericksburg, then came the impera- tive command from the radicals of the War Department to General Burnside to cross the river and begin the battle. In vain did all Burnside’s officers disapprove the move- ment. Imvain did soldiers and civilians slike agree that to drive out the rebels by assault was an impossibility. The War Department overruled all objections, and ordered this im- possibility to be attempted. The result was the slaughter of thousands of our bravest sol. diers; and of this outrageous massacre we pro- nounce the radicals guilty. The people will remember the excitement which followed the rout at Manassas ; but Ma. nassas was innocent and bloodless compared to the magnitude and the cool atrocity of this slaughter at Fredericksburg. The gory ghosts which rose from the plains of Manassas to appall the Tribune editor into a brain fever, and wring from his quivering lips a trembling confession of his criminality, were meek and placable in comparison with the terrible, maimed and bleeding phantoms which must now surround these radical wretches, who exult like ghouls over the mangled corpses of the fallen. The idea of representing the disaster at Fredericks- burg as “a cause for public satisfaction” is worthy of a fiend. To the radicals, however, we have no doubt that the news of our repulse was “a@ gratifying announcement.” To them the battle was but the destruction of a few thousand conservatives, or a new sacrifice to the manes of John Brown, their martyred representative. It is the policy of the radicals to rejoice over national misfortunes. Their victories are the defeats of the nation. Their life is the death of the coun- try. From the very beginning of this war, which was caused by their agitations and de~ veloped by their intrigues, the radicals have, in every possible way, aided the rebellion. Their object and that of the rebels is identical. The dissolution of the Union and the establish- ment of an abolitionized Northern republic are as much the end of the radicals’ ambition as is the establishment of Southern confederacy the dream of the foul traitors who support Jeff. Davis. The rebels aim their cannon at our people, and the radicals march loyal men in front of those cannon and hold them there to receive the fatal discharge. The waste of loyal life and blood and treasure through radical means since this war began is sickening to re- member. If there be a just God, this culmi- nating.crime at Fredericksburg cannot long re- main nnavenged. Never before were the Ameri- can people so thoroughly roused and intensely moved. Never did the very name of a radical so stink in the nostrils of the nationg The soil of this country, which they have too long pol- luted, ought to scorch the feet of these miscreants as they walk. The pious exeerations of the countrymengf our murdered soldiers should follow these radical butchers and hiss them out of the land. Unworthy of the name of Americans or of men, these bloodthirsty and ferocious abo- litionists should be branded with imperishable infamy, expelled from all eivilized communities in this world, and assigned to the company of Judas Iscariot aud Benedict Arnold in the noxt. Pocrite. That insane desire for notoriety which bas | Sfflicted poor Greeley alt his life has again | brought him into a contest with that veteran Political pugilist, Thurlow Weed. The very natural consequence is that poor Greeley, who | has neither pluck nor science, is being polished | off in a manner most edifying to all bebolders: ; A. Oakey Hall, our shrewd District Attorney, takes a hand in at the melee, as is his duiy; for poor Greeley isa wretched old criminal, and every district attorney and good citizen is | bound to do his utmost to drag the Tribune drab to justice. Between these two ailversa- ries this remarkable philosopher—who attacks ju bery in his paper and practises it in person, and who eats no meat at dinner, but sups his full of bloody horrors whenever he can inveigle our troops into a rebel trap—is getting the H worst of it severely. Stripping the lion’s skin off of the ass is nothing to the cruel operation which Messrs, Weed and Hall are now perform- ing. They are delicately flaying poor Grecley alive, and then politely whipping him before the world with the stinging nottles of his own | coarse words. H Messrs. Weed and Hall know poor Greoley | ‘better than any other two men on earth. Thur- low Weed teok Greeley when the rascal had not two pair of breeches to his legs, and gave | him a clean shirt, a good dinner and a new pair \ of boots. At that time Greciey did seem to : have some gratitude; for he remained with Weed and worked for him pretty steadily, | though not to any purpose. At length, how- H ever, ambition got the upper hand of prudence and choked gratitude ; and so Greeley wrote Weed and Seward a sniveiling letter, compluii ing that he couldn’t have all the offices he i wanted, and then started out into the worid to | abuse his beneiactor and seek his fortune. A { nice mess he has made of it altogether. Poor | Greeley has descended from staye to stage of | vice and degradation. All sorts of gift enter prises and lotteries, and such works of wicked- ness, are as familiar to Greeley as the nose on his face. The corruptions of lobbying are his chosen element, and he wallows in it like a pig in the mire. During some of these nefarious transactions, over which we kindly throw the veil of generalities, Greeley begged A. Oakey Hall to become his counsel. Asa lawyer is obliged to accept even the most contaminated clients, Mr. Hall consented. Where Thurlow Weed’s knowledge of Greeley leaves off, therefore, Mr, Hall’s knowledge be, gins. Between them they are able io give Tribune philosopher's character. Mr. Weed says that “the Tribune has been represented in the lobby at Albany for many years by an assistant editor, who is a brother- in-law of Mr. Greeley,” and who “is understood to have a finger in all the pies baked in the Al- bany lobby.” Greeley, conscience-stricken, straightway confesses that Mr. John F. Cleave- land is the man. “One or more assistant edi- tors,” continues Mr. Weed, “are understood to be equally diligent and successful in ‘gun con- tracts’ and other jobs in. Washington, while half @ dozen other assistant editors of the Tri- bune rejoice in foreign appointments.” To this charge poor Greeley says that he “cannot make room for # special reply.” We should think not. A list of those Tribune editors who have contracts and government jobs, and who now re- joice in foreign appointments, would be almost as long as the list of the killed and wounded | Officers of justice, to he deelt with according to i dressed us a. note upon the subject. This shows ! ation choose to demand; but that does not at all us@ very full and impartial estimate of the | Governor Seymour, after his inanguration om the Ist of the ensuing month, will issue a requi- sition demanding the surrender of Mr. Stanton to answer the charges against him. As the President bas sworn to obey the constitutions which requires the surrender of alleged crimi- nals, and as Mr. Lincoln is Governor of the Dis- trict of Columbia, he will, of course, feel bound by his oath to deliver up Mr. Stanton to th® law. » There is a good time coming. If there is no other way of geiting rid of so incompetent a Secretary of War this would be an excellent opportunity for the President; but we hope he will not wait so long. % Tue Parermakers’ Trovsies.—We publish in another column a very curious sortof a letter from Mr. H. V. Butier, the President of the Papermakers’ Association of this city. We give the epistle just as we received it, and have to add only a word or two of commentary. Mr. Butler’s remarks are divided under tw® heads: first, the correspondence in the case of Mr. M. L. Seymour; and, second, a philipic against the press. In regard to the first point» it appears that Mr. Seymour declined td become an officer of the association long before he ad- that Mr. Seymour is a very ceusible man, but does not explain why Mr. Seymour’s name was printed among the vice presidents in the pub- lished copies of the constitution of the associa- tion. In regard to the press, Mr. Butler says that our “accusations” were “unjust and false,’ and that “however you may writhe under” the exiravagant price of paper “ you must pay it.” Well, necessity knows no law, and perhaps we * must pay” anything the Papermakers’ Associ- alter the right and wrong of the matter. From | the recent rise in paper—far in advance of the rise in the materials of which paper is made— it is evident that the association is a monopoly, and the tone of Mr. Butler’s note tells the rest vi the story, As to the association’s continuing to exist and to perform “the duties for which it was institated’”’—that is, keeping up the price of paper—this all depends upon circumstances. The Hon. Mr. Colfax has already introduced a bill into Congress reducing the duty on foreign paper to the same percentage as the tax upom | domestic paper; and, if this bill shall be passed, | the price of paper may perhaps be kept up by | the association “in spite of the press,” but it | will be done without the patronage of the press. And ao we politely dismiss Mr. Butler and bis letter. Patter ‘Tus Hetaur or Lurcornce.—Onsé of the coolest pieccs of impudence we have ever witnessed is the proposition of Alderman Boole to remove the Commissioners of the Central Park—who have made the place what it is—and to put it under the dominion of Boole & Cog The only streets which are at all passable gust now are those which run through the Central Park. If the Central Park were turned over to the Com- mon Council it would become the theatre of the rowdies every Sunday, and « sort of pandemo- nium. It is now prohibited to the fast trotting | ‘ | horses. Let Boole & Co. get hold of it, and no | private carriage would be any longer safe. It would become « scone of filth and violence, and what is now an ornament and a blessing to the city would become a disgrace and a curse. Movements of the Pirate Alabama. The pirate Alabama was at Dominica November 28, soldiers sacrificed at Fredericksbywgg by the Tribune's intrigues. Mr. A. Oakey Hall, how- ever, steps briskly forward with his evidence upon this point. “I may state,” says Mr. Hall, “that, having been during several years coun. and there was a report at Guadaloupe that she had chased aschooner, and she (the schooner) hid run into Domi- nica for protection, The United States steamer San Jacinto had beon at Point Petre but @ few days previous- ly; but had sailed for St. Thomas. Captain Simmons, of the schooner J. W. Congdon, from _ sel for various persons desiring to advance or oppose legislative or contract interests, I found in every matter the direct influence of Mr. Greeley.” Heartbroken at this revelation, and too much overcome with grief to be particular about his language, Greeley exclaims:—True for you, Oakey.” For the purposes of extort- ing confessions, Mr. Hall’s style seems equal to the rack. But Mr. Weed puts in the finishing stroke. He says:— ‘ A member of Assembly from Wostchester county, promineut as shameiess in ali sorts of logis! other jobbing—himself a large Zribuns stocic the use of that journal, t gether with I. G.'s' for all the plunder schemes which his fertile genios &: Un one occasion when that judividusi desired « ‘go clothing contract, and applied to & meinber of the Military Board, urging as a reason in bis favor that Mr. Greeley desired it, he was informed that Mr.G. had no claim on him, having opposed his appointmeut as Naval Ofticer, “Wait a few minute id tho individual (Mr. Camp); “Twill make that ail right." And, groatly to the surprise of the member ot the Military Board, soon returned to the Astor House with letior Greeley to the Secretary of the Treasury, wi his recommendation of the Hon. Hir Benuett Oiticer, and urging the appointment of the enuemia who bad the power of dispensing army contracts. Mr. Baunett had earned Mr. Greviey’s recommendation for Navel uit cer by carrying the ( heuango deiegation in the Assembly for Nir. G. as United States Senator, Bat Me Cam wanted a contract, eanvelied the ediigation. Pg | short of ocular demonstr: would have convineed us that Mr. Greeley was capable of such stultification, We saw and read his jetter. This acts upon (Greeley like a dose of arsenic. He writhes and squirms and foams at the mouth with rage and fury. At first he madly de- nounces the story as “a villanous fulschood.” Then, recollecting that Weed holds him like a , fly pinned to the wall, and may possibly pro- duce the letter, Greeley sobbingly adds:—“We may have been induced to write that i’ Bennett could not have the office, or if his appointment was out of the question, we should be satis- fied with the appointment of another valued friend.” If—if—if! Poor Greeley. He con- fesses the truth of Weed’s charges and of Hall’s charges, and is branded by his Own hand as a political cheat, a lobby corruptionist and a» hypocrite. Poor Greeley! of the Court of Sessions have summoned before them a number of witnesses, to ap pear on the 19th inst., against Edwin M. Stan- and imprisonment of citizens ef this State, aad from all that we can learn it is highly probable indictments will be found against him. The Grand Jury, it is understood, found their action upon the charge of Recorder Hoffinan, who expounded the law by showing that the removal of any person from this Stave into any laws of either the Untted States or the State is in violation of the statute, and equally to vio late it is an arrest with a view to secret con finement in this State; nor will it constitute any legal detence to plead upon trial thet the ar rest, confivement or removal was by order of the President or any member of his Cabinet, or other officer of the government. This is un: doubtedly the law of the State, and is part of the constitution of the United States, aud the Secretary of War had hetter look out fan | indictment should be found against him, as there is every reason to believe there will be, | | Point Petre, Guadaloupe, states that the rebel steamer Alabama, or 290, sailed from Port Royal, Martinique, on the night of the 20th ultimo, after being blockaded three or four days by the United States steam frigate San Jaciuto, The San Jacinto was at Point Petre on the aud sailed for Gj. Thomas and olsgwhere tho same day, ia rearch of the Alabama. By letters received at Point Petre on the 29th ult, the Alabama was off Dominica om the 2hth again, and fired at the schooner Mary E. Morgan; but she escaped by getting new the shore. An Engilsh bark, loaded with coal and heavy guns, &c., loft Port Royafa day betore the Alatams. Destination unknown. General McClellan Not Gone to Wash- ington, The romors relative to the recall gf Gon. McClellan to Washington turn out to be not true, or at least premature. He js still at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, besieged by visitors, comprising the most distinguished men in the country. How the rumor originated it ia difficult to imagine, Not only was it suid he had teft the city, but it was aleo stated that a specia! train had been despatched for hit, and that e had safety arrived at the national capital, where he | bad several interviews with the Present. It was also as* serted that “Little Mac’? had returned to the command of the army only on the express condition that the present Heavy Forgery om the Banks of New- ark, N. Newang, N.J., Deo. 17, 1862. ‘A forgery of $8,000 on three banks of this city was, perpetrated to-day by means of forged certificates and | checks. Part payment was made in three one thourand dollar bills of the Mechagies’ Bank and five five hundred dollar bills of the Newark City Bank, which latter were numbered from one to ten. The forger ts aged about thirty-tive years, is of stout build. and about five foet in height. The banks offer $1,000 reward for the detection of the forgor. New Hampshire Congressional Nomtna- tion, Dover, N.H., Deo, 17, 1862. ‘The republicans of the Firet district in Convention to- day nominated Joe] Kastman, of Conway, for Congress. KECBIVED AT THE OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN TELE GRAPH COMPANY, 145 BROADWAY. Boston, Dev. 17, 8 A. M.—ihermomoter 38; wind north- west and tresh; weather clear. J 8, Dec. 17,9 A. M.—Thermometer 37; wing went; weather clear. Portland, Me., Dec. 17,9 A. M.—Thermometer 32; wind northwest; woather pleasant. Boston, Mase. 0. 17,9 A. M.—hermometer 36; wind west; weather clear, Springfield, Mass., Deo, 17,9 A. M.—Thermomoter $2; wind northwest; weather clear. hor clear. aatier olewr, with » & “A. M.—-Thocroommeter + weather fair, A. Mi—Thermometor 30; Dec. 17,8 A M.—Thermometer 14; baro other State or Territory to answer to any charge | td west jee fr of having committed an offence against the | wind strong eouthwest yer ay Sg 74. M.—Thermometer. 16.03; , Wind west, weather clear, i, 8 A. M.—-Phermoueter 28; wind y oariy thie morning: 00. 16,8 A. Mee Thorn meron i Tens , tert, wind souttweai; weather eiear, 6P momneler 38; barometer 29.50; slight furry of guew, but clearing 1 Tnioen Ht eo. 17,8 AM meter 20.00, weather veer and cov! | .--Thertgometer 2a, bare The ttuston Weekly Hank Statement. Be Tee. 16, 1862, Capital atuol.. ve. Lambe and duscbaate Hine from other bani: Due to other banks. ton, Secretary of War, for violation of the laws | ,{hladelphin, fits Bec. 11,0 A. M-aThermometor 82; | of New York in the arbitrary and illegal arrest | Washington, Dec. 17,9 A. M.--Thermometer 80;