The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1864, Page 1

2 ~-oemc jag vera a ey ., Se be, ach EW YO Ba A hy ae aa - yee T _ NEW... YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1864. ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP PERSIA, The New Rebel Envoy to France. Preparations for the L Rebel Bonds. _ BRITA WEWS ON CONFEDERATE TOPHS, A Three Hundred Million Subscrip- tiop Lean in France, The French Senate on Mexi- ean Affairs. THD HOLSTEIN QUESTION. iquidation of The Doportation of Negroes from the Dnited States to British Colonies, &., ke, ae The etemmship Perain, Captain Lott, which left Liver- pool at balf-pard two on the afternoon of the 10th and Queenstowa on the 20:hof Devember, arrived here yes- Verday morning. ‘The London Mornin Herald publishes a fetter frem Mr. ©. J. MeRae, the fuancial agont of the rebel government tm Europe, to show that the authorities at Richmond are taking moasures to support tuoir credit by duly pro- viding for the Hiquidation oF those bonds which may bap- poo to be drawn im March next. Mr. bicRae says:— It id 8aid that cotton may be purchased at the present rate of exchange cheaper iu the coufederacy with ster. Mog than with the ‘bonds of the loau. In reply to this 1 Bavo to state that jt wm mew under the couskleration of the government at Richmond 'to prohibit altogetber tne: exportation of cottow, except sneh am is bye own obligations. I have every reason tor sohone this necessary and salutary meigure will be promptly adupted . ke total of such obligations-ether than these oe te Gea JRF CeBt colon foan doe act reach ‘The London Globe takes A:favorabie view-ef rebel pros- pects, arguing that the rotreat of Meade aod the in- ability of Grant to follow Bragz are reassuring for thy Tebol cause q ‘The Oity of Baltimore reacbea Liverpogi en the fore- meen of the 18th of December. ‘Tho America, from -Portiand, arrived off Londonderry at about two P. M. on the 18th. American Affairs im Great Britain. "ES DEPORTATION OF NEGROES FROM THE UNITED STATES TO BRITISH COLONTES. From the Toudon Timex, Dec 19.) A ebort paragraph im the summary of West Indien which we publiabed «m Wednesday touches on a abject which cogcerns our tranbatiantic colouies, and 7. jume an imperial interest. “The met on 9th aod the ‘Ah alt. the Sitting was occapied by Gecareions on the ‘mmigration question, which jed, how- @rer, to Do definiie result” ie ‘immigration ques ten” ig po other than the question whether tne esleaial t i@ to encourage the importation of free biacks the Northero States of America, and thus help to felieve Mr. Lincoln of his greatest diffculty. * * ‘Twe or three days after the meeting, which was divided. ‘op the labor question, an address wag. by 00 jess than selves and their constitu- ia Mi ot Barbados; that they consider such immigration should be det: revenues of the colony, and that they t, 80 far from tbere being BO demand for p ‘would find immediate employment, ots” HI E i ¢ i i i & i Saborers of various races. includiog the African, know ‘which is ‘edapted for their climate and methods of @ukare. can oniy bope that they do not count upon ‘bese poor creatures upon terms to be fixed arbi- b: federal goveroment can be no anxiety to be rid of them, tbe autho Stater might be willing to make a very On their vebaif. Having looked about in means, however costly, of deporting them, would not be very serupulous about their righta and esting if they ovuld father a portion on any other mation, This makes it the more nevessary that ould watch any transaction of the 3 4 Chinese, though often maltreated by their iors, are , Dut the sap of a spikes under mn igrat! agen! Y oan Anes in ‘arti. = heres Consideration, directly” i waives, which it is oar duty to ‘take into Sienet “By our colonies to @ reguar export of ‘+free niggers” Northern States we should, im fact, be @em 4 powerful weapon the Soath. fel i § i i : enlisting in the army ras probably detei others from ronning away. It is gait possible Wat the promise of a free passage to Pritish Guiana, with high wages and the other ina-cements which a @iever Yankee would present to the ntero imaginaijon, would @ more tempting bait. We cs nt say i a i § 2! 2 Feceive copies of the regulations of the 31st 8 a Ta authority del ani clause of tho regulations in which it is directed yeaseis entering under stress of weather, or by special Jeave, shall De requitea to put 10 sen ag s0On an possibie, | A MEW YORK CORRE®PONDENT OF & LONDON PAPER E ing them, there would ir character of late. been Fi | a 2 3 i iy ud i E 22 if sl i 4 = H 3 i i e sid li Hit : you an extract at the time applauding Loomed a “fair Diow at tno ememy?!’ Hen tI of bbis work. 16, as. ise Dimgelf am easy proportions and ett et Aa now splen- tlearly proved that wih Mauch @ore OWS: OP COMING BVENTS ON THE CON. epi; a6 feast, ae.» paremn 1 parts. Post of wae 3000 Re eo se Ci fren ti pond N respondent, Naps Agia at tunoge iA tho Suibere country. The Pes Te- The Latest by the Persia. Baws bait U, Deo, 19, 1888. ‘1 alysteck, nud each ong has been iniuute)y searebed. ERacow, Deo. 19, 1863, ‘A bew jourmal has appeared bere in the piace of the who protested against the go to war for the Poles, fimally agreed to. The New Rebel Envoy to France, ‘Mr. Supervielle, who’ bad arrived io Parie io the char acter of Special envoy from the. Confederate States,” 1s Frenchman by birth, and was formerly an advecatc in the South of France. He bas been jiving im Texas for the ‘tbat of will draw up che programme manded and commuUnKaALe it later to the Federal Coun- Flampcrc, Dec. 19, 1863 It te said that inetead of the abropation or snapendion of Ihe November constitution, Mr. Hal) bas. pi to Lord, Wodehouse an alteration of the concloding paragraph, to tho effost shat the K ing bas to Ox a time for the conetitu. on 60 ge into etiect,. NOW PREACH WEW OF THE BREELLION. where be embarked op the Freseb Florida for St. Nazalro, as before stated. i AAA Aan Reply of Agenor ec Gasparin, Edouard The Holstesm estion. Loboulaye, Hemzi Martin, Augustin Toe Parts Mont‘cur, spesking ef the proclamaticn of the King of Denmark recaliiog 69 Private despatches, however, eentiams to affivm that Cochin ane Other Priewds of America so France to the Loyal Sational League o1 rtp ons copeen i sana k om eer: New York. im ab Nae ne ae ot eadeD ing Sad Fecaer eae Chey, | _ ORT He We woals have Abaaked ‘you much soover are upon Helates: territory. r ‘Dutifor ve prolonged absence of one of our oumber,. It __ it 18 onid Bus the enperior effciate.tn Holstein Rad Would bave been paintui to 49.0 have lst tbe collective supe been iaformed that every finctionary sbould remain at bw post, and ehoukt place himself at the disposal of the Farvral Gormmiasioners. In the Prussian Chamber of Doputies Hery Vom. mark made some vague explanations as to Prustian ca im the Holstein queation, aod spoke im rathey a threaten- ing tone. Notwithstandiog bis appeal to the klouse, the address to tbe King, in whichibe foun was relused, was adopted by a vote of 207 to 107. ‘eharscter of ibis reply; for the diendipg of our’ four Dames i a proof of tbat greit upity of septiment upon. OH Ibat cosceroe se cause of justice, which, by God’. faver, manifests’ ieelf bere belew, iv epite of political and religious differences. Vet we are careful pot to overrate our personal impor- tance ‘The | eague doce ot address us ax ind) viduals ; It” speaks to Franee, who cherishes, a8 a vational tradition, the friendship of the United States. It speaks to Euro- pean opinion, which will’ rise up and declare iteelf more Clearly. as it recognizes that abe struggle te betwoon Slavery and Liberty. Poland. Ibis confirmed that tbe son of Count Andrés Zamoysk) pyran ier pe yh pert a jasargent victor! over Russians are reported M jee, Dear Cracow, and al Lukow, ip Lublin.‘ ‘A letter from st. Peversburg announces tbe arfival at Ah bee ey = rr Cpersy| bd. stom, Light did-nct at fret dawa upon the nature of the the game day to Moscow for Siberia, and (he second salutary but painful crisie through which you are pass- bg mph hand nahegr berths acoraencd tog; 4 998 Dot plain to.all,et the outect, shat ihe work cog Sg Ad —— seal te as, tere areas Mihes has bad ber errors, her bemtations—for which ‘he pumber OF Poles who have died on the field of battle _p-inpharaplpbetimesdbombestabeninlerdbtns ison. tic. What Blood would bave Beem spared to you, what indvctrial guffering avoided by us, bad European opinion @eciared itself with that force which you bad the right to Dope fort 0 8 protest Of the universal conscience, mankind necessarily recoils. Moral forces: Oewsbey coy ipowons " elles upen us, would Del Bave ioe The Inralide Huse, of St. Rossian citizen, vamed Jouroat Kelokot @ jetter add. ‘wbioh be UM the government, bas dy the Council of d fhe Empire. to five years at the galleys, abd, to spend the | dared to-affroo! indigoation of the civilized world. Feet, of bis Nfo 10 Siberia. "The woatenoe fs Been ooo: | _ L-—Why as th Qirmea by tbe Emperor. Italy. ‘The draft of the bodget was passed io the Chamber of bm by a yote of ove hundred apd seventy-seven to forly nine. What bas been the merit ot this insurrection? By what charm has it conciliated the sympatby of more than one 18 & question bumiliating to put, TBE BEALTO OF GARIBALDT. The Precurscre, of Palermo, publishes the folowing let- ter irom Garibaldi — Carnuna, Nov. 24, 1863. My Dear Baer—I am in really excellent heaith—mucb Deyond my hopes. With the exception of the soar, which is jo a compiétely Dormal stute, ard a little stiftness, my ght foot can quite compare with the Taft, 1 send. you ap tionate gree am yours . Lig GaRIBALDL slavery wee t,o truth. For slavery bad beea the great, the only subject ip the United States. Atithe time of the election Buchanan the only issee wasslavery. The electoral jatforms prove thie fact; the of the South were unanimous im this sense: ber party leaders, Ber Govervora, ber deliberative assembiies, ber prese, spoke but of slavery; the Vice President of the insurgent confederacy had made haste to deciare officially that the mission of the new State was to present to the admiration « of mankind a society founded on the “corner stone’” slavery. Lastly, it would seem that 16 all reflecting minds the acts of Mr. Bachanan and otber Presidents signed to the custody of the Court of Chancery for rpose of investigating add winding up its afiairs was a before Mr. G. he agg 2s te Clerk w the Master of the Rolls, at the Rolls object bel to appoint Solne Brock ing Up act. Mr. Hotchins, the firm of pMurry, Bon & Hutchins, said that ropose Mr. Hawes, the late chairman of the sbarebold- ere’ committee, it, of Skinner's place, Size lane, to ‘act s8 official liquidator in bebalt of the com; . The total pumber of sbares in favor of Mr, Hawes? ap. ny Foapernnns to sao 00 The total nomber of shares in the company wae Ordinary and 100, preference shares. There ‘were creditors to the Ba op) £25,000, the total amount of debts being £ 35.000, a8 first mortgage of £100,000 and ® second ge. total debts of the company, including cre- ditors, were £142,860. Mr. Dan' + the assistant secre- tary of the company, in his ataasihy sseaea ‘that the Bomipal capital of the company was originally £330, hares of £1 each, but only 303,304 shares were 100,000 prof jaers # hy teas oa MH eae EAS ited om Lissaee The assets of the company consisted of the ship, ber stores and appurtenances, tbe office farni- ‘fife in London, and the arrears of calls due, amounting 10 £530, which were believed to Be irrecoverable. out pvelenet Week at ini ae enmer ° epee yr ee oy mage ee" 4 aves ergccee he Diagnosis of the Recent Prise Fight. accused nor ence, = ihren the Tondo ‘Lancet for December. | s Your letter recalie the measures of bis Presidency: abo- As mach mi ind re- slavery in the capital and in the District of Co- specting the condition of Heenan before and after bie Ja jming of freedom to fugitive slaves, contest with King, the foliowing autheatic Ncolars compensated emancipation submitted to may not be withost interest:—Four or five after Py he death actually inficted ‘Termination of the fight on the 10th instant, be ar- slay ee treaty with England admitting Fived at a {riend’s bouse in London, ‘Clarke search, estadlisbment of diplomatic reia- -chitef, the abeolute and final eup- the revolted States. vcratches chest. je, gentlemen, are abolitionists; and we deciare that oan, sok the alia oeaneaiy we bave never hoped vor wished for @ more steady, raj ‘medicines were resorted wo, under progress. We have understood the difficul. ore ‘un! conscience with ation ” wien ry Saem which stopped bis patb. We bave admired then weak, bis nights bad been rest- tense with which he movi conaiderable uneasiness op taking could do #0 without danger to bis cause examining bit, all marke | oF violation of the law. ore WEG eee i Seta vet preserves 1 (he loyer aootes, ‘In revolt ‘ant io the ‘al . Io io. appet “Ieee hey etek | Cer ‘vorde, there it wonder thet. he who. bas tworn 10 Hasal bone was loosened from its articulations; | Obey the constitution should respect it. Let no one take On capefolly practising ave- | arm at this. There is no danger that the ‘“domestic action was found to be je, | institution,” crusbed in the’Carol) 4 Lonigiana, will » the valves acting efficiently: Jong eurvive in Kentucky or Already, a8 you compressible, and rajher above | Dave stated to v8, @ solemn proposition has been made to was bealthy, but Over the apex of the all the loyal States, already ope of the moet important, With evident «: of ion, | Miseour! ‘hag eet the example of acceptance. To be thue~ ‘back Of the neck there sine von. | useaay about the maintenance of flavery io the North which was sscerttined to oxiat | areues to our minds quite to m th venaervene for the Mttachments of the tr: South. We loon with suspicion upon thie pretended abo- 1 bone, ligamentum nrabe: | jitioniam whose unfriendly exactions were firet put forth Spine of \ecapola. “Ihe | 00 tho very day illumined in America by the dawn of them About the | abolition. We fraokly say we could never bave fore- was very remi een that the clection-of Mr, Lincoln and the several acts and as little “= ted be an endless Cleaned by the scalpel, "in Semana pent Keg resem bied cartilage. The same conditions were also ‘Womecives in Fu. Hives Wraseversey erase gee opine it wed, But with al this ) of whieh were for it was evident that Heenan bad Tesciten P from which bis system wagonly slowly recovering; though Power was due to the punishment re. i the hard taining whieh be tad provi wn highly prebabie hat area pur) oe Beh He ee South exaetty fourteen, fove rt CK, eb ® ‘coo my yum: $00 and a ball inches, Those eet Lever oly know y wil, w country, -P.monal bomogeniety’ well as taws were a sufficient barrier against oppression, in.stch a cousiry we are Wold of a province claiming in gopenderes We aro ot your oplnwn, genttemen, that independence tionality aro words Loo noble 0 be abused. In their (things aro compromised, and the more noble and AGorod these things the more carcful should we be nog to y ind thom with what ts neither nobianor sacred—a Fev@st lw the wame of slavery. a fratricidal revolt which would destroy a free constitution and tear aeunder o cy country for fear lest there might be inter. breeding im Virginia, the sale and separation of families, rome ia powetenes nee. Territorws sbould be shut out conquest of slavery ' in vain we feck i tbe United Statea for @ na- Menality striving te regan ite mdepeadenco. Not gery bas independence been nowhere assailed, but _— is absolutely ne trace of u seperate nationality. where, perbaps, is there more thorough oa- North and South the race is tho too Fired language, history, aad, we boldly add, in Aerepts, are all the eute. AN these States haye struggled Feullered together, triumphed together: ir ; their defeats, are common. ‘Their Constitution from the consent of all; all pledged them. faithful to Ke obligations. pledge ie no empty word with which caprice may } Among the inventions ef our epoch there is oro extreordiuary than the right of scoossion. who discovered it will @o deubt teach us where it If each section has a right of seceseion from try a a whole, why-not-each State a right of e- From such section? Why not each county a right thositaley not each: town a right net each citizen a truth i¢ that, Dat for slavery, tho South would not Of \tsuppresuod-independence, nor of the right of ; ion. Slavery ‘Bas ‘brought. the two sdctions 10 Biri. Tho extinctiem@ of glavery will restore unity. The abd thé South-wili-eome day wonder that they ooays to parraciate the most complete and opr ‘Ai last resort remains. Toat we here may not soo the struggie On tbe "subject of slavery, ao attempt is to t the etraggie ap one for. domination 7 elruggic Me e- vot surprising tbat the North the South each streve actively, energetically, Boistty foyetbe triumph of their candidate and 5 a But when ope of them, ising the battle of a Lt, plunges ‘withoot hesitation into another Of battic: when it resists, arme in hand, the result ‘@ reguiar election ; when oD the very day that it ceasos to rule it vearpinto ents the common country, it is guilty ofa crimafor wDich it: i dificult. to. imagine an excuse. ® isthe very life of freo @icoeed—such is pur eliol—in re-establishing the Union. wore wormy .of tbe noble deetiny to which God eu. moons 18. would never knaw how 0 bandieg mdsket , thatirecruiting would, evome ioprackicuble; that your finances would ur ciwes: tbat your sovernwent would be overthrown answer ‘assert that the re establishment of the Union is im- possible, » 1 What Union. Where draw tho line between North avd south? How smaiataio belween thom a etate of peace, or even of true? ‘shall slavery and liberty liye gido. by wide? How, Woreover, restraw the South from European pro tecthrates, aud by what means arrest the frigatful conge- ‘queoces of such protectorates’, Geographically , morally, politienlly, separation. wou'd create ap unnatural situa. tron, d ion violent and hazardeds, where each would five arma in band, wasting for the bour of coutlict. Wo have fultfaith, gomuiemren, tbat eucb a trial will. be ‘spared to you. |t 6 UOt that we overiogk tbo dilf.culpes: anbich stilbremain for you to overcome. the are great— 7 than we magne. War bas its yicissi- you inuy perbaps bo yet cailed upon to pase periods of ii fortupe. Yet one fact always re- 10g ‘there be 00 foreign intervention. ‘The tiag of tbo Univn bas. vow lor two years never paused jorite advance. Jt floats to-day over the soil of every Tevoitéed State’ without exception. The South has bad its Vicloritait bias ‘Déver gaiced an inch of ground. The Noro baa U6 We'eats—it bas wover fallen back. Mas tor to-day of the ebtire course of the Missiseipp:, master F States und of Louisiana, all that remaive is “the revolt ip the. varrow torritory where it fret Doret forth, apd back 40 which it bas bean driven. We a {for Ex , bhe on} Siege Bia sacar oe 0 / * Ipebort, the. robe ig Giroady reduced to such nar row rims that should it ever become 4 digtinct Cunfororntion scooped ah “ch trom. weariness of war, the vcoufederacy wun Created will not be born with the fupctious of life. Neither European recoguition bor your own could give it serious chnuce of duration. Tt would eid in aretuto W you. BUL we delight to beliéve the Feestablighmect Of tbe Usion lugs disigit. And, ip ihe presence of that proepect which tbrille oar hearls with Joy, permit us, us your friepds, Lo offer you some kinoere Thiibe, “ma dsagers OF victory. you Ale dwnre, are pot Jess than those of the Combat. We give you, therefore, ‘our loyal, fragk opinion, s0re that io the main it will ‘agree with your own, abd feeling, also, that the<e com thunjcations Detween us have ab Ginr more serious than a simple exchange of words.of sympathy. We bold it to be of tbe first inrportance tbat the cause of the war shal! fotsurvive tie war, that your real ice, slavery, shat! not remain u field. We tave otten asked curse/ves these last U ‘ears Why God permit- ted the prolongation of this bi le. Waa it not that the rea! seve might present itself with perfect clear pees? Conquering earlier, the federal government would, Perbaps, bave beeo led to make concessions, to enter abew opop thé fata! pat) of compromise, To-day all eyes, not willingly blind, see clearly The New York riot, ibg Out at @B Appoiwied day to aid the invasion of ‘Lee, and falling instantly upon the negro in a way w Sow to very witness of ite ly ferocity what kind Of spirit animated certain friends Of the Bouth—the New York rict was 9 supreme warning to your coup- try. Your live of action is clearly traced. So long as abything of slavery remain, there wil] be # cause of an- tagonigm in the bosom of tbe Union. There must be no Jonger apy question of slavery. It must be #0 ordered ‘and settied as never to return. con! top to this end must be proposed and adopted Defore the return of the States. ) ‘he eouditionof the free biacke must also be secured ‘aguinet ihe iniquities which they bave #o long endured. No more plans of colonization abrosd, bo more disabing Jaws, no more inequality. Those whom you bave armed, ‘who fougbt so bravely before the watts of Port Hudson and Fort Wagner can never be otber than citizens. Leave the problem of the races to its own solution—the ‘most patural ectutions are always the best. Cnder the rale of the common law the tree blacks of the South and ‘Of the Nerth will find ther jeg/timate place im your s0- ciety, of which they will become useful members, honor. able and bonored. ‘to slavery and the colored race you will bave done more ‘than is rally imagined for the lasting pacification of the South. What remains for you W @o oo this point May be stated 10 three words—moderation, generosity, ee ‘cad be 80 queetiod, a8 you have often said, of an of the South, of o conquest of the Soutb, of the Soutburn states to the condition of provinces, conqueror will maintain bis garrisons and the ife will be suspended. Save ip the districts yet aged by guerrillan and in the beartof which ibe finish their work. victory will every- ‘where bring, with the re-eetablishment of the Union. the e38 5 the battlefield feel that it is much better that you should have encoanter difficulties fruitfal of liberty, than that you for youselves the deceitful advantages of a Tegime. To apply to the South an exceptional Je would be, alan! quite easy. It would be cuey also ‘the doath penaity, t0 outlaw, to execute bile; Dut ip trending thie patb of vulgar ‘would eacrifice two thinge—your high presert, & lasting v0\0D with tbe South io Hh in future. if, 00 the otber band, you show (be world the Dove) spectacle of victory without reprisals, of liberty strong: enough to survive civil war, if your conetita- Hon remaib, and slavery alone hata? ee oot i @ morrow etry ema: ie vor nate abd House of 3 it tam ‘ives ob @ footing of ba) w \- pen tatives of the North, be permitted to them w at- tack afd to embarrase tbe government, you will have won the foet glorious of victoriee, and assured to your country the, best chance of prosperity and greatness. ‘Accept, gentiomen, in the advice which wo tender to it i# not of every people, thal Protracted civil ware tond to ai passions and hates and at last Of military powor and irresponsible aw generally bioders 8 retur control, to free © she strict letter of the law. We honor United States eaough to believe that they will be capable of setting 18 this, too, after 60 many Other examples, ‘The moderation which we bope for from you as home, wo look for also fram you abroad. Ai on the morrow of eer eae of re noe ‘will not be ‘wanting a cl eager to recall to Teal or ancied,rofored at s » Whee, to assare 5 in your hearta n wicked you almont to the violation of lory will be to take the oppe- site of those violent declarations, of thogo filibuster om of thore unscrupulous ambitions. senptations which @ gress army excites are of the h—:¥ou will crush the revelt, gentiomeo. You will Te wil! emerge from the bloody trit! stronger, more free, Tt bas been desmovetrated Lo us, it* iS true,-that the re- establishment ot the Union was impossible; but was it not alec demonetratod bo us, acd oy, irrefutable argument, that you would bp always avd 0! uecessity defeated ; that you bo exliausted: that yous /ouns. would not be taken; that you would become bapkrupt; that rice would: ravage rou bawe.giyen 0 all these oracles the, simpiest and best You will reply in; tbe same mannes tothe really iumpossibie is uot 40 restore ibe , abd sbows gtr the final triamph willbe | Glass mort diffeuts to repress. May you not he old idea of smal) armies and email budgets. Byt we do not deceive ourselves, Your small armies three years ago. Your military education is comple di recital of your battles in 1861, former situation. ‘Will not long be witnessed oo American f0i!. noble works, tho most sublime which can be accom- Aro as interested as yourselves—a work the success of which will be (be honor and the consolation of our time. ‘THis generation will have seen nothing more grand than the abolition of slavery (in destroying it with you you destroy it everywhere), and the energetic uprising of a people which ip the midst of ite growing prosperity was visibly sinking under the, weight of the tyranny of the South, the complicity of the North, odjous laws aud com. promises. Now, at the cout of immense sactifices, you have stood ‘Up against the evil, you have ehosen rather to pour oft your blood and your dollars than to descend further tho slope Of degradation, where rich. united, powerful, you wore sure to jose that which is far nobler than wealth, or ‘union, or power. Well, Europe begins to understand, willingly or unwil- lingly, what you have done. In Franee, in England, every- where your cause gains ground, and be it said for the honor of the nineteenth century, the obstacle which our ill will and our evil passions could not overcome, the ob- stacle which the intrignes of the South could not sur. mount, is an idea,a principle. Hatred of slavery has been your champion in the vid World. A poor champion seemingly. Laughed at, Scorned, jt seems weak and Jovely. But'what matters it,ere the account be closed principles will etand for sometbing, and conscience, in all buman affairs, will have the last word. ‘This, gentlemen, is what we would say to you in the pame of all who with us, and better than ourselves, de- fend your cause in Europe, Your words have cheered us; may ours in turn cheer you. Youhave yet to croas muny adark valley. More than once the impossibility ‘of success will be demonstrated to you; more than once, in the face of some military check or political ditfenity, the cry will be raised that all is lost, What matters it to you? Strengthen your cause daly by daily making it more just, and fear not; there is a God above. We love to contemplate 1a hope the noble future which feeme to stretch itself beiore you. Ihe day yon emerge At last from the angnish of civil war—and you will surely come out freed from the oAtous institution which corrnpt- ¢d your public manners and dograded your dom as wellas your foreign policy—thnt day your whole coun try, South as welt as North, and the South perhaps 1 fully tban the Norttr, will enter pon a whully new pros- | perity. European:’ enmgration wit! hasten your ports, and--witt--learn the road ‘whom until now “it has feared to appreach. cultivation will revew-He yield. to slavery has rendered barren. will be no sacrifice of justrce. AGENORADE GASPARIN, AUGUSTIN COCHIN, EDOUARD LABOULAYE, (Member of the Institute of France, HENRI MARTIN. Paris, Oct, 31, 1863. THE GREAT STORM. ad T vel Impeded, dic., dco y Cmcaco, Dec. 31, 1963. ‘The beavicst and most extensive snow storm known in the West for many years commenced last night, and still }, cotinves. Despatches represent it as exceedingly severe beyond the Miscissippi, and north as far ae Green Bay, aud south as far ae Springfield. ‘The anow is drifting 90 that severa) railroods are com- pletely blocked up. ‘The storm is reported to be very violent in lowa. NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Sale of a Five Dollar Gold Piece at Auc- tion—Opimion of the -Press Regarding President Lincoln’s and Jeff. Davis’ Messages, dic. Newnes, N. €., Dec. 275 1863, ‘The North Carolina Times eaye:—A five dollar gold Piece was sold at auction for $160 id Confederate notes at Panville 9 few days eince. ‘The same paper heartily endorses President Lincoln’s Toocent proclamation and adviser the, peeple of the State to accept it, It also copies and endorses a remarkable article fromthe Richmond Whig, which contains the fol- lowing #igaificant paragraph: — Slavery bas stabbed itself to death. It has sinned against (hé light, committed the uppardonable sin, and must die. ‘The Raleigh Standard and the Raleigh Progress are ‘very revere in their criticiems on Jeff. Davis’ message. They poblish President Luncoln’s Message and prociama- tion, with favorable comments. The North Carolina Times says'—The British schooner G. O. Bigelow, which was captured by the United States transport Fulton, and then abangened, made her way into Swansboro, near Wilmington “unloaded her salt, and ‘was about to rup the blockade in Jallast, when she was caught aod burned by one of ‘the United States steamers, ‘The bealth of this department is good. The weather is mild and pleasant. Important to Outward Bound Vessels. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Unrrep Starxe StmawEn VicKeucRG, Om Narrows, N. ¥., Dec. 90, 1863. ‘You will oblige me by stating in your paper, for the information of a!) vessels bound to sea, that this vessel, the guard ship, lies just below the Narrows. During the which isa white flag with a red cross diagonally. At night she basa white light at the fore masthead, and one at the main peak. If vessels proceeding to sea will pane close toher they will be boarded without any delay to thom. | am, very respectully, your obedient servant, D. L. BRAINE, Lieut. Commander, commanding U. 8. 8. Vicksburg. SueonG Array IN 4 Broapwat Concent Saloon —A disturbance occurred at the Cosmopolitan Saloon, 534 Broadway,oo Wednesday night, betweeo some of the patrons of the establishment and the waiters, when Mr. with the request. Bowever, and, assaming defiant atti- tude, threatened to kill Mr. Brotherton and smash things generally, when the jatter, in self defence. — & pistol atreet. And fired two shots into the effect in the leg of James Officer Hughes, req KIDNAPPING FOR TEE ARMY.—A sailor named Jacob S. Johnson , belonging to the schooner Oneida, lying at the foot of Robinson street, was seized by a gang of ruffians on Wednesday night and burried into a cellar in Liberty street, where he was detained several bours agaiost his will, onthe ground? that he was wanted for the army. His custodians, after threatening bim with the direst vengeance if he divulged their ramen, promised to release him of condition of bis enlisting in one oe the volunteer iments and giving them half the fo ae J refused to , however, and rest, of Hackensack, N. deserter in Weet Washington Market, on Wednesday, was struck witb a loaded whip and knocked senseless to the pate ho injured man was conveyed to the Third . Medion house, where be was attended by a phy- Bician and theo peut home. The deserter escaped. us Affair at Hartford. day says —Mr. C. W. the laay came to his means, She was a poe ‘young woman, highly iatel- languages. She was iy of the house comfortable. It was | ‘tunate girl Was tho My ana she bad deen recent! joed, she stated—and she bad tesa devoted ‘and deserted, all of which Affected ber 1m! aad family gave ber every attention w' 25 ti Safin taro favel the mystery, if possidto ment, some porent is mouroing fence of an atectionate daughter. Several eto Terluco your forces after peace? Not only your material Prosperity but your very liberty is involved in disarm- ing, 10 @ reduction of your expenses, and a retura to tho do what you may, will te large compared to tbh se of you have reptied but too well to those who smiled at the You havo iearved but too quickly to'face death and to kill, and what you have foredeo with the internal slave traffic, the continued | earned you will not upleare. You will not return to your But while we do not expect again to see your effective “force at ten thousand men, we do bope that effective forces wbich are now numbered by hundreds of thousands Ill —Courage! You nave before you one of the most Plisbed here beiow—a work in the success of which we ro towards those Abandoned Liberty=for these are ber miracles—q il) revivity by ber touch the soi! which ‘Then ‘there will be bern unto you w greatness nobler and more stabie than the old, for in unis greatness there Heavy Snow Storm Throyghoat the West Northwest—Ratiroads Blocked Up “PRICE THREE CENTS. IMPORTANT FROM ALBANY. ‘| Removal of the Metropotitan Police Commissioners. THE GOVERNOR’S REASONS THEREFOR. Names of the Members of the New Board, &., &e., &o, Atsany, bee. 1, 1803. The Governor hae removed the Metropolitan Police Commissioners and appointed in their places Joseph & Bosworth and William McMurray, of New York, and William B, Lewis, of Brooklyo Goy. Séymour takes the ground that"since their anawer tothe charges mado against them thelg were good grounds for their removal, but he was unwiifing to make any change during the excitement of the past season; but that the official report lately made to him by the Com- missfouers about the riots in July is sectarian and parti- gan, and shows that (he Commissioners have departed from the impartial and dispassionate position of public officers and lost their usefulness. The passage complain- ed of is aa follows:— These violent proceedings had a politicat design and direction, and received encouragemennt from newspapers and partisans of influence and intelligence, The Board of Police had been threatened with summary removal, which was expected to occur immediately, Numbers of the force desired the removal, and there were not jack- ing instances of insubordination—the fruit of the ex- pected change. A large portion of the force game nationality and political and religious faith of the riotous mob. ‘The charter of the Albany City Bank, Erastua Corming, President, expired to-day, and the bank has reorganized under the general banking law, with the same stock- holders and officers, It was chartered in 1834, bas di- vided regularly four per oeat semi anpunily, and closes with eighty per cent surotne In the case of the Bank of America againet the New, Supreme Court. MEADE’S ARMY. ftv. FG. Chapman Despatch. Fifaoquantens, ARMY OF THE PoToMAc, Dec 31, 1863. ‘The ruling topic of conversation hereabout is the mud. ) York Commissioners of Taxes, the Court of Apoenis has decided that so much of the capital as Is invested in United States securities is not taxable, thes sustaining the law of Congress and the decision of the Uniied States which is so deep now as to preclude desertions altogether. The veteran regiments are re-eniisting with a rus. and the Michigan regiments are second, General Grant, with shouts and cheers. General “Grant the country except General McClellan. Colonel Clark, Commissary General of Subsistence with the Army of tho Potomac, has been relieved, and Captain Tom Wilson takes his place. Capiain Beattie, of the Third Vermont regiment, who shot Lieutenant Miller, at Warrenton, on the 22d of October, and who was tried by court martial and sentenced to be cashiered, has had his sentence revoked by the President, apd be is reinstated on account of general good conduct and gallant bebavior ia, action. The criticisms of the press upon the managementor the mititary railroad are most. unjust’ apd umcalied for, A thorough investigation into the cauege of the alleged derelictions ba» reeultod in the establishmént of the fact that the accidents on this road are much lees than upon any other ringle track railroad in the country doing unything like the same amount of business. General Meado is well. All ja quiet along the lines, Large numbers of officers are off om furlougbe,; and aboulder straps are really getting scarce ih some quarters. The bealth and morale of the army are excellent. Mr, Wm. Young’s Despatch. Anuy ov THe Poromac, Dec. 31, 1868. The neglect of Governor Seymour to fill vacancies in field aud line officers according to merit, upon tho recem- mendation of superior officers, and in the regular line of Promotion, bas caused considerabie ill feeling, which bas Deen aggravated by bis appointment of some officers with jess regard 10 merit and rank than @ disposi- tion to oblige politicians who agree with bim in sentiment. In some instances the strongest testime- niais from officers inthe field have had infinitely less weight than the signature of asingle politician. in this way, it is alleged, worthy soldiers, eatitled to prometion, have been humiliated by being compelled to serve vader those who are their inferiors. The evil is of such a oa- ture that ite continuance will damace the service, parti- cularly when it js borne in mind that there are from twelve to twenty vacancies in some ts. An impression existe in certain itary circles here that the veteran troops who have roe-enlisted and are go- ing home to recruit will not return & that grave of gene- Fails, the Army of the Potomac, but will be resigned to the victorious army of General Grant, the here whom the soldiers believe is destined to be the next President. © Bo thus ordering io a.definitive manner all tbat relates day sbe bas the guard flag at the fore royal masthead, ‘The heavy rain storm with which the year ie closing does not penetrate the canvass roofed cabins of the eol- diers; bat the foot of the picket sinks deep in mud as he performs hie two hours’ duty, thinking the while of the dear ones at home. GENERAL KELLEY'S DEPARTMENT. Mr. T. C. Wilson’s Despatch. CUMPRRLAND, Md., Dec. 30, 1863. CAPTURE OF A RECRRANT. Colonel Boyd, of the Twelfth Penarylvania cavairy, captured Hugh Logan, a citizea of Littersburg, Pa. engaged in the service of the enemy. Mr. Logan is noted ball and of tbe ballot, which will r@ | Brotherton, the proprietor, came forward and requested as a daring rebél scout. He isthe man who piloted Ise made bis last Invasion of the Northern States. leged that the prisoner committed roboeries on It ial. Kelley has decided to turn the prisoner over to Movements of the Nusshas The officers Of the Russian, and other points of interes effected theif é window with through the day, frieuds (or buriay 80, ‘the other commands, will be gai § there to Camp Chase. sled sad eee Teg) cag 2 The New York State regiments are tirat in the good work, The army hui/s the Heratp's candidate for President, will poll a larger vows from thid army than any man in vania citizens when acting as Lee's scout. coadinigews ‘at- | Suthorities of Peunsy!vania. Accordingly be wil! remaey from Wheeling, where he now is, to Governor Cupi-esiag bap o i