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

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OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn, —Kiarovran wa, Buoriesques, &e fs New York, Sunday, March 1, 1863. THE SITUATION. ‘The reports from the cut-off at Vicksburg are | most favorable. It is said that the channel has been cut to a depth of six feet, and that the trans- port Lebanon, a side-wheel steamer, passed throvgi, and that most of the fleet lying above were avout to follow. Our special correspond- ence from there will be found ful! of interesting deta Aw exped rt was made by the rebels to obstruct the | a throngh Yazoo Pass, by putting trees | and stupa into the Cold Water river near Moon | through which our boats had passed. Some | of the iliinois cavalry bad a skirmish on Fri- day ‘aa’ with sixty rebels, nd disy rsed them, rliUiog aix and capturing twenty-six of the + the arrival of the Avago from Port Royal we lear fat (he diflerences between Gen {4 Hunter aod er are being healed up by the intervention of Adsotant General Lowasend. Brigadier General son bas been honorably released from arrest. | troops from North Carolina are to be removed | from Geacral Hunter's district, greatly to their | doi it s said that our tron-clad navy will soon lave complete control of Charleston harbor. Alvica at Uhis port brings news from Europe | ary 15 two days later. \ ate privateer Sumter—uow called the Gib- ; raitar—had arvived at Liverpool, ‘The London Ténes points out, in a satirical edi- torial, that the entertainment of Mr. Mason, the | rebet Conimissioner in London, by the Lord Mayor | of that city, and the speech delivered by ‘the for- | mer gentieman on the occasion, are not to be con- { sideved as possessing the slightest national impor- RALD. UM, Broadway.—Mixom | Y OF WONDERS. 566 Broalway.e | OP. M. eee hag ; Poles. , Gen, Henry A. Wise’s made an unfevorablo report on the credentials of Alvin Huwkons, clauning a seat a6 representative from the Ninth district of Tennessee. In the even ing scasiou the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill | Was takea ap, sod an interesting discussion on | the rebetlion aad political questious gencrally ensued. THE LHGISLATURE. fa the State Benate yesterday petitions for the improvement of Hudson river navigation were pre- sented. Several bills were Introduced, and others were under consideration in Committee of the Whole; but no great amount of interesting business waa transacted, ju the Assethbly « umber of bills were intro- duced, but nearly alt of them were only of a local character. The proceedings were not very im- | portant. Notice was given of a bill to previde for | the election of Commissioners of the Croton Aque- veecre—Kt. i} duet Board, MISCELLANEOUS NEWB. ‘The steamship Africa, from Queenstown on the 15th of February, arrived at this port early yester- | day movoing. Her news is two days tater than | the advices of the Jura, published iu the HueaLp ' last Tharsday morning. ' In the Liverpool cotton market on the 14th of , February, prices were firm and without change from the latest quotations. Tho breadstuffs mar- | ket was rather inanimate and unaltered iu rates, ' Provisions remained dull. Bari Russell had officially declined the throne of Greece, in the name of Queen Victoria, on behalf | of Prince Alfred for diplomatic and “other power- jul reasons.” ‘The Prince af Wales had been ad- mitted a member of the Vishmoager'’s Company, ot the city of London. The news from Poland is not of much. importance, but .is of a very, interesting character. Victor Hugo, Garibaldi, and Prince Czartoriski had written in support of the cause of the struggling people. Official reports prove that the battle of Wengrow was a very sanguinary affair, ‘both to the Russians and The deficit in the treasury of Italy on the 31st of December amounted to three hundred and seventy-four million of lire. Some French stu- deuts had been arrested for cheering in Parks for the cause of the Poles. Austria is accused by some parties of having encouraged the insurrec- tionin Poland. Prussia sympathized with Russia very cordially in the crisis. ‘The Marseilles journals of the 10th of February, state that a detachment of two hundred French Zouaves is expected in that port from Algeria, to embark for Mexico. The Phase (steam packet) | has left Bona for Philippeville to: take them on board and bring them to France. ‘The Harbor Commission, consisting of the May- or, Comptroller, and a Joint Committee of the Common Council, held their first meeting yester- day, and after effecting a harmonious organization they adjourned to Wednesday next, at 11 o'clock ALM. ‘the following farms, belonging to rebels in Eastern Vi ia, have been taken possession of by Gen. Dix, to be cultivated in future by contra- bands:— Col. Whitehead’ Henry Cook's... Col. John A. Gay Celonel Samuel Wi John Jenkins’ ‘3 tn Dr. Kilby’s........ Rev. Thomas Harris’. . Col. James 1,. Johnson’ Lieut. Poindexter’ Five per cent on the annual salary-of all the re- publican State and national office holders in New Hampshire has been assessed, for the purpose of carrying the election'for the niggerhead party. Alexander Harris, a member of the Lancaster county (Penn.) bar, was arrested at York on the 20th inst., by the Provost Guard, on the charge of saying that he would as soon be called a seces- tance. e A mass acoiing in support of Mr. Lincoln’s emancipation policy was to be held in Liverpool on the (9th of February. The address of the Liverpool Chamber of Com- merce, in reply to the American contributors of food for the distressed operatives of Lancashire by the ship George Griswold, was to be publicly pre- seuted to the commander of that vessel onthe 16th | of Ween ‘The french Emperor was despatching large re- info: coments—or it may be the nucleus of a very powerful army—to Mexico, ‘Vhe Rio Grande City correspondent of the Liver- pool Jornal of Conumerce makes some very se- is charges against the United States officials in and near that piace for encouraging raids on the Me xtonn frontier , and vice versa on Americans in Texas, whom th ccused of being either open rebels or dis!nyal in sentiment. CONGRES ses yesterday adopted a report of the Committee relative to taxing bank notes, aad the Finance bill, so called, which pro- vides the ways and means for the support of the go- 4s finally passed. We hes from Washington for details, The bill uow only requires the endorsement of the refer to our apeciat despa Peesident to become a law. Int a joint giving the thanks of Congress te’ Commander Ring- Gold, wos reported. A resolution was adopt- ed the Secretary of the Navy to re- port wh any government officer had released prisoners or restored property captured by avy naval officer, on payment to suid government offl- cial of money ov other valuable con-ideration, and if so to state the facts, and also what action is neceasary to remedy such proceeding, A bill to pay loyal citizen troops organized in insurrection- ary districts was introduced. The bill for the or- ganization of @ State government for Colorado was discussed, and laid aside without action. The Commitive on Foreign Relations made a unani- mous report on the subject of foreign media- » Senate, resolution tion and intervention. It states that the rebels are endeavoring to build up a sepa- rate government on the basis of very; that the war is a contest between slavery and free- dom, and that intervention in any form will oaly tend to intensify the horrors of the struggle. The bill reorganizing the Engineer corps was re- } ported back by the Military Committee. Mr. | Grimes iutrodaced a bill for the purchase of the Stevens floating battery. The bill to reorganize the Post Office Department was passed, and a bill to rogulate proceedings in prize cases and to | amond the acts of Congress in relation thereto | was introduced. The Conse iption bill was then | taken up, and a debate on it ensued, in which the | measure was hotly assailed by the opposition; but | at midnight the amendments of the House were all | concurred in and the-bill passed. | In the House of Representatives the amend. ments to the Internal Tax acts were gone through with, and the bill passed. The Naval Appropria- tive bill, aud the bill re-erganizing the Post Office Dopariment were also passed. The Conference Committes on the bill pending for additional ma- Jor sad brigadier generals made a report, which was adopted. The report agrees to ap- point thirty of the former and seventy: ve of the latter, The Honse . proviso is also modified, so that the officers to he appointed under the act shall be selected from those con- ‘epiouous for gallantry and meritorious conduct in ‘ho line of duty. The Committee on Kloctions sionist as an abolitionist. A writ of habeas cor- pus soon took him from the hands of the military authorities, end after a short examination he was discharged by Judge Fisher. Patrick Mechvoheli has been sentenced to be imprisoned for ten days, and to pay a fine of $20, for larceny in the Navy Yard. The stock market was inactive and irregular yesterday, the general tendeney being downward. Governments were very heavy ; the coupons of 1881 declined 2 per cent. Exchange was very firm at 189; gold fluctuated between bis a id 172, closing at 171% bid. Money was in fair demand at 6 a7 per cent. Revolutionary Aspect EKerope—Its In- fluence on Oar Affairs. On the first annonncement of the revolu- tionary outbreak in Poland but little attention was paid to the fact. It was thought to be merely the result of the new conscription de- cree, which had made such an unfair and op- pressive discrimination between the inhabitants of the towns and the peasantry. This was cer- tainly the pretext for it; but there is no doubt that the plans of the insurgents had been long laid: otherwise, under the severe surveillance which Js maintained by the Russian police, it would have been impossible for them to have thus quickly furnished themselves with arms, or to have made such headway as they appear to have done. Of course the Russian and Prus- sian government journals find it convenient to ascribe the outbreak to the conscription, and a relaxation of it has been publicly ordered, to support that view of the case. But the two grave facts that the Catholic clergy lead the in- surrection, and that it has already made such progress as to alarm both the Austrian and Prussian governments, are, we think, conclusive aa to its being a national and not « class move- ment. So satisfied is the Cabinet of Vienna of this that it has issued a decree proro- guing the meeting of the Gallican Diet, it having been announced that Prince - pieha intended to propose that that body should vote an address to the Emperor of Aus- tria, requesting his diplomatic intercession in favor of the Poles. Any expression of sympa- thy with them, even in so legitimate a form, is naturally a subject of apprehension to Austrian statesmen. The Prussian government, equally alive to the consequences of the insurrection, has concentrated two or three army corps on ite frontier. From all this we infer that it has as- sumed such proportions as to cause the greatest uneasiness and anxiety to the three Powers who beneftted by the disintegration of unhappy Poland. But it is not merely in relation to their in- terests that the movement assumes a grave im- portance. Considered independently, its sup- pression by the Powers concerned would be a matter of mutual effort and of easy accomplish- ment. Circumstances have, hewever, changed eatly since the ties existing between them in this connection induced Ruseia to lend her aid | to Austria to put down the revolution in Hun- gary. The interests of these two governments | have been dissevered by the treachery and in- | gratitude of Austrian statesmen, while in Prus- } sia the liberals have got the upper hand, and | hold the despotic tendencies of the King com- pletely in check. The Russian government | will therefore have to depend entirely upon | its own resources to crush out the pre- sent movement. If, as there is reason to believe, it is a great national ef- fort, it will take time to suppress it; and in the meanwhile what will be the effect of the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1863. | example? Hungary is ripe for an outbreak, i triows class of her citizens by the fanatical and will infallibly catch the centagion. In | bigotry of Philip. She ceased ty be a manufac Germany the revolutionary fever will seize | turing country, and ceased to be a firat rate upon the population as in 1848. In Italy the na- | Power. Many of the exiles settled in France, tional impatience io sweep away the last retic | of its enslavement will send the Pope fying to Malta or to the United States, where the Holy Father can have gratis ag many broad acres 28 witl compensate him fer the patch of territory that he will haye lost, and keep him and bis -cardinals in clover for the rest of days. Will France be exempted from the revolu- tionary storm that is about to eweep over tho Continent? That is @ question which will very much depead upon the Emperor's conduct to- wards this country. It will have been aeen by the recent debate in the French Chambers that the opposition, headed by Jules Fayre, are making the Mexican expedition a basis of revo- futionary tactics, by which they’ expect so to damage the poputarity of Louis Napoleon with the masses as to pave the way for his downfall. Nothing would more facilitate this result than a false step on his part with regard-to this country. By attempting to dictate to the North or to in- terfere forcibly in our affairs he would place himself entirely at the mercy of the red _repub- licans. France would become a fresh theatre of revolution, and, instead of being abie to lend his efforts to restore order on tho Continent, he would himself be one of its first victims. The Emperor no doubt appreciates: these, dangers as clearly as we do, aud therefore we infer that he will readily fall-into Mr. Seward’s plan of terminating our difflculties with the South, seeing that it involves no damage to his own interests, and that it will sooner than any other put an end to the sufferings. of the French operatives. As to the Mexican expedition, he must by this time see the folly and hazards of the enterprise, and will withdraw his troops as aoon as he.can find a decent pretext te doso. ‘The Westward Course of Manufactures— Retrti En, We learn that the mechanics sent out from Lancashire to America by the benevolence of Miss Burdett Coutts have been waylaid at Halifax, and persuaded to settle in Canada. They will not, however, long re- main in that .cold, barren region. They will hasten to the richer soil and more genial climate of the Wesiern States, where many of them will be sure’ to make for- tunes, The abundance of water power, the cheapness of food, and the high prices caused by the duties on all manufactured articles im- ported from England, and the eforbitant de- mands of the manufacturers of: New England, who take advantage of a tariff which in many instances is not only protective of their-fabrics, but prohibitive of foreign compétition—these things all combine to render the West at this moment the paradise of manufactumrs, and there can be no doubt that ere long thqusands upon thousands of operatives will emigrate from Eng- land, either under the auspices of ihanufacturers from that country or under conttact with en- terprising capitalists on this side the Atlantic. Never was there such a remunerdtive field for the employment of capital and mechanical and manufacturing skill, and we have no doubt that if the war continues much longer such an exodus from England will take place as has not been witnessed in any other country in modern times. If the British arie- tocracy desire to prevent revolution, owing to distresvin the manufacturing districts, at a small expense; tet them pay the passage of the operatives to the United States. And Louis Na- poleon, by adopting the same policy, may avert the danger which threatens his dynasty at one- tenth the expense which his fruitless expedition to Mexico will cost him. As regards the British oligarchy, the present deplorable condition of the masses of the popu- lation under their dominion is but the retribu- tive justice of Providence. For more than thirty years they have encouraged the abolition cru- sade in this country. They have supplied money and emissaries to revolutionize the North. They calculated that they would break up and divide the republic. They have been, so far, success- ful in that; but what have they gained by it? They have sown the wind, and now they must reap the whirlwind. Their manufactories are deprived of cotton, and the hands which earned their bread by it are idle. They calculated that the North woutd not resist the secession of the South. They are disappointed. In another calculation they turn out to have been equally mistaken. They expected to obtain free trade with the South, and to send their manufactures there, to the exclasion of the North. That vision has already vanished. The block- ade shuts them out now; and, even should the rebels ever succeed in establishing their in- dependence, a tariff will be necessary, if not to protect their own infant manufactures, which are being developed by the war, at least to obtain revenue to pay the war debt and to de- fray the ordinary expenses of government. But this isnot all. The best skill of England will emigrate to the Western States, and there estab- lish manufactures which will defy all competi- tion either on the part of Old England or New England. As to the latter, it will also soon reap the fruits of its fanaticism. For a series of years, in combination with the British been insidiously laboring to bring about the partition of the republic. despised them. but at last eo far listened to their counsels 4s to give them power and posi- tion. The result is rebellion and a terrible civil war, out of which Eastern manufacturers are new making meney. But there is a day of reckoning to come. In consequence of this war, not only will manufactures be permanently established in the South—no matter in what way the struggle may result—but they will be developed to an extraordinary extemt in the West, where Massachusetts will find a rival in Wiseonsin or Minnesota, And thus not only is “the course of empire westward,’ but the course of manufactures. It was an Englishman named Kirk Booth whe first inaugarated in the Old Bay State those manu- factures which have since grown to such im- portance. Many Englishmen are likely to do the same for the Northwest, and lay the founda- tions of new Birminghams, Manchesters and Lowells. This retribution upon fanaticism is not with- out parallels in the history of other countries. The religious persecutions of the Spanish mo- narchs, two or three hundred years ago, drove the Moors out of Spain, who many centuries before had brought there with their arms those arts which made the Spanish peninsula famous all over Europe. To this day Spain has never recovered from the loss she sustained by the forced emigration of the most useful and indus aristocracy and the Southern secessionists, lead- | ing politicians in the New England States have | The people at first | and introduced their arts and manufactures, to the great benefit of that country. But France, a century later, forgot the lesson thus taught her. The revocation by Louis XIV. of the tiberal Edict of Nantes, issued*by Heary [V., bad the ef- fect of driving out the Huguenots, who, with their trained skill, settled in Holland, Sweden, and even England, and planted in those countries, particularly in Engiand, the germs of manufac- tures which have since outstripped the produc- tions of France, and ousted her not only from the British market, but the markcts of, the world. This was deeply injurious to the proa- perity of France. But it seems as if history were written in vain for the instruction of future ages. By their antislavery crusade the fanatics of New England have atruck a fatal blow at their own manufacturing interest, from which it will languish to its final decay, and they have laid the sure foundstion of vast and thriving manufactures in the valley of the Mississippi. The counsels of the wise men of the Kast are turned into foelishness, and westward the star of Manufacture takes its way. How Exawis :Berrsowoma Yanng Aan Ain- Faneral of Col. Tompkins. ‘ ‘Tho funeral of Col. 1. D. Tompkina, into United Rates Ansistant Quartermaster Goooral in this city, will take place from his late resideuce in Brovkiyn to-morrow at noon. He died oa Thursday morning last, Fob. 26, after a lingoriog gickness, which caused him geome weeks lace to resign his commiasion tn the United States Army. SEBTCH OF COLONEL TOMPKING, Colonel Tompking was oan of tho officer of the ‘aid army.’ having been continuously in the service eiuce the Ist of July, 1820. Ho was bora in New York Atals, and is, we believe, a gon of the tate Dame! D. Tompkina, who was Governor of New York from £107 to 1617, Major General commanding Third Military district and harbor of New York in 1614; Vico President of the United States from 1617 to 1825, ana who died on Statea Isiaad on the ‘Lith of June, 1826, “Colonel! Tompkins eotered the Military Academy as @ cadet ia 1514, aud graduated six years alterwards, the teiuh in a clica of thirty members, among whom wwe the rebel Geacrat Winder. On the tst of July, 1820, bo wan ppointed “third lieutenant of ordoance, and served in that department woti! May, 18%1, when he jomed the So cond artillery. In Adguzt of the game year he wus ¢raas- ferred (o tho First artillery, and continied ope of its mombers until May, (846, when be relinquisbed Ing rank in the line, having been four years previousiy anointed quartermaster, with the rank of major. From 1825 to 1846 he was actively eagaged. bor part of the timo he porformed the duties of assistant comimissary of aubsiat- During the Fiorda war against the “eminoies, un der Osceola and Alli he was greatly distinguished, being mentioned ta orders Lor Gis Conduct at Ban Velasco, ia East Florida, September 18, 1836. On this occasion twenty-five men of his regimont ‘(the Firat artillery) and one huodred and twenty five Florida volunteéra—tie wholy under Col. Jobo Warren—encountered taroe bun dred Seminoies and drove them from taeir position with considerable loss. At the close of the Miorida war Colonel fompkias received the brevet: of tnajoc for bis gufiant aod meritorious conduct throughout the -campifga. ‘The brevet was auted " 1856, but was not-comfercéd uoti: March. Thé:. July, 1803, be was assigned to duty in the Quartocenas g iyo sux Americas Revettion.—We have fre- quently adverted to the numerous steamers be- ing built in the shipyards of Kngland for -the , service of the Confederates, and’ under the very eye’ of the government. From a state- ment made by the evidently well informed writer of a letier to Lord Palmerston. under date of February’ 11, it seems that those yards are particularly active at the present momeut. and that it is pretended the vessels are being built for “the Emperor of China” and for “the Chinese’’---the designations by which Jeff. Da- vis and the Confederates are known by the workmen. The writer of the letter avers that nobody outside of a lunatic asy!um believes that the Emperor of China is in immediate want of a fleet of war steamers. Yet the fol- lowing is the tormidable list with which his name is connected:— Vewels. 1. Steam raw, 200 feet long, 2,200 tous burtbea faird's, Liverpool, eam ram, 200 feet 200 tous burthen. . Shipyarits ‘Laird’s, Liverpool. ter’s Department, with the rank of captain, att retaiaing hie regimental commissicn, which, as already mentioned, be did not: relinquish yudit Aprii, 1846. His services in México were particutarty valuable, and lis zeal and ability in performing the onerovs “diities OC quartormasiér were property rewarded by # brevet, whith gave him the ¢ of Lieutenant colonel in the army... The deatis of Goveral Whiting, im 1851, led to bis promotion to a depity quar- termasior geucraiehip, with the rauk of Lull: lentesaot cotorot: and m 156 the deaths of Gen. Stanton and Col, Hunt éuised his still turther ion to the can’ of colonel, bis position then beiag assistant qrartermaster general, under tho late Gen, Jesup, lor neverai yeors past Col. Tompkins has been ut the head of the Quarter- master's Department in this city, bis odices being ix State street, ‘Tho severe labors devolving upon bim ia consequence of the present war, logethor with over forty years of active service, at len ‘th told upon bia eo much that, unuble any longer to ttlfi! the duties of his oflice, he resigued bis cvtamission, tt lad been hyped that quie- tude and rest would bave restored bim to heaith: but the hope wus vain, and be died on Thursday ks}. MILITARY HONOX TO THE PECKASRD—OFFICIAL ounRn, SUC AE ORDRI Heanguaxcers, Dee New ¥ it baving deem announe: Cojorel Daniel D. tompkins, assist ted States Ariny, departed ¢ in Brooklyt. mitit 82. KNT OF THe Bas, > - » 1963. atarters Chat Quartermaster Wife vosterday, it »fo the Hudeon %. Steam ram, 160 teet loug.faird’s, Liverpool. ¥ propose to iake 4. Screw stewmer, large... . Lawrence’s, Liverpool, he buily to Troy, ite ligal resting pinco 6. Armorclad steam ram, Colone! Loomis. United States Army, commanding at 250 feet long..........+ Thompson's, Liverpool, Governor's Iskind, wili detail a su tury escort 6. line scrow stewmer (the from lon, mnakiag the escort Virginia). Denny, Duubarton, large in accordauce with the ot the 7. Fine screw steam Denny, Dunbarton. Bible. The escort, inctuding the band, will be at Ni 8. Fine iron serew steamer. Scott, Greenock. treet, Brooktyn, at or beiore Neon, on the da ©. Superior screw steamer. Biackwood, Port Glasgow. mony, Monday nest, March 2. By command of 10. Fast screw steamer, flat Major Genera: WOOL, bottomed . 500 tons..... Thompson, ou the Clyde. C.-T. Canistexcks, Major and aid de-Camp, Acti 11. Steamer, 5,000 tons... ..———, Stockton, .. sistant Adintaot Generat Most of these vessels are reported to be for his Imperial Majesty of China; and we are aware that Mr. Lindsay long since came out with a card to deny that he had anything to de with building vessels for the confederacy, when, shortly after the capture of the Princess Royal, it was shown by the bill of lading that he was ber owner. There canbe little doubt, therefore, that the vessels in’ the foregoing list are des- tined for Dixie, as some fine day, pevhaps, their cupfure will prove. Indeed, the writer of | the letier to Lord Patmerston asserts that | fifty steam vessels of various descriptions: in different stages of completion, might be enume- rated in this “Chinese” category, Wut that it is very well known they are intended either to run the blockade or lor the Confederate aavy. ‘Lhe first two in the list are being built in a covered shed annexed to the yard, and are described as ‘‘powerlul” and partially iron- plated. Their powerful engines are expected te work up to one thousand horse power. The third on the list is also partially armored, and | these three are expected to be ready for sea in two months. Their coastraction is being con- | stantly superintended by Captain Bullock, who commanded the 290-—now Alabama—before | she was banded over to Semmes. Yor the last vessel in the list Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co., of Liverpooi—the depositaries” cf the Confederate government---ave the contractors. There can be little doubt for what purpose she is intended. The builder of the Virginia | and her mate (six and seven in the list) is the | builder of the Memphis, whose destination is | now a matter of history. | The powerful steam ram (No. 5) built by Thompeon has armor plates five iuches thick, | and two engines of five hundred horse power each,to be ready April 9. The flat bottomed | screw steamer, of five hundred tons, is expected to run fifteen kuois an hour, and will be ready for sea immediately. In addition to these arrangeuents others are now in progress to induce parties in Kogland to fit up fast steamers to run the blockade, | laden with munitions of wai which car- goes of cottoa in exch: are guaranteed at seven cents per pod, besides Confederate bonds to cover the amount. These vesselz are insured as high as forty, filly and sixty at | Lloyds. If they succeed in running the block- ade out, the option is given to the owners to | | } for It remains to be seen what the British ernment will do in the case of the war steamers in the foregoing list. If they escape to sea, iet us hear no more of British neutrality. Mean- time let the Rip Van Winkie of our Navy De- partment wake up to the dangers ahead. reonal Intelligence. Hon. J. 3. Simmons, of Rhode Island :( 4 rebild, Riebty ninth regiment New York Volunteers, Jjobn @. Havs, of Wisconsin; W. B. Beck, United States Army A. D. Bonesteid, of Fond du Lac: James S, ames and laior Schofield, of Proviconce; ©. P. mento, are stopping AL the Astor A.A. Fisher and W.W. Scott United States Army H Lee W. a. Wilder, of New York; Major Geo, C,H. Forbes, United States Army, Col. J. D. Williams, J.G. Paulding and J. H. Norris; of Port Royal, are sop: ping at the Metropolitan Hotel KE. A. Chapin, of Verment, lrofessor Pheipe, of New Jersey: Hon. 1). Macpherson, of Toronto, J. Cochrene, of Hahfax: Governor Hammoud of Indiana: Judge Hoyt, of Boftalo; Dr, Halstead, of Maseachasetts, R.H Waterman and L. Pruyn, of Albany: J. W. Walsh, of England; J. B. Wade, of Ohio: R.N. Rice, of Detroit; R. Pomero: Wm. Polloch, of Pittedeld, are stopp! 4 bbe St. jas Hotel, ‘The Detroit Pree Press is enabled to trace the marriage of @ negro barber and a pretty white woman in thas city | to the effect of the pernicious doctrines taught by re. | publican members of the Legisiaiure. Court of Ge: Before Recorder Hoffman. SBNTENCBS. Fas. 28.—Among the prisoners brought before Re- corder Hoffman this morning, t© have sentence passed upon them, was G White, who was canvieted of forgery yesterday. the usual question was put to him, whether he had anything to may why judgment should not be pronounced against bim, he said that he hoped to live through the time for which he would be sentenced , for (he purpose of again meeting his two sone now serving in the army of the United States, Thoy had | enlisted at the commencement of the war, and the trouble | in which he had become involved was at prosent unknowa | to them. He concluded by asking the Court to make his Sentence as light as possible, out of consideration for his family, who were dependent on dim for support. The Recorder then sentenced him to the State Prison for five years and two months. White, it is alleged, bas already ferved two years in prison, having been convicted of a similar offence io Philadelphia, Michael Calligan, baving been convicted of an attempt at grane larceny, was sentenced to the Penitentiary for | three moothe, ' y and Nicho- aS ae aR eR belie et aaa { ceptive. | that they had entered the t sell them to the confederacy for its navy. ee Police Intelligence. fe BomGi any Case Kobert WV 3. was arresicd on (rita tw the dwelling hose v Ts cine: nine y Me. Charies dotecte ndow by ven, oitleer oiuct, Qasiened to the spot miy ag he was clim’ ‘the avenue Mr. foha Great Sehoneld, of the and took the accused inte eu jarge Mr. Canda is t in hie possession a jimmo: uamber of rkcleton keys Chartowte Canda, whose UST a: Greeuwood Cemetery, and is veported to hevery welts A previous altempt had baea made to breuk Canda’s residence, aut te was compelled to ha hasement whidows provected by str: rag bars. Writ is nof known to the polige; bat the foliowmg note, which waefound in his possession, may afford same cise to his Tea! aanie:-- Novewunn, 20. 1862. rrelerick Henlen the sam of $t JN, BL) Market Police Goart, yesterday, and commitied for trial. Coo wren Bitss,--Capiain Jourdan, of the Sixth pre cinci, received information en Friday night that t was the intertion of some cocuterfeiters to Hood the city wit on the Tavatow Bank. of Massactase: slevraphed to the contval office, avd b: s the storekeepers. v similie of Uw gen Yourstur, aur Exreee Boros ars, Samuel Combs and James Trim lads about years of age, were arrosted by oficers Woolrid Doran, of the Sixth y rxe of brea the fouudry of Pollock & ¢ 4\ing therefrom @ lot of rs, iLapnears, nad procured a set ¢ he establishment, aud helped week to $25 or $50 worth of p mugene Ric The prisov- duplicate Keys to confessed aud bad stolen bras: of $1,000, Justice | amination net copper of the aggr wig commited tie u Coroners’ Inqueats. Tax Baunevoe Hoste se held an inquest yesterday upwu Aukins, one of died (rom the effects of one of the tamu Mary Tacsell testified that she ret pital op the morning of oan of her bedrootn jnto the yard, sie saw the deceased up several sinall pieces of coms -bowt the ».20 of & s then at some person: Henry 3 al at the time, and deceased thre ion of the spot where to go away. whet Hosa Une emptoyes of Baile injuries re ©, named Henty a yake followed ny witha ew artoated Sparke ai the ver by name, when ho came [orward mutt me but and firing snow balla at him, witness took Sparke by the arm and gave bim imo the custody of policeman Kaiten, Of the Twenty fret precinct Joby, King cepted that be was the eae oer of Be ite deve sed was DM Gran, and bad or *%bi years ‘be was 4 any words vie Hospital; served in vary peaceable with any one we bm insane, ony ie wind onversation with him alter the a & and did not dieeover anything hike insanity on Lis conduct Patrick Campbet, «@rk bis opinion that Sparks » i of aberration of mind, escent Janguace ber of other witnesses were examined, after i$ submitted to ike ury, who rgndered b from injaries at the hands of Heury bruary 25. [Sey er s 1S protauity and i. cape, aad could not be found iy. when c officers went in search of him. Coroner Ranney hae issued a warrant for iis apprehension, and the detectives are ou the track of the fugitive. SHOCKING Casm oy Neciwer.—an inquest was held yes- | terday by Coroner Ranney, at No, 317 West Forty-third street, upon the body of Anve Fiyun, s native of Ireland, sixty years oid, who died from pheumor what peculiar ciroumstances. Deceased, \t appeared, was the wife of a poor soldier now at the war. and. i, sent to the Northwestern Dispensary fer med: relief, The ome ef the women reeidit the bout cniled at the dispensary and | deceased's paive and residence, and stating that the case owas an Urgent one and requested that se doctor might be sent areund without delay, No attention was paid to the cail, however, ané the con- sequence was the poor woman died from negiect. The jury ip rendering a verdict took occasion to ceasure the Physicians of the dispensary ‘or their culpable neglect in not any the call, These physicians paid a yearly salary by the city for hionage thew poor whenever Zalled spon, and it ts only proper that they should pay attention to their business Or resign. Fins at Montana, Sse Escare ov How. J. R. Gam. | ixoe—A fire © out in St. Lawrence Hall, Montreal, Po Saturday morning, and the building was partially de” atroyed. eral of the inmates were nearly suffocated amoke before they could be rescued, and one of them, has since died from ite effects. Hon. Joshua 9 American Consul General, who resides at the foro ‘of the vapor and smoke, and was carried (or safety to another part of the hotel. He afterwards revived, and the next forenoon was much improved The books and wapere of the consyiliie @acaved unininred % in 5 Ceuive sivoat, and | eives regularly every | d Th ne nm * | IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. ‘A Tax on Bank Notes Agreed ‘to by Congress. ; Final Passage of the Fintnce, ; Oon- Seription‘and Post Office Bills. The Internal Tax Bill Passed by the House. Report of the Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs on Medistion. Proposed Purchase of the fte- vens Battery. \ BXCITING DEBATE IN TOU SENATE AND HOGRE fis, Wanmnpaton, For 28, 186%: , | CHE TAX ON BANK NOTES—FINAE PARSAGR OF SER : PINANCK BCL, % The two houses have compromised their Bi@ocences om the hau uty @oetion of the Frowace bli, as follows |. AU. banks, associations, eorperations. or marian | issuing notes or bills for circulation as cacreacy, athalt bo | Aubject to and pay a duty of one per centum each malt year,from and after April 1, 1863, upon the average amount of circulation or bills as cucvency tagued beyond the smount tercinafter mamed. hat’ ie fo cay, banks, associations, icorporatious or indi. } Vidaa's, having @ capital of not over ono bindred | hundred thousand dottars, ainety per centum shereom over oue hundred thousand and not over two hundred, thousand dotiars, eighty per centum thereof; ever two hundred toousand aad not over three hundred dollars, seventy per ceatum thereof; over three hu thousand and not over five huadred thousand di sixty per covtum thereof; over dive huudred thousand not over onc iniition of dollara, Afty per coutuma tnereof Over one.miliion and not overone twitiien anda belt dollars, forty per ceatuna theraoi; half and not over two millions of doiiars, thirty per thereot, aud over two miitions of doitars, twenty fis per centua thereof, In the case of banks with by the dity herein provided for sha! be imposed upon Circulation of the aotes or bills of such brancies sav aud not upon the aggregate circulation of alt, and amonut of capita! of each branch shall be considered: be the amount atioued or used by such branch, all such b associations or corporations and tndii daais shaliaiso be subject te pay a duty of one-half? ceniun each half yexr from aad after Apeit i, 1868, 47 the average amonu! of uotes or bills wot otherwise in taxed and outstanding as currency during the monihs dext preceding the retura horeintprovided & aud the rateoc tax duty imposed on the cireciation the assoc iativ: nized aad the “Act te provide a tional eneroncy,* &c., shat! be the same as is herein! posed on the circulation of all banks, asaociation fous and viduals, bai shall be asseased as required by said act. AL bani asgoriations or corporations aud iudividuals i ing of reissuing notes tor cireviati | as cucrenay fe. n ing any fractions: part of adotar, stat! bea pay aduty of five per coutum each bait year thereat upon the amount of suck fraction noes OF Associations, corporations and tid.viduals or Copusiie bavoud the average, amount of the crroutal ly tksued and wutetaading a8 our! urn shalt be inad@ and rendered #7 thirty days efter the Gest day of Goloer, 1983, aad Stk wrONt is Chereafter, 1 tue Commiasioner af Tan Revenue, wiich shat! contaimatruc and talihtat 0” Lue amount of cuties accrued or which shoatd 9a the fractional note sircwlat on, aud ae rage amu W other cireuiation anit depontts fe Ix mouths next preceding. Winie 0 tint the Financ? bili authors! Secretary of the Treawury to issue at his dieorative ix cauivalent Le five aundred and Mfiy mlitons oF tender notes, yer thoxe wie are Canithar with tho pu | Of Mr. Chases dent there wit! be ae duch ext | nary takue of curveney. His objoet ts t+ pres sat | ao indatien, . It is for t's thet be has cow Unroug! whele struggle with the Howe Wa) | Means Ce li the powsr ‘as bet ‘him to ievze Mlty millions abschitely, sa eddie the lu red by apesist ri | aod to make the four he cre! milbens of interest legal teniere or convertiies, there athe wii, am far aa pos isle, avoid twulag Boles of bilis lav he lasue of iuteroat Deariag r 1 ereditore of t vernment ; aad there fa | peat atieg that he will Ye able to carey on the of the vevernment without aay further infatioa curveney whatever Atty miflious of legal tenders t for interest beariog provabiy never be yrinte.. aud there is ali probability. that the Bitty millions of ay/horized, ia addition to the oo ‘uos directed to be issued by special the use of the army aod cavy, will ne mxiety of the Serretary to cneek wy tion ieaes te the be: at at the most the Art: ns aioe wil be pr vation, while tl Strong seasons for ihe belief hat not one doliay s, in addcion ty Those now issued of prewt * Uh rized to be issued, will be elvcutaced | REPOKT ON MEDIATION AND INTRAVENTH The resolutions reported by Mr. Samuer, off (rome (ie Conunittee om Forega Relat cone rrred in even by Messrs. Henderson, Da Hivks, members, ossect that the ts eogaged in the suppression of « conspiracy tablisiimentof a separate government apon the or the building up of & grew mateh teaders ehuaett Sir iggle, and add to ts horrors, All tendencies to intervention are protested against, amd foreign mente and peoples are called upum to note the as & contest between freedom and slavery DEBATE ON THK CONSCRIPTION BILE IN THE o demveratic Senators have opened to-day a ah \t origmated in the Sevate and was passed A division. In the Hone Merce opposition wae the democrats, whe succeeded in engratting | Dill some important amendments in bebalf ‘ liberty of =the citizen The demoor the Senate bave been making up for] not opposing the bill by putting themselves right im both word and deed, The Prasident was at t to}, and within hearing dietauce of the demunciat executive power by Senators Turpie and Carlile. 4 mer made & #econd keen assault upon the vill abolitionmts. It was regerded as mont effective republicans, Mr. Carlile quotet from a mund Hurke, ip the British Parliament, which priate to the present day. It arraigned the Brith @rvment for forcing siaves upon the American and denounced the policy of liberating Slaves ¢ Pulling down bbe rebellion. MKE, LINCOLN IN CONGRESS. Mrs, Lincoln and auite were in the diplomati¢) of the Senate this evening. THE PRESIDENT HARD AT WoRa, Presideat Lincoln bas occupied what is knowa | President's room at the Capitol to-day, to facili public business by saving the Committes ow Bille the trouble of travelling the leogth of Penny avenue to procure bis signature to them = Thie usual practice of the Chiel Magistrate of the towards the close of each session. of THE RECEPTION AT THE WHITE WOU! | qhe absonce of the President made it necessary Linooin to receive to day alone. The reception + more namerously attended than any other dw | session. Mr. Stoddard, Private Secretary of th | dent, assisted Mra. Lincoln in the reception of 14 ie Che Gipst tire (haat ate has foynd it vec: