The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1863, Page 4

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Altogether, during the day, sixty rifle shots and twenty-five shells were fired, only seven of which missed. The Richmond Examiner ad- mits the defeat of the rebels on the Rappahan- nock, inwhich Hokes’ and Hays’ brigades were captured. There is no important change in the Army of the Potomac. Our troops occupy the old battle field of Cedar Mountain. Immense trains of sup- plies from Alexandria aro going to the front. The railroad is being pushed rapidly ahead, and will be opened to the Rapidan by Monday night. Yesterday afternoon the rebel guerillas attacked the camps occupied by the workmen at Nokes- ville, two and a half miles east of Catlett's Station, burnt some ofthe shanties and carried off the contents of the others. A force of our troops were guarding a culvert not more than a quarter of a mile distant at the time. The rebels are strongly posted on the Rapidan. Some further developments with regard to the plot hatched in Canada to free the rebel prisoners on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, have been made, which show that it wears a serious aspect. It appears that the Governor General of Canada has given notice through Lord Lyons to the Secre- tary of State of rebel plots hatched in the British provinces to deliver the prisoners on Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, and burn Buffalo and Ogdens- burg. Adequate measures to defeat the enterprises have been promptly adopted. Mr, Stanton apprised the Mayor of Buffalo by telegraph yesterday of the details of the plot, and put him on his guard to protect the city against the approach of any steamboats or vessels with 40 unusual number of persons on board. In the late disastrous affair at Rodgersville, Tenn., the troops of Genera! Burnside were completely overwhelmed by superior numbers. Five hundred men, four guns and thirty-six wagons fell into the hands of the enemy. A despatch from Cairo says—on the faith of a report from Eastport, Miss.—that General ee now commands at Chattanooga; that General Bragg has been sent to Mobile, and that General Long- street is in command in Virginia. By the arrival of the Bohemian at Father Point yesterday, we, have three days later news from Ea- rope. Some excitement existed in England in consequence of a rumor that the rebel rams would be taken out of the Mersey by force. Orders were at once sent to Plymouth to send a war vessel round to Liverpool. The iron-plated frigate Prince Con- sort, and a gunboat, proceeded to the Mersey, the latter lying opposite Mr. Laird’s yard ready to start at a moment's notice. Advices from the West Indies report the rebel privateer Georgia off Falmouth, Jamaica, on the 13th ult. to have captured a steamer the same evening. The London Morning Star states that the Empe- ror Napoleon has informed Mr. Dayton that the authority for the construction of the rebel iron- clads in French ports had been withdrawn. This accords with the statement of Mr. Seward the other day which appeared in these columns. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arrival of the Bohemian at Father Point yesterday, we have three days later-advices from Europe. A summary of the political news is given in another column. At Liverpool the cotton mar- ket was buoyant, with an advance of one-half to three-quarters of a penny per pound. Breadstutls She was said and provisions remained without material altera- | tion The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. Committee on Ferries was requested to repo: what meavures should be taken to compel the pro- prietora of the Hoboken Ferry to run better boats aod at more regular hours. The Street Commis- sioner was requested to report why various streets and avenues are not lighted by gas, as directed by the Common Council. The Mayor sent in a com- munication respecting the removal of the Park barracks and the establishing of barracks on Cas- tle Garden grounds. Alderman Long offered a resolution authorizing the Street Commissioner to remove the barracks from the Park and recon- stract them on the Battery or Castle Garden grounds, and to place the barracks under the con- trol of the State authorities. The whole mat- ter was, on motion of Alderman Fox, laid over 4 communication and an ordinance were receir- The i | cd from the Comptroller rocommending trans-| The Strike of Machinists ana Others | disposed to pay for coal the price changed by | next yoat. Wo congratulate the country that fora of appropriations as followa:— Fromm the account of interest on revenue bonds to - a on Union Dofence Fund ast So 00 18000 00 To polic i Advertising for Common Cleaning streets... ++ ...- secre eee Total......sseeseenereree deneee +++. 875,061 79 —There was 0 transferred the sum of $8,000 from interest on assessment bonds to printing for the Common Council. The Board then adjourned to Monday next at one o'clock. The Board of Councilmen did ,not organize last evening, for want of @ quorum. Four privateeramen, taken from the Florida, were discharged from custody yesterday by Mar- shal Murray, the evidence showing that they were pressed into the rebe! service. Massachusetts election returns are in from all but twelve towns, Governor Andrew’s majority is 40,752. More than $100,000 of the new fractional our- rency has been issued. The largest daily issue is $10,000, Since the war commenced twenty-nine Union and thirty-eight rebel generals have been killed in battle or died of wounds, eleven Union and thir- teen rebel died of disease, eighteen Union and thirteen rebel resigned, and two Union and one rebel dismissed the service. It is a singular fact that, while not a single acci- dent has occurred to the guns on board the Iron- sides and Monitors, five of Gen. Gillmore’s guns of the same calibre as those used by the navy have exploded or become damaged since the siege of Charleston began. Experienced naval officers ex- plain this by the fact that the projectiles used by the Monitors were ‘‘slushed’’ or greased before being rammed home. ‘There was « fair movement in general trade yesterday, and many articles of merchandise were higher, in sym. pathy with gold and exchange. Tho foreign trade con- tinues to show an inorease of imports and decrease of exports, which is not a very hopeful state of affairs in the Present state of the finances. Thore was a revival of the speculative fever at the Corn Exchange, and prices of all the leading staples were upward and transactions large. Flour was 6c. Wc. better. Wheat and corn advanced 1c. a 2c, Mess pork went up to $18, with heavy sales, Whiskey touched 64c., with congidorablo speculative action. Petroleum, which bas come to be as much of a Speculative commodity as gold or fancy stocks, partici- pated in the activity and upward tendency of prices. Freighta were rather more active; but the market con- tinues depressed, and the general carrying rates have not eon lower for years than they now aré. Neutral vessels, which are monopoliaing most of the irade, were accept- ing freight nearly or quite as low as Americans, ‘The Public sale of wool attracted a large number of manufac- turers, dealers and speculators, and wont off spiritedly, and very full pricos were realized. The Administration, the Slavery Ques- tion and the Presidency. Whither is the administration drifting on the slavery question? Is the reclamation of the rebellious States or the abolition of slavery therein, as a preparatory purification, to carry the day? What ard we to believe? According to President Lincoin’s settlement of the Mis- souri muddle, the abolition faction and their “one idea” are to be sot aside, and a conserva- tive policy is to mark the reconstruction of the Union ; but, according to the recent speech of the Secretary of State at Auburn, the Presi- dent’s letter on the Missouri difficulty amounts to nothing more than joke; for Mr. Seward substantially says that slavery will be ex- tinguished in the great work of re-establishing the territorial integrity of the Union. Anew light has fallen upon Mr. Seward. Only a few months ago, in a memorable despatch to the French government on the question of a joint convention of delegates from the loyal States and from the Tevolted States, he, without qualification, suggested that the return of the members to both houses of the federal Congress due from the rebellions States would result at once in a joint convention, in which all the troubles between the two sections could be satisfactorily adjust- ed; that this was the only admissible joint con- ference so far as our government was concern- ed; and that such a conference was not only admissible, but desirable, in view of the con- stitutional participation it would give to the insurrectionary States in the work of the re- construction of the Union. We cannot doubt that Mr. Seward spoke by authority at that time. How, then, are we to account for these later opinions of his delivered at Auburn? Is the “Pope's bill against the comet,” after all, to be the supreme and inflexible law of recon- struction? Is every rebellious State to be com- pelled to make good the emancipation procla- mation, and purge itself of African slavery at all hazards, before its rehabilitation as a mem- ber of the Union? We are all in the dark upon this subject; but the events which have occurred since the issue of General Fremont’s Missouri edict of eman- cipation are very suggestive. Since that day, with here and there a little hitch, the abolition programme has been put into practice, step by step, until it needs only a practical enforce- ment of the President’s slavery abolishing pro- clamation to secure the complete success of the abolition faction. Assuming that the Secretary of State has warned us of what it is the present purpose of Mr. Lincoln to do, we may at least exercise the privilege of warning him against following the abélition will-o’-the-wisp any | further. Accordingly, we would thus admonish Presi- dent Lincoln thatthe same conservative popu- lar elements which turned the elections in moat of the loyal States last year against lis admin- istration, because of its biundering abolition war policy, have turned this year’s elections in his favor, and upon the simple platform of an earnest and overwhelming prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebellion. We would remind him that the great body of the people of the North desire the war to be ended and the revolied States restored to the Union as soon as practicable, with or without a rem- nant of slavery, as this or that State may pre- sent itself for readmission. We would remind him that in this business the Union is the pri- mary and paramount question, and that South- ern slavery is but a secondary issue. We would advise him to cut loose from the disor- | ganizing abolition factions, beginning with his Cabinet, and to cast himself upon the conserva- tive masses of the loyal States, and upon the platform of the restoration of the Union, without insisting upon the condition precedent of the ing out of every vestige of Southern slavery ‘ Finally, we would impress this warning upon the mind of President Lincoln, thatin yielding to the demands of the abolition radicals he places himself in their power only to become | their victim when he sbait have performed their | work, while, in the repudiation of these faaat- | jos and their foolish policy, he becomos their | master and secures the inside track and the whip hand againat all competitors for the suc- cession, He may, in a word, thus command the policy of the next four years in the important work of rebuilding and consolidating tho Uaioa upon a solid aad durable basis, simple Philosophy of the DiMioulty. there seems to be a determination on the part of the different Trades’ Societies to support one another in the stand which tradesmen are taking. Yesterday nearly all the oity railroads had to stop running, the conductors and drivers having suspended work until the companies sball accede to their terms. From the state- ments of our reporters we perceive that these atrikes are becoming general throughout the country. All kinds of handicraftemen—arti- sans, artificers, shoemakers, segar makers, car- penters, masons, house painters, safe makers, Lithographers, and even the poor sewing girls— are everywhere striking for an increase of Sat perhaps the moat important feature of these strikes is fhe mévement of the machinists and workers in fron of this and other cities. They number in this city some eight thousand. ‘There are now n0 less than seven hundred of these machinists on a strike. The result is that all kinds of work on machinery have been brought to a sud- den stop. A large number of machinists and blacksmiths have for many months past been engaged on the iron-clad vessels which are being constructed in different places for the eervice of the government. The atrike of these men instantly stops all progress on the iron-clads, though the necessities of the govern- ment and the security of the nation demand that these valuable vessels should be com- pleted as carly as possible. The machinist is @ man who holds a highly respectable posi- tion. Asa body they have stood by their em- ployers faithfully since the war broke out and the currency began to depreciate; and now, when the actual cost of every article of subsiat- ence has doubled what it was before the rebel- lion, they fairly enough contend for a rise of wages. What they demand is an advance of twenty-five per cent on the present rates of wages; whereas the price of every article of domestic consumption has ascended from one bundred to one hundred and fifty per cent. The cause of this is no doubt to be directly at- tributed to the redundant currency thrown into circulation; but neither machinists nor any other class of tradesmen can grapple with such a contingency. Ten years ago the wages of machinists were as high as they are now. Every article af subsistence was then sold at reasonable, anf even nominal, prices, Coal, one of the most important and indis- pensable requirements of life, was selling at almost one-third of the charges at present laid upon the public. Now they receive on an average two dollars per day, which, with the redundancy of the currency and the extreme increase in the standard of prices, is evidently insufficient to meet their ordinary expenses. In the way in which we conduct our busi- neas we find that strikes, or cessation from any routine of labor, or difficulties of this kind, are unnecessary, if not entirely impossible. The reason is that there isa perfect understanding between us and our employes, and if any diffi- culty or dissatisfaction should arise they feet confident that it can be remedied by a proper representation. This confidence is the true eecret of the harmony with which all great es- tablishments are conducted. And so it should always be; for employer and employed bear an intimate relation to, and are mutually de- pendent on, one another. While the employer builds up a business through the industry of the operative, the latter obtains the advantage of steady employment, which the employer's eapi- tal makes certain to him. This principle being properly appreciated, there can be no difficulty on the labor question. But, speaking directly of the strikes, it is evi- dent that the machinists and other artisans must be set to work with as little delay as pos- sible. The iron-clads are needed by the gov- ernment for the prosecution of the war, and without the labor of these men they cannot be compjeted. The contractors and employers should therefore take into consideration the actual wants of thelr workmen, and give them the rate of wages which the exigencies of the time make necessary. If this should entail less profit on their contracts than their original calculations would give them, they have their appeal to Congress, and upon a fair representa- tion of the facts they will surely be indemni- fied. But the public and national interests should not be made to suffer for any con- sideration of this kidd. Alt combinations are bad, and no set of men should be driven to such a resort. But if the demands of the ma- chinists are just and proper, why should they not be met? If they were unreasonable and unfair we would be the last to favor them. But, with the undoubted evidence be- fore the public of the high prices of every article of clothing and subsistence, rents, &c., the claims of the working people, as « general thing, do not appear exorbitant. Strikes are always costly undertakings to the employer as well as the employed. Men never like to submit to them; but until there be a better understanding between the em- ployer and the laborer, they will contipue to take place whenever the financial condition of the nation forces up the prices of the necessa- ties of life beyond the limits of the wages of the day. Tax Price or Coat.—Speculators in all commodities are the bane of life ia cities. Producers are all at a distance; hun- dreds of thousands of consumers are huddled in one mass; and, as the grand majority of these latter purchase only from day to day, their necessities, when they arise, are impera- tive. Agents to go between the consumer and the distant producer are inevitably necessary, and they just as inevitably abuse their posi- tions. They make haste to getrich. Itis a very anclent item of knowledge that he who maketh haste to be rich will not be just, and the ancient observation is sustained in their case. Not only are they not just, but at times they forget all reason, and, by mutual combination, carry prices to an oulrageous height, regard- less of the misery they cause, or of what may ensue when popular rage breaks loose; for it is sufficiently well knowa that ible riots have arisen from these causes here and elsewhere. Just now the trouble is with ogal. Normally the price of coal in Now York olty should range, for the different seasons, from four to six dollars per ton, It has now nearly doubled tho highest of those figures; and as coal is not scarce, and as the miners are not overpaid, it is evident that this increase in price is not a nata- | ists to incroase their wealth at the public cost. ‘run him Here is a flood of light on the cause of the great increase in the price of coal. An article worth two dollars and fifty cents in Wilkes- barre, Penn., is held at eleven dollars in New one place to the other. The gompanies alluded. to in the letter are apparently the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the New Jersey Central rail- roads. The Operatic Imbrogiio—Marctack and Grau. We had anticipated a grand struggle, a pro- tracted operatic war, between the rival impres- sarit, Maretzek and Grau. We are to be dis- appointed. There will be but @ skirmish, a fire and fall back affair. Grau will not give opera; he will make known to the New York public his artists, and then off he will fly to leas dangerous fields of operations, where he may give concerts, or even opera, free from the pre- sence of 80 dangerous, 80 determined, an enemy aa Maretzek. Grau allowed disaffection to creep into his ranks, and thus he lost his most capable gene- ral. We refer to Brignoli. Henee he was forced to abandon all idea of a regular campaign and adopt a plan of guerilla warfare against the public. He will give concerts in the Western cities, and will no doubt have a successful sea- gon, pniess he rung counter with the Gottschalk concert troupe, in which case Grau will then, as now, suffer from the determined opposition of a powerful foe. It must be stated that Gotts- chalk has secured the services of Brignoli, and that the combination renders him a most formid- able opponent. But Grau is not as yet alive to the consequences of any such future struggle. At present he is given up to the short raids he is making both here and in Brooklyn. He has brought over a prima donna whom he looks upon as his most effective means of assault upon the pockets of the public. She is an artist of talent, and has for many years ranked high in European operatic circles as a “grand lyric tragedienne.” But Maretzek hasin his camp a lyric tragedienne who is certainly quite capable to stand the concentrated fire of the enomy. We do not wish to make invidious comparisons; 80 we will merely say that so far the rival com- manders are on an equality. But here ceases the parallel. Maretzek is intrenched in al- most impregnable fortifications, and can send out forces to cope with his enemy, while he still retains sufficient numbers te defend his ope- ratic stronghold. Thus on those nights that Grau makes his attacks Maretzek does the same, with the ad- vantage of superior numbers. Grau announces that he will make a raid into Brooklyn. The moment he hears of this plan of campaign Ma- retzek assembles his tried followers, and ere Gran is prepared he makes a foray into the City of Churches, and comes back laden with booty. And Maretzek does this with a display of forces which he well knows cannot be imitated by his enemy, who is not as yet prepared to undertake a serious struggle. As we said above, it will end in the retreat of Grau aud his sudden on- slaught upon places quite undefended. We hear sinister whispers, however, of a diaboli- cal plan which has batched in the fertile brain of the Machiavellic Maretzek. He will, it is ‘said, form a band of skirmishers, flying artil- lery, a8 it were, who shall make out by hook or by crook what Grau’s plans are, and then hasten to the places threatened by him, and ere he can reach there make a first onslaught upon the devoted public and carry away the spoils. How this bitter strife will end we cannot tell. Whetber Grau will suceumb to superior num- bers, or, rising to the necessities of the situa- tion, will recruit a formidable army and battle to the last, perhaps to success, must remain for time to disclose. At present we can only regret that the war of the rival impressarii will be of such short duration here. Gesera, Dix Nor a Canpipate vor tHE MayoraLty.—The attempt made by certain gentlemen of Fifth avenue and Wail street to place General John A. Dix in the false position of a candidate for the Mayoralty has not been successful. They proposed some weeks ago to give General Dix their nomination, and were met witha polite but firm refusal to accept. Not satisfied | with this, they next appointed a committee to | proceed to Washington for the purpose of get- ting the President to bring a pressure on the | commander of the Department of the East to induce his acceptance of their nomination. Mr. Lincoln, we learn, repiicd that the affair wasa purely local one, in which he could not and would not interfere, either one way or the other. The services of General Dix, be added, | had been and were of the highest value to the government, aad if the Geveral proferred con- tinuing in bis military command, and was indisposed to give up the gash and sword for the civic chain and robe of office, Mr. Lincoln would be the last man in the world to press | upon him a different decision. Per contra, it | General Dix saw fit to accept theic nomination for the office of Mayor, the President would no more throw any ‘obstacle in his way than he would in that of any of the very respectable | committee whom he had the honor of ad- | dressing. With this reply from the President, and a | similar one from the Secretary of War, the | Committee of Notables returned to this city ' some few days ago, and there the matter ends. | General Dix declined their tender of nomina tion weeks ago. He never authorized, in fact | knew nothing about, their visit to Washington. General Dix is much too large a man tobe wasted and thrown away in a petty contest of this kind. He stands to-day one of the fore: | moat exponents of the faith of the war de- mocracy, and the necessities of next year may find @ fitting use for him. The attempt to, for the Mayoralty has had ate) its bottom a plot of the Chase-Gresley ral one, On the contrary, it is the mere result | republicans to get him out of their way. They | of a combination on the part of certain capital: | dread the force of his conservative principles | and high obaractor. They want aone but Ame- | Some days ago a goatloman of this city, not | cicane of the Ohase Gresley pattern on guard ! their attempt has been unsuccessful; aod in President Linoola’s reply to the self-clected committee from Fifth avenue and Wall street we Gnd oaly another illustration of that excel- tent common senge which distinguishes our oa- tional Chief Magistrate. Our city reformers must be taught that they cannot commence their campaign against a political organization such as Tammany Hall, which has been in ox- istence for more than three-quarters of a cen- tury, in the last three weeks preceding election dey. It will take them at least a year of ac- lave and intense organization. Wasumarow, Nov, 12, 1868. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND THE RADICALS. It {3 whispered among tho knowing ones that the fortn- Coming Message of the President will exhibit a dispoal- tion on his part to act independentiy of the radical clique that bas presumed to run the goverament machine aad Gictate the policy of the administration, It is hinted that the recommendations in the Message will show that Mr. Lincoln is not unaware of the intrigues of the fead. ers of cortain factions, and does aot intend to be involved or committed by them. e THE ANNUAL BBPOBTS AND DOCUMENTS. ‘The official reports and docamonts to accompany the President's Message are not yot, except those of the Into- terior aud Post Office Departments, ready for the public printer. Many of the most important of the subordinate reports will not be ready for some time after the meeting of Congress, and those of the Secretaries, upon whiob the business portion ef the president’s Message will be based, will have to be made upon abstracts. In some of tho of- floes of the War and Treasury Departments the work has accumulated until it is from twolve to oighteon months behind. The clerks in these departments wore never re- quired to work 30 hard, some of them being kept at their desks from twelve to fifteen hours each day. The delay in the transaction ot business is attributable to tho clum- sineas of the machinery of the departments, which im- poses several times whe labor actually necessary, without affording any greater security of correctness. The sim- plification of the mode of transacting the public businoss {s to be brought to the attention of Congress early ta the sesaion. TOR MARKIAGE OF GOVERNOR SPRAGUE AND MI39 OHASB. Tho nuptials of Governor Sprague and Miss Kate Chase took piace this evening, in the presence of the Presidout and Mrs. Lincoln, the several heads of departmonts, and a brilliant array of the foreign Ministers resident here. Among the guests at the reception were a number of the ‘most distinguished men and women of the country. THE CASE OF DEPUTY COLLECTOR STANTON. +The affair of the Deputy Collector of Customs at Now York creates no little commotion in high quarters bore. It promises to take a wider range than was at first aup posed, and may result in developments somewhat damag. ing to prominent aspirants fur political advancement. THR RECENTLY CAPTURED BLOCKADE RUNNBRS. ‘Tho steamer Robert £, Lee, captured by the Jamos Adger, waa formerly named the Giraffe. She is aa iron steamer, of about eight hundred tons, and was Atted out ‘at Glasgow in 1362. She had been plying betwoon ttrat port and Bolfast, and was considered one of the swiftest boats afloat. She has paddle wheels, and draws about ten fost of water, and has been one of the most success. ful of the blockade runners between Bermuda aod Wil- mington. It ia supposed she belonged to tho rebel gov- ernment, ss she has peeu in command of rebel navy officers. ‘rhe Cornubia, also recently captured by the James Adger, was fitted out in England in the autumn of 1862, Sho is a side-whee!, Afteen knot ateamér, supposed (o be- lovg to the rebel goveromeut, At one time she was called the Jeff. Davis. She has been quite as successial ‘as the Robort KE. Lee in running the blockade. She plied between Bermuda and Wilmington. ‘The Kia and Anna, captured by the Niphon, was for- merly calied the William 4. Hewes. She is an iroa side wheel steamer, six or seven hundred tons burthen, aad considered fast. All were iaward bound for Wilmingtoa, and had valuable cargoes, stores and ammunition. THE BXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. No further measures bave yet been instituted relative to the exchange of prisoners. Applicaticns are frequeat- ly received by the military authorities from revel oflcers to be released on parole, and in some cases to be set at liberty upon taking the cath of allegiance. The latter is Rot granted, except to privates, whore the evidence is satisfactory that they have been forced into the service, Officers are presumed to have arrayed themselves voiua- tarily against the government, and cannot now be granted the privileges of Americancitizens. In a few days, how- ever, an exchange of surgeons will take place, the rebels holding at Richmond eighty-five belonging to our armivs. SUPPLIBS POR THE PRISONERS AT RICHMOND. A large amount of clothing bas been sent to our prisoners in Richmond, and an order bas been issued to forward them provisions. It is believed that medical supplies wil! also be sent for the relie’ of our sick. Tho immediate forwarding of a sufficient quantity of medical stores to our surgeons in Richmond would be no lesa im- portant in ita beneficial effects apon the sufferers there thaw the clothing aod food already sent. THE REBI Opportunities have been surgeous in our hands to attend to their sick and wounded, but in almost every case they have declined, rofusing to tender their services unless paid by our government. RETURN OF SECRETARY USHER AND GEN. HAMMOND. Secrotary Usher returned {rom his visit to Now York this morning. ‘Sargeon G ‘al Hammond bas also returned from bis extended Southern tour of inspection THE GURRILLAS STILL ACTIVE. Guerillag continue to infest Fairfax county, and have of late committed serious dopredations. Last week they fired and destroyed five Lundred cords of government wood, and also attempted to burn a number of aouses, Dut were frastrated by the vigilance of the troops guara- ing quartermaster's stores near the line of the ratiroad, ATTEMPT TO BURN THE PROVOST MARSHALS HOUSE. A daring attempt wes made last night, by a gang of Now York thieves, t burn (he house of the Provost Mar shal of this district. Several anonymous letters threat. oping such an act have beon received by that officer, and fears are ontertained that the threats will be carried into execution. GENERAL TAYLOR ORDERED TO CHATTANOOGA. Genoral Taylor, Commissary General of the United States Army, bas been relieved from duty here and of- dered to Chattanooga. Colonel Shiraa succeeds General Taylor at the head of the department THE CONSECRATION AT GETTYSBURG. Authority bas been given Major Genera! Couch by the President to command the military escort upon the occa- sion of the funeral ceremonies at Gettysburg oa the 19th Nnstact RECOGNITION OF CONSULS. Tho President has recognized J. H. Gossler, Jr. Consul of Prnswin at Boston; Juan y oo Villanueva, Consul of Spain at Now York, and Carl Mossing, Consal of the Pria Appe for the United States, to SXAMINATION OF CANDIDATRS FOR THB ORDNANCE conrs. A board for the examination of candidates to Mil vacan- cies in the rank of second lieutenant in the Ordnance Corps of the reguiar army is now in session at the Ord bance Office in Washington. Alt officers of the army, whether regulars or volonteers, are eligible, provided they pass the requisite examination, The rules govern: ing the board are to be found ja General Orders No, 138, of May 18, 1863, from the Adjutant General's office, The object is to secure young men who are flted for those special dutios, whether edvoated at West Point of not, aod whose future promotion will depend on their passing right examioations. The Ordnance and Enginser Corps are the ouly ones in the army which adopt this principle, andthe sooner it is extended to the whole army the more its 4 ixcipline and reputation will Impmove Applications for examination before the board must be made to the Chief 0. The board will be in semaion only @ Cow ‘The following rules will govern the board tn their examinations of applicants (or @ rank aot higher than that of captain — 1. Hach applicant will Be examined as to hie capac!ty aod Minoss for the correct and oiicient divcharge of thy duties of oFdinanes officer, mental, phy 2 He moat be proficient in o sition, and able to give prompt and tn! any questions ia relation to geography,» Utica, the divisions of the branches of ove functions of exch and their sphere of action ( roguiations of tba military service, partion Ordvance Department; the reception aud end sooovatabitity for ordnauce, orduauce atores and wap piles; phywical sctonce, particularly the laws of cleuieal xmbination aud analyais, the streugth of wateriaiy aad tee ex vauson Of gastos, MsouMuICS’ Maathualgn im TUS AFRICAN CIVILISATION SOCIETY. Some timo ago the members of the African Civilization Society, who have their rooms in the Bible House, New York, addressed a letter to the Rov. James Mitchell, Com missioner of Emigration, aaking bim to bring to the motice Of the President of the United States the fact of the existence of the society and the objects of their organization, whioh is stated by thomsctves to ba the civiltzation and Onristienization of Africa, and of Africans im any portion of the world, wherever dis- pereed; alzo the destruction of the African slave trade come industrious producers as well ag consumers, ‘and goverally the elevation of the colored population of our own country and other lands. Mr. Mitchell receatig prooured the delegation, consisting of five colored mes, who came well endorsed by gentlemen of prominence im New York, an interviow with the President of thé United States, and they presented to him an address, t= which they asked him to place the sum of $5,000 o# more to the credit of the African Civilization Society, with @uch arrangements that thoy may draw on the proper departments for similar amounts as the progress of their work shall require, The President gave them a pations hearing, and said ho would bestow upon their written communication due consideration, BUBIAL OF LIBUTENANT L. M. GOLDSBOROUGE—TAB UNITED STATES MARINBS. The romaina of the tate Lioutenant Louis M. Geids- wore conveyed from the Church of the Ascension, in this city, on Sunday Inst, and deposited in the Wirt tomb ta the Congressional Cemetery. The full Marine Baad, « drum corps, and » large guard of marines from head quarters, commanded by Captain Ramsay and Lieulow ants Tilton and Cochran, escorted the body to the tomb. ‘Tho soldierly bearing and steady marohing of the marines attracted large crowds on the avenue, and convinced every one that the recont compliment of Admiral Mila was w oll deserved. DEATH @F LISUTENANT FLINT, MARINE OOBPS. Recent advices from Pensacola state that Lieut. Flint of the United States marines, died on the 16th ult, Hit was from Wisconsin, The fover, which was unusually fatal, has abated. Of three hundred cases, more thag seventy failed to recover, The Marine Guard lost om Lueuteusnt and thirteen privates. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES. ‘The Land Office is vigorously engaged in tho issue & land gcrip under the Agricultural and Mechanic Collogé law of 1862. The Stato of New York has already roceivoe about one-half of tho quantity to which the State ia ow titled wodor this law, and the residue will bo despatches to,the Governor in a fow days. THE CLERKSHIP OF THE HOUSE. Hon, Samuel L. Casey, of Kentuoky, who was proms neatiy spoken of in connection with the Clerkship of tat Houge of Representatives, bas formally withdrawo [rom the contest, and is about to go to Tennessee and Misske sippi to work up the Union cause there. THE HOMESTBAD LAW. In the [onian district, Michigan, there were takea up I¢ tho month of October last about nine thousand acres of (and under the Homostead law. DELAWARE SOLDIERS GOING HOME TO VOTH. Orders have been issued to grant furloughs to all com valescent Delaware soldiers, in order that they may par- ticipate in the election of that State. The furloughs ox. tend twelve days from the 13th inst, RELEASE OF HIRAM BROWER. Hiram Brower, for many years editor of the Fairfaa county Mews, was on Wodnesday released from Carroll UNITED STATEA prison, where he had beea confined several months; — and will take up his residence in Pennsylvania unt tho close of the war, OHTRF OF THE INVALID BURBAU. Colonel Wisewell, of the Sixth regiment, Iavalia corpm has boea appointed chief of the Invalid Bureau, riod Colonel Rash, relieved. THE COMMANDER OF THE INVALID CORPS DEPOW, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick has beon placed ia comm mand of tho Invalid Corps depot, vic Colona: Wisewetl appoiated chief of that bureau. ‘TY@ COMMANDSR OF THE CONSORIPT CAMP AT OLEE- LAND, OBI. . Genoral Gibbon bas been assigned to the command @ the Couacript Camp at Cleveland, Obio; his wound, re’ cotved at Gettysburg, still preventing him from entering the Mold. NBGRO REGIMENTS. ‘Tho Second District nogro regimont has been filled and ordered to tho field. The authority haa been given to raise @ third regiment of the same charactor. Tho majoe and line ofcers aro to receive their appointments thid week. The appointment of colonel and lieuleaaat coloadt will probably be delayed for seme time. GENERALS AUGUR AND HEINTZELMAN. Major General Heintzelman has been appointed prost- dent of the Augur court martial, the Iattor officer having been relieved from that post in order to onable him te attend tothe duties of the department. It ts believed ‘that General Augur will be permanently retained as mili: tary commandant of this department, his administrative ability and experience eminentiy fittiag him for the oom- mand. No changes of the staff have yet been aanounced. To-day General Augur inspected the defences. COLORED CHAPLAIN APPOINTED. Rev. H. M. Turner, colored pastor of the Israe! Bother oburch, in Washington, has been appointed chaplain of the First regiment of United States colored troops, aow io south Carolina, He is the first colored minister whe has been commissioned chaplain. General Stannard, SKRTCH OF THE NEW COMMANDER OF THS UNITRS STATRS TROOPS IN THE CITY AND DEFENCES OF NEW YORK. Brigadier General George J. Stannard, who has roceatiy | heea appotated to succeed General Canby in the command | Of the United States troops in the} city and harbor of New York —in consequence of that officer having been ordered Washington to resume his former position in the War De partmoa!—is & native and citizen of Vermont, He om tored the United States service as the Colonel of tho Niots | Fegiment of Vermont Volunteers, which regiment was | captured at Harper’s Ferry, Beptember 15, 1862, afted | having periormed good service in the Shenandoah valley, Tne regiment was therefore paroled by the late robe Geueral Stonewall Jackson, and sent to the parole camp at Chicago, I., where it remained until oxchanged ow January 10, 1963. After the exchange the regimeot was retained at Chicago until April 1, to guard a camp of reve prisoners,and was next sent tothe Department of Virgiala, Un the 8th of April, 1963, Colonel Stansard was detach- ¢4 from nis regiment, and promoted to brigadier geacral of voluateers, with = commission from March 11, 1863, He was thea assigned to the command of a brigade, coa- sisting of the Twolfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fiftecnts aad sixteoath Vermont Volunteers, aed continued ta com. mand uatit the expiration of the term of service of these regimeats, Until June, 1863, the brigade was stationed tn froat of Washington, and engaged principally ia pers forming heavy picket duty. On the 25th of June it was, by ordor, attached to the First army corps, under General Reynolds, aa the Third brigade of the Third division, but 414 ont joun the corps proper until July 1, whea the corpse was fouad to be at Gettysburg. To reach the corps the brigade had to march continuously for seven days, during which the men travelled afoot over one husdred aod twoaty five miles.) Part of the brigade was engaged (n the second day's contest, during which « gallant charge wag ‘made by five companies, who retook four guns of a battery whic bad just been captured by the enomy, Sod about Sighty prisoners. The brigade held the left ceatre of the frout during the battle of July 8, and endured, like veto rang, the terrific fire of the artillery which was openeg upoa them by the enemy. Subsequently, by « fea movemoat, the brigade attacked the rebels, who broke ‘and became very much scattered, leaving a oumber of prisoners in the bands of Stannard’s brigade. For thete gallant conduct the General, bis officers and mom, wore bighly complimented in general order by thelr division commander, Major General Doubleday. Afior tho expiration of the servies of this brigade, Goosral Stannard was placed to Command of Fort Rick. moat, Sandy Hook, and the defences of that side of the harbor, (1 which commend roll to peeunse that 9’ the whole rbot N ‘ork, | Stan retains Of the abtive sia ovigiaaliy undet General rarther ordere. and the gy. 106s. Duyp ware lateoduced in hott benbcheg Ot the Lagisia, tare today to make up the defictencios of pay to the Fifty fourth and Pity th Massachusste (colored) rags eaqats from the Hale (rowurt,