The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1863, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIBTOR. Wo. 107 Volume XXVIII .. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. EMY OF MUSIO, Irving place.—Italiaa Opera.— 2 tee Dueuchicc La Pavonita, WIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Camitia. WALLACK 3 THEATRE. Broadway.—Foiuims of 4 Nicat—SwaxresRts anv Wives. WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.~Aorress or Papva— Brox Bor. caine? LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Corixew Bawx—Roaeat Macaime. WEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Hengew's Conse Brooke's ADVENTURE—MACSRTH—FEMALE HIGHWAYMAN. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Jaox ano eux Beax- genie Rarvus oF 11 Waxpaaeu—Pinanno—Joux Jonas NUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Mixeta Peer x. Com, Nott, Living irrorotamus, Ae, at all Pectin" Sikio “Denes "Batra. Aherncin” and ning. RYANTS’ MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 672 Broad. = -—Erntoria Songs, Buauesques, Dances, 4£c.—Biack RGADE, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 614 Broadway.—Ermioriax Danoxs, 0.—K. KS THE NEW IDEA, 68% Brosdway.—Soxas, Bourxsqves, Batters, ac. RVING HALL, Irving place. —Gorrscnace’s Concents. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Dk, Cotton's Exatpition oF THE Bavcwixe Gas, wits Commoporx Nutr ano Concert ay um Oxp Focxg. Afternoon and Evening. HOPE CHAPEL, 72) Broadway—MacEvor's Hipsrm- cox; om, A Toum mx Tumzann. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—! Panromimss, Buriesquua £0. ene aR, PARISIAN CARINET OF WOND! Broadway.<- Openislvirom Wak Wise ee i HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermorux Boras, Dancas, Burcxsquxs, 4. aig New York, Saturday, April 18, 1863. THE SITUATION. ‘The latest news concerning the state of affairs Sround Suffolk, Va., isto the 16th inst. The attempts of the rebel Gen. Longstreet to cross the Nanse- mond river with the aid of pontoons were defeated by the fire of our artillery. One of our gun- boasts—the Mount Washington—was fired into and disabled by the rebel batteries while coming down the river on the 14th inst. She was, however, taken in tow and brought safely through the heavy fire of the enemy. With regard tothe news from the vicinity of Suffolk we may state that there is a good deal of focling in this city relative to the shooting of Lieutenant Colonel Kimball by General Cor- coran. The letters from Suffolk are conflict- ing in their statements, but the trath of the matter will, no doubt, be received on the re- tarn of the committee who went on for the body of Col. Kimball. We give in another column ex- ‘tracts of two letters from friends of Gen. Cor- Coran, which probably contain his version of the melancholy affair. Our extracts from the Bouthern papers to-day @re very interesting. Tho most important item is the full confirmation of our succes over General Van Dorn at Franklin, Tenn, The rebels admit that their loss was heavy, and that they had to fetreat after six hours’ hard fighting. Our news relative to affairs at Charleston came from Fortress Monroe yesterday, on the authority of the Richmond papers. Everything was quiet there. Our troops are in occupation of Coles’ Ssland and the islands of Kiawah and‘Seabrook in considerable force. General Beauregard had issued @ congratalatory order to the rebel troops in his usual bombastic style, conveying to them certain commendatory resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, The only intelligence we have from the West is the statement of the Richmond papers, of the 16th fnst., that two gunboats and three transports had been destroyed on the Camberland river by Wheeler's rebel cavalry. By the arrival of the British Queen from Nassau, N. P., we learn that fourteen vessels from rebel ports had arrived there from the 16th of March to the 10th of this month, all bringing cargocs of cotton. THE LEGISLATURE. The State Senate yesterday took up tho New York Harbor Defeuce bill, and refused to soncur in the Assembly's amendment raising the appro- priation from five hundred thousand to one millicn dollars, when ® committee of conference on the subject was appointed. The Senate passed a num- ber of bills, including those authorizing dummy engines on the Brooklyn Central Railroad, amend- ing the’New York Unsafe Buildings act, providing for the erection of a police court house in Fifiy- seventh street, and the Brooklyn Firemen's bill. The bill authorizing our Mayor and Comptroller to eppoint thirty tax marshals was defeated. The bill to reimburse the Manhattan Company $226,000 advanced to pay interest on the Btate debt in coin was ordered to « third reading. Resolutions were adopted pledging the Btate to support the administration in a vigor- ous prosecution of the war. A resolution fixing a time for adjourning eine die was offered, but the Benate refused, by nineteen to six, to consider it. ‘The Quarantine Olaim bill was discussed for some me, and had progress reported. A conference committee was appointed on the Pilotage bill, the two houses being at variance on some of the amen‘ ments, In the Assembly, the bill for the recording of fevenue stamps was reported complete by the Grinding Committee. Among the bills passed were those to assist in the construction of the Upper Hudson River Railroad, amending the Metro- politan Police law, the Annual Tax bill, and the bill to prevent frauds in opening streeta in. this olty. The bill disposing of the lands donated to the State by Congress for educational purposes was ordered toa third reading. The minority of the Oallcot Investigating Committee presented their report, stating that Mr. Callicot had, accord- ing to their view of the testimony presented, re- ceived pecuniary consideration for his official action and votes, and recommending his expulsion. This report and that presented by the majority of the con mittee on the previous day have been set | down »« t» special order lor the consideration of the Ho no Monday ovening next. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Ty ish West India mail steamer Plantagenet arrived ot (his port yesterday afternoon, bringing 08 dates frou Kingston, Jamaica, to the 5th inst. There ie no news at all in the papers. The Lieu- nor of the feland had left in her ‘amer Aboukir for England. The Mer- oantile Inteiligencer says:—“We are not able to re- port mny general improvement in the extent of the business transtotions of the Inst fortnight, but in the prices obtained for many articles there will be ooticed an advance. The operations stil] remain for the most part confined to demands for immedi ete consumption. In the articles of our prodace coffee will be found to have advanced, owing principally to a limited supply.” Jeff. Davis having exhibited to his people in the Southern confederacy their unsatisfactory pros- pects for a supply of provisions during the coming season, it will not be amiss to show them how we at the North stand in regard to’some of our arti- cles of consumption. The receipts of breadstuffs at four of the principal lake ports—Chicago, Mil- waukee, Toledo and Detroit—in 1862 compare as follows with the receipts of 1861;— 1861. 1862. + 5,414,059 4,138,736 Wheat, bush 42,172,399 42,376,682 Corn, bushels.. - 36,826,747 31,862,423 And from the annual reports of the number of hogs packed in the West during these two years we take the following figures:— 1862... 1861.. Increase... . It was rumored in Nashvilleon the that five hundred of the rebel sympathizers in that city were to be arrested and held as hostages for the Union East Tennesseans who are now confined in Southern prisons, and to be exchanged for them whenever the Confederate government shall signi- fy a desire to do 0. All the buildings at Tyree Springs, Tennessee, have been destroyed by fire. The destruction oc- curred some four weeks ago, and was supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The story about the capture by the rebels of Col. Robert Johnson, son of Gov. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, was fabricated. He is in Nashville, attending to his duties. James B. Clay, son of the great Ashland orator and statesman, is Colonel of one of the rebel regi- ments attached to Humphrey Marshall’s command. Col. Clay was once a member of the federal Con- greas, but was never noted for anything except the tearing down of his father’s mansion, and having the beams and rafters manufactured into walking canes, which he peddled out at five dollars each. The Committee on Water Defences and the Com- mittee on Ordnance, of the Harbor Defence Com- mission, privately gave hearings yesterday to a number of gentlemen, in explanation of various plans. The first named Committee, of which Al- derman Boole is the chairmzn, have new designs presented to them almost daily. Inventive genius seems to be more prolific of designs for protecting the harbor by floating defences than in any other way. Fortunately the Chairman of the Water De- fences Committee is a practical mechanic, having served twenty-five years in the ship-building busi- ness, and is therefore very capable for the onerous duty imposed upon him, of carefully inspecting the numerous designs for wooden defences brought to the attention of the committee. To-day the Com- mission are to witness the operation of a rifled battery ata point a. short distance from the city. The Tammany Society met at the Old Wigwam last evening, to hear the report of the committee appointed to nominate a new set of officers. The committee not being ready to report, the body adjourned till next Monday evening, at eleven o'clock, when a full ticket will be presented. The eleetion will take place in the evening. The Methodist Episcopal Convention reassem- bled yesterday morniag, but transacted no busi- noes of any public importance during their session. Last evening @ meeting, in connection with the Convention, was held in the Fourth Street church for the benefit of the New York Educational So- ciety, and to aid young men in preparing for the ministry. The meeting was well attended, and ad- dresses were delivered by a few prominent cler- gymen of the Methodist persuasion and others. It isexpected that the committee appointed at the first meeting of the Conference will present their report on the state of the country on Monday. Mrs. Semmes, wife of the captain of the pirate Alabama, who has been residing all winter in Cin- cinati, has been ordered, under the recent procla- mation of General Burnside, to prepare to cross the lines into Dixie. Confederate scrip was put up at auction in Hali- fax, N. 8., on the 10th instant, by John D. Nash & Co., and the only bid that could be obtained for it ‘was four cents a pound. 8. D. Woodruff, Superintendent of the Welland Canal, telegraphs as follows:—‘ Canal in order. Vessels passing. No change in canal to!ls yet.’’- Cayuga Lake is now open its entire length, and navigation has been resumed. ‘The stock market was decidedly more buoyant yester- day, and there wag more commission business, with pretty general advance in prices, Gold fluctuated be- tween 153 and 154, closing 153 bid. Exchange fluctuated between 167 and 148, closing tame. Money was easier than ever, and was offered on call to all the brokers at 6 por cont. The produce market opened more firmly, but closed heavily for breadstulls yesterday. There was more doing im hog products, as also in whiskey ana tallow, but at somewhat easier prices. The demand was fair for bay and sugars, at steady quotations, and quite active for rice at firmer rates, A limited business was reported in fish, fruit, hemp, oils, salt, teas, wool and coffea, us lik»wise in Ovean freights, Cotton was dull and heavy. There were no remarkable changes in other branches 0! trade. The Movements of the Rebels in Virginia and North Carolina, While General Hooker is waiting for the roads to dry on the Rappahannock, it is possible that the wise heads of the War Office may be startled some fine morning with an overwhelm- ing descent of the rebels upon Williamsburg and Yorktown, or upon Suffolk and Norfolk, in Southeastern Virginia, or upon Washington, Newbern and Beaufort, in North Carolina. That the rebel chiefs at Richmond have com- menced the preliminary movements of some aggressive plan of operations in the districts wo have indicated we think it very evident, from the numbers of their forces which have lately been gathering around the small army column of Gen. Foster, and from their me- nacing movements on the Blackwater, in front of Gen. Peck. We have some positive evidence from the enemy that these are not mere diver. sions, but tho preliminary steps of some grand military designs. Among the letters from the intercepted rebel mail bag (on the Blackwater) which we published the other day, there was one from a rebel soldier on duty in that dis- trict, in which the writer says :—I think that our generals intend a forward movement, as they are massing large forces down here, and are bringing down pontoon bridges.” Here the important facts stated fully justify the conclusion. <A letter from a soldier of the army of Lee, on the Rappahannock, says—“Write one word what the people think about the war, and {f the Yankees are afraid much of us attacking Norfolk. Orders have been read to us to get clear of all the baggage that we cannot carry conveniently, and get ready for an active spring campaign. * * * I think this time we will come down towards Norfolk, or out in North Carolina. * * We will wake things up in SaYolk and Norfolk before many months.’ Another rebel soldier in hospital writes:—“1 expect to leave Richmond on Monday next to join my poy in North Carolina, where I will bave to endure long and harassing marches, and participate in some of the desperate battles ing campaign.” thought of the possibility of their falling into the hands of “the Yankees.” Honce we re “orders have been read to us to get clear of all the baggage that we cannot carry conveniently,” &c., as worth more to Gen. Hooker than the ob- servations of a whole week or month from Pro- fessor Lowe's balloon. This important letter was written April 4, two weeks ago; and wo think it very likely that Lee’s army in tho interval has got clear of the baggage which it “cannot conveniently carry,” and is“ready” for marching, if not at this time far on the road for an active campaign against Norfolk and New- bern. The escape of the army of Jo. Johnston from Manassas is still the foremost item in the abolition hue and cry against General McClel- ‘tan; but if, after the lessons of Manassas and Corinth, the rebels are permitted to play the same game at Fredericksburg, what possible defence can be made available to the Secretary of War and his right hand man, General Hal- leck? The country between the Rappabannock and Richmond, having been exhausted of its sup- Plies, is of no further use to the rebel army. It may be wisely abandoned, therefore, to General Hooker; and he may be left to choose his own road to Richmond, while Lee is clearing out the peninsula and marching with an overwhelming force upon Norfolk. We apprehend, however, that the War Office is still solicitous about the safety of Washington, and hesitates to make a forward movement, not so much because of the muddy condition of the roads, as from a desire to get Lee back again into the Richmond penin- sula, and out of reach of Washington. But let us hope for the best, and that our small detachments of troops on the peninsula, and on the Blackwater and in North Carolina, will not be “gobbled up” by overwhelming numbers of the enemy, after the fashion of Har- per’s Ferry, before our Army of the Potomac can come up to the rescue. Joun Mrrcuet Amonxc THs Rxssis.—To our astonishment, some time ago, we suddenly found, from the Richmond papers, that John Mitchel had arrived in that city from France, having passed in disguise through our lines across the Potomac. Still more are we now astonished to find that this distinguished Irish patriot, former- ly the bitter enemy and denouncer of “ the bloody old British empire,” as he used to call it, has become the little thunderer on the Rich- mond Enquirer, the organ of Jeff. Davis. There can be no mistaking his “sound and fury.” Every line betrays the paternity. The only difference is that his tone is more violent than it ever wasin Ireland. The object of the writer seems to be to prevent any chance of a reunion of the North and South, and to fan the flame of mutual hatred to the utmost intensity. Hence he is continually ridiculing every conservative and congjliatory movement in the North, par- ticularly*in the Northwest, and denounces all who look forward to a reconciliation on the basis of the constitution, while on the other hand he praises Greeley and the abolitionists as the best friends of the South. It is thus evi- dent that John Mitchel desires and advecates the same thing as England—the final separa- tien of the slave from the free States. How much money did Lord Palmerston pay him for this job before he left Paris? But Mitchel drives everything into the ground. By overacting his part, and out- Heroding Herod, he will defeat his own purpose and the purpose of his employers, and he will bring the rebellion te an ignomini- ous and speedy end, as he did the Irish rebvel- lion in 1848. How by his violence at that time he split the revolutionary party into twoanta- gonistic sections, one called Old Ireland and the other Young Ireland—one a moral force and the other a physical force association; how the leaders of these two factions devoured) each other kenny cats, using up the strength which t have been combined against the common enemy; how Mitchel at last, in his paper, which he ironically called the United Irishman, afforded an opportunity to the govern- ment of resorting to strong measures of repres- gion by which it nipped the insurrection in the ud before there was time to organize it, or unite and rouse the people, and how failure was the consequence of such a course—these things are well-known history. In like manner he has entered his dividing wedge to split the revolu- tienists-of the South; and if he does not drive it home his name is not John Mitchel. He is just the man to create a revolution within @ revolution. For some time symp- tems of revolt against the despot at Rich- mond have been manifesting themselves. Every day there are new developments. The last was the insurrection of the women of the city, demanding food. The next will probably be an insurrection of the men, which will not be 80 easily appeased. Am To Iretanp mw 1847 anv 1863—In an old file of a New York newspaper, published April 30, 1847, we find a copy of the report of the Treasurer, Myndert Van Schaick, of sub- seriptions to the fund for relief to Ireland in that year, in consequence of a similar famine, but far worse than that which exists at the present time, The total receipts in money, independent of the immense contributions in provisions, to the 29th of April, were $135,307. This is not to be confounded with the revolu- tionary Slievegammon fund of the following year, committed to the keepingof Greeley & Co. The one reached its destination. The other never did. Would it not bea good ides to now send the revolutionary fund, amounting, with the interest, te $70,000, to revolutionize the stomachs of the destitute population suffer. ing hunger and nakedness from a vile system of land tenure and from other oppressions, the fruits of centuries of misrule inflicted by the British government? Perhaps the very best way in which that fund and the fund now be- ing raised could be applied would be to use them in “bringing out the Irish poor to this country, where there is ample employment for them, in consequence of the vast numbers en- gaged in the war. The money, if spent on food, fs but asa drop from the bucket, and, like the fond of 1847, would have no permanent result, The relief is but momentary. The evil springs up again. But employ the money in a | scheme of free emigration, and the relief is per- manent. The parties relieved will never need succor aga’n. If any of the oble-bodied are disposed to fight for the Sture and “tripes, they will get good bounties as substitutes, besides | food, clothing and good pay. If they are of a | peaceful turn of mind, they cannot be drafted which will probably fill the aunals of the com- | into the artny as long as they do not declare | their intentions to become citizens; and if they These bits of information from the enemy are | love agriculture, or are versed in the mechani- particularly valuable, from their intrinsic ovi- | cal arts, there is ample scope for them, and they dence that the writers of these letiers never | need never know a day’s want, to say nothing | | of the fortunes which they have a chance of making ina field so wide and Presenting #0 gard the Rappahannock letter, which gays that | wany opportunities. | | Peel was killed and two sergeants . v NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1863. Tax Reser Loan m Enoranp.—The Eng- lish sympathizers with the secession move- ment appear to be willing to aid their friends on this side of the Atlantic in deeds as well as in words. A subscription for the relief of the government of Jeff. Davis, now reduced to the most indigent circumstances and in peril of immediate dissolution, has been started in England, under the guise of a lean, the security for the repayment of which is the cotton remaining unburnt by the rebels or un- seized by the United States; and, as « proof of Mr. Jobn Bull’s inextinguishable philanthropy, the small sum of three millions of pounds asked from him to keep life for a few weeks longer in the already collapsed body of the rebellion has been subscribed, but is already at a discount. Who can say after this that England is a penurious or selfish nation? She not only gives what she is imploringly asked for, but she gives with a liberal hand, and with not the slightest hope or remotest prospect of a single shilling being repaid. To be sure she is impelled and actuated by the highly Christian and charitable motive of aiding in_the destruction of a government and a nationality which are distasteful to the refined sensibilities of her aristocratic classes, and a little injurious, perhaps, to the interests of her commercial and manufacturing classes; and .t is a matter of the very slightest consideration to her that the money which she contributes to the belligerent mendicant is to be expended partly in pirate ships and partly in support of African barracoons, We are quite content that the government of Jeff. Davis shall swindle stupid, plethoric Britishera out of as much money as they are willing to contribute to the laudable but rather impracticable design of severing the American republic. We regard it as one of the biggest things that the rebels have yet done, not even excepting John B. Floyd’s operations. And as to the motive which inspires the ruling and moneyed classes of England, we can think the matter over quietly for the present, and when we get over our present little difficulties we can see what is the best way of treating this last manifestation of British neutrality. Tae Navat Capacity or Amertca.—Notbing, perhaps, is more suggestive to foreign Powers of our abilities and enterprise than the rapidity with which our government and private ship- builders construct vesse)s-of-war, even amid all the baneful influences of an intestine war, un- equalled by any hitherto known in the history of nations. Week after week our naval force is augmented with fine and durable vessels, carrying the heaviest batteries—such ones as two years ago were unknown to the naval sci- ence of any country. Notwithstanding our government and private yards and shops are busy from morn till night, yet our shipbuilders find the time and material to construct for friendly Powers first class ves- sels-of-war, and even go so far as to cover them with iron armor. Mr. Webb will launch this morning one of two iron-clad frigates which he is< constructing for the royal Italian Ravy; and at the same time he is rapidly pro- greasing with the enormous iron-clad ram Dun- derberg for our own navy—the latter vessel being probably the most formidable vessel ever. constructed in the world. These facts go to prove that we are the most enterprising nation on the face .of the globe, and should teach foreign Powers that if they attempt to interfere fn our domestic troubles we could readily spur ourselves up to increased energies, and in a brief space be prepared to resist any effort on their part to annoy us. Our skill and the application of our resources , long since have created jealousies abroad, which at times almost put John Bull and Louis beside themselves, and they even goso far in their efforts to learn of us as to send their offi- cials in disguise to obtain employment in the moulding and drawing rooms of our construc- tors; but our keen perceptions have detected even these mean acts, and they have been sum- marily dismissed, none the wiser for their bungling efforts. Exportation oF Lasor.—The government has already contracted to send off five hundred contrabands to Hayti. Agents are in Washing- ton making arrangements to export a atill larger number. This is one of the worst things the administration can do. The contra- bands are needed wherever our armies move, to save our soldiers the rough. work of com- paigning. When the war is over the contra- bands will be needed to cultivate cotton again. The trouble is that we have not enough of them now with our armies. None should be sent away. All should be put to work. We want to get rid, not of the niggers, but of the nigger- worshippers. NEWS FROM THE INDIAN TERRITORY. The North Side of the Arkansas River Clear of Rebels, d&e. St. Loum, April 17, 1863. ‘A telegram from Colonel Phillips dated Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, April 11, says he bas swept the north side of Arkansas river clear of robeis. Part of his com- mand hoids Fort Gibson. He has bad ovértures from Colonel Drew, Captain Vaughn, and the Crook Indians. ‘Tho rebels are gathoring on the south side of Arkansas river, and held all the fords, which are now deep. Soldiers Riot at Halifax. Hauvax, N. 8., April 17,1863. ‘There was quite serious rict here last evening. About three hundred soldiers broke from the barracks, rushed through the streets, assaulting citizens, breaking windows ‘and dotng all the damage they could. The fighting soon became indiscriminate between the citizens and soldiers, and several were hurt on both sides. A dotachment of the royal artiliery finally appeared, and drove the soldiers back to their barrracks. Indians Routed in Utah. Sarr Laxe Crrv, April 17, 1968. Colonel Evans attacked and routed two bundred Indians {mtrenched jin a canon seventy-five miles south of Day- break on the 15th, killed thirty, followed them fourteen miles and scattered them in every direction. Lieutenant Keone’s last evening for Mr. Whoatleigh’s beoefit, and will be repeated to-night. It is bad policy to bring out heavy piece like this in the middle of the week, and worse policy still to announce that the performances here are | merely rehearsals ‘or ‘the great provincial starring tour’’ | which Miss Keene contemplates. WALLAOR'S. Two comedios—“Tho Follies of @ Night’? and “Sweet. hearts and Wives’'—will be played at Walluck’s to-night for the first time this season. Tho occasion is the benefit | | of Mr. Theodore Mors, the popular treasurer of the es- | tablighment. As the house will ondoul be over- | crowded, we respectfully suggest that those wh» are lucky | | enongh to get seats should retire at the end of the first | piece in to make room for the throng outside, WINTER GARDEN. | “The Actress of Padua’ waa revived at this house | jest evening, for the first time tn five years. Mies Lu citle Western pinyed Thisbe fm ber usual strange, pecu- | liar, unique, original, phyuant, | style, Tho large but not fashir lighted, Mies Western was by Mise Clifton and Mr. Barrett, peated (his ayening, andionee seeme de- eS Prticularty ‘he play will be re. |G. R. Taylor, of Wheeling, rre, queer aad outre | are Wasuurato, April 2, 1868. RUMORS REGARDING ARMY MOVEMENTS. ‘Tho city bas again been full of rumors to-day te regard to army movements, but they are almost entirely without foundation. THE ARMY OF THE FOTOMAG. ‘The correspondents of the Hxxaxp with the Army of the Potomac réport everything quiet and dull along the Rap- Pahannock, The recent storm has again restored the reign of mud, and some days will probably be necessary toplace them in good condition, PROBABLE CAPTURE OF A REBRL CAVALRY FOROR. A report is prevalent to-day that the rebel cavalry force which has been hovering around tho Bull Run Mountains and Culpepper has been surrounded by an ex- Pedition sent ont by Geuera) Stahel, and that their capture 18 almost certain. ‘This report is generally credited, ARREST OF ACTIVE REBEL SYMPATHIZERS. Dr. Woostord, and two other rebel sympathizers of this city, were arrested to-day by Provost Marsha! baker, and gent to the Old Capitol, chargetl with recruiting for the rebel army and being engaged in contraband traflo with tho rebel States, THE CASE OF COLONEL D’UTASSY. ‘Tho D’Utassy Court Martial was in session to-day, but there wasmothing dene except the examination of the muster rolls, which are alleged to have been altered by | D’Utassy for the purpose of defrauding the gov- it. The evidence presented by the prosecution thus far, and tho aamissions of the prisonor, are making out @ very strong case against him. NAVAL ORDERS, Commander R. W. Shufeidt has been ordered to the command of the steamer Fort Jackson. Commander J. C. Chaplin bas been ordered to the com: mand of the gunboat Dai Ching. RESIGNATIONS. ‘Watt Smith, Esq., Chief Clork of the Interior Depart- ment, and Mr, Shannon, chief of the division upon bonds and Treasury notes in Secretary Uhase’s office, havo ton- dored their resignations, to take effect on Ist of May. Fine Arts. country within the last dozen years has but few, if any, examples in the history of art, The phrase that ‘Rome was not built ina day” would almost seem to be falsi- fled by tho rapidity with which pablic edifices and private mansions of the moat imposing character are springing up in all our principal olties, But tt ta not tm their oxterpal features merely that our buildings exhibit this ambition to rival the best architectural modele. In tutertor docora- tiom an advance bas also been mado which promises the ‘most important results. f There is no term as applied in the arte which is 50 little understood and go frequently misapplied as fresco paint- ing. There is scarcely a house painter or dauber of walla on whose signboard it does not figure. Fresco painting in the proper soceptation of the term is now almost obsolete. From the fact that only earth colors are empicyed in it, and that they are laid in whilst the walls or ceilings are freshly coated with plaster, and damp, thereby rendering @ retouch impossible, none but a creative hand is capable of undertaking it. Many of the best works of Giotto, Masacolo, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Guilio Romano and Others of the great masters were executed in this medi- um. After the Mmtroduction of oil painting, however, it gradually fell into disuse, and at present it is vory ditl- cult to find an artist competent to work in it. It bas been replaced, however, by two other styles of wall painting, quite as effective, though not sodczable. Tho one is ia seco, or with colors, when the plaster has boen dried and wetted again, and the other in distemper, or without lime, on a dry wall o ceiling. In this country but very little advance had been made in olther of these methods until quite recently. Tn fact, except for tho ornamentation of churches, aud that only sparingly, fresco painting (we use the term in its looser sense) bas been scarcely employed at all. Ac- cording, however, as the mansions built for our wealthy morchants and millionaires began t assume a pala- tial character tn their architecture, the necessity of some corresponding style of interlor decoration began to make itself fel. ‘The Italian villa, ‘with its bright frescoes, naturally suggested itself as the model, and Italian artista were accordingly sought out to carry into execution the designs borrowed from it. We have had occasion to examine recently a number of private residences which have been thus decorated. Some of them evince but a very imperfect acquaintance on the part of the artist with the different styles in which tempera bas been employed, or, in fact, with the resources of the method itself, whilst in others we find dovoloped an ac- quaintance with principles and schools which has pro- duced the happiest results. Most of the works of this latter character have been executed by Mr. Raffas! Molin!, of our city, and originally of Bologna. A brief description Of one or two of the houses decorated by him wil! suffice to give an idea of the elaborate and thoroughly conscien- ‘tious character of his work. Entering a small reception or cleak room in one of these houses (a mansion on the Fifth avenue), we can fancy ourselves in a chamber in Pompeli.. The cornices and ornaments of the walis and ceilings are picked out with bright colors intermixed with gold, while panels of chocolate hue coutain those graceful floating Ogures which formod 0 favorite a feature in the Etruscan style of decoration. Notwithstanding the variety and brilliancy of the tints employed, the effect is harmonized by the admixture of opaque colors into ® general sobriety of tone befitting an partment of this secon importance. The principal Staircase is painted in sefni-relief, the tones employed being cold, and the designs statuesque and beraldic. On the sccond floor is the library, a perfect gem of art. It is decorated in the Raphaelesque style, borrowed in its turn from the Etruscan. Although the wails, ceiling and doors are glowing with the most brilliant tints, interspersed with gold, so minute are the designs and so perfect tho harmony of the whole that the e¥e is never for a moment shocked or dazzled. In the demi-lunettes above the bookeares are figures representing the arts and sciences, and the cove above the cornice which meets the centre panel introduces @ frieze, with medallions containing finely executed heads, the intervening spaces being filled witb floral and other devices. Passing from the library into the front drawingroom, we find a noble ap.rtment, deco- rated in tho style of the renaissance. The pan- ela of the walls are painted to imitate yei. jow damask, and the doors and mouldings are picked out with gold. In the cornice of the ceiling are richly ornamented shields and modallions containing allegorical heads, the effect of the whole being imposing without being heavy. The back drawingroom is of the Louis Quinze period—waving lines and bas reliefs consti- tuting the prevailing festures of ornamentation. There faa third drawing room, decorated in the Elizabethan style, which isrich without being heavy, and forms @ five contrast to the two last deserived apartments. Admirable as isthe fresco work in this house, it is far from being the artist's che/-d’ewrre. Since its completion be bas undertaken and finished the embellishment of ‘another large mansion in the Fifth avenue which sur. passes it In the more elaborate character of ite designs and in the greater boldness and effectiveness of their re sults, There are several other residences in which the work, though on « less extensive and costly scale, affords equally satisfactory evidence of the versatility and supe tiority of Mr. Molini’s talent. Fresco painting, as under. stood and practised by this gentleman, promises to be come an indispensable feature of the decoration of our private houses. It will afford @ welcome relief to their Present sameness, and will advance materially the general interests of art. Th vy. ‘The United States ship Jamestown, Captain Price, ar- rived at Montevideo December 25, and sailed for China February 4—all well on board. 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