The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1863, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. OFrICK N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 8TS, Volume XXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, AOADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving place.—Itauan Orgra— Te Trova NIBLO'S GAROBN, Broadway.—F vst axoMaacvsnita, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Lrism Hxiness. WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway. Coxswonour Covmrsnty Prat LAURA Tun Lavin XBW rower THKATRE, Bor BASMRUL TBIstMAN— Dowwett-—Lersa Lio. KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Jayny Liwn— 1, ry.~-MaGio Taoarer— EKO NEW JRkomi—WaNtom Bape, BOWERY THEATRE, K aND tas Bran. BEAL AG LUN DOUNE— . BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Miss Lady ivia Wanrex—Coxmovone Nort, ac., at all hours, Coiixus Baws—Afternoon and Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 478 Broad. way —Ermorian Soxas, Borcesqvas, Dances, &0.—Faust asp Marcceuire. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway. —Brmiorian Bones, Daxoxs, foe Disouan. in BUOKLEY S MINSTRELS, Broadwa, Bonga. COOPER INSTITUTE, Broadway.—D, J. | gongees. ee roadway.—D. J, Macaowar’s @tuyvesant Institete. 659 i —Ermiortax Sones, Dances, &c.—Lvoretia BROADWAY MENS a4 ABROAD MENAGERIE, Broadway.-Livina Witp AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. #4 Broadway.—Bat- Lats, Panromines, BouLusares, dv. ee PARIGIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 663 Broadway. Oyen daily (row Ida. M- GHD PMO Broadway. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya. Br SoNGs, Daxcns, Buatasaons ac” SOKN—BrmIorIAN New York, Friday, January 9, 1863. we Z NOTICE TO PAPER MASUFACTURERS. Twenty thousand ema of good ied wanted. Size 32x46. Apply at the Hunatp office. THE SITUATION. Our latest sccounts froim Vicksburg do not re- solve the doubt as to the result of General Sher- man's operations. A steamer from Memphis, which arrived at Cairo yesterday, brought nothing aew, no steamer having come up from Vicksburg, owing tothe fact, as stated by the passengers, that the rebels had planted batteries at Cypress Bend, and thus cut off the river communication. The rebel accounts of the movements at Vicks- burg—as stated in the official despatch from Gen, Pemberton to the Confederate War Department--- states that our troops had re-embarked, leaving a quantity of tools and other property behind, and had apparently relinquished their designs upon Vicksburg. On Friday, the 24, according to the rebel journals, the Union forces had gone down teh Yazoo river towards Snyder's Bluff, where it was thought an attack would be made on the rebel works. We lay” before our readers to-day a complete account of the magnificent and bloody serics of battles at Murfreesboro, fought for five days and victoriously terminated by General Rosecrans on Sunday morning last by the total discomfiture and flight of the rebels. The story is told by our correspondents on the battle field, who witnessed all the terrible incidents of those five days, and will be read, no doubt, with intense interest. In conjunction with our account we give two maps showing the position of our army before and after the disaster which drove General Rose- crans from the ground he occupied on Wednes- day, and which he afterwards retrieved so splen. didly. Jeff. Davis has been making a great speech be- fore the Legislatare of Mississippi, to which we before alluded, and which we give in our columns to-day. He speaks hopefully of the result of the war, and while admitting that it has assumed a greater magnitude than he anticipated, and that he has himself erred in several matters of judg- meant, he still looks for success as the result. He thinks that Vicksburg and Port Hudson are the two most important poiats now to be defended, because upon their preservation the sentiments of the Northwest, as to whether they would louger endure and support a war against the South depended. He looks for the restoration of Missouri and Kentucky to the Southern confederacy, and confidently anticipates 4 happy termination to the conflict, despite of the failure to obtain foreign recognition, which he @ay3 only reminds him of the proverb---‘Put not your faith in princes.’’ He gives a severe cut to France, and is unscrupulously abusive of the Northern people. Despatches from St. Louis yesterday say that the rebels, 6,000 strong, under Generals Marma- duke and Burbridge, made an attack on the town of Springfield, Missouri, and opened fire upon it without giving notice to remove the women and children. General Brown was defending the town with his Union troops as best he could. A body of fully 1,000 rebel cavalry were visible, drawn up in line of battle. e The Navy Department was apprised of the fact yesterday that one of Commodore Wilkes’ fleet had captured the rebel steamer Virginia in the Gulf, Some reports were current that she had been taken within the jurisdiction of Mexico, and that there was @ probability that her capture might beeome the subject of diplomatic crreo- spomdence, ™ CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, the biil to allow pack- ages for soldiers te be sent through the mails at book postage was repow 11 back by the Post Office Committee, with the reesmmendatm@m that it ought not to pass. The Military Committee re- ported back the bill to raise volunteers for the defence of Kentucky, with ao amendment asa aubstitute. A jolmt resolution giving the thanks of Congress to General Resecraus and his army for their gullantry at Murfroesboro was referred, The bill to tax bank bills and fractional cnrrency was taken up, and Mr. Sherman, ef Ohio, made a apeech in support of the measure, The debate on the bill for the discharge of State prisonors was thea resumed. Mr. Sanlsbury, of Delaware, so verely denounced the administration, while Mr. Anthony, of Rhode Island, ‘defend ment. After aa executive adjourned. In the Honse of Representatives a bill was re. ported providing ways and means for the support of the government. The bill is given in full on the second page of to-day’s Hsra.n, together with a aynopsi¥of Mr. Stevems’ substitute, The Treasury Bank bill was reported back with a negative re commendation. A resolution tendering the thank of tho House to General Butler for ble aduy gration of sue gulira of Whe Devarimeat ei th¢ ed the g session the nate clip of wool has begun to arrive in small lots, which have been selling at about $90 to $110 for fair mestizo. Freights have improved. At Rio Janciro nothing of in- terest had transpired. But little confidence is Gulf, was adopted by a vote of 3 to 28, A neso- lution calling for a detailed report of operations connected with the negroes at Port Royal and in Georgia waa laid on the table—8l against 60. A resolution was adopted providing for a com- mission to ascertain the character and amount of losses sustained by citizens in districta passed over by our armies. On motion of Mr. Dunn it was resolved that the Attorney General be requested to inform the House whether the law for the confiscation of rebel property has been enforced in the District of Columbia, and if not, the reason for delaying the execution of the same. A resolutioff asking the Secretary of the Treasury why he has not provided the means for paying the army, and why the bouds heretofore authorized to be sold, if necessary to make such payments, have not been sold, was adopted. The credentials of the member elect from the Second distriot of Virginia, Mr. John B. McLeod, were presented and referred. In Committee of the Whole a long and interesting debate occurred on national questions, in which Messrs. Stevens of Pa., Dunlap of Ky., Thomas of Mass., Olin of N.Y.) and Lovejoy of Lll., participated. THE LEGISLATUBE. In our State Senate yesterday the Lieutenant Governor announced the special committee of three who are charged with the duty of investigat- ing alleged frauds in the engrosament of the Militia law of last session. ‘Bille were introduced to amend the charter of the United States Trust Company; to appropriate the canal revenues; te provide for the annual canal appropriations, and for the purchase of specie to pay the canal debt interest. The Committee on Cities and Villages was increased from five to seven members. A bill was also introduced to confirm the acts of ex- Governor Morgan in reference to the payment of bounties to volunteers. The Assembly consumed their entire day's session in voting for Speaker, and, after nineteen ballots, were, on adjourning, precisely where they stood atthe conclusion of the first ballot on the first day of meeting—63 votes for Mr. Dean, the democratic candidate, and 63 for Mr. Sherwood, the republican. Twenty-six ballots have now been had, without any variation from these figures in a single instance. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have news, by way of England, from South America, dated at Buenos Ayres the 18th, Rio Janeiro the 25th, Bahia the 28th of November, and from Paraguay to the Ist of December. From Buenos Ayres we are told the Argentine Republic seems to enjoy a permanent peace. Both the people and the men in power appear in- tent on peace and industrial advancement. Money is very abundant, and paper money is daily in- creasing in value and gold is declining. The pro- duce market has been more animated, and a large number of dry hides have been sold for Havre, Antwerp and Hambarg; 18,500 German descrip- tions realized 45 reals for half novillos, half cow and camp hides; novillo matadero hides, 44 reals; cows, 4144 reals; stock 25,000 hides. The new placed in the Ministry. Tranquility prevails in all the provinces of La Plata. At Monte Video the President has dismisssed the Ministry. The coffee market continues inactive. A Bahia letter says:— Sales of brown sngar in cases have been effected at $1.700 to $1.750 per arroba, at which latter rate they are inquired after. Nazareths, in bags, have been sold at $1.300, which cost 138. 4d. free on board without freight. A few lots of cotton have appeared in the market, and sold at $17.500 per arroba for good, and $15 for ordinary. Coffee sold by auction, 800 bags of Caravellos, at $7.900 to $8,160 per arroba washed; $6.400 to $6.700 firsts; $6 to $6.350 seconds. In Paraguay General Fran- ciso Lopes, son of the late Dictator, waa unani- mounly elected President for ten years, The Cham- bers sanctioned all the acts of the late ruler. The treaties with Prussia and the United States had been ratified, and friendly relations completely re- stored with Great Britain. It appears by the Southern papers that Hon. Riehard Yeadon has offered a reward of ten thou. sand dollars for the head of Gencral Benjamin ¥. Butler. This Yeadon is editor of the Charleston Courier, and is known among the fraternity by the sobriquet of “ Saucho Panza.’’ He has been for anamber of years one of the Charleston delega” tion in the South Carolina Legislature, and, with the exception of George Sanders, is probably the most fussy, frothy and foolish secessionist in the whole South. From his personal appearance we should judge that he never had money enough to buy himself a respectable looking coat; and yet he talks about giving an enormous sum for @ sight at the head of Gen. Butler. poop. ‘The number of inmates in the public institutions of the city at present is 6,431--an increase of 48 for the weck gone by. The number admitted during the wetk was 1,424, and the number dis- charged, transferred or who died was 1,376. Tho ctock market was greatly excited yesterday, and all securities were higher, The advance in the railway shares was from 2 to percent; a few of the cheaper Stocks rose much tore, Gold rose te 13654, and closed at that bid. Demand notes sold at 135, closing at 134 bid. Exchange was 149); 9 150);. Money wag worth 6 per cent on call. Cotton was lean active yesterday, and wae ‘itm. Ther® was more activity in broadstuils, Flour advanced Sc. a 10c., wheat 1c., and corn slightly.] Prince Edward's [stand oats sold up to 73. Pork aud beef were inactive, lard and bacon quite brisk, especially the former, at steady figures. The trausaction* in groveries were more extensive. Mo- derate sales wore reported of hops, oils, fah, fruit, coal aud toba Hay, hides, clover seed, leather, wines, brandies, woot soi tallow were saleable and frm. ‘The freight market was doll and heavy. Yeadon is a nincom- Paiestiy Ivrotenaxce.—A young man named Hepburn, a Roman Catholic by birth, education and conviction, died a few days ago in Jersey City. He was a moral and upright young man, and zealous for the faith to which he belonged. The priest of the district was applied to by friends to perform the ceremonies of the church over the remains and to give him interment in the cemetery appropriated to Catholics. The application was refased, on the ground that the deceased had not been a regular communicant. Now, we ask, is that any reason why he should be refused Christian burial by a clergyman of his own church and thrown upon the charity ef Protestants to permit him a place in one of their cemeteries? If prayers for the dead avail, why not offer them over his remains? Did he not need them the more because he was nota regular communieant? Perhaps if he had died wealthy, aud left plenty of money for masses, the case would have been different. We know two cases, which occurred withio a short time, of two Catholic ladies in Brooklyn, who bad been very pious and constant communicants. They, too, were denied burial according to the rites of their church. What was the reason? Be- cause their husbands bad thought proper to purchase burial lots in Greenwood Cometery, and determined to have them interred there, For this reason, and because they did not pur chase the right of burial in Calvary Cemetery, to swell up its revenues, their deceased wives were denied the privilege of the obsequies of the church, by no fault of their own. Neither in the house, nor in the church, nor at the grave, would the bishop permit be performed. tolern Is this Christian, or charitable, t, to the living or the dead’ Such P Ugude ale # disacave bo hue Cataveunl eeluciule or ' the ceremony to | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIVAY, JANUARY 9, 1863. Governor Sey Bessa; tiem of Our System of Gove: ‘The message of Governor Seymour not only marks a new era in the history of the war, but it may prove the turning point in the destiny | of the nation. It embraces a clear, logical and irrefutable exposition of the nature of our government, an accurate statement of the wide departures of the present administration from the landmarks of the constitution, and the ex- pression of an unshaken determination on the part of the people and the Executive of the Empire State to cause, as far as in them lies, a speedy return to the pure fountain of all po- litical authority in the United States. Mr. Seymour's arguments are not new; but they are placed in # clear and lucid point of view, and they grasp the whole subject. The bitter hos- tility to the message expressed by the most rabid and revolutionary section of the negro- worshipping press is the highest testimony in ite favor. Tho cardinal position maintained by Mr. Seymour is that the constitution of the United States is the fundamental lew of the land, that none ean dispute its paramount authority, and that the federal government and State governments are subject alike to its control. It is the compass by which we must ateer or be lost in a wild and*tumultuous sea of anarchy. Hence the State government is as supreme in its own sphere as the federal government is in its distinctive and peculiar jurisdiction. The au- thority of both is co-equal and co-ordinate, the one not clashing with the other, but both being independent and yet harmonious parts of one system. Our government is highly complex and artificial. It is like a beautiful chronometer, in which a wheel, or spring, or cog cannot be displaced without destruction to the working of the instrument. Our govern- ment is the offspring of great intellect and pro- found statesmanship, comprising a machinery of checks and balances, by which alone so vast country could retain its liberty and prevent the usurpation of despotic powers by any branch of the government. To render this re sult the more secure, there is one great prin- ciple which underlies the whele system, and that is that the military is subordinate to the civil authority; and to compel that subordina- tion is one of the functions of the State govern- ment, in contradistinction to the federal power, When the Romans overthrew their regal go- vernment and established a republic, they placed at the head of it two independent Con. suls, each being a check upon the other. This system worked well. The founders of the American system virtually adopted the same principle. The President of the United States is one Consul, the Governor of a State is an- other. Each is supreme in his own sphere. The Chief Magistrate of the federal government has the entire executive control of foreign affairs, The Chief Magistrate of a State has the entire executive control of the domestic affairs within his own jurisdiction. If the supreme federal officer or his Cabinet pursue a policy injurious and dangerous to the nation in time of war or great public danger, it is in the powerof the supreme State officer to put a veto on the proceedings, and check them, if necessary, by the whole power of the State. Especially is this the case where powers are usurped which have not been given in the constitution, and an at- tempt is made to subvert the form of the government by destroying the balance. Go- vernor Seymour does not yet say what he will do. He merely announces general principles which will regulate his* action, and he will de- cide upon each case as it arises according to its merits. The defeet in our system is that when great wrongs are committed by the party in posses- sion of the federal government the people must submit to the misrule for four years. In Eng- land the Cabinet in power are ousted by the popular voice and a vote of the House of Com- mons. In France the government is over- thrown by a bloody revolution or by a coup d@eat. The Americans are a law-abiding peo- ple, and they prefer te wait for the operation of the ballot box, which they know will make all things right without violence or the shedding of blood. This is the genius of our system; butit is not safe to presume too far upon the patience and forbearance of the people. There is a limit to all human endarance. But an organized State government and its chief ruler can offer a con- stitutional opposition to the federal government whenever it transcends its legitimate authority or attempts to trespass upon the jurisdiction and sovereignty of a State, or to trample under foot the liberties and immunities secured to every citizen by the great charter of American rights. We have every confidence in Governor Seymour that he will see that the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of New York will be carried out in the letter and spirit thereof; and let every Governor follow his example. Thus will the country be saved equally from anarchy and from despot- ism; the priceless blessings of our free insti- tutions will be preserved intact, and the good ship of the Union, now buffeted by the waves of faction, fanaticism and rebellion, will wea ther the storm, and continue to be for the future what she bas been in the past, “the envy of surrounding nations and the admiration of the world.” Desratcurs From Ocrn Generats MctiLareo sy Tar War Derantwent.—On the 4th of Janu- ary General ‘Rosecrans addressed to General Halleck a despatch or report from Murfrees- boro, a portion only of which was given to the public. Now the despatch in full appears, with the remark appended that it is a “correoted report.” If the administration is to follow out this plan of mutilating the despatches received, or keeping portions of them back from the public, all confidence in the announcements of the government will be lost. The people will feel that a cheat is being put upon them, and the result will prove disastrous. For the gov- ernment to sueceed it must have the confidence and support of the people, which it may never hope to obtain if deceit is to be used, as in the case of the despatch above mentioned. The people have an undoubted right to know the evil and g results of any movements whieh may take place by order of the govern. ment. Any endeavor to keep back such Infor- mation is an error, which, if persisted in, will prove ruinous to the administration. There can be no confidence on the one side if on the other there is not entire good faith. The authorities at Washington would do well if for the future they would adopt the plan of giving to the public all despatches received unabbrevigted, If fearful of giving thereby information to the enemy, let the reports be entirely suppressed. The public should not have only thé good news, the bad being reserved. In fact, the people ee re only one side of the story. The disappointment which must eventually ensue will be all the more bitter from the false hopes encouraged by a deceitful retention of unfavorable reports. We demand from the War Department, in the name of the people, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Vioks- burg—Another Budget of Blunders at Washington. The circumstantial details of the repulse of General Slerman’s army at Vicksburg pro- duced a very depressing sensation in this city yesterday. How could it be othérwise, in view of the facts that “the rebels had concentrated at Vicksburg all their forces from Jackson and Grenada, and along the liues of their railroads,” swelling their defensive army to sixty-five thousand men; that this overwhelming force had “attacked General Sherman on Monday) the 29th, and caused bim to fall back to bis first line of defence;” that his losses amounted to four or five thousand men, but that “it was thought he could’ maintain his position?” “It was thought” is an expression not very sug- gestive of success; for we remember that “it was thought” last September that General Miles could hold his position at Harper's Ferry. We think that the details of this bloody re- pulse of our brave troops at Vicksburg show very clearly that it'was the result of another budget of blunders at Washington. Why were not the gunboats of Farragut and Porter in this Vicksburg fight? Where were the land forces of Gen. Banks and the army of Gen. Grant? They were scattered about at remote points, above and below Vicksburg, op other enterprises, while all the forces of the Tebels betwoen them, up the river and down the river, and from the interior of Mississippi and Western Louisiana, were thrown into Vicksburg. The rebels ex” pected some such scattering of our forces at numerous atid widely separated points, while theirs were concentrating at the main position, the capture of which would carry all the rest, or the Richmond Hruminer would not have boasted, as it lately did, that “the Yankee forces sent against Vicksburg would never leave there except as paroled prisoners of war.” The greatest blunder of the administration from the beginning has been a too contemptible opinion of the strength and strategy of the re- bels in every important movement against them. Hardly second, however, to this funda- mental mistake is the policy which appears to govern the War Department, of holding and guarding every section of the country captured from the rebels, instead of following up their armies. But we can tell the government that under this system of territorial occupation and protection against guerillas we can never bring this war to « successful Issue; while, by the Napoleonic system’ of pushing after the principal armieg of the enemy, into the very heart of his country, regardless of smaller ob- jects, we may ond the rebellion in a single cam- paign. The mistake uf underestimating the egrength of the rebels was aptly illustrated during Sec- retary Cameron’s official trip westward from the War Office a little over a year ago. Falling in with General Shermaa on that journey, Mr. Cameron asked him what foree would be re- quired to clear out the rebels from Kentucky aud the Lewer Mississippi valley, and when General Sherman answered that the work would require gt least two hundred thousand men, he was laughed at as little better than a lunatic. The folly of attempting prematurely to hold and govern absolutely the territory captured from the fbels was very forcibly illustrated in those attempts to hold the Shenandoah val- ley which caused the defeat of General MeDow- ell at Bull run and the repulse of Gen. McClel- lan from the very gates of Richmond by the consolidated forces of the enemy. The recall of General Patterson from the Shenandoah valley to Dring up the rear of General McDowell's advance upon Manassas would have overwhelmed the rebel army, and probably would have ended the war a year ago. So, foo, the abandonment of the Shenan- doah valley, and the country between Frede- ricksburg and the Blue Ridge, with General McClellan’s advance upon Richmond, would have reinforced him to the extent of sixty thou- sand men and carried him over all impediments into the rebel capital. So, too, we apprehend, a seasonable order from Washington instructing General Grant to abandon the useless district of Northern Mississippi, and te join, with his whole force either Rosecrams or Sherman, would have resulted in the complete destruc- tion of the rebel army of Bragg or in the cap- ture of Vicksburg with a trifling loss. But Sherman ought not to have made a pro~ mature attack. He ought to have waited til! the combination was completed. See how skilfully Rosecrans won the battles of Lu-k-a, Corinth and Murfreesboro, schooled as he was by the genius of MoClellan, without ever be- | fore having fought a battle. In our gallant Union volunteers we have everything that could be desired. Their cour- age, endurance and tenacity in the battle are most admirable; but these are the pecaliar characteristics of Northern men the world over, Our soldiers have exhibited these ruling quali, ties in a hundred battles. They were splendidly displayed in the late protracted struggle at Murfreesboro; but they were never so strik, ingly exhibited as in those seven days’ battles in front of Richmond. Ageinst all bis dis- couragements and the superior numbers of the enemy, General McClellan, with their final re- pulse at Malvern Hill, would bave followed them into Richmond, bad twenty thousand fresh men come forward at that moment to the res- cue, McClellan is a good model of the steady, resolute and tenacious Northern soldier, and Rosecrans is another of the same school. Practically, we may say, too, that he was edu- cated asa military leader under the eye and instructions of McClellan, among the moun- tains of Western Virginia. The natural goaius, skill and West Point training of Gen. Rosecrans have thus been turned to the best aceount. With such leaders the heroic and stubborn endurance of the Northern soldier will ever be more than a match for the short lived impetuosity of the fiery Southron. We have the soldiers, we have the generals, we have an army and navy, which, if rightly managed, would be able to put down twice the armed forces of this rebellion. Murfreesboro is a victory-won by the skill and heroism of Rose- crans, his officers and his private soldiers; but at Vicksburg’ the skill, courage and endurance of Sherman and bis troops have failed in their first approaches because of some radical mistakes in the combinations of the War Office, Presi, Vda blwole Wak Poel impartlally review and study attentively the victory at Murfreesburo and the repulse of our army at Vicksburg, ‘Tas RavioaL Presa axp re Governor's Mus- §4G8.—The radical press is divided in opinion about Governor Seymour’s message. The Tribune takes one view, the Times takes an- other, and these two orgaus of the radicals ma- nage to use each other up as effectually as the Kilkenny cats. The Trtune, which is always intensely rabid, and foams at the mouth at the sight of any- thing conservative, jnst as a mad dog froths, foams and howls at the sight of water, calls the message “disreputable;” saya that Governor Seymour is “smooth and plausible, but will de- ceive no loyal heart,” and adds, by way of jus. tifying the praise which Governor Seymour bestowed upon the republicans for peaceably submitting to his election, that the message “is afair specimen of the dexterous dishonesty, the impudent though adroit sophistry, of the demagogue’’—meaning Governor Seymour— “whom cowardice, drunkenness and masked dis- loyalty’’--meaniug the conservative voters— “have fvistéd into the Governorship of this “State.” Evidently’ poor Greeley bas not yet reoovered from bis brain fever. A strait- jacket and cool lotions for the head are greatly required at the Zribune office. The Times is almost as insane as the Tribune, but has its lucid intervals. Just at present it is under the control of Wall. street, and, as Wall street approves, the message, the Times, ina temporary state of reason, concludes that it bad better approve the message also. Conse- quently we find it declaring that some portions of the message are “orthodox;” that it has “no quarrel with Governor Seymour upon any of these points;” that the document is “remarka- bly innocent and commonplace,” with “nothing in it to revolutionize and very little to startle the country,” and, on the whole, “substantially practical and sensible.” This answers the Tri- bune’s crazy charges very neatly and concisely, and shows that the radical party is like » house divided against itself. The Scriptures assure us that such houses and such parties cannot stand. The fact is that the radical, negro-wor- shipping party is dead. It was killed at the recent elections. Mortitication has already set in, and its corruption smells to Heaven. At the next elections we shall bury this putrid politi- eal corpse out of sight forever, and, as it has no soul, it will never see a resurrection. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Heapqvarrers, ARMY or THe Potomac, Jan. 8, 1863. ‘The usual quiet prevails throughout the camp. The Ofth army Corps, Genoral Meade, was reviewed to-day by General Burnside and stati, who pasced enco- ‘miums on the troops. INTERESTING FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Rebel View of Military Operations in that State. {From the Richwond Examiner, Jan. 6.} The Raleigh papers state that the enemy has been largely roinforced at Newborn, and that a movement has commenced, it is thought, against Wilmington. It may be that the Monitor and Galena were en rou'e to c0.ope- rate {n thts attack when the former foundered at sea. ‘The Yankee reiaforcements marched {rom Norfolk through Gates county, and thence down the Chowan to Newbern, A‘contraband,”’ who escaped from Newbern, says that Butler is in command at that point. The whole Yaukee force now at Newbern is estimeted ‘as forty thousand. IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI. Rebel Attack on ringGeld, Mo. ‘Sr. Locis, Mo. , Jan. 8, 1862. Advices frem Springfield state that a rebe! force, re- ported to be six thousand stroug, under Burbridge and Marmaduke, with six pieces of artillery, were within two miles and a half of that place, amd opened on the town without giving notice to remove the women and children. One thousand rebel cavalry in line of battle were visible from the town. General Brown has loopholed Lousea for musketry, ang wili make & vigorous resistance. NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES, Forrest's Cavalry Raids—Governor Let- cher's Message. Richmona papers of the Sth inst, contain a Mobile der fpatch of the 7th, saying @ special despatch from Grenada on the 6th atates that an aid-de-camp of General Forrest who arrived lore thie evening, reports (ue capture oi Trenton, Union City aud Humboldt. with over two th sand prisoners, two cannon aud a large amount of miseary stores, ‘The attack on Jackson, Tenn., was a feint to cover the rebel operat he railroad from bus has been + a. or’s APnuAL tneseage to the Virginia read op Weduend Tt was seven 6 lomg. In relation to the division of the State by Congress, he says Western Virginia myst necessarily be free terri 1 cannot suppose in way treaty of peace that may be agreed npen Virginix ever receguize the iy ia" territory, or eve! font to a treaty (hat wll atriy ber of any” portio domain. It is becter that this war should continue for an indefinite period, than that Virginie shalt be even par. tially diemembered. He accuses the North of vandalism without parallel in the history of warfare, aud reiterates a loug list of indignit tion. He estimates th at $454 000, “how renideuts the enemy, be removed ibey have it in information to th ‘One hundred a er givia State line at burg aud Hikeville, in kentucky are coulined at Riclmond, and the pouneed to the President the terme chauges can alone be made. Ho has in the penitentiary Captain Grab Wade, as hi for ain Dusky Vanner, vow coniived in ihe District of Columbia pent tentiary. Much Of the Message is ocouped with important maiter {From (he Rishmond Kmgutrer Governor Letcher hae selected from am soners recently seat to Richmond frem Gene 8.) ig the command the follow ing federal’ officera, who wi he! jm @triet solitary confinement as hostages for Colones! Zar- vona and others, similarly beld by the abolition gove ment:—Captain Willlam Graum, Lient. Isaac A. Wade Captain Thomas Dameroo, Lieut. Wiison Dameron, John W. Howe, Isaac Goble, David V. Avmer, Samuel Pack and William 1. Dilla. ‘They have been duly consignel to the State prison and confined in appropriate cells. Arrival of the Empire City. The Cuited State steam trausport Empire City, Caps. Baxter, arrived at (his port yesterday morning, from New Orleans December 27, via Key West January 3, cov. signed to the United States Assistant Quartermaster. She brings the following passengers :— Captain James B. Hill, Fourteenth Maine regiment; Captain Wm. de Chase, Yourteenth Matue regiment; Mrs. and child, ond five of the crow of the ship Thomas 3 _ sent bome by the commanding officer at Key rest Newe from San San Francisco, Jau. #, 1863 Sandwich Islonde dates to the 20th ultimo have been re- ceived, The President's Message was pablished ia tbe Honolulu papers fourteen days after its delivery. ip Cyclono, eleven days from San Fr Honolulu 16th; ebip King Fisher passed 14) The total wots, 80 far raised in the islands in the past seagon, are cxtimated at 4,700,000 lbs, Sailed from Honokiiu provious te the ilth Isabella, Emily Morgan, Nassan, ports, and sbip Radvga, for Boston ancisco, pasved wh whalers Lasp, Jan. § Seotian, e here Thore are ho signs of the with later dates from Furope jan. 4, 1 diana Legislature convened this mornin + ng was “olecfed President of the Seu Buskirk Speaker of the Mowe Th ce rvajerity in beth) tnew Lue Wer ere » divmenad @ ul We ay are ee eguN aod Milo,ali for home | 4 nnn eee ee ‘THE FINANCE BILL. Gome important alterations were made ia the Finased Dil! by the Committes of Ways and Means at the inst se’ meat before it was reported in the House to-day, Te Bubstitute proposed a8 am amendmont by Mr. Stevee! cannot pass. This mattor is justly regarded by the mem” bers ax the most important businoss in Congress thia winter. oi ‘MR, SHERMAN ON TAXING BANK BILLS, ‘Mr. Sherman's speech to-day was extraordinary @ potnt of both time and character. It was beard by tha bank interest Im the Senate, and the mdications are that iS will be heeded. It was a sort of pronunciamiento ot Sooretary Chase to the effect that the bank note oiroula- tion of one hundred and gixty-nme millions of dotlare which the banks now owe to the public should be served to that public by the government. Mr. Sherman eouncia- ted all the leading ideas of democratic financiers in the last quarter of a century. He stated that if bank noted could be withdrawn from circulation and government paper be made to take their place, there would benenced of @ further laaue of Treasury notes. Many republican Senators conferred with Mr. Sherman at the closest bis remarks. ‘* AFFAIRS AT VICKSBURG. It is underetood that General Dix telegraphed bither to- day, stating that Richmond papers are boasting that the- federal forces had been driven back at Vicksburg wit great loss. It is clear by the advices to-day that the rebels have strong forces at all important points which aremenated by our columns. Shallow people have assumed that they have had no large numbers in the aggregate, but maa” aged to throw their armies from one extrome polat te another, aid thus bold our armies én obeck, The apprehensions generally entertained for the safety of General Sherman at Vicksburg are not shared by the gevernment, Hoe has probably ere this been retaferced by the arrival of Gen. Grant's army, which was direeted to unite with him. ‘It was not expected that Gen. Banks or Admiral Fatragut would support Geo. Sherman; bet they were to reduce the rebel fortifications at Port Hud- gon, which ts essential to the breaking up of the rebel gute- way for sending out cottom and bringing it beef cattle, which bag been carried on to. @ very great extent between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, CAPTURE OF THB REBEL IRON STEAMER VIRGINIA. Tho Navy Department bas received intelligence from Acting Rear Admiral Wilkes, commanding the West India squadron, of the capture of the rebel iron steamer Vie- ginia. “ It ts believed by those Interested in Mexican affairs that the cupture of the rebel steamer Virginia by Com” modore Wilkes was made in Mexican waters, aud appre- honsions are entertained that it may load to a troublesome controversy, The details of the capture haye not yet, however, reached the government. A NEW REPUBLICAN WAR PLATFORM, Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, leader of the republicans in the House, made a uew declaration of war during the debate this afternoow, He declared that the States in rebellion are out of the Union by the action of their Legislatures and their prosecution of the war, an@ therefore the constitution *~ longer applies to them. Mr, Stevens’ position was at, <«d by Mr. Kerrigan, of New York, aad others, and it is generally conceded that he was wed up in the debate, Some of the republican members protested against Mr, Stevens’ doctrines, argu- ing that "by no act of their own could any State detatch itself from the Union. - SENATOR SAULSBURY'S ATTACK ON THE PRESIDENT. Senator Saulebury’s apeech to-day more critically and severoly assailed the official integrity of Presideat Lin, coln than any that has before veen delivered in Congress. NEW SNOLANDRES TRADING WITH THE REBELS, ~ Tt has been ascertained by the government detectives that parjies in New England bave been extensively en- gaged ic manufacturing and selling to the rebels shoes and other goods, which are shipped frst to Canads and from thence to Nassau, where they are reshipped in small ves, ~ sels to ru the plockade, ‘Thus it appears that the New Englanders s10 making money out of the war from bot sides of the tines, MECHYTIONS At THE WHITE MOUSE.” ‘The receptions on Saturdays Qt the Kxecutive mansion, by Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, are to be resumed this weet, There are to be no wore public receptions by the Pres!, dent before the adjournment of Congress. NOMPIATIONS BY 7HB PRESIDENT. Thetollowing surgeons were sominated by the Presi, dent to-day as medical inspectors, authorized by the recent act of Congress:—James K. Barnes, John E. Sum nor, Frank H. Gamilton, Peter Pince, George W. Stiff, A, C, Hamlin, N. 8. Townsend, George K. Johnson. ROBERT J. WALKER ON FINANCE. Itis understocd that the Hon. Robert J, Walker bas prepared a treatise upon finance, in which heavily sus- tains Lhe ylews Of Secretary Cheese. APPOINTMENT CONFIRMED. The nomination of Mr. Usher as Secretary of the Ine terior was confirmed by the Senate this afternoon. MARINE CORPS. Mr. iiickman’s bill te promote the efficiency of the Marine corpe applies to it the provisions for retiring naval officers, IMPORTANT MILITARY ROAD. The amendment offered by Mr. Clements to the Mlinsig and Michigan Canal bill provides for the construction, under the direction of the Secretary of War, of a military road froth Danville, Ky., in the direction of Chattanoogs, Tenn, ‘Three million dollars are appropriated for the work. This is the same rouie which the President doomed necessary amd wanted to bave constructed under the war power, until le was prevented by am .act 0 Congress PROTECTION OF OVERLAND EMIGRANTS. A Dili has been reported by the Military Comznittes of } the Sonate, appropriating thirty thousand dotiars for the | Protection of overland omigrants to the Pacific. | DINNER 10 MR. VALLANDIOMAM, It is #tated that @ public dinner ts soon to be tendered - | to Mr. Vallandigham by his friends, He says that the pecple are abead of the politicians in the desire for peace, aud that reunion of the South aud most of the States or the North sad West is a necessity, and is therefore prac- tical. onrvany. Two of the oldest and most colebrated oThcers of the Troasury Department have passed away. Richara FI® died this miorniog Me had faithfully performed the doties of examnaing elerk for Wairty-five years. Hon. Klieba Whittierey. First Comptrotier of the Treasury, died suddenly last night, after having attended to businessar usual during the day, Mr. W. aequireda world-wide reputation as an ineorruptivle public officer» having Gilet the poeition ef Comptrolier for several Pres devtint terms in euecession, excepting that of Mr. Bu, chanan. He was upwards of eixty years of ago. One of the | striking points of bis offelal ebaracter was the calmoess and justice with which he acted upen any claim. Whether new or old, large or emat!, or whotoever the parties pre~ senting the claim, if it was legal it was allowed without hesitation, There are those here whe resort to every ox- Pedient to frustrate or procraatinate tho allowance of claims, Mr. W, worked many moré than ordinary office hours, and to this fact at bis advanced age hie decenge is attributable ‘Tae Corowe. of te Furrexsrm New Youre Voucs- 1eeee—Promotion —The Governors las promoted Liew- teuant Colonel! Clinton G. Colgate te the commaad of the Fitteenth regiment Now York State Volunteers, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Colonel J. Me Leod Murphy, whe, it ie understood, is transferred to the naval service. Colonel Colgate 9 a mative of this city, end twenty-eight years of age. Immodiately after the com- mencement of hostilities be went with his rogiment, “the gallant Seventh,” to the defence of Washington, and served bis time rsa private. On bis return he wam tendered & comm /s#ion ae captain in the Thirty-seventh ; but, before aceepting, he was unanimously elected Major of the Fifteenib, with which regiment he has participated in most of the battles of Virginia, iseluding the sovem days Oght before Richmond, The Biockading Fleet of Charleston. ‘The blockading squadron off Charleston on the 234 ult compriged about thirty vessels, ali under tteam, Soma | of them are new and part gunboats, and they are sta tioned aloug the entire outlet from ( ston, gaweding every channet or sulet, Sixteen of thom lay off Charlem ton, in the very aight of Sumter and the shore batteries, 30 comptete a the blockade It will bea very difile colt matiog for craft, large or small enter tq harvor day or nigt the strictest lor s kept Crom, every ship, and ootning, Wo think, cau pass mnobserved. {rhe foot it charge Of Captain Gordon, of tho frigate | Pewbatan, who i sesoud in command, The healtly of the } uticors aud crews of the various shipe and gutboaty Iw tas The wealber at limes ts very cold and then ite or oon r the waot of @ ant vorotah on than Ohay mod, ¢ glass being down to zero pelter seony