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NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1863. the Yazoo river were fired upon by # rebel battery about twenty miles up, and that the Benton wa struck sixteen times. The rebel guerillag have had two severe checks in Kentucky and Tennessee within a few days. They were badly whipped at Elk Forks, Tenn., by Major Foley, of the Kentucky cavalry, losing thirty men killed, seventeen wounded, and over fifty captured, with all their equipage. Major Stevens, with a portion of the Fourteenth Kentucky ca- valry, came upon a large body of the enemy in the eastern part of Powell county, Ky., on the 26th, and drove them in confusion into the woods and mountain gorges. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The United States steam transport 8. R. Spaulding arrived at this port yesterday from New Orieans, bringing as passengers Major General Butler and staff. Mrs. Butler also accompanied her husband. We give the latest news from the Crescent City in the letters of our correspondents, and the eloquent and spirited valedictory of the late Commander-in-Chief of the Department of the Gulf. A correspondent of the Chicago Times says that Governor Robinson, of Kentucky, issued a circular letter to the members of the Legislature, asking for their views on the President’s emanci- pation proclamation, and the answers received in dicate that fully two-thirds are in favor of taking the State out of the Union if the proclamation is enforced. The Legislature will meet on Monday, and itis said that Governor Robinson’s Message will urge a separation. The correspondent says the State militia will go with the South, and that Humphrey Marshall has stationed himself at Mount Sterling to receive them. The rebel banks in Virginia had together less than seven hundred thousand dollars in specie on the 12th of December. This was the basis of a circulation of over three and a half millions. The rumor that Major General Butler is to have an important command is believed in Washington to be true. The Chicago Times (copperhead) ‘justifies Jeff. Davis’ retaliatory proclamation. The Banks Expedition Investigating Committee have concluded their labors ip this city and re- turned to Washington, to prepare their report in time for the meeting of the Senute on Monday next. At an adjourned meetirg of the Board of Coun- BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—; ‘Tne. NkL Keo GNoMe—Cart, Ky i OREaa On saee cilmen yesterday morning a resolution was offer- ed requesting the Mayor to memorialize the State GERMAN OPERA HOUSE. Brondway.—Jean ve Panis | Legislature to increase the salaries of the incom- | ing members of the Common Council to $2,000 per ; annum, An amendment was offered to make the | sum $5,000, and after some discussion the matter BAKNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEU. BACH 6 PRUFORSING BkARS--UIANT OkWess OF FRANEFORT—l'my aud . Broadway.—Daies. RL, &C., at ali hours, WH BRYANTS* MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 673 Broad. ay Bamioriam voce. Buxtesauas, Danogs, &0.—Faust b Maka: site, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway. —Bermorean a3, Dances, &C.—Dinokan. BUCKLEY S MINSTREL: lace of Music, Fourteenth strowt.—Erarorian SonGs, Daxcks, &0.—Lucretia Bomcia. BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Living Witp ANIMALS. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL. Mo. 444 Lats, Panromimus, Bumtxsquxs, &c. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— + “Open daily trom 10 A. M. till 10 P.M HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraiortan Sonos, Dances, BURLESQURS ac Brondway.— Bau BROOKLYN ARENA, Raymond strect.—Aczomatic nD Baue-reias i weroRmanc! urday, January 3, 1863. LHE SITUATION. The President has issued his confirmatory eman- cipstion proclamation, declaring all the slaves frow hencforth and forever ia-the disloyal States | ovens. and certain parts of States still in rebellion. The total number of slaves declared free by this docu- ment is 3,119,397, and those still held in bondage by reason of the loyalty of their masters number 830,000. The new State of Western Virginia has | tled finally; but the troubles of the Sixteenth ward been formally recognized by the President, and is: therefore, exempt from the anathema of the pro- clamation. General Butler arrived here yesterday from New Orleans. Before leaving the latter place an address to the citizens, in which he very for. cibly enumerates ail the advantages which accrued to the city and its population during his command. The points are somewhat similar to those embo died in hia farewell address to the army, already published. General Rosecrans has been making a brilliant movement in the vicinity of Murfreesboro, Teun. He fought a terrific battle on Wednesday and Thursday, in which both sides lost heavily. Three of our Generals—Patmer, Stanley and Rousseau— were wounded, together with many field officers, and Majors Ward and Kosengurlen were killed. The rebels are said to have iost Generals Cheatham and Rains. the enomy's line was broken at two o'clock on Wodnesday afternoon, and their troops were driven back a mile, General Rosecrans superin- tended the battle in person, and had two members ef his staff killed. A despatch from General Boyle yesterday states that General Roseerans then occupied Murfreesboro. A telegram received lato last night says that the battle was re mewed again yesterday. The fight of Wednesday was resumed, on Thursday, and the enemy were drivon clear out of Murfreesboro and the place eccupied by our troops. The loss on our side is put down at 2,500; that of the enemy is still greater. Several prisoners were captured. The re, eult of yesterday's conflict has not yet reached us. We give = map of the locality of this battle te-day, together with sketches of the promincot Officers engaged. There is nothing new from the Army of the Reppahanoock. It was stated that General Stuart. with his rebel cavalry, had got safely back across the river, near Warrenton, It was said that General Averil) parsue? im. General Burnside retarned to his command yesterday morning after 8 visit to Washington, and was immediately called upon by the chiefs of his divisions. Severaj negroes came into the camp yesterday, and were received in accordance with the President’, emancipation Proclamation. Further particulars of the movements of the rebel guerilia Morgan in Kentucky have reached us and arc published to-day. His defeat at Roll- ing Fork appears to be complete. He was com pelled to fly precipitately, leaving his ammunition and provisions behind him. On reaching the neigh. borhood of Lebanon he was attacked by the Twelfth Kontucky regiment of infantry, and severely han- died, At last accounts he was making towards Columbia as rapidly as possible, while the Union troops, under General Reynolds, were hastening from Glasgow, hoping to intercept him in the vici- nity of Greensburg. Despatches from Osiro state that the gunboats of General Sherman's expedition whieh went uv The centre of he issued | aut yesterday, Rallway stocks advanced from 34 to2 was referred to the Committee on Donations and Charities. A resolution of concurrence was una- nimously adopted to donate the sum of $1,500 to the Woman’s Prison Association. The majority report of the Committee on Railroads directing the Corporation Counsel to proceed against the Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, to recover the legal penalties for running several cars without license, was taken up and adopted.” A resolution to appropriate the sum of $1,000 to procure a por- trait of Gen. McClellan was lost for want of @ constitutional vote. It was afterwards reconaider- edand laid over. The Board then adjourned until ten o'clock this morning. On Thursday night, between eight and nine o’clock, another cracker bakery was destroyed by fire, at No. 73 Fulton street, carrying with it five other buildings, involving a loss of upwards of $150,000, the greater part of which is covered by insurance. This makes the third bakery destroy- ed by fire within a month employed for the baking of bread under government contract. It is sup- d the fires were caused by over heating the The new General Committee for 1863 of Tam. many Hall, held an exciting session last evening in the old wigwam. There were contested dele” gations for three wards—the Fifth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth. ‘The Fifth and Nineteenth were sct- delegations were referred to a special committee. The following permanent officers were elected:— William M. Tweed, Chairman, and Messrs. Hardy and Rollins, secretaries. ‘The stock and gold markets were very active and buoy- per cent all round, and were in demand up to the close. State securities were miso higher, Missouris rose 7 per cent on the emancipation project, Gord advanced to 135, closing at 134% bid. Exchange rose to 1470148. ‘The | money market was easy a6 a 6 per cent. Couton was purchased yesterday to the extent of 1,200 bales, the market closing buoyant at 68c. for middling. | Flour advanced Sc. a 10¢., wheat and corn 1c, with an improved inquiry for each. Provisions were in fair de. maud, especially bacon and lard; prices were steady. | Groceries were quiet, us were also hemp, fish, fruit, hides, j leather, metais, oils, seeds, spices, tobacco, wool and na. ores, There was a fair business transacted in hay and bop Whiskey was a trifle bighor, | but not goods trade was more aninat- ed. Freights were n wetive, ‘The Kmancipation Prociamation—The Lust Card of the Abolition Programme. The confirmatory emancipation proclamation t of President Lincoln 1 before our readers. It i declares ull the slave population now, hence- forward ‘and forever free” in the following named States and parts of States, te wit:— Stat Number of Staves. . 1,104 oer, Missionti North sow Cine 7 jaua (parishes hotd by ) Total slaves declared free... The States and parts of States recognizing slavery exempted from the proclamation, or in which tho slaves are to remain slaves, are:— ‘Total slaves excluded from freedom... In reund numbers we may say that the slaves | deciured free by the proclamation are three millious, while those continued in bondage are | - 830,006 amillion. Itisa curious fact, too, that while with u few exceptions, President Lincoln con- tinnes Bubject to slavery those parts of the rebellious States wherein his decree can be enforced, he emancipates the slaves in those States and districts which are at present beyond bis reach. Thus,excepting a few hundred slaves, ‘the United States, are excluded from this Prociamation; but then the question recurs, What possible good can be expected from this thing, even as a war measure? The oracles of the abolition faction tell us that it will speedily end the war; that it will array three millions of slaves of the rebellious States, covered by the proclamation, on the side of the Union, in the cause of their personal freedom; that it will strike off the right arm of the rebelljon, and lay the monster a helpless suppliant at our feet, and that all other expedients will be futile. These are the inducements by which President Lincoln has been persuaded to issue this pro- Jacobins, and the last step, we fear, which determines the success or failure of this admin- istration, with the chances heavily against its success, We consider this pronunciamiento unneces- sary, unwise and ill-timed, impracticable, out- side of the constitution and full of mischief. Its first effects will be more thoroughly to unite and exasperate the whites of the South in their resistance to the government of the Union than they have ever been united heretofore, and to establish over their slaves a more rigid surveil- lance and discipline than ever heretofore exer- cised over them. No signs of disaffection among them will be permitted beyond the lines of our armies; or should they, hap-hazard, break out into revolts and massacres, after the fashion of Nat. Turner, in his Southampton slaughter, the desired plea will be furnished for armed European intervention to put an end to what then may be properly called this inhuman war. President Lincoln evidently has some misgivings upon this point, or he would not enjoin the slaves concerned to “abstain from all violence unless in necessary self- defence.” He seems to realize the danger that in sowing the wind he may reap the whirl wind. But let us hope that this proclamation will prove nothing worse than a nullity and a harm- less tub to the abolition whale. It will assuredly do no good as a war mea. sure while our fleets and armies are held at bay around the edges of the rebellion. President Lincoln may issue a new emancipation procla- mation every day in the week through the winter, but unless, in the meantime, we shall have expelled Jeff. Davis and his government from Virginia all these emancipation decrees will be in truth as ridiculous as the Pope’s “bull against the comet.” With an army of eight hundred thousand men in the field, and a navy of nearly five hundred vessels, operating agains’ this rebellion, there is no earthly necessity for emancipation decrees of any sort. With any- thing except very bad management the land and naval forces under President Lincoln’s supreme command are sufficient to put an end to this rebellion in ninety days. Under very . good management the work could be done in sixty days. Nor will the public mind of the loyal States be diverted from the-actual busi- ness of the war by emancipation edicts. On, the contrary, there is a predominant public opinion in the North which regards these ex- treme abolition measures as dangerous fire. brands, which may destroy the Union beyond remedy instead of saving it; and this predomi_ nant public opinion can be satisfied only with @ successful prosecution of the war, not for negro emancipation, but for the restoration of the Union and the constitution in their integrity. First Move: Removal of the Police Commissioners. The first official act of Governor Seymour after his inauguration will probably be one of high importance to this State and to the whole country. It will be likely to inaugurate a new era, in which the outraged constitution will be vindicated, and that sacred instrument elevated to its proper position, where the founders of the government placed it, high above all executive or legislative authority, whether in peace or in war. Henceforth we expect that the rights and liberties of the citi- will be respected, and that the laws of the land will be held paramount to all arbitrary edicts issued from Washington or elsewhere. The guarantee of this is the prompt action which Governor Seymour will undoubtedly take in the case of the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, against whom charges have been made and copies thereof served upon each of them, with a notification to appear at Albany this day to answer the complaint, In another page we publish the charges, which may be bricfly summed up as follows :— First—That they permitted the police to make arbitrary arrests of citizens, not only without the authority of law, but in palpable violation of the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State of New Yerk. Second.—That they permitted the prisons of the Metropolitan District of Police to be used for improper purposes—to wit, the illegal incar- ceration of persons against whom no charges were preferred, and who had committed no offence known to the laws. The case of Mrs, Brinsmade is an example. Third.—That after an investigation of the conduct of Superintendent Kennedy in detaining Mrs. Brinsmade for several weeks in duress without warrant or authority of law, the Com- missioners reprimanded him, but yet sustained his course, whereas the facts were sufficient to justify his removal from the service. Fourth.—That they caused or permitted Jehn | A. Kennedy to issue an order to the police pre- vious to the State election om the 4th of No. vember last, which order was published for the purpose of intimidating voters by threatening their arrest at the polls, and their detention at | the station houses “subject to the orders of the | Secretary of War,” thus interfering with the | freedom of suffrage and holding in terrorem over the heads of the voters the vengeance of a | federal official at Washington who had neither | authority nor right to meddle with elections in | this State, or in any other. here aud there within the lines of our armies, not excluded by the proclamation, it is practi. cally a dead letter, and for the present, at least, amounts to nothing as @ measure of emancipa. tiom, The advocates of “human rights” upon | the basis of negro equality! will be sorely puzzled to comprehend the humanity, justice or consistency of these remarkable discriminations of Mr. Lincoln in favor of slavery where he may practically proclaim freedom, and in favor of liberty where be has no power to enforce it ; but it must be remembered that this edict is a war measure, and that negro philanthropy has nothing to do with it. Considered, them, as a war measure, we can understand why the loyal slave States, and the slave States, or parts thereof, There can be no doubt as to the course Gov, | Seymour will pursue in this case. He has the | power to remove the Commissioners for cause, j and there could not by any possibility be a stronger cause than wilful and deliberate viola. tion of the constitution and laws, which it is the duty of the Police Commissioners to support: | There is no dispute about the facts. They must | be admitted, for they are placed on record by the commissionere themselves. Governor Sey. | mour is constituted the sole judge of the suffi- | ciency of the cause of removal, and from his decision there is no appeal. What his decision will be cannot be doubtful. But we trust that he will act promptly, and this very day remove from the trust which they have abused the unfaithful guardians of the freedom of the testored to the supreme authority of people. clamation, It is the last card of the abolition | The State of New York is the most loyal in the Union, and it was a highhanded outrage upon its citizens to inaugurate among them a system of despotism meaner and viler than ever prevailed in Naples or Austria. The course pursued by Governor Seymour would seem to indicate a difference of opinion be- tween him and our patriotic, honest President as to the vigorous prosecution of the war. But nothing can be further from the truth, Mr. Seymour is prepared to give the administration his most cordial support in all that is legitimate to put down this atrocious rebellign If this were not the case we wild be the first to oppose bjp with all our might. But Mr. §eymour believes in the constitution fs the polar star to guide us through this dark revolution, and without which we would be all at sea without a com. pass, chart or rudder, sun, moon or stars; and he will never permit the undoubted rights of free white citizens to be trodden under foot that the fancied interests of blacks or the visionary schemes of fanatics may be pro- moted. Let those members of the administra- tion who have done their worst to lead Mr. Lincoln astray now weep for their crimes and repent in sackcloth and ashes. Even repentance cannot save them if it be too late. Let them render speedy atonément by making a clean breast and reforming their ways; otherwise they are doomed men. This movement of Governor Seymour is auspicious for liberty, and it will not be safe for despots at Washington to trifle with the popular will in this great Empire State as indicated by the zen secured by the great American charter | silent but expressive ballot box in the election of Seymour, and as further developed by bis inaugural and his action in the case of the Com- missioners of Police. The constitution must and shall be preserved. New Political Mischief Ma. ‘s. It is a curious paradox that there are radicals even in the conservative party. This party has gained its present great ascendency and is ra- pidly acquiring increased power and influence in the country simply because it is conservative in its principles and purposes, and is thus dis- tinguished from the radical, destructive or ne- gto-worshipping party. Yet, it seems there are men too blind to perceive this fact, and so mis- taken as to imagine that because the people are disgusted with the one extreme, they are, there. fore, willing to rush impetuously to the other, It is very certain, however, that these counter- revolutionists, or conservative radicals, mean just as much harm, and may do just as much harm as the abolition radicals themselves. They have not, do not deserve, and will not receive, the confidence and support of the loyal people, who have not the slightest intention of allowing | the gcvernment to be destroyed by extremists of uny party, sect or faction whatever. These counter-revolutionists -have formed a sort of club, or society, in this city, and their proceedings, though not lively, are extremely ridiculous. They appoint each other officers of this club, and have a president, who presides over nothing worth mentioning, a secretary, who reports nothing worth recording, and a treasurer, who has charge of an empty cash box. At certain periods they eelect one of their number to deliver an address to them, and these addresses are as full of fire, froth and fury as a miniature volcano at a cheap show in the Bowery. The speech of the Hon. James Brooks, delivered a few evenings ago, is a fair sample of these orations. It is quite as radical, in its way, as any speech of Garrison, Greeley, Beecher or Wendell Phillips. It reserves its strongest denunciations for what these radicals call the “ despotism,” “ usurpation” and “ ty- ranny” of President Lincoln, and gives the despotism, usurpation and tyranny of Jeff. Davis only a passing notice. It winds up with a set of peace resolutions which are quite as inapropos at this crisis as the most radical measure of the most insane negro-worshipper. The people can no more endorse such nonsensical sentiment® and resolutions than they can the more sangui_ nary, but not less mischievous, utterances of the abolition leaders. To steer clear of Scylla only to wreck the ship of state upon Charybdis, or to beat back the abolition pirates only to permit the vessel to be burned by mutineers, is by no means the intention of the conserva- tive party. Conservatism is but another word for necessary moderation, and is not synony~ mous with destruction. The World and the Express seem to be the organs of this counter-revolutionary club, and it is difficult to say which is the more crazed and the more silly. The World is weaker, but the Express shows its insanity better, because of its peculiarity of sprinkling its articles upon the paper out of a pepper cruet, so that the first paragraph is found upon the fourth page, the second upon the first page, and the third somewhere among the borrowed news of the last editien. But both Express aud World aptly represent the foolish twaddle of this club, whose members are always boasting of their correspondence with the enemy, and producing all sorts of impossible peace propositions from anonymous rebels down South. Indeed, it is the object of these counter-revolutionists to get up such @ reputation as peace brokers that whenever and however peace does come at last the people may be humbugged into be- lieving that it came from their shop, and that they are the original Jacebs in that line of business. Men who have just been elected to Congress, or who are laying pipe for the next Congressional election; men who want to be Senators; men who desire this office, or that office, or the other office, compose the member- ship of the club, assisted by a few unhappy individuals who have passed part of the last year behind stone walls, and imagine them- selves martyrs to liberty, and afew unfortu- nate persons who have worked themselves into a fever of revolutionary excitement, and who, having never seen @ fight or heard a pistol shot, think themselves capable of defending a barricade, and dream of emeutes when they should be soaking their heads in cold water and measuring themselves for straight waist- coats, The office seekers see in the triumphs of the conservative party new chance for place and pelf. The imaginary martyrs to liberty and the ambitious heroes of visionary barricades misunderstand the peaceable revolu- tion in public sentiment which has recreated the conservative party, and behold only an op. portunity for a revolution against the govern- ment. Both elasses, therefore, try to push themselves into notice as the representatives | the recommendation the slaves in the pens of and leaders of the popular party in order to gain the credit and the profit of all that the party may accomplish. This is the scum re- presenting itself as the pure substance—the camp followers pretending to be the army—the unauthorized, irresponsible, bandit-like guerilla assuming the authority of the Commander-in- Chief. These crack-brained sumphs are the hangers-on of the conservative party—not its leaders or its representatives. For what they say or do the party is in no sense responsible Let the people steadfastly bold to the “golden mean,” discountenancing equally the radical destructives of the abolition party and these radical revolutionists who falsely call them- selves conservatives. Arrival of General Butler fiom New Orleans. Among the many officers in the service of the United States government but few have more efficiently filled the requirements of their position than General Butler, who so recently returned from New Orleans. We are not inclined to find such indiscriminate fault with the General’s actions during his government of that city as are the copperbeads of the Rorth, or the bitter enemies of the Union abroad. General Butler, when be assumed the govern- ment of New Orleans, found it a pandemonium. The citizens were bowed under the yoke of a gang of miscreants, who, in the name of the Southern Confederacy, robbed and murdered at will. The audacity of these ruffians had reached such an extent, that the citizens were forced to call to their protection a foreign legion; while, to add to the horrors of their unfortunate position, they were in dread of a servile insur- rection. The poorer classes were starving: General Butler put an immediate end to the misdeeds of the robbers and murderers. He re- established law and order. He caused the poor to be fed, and taxed the wealthy rebels in order to provide forthe wants of the lower classes, judging wisely that it was proper he should aid the latter at the expense of the for. mer. He kept the city clean and healthy, and thus avoided the horrors of the epidemic—yel_ low fever. He added to New Orleans vast possessions in the shape of new land from the batture of the Mississippi river. He opened roads to unoccupied lands and improved the streets and squares in the city. He repressed the insolence of the disaffected with great firm- ness and success, if not with smooth, oily, polite” ness, and suppressed all attempts at servile insurrection. In fact, he proved himself equal to the demands of his post, and therein he is entitled to consideration, so few in the service of our government having done the same. The secession journals in the South and in Europe have vied with each other in heaping abuse upon General Butler. His firm and consistent policy they have constantly misrepresented and reviled. They styled the General’s govern. ment as despotic to a degree, and made him out @ very ogre, ready to devour the wives and children of the rebels. In fact, upon him they centered all their lies and scandal. The pre“ sent condition of the city of New Orleans is General Butler's best answer to the abuse which has been heaped upon him at home and abroad. We do not claim for General Butler all the suavity and polite manner of those French officers who smoked the poor Bedonins' to death in their mountain caves, nor yet the case and grace of manner of those aristocratic Eng- lish officers who seized upon the Sepoy bearers of a flag of truce and blew them from the mouths of huge cannons. These deeds were performed in a gentlemanly manner. There was observable upon those occasions none of that brusquerie which the French and English journals find so abhorrent in Butler. He did not, it is true, save in one instance, take life. But, then, the prominent rebels whom he seized and sent to prison with chains upon their limbs were not treated in a deferentia| manner. The whole of these proceedings were, according to the European press, rude, impolite and highly reprehensible. Had General Butler have taken these persons with all due observance of the polite requirements of so- ciety, and with the proper expressions of con- dolence strangled them in some out of the way corner, or drowned them in the Mississippi, not forgetting the while to be suave and decorous all might have been well, and Europe content: but, then, to take gentlemanly or ladylike rebels and shut them up in a prison, and all in a coarse and unfeeling manner, was too much for the tender suceptibilities of the press of London and Paris. They were shocked, were grieved, bethought them of Nero and Caligula, wrote articles condemning in fiery terms all tyrants, and ending with lamentations over the fate of New Orleans. General Butler’s name became with them synonymous with a!l that is hateful aud annoying; and day after day, and month after month, they poured out their ab. surd and hypocritical abuso upon him. The General has been recalled by the ad- ministration, no doubt for the purpose of making a good use elsewhere of his undoubted abilities, and because (thanks to his exertions) New Orleans has attained a degree of order and prosperity which will allow of a milder rule than Butler's for the future. We com- mend to the attention of our readers the pro. clamation he issued to the citizens of New Orleans upon his departure from that city. The document—to be found in another column—is an able review of the General's government of New Orleans, and is fairly borne out by facts: Whatever may be said against General Butler's administration, none can doubt that he bas made great and wholesome changes in the city, and that when he took possession all was anarehy and confusion. New Orleans is now one ef the best regulated cities in the United States. To General Butler the credit is un- doubtedly dus. Tas Seniovs PowrTs or tHe Presipent’s Prociamation.—Most people have heard the story of the Irish student who, witnessing from his rooms in old Trinity a proctor being ducked in one of the college tanks, cried out with the gravest air imaginable, “ Boys, don’t nail his ears to the pump.” Of the same solemn charac- ter is the injunction of Mr. Lincoln to the nig- ger in his last proclamation, “I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to ab- stain from all violence, unless in necessary self- defence.” Were not the proclamation to be viewed merely in the light of “a Pope’s bull against the comet,” the recommendation would be as cruelly suggestive as that of the Irish wag, In the same sentence, and in the same view, we have another piece of advice to the prospective freedmen of the proclamation: “And I reeom- mend to them that in all cases when allowed they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.’ It is a pity that the President did not include in the King of Dahomey. Its extension to them would be equally effective and to the purpose, Tax Orty Paxsewranon Te rae TwRTy sever New Yorx Vouvnresns.—The presentation of colors by the city to the Thirty.Seventh New York Volunteers, an nounced for yesterday eveming, has been postponed (ill noxt Tuesday evening. IMPORTANT. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. EMANCIPATION. All Slaves in all States and Sections in Rebellion Declared Free, &o., &e., &e. By tho President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of Sep tember, in the year of our Lord one thonsand eight hundred and sixty-two, s proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the fol- lowing, to wit:— “That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence- forth and forever free, and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will re cognize and maintain the freedom of such per- sons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any effort they may moke for their actual freedom.” “That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, d the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people therein respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United Stutes; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualéied vo- ters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the Enited States.” Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi- dent of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief ot the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the au- thority and government of the United States, and as a fit-and necessary war measure for sup- pressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accord- ‘nce with my purpose so to do publicly pro- claimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day of the first above mentioned order, and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit:— Arkansas. Texas. Louisiana—except the parishes of St. Ber- nard, Placquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St, Martin and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans. Mississippi. Alabama. Florida. Georgia. South Carolina. North Carolina and Virginia—except the forty-eight counties, designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ano and Nor- folk, including the cities of Nor- folk and Portsmouth, and which excepted purts are, for the pre- sent, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And, by virtue of the power and for the pur- poe aforesaid, 1 do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the executive govern- ment of the United States, including the mili- tary and naval authorities thereof, will recog’ nize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so de- clared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recom- mend to them that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition, will be re- ceived into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts im said service. And upon this, sincerely believed to be am act of justice, warranted by the constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the conside- rate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof I have hereinto set my hand aud caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand ‘cht bundred and sixty-three, and of the inc dence of the United States o America‘ ighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wittum H. Sewarp. Secretary of State. The Proclamation in Boston. Boston, Jan. 2, 1863. ‘Me President's emancipation proclamation was read im Tremont Temple last night, where @ meeting of the Union Progressive Association, composed of col-red citi se, was being held. The document was welcomed with um- Dounded enthusiasm, Previous to the reading of the pro- clamation the meeting had been addressed by the Rev. Dr. Kirk, Wm. Weile Brown, Fred. Douglas, Rev, James Freeman Clark and others. The Temple was crowded day | and evening. At Music Hall there was also a jubilee com- imemoration of the proclamation. ‘The Bermuda matl has arrived. Admiral Milne’s squadron had not returned from Nes sau ‘The ships Herald, Leopoid and Kate had rum the block- ade into Charleston. Atrived om the 37th, in distress, brig ———, from Mow ‘York for Cork.