The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1863, Page 4

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M. till 10 P, M. ws HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—| Soxes, Daxcrs, Bi wae oe re low York, ‘ucsday, March 10, 1863. THE SITUATION. The rebels, under Captain Mosely, made an at- tack on Fairfax Court House yesterday morning, about two o’clock, capturing General H. Stoughton, who was in command there, together with all the men detached from his brigade, 110 horses, and the patrols of the Provost Marshal. He entered the place during a violent rain storm, and took the headquarters of the Gcneral completely by sur- prise. Anorderly who escaped and returned to Fairfax states that the enemy were retreating, with our cavalry in close pursuit, and that they ‘were running so hastily for their lives that they abandoned thirty of the prisoners they had pre- viously captured. Our nows to-Hay trom Tenuessee is important. An attack was made by a division of our cavalry, under General Minty, upon the rebel cavalry of General Russell, at Unionville, ten miles from Murfreeshoro, on the 7th inst., in which the enemy lost fifty killed, 180 wounded, and all their camp equipage and a number of horses and mules cap- tured. In the late fight at Thompson’s Station, near Franklin, in which the infantry under Col. Coburn were captured, it is said that our troops fought splendidly while their ammunition lasted; but they only numbered 3,000, while Van Dorn had from 10,000 to 12,000 men in the action. The rebels admit a loss of 150 killed and 400 wounded. Our loss was over 1,000 killed, wounded and captured. Col. Coburn is now in the hands of the enemy. Our news from Vicksburg, via Cincinnati, repre- gents affairs at the former place in a hopeful aspect. One gunboat had vearly reached Yazoo City through the Pass, The canal at Lake Provi- dence was nearly ready. It was thought that the rebel transports would come out of White river and offer battle, With respect to the attack by our troops on those of the rebel General Van orn at Tuscumbia, Ala., on the 22d ult., a despatch from Jackson, ‘Lonn., states that the expedition was entirely suc- cessful, capturing two hundred prisoners, two hun- dred horses, one piece of artillery and a large train. Our forces also took possession of the town of Tuscumbia, with stores, arms, &c. Our Jos was several men. Repdrts of other fights with the same force have been received, but are not yet confirmed. They are given as favorable to us. ‘The troops sent ov this expedition were from Co- rinth, and subject'to tho orders of Gen. Dodge. With regard to the rurnors of the destruction of the captured gunboat Indiunola, which the Rich- mond papers declared hai been blown up by the rebels, we have the officiel report of the rebel General Stephenson to General Cooper, which etates thatahe has not been destroyed, but that they were then (March 5) raising her; that one eleven inch gun had burst, but that the others ‘were uninjurod. +The Richmond Znquirer while anticipating an early advance of Genern! Ranks’ forces on Port Hadsen, says that his army numbers $0,000 men, but that the Genera! Limect? is opposed to the at- tack being made, but that he is controlled by the ‘War Department. ~ : Major Gencral Gastavas W. Smith and General Robert Toombs have resigned their commands in the rebel army, the former because of somo diffi- culty with Jeff. Duvis; the latter for some cause not stated, Generel Longstreet succeeds General Smith. By an arrived (rom Nassan, N. P., yesterday, we learn that the privateer Retribation wns at anchor thore for several days Previous to the 2%th ylt., ant thet her officers wore stopping at the Royal Victoria Hotel openty aj eossing the exploits ef the u te. Three iron steamers belonging to the Anglo-rebel piratioal tieot arryeu there op the 27th, a valuable eddition to those already adoat fa our waters. 4 collision Wetwoen the citizens of T't0R and the Govermment authorities wpprars inanincat from fest accounts, The Governor, Warding, cog "| to arrest Brigham Young and Brothers Kimball and Wells. The Mormons are in arms to resist the arrest by military force. Appeals have been made to General Wright to restrain Colonel Con- ner in his design upon the Mormon chiefs. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, a resolution was offer- ed, and laid over, for the appointment of a stand- ing committee on manufactures. Very little busi- ness was transacted in open chamber, most of the day being spent in executive session, over the military and civil nominations of the President, of which a large number were confirmed, principally of major and brigadier generals. THE LEGISLATURE. Both houses of the State Legislature were in session last evening. In the Senate no great amount of business was transacted. The bills to regulate the conduct of county treasurers and for the collection of taxes in this city received favor- able reports. The vote rejecting the bill for re- cording marriage certificates was reconsidered, and the bill referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill was introduced in reference to moneys inthe hands of the Court of Appeals Clerk. . In the Assembly bills were introduced, among others, for the continuation of Sixth avenue down to Canal street, to create a bureau of license in the Finance Department of this city, to amend the usury laws in reference to New York and Kings counties, and for the establishment of uniform rates of tolis on the canals of this State. Tho Commissioners of Charities and Corrections sent in their annual report. The Chamber of Commerce resolutions relative to the enlargement of the canals were also presented. The bill making the General Bounty act apply to cities received a favorable report. Notice was given of a bill to require the New York Board of Brokers to hold their meetings in public; also of the Senate bill de- fining the duties of county treasurers in reference to moneys held by them. The resolution for the appointment of a grinding committee was called up; but pending the question on its adoption the Assembly adjourned. Some of the papers are urging upon the State Legislature to pass a law laying a heavy tax upon all persons who are engaged in buying cents at a premium. They shall be required to take out a license from the State Treasurer, and be made to pay a good round sum for the privilege of operat- ing in such a mean and despicable business. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Republican State Convention and the Union State Convention of Rhode Island—the latter be- ing a tender to the former—will both meet to-day in Providence. At the meeting of the Beard of Aldermen yes- terday a veto was received from the Mayor on the resolutions tendering the hospitalities of the city to Gen. Fitz John Porter. The reading of the message was dispensed with, and the paper took the usual course, The Tax Levy came up from the Board of Councilmen, with sundry changes in the items. The subject was referred to a conference committee, consisting of Aldermen Hardy, Mitch- ell and McCool. After some further business of minor importance the Board adjourned to Monday at one o'clock. The Harbor Commissioners’ defence came up last evening before the Board of Aldermen, Mayor Opdyke presiding. The attendance was fair, both of members and the public. Alderman Boole moved, and it was unanimously carried, that all uninvited persons, including reporters, should be excluded, on the ground that there was impor- tant evidence to be taken, which, if published, might be injurious to the cause of the federal government. Ona division, it was decided to ex- clude all strangers, and the reporters being among the number the chamber was very soon cleared of every person except its own members. A regular meeting of the Board of Councilmen was held last evening. A message was received from the Mayor vetoing the action of the Board to re- soind the resolution by which Commodore Van- derbilt is allowed to extend the small pier on the south side of pier No.1 North river. Laid over under the rules. A committee of conference, con- sisting of Messrs. Jones, Brice and Hayes, was appointed to confer with a similar committee from the Board of Aldermen, for the purpose of pre- senting a joint report on the annual Tax Levy. The Counsel to the Corporation was instructed to defend the suit commenced against John Green, the offal contractor, by John Underwood, the suit having been brought against Green while acting under the special direction of the Street Inspector. The Comptroller's weekly statement was recciv- ed, and shows that the balance remaining in the City Treasury on the 7th inst. was $1,397,808 93. After transacting some routine.business the Board adjourned until Thursday evening next at four o'clock. In the Maturin affair, a second writ was served upon Colonel Loomis, returnable before Judge McCunn at his chambers yesterday afternoon at three o’clock. At the hour named, Colonel Loomis sent young Maturin before the judge, and made 4 return to the writ, and the matter was then set down for a hearing for three o'clock to-day. Mr. Glassy, the Deputy Provost Marshal, appeared for Colonel Loomis, and Mr. William F. Howe for the relator. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, before Jadge Barnard, Edward McCormack was arraigned on an indictment for murder, in causing the death of officer Williams, by shooting him with 8 pistol, on the 18th of October last. The testi- mony was all taken yesterday, and the case will be given to the jury to-day. For the defence it is urged that the accused received a severe injury on the head a few years since, which, together with his intemperate habits, rendered him at times par- tially insane. District Attorney A. Oakey Hall appeared for the people, and Henry L. Clinton and G. 8. Bedford, Jr., for the defence. According to the City Inspector's report, there were 441 deaths in the city during the past week— an increase of 15 as compared with the mortality of the week previous, and 15 less than occurred during the corresponding week last year. The re- capitulation table gives 6 deaths of alcoholism, 2 of diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 83 of the brain and nerves, 4 of the generative organs, 9 of the heart and blood vessels, 198 of the lungs, throat, &0.; 3 of old age, 30 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 8 premature births, 40 of discases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs; 29 of uncertain seat and general fevers, 6 of diseases of the urinary organs, 22 from violent causes, and lunknown. There were 300 natives of the United States, 4 of England, 95 of Ireland, 26 of Germany, and the balance of various foreign countries, The foe companies of New York are gathering their supplies from ponds in the vicinity of Troy. The stock market was considerably better and was | quiet buoyant till the elore. Pacific Mail rose ten per — sad the railway shares from 1 a2 por cent all ound, Governments were dail and rather lower. Gold pars Jeae active, but the price was higher, mainly tn con- Sequence of the demand from the boars. It closed at 16834 Did, Exchange closed at 179 01735. Money was | very easy at 6 por cent on call. The bank statement } mbows an increase of $776,518 in dopesits, $1,139,480 in Joana and $192 833 In specie. The demand for Breadstas improved yesterday. Flour ) advanced 6c. a 10e. Wheat Wag a shade firmer, Cornte, ‘lower There wae more doing in provisions: prices fn vored seller; oh! mess pork brourht $16 60 a ¢14 76, new do, do, $16 75.4 $27 on the spot, and for futaro delivery, The gowery twade w Dirkey was in fiir de y iw price. Bla Qnd hope wero ja NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1863. ‘The bill passed by Congress to tax specula- | tors in gold and silver coin upon purchases to | deliver on time, and to prevent banks loaning them money upon the security of specie beyond | its par value, has only partially checked the | operations of the tribe. The first consequence of the measure was a panic and a goueral desire | to got rid of gold and invest capital in something | else. Such was the rush that it caused the price of specie rapidly to fall, the supply being so much greater than the demand. But now that this rush is over, gold does not continue to fall; but, on the contrary, after remaining for several days in the vicinity of 150, has gone up again to the neighborhood of 157, and yester- day fluctuated above and below 156. The bill meditated in our Legislature to prevent the banks loaning any money upon the security of gold and silver coin goes beyond the act of Congress, and would bave a similar effect in repressing the rage for speculation in the | precious metals till the panic passed off or the sharpers discovered some method by which they tight evade the law. : But no enactnients can permanently prevent the rise of gold or the depreciation of inconver- tible paper currency, unless an act compelling payment in specie; and, after all, probably it was a presentiment of something of this kind being done by Mr. Chase, in pursuance of the discretionary powers invested in him by Con- gress, that had most influenge in giving a tem- porary check to the speculators. The idea had been set afloat in this journal the day before the sudden descent. The speculators began to doubt about the course they ought to pursue. The very thought of specie payments had scared them; but when they found Mr. Chase was not acting on the suggestion, they rallied and somewhat resumed their composure. Only let him, however, now make the announcement that he intends to restore the currency to its normal condition, and gold will soon go down to a much lower figure than it has recontly fallen to, or rather the eurrency will imme- diately go up, and when specie payment is ac- tually begun, greenbacks will rise to par; and, though the gold on hand to redeem the notes might not be equal to one-eighth of the circula- tion, it would be sufficient, because everybody would be satisfied he could get specie for the bills he held when he wanted it, and therefore would be careless about it. At the same time the necessity of making specie payments when demanded would check over-issues of paper either on the part of the banks or the govern- ment, and this is the only cure for preventing the depreciation of the ourrency and specula- tion in gold. That gold rises-or falls is a popular error, caused by the jargon of Wall street. It is not gold that rises or falls, but the paper currency. Gold is the standard of value agreed upon by all nations, and owing to its scarcity its value does not alter. Hence it isa medium of uni- versal exchange. It is like a yard in super- ficial measure, apint in liquid measure, or a pound weight; and it determines all other values, including stocks and paper currency. Strictly speaking, therefore, gold is not bought and sold for greenbacks, but greenbacks aro bought and sold for gold. If gold really rose seventy above par, it must necessarily rise to the same figure in England and France; other- wise all that ft would be necessary to do to make an enormous fortune from it would be to ship it to the United States. It has not risen in value in those countries, neither has it done so here; but our paper currency has fallen, through the financial mismanagement of Con- gress and the Secretary of the Treasury, so that a hundred dollars in gold a few days ago could purchase one hundred and seventy dollars in greenbacks, and even now upwards of one hundred and fifty dollars. If the same system is pursued hereafter the currency will continue to fall in spite of all legislative enact- ments. Congress may make a hundred dollar Greenback a legal tender for a debt nominally one hundred dollars; but it is beyond the power of Congress or Mr. Chase to make the greenback equal in value to one hundred dollars in gold, unless by being always prepared to pay on de- mand that amount of specie for it. The speculators do not want the resumption of specie payment, because it wonld interfere with their game. But the people desire it, for they are the victims of the inflated currency which causes the most exorbitant prices, while wages are either not raised at all or not in pro- portion. It is pretended that it would be im- practicable for Mr. Chase to resume specie pay- ment and compel the banks to do it in the midst of such a tremendous war. Perhaps these financial wiseacres can explain bow it was Napoleon was able to do it after France was flooded with irredeemable pa- per money, and how he continued to pay gold through all his great wars, To this day gold coin is the currency of that country. Mr, Chase has the power to do what Bonaparte did. It remains to be seen whether he has the sagacity and the nerve. If he continues to issue irre- deemable currency it needs no ghost to tell what must be the result. Independently of all speculation, very soon one hundred dollars in gold, instead of being worth one hundred and ‘seventy dollars in paper, will be worth two hundred dollars, and the evil will go om in- creasing ad infinitum. For what is it that causes depreciation? It is excess of issues, and con- sequently the greater the excess the groater the depreciation, Why is it that the cereals and all kinds of provisions are so cheap in the West? It is because they are greatly in excess of the wantsof the community, andthe cost of railroad (ranspertation is too great to send the surplus away. It is the same with paper money. In the South, though gold is comparatively abundant, there being little or no opportunity of sending {t out of the country, it is three hun- dred per cent as compared with the Confederate currency. Why? Because the issues of paper 60 greatly exeeed business requirements, and there is a moral certainty of those lssues being vastly increased, while there is no provision for specie payment. The natural law which regu- lates the currency is as unalterable as the law of gravitation. In England, during her wars with Napoleon, the currency depreciated but little after the first issues; but when those paper issues were repeated again and again, then the depreciation became 40 great that it was necessary to with- | draw some of them to prevent universal ruin. In France the aasignats, at first though fssued by a revolutionary government, were good for their nominal value; but they be- came so numerous at last as to be almost worthless, and a thousand franos in paper were not worth one franc in coin; and this Ja she face of penalticg of gli kinds to prevent depreciation, and theugh the assignate wore secured by the public lands. The paper money issued in our own Revolutionary war shared a similar fute when the quantity of it became extremely excessive. Though it was seoured by the public faith and the public land was pledged for its payment, and though Wash- ington, Franklin and the other statesmen of the time did their utmost to prevent tho catastro- phe, it fell so low in value that it required a bushel basket full of the “continental money,” as it was called, to pay for a pair of boots. If, with these examplés before him, Mr. Chase persists in making fresh issues of paper, without making provision for specie payment on de- mand, his greenbacks will ineviatably go the way of all such money, and the sufferings of the people will equal the calamities endured by the French till Napoleon provided the sovereign remedy. _ Whe Copperhead Agitators. Vallandigham, Booby Brooks, Ben. Wood and the rest of the copperheads who have been performing their antics in this city are mere agitators. Not one of them has the brains, to say nothing of the training and experience, re- quisite for statesmen. They are fit to be local demagogues or ward politicians, but have no capacity for nationd! affairs. They remind us of what a New Hampshire farmer said of poor Pierce, who proved so misefable a failure as President. “Frank Pierce,” said he, “wasa great man here in the Granite State; but when he was spread over the whole Union he was so mighty thin there was nothing of him.” In the same way there is nothing in such noisy men as Val- landigham, Brooks and Wood, when they at- tempt to discuss the affairs of the nation, rent, as it is, by civilwar. They are all froth, sound and fary. Some of them are courting martyrdom; but we trust the government will not gratify their aspirations. To arrest them would be to give them importance and increase the excite- ment which their inflammatory appeals are in- tended to produce. These politicians have not the sense to be even sagacious revolutionists, much less states- ‘men. They do not understand the country, nor see the length of their noses before them. Mr. Lincoln and his administration are invested with plenary powers to crush the rebellion in short order: they are responsible to the people. If they fail, the ballot box will dispose of them next fall. Any attempt to get rid of them ina summary fashion before that time would not only fail, but give them immense strength, if it did not result in shocking anarchy. Our free institutions are self-regulating, gnd all will come right in theend if the machinery be not destroyed by violence. The anchor of hope is to keep within the constitution and the laws and to maintain order. If the forms of our system be departed from, and the de- cisions of the people at the ballot box be an- ticipated by self-constituted popular leaders, confusion will be the inevitable result. In Europe the people. have no remedy against their wrongs but insurrection; for they have not the ballot bax, and it is always with them a question of expediency resolving itself into the probability of failure or a chance of success. Her@ the case is different. The people. have the game in their own hands, and they are, in point of fact, the sovereign in their eollective capacity. When any usurper interferes with the peaceful exercise of their right of suffrage, by which they can regulate all things, then it will be time enough for them to resort to. the ultima ratio regum. i It was the great blunder of the rebel chief- tains that they adopted the vulgar method of Europeans, and flew to arms, instead of awaiting the tide of events and the result of the next Presidential election. Do the copperheads pro- pose to follow their example, instead of pa- tiently biding their time and exercising their power at the ballot box? If they do let them mark the consequences. If the administration abuses its trust the more certain will be its overthrow and the greater its fall. And when it is finally removed from power by the voice of the people, constitutionally expressed, then a terrible day of reckoning will come, and condign punishment will be meted out far every transgression by the hand of inexorable justice, under the forms and sanctions of law. Tae Prorrt anv Loss Accovnt or Secretary Wettes’ Apsinistration—The amount of Northern property destroyed at sea by the rebel cruisers and privateers Alabama, Florida, Retribution, Sumter, Jeff. Davis, &c., may be estimated at from ten to fifteen millions of dol- lars. The damage inflicted on our commerce by the panic created by these losses it would not be easy to calculate. This, whatever it may be, will be increased tenfold by the de- struction of the Jacob Bell, with her valuable cargo of from a million to a million and a half of dollars, The consternation occasioned by it will have the effect of taking out of our hands all our East India trade and throwing it into those of Great Britain—an object of which she has long been covetous, According to a statement made by Mr. Grimes in the Senate, we have captured at sea prizes to the amount of about fifteen millions of dollars—those in New York being valued at more than half that sum. The proceeds of these go to a few persons, being divided among our naval officers and sailors, a portion only falling to the share of the govern- ment. This is no offset to the losses that we have been sustaining by the activity of the re- bel privateers. With a navy of more than four hundred vessels, we have, notwithstanding the immense number of ships that have sailed from England for rebel ports within the last two years, effected seizures to the amount of only fifteen millions of dollars. The game, it must be admitted, is a costly one, and the gains are almost entirely on one side. We put it to Mr. Lincoln whether, in the face of these facts, he considers that Mr. Welles has done his duty. Tue INpUuNoLa—It appears, after all, that the gunboat Indianola has not been destroyed, but that she lies in the mud, and that the rebels are working like beavers to get her afloat again. We trust, however, that Admiral Porter (after the fashion of Captain Worden 40 his treatment of the rebel steamer Nashville) wili duly at- tend to the Indianola, and put-all doubis and | conjectures to an end ae fo her fate. Ove Stare Lewistarcrs THe Gon Quastiox—-The Legislature of New York may now os Sit of work which will be equal to the saving of hundreds of willions of money to the governivent and the people, in the passage of a law regulating the operattons of our State banks in the important article of gold. Sach an act will cover a multitude of sins ia amatior matters, and is expected by the roople. AND Wasmuxctox, March 9, 1608. THR BRITISH VONBUL AT CHARLESTON. It ts considered a very significant circumstance, in re- gard to the relations of England growing out of the rebel- Hon, that about the time of the imaginary breaking of the blockade of Charleston by Beauregard and Ingraham, the British sloop-of-war Cadmus, should have gone into that Port, taken off the British Consul there, Mr. Bunch, car- ried him to one of the British West India islands, and that instead of his returning to England by the regular}. West India mail packet, if the government required his presence, the Cadmus should have been employed for that 1 Purpose. Bunch was the active friend of and operator for the blockade runners and the rebels in Charleston. He made himself officious, in connection with the French con- sul, in sending Mr. Trescott, formerly Assistant Secremry of State under Buchanan, to Richmond to try and obtain the accordance of the rebel government to the principles © of the Paris Conference, on the subject of privateering; and the supposition here ig that the key to bis recent movements is to be found in the anxiety of the British go- vernment to have his oral explanation of the conditien and prospect of affairs in the rebel confederacy before coming to any ultimate decision as to ite action. It is this ' speculation that imparts interest to the movements of ove who personally is of very little consequence. BFFECT ‘OF THR CAPTURE OF THE UNION FOROS AT: PAIRPAX COURT HOUSE. ; The capture of Brigadier General Stoughten is a bitter doge for those who had charge of the pickets on his line. The Captain Moseley who commanded the squadron of rebel cavalry who made the raid is a special favorite dé General Stuart, who recommended him for promotion some time ago. General Stoughton’s nomination as brigadier general has never been confirmed. It 1s stated that he establish- ed bis headquarters at Fairfax Court House, whieh wap some distance from the main body of his command, im ;, accordance with orders from his superier officers. Seve ral Senators to-day insisted that his nomination as briga dier general should be withdrawn. men, headed by.the redoubtable Ben. Wade, have had all our generals and cqntractors be- fore them, and cross-examined every govers- ment official who know, or was presumed to know, anything about the war. A fow days ago Generals McClellan and McDowell ap- peared before Ben. Wade’s committee, and they have evidently informed these Congressmen of some facts hitherto undeveloped. Consequently the extra thirty days may do the committee more good than all their studies during the past two years. We recommend President Lincola to ap- point all these committeemen to major and brigadier generalships as soon as they hand in their report. The West Point Academy course is nothing when compared with the military education these Congressmen have received. They knew a great deal when they began—in their own opinions—and what remarkably wise men they must be now. Two years ardently de- voted to any study ought to make the scholar perfect enough for all practical purposes. Thirty days more will suffice to put in the finishing touches. In order to decide upon the conduct of the war, these committeemen must first un- derstand what the preper conduct of the war is; and if they now understand that they are pre- cisely the men to conduct the war properly. Let the President make out their commissions immediately, so that they can take the field the moment their report is concluded. The next thirty days will be an anxious month to the country. Here are six or seven of the best mili- tary men of the nation engaged in getting up a reporton paper when they might be reporting themselves to the enemy on the battle field at the head of our armies. Until those thirty days are over we shall live im suspense. “Fly quickly, time, and bring our blessing here.” WINCHESTER, A strong force of rebels was at Luray recently, and the military authorities at Winchestor are of opinion that they are moving upon that place. IMPORTANT EVENTS BXPECTED SOON TO TRANSPIRE IN THE WEST. The drift of information from the West is that grand military movements are on the eve of execution, with }: great hopes of success. CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE REBEL STATES. ‘The law of Congress reiating to tho organization of the next House directs that the call of mombers shall be made up of those who are elected under the laws of the | States and the United States. It will thus be the duty of Mr, Etheridge to determine whether persons who may be | elected from Southern States within-our military lines are ; qualified, _ NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE. The following: nominations were to-day copfirmed by tho Senate in executive session:— Tae Ternirortes 1s Conaress.—During the late session of Congress bills were passed orga- nizing two new Territories—one 1n Arizona, the other Idaho, the name being changed from Mon- tana in the Serfate. This new Territory includes the Salmon river and Snake river gold mines. Its area is 179,770 square miles, and its population numbers about 11,000, for the most part miners. Asteamboat is being built, on the Missouri, above Fort Benton, to navigate that river above the falls. This will seoure navigation to within sixty or seventy miles of the eastern mines. But in due time railroads will connect this Territory with the States: The bills to admit Nevada and Colorado as States passed the Se- nate; but the House refused to suspend the rules to take action upon them. The bills, there- fore, dropped to the ground, together with the OIViL, OFFICERS. eae F. Potter, of Wisconsin, to be Governor of Dacotal |) Territory. Be Dries. of ergy 7" Ud be Register of the Samuel P. Allen, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for a Collection district of the Stave of New _ ‘MILITARY OFFICERE. The following Brigadier Generals of Volunteors to be Major Generals of Voluntecrs:— Bilas Casey, May 31, 1862. j pied W. slocum, July 4, 1862. ° John G. Parke, July 18. 1862. Charles 8. Hamilton, September i bill for Nebraska, which want of time did not note Berr rath coaner F 1863. 2 permit to get through the Senate. Next session, | Abner Doubleds; zk, November Saeed however, all these Territories will probably be Gorge L. oa Kovember = ines. admitted, and thus increase the number of stars in the constellation of the Union. It is to be hoped that by the same time the eleven way- ward, wandering stars of the confederacy, now, like the lost Pleiad, separated from their sisters, will be restored to our political firmament, never again to be driven or drawn from their orbit around the central government by any sinister influence. Tae Renewtion Has Tovcuxp Borrom.— While only one-fourth of the able-bodied white men of the loyal States between eighteen and forty-five capable of bearing arms have been drawn into the military service to put down the rebellion, we think it an established fact, from all the information we have before us, that the conscriptions of Jeff. Davis have gleaned the rebellious States of all the able- bodied white men between sixteen and fifty years of age which they can possibly spare without literally starving the rebel armies and the most of the population of the cotton States. Press gangs in those States hunting up delin- quent conscripts and refugees, and military ex- peditions for the capture or extermination or expulsion of refractory Unionists, are the order of the day. We might produce numerous spe- cifcations of such proceedings of late, from North Carolina to Arkansas, if we had the space for them. We are satisfied that, so far as the reinforcement of his armies is concerned, Jeff. Davis has touched bottom, and that we have only to break up the rebel armies now in the field in order to break up the rebellion, root and branch. Oliver O. Howard, November 20, 1862. Robert H. Milroy, November 29, 1862. Richard J. Oglesby, November 29, 1862. Joseph J. Rey , November 29, 1862. Daniel E. Sickles, November 29, 1662. David 8. Stanley, November 29, 1862. Jobn F. Reynolds, November 29, 1862. George Sykes, November 29, 1863. ‘The following to be Brigadier Generals of Volunteers:— John Buford, Assistant Inspector General United Army, July 27, 1862. Col. Francis C. Barlow, Sixty-first New York. oa. BJ. Jackson, a Maino, September a 1908. . Gouverneur K. Warren, Topograph! ngiueers, Soionel Fifth New York, September 26, 1862. x Col. John H. A. Ward, Thirty eighth New York, October 4, 1862. Col.’ Solomon Meredith, Ninteenth Indiana, Oct. 6, 1942. L. Andrews, Seventh United States infantry, plone) Massachusetts, November 10, 1662. ‘The followingto rank as Brigadier Generals of Volun- teers from November 29, 1662:— th a y G_ Champlia, Michigan. M. a a a aed Dwight, Seventieth New York. a3 Deitaler, Ki , Kansas, . Dodge, First New York Mounted Rifles. Ewing, Thirtieth Ohio, . T, Gerrard, Third Keavucky. fe = a, Ni Te Jersey. Colonel Forty first Obi. x Colonel E. W. Hincks, Nineteenth Massachusetts, Colonel Edward Harland, Eighth Connecticut. Colonel Wm. Harrow, Fourteenth Indiana. Captain Lewis C. Hunt, Fourteenth United States infantry, Colonel Ninety second New York. Col. Waldemier Krzyzanowsi, Fifty-eighth New York. Col. Albert L. Lee, Seventh Kansas cavairy. Col. W. C, M. McLean, Seventy-fitth Ubio, bat nage nme | Diver pig he neng SS Indiana, janes nel C. Engineer Corps. J. McGinnis, Eleventh Indiana. Colonel C. L. Malthies, Fiith Iowa cavairy. David A. Rassell, Eighth United States infantry, 1 of the Seventh Mussachusetts. Colonel Thomas H. Ruger, Third Wisconsin. Major George C. Strong, Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers and First tenant in Urdnance Lepart. mont Colonel Robert 0. Tyler, First Connecticut artillery. Frank Wheaton, Fourth United States cavalry, . of the Seoond — hon Major Adam J. Siemmer, Sixteenth United States infantry . ba pn Tillson, Maive arti lery. ¥ George D. , Fifteenth Indiana. ‘ Colonel Joseph D. Webster, First lilinois artillery. ee ze 24 e Pe FF 3 = 20 gees. Ff 2) H New York Crry anp State tux Ricut Aru or THE GoverNmENT.—In his great Union speech at the Cooper Institute t¥e other evening Mr. John Van Buren said that “the city of New York, with a patriotism which did it honor, had sent over eighty thousand men to quell the re- bellion, and the capitalists of New York had advanced three hundred millions of dollars to put down the rebellion,” while the State of New York, altogether, had sent forward two hundred Major Joo. H. King, Fifteenth United States infantry. Beatty , Nineteenth Ohio, Chas. R. Graham, Seventy-fourth New York. Colonel Edward H. Hobson, Thirteenth a M. D. Leggett, Seventy ninth Ohio. 4 BEBEL FORCE THOUGHT TO BE MOVING TOWARDS thousand men for the same great object. Such are the contributions of the Empire City and the Empire State to the cause of the Union, and “the cry is, still they come.” Gotp 1x Ricuwonp Tarex Huxprep Per Cent.— The Richmond Dispatch of March 5 says that “gold om Saturday last was sold at $2 50 and $2 60, advancing during the day;” and that “ yesterday (Wednesday last) it went up like a rocket until it reached $3 (Confederate scrip), Deing an advance (from Saturday) of forty per cent.” At this rate we have only to sustain the government against the gold speculators of Wall street, and within a month the rotten financial fabric (Confederate scrip) of the rebel States will tumble to the ground. - ———_———_~+ Tar Ricut Docrane—Judge Daly, in his Cooper Institute speech on the occasion of the late grand Union consolidation meeting, said that “when Admiral Blake was fighting the battles of England, in the wars under a govern- ment (Cromwell's) in whioll he did not believe, he gave this answer to his men inclined to mu- tiny:—‘ It is our duty to stand by and fight for our ‘country, no matter in whose hands the government may temporarily be.’ ” That's the doctrine. ‘Tus Covvernzans Bornerrp.—One of the copperbead journals of this city denounced in advance the late Cooper Institute Union meet- | ing a# ab abolition concern, while another cop- | perhead . journal, after the meeting, says that this gathering wae dependent upon the demo- crats for its principal ere—James S. Bra- dy, Jndge Daty and John Van Bures. That will do. hicapee. bance, March 9, 1663. ‘The New Ganpee i ‘The steamer Alert, from leeton new side sheet gunboat (hioper, of euray b ne, 1a tow, put into Newport Lit ate sb agcoUNs O howl winds lazon, 4th O., and Capt. in 11) in Thomas H. Neill, Fifth United States T. EB G. Ransore, Eleventh Iilinois, Truxitio, Honduras, having resigued, L. L. Lambord, of Massachusetts, has been nominated by the President to ll the vacancy. tamuel P. Allen, editor of the Rochester Democrat, hae been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue of the ‘Twenty-cighth district of New York, in the place of the nominee who was rejected by the Senate. The nomiva tion was confirmed without the customary reference to = committee. The appointment of Mr. Allen was asked for by Freeman Clarke, member of Congress elect, and by Beuators Harria and Morgan. GENERAL FREMONT BRFORR TUR WAR COMMITTEE. Major General Fremont was this morning before tbe Committee @ the Conduct of the War, MOVEMENTS OF SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR USHER. Secretary Usher has gone to Indiana. Judge C oten will ‘act an Secretary of the Interior in nis absence. INTERESTING TO WOUNDED AND DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. Mr. French, the Second Auditor of the Trensury fepart- ment, has been overwhelmed within the last few days with letters from discharged eoldiers By & late ect of Congress soldiers discharged from the army by reavon of ‘wounds received in battle are ensitied to the United St:tew Dounty; but this law is everally misconstrned, go thet soldiers discharged for disability and other causes axeo) t ing wounds im battle, imagine themselves ontitied to tho bounty. A right understanding of the Inw would ave soldier, as well as the Treasury Department, mach work ugaroubie. sd v THE DISTRICT OF COLUMRTA JUpGRSHITS. ‘The nominations for Judges in this District weren ¢ wont to the Sonate to-day, as was expected. Tt i that a push is made for Bingham, of Obio, and citizens oF this District have « hope that one or more experience | ‘will be Relected. ‘These valuable lite offices at tbe ‘very heart of the republic are desirable to old politiciane, and in the struggle to get euch places the caste may be | qndjectet to clanyesefrom time yo time. for Naw Yorke, with (he | it is eviggestad that the selection of ex Senator WF 0s for « high gositiom dcatroys ex-Speaker Grow's prospe: a,