The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1863, Page 4

Rg ‘NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PXOPRIETOR. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. (PFFICK N, Votume XXVEIL...cc00008 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Leau, Tax Forsaxex. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Maruiep Lire. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Macic Marniace. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE. Broadway.—Farn One Wits tax Gowoex Locxs—Bice Davis, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ipiot oF THE MovstTaIns—Yaxkew Jack—KueKa, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wanpkaing Stezwie— Moruek Goose—Waxpock KENNtison, BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Mixsite Wanaex. Com. Norr, Livina Hirrorotamus, &c., at all hours—Piaxtox—Dumu Seite, Afternoon 10g. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hatl, 472 Broad. rea. Erniorian Songs, BURLES@UuES, Dances, &€.—BLAcK GAD E, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 616 Broadway.—Erm: Bowen, Dances £0-—BUxMiNG sus Blocking eres MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Bavaria, Captain Meier, from les. Southampton on the 28th of January, arrived at The Emperor of the French wil!, no doubt, be this port eallly yesterday morning. Her news and | forced to act alone in the recognition of the newspaper files have been fully anticipated. Davis government should he make up his mind Late advices from Alexandria state that the | to extend that favor to the South. England will Seen ae yagi in cal pean So be RR not join him in a wove which would inevitably at calvin e bring about a war with this country. Russia 120,000 -halee: for expert, the quantity last your will ikewiso hold aloof, as she has pe reason having been only 105,000. ‘ : A report published in the Gi le di oma, by to favor the government of the United States, and none to show kindness or regard to the order of the Pope, gives a very sad picture of the situation of the Christians in the Annamite om- | South. Added to Englend’s determination of avoiding any trouble with our government is pire. During the year 1862, says that document, 16,000 Christians were put to death and 20,000 re- | het natural desire to leave Napoleon flounder- duced to slavery in that country. The report does | ing in the slough which his ill-advised policy not say whether those persecutions took place be- | towards Mexico and this country has involved him in. Atevery siep he sinks deeper and fore or after the treaty betwoen France and deeper in this mire of his own making, and it is Spain. Advices from Caracas, published in the Jnde- . are not Palmerston—astute, France-hating Palmera- ton—who will lend bim a hand tor his oxtrica- pendiente of Caracas of the 24th January, report that there was a counter revolution attempted at Maracaibo in favor of the government; but Senor | tion, The Premier of England witl, on the con- Antonio Aranguren, having been threatened with | trary, urge Napoleon on with all his might, but death, revealed the whole conspiracy, and, toge- | will keep clear of any implication in his mea- sures. When our rebellion first broke out Pal- merston saw in this but the weakening of our ther with Manuel Ygnacio Armas and three or four other officials, was expelled from the city. power and prestige, and the consequent reaction of the popular mind in Europe against a repub- COOPER INSTITUTE, Broadway.—Du. Cou aoe or tHe LavominG Gas AND CONCERT #1 FOLKS. Exa Ow BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Livina ASDULS—PRRFOUMING ELRPMANES CMe Moree Roe AMERICAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway. —Bat uars, Paxrowies, Bunusgves, ag, “Mf Prondway.—Bat PARIS{AN CABINET ‘Dpen detly trom 10 A. N. oF Won a QF WONDERS, 568. Broadway. HOOLEY'S OPERA Songs, Dances, Bunixsac New York, , Tuesday, February 17, 1863. THE SITUATION. ‘The official account of the recent attack on our fleet in Charleston harbor, from Admiral Dupont, which we publish to-day, establishes the fact pretty clearly that the blockade of that port was ever broken. The statements of the officers of fhe blockading vessels, which Admiral Dupont wep deny absolutely nearly all the facts pro- ulgated by General Beauregard and Commodore ingraham, and endorsed by the foreign consuls— latter officials receiving a severe rebuke for heir agency in the propagation of the original ‘eport. From the official despatch, as well as mM our own correspondence, we learn that not If the fleet slipped their cables during the tion on the morning of the 31st ult., nor moved ‘om their anchorage during the day. Even the ‘ono river, where the Isaac Smith was lost, is gain reoccupied, and Union sailors and soldiers re constantly on shore at James Island. Some difficulty occurred at Port Royal as to the ight of command to the troops of Gencral Fos- r's expedition to that place, the latter officer resuming that, although within the jurisdiction pf General Hunter’s military department, the upreme command of his own men still rested in If, a8 being a portion of the Eighteenth Army orps. But General Hunter has settled the ques- lon by assuming command of General Foster's ‘oops, regarding them as reinforcements to the ‘enth Army corps, of which he is chief, and re- wiring Generals Naglee and Ferry to report to an. General Hooker, accompanied by Generals But- rfield and Sickles, reviewed the corps of General f igel yesterday, and expressed himself greatly pleased with the appearance and discipline of the mien. I ‘There is nothing of importance regarding military movements reported from the Army of ‘ahe Potomac. The official account of the destrustion of the United States steamer Hatteras by the privateer fAlabama was received at the Navy Department (yesterday from Lieutenant Commanding Blake and Burgeon Matthews, dated from the United States consulate at Kingeton, Jamaica. The loss suffered by the crew of the Hatteras was two killed and five wounded. The latter are being well cared for in hospital at Kingston, We give in another | column the detailed story of the conflict and the names of the killed and wounded. s Among the interesting items of news from the South which we publish to-day are the pro in na of the rebel Congress with reference to the igation of the Mississippi river, which was de- ciared free to all friendly States by the Confede rate provisional government in 1861, and relating to the confiscation of property belonging to alien | pnemies (Unionists.) A bill authorizing the im- | pressment of slaves and property for the use of Ue rebel army was ps bentatives, and a ri sed in the flouse of Repre- 0) lution was adopted providing for the sale of ul! negroes found in arms against éhe rebel government, the proceeds to be divided among the captors. A vote of thanks to the que- rilla chief Morgan for his services in the West ‘was also adopted. The London Telegraph of the 31st of January fays the Hon. Mr. Mason, the Commissioner from the Confederate States, has been one of the dis- tinguished circle of visitors entertained by the | Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, at Lougleat, | uring the past week. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday petitions in favor of re- Pucing the duties on iron and steel and spirituous find malt liquors, were presented and referred. | Whe Military Committee made a report relative to the case of Richard Thomas, otherwise called the #French lady,” an inmate of Fort Lafayette. So far from Mr. Thomas being insane, as alleged, the Purgeon at the fort reports him in excellent Dhealth, bat regards him as eccentric. The bill regu- Soting the appointment of midshipmen was taken wp, ond the amendment ratifying the appoint- bnents by the President and Secretary of the Navy jwas rejected. A resolution was adopted directing Soquiry as to the expediency of passing an act to wnable the people of New Mexico to forma con ¥! lution, preporatory to their admission as a State. It is said that Pedro C. Sanchez, commander of the squadron, shared the same fate. They were ex- pelled to Cucuta. The same paper of the 23d confirms the intelligence previously received of lican form of government. He at once acted in a most unfriendly manner, and, in the Trent affair, almost brought about a war with us. As time elapsed, however, and he foresaw the defeat of Jose T.Monagas at Magro, in the province of Maturin. from Napoleon’s troubles in Mexico that this The United States steam frigate San Jacinto, Commander William Ronckendorff, arrived at this port last evening from the Bahama Islands, be- | sovereign would be brought into ini- ing ordered hither, having, on the 20th of January, | mieal coniact with the North, Palmers- broke her shaft. ton toned down his manner towards The firing in the harbor on Sunday was a salute to Commodore Ringgold, of the Sabine, on the oceasion of his visit to the Colorado. Both of these fine ships were lying off the Battery—the former just in from a cruise, the latter taking in powder, preparatory to going to sea. That of yosterday was a salute to Rear Admiral Paulding by the Sabine, on her arrival off the Navy Yard for repairs, &c. The Coast Wrecking Company of New York are about making the attempt to save as much as possible of the cargo of the wrecked steamer Ella Warley. Divers and steam pumps are to bo employed, and it is thought, if a smooth chance offers,that much valuable property may be recover- ed. The Adams Express Company have several iron chests on board of value, and one passenger left in his stateroom about eight thousand dollars in gold. All these may be brought up if the weather coutinues moderate. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen yester- day the ordinance appropriating the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of continuing relief to the families of soldiers, and empowering the Comp- troller to borrow that amount by the issue of city bonds, was taken up, and after some amendments was adopted. Communications were received from Comptroller Breunan—one stating that the right of running the Desbrosses street ferry was sold to the Jersey City Ferry Company in 1862, and the other suggesting that proceedings be taken to avcertain the rights of the city with respect to the Staten Island ferry. Both were referred to the Committee on Ferries, with a request to report a8 soon as possible, After the transaction of some routine business the Board adjourned till one o'clock to-day. A regular meeting of the Board of Councilmen was held last evening. A resolution was adopted changing the hour for the regular meeting of the Board to four o'clock in the afternoon. By a vote of twelve in the affirmative to nine in the nega- tive the Board rescinded the resolution passed by Eo heart hans aoe ety tne Maser | they constitute a mere tithe of the population roa Company to tun their aummy engine to | of France and. as we ps above, ST Chambers strect. A resolution was adopted | will neither comprebend nor approve of a war authorizing David T, Valentine, Clerk of the Com- | With this government, us, and became anxious about England's dignity and more desirous of impressing upon our minds his determination that Engiand’ should observe a strict nentrality. He has turned a deaf ear to all Napoleon’s inducements, held out for the purpose of caus- ing England to join him in recognizing the assures France of his moral support. From Napoleon’s wiceasing efforis to convert that moral into material support we may fairly con- clude that Le places but a limited reliance upon the form Ne that as it may, England is en- couraging him to mediate or interfere, and when le bas done so, as we fear he will, I land will gladly leave him to bis fate. In vading Mexico Napoleon has found out what are the neces han undertaking, and how imme: pess his previsions in the matter. What, then, will be the resources he will have to call into play when, by bis in ition of the Davis government, he rance into war the United will demand all and more than the no means is Wilh It States? country could afford him; aud he assured that the people of France will up- t hold him in a dea@y quarrel with us. The Orleans party, we know, will espouse our cause; so will the republican party in France, as undoubtedly will all the republicans in Bu- rope; while the masses in the French empire, who have a traditionsry regard for the United States, will wonder at sceing France endeavor- ing to crush a free republic, und all for the sake of upholding a siaveowning, rebellious faction. The starving operatives of the manu facturing districts will approve of the Emperors making war upon us; for they deem the people of the North the cause of their suflerings: but mon Council, to print five thousand copies of his Napoleon fully appreciates all these facts: new and revised compilation of the laws of the | but he is iu a desperate position. He tnds his | State of New York at the expense of the Corpo. | power in France ur ined and ileeting. He ration. The Comptroller's usual weekly state- | js pursued by that desire for change which is ment of the cc on of the city finances was re coived, from w it appears that the balance re- maining in the city treasury on the Mth instant amounted to $1,909,273 50. From the Comp. | troller’s fortnightly statement of disbursements made to the fa s of volunteers, it appears that | during the fortnight ending on the 7th instant the total number of persons relieved was 37,065, and the ainount expeuded was $67,252 50. The Board {then adjourned, out of respect to Councilman McVay, who las recently been bereaved in the loss of his wife According to the City Inspector's report, there were 488 deaths in the city during the past we: the curse of the French peop!e, and which ren- ders them sucapable of sustained loyaliy. He knows that day by duy the power and in‘luence of the Orleans party are on the increase, and so he makes every effort to keep belure the French people the prestige of his own power, as eviaced by his meddling whole world. England and Russia will gladly see Napoleon’s atiention foreibly called of’ trom Europe hy his complicati continent; and hence, when he broaches the enbject of re- of moral sup- in the affairs of the ns on their eir | an increase of 72 as compared with the mortatity | 2’'™ When soe plicated here, | of the week previous, and 85 more tian occurred Fag and and Rn © all the oppor- during the corresponding week last y The re- | tunity they de: rance of their capitula 85 deaths of jam, 6 of | plans nearer well appreciate | diseases of the joints, &c.: 93 of the brain aud war be! mnce and the United that a nerve of th rative or: Ps = » 21 of the he and blood vessels, 183 of the | t nngs, throat, ¢ t revitably to N @ that ipoleon’s down- the Emperor fears this ce, 52 of disonses of the skin and eruptive | pimncotf and that if he could be hate { premature births, 62 of dise the | 1 Hocus linea ce tl ital ch, bowels and other digestive t | : e iust now go on and trust n seat and general fev . PY ata r incle was ruined by organs, and 28 from nt cans | rh ) . ) natives of the United Sta is of | " » fur from his ¢ } 1, 108 of I d, 24 of Germany, and the | tarally from his re rces. =The same ping alar of varic foreign countrie aml mM, On aw or seale, will cost Napoleon There was quite a revival of \ | the throne apon which he has been seated so nd gold yesterday, the latter advar 1 | short.a thine. the former from 1 to 2 per cent, with a con i crease in the volume of business. The advance w | The man of December ts scarc cribed to varions causes, among others to the certainty | now. He chose to abandon the revolt of more paper issues, Money was easy at 6 per cont, | party, and now that party bids fair to rni pes i be ied a Vaieaien ot | it et him like a wild beast after its pe bank state an increase. o} : . ray ts and $192,631 in specie, and a decrease ut $1,738. | He twists aud turns in his figh eve 569 in loans and $23,857 in circulation | and then throws to this revolutionary wolf a ‘The rapid rise in gold yesterday occasioned increased | morsel to keep it f its final and fatal attack, activity io breadstuffs, especially in the export demand | which he will in vain seck to o Thos oF for flour and grain, and py advance! 6¢.1 10. | bear be is urging Spain to recognize the king- | on four and ie. a 2c. on wheal. Corn was also a | é Sigitd iide’ be doce. be kaise | shade dearer. There was more doing in provisions, | “(0M 0 He nis be dow ° knows | prices of which favored holders, Teas were the on- | t the Italians, as a due retara let the ly active article in the grocery line. Whiskey waste | queation of Rome remain in abeyance for some freely purchased, though buyers Lad any exietin# ad | time on he ba | vantage. Linseed off advanced and cotton ots) iantis caadifiete for the Gases ada while transactions in most other commodities were re | , | stricted amd productive of no important changes in | Duke of Saxe-Coburg with no op- |e The principal freight engagements were of | position from ti aused the | breadstuffs and provisions for Liverpool and Loudon at uniform rates. Polish exiles and agents in I » to under- stand that they should use ¢ eilort to dis- courage the insurrection in Poland. tempts to put Europe in order, | ay the lutionary feeling everywhere so apparent, betray Napoleon's desire to turn b vided atten- tion to this continent. When he les don he will find to his cost that by a catastrophe which he might atany rate delayed. He will of his own destruction Evis Tuar Ricut Taemsetves—Tue Pare ,; Moxoroty.—The papermakers and publishers at present in Washington are making a great | fuss over the proposition for a reduction of the duty on printing paper. It is not improbable that the former may prevail in keeping it as it | is, the vote taken in the Committee of Ways and | Means on Saturday showing a u: jority of five to three against any change in the Inw. As far 80 has but hastened Ave @ ag wher age 1 “he bill providing for the enrolment and calling | gs we are concerned we do not care one straw | the American people, and he tous w that put the militie of the conntry was then taken up. about the matter. Whether the duty is thirty- } his recognition of the South will amount to a ,A number of amendments were offered, some o five or one hundred per cent, {t will make very | deciaration of war with the Nort! He will which were adopted, and at midnight the bill was | ya : \ ‘ aseed. pe little difference to us. We can afford to await | flad a war with us a different air from his ¢ Inthe House of Reprosentatives the Indian Ap- + the corrective influence of that impartial reme- | M . mu xpedlitic ene undertaking which Propriation bill was reported from the Committee | dier of abuses—time. Before yths are } should hav alg t me amore cautions policy pf the Whole, and wili probably be voied on to-day. | out half the journal 1 pub! g uses in } towards the United States 7] lution in favor of holding evening sessions | the country will be broken up, and with them Seaenaeaa was adopted. The remainder of the session was | half the papermakers. We shail tin ee whe- A New Gevxerat m tH y We often occupied in debating the Louistana election casa, | ther Mr. Butler and his brother maaufacturers | hear that General Fremont is to be appointed THE LEGISLATURE \ 11 maintain the same arbitrary bearing to a command er that eral Cassius M. Clay mut ur State Leptslature met last | osogents we shall then see who will « ix to have a command, and now we see it stated bayer ueredaanetgae pyr egdldmcardeel | st, the papermakers or the ney ut iton and Halleck are to wite Gene little - “7 of impe “e's pd however, . o «. Unless we are mistal Yom Thumb « r Th « the sale « ' 1 aon who kilied ihe goose that | rity ' ‘ ‘ voort p the city of New York | es | , Southern confederacy, although he constantly | | } | * | dent Lincoin may be compelled to call aa the smallest military men in the world. Couldn't Secretary Welles include Commodore ; Nutt in “Gideon’s band?” Republican Announcement in Connece teat, The Republican State Central Committee of Connecticut have issued a manifesto, ostensibly | for the purpose of influencing the elections which are to be held in thai State six weeks heuce, byt really to manufacture a false public opinion in other States and to mislead the peo- pleas to the true nature of the issue which events are shaping for their decision. The re- publican journals of this city have been labor- | ing earnestly in the same direction of late, and in Congress we witness spasmodic efforts of a similar kind, chiefs of the radical faction are becoming alarm- ed at the rapidity and decisive character of the counter revolution against them, and this new mov: t of theirs is to bewd off the conserva- | tive reaction which has set in, as resistless in its course as the swollen Mississippi whea the thousand rains of spring break up the snows and ice of winter. ‘Their little ditch to divert the current will have as litile effect as had the canal at Vicksburg last year in turning aside the Father of Waters. Their transparent purpose is to change the issue, by accusing the conservatives of the nation ! of being in favor of “a dishonerable peace, | submission to the demands of armed traitors, and a dissolution of the Uuion;” while, on the other haud, they claim for themselves a deter- mination “at every hazard to defend the honor of our natio: States.” So Repui: necticut ; | refer to Vallandigham, 6 and Fernando Wood, as representative men and entiments of the great con- flag and the Union of these piento of th Committee of nas the pronune can State © and in proof of their position they rat Con- expounders of the | servative party of the country. Now these men | do not represent the deme sad the con- servative clements. For example not Val- landighara the rejected of Ohio, instead of being a statesman—a den | and the handful of « him? Is not Fernando W New York—mere drittwood on the current? And ‘them? These mea are for the people. Tbe people are aot opposed to the war, but to the imbecility, misinanagement, corruption and plunder with waich it is conducted. cherish no hostile purposes to Abraham Lin- coln; for they know that he is the constitu- tionally elected President of the United States, and that any attempt to overthrow bin would repre ds who J the surtace of this trae of alt of not authorized to speak | reign of terror. the people are most inimical to the radical party, und to that portion of the Cabinet more immediately engaged in carrying on the war by land and sea, and in providing sinews for the same. The people are not in favor of stopping the wer, but in favor of its vigorous and sue- cersiul prosecution; and therefore they desire the remova! of those members of the admi tration whose incompetence and folly have rendeved the war a faire; and they desire that every radical should be kicked out of Con- gress anlevery republican removed from the executive mansidh of our Siate governments. This is the lesson taught by the elections of Oc- tober and November last in the Middle and West- ern States—the il! probably be ited in the elections of New Hampshire on the 10th of March and those of Conneciient on the first Monday in April, and the lesson which will be incntcated agais and again in every State till the last brought to thei s, and, in obedience tothe will of the people, they are compelled to retire from the scene and bury themselves in eternal oblivion. lesson w rep irboas of Ainevica are at Tun Work anv tHe Tink Berors Conuress.— The constitrtional term of this Congress expires on the 4th of Macch. [t has only two weeks of grace, thereiore, remaining, within which all the important bills depending before the two houses must be passed, or they will be dead with the expiration of the present sessi We pre: mittees of the House and the Seuate are fully aware of the | order to secure the passage of the needfut ap- necessi | propriation bills, the banking and other finaneial | bills yet undisyrsed of, and the conscription | bill. Should ony of these measures fail to get | thro in the two weeks aforesaid, Presi- | session of the now ( Songress upon sixty or ninety and means to keep the government and fts flects aud days’ notice, in order to secure the ways The journalists, orators and | himself | They | be to inangurate anarchy, confusion and a | But it caunot be doubted that | i i x, Suulobury, Bright } | ne (hat the military and fiuancia! eoms-| of earnest industry, in | | beef wey hat the reguiar appro- iations, the pending financial relief measures | and a conscription bill will all be passed before the final adjo this memorable Con- | gress, we may safely predict that the adjourn- ment wil! be followed by a new carnival of eculation, stockjobbing and money making, | without anything like a parallel in the history of the country. The addition of four or five hundred r to the paper money of the ! federal Treasury will surely bring about this ~rand and universal carvival of flush times and jash prices, quick sales, great investments, all sorts of sfeculations, and the growth of mil- lionaires, like Jonah’s gourd, or like a field of mushrooms, in a single night. How long this paper inoney millennium will last is quite an- other thing; but when it comes let every man make his bay while the sun shines, and note well the first gathering of the clouds in the horizon, so that he may get bis hay urfder cover in good season, and we may weather the storm. We say that, until Mr. ary Chase can procure the necessary machinery for extracting ion Seer the gold fr those Colorado gold quarts mouniaws which the munificent Coiorado Jewett bas turned over from the public domain to the government us have the “green- backs,” and we fu rmore say, that if our present armies in the field call for reintore meats to repair (be losses from battle, disease, ve a conscription bill, and without he patriotism of the loyal States al to the test which Jem Davis ha suc: y applie bellious Stutes—-the 4 of a con i In a Word, let this Con. ress provi esident Lincoln plenty of greenbacks’ aud the authority for r i the army by ® , and we ave the Union ur pt with Napoleon I1I.— | duct the war together we shall have a trio of | sential bills before it, and, with all its sins of omission and commission, it may still go out with some degree of public respect and appro- bation. A Shower Bath and Strait Jacket for Poor Greeley of the Tribune. The editorial staff of the New York Tribune must be either drunk or crazy—perbaps a little of both. We were under the impression that poor Greeley had recovered from his Manassas brain fever; but we have beet mistaken. We noticed a statement in the Tribune, some time ago, that its intoxicated editor had gone to the wars; but that statement was probably untrue. Only yesterday morning there was an editorial article in the Tribune which poor Greeley must have dictated in one of his craziest spells, and which the drunken editor must have written during one of his most beastly fits of intoxica- tion. That article charges the editor of the Henan with being a liar, a swindler, a forger, a thief, a rebel and a murderer—of newspapers if not of men. We askif any person who was in the possession of his right senses. or who was not temporarily deprived of his senses by ‘drink, could ever have written and published such brutal blackguardism and vile vulgar- ity? Under ordinary circumstences, if a gentle- man is attacked in such a manner, he has a legal redress in a suit for libel. to resort to such a suit poor Greeley would plead moral insanity, or throw the respon- sibility upon silly Gay, as he once did upon Mr. Dana, and thus leave us with all our costs to pay and no satisfaction obtained. Besides | this, Greeley is already held to answer in a libel suit for $50,000, brought by Mr. Cook, of Chicago; and as the libel is clear, and Mr. Cook will certainly gain his canse, what will be left of poor Greeley for another suit? lieve that Greeley owns about five shares in the Tribune Association. These shares are worth the nominal price of five do! stock market, with no offers to purchase. The total amount of Greeley’s property is there- fore nbout twenty-five dollars. From this sum deduct $50,000, and how much Considerably less than noth When a liheller is actually worth $49,975 less than nothing, how can you bring a suit against him? Especially, also, when he will certainly plead insanity as his defence, and can sustain remains? his plea by quoting from any one of his articles? | And, in addition to alt this, poor Greeley is bie to be arrested at any moment by the United States government as guilty of treason, | under the law of 1799, by bis confessed corres- pondeoce with Mercier, Jewett, Val'andigham and Company in favor of French mediation in our affairs. The idea of sueing a Junatic, a beggar anda traitor is absurd. We are thus deprived by circumstances of our lawful vin- dication. It is exceedingly doubtful, however, whether any one can be libeiled by poor Greeley. There is a certain class of vagabonds from whom no gentleman can receive ao insult. Poor Gree- ley belongs to that class of pariahs. Socially, | mentally and morally he ranks below the mise- rable negroes he worships ; but, unlike them, he las degraded and brutalized himself. We— liow, swindler, forger, thief and rebel, as Greeley says W —have lived here nearly forty years. We remember Greeley when he was a compara- tively saue, innocent and virtuous man. We “comparatively: for even then he had a weakness for vegetarianism, ove thousand doliar drafts and free love. Now, negro on the brain and keart has utterly demoralized — him. Parton, — bis — biogra- pher, says he was born black; and we can rea- dily believe it. When we reflect upon what he was and might have beca aud what he is, we both despise and pity him, His paper has now no circulation and less influence. As he ad- mits in the article to which we have referred, the Henan exceeds his Tribune as greatly in the “number” ss in the character aud position ofits subscribers. As for its enterprise, Gree- ley confesses in the same article—in vino ve- vitas—that the letter of , his managing edi- tor—suying, “The Hrranp is conste: head; we are obliged to copy from itis genuine, Tn his own columns he has repeatedly stated that the Trilame Association lost money by the publication of their paper. Cook's libel snit will close up the Trilvur n spite its con- ivacts for government guns and State prison In politics poor @ ut the throat of his own party,and funeral in 1864, with numerc th pathizing, mourners, and a burial, w Ww no resurrection niac who edits the unsym- i The unhappy negroma- him, ch § Tribune sees beiove then, only ruin and perdition in this world and Even now he isin his last gasps and struggles. the next. mortal His shouts, shrieks and approaching dissolution. While we invite the publi we beseech them rather to weep than to smile as he convulses, tears, bites and mutilates bim- elf. Lost as he is, this thing was once a man, Let us hope that Heaven will be more merciful to gaze upon him, But were we | each in the | i | | | i} t wiilhave a grand | to him than be was to himself, and so drop the | curtain. VaLLANpionamM aNd Gnreetry.—This worthy pair of compatriots—par nobile fratrum—are embarked in the same boa’, and both row the opposite direction to that to which their faces are turned. They are both bound for se- paration, though both pretend aloud to their opponents that they are in favor of Union, while in an aside they whisper to their friends, “over the left.” Vallandigham, in his speech at Newark, denounces the war; says it ought never to have been waged, and desires to have it stopped at once; yet he says in the same breath that he will never consent to give up the Union, though he is well aware that it is only by force of arms it can be maintained. Greeley pro- tests that he is body and soul for the Union, tuough before the war he denounced it as an agreement with death anda covenant with Hell; but now he says if the war is not successful in restoring the Union by the Ist of May he is in favor of winding up the concern and letting the Southern partner go, knowing, as he does, that there is no possibility of success in so short a time. Greeley was in favor of letting the Soath depart in peace two years ago If the peo- ple really desired it, on the ground that this was in accordance with the Declaration of Lade- pendence, which proclaimed that rulers can only role by the consent of the governed. Ite now, after various gyrations and sundry exhibi- tions of “ground and lofty tumbling,” comes hack to the same position with which he start. | ant moveg | tion, and havi NEWS FROM ALBANY. The Fort Gansevoort Property—Mceting of the State P,-ison Association—Senator Morgan's Cred ntials, dc. \ Atsany, Feb. 16, 1863. Saxton Smith, of Putnam, introduced a resolution in the Assembly this afternon fir the appointment of a com- mittee to investigate the sale @” the Fort Gansevoort pro perty tothe city by James B.\Taylor. No doubt there will be some rich developments it’ 4 committee is ordered on that subject. . ‘Tho introduction of the resolution \yo investigate tho sale of the Fort Gansevoort property\\to tho city has stirred up quite an excitement among the New Yorkers here, ‘The Stato Prison Association held their mé ting ia tho Assembly chamber to-night. Governor Seymoatr was ex- pected to preside; but being absent on a visit ,to Rhine. beck, Senator Bell presided instead. An abstract of their report was read and two or three speeches made. , Their ‘ebject in holding the meeting here at this time is for tho Purpose of obtaining aid from the Legislature. Senator Morgan’s certificate of election was forwarded to him this afternoon. It was filled up by Mr. Vaughno, of the Engineer's Department, in his best style of pea- manship, and is superior to the best steel engraving, It is understood that Mr. Morgan goes to Washington: to morrow evening. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Reports from the Army Headquarters. HeaDQUARTERS AKMY O¥ THE one} Feb. 16—10 P. M. To-day General Patrick crossed the river with a flag of truce, for the purpose of escorting General Stuart's chaplain to the rebel lines, General Barksdale, of Missis- sippi, received the party, but owing to some informal ties in the proceedings prior to the obaplain's appearance at headquarters, the latter was compelied to return, Yo- morrow it is expected to effect the exchange of army chaplains. Review of Gen, Sigel’s Corps by Generals Hooker, Butterfield and Sickles. Starvoxp Courr Hovss, Va., Fob. 16, 1863. General Hooker, accompanied by General Butterfield | and General Sickles, reviewed the corps of General Sigel We be- to-day. But few hours’ notice of the inteuded review was given, yet notwithstanding this, the soft condition of the ground, and the lack of good fielda for paride, the troops were promptly in position, and everything passed off sulisfactorily. General Hooker expressod hinselt charmed with all he had seen of General Sigel’s corps, and that be could not be better pleased. THE WAR IN TENNESSEE. Nasuviie, Peb. 16, 1863. Yesterday a foraging party of tho Second Mincesote regiment, General Sherman's brigade, camped near No- lingville, had a severe skirmish with -two companies of Forrest's command Our meu killed five and wounded five. The latter were takeu prisouers. Tle balance of the rebels cecaped. Twenty-six buildings are used iu this city as hospitets for sick and wounded soldiers, An unmense quaulity of coal has arrived, includieg five barges loaded for the government, consigned to one house—Barnard, Chandler & Co. Over one hundred thou. sund bushels are now here. ‘The railroad will be opened to Franklin this work. Bat one bridge 1s said to be destroyed. Forces aro actively engaced putting it in order. Itnmense supplies are con s'antly being forwarded to the army railroad. It is bea vilv guarded along the entire distance to Murfreesboro. Skirmishing daily occurs between the pickets. ‘There is twelve fect of water oa the shools. Tho river is rising slowly. ‘The cars on the Louisvilic and Nashville road are now running regularly on time, The Siege of Vicksbarg. WHAT [3 TO BE EFFEOUED BY CUTTING THE LEVERS OF TUR MISSISSIPPI. A despatch from Cairo informs us that the levees on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi river, twelve miics be low Helena, at Yazoo Pass, have been cut off by our forces. The leveos, itis further stated, have also been cut at Greenville, and on the Louisiana side opposite Lake Providence: A letter to the St. Louts Democrat explaina this import ent iv progress under General Grant's direc. for its object the reduction of the rebel strooghed at Vicksburg. A Lingo fores has been sept to Yaroo Voss, on the left bank of the Mississippi, about seven jailes beiow Helena, It leaas into Yazou river some distance from its mouth, Genera! Grant, by evtuog the levee of Uais pass, floods an immense extent of tie enemy's country, and opens communication for sual! yim bouts and steamboats through toa point in the rec of Vicksborg, By these means it is supposed he will be able to capture the cnomy’s transport fleet, now protected in the Yazoo river bythe rebul batteries at Halues’ Bhuf. and atthe samo time trausport a targe land force with which vo cut off (he Vicksburg army. from comumumic tion with the interior. The Paper Monopoly. PROCESDINGS OF A MEETING OF BOSTON NEWS ArkR AND BOOK I UBLISITRRS. Bostow, Feb. 16, 1x08, There was a large attendaucy of newspaper proprietors and book publishers vefure the ive Cominittee 03 Federal Relatious to-day to urge th ralizing Congress for velief aganet of meme. monopoly. It wasahown that the cost of eehoot ajone was five willious of dollars aunaaily. w combination of paper manufw re added t twenty per cont, which Was 1 serious tax on the mau of paren Js0 that nearty all the relirious poblica tions, weekly newspapers aud books, Leretofore pub lished for the entirely or be greatly restricted would be compelied to suspead 2» their usefuluess. mpoiled to advance people, we paper and ry AiR OF OF tes rest to keep op te dteh a potat as to dullie! a Revere bax iow tai busiest, tu tom ma tainy. deemed The Custom House Vrawds. TO THE EDITOR ro Tae i Your articles m yesterday’s and t ora, re lating to frauds in the stom Houro w York, | mnight give the iinpression that Madamo Husste was in some manor jruplicated in the fraudte, Such, however, is not the case. The investigation estab: lished cleariy, and to ihe entire & | | gnged in it, lim she was uot only free from ail fraud or blame, but thet ste herseif bad been detra broker aud the Custom House offleiais whe net cort with bir, me Huestel handed to he correct invoices af her goods upou which (o make Lhe en try, and at the sane time ey witt whieh to pay the due The bre assent, made out, fravd which he passed the amount vi duties. The p 7 own pocket, Madame fivestel not receiving one [a of it, As soon as her attention was caliod ( the she detected and expored the fraud that bad been prac. tised upon herself and the revenve oficers. She is not oni free from al! blame or camplicity in the fraud, but has herself euTered much rua loss thereby, and has chee aa 6 her power to the reveoue the guilty parties. i Feaavany 16, 1863 TO THE BOITOR OF THE MERALD. New Vora, Feb. 10, 1863 In your issue of this morning you say “Van Vecbiee admita that he received © this sourse,” leaving the inference, or ¢ s I have rect rod this amorat for fraudster 1 did adit that My income was $2,590 por annum; but ib was for logit reves or werk performed by mo at my “gir ors of the day were clused tant habit for years of working {ifm > twenty hours each day, and {t is the payments, his extra labor that gave me the -; aR, Peg i@iged that I have received. a wall known, that clerical force of the Custe je has not been for year Bufficient to avcompliah all the duties Fequired wishin tha official hours, from ten o'clock A. A M., and {was aly by the cler! it, th broker practices, = working over boure been possible for impe frequently all ni at it has been 4 een 10 pervecs Cea pntries and obtain their ooda, ‘These Alloged franda will become @ subject of legal inquiry, when it will be shown Who are the guilty pagtios, and spension of jwebii until this is dove 1 would sak a gnepens ee re | a ion, —_—_————— noe THe MARTTR.—It will be Aeon, Oo reference ed, After sailing aroung every point of the po- | 6 gay 1 4] compass, he returns to the point from to our savor ootneoe, chat the Ladieg” Fate for the nt fr 11 is stecting chook | tageat of the Chntch of St. George the | a for the di | pope the corner of Broa way and Tw me ay We disunion of eid Che thie (Tucelas ‘c . 1 of articles romain to be ct ; ¥ fa