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Howe, weer Ho omMODORE Nutr, &¢., at all i Afteruvon and Evenmg. BRYANTS! MINSTRELS, Me " Fiall, 472 Broad- BM Brmtoruaw Soxcs, Buc.ksguas, Daxces, &c—Ihicm AL WOOD'S MINSTRE Sonus, Daxons, &c.— 514 Broadway =Ermrorian MoE. BUCKLEY S MINSTRELS. Stuyvesant Ina ttute, 689 Broadwa, —Eraivrian SoxGs, Dancers, 40.—Two PoMeREs. BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Livina Wip Anmiats, BEARDED Saxt, Ac. AMERICAN MUSIO HALL, No. 444 Broadway.—Ba1- ters, Pantomimas, BunLisquas, £0, PARISIAN OABINET OF WONDERS. Open daily trom lu A.M. tll 10 P.M. 53 Broadway. HOOLEY'8 OPERA HOUSB, Brooklyn.—Brarorias sonas, Dances, Bunvesams ae ” ras New York, Snturday, January 24, 1863, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. The Werkty Herarn, with its iwcreasing circtiation, is @caplial modium for advertisoments designed to reach the notice of country doalors and merchants. THE SITUATION. Owing to the wretched condition of the roads on the Rappahannock line, and the utter impossibility of moving either our artillery or ammunition wagons, the advance of General Burnside’s army is still delayed, and it remains yet, as far aa we know, on the north side of the river. Since Tuesday the weathor has been most tem- pestuous, and no efforts could succeed in moving the wagon trains, even with double teams. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary the pontoons which were so ersential to the con- templated surprise « nemy contd not be brought up in time to « at the designated poinin . ‘ state of the of the Potowac is str 1 and until the weather improves oan havaly xecom- plish anything. A sunny afternoon te which is reported to have blessed the nity of Falmouth, may possibly hasten the facilitios for an onward movement There weal to record to-day is no late news from the West or Sonth Che rebel accounts of the attack on Vicksburg and the repulse of our forces are given moro in detail in our columns and with be found interesting. ‘rhe banking pian of Mi. Chase, as pregonted by the Committee of Ways and Means, was rejected in Congresa yesterday by a very decisive yoto which would appear to settle the banking ques: tion for this session, and leaves the amended act, as it stands, providitig for tho raising of $990,000,- 00%, by six per cent loans, for twenty years; #310,000,000 of three y: per cert, and the same rs Treasury notes, at six mount of additional Trea- currency of the seme character aa that now sury afloat. CONGRESS. ‘nthe Senate yesterday Messrs. Foot, mont, and Grimes, of lowa, asked to be released of Ver. from eervico on tho Naval Committee, in conse- quence o° having so much of their time taken up ‘The request of Mresoot was granted; but Mr. Grimes wae retaiped The Vice President filled vacui standing committees as follow: with other matters. m the committec, of Maryland, was placed on the Foreign Relations Com ator Arnold, of Rhode Island, on the Naval Committee; and Senator Turpie, of In diana, on the Public Lands and Claims Committee. Petitions in favor of a general bankrupt act were presented. The bill to provide for printing the annnal report of the banks of the United Stated was passed, A bill to provide for takitfy evidence in cases of certain claima against the government was introduced and referred © Judiciary Committees. A resolution was ado; instructing the MilitaryCommittee to inquire into the condi- tion and treatment of the soldiers in the Conva- jescent Camp at Alexandria, Virginia. Resolutions were also adopted inquiring of the Secretary of War whether more major and brigadier generals have been appointed than authorized by law, and requesting information of the Secretary of the ttee; ‘Treasury a8 to the amount of revenue, if any, that | has accrued to the government ftom the luty on ee per wnder the act of March 2, 1861, | an r, in his opinion, the rednotion of the a Inotincrease the revenue. A resola, ‘ trodaced, and taid over, inatructing the M taiitee to inquire whether ylang | al Bu may have for: cn t if Predovieksbarg have beon a w " and, ifs a m foe the ti afta drawn hy ¥ t " seapted bg . P neces but l “ shes { ‘ or ye exporte tion of | concluding which the Senate adjourned. | substitute bill, which was a. Ps | cordance with the viewa of Mr, Secretary aural ihe passage of artillery, and e-hn vo Luan, Tan Forsawy | | and administrators, amending the Banking law of | Norfolk, of Magruder from Yorktown, of Bragg cies in | nator Hicks, | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY JANUARY peices cs le a ai Vy Giapotted ot doubt thissort. Although it: arma ta Mexico, and tl on elative to streot raimeada dn the oly of —— ‘ Lhe bili to promote the ¢ y MS the army was taken up, sed. The bill for in the Quarter- The House of Representatives, immediately oie | assembling, went intg Committee of —— | and resumed the consideration of the bill to pro- vide ways and means for the support of govern: : ment, The section of the Ways and Means Com- mitteo's bill taxing banks Was discussed at.con- slistable length, snd afterwards Mr, Hooper's drawn up mainly in ac- was takon up, discussed, and rojeoted by 31 te 72 nays Dar 5 f the Ways and If onthe negr tho di 3! Committee, a : 2 was indulged in, growing out of an oat wh ua offered, but rer jected, to t) tbat mor! hy the bill sl.ould be used for the purpo=s OF eman- cipating or ar slaves. ‘Lhe vill of Mr. Stevens was afterwards committee roge, and Lhe House adjourned to Mon- day. sae THE LEGISLATURE. Inthe State Senate at Albany yestorday favor- able reports were made, among others, on the Canal Appropriation bill and the bi!l amen act relative to marine insurance companies. their freight business, amending the statutes in reference to the duties of executors T5R, and creating the offige gt Asgocinte Surro- gate for te county of New York. Tho bill rela- tive to forfeit recognizances in criminal cases wa passed, Also, that horizing the Albany and Vermont Reilrosd to constructa kranch. Tho Se- nate adjoysned to Monday next. wort = After a stoppage of seven days, the voting ma chiner¥ of the Assembly was again set in motion yesterday, aad it ran very smoothly through thir- teen ballotings, reaching the ninetieth in all since the House first convenes, on the 6th inst, During this cessation «! voting for Speaker there were four days’ sesslons held, which were cousumed principally in exeitel debate and wrangling be- tween the two parties, Since Thursday of last weck, the day when the last previous balloting waa had, the aspect of the Speakership contest has changed, at least so far as the democrats are concerned, Mr. Trimmer, of Monroe county, in stead of Judge Dean, of this city, being their prev sent candidate. The republicans still stick to Mr" Callicot; but the monotonous tie which was kept up on every vote for nearly two weeks was yes. terday destroyed by the appearance of a third Candidate, in the person of Mr. Depew, of West chester. But, even with these changes, no elec- tion of Speaker was effected, Tho ballotings va- ried somewhat; but none of them gave much indi- cation of an early organization, On the last one the vote was—Trimmer, 60; Callicot, 60; Depew, 2. The Assembly then adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival at this port Isst night of the steamsh'p Pacific, Captain Embleton, from Hava. na on the 16th inst., we have late and interesting news from Mexico, which will be found detailed in the letter of our Havana correspondent, in an- other column, One of the rebe! regiments im the battle of Mur- freesboro, according to an account given in & Southern journal, was raised in Missouri by a son of ex-Governor John B. Clarke, who pretends to represent that State in the rebel Sonate at Rich- mond. Col, Clarke, says the rebel paper, when recruiting his regiment, was obliged to conceal himself by day and work at night. After filling up his corps, he ewam the whole 1,080 across the Mississippi river—a mile and a quarter wide—and at the time fullof drift ice! The Legislature of Indiana cently passed a dated yosterday, informs us substantially 0 ot in consequence of the heavy rains aud gueray thaw since Tuesday last the position, ‘of our taken up amd ® army may be defined in those four expressive words—*stuck in the mud,” From the delay | in bringing up those Pehtoons, and fromm the difficulty of povipg our artillery through tb’, mud, the intended surprise of the enemy ‘has beon defeated; from which we infes That the army ia again in its old encampw%nts on the 1p Mul considered, when the | quarters, Accepting, then, this declaration of ding the | haps he may; Bills | opinion that he will repeat the strategic move. were introduced requiring the Erie aud Central | ments of Joe Johnston from Harper’s Ferry and railroads to make monthly and yearly reports of | Manassas. of Sidney Johnston trom Bowling revised | Green, of General Bishop Polk from Columbus, | Those indicated examples have taught us ths t resolution of thanks to Gov. Horatio Seymour, of this State, for the ‘able and patriotic defence of the constitntion, the laws and liberties of the American citizen, contained in his late message to the Legislature of the State, and particularly for is just and high appreciation of the interests, on and patriotism of the great Northwest.” The First colored regiment of Kansas Volun- teer infantry was mustered into the service of the United States, at FortScott, on the 15th instant, y Mojor T. J, Weed, Assistant Acting Adjutant General. After the forma of mustering were con- ! cluded the Major made a speech to his colored brother soldiers, in which he told them theygwere henceforth te be forever free, and that he trusted thoy would soon become the model military orga- nization of the war. Since the regiment was form. ed over four hundred have skedaddled, leaving on ly four hundred and eighty on duty. The case of Henry B. Silvernail against the Har- lem Ra‘lroad Company, for damages sustained by a collision, was tried last week at Hudson, and the jury gave the plaintiff a verdict of nine thousand dollars There wana: the Assembly reat Union dinner on Thursday ta foome, given in honor of General Schenck, the commander of this department. ‘It was a aplondid stantial men of Baltimore, inade a most cloquent and thoroughly loyal speech: General Schenck also spoke eloquently, coum ing the eourse of the Governor. In the Court of Generat Sessions yesterday, the examination of witnesses was continued in the case of alleged false pretences against My. Joel B. Fer- guson, in procuring from Mra, Catharine Carter the loan of one thousand dollars. Both plaintiff and | defendant are members of the Bedford street Me- | thodist Episcopai church, and the trial has oo | course excited 1 interest in that congregation, severe! members of which were present in the court room yesterday, The case was not con- | claded, but adjourned over to Monday noxt at | eleven o'clock. | There was quite a violet downward turn in the market | to-day, and at one Uae aimost & panic. Stocks fell from 2to 5 per cont. Money was active at 6 per cont. Gold | fuctunted betwoen 147M And closing vors wtrong ay | 1484 did. Exchange closed at 102% } Covton was in moderate demand yesterday at unchanged | prices, Flour and wheat were less active, and somewhat | cheaper, Corm was in good request at slixhtly advanced | tates. Provisions were more freely dealt it. Mess pork improved # trifle, Tard tended dowawaras, Sugars, teas | and New Orleans molnsees wore rather active and buoy ani, Tobacco, metals, eandies and crude fish ofle werg more sought after at rising figuree, Thore were lighter freight ongagemente reported, but mo ebange in rates, The auction gale of wore was very spirited and suceessful, Tu Henain’s Wan Mars Coren is Evrorgn— The Preneh official organ, the Moniteur, in pnb- lishing & corres rnee from #o eye witness ot the batile of Predericksbare, produced that which ad never before been given in a French journal—a » of the battle ground. The papers in Paris are full of wonder at this ex hibition of enterprise. Weare pleased to ob- | serve the European journals following thus our | example, the Hr aatn being the first Wspaper which gave, for the benetit of the public, au- thentic maps of the bettle yrouods in Europe Curing past campaigns, aad a series of maps showing the movements of our armies since the ent @ the rebellion. One example sowed here, and iow they are ving our plan io Enrope. This is a great commence ‘ment to the Hsrarn, imitation being the ere fiittery, We have bad demande | om Enghind, France and wupe affair, attended by the most sub- Governor Bradford | of but little use for the purposes for which the Army on the Rappahaasock— \ sSeuck tm the Mud.” Our latest despatch from the Rappahanuool, north side of the river. A week may elapse before the “sacred soil” of Virginia is sufflolentty Gried or hardened for Pie then we are 29 teats” Certain that General Burn. My. why immediately advance to east, with wavey gbout thirty feet high, Cap- tain Rodgers states that the Weehawken made These Facts will relleve the public, in regard to the it is seas and rough gales as well as any other olagg of vessels. ge Importance of West Point a0”, oiner Military Academies in Ar orion, There has been of late @ griod deal of dis- ouasiow, in official circles &nd elsewhere, con- cerning the importance ‘and usefulness of mill- ity schools in this fountry, and the great 2 | tional Military Academy of West Point, in thi. | 24, 1868. oe ie a a - FEW Rexovar. or Desp Boonies CavRCu,"Vavirs,—Some yoars ago copaiderable excito.nent was ogcasioned, by the discovery the’, the Trinity church vaults were exposed on | FROM, bo exeolient weather {nd showed very little mo- | 7 hames street, and this excitement was tengwed tion. mind of », ‘good deal of anxiety e8~Zoing qualities of our new iron-clads. 6 ‘how established that they can weather heavy | moved. ‘Ww, when the bodies of those persons interred in the old Dutch church—noyy fie Post Omice— and on the old BS cy charch property were Te — find the samo excitement at pra ‘ent in regard to the exhumation of the remains of those buried in the vauits of the Sullivan street church; but with this difference, that while.formerly the work was properly done it now seems to have beoa conducted with every possible outrage upon both the living and the dead, The idea of robbing corpses of their jowelry, stealing the broken coMus and the sil- ver plates upon them, av’ packing the remains side 1 advance to @ battle, though he » state, has gome in for a more then fair share of | of four thousand people into two bungred titi the | the animadversions of friends and foes. Now, | boxes, is horribly repulsive, and we are eur- enemy's works. He $5 “Svidently satisiled | it {sg generally admitted fact that there is no | prised that men can be found who will commit, mands tor the servico of Jeff. Davis in other General Burnside as a fixed fact, is it likely that Genoral Lee, with the odds thus rendered so decidedly against him, will risk another bat tle to hold the heights of Fredericksburg? Per- but we are more inclined to the of Beauregard from Corinth, of Huger from and truly practical school. For years past it has been the only place—tbat is, of firat class importance—where the aspiring youth of the United States could be trained and instructed in the art of war and the concomitant duties of the future soldier. Prior to the war with Mexico it was a common practice to run down West Point and to make it appear that it was a perfectly useloss establishment. Cur abolition legislators, philanthropists and philosophers always pretended to believe in the supreme reign of peace in America, Becanse the United +States was a great productive and manufactur- ing country they imagined, or pretended to from Perryville, and of Lee himself from An- tietam; that is, we think it probable that when | General Burnside again advances upon the ene my’s works he will find them evacuated wad the enemy beyond immediate pursuit. jt ia an established rule among the rebel ger zals to measure the strength of the army op: posed fo thém, and that tinless the chanees are decidedly in their favor they are to slip off in the dark, in view of the good old axiom that He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. General Lee having measured the strength at Fredericksburg of the Union army opposéd to him, has remained under cover of his intrench- ments ever since. With the repulse of our forces on the 13th December he did not venture to come out, but prudently continued behind his works, and all the next day with our troops between him and the river. He thus practi- cally confessed the superiority of our army in the open field; and, accordingly, we apprehend that with the discovery of a movement intended to force him out, to protect his communications he will take Time by the forelock, and repeat the trick of a mysterious disappearance to part$ unknown. Tae Disrress iw France.—The French jour- nals are not permitted to give full details as to the condition of the working classes in the manufacturing districts. An attempt has been made to solicit private aid for the hundreds of thousands of French operatives, now almost atarving. but it failed altogether. In France there exists no mode of appealing with success , Ufat she would always be secure by vo extent of her agrioulturgl find indas” } trial wealth. They never “2emed to dream | Lal war would at *Sme time or other break | ont and »**Jato the country from Maine to | ‘bg Tht, Grande. Therefore they made it a | habit to assail West Point, its cadets and every~ | thine eat ted with it. But as #oon aa the atic it ao Mexico every: | first cloud’ éy war threatened an we. ‘i body began fo think (lat Weat Point was, ier all, a very important place. When our armies were ordered to march to the ciiy of the Mon- tezumes for the vindication of the national honar there was no lack of brave and able ofti- cers to lead them, These were principally men who bad been educated in this valuable national institution so unmereifully assailed. And what we would have done for officers if we had not those young men trained in this solitary Northern military school may be better conceived than expressed. The great oversight of the North bas been its continuous neglect of military schools, In the South it bas always been different. In nearly every Southern State the military ideas of the people, and especially of those in authority, have led them to prepare themselves for all the contingencies of internal revolution or foreign invasion, With them military schools was the rule; with us it was the exception. The fa- mous Stonewall Jackson, whose name is now 80 intimately connected with thia rebellion, although graduating in West Point and gaining his first military ideas in that institution, spent many years of his life in perfecting the organt- imagin | the eq |, tbat tho army of General Lee has been mate- militury inginution in this country go onset countenance or allow such Lge © te: tially diminished to supply more pressing de- | its organization and discipline ad thfs Invaluable | spector Delavan deserves great praise for his prompt interference and the measures he has taken to have the rest of the removals decently made. ‘ It is, of course, beiter for the health of the city that all the yauits and chureh yards within its limits should be cleared of their contents, and that all burials should be made in remote cemeteries like Greenwood. The price of land and the desire to make money baye more to do with the action of these chucch trasiees, how- eyer, than eny rogard for our sanitary welfare. ‘They sell the graves of their friends to make money, aud they desccrate the bodies of the dead in order to have the Ww o! removal done as eheaply as possible. The trustees, who have received thowsands of dol lara for the use of their vaulis, should be coi pelled to r-move the bodies, coMa by ooftin, and inter them at the expense of the church in | separate graves in the subgrban comoterter, ar matters are allows.1 t6 Ro ig thie wa yz sie ro mains of ou? folatives and friemds will nover be aalo from sacritezé, nd Greoawodn n 22 our other Gémeteries may be sold for building lois, Bee! dend,as well as the living, have risa which all are bound to resect, and no caurch | trustees should presume to inake footballs of the bones of the fathers, mothers nnd other rela. tives of our citizens. We hope that Iuspector Delavan will effectually prevent any further outrages by authority of these righteous but avaricious churchmen, Jerr. Davis’ Rerausatory Measores.—The violation of the cartel agreed upon for the ex- change of prisoners, in accordance. with Jeff. Davis’ proclamation, is a very silly proceeding and will give the rebels more trouble than they bargain for. The banding over of United States officers to the Governors of the States in which they are captured does vot transfer from Davis’ shoulders any responsibility for their ill treatment, nor will it prevent retalia- tion on jour part. If for every United States officer taken prisoner aud maltreated there should be handed over to the State to which he belongs a Confederate prisoner of equal rank to be dealt with in a similar fashion, the rebels would see which side would get tlred first of to the public. They are fully aware that the | zation of the Virginia Military Academy, in | ‘His delegated system of reprisals. We do not government controls all matters of public in- terest, and gives out or keeps back such in- which he lectured on the science of war with great earnestness and success. General D. P. believo, however, that Jeff. Davis bas any serious intention of putting it in force. It would in formation as it chooses. In other words, they | Hill is another of the rebel officers who has | Y°!¥e bim in difficulties with his own people are so well aware that the reports made by the officials are almogt always false that they are not easily moved to a sense of the wants of any portion of the people, or, if made fully cogni- zant of cases of extreme destitution, the public at once assert that it is the affair of the gov- ernment, and, as it meddles in all other matters, they justly throw the burden of relief upon it. Hence the sufferings of the operatives in France bave been dreadful, as they have not been relieved, the government having but scanty:means to apply to such purposes. A bold writer in one of the Paris weeklies has dared to describe the condition of the working classes in the Department of the Seine Infe- rieure. He gives some idea of the extent of the calamity. Me says:— There are in the Seino Inferieure 2,200,000 spindles, 14,000 loons, thirty-two chiutz manufactories aud 61,000 hand looms. Well, in ordinary times, the manufactorios employ 50,000 working men. days they employ scarcely 20,000. Consequently 50,000 are out of work. Each hand ioom must occupy @ineh and a woman or a child, in ail 128,000 bands, “Since the crisis five weavers out of six stand still for want of work; in other words, there are about 102,000 weavers Ina state of stervation Nor do those fare whose work js, either directly or indirectly the manulactorics; so that the nomber of persons in utfor destitut ny Gouen is regkoped a, y the by streets ged at a famished spoctrog, boys wander ‘ap and Sometimes they are m that they cannot ny @ "oom in the surrounding couu! dowg lv quest of a fow potatoes: obliged to go £0 far in order to get t come back home wntil the day after. mune" withered leaves are burned iv I wood or coal. No bed, no linen are to bo found there, The children sieop one bit of rotten straw, the pargute on a plavik, This is a harrowing description, and yet it falls short of the actual state of misery and destitution throughout other manufacturing districts in France. Our readers will under stand that Napoleon must obtain relief for his suffering subjects, as to him and him alone they look for aid. 'y little Ma. Cuast’s Man acewenr ov THE Trbasury.— ‘The fact that a million of dollars has just been pald out by the Treasury to recompense slave. owners in the District of Columbia, whilst so large 4 portion of the army has yet to receive the arrears of pay due to if, is exciting a good deal of indignant comment. Even in the Senate, amongst men of Mr. Chase's own political com- plexion, the conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury in postponing the liquidation of these arrears has not escaped severe censure. Mr- Wilson emphatically stated, the other day, that there never was an hour when the government did not have full authority trom Congress to provide the means to pay the troops. always believed that jf the necessary energy | had been sed by Secretary Chase in this regard | there need never have been the slightest ground for complaint on the part of the army. | So much of his time, however, has been spent in | interfering with the other branches of the government, and in controlling the conduct of the war, fhat he bas had but little leisure left to , attend to the concerns of his own department | We have | Sra-Gowe Quanrries or Our TRox-Cians,— The loss of the Monitor, just as the remainder of the iron-clads of the same class had been com. pleted, created a strong feeling of doubt and discouragement in regard to the sea-going qua- lities of these vessels. Even when the facts came to be known the misgivings caused by the disaster in question could not ensily be dix. pelled. People could not get over the feeling that we had made a bad investment of a large amount of money, and pfaced too much depend: | ence on a class of vessels that could not safely be sent to sea, aud that consequently would be were intended. The manner in which the W. hewkeon weathered the recent gale haa effeotya) Per always given his attention to the improvement of the Southern States, and there is scarcely a State in the South which has not always paid the greatest attention to the development of a genuiné military spirit among its people. That the same feeling has not prevailed in the North is owing principally to the machinations and devices of our radical abolitionists, who hate West Point from the simple fact that the South had the privilege of sending its youth to be educated there. But now, as in almost every other instance, we find that these abolition ideas have been destructive to the best inter- ests of the country. Had it not been for the virulent opposition raised by these agitators against West Point we might have had many more of these academies all through the coun- try, from which trained soldiers could always | be obtained for the service of the armies of the country. Not that our volunteer officers and soldiers are in any way to be contemned or depreciated; but every man musi know that a thoroughly educated officer must take prece- dence above all others, especially in the int | cipient stages of a war. i yhat is the and party strife are not allowed to usurp the judgment and wisdom of the nation? In France one of the greatest military Powers of the earth—there have heen military schools regarded these as the great nurseries of those | the Republic and of the Empire to victory. The | kings of Franee were never blind to this fact: And the present Emperor—who declares’ L' Empire, c'est la paiz—does not forget that the Ecoles Polytechnique, St. Cyr, Normale, Metz, Toulon and Brest are all elements for the conservation of that military power which he boasts is the foundation of his empire. England we have the great Academy at Hythe, and numerous camps of instruction scattered all through the land. In Russia there are numerous chools of this kind; and the fundamental Ideas | of the rulers of Prussia, Austria and all Ger- many are invariably to accompany popular fact do these countries owe their powerful and } well-organized armies. : | And yet we find men elected to the mtional Senate opposing the only Institution of this kind established in the North. But for all this, West Point has not only given brave and talented officers to the republic in times of war, but it has supplied us with engineers and | mathematicians of the highest order in times of | Willeo®, Ter peace. Some of our finest railroads have been planned, built and conducted by men who were as fit for the duties of civil life as for set, example of all the great military H aera ve 148 ty a | countries of the earth where petty prejudice’ ) a d colleges established and supported by the | acts as Trom the tarilest times, The first Napoleon | fate, armies which invariably carried the bannors of | other education with sound military training. To this | country, aod, beving had Che misfortunc{io loge bis ois bt that he is hardly prepared to encounter. The Late Licutenant Farent Vanderpoel. . Heapquarrers, Portia N.Y. 8. ¥., Near Farmoura, Va., Jan. 14, 1863, Mavam:—I deom It my duty to do all in my power to clear from the memory of your son, the jate Lieutenant Barent Vanderpoel, any atain which may be thought to attach to it in consequence of bis unfortunate dismissal, ‘The whole thing originated in mistake, and as soon as T knew of his sickness and wound I took immediate steps torecure bis reinstetement, his wae promptly done and Lieutenant Vanderpoel'’s reputation is without an shadow of reproach. ‘Tho order of dismiasal is pce and the vacancy dated from the Lieutenant's death alone, T bear testimony to Lieutenant Vanderpoet’s courage aud attention to duty, At Williamsburg he advanced ahead of his company into the abatis lined with rebel riflemen, and choered and encouraged his men until (ho enowy was driven out and the victory secured. He was theu fore- most {0 rallying bis men and getting thom inte readiness tor further service. I am,madam, very respectfully, your cbedicut servant, v. We EGAN, Colonel Fortioth New York Mrs. H. G, Vaxvervort, Port Hamilton, N. Y. * Wheatrical. OF Mf. @. C. BONIFACK, BOWERY. Tho complimentary benedt tendered by Manager Lin- BENEFIT Av THE ABW gard to Mr G,C, Boniface takes place at the New Bow ery theatre to-night. Thero aro four oxcellent pieces on the programme, Dut oven U tRorg were but one the 1 Mr. Boniface plays three of his bes ‘The bceasion of this complimentary bencdt is the con on of fir. Hon ifaco's three yoars’ engngement at this qheatre. Mr, Boniface is au actor who just cuits his audiences, The fact that ho has played the leading Parts in almost all the pieces produced at the New Bowory during tho past threofears,aud is now even more pop lar than ever, is the bert ate of nis talents, Mr, Tloniface hns a peculier people to please, and bis style of {s thorefore peculiar atgo, Itchas its faults, from nt of view: bat jf has much greater morits’ ther Kew othe? actors ext play the leading busi meay, melo drama, fared &Ud ay other entertalamout ag woll as Mr, lice tors Cin Aypear in two, three or four pice: night, with a daily chango of pragramme, as Mr. Bc ifac does,” In sbort, few other actors could fit overons position as tho leading stock actor ab a Bowery theatre with *® much satisfaction to the gudiences, so rouch profit to the management and #0 much credit to themeolves, ‘The conzequence is that Boniface 's aa greot a favorite among the Bowery folk as Brignoli {s among the Aabituer of tho Acacemy of Music, it ig quite unrocessary, therafore, to bespeak @ fait house fer Mr, Doalface's beneflt to-night. He will be e patrons than tho immense theatre will Vo advise all to go, however, and rin curing oither a seat or standing room; for it isnot often that the public ean beneft an actor who oes trage drama . Bor Vace’s is duty 80 modestly, faithfully and acceptably. LENA ConcRnt.—-Une of th Lovents of the seaeen is the grand concert .n- the fo this evening. The berwefcier:, as Tre ing mi nounced for the bereft of Mr. F. Mollonhaver at Gorman Opera I every one ia aware, is one of tho finest violinists in the mest inierent- bis (rlends Iu the professton havo decided upon manifest ing thelr appreciation of his talenta, and of tho grievous for hia benefit, The following are amongst tho artite who baye volunwered theit services on th’ teresting occasion —Miss Stockton, Mr. W. Caario, } 4 the baritone; Mr. Eben, Mr. A. Davia, and Mr word Mollonhauer. | The* programnio is weil varied and more than usually attractive, May ov rat Axtigtam Barris Freee. Liewtenegt WW. t. raphical ofloer, and A. AD. 0. on the staff of Brigadier Genoral Doubleday, hae prepared a map of the country Which proved the scene of tha graet batzlo of Antictom, acknowledget by many as the rover est struggle of the war, Tho’ positions occupied by the ting hostile squadrons in the field. From the | @@teoding armies during the carly part of tho enenge engineering abilities of these ci-devant eleves of West Point we have bad the originators of some of our finest canals, bridges and other improve- ments which follow in the wake of civiliza- tion, Then, who can deny that these are schools and these the men who should be hon: | ored and advanced by the country instead o¢ | the w. being denounced and derided. As experience teaches wisdom, it is to be hoped that the seeds now being sown in this lamentable war will produce such fruit that the people of this vast republic may in the future think less of abolition politics and more of the vitality of the nation and the military means of supporting it against domestic traitors or foreign fom ment aro faithfully delineated. Thie Lieutenant Willeox Was enabled to ne from _pereonaity notielog the Gisposition of one forces on the spot, white, from Hulse qnent information, farn\sh grons and othors’at Sharve heen enw ' him in part by rr, after the tig Produce @ chart which wit form @ valua calamity that has befallea bim, by arranving this concert | | ble meme the war, Foes & Tousoy have tho wale of the | ne map—price fiiy cenis ; Ton Weontya’ ov Tox TaunnAn Unexrrcren Seren, ding of Gen, Tom Thumb to his bii/iputian b trothed, ‘Mist Lavinia Warren, wae «fringed to take piaco at Trinity chapel, on the 10h of Februay next but an unerpected difficulty hee art Wo rector of Trinity chape|— Morgan Dixit sypenrs bag forbid. den the hatch for two reasone Fires, bee cane of tl clonsof the card ' eevondly, f tho order ppear in #6 on the occ } these two arra ho} church, and, t © GF Trinity or | ol on such conditions. Some other rhureh e. bave to be select. any other c oll, thoref oo ee IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. THE FINANCE MEASURES 1" THE House, Tho Banking Plan of Secretary Chase Rejected. The Consideration of the Bill Not Concluded. St ANOTHER DEBATE ON THE NEGRO QUESTION Extraordinary Letter Riteaccem, Relative to General MeClelen, Reports to Congress from Departament Shipments from American Ports for the French Army in Mexico, _ &e., boy de. Wasinnorox, Jan. 23, 1863, TRE HOUFE’S ACTION ON THE FINANCE QUESTION. ‘The House, in Committee of the Whole, perfected w day the Finance bid reported by the majority of the Com, wittee of Ways and Means, and rejected the bills and omendments proaouted by Mr, Stevens and Mr, Hooper, Tot another Pichmend appeared in the fleld—a now, Lill offered as an amendment by Mr. Stevene, ‘The pry, cipal feature of this Dill we Ghat it prowides an Iie: est benring curreney of four hupdved MIRO *%y, aotes wnat thal! be a logai tendec, Md draw interes, rate of & covta day for cagh hundved doers, Tt 1s contended that these potes would bo pought for smail iuvescroenta ne People, while the United States bands would not He zatcablo to Capitalisis, bocaueg thoy lack coafldenes ja the government, The poliey of maklo; two classos of Jogal tender notes is, however, Cov ated, by many, and it is cortain that tho iS¢ne pros posed would seriously depreciate those ptready iy oy on it ind lan is begiening to be much com- menied apa They have introduced four distinct bills, instead of ag?) Upob aby compromise. If the whola, strength of the s£mmitieo had been concentsnted Urn any ove meaaure .** Would haye Leon jasbed bbfore this, and the resulta woul’ probably Mave been a8 geod as eny tat will grow out of theSt divided o.'#¢il8.. Some mein- bers talk stoongly of reecXomitting ue fubiect to the committee, and confining them upon pread 224 water til they agree upou eome sensib’e faancial me*!Te- iheve is little doubt, however, that the original by.’ ot the majority will pass the House m its present shape, Mr. Hooper, of Masuchusetts, atated tn the debite to-day that bis biil combined the plan of Secretary Chase; of Mr, Stevens, Chairman of ibe Committe; of an eminent banker in New York nna of the Bosto bankers. The yoto to strike ont the eighth section of the Finance bdl, allowing the Sect otary of the Treasury to Ceposit tae public moneys in solvent banks, called tiie “pet bank”? scheme, was a very close cne, After several counts, in Bone of which a mae jority for striking our appeared, the vote stood Alty-one yeas and fifty-two nays. It fs not certain that the Financo bill will pass as amended by the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. The eubstitute of Mr. Stevens’, as essentially modified, has many friends. It authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow nine hundred millions ana ¢? issue for any part of tho amount logal tender noies, bear” ‘ng tdterest, payablo semi-annually in coin at the rate of a cont per day, redec nable at tho pleasure of the govern. tacnt in sums of not lees than ten dollars, such notes to bo receivable for al! dues oxcopting the duties on imporud aud interest on bonds; the amount of non-intorest bearing notes, 48 $000 a8 practicable, to be reduced, and the maximum not to exceed three bundred millions. ‘The votes upon the amondment to the Finance bill ine dicate a determinaticn on the part of the House to adopt. notbing excopt the original bill of the committee, with perhaps some very unimportant modifications. Tho sap- peal of Mr. Hooper in favor of the amendmoente suggo#tod by tho Sccrotary of the Treasury was eloquent aud pow. erful; but ho was overslaughed. The prospect for the adoption of Mr. Chase's propositions has thus bem mates torially carkened. It{s not now supposed thatany of them will pass the House, This is a subject of very gene, ralregret among financial mon“outside of tho Hk Thoy regard the manifestations to-day as moro gloomy ‘than avything that has occurred in the conduct of our pudlicaMirs. » POSITION OF THE DEMOCRATS ON THB BANK TAX SECCION OF THB FINANCE BILL. The domocrats in the House took Iittle part in the dis* cussions and voting upon the propositions to tax (ha bauks, preferriag tht (bo question should bo settled by tho majority. THE SUWIPMENTS PROM AMDNICAN PORTS OF ARTICLES FOR THE US OF THY FRENCH IN MEXICO, ‘The President today sent a message to the Sevate ig answer to & resolution of the 33th inst., eccompauied by very voluminous correspondence between the Secretary Of Stats and the Mexican Charge 4 ffulegg relative tg tt exportation of articles contraband of war for the use Og \ the French army i Mexico, The Mexican Minister, Senor TNomere, iv the first lotter, asks the government to pre- ¢dovg shipments pirchased by the cmissaries. of tho commander of the French expedition frei leave ing the poris of the Upited States. Mr. Seward re- plies, referring the Minieter to a setter frém pho Secretary of tho Treasury, from which it appears that uP jatervention with tho miseion of the ¥vench officers is contemplated by the Troasury Department—# decision im couformity with precedents and with the rules of iuter- national law governing the case. Citat ons to such autho” rity ns Hamilton, Webster and executive documents ar® given. . ron boven Cimnaleas Senor Romero expresses pain and surprise at sue decision, acquiesood in by the Seoretary of Stator Ho quotes Vattel, not to teach the government of the Vnited States, but to give bis opinion of the impropricty of allowing either bolligerent to provide itself with means of warfare in @ neutral nation, and reviews the cases cited by Mr. Sow- ard. Ho refers to the alleged ehippirg of provisions by merchants of New York to the French army noar Vora Cruz, and to calling the atteation of Mr. Seward to efaots, who replied that the Chited States did nos nr 'n0 & ate Of war oxisling between Mexico sud tho Allies, as there ind bean no declaration of war, ond, there! we United states could not bo governed in their ¢ ‘act by the rules of neutrals, He turtber Steled that subsequently ho may application to the Secretary of tho ‘Treasury for @ rermit to slip some serine purchaset in New York for (he use of the Mexicans to a Mexican blockaded port; that (ho Secretary at first appeared ready (0 grant it, bat, on learning that there was thirty six thousand, ho thought the auriber too great aod referred the matter to the Secretaries of War and the Navy, that tho Secretary of the Navy made no objection, bat tat the Secretary of War refused to relax the order previously is#ued forbidding she exportation of arma, [ vain he ehowed that they were Prussian muskets, flint Jocks altered to percussion, which the United States would not nee, end he was compelled to believe that his ill suc. cose was cecasioned by @ desire on the part of the United States to avold complicity with France, ani wae after. warde sateniehed, when wagons and mules were bought here for the French army, to find that what wes denied to Mexico wae freely permitted te France; hu Seward replied that the prohibition of the #5) ment of arms was goveral, applying to atl nations, on the ground of the military neogsrit) of the Vuited States: bub there was no such inhidition oF (he vhioment of wagon either for France or Mexico. 4 tong correspondence oa th ane poin' oocars, whicl Mr. Seward graceful’ ane fo WH ‘The ondersigned, w Clay bo CAUSE farthor to on pa be reagans beret fore offered th exphin ation of © avails Mmeell of (his eee asior wer wo Pt} vi pewed cowarance of his high cofeido. vio. BACRETARY STANTON'S RESPONSE TO THE INQUIRY AS TO THE NCMRRK OF MEN IN THE AMMY, The Secretary of War, fp anawer to 4 call for inform tion, reports to the House, with aecomproying letters a gubor? nates, The Adjatunt General ways that m fof the mea In service would Invoire (he examh : " ont muster foll$ Of about one thou aut regiments, tba, werk cow dragging Leavity @ovid on wo ee he publ caion of «ch a sieter