The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1864, Page 4

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THE SITUATION. ‘The only news from the Army of the Potomac {as the iasue of an important order, prob biting all Newspaper correspondents connected with the @rmy from publishing the number or designation of regiments re-enlisting in the army or leaving the fame, the number of re-enlistments, or the number of men furloughed, The object of this order will be at once perceived—the intention no Goubt being to ccaceal, if possible, from the ene- my the exact extent to which tho army is being temporarily reduced. The afaft:s ovo remains un- changed as far-as any hostile movements are con- corned. Despaiches from Camberland, Md., on Friday, spay that some excitement was created in Martins- ‘ burg, in consequence of our pioke ta at Winchester havingbeen driven in as far as Bunker Hill. It @ppears ‘that a pertion of the Twelfth Pennsyl- ~vania cavalry was doing picket duty at the time, euid in retreating took four of the enemy prison- NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY). JANUARY 3,) 164. one at noon and the other subsequently, which | demoralized party organs, we desire to secthe | The Piety ama: Morality of Boston—A lasted until five o'clock. President William Wa'sh, who bas occupied the chair with fairness, dignity and justice to all, delivered an able and feoling valedictory, concluding with a well deserved eulogium on the venerable and courteous Clerk of the Board, Mr. D. T. Valentine, and hia obliging assistants. He (the President) said that he bad received from Mr. Valentine's well atored fund of municipal knowledge much valuable sasistanoe; that gentleman's connection with the city govern- meant for more than one third of a century has placed him in possession of a knowledge of our system of municipal legislation accessible to or attaina- ble from no other source. Long may he live to guide the footsteps of the young or inexperienced. Mr. Walsh concluded by thanking the members for their cordial assistance to him in his official career. At the adjournment there were mutual greetings all around, the members cordially a- luted each other and bade official farewell. Alto- gether the Board of Aldermen for 186% have had less acrimony than has been usually displayed ia municipal public bodies, where private and poi cal influences generally prevail to a great extent, he new Board will be organized at noon on Mon- lay. The Board of Councilmen for the year 186% ad- journed sine die about five o'clock last eventng, During the day they had acted ona iarge sumber of routine papers, aad shortly before five o'clook last evening the usual complimentary resolution to the retiring President was adopted, to which Mr. Jones, {who takes hia seat next week in the Board of Aldermon), responded im # neat agd ap- propriate farewell address, Similar resolutions were adopted, tendering the thanks of the Board to Mr. James, Mr. Sweny, the Cierk and other attaches of the Board, when an adfourmnent aine die took place. Five hundred and ten wills were ofered for pro- hate before the Surrogate of this city and cou during the year 1868. Of these, four hi six were admitted to probate, twenty-five are a! litigated, and seventy-nine are awaiting the return of citations, ‘There was scarcely anything done in business circles on Saturday; but the markets were generally vory firma for both imported and domestic produce. At the Produce Exchange there was no change éf importance except in hiskey, which was nominal. Grocerics were quiet, but Cotton was atenay. Tetroleum was dull, but firmer. Freights were very duil, but unchanged. The Presidential Qu m—The Slean- mess and Degeneracy of the Party Press. For the last twenty-five or thiety years, in | mendacity, maligaity, vulgarity aud every ele- i ment of baseness, the party press of the United States has been sinking from bad to worse with ! the increase of the spoils and plunder involved in our political elections. Thus, in proportion tothe expanding wealth of the country and the patronage of the government, the political parties concerned and their servile newspaper organs have falien still lower and lower in the ways of corruption and demoralization, until they have reduced what was the happiest and most prosperous nation in the world to the: fearful trials of the most gigantic and the bloodiest civil war in the history of mankind. * This is w painful reflection; but it is still independent masses of the people ont loose from them and unite upon an independent popular candidate, and elect him as the successor of Mr. Lincoln. In closing up the rebellion the necessities of the country call for a sweeping political revolution and a new order of things. Hence we advocate the run- ning of General Grant as the people's candi- date for the succession ; and in this movement we auapeot that we have not only met the in- Clinations of the people, but that through their action we have hit upon our next President In the meantime, while General Grant is pushing on the war againat the rebellion, we iatend to push on the war againat the corrupt politicians of the day and theic shameless party orgaas. Tue Ress. Conareas—Harp Qvgartons rsgu A Renew Eprror,—Ths Richmond Hnguirer, in | of boyhood can disport itself wich a quite tha course of a terrible attack upon the des- perate expedients of salvation brought forward in toe rebel Congress, puts to it mumerous bard and urgly questions, come of “Why are there two imadred thousnad strag- Glers from our ermicat” We anawer, becaitee the rebel soldier begins td believe itis useless | twelve to twenty ioches apart, in open rooins, | for him to fight.any longer, and became, while | without ang screen or protection at all; and ia he is starving and freeviag from iack of food and olothing, the same wauts cf bis family in- duce him to straggle homeward. © Whose fault ig it!” We answer, it is the fault of the Tead- ing and ruling conspirators ia this enicidal rebellion, But, tha revel editor agaia aska, why not bring those atemggless buok, © in- atead of violating ccontr@@ts, or conscribing classes that never before wert culled to war, (the shoe begins to pinch tis philosopher), depopulatizg a slave holding people, with slaves already protiy thoroughly demoralize We answer, it is because the reel Leaders are in the condition of desperate pirates, who de- termine te blow up their own ship, the ship's crew, passenger and oll, rather than fall into the hands of justice. But then conre two aues- tions, whieh, tuken together, completely puzzie ns. This excited rebel editor first inquires, “Why uot, in this couseription, go to the full extent, and take alaves to intrench and-fortify our camps!” and then, a little farther on, he asks, “Can @ peopie be a military people, or have any solid civin: to the name, whose armies require negroes from the cornfields to intveach them?" We cau onty answer these questions by subrsitting, first, that if the rebel armies cannet be intrenched withont their ne- groes, they must enyploy their negroes or do without intrenclineats; secondly, that as their negroes are already “ pretty thoroughly demo- ralized,” it would he as well to jeave them in we wilt | decency whatever. In the prisons, however, undertake to answer. . Tha Mnguiver asks, | the case is étill worse. These ace provided Glance at @ur Modern Civiitzation, The inspectors of the public tustitutions of Boston have just issued an extraordinary re- Port on the immoral and brutal practices which obtain in those places, It positively camses one to shudder on reading through the atrocious de- tails which these inapestors havo given to the public. Aud yet we arc told that Boston is the great centre of refinement, learning and civillzation—the “modern Athens”—the “Hab of the Univorse.” If tho gentlemen who have made thie report were vot in high official post- tions and reliable in every way such shamefal rovelationa would scercely be believed. The managers of the institutions must certainly be deprived of every feeling of decency, modesty and self-respect. In the House of Reformation for Juvenile Offenders, we are told, there is one spacious tub in which “the feoticszomeness limited freedom’'—that is to say, thht the boys are allowed to sirip and are huddled iuto one tub to wash themselves, without any regard to with the ordinary bathtubs, from throes to seven ia number, placed-aide by side, at from these publicly exposett tubs the prisoners— men, women and girls—im their reapective de- partmenta, in groups of from three to seven, are required to perform thelr ablutions. Old’ offerders, young offenders, girls of nine and ten years of age, alike must disrobe themaclves, aad in full observation of their fellows and officers, in a state of utter nudity, enter the bath and perform ita duty. “We submit,” say the iuspectora, “that there is scarcely any prisouer, however calloua in the paths of crime, from however low and degraled a apbere of social If be may have come. that ab this re- quired exposure at the bathtub will not feel his cudimental nature at least somowhat shocked.” Anything wore disgraceful oun scarcely be conceived. But the atrooity is greatly increased when # ia borne in mind that there are but few hardened criminals confined in these ivatitutious. The report tell us that aii life Les its representatives there. Young girls aud maidens are there, tender, plastic, seusitive, full of the modesty of nature, and, it may be, culture also—some with no other charge of crime-than uot habitually attending the public achool. Nor are these the-only outrages: detailed ia the report before us: Girls and boys aredndis- criminaiely fogged with cartwhips; beaten @ith sticks,. and maltreated in every way without consideration or pity. On one ocoasion a young woman, seventeen years of age, “in the cornfields; aud thirdly, that as neither ne | stature a woman grown,” waa charged with groes nov intveschments will prevent General | disobedience of orders and punishod, by tho Grant {rom “moving spon the enemy's werks” | Superintendent in person, with a rattan half an and into them, the best thing the Richmond'| inch in diameter and twenty inches ong. The Hinguiver can do ia to plead for submission to} blows were-dealt about her shoulders and the ors. This party had not proceeded far when they came upon a band of thirty rebels that had becn despatched to out them off. Our force, being very small, had to abandon the prisoners, and succecded in escaping with a logs of one or two of their number. ‘Thia was about the substance of, the news, which for a time was looked ‘ypon as something serious, more painfal to see that now, instead of exhib- iting any signs of remorse and. repentance, these political vampyrea, in the midst of the fiery ordeal of this civil war, are stil! in- tent only upon gorging themselves upon the life blood of the nation. They are like the incendiaries who gather together at a great fire, not to assist in subduing it, but to secure the Unioa as the only way of eacape from ab- solute subjugation avd endtess ruin to sl! con- cerned. Tex Presda ws Mrxico.—The Mexican im- Wrogtio. bids fair to clear itself even without the- good offices of Napeleon IIL, who must now understand that he hes aronsed to desperation eight millions of people, and that to conquer. but which, in reality, waa probably connected with nothing more than the advance movement of ® scouting party. Our oorrespondent's despatches from East Ten- nesses furnish a most interesting account of the late atirring events which have travspired in that some share of the accessible plunder. For example, this journal, which owes nothing to and asks nothing and wants nothing from any party, faction, clique or aspiring politician, has brought fofward General Grant as the man best adapted to meet the wants of the country and the interests of the people as our next them he will need more force and treasure than he can possibly spare for the purpose. It is apparent that with the toss of the support of the church party the French will never succeed in procuring that unanimous vote-in favor of Prince Maximilian which he demands ere he will assiiine the throne of the proposed empire: region, and show the value which the rebels place upon Knoxville, which they declare must be taken at atl hazards, The United States steamship Arago brings us ews from Charleston to the 30th ultimo. On Christmas night our forces shelied the city, and did considerable damage in one quarter, where an extensive conflagration broke out, as we before prblished. Our correspondent givea a detailed account of tho affair as faras was known in Gen. Gillmore's quarters. It is now apparently ascer- tained that our shells have béen for @ long time doing very serious mischief, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary !n the rebel journals. The steamship Evening Star, from New Orleans onthe 27th, arrived here last night with somo in- tevosting news of Gen. Banks’ department, witich we give in our columns to-day. EUROPEAN NEWS. We have two days later intelligence from Tu- + rope, received by the City of Baltimore, which ar rived off Cape Race at one o'clook yesterday morning. The news is important. The ship Living Age, bound from Akyah for London, bad been captured by the rebel cruiser Tuscaloosa, and released on giving bonds. The London Times intimates that Maximilian will not accept the Mexican crown, and that Na- poleon must seek anoiber candidate for imperial honors, From Indla there fs news that the revolt has easumed alarming proportions, and that the Brit- (sh troopa buve lost heavily. Korauth turns op again at the Lead of a revolu- tionary movement in Hungary. Heenan and King have bees put onder bonds to enswer for a breach of the peace. At Liverpoo! cotton, provisions and breadstuffs wore dull, with a decided downward tendency in Prices, MIQCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our telegraphic despatches report a heavy fall of anow anda cold snap of unexampled severity hroughout the North and West during the past @aree days. The raifroads in every direction were blocked up, cattle and hoge frozen dead in the cars, travel stopped and telegraphic communica+ ¢ion interrupted for a time. The new Police Commissioners appointed by Goveraor Seymour waited upon the incumbents in office yesterday and presented their credentials. ‘The old Board, however, do not intend to vacate their quarters without a + ow of resistance. They claim that the Governor has no power to remove them without @ trial, which they allege they never bad, and have decided to resort to the courts to decide the case, Marshal Murray has been indefatigable at work for the past few days investigating am important cane, wherein @ citizen of New York, who, for wome time, has managed to elude the vigilance of the authorities, is charged with having entered into @ regular contract with tho Secretary of the rebel States to furnish him plates for the issuance of rebel money. The party in question is now under arrest, and all his machinery has heen v.),. e4; but Marshal Morray enye he is not at liber just yet to make the facts public, This much, however, the Marshal states: that “the party ar- rested has had a money making machine in opera- Gon for some time whioh can do anything but talk.’ The whole operation and important im- conggcted therewith will be | SEC amteat. ‘ for the year 1668 terminated after holding two sessions— t ~“ + eclf one of the very first soldiers of the age; that these rare abilities as a soldier indicate the very man we want to finish the rebellion and to re-establish the Union. from the fact that he has never grovelled in the dirt of party politics, that he has a stropg addi- President, and as the man who can surely be elected by the people, regardless of the cor- rupt machinery of any existing political party. We show that General Grant bas proved him- Now that all the conatry is overran with daring bands of gnerillas, that on al) sides the French are hemmed in-and dare not attack thoee-who. press them so closely, the Austrian Prince will see that it were a lack of dignity ia him to stand any longer before the world in the light he does at present, and we shall doubtless soon hear thet he has given up all thought of the brilliaat but dangerous position which Napoleon TI. seemed a0 desirous of thrusting upon him. The presence of our troops upon the Rio Grande will no doubt defeat the plans of Na- poleon’as regards Texas-—in fact, he is meeting with nanght but disappointment in all which is nadertaken at present iu Mexico, and we shall be much surprised if he does not speedity find means to get out of this expedition, which has ao reduced his prestige both abroad and at home, ‘Tic whole affair is becoming « farce in the estimation of all save those poor soldiers who fall victims to the peatilential fevera of the country and the deadly animosity of the people. Surrounded by diffioulties at home, aud with méoaces of war nearer at hand, Napo- leon nist give up this Mexican expedition, unless fate has decreed his downfall and blind- ed him to the consequences of bis error. Tur Wan--Gesen. franv’s Prawn. —It is given out from Washington that General Grant has aubmitted to the goverament his plan for the prosecntion of the war with the resumption of active operations in the spring, and that this in being supported by the New York Hunan, plan comprehends sinmtltaneous “movement | upon the enemy's works” around the entire will surely be killed off; but the venom with | “! i ; . which the Hxxsin is assailed betrays the fears | clrcle of the rebellion. This ba bee! das | of Greeley that his theory may not save him, | plan, and yet the very plan which any military and that there really is some danger that our mind governed by the solid strategy of com- prograinme of an Independent popular election | 0" sense would adopt. It was the plan a so6 ry General Scott, it was the plan of General Me- nd an independent federal administration may ; * me snare pines : 7) Mellan; but it never appears to have veen the | As we go Westward the wrath of the aboli- of tinkering demonstrations, serving no ottiet.| tion facti hotter snd hotter at our a a ea ae ee pas tN dlgl elah te dghon, Bh | purpose than thet of weakening our forces | presumption in suggesting the policy of run- | ning Gen. Grant. regardless of the wishes of | the administration or the schemes of its party | . von chee m managers. Thus we find the Chicago Tribune | and adopt the rept + eae oe in as far ahead of its New York congener in its | reference to the general plan for the coming We show, too, tional claim upon the confidence of the people. And bow are we answered by the party preas? By any facta or arguments to show that our es- timates of General Grant's merits and qualif- cations are overdrawn? No. We sre an- swered a8 the hardened convict answers the sentence of his judge-—we ore answered in terms of shocking depravity and impotent abuse, The two sete of party newspapers which now are most extensively aiming to shape and con- trol the approaching Presideatial contest are the organs of the abolitioa radicals and the or- gans of the so-called copperheads or peace de mocracy. The latter class have little or nothing to say of General Graut as a Presidentia! can didate—for fear, perlaps, of giving offence to Jeff. Davis; but the abolition radicais are eorely perplexed how to mcei the difioulty of resisting General Graut as the mati of ple in opposition to the plotting poll Washington. The New York Trike tries the stale device of auggesting that General Grant, ' avy inmates except in pursuance of his medical | plan of the administration, except in the way | committed to their care. Fully one-third of the where they should have been strengthened. | tgin food enough to satisfy the natural cravings | We hope that President Lincola will seek for ' | tempt. Lven a piece of bread for supper was back of her neck. The Superintendent says that “he struck ber-with all his might;” but the spirit of the girl was up ond she would: not yield. Her tormentor therenpon wexed: exceedingly wroth, and, sending for a large stick, fairly clubbed the poor young wo- man until she gave in. He then. caused her to be thrown into the cell: aud fed upon the food of the solitary—bread and water. And here she remained from the 18th of July to the Sth of Augnst, when sbe was released by the in- spectors. Their testimony as to the-condition of the girl and the-bratality of ber treatment is so revolting that we give-it. here in e condensed form:—“Upon each shoulder,” they say, “the flesh was discolored, blue-black in spots full as large as the-palm of the hand, and there were perfectly evident traces of blows upon her back and shoulders. She seems tous # resolute girl, of more than: ordinary strength of purpose and character; there were unmistakable evi- dences also that her feeliugs were quick to re- spond to appeals of tenderness and good will, as no doubt they are quick in passion. On the Sth of August we again visited the institution. She was suffering the solitary, it being the seventh day of her incarceration; her shoulders werg, atill strongty discolored; the same indications of character were manifest. It appeared she had been visited by the matron daily with food, andeby the physician, whe seems by the rules not to be allowed to ‘hold communication with duty.’ She stated she had not been spoken to by any officer of the establishment about her misconduct, ber penitenee, her resolves or pur- poses, or about anything connected with her impzisonment; and to this extent her statements were not denied. We repeated these state- ments to the Superintendent, who replied by this question to the girl, ‘Have you ever sent for me!’ to which she answered, ‘No, sir,’ and to which he rejoined, ‘Well, then.’ She was finally released from the cell on the evening of the Sth day of August, the same day of our second visit. Speaking of the corporeal punish- ment, the Superintendent remarked, ‘it war the severest flogging I ever had todo.’ In the course of this investigation we were informed by this officer that in the boys’ department the punishments are sometimes inflicted with an. ordinary wagon whip by the Superintendent in person.’” Not content with the full exercise of these shameful barbar ities, the officers of the reform- atory are further guilty of starving the inmates male prisoners and many of the females com- plained that it was impossible for them to ob- of hunger. All their appeals and requests were invariably treated with indifference and con- frequently refused to some starving boy or girl; tinct the Efknann as th _ | Spring campaign: for in those magnificent com- pan neg i. a re wheh=sz) | binations and movements which resnited in the eclipues tho New York rowdy.. In fact, while | Cptre of Vicksburg, aud in those, too, whieh om" led in the terrible rout of Bragg’s army the Chicago Times represents the bordor ruffian | T° o's pence pn give y, hci was first actively em- | from Chattanooga, we have sufficient evidence sag , + Tribune, in its | Of the ability of General Grant to bring the ployed in Kansas, the Chicago Tribune, in its | whole war 10 speedy oo iutolerant-fanaticiom, is faily up to the standard of that Kansus abolition border ruffianism first | Jous Bers, Seen “Tae Suanows or Comme oomplotely developed in Captain John Brown, | Evests.”—The Lendon Post, the organ of aud now filly represented by the assassin Gen, | Lords Palmerston, Rasvell & Co., says that “the Jim Lane, 'Phis delectable abolition «tgan of | shadows of coming events are on Richmond;” Chicago anewers us, in reference to Gen. Grant, | that “the Coufederates are surrounded by dif, by # proposition of blackmail 40 purebase our | culliea;” that “ the Southern people lack faith silence; while another party parasite of the | in’ ultimate success ;” that this statement, same school gueeses thar we have already beon | though in opposition to all this aforesaid organ bought, at the low figure of thirty thousand | of Milord Palmerston bas heard to this day, dollars, to advocate the claims of Gen. Grant. | “cannot be doubted, as it comes from authentic As an'answor to all such silly conjectures, let it | sources.” Ths, the reader will perceive, Joba suffice that the New Yor« Hurann could buy up | Ball is coming round. Blind as a mole hereto- | any half dozen of these debased and unprinci- | fore, be is beginning to see; and though till pled party journals at their own cash valuation, | lately deaf as a post (the London Post, for in- We have no favors to ask, we have no ponal- | stavce), he is po og A hear. hy and testo roar, trom the party in, or the party ont | Gillmore have opened ears wn a ane of power. Mandged, fe tei ees +3 aré, | fle ses “the shadows of coming events,” and by ciguen gf wotcupt woliiiags gad wera | be hear he gyi @h gals Wen hou | and the only excuse that the master had togive | for his hardened conduct was that they had wt | that the law allawed them, | This fs bute mere glance at the gross im- | morality and brutality practised in an instisu- tion originally intended to reform the erring, | and, hy instilling into the minds of poor streg- | gling children the precepts of virtue and mo- | rality, eoavert them into honest and useful members of society. But how this praisewor- thy design has been perverted the few allusions | we have made to this report sufficiently show. What have the philosophers and Christians of the “Hnb of the Universe” to eay to atrocities like these?’ Let thom immediately put an end to such scandals, or forever be silent concerning their boasted philanthropy and civilization. For many years past the great political schools of Massachusetts have been engaged in disseminatiug the pernicious doctrines, which have at culminated in the war which fs now lating the oountry. There doubt most last deso- fs no what- ever that the rebellion bes beea (ye gataral i oS-pring of that bloody doctrined and unblush- ing ¥anatio'sm, Waving done all the mischief of witch tuey bie inthe North, they have latierly tur ir attention to the South, and we agetunsh miaiaken if their teacbinze there do n@ produce Hie same result. Under the auspieeswf the Seeneiaries of War and of the Treasury dhe Now Knoglaud abolitionists are continually Aending #ome of their pet teachers to North asd ®euth Carolina to in- struct the negroeaer “the freedinen,” aa they are called, but in reality to garry out tho same infamous and fanationl ideas that have nearly ruined the North, Massaehusetis herself has suffered great!y from therley sting ideas of these mon; and un!ess the government awakes to a unfortunate negroas of the Seuth are being treated far more barbaroudy thaw even the in- mates of the Boston reformaverics. The onty way tomeet the evil is by cummarily cleariag out these wretched abolitionists asd applyiag the labor of the slaves to thetr owe support and the advantage of the countty, » Tae Exenwa Journata on Taw Sourm-—The London journals have, with a few notable ex- ceptions, done all in their power to-atd Davis andhis iniquitous cause ever eincothe rebel- lion first Broke owt. At present theso neu- tral jounnela ere making strenuous efforts to belittle the results of our Jate victorics, and are endeavoring’ tw Boost up the oredit ‘of tie bankrupt, selfstpled’ Confederate government by pretending thet ampke measures have been taken to meet’ all the liabilities of the South. This is simply absurd The traitors cannot get their cotton out of the country, the blockade is 80 strict and effective; and, in spite of the loud outcries of the journals we refer to, the credit of the Davis government must go down. Wo imagine that the London journals woufd much like now to sell thelr rebel loan scrip They are no doubt doing all they can to keep up that commodity until they shall have got rid of thefr shares. They must accomplish this soon, else General Grant will render those shares worthless. Our ror Avrawsm Lincorn.—The St. Louis Daily Union has run up its-ensigm for the next Presidenoy, and it readi—“For President in 1864, Abraham Lincoln.” The editor’s reasons for this choice are that he approves the past and pre- sent policy of the administration—eubjugation, emancipation, confiscation, reatoration and all. But he especially supports: Abraham Lincoln because of “his ardent personal patriotism, his universally admitted integrity,” bis “unassum- ing patience and courage,” his “temperate use of the tremendous powers. entrusted to his hands, and: éhe plain, unpretending candor which he has maintained amidst all the fasci- nations of that power.” Now, ia order to shorten the argument, we wiil concede all these good qualities to Mr. Lincoln; but what do. they all amount to if he has proved his want of capacity to beiag this war forthe Union to a speedy and triumphant endings For this great. purpose we waat not onty an henest man, but a capable men—a-man who knows how, when and where to strike tho raost'telling and deci- sive blows upon the enemy, Such a maa we find in General Grant, and, therefore, in behalf of the people and the country, he fs our man for the next Presidency. Arrest of: Another Chesapeake Pirate. Sr. Jony, N. B,, Jan. 2, 1864, Linas Seely, another of the captors of the Chesapeake, was arrested-nere yesterday and todged in jail Boar 4 of Councilmen. Last 888310N OP THE YkaR (86f—a pEPCTY SHERIFF INTERRUPTS THE PROOKEDINGE—FAPK- WELL. ADDRESS OF MORGAN JoNEI—ADOURNMSEAT SINE DIE, RIV. Pursusnbto adjournment the Board of Counclimen met at olevea o'clock youterday morning, Morgan Joves, Esq., President, im the chair. ‘Without transacting aay business @ recess was taken until one.o’clock. ‘Tho Board resssembied at that Lour asd commexced to clear off the unfinished businons. Aboutitwo o'clock the proceedings were enlivened by the appearance of a deputy sheriff, who attempted to serve iajunctionson the members. It, had been granted by Jastice Barnard, of the Suprema Court, at the solicita. , tion of the Toird Avenue Ratiroad Company, and was to- tended to prevent action being (taken on the ordiaance authorizing Joho T, Mills,tbe owner of the Bull's Tead {ino of etages, from ranning cars over auy part of the track owned by the Third Avenue Ialiroad Company. ‘Tha Deputy Sherif! succeeded in serving several of the jojunctions, when a member moved that he be requested to withdraw, ‘Che motion was carried, and the Sergoant-at-Arms saw it ptiy executed, greatly to the am isement of every- y onceas the would be server of tuo injunzrions, ‘The regular order of business was then resumed and continued until about half past two o'clock, when, on motion 0° Mr. Reick, a recors.was taken for one hoar. ‘The members again rearsorablet shortly before four o'clock: and resumed the transaction of bu-iness, passing sor number of papors which bad beon previousiy on. At twenty minutes pest faur o'clock a comeitiee from tho other branch of the Goramen Counct! Aldermea Hall, Chipp and Fox, entered informed the President that their Brerd would adjourn, sine die, at tea minutes to five o'clock, and any communi: cations they had to make must bo sent in before that time. President Joxts thanked the committee, and through them the Board of Aldermen, and provaised te coumuni- cate with that Board inafew minttes, ‘Tho committce then retired, Mesars. Relee, Sauford | see bag! om cep aeet & commnitice to wait on ror, rm ‘would adfourn, sine die, at ton minutes to five o' Messra, o ly alin and Brandan were eppointed Rg Pe similar purpose. Both, committees returned, after the lapee of a few minuies, with the information that no further official interpoarse onan Place between the then exisliag ‘Mr. Grose then moved that the thaks of the Roard be prosented to Morgan Jones, Keq. courtesy with which Prenident of tae Board dnring the past year. ng adopt téons he was fotuated uo leas by good (eeliug than by @ Fabeenng ‘oMcer of the ‘and forbearance in their discharge The President had dari the Inet year meted equal jvetic® to ail, and io tho decision the varied and diffenlt questions } arose from ea We — — ek and promptnees, ir. Green) was. com the gouert! entifuction of {he Pourd.. Tt had’ been, his e toserve three yoars with Mr, Jones as a o—<. Board, during which peri’ he bad ab ways (ound him ready and willing to serve and assist his co racmbers, and by his invariab’e wrbanity aud courtesy had won the and esteem, of elt ho come contact with, pen hig retirement (rom the position of Councilman, which he fad so creditabiy filled st five years, ho cerried with him the best wishes of reavltions were anacimonaslr ado} “4 i SEs Site fede. od, and # copy, tog engrossed and framed, de presented to Mr. Jones. 7. JON sali be could arsure them that he folt Nefal for thie expreasio® of their mindy Feeling towal oe he ke mai en was the third tne 3 iad boen made the recipient of such an expression and friendship, the preset was the ouly occasion op whieb he folt himself at a lows for fitting words tn which to respon@, The asaociation which for five years bad bourd some Of them together wore abaut to So sereeid) aud thengh bis cennection with the city governmer would not cease, yet the old room which familar, the old faces bad ever sense of ity duty we shall soow hear that the |; ER. Violent Gale and Istense Cold in New York. Heavy Snow Storm Throughout the North and West. Railreads Blocked Up and Trade and Travel Stopped. | argo Wumbers of Cattle and Hogs Frocen. Passengers in Railread Care Frovtbitten. Unyereedentedly-GeaG@feather ab Chieage, St. iouis‘and iaqdianapolis, a) Go Now Year eventng « fuibous-qrind storar visttet this CRY, and blow witt:mnch tillence ¢bat people walk ing through the streeta were aimost lifted from the ground. Tha blow was Sy many dgrees*tho heavicat wo have bad io thts noighborinond for a long time, aud the cold was about’equal in intemeity. Buch hardy people ar exponed themrelves out of doore: paid dearly for thetr rashcess. Jaci¢ Frost cut getiiessty througly overcoats, muffors and every other congrivavee invental to keop him off. Fvery Biast from ont Roreas sent « femrfull euth reshtog through the mouths, ttonts and lungs, while (he oars wore frozen= of entirel~ Tho eff rts of suffering” Bumanity to counteract the combined effects of wind sae cold wore both amusing an® painfcl. People might ‘be seen rushing through the strectn at full speed, swinging theft arma, jumping, stamping, Balloring, and performing (he moat extraordinary eymuaatic exercises. “Tho very stones of (ie etreote esemed uneasy under the infiction, and flow around in every direction, accom- panied by blasts of dost and dirt, which increased very materially tho discomforts of antruated nature, In deers the wind whisked through the chimoies' {na mournful manner, and whistled shritly between the'cracks of doors and keyboles, bealdes rattling loose windows and shut- ters to no musical Cashion. Altogethor’ the storm was quite uncomfortabie, and continued with unabated fore all Friday night, uaboring in the second day of the new year with Increased fury, if possible. - All’ yoaterday the tomporature was exceedingly frigi@, and the wind blew very violentiy. At the late hour as whictr this was written there was no sensible decline t= the gale, and the cold was more intense, if emytaing. Notwithstanding this, however, no accidents to our local: habftations were reported. The shipping im our barber, as will be seon by our marine report, suffered to some ex- tent, and {t is apprehended that the disasteree¢ sea murs have been very numerous. Four Persons Frozen to Death im Phila- delphis. Pamaparraa, Jan. 2, 1866: ‘The weather hore ts bitter cold. Last night four persons were frozen to death Tho thermometer this morning stood at about cight de- Gre08 above zero. The Great Snew Storm at Ba@ale. FLOOD IN THE CRERKS, CANALS AND OLIPS—TWO HONDRZD FRET OF THE NIAGARA FALLS BAIL~ ROAD WASHED AWAY—BUGINESS SUSPZNDED—TEB WEATHERS INTRNSELY COLD—NO TELEGRAPHIC COM- MUNICASION WITH THE WRST, BTC. Burvaio, N. Y., Jan, 2, 1864 The boaviest snow storm known bi ince the year 1844 bas beon raging yesterday and to-day. . ‘The water in the creeks, canal and slips has been toam upparelieled height, causing much damage. ‘The Lake Shore and Erie Railroads are- completely blockaded by the snow. ‘The trains on the Centra! Railroad are all bebind time. ‘Two hundred feet of the Niagara Falls Ratfroad; near this city, la washed away, and no cars have left the depot hore since Thursday. Trains are, however, runaing from Black Rook to Suspension Bridge. Business in the city ts almost entirety enspended. ‘The worst of the storm: is.now over, although it fe stilt enowing this evening. ‘The woatber is totengely cold. The thermometer a8 tatdaight December;81 stood at forty-two degrees above wero; last evening It was five degrees beiow, and thin morning at oine o’clook it was nine below No malig nave been recetved to day, ‘Telegraphic communication with the West ts tater- rupted. ‘The Evans bridge, {3 the lower part of the city, hem ‘deen carried away, and tt is reported some lives were lost; but this cannot be traced to any reliable source. Terrible Snow Sterm at Oswege—Intense. ly Cold Weather—Damage to the Ship. ping. Osweao, N. ¥:, Jan. 2, 1866 A terrible snow storm has been raging-here for the leat twonty-four hours, The thormomoter, this evening, stands at eight degrees dolow zero, Four hundred feovof the East pier has been washed away. Several vessels have broken frora their moorings, aa@: the shipping-is badly damaged. Sevege Snow Storm at Indianapolts, Ing. RAILROAD TRAVEL GUSPRNDED—TBR THERMOMETER, TWANEY DEGREES BRLOW RRRO. Isvramaroums, Ind., Jaa. 2, 1964. A very severe snow storm commenced here oa Thurty day and lasted for two days. Railroad travel is almost entirely suspended. ‘Tho weathor ts intensely eold, The thermometer senm ad trrenty degrees below zero. Rebel Prisoners Frozen to Death. Invtararous, Ind., Jam, 1, 1966, Four rebel prisonera were frozen to death on. theoasse on Thursday night, while en rowe from Jefergogviliete. rare Lovers, Ky., Jen. 2, 1006. | ‘The Journal , of this city, has a statement thie mom ing respecting the story of the freezing to deathof five rebel prisoners at Jeffersonville. It says that thestery is entirely incorrect, that the prisoners are well care for, and that neither death nor suffering, has ccourred among them. Dreadfally Cold Weather as. TWENTY-EIGHT AND.A HAL DEGREWD THE RAILROADS BLOCERD UP WITH @NOW, Carcaco, Iil., Jan. 2, 1866. The weather here is most intensely cold, At ntse o’clock this morning the thermometer was at twenty-eight and a half degrees below zero. No trains left for the East or West last night, and atae. have arrived to-day. 5 All the roads are completely Dlocked up with snow. The Weather at St. Louts. ‘TAR MERCURY TWENTY-FOUR DRORESS BELOW ZERO—. GER RIVER FROZEN OVRB, BETO. St. Lov, Mo., Jen. 2, 2964, Very Httle busjueas was transacted here to-day on ae- count of the severity of the weather, Since the snow stom on Thursday it has bes ia tonsoly cold, the mercury having fallen to twenty-four degrees below zoro—a thing unparalleled in this region. All tho ratiroads leading out af this city are blocked ep with snow, No train tinve arrived or departed for two days ‘The river tx completely frozen over, amd teams and commenced croesing on the ics this morning, and have kept it up all the afternoon and. evening. A large aumber of cattle and Boge have frozen to death, On @o weather-boond trains north of the Missouri Ra- road quite e number ef frost bitten casea are reported by the newspopees, #ome of them of a serious character. —_—, The Weather at Louisville. reauiting On Thi , at ten o'clock, the barometer ad rons © arene and deturday night, ab os Volock, 29 di “06 minutes, ‘The thermometer om ‘Toure econ wou SUA degre obee 20m Cling 4