The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW. YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRILTOR OFricg N. W. CORNER OF PULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash ia advance, Money seut by mail will be None but baok bills current ta at the risk of the sender, New York taken, THE DAILY HERALD, Taxes con per copy, Wolume XXVIIZ.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSILO, Irving Place. —Tractan Ovens Faust, KIBLU'S GARDEN. Broadway —Acr Hartow Evs~ Yawuze Cov cts Mir—Barxy, THE Bako. WALLACKS THEATRE, Broadway.—Marrrep Lire. WINTIR GARDEN, Hroadway.—Tiweer or Leave Man oLyMrre Lapis Bewas THRATRS, hroadway.—Easy Saaving— e—Miscniee MAKING, MEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Afternoon—Au- mionty Doi: sn—Co —Kasing nos Winp— Skrrockxis Eveniny y Dottsr—Soar Var Man-—Micaait, tHE d RISTMAS Spuux, ANE BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Afternoon—Jacn Sune- fand—MisiLxrog Bousis—Four Lovers, Evening—Vamr— Trin Fxiaieast—Fiisky Copatek—How to Avorp Darr. au. 3 BARNUM’S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Prexca Grane, Guar Giant Boy, Linurvrian Kina, &c.. at all Rours, 11 ov Leave MAN—Texavc or THe TOMB Day and img. BRYAN MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad wey.—Eruiovtax Songs, Daxcus, BURLESQUES, &¢.—Taxe- Tr asp Lease Max WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway. —Erm foras, Dancas, &e—VoN Haw-nucs Masaka Ae GFO. CHRISTY'S MI 585 Broadway. —Bua- asaues, Songs, DANCES, & HERMERMORN § Boy, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batuers, Pawtowruns, Burtxsguxs, &c.—Kinuine wo MURDER. BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 435 Broadway.—Gra- BasTio ANo EQuxaTRIAN PERVORWANCES. Afternoon and veulug HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadw: on Minaon or tae UNIVERSE. 8 SteKKoscorricAN SEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Comosicks any Lycronxs, from 9 A. M. "til 10 P.M. ERENT! RE: < HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brvoklyn.—E: Bones, Dances, Buntxseuxs, &c. ” eed New York, Friday, December 25, 1863. THE SITUATION. The calm and quiet so congenial to the present solema Christian festival of the season would seem to have fallen upon our armies and all the agencies through which news of an exciting or interesting character are accustomed to reach us. The Army of the Potomac makes no sign. From Charleston we have nothing to report. The late grand exploit General Averill in Westeyn Vir- ginia still, fresh in our memories; but no further demonstrations of a hostile character |. have bora made in that quarter. The same may be said 0% attairs in and aronnd Chattanooga and Kaocvitle, General Grant is resting upon the Gonerai Averill'’s Late Expedttiow aod Its Important Results, The late expedition of General Averill into Southwestern Virginia, considering the inclem- ent season of the year, the wild, rugged, in- hospitable mountainous region traversed, and the numerous detachments of the enemy ope- rating to capture or destroy his column, we think may be set @own as the most delicate, difficult and dangerous, and yet the most akil- fully exeented, raid of all the daring ones of the war. a The results achisyed may also be considered as of the very highest importance. Tho destruction of three well filled depots of sup-| our armies or the condition of the enemy plies of all kinds, intended for the rebel army, | which can caat any gloom over our Christ- will be felt by the half-rationed soldiers of | mas festivities. Our soldiers in the field General Lee; but the destruction of fifteen | are well disciplined, well armed, well miles of the Tennessee: and Virginia Railroad, | equippod, well supplied and well officered midway between Lee and Longstreet, includingyThose whose terms of service have oxpired the demolition of five bridges and several cul-] are re-enlisting by whole regiments. Volun- verts, will be apt to prove a fatal disaster to | teers are fooking to the camps by thousands. nooga, by which General Grant relieved Tennessee. To-day we have the intelligonce that Longstreet is cut off from Richmond, and that the railroad arteries of the confederacy are severed in a most vital point. If*General Halleck handles our forces properly we may seoure all of Longstroet’s army—a prize than which no Christmas gift could-be more wel- come to tho country, This is cortainly some- thing to be bappy about; and, besides this, there is nothing at present in the condition of NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, -1863, ———— the bogus confederacy in twain. On Thanks- | who would make_monoy at anything; but the | howover, plantea’ 44200 in front of that odi- giving Day wo had tho dofeat of Bragg and tho | romark is fousded on the fact that thore is | Ace, and threatened v. bow off its portals, Such brilliant victory upon the heights of Chatta- nothing which aXords a wider field for specu- | urgent appeals bad the." effect, and the doors But this action of those who are posted in such matters, It is | the French commander bus, oF course, . seenered the Mexicans till more bitien,’ °PPO#ed to his lation, or which yiélds more certain profits to | of the church were opens * noteworthy that a large proportion of the pic- tures disposed of at these sales pass into the | rule. haads of parties who are not regular collectors, and who content themselves with the acqui- sition of a few first class works. This would thaa we are accustomed to claim for ourselves, | lage and murder the invaders on all s.\des. To and forms another gratifying feature in our | such an extent is this ceaseless warfare !tied national progress. that the I’rench are troubled as regurds their SUP- plies, an@'need a large force to keep open the%t Recraiting—How Things Are Done. Communications with the coast. It may readily Does Greeley want a conscription? We judge | pe conjectured that when Prince Maximilian 80 from the indifference he evinces in regard to | hears of this atate of affairs in his future em- the efforts being made to procure volunteers pire ho will consider the whole matter as’ for the army. Our city authorities have been la- | mogt dangerous and uncertain, and that he will boring for months in this laudable business. | foo) caliod upon to deeline the unenviable The Supervisors have appropriated $2,000,000 | nonors Napoleon the Third is 80 anxious to Longstreet. The rebels will be occupied sove- | There is every prospect before ua of a apeedy ral weeks in repairing these damages, and in | and a glorious termination of the war. Our the meantime the only line of communication | resources are hardly yet drawn upon, and the between Longstreet and Lee is completély | capital and industry of tho country produce broken. In the interval supplies to Lee, on | wealth even faster than this apendthrift admin- the one hand, and reinforcements to Longstreet | istration can throw it away. Down South, on the other, are interrupted; and Longstreet, | where gaunt Famine walks hand in hand with if he has not made the best possibleuse of his | War, and where Providence is most severely time since- Iast heard from, is at the mercy | punishing the crime of rebellion, this Christ- of the pursuing legions of General Grant. Even } maa must be most miserable. But at the North, if beyond immediate danger, this cutting of his | all the soldiers, whether in the field, in their only remaining line of communication with | comfortable winter quarters, or at home on Richmond will admonish him of the necessity | furlough, and all the civilians of every kind of abandoning the last corner of East Tennes- | and degroe—with the single exception of the see in order to save’his army. conscience-stricken shoddy contractors—haye The importance of that section, including | really every reason to enjoy, as we have already the interlocking corner of Southwestern Vir- | heartily wished them—a merry Christmas. ginia, to the rebellion at this stage of the war was very frankly disclosed by several leading Play. rebel Journals after the failure of Bragg to Everybody knows that we adhero to all the demolish General Rosecrans or to dislodge him } goctrines of the churobes; that all our thoughts from Chattanooga. Thus it was confessed that | gre charitable and our ways just. And, ag the grain, cattle, sheep and swine of East Ten- | tho churches deprecate, fights and fighters, so nessee were indispensable to the subsistence of | giso do we. But that is with the good part the army of Bragg; that the nitre caves of | of us; which predominates on Sundays. Un- those mountains were just as necossary for the fortunately there is another part, aud with this powder mills of Augusta, Rome and Atlanta; | other part we sympathize with common mor- while the salt springs in those mosntain | tality—which always goes in for afight. Some valleys, extending into Southwestern Virg nice sentimentalist has aid that “lion with had become the main dependence of the Davis | tion herds, and pard with pard,” and that man confederacy, army and people, for the essential | i, tho only animal that fights. All a mistake. article of salt. The holding of the country and | yo agglomeration of matter possessed of con- the sources of all those invaluable supplies | scious lifo ever wot through existence without now depends upon Longstreet. Bragg’s late-| 4 battle. From the ant to the elephant it is army has been driven too far down into Geor-| the game, And as for mem, ewen the most | gia tobe able to help him. Thus Longstreet is pious of us fight. Martin Lather was always much in the same position as was Joe John- | ‘ready, Beecher fights all the time—in spirit— ston after the fail of Vicksburg. He is detached | 4 kind of a fight, though, in which no hard from his supports, his lines of travel are inter- | knooks are given. Inspired writers, when rupted, and he is enveloped by combinations they desire to be very clear, use languago from which he can hardly escape. that they know all men can understand. In this view the strategic value of General | Thus it ie sald that Jacob “wrestled with the Averill’s masterly raid upon the Tennessee and | fiord.” And it would appear frem the con- The International Fight—British Fair fronors le hag won, and’General Burnside is enjoy- ing his Christmas festivities in his favorite home— Rhode Island. In the midst of war we may chronicle on. this great festival which commem- orates the advent of peace to all men at least @ momentary pause in the strife which is con- vulsing our country. ‘The funeral ceremonies of General Corcoran took place at Fairfax yesterday. The remains are expected to arrive in this city to-day, under charge of a committee of the Common Council. The public obsequies will take place from the City Hall on Sunday afternoon. The New Orleans steamship Geo. Cromwell was seized by Marshal Murray yesterday, and a large quantity of powder and percussion caps were found |. on board. Several passengers, who presented a suspicious appearance, were arrested. The ship- Ment of the materials of. war—which were sup- POsed to be intended for the rebels—was traced to a certain prominent house in Cortlandt street. The main {acts of the case have been concealed by the authorities—no doubt for good reasons—and it is therefore enveloped in some mystery for the present. Such facts, however, as have come to light will be found in our columns to-day. We give to-day a detailed account of the capture of the Chesapeake by the gunboat Ella and Annie. Wien sie came in sight of the Chesapeake the latter ran vp the American ensign, Union down. They ran alongside her and found three men on board, two of whom had been prisoners. One was the first ongineer, and the other a fireman. The obief engineer said that he had received verP harsh treatment. He was not allowed to leave the engine room, and a man stood beside him constantly with revolver pointed at hishead. It appears that when the Lila and Annie first saw the Chesapeake @ schooner was seen alongside supplying her with coal, which hauled off as soon as she saw the new comer. One of the crew was recognized as awell known New York thief, who has passed several terms in Sing Sing. It will be seen by the order of General Dix that pursuant to instructions from the War Department no United States bounty, other than the one hundred dollars authorized by the law of July 22, 1961, promulgated in General Order 49, of that | have had continual war. Now, in the year of | ing Now York atthe present time would never | or say ono word, to. encourage the people to year, will be paid to any soldier enlisting or re- enlisting, veteran volunteer or otherwise, after the 5th of January, 1864. This order, however, does not affect the bounties paid by States, cities or partics other than the United States. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The National Conservative Union Committee. the old Bell-Everett faction—in session at Phila- Gelphia, yesterday nominated General McClellan | for President, and ex-Governor William B, Camp- bell, of Tenneasee, for Vice President. The Board of Councilmen organized at four o'clock yesterday, and without transacting any business immediately adjourned until Monday ext at one o'clock. Tho will of Caroline W. Crane has been admit- ted to probate without contest. The testatrix | ¢ liy--that of the great contral Power, with | posed of cost its owner, Mr. Wolfe, between | tn the moantime let volunteering go on; let gave $1,000 to the American Tract Society and $6,816 to the Bible Society, and the rest of her es- tate to her relatives. ‘The noar approach of the holidays restricted monota- fy Operations yostorday, Tho stock market was slightly depressed at the opening, but partially recovered before the close. [0 gold there was hardly sufficiont doing to Give tnfluenco te quotations, Government stocks parti- Cipated in tho general duincas, but wore firm —the five- {wonties at 1019f, and the seven and three-tenths notes at 106%. In the absonce of any marked change ju gold, (here was dus little change in the quotations of merchandise on ‘Thursday. The business was very light, being restricted Dy the nearness of the holiday season, when business is ually vory light. At tho Produce Exchange business qras modorats, at about Wednesday's prices for nearly,| many of them to come. Of late, indoed, wo pverything. Imported merchandise was quiet. Groce. Gna Sich OM MLSE nd almost nominal at 320, a 32s. for crude, and 46c. for reGaed. Freights wore yory quict, and rates wore Boma anghanany / Virginia Railroad will be readily comprehend- | text that Jacob got » bad fall, for he limped’ ed. Asa movement against Longstreet, itivas | evor after. Since the* principle of fight is, valuable to General Grant as was the famous | then, thus uaiversal in animated nature, we Griéraon Mississippi raid in roference to the | ghali perhaps be excused for our doep interest campaign against Vicksburg, or as was General | in the rocent great prize fight, ead for ‘our Carter's dashing foray into East Tennessee in | sympathy with Heenan. support of General Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, | “John C. Heonan has never won a battle, or as would have been the splendid Stoneman | nd has never been beaten in a good stand expedition, in view of the destruction of Lee’s | up aght that could be called perfoctly fair. army, bad General Hooker only succeeded in | wis last fight resulted disastrously, not through dislodging it from the Rappahannock. Or, had any fault of hisowa, but through the delibe- the War Office only thought of it, General Stone- | raie and positive determination of the Eng- man might have turned even the defeat of | tishmen present that he should not win. Hooker into theegreatest triumph of the war, | was ghamofully swindled out of the prize by the capture of the defenceless rebel capital, | moa who pretend to be fond’ of fair play; and the destruction of its foundries, workshops, f ang the London Times, with ite immense factorieg, mills and magazines of military sup- | giuitification, aya that the fight wae e fair plies of all kinds—to say nothing of the proba- | one, Bell's Life gave aa account of the fight, ble capture of Jeff. Davis. by which [t seomed that Heenaa’ was honestly Such is the importance, and such are the | beaten. True, though twenty-four rounds were opportunities sometimes offered by @ well di- | fought, that paper doos not give the particulars gested and bravely executed raid within the | of any round later than tho: seventeenth, and enemy's lines. Such we consider the value of | admits that then “all regulation was swept to General Averill’s late expedition, in roference | the winds.” But the Sporting News. makes no to the expulsion and dispersion of Longstreet’s | dodges at all, an@ gives an account in which forces from East Tennessee; and wo dare say | the whole Gght is more: clearly seen. By that that General Grant's movements will, before | paper's account it appears that upon the long, fully sustain this opinion. Let us await | eighteenth round King “ was-thrown eo heavily the issue of the game. it was thought he was out of timo,” and then “the Kingites broke into the ring, and the re- mainder of the fight went on amid much disor- der.” Heenan was thus deprived of his chance by & repetition of what occurred in the fight with Sayers. At @ time when the fight must goin favor of the American, bocause the Eng- lishman cannot come to time, the Englishman's friends break tho ring, interrupt the fight, and ao give the exhausted man time to recover and come to the scratch again. Suchis the game by which*Heenan has been beaten in’both his fights in England, and by which Molyneux was beaten also, Bell’s Life, indisposed to spoak against popular sentimont, dishonestly avoids allusion to this matter ia its account. Heenan, after such an interruption, very evi- dently lost all heart, and was casily boaten. Having in his former fight beaten Sayers, he had to fight tho whole crowd—and hero it was the same thing over. Ho saw that he could not win, and gave up the attempt. But by such a defeat ho will lose no credit here. Ocr Progress in Tum Arts-—A stranger visit- Christmas A.D, t and A. D. 1963. A great many events have happened since the year one of the Christian era. When Christ was born the heavens opened and the angels sang together for joy, and the burden of their song was, “Peace on earth and good will to men.” Then the wise men of the East found Christ in the manger—a most lowly cradle— and burned incense before him, and gave him gifts whose richness contrasted strangely with the squalor which surrounded bim, and so fell down and worshipped the poor, helpless infant, in whom, with supernatural intelligence, they recognized the Prince of Peace. Eighteen hundred and sixty-three years have elapsed since that day; but the peace which Christ was sent to bring to the world has not yet come. Empires, kingdoms and republics have been established, with anxious care and with much expenditure of blood and treasure, only to be swept away by revolutions or to bo crumbled to pieces by the powerful and re- morseless hand of Time. Instead of peace we our Lord 1863, we celebrate Christmas amid | suppose that we wore in the midst of one of the roar of artillery and the clash of arma, | the costliest and bloodiest civil wars recorded and the bloodshed, the misery and the auf- | in history. Not only would he behold onevery fering of the greatest civil conflict which ever | side the evidences of unparalleled commeroial shocked and distressed the world. Our fore- | prosperity, but also of a state of things which fathers founded upon this continont the most | is usually deomed Incompatible with such a life perfect government recorded in history. That | and doath struggle ‘as that in which we are en- government is now being put to ‘its crucial | gaged. At no period have the superfiuities test. Either its magnificent perfection or its | and luxuries of life beoa more froely indulged inherent wealness is to be conclusively demon- | in or commanded higher prices than at present. strated. It is being subjected to a most ter- | It would seom aa if the more we were taxed to rible experiment, in order to determine whethor | moet the exigencies of the war the more our or not it is capable of sustaining itself against | resources devolop themselves. Let us take as treason and rebellion. If 90, It will take its | an example the two great picture sales which place at the head of the nations, and assume | camo off this weok at the Dussoldorf and Derby the position potitically that it holds geographi- | galleries, Tho first of the collections thus dis- Europe on the one hand and Asia upon tle | forty and fifty thousand dollars. It brought other, supplied by its resources and contribut- | uoder the hammer ono hundred and ten thou- ing to its prosperity. Others may be doubtful | eand. Tho sale at the Derby Gallery realized in regard to the result of this experiment; but, } between thirty and forty thousand dollars. for ourselves, we are confident that the integ- | The fact of one hundred and fifty thousand dol- rity of the Union will be triumphantly vindi- | lars being thus expended in a single gated, and that a long line of future republics | wook, at « time when the cost ot will date thoir existence from the euceess of the | living has tun up from Gifly to seventy-five United Statos, and adopt this, the first and per cent more than it waa four years ago, dest of popular governments, as their model | furnishes a atriking commentary on the pre- and exomplar. dictions with which we were favored by the Believing this, we wish all of our readera, end all the world, a morry Christmas, and} war. But it suggosts somothing have been peculiarly fortunate in our holidays, and have always hing especially | tures is not « eatieciny to bo ei for end (9 rejoice over, Last Fourth of July wo had the capture of Vicksburg, by which General Great split assumed to bo. Buropean press at tho commencement of the | ing very precarious. The Church party, whic! more. If a| up to the present time has been in league with collector can thus easily double his capital, Gowler. Uh is true tat ho ig qng of those tyom | city of Mexicg ty pe closed. Gerforal Rasaine, for thir purpose, committees are appointed, | thrust upon him. We have prophesied, over r oomsare prepared, and the work is going on | ang over again, that the Austrian prince would under the superintendence of Supervisor Blunt | never be so foolish as to accept the Mexican most commendabl y; but we hear not one word | throne, We are at present more than ever cow of encouragement from Greeley. He n0se3 | vinced of the fact. ‘about among the new recruits on Riker’s Isjand— | © ~n French will oon find that Rolle douse especially among the “woolly headed ones—to | ¢hree thousand miles to invade eight millions of discover who haa been cheated out of any part | peopleisno easy matter, and they will seek some of his bounty money, and on his universal method of withdrawlag from their false position plea of philakthropy raises the whites of his | as soon as possible. If not, the Mexicans will, oyes in utter astonishment at the corruptions | we dare say, show them the way out of the of the day. He knows perfeotly well that casea country. Decidedly, the Emperor of the French of fraud are constantly brought before Super- | made a most absurd blunder when he invaded visor Blunt for correction; for he has seen full | Mexico, while he has covered himself with ridi- detailed statements of such in the columns | cule by bis bombastic assumptions im the mat- of the Hersip, But he is blind to auch facts; | ter. He should bave taken our advice, aud gone and by implication would cast the odium of all | away long ago. thowe fraudulent aets upon the committee, and thus throw obstacles in the way of volun- teering. Greeley’s philanthropy always exceeds NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. his honesty, though he makes them both the Wie ant base of his political capital. In Congress he As ath ante tkackaa ‘Tho Adjutant Goneral’s office has telographed to all the will cry out against the corrupt mileagesystem, and turn round and coolly pocket his quota. | army commandors that a law bes beon passed to tho of- He will denounce the whole lobby system and | fect that n0 bounties, except auch as are now provided: ita agents, and carry off @ one thousand dollar | by law, will bo paid to any persons enlisting after the: cheok in behalf of the Desmoines Inyprovoment | %t2 of January next. Thoonly bounty provided by law Company. He wilt utter daily philipics is the one hundred dollars authorized by soction five of against government contractors, aud at thesame | cordingly required to scoure-all re-enlisimonts of veteran moment have agun contract hidden away within | volunteors possible before January 6, and give immediate the leaves of his office Bible—if He owns one. | Publicity to this circular, bany i THS ROBBBBY IN THS TREASURY DEPARTMENT. He will denounce: the Al orig sed ‘The abstraction of funds from the: Redomption Bureau railroad grants, and be the probable fontun Of the Treasury Department, by the ebief clerk of that holder in prospective piles of stoek. bureau—Charles H. Cornwall—has beomthe principal topic He will cry and. preach for honest men to | of remark hero to-day. He was this- afternoon transfer. fill our publio offices of honor and trust, and 7 Sra bs Capito wooed beg became his ba whenever his party happens to put up one of isbn ce boing wo strong: ayatuat 8 10 preclude 4 " ¥ Opportunity of oscaping conviction, He has hitherto this clasa—as in the late caso of Supervisor | stooq woll in tho communtty, and was general y consider. Blunt, for Mayor—he kills him outright, or | can honorablosand bonvst man, damns him with faint praise, to effect the ‘The manuor in which tho: mouey waa: abstracted waa game object. The: case of Blunt is-a nota- | this. Tho nrtos redeemed and orderod.to- be burnt were e Here put up tn packages, sack denomivatiom: ‘sy itsoi, whoa ape 9 ielgedageee iyveniee — picts they reached an hundred thoy were. cut leugtbwise and is far better than he looks—(we- can’t say | (ho palves sont,on> package to tho, Scoretery aud tho the samo of Gresley)—a sort of rough dia- | other w tho Register, whon: they were couuted, and mond, known to to be honest, and. who was = the amounts tallied they wore thou Sart down to be t % ned, which operation was suporinten iby Cornwall, the republican candidate*for Mayor. Blunt's ths tha packigis ors’ ékot ldistha'beeibe soul tienes speciality has ever beon reform in our to pocket o package of. ouch Salt, end wheld’ then take city government and economy in the: admin- | trom the whole notes ta is charge a etmier amount and istration of its affairs, with a view to: re- | send the cut packages to be agala counted, As the num- duce taxation—the very qualities Greeley | ber aad amount of Lhe voles were all righb, the trick was professes to admire: One-would supposo, then, | ‘naneree <8 pag nada deterred Ping that he would have given him tho warm and aed tod to Kis Lapa watched, and the-haives sont re earnost support of his strawberry plant paper. | to bs counted to be compared, when It was-found that the Did ho do it? Not at all. Hoe talked every- | uppor and lowor halves of a portion of thomdi@ not match, ¢ but Blunt—preached everything but | #4 his guilt was fastened upon bim. Soe ail round: the ese comico i any i ar teny oman mae eben the republican vote among the other | vested in’ ave-twenty beads; These bonds ave been didates, in whom Greeley found something |} served, and it ts believed that little, tfany, loes will ac- to commend; and of course Blunt was sold by ee nanan mae enous So sets oe his supposed friends. Had Greeley given him | “nding tho facility with which the goveromeadcould that earnest support he and his party wore aa $F toergyess. nar bagi ae mien eT entitled to recaive, he would bave made a bever | prove nis opportunities. show. Why was thist Simply bocause- he A THOUSAND DOLLAR ‘BOND MISSING. could not wheedlo and keep him in leading | It is undoratood that ono of tho thousand dollar fvo- ings Groeley’: twenty bonds is missing frum the printing room of the = poquaapes Gt nat belong Pe ley’ = Treasury Department. The bond, atthe time of its dis- “ging’—aod bocause Blunt was a gun maau- appearance, waa all completed with dhe exception of the facturer, whioh interfered materially with: bis | cnives States soal, ‘The matter has tbus far doen kept own (Greeloy’s) gun. contract. In this little } very quiet, but the perpetrator of: the robbery Las uot political coup d’clat Greeley was ably seconded | yot boon arrested by tho “Little Villain” of tho Times, who | HOLIDAY KxopUS yuoM Tum caPrraL—ounisTuas is as aloek and nimble as a weasel, and wito ia Most of tho members of Congress have loft the city to just as fond of poachiag on neighboring hen- | spond tho holidays at thoir homes, Tho aveoue and roosts aa is that little animal. Hoe played | hotels show plainly tho extontof. the exodus which has second fiddle to. Greeley, but from differ- | tken Ve tho a sniperacniet, a is but pe ‘ Mad QWs stirring, overybody appoaring to havo given them. sect med waif’ or sont Bos, persian a Up to tho festivities of the season. There will be between Boole and Gunther, anddhrew. his Own | provision made for entortainmenta to the sick and republican candidate higher than a Kibo, A | wounded tn many of the hospisals to morrow, and this precious couple to be the leaders of the re- | Curistmas promises to bo indoed a metry ono in this publican party [ city. But, as we said at the commencemeat of this SUAMRICL TERATURNE OF RECEUITS. to, the @ t ts for th Groat indignation bas been aroused among the troops article, Ce wae © | of tnie department by the manner ia which rooruits have army. Every «fort is being mado: by local | eon treated on tho trip from Now York to Aloxandria. authorities, here and. elsewhere, to. raise their | A few days since a steamer arrived here with, a: number geveral quotas by volunteering, to.save-us from | & to giongs ro beon rai silaeg pang be A voyage, with no means . the ania ofa ag aig td roy sheinisaiee stthdhttlc Vas yibtacostnekat. kanes Times or Trilune encourage volunteering? . Of the teadazert) whe ehaagea Gud “Mite the Couper they call upon the masses to.rush to the Super- | comée, one dollar and « half for @ plate cf. beans, and visors’ volunteering agency rooms, receive | fiftcon genta por canteen for water. Those unable to their threo hundred dollars bounty, and our vg “Lpeymmreeseaginges ghee —— shoulder the musket for the: fiag® Do they = ' somewhat entroat our local, committees, Loyal leagues aegogeli atage bey cm reaoe: dnoeg de otained in the sorvice. after the perpetratioa of such and the like, to lend their assistance to Super- | sets, ry visor Brunt in raising our quote? Not atall. | rrovnca mone THE AROLITIONISTS—OTAMPEDE OF i CONTRABANDS. These republican shoots par excellence are sara rela bien oh tina tah dumb as an oyster, and never open their mouths j spear ee y existing among the Now England philanthropists in commendation of the acts of the committee, | wno have inundated Washington te tho of digue- ing in the bureau established for of contrabands. rush to tho battle field. Groeley will harp one etme sees of 2 biogas about a nigger being cheated by a broker out | ™et remove all comtrabands in camp » Caneel of fifty dollars of his bounty monoy; Ray- Tet erdiaaen ante aga a ane that pet mond will write his silly editorials about the | wars to be sent South to pick cotton iw the sections occu- corruption of the Central Railroad direction, but not a syllable in favor of the Supervisors’ committee to. raise our quota of volunteors. They probably both want a draft, because they 1. et ct. are safe from its application—Greeley, on ac- ‘on wg te" ett hon F count of hydrocephalus, or something of thaf| As (he terms of the Presidost’s emancipation aad: " » Mage amnesty proclamations do aot in words include the Indiag ronan wl ar iauic 7 om Territory, edbrts are being mad@by the Indian Buroau to “adjust the dimculties out of cortain Indiang.hav- We pass them both over to Blunt, and recom- Lexant wf seme pen 4 tbe rebel government, and mend that be let them down his trap. door into | to base tho settiomoat on the principios aasertea in. thooe the lower regions, among his raw rocruits, who | proclamations. Already tha Crecks bave negotiated 0 J treaty with this govornmon}, providing for the abolision can roast them both to their hearts’ content. ot chvcry samng then en emeeanien of ate Sting tale- in the it of the bonofits which.they for. all goneral ordors that prove obstacles in the cate by of wn ratony od aimilar treaties are oon- way of this grand object be set aside; let us | templated with tho Choctawa and Cherokees. Tno latter, encourage Blunt and his committee in securing | through their own cosncil, Lave provided for frosing every man to be bad for love or money, and.| sit saves; but « cltgulation for tat aud ia required tm gave ourselves from a conscription, even though, | 20" ‘resty- As d 4 by whet are ied the bli eater or oan organs. ‘Tu the Sevate yesterday, Mr. Bumper tatrodaced a bil! to provide for tho.rewision aud comaoiidakioa of the sigi- Tax Fasxom 1 Mextoo,—By the latest ad- | utes of tho United. sates, which. is an foilows:— in vices from Mexico we leara that the position of ne. enacted by the Bernat Howe ot Represmiatives That tha.Presseent the French invaders of that country is becom- bh by. drwcind, by and with tha advies of the bonaka, rs ero now returning, bute large number are «till roving, about, fearing a return to Dixie should they venture ta.| cali upon the authorities for agsistange. the French, haa at inst quarrelled with them, tpl ere In addition to this new aud anphosant phaso of affairs for the French must bé ‘akon into consideration the fact that tho Me. ican govern- argue a more widely diffused taste for tho arts | ment bas organized bands of guerill.**; Who pil- tho act of July, 1861. The commanding officers are ac- |! pied by our forces, causing a general stampede. Some |’ test; and thoy aball arrange the same usa tities, tors and sections, and other suitable diy, visious, with head notes briefly expressive of contained ip such divisions; also with side notes 8 to polnt to the coutents of the toxt; and with réfer ences to the original text from whicb oach section is ooma- piled, and to the decisions of fedoral courts oxplaming of expounding the game; aud alao Ww such decisions of te Stato courts ag thoy may deem expedient, and thoy shall provide by a temporary index, or other expedient meang, for an oasy reference to every portion of their report. Seo. 3. ane be cone eee 4 Lied when ae cone missiguers bave complet @ revision aad consol tion of the Atafates a8 aforesaid, they shall cause a copy Of tho same id print to be submitted to , that the statutes 50 revised and congol may be ro-guacted if Congress shal! go determine; and at tho same time the shall also suggest to Congress such contradictions, omi gions and imperfectiong as may appear in tho original text, with the mode in which fn] reconciled, aup- Pliod and amended the same; they may also dosig ato such statutes, or parts of stafues, a8 in thoir judg meat ‘ean to be repealed, with ttiir reasons for repea: Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, Tit the commis- sioners aball be authorized to cause thett work to be , Tinted in parts, 60 fast aa it may be ready for She greats an @ to distribute copies of the same to membérs gree ¥, 40d to such otbor persons, in limited numbers, as they . “4 6¢e,ft, for the purpose of obtaining thoir sug- gestions “and they shall from time to time report te Oon- Breas the." Progress and doings, Soc. 5. ad be it further enacted, That tho statuter aa revised and , onsolidated shall bo reported to Congress aw 800n as practi #ble, and the whole work closed withowt unnecessary do, *Y. Sec. 6. And be’ t further enacted, That the commis- sioners shall each ."eceive ag compensation for his services @t the rate of thre.® thousand dollars er yoar for two years, with tho rea: onable expenses of clorical service and otbor tocidental 1. vatlers, not to exceed two thousand dollars in tho whoie furleuch expences. PUBLIC LANDS TO WZSCONSIN AND MINNESOTA. . Under the act approved @iily 2, 186%, “donating anda for the benofit of agriculturs’ And tie mechanic arta,’ the Stato of Wisconsin has soivetéd in the land district of Menasba, Stevens’ Point, Eau Cire and Falls St, two bundred and forty (housanod! aeres, beltig the quae, tity to which said State is entitled’by virtuo of said act! Tho State of Minnesota bas selected’ at the Winnobage: City Land Office fifty-nine thousand atres under the*same act. ‘Tho Commissioner of the Gonoral Lawd' Office Ras gut mittect to the Secretary of the Interior, for bia approval, » lst of lands within tho six mile. limita cf the La Crosep and Milwaukee Railroad, enuring to tho Site of Wiscom- gia under the act af Congress approved Jun9’3, 1866, con- taining teeoe hundred and twenty four tueusand seves hundred aed four acres. BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE. Ta consequence of the immense accumulation/of bust+ ness in the office of the Judge Advocate General, it hae been found'necessary to create a new bureau, for the re- examination of evidence before courts martial, to casee where officors Mamissed the service are applying for re- eppowtmont. Captain Dennis, formerly of General Rufue King's staff, har been placed tn charge of this bureau. 7 SPY BENT TO PRISON. B. L. Haydon, a amnggler and rebel apy was goat to thie }; Old Capitol this morning. . DEPARTURS OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET. | Tho Russian ficet, whic loft Aloxandria yostorday;. anchored lest aight with the flotilla, about forty-milew \bélow the city, and’ satle® this morning for Hamptow Roads, where the*vossels wit winter. ADDITIONAL ARRESTS OF QUARTEBMASTER'S MM PLOYES. Arrests are atill betng: mado-of clerks and othor parties. conmected with the Qaartormaster's Department at Alox- andrta, The frauds, itis believed, are far more extensive than was at first supposed, From the fact that tho officer whose duty it was to purchase'forage for the army ha@ appotnted his brosher inspector of hay, and a son of the prinopat contractor inspector of grato, there is every reason to believe that no moans have boon neglected whoreby mouey could'bo made at the expenso of the gow- ernmout : _ THE CORN AND WHTSERY TRADE. ‘The offect of the large demand:for corn: for distilling purposes upon the suppty for military and ordinary com- sumption is attracting attoation in official circles. The deoreas im the crop this yoar, as shown by the agricul- tural repert for November, exceods ome hundrod) aa@ thirty millions of bushels, Tho docroased oxport doman@ will compedaate for a portiomof this deficiency. The em- pectation of an addittonal tax on high wines has groatiy increased the demand for corn and other grains for dis- (tilling purposes, and it is-intimated that, io view of the: large necessities of the government, which must be eup- plied while she war lasts, the- military orders forbidding the distillation of grain in Kontucky aud Tonmessoo wit bo extended (o Ohio and Tiltncis at an carly day. The provent . extensive consumption of corn for tion will thos-be checked, and: the prices of duced to tho ‘benefit of the- government end umers. bere om: RELEASE OF REBEL PRISONERS. Four hundred and eighteen rebels have, withia theless fow days, been released from the O14 Capitol and allowed to go North upon taking the oash of allegiance. Over a@hundrod remain who-bavo oxpressed @ desire to de Ukewise, ‘THB NORTH: ATLANTO SQUADRON, After tho lat-of January the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron will be relieved frouy- duty in the Chosapeaiby bay, north of York river, by the gunboate of the lotemas flotitis. ‘THE WASHINGTON NAVY. YARD. Commodore Montgomery will relieve Commodore Bar wood of the command of the Washingtom Navy Yar@ on tho Ist of January. At tho-same-time the popular executive oMcor of the yard, Commander F. A. Parker, will agaume the command of the Potomec dotilia. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN VIRGINIA. The Legislature of Virginia in soasion mé Alexandria re- contly passed an act to provide for tho eleetion of « com- vention, to assemble at Alexandria op Fobeuary 14, 1866, to amend tho State constitution, Tho object of the oam- vention is (9 remove the constitutional restrictions upem State action looking to the abolition of atevery, and make the constitution conformable to the chaaged condition of tho State by. the separation of West Virginia. Strict pro visions aro made in tae act to. confiae-the voting oxote- aivoly to loyal mon POST OFFIOK AGENT POR MANE. Mr. Hammet, of Maino, is to be apppinted special agent of the Post Office Department for Maine, vice Mr, Ora- way, elected Sergeaut-at-Arme to the House of Reprosen- tativos. ALPOINrMRNT. is The Clerk of tho House of epresontat.v@s bas appointed aa his chit clerk Ciunton Lioyd, of Wilhtamsburg, Pa,e - war democrat in politics. A SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL IN fH ORNERATION OF aTeaM. Tha report of tho commission appeimted by the Navy Department, consisting of throes chief ongiucers, who bares made careful experiments for Ove months, showing tha- Practicability of using. potroioum, or hydro carbon otla, for the purpose of genorating steam, baa boon issued, ands Proves satisfactorily, {tis said by those who bavo scams. it, that the results show.a groat saving, not only for mage chant steamers, but that a navai steamor can keop the 808 under steam throes times as long, with leas Inbor aed gteater economy aa compared with coal, equal woights of cach being considered, thus indicating & complete revola, tioa in the mode of gonorating steam ‘MMR NATIONAL BANKS OF NEW ORLEANS AND) OR. ; Loum ;sury Department for tho catablishment of ee bank at New Orleans, with.s, onpital of half a dollars, andor tha national curreacy act, also for, a. (mira ‘bank at St, Louis, with mcapitad of over a mil'ign@ dol. lars, with the privilege-and:prospect of incrosaingy® five millions of dollars CHE APPLICATIONS JOR COMMIGSIONS DY SEB.COLORED REGIMENTS. Of one thousand. aad. féey-one applicaass for commin- sions in negro rogimoata, Ovo hundred and fixty have been recommended.by the board for appeintaent, visi— for colonels, five; lieutenamt colonels, ten; majars, twenty- five; captains, oa. hued and four, first loutenante, one hundred andfifty waree, send Levtonamés, two ban dred and sixty threo BRIGADARR GENERAL OF 0OLORLD TROOPA. Upon the recommendation of Mayor Goneral Gyaad, Colonel L. A. Chetiain, of the Tweslfta Illinois Voluntoens, has booa appolated br gePier goneral ao command calored MURTING OF TALROMarHERns. SA mosting of talagraph operators was hoid ow Guaday, a ‘ratify apd adage’ the framed by the Nationai Convension af Tolograp's, Of hold im the city ot Now York last Novem‘ar. “/woaty-fivo names, wora piiced 00 tho roll, and thecanstityution was unanimoualy adopt. od, A Gigtrict orgaaizrsion was perfected by ciscting William H. Young aa “rector, T. 8. Doucke am treasurer, and Frederick W. Regoo aa seorotary, A district orgamt- tation will soce he commenced at Va. The fnowis that tke asedciation te ig @ Mourianing aa Mr. Wolfe hes done, © tasto for plo- | and the Archbishop of Moxtoo, who was the | S#germay Ihe the Lee Da nperorine asi Dany toae aio sR seaTEAc?. nich ® rulnous ono as it ts | grest roligace of tho invaders, has ronlgnod bia, j this duty the comaigsionsrs stat bring % pub. | Tag giving out of thoanrtet for hides nd tallow af Mr. Belmont once anid that if m, and become a bitter opponent of his | jeor to ba brought sogetbor, p- iy § apsmala ai hore on government aesoust has he wore nota banker be would bo a picture, Qllies. He caused the Cathodral in the Scosvoact te rote pty bey ‘veon antl tho 29th inet. The sanonncemnent Wuat (bad | eccorded ee premature. ‘The necossarx papers have-bece ismied trom tagtrem. wey — 2 Pic cel awe “YH sauna eR See ae ¢ - sme } 4