The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1863, Page 4

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M19 P.M pay HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.— Sonos, Daxces. Bupiesquns, dc. lyn.—Btmsortan 514 Broadway.—Erurortax 0. 1 485 Broadway.—Soxas, Bun.esauxs, New York, Monday, March 23, 1863. THE SITUATION. Although no positive information regarding the movomems of the army and naval forces, either on the Atlantic coast or the Mississippi, has been received by the gevernment for sume days past—, at which points some great enterprises were looked for--atill, the military anthoritics at Washington Bre said to be quite cenfident that success is cer- tain in both directions. i General Wool has issued a general order from his headquarters in this city, calling attention to the recent proclamation of the President relative to soldiers and officers absent without leave. He conjures all such to avail themselves of the Presi- dent's ‘merciful clemency” by returning before the Ist of April. It is stated thatthe first call of the President under the new conscription law will be for the The Btate of New York is represented as requiring Of this number , and the county deficiency of men under the last two calls. 29,139 men to complete its quota, thia city has yet to furnish 1s, of Kings is short 1,799. We have still further particulars to-day of Colo- nel Hall's brilliant action at Milton, Tenne the official account of which, from General Rose- The fearful assault with their dismounted cavalry crans, we gave yesterday. rebels made a and three regiments of infantry upon a se tion of batteries which was throwing a most destructive fire amongst thom; but the First Missouri regi- ‘ment, who were lying concealed behind the bat- tery, waited until the enemy were within thirty yards, when they opened a terrible fire, causing them to recoil, and Gnally to. retreat in confusion from the field, leaving their dead and wounded be- ‘hind them. ‘ A despatch from Louisville states that the rebel commander, Col. Cluke, surrounded Mount Ster- ling, Ky., at two o'clock yesterday morning. Our forces, amounting to two hundred, fought from ‘the houses for four hours, but were finally com- pelled to surrender. The rebels then burned the town, and it waa thought that Col. Clike intended to make an attack on tle town of Paris last night. From the same source we are informed—npon romors not aythenticnted—that a portion of Gen. Ftanley'’s force encountered John Morgan's rebel rday ang whipped them badly, driving them ontirely away, cavalry ot McMinnville on S Our correspondence from Barbados to-day con- tains come highly interesting details of the visit of the rebel privateer Florida to that island, » fact which we have before adverted to. Captain Matt waa received with great deference, he and his off ora being feted. coal by British merchants, and was welcomed with wl the honors due to the representative of a bona file government. Captain MaMt, it appears, was seriously wounded in one of his recent attacks upon our our vessels, but when in Barbados was sufficiently recovered to participate in the enthusi- astic ovation tendered to him by our “neutral” friends there. The Vanderbilt, it known, atarted in pursuit of the Florida; bat, as far as we He was liberaily supplied with ia bave heard, without any snecess whatever, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Europa, from Queenstown on the ib instant, arrived at Halifax ye y (Sunday), and sailed for Boston the sar ler news is ‘two days later. tue Lavereoy) VOlt0G Marbel was firmer ou the 7th inst., with an upward tendency. Brea Istuffs ei and downward. Provisions @ The k Exchauge was closed on the 7th were 4 London inst. Phe Princes’ Alexand ra, of Denmark, now the Windsor Castle. The London Times says thas london ne- ver, during her history, witnessed such a sight as she would see on the wedding day. The King of Belgium had accepted the office of arbitrator between England and Brazil. The French and English governments are quite agreed, it is said, as to their policy on the Polish question. In uotes to Russia, they regre? the partition of the anciout kingdom, but accept it as a fact which cannot be remedied; but they speak carnesily, at the same time, of the soleinn promises made of granting liberal institations to the Poles. Qur correspondent m Shanghae, China, writing on the Sth of January, relates the circumstauces attending a personal difficulty whick occurred in that city between Colonel Burgevine, who com- manded the troops of the late Mandarin Ward, anda mandarin banker named Takee, relative ®% the transmission of a large sum of money placed inthe hands of the latter for the payment of the men, Colonel Burgevine struck the banker, and it was rumored that he had been removed from his command, in consequence, by the authorities. In the military order in reference to the matter Ward's men,are designated “ The Ever Victorious Army.’ ‘The troops refused to follow any other leader than Burgevine. Robert T, Haws, Fsq., died yesterday at his resi- dence in Alloti street, after a short and severe illness. Mr. Haws was much respected by all who knew him. He has filled several offices of trust and honor. He represented the Tenth ward in the Board of Aldermen in 1850-’51, and was Comptroller of the city for the four years pre- ceding the lat of January last, and obtained a high reputation for the able manner in whick he managed the affairs of that responsible position. The Wisconsin democracy are repudiating the copperhead fnith and taking up the conservative | doctrine. The Madison Patriot, Watertown De, mocrat, Green Bay Advocate, and other democra- | tic papers in the State, have declared thelr pul- pose to stand by the policy of Governor Seymour, of this State, in supporting the government. The Legislature of New Jersey has extended its session until Wednesday, the 25th inst. Mr. A. G. Boyd, publisher of the Free Press newspaper in Hagerstown, Maryland, has been arrested by order of Gen. Schenck, and sent South, where he will no doubt be gobbled up for the rebel army. Mr. Boyd wasa copperhead of the Brooks and Vallandigham school. Water has been let into the Morris Canal, New Jersey, preparatory to a resumption of navigation. Potatoes are selling in Atlanta, Georgia, for fifteen doilars a bushel. In Bangor, Maine, they sell for thirty-five cents a bushel. Tho stock market was dull aud inactive on Saturday morning, but better in the aftornoen, closing quite buoy- antly,at an advance. Gold fluctuated between 165 and 154, closing at about 154. Exchange close! at 170 a 171. ‘The mouey market was easy; call loans 5 a6 per cent. The cotton market was further depressed on Saturday, and middlings closed very heavily at %e. a 6c The transnctions in breadstutfs were light, though prices tended downward. Provisions were unsettled in price, with more doing in hog products. The dcmand for groce. rlos was limited, and prices were dro) ‘There was more inquiry for whiskey and tallow, with a very mode- rate demand for nearly all other descriptions of general merchaudise. ‘The freight market was less buoyant, with Jess extensive engagements reported. “A The New Laws of Congress—Filling Up the Army and Navy. The late Congress, iu the estimation of the great body of the people of the loyal States, atoned for numerous blunders and covered o multitude of sins in its broad, comprehensive measures for a vigorous and overwhelming prosecution of the war. The men, money, means and resources of the country at the ser- vice of the government, and the powers ‘of the President to draw upon them, are ample fer the suppression of the rebellion before the expira- tion of the approaching summer. The issue is now in the hands of the administration, and a responsib from which, in the event of an- Otber indecisive campaign, President Lincoln need not hope to escape. Experience should be to him as she is to other thoughtful men—the teacher of wisdom. The terrible instructions of the disastrous three months of June, July and August, 1862, should not be forgotten. Granted that the misfortones which in those months befel the army of General McClellan and the ariny of General Pope resulted from the 1 rangement of McClellan’s plans and combina- i by intermeddling and ignorant politicians, still contend that even after the sanguinary seven days’ battles in front of Richmond Me- Clellan would have been able from Malvern Hill to follow up that wholesale slaughter of the revel army into the rebel capital had rein- forcemeuts to his army to the extent of even twenty thousand men been promptly forwarded from Washington. But there were no reserves remaining at Washington. The radical abolition military leaders of Congress had stopped -enlist- ments; all the troops that had been raised were in active service, and the Virginia army of Gene- ral Pope bad absorbed all the reserves that could be spared, and was still so weak that against a forward movement of the enemy it fu was considered imperatively necessary to bring up the army of General McClel- lan to his support to save the na tional capital. Thus failed the peninsular campaign of last summer, when a reserved force at Washington of even twenty thousand men, in addition to the army of General Pope, and the forces in the fortifications of Arlington Heights, &e., would have enabled the govern- ment to carry General McClellan triumphantly itito Richmond. As it was, the disasters to General Pope’s army at Manassas, which enabled the rebel General Lee to push forward into Maryland, and to capture our twelve thou- sand men and their valuable supplies of artillery and military stores at Harper's Ferry, would have been avoided had McClellan's sea- sonable idew of fortifying Manassas been adopted. Thus General Pope would have had a secure halting place; thus all his provisions avd military supplies of all kinds would have been saved; thus the half famished rebel army unprepared for a siege, would have been com pelled, on short rations and over an iin. poverished country, to hurry back to Richmond, and thus that hungry and exhausted army could have been annibilated in its retreat by the combined forces of McOlellan and Pope. But the question before us now is that of a reserved force, here aud there, from which to strengthen our armies in the field. We think that the experience of last summer clearly in- dicates the duty of the President. He has the power, and the country will sustain him in immediately calling out a now levy of at least two hundred thousand men. One-half of this number might be distributed in camps of in- struction along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and the other half at Washington, Fortreas Mon- roe and at other points in the East. Thus the losses to our armies, East and West, from active caupaiguing aud heavy battles, may be NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1863 Meee EET eee ee a ee ee proimptly repaired, and thus we shall avoid the ing aguin all offensive ope- rations for an indefinite time in order to raise new armies, while those of the rebellion, kept full by ® merciless conseription, are turned again towards the Potomac aud Ohio rivers. lt is due to our brave soldiers in the field, it is due to the country, and it ix demanded by the sacrifices already made by the people of tho loyal States, that our armies mow advanc- ing upon the enemy shall not be left to the chances of defeat trom the want of reinforce- ments. The naval branch of the service, too, should be kept full and strong, We therefore, in behalf of the army and navy, in beliall of the people and the Union, and in behalf of the administration ilsclf, earnestiy call upon Presi- deut Lincoln to put the Conscription act at once into practical cperation, and all the other laws of Congress looking to an overwhelming and decisive spring and summer campaign. We have shown Mr. Lincoln the way of satety, suc- cess and glory, and we warn him to beware of that indecision and timid, temporizing policy which lead to disaster and disgrace. { Gulf, thus wresting from the Southrons not only Missouri, Arkausas aad Louisiana oa theright bank, but on the left Kentucky, Western Virginia, West Tennessee, Mississippi and Hastera Lonisi- ana. Who does not see in these divisions and subdivisions, even without the active ageney of the European Powers, playing each section > other, wars, interminable and anar- t ond, till some vonqueror arose at himself upon the ruins of Liosmg the broken tragunents of our into one great imperial despotism. There is no hope of lasting peace, therefore, and no satiety ior free institatious, but in the restoration of the Union from the, lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atiantic to the Pacific, under the constitution transmitted to us by George Washington and the -other founders of vur matchless system of government. {| against chy wish estab hast, Rewer ror Irenaxp—Tue Coariry ann Re- souRcES ov THE Counrry.—In tho midst of all our domestic troubles, when one would suppose that the necessities of the times and the exigencies which a ruinous rebellion imposes upon the Toucey and Greecley—The Copperheads and Niggerheads Agree. That extremes meet is an old and trite pro- verb, but not the less true. It has received a remarkable verification in the case of the cop- pericada aud niggerheads, as represented by Horace Greeley, of New York, and Isaac Toucey, of Connecticnt, who are en rapport. A few days ago Toucey made a speech at Hart- ford touching the pending election, in which he definod his position, and attempted to defend himself as a member of the Cabinet of Bu- chanan, in which he played the part cither of a traftor or a fool—let him take his choice. The gist’ of his long-winded harangue is that he was and is in favor of letting the seceding States depart ingeace. Grovley writes an glaboratg aaa Pret Toucsy on eat ar od thes nab aes Various points of no cohacquence; but on ihe main point he agrees with the ex-Secretary of the Navy, that in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Independence the Con- federate States had a right to secede, and the fedeval government had no’ right to prevent thom. Thus the chief of the copperheads of Connecticut and the chief of the black snakes of New York aro as harmonious as any two members of Barnum’s “Happy Family.” Before tho war ‘Toucey ant Greeley were of this opinion, and they are of the same opinion still. They cou tributed materially to being about secession and to render it a success. They then played into the hands of the insurgent chiefs, and they are doing the same thing aow. Had Andrew Jackson been at the helm instead of the imbecile James Buchanan, neither Toucey nor Greeley would -have been able to perform such a role, and the rebellion would have been crushed in two months, Indeed, had Old Hickory hee: on hand at the White House, the revolt would not have taken place at all. South Carolina, who backed down before the force of his iroa will in 1832, would have had the fear of Old Hiokory still before her eyes; but for the old fogy who filled the Presiden- tial chair in the winter of 1860-61 she enter- tained no feeling but that of contempt, and the sentiment was shared by all the other Southern States. Mr. Toucey utters many traisms and many abstract political maxims whose soundness can- not be questioned; but he reasons from them like some Rip Van Winkle, as if he had been asleep for the last two or three years, and just awakened in perfect ignorance of the march of events during the interval. But, whether he wakes or whether he sleeps, the world moves. He addresses himself to tie great question of the day like an old politician or lucal dema- gogue, who cannot comprehend its magnitude. He does not understand the issue which is now before the poople. That issue is to determine whether the Union and the constitation-are to be maintained at all hazards and at any costrof blood and treasure, or whether the Coufederate States are to be allowed to accomplish their in- dependence. The democracy and conservatives of Connecticut are.in favor of the former alter- native; the copperheads, led by Toucey, who are only a handtal, and the radicals of the stripe of Greeley, are in favor of the latter, involving the eternal separation of the North from the South. Copperheads and niggerieads profess to be advocates of the iaterests of peace. But separation would not be peace. It wonld be chronic war, destractive to the growth and prosperity of both sections. Better, therefore, to apply strong remedies to the disease in its acule form than allow it to become permanent and incurable. Supposing that pesce was made on the basis of a separation, by the line of the Potomac and Ohio, yielding to the confederacy Missouri, Kentucky and Western Virginta, in fact all the border slave States, exeept Maryland and Dela- ware, who will venture to say that the dismem- berment of the Union would be limited to the two great divisions of North and South? Sub- divisions would undoubtedly follow. In the Northern half, the Pacific States-—Callifornia and Oregon, with Washington Territory, and the other Territories beyond the Rocky Mountains, having a population of about 535,000-—would probably form a new confederacy. The North- western free States, with the adjeining Terri- tories, having a population of eight mil- lions, would either form an independent republic or would link their fortunes with the South and overturn the balance of power against the Northern Atlantic States, In the event of Northern disintegration, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, with a population of eight millions and a quarter, would not be likely to continue in fellowship with the six New England States, containing a populafion of 3,137,283. If they did not follow the Northwest or nltimately join the Southern confederacy, they would form a separate republic, stretching southward along the seaboard, fr the Hudson to the pe n Potormas, and westward to the Jakes and Ohio. England, perhaps, would anite Mts destiny with Canada and the other British possessions. Nor wonld the Southern confederacy be free from snbdivision. Texas doesnot belong to the Mississippi valley. It is extremely fertile, and large enough to become o great republic, though its population by the last census was only 604,215. There can be little doubt that on the secession principle it would form an independent State, and seek an outlet for its produce through its own system of rivers. Por the same reason, whatever peaco might be patched up now, the great Northwest, if not united with the cotton confederacy, wonld, atsome future day, conquer the valley of the dilesiseippl op Yyth sides of the tives dowa fo the people might confine all their eaorgies to their own country, the American people are as active in their oharities to-day as in the most prosper- ous times. The operatives of Lancashire suffered for want of cotton, and thousands of dollars were sent aoross the Atlantic to aid them. A disas- trous famine now threatens Ireland, as deso Jating as that which, visited it in 1846 and 1847. The horrors that ovechang that unhappy island are appalling if speedy relief is not sup- plied to avert them. Already starvation ruled in many districts, and the peasantry are flying ‘vy thousands to preserve life at the cost of ex- patriation. But the voice of snffering at home or abroad never falls unheeded upon the cars of our people. There are now not less than three organizations working in this oity for the relief of the poor of Ireland, and in all proba- bility nearly half a million of dollars will be raised throughout the ceuntry for that purpose in a few months. Arrangements are under way to give a magnificent ball at the Academy of Music on the 14th of April, under the aus- pices of the ladies of New York and Brooklyn. The Knights of St. Patrick are preparing to call a great public meeting, from which a gene- rat collection among the masses will originate, and will no doubt realize a -very handsome sum. The Friendly Sons have already opened a list, and some thousands of dollars have been contributed. All these things prove not only the fine chari- table impulses of our people, but the boundless resources of the country. Ala time whea we are involved in a most costly war, and the ord nary incomes of the people are virtually re- duced one-third in their original value by rea- apn of the aflvanced prices of atl the necessaries of life, our hearts are still open to supply the wants of other vations. Not only this, but, while we are providing all the requirements of our own gigantic war, we are furnishing the French army in Mexico with the means to carry on their campaign, by supplying provisions, mules and other necessaries ; and the French are in- dignant because we also furnish supplies to the Mexicans. Poland, in her struggle, obtains our aid and sympathy. Thus this country gives evidence to the world that its resources and its charities are equally without limit. There is not’a nation on the globe whose pubic chari- ties are more efficiently bestowed, or whose public institutions are more admirably con- ducted. Hence we have in measure no poor. Poverty, except it be allied to recklessness and dissipation, rarely meets us in the streets, anf, while we take care of our own “ little ones,” we have a willing hand and an open purse for the sufferers of all nati s Tux Brooxiyn Gas Comrantes.—The bill before the Legislature for the equalization of the rates charged by the Brooklyn City Gas Company seems not to be generally understood. The Albany correspondents of the New York journals represent it as the result of an effort on the part of an opposition company—The Citizens’—to break down a deserving institu- tion. It is, on the contrary, a struggle to prevent the perpetuation of one of the mosi edious monopolies by which a community has ever been blistered. The old company, s0 far from having any debt, has realized enormous profits for its shareholders, and, up ‘to the establishment of the new one, conducted its affairs in the , most oppressive manner. When the citizens at large associated themselves to start a rival company, the monopolists endea- vored to defeat the enterprise by offering their gas at half price wherever the new company proposed to lay its mains. Thus, in one street they were charging only twelve cents anda hatf per hundred feet, whilst in another they exacted twenty-five. Of course in such a state ON OF KENTUCKY, Sterling, by the ed Union Soldicra fown Burned by the THE INVASI Capture of Mo RedvlL—Two H Captared=The Rebels, d&e., Ke. CixcuwvaTt, Mare 22, 1303 A special despatch from Paris, gives the followin ‘The ‘ebel Colonel Cluke surrounded Mount Sterling Ky. , a two o'cloek tis morning, Our forces, amyinting to two hundred, fought from the houses for for hours, but were finally compelled to sucrengor. ‘The rebels theu burned the town. It Cluke intends tu attack Paris tonight, is bolieved What THE YAZ00 EXPEDITION. The Attack of the Union Gunboat Chilii- = “of things there could be nothing like fair com- | petition, the Citizens’ Company not having the superabundant capital necessary to enable it to keep up such gn unequal struggle. It is to put an end to the practices above described, and to place both companies on a par, that the, present bill has been introduced in the Legis- lature. Its snocess is certain, as it receives the support of the whole of the Kings county dele- gation. American Horses ror Narongon.—It is stated in our last letter from Havana that the French transport Seine was about to sail for New York to take on board half a dozen horses intended for the use of the Emperor. This will make the fourth batch of riding horses from this country that his Majesty has purchased. It seems that he prefers for his personal use animals of the American breed, and now keeps his stud continually renewed from it. We per- ceive from a recent report of General Fleury, Equerry to the Emperor, that the French breed of horses has also improved greatly within the last few years. This is no doubt in part owing to the large infusion of American blood which it has received Ressixne te Biockape.—In our last news from Havana it is.stated that the steamer Antonica, which had ran the blockade at cleared from the Custom House at that port for Mobile in a few days afterwards. Now, as Mobile is supposed to be closed by our block ade, it is a little bold on the part of the Spanish authorities to clear a vessel openly for that port, and speaks badly for the neutrality of Spain. We would suggest to the Navy Depart- ment that, if Confederate blockade runners are they ought to be looked after by our cruisers in the Gulf, and intercepted. Salling of the Angio Saxon. Portia so, Me., March 22, 1943. The eteamship Anglo-saxou gailed at 10 A. M. to day Charleston, and had just arrived at Havana, | thus undisguisedly cleared for blockaded ports, | ret, $100; A Lover of Amer ty, $4: Clave | bond, 8160: S., In Memoriam, $2; Firwt Comsres chareh, Walton, N. ¥ Re f. & A cothe en Fort Pemberton—Reintorce- ments Sent to the Seat of Operations Arrival of Union Prisoners at Vicks- burg, &o. Sr. Lours, Maron 22, 1865. Tho Republican's Momphis despatch of the 20th says advices from Groenwood to Monday last are to the efect that the gunboat Chillicothe bombarded Fort Pemberton on Saturday aad Sonday, but without decisive ro- sult. The rebel battery is so situated that it cannot be attacked by a land force, on sc count of high water. Tho guazs of the Do Ralb had bee taken asborc, and a land battery con structed near tho rebel works. The rebel force is esti- mated at 6,000, under Gen. Loring. Reinforcements are being rapidly sent to the seat of oparations, and - it is ex- pected that our fleet will soon be ablo to reduco all tho rebel fortifivations on tho Yazoo, The Vicksburg Whig of the 11th says the crew ef tho Indi«nola, ninety-two in numbor, arrived there the day Lefure, NEWS FROM ALBANY. Richurdson, ef Mite nois—Consultation with Prominent Democratic Politicians—Prospects of the Election of Seymour of Connecti- eut, dK. Arrival of Senator AtmanY, March 22, 1663 Senator Richardson, of Mlino's, arrived hore last night and is stopping at the Doliyan. Governor Seymour, tho Lieutenant Governor, and several prominent pojisicians waited upon him at his rooms to-day. The Governor took bim this ovening to Mr. Corning’s, where thoy wore met by gevoral other important -porsonages, when a con- aultation over political matters was held. 3r. Richard- son is on his way from Connecticut to Blinois. He lo’ hore to-night for the West. He is quite conf. dent of the election of Seymour, of Connecticut, as Governor, by about five thousand majority. He says, however, Jhat somo othor man could have been elected much exsier, and that if tho isms had not been made go bruad they couid huyo carried the State by from 12,000 to 15.00. Tho isms which at one time wero raised there botweon tho Douginss and the old Kreckin- ridge factivng at one time bad the appearance of disaster to the ticket, but that is pow settled, and he considers success certain, The policy talked over and agreod upon at the time of the cousnitation with Bigelow, : cymour and others about two weeks since, entered into the consultation this even- ing, and as far ag the resuit has as yet transpired thero was no inaterial m dification in that programune, List of Bilis by the Governor 16.—An act to confirm gnid legalize the taxes impo in the your.1862 by tho boards of suporvisors of the seve- ral countios in this State, or of such of them as may have included in such taxes any sum or sums raisod or advanced in Uncir respeciive counties for the payment of bounty money to veluntesrs culisted tn tho service of the United States, or for the support aud maintenance of the families of such volunteers, 17.—An act authorizing the extension of tho timo for the collection of taxes in the several towns and cities of thig State, excepting in the county of Orleans. 18—An act amending the several acts authorizing town subscriptic to the stock of the Aibany aud Sus- qachanna Railr Company, to extend the time for tho completion of said road acd to regulate the weight of the iron rail to be used thoreon. 19.—An act to confirm the acts of the Board of Saper- visors of the county of Erie in rotation to paying bounties to in- he city to volunteors and borrowing money for that oryeee- 20.—An act declaring the acceptance by this Stau by this State of tho provision of an act of ress of the United States, entitled ‘(An act donating public lands to the soveral Stites aud Territories which may provide col- loges for the beucfit of agriculture and the mecharic arts,’’ approved July 2, 186%. 21.—anact to amend an act eatitied ‘Aa ¥ corporate the Onondaga County Savings Bank, i t of Syracuze,”’ passed April 10, 1856, 2. act to amond an act entitled “An act w author- iz the buxiuiess of banking,’ passed April 18, 1838. 23.—At act releasing the interest of the State in cer- tain lands and promisos lately owned, by Edward Lowis, and Frederick Steinhol, and authorizing his widow aud heirs at law to take, hold and convey the s. 24.—An act ro'easing the intereavin certain lands and promisos lately ownod by James Potors, Henry Viren and his widow, and empowering their heirs at law to hold and convey the same. 25.— An act to provide for the payment of certain bonds issued by the Corporation of the city of Now York, to authorize a continuance of the ait horetofure granted anit allowed by the said Corporation to familics of volun. teer soldiers (rom that city now serving iu the army of tho Union, 3,—Au act to legalize certain ordinances of the Vorpo- Ot tho city of Now York, The United States Banking Law. Srame or Naw York, GanxinG Derarturyt, Aumany, March 21, 1363, Witl_ you give p'ace to the following correspondonce on which is just now of interest to the publicy Ktespectfuliy, HH. VAN DYCK, Su:erintendont Te UL HL. Yau Dyex, hi onde: Dan Sik-—ection 62 of the vow United States Currency act is as follows: — Ant be it further enacted, That any bank or ban kin, i in the rand det ude, oF any part nck: aad tpn take nx or bani a he Comptroll provided, equal jount of the bonds so Will your department interpose any obstecte in the way of our city banks availing themselves of the provisions of this sectiou? If thore 18 any ob.ection, or if any action is requisite as between the banks and your department, will you kiudiy fatima it? Yours truly, WM. ALLEN BUTLER. Payk Derartiest, Avraxy, March 3, 1863. We, Atien Uurige, Payne Absence from the city bas prevented mo from sooner lying lo your note of the 26th witime T constitution of this State, in article 8, section 6, declares —- The Legislature shail provide by law for the registry of atl Dill or notes issued Or putin cireulation as money. wire anple security for the redemption of the same ro) In accordance with this constitutional requirement the Legistatare has provided for the depesit.in this ile rtment of New York and United States stocks, aud 43 and mortgages, in specified proportious, us security, for tho redemption of notes tssved, and .crporations, associations and individuals, are by law prohibited from {suing notes to cirenlate as currency except {n confor mity to thoae provisions of law to which | have athider, Under these circumstances it will be my duty to bring any infractions of tho law of this State to the test of judicial decision. The remedy, if any is uopessary or je, is with the Logisiature, and not with this de. partment. ‘The question ix owe of paramount jurisiic- tion, engondored by circumstances not within contempia tion when laws of this State bearing upon the subs Jeet were enacted, But as uocxeeption is made either in favor of banks authorized by Congress, or the banks Of this State acting by pertnission of that hody, there ts ne alternative left to tne but to enforce, as far ae practt cable nose laws imme ly connected with the admin. iatration of this department. Kespeetiully, your obediaut servant, ii, He VAN DYCK, Superintendent Tie \nass Exar Ronmeay.—It will be soon, on rote rence Lo the advertise nt in another column, that the Adams Express Company have offered a reward of Ave thousand duilars for the recovery of the bon Is lately atoton from them. ‘tutes Christian Commission. | United } CASH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 08 YOuK COMMIT: RETO MAWOU . vionsly acknowledged Mra, June @. t ve ver, $100, Wea W HUN $0.7, Hoyt, Arthur B for publications ‘of the Vre $1,000. Collection at public necting | Ti. Wates, #106 04. Promiam on sitive | ©. Halsted, $25: A set, ys ¢ | Co. , $109 Cooper Le i Bed eho Jehu T “t M.1 8. Morse, $100. Total, 314, a 65. {ES M. DROWN, Treasurer, 49 Wall street and Popartures. AMHIVALS Arriva Lirenroor—Siean wood, lady avd U lady, JW few and = Cnpreol, afontal opkins, Machel, Wo Newton, Me Foung rope ildren: N Roon’y, Jaa Titan, Join Mell, Mi Miss Tracy, Me Cunningham, Mr Bivith, Mise K Firmin, Mr Creawick, Cot Canty Jady aod Warrenton, Mr Bnsor, Jas Davidson and sow, # avd 226 in ihe stoaraue, Nagpau—ivis Luduaet Melgioghy Gugam, & Secor, \ New rows 2 NEWS FROM oToN. Wa Macc 22, 1865 ANXIETY FOR NEWS FAOM THE ACMY AND WAVY. Auxtety bas best manifested caroushoot tis comme nily to day for iateitiy. forces which haye been for s come in contact with the eand reliablelntornmat and the Athnte supposed tv be ing among the padi however, are quite serene, and couldeat that ab the? proper time and within a very brief period the intelligenco will be recviyed of sigual xuceesaes im hod those direetio: Some of the ravst cautious oificials o¢ cupyivg hi: jon, heve unbesitatingly expressed the opinion wituin the iast twenty-toer hours that at no time since the rebellion has the government sceupred so pro- mising 4 position, or las the attitude of public alates been go full of proimise of @ spondy conclusion of the rebeition and & rosturation of faderal authority the seceded States. This opinion is basa not only upon tho positien and strongsh of tho federal armics and the prospoct of shoir success, but also upom + the urprecedonted financial soundness of tho yovernmons, w contrast with the rapidly increasing rottenness of the Confederate finances and the evident oxbaustion of tho robels. aval. coast, sroat enterprises were stoped tauch fee tary authorttics, THE ARMY RUGISTER, “The Army Registor to tho first of January, 1863, ts mot yet completed. ‘The editions which was printed previous to the recent extra session of the Senate has heen sup- Presved, aud it is intended that the now regintor shall im- cludo-ail the appoiatmeats aud promotions up to the ad journmeat of that body. It will probably be rearranged: and mado moro completo in the details than avy of the rogistera hitherto published. ENFOROBMENT OF THR CONFIBCATION LAWS. Tho issuing of the order of seizure under tho acts commonly called the confiscation laws is outrust- ed to the discretion of district attorneys; while it 1s onjoiumed npon them to be vigilant to ex- ecuto the statutes. They are required to be careul te avoid basty and improvident seizures. In every instance thoy must be satisfied that there ia probable cause. or the seizure, and that thoy have reasonable ground to believe that they can prove in court the facts necessary to warrant the condemnation. For otherwise, besides the injrfetioe which may bo done to Individuais, tho government » would be put to great expense and be discredited by the frequont failure of its prosecutions, There have ay yet been no condemnations undor tho confiscation laws; but information has reached Washington from various quar ters of preliminary proceedings in tho promises. THE ALMADEN QUICKSILVER MINB GaSE. ‘Tho Quicksiiver Mining Company bave suod out an in. | janction againat the Almadea Company to prevent the further working of the miuo by tho lattor, white the pro- cosa of ojectment is resorted to to recover possession by the formor. In consideration of the vast amount of biok rents and protits whick must ultimhtely bo decreed im favor of the Quicksilver Mining Company, It is thought a compromise will be effected by which tho latter will be placod in immediate possossion of the rights adjudged to ther: by the rocent decision of the Supreme Court. ARRIVAL OF AN INDIAN DELEGATION. Adciogation of the wild Indians from Co erado and North Texas arrived in the city lastevening. They re- present the Choyeunes, Kiowaa, “Jadoes, Apaches, Camanches and Arapahoes, It ts urgea that KH will bo better for the gavernment to low them with presents costing « few thousands, than to spend millions to avengo the outrages the rooels will @tir up if they do not go home satisfed. It wos only after mugh persuasion they camo to see the great father. Tho late Indian massacres in Minnesota shoald toach a deep lcsson of wisdom on this aubject. & DANGRKOUS LEAK. J. Panssha, of Wostorn Virginia, just reloased as & pe- Jitical prisoner from Saulisbury, N. C., says the rebels] boast that they get all the tformation concerning an p4- vance of our troopr, and alzo obtuiu .ur countersign rega- larly. Thore must be a dangerous leak somowhore, CODIFICATION OF THE LAWS OF THE DISTRICT. Me. Molgs, of Tennesaos, who had been appoiuted codify tho laws applicable to ‘a's district, has been trans. forred to the very valusblo office of clerk of the hero. Ho wasa tawyor of Nashville, where his and character wore fully recogniaed. It ts thought beat by tho administration to have a codifier our laws who has had little or no contact with slave stitutions. NRW DISCOVERIES OF VALUAULE MINERAL DRPOS! IN ARIZONA. ‘The Inspector of Customs at San Diego, in a letter to Secrctary of tho Treasury, says that withim tho lagt gold, silver, copper and quicksilver mines bave been di wored in the vicinity of La Arizona said to more valuablo thau ay yot discovered on the Paoil coast. Soveral thousand omigrants are already on way thitbor, aud a largo popotation will probably be tractea thore by tho mines, THE ARM@ IN THR POSSESSION OF CITIZENS 0} INDIANA. Tt ia Said that an order has been issued for the delive to the government of all weapons of war in tho pasa: sion of citizens of Ludiana, SALE OF THK OLD MADISON MOUSE, Mr. Hooper, M. C., of Mussachusetts, haa purdhased f twenty-three thonaacd five bundred \Jolars,the old Mas son House, which for a considerable tiie was occupied } Geueral McClellan ¥ CLOSING THE DRINKING SALOONS. To-day has been signalized by a complete closing of « public drinking saloons, under tho recont regulations the Provost Marshal, It has beox more nearly a day total abstinonce than has ever been kuowa in War ington. " Obituary. BX-COMPTROLLZR ROBSKT T. AWA, Robert T. Laws, Feq., the late Comptrolior of this cit died at his residence, No. 95 Allen street, about half p: twolvo o'clock yesterday afternoon. He had ber 6¢ ourly il for about two weeks preceding, and though co pulled to remain within doors, it was not supposed his malady waa of @ dangerous character, He complan of severo cold on the ehost, which probably took shape of inflammation of the lungs—a complaint wh just now appears to be very sprevalent and fatal ite character, On last Thursday, however, showed unmistakable signe of growing worse, 1 about haif.past gix o'clock in the evoning, wi conversing with an acquaintance suddenly fell down in apontectio ft, comptetsly prostrated. He was imm ately placed in bod, aud m edical assistance being » moned, it was discovered tat ho was afflicted with a rible stroke of paralysis, which extended to various pr andorcans of the body. The physicivna, after pro consultation, gave it as théir opinion thad tho attack + of such a character as to reader recovery completely of the question. He was per ectly unconscious al! Th day night aud Friday, while his broathing appeared ¢ very iabored and painful, On Saturday morning ho lied slightly and seemed to recover tho wu his facuitios for a few moments, Bul the st hopes thoe raieed were soon —oxtingyis for shortly -attor he became aneonseious ag and remained in that condition to time of his dosth, which, = stated above, occurre hinlf past twelve o'clock yeeterday afternoon. His bresth was apparontly without pain and without of the dreadful sparma which usually vccur i pat stricken with apoplexy Mr. Tinws was born ro the year 1810, and was o quently fifty-three years old at she time of his d Jie birt Look place at No, 93 Allen street, next do the wuilding in which he breathed hil knowa iu this that a skotel of h Ls yerine Pore many years hewa x politicnins of the okt ay, r 1, gt c this old resitencn, fin with ah aides tion which waa prog againet fashion, w wad utbor 18: pawerfal temptation SL ie represente:t bee loved word in the fo he earned a xplondid reputaty are rely raptile ; faliot 1868 the repelsth arty fixer ardvinle Toe ( roller, wad lie Frag eee ¢ Gooree H. Purse imanany candi ben P. Russet, the can finance depar teed arte mmanied t tof his re 8 Honma, are et Mr. Howe relatives: behie spocted and these who kus an of exten sl’ funaeat will take r phente church, corner of Chrysiie and Broome whi waa h rogular alto oe, the tots the churcl, was informed of the leat affected 4 is defeat by olla tion of owe re an olor, and faves ve him. By ail who knew bim ho 4, naa really gvod and heomet n intimately thom h ane rmiiunte the rer vices, tan, of East Greenwich , Rhocto Istynd! enoral George B. MoCletino, died Mare tyne youre, ¥ ‘