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YORK HERALD, SUND4 la capturing six pieces of artillery and @ large bem. ber of ‘prisoners, arms and horses. Two promi- nent rebel officers, Colonels De Shay and Napie-,’ are reported killed. General Van Dorn is repulsed at all points except Holly Springs, according to the statement of General Grant, General Blunt's official account of the late vic- tory at Van Buren, Arkansas, is published to-~iay. It details somewhat minutely the facts we have | already laid before the public. Rebel newspapers captured at Van Buren, Ar- kansas, admit that the loss of the rebels in killed and wounded at the battle of Prairie Grove was over4,000. The entire telegraphic correspondence | of General Hindman was taken. The loss of rebel citizens by the recent rebel raid amounts to over half a million of dollars. The rebels are dispers- | ing in every direction. It is reported that the rebels have met with heavy losses at Arkadelphia, fifty-five miles southwest of Little Rock. We regret to announce a serious disaster to our iron-clad navy in the loss of the Monitor, which foundered at sea, off Cape Hatteras, on Tuesday night, while on her voyage south. wards from Fortress Monroe, which place she left on the 28th ult. Unfortunately two officers and twelve men went down with her. An officer and eight men of the steamer Rhode Island are also missing, probably lost in an attempt to succor the Monitor's crew, but the particulars have not reached us. Us NEWS. We publish to-day ihe letters of our Paneme correspondents detailing the occurrences in Cen- traland South” Ainerica. ‘The murder of General Arboleda was exciting trouble among the partisans of Mosquera and of the deceased, and one hot- headed Frenchinan had already fallen by the retaliatory sword of a Spainard. Guatemala seems to be on the point of war with some of the other republics, The news from the other States is of IBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Faust anv Marcurnirs WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Paviixa. 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NOTICE TO PAPER MANUFACTURERS. ‘Twenty thousand reams of good paper wanted. Sizo 82x46. Apply at the Hxratp office. THE SITUATION. We have stirring news to-day from the South- west. The deaperate fight at Murfreesboro, which lasted throughout Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day, was renewed yesterday. It is undoubtedly true that the loss was very heavy, for the fighting was terrific. The loss of officers on both sides indicates this. The bravery of our troops ‘was unparalleled, the most conspicuous in the front of battle being General Rosecrans him- self, who was constantly exposed to danger, and conducted himself fearlessly amid the carnage» rallying his men and giving orders with firmness and calmness while his staff were shot down beside him. Murfreesboro was taken and held by our forces on Friday and the enemy driven back two miles, while the connection with Nashville, thirty- four miles in the rear, was kept open, and our wounded were being sent there. The rebel army is said to have been strongly reinforced from Rich- mond. The battle was renewed yesterday by the enemy making an hssault upon our left wing, which was terribly repulsed and suffored fearfully, Btill, according to all the intelligence received up to s late hour this morning, the final issue remained in great doubt. A portion of our army had advanced eight miles south of Murfrees- boro, but it is stated that at that time we did not hold the place. The fighting yesterday was not of long duration, nor does it appear to have been very severe, except atone point. Uponthe whole the news is not as distinct or satisfactory as might be wished. At latest accounts reinforcements were arriving to General Rosecrans, and he is @aid to have determined upon cutting up the rebel army at all cost. According to the Richmond papers the Union troops made ® severe assault on Saturday and Sunday last upon the rebel works at Chickasaw Bluffs, near Vicksbug, and suffered heavy loss. On Monday the fight was renewed by eight thousand of our troops, who again attempted to storm the works, but were driven back, after losing four hundred prisoners and five stand of It is admitted by the rebel autho. rities that our troops destroyed the Vicks- burg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad, and the town of Delhi. Another account of the affair, coming from Cairo, states that General Sherman was in command of our troops, and that under the cover of the undergrowth, at daylight on Sunday, colors, ‘a concerted advance was made by his whole force. General Steel held the left, General Morgan and General Blair the centre, and General A. L. Smith and General M. L. Smith the right. General Steel turned the enemy’s right *o as to com. municate with General Morgan's division, which had become separated by swamps running at right fangles to the main front. By sunrise the whole force was engaged, and up to ten o'clock the | musketry and artillery firing was very severe. The rebels in front of General Morgan's and Generaj | Bmith’s divisions were intrenched on high rising ground. This position was finally carried by storm. small importance. The excitement created at Aspinwall by the capture of the Ariel was intense. The passen- gers of that steamer, after being landed, circu- lated the most exaggerated reports relative to the power and capacity of the privatecr Alabama, and the people seemed to expect that the priva. teer would come into the harbor and shell the The Great Battle of Murfree.b ore—The Hoport of the Phird Day. Ms Our brief report of the third day’s operations im the late desperate and sanguinary battle. In West Tennessee, dated “Battle Field, née Murfreesboro, January 2—P. M.,” is more. couraging than might have been apprehended from the suggestive struggle of the two preceeding days. It appears that our army bivouacked on the same ground on the night of the second day (New Year) which they occupied at the close v the of the first day of the battle (the last day of |'s the old year), but that although we gained some advantages on the second day, they were purchased at a heavy cost in killed and wound ed. Our report further says that the losses mt both sides on this day “can only bé desoribed as absolutely tremendous,” and 9 glowing tribute is paid to the splendid bravery: thronghout the day’s terrific struggle, of Gene- ral Rosecrans and of -his subordinate generals, Megley, Roussean, MeCook, and the troops they respectively commanded. On the third day the battle was renewed “with great ferocity,” and at the hour at which our aforesaid despatch was sent from the field (Friday afternoon) the enemy had been “driven’ two miles,” the reserve brigades of Gen. Rose* crans were getting into line and reinforcements were arriving to support him, and he is declared as having “determined to destroy the rebels at any cost.” This does not look like a defeat. On the contrary, from what follows—vis: that “all the houses in Nashville by rail”—we are led to infer that, while Gen. Rosecrans oecupied Murfreesboro on Friday afternoon, his communieation with Nashville—over thirty miles in his rear—re- mained intact. Thus, apparently, the contest of Friday terminated. It is believed that the rebels had a much larger army than ours. It is appa- rent that the rebel generals handled their troops skilfully, and that they fought with remarkable tenacity, and it is feared that in falling back on Friday they may have contrived to entangle the Union forces on Saturday in an impass- able network of intrenchments and masked place at any moment. The accounts furnished by batteries. That the rebel army had been these parties were us ludicrous as they were con- | im the neighborhood = of + Murfreesboro tradictory. It was understood that the treasure long enough to throw up a line on board the Ocean Queen had been insured in branch establishments of English houses in San Francisco, and the belief was wide-spread that she would be captured. The Ocean Queen carries but one gun—an eighteen-pounder—and her officers relied on her speed, not her armament, to escape the attacks of the privateer. Panama is at present totally unprotected. An old war tug with worthless guns, is the only vessel intended to protect the harbor in the port. The steamship Asia, which left Queenstown on the 21st of December, is fully due at this port this of defensive works similar to those at Frede- ricksburg we all know ; but if they had such Works in their rear we think they would have fallen back upon them before bringing on a general engagement. The details before us, carefully considered: do not justify the conclusion that we have gained a great victory; but they do not indi- cate a defeat. They leave the issue in doubt, and the news of yesterday’s fight, such as it is, does not still settle the final result, although it morning. Her news will be three days later. ‘The last meeting of the Board of Aldermen of 1862 was held yesterday. The Board concurred with the Councilmen, in. adopting the resolution providing for the'purchase of the Fort Gansevoort property, notwithstanding the Mayor’s veto. The vote stood thirteen to three. A motion directing the Corporation Counsel to prosecute railroad cars without license was concurredin. The resolutions giving the cotitrol of the Central Park to the Street Commissioner were referred to the Finance Com- mittee. About $150,000 are due the laborers in the Park, and a resolution to appropriate @ suffi- cient gum to pay them off will be introduced in the new Board at an early day. The Board concurred with the Councilmen in appropriating $4,000 for portraits of General McClellan, Thomas Jeffer- gon, and ex-Governors Clark and Morgan. The usual vote of thanks to the subordidate officers of the Board was then adop‘ed, President Henry de- livered a brief valedictory address, and the Board adjourned. The Board of Councilmen for the last year held their concluding session yesterday. A resolution was adopted by a vote of 16 in the affirmative to 8 in the negative, to purchase the Fort Gansevoort property, notwithstanding the veto of the Mayor. Resolutions were adopted donating various sums to different charitable institutions. The Board concurred with the Board of Aldermen in direct- ing the Street Commissioner to procure portraits of General McClellan, Ex-Governor Morgan, Ex- Governor Clark, and Thomas Jefferson, at an ex- pense of $1,000each. The resolution to donate the sum of $50,000 to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asy- lum was lost for want of a constitutional vote. It was afterwards reconsidered and referred to the Finance Committee. The usnal complimentary resolutions to the retiring President and the clerks of the Board were then unanimously adopted, and the Board adjourned sine die. There was very fair skating yesterday on both the Fifth avenue and Beckman’s ponds; but the ice, although firm in the Central Park, was not deemed secure enough to allow of the sport. A few cold nights will soon put things in order in that vicinity also. wore not uniformly sustained. With the exception of Pacific Mail, Toledo, Cumberland and the Michigan South: ern shares, the active speculative list deciined 3; a1 per cent. Gold opened at 1333¢, advanced to 134}, and closed at 134% bid. Exchange closed at 147%. Money was ‘worth 6 a 6 per cent. ‘Tho sales of cotton on Saturday wero 1,000 bales, mid- dling closings buoyantly at 68c. a 683gc. Flour advanced Ge., with salos of 24,500 bbis.; wheat Ic., with sales of 95,000 bushels, and corn le., with sales of 70,000 bushels. Pork declined to $14 37 for mers, and $11 50 2 $12 25 for prime, at which figures 1,400 barrels changed hands, Beef seld to the extent of 1,300 bbis.; lard 1,250 tierces and bbis.,and bacon 1,750 boxes, at uniform quota- tioos, Whiskey advanced to 393;¢. a 40c., with sales of 800 bbis., mostly at 303;c. Coffee was in fair demand, as Ikewise were bay, hops, tallow, wool and manila hemp— the latter article closing as high as 9}xc. per Ib. Sugars, hides, lime, eather, molasses, seeds and foreign liquors were in moderate request. The freight market was less active. Partmo tHe Nationa, Dest wy Gorp—Tas Wat Street Sprcunators.—It appears that the Secretary of the Treasury has de. cided to pay the government bonds of 1842 in gold. We fear that this decision looks, better for the resources of the country than for the judgment or good faith of te Secretary. If the payment were made in con- | sequence of a general rule to pay all bonds in gold, and in pursuance of a previous announce- | ment to that effect, it would be highly praise- ‘The stock market yesterday was very aetive, but prices — is somewhat discouraging, unsatisfactory and mysterious. Tur Loss or Tux Moxrror—That invaluable “cheese box on a raft,” the unconquorable lit- tle Monitor in battle, is lost, having gone down to the bottom in that perilous sea off Cape Hat- teras, with four of her gallant officers and twelve of her brave men. Bound upon an important Southern expedition, the loss of this favorite little ship, under the circumstances, may be said to be equal to the loss of s battle: But, while she has done enough to give a glo- tious immortality to Ericsson, as ene of the great heroes of the Union, and enough to place our naval power ahead of that of England, we trust that her loss will not defeat the objects of the expedition to which she was attached. When we shall have learned the particulars of the foundering of this noble vessel—the pioneer of our iron-clad navy—we may perhaps gain some useful instruction from the misfortune. At all events, her loss is the loss of the pet of the people. Tus Secretary or THE Navy, THE ALABAMA AND THE OCEAN QuEEN.—Yesterday we an- nounced the arrival of the Ocean Queen at this port from Aspinwall, with $1,277,788 in trea- sure on freight from San Francisco, which in™ cludes what had been left behind by the Ariel’ | Captain Tinklepaugh, taking the responsibility, knew how to evade the Alabama if she is any longer on the track of the California steamers, He has been completely successful, and thus saves the drowsy Secretary of the Navy the ne- cessity of giving any convoy to the California treasure ships. Had Semmes fallen in with the Ocean Queen, the Connecticut would have been | too late to do any service. The probability is that he had shifted to another cruising ground, for it is not his game to remain too long in one place. The best thing the Secretary of the | Navy can now do is to send the Connecticut and other fast ships in pursuit of the Alabama in a different direction. With ordinary energy | she and her notorious captain and crew might have been captured long ago; but we fear that the buccaneers will do vast damage to our ship. ping interest before their career is cut shert by suck an old fegy as Secretary Welles. Perbaps the wisest course for the shipowners and insu- rance offices would be to fit out a heavily armed vessel of their own, and putting on board of her an enterprising captain like Tinkle- paugh, and a daring crew, send her after the Alabama and her freebooters. The President could easily give the necessary commission to | | say that she would be more likely to succeed than any ship controlled and hampered by the Navy Department. Governor Sersocr’s Inavovrat.—The inau- gural address of Governor Seymour, which we published yesterday, was unusually brief Evidently he designedly avoided committing himself upon any question, whether of national or State affairs, until he could disouss the whole matter fully and calmly in his first message to the Legislature, and thus give the expression of his views all the dignity and gravity of an offi- cial communication. The Governor's speech, therefore, amounted simply to thiss—That he bad sworn to faithfully execute the laws of the State of New York; that, so help him God, he worthy, consistent and statesmanlike. But to “the present holders of the bonds of 1842 pre- | ference is given by Mr. Chase, who makes no | public announcement of his intention beforehand | 80 as to give the holders the opportunity of de- riving the legitimate advantage from the bonds, but keeps the matter in doubt, or rather leaves it to be inferred that the debt would be paid \ in paper. The consequence is that the bonds sold at par for the usual paper currency, and two or three Wall street speculators bought them up, and have realized a handsome fortune by this operation. The debt amounts Our despatches say nothing of Monday's fight, Major General Grant telegraphs to General | gold makes o difference of thirty-three per Palleck that General Sallivan had encountered | cent. The amount thus gained is upwards of Be rebel Colonel Forrest at Spring Hill, Miss,, a to two and a half millions. Payment in would most assuredly do so; and that the first of the laws which he had sworn to uphold was that deelaring “It shall be the duty of the Governor to maintain and defend. the s@vereignty and jurisdiction of she State.” Here Governor Seymour stopped, aad reserved for another occasion his explanation of what he understood to be his duty under this law and under the present circumstances of the nation. Without going any further than Governor mour, therefore, we may simply say that, while he supperts the government and upholds the constitution we shall stand by him; but co State to autho- he misconstrues the laws of rize anything contrary to the constitution of the eight bundred thousand dollars. Cia ace a this subject at another time | for the sake of a few dollars? If a reduction legalize the proceeding; and we venture to | ‘Te Paper Makers’ ca " Comgress. ‘ppeare 80 JANUARY. 4, 1868, » Monopoly Before | The Roman Question—K@orts af a we * Solution. ‘that the paper makers do not feel | The statement that the Cardinal Archbishop secure in their monopoly as the strong of Paris has been sent to Rome to explain to used by the ion ip his days ago induced the lieve. “However you the extravagant price tiated to be- it’) A decision so judicial and a0 equitable we upon the subject as that of any other “Deniel come to judgement.” Now, however ut the matter, and that by simply re. per centum as the tax upon domestic , we shall not have “to pay it” after all. t of their | the Pope the Emperor's views in regard to the to us a few | concessions necedsa ry on the part of the Ponti. fical government furnishes another proof of the yy writhe under” | enibarrassment and perplexity which the Ro- aper, said the for- | man question causes to Louis Napoleon. Em. and elegant gentleman, “you must pay | barking as he is in fresh schemes of aggrandize- ment which demand his whole energies and urse regarded as final, and should as | resources, he dare not proceed further with have thought of disputing his ipse | them without first effecting some compromise between Pius IX, and his subjects. For him Italy is pregnant with menace and danger. She it epems that those paper men are not quite | is now, as she has almost always been, the key re that “we must pay it.” They have | to the political troubles and difficulties of Eu ered that Congress has something to | rope. In her decadence, as in the zenith of her the taxiff upon imported paper to the | power, Italy has, in fact, always exercised a marked influence over the affairs of the world: From the time when, under the republic and Consequently the paper monopolists are very | empire, her conquests extended fer and wide, /much troubled about Congress and the tariff | down to the revolutions which im our own days just at present, and have held two meetings, on | have nearly resulted in restoring to her an undi- Tuesday and Wednesday last, to consider what | vided nationality, she has contrived to maintain is to be done to keep the price of paper up | wonderful ascendency over men’s minds, and the literature of the country down. At these meetings the paper monopolists ap- When, through her follies and corruptions, she lost the political strength that she had so long polnted a committee to go to Washington and re’ | enjoyed, she did not the less continue to occupy sist the proposed reduction of the tariff, A large | their attention and fears. In the catacombs, assessment upon each paper manufacturer was | within the enceinte which had been dishonored made to defray the expenses which the commit- | by the crimes and orgies of her emperors, there tee would have to incur, and one of the monopo- | grew up a power unknown, irresistible and ap- lists offered to contribute a large sum of money | parently superhuman, which soon transcended fa order to defeat the measure which the com- | that which had passed away. To the effect mittee is instructed to resist. We must confess | which it had in contributing to the progress o that we are somewhat astonished at these pro- civilization, until in turn it became enfeebled ceedings, ff, as the President informed us inthe | by the degeneracy and profligacy of the succes” polite note from which we have already quoted, | sors of the first heads of the church, history will the rise in the price of paper was in conse- | bear attestation. Even then the influence of quence of the scarcity of “cotton, the basis of | the Italian mind continued to manifest itself paper manufacture,” why should the paper through its acts and literature; and now, when men object to the reduction of the tariff? Is | the temporal sovereignty of the church seems not “cotton, the basis of paper manufacture,” quiie as scarce in Europe as it is here? almost at its last extremity, and when the re- Are | viving political influence of Italy asa nation not several thousand Lancashire operatives | appears to have received @ check, the great starving for the want of cotton? If, then, cotton is “the basis of paper manufac- Powers of Europe are compelled to pay homage to both—the one through its fears, and the ture,” why should not imported paper be | others through their interests. dearer than our own at the same tariff? And these facts being established, why should not the paper men allow us to see‘ for our- selves that imported paper would be dearer Thus we see that, while England favors the full realization of the scheme of Italian unity as a counterpoise to the overshadowing influence of France on the European continent, the latter is than our own, so that we might come humbly | eager to defeat it, from the same motives that back to them and purchase their paper at any | render her so anxious to break up our own in- price they pleased, since by actual demonstra- stitutions. Italy not only @qmbarrasses her at tion and experiment we were convinced that | home, but hampers her abroad. She cannot “we must pay it.” This would be the only | push forward her designs against Mexico and course of honorable business men, and the | this country unless she can have some security r monopolists assure us that > to this class. Or if, on the other hand, paper is cheaper in Europe, and would be im- they | that the Roman question will not open a fire in her rear. England is desirous to see it settled in another manner than -that proposed. by ported ia immense quantities if the present ta- | France, because it would assure her the support rift of thirty-ve per cent were not absolutely | of Italy, and enable her to prosecute ‘the prohibitory, upon what grounds monopolists resist’ a reduction can the paper | schemesin the Mediterranean: Russiais ‘anxious of the ‘tariff?’| that the question shall be: left in statu quo, be- Surely such patriotic and public spirited citi- | couse it eccupies her rivals in‘watching each zens as they claim to be cannot wish to defraud the national treasury of a large revenue from imports, and subject the reading and writing public toa heavy and unnecessary tax simply for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly and filling their own pockets with money coined from the distresses of the people? Whether the reduction of the tariff would reduce the price of paper or not, therefore, we must ex- press our wonder at finding such pure patriots among the opponents of this measure. But even admitting the justice and patriot- ism of this opposition, why should large assess- ments be made and large sums of money be subscribed in order to make the opposition effectual? What, in the name of impartial le- gislation, is to be done with this amount of money? How is it to be used? For ourselves and other sufferers it was sufficient to draw up a petition to Congress representing the real facts of the case, suggesting the remedy and asking for the redress of our grievances. If the paper monopolists have any just grounds of public interest and expediency upon which to oppose our petition, why would not a counter- petition or memorial have done quite as well as all this money? Is it possi- ble that the paper monepolists intend to bribe Congress? Do they suppose that our national legislators can be bought, like Judas, with a price? Are they aware that Senator Simmons has resigned? Do they in- tend us to infer that we have a Congress of Simmonses? Do they*mean us to understand that they can go on to Washingtoa, buy up | members of Congress like sheep, and defeat our measure, not by weight of truth and reason: but by mere weight of filthy lucre? If a rev duction of the tariff will increase the public revenue, do the paper monopolists believe that they can purchase Congressmen to oppose such a reduction, and thus rob the national Treasury of the tariff will reduce the price of printing and writing paper, do the paper monopolists | expect to find Congressmen so base as to con- | tinue to load the people with an unnecessary | tax upon knowledge for the bribe of a few | greenbacks? What opinion can theee monopo- ; | lists bave of eur Congressmen? What can they | wich; nv | think of the character of our national Legisla- | Wick’s Sound,” of Martin Frobisher and the | ture, when they thus deliberately insult it in | ‘advance? If our former accusations against | | them were “unjust and untrue,” what do they mean by raising large sums of money to defeat | | g just measure before Congress? If our state- ments were true, and they are willing to sacri- | fico country, knowledge, the people, every- | thing, to the almighty dollar, what do they | | mean by denying our assertions, and then hon- | oring the national capital with their presence and the national Congress with their insinua, | tions of corruption? We pause for a reply. Morr Sroms ror tHe Rivo.—The Common Council have passed over the Mayor's veto the resolution raising the salaries of the police justices to five thousand dollarsa year. The augmentation is made retrospective, the in- | | crease dating from the Ist of January, 1862, | } This places the police justices on a level in point of salary with the judges of the Superior ; Court, and gives them a thousand dollars a } | year more than the judges of the Supreme | | Court, of the Common Pleas and of the Marine | | Court. Considering that the office has become purely a political one, and that the duties are | {Tnsinitely less arduous and responsible than | | those of the judges ot the courts just named, this large addition to ite emoluments is a most | impudent and daring defiance of public opinion. | It is of a piece with the effort to convert the | longitude seventy degrees west of Green- | been pronounced by our State Geologist and | to learn that he is making active prepara” other’s movements, and leaves her free to carry out those projects in regard to China for which she has been making such extensive prepara. tions. In the present condition of our own af. fairs, it is, perhaps, as well that matters in Italy should remain unchanged. The longer things continue complicated in that quarter the longer Louis Napoleon will hesitate to consummate the bold step which he has in contemplation—of an alliance with Jeff. Davis and an armed inter vention on this continent. We rely a good deal on the well known obstinacy of the Pope. Un- leas we are mistaken in his character, it will prove a far greater stumbling block to the French Emperor's plans than did the firmness of his predecessor, Pius VIL. to those of his uncle. Arctic Exrtoratioss—New Prosxcrs or Ev- TERPRISE.—Of all those who have contributed to the progress of civilization we know none who are more entitled to the respect and grati- tude of mankind than that class of hardy ex- plorers who have braved everything—even death itself—in the desire to enlarge the bounds of geographical knowledge. In the long list of illustrious men who have devoted themselves to perilous enterprises of this kind our own coun- trymen occupy no undistinguished positions. The lamented Kane contributed largely to the stock of scientific facts which former Arctic ex- plorers had placed us in pogeession of; and re- | cently Mr. C. F. Hall, improving on the expe- | Tience of his predecessors, has, with simpler means and less expenditure of money, cleared up: mysteries that had baffled previous re~ searches and speculations, and opened up a | fresh field of research in a quarter that many had deemed closed to further explorations. We can point to no brighter or prouder page | of Arctic history than that which records these | facts—that during two years and three months of Mr. Hall’s absence in his late voyage, with | the aid and companionship ef Esquimaux alone, he explored more than one thousand ; miles of coast; determined the so-called Fro- bisher Strait to be a bay terminating in latitude sixty-three degrees forty-eight minutes, rediscovered the “country of War. island bearing the name of the same per- Sonage, where he found and recovered re” lics (since transmitted to the Royal Geogra- phical Society of London) of the colony which the Virgin Queen desired to plant there in 1578; learned the fate of the five men who were captured from Frobisher on his firs, voyage (1576), and discovered a great glacier and fossil mountain between Hudson’s Strait and Frobisher Bay, from whence he brought home a number of fossils, four of which have Dr. Stevens to be entirely new, and of so valu- able a character that their discovery would alone be a sufficient return for the whole ex- penees and hardships of his voyage. After the achievement of such important re- sults it was not to be expected that Mr, Hall would rest satisfied with the laurels that he had won. Accordingly we are not surprised tions for the renewal of his explorations next epring. After clearing up the many mysteries still hanging over the expedition of Sir John Franklin, this daring navigator and explorer of the “thrice ribbed ice seas” of the North, purposes to make his third voyage an attempt to reach the North axis of our globe, which he feels confident he can do by using his Exquimaux friends and acquaintances of x mand in complying with the requests that ar constantly pouring inon him to communicate to the public in the form of lectures the ex- | periences of his last voyage. He carries round with him on these occasions the Exquimaux family that accompanied him here, whose lan. guage he speaks perfectly, and whom he thus Tenders an interesting feature of his lectures. We see by the Providenee (R. 1) papers that in response to an invitation from the im- habitants of that city, he is to speak before them to-morrow evening, and that om the afternoon of Wednesday he is to ad dress the assembled children of the schools‘ ~ of the same place, a holidey being granted to them for thislaudable purpose. The subject matter and manner of Mr. Hall’s lectures will, no doubt, form a refreshing contrast to the. dreary exhibitions which, under # similar title, draw so largely on the patience and good na- ture of our American audiences. Excuse Preparations FoR 4 WAR WITH THR Unrrep Srates.—One of the Cincinnati papers has a statement from “a reliable gentleman,” just returned from Canada, to the effect thag* * arms, cannon and equipments for an army of two hundred thousand men have been sent during the past summer from England to the British provinces, and that the British govera- ~ nignt have. in addition been quietly collecting at Bermuda all the materials for the construc” tion of forty iron-clad gunboats, destined for . service on our lakes. Assuming that this story is correct, the concentration of such a large quantity of warlike stores on our frontier is rather an agreeable fact than otherwise,’ Everything that is gathered together in that line cannot fail to prove of great assistance to. us in the event of a war breaking eut between | Great Britain and the United States, At the sound of the very first hostile gun we should make such a clean sweep of the Canadian terri tory and arsenals that there would not be left sufficient-of all this accumulation of war mate- rial to fire even the customary salute on Queem Victoria’s birthday. A few facts will, however, serve to demon. strate the utter improbability of our contempo. rary’s statement. The whole regular army of Great Britain does not amount to more thaa one hundred and twenty-six thousand men, and these are scattered over her dependencies in dif. ferent quarters of the globe. Not man ef the number can: be spared to Canada beyond the few regiments sent out there at the time of the Trent difficulty. As to despatching volunteers or militia for its defence, every one knows how impracticable such a step would be. The very fear of France, which led to the enrolment o the volunteer force in Englagd, would prevent the diversion of any portion of it for such @ purpose. To add to its numbers would be ea- tirely out of the question, for it was with the utmost difficulty ‘the one hundred and fifty thousand men compositig ft were drummed up, even the Queen being. obliged, to assume the functions of the recruiting sergeant to bring it ta its present aggregate. The idea that Canada could herself raise the army of two hundred thousand men for which these supplies are said to have been sent out is simply ridiculous. Is the first place that amount of persons liable te military duty is entirely out of proportion with its population; and again, the probabilities are hat ina war with the United States it could not raise anything like even that proportion: There is more of American and republican feel- ing in Canada than is generally supposed, an@ if matters were pushed ‘to extremities it woul@ undoubtedly manifest itself in a strong repug- nance on the part'0f many to take up arms against us. In the presence of such facts the statement of our contemporary does not disquiet us. It looks very much as if it had been fabri- cated for « purpose. Governor Skymour anp THe Porice Com- MIssioneRs.— By a telegraphic despatch from Albany we learn that the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police had not made their appear- ance before Governor Seymour yesterday at two o'clock, as required, to answer the complaing against them touching the arbitrary arrests and imprisonment in violation of the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State of New York. Governor Seymour postponed the hearing of the case till six o’clock, in order to give them an opportur nity of explaining their conduct. If the Commissioners did not appear yesterday, after being served with the complaint, their absence must be construed as an admission of their guilt, or defiance to the authority of the Governor, or con- tempi for his office, which alone would be cause sufficient for their removal. They ae condemned out of their own mouths. The ree solutions they passed inthe Brinsmade case are conclusive of their guilt, and nothing remains but to deprive them of official exis- tence. If ihey should make any violent resie- tence they ought to be arrested and made to answer as rioters and disturbers of the public peace. But wedo not apprehend anything of that kind, as such acourse on their part would be extreme folly. Let Governor Seymour, therefore, act with the promptitude and energy which the case demands. The free and loyal city of New York has been outraged by turn- ing prisons, designed for convicted criminals or persons charged with crime, into baa, tiles, for the incarceration of persons elther guilty of political offences or not charged with any offence at all. This was the case with Mrs. Brinsmade, and with Dr. Olds, of Ohie But the end is not yet. Interesting from Virginia, Wasuraroy, Jan. 2, 1863. Mr. Coyle, landlord of the Four Mile Houso, this side ot Fairfax, together with two men, named Howard and Gooden, have been arrested for piloting Gen. Stuart ia hie recent raid. A sergeant and private of cavalry went into a house ia the neighborhood of the old Chantilly battle field on the Bist ult. to wash, and while over the wash basins were surprised and taken prisoners by a squad of cavalry and paroled: They speak in tho highest torms of their cap. tors, saying that they only took government property an@ allowog thelr baggage and blankets. ‘This Morning the Fifth New York cavalry took two rebel prisoners in the vicinity of Union Milis, the head- quarters of Brigadier Genoral Utassy. At about ten o'clock on the night of the Sist ult., @ detachment of the Fifth New York eavalry, without cemminsioned oMeers, numbering about one hundred and twenty-five men, halted at a house on the main road, helé the occapant by force amd took from bim his wallet, cen- taining forty-one dollars, From thence they proceeded to the establishment of Mr. M. H. Sullivan, sutler of the Sixty-first Ohio volunteer infantry, which was closed, broke open the doors, overcame the three clerks im attendance, robbed the money drawer of aboat two hun- the west side of Davis’ Straits as his aux. | Central Park into another appanage of the ring, and will help to create such e reaction against its authors as cannot fail to sweep every man of them from the positions which they now hold iliaries. Im the meantime, whilst attending to the on of the narrative of his Arctic voy- age, which the Harpers have in progress, he spemds all the spare hours that he can com- ‘of the his guard under arms, and with joaded muskets they marched to the scene of the disaster, when the fled to the outskirts of the town to enjoy their ulunder. The matter is now under ° ‘