The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1863, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OSiCK N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXVIM..cecseesseesseeeeeeen sell AMUSEMENTS THIS EVBNING, NIBLOS GARDEN, Broadway.—Laan, Tue Forsaen WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Love axp Moxar’ WINTER GARDEN, Prexeu sev Broadway.—Cammnxry Coxxen— LAURA KE) 8 THEATRE, Broadway.—Acrnxss BY Davitonl—soxesopy Enge, . NEW HOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery. -Coices Baws— | TWhety-siveoty StReet GHosT—ONw Gass Mone BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sexious Fawtuy—Jace Ane Tite BeanstaLk—Mary lRicy, BARSCWS AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway—Mis | Lavista Wannes—Commovore Nurt, &c,, at all hours Cu tues LL Atte npg. jon and 1s Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broad- | Saves, Dances, &c.—Hicu BRYANTS? M RE! way —Erutorian Sonus, B Davov, WOOD'S MINSTR Sonus, Dances, kc.—Do L, $14 Broadway —E1morian in Onn K-¥-xy, BUCKLEY S MINSTRELS. Stuyvesant [nstitute, 659 Broadway —Eruioriay Songs, Dances, 4c.—La SoNNam- ALLA NAPOLKON'S THEATRE, <EMTALNMIENT,, CLINTON HALL, Astor Pitcx’s Mere givers 1s Broadway.—Omxiramious luce —Mesens, BRIStA AND | TRO 'S¥CHOLOGY. BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.— Asiwans, Beawoep Baxi, & sires Soe AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. roadway. —Bat. txts, Paxtonncns, BuUREKeQuE ao, At Broadway. —Bau | PAMISIAN CABINET or WONDERS. 563 Bi S Open daily (rom 10 A, Mt 10 Pat cai HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyu.—Braioriaa | Sones, Dascns, BURLESQUES &¢ New York, Wednesday, January 28, 1863 | THE SITUATION. The retirement of Generals Burnside, Sumner wud Franklin from their respective commands in the Army of the Potomac, and the appointment of Genera! Hooker to the supreme command thereof is officially announced by an order from the Presi- deat. The farewell address of General Franklin and the inauguration order of General Hooker are given in our ooiumns to-day. The weather at Fal- mouth is mild but rainy. G neral Hooker has changed his headquarters to a different locality from that oceupied by General Burnside. The divisions of Generals Franklin and Sumner have | fot yet been assigned new commanders, General Hooker had an interview with the President and Mr. Stanton yesterday in Washington. It is said that cighty army office! are to be summarily dis- missed the service for violating the army regula. | tions by the use of improper language in reference | to their superiors and the Commander-in-Chief; in connection with the removal of General McClellan, and the court martial and sentence of General Fitz John Porter. We have late news from Hilton Head. General Huuter has resumed command of the Department | of the South, and General Brannan has been or- deved North, Our Key West correspondence contains a | very interesting account of the ‘first ad- ventures of the rebel pirate Oreto, She | ran the blockade from Mobile on the 16th, wank the brig Estelle, of Boston, on the next day, vnd on the 21st was reported at Havana, The United States gunboat Oneida started to Cuba from Key West after her, but we have not heard shat she found her there on her arrival. In another | column will be found an interesting sketch of the Oreto and her commander, Captain MafMitt. Our | news settles the point that it was the famous Ala- bama which attacked and sunk the United States gunboat Hatteras, off Galveston. By the arrival of the transport E.S. Terry from Newbern, N. C., we learn that an expedition com- prising three gunboats and a number of trans- ports, under command of General Foster, had suiled from Hatteras Inlet on Satur. | day, 24th inst. Destination supposed to be | Wilmington. Another expedition was fitting out with quick despatch and would sailsoon, Proba- bly it has the same destination. It is said to com- | prise the entire command of General Neglee. | day, the Sth of February. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1863. tionista, as applied to General Burnside before and up to the battle of Fredericksburg, ia repudiated by the London Times in very bitter terms, in the name of the Exeter Hall emancipationiate. The special correspondent of the London Times in the South, dating from the headquarters of General Lee, near Fredericksbnrg, furnishes “® very animated and graphic description of the battle near that town. He says that the rebels ad from eighty to ninety thousand men on the thonsand of them were engaged at any time | during the day. The writer pays a glowing and graceful tribute to the gallantry and action of the Irish Brigade, under General Meagher, saying that the forefathers of the men never displayed ‘‘more undaunted courage at Fontenoy, Albuera or Waterloo,”’ than they did, and that ‘the race which has gained glory on a thousand battle fields never more richly deserved it than at the | foot of Marye's Heights on the 13th of December, 1862."" CONGRESS. teferred to the Judiciary Committee; a bill supple- mentary to the act for the better organization of the military department was referred te the Mili- tary Committee, as also a bill to authorize States to advance the pay of volunte in the service of the United States. A resolu- tion directing inquiry as to the expediency ters’ clerks was adopted. A resolution was adopted directing the Military Committee to inquire into the expediency of authorizing the President to offer the volunteers now in the service | Such bounty as he may deem necessary tosecure their re-enlistment ; also, into the expediency of authorizing the President to offer such bounty for the re-enlistment of such volunteers for one year, or @ longer time ; also, into the expediency of pro- viding by law for three months volunteers, either by enlistment or draft. A motion to take up the resolution calling for the documents in the case of General Fitz John Porter was briefly discussed, and finally disagreed to by a vote of 18 against 22. The bills providing for the removal of Indians from Kansas aud Minnesota were passed. A message was received from the President, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State and the documents concerning the capture of British vessels sailing from one port to another, having on board articles contraband of war. The bill for the indemnifica- tion of the President and other persons for sus- pending the writ of habeas corpus and acts done in pursuance thereof was called up, and - citing debate ensued. Mr. Saulsbury denomecd the President by name as an imbecile, and was very violent in his demeanor. He was called to order, and finally placed in enstody of the Ser- geant-at-Arms. An amendment to make the pro- visions of the bill apply to criminal as well as to civil cases was adopted—27 against 1s—and the bill passed by a vote of thirty-three against seven, The Senate thereupon adjourned. In the House of Representatives the Senate bill providing for the pay of certain persons over forty- tive years of age who have entered the army, was considered. An amendment was offered inereas- ing the pay of soldiers two dollars per month, and giving those who may be honorably discharged hefore the expiration of their term of service a proportionate amount of bounty, -and the bill was then recommitted to the Military Committee, In committee of the Whole Messrs. Conway, of Kan- sas, and Shellabarger, of Ohio, delivered interest- | ing speeches on national topics, and the committee rose. Mr. Stevens offered a substitute for his bill authorizing the employment of negroes 25 soldiers, and Mr, Hickman offered another substitute, au- thorizing the equipment of three hundred regi | ments of blacks, to serve for seven years unless sooner discharged. It also proposes a line of steamers for the deportation of emancipated slaves to Liberia, Without taking action onthe subject the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday, favorable reports were made on the bill a the acts relative to the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, and on that amending the general banking law. A resolution to go into joint ballot for United States Senator ou Tuesday next was offered, and, under the rules, laid over. Other business of minor importance was transacted, In the Assembly, the consideration of the pre- imble and resolution directing aiAinqniry into the character and conduct of the Speaker, Mr. Callicot, was, after some discussion, postponed till Thurs- Notieos were given of of bills, the following being among ¢ the police department of New e the New York primary a lar@e numly them: Our correspondence from that vieinity will be found full of interesting details, as it gives the | particulars of the expeditions referred to, | EUROPEAN NEWS. | ‘The Saxonia at this port, yesterday, briags news | from Burope to the th inst., three days later. | ‘The session of the French Legislature was open- | ed on the 12th of January by Napoleon in person, ‘The Emperor delivered a speech which attracted the ulmost universal attention of the rulers, states- men and diplomats of Earope. His Majesty's unsuccessful attempt to induce Ras- sia and England to join him in putting a stop to the American war by mediation is alluded to in terms which add little to the knowledge on the subject already in pqssession of the readers of the Hxnann. It was deduced from it as a fact, however, in Eng- land, that the mediation offer would soom be renew ed by the Emperor, and tendered, in some shape or other, simultaneously to the United States Cabinets and the rulers of the rebel confederacy. The Emperor indeed said thot the refusal of the great maritime Powers of Europe to co-operate with him io an effort to induce peace in America, had “obliged him to postpone to a more suitable op- portunity the offer of mediatios ‘The French expedition to Mexico is only spoken of by the Emperor parenthetically and jointly with China and Cochin China, in a paragraph asserting the power of France to punish Insults to | parts of the j her honor even ia the uttermost world. Four or five vessels had been churtered to con- vey reinforcements to the army under General ‘The Marquisde Guliffet, an orderly officer of the Emperor, had left Paris, bearing important despatches to Gen. Fores he devate on the Mexican question was con- tinned inthe Spanish Cortes with much anima: Forey. tion, If not acrimony, Phe opposition party cen. | sured the government severely for withdrawing the army after Sp had lost two millions of piastres and the lives of many of her soldiers,” fhe London j the news of th urvals for the most part rejoic removal of Geweral Batt t from his command in New Orleans. aod express a larve amount of confidence in the whility and modera tion of General Ranks. def, Dav n tion” proclamation is cor sured in very strong language by the London #, amd the rebel President advised not to tempt ite enfor Joss of the friendship of at him the Md Bnglati. pent as it May cause oth Prone tions; to extend the privileges of exempt tireme to regulate the St sland terr fort lection by the people of the New York City Inspector; to regulate the gas companies of this city; to locate the State capital in the geographical centre of the State, and to give our Board of Councilmen powers equal to those of the Board of Aldermen. Resolu- tions condemning the avhitrary arrests we du rrent resolutions for a pe vention of all the States, and to go into joint ballot for United States Senator on Tuesday next, were offered, bat not disposed of. The proposition that their pay im specie was dito a considerable extent; but fiaally received a dampet by the presentation to the House of a communication from the Comptroller, saying that it is impossible, under present | circumstances, to meet the desires of these hard money legislators, Thurlow Weed has published bis valedictory. His interest in the publication of the Albany Evening Journal ceased on yesterday. We have received an interesting correspondence between Mr. Charles H. Marshall, of this city, and haring Brothers & Co., of London, on the subject of the depredations of the Alabama, aud the undis- guised breach of the British laws in permitting the equipment of rebel craisers in British ports, The Barings reply that they have every reason to hope that the British government will be watchftit to prevent the violation of the lawa im future. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamship Saxonia, from Southampton on the 4th of January, reached this port yesterday , afternoon, Her news is three days later. Consols closed in London on the Uth instant, at «for money. American stocks had advanced. | Breadstuff* were quiet aad steady, Provisions | were heavy and tending downward, ‘The news from the continent of Knrope by the Saxonia is not important; the attention of the dif- ferent courts and States was beiag directal toa | canvass of the merits and tendencics of the ape of the Emperor Napoleon to the French Legial | ture. The #team transport Thomas Swann, from Fort reas Monroe, arrived yesterday morning, has on howrd 1,000 barrels of damaged beans, sent from New York as food for the army The Governor of Connecticut, in @ general or ing able to snnounce that ther qaote of aritit) jer tlie fast calls of the President men, has been completed. The Albany Argue says the understanding jes tween Gon, Wool and Gov. Seym in regard to f military command is perlect and ia dial. nel 4. Howden has heen elect \ Legiatatere of Wet Ving ty tea Willey, whose term expires with the present Con” gress. We presume Mr. Bowden's election will | hold good only«until the organization pf the new Btate is effected, when both he and Hon. Joho S. Carlile will be superseded. A law of this State requires the Legislature to elect a United States Senator next Tuesday. The statute deolares that en the ‘first Tuesday of Feb- ruary next before the expiration of the time for which a Senator ia to be elected an election shall ground, but that not more than twenty-five ] be held. The Sevate and Assembly, it is provided, shall each openly nominate one person for Sena- tor, after which they shall meet, and if they agree in their nomination the person so nominated shall be appointed. If they disagree, the election shall be made by the joint ballot of Senators and members of Assembly. A Senator is to be chosen for six years from the 4th‘of March next, in place of Hon; Preston King, whose term of ser- vice expires on that day. The trial of Joel B, Ferguson, a clasaleader in the Bedford street Methodist Episcopal church, indicted for false pretences, was concluded in the In the Senate yesterday a bill respecting the | Court of Genera! Sessions yesterday, before City time of holding Circuit and District courts was | Judge McCunn. The case was given to the jury about threo o'clock, andup toa late hour last evening they had failed to agree in a verdict, and were accordingly locked up for the night. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday. A communication was received from Mayor Opdyke, ers and militis vetoing the resolution of the Board giving an in- crease of $2,000 a year to the District Attorney, and $1,000 to each of his assistants, and agthoriz- ing the appointment of an additional clerk in his of increasing the compensation of paymas- | office, at $1,000 year salary. A second message from the Mayor vetoed the appropriation of $3,000 for defraying the expenses of enrolling the names of the National Guard. He approved the Object, but disapproved the amount, considering $1,000 enough for the purpose. The Board disposed of these papers in the usual way, and after acting upon other matters of mioor interest they ad- journed. The supply of beef cattle this week was again light. Had the quality of the offerings been good es would have advanced materially. But the quality was poor; yet the market was very firm, and prices on the whole were a shade better. There wee but few prime cattle on sale, and they were quickly taken at from 9c. a 10%c. a 1lc., the last @n extreme price. The range was from 6c. to llc. and the average 6%c. abe. Nearly all were sold on Monday. They were nearly all in the hands of speculators, who were amply remu- nerated. Milch cows were hard of sale, owing to the increased supply. Sales were making at $30 a $40. Veals were steady, with a fair de- mand, at 4240. a 6%c. a 7c. Sheep and lambs ‘e again active, and prices were a shade better. The bulk of the offerings were placed at $4 50a $7; but we heard of sales all the way from $4 60 to $12 50. Swine continue active, with sales of corn fed at 5 4c. The total receipts were:— 4,027 beeves, 185 cows, 350 veals, 6,880 sheep and lambs, and 22,827 swine. ‘The stock market was dull yesterday morning and lower in the afternoon, governments leading the decline. Gold sold in the morning at 155, afterwards fell off, and closed at 16313 bid, Exchange closed at 169 a 170; but joans were at 6 per cent on very large margin ‘The cotton market closed buoyant yesterday, om a basis of Tic. . for middlings, with sales and resales re- ported of 1,100 bates, There was a further rise of 100. @ l6c, per bbl. on flour, and 2c. @ 3c. on wheat, and 2c. on corm, with au active demand, Provisions were more freely purchased, and at rising prices for perk, lard and bacon. There was increased activity in groce- ries, spices, metals, wool and other leading articles of genoral merchandise. Freights were steady, with « mo- orate business reported. Important § from Kurope—Napoleon’s Speech on Mediati The Emperor of the French has delivered his annual discourse on the opeuing of the Corp* Legislatif, or Prench Chambers. Unlike his former discourses the present effort is tame, and gives the opposition members but little to grasp at in the way of complaint or fault find- ing. The only noticeable feature in the Em- peror’s speech, as far as regards ourselves, is an allusion to his intended mediation in our affairs. “I have attempted,” he says, “to cen- vey beyond the Atlantic counsels inspired by a sincere sympathy: but, the great maritime Powers not having believed they could yet join me, J have been obliged to defer to a more sitting period the offer of mediation, the object of which was to stop the effusion of blood, and to prevent the exhanstioa of a country the future of which cannot be u matter of indifference.” ‘These remarks are a complete corroboration of our asvertion that Napoleon hat not aban- doned his intention of interfering in our affairs. We have it now announced hy the Emperor himself that his mediation is but deferred. Let us hope that after this ye shall hear no more n; | absurd statements as to Napoleon's friendliness | towards the Union and his desire to keep clear of all offence towards us. He is well aware that the American people would not tolerate his mediation or intervention, and knows that he would offer an insult to us were he to endeavor to make us recognize the rebellions South as an independent nation. We do not include — thos renegades known as the “negro-worshippers,” who would sell fame, honor and country to favor their ebony idols. These abolitionists will, we fear, give Napoleon an opportunity to interfere in our affairs with impunity ere long. They are in power, and as they find the people wearied with their rule they will make one more effort to conquer the South, and, failing that, will call upon Napoleon to aid them. Of course he will gladly avail himself of the opportunity, as by so doing he will stand before Europe in the light of a powerful sovereign coming to the rescue of a powerless, used up republic. Had our affairs been properly managed, the war fougtt for Union, order and law, instead of for the negro, reverses would not have checked the ardor of our people; they would have inflamed their determination to con" quer the rebels. But the people soon saw that they were called upon to wage war for the gro; that theft, corruption and mismanagement ruled in our departments; that political in, | trigues and petty personal echemes were suc. | cessfully pitted against the best offorts of our | bravest and most deserving military leaders, | and that the welfare of the country gave way fin al? cases to the welfare of the negro, | the everlasting negiv. The people have become disgusted, and now will give | neither treasure nor lives to an administration | which bas proved eo decided, so disastrous a | failure, The radicals are well aware of this fact, and hence they will make ene great effort more with the materlals they still have at com- mand, and in case of failure will appeal to Napoleon aad nceept his mediation. What a disgraceful alternative, and how our hearts st der, congratalates the people of the State on he | sicken when we think that to this degree of ab we have been brought by a minority which obtained power under circumstances such as will never, we hope, be witnessed again in this country. The people are tired of the abolitionists, the whole world is dis, gusted with tem, aud we shall only be saved from disgr and danger when the accursed dead forever party i | we hope that our President may awaken to the danger which surrounds him, and disiniss from the high offices those negro-worshippers who would sacrifice the Union 60 they might retain power. Let Mr. Lincoln, even at this last hour, get rid of his present advisers; let him eall to his coun. sels true and loyal men, these loving above all things our great Union, our glorious constitution, and then the people will give money, life, all they hold dear to conquer the rebellion and assert the power and glory of our republic. Above all, let us be saved from the stain of foreign intervention with which we are menaced. Let us, unaided, settle our own affairs. Never let it be said that the American republic sought the aid of despotic, imperia, France to gave her from destruction. It is now a*watter beyond cavil or dispute that Napo- Icon intends interference in our struggle. The distress of his people is his excuse for so doings and we are aware that the French operative, are starving, and that when they are suffering the French have a natural tendency to revolu- tion, which they deem the sovereign panacea for all the ills which overtake them. Napoleon is well aware of this fact, and hence he will at all hazards endeavor to remedy the cause of the evil; and that cause is, as he says, “the American war.” He will mediate, and we must expect him to do #0 unless we make some sign of sufficient power to put down the rebellion “speedily. This we cannot do as long as the President remains hampered by such a seta® now surround him. Sweep away the rubbish’ Mr. President; get new hands, and put down the rebels. We shall then save the Union and avoid the disgrace of foreign interference. The Aimy of the Potomac—Treacherou Counsels of the Abolition Faction. The Army of the Potomac has evidently be- come a special object of abolition hostility. It is too closely identified with the name and the achievements of General McClellan, and its misfortunes since his removal are too suggestive to be regarded with indifference. The aboli- tion faction have accordingly commenced an agitation which contemplates the dissolution of this splendid army, the distribution of its forces in other quarters, and an indefinite abandon- ment of all aggressive operations against the rebellion in Virginia. ‘The leading abolition organs, East and West, with that “happy accord” which indicates a cou- cert of action, have commenced their bold and treacherous game, They are sounding it far and near that the Army of the Potomac is hope- lessly demoralized; that through the faithless- ness of his subordinate officers all the pro- jected movements of General Burnside against the enemy have been frustrated, andthat he has accordingly been compelled to withdraw from this demoralized army in despair; that it is no longer in a condition to be useful as the Army of the Potomac, and that the sooner it is broken up and distributed among our armies of the South and West, the better it will be for the army at large, the government and the country. Improving upon these broad hints of its abo- lition colaborers, one of the nigger-worshipping organs of this city has deliberately undertaken to show that it will be a wise thing to aban- don the campaign against Richmond, and to take advantage of the rising waters in the Southwest for decisive operations in that quar. ter. To this end itis suggested that the bulk of the Army of the Potomac be sent out to the Mississippi Valley, and that meantime a com paratively small force will be sufficient to pro- tect the city of Washington, Richmond, we are told, isa place of no importance; that in losing it the rebels will lose little or nothing: and that in gaining it we shall only gain an impoverished population which we shall have to feed, and the care of numerous hospitals filled with sick and wounded rebel soldiers. malignants. In the first place, the Army ef the al the word of command from General Hooker, ready to exbibit the same splendid discipline and courage which it displayed on the 13th of December in assailing the enemy’s works on the difficult heights of Fredericksburg. A finer pointed army was never commanded by Napo- leon. It is said, however, that the soldiers of this army have rather freely complained of the long protracted absence of the paymaster. But what man, as a soldier, would not complain, witha suffering family at home and with six | months’ pay in arrears, and with the misgiving | of losing it all at any moment from some one | of the numerous casualties of war? And why | has the soldier not been regularly paid his pal- | try allowance for the offering of his life at the | altar of bis country? In the neglect of this duty of payment we have one of the most i cusable military blunders of the administration. We dare say that to this one thing may be traced all these abolition misrepresentations of demoralization, and that when the paymaster plaint of this army will be against the mud and mire which delay its advance upon: the enemy. Next, with regard to the importance of Rich- mond. We bold, with General McClellan, that it is “the heart of the rebellion.” The principal foundries where the rebel cannon are cast, and their — principay factories of small arms, percussion caps, fixed ammunition; their largest factories of woollen goods, army clothing, shoes, &c., are all at mist expect the ine | behalf of the gore Richmond, and there, too, are the most exten. | sive fouring mills in the South. But above alt other considerations is the importance of Rich. mond from the prestige which it has given the rebellion throughout the South aud throughout Europe, as the successfully defended capital of Jeff. Davis against the most powerful army of the Union. With our ocoupation of Richmond this prestige will be utterly destroyed in Kurepe, and we shall hear no more of Napoleon’s designs of mediation; and, with the rebel government once adrift, the rapid depre- ciation of its paper currency will soon bring confusion and dissolution upon the whole con- cern, So important do we regard the reduction of Richmond that, if necessary to accomplish it within the next three months, we would draw a hundted thousand men from the West, and all our forces from North Carolina, to co-operate with the Army of the Potomac for this blow at “the heart of the rebellion.” Really this pro- ject of the abolition faction to abandon the campaign against Richmond seems to indicate a deliberate design on their part to fritter away the winter in outside expeditions, and to bring upon us in the spring the degrading peace of a pountry, through the friendly offices of apoleon. Can any one answer na, ia meat, whether divided Lonis this war i terference of Napoleon. He asserts as much; and | now to be prosecuted for “emancipation or | separation,” or for the restoration of the Union? When we find the leading abolition organs, East and West, playing the same dismal tune, we must conclude that there is some meaning in their music. Acuvity or Tax Rene. PrivaTents—Moxx Fepenas, Losses ar Sea.—By the Northern Light, which arrived here yesterday from New Orleans, touching at Key West on its way, we have the statement confirmed that it was the Alabama that engaged and destroyed the fede ral gunboat Hatteras. We also learn by the same vessel the destruction of a Boston brig, the Estelle, off Tortugas, by the Oreto. This i§ the third rebel privateer which is now at sea, and it is commanded by a man possessing even more daring and energy than Semmes—Cap‘ain John Newland Maflitt, formerly of the United States Navy—who seems determined to create quite as great a sensation on the ocean as hi® father did in the pulpit. It will be recollected that when, some months Now let us briefly answer these abolition | Potomac is not demoralized; but is to-day: | body of soldiers and a better equipped and ap- | shall have finished his rounds the only com- | since, the Oreto ran into Mobile, the Secretary of the Navy had Commander Preble dismissed the service for not exercising due vigilance in preventing her breaking the blockade; but, curious to say, after she had succeeded in safely accomplishing’ her object, Mr. Welles took no pains to prevent her getting out again, although the department was fully apprised of the fact that she was being heavily armed, with a view to prey on our commerce. So little attention, in fact, did he pay to the information, that when a claim was, put in by, the Spanish govern- ment for the burning of the Blanche, he with- drew the federal gunboat Montgomery from the blockading squadron and brought her North, thus leaving the Oreto every facility for making her escape. With management like this we must expect to find the rebel privateers rapidly multiplying and the losses to our com- merce becoming daily more numerous. {¢ as- sumes a still more serious aspect when we hear of our armed vessels being sunk and destroyed through similar negligence, and when the su- periority that we had maintained in this respect over the rebels is being snatched from us by their skilful tactics and superior energy and daring. : Toe Carnival or Our Trovsies.—It seems an odd sort of philosophy which seeks comfort for trouble in dissipation; but there is nothing which people run so readily to when they come to grief. Thus last winter, when the cause of the Union was not half so desperate as it is a! present, and when the magnitudé of the struggle was but imperfectly appreciated, balls, parties, and social enjoyments of almost every kind were suspended, and long faces cultivated, Now that the’ war has been going on fora couple of years, that exchange is at 160, and that a paper dollar will purchase very little | more than half what it formerly did, we have become one of the most dissipated and extravagant of communities. Balls, parties, dinners and weddings take their daily course with us as if the nation was in the enjoyment! of undisturbed prosperity and peace. In fact, {| we have never known a winter in which social | gayety of every sort was pushed to greater lengths than in thi Were we ourselves to ac- cept but a tithe of the invitations to public and private entertainments that just now crowd our | table, we should have but little time and less dis. concert room all attest by the erowds that nightly fill them the disposition of people to forget the cares and anxieties that oppress them. And, strange to say, when the uncer: | tainties of the future more than ever dictate prudence in personal expenditure, and when | heavy taxation would necessarily be supposed to curtail it, we have never known more extra- | vagance displayed in household furniture and | dregs. Our dry goods stores sella rieher class of stuffs, our jewellers a more costly class of | ornaments, and our upholsterers more expen sive furniture, than they have hitherto been in | the habit of disposing of. Kven the | which usually languish in time of wa | ing the revivitying influence of this dis towards extravagance. More expensive pic- | | tares have been sold within the last six months than during the previous eighteen. Much og | this is to be attributed-to the uncertainty which | | people enteria sure of what he possesses whilst the govern ment is thus recklessly gambling away the ta tional resources. Under such circumstance it any wonder that the eral despondenc should seek for relief in these extravagan They are unmistakable evidences of a deep dis turbance in people's faith regard to the future. arts, | 3 to the future. No one fee is Ove Ovestmuses Baty Reertario.—An aeci- | dent which oceurred yesterday makes us the | more anxions that our suggestions as to placing | conductors or money takers on all the Brouwd- Way stages should be adopted by the different | lines. A gentleman on horseback was jammed | between two omnibuses and narrowly escaped being crushed to death, The hor rious* ‘ly injured. The accident occurred from the | fact that the driver of one of the omnibuses | was engaged receiving the fares of some of his passengers, and did not observe that bis horses were crowding the rider agai another vehi- cle. Had this man been free to attend merely | to his horses no such accident could have oc* curred. We do not hesitate to state distinctly that, in case of fatal results from the present system of having but one person to drive and at the same time attend to the passengers, we should consider the superintendents of the om- nibus lines as responsible. It js clearly their duty to adopt the simple plan in use in all places where any regard for the public welfare is evinced. They must have one person to drive, and another to receive fares and attend to the passengers. was We are happy to state that for one week we «ball have opera at our Academy of Music ere Manager Grau’s de- parture for Roston with eur favorite artiaia. On Monday — evening next the opera of « Marta’ will be given, with | Miss Kellogg, Morensi, Brignoli, Susini and Barili, Signor | Brignoli has now fully recovered. On Wednesday evening we shall have the “ Vespers,’ with Signora Loring and Brignoli, This favorite opera, | omg by those artista, will undoubtedly prove « groat ai traction » Mozart's chef @'ervere, “Don Giovanni,’ will tegen one t ‘a cast including the talent of the com. | pany. , there will be a grand matinee, whict will (i turng here of Manager Grau's company, ar, | stor that date, the Academy of Music will beslevoted to | other purpores Prwserty Xia COAL TRADE OR UME Fast Year, —The ane ‘bles of the coal trade for the 1962 show that ype to 8,206 472 tons, of which 7,48) were of anthracite coal. All the coal except 508.000 (ona sont in- mamnt waa destived for the seaboard, Taking the anthra. | Ie at $4 per ton, the valne of this single product Pennsylvania reaches wearly thirty millions of dollars (or the year. Scluagikill County went 2.925.000 tone to mar. | enters acento car RCIESES a eth CE i haha | te aid th | by the Unit * ‘ NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. INTERESTING PR CEEDINGS OF CONGRESS ZDxciting Dedate in the Senate on Arbitrary Arrests. Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware, Placed in Custody. Speeches of Messrs. Conway and Shellabarger on the War and Politics, &., Waaurvaton, Jaa, 27, 1868. THE NEXT A: TACK UPON VICKSBURG. From letters just received it is confidently expected that our military and naval movemout agains: Vicksburg will come to a crisis within tem days. EXCITING DEBATE IN THB SENATR ON AxSITRABT A » Old party times are recalled by the session of the Senate to-night to put through the bill t@ indemnify the President and his aubordinates om accuuat of executive arrests and imprisonments. It provides that cases may be taken from State courts to the Circuit Court of the United States, when, apon a showing by the defendant that arrests Were made in good faith or for good reasons, tho case will be dismissed, It is also provided that suite must be brought within the term of the present edvaivin- tration or they will be void. Mr, Powell stated that the bill was intended to ahiet@ the Executive and not to aid the oppressed: : Mr. McDougal called it piece of legerdemain; and ime nervous and elear style poiuted out in what respects it offended ail sense of right, honor and justice. Mr. Cowan made rather s non-commital apecoh. Ia- deed his whole course this winter bas been one of close personal association with the radicals, atrangely in con- trast with bis conservative defences of popular rights laat winter. Mr, Bayard made a long legal fargument againet the bill. Mr. Saulsbury, im the courso of his remarks, thought that if Mr. Lincoin was not to be held responsible thea an appropriation should be made to cover cases of damages that might be declared in State courts in thead cases of arrests and imprisonments. Tho speech of the day was that of Mr. Garrot Davia; which, in condensation of legal points conceruing Kxeeu+ tive usurpations in their mauifoid forma and in strong invective, has had no parallel during the geasion. He said the President's exercise of power is a8 atrocious and gigantic as the rebellion itself, The emancipation of slaves and confiscation of any property mast be confined to exigent present necessities of armies in the Geld, and not lo sweeping proclamations that the President coud not enforce, and which involved loyal and rebel in the same common desolation if practical. It is useless to try 10 give tho salient points of tiis speech. Nothing ehort of ils entire perusal will do justice to it. MR. CONWAY'S SPKECH IN THE HOUSE. Ono of the most remarkable and sigaidcant speeches of the session was made in the House to-day by Me. Coa- wuy, of Kansas, He assumed that the North i4 now the nation, and that their object should be to pursue the wae for conquest of not pursue it at all. He attacked Mr. Lincoln with great earnestnens for attempting to conduct the war with @ view to restore the constitution as it was. He predicted his failure in the conduct of the war and the downfail of the administration party. Mr. Conway alsa predicted that the democratic party would achieve their object mm restoring the Unien upon the old basis unless the republican party shall chauge its base, and © the war as 1 opposed te a forcign nation and for the destruction of slavery. He ‘declared the North and South to be separate and independent Powers, thus annouucing the independence of the South- &e., fa y on | ern confederacy. He was particularly severe upon Mr. Lincoln, declaring that be is @ politician of @ past age. He said, “Str, Lincoln belongs to the old whig party, and will never belong to any other.” Mr. Conway was Ene se not done when hia hour was up, and was cut position left for the discharge of our duties. |of bs objections from the republican side. | Even Nor is it merely in these social distraction® | yp Lovejoy made a show of objecting, where. that the mind of the community seems to} upon Mr. Conway excluimed with emotion, « mt seek relief. The theatre, the Opera and the | (4 dvwe."’ Mr. Conway's speech had been printed im pamphiet form for some time, but had been revised ia some points lately, in accgsdance with the views of radi- * wh» bave been in consultation bere. A report is lent Uhat the origmal «pecch was writien by Wen- del! Phillips. ‘This is improbable, as Mr. Conway ts ene of the most intellectual members of the House, ead is fally competent to make such a speech. He waa listened to with marked attention, THE FINANCE BU ND THE ARMY. It is understuod that the Financial bill, as it pawed be House, meets We approval substantially of Secretary Chase: therefore not much trouble will be had with itu the je. After this important watter comes the other one of keeping up the armies. Governor Andrew wants regiments from the North, Senator Witvon wants mics by an active militia force ia the States of two handed ( ud men. Home guards ate wanted in the border stave tes. A resviution by Mr, Brown- ing looks #0 the giving of bounties to soldiers who will ra- neg! entist. Adit is the itouse for organizing one hua- dred and (ity thousand negroes inie an army. Induce ments in the way of donations of confiscated lands may be hela out Co stimulate enlistments INTERESTING COKRESPONDENCK-7HE OAPTURE OF BRITISH VESSKLN MAVING CONTRABAND CARGORM. The Seeretary of Shute, in answer bo the Senate's resota- ith instant, in relation te the eapture of sels sailing [rom one Hritish port lo another, haying on board articles contraband of war, for the use of rebels, seu nteon papers dating from the 30th of yto the 26h of February, with mavy other minor » first i a letter from Mr. Stuart, Inquiring rolaiice of the steamer Adela, bound to Naasaay tates steamer Quaker City ' of the latter demed haviog fred into the Adela witlingtwo and a hall milos from the coast without show ing bh rk. aud staves that he proceeded unter the instructions of Flag Otticer MeKean, to intercept « vessel of her appearaute, will a cargo of eoutraband gone Mr. Seward asverted that the governteut bad no desire to claim any unusual belligerent rights, and promised to seod the jones, In evidenes, vo (he maritime court adjudicating the case in Florida, ‘The United States Cousul at Leeds furnishes evidence to the capt corves| Uhat the veeset intended to rua the blockade The case of the British brig Lilla is also referred to, lord Lyons, on Jannary 26, 1862, weites (o Mr Seward that Parl Russell had eansed a fetter to be sdidressed to the British General Post Office, stating that as i the present blockade lasts great caution mbor ut he observed as to the class of vessels to which mail bagw shoald be entrusted THY CHANOR OF BRIBERY AGAINST MR. CAMRRON. ‘The charge against General Cameron, United Stater Minister to Russia, of offering a bribe to procure bis eiec- tion to the United States Senate, is to be investigated by that body. SMUGGLING CARRIED ON BY JRWwa, Information has reached the War Department that a large amount of smuggling * cartied on, principally by Jows, whe follow up our army and store contraband goods to await the abasdopment of the position by the Union army. Obtaining ® permit to visit the army, they carry along & small stock of common goods, a“ few litte tings fer der poyn,’’ with which to cover their élegal traffic. ‘They then hunt up « secesh citizen, who beqomes their agent, storing their goods until an opportunity preseuts to dispose of them to our deluded Southera bretbeen. CONGRESSIONAL ENDORSKMKYT OF THE BMANOIFA- TION PROCLAMATION. ‘The Judiciary Committee of the House voted this mora- ing to postpone indefinitely the coudrmation of the Prost dent's emanc patios proclamation REPORTED SURRENDER OF THB GUNBOAT SIVELG ‘TO THK REBELS. From some comments in the newspapers it is proper to mention that the gunboat Sidell, reported as having eur. | pondered to the rebela, did not belong to the navy, aud tuere is fo such officer a4 Van Dorn connected with it RANK AND PAY OF ARMY STORKEYEPERS. The military bill introduced by Senator Pomeroy gives to military storekeeyors (he rank and pay of masiatant quartermasters DECISION OF TAR TAK COMMISSIONTR. The Commissioner of Internal Revence lina decifed that ot | qccmmaore may antes a8 dealers persons who Aell com jes (rom verel*, bonis or Darks, or who wall loge mort afte, and (he aaseaw7rs ell Comorl to Une aud (uuntear fn tee