The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1863, Page 4

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NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We @o not return rejected communications, * Volume XXVIII AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. eCADRKY OF MUSIO, Irving Place,—Italian Opera— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Lxau, Taz FoRSAxEn. ae soens THEATRE, Broadway.—Son001 ror #oAN- 7 WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Anvoostn's Last Cause One Toven oF NavuKh—FRENCH Sex, LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Loan oF a Loven—Inv BLES. - NEW BOWERY THEATRE, B z Sruct mucxv—Pimate’s Luaacy. serena BOWERY THEATRE, Bor Tax Beanstarc—Orp OaK BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Mrs, Lavinia Waruex—Commopore Norz, &0,, at all hours— Ogoss OF Gory—Atiernoon and Eveutag. =TROUBADOUR--JACK AND BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’. Hall, 472 Broad- he ed Songs, Buaresquas, Dances, 40,—Laven- WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway/e! Songs, Dances, &¢.—Harry Panter Sila ati ca CLINTON HALL, Astor Place,—Mxsgrs, BRivtan AXD Fises's Exeeeiments in Evectno-Psycuo.ocr. BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Livixa Witp ANnimALs—PuuroRMING ELerHaNts—Comte MULES, &0. AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, No. e “ tars, Pantomimms, Bortesavss, 40. oe einer ae PARISIAN CABINBT OF WONDERS, 643 Broadway Open duly OM IO A MAID es OS Broadway. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Alyn Boxes, Dances, Bonuses, aoe’ °° = BROOKLYN ATHENAUM:—Da. Maccowan's Lecture Ox Japan. Now York, Sunday, February 1, 1863. "NOTICE TO THE PEOPLE. We have no agents canvassing the country for subscribers,” Nome ore necessary, Sub. soriptions from clubs and individual subseri- bers come in rapidly enough. Any person pretending to be an agent for the WrExty Herarp should be treated ase a common swindler. The club system has abolished the agasfoy system. It is safe and cheap and practical. -THE SITUATION. The expected fight at the Blackwater has come off. Generg} Corcoran hada brilliant action with the rebel chie¥, Roger A. Pryor, on the night of the 29th, and completely defeated him. The conflict took place $a point ten miles from Suffolk, and the battle opened by an artillery duel by moon- light. After two hours firing the rebel artillery began to slacken, when General Corcoran ordered a charge of his infantry and cavalry, The enemy fell back before our troops for two miles, and there made another stand, and the fight was continued for over seven hours. There every prospect yester- day thet there would be another battle, General Corcoran had 4 narrow escape from a shell which burst directly in front of him. Our loss was about one hundred and four. We give o list of the killed and wounded to-day, together with 1 comprehensive map of the battle. There is nothing Sew from the “Rappahannock Army to-day. General Hooker paid a flying visit to Washington yesterday, to arrange some details in reference to the quartermaster’s and commissary departments of is army. It is said in Washington that Generals Cadwalla- der, Martindale and Van Alen, are to compose the mew court of inquiry in the case of Major General Wm. B. Franklin. We give an interesting account in enother column of the capture of the brig Estelle by tho pirato Florida, as reported by the captain of the Estelle, who arrived here yesterday. The histor v of the Florida, as it was related to Captain Brown, Of the Estelle, by the rebel commander of the pirate ship, will be read with much interest. She was built for the Sardinian government, and was then known as the Ofeto. She took in her armament {roma schooner lying off the Bahama Islands, the having been seut from the “neutral” port of fassau. . We give a map to-day of the locality about Os- was " Sound, where it is believed that an attack tyis afade by our forces and gunboats on Savane » Gnd the rebels defeated. Nothing posiiive official has yet been promulgated relative to tuis , but the Probabilites point to its truth. 7 inf tion, it will be remembered, ¢ i robel sotrces, and originated, as we stave’ jh terday, ig @ report from Genera¥Pryor to Geno- Fol Peck, near Suffolk, Va, a € ONGRESS, ( the Senate yesterday the Naval Committee Fepowed boils resolution tealering the Rhanks of Go to Co nder John LL. Ayoraen for @0Qd conduct in the conflict betwoon @ Monitor and the Merrimac, The res: ition Fras adopted. THE same committes FePBrted back the Joint resolution tendering the thanks of Gon. er nmodores James fh, Lordner, Charles B. vy 1. Dahlgren, Stephen C. Rowan, Davia ond 9, HH, Sptinghow, wish ag a amendment striking ont the name of Com. Lardner, not for anything derogatory to him but because of the rule to give no thanks exe cept to one in cowmand of an expedition or having a separate command. The amendment wasugrecd to and the resolution adopted. The pill to encourage enlistments, and providing for enrolling and drasting the mifftia, was reported back by the Military Committee. The bill to in- crease the salury of the chief clerk of the Paymas- tor’s Department was disagreed to. The resolu- tion calling for information relative to the expor- tation of arths, &e., to Mexico for the use of the French was adopted. The Consular and Diplo- matic Appropriation bill was passed, Tho Legis- lative, Exceutive and Jndicial Appropriation bill | was then taken up and discussed until the adjourn- ment. The seesion of the House of Representatives was taken up with debate on the bill authorizing the organization of negroes as soldiers. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the brig Addy Swift, Captain Avery, from St. Thomas, we have advices from St. Thomas to the 18th ult. The United States steam- er Alabama had just arrived from a cruise. No- thing Lad been heard of the privateer Retribution since her chasing the brig Gilmore Meredith and i | | \ | nock with-the first available frost. The government has apparentty no desire for the immediate occupation of Richmond, or the line of the James river, which is open, and | which offers a save and convenient base of ope- rations all the way, would have been adopted fora formidable movement upen the rebel oa. pital from the east, in conjuuction with the Army of the Potomac from the aorth. Lt is evir dent that our forces in the peniasula and at Suf- folk are employed more for defensive than offensive purposes for the present, and some of our abolition organs are earnestly pleading-| that even “General Hookef’s splendid army should be reduced to the miserable service of astationary force of reserves between Rich. mond and Washington, and shat our land and naval forces in the West and in North Carolina shall do all the active work ef fighting till the return of spring. . We trust that before the lapse of another week this fgolish programme will be upset by the advance of General Hooker, and that the necessity of maintaining en immense army in idleness to protect Wash- ' ington will, be done away with in the expulsion schooner West Wind back to that port, They both sailed again on the 16th for Trinidad de Cuba to load, The annual coat of the mail ‘transportation be- tween Washington and New’York ia ninety-three thousand doliars, of which the New Jeraey Rail- road companies receive the following amounts:— New Jersey RR. and Transportation Co. me 500 , Philadelphia and Trenton Company. 10, Camden and Amboy Company. + 9,800 Total....... pee eereeeeeeee deere ver eess $43,560 The Adjutant General at Washington reports, in answer toa resolution relative to the number of soldiers in service, that the press of business in his office would make so great a work impracticable; besides, he thinks its publication would be incom- patible with the public interest. The negro worshipping journals are now trying to shake off Wendell Phillips, becanse he, more bold than his radical brethren, has spoken the true sentiments of the pariy: “Liberty to the slave or death to the Union.” This year is the time for the return of the se¥en- teen yegr locusts. They appeared Inst in the spring of 1546, and were very destructive to trees. Provost Marshal Dick, who seems to be located at St. Louis, has notified the postmasters in the District of Kansas that the Chicago Zimes newer paper must not be delivered to subscribers; and if, after the publishers receive proper notification of this fact, they shall continue to send the paper, the pestmasters are ordered to burn the same. It will cause some wonder to know who this Dick is and whero ho ha‘ls from. He is evidently a great raanand deserves sofne special attention. John Taglor, convicted of arson in the third de- gree, but recommended to mercy by the jury, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Leonard, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, to four years and nine months imprisonment at Sing Sing. In the Court of General. Scesions yesterday, Joel B. Ferguson, @ classleader of the Bedford street Methodist Episcopal church, convicted ou an indictment charging him with obtaining $1,000 under false pretences from Mrs. Catharine Carter, was again remanded for sentence. Edward A. De Gray, convicted of forgery in the fourth degree, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for one year. James Martin, convicted of assault and battery, was sentenced to, the State Prison for two years, and Theodore Smith, having pleaded eniity toan attempt at grand larceny, was fined $50. Tho stock market continued active yesterday, and prices at the morning board were higher. In the after-- noon there was some reaction, aud ths market closed dull. Golg rose to 16¢, closing at about 15534 bid. Ex- chhnge sold at 177, closing at 176350 177. Money was active among the atock brokers, and the rate was 6 07 por cent. Cotton gold to@he extent of avont 2,000 bales, all told,” oh Saturday, at prices averaging about 0c, for middling por Ib. Heavy sales of breadatutis and provisions were effected, a8 ajao of 1, tobacco, tallow and whiskey, at higher quotationa. ore was considerable activity in of the rebel army and government from Vr- ginia. And we would commend this important considesation to the especial attention of Presi- dent Lincoln, that the expulsion of Jeff. Davis from Richmond, in relieving Washington, will add te our effective forces in the fieic reinforce- ments to the extent of at least fifty thoutaad men, Whe Reverses of the French in Mexico. It is evident the French haye met with seri- oug disasters in Mexico. Amid all the conflict- ing reports which reach us this fact stands forth prominently: tho French have met with re- verses, The effect of these tidiggs upon the masses in France will be most injurigus to the Emperor Napoleon, who persevere’ iu this expedition against the advice of his counsellors and the evident disapproval of his people. The had news will be kept bacis, of course, to the extent possible; but, as wa afl knoW, ill tidings come to hand somehow, and, spite of Napoleon's precautions, the people will hear of the deaths from epidemic which have decimated the Frengh ranks in Mexico, and they will also hear re- ports of the attacks made by the Mexican cavalry upon the French divisions, causing to the latter serious losses. To those who have watched the’course of events in Fvance during the past year or two the discow'se made at the recent opening of the French Chambers by Napoleon will prove how greatly the Emperor feays\the tone of mind of bis people upon this subject. The bare-reference made to Mexico by Napoleon shows he.is afraid to dwell upon the subject, as he well knows the opposition members of the French Legislature will seize upon the Mexican question to aunoy and‘em. barrass the government of his Majesty. The checks encountered by the French ren. der the prosecution of the Mexican campaign a serious matter—one calling for a great effort on the part of France~and hence this is a misfor_ tune for Napoleon, as he was made to believe, \ | Fronch troops could easity overrun and occupy the Mexican republic. He will now ascertain that the conquest of Mexico imperatively de- mands a lorge force, and a consequent immense | outlay of treasure, as the troops needed must | be transported over six thousand miles of sen | ete they teach the scene of their labors. The American campaign against Mexico was a brilliant success. General Scott marched on from success to sticcess until he ogcupied the enemy's capital. His gampaign, from its very brilliancy, but renders the tardy and unsuccess- To-morrow evening Manager Grau again opens the doors of the Academyof Music to an expectant end impatient public. The opera is the favoriie “Martha,” and Kellogg, Morensi, Brignoli and Susini are the singers. Signor Muzio reswues his baton and directs the per- formanees, The season will be short and sweet. On Wednosday Lorini sings in “Ves. pres Sicilionnes,” and on Friday “Don Giovan- ni” will be produced. A matinee on Saturday closes this brief, eventful history; for of the 9th of February Grau is obliged by contract to give opera in Boston. There seems but little doubt that the season will be a most brilliant one. Opera {sa necessity with our best socie- lights of Irving place. Even those who care nothing for the yjusic find great gratification in the display of their toilets, and in beholding, admiring and envying the toilets of other Stewart’s, there iano feminine pleasure equal to the exhibition of dry goods at the Acadomy of Music. ee mE ose Qur readers will remember with what a grand flourish of trumpets Manager Gran began his Season a few weeks ago. We were to have plenty of splendid revivals, and the new opera, “Joan of Arc,” was to be produced in advance of the Paris and London seasons, This mag- mfazeht pRSgFAMiS has nob been carricd ont; but the fault, we are bound to say, does not vost at the door of Manager Grau. Brignoli, our favorite tenor, was taken ill, and opera without Brigooli Would be like the play of “Hamlet” without the melancholy Dane. For a few nights Manager Grau persisted in at- tempting to please the public without Brignoli; but failures, substitutions and general disep- pointment were the consequence. In fine, Grau, deprived of hia McClellan, had met his Frede- ricksburg, and was forced to succumb to ad_ verse circumstances. What did he do then? Did he insist apon retaining Maccaferri in Brig- noli’s roles? Did he rush frantically around among artists and amatewrs, and by changing his tenor every night endeavor to find some one competent to iake Brignoli’s place? Did he impetit his reputation and his treasury by at- templing to push matters ahead without a shitha vend “Did he Call his fellure an “*2o- cident,” and argue that anybody could be a | as must toll upon the poorer classes, news. | 4 tho rank of gcucral. Great tenor? On the contrary, Grau ceased operations entirely until he could recall Brig- } proportion as the paper manufacturers become | Lis favorite grievance of tho democratic party thy noli to the field. The result is;that instead of makjog a dismal flasco Grau will _now more than compensate the public for all previous disappointments. In this regard Manager Gran is certainly an example worthy of President Lincoln’s imita- tion. Nor is he otherwise in regard to the do- tails of hls management. Grau has hed difficul. ties in his cabinet, as has President Lincoln. Grau, like the President, sometimes “finds some one of his provinces inclined to be rebellious. But Grau’s policy is firmness and conciliation. | ing increase in the price of that class of publi. | tm were the subject of discussion in the Beuate td If one of his prime donne refuses to sing the part he wishes, he either dismisses her or gently phia demands too much, he puts his foot down firmly and deprives the revolutionary city of | public. We may add that the goveynment will | snd dollars would remain after paying the pro opera until it accepts his terms. Ah, if Presi- dent Lincoln had but conducted the war on these principles,-how much trouble and loss of life and waste of money we should have been spared! But the President's Cabinet disagrees with and revelts against him, and he does not change it. The abolition States demand eman- cipation as the price of their loyalty, and the President reluctantly submits to them. The army is almost useless without ite best general, hay, hopa,mctals and groceries, with n fair degreo of | fy) ifivadion of the French the more forlosn. | and the President refuses to reowll him. In- animation in other leading articles at rising prices, Mode- rate freight engagements were reported, wlihout any remerkable variation in rates, The deplorabte copaition of the streets seriously impeded operations. emesis The Blackwater Affair—The Camp in Southeastern Virginia, With the report of a neat little victory achieved by General Corcoran on Friday last, | near the Blackwater river, in Southeastern Vir- ginia, our attention is naturally called to the movements and objects of the campaign in that | quarter, on both sides. From Suffolk (which is some twenty miles southwest‘of Norfolk, on a navigable creek af the James river) there is an air line railroad due northwest to Petersburg, some fifty or sixty | miles. From Suffolk another railroad of about the same length runs due southwest to Wel- don, N.C.; and at Petersburg, or Weldon, we strike the great southern seaboard railroad which runs from Virginia to Georgia. The rebel forces in Virginia on the south side of ; the James are there to protect this road between Petersburg and Weldon, and especially #t the former place, which is of some importance to them as an outpost of Richmond. They will lose not only their main railroad artory s outh- ward in losing Petersburg, but a considerable city, and a point from which, only twenty miles distant, a deliberate advance might be made upon Richmond by land and water on the south side. Whether the object of Genera Peck, in hfs demonstrations from Suffolk, is to feel his way to Petersbutg or to some other point, we do not pretend to know; but he bus undoubtedly sneceeded in drawing down a considerable rebel force to‘guard the south side »pproaches to Richmend. The late aflvir on.the eastern side of the Blackwater would, however, seem to indicate a design on the part of the rebels to take the offensive and to push into Suffolk; and the prospect of ‘capturing there a large amount of army supplies is to them a strong temptation to undertake the expedition. It is probable, on the other hand, that the crossing of the river by that redoubtable rebel Bobadil Pryor was for the purpose of a reconnoissance, and that his iepulse will be followed by another trial with a larger force. In any event, we count upon @ good report from Goneral Peck and the Cor. coran Legion. Inthe James river peninsula, since the late successful Union raid wp the York and Pa- | munkey rivers, the rebels appear to have | ‘ lina, and - | Manager Grau as an Example ¢6 Prest= | to coMoct ng or advertisements, ier rat al a — ing, anit Uy Genndal’ Aipdker on the Rappeben dent Lincela, and that all basinese of that sort moon, | mnotatio nd he quel thy ye transacted direotly with our office. Of this fellow Vergne we have no knowledge whatever. As the printed form on which the receipt is given has the name of the paper writ- ten in, it is to be presumed that he represents himself as employed by othor New York journals as well, and levies contributions in their name, according to the political com. plexion of the neighborhood in which he hap- pens to be staying. It is curious, notwithstanding the repeated warnings that we have given the public not to pay money to travelling agents on our account, that people will sti be found credulons enongh to believe their representations. The frequent ty, and as the hart panteth after the water | exnosureof such rascalities does not seem to brook so do our fashionables long for the de- | meke them any wiser, The author of “The Vestiges of Creation” makes an observation that shows the average amount of credulity manifested at different periods in this regard, He sfates that the wrongly directed letters and people. Next to purchasing dry goods a | y.wers to swindling advertisements that pass through the post a detecting avd exposing these things. It seems that the world gets no wiser from experience: mixturé of impostors and dupes. Remonstrances or THE Parag Manurio. TCRERS—The paper manufacturers have ps- fitioned Gongress against any repeal or reduc- tion of the present duty on imported paper. To make these appeals the more effective, some thirteen of them were presented on the same day» but with not over five hundred signatures, atl told. It is useless entering into any argument here as to the course Congs8 shonld pirsue in this matter. We néed only point out that, whereas some few hundreds of persons, paper manufacturers and their assistants, petition fo, no reduction of the duty on paper, twenty mil- lions demand that the duty be reduced to sueh a rate as will enable the poor man to buy sqhool books forbis children; aiso that the duty be reduced on imported paper so that one and al may obtain newspapers at a fair price; .that books containing useful information may not be withheld from the public because the paper manufacturers are allowed a‘ monopoly which will cause such an advance inthe price of paper papers and books necessarily becoming dear in more and more exoybitant in their prices. Who can tell where these prices will finda limit should Congress not remove or modify the present duty on imported paper? It musz be evident fall that any restriction or duty which causes an advance in the price of paper isa public calamity, and that itis the poorer classes who feel its effoct the more deeply, The results of any monopoly allowed to the paper manufacturers would cause a ocssation of all lighter literature, a3 well as a correspoyd- cations which are imperatively needed. In the name of the public at large we petition Con. or affected to believe, that a few thousend | gompels her to obey. K Brookiyn or Philadel- | gress to reduce the duty on imported paper, ng thereby a great service will be rendered to the also gain by a reduction of ihe paper duty. As it now stands it amounts to a prohibition, and of course the government receives no revenue from that source. Let the duty be reduced, and thousands of dollars will flow into the treasury, a8 large quantities of paper would bo at onee imported. In this matter, Congress, by being just, will render a service to the public, and also favor the government—two good rea- sons why the petitions of the paper manufac- turers should be sot aside, and flue duty on “We shall make short work of these miserable | stoad of maintaining the dignity of his high po- foreign paper be at once reduced. | Mexicans,” asserted the French official journaly } when the campaign first commenced; and yet French were deceived by the prestige of our | campaigy, and were misieken in their conclu- | sions as to their ability to rival its efectivenoss- | We had not thousands of mil s@a separat- ing us from our enemy, added to which, the Mexicans, who have been in @ constant state of warfare ever since | the period of the~American invasion, have be: come more experienced, are better armed, and, | above all, have much heavier ordnance, The Mexicans have improved in the art of war, as | France is leaming to her cost. One result of the non-success of the French expedition will be to render Nepoleon’s power in Franee more and more precarious. Te has been set at nought by the Italians; England is openly intriguing against his influence in Europe; a check in Mexico proves that here too his power is not so great as he supposed} and thus the French people will become famil iarized with the idea that Nepoleon may some” times fail—an opinion which he has ever en- deavored to combat, and which he has sueces?+ fully contended against until very lately. The | French army, always keenly alive to the reé | sults of all campeigns, adverse to the inve- sion of Mexico. The soldiers assert that no glory can acerne from the subjugation of the Mxicans, and make other objections, all proy- ing how unpopular the expedition is with them. A great trial of Napoleon’s power will soon have to take place in France. He must ask from the Chambers large appropriations for the Mexican campaign, which has now assumed so formidable an aspect; and here he will meet with determined resistance, not only from the opposition members of the Chambers, but from many of his adherents, who have ever been op- posed to the campaign. Any further check re- | ceived in Mexico must seriously complicate Na- | poleon’s troubles, as he will find himself obliged es of tion to the Mexican expedition. To himself the results mayprove momentous, as the campaign ig most unpopular with the masses in France. Ovrn Omymuses Bapty Reovtates.—We | have recejved several communications upon the subject of the bad mimagement of our omnibus adopted the idee that another advance is threat. ened against them by way of Yorktown. Go. | neral Wise; for a long time in eclipse, hag | turned up again, and at our last accounts of his | designs he had rewolved upon clearing “the ? Yankees” out of the peninsula, down to Fortress | Monroe. But it soens that after vatt ng ‘onl | this enterprise he reconsidered the matter, and niarched back ogain. From euch military chor: latans n+ Wise aid Pryor there is not much danger; bub there may be laiger gani® behind | them, Whatever may be the real sirength of | the rebel forces in the peninsula and below the } Jamés, frig Whatever may be their designs, we expect that tiny the operations of Géieral Foster ia North Caro: | | lines. In another column we publish some letters addressed to the editor of the Hxnatp, ali complaining of the ill results of a system which wg emphatically ,conderan, We would sng rrospondents why Lave complatuts to tp omni jh rte that they showk wast tue & ive the number of the omnibus, a mi Berner Visoicaren sy Bayes —Gen. Banks went to New Orleans to reverse the mea sures and alter the policy of Gen, atler. After suspending them for a while he is com. | polled to restore most of the stringeat regula- tions enforced by his predecessor. Dunks” Gonsequently promises to become as will be unsettled very soon by | favorite an alliteration in the mouths of South: | ‘ (hut the Henaip employs no travelling agenti exners as the “Brute Butler.” The “Brute | sition, the President thus becomes the mere ser- vant of a party of insane fanatics, Suppose go to the dogs, how long would Grau be an And yet the President is guitty we error, and the most of the many vio! impres of the Ulunders of this war can be traced to this s mistake. Itisa question of the greatest inte. rest to all concerned whether this sad mistake is ever to be corrected, In order to do something towards the solution of this question, we propose to the President to come on to New York this week and take a few lessons in governmem at the Opera, We will receive and entertain him moet handsomely, procure him a private box, and relieve him of the necessity of “browsing aronud” for a dinner by making him welcome at our residence. It must be plain to the President, as it is to every body else, thet the country cannot go on in this way much longer. Even poor Greeley, lunatic as he is, has sense enough to see that a grand smash up is near at hand, and therefore howls piteously for peace on the Jstof May. The President will find Grau not unlike himself in ainiability, affebility and sociability, and quile as ready to enjoy « good joke or a funny story though, of course, not so capital a hand at get. ting off the one or narrating the other. In short, President Lincoln and Manager Gran are in many respects kindred spirits, and will be sure to like each other vastly. We can imagine their good humored faces beaming with delighted smiles as they exchange the compliments of the season and gradually and gently glide into the topics of the war and the Opera. The President will discover that Gran has in him the elements of a great general, and Grau will soon be convinced that the President knows a thing or two about music, even if he was brought up in Springfield, Ilinois. As for ourselves, we should be only too pleased to be the humble instrament of bringing together two such congenial characters; and, although we | toabandon other plans, and give his whole atten- | should naturally be subjected to all sorts of | may ve change’ materially before Monday, Reymond, animadversions from our prejudiced and jealous rivals, and should be charged with intriguing for offices or contracts, or the next Presidency, still we would gladly suffer all this if we could restore harmony to ovr national counsels by inoculating the President with some of the good qualities of Manager Grau. Fravps oy Parrkvnen Neyvsraver Aceyts.— We have received a communication from Penn- sylvania, stating that a person named Vergne had been travelling through that State repre- senting himeelf to be a eanvassing agent for the New York 1 nt takki subscriptions on our account, The fellow, it Appears, suc- ceedod in Helting about’a dozen different sums | of money under this PFétext from the verdant sade] Competent managers aud to 7 | Inbabitasits of Groen county efor which he gave the following receipt:— ~ New Yous Cirr, 1862. y Ist, 1863, to January Tho Wern.y fepatn from Ja Ist, 1204. Nos. 62 papers. Received payment in full on ace vant, $1 6 ). VERGNE, Again let us impress upon the public Tue Cyyrrar. Park.—We notice that a bill } iponths have pasved, and we find them as far} Gran gave opera to please Greeley and hig bas already been introduced in the Assembly ™ | from success ds when they first landed. The | gang, and vowed that the general public might | abolish the Centrai Park Commission. This | jn, Morrill, Hooper and Stratton. ‘The action of the is the initiatory stopof the movement which we have been denouncing for some months past—to take the Parkout of ihe bauds of its present © It in those of the Ring. We warn the originators of thig scheme that they will bring thomselves into trouble if they porsevore with it. The people of w York will not tolerate for a moment the idea of+the management of their beautiful Pa the pride and ornament of their city— pe into the hauds of thieves and rowdies. IMPORTANT FROM ALBANY. IntenseE xcitement on the Senator Ques- Hon—Calculations and Estimates as to the Reault of the Election, &c. Au Jan, 31, 1 There bas boen iutenge excitement to-day on t tor question, Many of the members are, howe rent; but enough remaine to make the controve a Canvassing spicy. Nothing else ist lked or thought of. As in all other contests of the kind, there are many con- ficting rumore. The friends of each candidate count their favorite in, Tookiag at it from an inde dont stand point, it loks to mo as @ one sided affair, Those canvassing in the interest of Mor- gan claim fifty a5 earc ineon’s frionds | claim 15, Raymond's 22, King’s 7, Fields’ 12, Sedgwick Grover, and several other candidates, from % to 6 cach; Noyes about,15. Taking all of theso estimates, it would make the republican vote in the Legislature 0, when thoy only have 87. Somebody must be badly sold. Jt is much easter for the friends of the different candidetes to count their favorites too high than it is to get the precions vote My ewn canvass, made independently of ail, gives Mor- gan 38 votes on the first formal beliet, with § others as Probable. Those marked as probable are those of whom | I have no positive prrsoual knowledge how they will vote, but whore inclinations are for Mor. fan, and who, if left alone, will vote for him. Raymond, 17; Dickinson, 10; Noyes, 8; King, 6; Field, 3. The balance diyited between other candidates. It needs only forty-four to nominate im cavens with all This is ns matters stand at eleven o'clock to-night. It for instance, has obtained eix votes to-day that were yes- terday coubted for Morgan, and may succeed in making farther inroads by Mondayx but i do not believe that he can get any of the thirty-eight counted for Morgan. Ho may got a portion of thoes thet I have put down as probable for Morgan; but even fn that event We caumot obtain ail the other votes cast on the scattering can- didates, The opponents of Morgen have tolegraphed to all sec- tions of the State for men to work against Morgan. Al- bany by Monday morning will be filled to overflowing, and with the prosmre then bronght to bear on members from men coming from tholr own districts, they may be Abie to'reduce Morgan's strougth very matorially before | the caucus assembles on Monday at seven P.M. } Probably tp this © ono of the greatest precenres | will be browght to on inetnbers over koown at the State Capitol. fat tho roswt of all this will be dopends upea the backbone of mem: | ers. Bvoni? this far this season have shown | that many of the membors are troubled with woak | packs, and th@rofore mighty uncertain to count upon over night, making it quito cortain that material changes will be made before the cue meots. ‘The anti-Morgan aro raising all manner of re_ just as pumerous now as they éver were, notwithstanding the greater ac. | tivity of postmasters, the firoi8 and the police Tt would not be a world withouta proportionate | sioner Halloway, made In» pamphlet rigned by Royatte dosiry’ 10 Jako this lesne they may that the gen do more ,2auger to thomse!vos than bray, f Several o' thoze inthe intorest Of Aibany and quehanna Rath Oad are roported to B egia that d would not vote fr’ Morgan if oloctetj, gnis soy uot dare tocerry out, If thoy do upos their p “ina balloon.” Morgan has certainly \deaited ad tage over all his competitor night; Dore ig no ing where ho wil! bo on Monday. NEWS FROM WASHIIATS Wasminotow, th, 81, 18 THE ARMY OF THE POTOXG, There is nothing new concerning thearmy © Potomac. KESIONATION OF GENERAL CAMPNELL, OY TiiNES The resignation of Brigadier General Wixiem D. q boil, formerly Governor of Tennessee, and durid Mexican war colonel of the Bloody Firt Tenness unteors, bas boen accepted. Genoral C. ®ad pors urged the acceptance of his resignation since the tion of the ewarcipation proclamation, AISISTANT TO THE SECREMARY OF WAR, Robort Dale Owen bas aececied o clorksnip in ty Department, and wi}) be the cbicf assistant in discl the duties of Assistant Scorotary. bs SIT. OFG A LOOKER TO: fw ASEENGTO) Gonoral Hooker at a acta visit to Wastar day, to arrange somo details in reforence to the 4: master’s and commissary departments of bis arm; SOLICITOR OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT. William Whiting has been appointed solicitor War Department, THE DEBATE IN THE ig tcad THE BLACK 50) ‘The black coldiors bill was dobated*at great tong on all sides of the question in the House to-day. the speakers gavo their views upon the whole su the rebollion and political matters gonorally, Tl cals advocated the plan, pure and simple, wit! earnestuess, while the democrata and conservati' posed it in able and dignifted speeches, 7" Judge Thomas, of Massachusetts, said that if thi be a war of extormination and Fécolonization of Tht tory of the South, the youngest pago in the hous has boon guatched prématurely from his moiber’e “will not live to ace the end of it, and that those wht {eo gonatitution, fi ig becoming the fashion with | violaté their sxered oaths cud stain thelr gouls wil jury. ah Hae ¥e Mr. Pendleton, of Ohid, made @ poworful speech 4 the bill, which, he said, would revolutionize the go disband the army, apd make reunion impossible, Mr. Maynard, of Tennessee, addressed the Hous claborate speech of more than an hour, in which forth in eloquent terins the importance of securi loyal population of bis State, who have already ot great hardships, in supporting the federal governnx Mr. Davis, of Pennsylvania, was in favor of ty without amendment, by which the black soldier oa] Mr. Olin, of New York, made a speoch principal, obstacles in the way of the administration. H lectured the republicans severely for their radic and intimated that he did not care bow soon he wi out of the party. ‘The reason of tho very etrong opposition made Dill by several members erent Ind i thoy feel ndsttred that It it ta atacky ta nessee will be thrown ont of the Union, ana ft, transferred t® the southern borders of Mlinols, Td and Ohio. It is agreed that the voto upon the bill not be taken until three o'clock on Monday. “PROCERDINGS OF THK SENATE. , The Department of Agriculture and Commissioner Senators Hale and Rice said that the appropriation for was not for the benefit of the farmers, who: prayer to God was, ‘‘Let us alone.” Senator Ri gented the ftems of the appropriation from tho q ment, by which it appeared that but about twenty salaries to commissioner, clerks, agonts and fessors of ornithology, eutomology, chemistry, ny, &c. Sonators Harlan, Dixon, Davis, aud Powell. said these things were noce for a proper oxperimont of the advantagés derived this department; and though the expenditures of government might bo two millions five hundred thoy dollars per day, they would vote not only one hu and thirty thousand dollars, but a larger amount, department. Scnator Lane, of Indiana, had mov abolizh tho whole thing, for he believed with tho 8en from Minnesota, that it was a humbug aad an incubt fifth wheel to a coach, THE INTERNAL REVENUE LAW. Tho House ways and means committee hay no’ had under consideration any amevdment to “the Intd Revenue law. Everything upon the sabjoct has beo: ferred to @ sub-committee, composed of Messrs. committeo will probably be delayed by the illness of Coruing, who is not yot able to attend to business, T| are several important appropriation bills to be c: in the committee bofore the amendments to the T: will be taken up. THE M'POWELL COURT OF INQUIRY. feNowe!) Conrt of Inquiry hetd a short seerct see) to- Goneral Milroy telegraphed to the Court Le would obey its suramong to attend ag a witne Foon a8 a coneral officer relieved him at Winchester. evidence in this case will all be presented by Tu next. If General Milroy doce not arrive by that t his official report of the actions of his division in'Gen Pope's camapaign in the Shenandoah will be used by | Court probably. THE CASE OF GENERAL FRANKLIN. It is said that Genorals Cadwallader, Martindale Van Aion, are to compose the new court of inquiry in case of Major General Wm. B. Franklin. Liout Colonel Polouze will doubtiess be detailed as Recorder Judge Advocate. This new court promises to open intorest, CAUTURE OF ANGLO-REDEL STREAMERS, WITH VALI KLE CARGOES, ‘9 Tho United States gunboat Tioga, Captain Cleary .c tured off the Bahamas the British steamer Pearl, & to be ioated with a valuable cargo. May she prove ho captured her ‘a pearl of groat pric’ abt (hat the vessels named above #| two of the British fleet of forty, which sailed from Brit | porta sino Novembor last, with the intention of rupnd tho blockade and supplying the rebels. | Since writing tho aboye wo loarn from despatches! the Navy Department that the Pearl is an iron side-wh’ light drangbt » ir, of one hundred and seventy barthen. Pr carge Ulasneea ot hes Jackets.”” Tt is kno that this steamer was purchased by the Confed States’ agent in England. . Information is roceive! at the Navy Department th) the United States steamer Octorara captured, on the 16 January, the English sloop Brave, of about bine from Naseay, with ono hundred and ten sacks of salt a three bales of sponge.) fl REMOVALS PROM OFFICR. A nutpbor of elerks of departments were removed fro office to-day, a8 follows:— From the Pension OfficeA. 8. Cox, of Ohio, brother Samucl 8. Cox, M.C.; A. R. Sparke ana G. D. Kean, Maryland; J. Morris, of Pennsylvania. 4 From tho Treasury Department—Mersrs. Evans, Nort! Rogers, Todd, Miles, Joeoph and Thompeon, of the Distr) of Columbia, and J. W. Dronough, of Virginia, wero r moved, Mr. Harris, of the Treasury Department, r signed. Most of the above were appointed by Mr. B Other dismissals will take place on Monday. ARMY APPOINTMENT. Major Geo. C. Strong, Adjutant General ou Gene: nt Bal lor's stat, was to-day appointed a Brigaer General. CHARGES AGAINST COMMIBSIONEA TALLOWAY. A special commities of five mombers has been pane by Speaker Grow to investigate charges against Comins, 4 Bo Isbursing clerk of Commissioner Newtoa. Thee chargos aro mando with gfeat particularity 08 to dates an) alleged facts. ARRIVAL OF CRYRRAL MAMILTON, General Hamilton, of Texas, hag artived here from New Grioans. He fayors the idea of making full use Of Uh nogro element to crush out tho rebellion. ’ CENERAL SHIELDS? MOVEMENTH: |‘ Gonornt Shields is here, and appears tn citizens? dr Ho is the ouly general that has whipped Stonews ecko’ oexoress OY TH PORTAL Brit. / stories against Mor, ‘ging him with olecting Sey: mour by the way he managed the draft; thus, In fact nouueing Moruaa fur bis onvicotic and untiring gforte ia \ Senator Collamor’s, Sostal bill empowers the Pratmaste General to appoint ail postmaster whose fnur al salary yous Wass $1,090, reqrizos portmasiorg, mall fagents,