The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK ORK HERALD. | OF I0m N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. mn AMUSEMBNTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Satana:.ca. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Ennxstine—Ltt- wis Temas cR®. . WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Love. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Lorrear Tiokkt—Faie One Wien tam Gorpen Looxs. NEW BOWBRY THRATRE, Bowery.—Paut Outrrorp— Comers OF THe Buack Cave—Iciustatous STRANGER. BOWERY THEATRE, bowe! reiok Vaur. BARBNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Mucta Warnxx. Com. Norz, Livia Hirroror, . Ac. wt all hours—-Prex Tiixs ALL—Afternoon and fvening. WRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Erniorian Sones, Buacesquas, Dances, &0.—How Khe You, Gnuxxnacks? WOOD'S MINSTREL Soncs, Dances, &0.—G BROADWAY MENAGERIE, Broadway.—Living W) Anim4is—PeeroRmine ELgraants—Comio Mums, £0, ss AMERICAN THEATRE, ¥ — ri A yg 44 Brosdway.—Bariure, PARISIAN CARINE? OF WONDE! Broadway. Open daly rom OAM ME hi HOOLEY" s adhe Panes ea HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eruioriax New York, Thursday, March 12, 1863. antes ie THE SITUATION. General Hooker had a long conference in Wash- ington yeaterday with the President, Gen. Halleck, Mr. Stanton and the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and returned to the Rappahannock last night. A reconnoitering party sent out a few days ago, consisting of a detachment of the First Maine cavalry, to scour the neck of land be- tween the Rappshannock and Mattapony rivers, roturned on Sunday to Falmouth and made @ good report of itself, to the effect that all the court houses on the neck, and all the fer- ries on the Rappahannock for eighty miles below our lines, were visited, and that another smuggling nest was broken up and the smugglers captured, together with several rebel officers. A valuable lot of medical stores, contraband goods, such as boots, shoes, caps and blankets, and a number of horses aud mules, were taken. Several boats en- gaged in carrying goods across the Rappahannock ‘wore destroyed, and a large warehouse filled with wheat and corn, ready for transportation, was burned. This is doing very well in that infested, region. It is sald that before many days elapse the Presi- dent will iseue a call for more troops. The rumors that Major General Batler had been appointed Provost Marshal of the Eastern district are not true, 1 The news from the Southwest to-day is im- Portant. It was believed in Memphis yesterday that an engagement at Port Hudson was progress- ing. A report reached Cincinnati from Jackson, ‘Tennessee, that a portion of General Sullivan’s division, composed of two hundred men and two pieces of artillery, had been surrounded by the rebels and captured. A movement took place on Monday afternoon at Rutherford’s creek, one of the tributaries of the Duck river, Tennessee, which may eventuate be- fore many days in @ serious battle between the Union troops and Van Dorn’s large rebel force of some 18,000 men, now on the line of the Duck river. General Granger, sent forward by General Rose- crans, arrived at the creek on that evening, and his advance guard immediately commenced skir- miahing with the enemy, capturing several of them, who report that Colonel Coburn and two thousand of his men—who, it will be remembered, were captured by Van Dorn at Thompson's Station on the 7th inst.—had made their eacape. A battle in the vicinity of Nashville may therefore be contem- plated before long. The Richmond Examiner of Monday says that the latest accounts from Fort McAllister report that the Union fleet had again retired, after a ter- rific bombardment. It says that the fire of three iron-clads and three mortar boats was concen- trated on the fort at the same time, and shell and solid shot literally rained on the garrison. The fire commenced about nine A. M., and continued up to a late hour in the evening and through the night. This is the enemy's fourth attack on Fort McAllister, and he has failed, strange to say: and, as unequal as the contest was, it states that the fort sustained but little damage, and the rebel loss is said to have been but two wounded and none killed. The Eraminer regards the “Yankee” gunboats and mortars as a hambug, and adds that so accus- tomed have become the people of Vicksburg to them, and go little is the fear manifested at their shelling, “that when the fire commences the People go out to witness it as a kindof amuse- ment."" A rather dangerous kind of amusement, we should think. Wo give to-day an interesting history of a new arm introduced inte the United States service to meet the exigencies of the times on the Western rivers—namely; the Mississippi Marine Brigade. The object of this organization ia to operate againat the rebel guerillas on the river banks. The force consists of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and all are provided with quarters on a fleet of steamboats. They will-act in conjunction with the rams, and will be landed at those poiuts where rebel batteries or ambuscades may be dis- The brigade is vader the command of Genbral Ellet. The ramors prevailing in Havana on the depar- tore of the Roanoke of the probable destruction of the rebel privateer Florida, noticed in yester- covered, to clear them out, day's issue, had no foundation except the state- ment made by the captain of the schooner Ocean Herald, that he had seen the wreck of a steamer on Abaco; and as the steamer Florida had not been heard from in Havana since she was pursued by the Sonoma, during a gale off Abaco, it was surmised that the wreck might possibly be that of the rebelgrover. Tat the Florida was not wreck- ed at the time supposed:is evident from the fact of her having captured and burned the ship Jacob Bell two weeks after she was chased by the So- fom, f iy the stoamshios Kangaroo and City of Balti. NE per have interesting newa from Europe to the | 26th ult, The question of the Amorican war con- tinues.an exciting topic. In the House of Lords Earl Russoll alluied to the question of the recogni- tioa of the Southern confederacy, and requested Lord Stratheden to po until the 2d inst. a mo- tion which he had given Motice of for the production of copies of all deapatches from Mr. Mason to her Majesty's goveramont on the claim of the Southern confederacy to be acknowledged as an mdepen- dent Power by Great Britain, to which request Lord Stratheden acceded. Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, in reply to a question as to whe- ther there was any correspondence between her Ma- jesty’s government andthe Emperor of the Frenoh relative to the offer of mediation between the fed- eral and Confederate States, and if so, whether there was any objection to lay it on the table of the House; and also, if the government was aware that any replies on the subject had been received by the Emperor ef the French from the federal government, answered that the only official dooument on, the sub- Jeot was ® despatch from Lord Russell om the 18th of November to Lord Cowley in a reply toa verbal communication from the French Ambassa- dor, That fooument was already on the table of | the House. With regard'to any reply that might have been reeeived by the Emperor of the French, that would be a matter between the American ge- vernment. and the French Minister at Washington, and he did not see how he could answer the ques- tion. CONGRESS. The United States Senate yesterday adopted the resolution of Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, calling upon the President to furnish, at the commencement of the next session, a list of all the ctvil employes of the government, with the pay and perquisites of each. Before its adoption the resolution was amended so as to request that the reply shall also show in what capacity said employes have acted. During the debate, Mr. Davis stated that his rea- sen for offering the resolution was that he de- signed to propose an amendment to the constitu- tion at the next session, and he wished this infor- mation to assist him in the matter. No other busi- |, ness was transacted in public. The Senate held an executive session, and then adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate at Albany yesterday several bills were passed; among them those relative to the collection of taxes in this city, to establish a law library in the First Judicial district, to extend the Chenango canal, and to extend the operation of the act for the formation of manufacturing and mechanical companies. The Chamber of Com- merce niemorial relative to the enlargement of the canals was presented. Favorable reports were miade on the bills for the disposition of moneys and securities in charge of the Court of Appeals, for the payment of canal drafts interest, and to extend the time for the collection of taxes. The Assess- ment bill, being the special order, wee taken up and discussed for some time. The Railroad Com- mittee of the Senate held a meeting yesterday afternoon to hear arguments for and against the Broadway Railroad, in the course of which it was atated by Mr. Stewart, of this city, that should the Legislature decide in favor of the road, he was suthorized by those he represented to offer two millions of dollars for the grant. In the Assembly, immediately after convening, @ long debate took place on a motion to expunge from the Journal the record of some disorderly proceedings on the previous evening, during which it was stated that certain members had forcibly removed the doopkeeper, and made their way out of the chamber. Finally the whole record was expunged. A report of receipts for tolls and moneys paid out was received from the Canal De- partment Auditor. Several bills were returned from the standing committees, among which the following, with a number of others of less gencral interest, were reported upon favorably:—To amend the New York Pilot laws, to regulate the Staten Island ferries, to amend the South and West Streets Railroad charter, for the extension of streets between Fortieth and Forty-third streets, and amending the law for the distribution of: the property of intestates. The bills in relation to the New York and Havre Steamship Company, for the collection of military fines and to amend the militia laws, and appropriating money to put the Seymour Light Infantry in the field, were re- ported upon unfavorably. Bills were reported to make the fees of public officers conform to decimal currency, to repay the Manhattan Company the amonnt advanced to enable the Comptroller to pur- chase gold to pay the State debt interest, and to prohibit the sale of State lands for the payment of assessments and interestthereon, Among the bills noticed were one to amend the ,act relative to the New York Board of Supervisors and one to amend that in reference to sheriffs. A new police bill for this city was introduced. Among other provisions, | it makes the Beard of Commissioners to consist of the Mayor, Recorder and firat Judge of the Common Pleas. It was referred to the Cities Committee. The charges against Speaker Callicot were taken up in the evening session and a committee to in- vestigate the subject appointec. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Mc- Guigan, and the Kangaroo, Captain Jeffrey, from Liverpool and Queenstown, the latter with Euro- pean dates to the 22d, and the former to the 26th of February, arrived at this port at an early hour this morning. The advices by the City of Balti- | more are four days later than those previously re- ceived. A synopsis of the news will be found in our columns. The arrival of the American food ships;Achilles and Griswold was the cause of a great demonstra- | tion in Manchester. A large meeting was held, | and an address of thanks adopted to the captain and officers of the Griswold. The speeches ex- | pressed the fullest sympathy with the North. The captain of the British frigate Majestic also enter- tained the officers of the Griswold at a grand ban- | quet on board his vessel in the Mersey, Captain Inglefield, of the Majestic proposed the health of the President, and said thot Le dic so not only because the President was the chief of a great nation, but Decause of his undauvied perseverance in prose- cuting the war with the object of establishing a constitutional government. | The steam»hip Eagle, from Mavana on the 7th \ inst., arrived at this porteagly thi morning. She brings no later uews from Mexfvo thap that already received aud pub! fm the Herat. There was nothing of interest transpiring in Havana, Wendell Phillips delivered a discourse last night At the Cooper Institute on ‘Toussaint I'Ouver- ture,” the Haytian black man who fought against and was finally destroyed by Napoleon I. during his dynasty. The large hall of the Tustitute was | pretty well filled by an audience which, however, | consisted principally of ladies, to hear the pecu- liar views of Mr. Phillips. The platform was adorned also by a large display of the fair sex and about half dozen of the opposite gender. The | remarks of Mr. Phillips were almost strictly of a | historical character, his chief aim having been to | show the superiority of the black Toussaint | VOnvertare over his white ncighbors. Atthe con- clusion of Mr. Phillips’ address Horace Greeley | (who was attired ina clean shirt) made afew ro. marks, to the offect that thege were no such things | as heroes now adi md we should look to the | past for persons of that description. The audience then dispersed quietly. Colonel Marshall Lefferts haa resigned the com- mand of the Seventh Regiment New York State Militia, in consequence of theinoreasing demands made on his time by family cares’ and business re- lations. His\farewell order will be found im another part of to-day's paper. Charles Smith and H. Sandford, seamen on board tho American ship Talisman, charged with murder on the high seas, were taken beford Commissioner White yesterday and the examina- tion commenced, ‘They are acoused of the marder ofthe third mate, Ezra Thomas, whilo on a voyage from London to New York: ‘From the testimony taken it appeared thatthe deceased was on duty; some altercation ensued, and a ory was heard of “Man overboard!" effort was made to find the missing man, but wilhout avail. Next morning spots of blood Were found on the deck near where deceased. stood. The investigation | was adjourned to Seturday next, The jury in the ‘case of Gormack, for the mur-’ der of policeman Williams, failed to agree apd were discharged . The pri- soner will be tried again qn Wednesday iéxt. The trial of Dr. Brown, for causing the death of a lady by'illegal treatment under certain delicate oiroumstenves, is eet down for to-day, an addition- al_panel'of jurord hgving been ordered for the] Oyer and Terminer by Judge Barnard. The stock market was dul and day, the excoptiont'te the tule being Pacific Mail, Miobi- gan Central and guaranteed. Gold fluctuated between} 1573 and, 16834, closing, 1675 bid... Exchango declined to174 9.17434. Money was. very easy indeed; many osll Joans were mado af 5 per cent. Thero was leas dolog ip cotton, which was a shade easier yesterday, closing at 86¢. a 863¢c. for middlings, with sales of 1000 bales, Tho breadstuM™trade was de- pressed, and light aales were effected as a reduction of Sc. @ 16c. on flour, 20; on wheat, and 1o. a 20. op cora. Provisions attracted less attention; new mess pork do- olinod 25c. per bbl., and prime lard 4c. a 3<c. per pound, ‘Sugars, molasses, rice and whiskey were moderately ac- tive, while coffee, hides, hops,*metals, oils, seeds and fruit were quiet. The demand for figh was fair and tho market firm. Hay was steady, but inactive. Spirits turpentine was lower aud irregalar. Limited freight en- gagements were reported at reduced quotations. The Administration and the Coantry. The winter is drawing to a close. It has been a season which; with its unprecedentcd impediments of rains, and snows, and thaws, and mud, has sorely tried the strength, pa- tience and endurance of our gallant soldiers in the tented ‘field. But our unfailing bright skies and drying northwest winds of March are at band, at least in the South. .We thus expect soon to hear that the neble army of General Hooker has beon extricated from its miry en- -campment on the Rappahannock, and is ad- vaocing successfully upon the enemy; that the splendid army of General Rosecrans is vic- toriously moving southward; that General Grant and Admiral Porter and Gen. Banks and Admiral Farragut are ‘actively clearing out the rebels from the- Mississippi; that the ball ‘has beon opened against Savannah or Charleston, and that the Union thuaders of the spring campaign are reverberating around the entire circle of the beleagured rebellion. .. And this is the reasonable expectation of the people of the loyal States. On the side of the ent the history of the war thus far invoives'a heavy budget of blunders. In the beginning, General McDowell was pushed for- ward to Bull run with less than twenty-five thousand men, when there were twenty- five thousand more within a convenient dis- tance which ought to have been ordered to join him on the way to the batfle ground. Thus the rebel army would have been cut to pieces or captured and Richmond would have -been ours, and the rebellion would have been speedi- ly crushed. Next, in the same year, from under the very guns of the rebel de- fences of Norfolk, a great expedition of Union land and naval forces was sent down to Port Royal, South Carolina, when, by dashing it against Norfolk, that city would have been easily captured, including twenty-five hundred heavy cannon, subsequently removed by.fhe rebels to the Mississippi river and other deielive lines; and from Norfolk the expedi- tion Goala ba¥e gone directly np to Richmond while the rebel army of Virginia was at Manassas, with Gen. McClellan and his army close behind it. Next, in 1862, if one-half of the sixty thou- sand men employed in @atching and hunting | Stonewall Jackson, between Iredericksburg and the Shenandoah valley, had been sent to reinforce General McClellan in front of Rich- mond, he would ha® entered and occupied the city. In fact, all our army disasters, from the first one at Bull run down to that most bloody and depressing one on the heighis of Frede- ricksburg, may be traced and justly charged to the mismanagement of tbe war, including the neglect of their duties by the supreme authori: ties at Washington. ‘ The people of tke loyal States are not ina frame of mind to tolerate the repetition in 1863 of the blunders and military disasters of 1861 and 1862. “Military success” is imperiously demand- ed, and is the one thing needful to save the administration and the country from shipwreck. President Lincoln, in the event of any further military failures or defeats, can have no excuse to offer of a want of men, or means, or money, or @ want of powor to raise cither meo, money or means. The powers granted by Congress are almost unlimited for the purposes of a vigorous and suceessful war. Let him not fail to exercise these discretionary powers prompt- ly and ‘earnestly, in order to make this spring eampaign overwhelmingly successful East and West. Let him, for example, pro- ceed at once toa draft for two hundred thou- sand fresh troops from the militia reserves of the loyal States, so that the losses of our armies in the field may, when required, be promptly repaired, and so that after another series of bat- tles and aleges the war may still be pushed vic- toriously forward, instead of losing, as hereto- fore, even after a great victory, months of valuable time in collecting fresh troops and supplies to enable the army to advante again. With the exercise of even ordinary ability in the management of the war, and with a very little extra application of energy and syste- matic industry at Wa: ton, the rebellion may be completely extinguished before the re- assembling of Congress. After having {m- pressed every able-bodied white man between sixteon axl fifty years of age within his tempo- rary dominions into the military service of Davis, he and hie associate rebel rulers of the cotton States are now impressing the provisions of their suffering people. Mills are emptied of their flour, farmers are despoiled of their corn and bacon, and the foragers of the rebel army are thus scouring the country from Virginia to Louisiana and reducing the people to the verge of starvation. Only a week or two ago a de- tachment of “registered enemies of the United States,” sent away beyond the lines of our army from New Orleans towards Mobile, returned | again to New Orleans and took the Union oath of allegiance, to secure bread for themselves and their wivesand children. It ie confessed at Rich- mond, by the rebel Secretary ef War, that the subsistence of the “Confederate States” is fall- ing short; and this cannot be doubted, with the generally lower yeater- ig it appears that there is no‘election of Governor, none of the three candidates having a majority of all the votes cast, as is required in that State; but it is demonstrated that the democrats are in a majority for the first time in seve years, and that if they had united their strength, instead of running separate tickets, they would not only have elected the Governor, but carried all the members of Congress, the republican local majorities being very small. -Even as it was, had the same law of election prevailed in New Hampsbire as in the State of New York, where a plurality vote elects the Governor, the prin- cipal democratic candidate would have been elected, for Eastman has the highest number of suffrages, amounting to nearly a majority of the whole. The figures by the returns pub- lished yesterday stood:— ae Gilmore ces ssseseee 24,881 Thus the democrats proper, represented by Eastman, and the Union democrats, represented by Harriman, outnumber the republicans, re- presented by Gilmore, by upwards of four thou- sand four hundred votes; but according to the later returns which we publish to-day, the majority of Enstwan over Gilman is be- tween four and five thousand, and only wants “a few hundred” of electing him. And this result has taken place in the face of al the influence ofa party in power, avd the fact that troops were sent home from the battle field just before the election to influence* the vote.. Asthere was no choice of Governor, in consequence ofthe division of the demooratic vote, the election is to be decided by the Legis- lature, which, being republican, will of course vote for the republican candidate. This was brought about bythe usual party trick to which the republicans have resorted since their power began to wane-—and they have been unable to make a square fight upon a square issue—the dodge of inducing, by certain persua- sive arguments, some factious or fishy politician to run a ticket, under the designation of Union or war democrat, in opposition to the regular democragy. By the same tactics they carried a majority of the members of Congress. The friends of the republican candidate said to the friends of Eastman or of Harriman, “We will vote for your candidate for Governor, if you will vote for our candidate for Congress,” well knowing that, the vote of the democracy being aplit, neither candidate could be elected, and that, the Legislature being republican, the Governorship would be secure. The later re- turns say that the First Congressional district has been carried by the democracy, and that to decide the Second and Third it will be neces- sary to have the official returns. The figures in this election show that the con- servative revolution is steadily advancing in New England as well as in the Middle and West- ern States. In New England there are greater obstacles to be overcome, and the progress is slower; but it is not the less sure. Last year in New Hampshire the republican vote was 32,150, the democratic vote 30,275. In 1860 the republican vote in the Presidential election was 37,519, the democratic vote 27,993. The following table will present the vote at the three periods:— Yer. Democratic. Bpublican. 1860. 21, 87,510 1862. 82,150 1863, 81 It will be seen that from 1860 there is a fall- ing off of 12,638 republican votes. In 1860 the republican majority was 9,526; in 1863 the democratic majority is 4,444, making a change of 13,970 votes. The same slow but steady progress is observ- able in Connectiout, and if it were not for the action of the copperheads the democrats would sweep the State for Governor on the first Mon- day in April. So conscious are the republieans of weakness that they have nominated demo- crate for Congress in two districts in the hope of drawing off democratic votes, or rather, they have adopted the nominations of the Union men or war democrats, They have done the same thing in the case of the candidate for Governor. There will thus be buat two tickets. The fol- lowing is the vote in Connecticut in the last Presidential election and in the election for Governor in 1862:— Democratic. ++ 83,867 43,792 ++ 80,634 89,782 Thus the republican majority in 1860 was 9,926; in 1862 it was 777 less. Since the last State elections the town elections have gone all im favor of the democracy. The republican journals admit that thefr losees are chiefly in the towns everywhere. Why is this? Because the towns are the centres of light, and informa- tion is diffused more rapidly in them than through the rural districts. The intelligence of the country is against the destructive fanaticism of the abolitionists, and it is only in the remote and benighted parts of States that they retnin any power. The tide of conservatiam is every- where setting in, and though in some places it is not so rapid as in others, it is making pro- gress In all. If the flowing wave recedes for a moment, it is only to gather fresh strength by which it advances beyond its former mark, and thus it will continue to gain ground till at last it dovers every spot on which a republican has ever rested the sole of his foot. The abolition- ists have half destroyed the republican party by their fanaticism, and the mismanagement of the war by Congress and the administration i W YORK HERALD, THUKSPAY, MARCH 12, Is63._ finishing the business ao rapidly thas If a c! for the better does not soom take place there will be nothing loft of the party but a little. abolition clique and the federal offics holders in the fall elections of the present year. The Spring Campaigns of Lincoln and Maretxek. Before Buohanan’s administration resigned the reins of power it arranged a few happy combinations to embarrass President Lincoln. no sucgessor in New ¥. could prévént it. Consequently be bit pons rt dea, He bought up all the our ships, our armies and our munitions of war. An opera without # chorus was an imposstbitfty. Grau felicitated himself upon having obeck- mated Maretzek so cleverly. But Maretzek, like Lincoln, is a man not only of rare good nature, but also of extraordi. nary powers. If we were to have an operatic dictator he would be the very person for the situation. He arrived here as quietly as Presi- dent Lincoln entered Washington, but not in a Scotch cap and long military cloak. He brought his generals with him, as Lincoln did; but he found himself without a chorus, as Lin- coln was without an army and navy. Investi- gations soon disclosed the astounding fact that the chorus, like Lincoln’s army, was distributed far and wide over the country, and that many of the ‘singers had gone over to the rebels, under Grau, who is now the operatic Jeff. Davis. But Maretzek, like Lincolo, was undis- mayed; and, without waiting for the return of the old army, he proceeded to raise a new one. Seventy-five thousand volunteers were de- manded. They eame like the rush of the tem- pestuous sea. They besieged the box office of the Academy, and stopped up the passages at the stage door. Maretzek soon had a chorus as much larger than the old one as Lincoln’s volunteer army was larger than the regular force. Then came the preparatory drills and rebearsals and dress paradea. Who were the Beott and the McClelian of Maretzek’s troupe we arenot informed. Able and experienced disciplinarians they must have been, for the chorus was remarkably efficieat. The-ladies,in their window curtain dresses, sang loudly and sweetly, The men, in their impossible pants and improbable jackets, growled steadily and deeply. Maretzek met no Manassas. He led his own troops, as Lincoln should have done, and took New York captive as easily as Lincoln will soon capture Richmond. Both in the field and at the Academy the pros- pects are excellent for a splendid spring cam- paign. President Lincotn has a large, well drilled and finely equipped army, and Maretzek has an equally splendid troupe. The people are as anxious for the success of the war as for the success of the Opera. They will support the one as heartily and cordially aa they sup- port the other. The few copperheads in our midst are of no mero account to Lincoln than the deadheads to Maretzek. The people's purse is at the service of both popular favorites. While Lincoln has the best army ever mar- shailed on this continent, Maretzek has the best company that has appeared here since the time of Malibran. Medori is to Maretzek what the Goddess of Liberty is to President Lincoln. Mazzolini is as full of fire and dash as Rose- crans himself, and, like that celebrated pupil of McClellan, he is always acting, always on the qui vive and always successful. Almost equal praise may be bestowed upon the other artists. Maretzek has no Fremont in his band. He gives idlers and incompetents the cold shoulder, and the President will do well to adopt the same policy. Maretzek basa much better cabi- net than President Lincoln, however. His Secretary of the Treasury is backed by the Marti gold mine, full of Spanish doubloons, and the artists are paid in gold, as our soldiers and sailors ought to be. We wish Maretzek’s treasurer would have a talk with Secretary Chase and convince bim of the feasibility of specie payments. Chase has a Marti mine in Colorado and Idaho, if he only knew it. As for Stanton, Halleck and Welles, we can find no parallels for these three werthies in Maretzek’s troupe. Indeed, we doubt if their equals are to be encountered in this wicked world. Nature exhausted her stock of imbecility in manu- facturing this trio, If the President would rid himself of them and recall General McClellan bis Cabinet would compare better with that of Maretzek. Little Max is his own “Little Mac.” In all other respects, however, Lincoln and Maretzek are in equally good condition for the spring campaign. We hope and predict for them the same success. Jeff. Davis, like Grau, will soon discover that the country air is necessary to his health; but, unlike Grau, he Will prefer the air of some other country than this. Then, when the Stars and Stripes wave proudly ever the stars and bars, we ask no greater treat than to listen to Maretzek’s grand orchestra saluting the Union millenium with “Hail Columbia,” while President Lincoln dances with joylike David before the ark, to the music of “Hail to the Chief.” Another Pihillipic of Thurlow Weed Against Greeley. Thurlow Weed having come out in another scathing letter against Greeley and the aboli- tionista throughout the Northern States, par- ticularly these of the city of New York, “H. G.,” writhing under the lash, attempted to reply yesterday, but completely broke down. Weed charges against Greeley and “half a dozen other unprincipled speulators in poli- | tics” the squandering away of the immense | republican majority of one hundred thousand in this State, and all from the most selfish mo- | tives. “Messrs. Greeley, Opdyke and Field, aspirants for the United States Senate, suppos- ing the State sufficiently abolitionized to adven- ture their chances upon that issue, demanded | and made it.” In New York city and Kings | county, where the Tribune is most read, the de- | mocratic majority was increased in the last elec- | tion thirteen thousand over the majority of | 1360, which is more than Seymour's majority in the whale Steta, Kron the radipala of the oss of the election. To the $ grown dim. And he adds: “Half a million of men will not again ‘go to their graves like beds’ under the threats of political ‘hyont \ who remain‘at home bhowling—a ol Verily this is a stab under the fifth rib. Weed truly observes that Greeley is cared at the uprising of the people. He finds the people now, in’ their town and city elections, repu- diating the issue he bag forced, and he ehirks the responsibility, But “he cannot dodge either this of more fearful consequences.” There isa meaning in these words to which \Gresiey srould do- welt lake heed ‘befpro it is too late. But his fate drives him on. Like a man half way over the crackling, dissolving ice ‘ona deep, broad river, it is as perilous forhim to retreat.ee to advance, “Bre long,” says Mr: Weed, “those whto are bereaved ofsons, husBands and brothers will’ begin: to inquire who invited the cotton States to secede? who told them they had the right to withdraw from the Union? who stigmatized and taunted the bor- der States? who intensified the rebellion and perverted the war? who conspires with Vallan- digham? who, when the life of the nation is dependent upon union, deals forth ribald de- nunciation against the democratic party? who, in the darkest hour of the war, traitoroasly proclaimed that we must put down the rebel- lion in sixty days or ‘make peace upon the best attainable terms?!” ‘ fr . In his card in reply, while passing over un- noticed the greater part of this indictment, “HG.” pronounces it “a lie” that he invited the cotton States to secede. The whole world knows that two years ago he said, upon the principles of the Declaration ef Independence, they had a perfect and indefeasible right to withdraw. Again, he pronounces it “another. lie” that he said “we must put down the rebel- lion in sixty days or make peace on the best attainable terms.” That he did lately say this is matter of such public notoriety that it re- quires the brazen effrontery of a Greeley to deny it. And what does he say yesterday in the very article following his card? He aays if battles should soon take place betweeg four of the five armics of Unionists ond Confederates now facing each other on the Rappahannock, near Charleston, Port Hudson, Vicksburg and Southern “‘Tennessec, and if three of thom should result decisively ig favor of our side, “thoge resalts would go very fae towards deciding the fate of the Unioa.” “Bat, on the other hand, he'says “if the rebel «armies shall generally defeat and demotish ours in fair fight we chatl probably have to give it up.”, But battles in all these places may come off in less than sixty days; so that Greeley denies in one column what he affirmsin the next. And no doubt in a week hence he will deny all about our “having to give it up,” just as he de- nied all about his promising an army of nine bundred thousand abolitiontste to @ght the bat- tles of the Union if Mr. Lincoln would oaly issue hia proclamation of freedom to the slave. But even in bis card “H. G.” denounces “any compromise” as “infernal” whereby the Soutb- ern States might be restored to the Union as they were before the war, with thelr State in- stitutions preserved. This he pronounces “worse than defeat—worse even than disunion.”” Yet to-morrow Greeley, when put in # corner, will deny that he is a disunionist. Thurlow Weed knows Greeley like a book. He was “ verdant enough,” he says, “to believe in his patriotism and simplicity for fifteen years;” but now he should “know his hide in a tan- imperils vital interests,” and that he is “laying up wrath against the day of wrath; and let him be admonished in season; for if he continues playing away all that good aad wise men cherish, he is provoking retributions compared with which his remorse for the ‘On to Rich- mond’ bravado will be as nothing.” ‘Thus is Thurlow Weed og one side and John Van Buren on the other breaking up what re- mains of the republican party, by withdrawing from it all its Union elements and leaving the abolition rump alone in its “ owl-like fanati- cism” to reap the reward of its crimes. The conservatives of the democratic and republican parties will form a new and overwhelming combination, and the niggerheads and copper- heads will go down together to “their own place.” PSS gegen male Oxp Ase’s Last Joxe.—When our good Pre- sident heard of the recent rebel raid at Fairfax, in which a brigadier geueral and a number of valuable horses were captured, he gravely ob- served, “Well, I am sorry for the horses.” “Sorry for the horses, Mr. President!” exclaim- ed the Secretary of War, raising his spectacles and throwing himself back in his chair in sston- ishment. “Yes,” replied Mr. Lincoln; “I can make a brigadier general in five minutes, but it is not so easy to replace hundred and ten horses.” me itical moe. m3 , March 11, 1863. The Democratic Conventjom have nominated for Lieu- tenant Governor Willian @. Cozzens, who, it is said, de. times. : ‘ait tne conventions renominated J. R. Bartlett for Seere- i Sune ‘Ceavection, which nomicased the Democratic » Which nom, Heury H. Cook for General Treasorer. Brigadier General Gordon, of the United States Army; W.L. Nicholson, of the United States Coast Survey: |. Brown, of Boston; B. M. Kittridge, of C 1; Capiaia Rofl 4. Goddard and Mi. B. Jencinn, vatecu, are stopping at the Brevoort House. Arrivals and Departeres. ARR TR Weber IVALS. Havana—Steam ip Bese F, Palmeyde, E Dopre. Ri a- Mee Belyalze, Qeo Bacriuston eel, C is hgame, my onry, Mre fardings, © W Lama B T Rossel, Bioware, MJ Braces and se it; M. jim ort A so Charde, F'Aifonsn Goo Tooker, ey 4 Bigiand Mr, Ladin, inant, H Held, M Soils, Livenroot—steam Ht Qaklord, Mr Gawnble, Mee Mrs Adolphus, Mr a % dos, Mr Samson, M Mi, sone, Me Creag, 1 Wil Peace li # Thena Hiaimore 0 O Gray. Me g, Mr Hinasom slr Car? Nef ond son. Ch bers a re, Mr Kimmons, M van. it, Mr Gregg, Me Myers, ? a Branigan. Me inks, indy aod Infant: ME Renee UN Byre. Mr Lichlenberg, Dr Wernicke—and 417 plestamiens DEPARTURES. : Livenpoor—Sicapaiip AfricaDapiel Talmage, New York; Van Weat 18m , Now Fort Mrs D Tat mage aoe York ; Mra Catharine, Lotasry! lew Manuel de Zamors, © wwocrant, Ne fai heim, Yor yard.” He warns him that his “incendiariam ~