The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1863, Page 4

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Neither corporation nor individual shinplasters are re- coived at this office. National postal currency ouiy will be taken for fractional parts of a dollar. THE SITUATION. The news from Missouri to-day is important. General Curtis telegraphed yesterday to General Halleck that our troops under Colonel Crabb, at Springfield, had repulsed the rebels at that place at every advance, and then held the town. Our men behaved gallantly. We lost only seventeen kilied. Tho enemy were in full retreat, and Gen. Curtis had three columns in pursuit of them. Thirty-five of the rebels were killed anda large number of wounded were left in our handa. Major Collins had a fight with the ‘rebels four thousand strong at Hartsville, on Saturday, and drove them five miles. Our force numbered only seven hundred and the enemy had five pieces of artillery. The action continued till Sunday even- ing. The rebels lost thirty-five killed and one hundred and fifty wounded. There is no change in the movement of our troops at Vicksburg since the withdrawal of Gene- ral Sherman's expedition and the succession of General McClerpand to the command. The strength of the rebel defences render an attack there use- Less. A council of war was held on Sunday last on board the Tigress, which vessel for the present has been selected by General McClernand ‘as his headquarters. Admiral Porter, Major Generals Sherman and McClernand, with the Generals of the divisions of the army in Kentucky were present. It was determined at this council that it would be folly again to attempt anything further against Vicks- barg with the present force. The rebels had means of communication by which they were too rapidl and heavily reinforced, while the Unionists had no such opportunity or prospect of receiving reinforcements. It was, therefore, deemed expe- dient that the campaign should be ubandoned, or that Vicksburg should be operated against from some other point of attack, A telegraphic despatch from General Pemberton | to the rebel Secretary of War, dated on the 8th, mays that all the Union’ troops have gone up the ceiver; that there were only seven gunboats be- tween Vicksburg and Milliken’s Bend, and that the city was being strengthened every day, and could be maintained against all attacks. The re- position and movements of our troops, and by g0- ing with his usual daring and audacity within their Maes and around our army, he was eminently suc. cessful, and the results are considered very im portant. vf Despatches from Chattanooga say that Gen. Bragg will make his line of defence between Winchester and Shelbyville; that it is not thought Roseorans’ army will be ready to do anything for a month, and that the rebel expeditions in West Tennessee and Kentucky haye been most successful, and wil) bring good fruits. The troops, as a:general thing, it says, approved General Bragg’s course in falling back. His troops were tuo much exhausted to remain longer on the ficld. ~ Tho loss in kifled and wounded #¢ Murfreesboro 18 put down now at 9,000. CONGRESS. Both houses of Congress ‘transacted a lange amount of business yesterday, but we have only space to recapitulate the principal points of the proceedings. In the Senate the bill providing for a farther igsne of bonds and United States notes, with a view to the prompt payment of the army and navy, was passed, A resolution requesting the President to [inform the Senate what measures have been taken to enforce the Confiscation bill, and if any addi- tional legislation is necessary for the enforcement of such act, was adopted. A reselution request ing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to report the causes of the non-exccution of the Confiscation act, especially in the District’of Co- lumbia, was adopted. Notice was given of a bill for the consolidation of regiments in the field, and to facilitate the return of absentees from the army. The bill reorgsuizing the Court of Claims was briefly discussed. ‘ihe bil relative to arbi- trary arrests was taken up, and Mr, Wilkinson, of Minnesota, made a speech, in which he charged the democrats with plotting to break up the go- vernment, and Quartermaster General Meigs and Adjutant General Thomas with disloyalty, The bill to raise volunteers for the defence of Ken- tucky was passed by a vote of 23 against 13. The bill appropriating $886,600 for an arsenal and ord nance depot in New York harbor was postponed, The bill reimbursing Minnesota for expenses on account of the Indian outbreak was then taken up and discussed till the adjournment. In the House of Representatives a resolution to discharge the Ways and Mcans Committee from the further consideration of the bill reducing the duty on imported paper, and that the same be considered in the House forthwith, was laid on the table. The committce were instructed to inquire into the expediency of reducing the duty on rags. A joint resolution, ratifying and approving of the President’s omancipation proclamation was intro- duced, and a motion to lay it on the table was dis- agreed to—fifty against eighty-five. The subject was then referred to the Judiciary Committee. A resolution directing inquiry as to the expediency of granting one hundred and sixty acres of land of any confiscated rebel plantaion to soldiers was adopted by @ vote of 66 against 59. A resolution was - adopted instructing the Committee on Naval Afairs to inquire into the expediency of laying tele graph cable from Fortress Monroe and intermedi- ate points to New Orleans. A select committee of five was ordered toinquire into the necessity and expediency of establishing # military and pos- tal road from the city of New York to the city of Washington, in order to facilitate the transporta- tion of mails, arms, troops and munitions of war. ‘Mr. Stevens introduced a bill providing for the em- ployinent of 150,000 negroes in the military service. A motion to lay it on the table was lost—63 against 83--and the bill was then laid aside till Wednesday week. In Committee of the Whole the bill providing ways and means for the support of the government’ was taken up, and Mr. Spaulding delivered an important speech on the subject. He concluded by saying that by military success only“could the national finances be main- tained and the Union restored. THE LEGISLATURE. : The Senate of our State Legislature held @ short session yesterday evening. But little business, however, was transacted. Inthe Assembly a com- mittee of three was appointed to confer with the Adjutant General of the State in reference to the restoration of the Assembly Library chamber, now used by him. The contest for Speaker was then resumed, and five ballotings were gone through with, making fifty-three in all eince the first day of the session; but there was no clection nor any new phase developed to vary the monotony of this tire- some proceeding, the vote still remaining a tie be- tween Messrs. Dean ond Sherwood—forty-one each. The Assembly then adjourned till eleven o'clock to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The mails of the Africa reached this city from Boston early yesterday morning. Our iiles are dated to the 27th of December. The papers contain interesting details of the news—telegraphed from Halifax—-which We give in the Hrnap to-day. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yes, terday the Finance Committee reported in favor of authorizing the issue of $50,000 of Central Park Fund stock. The report was ordered to be published in the Corporation papers and also in the Hexa.p, and then made the special order for the next meeting. The City Inspector's annual report was also ordered to be published in the above mentioned papers. The Auditor's report was or- | dered to be printed. By the report of the Finance Department there was a balance in the treasury on the 10th inst. of $2,047,484. After the transac- tion of some unimportant routine business the Board adjourned till Monday next. A regular meeting of the Board of Councilmen was held last evening. A resolution te appropriat® the sum of $800 to purchase a sword, sash and beit for presentation to General Meagher was offered by the President, and, on motion, laid over. The re- mainder of the business transacted was of a rou’ tine nature. The committees will probably be ap- pointed on Monday next, to which day the Board | adjourned, at five o'clock P. M. bel Generals Pemberton and Price are in com. | According to the City Inspector's report there mand there. The rebel forses have been rein- forced to the extent of sixty thousand men. They | have an artillery force of one hundred and siaty guns in battery, besides a large number of field | Our losses in the expedition are from two | Pieces. thousand five huodred to three thousand in killed, wounded and missing. The enemy's loss is un- known, but it must have been large. Captain Gwin, of the United States ganboat Benton, has died of his wounds. We learn from Charleston that intelligence was recoived at San Antonio, Texas, « f the landing of | four thousand French troops at Matamoros, and | that they had taken possession of the town. We give som vt Southern papers to-day t extracts from the ©. Davis has been making another speech at Mobile, in which he talks hopefully and boasti of the ultimate success of the South over ‘the Yankees, who are socking de- grading servitude with themselves. with a baboon | to enchain us in the same | Judge Leonard p | Wednesday, a © “pe Si | fore City Judge McCunn, & pan | were 433 deaths in the city during the past weok— an increase of 113 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 63 more than occurred | during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcohol- -ism, 90 of dis # of the brain and nerves, | 8 of the generative organs, 15 of and blood vessels, 181 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 5 of old a fevers, 5 premature births, 50 of diseases of the 26 of stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; uncertain seat and general fevers, 7 of d of the urinary organs, 11 from violeut cy Lunknown. There were 308 natives of States, 8 of England, 81 of Ireland ny, and the balance of vari The Court of Oyer and T EAD : erday, 1 until core not be- iner met ye ng in atten | tr slaughter ou was, on application of prise down for Thursday. In the Court of General Sesr d the slip Francis B. Cy el, act tet Jurors was sworn, of which Eben B, ( et, Wes the heart | 24 of diseases of the skin and eruptive | appointed foreman. In his charge to the jury Judge McCunn stated that it was a great satisfac- tion to know that notwithstanding the city had, during the past year, been frequently filed with returning soldiers, camp followers, and others thrown out of employment, crime had not in- ercased im our community, and but one soldier had been brought beforehim charged with a serious offence. In these times of trouble apd of beated political passion he charged thetn to be doubly cautious and thoroughly impartial in their investi- gations touching any acts of public men, and sug- gested te them the propriety of sending, in the first instanee, papers presented to them for inves- tigation te come magistrate, whereby they would receive & more thorough investigation. After the Grand Jury had retired to their Isbors the trial of Laura Mortimer, an alleged shoplifter, indicted for petit larceny in atealing ten dollars worth of silk goods from No, 412 Broadway, on the 20th of No- vember last, was concluded, The roe brought in @ verdict of guilty, the pr of wha re- manded for sentence. Tho New Jersey Legislature will meet t6-dey at Trenton, Both houses being) conservative, an or- | ganization will probably be immediately effected, and Governor Olden’s message. sent in. Governor” Parker will not be inauguratéd until the 20th. A general convention of canal hoatmen will be held to-day in Syracuse. The convention will be composed of what are termed “ wild boatmen,”” who are_owners of boata not belonging to lines or formed into associations. The object is to get rid ‘of the. many charges and exactions to which they have heretofore been subjected by the commission men or ‘‘acalpers,”’ and to prevent the control and monopoly of prices by the large association. ‘The stock market was again extremely buoyant yeater. day, and prices of all tho speculative shares werM@™again considerably higher—the advance of the day being equal to an average of 3a 4 percent. Government stocks were lower. Gold advanced to 142, closing at 141%. Exchange rose to 16644 157. Money was easy at § per cont. The bank statement shows an increage of $3,715,003 in de- posite, $2,006,001 in loans, and $816,196 in specie. Cotton was sold yesterday to the extent of -1,200 bales, at 69c, a 6955c. for middling. lour advanced 10c. 4 lic, wheat 2c, a 3c., and corn Ic., with fair sales. Sugars; coffee and New Orleans molasses were in lively demand, and wero firmer. There was more activity in provisions» and heg products were higher. ‘The transactions in spices and whiskey were more extensive. Freights wero firm and more active. Highly Important Manifesto—Revolu- tion in the Senato. One of the most important State papers that has appeared since the beginning of the war ig the subjoined manifesto, unanimously adopted by the republican members of the United States Senate, representing more than two-thirds of the Northern States, and constituting an over. whelming majority :+- RESOLUTIONS OF THE REPUBLICAN MEMUERS OF THE CNITED STATIS BANATE. First—the only course of sustaining this government, and resoving and preserving the naticnat existence, and perpelu- ating the national integrity, is by a vigorous and successful prosecution of the war—the same being a patriotic ard just war on the part of this nation, produced by, and ren- dered necessary to suppress, @ causeless aud atrocjuus rebellion. Second—The theery of our government, and the early and uniform practical construction thereof, ts that the J’resident should te atded by a Gabimat Corencit aarecing sh ee olitical principles and genera: and that all importan Public psc and ‘appoint toate choald be the result of their combined wisdom and delfberation. This most obvi- ‘onsly nesessary condition of things, without which no administration can succeed, we and tho public believe does not now exist; and therefore such selections amd changes in ta members should be made as will secure to the country wti'y of purpose and action in alt matertal and, erential , more especially in the present crisis of public athirs. Third—The Cabinet should be exclustcely compored of statesmen ros) are the esi pe beget aay neal inceples ani abcv: P Fourth le unwiao and Unaato fo committe direction, conduct or execution of avy important military opcra- tion or separate general commend or enterprisé in this ‘war to apy ono who ia not a cordial believer and sup- =a gd the same, principles and purposes firet above a James Dixon, Connecticut. Charlee Sumner, Mass. L. 8. Foster, Connecticut. Wilaon, Mass. 0. H. Browning, Hlinois. ‘Yacheriah » Mich. , Lymap Trumbull, Winois. Daniel R. Clark, ¥. H. James Harlan, Iowa. John P. Hale, N. If. J. W. Grimes, luwa. Preston King, York. 8.¢. ea Ira Harris, York. Lot M. Morrill, Maine. B. F. Wade, Olio. ‘Wm. P. Fessenden, Mame. John Sherman, Ohio. Samuel G. Arnold, R. 1. David Wilmot, Pa. B. Apibony, B. I. Edger Cowan, Pa. Foot, Vermont. J. R. Doolittle, Wisconsin. Jacob Collamer, Vermont. T. 0. Howe, Wisconsin. This paper has been presented to the President by 8 committee of nine, and the Senators who have agreed to it await the action of the Executive. Under the circumstances in which the country is now placed it is the most important public document that has seen the light in this country for many years. It will be perceived that a revolution has been wrought in the minds of the republican Sena tors, and that they have become conservative, The heads of the republican party, enlightened “by the elections, have abandoned their dis- tinctive tenets, aud have leid down a platform on which the whole conservatives of the country can safely stand—a platform essentially the same as that ef the message of Governor Sey- mour to the New York Legislature. There are no longer, therefore, two parties, but one, and that a conservative party. The revolutionary destructives of the Greeley and Garrison school have received # mortal blow, and light dawas in the east. The republicans of the Senate have come over to the views of the Hxnato, and they call on the President to carry them out by removing from his Cabinet Stanton, Welles and Chase, and to replace them by such able and conservative statesmen as Mr, Seward. Alarmed at the breakers ablead, and a leeshore to which the ship of State is fast drifting, they advise the commander to chauge his pilot and his helmsman, and to throw over board all that is calculated to endanger the safety of the gallant vessel, and, having made her trim, to keep her head to the wind, so that she may weather the storm, They ig- nore radicalism, the negro question and procla- | mations; in fact, they virtually advise the Pre- sident to put aside all such ideas, and to set about restoring and preserving the national ex- istence by a vigorous and succeseful prosecu- tion of the war. In the Olympic games the athletes who contended for the prize cast aside every article of clothing that could weigh them down or encumber their free movements. So | must the Executive of the United States act if he intends to win the glorious prize of a Union restored and a nation saved. Visionary theories must be cast to the winds, and there must be a singleness of purpose such as will | unite the whole people of the loyal States, and not a distracting policy antagonistic to the constitution, calculated only to divide and em- barrass the Northern population, while it ce- ments together every interest cf the South, and combines its whole people as one man against the federal government. A howse div ded against itself cannot stand, To restore the revolted States we must first divide their popu- lation, severing the masses from the leaders. To be successful in doing so we must be united ourselves. To be unitea it is necessary that the bond of union should be on a simple idea. In order to success, therefore, it is absolute. ly necessary for the President to “make such selections and ch sin the Cabinet as will se- | cure to the co y unity of purpose and action in all material aud essential respects;” and | “the Cabinet should be exclusively composed of statesmen who are the cordial, resolute, wavering supperters of the principles and pv r- poses first above stated.” These are the doc- 1837. Every one then had an attack of the j trines which we have inoulcated again and morus multicaulis, and expected to become rich | again. The duty of Mr. Lincoln is plain. by breeding silkworms. Spare rooms were set In obedience to the voice of the coun’ try and the desire of two-thirds of the Senate, reprosenting the sopublican party, he ought to get rid of the imbeciles of the administration who have so mismanaged thelr departm ents as to bring the repadiis to | the brink of ruin, and to fill their places "ith men like Siz, Seward, who has so admirably managed his department as to stave off the danger of foreign war, and confine the conflict to its legitimate area, I¢ ie in vain that aside for the cocoons, and mulberry leaves were at a premiam. During this insanity a couple of ladies entered the greenroom of a florist to purchase a bouquet, The ladies wis’ ed to examine, compare and select their »” Ay: but +M4 Ganiat had hia ailieas ott HME MUA iOe eee eee yee VOI WO F after. “There is the bouquet,” said he; “take it or not, as you please; but don’t delay me, for my time is worth tifty dollars # minute.” Brokers in Wall street now talk in the same style; but greenbacks, not silkworms, are their he has performed his part in the programme, when the Seoretaries of War, the Navy and the Treasury so blunder in their departments that | Chase’s bill, authorizing the issue of three hun- disaster follows disaster, and failure folloys | dred millions more of paper money. Suppose failure, on*the land and on the sea, while finan | the bill should not pass, where would the cial ruin stares the nation in the face. Time | brokers be then? Suppose the bill does pass flies. Before the Jet of May the Union must | where.will the country be thent Speculation bo saved. At that date. somo three hud | goeth before destruction, and~a rise in the dred thousand ‘of the: troops wilt bo mustet- | market hofore » fall, Brethren, let us watch ed out of the serviee—both the nine months | and pray, and keep out of Wall street and men and the two years men—veterans whose | temptation. ‘Toss cannot be soon replaced. Now ia the time’ | gi. 5. for'exertion. There is scarcely five months in which to gloriously succeed or disgracefully fail. A war of such magnitude cannot be car- ried on forever. To insure success the Cabinet must be a conservative unit of the same stamp as Mr. Seward, and its priacipal departments must be presided over by men like him of de- cided ability, wise to plan and bold and prompt Keone 'Mis Walia eater aad of ho detciment to execiite, Will Mr. Lincoln decide? to the rebellion. Thus far they have merely The Galveston Disaster—The Surprises | offered facilities to that harpy host of cotton of the War. speculators who have been the ourse and shame From all the facts before us, the late de- | of all our Southern armies, while also offering plorable disaster of the recapture of Galveston, | 9 rich field to some of the Gideonites and other Texas, by the rebels, appears as one of the | philanthropic jobbers who have made for- monomania. All the excitement they have raised is in anticipation of the passage of Jopsine anv N&oRd SrRsting.—Up to this time the Department of the South has pre- sented one of the very worst illustrations of that “pepper box strategy” which has done so much to render our forces useless and unsuc. cessful by scattering small fractions of our troops over great extents of territory. The islands we occupy along the coast are of no most complete surprises of the war. But ifour | tunes by the plunder of the igno- commanding offeer late in charge of thatim-| rant negroes entrusted te their care. portant position was not sufficiently vigilant, | Sutiers and extortioners of © all kinds and was too incredulous of danger, we can | have also thriven in this department; and we overlook the fault, in view of his glorious | have already had ample evidence that nigger- death and of the heroic resistance of his officers | howling Governors of States, and tho brothers 4nd men, on ship and shore, to the unexpected, | of pigger-howling Congressmen, have not deadly and overwhelming assault of the rebel | nought it beneath their humanitarian notice to forces. This sad affair, however, is very sug. | enrich themselves by retailing luxuries to the gestive; and in recalling various other disas- soldiers of the department at extravagant trous surprises of the war it is to be hoped that | prices, and purchasing timber at the price of an they will serve a3 useful warnings hereafter to | old song from some> shortsighted and obliging our land and naval forces in every quarter, and | official, which timber they again immediately to the government. resold to the government at an advance of one In the autumn of 1861 our blockading squad- | thousand per cent. ron at the head of the delta of the Mississippi Now that General Hunter returns to the was surprised by Captain Hollins with his | department, we trust a stop will be put to all nondescript turtle and mosquito ficet, and» | these practices, and that our troops there will although in that disgracetul affair the rebels | be reinforced up to @ standard enabling them were beaten off without any material loss} to take the field upon the mainland on our side, it was a narrow escape. It} with some- chance .of coping with the was by a sort of surprise that the rebel steamer | forces prepared by General Beauregard to Nashville slipped into Beaufort, N. C., and.then | meet them. Kither withdraw every soldier slipped out again. Then again, after repeated | from the seacoast islands, whore they now only warnings, running through several months, the | serveto protect white regues and negro run- | tune in» moment. i rebel iron-clad Merrimag not only surprised jpaways, or let,the-command of General Hunter and partially destroyed our blockading fleet in | be enlarged up to the standard of the requisi- Hampton Roads, but completely surprised the | tions made by him upon the Secretary of War “Ancient Mariner” at the head of the Navy | jest spring. A strong force attacking Charles- Department, and would probably have next | ton or Savannah, or threatening both, would at surprised all hands at Washington but for the | jeast have the good effect of keeping a large’ timely sppearance at the scene of action of | number of the enemy employed fh watching for Captain Ericsson’s experimental “‘cheesebox | the hour of assault. But, situated as affairs are on a raft.” now, the enemy know pefectly well the cities But while, upon the whole, our naval forees | named are in no danger, and can therefore have suffered from comparatively few surprises, | afford to send every available mn to the sup- the surprises of the army, from the beginning | port of whichever of their armies may most of the war, have been too numerous to mention | need assistance. Apart from his politice— Those which stand out in tc boldest relief are | which, as we hear, he hae determined to sup- the surprise at Ball’s Bluff, on the Petomae, | press hereafter—all know General Hunter as resulting in that terrible slaughter of the de- | an able, brave and energetic officer, and we tachment of Union troops sent over the river at | trust that may this time be supplied with all that point; the surprise of General Banks in | the troops he needs to necomplish his purposes. the Shenandeah valley, and resulting in his 4 masterly retreat; the surprise created at Wash- | TH Heratp Errors No Aaexts.—We have ington by the appearance on the right wing | £° frequently and so emphatically stated that of General McClellan’s army before Richmond | *#¢ Hxnatp employs no agents to solicit and of the whole army of Stonewall.Jackson from | Teceive subscriptions and advertisements that the Shenandoah valley, while sixty thousand | ¥ imagined every one who knew anything Union troops were scattered about from Frede- | *bout the Heratp must be aware of our inva- ricksburg to various places in seid valley to | Mable practice in this regard. 1t seems, how- watch him; the surprise of the Unien army at | Ver that some persons yet allow themselves Shiloh; the disastrous surprise at Harper's | ' be swindled out of their money by scoundrels Ferry, which can hardly be called a surprise; | Pretending to be our agents; and among other the disgraceful surprise and surrender at Mun- | ¢vidences of this fact we have roceived the fordsvilie, Kentucky; the surprise of the rebel following receipt, printed in red ink and deco- Stuart’s cavairy raid into Maryland and Penn- | Tated with wood cuts of an Indian and an sylvania; the surprises of the rebel Morgan’s | C#s!e:— foray and of Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky; the sain expensive surprise at Holly Springs, Mississippi, with its losses of cotton and army supplies; and the surprise of the right wing of the army’of General Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, which, un- | der any other than a skilful, courageous, salf. | . We really cannot understand how any one possessed and able general, would have resuit- | °0uld be duped by a cheat so transparent: ed in a terrible defoat. The receipt bas not even the name of the Tho rebels, too, have“oceasionally surprised | H##ALD printed upon it, nor is the price. de- us with their mysterious evacuations of places | Manded anything like our terms. We repeat, which were getting too hot to hold them, sucb as | however, that we bave no agents of any kind the evacuations of Manassas, Corinth, Norfolk | Whatever, and that all money for subscriptions and Yorktown. They, too, however, have guf- | Should be sent by mail. If all our readers will fered from surprises, particularly from General | Make a note of this and tell it to their friends McClellan, among the morintains of Western | V¢ shall be troubled with no more applications Virginia; from General Mitchel in Northern | for papers for which we have received no Alabama and Mississippi, and ‘from General | ™oney, and innocent folk will, be robbed of Curtis and others in Missouri and Arkansas, | 9 more cash by impudent, pretended agents. But the rebels have never been taken by sur- | The price of the daily Heap is three cents prise in any great engagement, and in every acopy, that of the Wexxiy Henitp two dol- way we have suffered’more and lost immensely | }#T™ @ year, and those who subscribe for them more from surprises than the enemy. | Will secure the two cheapest and best news. These advantages on the side of the rebellion | P@pers in the world. are chargeable partly to bad management in the dispositions of our forces, partly to the in- competency or negligence of our commanders | Page bycpierry nati ava, crore, eg io at exposed positions, partly to the temptations | yp, Branch was a native North Carolinian, having nical held out of valuable stores of army supplies | born in Halifax county, in that State, in November, 1782, under the care of a handful of men, but mainly | and keteeering ca Rani tr ot bi Hien Boe with we exception of suc! were devot to the prirkening . - Sag bs des crea ber charge of public duties, either in the capital of bis fons ag Govemnor or in the capital of bis country as United oaks of the rebels. a thabens ast we Staten fesator. ae received Ae eatin ia the ‘univer. we urge upon Presiden: coln, as tl eity at , where ual i, aué of the army and the navy, the duty of enforcing caterlir. ‘Sean Einywood, 8 dutingviabes iets, th Ff a sweeping reform, and of promptly punishing STrsceatyous cmtnt vn encanto aoe hereafter the parties responsible for any such mect of bis patrimonial cstate, and thus be became a which our army in Tennessee and all our ac- ¢ is term Dresidy that ly. quisitions from the rebellion in the West were Governor of hie, Sate, sari of are eas ‘bree placed in jeopardy We should like to have years, {rom 1818 te 1e2i, Subsequently Preeident Monroe one surprise, howeve® that would be of value which, however, Mr. Bran tendered bim the commission Judge io the Flor.das, ob dectined. He was a second to the nation: to hear of some brains in Wash- thet voay wes slconea ta tae Senate of the United States, ington. naenene: Naw Yorx Cirr, Dec. 2, 186: Tho Daily Hrxarp from December 13th, 1862, to De- cember 13th, 1863. Nos. 311 papers. Received payment in full on account. $5 00. $5 00. G. HARTMAN, For J. G. Buxyerr, Proprietor. AONE LE OL EDIOLOLE DONE LO UOLOLORE ODO Obituary. DEATH OF BX-GOVERNOR BRANCH. ‘of hie native State, and trom in which he served @ full term, and to which he was re- elected, He bad but just taken bie seat for # second term of service when be was nominated by President vackson and confirmed by the Souate Secretary of tho Navy, the duties of which were officiently discharged by 0 Of Mr. Branch, and where his decease, is situated op the Retiroad, and as yet witbio that it] consigned to recesh, and subject Watt Street Goxe Ur in 4 Battoon.—The excitement in Wall street yesterday was tre- | mendous. The whole market was inflated, and some stocks advanced, ata single leap, twenty | per cent. Gold went up to 142. Speoula- iors seem to have gone wild with the frenzy of sudden wealth. Law’s Mississippi scheme and the great South Sea bubble are about to be surpassed. If you stop a broker to speak to him he looks at his watch, waves you petit Wittente, who wes promoted from a Quartermes. off, and rushes away as if he had lost a for- | ger to an Acting Master's Muto for bis bravery in the We remember a period of | cau sercors ims enon fer Ligaen ‘eaeen tea promo for bis gallant insanity ogarly similar just before the crisis of | night issn the Wouter f foundered Pewee eee him. " Fnvotd, tho bk he resided at the Weldon and Wilma ortion of the State portion eevevils, at tho presout and in the future arising from the rebellion. With this sad conviction, on his mad, and already suitering therefrom in the death uch, who fell at Newbern, this venerable oc 4B After yoars of patriotic service, is gathered gonar! to bis fi 0 to The Navy. of a near rolative, & supporter of that rebellion, Lawrence | | afternoon that the inmates wore aware of the fact. Wasurxatow, Ina.’ 1%, 1863. REPORTED RETIREMENT OF BECRETAKY OF WAlyst4 ‘TOM AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY WATSON, “" Some three mouths sities this corres; = | Mears. cemith al leave Whe Cabinet abou —— the Ist of January, It is now stated among the friend } gt My, Stanton, and hid assistant, Mr. Watson, that boul | of them embarked in the service of the government for | single year, with a viow to give an impulse to the affair Of the War Department, and that year being now near i expiration, it bas been signified that thoy wiil retire, MR. SPAULDING'S SPHRCH ON THE FINANORS. ‘The speech of Mr, Spaulding, of New York, in the House to-day, produced a marked effect, The statistics set forth Btartied most of the members, MISMANAGEMENT OF MILITARY AYP AIRS—THR UBKALD'S BATTLE KerORTS. . ‘The Hexacp is not alone in attributing a leok of brains to the military management of things hore, Eminont republican Senators could be named who have laiterty used the same language. Inthe seme quarter much ad~ DESPONDENCY AMONG THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS. ‘This day bas beta’a dark one indeed in the Sendte. We have had none of the pessuasive eloquence aad oratory of a on“ fayorof the preservation ofan existing nor hile there been a Webster to riiso his voice in 6 our to demand of his countrymen to ‘hear him for bis cause,” but instead wohave bad today bewailing and despairing speeches from prominent republican Senshi, ‘Mr. Hale said that he had 00 beart to consider email measures when the ‘existence of the mation trembled in * the balances,’’ referring to the effort to get up a bill to reorganize the Court of Claims. He anid that & was & measure to benelit lame ducks whom the people hed reprobated. . On the bill to authorize the employment of a Home Guard in Kentucky, Mr. Sherman said that ‘if the peeple of Kentucky, who bad raised so many troops that had feught bravely in the Union cause, could not be trusted> then it was about time to give up the hope of success. Pp Mr. Ten Kyck followed in the same strain, and seid that If the demoralization and disintegration of the army went on as reported, Mr. Jefferson Davis might before oprisg invite Congress to leave Washington. Mr. Wilkinson came into the Senate this morning wit a written speech, which upon delivery proved to been elaborately prepared philippic against Senator Sauls bury and the democratic party. He froely accused the former of false represontations, and of being fn sympathy with secessionists. He stated that the specch of Mr Saulsbury was delivered upon an understanding with persons in Springfield, Albany and Now York city, who were traitors to the government, The drift of the speech was that the democratic party was seeking to destroy the government, and President Lincoln was warned to put in high position none but those * who were frieadly to his party policy. It was assumed that auch soldiers as Generals Meigs and Thomas wore traitors, and tnat the President had shared the offlces with domocrats who had proved false to the country. THE CONTRABANDS AND THE PROPOSKD ARMY OF NRGRORS. thousand black soldiers at ten dollars a month is an enomy to the colored race. If they wore put into the fiel@ they would receive no quarter frem ¢he rebels, er such as wore tured alive would be condemned to slavery. The soldiers would place the negroes ta the hottest of the fight, and compel them to undergo the greatest dangers. It is beliePed by the hore that it would be im Possible to raise the number of African warriors named | in tho bil! introduced by Mr. Stevens to-day. By volua- tary eulistmoats not more than epough for color sergeanta: would be obtsined, and nothing like that number could be raised by conscription. BFFICIENCY OF THE NAVY. 4 Our Navy Department has, within afew days, repnesé to all propositions for improved war vessels, that the re- i AID FOR BMANCIPATION IN MARYLAND, ‘The bill introduced by Burobem to-day to aif Maryland in the a slavery appre. Priates $10,000,000 and Senator Willey’s bill apprepriates $2,000,000 for a simtlar purpose in Weas Virginia, The latter provides $200,000 for the eed seule ment of slaves. ADMIRAL WILKES AND THE NAVY DEPARTHEWD, ‘Tho report in Saturday's Hsnaty of the recalt of AdmisS ‘Witkes {s entirely without foundation. This officer ipen- Joying the fall confidence of his government, end te axing every oxertion in bis power, with a small ead ineflcien® squadron, to capture the notorious Alabama, INVESTIGATION OF CHARGRS OF FRAUD. ‘There are innumerable charges of fraud in the disburse, ment of public moneys now undergoing investigation ia and out of Congress. The officers of the governmentare sedulously endeavoring to arrest the perpetrators of these frauds, but there seems to be a spirit of abroad which defies the vigilance and the power of the - government. Frauds areNiscovered iu almost every de, partment of the government, S¥NATORS TO BM ELECTED. The Legislaturo of Virginia, in session at Wheeling, a” to elect a Senator for that State in the place of Mr. Willey» ‘There,will be also two Senators to elect frem the new State of Kanawha. Gol. Seger, of Accomac, is ® porma- nent candidate for the vacancy to represent the eld State of Virginia. He bas been all bis life the advocate of internal improvement in that State, 60 anto bo called the De Witt Clinton of Virginia. He bae sacrificed bis personal interests, and bas dared more than any other man in the State for the maintenance of the Union, and will probably be chosen to represeat the constituency betrayed by Hunter. REBEL TROOPS SENT PROM VIRGINIA TO THE SOUTH- wer. * Adv cen from the beadquarters of Wyndham’s cavalry ‘Dri_ sie state thaton the éth instant sixty-seven strag” glers were sent from Castle Thunder, near Richmond, te joto their regiments at Fredericksburg. They found thag their regiments bad left in the evening of tho Stb, and bad marehed to the West. Eleven brigaccs of Virginiag North Carolina and Tennessee troops have left Fredericks burg to reinforce Bragg. See OPERATIONS OF THE REBELS IN VIRGINIA. In the recent raid along our front the rebol General ‘Stuart toek one hundred and thirty-one prisoners. The rebels are running cars from Rappehannock tation to Warrenton Junction, It is ascertained tbat the rebels have thrown a large force in the direction of Warrenton in anticipation of a movement of some portion of our forces in that direction. Coroners’ Inquests. . AxoTuRR Anontion Case. —Coroner Ranney was engaged on Sunday night in tovestigating @ case of mal-practices which occurred at the residenee of Elizabeth Huntington, corner of Third avenue and 127th street, a few days ago. The vietim—who {s @ married woman and the mother ef five children—was suffering #0 severely frem the effecte of the abortion that the Coroner’ thought it would be pra- dent to take her ento-mortem examination ere it became 10° late. The following ts her statement: — duly sworn, sayect’iieg ta. ible bouse—tuird aveoue, Sear tanta street, 00 y betore Now Year's | was treated by Dr. ; 1 was about twe months gene in on bi x Monday before New Year's nue and 123d street at the time of bis arrest, and mani- fested but little fear when eee of Gravis foes of the charge preferred Host eve Hire, Huntaglon wes nilt alive; but the physicians eat tertained no hope of her recovery. Serene or 4 Pavmcras.—Hannibal H. Mears, a physt- chan, about thirty years of age, committed suicide at No. 118 Forsyth street by taking polson. The act was perpetrated on Friday; bat it was not until the following Yn a aa connected with the Soldiers’ Hospital i: couse ark, and was ® member of the First Bap tist church. No cause whatever could be assigned for the commission of the rash act, Tho exact character yet known; but