The New York Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. would be remedied. A petition of citizens of New York, asking for the establishment of a re- liable camp hospital and ambulance corps, was presented. bill to provide greater comfort fof sick and wounded soldiers and to promote the efficiency of the Army Medical Department was introduced; also a bill amendatory of the act TERMS cash in advance. money sent by mail will be | 4 prevent members of Congress and government ‘atithe risk of the sender, None but Bank bills curreatia | officers taking consideration for procuring con. New York taken, tracts or appointments. Mr. McDougall introduced THE DAILY HERALD, Tures cents per copy. | a series of resolutions declaring the attempt of the THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents | French to subjugate Mexico hostile not only to the United States, but to free institutions everywhere; that it is the duty of the government to require the withdrawal of the French forces, and that it is also the duty of the government tolend such aid to Mexico as may be required to prevent the forcible interposition of European Powers in the politica] affairs of that republic. The resolutions were laid over till Thursday next. The bill reorganizing the Court of Claims was discussed. The debate on the bill in relation to the discharge of State prisoners was then resumed by Messrs. Powell and Wright, At the conclusion of their remarks an executive session was held, and the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a bill appro- | priating ten millions of dollars in aid of the emancipation of slaves in Maryland was intro- The Cauwonsta Eommox, on tho Ist, 11th and 21st of | Epped as ee i fcr na reer on a ubject. i!l authorizing duties on importa- Lac SP tai elidhcidh apa aaamee | tions to be paid, if desired by importers, in legal tender notes, with thirty-three per cent added, | was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. A joint resolution appropriating five thousand dollars for the purpose of compiling a register of the whole forces of the United States was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Postmaster General was requested to communicate to the House the amount paid | for the transportation of the mails from New | York to Washington for the last four years. The Secretary of War was also requested to in- xe [=== | form the House what sums had been paid since the Volume XXVIII... . | breaking out of the rebellionto the various rail. = == | road companies for the transportation of troops AMUSEMENTS THIS"EVENING. and munitions of war between Washington and New York. This information is required by the | select committee on the subject of the military and post road between these two cities. A reso- lution calling for information as to what revenue had been derived from the horns, hoofs and tallow of cattle slaughtered for the army since the com- mencement of the rebellion was referred to the Committee on Contracts. The credentials of John B. Rogers, claiming a seat as a representative ; from Tennessee, was referred to the Committee on piuw’s MatP-JACE | Yiections, The debate on the Finance bill was then resumed in Committee of the Whole and con- tinued till the adjournment. 4 THE LEGISLATURE. The Senate of our State Legislature helda nc.. sion yestorday evening. Very little business was transacted however. The State Comptroller sent ina reply to the resolution asking whether any allowance had been made for the premium on coin in the payment of the State debt interest, stating that no premium had been paid out of the State Treasury, though coin to pay the interest on and fund the debt of the State had been purchased by the Manhattan Company, that company taking the chances of an appropriation by the Legislature to repay them. The Assembly was not in session yesterday, having adjourned over from Saturday till to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. . MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the steamship Hibernia at Portland yesterday we have advices from Europe tothe 9th inst. The political news is unimpof- tant. The cotton market had been irregular, with a decline of one-quarter of a penny in Americau and an advance of one-quarter of a penny for Surats. In other respects the trade reports do not exhibit any marked change. The steamship America, Captain Maury, from Aspinwall 9th inst., arrived at this port last even- ing. She left Aspinwall in company with the steamship Champion, for New York, under convoy of the gunboat Augusta, and separated from them on the 15th inst., off Watling’s island. The Ame- rica brings no treasure. By the America we haye received our correspondence from New Granada and the South Pacific and Central American republics, congaining copious details of news from those countries, all of which may be found in to- day’s Herap. The Champion also arrived at this port last night. She brings $657,840 in treasure. The Board of Aldermen did not organize yes- terday for want of a quorum. Some of the mem- bers are absent on the expedition to present a sword to General Corcoran. In the Board of Councilmen last evening a com" munication was sent in by the Comptroller, from which it appears that the balance remaining inthe City treasury on the 17th inst. was $1,942,400 64: The regimental flag borne by the Fifty-first regiment New York Volunteers in the battles of Roanoke, Newbern, Manassas, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg was re- ceived, accompanied by a presentation letter from Colonel Potter, and a communication from the Mayor, who recommended that, it should be placed in the Governor's Room. Referred to the Commit tee 6n National Affairs. The standing committees of the Board for the present year were announced by the President. The resolution to present a sword, sash and belt to General Meagher, atan ex- pense of eight hundred dollars, was adopted by a vote of twenty-two in the affirmative to two in the negative. The Board then adjourned until Thurs- day evening next, at five o'clock. Aceording » the City Inspector's report, there were 467 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase of 34 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 54 more than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 5 deaths of alcoholism, 1 of disease of the bones, joints, &c., 78 of the brain and nerves, 7 of the generative organs, 26 of the heart and blood vessels, 195 of the lungs, throat, &c.; 7 of Old age, 32 of diseases of the ski d eruptive fevers, 4 prematyse births, $9 tee? fhe stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 26 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 5 of diseases of the urinary organs, and 22 from violent causes. There were 304 natives of the United States, 12 of England, 104 of Ireland, 32 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stoek market was vory active and excited, yester- day. At the morning board some stocks rose as much as five per cent, and several reee three per cent. There was, afterward, some reaction, but the market continued very animated until the close. Gold sold up to 14814, but closed at 147}. Exchange closed 162}; 8163. Money was worth six per cent on call. The bank statement shows an increase in every department except ip circu Nation. we Tho market for cotton was ashade firmer, and 1,900 balos wore eold yesterday. Flour, wheat and corn were firmer and in very good domand, as likewise wore the principal kinds of provisions, bay, tallow, petroleum aud ‘obaceo, Thore was unusual activity in whiskey, chiefly speculative, and prices closed as high as 470. The grocer was quiet, and the freight market - jerately . There were no important alterations jn other Dranches of business MES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR SFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. | per copy. Annual subscription pricey One Copy... $2 Ten Copics......+ . Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, $2 50 cach. 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No movements have taken place in that vicinity, so far as known, which are of public importance, From Vicksburg and Mur- freeaboro—the two most prominent points in the Southwest—nothing of consequence has arrived within the past twenty-four hours, Rear Admiral Porter sends to the Navy Depart- ment an official account of the capture of Arkan- sas Post, in confirmation of General McClernand’s statement, which we published yesterday. The Admiral describes the firing from our gunboats as ‘@ splendid operation. Every gun of the enemy ‘was dismounted. Our boats were considerably damaged in the fight, but were ready for action egain in half an hour. We have nothing later from Galveston. Neither is there anything from Nashville, excep, that twenty of the transports arrived there on Sunday, convoyed by two gunboats. At the shoals the boats Desmoines City, Science and Freestone were fired into by the enemy with rifles Three men on board the Freestone were wounded On Wednesday the rebels robbed the steamer Wastings, containing a number of wounded and some provisions. The rebels stripped the wound- ed of all their clothing. Itis denied that the rebel chief Forrest, with his guerillas, is in the vicinity of Nashville; nor docs it appear that there is a large force of rebels there. It was rumored at Nashville, and created #ome uneasiness there, that large reinforcements from General Lee’s army in Virginia had arrived at Shelbyville. The steamer Vanderbilt has returned to Fortresy Monroe from her second unsuccessful trip in search of the Alabama., The Vanderbilt left New York on the 10th of December and cruised between this city and Europe as far north as lattitude 44 degrees, whence she went east to Fayal, where she arrived on the 24th ult. She returned to Fortress Monroe short of coal on the 17th inst. As our readers are aware that the Alabama was car- rying on her depredations in the Gulf and around the West India islands with great success, itis un necessary to add that the Vanderbilt did not come across her or interfere with her movements in the least. CONGRESS. The President sent a special message to Con- Gress yesterday, stating that he had approved the joint resolution authorizing the issue of an ad- ditional $100,000,000 of United States notes for the payment of soldiers and sailors. He Tue Powen ov tre Heray.—The Tribune don't like our denunciations of poor Greeley’s attempts at inducing President Lincoln to ac- cept foreign interference or mediation, and makes an onslaugM upon us, and declares that we have but “one steady purpose, which is to array Europe against the cause of freedom and Union.’ That jgurnal asserts that Englishmen believe the North wishes to wage a war upon England because the Herany also urges upon Congress the necessity of restricting the circulation of paper currency, and the expe «a cy of taxing the paper issues of banking in- et) ons. 1. (he Senate yesterday a communication wa from the Post Office Department stating that che detention of the mails between New York eu Washington was caused mainly by the in «o: cased travel on account of the war, but that it sertions are accepted there as proof positive of We are obliged to our contemporary for this statement, which proves that while- under excitement it may occasionally speak the truth. The Tribune, with equal propriety, avows that the Heraun’s “every word is read both in oyr camps and those of the rebels.” This, again, is strictly true, and we regret we cannot say something complimentary about the Tribune in return. The Abolition Conspiracy Against the President, From the beginning of this war down to this day, in all their schemes, intrigues, measures and movements in Congress and in the Cabi- net, the dominant abolition faction at Washing- ton have been guided by that revolutionary motto of rule or ruin. Holding the power over the purse and the sword in Congress, they have used it with a high hand to bring the President to their terms. They have thus compelled him, against bis better judgment, to endorse their emancipation and confiscation acts, to adopt their treacherous counsels in the conduct of the war, until at length, when the public indigna- tion is aroused against them, they are endeavor- ing to throw the responsibility for their crimes much, and it adds that, as we are the only | ‘American journal read in Europe, our as the tone and temper of the American press, | and blunders upon the honest victim of their persecutions. From the day when these abolition Jacobins discovered that General McCleHan, at the head of the army, could not be made their blind and obedient instrument, they conspired to destroy him, They disarranged his plans; they brought defeat upon his army in front of Richmond; they brought the rebel forces which he had driven away back again to the front and rear of Wash- ington; and when he had expelled them from the soil of Maryland, and was upon the threshold of a successful campaign in Virginia, he was removed from his com- mand by an abolition pressure which would be satisfied with nothing less than his removal: But, while subsequent events in the field and the testimony of numerous witnesses and docu- mentary evidence before the Porter Court Mar- tial and the McDowell Court of Inquiry have given not only those two officers, but General McClellan, an honorable acquittal before the country, we cannot say as much for the con- trolling heads of the War Office. On the con- trary, General Burnside’s disaster, in the face of his magnanimous assumption of the whole responsibility, together with the evidence of those aforesaid military courts, tells heavily against the heads of the War Office and the abo- lition cabal with which they are identified. In this extremity several letters of President Lincoln to General McClellan when he was in front of Yorktown are produced in court to show that after all the President is the man who has all this time been directing our military opera- tions in Virginia, and that therefore the respon- sibility for all our disasters in that quarter falls upon him. Technically this cannot be denied; but what is the substantial truth in the matter ? The President necessarily leaves the practical details of the War Office to the officers in charge of that department. They have the authority 40 act, and if their plans and combinations fail, with all the men, means and facilities at their command necessary to secure success, they are responsible, and the faction by whose counsels they are guided. We hold the President responsible for retaining his executive subordi- nates in any department after they have been tried and found wanting. But what can he do while dependent upon this dominant abolition faction in Congress for the ways and meaiis? ‘We have urged and still would advise him to cut loose from this disorganizing faction and fall back upon his own original conservative war policy; but it seems that he has geod rea- sons to fear the rule or ruin leaders of this abo- lition Congress. We see, in the attempts of this abolition faction to fasten upon him the odium and the disgrace of all their own follies and blunders in the management of the war, that they have already entered upon the game of breaking down his administration. They have extorted from him their imperative sine qua non of a sweeping emancipation proclamation; they have found it as futile against this rebellion as “the Pope’® bull againat the comet;” they see that this in. fallible abolition specific is an ignominious failure; that it has united the South and is di- viding the North; that the way is dark before us; and 0, if they cannot secure their power by the destruction of Southern slavery, these abo- lition Jacobins are aiming to overturn the gov. ernment and to divide the Union, that they may secure the control, at least, of a Northern confederacy. What, then, isthe manifest policy of Presi dent Lincoln? Itis the absolute rejection of the counsels and agents of this Jacobin aboli- tion faction, and the reconstruction of his Cabi- net, and the prosecution of the war, not for the destruction of the South, nor for Buropean intervention and a Southern confederacy, but for the restoration of the Union: We call upon him to consider the exi- gencies aod dangers of his situation, and to throw himself and his administration upon the con- servative sentiment of the country. In doing this he will lose the support only of a misera- ble disorganizing faction, and will regain a united North, a divided South, and a triumphant Prosecution of ths war. ve Tus Srexp or THE ALABAMA AND THE ABILI- ty or Our New Stoors To Equat Ir—The &x- ploits of the pirate Alabama have directed pub- lic attention to the new sloope, of about the same tonnage as the well known Iroquois, which have just been completed, and of which such great expectations were entertained as to speed—the depredations of the,pirate causing particular gttention to be directed to that im- portant point. We do not pretend to be well versed in naval tactics; but we do pretend to appreciate the fact, long since acknowledged by professional men, that high speed in war ves- sels intended for cruising and blockading pur- poses is absolutely essential, not even second to power of battery. It was evfilently the intention of the Navy Department that these new vessels should excel, in this particular, any war vessels of like size, either in our own or any foreign navy, as everything consistent with their efficiency as war vessels has been sacri- flced to speed. Even the rudder and rudder posts of several of them were made of copper, «0 as to be thin, and offer as little resistance as possible when the vessel was going at high speed. The reports of the performance of the engines of these new sloops of the Ossipee and Juniata class are of the most mortifying character. If these reports are to be credited— and we must acknowledge them to be quite au” thentic—the engines of these vessels are wretch. ed failures—a disgrace to the country and to the times. Now why have the intentions of the de- partment and the inst exnectations of the coun- NEW YOUks HERALD, TUZSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1863. try been disappointed in regard to the speed of these vessels? Why do they, instead of excel- ling, fall 6o far behind the Iroquois in speed aud efficiency, being about the same size, with much greater boller power? Why, we ask, has the country to behold the humiliating spectacle o¢ new ships, at this advanced age, fitted with machinery which cannot, until very important changes have been made, woyk at all satisfac- torfly, and, perhaps, not even then’ That the new war vessels of the country, which has always led'the world in high speed, cannot equal in that particular the pirate Ala- bame—of about the same tonnage—is a larger piece of humble pie than we ever expected to be forced to eat. The Military Star Chambers at Wash. ington. The McDowell Court of Inquiry presents the singular spectacle of an investigation kept open after the evidence against the party ostensibly on trial has been exhausted and his innocence of the charges against him fully established: As in the Porter case, which was prolonged in the same unjustifiable way, it is but natural that the public should infer that other objeots are sought to be accomplished through its la- bors than those to which it was expressly limit- ed by its organization. That inference will be strengthened into conviction by two important official papers which will be found this morn- ing among our telegraphic despatches from Washington, and from the evidence of Major General Hitchcock. It appears that these documents, which have a direct bearing on the testimony given by General Hitchcock in reference to the defences of Washington, and which are necessary to a full understanding of others submitted at the same time by General McCleHan, were ruled out by a decision of the Court. Of their mate- riality we should have supposed that there could be no second opinion, from the state- ments made by Generals Hitchcock and Wads- worth in regard to the insuffici@cy of the force left for the defence of the capital. The latter, it will be recollected, asserted before the joint Senate and House Committee on the Conduct of the War that “General McClellan had left an insufficient force for the defence of Washing- ton, and not a gun on wheols.” The testimony given by General Hitchcock in regard to the alleged neglect of General McCiellan in connection with the defences of Washington is now fresh on the minds of our readers. It appears, from the documents to which we refer, that McClellan did not guess at or make a rough estimate of the force which he left behind for the defence of the capital, but that his figures were, derived from the latest military returns—the only reliable sources of informa- tion. When, therefore, Generals Hitchcock and Wadsworth make assertions at variance with these figures they exhibit a recklessness of statement unaccountable in military men, see- ing that they can be thus easily disproved from official sources, * In his letter to Colonel Pelouze, Recorder of the McDowell Court of Inquiry, Genoral Mc- Clellan states that in the instructions trans- mitted byhim to Generals Banks and Wads- worth, under date of March 16,the numbers of troops therein specified were furnished him by the Adjutant General of the Army of the Poto- mac, and were taken from the latest official returns, and do not, therefore, differ materially from the aggregate strength of the commands present at that date. From the accompanying letter of General Barry, Inspector of Artillery» it will be seen that thirty-two pieces of light artillery, in addition to those enumerated in General McClellan’s communication to the Adjutant General, were left by him inthe city of Washington, with men, horses and equipments, all in condition for immediate service, with the exception of a few horses, which could have been supplied by she Quartermaster’s Depart- ment at any time—thus making one hundred and nine pieces of light artillery left by his orders for the defence of the national capital and its approaches at the time the Army of the Potomac left Alexandria for the peninsula. Is it to be wondered at that with the objects which the Court seems to propose to itself evidence like this should have been ruled out? The remarkable defectiveness of General Wadsworth’s memory is not, it appears, confined to figures. On the 2d of April he says, in a let- ter addressed to the Secretary of War, published in the Herap on the 22d of July following:—“I am notinformed as to the position Gen. Banks is directed. to take; but at this time he is, as I understand, on the other side of the Bull Run Mountains, leaving my command to cover the front from Manassas Gap (about twenty miles beyond Manassas) to Aquia creek.” It appears from General McClellan’s letter to General Wadsworth, which was given in evidence in the McDowell inquiry, that Gen. Wadsworth was informed as to the position General Banks was directed to take in these words:—‘General Banks will command at Manassas Junction, with the divisions of Williams and Shields.” On the Ist of April, the day previous to the date of Wadsworth’s letter, as seen by Géneral McClellan’s communication to the Adjutant Gengyal, ublished by the McDowell Court of Inquiry, General Abercrombie occupied War- renton with a force, including Colonel Geary’s ot Woe a pe cavalry oydered to him, amounting 40 7,740 then, with twelve pieces of light artillery. Blenker’s division was then between Warrenton and Manassas Gap. Immediately after General McClellan's ar- rival in front of Yorktown he at once compre- hended the magnitude of the task before him, He bad not sufficient force to detach a command to turn the position by the north bank of the York river, and the works were pronounced by several European officers stronger than those of the Russians at Sebastopol. Under these circumstances, if McClellan had stupidly and blindly attempted to carry them by an immediate assault, accord- ing to the suggestions in the President's letter, he might have quieted the howlings of certain political demagogues, but he would have ruined his reputation asa soldier. He had the good generalship to see that he would necessarily meet with a most signal repulse and the loss of several thousand men, and therefore did not attempt it. The result of the Fredericksburg and Vicksburg efforts against defences not one- tenth part as formidable will satisfy any one of the wisdom of this decision. At that time, and frequently afterwards, Ge- neral McClellan urged upon the authorities of Washington the great importance of sending | him large reinforcements. And he set forth in | the strongest terms his conviction that his ope- rations with a competent army on the peninsula would not fail to have the effect of drawing | away the rebel troops from Northern Virginia | Washington from all possible danger. This proved to be the result, Yet butlittle heed was given at this time to his urgent entreaties, and be was left with a force less than that of the rebels. Thus every step taken by the enemies of McClellan to misrepresent his plans and weak- en the esteem in which he is held by the coun- try only brings into clearer light his genius and capacity as a military commander and the lofty character of his patriotism. His warmest admirers certainly could not desire a more en- during testimonial to his abilities as a soldier than that which his radical persecutors are building up for him in the evidence taken be- fore these Military Star Chambers at Washing- ton. Anarchy at Albany—The Duty of Gover- nor Seymour. We have already placed before our readers full, impartial and graphic accounts of the ex- citement and commotion in the Assembly of this State over the election of a Speaker. With the animus of this squabble and the intrigues in regard to the United States Senatorship, which underlie and foment this trouble, we have nothing whatever todo. We deal simply with the facts as we find them; and we must say that these facts are exceedingly disgraceful to the Assembly of the State of New York. When the Assembly met on Saturday last the galleries were crowded with persons who scemed anxious to excite, and perhaps to participate in, a bloody disturbance. The Assemblymen came in fresh from an angry caucus, where one member had slapped another member's face, began to fili- buster and to talk against time, and finally ended by threatening bloodshed. One Assem™ biyman said that if Mr. Callicot were elected Speaker it would be amid scenes which ‘all would forever regret. Another retorted that Callicot should be elected in spite of all oppo- sition. A third honorable gentleman declared that “it was all right; for ‘those fellows in the galleries had plenty of six-shooters.’» Another shouted that if Callicot were elected he never would be inaugurated. We are aston- ished that the Capitol of this State should be dishonored by such. brutal and disgusting con- test. Wehad imagined that this sort of elec” tioneering, by broken heads and braggadocio’ slang and six-shooters, was monopolized by the legislators of the Washington Congress. Alarmed by this anarchical confusion, the more moderate members succeeded in adjourn- ing the Assembly until to-morrow morniag, in order to allow both parties to regain their Senses and settle the difficulty quietly. We can suggest a way to bring these eae madmen to their senses, and to settle this dis" graceful difficulty, without the interference of committees or caucuses. Let Governor Sey- mour call out the State militia to-morrow, and compel these Assemblymen either to conduct their business with proper dignity and de- corum or march them off to jail as rioters and disturbers of the public peace. This is the ex- plicit duty of Governor Seymour, andwe hope he will perform it thoroughly and effectually. Here is the whole nation brought to the brink of ruin by a grand attempt to evade the result of a popular election by force of arms. And do these honorable members suppose,that we can submit to see anarchy inaugurated in this State by the refusal of a few men to allow this person or that person to be inaugurated Speaker if he be regularly elected? The fitness or un- fitneas of the candidates for the office has noth- ing whatever to do with this matter. If a ma- jority of the Assembly elect Mr. Callicot, or any other member, as their Speaker, he must be received and acknowledged as such, no mat. ter what may be his politics, his principles or his want of principle. Let Governor Seymour display the energy and resolution for which we give him credit, and crush this incipient treason jn the bud. It is impossible that a mob should be allowed to overawe or a few members be permitted to bully and threaten the Assembly of this conservative State. If our legislators adopt this rule or ruin theory, and attempt to put it into practice, they must be taught that we still have a government. Let this fact be impressed upon them in the most summary and convincing manner, and to that end let Gov- ernor Seymour call out the militia when the Assembly meets to-morrow. City Intelligence. New Yor« Hovse Parrens ix Covnon.—A large and en- thusiastic meeting of the New York House Painters’ Pro tective Association was held at 193 Bowery, on Monday evening last, Mr, P. Keady imthe chair. The painters seem to anticipate a good season’s work this year, and o¢ course cannot be expected to give their time for the rates they received heretofore, as the price of labor as well as everything else must necessarily rise and will continue to do s0 a8 long a8 the government continues to issue paper money. Aiter admitting a number of uew members, the following off\cors were elected:— President—P. Keady,, re-elected. Vice Prestdent—Mr. Seymour Secrelary—G. R. Wagner, ‘Jreasurer—J. T. Fisher. Financial Secretary—J. Phalan, SkATING AGAIN Reviven.—There was really good skating on the Fifth avenue skating pond yesterday, and lasted froth eight in the morning until dusk. The ice, although not thick, was tough, and bore the crowd well, A part of the pond at the eastern end was 804 Apart for dancers, and quadrille sur la glace, waltzing and other dan were crevitacly peotericeds " the menabers of the New York Skating Club were present, and cut some remarka- bie figures on the ico. A blue bail, on a white flag, is the signal for skating, ayd down town A he have been chosen—one ag thé starti Fai of thé avenue rail- road. qige crowd visi man’s and the other ponds vicinity, the icc there being also gvod. ‘There was no skating an the Central Park, and the halt- mgstod flag over the arsenal appeared to be in mourning for the departed glories of this heretofore popular winter resort. ‘Tux New York Sxatixa Cive.—A club of skaters has been formed ia this city under the name of the New York Skating Club, with Mr. McMillan as presidenty and Mr. Baudouine as secretary. It numbers at present about fifty members, many of them well kn own a# the Dest skaters in the neighborhood. The objects of the organization are to bring fancy skating prominently be- fore the public for mutual improvement, and to make New York equal, in a skating point of view, with Philadel- phia, Boston and other sister cities, "The ‘prosent head- quarters are locatod at 102 Broadway. ; ‘Tui Ina Hanns BuiGaps,—Although recruiting is not progressing with the same activity as at the beginning of the war, Colonel De Forest has succeeded in getting up @ third regiment for his brigade, of which Colonel Savage ia te take command, Colone) De Forest commands the First regiment, known as the Fifth New York State cavalry, and Colonel Devlin the second. There are now about eight hundred men of this brigade encamped at Camp Washington, Staten Island. Colofsl De Forest i# a candidate for the position of = brigadier general. has seen Jong service in our volun- ter army, and his bravery and coolness under fire have frequently been made pubiic, The Colonel bas ‘been un remitting ib bis endeavors to raise bis brigade, which he has done «der trying cireumstances, and it is urbe | hoped he will meet with his merited promotion, Coro} Scicin ny Takixo Moxvmen.—Coroner Naumann beld an inquest yesterday at No. 184 Hester street, upon the body of Bertha Unley, # domestic in the employment oe K. F. Wander, who itted suicide by taking mor phine, Deceased, it appears, was formerly an tomate of alunatic asylum, herself, She drank the on srenet eos njng was found & co '° bod, and the fonewith the Move facts. Deceased was 28 years of age ‘and was a pative of Germany. Faran AccibENt 6 Snir Boanp.—Coroner Coll'n was no- tified to bold an inquest upon the body of Mathew Siont, a native of this State, od 24 years, who was accidental. far the defence of their canital. and thus relieve yt by failing into the hold of the stexmer Morning p ars ‘sow Tying at oucbor in the Kast rivag NEWS FROM EUROPE, Arrival of the Hibernian at Portland FIVE DAYS LATER INTELLIGENCE. STATE OF THE PRODUCE MARKETS, &e,, &e., &e, PortLAND, Mo., Jan. 19, 1863. ‘The Canadian Company's screw stoainship Hibernian, Capt. Burgess, from Liverpool 8th inst. via” Londonderry on Friday afternoon, the 9th, arrived of this port at nine j o'clock this evening. ‘A correspondent of the London Times, just returned from Madeira, says the steamer Tuscarora bad been em- ployed in a sort of blockade of Funchal. Four British steamers, bound for Nassau, were lying in the roadstead. On the 16th of December the Tuscarora chased one oF them, the Douro, fired at her about a mile and a halé from shore,sent a boat off, and after examining the Douro’s papers, let her proceed. An American cruiser, ehip rigged, apparently in chase of a very large ship, bound west, south south west, was seen on the 20th of December, inglatitude 41, longitude 15, by the Challenge, arrived at Falmouth. ‘The steamship Norwegian, from Portland, arrived a Liverpool om the 6th inst. The steamship Edinburg, from New York, arrived at Liverpoo! on the 7tb inst ‘The steamship Bavaria,?rom New York, arrivéd ag Southampton on the Sth inst. Great Britain, Mrs. Beecher Stowo, in reply to an address from thy women of England, some years ago, urging the abslition of slavery, writes that the greav ungi-siavery work to which their English sisters exhorted them is almost done. ‘The London Glove says that Parliamont will probably moet on tho Sth of February. ‘Tho G'pbe also says the efforts of the Ministry teward, eoonomy have been successful to a substantial exteat and coupied with increased income, the Chancellor of Exchoquer’s budget will be very favorable. A meoting of the sharebolders and friends of the At lantic Telegraph Company was held at Liverpool on the Tth, to hear an address from the Hon. James Stuary Wortley on the prospects of the enterprise, 8 William Brown presided, and there was aa intluent! and numerous attendence, Mr. Wortley spoke at length. He took a confident and hopeful view of affairs, and carnestly appealed for.com- morcial support. Speeches in a similar strain were made by Sir William Brown, Mr. Evart, M. P., aad onher gen- tlemen of influence, all of whom promised substantial al@ to the undertaking. Mr. Wortlcy announced that the di- rectors hud not bound themselves to any form op any kind of cable, but hold themselves open to take the very best that offered. ‘and had often threatened to destroy | The Mexigan Question, ‘Tho Paris correspondent of the Loudon Times says the Spanich government do not intend to name any other person to the embassy in Paris in the place of Gen. Con” cha until they sce how matters goon after the French have ocoupied the city of Mexico, which the French go vornment hope to effect about the middie of Fobruary. The relations betweon Paris and Madrid are far from cordial, The French government are most anxious to have the co-operation of Engtand after the troops are im possession of the capital. France. ‘The Bourso was heavy. Renta, 70f. 60e. Compiaints were made thut contributions for the French distressed operatives come in very slowly, amd - fall woefully short of what is needed. One hundred and fifty thousand francs per day, at the very leust, is requir~ ed for the bare sustenance of the non-employed. Spain. Madrid journals say that all the resignations recently tendered have been accepted. These resignations agitate both conservatives snd liberals. diecceaian gi * The Greek Question. It was reported that the chief member of King Leo pold’s private Cabinet had gone to Lisbon to urge King Ferdinand to accept the Greek throne Turkey. Latest dospatches say that the ministerial changes will be confined to those already announced. Commercial Intelligence. LONDON MONEY MARKET. ‘The funds are firm and still advancing; discount easy with moderate demand; occasional transactions below the bank minimum, Satterthwaite's midweek circular says:—During the past week we have have had‘n steady improving market, the principal demand being for Ili- nois and Erie. There wagsa steady business in Atlantic and Great Western bonds, which avanced 1. United States sixes gave way from 64 to 623. Virginia sixes Consols cl atosa cry Ags money. American 8tocks.—Erie 4334 a 44; Illinois Central shares 41 40% discount. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 8. ‘The sales of cottoo for three days were 29,000 bales, including 14,000 to speculators and exporters. The mar-~ ket was buoyant, but closed quiet. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT. ‘The Manchester market was firm, and quotations of goods and yarns were still advancing. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET, JAN. 8, ‘Bhe market is generally steady, except for corn, which has a downward tendency. The various circulars report flour firm at 22s. 6d. a 28s. 6d. Wheat bas an upward tendency: red Western, 93. a 9s. 10d.; red Southern, 9s. 10d. a 10s. 6d.; white Western and Southern, 10s. 6d. a 128. Corn downward, with a decline of 3d. a6d. per quarter: mixed, 28s. a 288. 6a. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET—JAN, 8. ‘The provision market is generally downward. Messrs. Biglund, Althya & Co. report:—Beef has a declining ton- dency. 'Pork heavy. Bacon heavy and declining. But- ter dull. Lard quiet. Tatlow inactive. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET—JAN. 8. downward. Coffee inactive. Rico quiet. Ashes steady. Linseed oil firm at 40s, 6d. a 41s. Rosin quiet: common 2s. Spirits turpentine inac at lbs. LONDON MARKETS—JAN. 8. Wheat firm, with a partial advance of 18. per quarter, Sugar steady,’ Coffee active, Tea firm. Rice quiet, Tal- low quiet. LATEST MARKETS. Laverroot, Jan. 9, 1867. Corron.—The sales of the week foot up 51,000 bales, m- cluding 22,000 to speculators, and 7,500 bales to fexport- ers. market has been irregular, with a partial decline of Md. on the and an advance of ay for American, on Surats. Ma. sales to-day (Friday) have been 3,000 bales, ee og 1,000 to speculators and exporters, the market closingffiat. ‘The following are the authorized quotations:— Miadting. + Vd 2K. vaies of San Francisco, Jan. 18, 1863. The markets yestorday (Saturday) were generally de- pressed, and prices of all articles considerably unsettled. Goods recently shipped from Atlantic ports are placed in warehouse almost as fast as they are landed. Butter is dull at 26c, per Ib. Currants, 120. The ship Peruvian bas been chartered for Liverpool, ‘and,the ship Flying Cloud for Boston. ——<—_—_—— ire at Portage City, Wiscon Portaor Crrv, Jan. 19, 1963. Affre inthis placo ast night destroyed the railrogd Passenger house toe ret pcabels of wheet. Loss abut $55,000. es St fl Supreme Court Injunction. ; Pmeaverewa, Jan. 19, 1863. The Supreme Court announces that it will issue an im- tion against the laying of the fraight railroad om Broad rest, designed to connect the New York and Bal- timore railroad lines. ivania State Treasurership- Paanmiruia, Jan. 19, 1863 Mr. McGrath, the democratic candidate for State Trea surer, was elected to that office today by the Legislature, The Pe ConraineTions ov Maseactoserns Cima ror THe Wan.— ‘The following statistics bave been gathered from the messages of the Mayors of the various cities of Massa- | chusetts:— Cost of Pamilies Amount Number in Service. Recruiting. Aviled. Aud. Chariestow: 2,087 $119,987 735 Roxbury. 1.945 pans Cambridge | Worcest | Fall River. | Lynn | Cheiwea. Lowell. | New Bedford 141.090