The New York Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1863, Page 4

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M. rere HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiorun Sonos, Dances, Buatxsques, dc. ? New York, Saturday, February 7, 1863. THE SITUATION. There is nothing further of importance from Charleston to-day later than our former despatch- es. The Army of the Potomac is still quiescent. The reads, after the late storm, are ina sad con- dition, rendering all movements impossible. By an arrival at Suffolk from Richmond we learn that the new Merrimac is now lying between seven and eight miles below Richmond. It is pierced for two guns on each side, and will carry one for- ward and aft. The vessel is pronounced by many & failure, while thore are others who are confident of ita success. Two other iron-clads are in pro- cess of construction there. The rebels are throw- ing up earthworks in every direction for the de- fence of the rebel capital. A propeller which arrived at Norfolk from New- bern yesterday, via tke canal and inland route. reports two government schooners ashore on Hatteras shoals, one loaded with cattle, and one with coal,and that a fleet of one hundred and twenty vessels had sailed, and all bound South, A portion of General Magruder’s rebel fleet, off Galveston, is reported to have recaptured Sabine Pass, and the United States ship Morning Light on the 21st ult. We publish the official account of the affair by Major Watkins, commanding, together with a map of the Pass. It was rumored in Louisville that Morgan’s rebel forces contemplated a raid on Lexington, and that the bankers and merchants there were packing up their money and valuables ready for a flight. It was also said that our troops had got posses- sion of Shelbyville. The brig Wilhelmina, Captain Welsh, at St. Thomason the 18th of January, reports that she spoke the rebel privateer Alabama on the 16th of that month, about four hundred miles southeast of Bermuda. The Alabama attacked and destroyed the United States steamer Hatteras onthe 11th ultimo, and must have steamed to the latitude de- scribed by the Wilhelmina during the four ensuing days. Advices from Dominica, West Indies, of the 19th of January, state that the United States steamer San Jacinto had called there to inquire after the Alabama. x The report relative to the capture of the pri- vateer Florida was not confirmed by the latest in- telligence from Havana. The steamship Roanoke, from New Orleans 28th and Havana 31st ult., arrived at this port last even- ing. By her we received later accounts from Mexico; but they are not of particular importance, except in so far as they confirm the intelligence previously received of the evacuation of Tampico and Jalapa. There are also reports of the sally of the Paebla garrison and the rout of the French. Two Mexicans, who had been convicted of poison- ing by a French court martial, were executed at Vera Cruz, in the form prescribed by French mili- tary authority. There is no other news of im- portance. < The British war ship Vesuvius, at Bermuda on the 27th of January, reported that the French army had been defeated in an attack on Puebla, Mexico, and had lost three thousand men. The British steam sloop-of-war Styx, Commander Hon. W. J. Ward, left Bermuda on the 26th for Havana and New Orleans. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a resolution instructing the Finance Committee to inquire into the expe- Giency of repealing the duty on paper was adopt- ed. A resolution calling for Capt. Mullan’s report And maps relative to the military road from Walla Walla to Fort Benton was adopted. A bill to pre- vent and punish frauds on the revenue, and pro- viding for the mo peedy and certain collection pf claims in favor of the United States, waa intro- Buced. Several private bills wore considered. A motion to postpone all prior orders and take np the Bankrupt bill was disagreed to \4 against 24, Mb report from the conference committer on the jenoy Appropriation bill was adopted. Arter wansaction of some unimportant business » bxeoutive session was held, and the Senate ad. pourned. | In the House of Representatives, the Senate's Wasudauent (9 the KuabQilve Apvromrietion Rill, WEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963. authorising © contract for carrying the mails in steamers between San Francisco and the several ports in Oregon, at s sum not exceeding $24,000 per annum, was concurred in. The debate on the Tlinois and New York Ship Canal bill was re- sumed, and continued till the adjournment, THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday several bills were introduced—among them to regulate imprisonment in the State of United States convicts; to extend the privilege of voting to our soldiers in the field, and to increase the powers of notaries public. The bill amending the Banking law, one section of whioh enforces the liability of stockholders in cases of bank failures, came up for a third reading, when, after some discussion, this section was stricken out, and progress was reported on the measure. A bill was reported providing for the appointment of a receiver general for the trust funds of the State. In the Assembly notices were given of bills to incorporate the Spring Street Railroad in this city, and the Narth Side Railroad, from Newtown to Huntington; to amend the Metropolitan Police law; for the appointment of our city bell ringers by the Chief and Assistant Engineers of the Fire Department; to provide for the payment of the New York city bonds issued for the relief of soldiers’ families; to incorporate the New York and Brooklyn Passenger and Baggage Express, and for a board of cummissioners to adjust be- tween New York and Westchester the matter of jurisdiction over Harlem river. A namber of bills were introduced, most of them though not of general interest. Among the most important was one to prohibit banks making sales of or loaning on gold at arate above par during their suspen- sion of specie payments, the penalty to be a for- feiture of charter. Bills were also introduced to complete the Chenango Canal and to incorporate the Hudson and Harlem Rivers Canal Company. Both the Senate and Assembly adjourned till Monday evening. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The governmont, as yet, has no notice that any ofthe Treasury notes have been counterfeited; but it is known that some of the lower denominations have been raised to represent larger amounts than their original issues. To detect them, we would recommend that the following descriptions of the various denominations be kept in a conve- nient place for reference :— Onzs—Vig. largo oval portrait of Chase on left end. Twos—Vig. largo oval portrait of Hamilton on lower loft centre. Frvgs—Likeness of Hamilton on right end; statue ef female, representing America, on left end. ‘fens—Vig. eagle on upper centre, oval portrait of Lin- coln on upper left end. ‘Twrnties—Vig. statue of female, with shield and sword, representing America, in centre of note. Firtivs—Vig. large oval portrait of Hamilton on up- por left centre. Onn Hunpreps—Vig. large spread eagle on rock on up- Per left end, It is rumored that the guerilla chief John Mor- gan intends to join his forces with those of the rebel bushwhacker Forrest, for the purpose of em- barrassing the navigation of the Cumberland ri- ver, and, if possible, to cut off the supplies of Nashville. The oustoms authorities of Canada having re- fused to receive American money, the Northern Lake Transportation Company have concluded not to go through the Welland Canal during the com- ing season, but will run their boats to Port Col- borne and Buffalo, on Lake Erie, and between Port Dalhousie and Oswego and Ogdensburg, on Lake Ontario. The immigration statistics of Canada for the year 1862 show that during that time there arriv- ed in the’ province 26,432 persons. Of these, 17,200 remained, and 9,232 came to the United States. The increase over the previous year is 2,253. The statistics alsoshow that the skedaddlers from the States who became frightened at the prospect of a draft, numbered 1,942. These persons took with them an average of one thousand dollars each, in American silver, making an aggregate of nearly two millions of dollars. This accounts, in part, forthe plethora of United States coin, of which the Canadians have such just cause of complaint. The silver, being purchasable hero at a rate from five to eight per cent less than gold, was taken by the skedaddlers, instead of the latter coin, and thus it became spread o¥er the province, to the great annoyance of those who were forced to re- ceive it. There are two propositions for the holding of peace conventions before the Legislature of Indi- ana, One is for a meeting of the Legislatures of Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, at Frankfort, Kentucky, on the 22d of February, and the other #, that if Congress shall fail to call a national convention the State of Indiana shall invite every State in the federal Union, including the so-called Confederate States, to meet delegates from the State of Indiana in convention at Nashville, Ten- nessee, on the first Monday in June, 1863. Each of said States to send as many delegates to said cen- vention as shall equal the number of Senatoys and Representatives to which such State is entitled in the Congrpss of the United States. The Legislature of Wisconsin has ordered the Governor’s message to be printed inthe Ger- man, Norwegian, Welch and Holland Dutch lan- BtSenator Chandler has written a letter home an- nouncing the fact that Michigan will have the ho- nor of sending a negro regiment to the war. The resolution in the Indiana Legislature en- dorsing the expulsion of Jesse D. Bright from the United States Benate was tabled on the 28th ult., by a vote of 55 to 38. One of the officers captured at Arkansas Post, who was in Little Rock a short time ago, says General Holmes had received instructions from Jeff. Davis to suspend all proceedings in the de- mand for the giving up of General McNeil for shooting the ten guerillas in Missouri. The Army Commissioner's bill, which takes all power over the State troops out of the hands of the Governor, has passed the House of Represen- tatives of Illinois by a vote of forty-seven to twen- ty-six. "hh the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore Recorder Hoffman, a man named John Craft was convicted of burglary in the third degree, in stealing one handred and seventy-five pairs of pants, ten overcoats, three vests and two pieces of broadcloth, of the total valye of $500, from the store of Mesars. Jeens & Hayward, No. 373 Canal street, on the 12th of last month. The Recorder sentenced him to the State Prison for four years and six months. Jacob Rauth was indicted for grand larceny, charged with stealing a diamond ring, valued at $140, from the store of Messrs. Hoyt, Badger & Dillon, No. 266 Pearl street, on the 19th of September last. Bight days elapsed before the theft was discovered, and two witnesses testified to the fact that they had been present when Rauth purchased the ring for $100, from a man named Jacob Picinini. The question of the prisoner's identity not being established to the satisfaction of the jary, they brought in a verdict of not guilty, and Rauth was accordingly dis- charged. ’ The st market was better yosterday, and there was a tlecided indication of a furthor upward moverment, The advance of the day in the active speculative stocks was equal to about two per cont. Gold fluctuated between 187 and 158, closing at about 167, Pxchange closed at 173 @ 79%. Money was rather caay at ix por cent Cotton sold yesterday to ctemt of 1,200 bab basis of 860, © 86%. for middlings. Flour, w eady, wit a moderate corn wore quot Pork, lard and vacon were lose active and loss booyant, while beef, butter and cheese were in lively demand at full and rising prices, Bogars, molassor and coffee wore inactive, whi'e teas were (realy purcha were very frm. a good demand existed for ai hops, tatiow, tobacco, wool, metals and candies, a buoy sat prices. Whowkey fell to 600 @ Gle., With sales of 4,000 Dbla, Kohala nce Girth. bath pot autive. no War—The Present Campaign te Set- tle the Question—Im portant Rebel Dis- @lesures. How goos the wart What is the prospect? We think the opinion may be safety advanced that we have the power now, and that, unless we break into pieces and scatter to the winds the defiant armies of the tebellion in the present campaign, the alternative is before us of a war of indefinite duration and complications, or & degrading and delusive peace upon the basis of a divided country. The issue of reunion or dissolution now rests upon two great national armies—the one in Virginia, under General Hooker, and the other in Tennessee, under General Rosecrans ; and upon two great national expeditions of land and naval forces—the one in front of Vicksburg, on the Mississippi river, and the other gathering in front of Charleston. Where will the first blow be struck? Our Washington advices in- form us that at any moment we may expect to hear that the attack upon the rebel defences of Charleston has commenced, and that the forces on hand and the combinations agreed upon be- tween General Hunter and Admiral Dupont give every assurance of a glorious success. But General Grant is not idle in front of Vicksburg, and at any moment we may hear that the ball has been opened there, and with the most satis- factory steps towards a crushing victory over the rebellion in that quarter. Meantime Gene- ral Hooker is embargoed by the impassable mud and mire of the hills and valleys of the Rappahannock, and General Rosecrans is doubtless delayed by the same cause in Ten- nessee. We expect that the terrible work of Bombs, guns, drums and battertes will be opened at Charleston and at Vicksburg, and that then the armies of Hooker and Rose- crans will move forward, each to the task as- signed it. And here we would call the atten- tion of the government and ef Generel Hooker to the fact—if they ure not aiready informed of it—that General Longsireet has not been de- tached from the army of General Lee, all the numerous rebel reports to the contrary not- withstanding. They are proved to be decep- tions from this single item of ciroumstantial evi- dence—viz : that the orders from the headquar- ters of the rebel army of Tennessee are still is- sued over the name,of Braxton Bragg. We have observed, too, that ina recent letter from the army of General Lee to a Southern journal the writer speaks in glowing terms of the distin- guished services of Longstreet in the battle of Fredericksburg, and clearly intimates that he still remains with Lee. Our latest information direct from the Rap- pahannock, on the other hand, is that within a few days past there has been a remarkable dimi- nution in the numbers of the enemy’s camp fires by night and of their tents by day heretofore visible from our side of the Rappahannock. This would seem to indicate an impending evacuation of his works by Lee; but, white wide awake to the possible repetition again of this oft-repeated strategical trick of the rebels, we trust that Gen. Hooker, while Lee remains in his front, will not act unadvisedly upon the idea that Lee’s army has been materially weak- ened to strengthen his confederates in other localities. We anticipate the most glorious results from the Charleston expedition and the Vicksburg expedition, and from the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Tennessee. We are strength- ened in these anticipations by the desperate straits and gloomy forebodings of the rebels, disclosed through the columns of late Southern rebel journals received at this office. For exam- ple, Gen. G. W. Lee, the new rebel commander at Dahlonega, Georgia, in his ‘“‘General Order No. 1,” says “that there are a number of de- serters, tories and conscripts resisting the laws (rebelling against the rebels) in Northern and Northeastern Georgia and in Southwestern North Carolina” (the mountaincers of those parts), and that he bas despatched a military force to said districts “to suppress any insur- rectionary movements, to capture deserters, and generally to restore tranquillity.” “De- serters, tories and conscripts resisting the laws” in North Carolina and Georgia! Proof positive that they are getting sick of Jeff. Davis, and be- yond all endurance. . But we have something more to the same effect. Gov. Vance, in an appeal to the people of North Carolina, says that “this is the hour of our greatest need;” and, complaining that “a large number”—mark the words—“a large num- ber of soldiers from our armies are absent from their colors without proper leave,” offers them forgiveness if they will return, but death if ‘they refuse to heed this appeal. So, too, Gov. John Gill Shorter, known as “a regular snorter,” appeals to the people of Alabama, and says that “a considerable number of persons, in every part of the State, both officers and privates, who belong to the army and are fit for duty, are lingering at home on various pre- texts,” while “a large number of persons, sub- ject to conscription, are shrinking from the toils and perils which those of a like age are bravely enduring,” &c. What does all this mean? Nothing lees than this, that the people of the rebellions States are not a unit, but that divisions, dissensions, desertions, demoraliza- tions and open mutiny and insurrection are prevalent among them, and that one or two good Union victories, during this campaign, will break up, destroy, put down and extinguish every vestige of this rebellion. This grand and glorious result is clearly within the grasp of the government. There can be no mistake about it. These important rebel disclosures of the real condition of the rebel- lious States leave no doubt upon the subject. Let the administration only employ its stupen- dous land and naval forces with anything like military ability, and there will be no necessity for a eall upon Louis Napoleon after the Ist of May. There is a point of endurance beyond which even Southern rebels cannot go. They will realize it with their decisive defeat at Charleston or Vicksburg—and we expect both soon to fall. From their own confessions the rebel leaders are on their last iegs, and one or two heavy blows will lay them in the duet. Let the ayminigtration do its duty, and our powerful fleets and artiies in the field will still | @o their appointed work by the Ist of Muy, Frexcu SYMPATEY witht Tite Socrit —It is nbt long since we noticed speech made by the French Consul at Mobile, in which the disposi- tion of the speaker in favor of the South was unequivocally manifested. A dinner was given the other day ia Charleston to the officers of the M. St. Ande, in which strong sympathy waa expressed by the guests for Me rebel cause, and confident anticipations indulged in that an alli- ance, offensive and detensive, had been, or would shortiy by, entered into with the Southern: French frigate Milan, and the French Consul, , confederacy. Louis Napoleon is well eerved. His agents act even in advance of his policy. The Radicals of Both Parties Threaten- | Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, submitted a bill in img Bicodshed. The Tribune and xpress represent the two | white male persons between the ages of political extremes. The Tribune is the organ of the radicals of the abolition party. The Express is the organ of the radicals of the demo- cratic party. Both of these radical organs are now threatening bloodshed and inciting a revo- lution. The Tribune presses upon the adminis- tration measures which it knows to be offen- sive to the people. The Express constantly urges the people to resist these measures by an armed revolution against the government. The Tribune has made it a part of the abolition creed that all conservatives are traitors, and insists that democratic editors shall be arrested, democratic papers suppressed, democratic offi- cers dismissed from the army, and democratic soldiers forced into the ranks alongside of negro comrades, and under the command, perhaps, of negro captains and colonels, The Lxpress re- plies by stimulating the people to oppose these proceedings, if the administration shall attempt them, by a bloody resistance. Only a day or two ago, in answer to one of the most insolent articles of the Hon. Horace Greeley, the Hon. James Brooks responded that if he were arrest- ed Greeley would be arrested ; that if the Zr- press were suppreased the Tribune would be suppressed ; that gun would be met by gun and bayonet by bayonet, and that, in short, a sanguinary conflict between the national and State governments would ensue if the adminis- tration should follow the Tribune’s adviee. To this furious manifesto the Tribune will probably returned home unfit to earn their bread. We retort by something still more bloodthirsty and grandiloquent. Now, every one of any common sense knows that the Hon. Horace Greeley and the Hon. James Brooks are fulminating absurdities, and areincapable of executing their threats. The th Hon. James Brooks has only to look out of his office window and read the signs of the de- funct Day Book and Daily News to learn that the suppression of a petty paper is not always followed by the annihilation of a country. Those signboards are little over the graves of dead journals, and, like other tombstones, they have a moral which” the Hon. James Brooks would do well to take to his heart. Of course it may have been il- legal to suppress those papers, the Journal of Commerce access to the United States mails. That is a point to be settled in our courts of law when the war is over. But, after all, it was not the administration as an outraged and insulted puplic opinion which squelched the peace organs. Had it’been otherwise—had ductor, to the evident danger and annoyance those papers possessed the sympathy of the | Of the public. Cases are related to us where people—had they represented, instead of of- fending, the public feeling in regard to the war—no administration would have dared’ to | Passenger had stepped from it into the street. interfere with them. It is the weak point in | Of courte no such accident could occur were a the Hon. James Brooks’ armor that his Express now stands in the very position which the | bear of instances where serious+injuries have News, Day Book and other peace organs occu- pied some months ago. The people do not | ™auner. Others complain of crushed hands sympathize with him in his ridiculous rage. He has no popular support in his clamors for blood | Upon them. Others complain of the crowding and barricades. The citizens of New York are | 2!most to suffocation in the omnibuses on rainy not anxious to have the war transferred to their | days. In fuct, we hear so many complaints own doors. The Hon. James Brooks’ neighbors | 9gaiust the driver being at the same time money do not wish to pop at him with rifles or re- | taker that we feel desirous, from a sense of duty volvers as he pursues his daily walk, nor do they desire the Hon. James to run a muck up Broadway, slaying as he goes. The people | of stages. consider their lives, limbs and property too precious to be risked for the sake of gratifying the Express. Consequently Secretary Stanton might suppress the Hon. James Brooks and his paper without fear of anything but the law. Nor is the Hon. Horace Greeley, ex-Congress- | ment to the superintendents of other lines of man, any better off in this regard than the Hon- James Brooks, M.C. The Tribune, like the Ex. | patronage exclusively to those omnibuses which press, is a paper which has no public conside- | #dopt the much needed reform, also to our city ration and influence. Even by his own political | cars, they having both drivers and conductors. associates the Hon. Horace Greeley is regarded | The matter is one interesting the publie, and it as a lunatic, who does more harm to his friends | is in their power to enforce the reform by re- than to his foos. Just at present the Hon. Horace | fusing to patronize those lines of omnibuses is in a strait waistcoat of adverse circumstances, | Which donot conform with the wish of the people. and his ravings are frightfully ferocious. He has succeeded in ruining both himself and the republican party. He has forced the adminis- | be constructed of iron, be light and commo- tration into such a predicament that its failure | dious, and in no manner would it disfigure the is inevitable, whether it endeavors to continue the war or to arrange a peace. Turn whichever way he will, the Hon. Horace Greeley knocks | fact of itself would occasion an immense relief his poor, weak, bewildered head against astone wall. Naturally enough, he screams, and yelisy and tries to tear things generally. He sees that | driving. his party has lost the confidence of the people, and that he has lost the confidence of his party. | past we have heard much upon the subject of He sees a great conservative revolution ap- proaching, indicating itself by the recent State | Custom House officers, These statements are elections, the elections of United States Senators, and the ovations to McClellan in the very citadel of abolitionism. He sees that every hour of war increases this conservative will overwhelm the cunning of the insane, he changes his tactics, therefore, and to avert the gathering storm he begins to clamor for peace, not yet fully com- prehending that “the best attainable peace” will be equally fatal to his party, and that there is absolutely no escape for himself and | times when it is dangerous to tamper with the his faction. There is an old story of a prisoner | people. At present the government must act confined in a cell the walls of which contracted | openly upon all matters if it wishes to retain hour by hour, and, in spite of his frantic strug- | any pertion of the public good will. Let all gles, remorselessly crushed out his life. The | frauds or wrongs done to the people be care- Hon. Horace Greeley is in a political cell of | fully and immediately ventilated. It is the this peculiar construction, and his threats, his | only safe course for the government to pursue. appeals, his thunders, his reproaches and his biasphemies are but the froth, the shrieks, the | Mx. Skxator Doourrtie anv His Latest Drs- fury, the wailings aad the execrations which covery.—Mr. Senator Doolittle, who has con- he emits as he strains himself to prevent what | trived to do little asa statesman or wise legis- is inevitable. It is not necessary to excite a mob or a riot to give Greeley his quietus. A peaceable revelution at the polls will be his death blow. The Hon. James Brooks shows that he does not understand public sentiment by his unwillingness to wait for this result and his efforts to add anarchy to the present miseries of the country. We do not overlook the fact that both Brooks and Greeley are greatly encouraging the rebels. We cannot be blind to their pernicious attempts to revive here the jaconades and fusillades of the French Revolution. éouservative uprising will soon rid us of them noth The Tribune opposes conservatism, and | ness commingled. thus intwres its own destruction. The Hepress | do anything so foolish again. Don’t. mistakes conservatism for Jacobinism, and will tombstones | the turn of the office holders to take a hand in and to deny | pelted to toe the mark. so much | Vile resulting from the system adopted by deluge which | referred to have been dismissed or suspended. tepublicans at the | We consider that it is clearly the duty of Mr. next Presidential election. With the usual | Chase or Mr. Barney to furnish full explanations But we are confident that the | ter than this, let him keep quiet. | discover its eyror when the Hon. James Brooks ] is left out in thé cold. Until the appointed time the country must patiently endure these | two nuisances, together with the other evils of the war, unless some kind fate interfere, or Brooks and Greeley muster courage enough to | the weeding out will have to be on the most fight # duel and out each other's throats, Tum Yettow Boox or Feancu,—The Frencli government, in imitation of the course pur. sued by the authorities of this country, pub! lishes eack year reports from all the govera- ment departments, The results of the opera- tions of the different departments are thos made known to the public, and the actuab condition of the empire exposed. In Eng- land there is published by the government a “Blue Book;” but it is a restricted revelation, and the status of the departments of war and of the navy remains ever a secret to the British public. The French publish their reports im the form of a book, which is known as the “Yellow Book,” and gives to the people ample details as to the precise state of their affairs, If despotic France can thus lay bare her condition before her subjects, surely Austria and Russia might follow her example, to the great benefit of the world at large. Nothing would so com tribute towards the establishment of a continue® peace as ample explanations from the different great Powers as to their movements. While alt their actions remain shrouded in mystery, many of them, having for object naught save their own immediate welfare, are construed inte menaces against other Powers, and a consequent state of uneasiness is engendered, which inter- feres sadly with commercial prosperity, and results sometimes in wars which might easily have been avoided had there been a little more light given to the world. By all means let us have from the great Powers books of every color, giving all information which may be im- parted: the Blue Book of England, the Yellow Book of France, the Red Book of Italy, the Green Book of Prussia, the Brown Book of Russia and the Black Book of Austria. Let them bear in mind that confidence begets con- fidence. Tas War vo Raws Anoraen Axur— Among the intelligence from the “South which we published yesterday was the fact that the Confederate Serate to enrol as conscripts all eighteen and forty-five years now inthe em- ployment of the government, and who do not belong to either the army or navy of the Con- federate States, and the officers of the govern- ment in the several departments are required to remove from office as soon as possible all persons fit for military service, and to furnish a list of their names to the Secretary of War for enrolment, in order to their immediate service in the field, their places to be supplied by per- sons not liable to military service. If it is ever right to be instructed by an ene- my, surely this is a case in which our Congress ought to imitate the Congress at Richmond. In order to protect the office holders from military service, a provision was inserted in the bill re- lating to the drafting of the militia for the war to specially exempt them. That bill ought to be immediately repealed, and a new bill passed compelling every able-bodied man in the va- rious'departments at Washington, in the custom houses and post offices throughout the country, or otherwise employed in any civil capacity by the government, to go into the army and fight for the maintenance of the government which gives him his bread and butter. The places of these strapping feHows, fed upon the fat of the land, can be easily filled by civilians over the military age, or otherwise disabled for service, or, better sti, they would afford snug berths for the wounded soldiers and sailors who have have the Excelsior Brigade and the Irish Legion. Why can’t we have the Custom House Corps, the Post Office Brigade and the Internal Revenue Legion? With such an immense body of recruits as is measure would furnish for the Union army, and the negro regiments to be enrolled under the bill of Thaddeus Stevens, there would be an abundant supply of treops to finish the war, without the necessity of the conscription act of Senator Wilson. At all events it is now Tue Paper Duy 1x Conaress.—We see that the paper manufacturers are publishing memorials in the endeavor to do away with the idea that they are extortioners or monopolists. One of these memorials we publisheda day or two ago in our columns as an advertisement. We have no desire to blame the paper manufacturers for combining to keep the monopoly in their hands. They are agting with an instinct towards the preservation of a great revenue. What we de sire is that affairs may be so arranged that the poor man can obtain at a reasonable price books for the education of his children, and cheap newspapers for his own instruction and benefit. This will be no longer possible save by a reduction of the duty upon paper. We are also actuated, while demanding this reduction from Congress by a desire to increase the re- venues of the government. As the duty upon foreign paper now stands, none save the finer quality has ever been im- ported. The government has never received any revenue from foreign printing paper. It never will at the existing high rate. Let the present duty be reduced to ten per cen} and thousands of dollars would flow annually into the public treasury, while the poorer classes would obtain cheap school books and newspa- pers. We may surely expect that in this matter the welfare of the masses will be considered by Congress as of more importance than the de mands of a few monopolists, who would desire that the duty upon paper should remain as it is, 8o that they, the monopolists, might tax the poor. Congress, in reducing the paper duty, is sure of the support of the people. the civil war. They live directly upon govern- ment pap, and they belong to a class who have -mainly contributed to bring the country to its present perilous condition. Let them be com- Ovr Omnisuses—We constantly receive communications upon the subject of the our omnibus superintendents, of forcing upon one man the duties of driver and con- ladies have been thrown violently to the ground by the sudden starting of the omnibus ere the conductor placed on each omnibus. We also been inflicted upon lame persons in the same and feet from the sudden closing of the doors to the public, of iuducing the omnibus ‘superin- tendents to place conductors upon all our lines Hata bine gta hamster hte ae We are sorry to state that the Journal of Com merce, Express and World have not yet apolo- gized for their recent covert attacks upon the wife of the President. The editors of these pa- pers must be aware that by the publication of such reports as those which we recently quoted from their columns they are slandering a most estimable lady, and transgressing the laws of social as well as journalistic etiquette. They have only to take up Bull Run Russell’s book to see how foreign scribblers make use of the mate- rials furnished by a portion of the American press in order to satirize and abuse our rulers, our government and our country. Dirty work of that kind ought to be left to the Tribune and the other abolition papers; and we trust that the Journal of Commerce, Express and World will apologize for the past and be more gentle- manly conducted in the future. We take pleasure in acknowledging the re- ceipt of several communications from the pub- lic announcing that some of the Twenty-third street omnibuses are employing boys 4s money takers. We heartily commend this improve- stages, and hope that the public will give their It is a very easy matter to arrange a seat on the outside of the vehicle, near the door. It can Yet.ow Cover Literate: ‘We have a sort of sensation literature under the above title which is very damaging to the sensibilities of people of a religious turn of mind. The French are just now furnishing us with another sort of reading, written by Louis Napoleon, under the classification of “The Yellow Book,” which is even still more sensational. We advise all people of weak nerves to abstain from its perusal. omnibus. The drivers would then be enabled to pay exclusive attention to their horses, which to Broadway, as half the stoppages which now occur are occasioned by the present forced bad Tue Custom House Fravps.—For same time gross frauds said to have been committed by Musical. “DON GIOVANNI” AT THR ACADEMY OF MUSIC. To say that the Academy of Music was crowded last night, will give but a feeble idea of the immense and met fashionable audience which was brought together to wit ness the performance of Mozart's chef d’auvre. The weather was unpropitious, but the attraction proved too Great, and wind and rain were forgotten alike in the general anxiety to get into our temple of music. Cer- tainly 4 more brilliant or numerous audience never was seen in New York. The performance was an admirable one; and, before giving any details, we may nasert it was atriumph for ail the artists who sung, while Manager Grau had substantial proof of the popularity of the opera ho had chosen to close the season with. The public will the more regret the inevitable departure of Manager Grao and hus artists after the enjoyment of last night's » usical treat. ‘The first act passed off most pleasantly. Mme. Stra- koech, aa Donna Elvira, sang the music of her role most acceptably, and received hearty ap plause, As the public were indebted to bor kind- ness in volunteering for the role of Elvira, we thought tho audience might have received her with more ‘warmth than was displayed. Asfor the applawe which sho received ‘later on, she fully merited it by her per. formanos. The aria sung by Miss Kellogg, ‘Zerlina,” ‘was rendered with Swootners, and was enhanced by the arch acting of the favorite artist. She was oncored amid great appiaune. The terzetto between Donoa ilvira Mme, Strakosch), Donna Anna (Lorini), and Ottavie Brignoli) was sung with great envemble and purity, and was likewise encored. The Leporcilo of Su-ini was @ groat performance, and we will merely add bere, that be ‘wag most Succersful, affording great amusement by bis acting as well as by his singing, which was in his usual large #tyle. Tho second act was equally succe sul, the artists giving ample satisfaction to the audience, Signor Amodio, who sang the role of Don Giovanni for the first time, was a most satisfactory reprepentative of the popular maurau The efforts of thia artist were (he more meritorious When it is taken into consideration be never saw the opera performed, bad but few fr hearsal®, and was dependent upon bis own ideas of the rele for success. He may bave slighted some of the tradivions of the past, but he certainly sang tho music doligbt(ully and acted it very well cof the third tb tt continually repeated; but no developments are made as to what the frauds were, although it is asserted that several of the officers above upon this subject. All kinds of rumors and statements are circulating, calculated to affect the minds of the public. The anxiety felt about this matter should be cleared away by an official expose of the whole affair. These are lator, has made the wonderful discovery that between the New York Henaupand the Tribune the country was plunged into this civil war. “This is the unkindest cut of all.” The Heraty and the Tribune responsible—the Henatp for pleading in behalf of a peaceable compromise, | and the Tribune in advocating the divine right | of secession. Let every tub stand upon its own bottom. We protest against being coupled with | Greeley and his secession and abolition kinks and crotchets, and dirt and nigger fanaticiem, in any way. If Senator Doolittle can do nothing bet- The Heratp < We have no space to enumerate the point act, We will but add that it passed of ™ nd conclude by prone aud the Tribune—fire and water, light and dark- | {Y iar ry “ hace ert Don't, dear Mr. Doolittle, Tap merited the applause which w ther od matinee, on which coca, day thore will be @ a end the oomis opera — | sion there will be given “J A Werpixo Oct IN tHe Anwy.—We have it | Les Soves de veannette.” stated from Washington that the War Depart. | ment is determined to weed out of the army all s officers who are not practical supporters of the administration. If the government does its duty by the countr; all will support it. If not, jorma , Army In' ; The resignation of iret Lienteaant George H. Gagor, 169th Now York Votunteers, bas finally beg og by offered fo Major General Hevteolman, after b fourth time, and thal ed from the vol Captain M. Mur im i ioyael Ho iment vasa | Fably disebarged (edm thie ser?/oe. i