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4 NEW YORK HERALD, WE NESDAY, MARCH 18, 1863. NEW YORK HERALD. | JAMES GORDON BENNEYT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIEIOR. CPrrics N. Ww. CORNER ‘oF FULTON AND NASSAU 8T8. TERMS cash in advance. Money sent by mati will be atthe risk of the sender. Noue but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Turse cents per copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Frve cents per copy. Annual subscription prive:— One Copy . $2 ‘Three Copies. 5 Five Copies. . . 8 Any largor number, addressed to names of subscribers, $1 50 cach. An extra copy wil! be sont to every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one yoar, $35, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be @ent to clubs of twenty. 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Ma. — re HOOLEYT'S OPERA HOUS! lyn. —I Sonos, Dances, Bumixsquxs, ae nae pewonay New York, Weunesday, March 18, 1863. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements for the Datty Henatp should be sent to the office before nine o’clock in the even- ing. This will insure proper classification. Ad- vertisements for the Wsexry Hexatp must be handed in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. THE SITUATION. The news from the Army of the Potomac re- ports the enemy to be massed upon the right; but that all is at present quiet along the river. It is ourrently believed in Washington that, although official documents have not yet been published to confirm the statements already given to the public relative to the capture of Yazoo City, the statements are nevertheless true. The rebel sympathizers in the national capital are said to have conceded the fact. The Americans in Chile, South America, have raised a fund which they have contributed towards the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers of the United States. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday a number of bills were passed, mostly, however, not of general inte- rest. Among those of more importance were the bills relative to canal contracts and repairs, and for payment of in erest on canal drafts protested for non-payment. The bill to permit the running of dummy engines on the Brooklyn Central Rail- road received a favorable report. Bills were in- troduced to legalize the contract for grading Seventieth street, in ttis city, and to incorporate the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Com- pany. Presentations were made of petitions for and remonstrances against State aid to the Auburn, Lake Ontario and New York Railroad, and of peti- tions for the endowment of the Hygeia College. The bill to amend the charter of Brooklyn was ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly a third reading was ordered of the bill to reimburse the Manhattan Company for advances made to pay the interest on the State debt in coin. The Senate bill relative to the col- lection of taxes in this city was also ordered toa third reading, with some others of less interest. A majority report was made favorable to the in- corporation of the New York Society for the Re- lief of Destitute Children. In response to a reso- lution of the Assembly, the Canal Auditor made a report of the amounts received from tolla and ex- pended for the pastthree years; also the amount of principal and interest paid and the balance held by the sinking fund. The bill regulating transac- tions in gold was amended so as to exempt foreign bills of exchange from restriction, A long dis- cussion took place on the bill, but the vote on its passage was not reached. The committee ap- pointed to investigate the charges against Speaker Callicot will hold a session to-day. MISCELLANEOUS WEWS. The steamship Champion, from Aspinwall, ar- rived at this port yesterday afternoon, with $249,- 514 in specie on freight, and some later details of news from Central America. The Champion was conveyed by the gunboat Connecticut, The prin- cipal points of the news will be found in the letter of our Panama correspondent, in another column, The celebration of the anniversary of the inde- pendence of Mexico commenced on the 8th of February last; but the original programme was not carried out on account of the inclemency of the weather. A national salute was fired from evening a banquet was given at Delmonico's by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and one at the Chinese Assembly Rooms by the Knights of St. Patrick. G. B. Swan, colored, (no relation to the Black Swan) was elected trustee of the town of Pots- dam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., at the recent election. The State of Vermont has now in the field, in active service, ten thousand two hundred men, of whom nine hundred are cavalry and the remainder infantry. The number of men the Western Shore of Mary- land was required to furnish by draft was 4,114. Of this number 181 were mustered into service, 759 furnished substitutes who were also mustered in, 425 furnished substitutes who deserted, and 2,328 failed to report. Three valuable buildings belonging to the rebel General Watkins, inJackson, Mo., were destroy- ed by fire on the 11th inst. » The case of Moore, charged with the murder of Captain Bryer, of the ship Robert Lane, was fur- ther postponed to Wednesday of next week. Charles Campbell, one of the crew of the Ameri- can ship Washington, was brought before United States Commissioner Osborne yesterday, charged with the murder of Mr. Seares, second mate of that vessel, on 8 voyage from Liverpool toCallao. The prisoner was sent to this port for trial by Mr. John E. Lovejoy, the American Consul at Callao. ‘The Commissioner committed the sccueed for ex- amination. James Morrison was committed by Commission- er Henry, on a charge of altering a greenback one dollar to a ten and endeavoring to pass it in the Bowery. William White, of Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth regiment New York Volunteers (Coreoran’s Legion), was instantly killed at Suf- folk, Va., on Saturday, March 14, by the falling of a tree. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday, a resolution was adopted directing all property held on mortgage in the county of New York to be subject to tax, in conformity with the recent decision of the United States Court exempting from taxation the United States stock held by the banks. There was no further business of importance. The Board adjourned to Tuesday next at three o’clock. The Hon. James W. Wall, of New Jersey, ad- dressed the Democratic Union Association last evening, at their headquarters, Broadway. There was a large audience present, with whom the gentleman’s remarks found much favor. The market for beef cattle on Monday was the most active ever known. The supply was moderate, and butchers were out in vast numbers in quest of cattle. Full three thousand head were sold on that day, and only about 500 head were left at Allerton’s for Tuesday’s market. Prices advanced fully halfacent per pound,and some said one cent, ranging from 8c. a113;0. The cattle were nearly all good, freights being tho nigh to acmit of ship- ments of poor stock. The goneral selling prices were 9c. 8 10¢., and the average at 9340. a 9}¢0. Milch cows were quiet. Veals weresteady. Sheep and lambs were wonder- fully active and still higher. Fat sheep sold at $10 and $11 60 per head. Some lambs. sola at $68 $7 50. Swine continue very active at about last week’s prices. The total receipts were 4,546 beef. cattle, 137 cows, 458 veals, 6,449 sheep and lambs, and 17,400 swine. 4 ‘There was a great increase of speculation in stocks yes- terday, and prices were uniformly botter. In the after- noon thero was a good deal of realizing, and prices de- clined a fraction from the advance of the morning. Gold fluctuated between 154 and 155, closing 1543, bid. Ex- change closed 1703¢ a 171. Money was easy; eall loans 5a 6 per cent. Breadstuffs yesterday were on a very moderate scale, ‘and prices were depressed for flour and wheat, while corn was a shade higher, and oats, having been scarce, were also dearer. The provision market was heavy, and prices tended downward. There was rather more activity in groceries, but at somewhat easier rates. The cotton trade was quite dull at a further decline to 82c. a 83c. for middiings. Tallow was lower and less active. Whiskey was quiet and decliaing. The movements in other articles wore limited. The freight engagements were very mode- rate. Vicksburg. Down to the latest advices last night the gov- ernment had received no official confirmation of the reported brilliant operations of the Yazoo expedition. The despatch received on Monday at Washington from Admiral Porter, on the Mississippi river, near the outlet of the Yazoo, stating that he had heard the signal by cannon agreed upon with Captain Smith, announcing “the arrival of the naval portion of the expedi- tion in the Yazoo,” is our last direct informa- tion on the subject. We have, however, a file of papers before us from Richmond down to the 13th inst., and from the significant fact that they contain no reports or rumors of a battle, or even a petty skirmish, along the Yazoo, we may reasonably infer that nothing had occurred on that stream down to the 12th inst. of any consequence to either side of which the rebels at Vicksburg had any knowledge. From Yazoo Pass, out of the Mississippi into the little Moon Lake and Coldwater bayou, and thence down into the Tallahatchie river and Yazoo to Haines’ Bluff, on the north flank of Vicksburg, the distance by the tortu- ous water courses pursued is, we suppose, not less than four hundred miles, or not less than the direct railroad distance between New York and Richmond. It is hardly possible that our warlike expedition could traverse all this dis- tance down these aforesaid rivers, in the heart of one of the richest cotton districts of the South, and almost into the rear of Vicksburg, without picking up a considerable number of rebel steamers and cotton bales, The expedi- tion, as has been reported, may have captured or destroyed a number of rebel steamboats, and the flooded condition of the Yazoo and its low- lands may have kept the rebels at Vicksburg in ignorance of the movements of our squadron. At all events, considering the promptness and avidity with which the rebel journals at Richmond pick up any disaster to our arms, great or small, and in view of the fact that not even a bint of any rebel success on the Yazoo down to the 12th instant is to be found in those journals, we are satisfied that Captain Smith’s expedition has met with no serious resistance; and it has, perbaps, met with not even a detachment of the enemy. They may have been driven off by the spreading floods let into the head branches of the Yazoo from the Mississippi. In addition to the rebel fortifications at Haines’ Bluff there may, too, be obstructions in the river near that point, which may have prevented any communication down stream with Admiral Porter; while we all know that a return up stream to the Yazoo Pass, against the swift current of the descending flood, and in the narrow, crooked and dangerous channel which must be pursued, has been pronounced absolutely impossible. We feel, therefore, satisfied that the expedition, though temporarily cut off from any communication, up or down, or across the flooded country to Admiral one gun in the morning and evening, and a band played some fine music on the levee, near the place where the ceremonies were to take place, F'The natal day of the patron saint of Ireland was celebrated with great spirit and display yesterday in this city, The weather was exceed. ingly fine, and, besides the military and civic pro- cession, which was large and impesing, the ooca- sion was sign‘dized by the launch at the Brooklyn Wavy Yard of the gunboat Shamrock. In the Porter, is all right. Our greatest apprehension is that when our land and naval forces advance to the assault upon Vicksburg they will find the place evacuated, after the fashion of Co- rinth, and that General Rosecrans will first know the exact whereabouts of the rebel army of General Pemberton. Before the close of the day we expect some definite news from Admiral Porter or General Grant, or from both. Meantime we can only give our opinions | from the very scanty seraps of positive infor- mation in our possession. Sr. Parzicx’s Day 1n New Yors.—The sons of Old Ireland took possession of the city yes- terday. The sky was obscured by green flags and the Stars and Stripes. Paper representa- tives of the eame glorious banners fluttered to- gether from every Irishman’s cart, bedecked every Irishman’s window and were waved by every Irishman’s child. Ia a@ word, the day seemed like an Irish Fourth of July. In another column we give reports of the parades, processions, dinners and speeches. An attentive perusal of these reports will demon- strate the fact that St. Patrick’s Day was cele- brated here with unusual vim and splendor. The sky was as clear, the sunshine as bright as the most zealous Irishman could wish. Saint Patrick himeelf smiled upon his votaries. The neatly dressed mothers, wives, sisters and children of our Irish population lined the streets through which the procession passed, and the stout, robust, good hearted and good natured fathers, brothers, husbands and sons of the spectators marched all the more proudly because of the happy, familiar faces which cheered them from every side, We hear of this and that Irish regiment and brigade at the war; but were it not for the glowing accounts of Irish bravery which con- tinually reach us we could hardly believe that a single Irishman had left the city. Certainly none of them were missed yesterday. Crowds upor crowds, thousands upon thousands! There were Irishmen enough in our streets to make up half a dozen tolerably large armies; and we shall find them all in the field when the country needs them. Meagher and Corcoran were not here, but their hearts were; and at the same time that the Irishmen of New York marched in honor of St. Patrick the Irishmen of the Union army of Virginia were engaged in paying the same homage to that patron saint who drove all snakes and toads from Ireland, as our gallant soldiers will soon drive the monster rebellion and its abominable brood from this country—the land of the free and the home of the oppressed. The celebration yesterday was, in every point of view, a Union demonstration. The great lesson of the day to every Irishman was: Stand by the country which gives you life, liberty and the right to be happy in your own way. We do not doubt that this lesson was learned, and will be remembered, by many a patriotic Celt. The influences of St. Patrick’s Day, and especially of St: Patrick’s night, will last, not only for to-day, but, we hope, for many days to come. We congratulate our Irish fellow citizens upon the fine weather, the large turnout and the splendid procession, and par- ticularly upon the good order and decorum which marked all the proceedings. May we all live to see many more St. Patrick’s days, and may they all be still more happy than the one we celebrated yesterday. . Parsiorism Has Cram a8 WELL a8 Ostics- tions.—The federal government relies upon the patriotism of the people for its protection and defence. They have cheerfully responded, hun- dreds of thousands sacrificing their business in- terests and the comfort and weMare of their fa- milies to the national necessities. When, how- ever, they ask some evidence of sympathy in return—as, for instance, general bankrupt law—a deaf ear is turned to their appeals. In- dividual States have, it is true, manifested some regard for the poor soldier and for those ruin- ed by the rebellion—Wisconsin, for instance, ex- tending the period for the payment of taxes. No State has suffered more severely than New York in the number of its people whose busi- ness and resources have been destroyed by the war or who have lost their lives in the defence of the country. Can nothing be done for the protection of the former, or must we continue to witness, in proportion to the distress and hardsbip inflicted by the rebellion, merciless creditors straining the powers of the courts against those whose difficulties have been brought about by no fault of their own? If the State is powerless to protect them it should at least make an effort to extend them relief. Tae Atiantic TeceGRaPaH.—The completion of this great international enterprise is now, we are happy to state, placed beyond the risk of failure. Of the amount of fresh capital re- quired (£600,000) upwards of £200,000 hae already been subscribed in London, and of the proportion of the stock allotted to this country (£50,000) about two-thirds have been taken here. In view of the immense advantages which the undertaking offers to both countries there will be but very little difficulty in raising the re- mainder of the estimated amount. But even supposing that this is not obtained, it will not prevent the laying of the cable. The subscrip- tions already received are sufficient to ensure the completion of the enterprise so far as that is concerned; but the limitation of the capital to the sum already raised would have the effect of preventing the company from laying a line as strong and durable as that which their original estimate contemplated. Under any circumstances the cable cannot be laid until next summer, as it will take until then to manufacture it. In the meanwhile, it is a satis- faction to know that nothing can now Interfere to prevent the realization of the undertaking, and that by next fall we shall be in hourly communication with Europe. Gaeeiey’s Last Somersacit.—The latest exhi- bition of Greeley’s acrobatic skill in politics has drawn around him a swarm of buzzing radicals who threaten to sting him to death. Their darling measure—the emancipation proclamation, whieh Greeley had held up to their dazzled admiration as the grand remedy for overthrowing the rebels and restoring the Union—is now pro- nounced, in a leading article in the Tribune, to be of no efficacy whatever except merely to prevent fugitive slaves being returned from the Northern Sates—a result which would have equally followed from the war had there been no proclamation. Greeley says that when the Union is restored the Southern States can re- establish negro slavery if they think proper, and reenslave those whom the proclamation makes free if they are to bo found within their jurisdiction, and that the federal government will have nothing to say in the business, The sincere abolitionists are horrified, and quote the President's proclamation, which announced that the slaves in the rebel States after the Ist of January, 1863, will be thenceforward and “ for- ever free.” Greeley is inundated with letters, Dut laughs at the simplicity and greenness of the fanatics who believed him in earnest. He now admits that the proclamation is exactly what Mr. Lincoln in the beginning described it—“the Pope's bull against the comet,” Avoruer Peace Purorosrrion 1s Tak RepaL Concress.—The peace proposition of Mr. Con- rad, of Louisiana, submitted in the rebel Con- gress the other day, has some points in it worthy of passing consideration. He of course denounces the “present administration of the United States as reckless of all constitutional restraints,” &c.; but says that “whereas a por- tion of the people of the United States (mean- ing the copperheads) have recently manifested their disapproval of the war, of the objects for which and the manner in which it is conducted, and their desire for its speedy termination;” and whereas “several foreign Powers, notably the government of France, have expressed a similar desire;” and whereas the war is embittering feelings of hostility between States “which, however politically disunited, must ever be intimately connected by identity of language and religion,‘and by the immutable laws of geographical amity and of natural demand and supply,” &c.; therefore, “resolved, that the Senate and House of Representatives of the Confederate States will cordially co- operate with the Executive (Jeff. Davis) in any measures it may adopt, consistent with the honor, dignity and independence of these States, tending to a speedy restoration of peace with all or wiih any of the States of the federal Union.” Now this amiable Mr. Conrad may perhaps suppose, from the late peace movements of the copperheads in New Jersey, Indiana and Illi- nois, that it will be an easy matter to negotiate the democratic State authorities of those States into the rebellion for the sake of peace. This is the bait thrown out to Jeff. Davis and his fellow fire-eaters to induce them to proceed to some peace overtures. But, looking a little deeper into this resolution, we incline to think that Conrad offers it in good faith; that he de- sires peace on almost any terms; that his object is to turn the attention of the Southern people © peace, and to get the idea afloat among them that the further prosecution of the war on their part will be worse even than a peace involving their submission to the Union. Mr. Conrad, down to the secession of Louisiana, was a con- servative old line Union whig, and we guess that a good deal of the old leaven is still work- ing within him. The resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and there it will probably sleep; but let us have a general breaking up of the rebel strongholds and armies on the Missisaippi and in Tennessee, and wedoubt, not that we shall soon hear of something tangible and directly to the purpose in the way of peace propositions in the rebel Congress. Mr. Conrad is only preparing the way for them. Tue Rot Catu.—We decline publishing any lists of deserters from our armies until we can be assured that those lists are correctly made. Several gross mistakes have ' occurred, distress- ing to the relatives of dead soldiers, who find their mourned ones’ names paraded in a list of deserters, the authorities seeming to remain in ignorance of the decease of the persons thus stigmatized. Others having honorable dis- charges in their possession are! included in these liste, and we cannot add to their annoy- ance by giving publicity in our columns to such blunders. Marshal Soult once remarked, upon hearing of the death of an old comrade in arms, “I thought I heard the reveille beating above.” Our departed soldiers little thought that when they had obeyed that same imperi- ous and paramount roll call some petty and ignorant official would be publishing them as deserters here below. By all means let there be more accuracy observable in the reports. There can be no reason or excuse for blunders. Fame Prices in tae Sovra.—From a re- cent number of a Richmond paper we learn the following, which the editor pronounces to be “stern facts:’—Gold rose on Saturday to $2 60 cents premium—that is, the price of a gold dollar was $3 60 in paper. Butter was scarce and in demand at $275 per lb. Beef, none of it first rate, commanded from $1 to $125 per lb. Corn meal $5 per‘bushel. Let us talk no more of depreciation of Northern currency and of inflated prices after reading such accounts as these. Other articles in the Richmend journals are headed, “Blockade Prices,” and “Do Our Farmers Plant Corn.” It is discovered at last that cotton is not king, but that corn is in the ascendant, and that his rule will be most despotic. These “stern facts” speak volumes. They show more forcibly than the most eloquent language the miserable con- dition to which the rebellion has redueed the people of the South. Tae Resets x Tue British Pantiawent—We see that a motion has been made in the English House of Commons that the correspondence between her Majesty’s government and that of the United States, and also all communications from “certain gentlemen” in England who re- present there the Southern confederacy, should be made public. We hope that the motion will prevail, aad shall then expect some light upon subjects which, up to the present time, have been enveloped im mystery. We suppose the persons referred te are Mason, Spence, and, per- haps, the irrepressible Sanders. Other names might be exposed, in case of an investigation, and we hope by all moans that it may take place. HOOKER’S ARMY. Everything Quiet im the Army of the Petomae. Himapquaarens, ARMY oF Tre Potomac, ‘arch } 17,1863, ‘We have no nows of importance. ‘The enemy ts massed upon our right, All is quiet along the river. Musteal. ‘There was no performance last Monday night at the Academy of Music, owing to the indisposition of Mme. Medori, who was to have appeared as‘‘Norma.”” Weare sorry for the public as well as the managemont that this disappoimtment should have occurred. To-night ‘Un Bal- Jo in Maschera’’ will be given, with Guerrabella as Ame- lia. When Medori is well we shall have the promised “Norma,” with an immense cast, ‘The French journals announce the death of Madame Cinti Damoresu, who many years since was so great a fa- vorite in this city as an operatic performer. In 1844 she sang {n this country With the greatest success, She was pronounced by the critics of those days as unequalled for style and methed. Our trying and changeable climate seriously injured the voice of this most popular artist, who, upon her departure from New York, was obliged to abandon her musical career. Our operatic amateurs of twonty years past will no doubt still have « lively recol- lection of the deceased cantatrice, Lacucn oF am Inox Ctan.—Will be Iaunehed from the ship yard of Jeremiah Simonson, near the Tenth street ferry, Greenpoint, on Thursday, Mareh 10, at balf-past nine o'clock A. M., tho side wheel fron-elad steamer Chenango, built for the United States government. Her dimensions are a8 follows, viz.:—240 feet in longth, 36 feet breadth of beam, and 12 feet depth of hold. Her ‘engines are in course of construction at the Morgan Iron ‘Works, (oot of Kast Tenth street, Now York, ™ NEWS RROM WASHINGTON. _ Wasarnatox, March 17, 1863. APFAIRS IN THE VICINITY OF VICKSBURG. ~ No official despatches trom Vicksburg have been re- celved to-day by either ¢he War or Navy departments; but the officials are satisfied of the substantial correctness Of the recent advices of favorable results in that quarter. ‘They regard it as certain that, if net already in our pos- session, Vicksburg will very soon be occupied by our foroes, The only remaining obstructions to the complete possession of the Mississippi river will then be the batteries at Port Hudson, which cannot long withstand the combined assaults of our naval and military forees from above and below. The Secretary of War has con- stantly expressed bis opinion that the great and decisive battles of the campaign are to be fought in the South- west. He ts confident that they will prove that his com- Dinations will result in the speedy suppression of the re- bellion, and will vindicate him against any charge of blundering or incapacity. Provision has been made in regard to the apprehended danger of the precipitation of & large portion of the rebel force at Vicksburg upon General Rosecrans, and also the possibility of another ‘and more formidable invasion of Kentucky and Missouri. If such movements should be attempted they will be met with corresponding preparations. From sources usually well informed in regard to Southern news, it is learned that the rebels concede the capture of Yazoo City by the federal forces. THE FLATTERING ASPECT OF THE NATIONAL FINANCES. It is understood that Mr. Chase fecls that) he fe master of the position touching financial affairs, The rapidly augmenting demand for gov- ernment securities, | im connection with the prospects Of gradual military advances upon rebeldom, are well calculated to inspire confidence in the finances. MORE BLOCKADE RUNNERS CAPTURED. The Navy Department has been informed of the cap- ture, off New Inlet, St. George’s Sound, of the schooner Hortense, from Havana bound for Mobile, and of the schooner Ann, while endeavoring to break the blockade on the side bar off the mouth of the Suwanee river, Flo- rida. 4 DBAFT OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN EX- PEOTRD SHORTLY. Tt is stated that a draft of five hundred thousand men ig g00n to be ordered, and that arrangements have been made to enforce the consoription without difficulty. THE TWO YEARS REGIMENTS AND RE-ENLISTMENTS. ‘The recent action of Congress in regard to the re-enliat- ment of the two years’ men, whose term expires this spring, 1s attracting some attention in the regiments. Among the first to take action is the New York Thirtieth, one of Hatch’s ‘Iron Brigade,’’ who have done honor to themselves and State on the Rappahannock, at Gaines- ville, Bull run, South Mountain, antietam and Fredericks- burg. Colonel Searing on Saturday presented to General Hattleck a paper signed by every officer on duty with the Tegiment, excepting one, stating that they had con- gulted with their men, and if they could be sent home about the Ist of April, which is a month before their term expires, the officers and men of the regiment would re-enlist for the war, and recruit their ranks to the maxt- mum bumber. The paper will probably be Iaid before the President snd Secretary of War. There is much esprit de corps in the Thirtieth, as well as other regiments, and their ofleers and men would prefer te enlist ina body without bounty, rather than go into other regiments with the highest bounties. ‘THE BIDS FOR SUPPLYING HORSES AND MULES. ‘The bids fer supplying horses and mules to the govern- ment were opened to-day by Colonel Rucker. He will announce the successful bidders to-morrow. Offers for supplying two thousand mules ranged from ninety-five dollars each to one hundred and thirty-three dollars. ‘Those for horses ranged from one hundred and six dollars to one hundred and twenty-three. There were some fifty bidders from the North and West. ANOTHER BATCH OF DERELICT OFFICERS. An additional list of officers has beon reported at the headquarters of the army for, mainly, absence without proper authority; others for failure to report at conva- lescent camp as ordered; several for drunkenness and one for accepting bribes for procuring diseharges of soldiers, They will stand dismissed from the service of the United States, un'cas witbin fifteen days they appear before the Commission in session in Washington, of which General Ricketts is President, and make a satisfac- tory defence to the charges against them. Thore ts less leniency than heretofore towards such classes of offenders. ASSUMPTION OF HI8 DUTIES BY THE NEW COMMIS- SIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. Commissioner Joseph J. Lewis assumed the charge of the Bureau of Intertia! Revonue to-day. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC, An Arrest for Complicity in Fitting Out the Intended Rebel Privateer Chap. man—Harbor and Const Defences—Pro- fantry, &. San Francisco, March 17, 1863, A. P. Crittenden, a prominent lawyer, was arrested for complicity in fitting out the privateer J. M. Chapman. The San Francisco Supervisors last night proposed to lend the State $100,000 towards providing armed vessels for the harbor and coast defences. A bill was introduced in the Legislature to-day authorizing two millions for the same purpose. ‘There is a general feeling that neither arms nor other means are an effective defeace against foreign or domes- tic enemies n ow in the State. The Collector of San Fran- cisco was compelled to hire # steamer to board the Chap- man, the only revenue cutter on the coast being off Washington Territory. ‘There is every prospect that the Legislature will issue half & million in bonds, for means for purchasing six bat- tories of artillery, and small arms suilicient to equip 30,000 soldiers. The Hopelessness of the Rebel Cause in ‘Texas. Faygrravie, Ark., March 17, 1863, AX intelligent gentleman from Texas arrived this even- ing. He represents the rebels in that State in a most deplorable condition. The Union mon openly denounce the confederacy, and a large party are trying to raise the lone star flag. Colonies are being made up to go to Mexico, A prominent rebel officer who came to this place with a fing of truce this morning also exprossed the opinion that should the cause of the South fail, they will retire into Mexico to establish s republic under the French protec- MEETING AT THE PRODUOB BXCHANG! A special meeting of the New York Commercial Asso- ciation was held at the Produce Exchange Rooms yester- day afternoon, for the purpose of hearing an address from Mr. Cyrus W. Field on the prospects of the great aational Project, the Atlantic telegraph. There were a large num- much interest in the subject which had called them to- gether. cupied the chair, After stating tho object of the meeting, Mr. Crave W. Frau delivered an address, which was with considerable detail and much perspicuity, he showed success must attend a united effort on the iat ik pave sce cable. Un concluding Mr. Fisid ‘was warmly applau tary, and unanimously adopted:— wi having heard the statement first made by C: in the present advanced state of sclences ft appears ’ telegraphic cpmimunieation with ‘That the success of such & scheme would be productive of the most benedcial inverests of the United States: ‘That im view of the foregoing, itte the duty of the several squted 00 this Bachange. 1o give every encouragement and rate with that for ths rpose of the stock of thie enterprise Reveral gentiomen thon addressed the meeting, and gub- A committee to aasist in the work of ten, ted by the Chamber of Commerce, was then fi Baxter P. Ning Airc aa’ ow, Sg, @. Ki |, &. K. we George D. Cragin and BE. W. Coleman. i P THR ATLANTIO TELEGRAPH AND THB STOCK gx- CHANGB. Board, at their rooms, William street, at half-past three o'clock thie afternoon, om the subject of the Atlantic great international enterorise will insure a large at- tandance, ver of brokers and merchants present, who manifested Mr. James P. Wallace, President of the Association, oc- Matened to with a great deal of attention, and im which, that certain yp ed merchante of this and other commercial cities renew! ‘Tho following resolutions were then read by the Secre- Mi, Riau as to the present position ai to this meeting that ingre no reasonable doubt of the bree: romulta to the agricultural and commercial deparmente of the produce and shipping Interests repre- ing ted to co-ope on at ihe late meeting hold in the rooms of the Chamber ‘Procuring subse: scriptions to the amoant of £1,600 were paid in. ‘an follows: —Mesers. Archibald ‘The meeting then separated. Mr. Cyrus W. Field will address the Stock Exchange telegraph. The increasing interest thal ie felt in this INTERESTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. () ss Another Broadway Railroad—The Senate Committee Report in Favor of a Gene ral Use of Dummy En; ea—They Decide in Favor of Their Use on All Ratiroads Operated by Steam or Horse Power Now im Operation or Hereafter to be Com- stracted—Comptroller Robinson Asks for Anstructions Relative to Paying Interest on State Debts im Coin—Appropriation to Pay Premium om Gold—Collection of Taxes in the City of New York—Contre- versy Betweom the Broekiyn Gas Com- pantes—Book of Martyrs, &e. ALBany, March 17, 1863. The notice of Senator Pruyn, made in the Sonate last evoning, for a Broadway Railroad bill, for the Governor to appoint Commissioners to manage it, and to pay the Croton Aqueduct and Central Park debts, has created quite a commotion among the advocates of the other Broadway bills bere, The title of the bill ia significant ag to its features. The railroad lobby are watching arcuné the Senate for the appearance of the full vill thus noticed. The Senate Committee on Railroads this morning re- ported favorably a bill to use dummy engines om any rail- road fa the State operated with steam or horse powor, now ip operation or hereafter to be constructed. This Dill, if # passes, allews dummy engines to be used om every horse railroad in the city of New York and every other city in the State. It also allows the Hudsoa River, Harlem and New Haven roads torun the dummies down te their lower depots, and, in fact, fill the streets of the city of New York with dummy engincs as soon as the railroads are all constructed that were granted by the Legislature of 1860; and should the railroad projects now asked for in this Legislature all become laws it will be impossible to turn the corner of a strect in the city with- out running upon a dummy. Can it be possible that the citizens of the city of New York are prepared to accept such an outrage as this upon their rights from the hands of this Legislature? gisluture was those State's history. Well may the friends of some members committee claim that they ought to winter by one of the rail maica Railroad, | believe , was the applicant for the power to run the dummy on their road to certain point withim the city of Brookiyn—really meaning tothe ferry. This company is the game that withdrew the steam from their road within the city of m2, and received from the city or from citi - the vicinity of the line of road over ope hundred thousan@ dollars as Compensation to tho company to take off steam. This money was raised by assossing the ty to thas amount. Having succeeded in getting this money they now come up with a bill to permit them to run a duman} engine, ostenzibly only to.a certain point knvwn as \- ford, but with a bill so worded that they can, -If it passes, run @ dummy through the city to the ferry. They have been at work at this fora long time. The committee of both Houses have been’down and examined it, but for some reason it met with little or no progress. The oppo- sition on the part of Brooklyn, especially from those who ave paid their assessments, to prevent steam from be- ———* front of their ppt ghd been such that oni willing to give the Dill; but were, on the other hand, strongly 0) Some other dodge bad to be the Senate committee willing 'y out jects, and after a long silence a bill is unadimous- reported to allow all railroads now existing im this — and eed horeaiter to be saree se operatea steam or horsey run engine on their Tada. To be sure is meort proviso that in cities the railroads the of the tronk, It simply provides for a fee the Common Coubcil, that’s all, which the events of a i A a 338 8 & i Es hi tery : i d F i ag iy g = 3 i itself ready to become tools of this dummy lobby no son will be ‘ised hereafter at anything The Comptrolier sent into both houses to- nication calling the attention of the a that interest on a portion of the State 1st of April, and also alluding to the eee acer ae taneadiae 13 4 structious:ae"to what, should 3 grt dn peop ae a NT ‘The Ist of April s00n be here, and action will have to be soon taken. The question of two hundred thousand torres pecs axa in the Assembly. The quite bitter, und a strong effort was made to the State with defeat the bill and repudiate the debt or tao Menhation Coenpeny anne be Sin Sawoat on the ground that those bad no by law to make any such agreement. At looked as though this side would succeed; but proved that it was only talk on the part of and, si ly euough, this few were thoxe who oppvas collection of 0 city of Now York was ordered to @ third reading. This bill is te provide for the collection of arrearages im taxzee—whioh ie is made necessary by a law of the Legisiature—creating marabals instead of constables Owing to the disagres- ment of the Mayor with the Supervisors no marshals have boen appointed, aud {t becomes necessary that ad- ditioual legislation should be had before the taxes can be collected. This shows the effect of placing mea in offies in the city of New York who have no other thought than about themselves. The contest between the two gas companies in Brook- lyn came up in full force in the House this morning, which the Citizens’ Company asks for legisiation in oppe- ‘Most of the delega- side of the Citizens’ ply oid company to increase its debt be Aan ts the Citi- vompany. At any rate, such will be the effect of ‘the bill if passed ip its present » and, instead of de creasing the price of gas, which the Brooklyn members are really coutending jor, will in the evd increase the price. Such has been the effect of similar iogwlation im other cities, and there is no reason to believe Brook- lyn will prove an a, Mr. Hutchins, of New York, led off in opposition to the bill, ing that if this bill passed it would Rot only the Oe cnet. cae ee © Pipes laid all over and out to city limits, to S Suegt eee a a es a onoped expenditure, a the consumers, but, that tt would ikewise cause bogus companics to spring up imevery city and la; ae five okt gat companion, which has the of the ol companies, w! Bo fe Pa Ge Neniant.” Bet the danger la, thes the way they trying to rid of, instead of removing it. nearly all ing session, z te F S, ra," or bi ical sketches of the Legislature, is now in press, and will room be ready for delivery. It is got up ina better style than any of the former volumes of the kind, It bas the members H : é The Bill to Prevent Gold Speculations— The Broadway Ratiresd Bill tn the te=The Grinding Committee—The Callicet Investigating Com: je, de. Atnawy, March 17, 1868, ‘The Brooklyn Gas bill was ordered to « third reading, after a lengthy discussion, to-night. Among the bills considered in the Assembly this even. ing was the bill of Mr. Dean to prevent speculation t= gold, Two or three amendments were made in the second section. Several were offered to the third section, over which there arose conaiderable discussion. After about an heur’s debate progress was reported without coming toa vote, The discussion was not on the merits or pro- priety of the Legislature ia passing tho bill, but ‘the policy of the amendments offered, oach side de sirous of inaking the Oil) aa effective as possible, so as to bring about the desired result, It # rumored that tho Senate Committee will report the Broadway Railroad bill before that body to morrow. It may be postponed another day to perfect their report: bat it is ly understood that It will be forthcoming to The Committee met and ized to-day, and urted ten bills to the Amerably 00 night. ae committes to investigate tbe charges Sperker Mw to-morrow. No wituesses have yet been summoned. ‘The Canal Auditor ‘on the resolution asking the amount of money received for tolls and paid out, for the it three Fg oe ved, 638) an Bicones (654,063 42; net et igor ab, atange held bjvioking fund, #1,001,770 4b: poorer art er Court Calendar—Thi Scrsrior Covrt—Part 1—Nos BT 1743, 3276, 1865, 1967, 1800, 1871, 1876, Adjourned till Thursday next 1843, 1687, Part 2— Tt. Scraman Courr Lincurt—Part 1— Adjourned to Monday 4 70, 2173, 2176 March 23, art ost 96, 2198, 2900" 9164, 2168, 2190, 2192, 2104, 2183, Bunt fuoe; a0, 2402. ” placa The Arabia for Liverpool. Bowron, March 17, 1968. ‘The mails for the steamship Arabia will close at etght o'cloek A. M, to-morrow (Wednesday), end she will sail eer we as