The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1863, Page 4

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Open daily trom 10 A.M. till 10 P.M. tists HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.<Brai Goncs, Daxcas, Boaizsques 4c % aed New York, Thursday, January 22, 1863. ‘Twenty thousand reams of good paper wanted. Size (2x46. Apply at the Hsrazp office. Neither corporation nor setved at this office. Natiomal postal currency only will $e taken for fractional parta of a dollar. THE SITUATION. There is no news from the Army of the Potomac w-day. ‘The railroad communication southward of Phi- ‘adelphia was interrupted last night in conse- quence of the storm. The rebels were apparently busy on Sunday aight throwing up intrenchments and mounting sannon. For some days previous they made a show of great activity in their works above Fre- lericksburg. We learn by despatehes from Louisville that at she late battle near Murfreesboro our army lost 1,474 killed, 6,813 wounded and 2,000 prisoners. The rebel cavalry it is said have left Harpeth Shoals for Franklin. Rear Admiral Leo has forwarded to the Navy Department a report from Lieutenant W. B. Cush- ng, dated Beaufort, N. C., January 8, detailing the particulars of a reconnoiasance made by him near Fort Caswell, on Little river, with only twen- ty-five men, in which, bya gallant bayonet charge, they captured a fort, which was found to be an earthwork surrounded by a ditch, with a block- house inside pierced for musketry. No guns were mounted. Lieutenant Cushing learned that the fort had been held by a company of infantry, who left in such haste that their stores, ammunition, clothing and a portion of their arms were cap- tured. He destroyed all the property he could not bring away, and returned to Beaufort with the loss of only one man. A report has reached Washington that General Anderson’s corps, about twenty thousand strong, has left Lee’s army at Fredericksburg, and has gone to reinforce the rebels in North Carolina, and to assist in resisting the movements of Gen. Foster. The Western journals have lately been in a ter- rible state of ferment over the contradictory ru- mors in relation to the movements of the Army of the Potomac. One says that Gen. Burnside has resigned his command; another, that his army is demoralized, and is on the point of breaking up; a third, that it has crossed the Rappahannock, and s# on the march towards Richmond; and a fourth, under date of the 18th, from Washington, that a battle was then progressing between Burnside’s and Lee's forces. We give to-day a fumber of interesting extracts from the Southern journals, under date of the 11th, 14th and 17th, from Fredericksburg and Raleigh, N.C. Dr. Phillimore and Vernon Lushington, Esq., of the British Court of Admiralty, have delivered ‘a lengthy and elaborate joint opinion in the case of the British steamship Circassian, lately con- demned as a United States prize in the Court of the Southern district of Florida, for attempting to run the blockade of the port of New Orleans. The British jurists say that the blockade of New Or leans had de facto ceased to exist at the time of ‘the seizure of the Circassian, and she could not be held accountable for the intention to commit fn act which she really had no power todo. The judges advise Mr. Pearson, the owner of the Cir- cassian, to appeal the case to the Supreme Court of the United States, where, they have no doubt, he will obtain full redress. They add that the British Gove sment cannot act in the matter asa govern’ se until the decision of the Supreme Court Lo becn given, CONGRESS. 1 « Senate yesterday the credentials of James mont WW. \. all, elected from New Jersey to fill the unex- p.. / term of the late John R. Thomson, were pre. pected, and Mr, Wall was qualified and took his e Mr. Wall's term will expire on the 4th of Biarchacat, The credentials of Charles Sumner, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1863. re-clected from Massachusetts for six years from the 4th of March next, were also presented. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue was received and referred to the Finanoe Com- mittee. A petition from Boston asking for a draw- | Lack on exported guapowder made from imported saltpetre was presented and referred. A resolu- | tion providing for the printing of the eighth census was adopted. A bill amendatory of the act establish- ing the grade of line oficers of the navy was reported back by the Naval Committee with amendments. A bill to promote the efficiency of the Engineer Corps and Ordnance Department was reported back by the Military Committee. The bill reor- ganizing the Court af Claims was then taken up, and along debate ensued on the subject of the delay in the payment of the soldiers. Fipally tho provision for twe additional Judges of the Court was struck out, some other amendments were agreed to, and the bill passed. Mr. Hale offered a resolution, which was laid over, that Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Van Brunt and Charles H. Haswell, who fitted out the transports of the Banks expedition, are guilty of negligence in the dis- cearge of the duty assigned them, and that the commission extorted by F. J. Southard was an express violation of the agreement made by him, and should at once be refunded to the government, The Senate then adjourned. In the House of Representatives the vote on the resolution adopted on Tuesday, declaring Gen. Vandever, of Iowa, not entitled to his seat, owing to his having accepted a military cgmmission, was reconsidered, and, after a long discussion, the sub- ject was laid aside till the 3d of March next. The House concurred in the Senate’s amendments to the West Point Academy Appropriation bill. The remainder of the session was devoted to general debate on national topics. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday Mr. Bell was elected President pro tem. for the session. Fayor- able reports were made from committees on the bills to regulate the sale of hay and straw in this city and Brooklyn; to amend the Brooklyn City Court act; prohibiting supervisors being interested in county contracts, and amending the act relative to the punishment for crimes. A majority report was made against allowing too additional Supreme Court Judges in the First district, and the report was laid on the table. The bill to repeal the act requiring the publication in county papers of the laws received an unfavorable report. A petition was presented in favor of the Militia law of last session, A bill amending the act enforcing the responsibility of bank and other stockholders was introduced. Notice was given of a bill for moving the capital to the geographical centre of the*’State. The Governor's message was made the special order for Wednesday ovening of next week, An executive session was held, and the Senate then adjourned. The Assembly, which adjourned over from last Saturday to yesterday evening at seven o'clock, met at the appointed time. Owing, however, to the interest and excitement connected with the pending election of Speaker, the galleries and all available portions of the chamber had become packed with the partisans of the candidates and curious lookers-on before that hour, and when the members of the House assembled the crowd, | noise and confusion were so great that it was deemed improper to proceed with business. An- adjournment, therefore, immediately took place till twelve o’clock to-day, when the Speakership contest, most likely, will be renewed. So far the developments do not indicate with any accuracy the final result. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our European files by the Hibernian and Kan- garoo, dated to the 8th of January, contain some interesting details of the news to that day—tele- graphed from Portland amd Halifax—which are given in the Hexap this morning. The bark Kate, Captain Laprette, from Buenog Ayres, arrived at this port yesterday. She brings us dates to 27th of November—not later than we have already received by way of England. The news is not of much importance. Nothing of consequence had occurred since the sailing of the last French packet. The country was getting on very well under the government of General Mitre, and commerce was beginning to revive. At Montevideo some disturbances had taken place in consequence of a supposed conspiracy against the government. Many persons had been arrested, and among others Captain Scurriano, of the Argentine steamer Menai, just as he was about to leave for Buenos Ayres. The general opinion is that the alarm will soon be over, as there is apparently no cause for it. The steamer Golden Age sailed from San Fran- cisco yesterday for Panama, with 150 passengers and $1,336,000 in treasure for England, $354,000 for New York and $35,000 for Panama. The Cali- fornia Legislature yesterday balloted twelve times for United States Senator without making achoice. A fierce northeasterly storm visited the city yesterday, accompanied by heavy rain. The high tide overflowed the wharves and filled the cellars along the rivers, causing some damage to proper- ty. Atnine o’clock in the evening the gale had increased to a hurricane, but up to that hour we had heard of no disaster to the shipping at the piers or in the bay. The Eastern steamers arrived in the morning at the usual hour, and left in the evening, but probably came to anchor somewhere in the East river. The storm has extended over a vast extent of country, and will doubtless termi- nate in the annual January thaw. The candidates for the United States Senate in Missouri Bave been interrogated on President Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. PB. Gratz Brown answers that he is unequivocally in favor of the proclamation. 8. T. Glover at first tried to dodge the question, but upon being pressed ad- mitted that he endorsed and should support the proclamation. 8. M. Breckinridge does not doubt the authority of the President to issue the proclama- tion as war measure, but he hesitates to support it, because he fears that it will turn the war from its original purpose, for the restoration of the Union, into @ war for the emancipation of slavery. The Legislature of Ohio, whieh is about to elect a Senator of the United States far six years from the 4th of March next, was chosen in October, 1861; when the State was in the hands of a set of infatuated negro-worshippers. It will of course elect a radical abolitionist to represent, or rather misrepresent, in the Senate the policy and political sentiments of the people for the whole of that long term; and to what extent the members of the Le- gislature are justified im so doing may be seen by the vote of the State at the lestelection. It was as follows :— Conservative. ++ 184,332 ‘ 178,742 Conservative majority.......ss..eesee.. 6,590 Major General Blunt, who recently gathered en- during laurels in Arkansas, arrived in Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 14th inst., and was warmly wel. comed by the citizens, to whom be delivered an appropriate speech. The Maine and Canadian ice gatherers are ad- monished to lay in double their usual quantity this season. The crop in these quarters has entirely failed. The stock market was activo and buoyant yesterday, and prices were all higher, the principal rise boing in the shares of the New York roads. Gold sold at 148 and 14734, elosing at 148 bid. Exchange sold at 163. Money was worth 6 per cont on call. Th ot wag loss active for cotton yesterday, but pricea were Orm, The storm checked business in bread stuffs, yet considerable activity was discernable in four, wheat and corn, at a sbade Ormer prices, and there was iso more doing in provisions, with Jess in groceries and whiskey, the latter article closing decidedly bigher, There wore lighter eales reported @f hay, bops and tobacco, with moderately extensive movements in hides, loaser, O)s @ud tallow, The freight market was quiet, Daty of the Legislature in the Present Crisis of Our National Affairs. No other State in the Union has made such heavy sacrifices in support of the war as New York. The contributions in volunteer offerings and taxation of this city alone, up to the pre- sent time, amount to little short of one hun- dred millions of dollars, and there has not been a battle field which has not been freely moiat- ened with the blood of the best and bravest of our sons. Let it not be forgotten, moreover, that we have been thus prodigal of all that is dearest to us in spite of the well founded appre" heasions of the great conservative majority of our citizens that the war is being diverted to other purposes than that of the suppression of the rebellion. When now it has become manifest that, under the system ot mismanagement that has pre- vailed since the commencement of hostilities, it can never be brought to a close except by the permanent separation of the belligerent sections, it is time that the State which has con- tributed thus liberally to its support should exercise a controlling influence over its future direction. It has already made its voice heard through the elections. It should now give for- mal and well defined effect to the sentiment that led to the late sweeping changes in the position of parties here. As soon as the Legislature has completed its or- ganization one of its first duties should be to pass a resolution denouncing the bung- ling and pnskilful manner in which the cam- paign has been conducted, and calling upon tho President to place at the head of the War De- partment General McClellan, and at.the head of the Navy Department some naval officer whose professional knowledge and antecedents will be @ guarantee to the country for ita vigorous and successful prosecution. There would be nothing irregular or unbe- coming in this proceeding. In constitutional countries—in Great Britain, for example—the head of the State always yields to a decided expression of national opinion through Parlia- ment or otherwise in regard to the composition of his Cabinet, and changes his ministers when he finds that they have lost the confidence of his people. Ina republic it is still more im- portant that such indications should be promptly acted upon. The President can no longer doubt the evidences that present themselves on every side of the utter contempt in which his present advisers, with one or two exceptions, are held. The indignant remonstrances that reach him even from some of the leading men and organs of his own party ought to be sufficient to con- vince him that their maladministration and failures have disgusted and disappointed every one, What in the beginning was merely specu- lative in the way of criticism on the con- duct of the war has been reduced to positive certainty by the daily recur- rence of the same facts. Reverses crowd upon reverses from the want of ordinary fore. sight and preparation, and when we do gain a victory it costa us more than it is worth from the utter aimlessness of purpose or insufficiency of means that characterizes it. Any doubts that may have existed on these points have been removed by the military court, of inquiry, and the country is now satisfied that as long as Mr. Lincoln’s present Cabinet is continued in office there can be no hope of bringing the struggle to a successful conclusion. It is therefore not only proper, but urgently necessary, that this great State, representing, as it does, the most important interests in the Union, and entitled to be its mouthpiece by the heavy sacrifices that it has made to preserve its integrity, should formally convey to the President the expression of the popular will in regard to the future management of the war, It is the more impbrtant that this should be promptly done from the attempt that was re- cently made, and that is about to be renewed, to drive from the Cabinet the only man—Mr. Seward—who has steadily and faithfully per- formed his duty to the country, and whose ex- ample, if followed, would long since have ter- minated the sanguinary contest in which we are engaged. Mr. Lincoln, we repeat, must be told in distinct terms that there is but one man in whom the people can feel confidence at the head ef the War Department, and that is Gene- ral McClellan, and that at the head of the Navy Department they must have a naval officer of tried ability and experience. The system of appointing civilians to such posts is vicious in principle, and has cost the country too much to be longer persevered in. The President cannot and dare not disregard @ formal declaration of this kind on the part of the Legislature of this great State. Following close upon an election which has signalized one of the most extraordi- nary political revolutions in history, it will carry with it @ significance that it would be foolhardiness to ignore. Evrorsan Crirics oN THE Battie or Frepe- RiIckspURG.—It was announced yesterday in our summary of foreign intelligence that the Moni- teur of Paris had a description of the battle of Fredericksbarg by an eye witness of the con- test. As the Moniteur is the official organ of the French government, and asthe publication of this account was immediately followed by new rumors of French mediation, it is of course @ matter of interest to see what this aceount says. The only description of the Fredericks- burg affair which we can find in the Moniteur is copied from a Quebec paper, to which it was contributed by an English surgeon. It amounts to very little, but is full of the usual gross ex- eggerations of the number of our forces, of which the statement that Burnside had not less than two hundred thousand men will suffice for an example. Probably no other war in the history of the world has attracted such general, eager and earnest attention as that now raging in this country. The monarchs and the masses of Europe are alike interested in the and the results of the conflict. European politicians make it ‘the turning point of their domestic and foreign policies. Eu- ropean critics and military and naval officers discuss and argue about our campaigns, The whele world is thus made acquainted with much information in regard to this country, and our great importance is thus impljedly ac- knowledged. It seems to be unanimously agreed that we have shown ourselves to be a fighting nation of almost unequalled bravery and resources. The rapidity with which the rebel troops are moved hither and thither, and the cool courage with which the Union soldiers march up to certain death when storming such fortifications as those of Fredericksburg and Vicksburg, are without @ parallel, and compel admiration. Nor are the wonderful exploits of our navy unnoticed, and the captors of New Orleans, for instance, have been most heartily enlogized. When we bave finished gur appren- ticeship in this war we shall be superior to any other nation on the globe, either on land or sea, and will be respected acoordingly. The Attitude of France Towards Mexi- co—Our Duty to This Continent. The concurrent resolutions with reference to the action of France in Mexico, offered in the United States Senate’ by Mr. Mc- Dougall, of California, are but an expression of the sentiments of the entire American people, South as well as North. They but give utterance to a feeling which has been growing and rankling in the popular heart ever since the commencement of the intervention of the allied Powers, and which has rapidly™in- creased in bitterness since France, in addition to her proceedings in Mexico, has also manifested, through her present imperial government, her hatred of republican institutions everywhere, by menacing an interference in our own strug- gle for popular self-government, Yet we regret to be obliged to say we do not think the present is the time to give utterance to these sentiments, at least in this form. The moment selected, it appears to us, is either too early or too lite. The justness of our grounds of complaint against France, and the strength of the rapidly growing popular feeling against the government of Napo- leon IIL, will not lessen or fail in intensity by a little delay. On the contrary, the popular mind is becoming every day only more impressed with our great interest in this question of the independence of the American continent from European dic- tation or control. The dangers of European in- terference on this side of the Atlantic have only now been brought home to us. But onr first great necessity is to put down the rebellion. Our work with France or with any other Eu- ropean Power will then be easy. We have always maintained that the true safeguard of Mexico—as well as of all the Spanish-American republics—against European aggression, and the only safeguard, is to be found in the preservation of the territorial in- tegrity, and consequently the power, of the United States. We feel sure this is the speedi- est means of gaining and guaranteeing that end- The proof is evident in the eager haste with which, the first moment the belief gained a foot- hold in Europe that our Union was permanent- ly disrupted, the occasion was seized by three of the leading Powers to inaugurate a policy of interference and of conquest on this coutinent— a policy which, though often threatened, they had never dared to put in execution before. We say again, let us first put’down the rebellion, and all these things will come after wards. He must be a statesman very poorly informed of the tone of popular sentiment in the United States, and of how implicitly our government, sooner or later, is guided by that sentiment, who would venture to assert in the Corps Legislatif of France that the movement the Emperor has directed against Mexico, and the continued occupation of that country by French forces, would not inevitably entail diffi- culties of the gravest character with the United States in case of the restoration of our Union. A people so resolute and so self-asserting as our own do not readily abandon what has become with us @ traditional policy. The security of the position of France in Mexico depends golely, therefore, upon the question of the resto- ration of the American Union. Can the preca- Tious government of the Emperor afford to stake too heavily upon that issue? Once we are again united, whether by means of the war now being waged against the rebels in arms or by negotiation after an armistice, it must be patent to all European statesmen that the position now occupied by France in Mexico will require to be instantly ehanged, and the United States will not then be slow in de- manding ample explanations of a course which every American schoolboy has seen from the outset has been one purely hostile to us, and an open insult to all who favor the permanency of republican institutions on this continent. It has been evident from the first that no one permanent good could come of the course the Emperor Napoleon, under bad advice, has cho- sen to pursue towards Mexico. An occupation of that country by the troops of France cannot be permanent, because the interests of the United States will not permit it. But, setting that objection aside, it is very doubtful whether, even by the expenditure of years of time, millions of treasure and countless lives of her brave soldiers, France could ever acquire con. trol, at so great @ distance, of more than the principal lines of communication and a few of the chief cities of Mexico. Consequently none of the benefits attending the establishment of a settled order of things can ever be expected to be achieved. The result of her mission, there- fore, while barren of permanent fruits, is only to embarrass commerce and entail still greater evils upon that class of foreigners she so osten- tatiously designed to protect; and it has besides the further evil effect of interrupting the pro- gress of a legitimate and benevolent government which would speedily have established com- plete order and security throughout the whole of the republic under constitutional rule—the government of the people’s repeatedly and nnanimously avowed choice. Now the energies and means which should have been devoted by the government of President Juarez to this end have necessarily been turned to the defence of their native soil against a foreign invader waging war upon them without just cause, and in violation of the plainest principles of international law. Under these circumstances we bave conceived it to be the duty ofour government—the Exec- utive and of Congress—to protest in the strongest terms, and from the outset, against the course of France towards Mexieo, and to refuse the shipment of any manner of supplies from our ports for the use of the French invading army; but, while giving France clearly to understand the serious character of the differences between us which must surely grow out of the course she is now pursuing, in the future, we have thought that any actual opening of the question with that Power before our rebellion was termi- nated would be imprudent aad was unneces sary. While premature, any such step would afford no secure relief to Mexico, perhaps only augment her present difficulties. For this rea- son we have also opposed any open alliance with Mexico atthe present time. In fighting to put down the rebellion we are far more ef- ficiently and effectually fighting her battles than we should be by prematurely bringing on a foreign war in addition to our own complica- tions at home. France has at least had warn- ing from the outset, and it is not our fault if she bas not acted with her eyes open to the cer- tain consequences she was entailing of most serious complications, at a period that cannot be remote, with a people between whom and pan EAE the people of France there should exist none but ties of the strictest friendship, of respect, and on our part of traditional gratitude. Let us terminate the rebellion, and then we can take hold of this business with the imperial government of Napoleon III. with the right spirit and in the right way. Deruxoz ov Stavery py tre Loypox Tens on Scriprurat Grounps,—We publish this morning the article from the London Times in defence of slavery, which has excited so much indignation amongst the English abolition journala. Its in- terest just at the present time lies less in its arguments, which have but little novelty at this side, than in the complete change of opinion which it shows on the part of the ruling classes In England on the religious aspects of the ques- tion. It is not many years since this their iead- ing organ lent its powerful aid to the work of emancipation in the West Indies on the ground of the sinfulness and unlawfulness of the insti- tution, whilat to the labors of the abolitionists in this country it has, uulil the breaking out of the rebellion, ever rendered a ready and zeal- ous support. Now it makes the important but rather tardy discovery that not only is there nothing in slavery inconsistent with Scriptural teachings, but that, on the contrary, tliere is much in the sacred writings to uphold and jus- tify it. his conversion of our London contemporary to the views entertained by the conservative and really religious portion of our peopie is, we are willing to believe, sincere. It no doubt sees the error of its ways, and would not be sorry to find England benefiting by the follies to which she has pushed us by her insidious teach- ings. The prospect of her dilapidated West In- dian colonies being raised to their former pitch of prosperity by the depletion of the South of a large portion of its slave population would in itself be sufficient to account for this remarka- ble change in its views. The conduct of our government in trying to rid itself by coloniza- tion of the large number of slaves thrown on its hands by its present suicidal policy has no doubt assisted the process. The Times would be glad to see England benefiting by the wealth of industry that we seem so desir- ous to throw away, and all old prejudices would be flung aside if it could help to realize that object. Such, we take it, is the secret of the religious light which has thus suddenly broken jn on the mind of our London contemporary on this question. The conversion is so remarkable that it should have the effect of opening the eyes of the fanatics amongst our own people to the criminal absurdities of which they have been guilty in regard to it. Our Nationa Derencxs.—The ways of diplo- macy are strange, ‘Bo much so that it has be- come an admitted fact that statesmen may tell untruths whenever they see fit. We distinctly remember that at the date we heard ef Napo- leon’s proposal to Russia and England for a joint mediation or intervention in our affairs, the government at Washington issued assurances that nothing was further from the mind of the French Emperor than any interfe- rence with us, and that our relations with his Court were most friendly. Asa downright con- tradiction of these pleasing announcements were the telegrams, published the same day, giving the resume of Napoleon’s proposal to the Courts above mentioned. The inference clearly was that our government either had been de- ceived most egregiously or that they were attempting to deceive us. By a strange coincidence, yesterday morning like assurances of good will on the part of Na- poleon were issued from Washington in the same journals containing the telegrams from Halifax announcing that the Emperor of the French in- tends once more proposing mediation. We would suggest to the authorities at Washington that they should not take for granted all the promises of those foreign Powers which have given unmistakable proofs of ill will towards the Union, and we therefore strongly urge the putting of our harbor and eoast defences upon such a footing as will render Napoleon’s promises the more likely to be kept. Let us be prepared for all emergencies; let us have our harbors and coasts invulnerable, and then we may place implicit reliance upon the amica- ble assurances of the European Powers. Until then those friendly assertions are worth but little, as none should better appreciate than our authorities. PinanciaL Resources or THe Country.—Mr. Boutwell, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in his first statement of the transactions of his bureau, estimates the revenue from all sources coming within his department for the fiscal year 1863-64 at not less than $150,000,000. If the integrity of the Union be preserved, of course the returns under the present law will be very much larger. There are a great many things not taxed that would bear an impost, and that would yield a large additional reve- nue. What a shame it is that with such re- sources the country should be allowed to drift into such an apparently hopeless condition. It is for Mr. Lincoln to extricate us from this Slough of Despond. Let him reconcile our political and military with our financial capa- bilities, and all will go well. The country looks to him for prompt and energetic action. More Lraut.—Since we first called the atten- tion of our municipal authorities to the dangers arising from the circulation in our streets after nightfall of carriages of all descriptions without lighted lanterns, we have received assurances from correspondents that they had conformed with our advice upon this subject, and now bore upon their vehicles lanterns, which are duly lighted at dark. The matter is one of import ance to the public, as is most undoubtedly any measure having for object their safety, and for this reason we once more call the attention of the proper parties to the fact that all vehicles which circulate in our streets at nights do mot bear lighted lamps. There should be no ex- ception to the rule, and those not conforming to measure dictated by prudence and common sense should be fined for a first offence and im- prisoned for a continued disregard of the law. ——————— C1ats ov THe Monrton’s Crew.—We have received from the crew of the ill-fated but favorite iron-clad Monitor « statement of their grievances and claims upon the government, expressed in the plain, blunt phrases of the sea- man, but with all the force of truth and justice. These faithful sailors, who have served their country in calm and in storm, in battle and in tempest, now appeal to the government to re- deem a promise made to them, and to recog- nize and reward their services. We refer our readers to their honest statement, published in another column. We think it is the duty of the government to comply with the reasonable re quest of these men, even although there had ~ been no promise made to thom; and it is to be hoped that their appeal will not b9 unheeded by those whose duty it is to right their wrongs. Money Taxers Wayten.—Numerous instances of fatal results fiom the present system of pay- ing fares in our omnibuses are daily cited to us since we first called attention to the fact that the drivers of those vehicles neither can aor should be expected to avold accidents if they have the double duty of driving their horsea and collecfing the moaey to attend to. Our great thoronghfate is crowded daily to excess, and surely it is an e™duous task for the driver of any vebicle to proceed along Broadway without coming in contact with others, or without in- juring some of the thousands of people who, at each moment, cross the sureet. We are positive that any person driving im our principal streets must give hia undivided attention to his horses, and we advise the super- intendents of our omnibus lines to attend to their obvious duty in this matter—that is, the placing on each of their vehicles a conductor whose charge will be to altend to the passen- gers, who will collect the fares, start and stop the omnibus and see that whea tho due number of persons the vehicle can contain are inside no stoppage be made until some seat be va- cated. These simple attentions to the comfort of the public would cause great satisfaction to all, and would obviate the terrible danger which exists in the preseat careless arr: ments of our onmmibus lines, We feel convia the public fully bear us out in the reuuest. THE NAVY, Captain Boggs After the Alabama, SacRamenro—Ten guns, regular navy built, eteam man- of-war—was put formally in commission on the 7th inst., at Portsmouth, N. H. ‘The Preaidentof the United States, some six months since, ordered Secretary Welles to give tho gallant Captain Boggs, who foughi the Varuna uth sho sani:, anew and first class vossel. He was appointed to the Juniata, a sbip which has been under sailing orders sineo November, but which is stili at Philadoitla Captain Bo, 73 was then transferred to the Sacramento, acraft which is known to be a complete success. She is of almost the same type as the Monongahela, Juniata, Shenandoah and Adirondack, Her tonnage is 1,400, and hor armament will consist of two eleven-inch Dahigrons, one rifle Parrott (200-pounder) and six medium howitzers: She will carry @ first rate corvette’s company, 182 offt- cors and men, The regular naval constructor of the Kittery Navy Yard, Mr, Hansom, superintended the building of tho ship. She ia to chase the Alabama, and those who know Captain Boggs expect to hear something from him about the pirate. ‘The Sacramento's officers are:— Licutenant—Goorge P. Ryan, Ordnance Officer ‘Acting Master—E. & Pendleton. ‘Acting Engincers—T. W. Bell, J. H. Cousens. Surgeon—Charies Martia. Paymaster—Willi We . ‘Acting Chief Engineer—Joho Yaies, ‘Acting First Assistant Engineer —— For, D. A. Lookt- ‘wood. og Mting, Taird Assistant Engineers. B. Dyer, B. Paria, rr. Acting Master's Mates—N. M. Barker, 0. @. Moore. D. . Wallace, ©. Harrivgton, ‘Paymaster's Clerk—Walter M, Chester, unner—William Burviece, vain—Charles Miler. The Fleets at the Navy Yards ‘The following is now the state of affairs at the navy yards of Now York,*Philadelpbia and Portmouth, N. io NKW YORK. Over five thousand men employed. Monthly disburee ments about $200,000, Condition. a slip ane rotor ne, Old brig. Ropairing. Purchased paddie..Fitting ent. ip... Repairing and Nahant have just left. This is what New York has on band. PORTSMOUTH, N. H. ‘There are about fifteen hundred hands at work here, Disbursements about $60,000 monthly, The men-of-war Agamenticus 3 The Mohican, , indeed, all the ships turned out of this yard, are the in the navy ase goneral thing. PHILADBLPHIA, About two thousand men employed. Disbursements monthly probably $120,000. The vessels in the stream aro:— Condition. .-Repairing. Outward On hor triai trip. Awaiting repairs. ‘Tucony. Building. Tonawanda. Building. A survey of League Island has again been made, and we understand that it is almost settled on by Secretary Welles to build the now irouclad depot there. All the Nine Monitors A float. ‘The launch of the Lehigh, Ericaeon battery, which took place at Chester, Pa., on Saturday, makes all the nine Monitors afloat. The enly one not ina state of read ness is the Nantucket, and she is launched. In addition to these the Red Bird and Roanoke are now approaching completion. The Catskill is to be finished next week, the Sangamon will go to sea about the 27th,and the Nam tucket about the 10th proximo, Tho first vessel of the second batch to be launched—the Tecumsch—will be floated out from Colwell’s yard, in Jersey City, about the 25th of February. The Orage, which was launched at Si. Louis, dees not belong to either of these classes, doing smaller. Viouer, 2, is to be the name and rate of the protty crate called Martha, purchased some time since in this city. ‘We bave now in the navy @ Daffodil, Daisy and Violet. Small vessels aro receiving such names. There are not as yot any Peiters, Fireflys or Gudgeons; but there soon may be. Nanawn—2.—The following is a correct list of the of cers of the United States irom-ciad steamer Nahant: — Commander—Jobn Downes. Lieutenant Commanding and Executive Officer—D. BR “Mcring Ma:ter—Wr. Carter. ‘acting F. Clark, Charles C. Rickol. Pir A Bngineer and Acting Chief—¥. J. Lovering. Assistant Paymaster—Edwin Patoam. Asristant Surgeon—C. Bierrcvetmen, Second Asristant Engineer—T. H. bts“ Third Assistant Engineers—Wm. 8. Neal, Abraham Michener. Coast Ptlot—J. Sofeld. D. B. Macenot, chief evgineer, an passenger. New Publication Dow Rawow Pana’s New Wonk on Sours Awnnica— Under the title of Wild Scenes in South America, or, Life in the Lianos,” Mr. Scribuer has recently published @ mont interesting volume from the pen of the son of the President of Venervela, himeclf well known and highty entoomed in this country. In this work the author gives A vivid sketch of his experience in the wild scenery and among the savage denizens of the region vinited by him. Wondrous escapes are related from the tigers, crocodiles and otber ferocious animale sent it. be oe that we would expect from bd ee 4 feaperiavcsa all he describes, Not the least interesting portions of the book are those rele to the political carcer of the her, the patriotic deliverer of Venezuela, who ibe party whose adventures are bere nar- Obitwary. Grane Taonrone, who at one tine occupied a promineat position 10 this city as @ florist and seedaman, died at ew Haven, on the 20th instent, at Vbe advanced age of pinety years.