The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1863, Page 6

| 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE W. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advance, at the risk of the sender New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Tawxe cents por copy. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Satvrery, per copy, Annual subscription price Three Copica. Five Copies ‘Tov Copies. Postage five cents per oy iroased to. Money soat by mail will bo None but bank bills current Ia - three months. ries of Sabseri Any larger number $1 SOench, Av extrac ten, Twenty copies, one address, ove year, $85, aad any larger number at same prica Au y wil! be gent to every extra copy will bo nent to cluds of twenty. These vates mate the Waexix Herano the cheapes! publication in the country. 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BRYANTS MINS’ Suspa—Koven La 8 Halt, ad way.—Brniortan SONGS, Dasees, Berensquas, bom luw Kvsway Ban, WOOD'S MINSTRELHALN, SU Broadway, —Ermioriae GEO. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. 685 Broadway. —Bun. Goxus, Dances, dc.—Cawinry. Umsquies, Songs, Dances, Ac. MisCuinrous Moxker, AMERICAN TH HY No. 444 Brtndway.— Bane Paxtowiaxe, Born ¥.~ Bates, TRE, ts, AC MOUS TAtN OUTLAW, _ BROADWAY AMPNITHEATRE, 435 Broatway.—Grae Wantio ano Bocxanictin t 3 HOVE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.-Taw Srerzoacorricax NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOXY, fas, Beeagwar— Cumositizs any Lactoxes, from YA, TH g& ‘BI ‘CU ATION. Pevhppa the most impori.nt war news we have to-day ix from the Texas expedition of General Bauks. The yccupation of Brownsville appears to ave hoen dictatod by some very urgent reasons, An attempt to revolutionize the district of Tamau- (ipas, which includes Matamoros and the mouth of the Rio Grande, by the Mexican chief Miramon handing it over to the French, wea frustrated by the timely appearance of General Banke. The presence of the Union troops drove Gencral Cobas, the ally of Miramon, to the other aide of the river, where he fell into the hands of Cortiaas, who defeated him, and shot him asatrattor. Three revolutions occurred in one week un the Mexican fronticr of the Rio Grande, in the regular Mexican faskion; but the position which General Banks now occupies secures to the ‘United Htates tho port of Matamoros without em- broiling us ine foreign war, as might have been the caso if the Tamaulipas country had been handed over to French rule. No accounta direct from Knoxville, later than those publisuod yeaterday have been received. In Washiagton no apprehension is felt for the safety of Burnside’s command, or of his al ility to hold the,city until relieved by General Grant, who, since the junction of Sherman's with Thomas’ force, has ample means at bis dispozal for so doing. The recent raiu storm has extended to Virginia, Bud the Army of the Potomae is once more stuck fn the mud. Our cavalry occupy Culpepper, but tre infantry have not yet advanced to that point, Ruthors prevailed in the camps yester- day that Lee had fallen back from the line of the Rapidan; there is no renaon, however, yee Velinnt ag that he has abandoned a ‘posi Strong, both naturally and artificially. Tt is now aacertained that the partics,depredating in tho rear of our forces are composed of deserters frum the Union army, who waylay and rob travellers indiscrimiuately, bit pay particular attention to eatlers, purveyors) and others who carry con siderable sums of money. Large quantities of provisions and medical stores have been forwarded to the Union prisoners | at Richmond, and no anxiety necd be entertained aa regards their condition so long asthe rebel authorities pormit the distribution of the supplics among them. There has been some delay in for- warding the stores, owing to the lack of trana- portation from City Point to the rebel capital; but Suis diBicalty we are assured has been overcome. ‘ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The latest European news by the Persia states that the liberal press of flaly cordially endorses the pringiples of Napoleon's speech to the French Logis. Tho Opinionc, of Turin, supports the idea of a Congress, but adds that Italy, ‘fore- secing coming events, must prepare to take up arns."’ Letters from Madeira announce the arrival there of tho division of French iron-clad vessels which lately sailed from Brest. thove vessels have given the most natisfactory re- sults, both aa to stability and speed, having proved themselves faster than the Napoleon and the Tour: ville, the best steam vessels of the old fleet, which | had been placed at the disposal of Vice Admiral Penaud daring this experimental voyage. City Inspector's Department, into the ample domains of Texas; so that the - population of that State has probably During this second trial | was held at two o'clock yesterday. Mr. Jones, the president, stated that the meeting had been culled for the purpose of taking some action on certain transfers recommended by the Comptroller, and which had already passed the Board of Alder- men, Resolutions of concurrence were adopted, giving the Comptroller authority to transfer the sian of ten thousand dollars from the Mount Morris square improvement fand to the fund for lands and places, and the sum of { thousand dollars from the appropriation for public charities and correction to the fund for contingencies in the After acting on a number of routine papers the Board adjourned until Monday evening next at four o'clock. sof the Eastern States generally are ga to push forward the work of ring. Large bounties and increased pay ents offercd, The town of New ich, Now Hampshire, has the honor of being and probably the first in Now Englond, of filling her quota under the recent call for 300,000 men. The Worcester Spy says that the Commissioners of Wo ogunty have received a notification from the United S Marshal to hold themselves in readiness to receive and keep in close custody, jailin Vitchburg, some ten or twelve fe- male secession spies, now held by our government as prisoners, The steamship Corsica, from this port on the Oth inst. for Havana, via Nassau, N. P., arrived at Havana on Sunday morning, the 15th inst., at day- light. ‘The raiu storm was a great restriction upon trade on Saturday, wheh there was very little movement any- where, except at the Produce Exchange, whero oxéite- ment ran high in at feast two artictes, corn and whiskey, which wore i active speculative demand at much hivher prices. Weatorn mixed corn gold at the unprecedented prico of $120 per bushol, It was rumored that there are Impcris on the way from Furope, 75 ceuts, Flour and wheat were in demand, and prices showed an advance, GOutside of the Produce Fxchange, howover, but littie was done. Vctroleum, cotton, groves ries, &e.,&¢., wero dull. Freights were dull. Provisions steady. Southern Siavery—The Bluck Race—The Dangers of a Protractcd War, Since thoso stupendous military operations of last suinmer which resulted in the complete reopening of the Mississippi river, and sin the advance of our Army of the Cumberland ° j to the northern border of Georgia, we have had, from time to time, some startling adm Sious and complaints from Southern rebel jour- nais of the alarming accessions to the slave populstion of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina from the other slave States occupied or invaded by the Union forces. Thus, at length, we have the report that considerably over a miliion of slaves, by the pressure of the war, have been added to the servile race in Alabama and Georgia. They have been dfawn from Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Mississippi, and still the stream continues, Large num- bers, also, from Missouri and all the other slave States bordering on the Mississippi have been removed by their masters, for present security, beon increased to the extent of two hundred and fifty thousand souls since the beginning of the war. These facts are very significant and sugges- tive. They awaken at once the inquiry, what is to become of Southern slavery, and what ig to become of the blacks race, bond or free, if these alarming movements of the slave popula- tion shall be continued another year? The ques- tion {a not relleved of its embarrassment by the fact that, while slavery is thus retreating into a corner to escape our advancing armies, hun- dreds of thousands of slaves are liberated by falling into the service of the government, while the residue of this class of the popula- tion in the slave States within the Union lines is held in servitude chiefly by the inclinations of the slaves themselves, or by their immediate necessities in the way cf subsistence. The great facts before us are that the ques- tion is already settled against slavery in the border States; that the war is removing it from the next tier of States below; and that the suf- focation of the institution is threatened in the remaining cotton States from a surfeit of ne- groes, involving the most fearful dangers to both’races. We will, upon these points, bring the census of 1°60 to our assistance, beginning with the loyal border slave States:— Loyal Slave States. White Population. Slaves, Delaware...... 90,1 1,798 Maryland. . 18 87,189 West Virginia (ue 200,000 40,000 Kentucky... 919,517 225,483 Missouri... «1,063,609 114,931 WM sce coseass soveoee 2,700)698 409,401 Here we have an n average of six free whites to one black slave. Delaware may be ranked, however, a free State. Maryland has entered upon the work of emancipation, and, as half her black population are free negroes already, ehe will meet with little difficulty in liberating the other half, or what has been left of it by the war. Missouri, in entering upon the work, will find it nearly completed by removals and Kentucky has not yet broached the jon question: but she cannot much longer postpone it. We will next consider the rebellions States reoctupied entirely, or to @ great extent, by the Union forces. They are:— Sites. White ep “gan Old Virginia : Arkansas Tennessee. Misalesippt. Louisiana Slaves. re getting into the heart of our sub-- ject. There are perhaps not now in Old Vir- ginia thiee hundred thousand slaves. In Arkan- sas the advent of our army has resulted in a considerable stampede of slaveholders with their slaves for Texas. Tennessee, in emerging from the war, will proceed to make ample room for free white labor | by the abolition of slavery. Half her slaves of i860 are perhaps now missing. In Louisiana—turned inside out and upside down by the war—it is hardly possible that slavery can recover from the shock. Mississippi, with two-thirds of her slaves removed, is in nearly the same condition. Thus far the war ie work- ing ont the problem of emancipation. But this is not all. We next come to the States held by the rebel armies, excepting their seacoast districts and some portions of their inland borders ‘These States are:— Staves After @ prolonged session yesterday, the Bourd of County Canvassers, by a vote of seven to Ove, agreed to refer back the returns from the Tenth district of the Eighth ward for corroction. ‘The vote which turned the scale was that of the repub- licau member, Sapervisor Wiseman. This ied to the passage of another resolution, by which the Board agreed to throw out the votes for both Bosworth and McOunn in the disprted district. This will have the effect of procuring the certif cate of election for MoCuan by eighty-five ma- jority A special mesting of @ Board of aciliey States. White Population Nort Carolia bees 631,100 831,059 South Carol | Georgia Pierida. Aiabann Texan 421,204 Total 2,540,529 Tt will be perceived from these figures that, j With on additional million of slaves thrown into Alabaina and Georgia, their black is dou- bie their white population, and that all the slaves in these six States largely exceod their wht poopie Of these six States only two, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, down to the outbreak of this war, were self- supporting in the way of provisions. These were Yexsa and North Carolina. The other four drew their flour, beef, &c., in immense quantities, from Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas and the Northwest. But all those sources of supply are now cut off, and North Carolina ia impoverished. What, then, will bo the conse- quences to the black population of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina, increased by a million of slaves from other States, and having to support, besides, the great army of Bragg and smaller detachments of troops, equal in all to one bundred and fifty thousand men, or half a million ordinary consumers? The rebel Commissary Geneval, in April last, foreshadowed the starvation of his confederacy this winter, and he did not foresee the terrible pressure which bas come upon it. With all the care and all the abundance of supplies essed by the government, thousands es or “freedmen,” falling into its posses- sion along the Mississippi valley have died and are dying from destitution and disease, re- sulting from the general chaos and confusion prodnced by the war. Plantations, in many cases, have been laid waste, nad the slaves have been left behind to shift for themselves or to perish. In other cases large numbers herded together, without sufficient sanitary regulations, have died off as froma pestilence. And all over the war-wasted districts of the South these evils are still vigorously working out their har- vest of death. What, then, will be the consequences to the slave population of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina, under the circumstances detailed, should this war be continued till May next? Possibly a servile insurrection, involving the extermination of the blacks; inevitably their decrease by hun- dreds and thousands from Ick of subsistence Let the war be dragged along till May next, and by July it will probably have inflicted upon the black population of the whole country the loss of a million of its aggregate of four millions of slaves. Nor is it probable that even then, with the return of peace, the blacks of the South can be provided for or reorganized under any system of labor and subsistence in time to prevent the loss of another million from the disastrous effects of the war upon this un- fortunate race. Such are the consequences, actual and prob- able, to the poor African from this cruel war. Such are the fruits of the baneful agita- tion of slavery by the funatics of the North and the lunatic five-oaters of the Sowth. The work of abolition philanthropy threatens the de- struction of the slave race, while the doings of the conspirators with Jeff. Davis in behalf of a purely slaveholding confederacy threaten the absolute destruction of slavery iteelf. Such are ever the consequences of violent-measures to anticipate the designs of Providence and the remedies of time for the evils of the hour. In behalf of the white and the black races, North and South, we have urged the earnest proseeution of the war, in view ot a speedy peace. The abolition faction, meantime, have been absorbed in the prospective glories of a war of “freedom,” regardless of its duration. We would now call upon them to assist in push- ing on the war, looking to the fearful conse- quences which its prolongation will inevitably entail not only upon the white race, but upon the blacks of the South. In this view, we say that it would be safer and better to rescue a remnant even of Southern slavery than to hazard the destruction of both races of the South by redifcing the war to an abolition crusade. Starvation at the South—Two Ways to End the War. Recent intelligence from the Southern States indicates that the food question has become the question of paramount importance throughout the whole South. Intercepted letters dwell painfully on the scarcity of food—deserters tell of it—the Southern papers agitate the ne- cessity of measures to prevent general starva- tion, and denounce the issue of provisions to “ Yankoe prisoners” when the Southern people are themselves in want; and more than all this, the Confederate Congress, President &nd gen- erals, and the Governors of rebel States, thongh they have pondered the question deeply, can- not see their way clearly through this+ great trouble. In April last the rebel government foresaw the scarcity of food that must come with this winter, and conferred, by an agent, with the Governors of several States, and the only conclusion they arrived at was that the case looked hopeless, and that if it was not mended “ both the people and army must starve next winter.” Braxton Bragg proposed that the government should prohibit the cultivation of cotton and tobacco, compel the cultivation by every planter of a certain proportion of his land, and take possession of all the remainder of the land, and have it cultivated by the ne- groes. “ Arbitrary measures” were considered the only feasible ones. Goorgia was shown to be very «nearly exhausted of bacon and live stock, and yet to be in better condition in that respect than any other Southern State. There is no meat in Richmond, and the Southern government can- not feed the prisoners it holds. All this is a good commentary on the letters of the London Times correspondent, which show so clearly to the eyes of Europe that the Southern govern- ment has a supply of cereals for two years in advance. There are now, therefore, two ways by which our government can end the war.’ We can starve the rebellion out, or finish it by the more rapid and humane process of battle. Lately the government has adopted the use of light draught vessels in the blockade, and these have captured five blockade runners at Wil- mington within @ very short period. Let this plan be carried out vigorously at that port, and communication with Nassau and Halifax is done for. Let the government go on and oc- cupy the line of the Rio Grande, as it bas be- gun to do, and a great source of supply will be cut off. And, then, with sufficient vigilance in General Burnside’s command, the Southerners, unable to produce food in their own territory, will be completely issolated from all countries that do produce it. But the other method will be the better of the two. Reinforce Grant, Meade, Burn- side, Banks and Gillmore to the utmost possible extent, and leave those glorious soldiers to do the rest. Distressed already to the last point of endurance, and pre | pared to yield on any terms, or no terms at ail, the Southern people cannot hold up against another defeat. Let Grant, then, go forward in Georgia, and Meade in Virginia, and we shall | have the rebellion putdowa in a way far more in consonance with the spirit and wishes of our people than the proses fon Would be iy starvat of | A Good Market for Phiianthropy—Land and Cotton Speculators Down South. We see that General Gillmore has repromul- gated the order issued by General Hunter last spring, peremptorily forbidding all sales of land in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida for the non-payment of direct taxes. For this act. not less than for the engineering talent which bas placed us in possession of Morris Island and reduced Fort Sumter toa pile of rebbish, General Gillmore deserves, and will receive the gratitude of the country. By this prompt interference he has crushed in the germ a swindle which would otherwise have become a giant upas tree, casting its baleful and blight- ing shadow over the whole Department of the South. The iniquity of that echeme was only to be equalled by its fatuity; and in the agents selected for carrying it out the conception had worthy representatives, wing of the abolitionists, under the ploa of idling the “eafranchised bondsmen” of Geor- mth Carolina and Viorida, it was in ro an unholy scheme of the very meanest and most rapacious speculators to coin money out of the necessities of the country, and to pervert to their personal profit the labor and the produats of the rich sea islands of our Southern const. It may do very well for Mrs. Gage, abolition proletarian and philanthropist, to quit her plantation on Paris Island and come North as an apostle in behalf of the “good General Saxton.” It may also suit the cotton specu- tating propensities of Rev. Father French, Gencral Saxton’s chaplain, to indulge in a simi- lar strain of eulogy. Secretary Chase may be aconvert to the gospel according to Father Yrench, and Mr. Greeley may think it worth his while to quit the “Moral History of the War" for an evening in order to endorse by his presence and approval the absurd or knavish statements of his sea island confederates. But against all such false pretences of sympathy with the negro the authority of General Hunter, given in half a dozen earnest orders and otber official acts, may be safely ad- duced—-more especially when it is found that his views on this shject were endorsed by every intelligent officer in the department, and were adopted -by every disinterested visitor who gave attention to the problems presented by the condition of the sea islands. Their judgment was that greed, and greed only, con- trolled the action of the subordinates entrusted moro especially with the management of the civil affairs of the department, and that, while superintendents of contrabands, deputy super- inteadents, teachers, cotton speculators, land- sharks, volunteer parsons, paid chaplains, high- ly patronized traders and others were growing rapidly rich from the prosecution of their phi- lanthropic labors, the’ poor negroes were, just in an equal ratio, growing poorer, more hope- less, more diseased, more demoralized and helpless with each succeeding day. General Rufus Saxton is the Military Gover- nor of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida—at least so he styles himself. He is “assisted” by a swarm of “com:nissioners for the sale of lands,” at salaries of three thousapd dollars a year each, further increased by perquisites, which make their salaries nearly double. These com- missioners again have clerks—-at what compen- sation is not known; and they publish little handbills, called newspapers, in which they ad- vertise all forthcoming sales at the rate of one dollar per line. These papérs are printed for the most part, if not wholly, on government presses, with government types, and by soldiers who are paid by the government and detailed by General Saxton for this duty. Under this system vast tracts of land are disposed of at prices absolutely nominal—in one case a whole island of nineteen hundred acrés, covered down to the water’s edge with cedar, live oak, pine and magnolia, having been sold for the sum of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, this being the amount of taxes assessed upon it. All along the coasts of South Carolina and Florida similar “jobs” are now in progress, the speculators in many cases having already real- ized immense fortunes by selling in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, at rates ranging from one to five hundred dollars per tree, the produte of the lands thus acquired. How comes it that our Navy Department, so much in need of this very timber, does not supply itself at first hand from the inexhaustible wealth of wood thus placed at the disposal of government ? As for the unfortunate negroes of the de- partment, if we except those in the colored regiments, no dispassionate observer who saw them while in slavery and sees them now but must confess that their physical condition to- day—the absence of the whip alone excepted— is to the full as miserable as it was while in slavery. They are employed at task work — twenty-five cents per task. An able-bodied, man can doa task and a half per diem; an able- bodied woman can just get through a task. This gives for the daily support of a man, his wife, aud any piccaninnies they may have, just sixty-two and.a half cents—a sum to be ex- pended within military lines, where the ruling prices are “sutlers’ prices,” or the still more extortionate demands of those official person- ages and persons who have opened small stores on every second plantation for the benefit, God save the mirk!. of their dear friends and proteges, the “enfranchised bondsmen.” The result is as might be ex- pected. More than half the men are idle, and live upon the earnings of the women. The women earn enough to live upon, but not by taskwork in the field. Disease follows licen- tiousness, and dirt is*the*common element of both. As for tho rising generation of the sea islands, a brighter picture, happily for bu- manity, may in one respect begiven. Thanks to the labors of many and zealous volunteer teachers, chiefly ladies from the New England States and Pennsylvania, the little picoaninnies are beIng taught to read and write, to attend Sunday school and join in psalm singing. For them, perhaps, a brighter destiny may be hoped. Their labor is worth nothing now; they have nothing which avarice ina saintly garb can covet, and they are therefore free to pursue their studies under the tutelage of ladies than whom, in many cases, there are none purer, holier or more earnest in the land. As for General Saxton himsolf, we believe that no seleotion more unfor- tunate could have been made for tho dis- charge of very delicate duties. Why a briga- dier general should be selected for a position precisely identical with that which a civilian— Mr. Pierce—previously filled to the full as ac. ceptably, must forever remain a matter of speculation. Indeed, the speculative feature predominates amazingly in the whole business. Mr. Pierea was called “Superiatendent of con- trabands and plantations.” Gen. Saxton seems mor! to. be called “Tis Excellency the Urged forward by one |- NOVEMBER 22, 1863, Sa EEE EES SIS tise Governor of three States,” apparently oblivious of the fact that, except at two small points in Florida, we do not hold one square foot of the mainland in any of the three States mentioned. The General, too, was educated at West Point; and all know that we need educated officers. Why is his martial ardor, therefore, not allowed free play? Why is he selected for duties more properly to be discharged by some one brought up as the superintendent of an English work- house or chief janitor of an aaytum for the ce- formation of juvenile offenders? General Saxton had formerly the reputation of a good officer, and his talents should be used in their proper sphere. Father French has long virtually wielded nearly the whole civil power of the department, and if any one is to be civil Governor we submit to his Excellency the President that it should be Father French. The Lord has wonderfully prospered his worldly affairs since hia connection with the sea islands. Let him put on the apron as Archbishop of the Department of the South, and let him give absolution as Grand Hierarch to all the land and cotton speculators within the limits of General Gillmore’s command. Brigadier General Saxton will thus be placed at liberty to unsheath his maiden sword, ro longer in the magnificent and unmolested re- tirement of Port Royal Island, but flashing destruction in the van of the old Tenth army corps, a3 it swoops with bloody plumes over the line of tarthworks stretching from Fort Jobnson to Secessionville, on James Island. MALTREATMENT OF Curepney IN ‘PuRtio Scnoors:—We have been inundated with com- munications approving of the observations drawn from us by the recent fatal occurrence in the Twenty-fourth ward public school. One from a physician goes the extreme length of condemning our whole public school system as injurious to the healthy development of chil- dren. We do not desire, in the remarks we have felt called upon to make, to be understood as implying so sweeping a censure. What we condemned was the putting to study and punishing infant children. Abroad there are infant schools; but they are mere nurseries, where parents who are occupied in their daily avocations can place their children in safety during their absence from home. They are neither act down to tasks beyond their capacity nor punished for their non-performance. If children of this tender age are received at our public schools they should be kept apart and allowed to exert or amuse themselves accord- ing to their inclination. Nothing can excuse the hardheartedness of a teacher who couid treat a baby as this poor little Louisa Schneider waa treated. We hope that we shall never again bear of such an occurrence. It would be fatal to the character of our public school systom. Tue Barree or Crrckamavaa—Conr.icting Views as To Irs Rescrrs.—The military critic sent out by Louis Napoleon to watch events here lays great strese on the importance of the results to the rebels of Bragg’s recent victory over Rose- erans. The Richmond Enquirer, in a letter from Bragg’s army, which it states to be from a perfectly reliable source, takes rather a different view of it. After dwelling on the incapacity of Bragg, he says that, contra- ry to the advice of all his generals, he per- sists in keeping his army before Chattanooga, “Where sickness and desertion are doing more than the enemy hope for.” “Dissatisfaction and defection,” he continues, “are awfully preva- lent, and no one hesitates, from the highest to the lowest, to speak of their contempt for their commander.” After alluding to the ineffectual efforts made by Longstreet and others to induce Davis to remove Bragg, he winds up with these desponding conclusions:—“Bragg is st!l in com- mand, the season for the campaign has passed, the enemy will hold Chattanooga ns a base for spring operations, and East Tennessee, with its nitre caves, and Middle Tennessee, with its necessaries of life, are lost to us.” We recom- mend these statements to the attention of the French strategist. s Intelligence. M¥RTINGS TO-DAY. The Rev. W. Ff. Milburn will deliver to young men the seventh of @ series of discourses on the “Karly Mistory of Christianity,’ at Irving Hall, at half-past seven o'clock. There will be @ people's meeting at 187 Rowery, from two until five o'clock, The subject of discussion will bo— “Hos Abraham Linc In's conduct, as President of the United States, boen Just and Patriotic?” A lecture will be delivered at three o'clock, by John Williams, at the University Butidings, Washington equaro. Subject-—“The Testimony of Scripture to the Future Glory of Christ in Conection with Israel,’ when the resto- ration of the Jews and the personal reign of Christ in Jerusalem will be demonstrated from Scripture. At St. Ann's charch, Fighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, services at @ quarter before eight, balf-pyst ten, threo and at hait-past seven o'clock—the afternoon being for deaf mutes. At the French Episcopal church du St. Esprit, West Twenty socond street, near Fifth avenue. Morning ser. vices in Freneh, by the rector, Rev. Dr. Verren, com- mencing at balf-past ten o'clock. Evening services in English, by the Rev. H.C. Stowell, commencing at haif. past seven o’elock Rey. fir, Beli will preach in the Fiftieth street Presby- torian churob, between Broadway and Eighth avenue, at half past tem and half-pist seven o'clock. Subject in the morning—'Thou art Peter, and ow this Rock 1 will Build my Chureb.”" Rev. Sidney A. Corey will preach in the Murray Till Paptist church, corner of Lexington avenue aud Thirty seventh street, at balf-past ten and at half-past seven o’cloek. Rev. ©. C. Goes will preneh at the Tabernacle for strangers, young men and families, Broadway, below Astor place, morning and oveving,on The Last Gr Drama, or Scenes Connected with the Day of Judgment.’’ Children’s meeting at threo.o’elock. Rey, Frastus Soymour (Congregational) will proach in Livingston Hall, corner of Fifty-eecom! street and Taird avenue, at half-past ten and half-past seven o'clock. Rev. Chauncey D. Murray will proach in Westminster church, Twenty-aecond street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, at haif-past von and half-past three o'vlock. Rev, Alexander Mneleon, Jr., of Tairfeld, Conn., will preach in the North Presbyterian church, corner of Ninth avenue and Thirty-frst street, at half-past ten and half past seven o'cloca. Rev. F. W. Graves will preach in the Market street church, noar Fast Broadway, at half-past ten and half. past seven olclock. Subject for the evening—"'A Quos- tion in Arithmetic, wr the Young Man and bis Unsolved Problem.” At the Memor?al church, Hammond street, corner of Wavorley place , the Rey. Dr. Morgan, rector of St. Thomas’ church, will foreach im the evening. Services at half-past ten, half pa’st three, and half-past seven o'clock. At the Yéarinora’ Temple, corner of Oliver and Fenry Atroots, Pronching at half past ten o'clock, by Professor Powell, of Tonnessee; at three o'clock by Rev. 1. H, Kallov’n, of the Laight street Baptist church, Sabbath schyy| concert at half-past seven o'clock. The children will sing, and addresses may be expected by several | Friends of the use, At tho Howard Miseton and Home for Little Wanderers, | No, 37 New Bowery, Sunday echool and children's meet- ing from two till five o'clock. ‘There will be a freedmen’® meeting this evening, at the South Baptist church, Twenty-fifth street, between Soventh and Eighth avenues, Rev. A. H. Burlingham, pastor, under the direction of the National Freodman's Relief Association. Mrs, Cora L, V. Hateh will speak (n Clinton fall, Astor pivee, at three o’clock in the afternoon and at baif-past @oven o'clock in the evening. Subject for theafternoot— “The New Gospe! and Ite Advocates." Evening subject selected by the audience. Discussion after lecture. Dr. P. B. Randolph's oration on “The Negro—the Re- public—Their Manifest Destiny” will be giyen at balf-past weven e’clock In the evening, at the large hall of the Coo- per Institute, for the benefit of the Sanitary Commissions At the Christian chapel, Seventeenth street, near Sixth aveuue, Urban C. Brewer, the ministor, will preach morn- tng and ovoviog. Subject, morning:—The Lord's Bapper every Lord’s Day.” Eventng--""The Second Gospel Dis course and Five Thousand Couverts,’’ being second of ao- rica on N. T. Conversions. At the Central Presbyterian churcb, Broome street, two blocks cast of Broadway, preaching at half-past tea o'clock in the morning by Rev. H. Kendall, D. D., and ia tho evoning, at half.past seven o’cleok, Rov. James By Duvn will discourse on “Pilgrim at the Cross,’ being the next in the series on the Goapel as iJustrated in Bun yan's Pilgrim's Progross.”” At the Church of the Mediator, commer of Lexington avenue and Fast Thictieth street, Rev. Stephen B. Tyog will preach at half past soven o'clock. At the Catholic Apostolic church, Sixteenth street, be tween Sixth and Seventh avenues, the Rev. W. W. Aw drews wil! preach at half past seven o'clock. In the necessary absence of Rey. Mr. Peters, his lecture of the current series, at the Bleecker street Universalist church, will be postponed to the clese of the course. Rew. Moses Iiallou will preuch morning and even! At the Laight street church, corner of rick etreets, Bt. Jobn's park, Rev. Matthew Hale Smitt: will preach in the evening on “Mount Morinh, or the Holy City.” Rev. J. §. Kulloch will preach in the morning. Atthe Twentieth etreot Universalist church, betweem Sixth and Seventh avenucs, the Rev. £. G. Brooks preaches at a quarter to cleven o'clock. At half-past seven o'clock the Rey. Henry Blanchard proaches. Sub- ject—"Universaliam in its Relations to the Literature of the Age" At tho Athenwum, corner of Clinton and Atlantic streets, Brooklyn, services will be held at balf-past ten and balf- past seven o'clock. The Key. I. 8. Kalioch, from New York, will preach in the evening. Spiritual meetings of the congregation of the Now Dis- pensation will be held at half-past ten, throo and half- past seven o'clock, at tho hall No, 054 Broadway, corner of Twenty-third street, Morning—Inspirational and trance speaking. Afternoon—Short lecture and the relation of spiritual facts and manifestations, Evoning—Tranoe speaking by Mre. Marquand. ‘The Key. Samuel Corneille will proach in All Saint's church, corner of flenry and Scammo} strecis, this mora- ing and evening, services to commence at half-past tem o'clock and balt-past seven o'clock. Also, services and germon by the rector on Thanksgiving Day, to commence at eleven o'clock. Seats for all. WEWS FROM WASHINGTON, Wasuxcros, Noy. 21, 1863. THE RICHMOND PRISONERS. Tho arrangements made for aupplying the Union prison- ers at Richmond with the necessaries of life are aot alto- gether satisfactory, 18 ia believed by many who are well informed in the premises that the military authort- ties bere might, if they were willing, procure the imme- diate release of every Union prisoner in the Southern con- federacy, both military and civilian, The diMenities in the way of negotiating on exchange have beon greatly exaggerated. There remaing little now to prevent 4 com- plote exodns of our prisoners from Nixie except personal animosity on the part of the Secretary of War towards the rebel Commissioner of Exchange, and the bitter per- gonalitiea that have crept into the correspondence be- tween Genoral Meredith and Mr. Unld, There ts a history to be written about all this, which will reflect hardly upon Mr. Stanton, who has had himself thrust forward as the peculiar friend of the suffering sol- dier. Thi- history will be publighed ere long, and it will thon be seen on whom lies tho brant of the charge of brutality towards the poor fellows who have been takes prisoners while fighting for the Union, SUPPLIES FOR THE RICHMOND PRISONERS. ‘The Sanitary Commiseion are In the receipt to-day of advices from their agent at Fortress Monroe, announcing the despatch of a large quantity of supplies and provi- sions for the prisoners at Richmond. Tho sappiies hid all been forwarded to City Point by the flag of truce boat Convoy, and the priveipal part of them taken to Rich- mond, bub there was nat sufficicnt transportation to take them all upon their last trip. Tho hospital supplies are consigned to Dr. Wilkin, who has charge of the hospi- tais for prisoners at Richmond, and who has givem his assurance that they shall be faithfully applied as directed. Another Jarge consignment of sanitary supplies was forwarded to Fortress Monroo for the prisoners, which will be sont to City Point imme- diately. The captain of the boat from Richmond pro- mised on bis next trip to bring down an oxtra barge, ia order that sufficient transportation might be afforded to take up all the supplies which had accumuletediat City Point, and all that might be forwarded by the next fing of truce boat. Hereafter, untess the rebe! authorities shoulé change their policy, and refuge to allow a continuanos of these contributions, there is no danger of our prisoners aullering for necessaries, or of a tack of medicines and delicacies for the sick and wounded. POLITICAL MOVFMENTS—THE NRXT CONGRESS As yet very few Senators or members of Congress have arrived at Washington, The political movements appesr to be almost as backward as the roports of heads of de- partments, The friends of the candidates for the Speak- ership and Clerkship of the House are beginning to con- grogate, and the customary operations iready began; but up to this time no definite and positive calculations: upon results can be made. The President haa nob yet written a line of his Message, for the simple reason thas ho has not recolyed the most important reports of his subordinates. BRTURN OF COUNT PIPER. The Swedish Minister, Count Piper, has retumned to Washington, after a protracted atgeneo in the North. THE CASE OF COLONED M'REYNOLDS. The court martial of which Colonel Traeey baa lately acted as President, and Majca Gaines Judge Advocate, which was dissolved a day or; two since, has been recon- vened, and ordered to me st again on Monday next, at oleven o'clock. Its officers, are unchanged. The case of Clone! McReynold’s will be the Orst one to come de- fore it, THE WASHINGTON , RELIZF ASSOCIATION. ‘The Relief Association « sf this District will recommence its disbursements to the soldiers of tho District voluuteer regiments on the Ist of December, CAPT, TRISH T BSTORED TO THE ARMY. Nathaniel Irit hb, of Hampton's battery of artil- who was, under General service, has been restored Capt. lory, Pennsylvania Vo! Order No, 249, dismis to his command, KAVAL ORDERE, Commander Harr 5] hos been detached from the com- mand of the Marat anza, and ordered to the command of the Chickopes, Lieutenant Com mander Milton Hoxton has been ordered to the command ef the Maratanza. Lieutenant Crmmander Henry Frbden, Jr., has been detached from * special duty at New York city, and order- et on board th Niagara. Lioutenant ¢Sommander Jokn ©. Parnes bas been de tached (rom t he Niagara, asd ordered ag deet captain of the North At Jantic bloelssding squadron. MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS, ‘The Ong Hundred and Fifty-third New York, and the One Handred and Fifty seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, have been relieved from guard duty in this city by tha Ninth regiment of the Invalid corps, and have ordors to bold themeelves in readiness to leavo at a minute’d note. LIRUTENANT COLONEL E. M. ORRRNR. The roport that Lieutenant Colonel F. M. Groone, Assi«- tant Quartermaster, in charge of the Contraband Camp, bead been relieved of duty in this department and ordered elsewhere i# incorrect. He ia still discharging tho duties herevfore so ably performed by him, and baa received m6 intimation of any propoted change in bie daties or location. ARNIVAL OF GOVERNOR RAMSEY. Govgtnor Ramsey, of Minnesota, has arrived here, and has bronght with him the treaty negotiated by him witty the Indians on the bordere of the Red river of the North, Ry it wo acquire eleven million acres of land in the valley of that river, which Is not surpassed for fertility on the | continent. Moreover all obstructions to trains of tradere in furs Detween St. Paul and the British possessions arg removed. | Hon. George the Rowrow, Now. 21, 1862, Tho Literator, of this city, announces that the Ton, | Georg Thompscn, the Faglish abolitionist, will goon re- | visit thie country, to congratulate hie friends wooo (ha Improved nenect of af