The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1864, Page 4

@ 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDUN BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrios “. #. CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU STS. peeaeeeee NO. 7 Votume XXIX AOADENY OF MUSIC, Irving Place. —Ganway Orrra— Pager x BiBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. -Wiiwis Bircr-Law vou Laoces—Laisu Turom, WALLACK 8 THEATRE, Broadway.—Narat Excace mayts~O.o ENGLISB GENTLEMAN, Py seoaaen GARDEN, broadway.—Ticcrr or Leave an OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —Camrira’s Huspann. BEF BO! on’s Duar ERY THEATRE, Bowery—Mazrrra—Fri- BALLOON ASCENSION BOWERY THEATRE, Wost—MitiiseRs’ Houpay. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, Guns Bor, Linurerian Kiso. 80. orLxr Ais. afternoon aud E BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. Pac corran Sonos, Davces, Buactsaous, ke —UNcce ae Omane. ery. Gries BcRoaGiNs AMY’ Broadway —Fexvon Grayt, aii Bours, Ticket WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, Sit Broadway. —Ergrorian Boncs, Darces, &c,—RarLnoaD Execosion. 444 Broadway.—Batie: ‘aa Busysopr. my AMERICAN TREATRE. Taytow wis, BURLESQOF! B2O\9"AY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadway.—Gru- EQumstRias PERFORMANCES. Afternoon and & HOPS CHAPEL, 718 Broadwey.—Tat Siznzoscorricay on Mirnon or Tam UNtIvERse. BEW YORE*MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broad: Comostixs axp Lycroxs. ‘rom 9 4. M.tL10P. Mo HOOLEYS OPERA HOUSE, Brooktya.—! Fores, Oavcce, Bunt > mearorian QUES, &C New York, Friday, January 8, 1864. THE SITUATION {uteuse cold prevails in the quartera of the Potoe mac aruiy, rendering the sleeping arrangements of the men somewhat uncomfortable. The roads are in fine condition, and we are told that the con- fidence of the soldiers in General Meade is such that they are quite indifferent upon the point as to whether they shall go forth to battle at the Preseat moment, when the ground is white with snow andthe highways are inas good con- ditioa for the movements of artillery as they were @a far back as 1776, or whether they shall wait unti tue favoring airs of spring bear upon theit wings ‘‘the perfume of wild flow- evs, mingled with the aroma of de- horses and muies'’—a delicate mbiaation of odors which will doubtless put the night b'coming cereus altogether into the shade. It is all the same to the Army of the Potomac But it appears that while the Union us hopeful and cheerful, the rebels are spondingly despondent, and are deserting into General Meade’s lines by hundreds, It is said that the President's proclamation of amnesty is produciag a wonderful effect in General Lee's army, aad that whole brigades would come over to Meade’s lines if they had the opportunity. Some sharp work has been going on in Western Virgiva. Despatches from Cumberland Gap, dated day before yesterday, say thaton Sunday an overwhelming force of rebels, under Sam. Jones, made a descent upon a small body of our troops, stationed near Jonesville, Va., consisting of about two hundred and eighty men of an Iili- hois regiment, commanded by Major Beers, and eighteen men of Weill’s Ohio battery. A despe- rate resistance was made by our troops, con- tiauiog ‘vom seven in the morning to three in the afternoon, when the Union troops surrendered. The enemy numbered four thousand men. The Union forces were guarding a portion of ceuntry from which the army relied for the supply of forage « Barly has completely failed in his raid inia, as despatches of our corres- pondeat from Cumberland show. Petersburg, which the rebels had surrounded, is declared safe, the ga:r son there having maintained their posi- tion most gallantly. A cavalry skirmish occurred at Newtown on Wednesday evening, in which the rebels were driven off. They amounted, however, to only sixteen men, so that the affair was nota The rebel captain command- very important one. iag the squad was killed. CONGRESS. proceedings of Congress yesterday were of tterest. In the Senate the bill amending the Farolment act was taken ap, and all the propo- sitions of (he Military Committee were agreed to, except tie section abolishing the three hundred dollar commutation clause, which was passed over until to-day. The Honse bill extending the time for p Finaace Committee. Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, offered a resolution requesting the President to call out a million troops for ninety days, to be com- manded by Gen. Grant, to carry food and freedom to every captive in the rebel prisons. It was re- ferred to the Military Committee, and ordered to be printed, The Secretary of War was called upon to furnish all the papers in his department relating to the exchange of prisoners of war; also to furnish the names and grades of army officers at ‘Waskiagton who draw commutation for their fuel and quarters. In executive session about one thousand military appointments and promotions | were received from the President, all of which ‘were appropriately referred, and the Senate ad- journed. Jn the House of Representatives the Speaker announced the select committee on the proposed railroad between New York and Washington. It is composed of Messre. Brandegee, of Connecticut; Alley, of Massachusetts; Randall, of Pennsylvania; Farusworth, of Dlinois; Brooks, of New York; Gar- field, of Ohio; Webster, of Maryland; Voorhees, of Indiana, and Sloan, of Wisconsin. Bills for the Consolidation of the statutes of the United States, ‘and to exempt letters of the Soldiers’ Aid Society from postage, were appropriately referred. A resolution that any proposition from the rebel leaders at Richmond to negotiate for the restora- tion of order ought to be rejected without hesita- tion or delay was agreed to by a vote of ne against twenty-four. Two Propo*'tous regarding the status of the febels were introduced—one by Mr. Rogers, a Peace democrat of New Jersey, which was laid on and the other by Mr. Myers, of Penn- which was referred to the select Commit- on Reconstruction. An investigation by the java! Committee was ordered in regard to the ‘Ponatruction of marine engines generally ond those the war steamer Pensacola in particular. The Nava! Committee were instructed to inquire as to the expediency of establishing a navy yard and Pepot for iron-clade. The © A 4] Diplo- foatic Appropriation was passed, and the House adjourned till Monday. THE LEGISLATURE. But little business was transacted in our State FPesidatore yesterday. [a the Senate the bill no- 1g bounties to soldiers was referred to the | NEW YORK ABRALD) MEDAY, JANUARY 6, 1964 ticed on the prevfons day, legalizing the payment of bounties by county supervisors, and repealing the law of last aeasion prohibiting the @aame, was introduced. Among the other bills introduced was one providing for the reorganization of the First division of the National Guard Notices were given of bills for the proposed amendment to the constitution to enable solditrs to rote. rele- tive to the piers and alips of this city, for the in» corporation of the Cayuga and Ontario Ship Cana! Company, for a law to enable husbaad aad wife to testify for and against each other, providing for certain changes ia our Corporation departments, and for punishment of the misuses of public moneys. In the Assembly bills were introduced for the soldiers’ voliag amendment to the constitution, to amend the acts relative to State prisons, and for other purposes. Billa were noticed for tho regulation of our street railroads, for a Board of Commissioners to fix the jurisdiction of New York and Westchester counties, to amend tho Exciae law, to require bank officera to stamp counterfeit notes, to regulate the charges of our city pawn- brokers, in relation to the New Haven Railroad, and to amend the code of procedure. Tho Judici- ary Committee were instructed to report a bill to legalize the payment of bounties by Boards of Supervisors. The resolutions ia favor of the amendment to the constitution to enable soldiers to vote were adopted unanimously. The apaual report of the Banking Department Superiatendent was laid before the House ° MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship City of Baltimore arrived at New York yesterday afternoon, with oar European files, dated to the 23d of December. The journals contain an interesting aceount of the summons aad examination in an Eaglish law court of Heenan, King, Tom Sayers and a hoat of the celebrities of the prize ring, for their participation in the late prize fight. The obsequies of Archbishop Hughes took place at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday, and were of a most imposing character. A solema requiem mass was offered up, aad aa eloquent panegyric was--pronounced by the Right Rev. John Mc- Closkey, Bishop of Albany. Tho remains were interred ia one of the vaults of the cathedral. A full report of the proceedings will bo found in another part of this paper. Aman named Palmer, secretary to Collector Barney, was arrested yesterday by Marshal Mur- rayon a charge of being coanected with other parties engaged in sending contraband goods South. The detectives broke open the safe of a merchant in this city named Benjamin, suspected of complicity with Palmer, and found several checks for amounts varying from oue huadred and fifty totwo hundred and fifty dollars, payable to Palmer. They also found memoraada from Palmer requesting the loan of money. It appears that Benjamin waa in the habit of shipping the goods in another man's name, he going bondsman him- self. Palmer worked with him, and another Cua- tom House emploge became the second bondsman The scheme has been carried on quite extensively for some time, and more of the facts will be known in a day or two. There are several important caacs at the suit of underwriters ponding before the federat courts against masters of vessels for attempted frands on insarauce companies. The last party arrested is Wm. McDouga’, master of the British schooner Jessie, the complainants being the Sun, the Ori- ental, the Atiantic and New York Mutual insurance companies and the Great Western Marine Insurance Company. It is alleged that McDougal wrecked the schooner at Mayagaana Island, on a voyage f.om Rio Grande to New York, sold the cargo at Tnagus, and has not since accounted for the pro- ceeds. He was traced to St. John, N. B., and elsewhere, aad at last turaed ap in Boston, Maas., whence he waz brought on to New York and de- livered into the custody of Marsha! Murray, who holds him in $3,000 bail to answer the charge. Messrs. Upton and Scudder. the counsel of the underwriters in this and the other cases, have in the course of prosecution the captain of the ship Senator, on a charge of scuttling that vessel when freighted with food from New York for the poor of Ireland. The underwriters have confede- rated together witha determination to suppress these crimes at sea A snow storm set in last night about nine o'clock, and for some time there was quite a heavy fall of the fleecy particlea. The indications at alate hour were that we would have quilea good fail, and some sleighing. The stock market which opened yesterday morning com- paratively steady, broke down in the afternoon, aad tua prices of railway suares fsil off:om ono to four por cont Gold was {n more demand yesterday, aa4 the premtm ranged bigher, the market closing firm at 15i% a 1%, Governmeat stocks were aot affected. The five twoutias are still held at L01%,. There is now (93s thao forty-five miliious of this loaa ieft, aud there ie @ report that a combination has baeu (ormed with ae objact of tak.og the balance. ‘Though the amouat of business reported ia commercia circles yesterday was sma'i, (hore waa a very firm feoling on the part of holders of foreign and dowestic merchan dise, aud very full rates wore domacded (or all articles The rise in gold stitulated a more active inquiry Cor some commodit'es; but trade was tinfered by the extreme views of holders, At the Produce Exobangs breadstulls were rather firmer; but the advance waa alight. Pro visions were firm, with o fair business. Groceries were quiet, Cotton was a sade easier. Petroloum waa a shade easier, with rather more doiag Preighta wore quiet. Important from W —The Tree Way to Suppress the Robellion. Io our telegraphic reports from Washington, published to-day, will Be found a fact of public interest. Six months ago we suggested to the President the aecessity of calling out three hundred thousand volunteers for a limitod period, to hurl the force of the aation upon the rebellion and to crush it out of existence Three months afterwards we repeated the same advice; but nothing has been done to rendor it effective. Afterwards we urged the President to call out a sufficient volunteer force speoial!y to take Richmond and release our suffering | soldiers confined there. Now we see that Senator Howe has struck the right key. [na resolution presented to the Senate he calls upon the President to bring | into the field one million of volunteers for ninety days, to carry food and freedom to every captive in the rebel prisous througuout the land, and to put this fresh force under the command of the gallant Grant. This is the ring of the true metal. Let Congress and the President adopt such a plan, and before the Fourth of July the rebel confederacy will be split asunder and virtually extinguished. Senator Howe, how ever, we think, goes even further than is ne- cessary. With half the number of volunteers he proposes to raise our soldiers could be re leased and the rebellion might be obliterated and peace restored. The duty of the President, thea, is imme- diately to call for five hundred thousand volun- teers for three months, leaving our different armies just as they now stand. With General Grant at the head of such a force, the rebels would bedriven from the few stronglolds left to them, and nothing but unconditional submission or total destruction gquld arrait them. We have their own confessions a8 to their desperate con- dition. If their loan be not taken by nozt April or May; if the {aipoverishod factors of theit blighted dominions refuse to feed their armies without cals, and if their sweeping con soript bill fails to paas the rebel Congress, they must go to the wall. This, then, is the time to deal the final and concluding blow. With half a million of fresh men in tho Geld, moving from Fortress Monroe and other points direct upon the rebel capital, and, ia conjunc- tion with our other armies, atriking the enemy at every vital polat, Jeff. Davis and his motley crew would s00u be driven into the Gulf of Mexico, aad peace would become the normal condition of the nation What a grand apecta- cle would this be for Europe! A aation, with nearly 4 million of men in arms, bringing out another half a million for a special and tri- umphant duty on a service of ninety days! The idea is aa good aa it is suggestive Let it be adopted by all means. Archbishop Hughes—The Power of the Ohurcch. Yoasterday the funeral rites were solemnized over the remains of Archbishop Hughes, whica were then deposited in ao vault in St. Patrick's Cathedral. On the previous day, while his body lay in state in the cathedral, over a hundred thousand persons visited it, moved by the fervor of those who visit a pil- grim shrine, and on the day of the funeral it waa visited by an equally great number, while an*immens? concourse witaessed the solemn and imposing funeral ceremonies. Lo such honor, and amid (he earnest sorrow of such @ multitude, ends the career of the maa who for maay years has been identified bere with the church whoae doctrine be held. He has stood a3 the champion of that church and as the champion of its people, by whom he was 80 greatly admired. None but a man thoroughly in earnest, ofcaingle purpose, and pure life, caa entirely win the hearts of simple peopie; and ia the fact that Archbishop Hughes was loved by a simple-minded, religious and intensely earnest race with a sentiment scarcely short of idolatry, wo find the evidence that he Poaseased in some degree the same qualities that have made churchmea great in every age. He made the church that he represented felt in the government of this State, and succeeded against demagogism by a broad appeal to the principles upon which our freedom rests. Through a public life in which he came ia con- tact with many men he won the respect of all Opponents, save those too little to respect evea themselves. Just before the Mexicaa war Presideat Polk desired to send Archbishop Hughes, as an infvential ecclesiastic, on a mission to Mexico, and early in the present war he was induced to go to Europe to correct mistepre- sentations of ua current there—circumstauces that indicate how highly be was esteemed by those eatrusted with the welfare of the country. His words to the rioters in the past summer have been criticised harshly and without respect to the weakness ofage. There can be no ques- tion that the unqualified and distinct condem- nations of the riot that were pronounced from every Catholic pulpit did much to quell the riotous spirit; and there can be just as little question that those condemnations originated with Archbishop Hughes. And, whatever his words to the rioters may have been, he managed to give all who heard him the idea that he was opposed to tha riots; and that was all that was necessary. But, however we may regerd Archbishop Hughes’ abilities, be at- tained bia honor and influeace through the church. His power over the Catholic portion of our community waa held in virtue of his position as archbishop, and it was the body of the archbishop, the bonored prelate, that the thousands thronged to see. In this immense crowd, eager to catch a last glimpse of the remains, wo may seo whata power tuo church holds with the people, es- pecially whea governed by a man of the marked character and ability of Archbishop Hughes. Rightly constituted and cightly ruled, the power‘of the church for good or evil in the State is almost without Limit, as the history of the church shows; but there must be the church that men respeot, and the able oan also. Otb- erwise, whea there is marely the church, or when it ia in tho bands of (waddlers, or when such unfortunate corruptions appear ia it as once gave rise in this couatry to the discussion wheather or aot a church could exist without a bishop. it dwiadies, aad is lost as a power; white, whoa it is presided over by a man of iatellect—a man whosa opiaions upon great questions aro regarded a« weighty ia the coua- sels of the nation—ils importance is seen and felt in every circumstance tbat affects it, and caanot ba overlooked by any one who looks with iis eyes opea Tar Lissmry or a Cre wm Case oF a Rior.—A singular decision bas just beea ren- dered by Judge Barber, of the Superior Court. An action was brought against the Mayor aad Corporation of Now York by a maa of the name of Davidson, to recover the value of certaia property belongiag to him, amonnt- ing in the aggregate to one hundred aud twen- ty-sevem dollars, which was destroyed in the July riots. His right to recovery was based upon the act of the Legislature, passed in 1855, providing for compensation to parties losing property under auch circumatances. The Court held that the act was unconstitutional, and directed judgment to be entered for the de- fendants. The ground on which this extraor- dioary decision is based is (hat the act is penal ia ite character, because it compels the citizens of a city or the taxpayers of « county, as the caae may be, to pay for such property as has been destroyed or injured by a mob, even thongh such citizens or taxpayers might not be particepa criminis, or in any way connected therewith. This is the gist of tho judgment, which wo do oot think it necessary to give at length. We need hardiy say that it is at va- tiance with the common law and common sense, that it is opposed to the dicta of the highest legal authorities, and i contrary to the fundamental prinoiple on which society is based. Man, in renouncing his natural inde- pendence aad accepting the restraints of civil- ized life, only does a0 in exchange for the pro- tection which an organized community under- takes to afford him [f his persona! safety can be endangered and his property destroyed without his being able to obtain compensation for the wrong, it is clear that society faila in its part of the contract. No constitution that has ever yet been framed can legalize this fail- ure, which is a violation of a natural Law or right anterior to all constitutions Tae Questioy SetrLe0.—The House of Repre- sentatives at Washing!on having resolved, by a vote of eightyeight to twonty-four, “that any Proposition or negotiation with the rebels ought to be rejected without hesitation or de- Jay,” we suggest to the Hon. Ben Wood the propriety and expodioncy of hanging up his pence Addle for a month er two. Mr Arnond, momber of Congress frome Cut- ois, took the frouble to renominate Prealdost Lincoln, in the course of a buncombe abolition apecch delivered in Gongress on Wednesday. The Republican State Convention of New Hampshire did the same thiag, on tho samo day, in the form of @ complimentary resolution. Wo are afraid that this resolution was intended to be aatirical, At any rate, it ia ao worded aa to have precisely that effect. When we read of Mr. Lincoln’s “unequalled sagacity and stateamanship,” or that he “has received and merited the abiding confideace of the people to an extent never awarded to any other public man since Washington,” it is simply Impossible to suppress a smile. La strong contrast with the buncombe of Mr. Arnold and the bombast of this resolution is the truth, aa stated by our impartial Albany correspondent, who declares that Mr. Lincoln is openly denounced by pro- minent members of his own party, and that at leaat one-half of the republicans cepresented at tho State capital will cordially support Geae- cal Grant. ‘ In point of fact, ax most of our readers know, sach silly demonstrations as thoae of Mr. Arnold and. the New Hampabice delegates mean cothiag and amount to pothiag. They are like the nomiaation of General McClellan by a party of old fogiea at Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago. The people have nothing to do witb them and know nothing about them. They are the little, artful dodges of schoming pol:- ticians, who are willing to do the servile to the present Presideat “that thrift may follow fawn- ing.” - When the regular Republican Nominat- ing Convention comes to be held, it will then be seea how much strength Mr. Lincola bas, or has not, among the wirepullers of his party; aad we are of the opinion that he would be very disagreeably disappointed if the result wore foretold to him. But it is our hope that neither this oor any other political conventioa will be held this yoar. We have every reason to know that the vast majority of the loyal peo- ple join usin this hope. The partisanship, the excitement, the political animosities, the bitter contests, the bad feeling, the billinsgate and the possible bloodshed of a Presidential campaign had beiter be avoided at o crisis like this. We have the rebellion neariy scbdued. It may make one more grand struggte for Life—for such men as the rebel leaders are not to be beaten easily; but it can and will be overcome before next Fourth of July if the loyal people oniy stand shoulder to shoulder, and do not weaken themselves and strengthea the enemy by inter aal dissensions and divisions. But at the very time when this unanimity is most necesaary the Presidential campaign will come to destroy it. Thus think and thus reason the loyal people of the North. We propose to out this Gordian knot of con- tradictory circumstances by uaanimousty elect ing General "Gravt. Since we must give up either the rivalries of a Presidential canvass or the chance of ending the rebellion next spring, we propose to give up the canvaas, and to elect General Grant without opposition. [f any sen- sible, patriotic man has any objection to this pian we should like te hear it. We have yotto learn that it is opposed by a single person who can give aa unselfish reason for his oppesition. If we are asked why General Grant is the only candidate we present to the people, we answer that General Grant fs the only prominent mao who can be unanimousiy elected. President Lincoln, aod Secretary Chase, and General McCiellan, bave so many and such bittac ene- mies, in the one faction or tha other, that to insist upoa the unanimous election of either of them would be laughed at aa lunacy or ridi- cuied aaa broad joke. Generat Geant, on the other band, has no enethies except among the cebets, and Is respected evea there. If we are asked how we happened to hit upoa Grant, we anawer that bis briiliant and unequalled ser vices to the country, the affectionate esteem in which he is beld by the masses of the people, and the remarkable anion of great military ge- nius aad comprehensive statesmanship which we fad exhibited in every act of bis public carzer, havo pointed him out to us as the maa for ibe crisis. General Grant is the candidate of Pro- videace and of tho people We have sot cre- ated bis popularity; we have oaly expressed it. If we are asked what advantages will be gainet by his unanimous election. we answer tha? the advantages are self-evident. The union of the loyal people. the auppreasion of the rebellion the restoration of the nation, the sati«factory aettlemoat of all tue debts due us from foreign Powers —these are advaatages worthy of any sacrifice, and they may be secured by tha unaal- mous election of Grant. But, after ali, what are the sacrifices required” How alight, bow trifling, how unimportant they appear in comparison with the triumph they will obtain. Our forefathers fought for seven years, renounced all their pleasires and al! other business. eaduced the rigors of winter aod the beats of summer, marched with bare, bloody feet over the snow aad ice, and contended against an enemy superior in numbers, disci- pline and arms, in order to found thia free gov- ernment, which we are now called upon to pre- serve. The deluded people of the South. be- teayed by ambitious demagogues, have suffered all the hardships of war and famine in their vain effort to destroy the nation which their fathers died to establish. The people of the North have given their nearest and dearest rela- tives and friends, and have deprived themselves ofthe luxuries—in many cases the aecessarie:— of life, for the purpose of restoring the Unioa aod saving the country from ruin. Now, to complete this work, we ask the men who have stayed at home and enjoyed the benefits of the bravery of others to throw aside their politics and their political ambitions, and vote unani- mously for the next President. Is this asking too much? Can any voter compare this sacri- fice to those made by the patriots of 1776 or the gallant soldiers of this war? Can any voter compare it, without a blush, to the sacrifices made by tho rebels themselves in their efforts to realize the fevered dream of a separate con- federacy® To these questions there can be but one reply. Whore, then, is the politician, in or out of the White House, who will oppose Grant's unanimous election, and thas deprive the world of the sublime spectacle of a great people, welded together by a patriotic purpose, forgetting their political affinities and differ- ences, and uniting to crush domestic treason and appal their European enemies by electing their greatest soldier to the bighest offlos in the land’ If there be auch a politician among us we want to know his name, so that wo may put him in the public piltory of history Gonra to Tux Doaa.—The rebel Becrotary of the Treasury, Memminger, oaye that unl proponsd loam of # thousand milligan bo ™ @ho Preatd OampaigzeThe Unant: | tax Apdf 7 din; selon Brin." ous Bloction of Gract: ale ed mart. ie Bon | ern confedoracy will tumble te piccea; the rebel Secretary of War, Seddon, says tbat un- losa the farmers within tho realms of Jeff, Davia aio made to disgorge their provisions their blessed confederacy will die of starvation; the rebel Seastor Wigfall says that ualess they eo- force the conacriptioa of every white man they can lay hold of capable of bearing arms their bard up confederacy will surely go to the dogs. Now, if the impoverished two or three mil- lions of white people who atill remain tributary to Davis have been despoiled of all their casa and credit, how caa they answer to this requi- sition fora thousand millions of dollars’—if they are starving themsetvea, how can they fur- aish provisions to the rebel army? and if they are all to be conscripted, what is to become of their crops, their factories, their women aad children and their niggers? The simple truth ia that, in money, subsisteace and soldiers, the rebellion baa used itself up, and nothing can gave it. Janmary any Mav.—At St. Louie heavy teams are crossing over the frozen Mississippi, aad the papers are Glled with accounts of the auf- ferings of travellers, soldiers aad the unfortunate poor in all that region from the terrible cold. On the other hand, at St. Augustine, Florida, | “the peach treea are in blossom, gardea flowers are in full bloom, and bouquets grace the tables of our officers” on duty in that delight- ful climate. Yet St. Auguatiag, with all its na- tural advantages, and althoegh it is one of the very oldest white settiements in all the country, is but @ sleepy hamlet. But thia thiag will surely be looked into by “the Yankees” after the war, and thea St. Augustine, in becoming the paradise of Northern invalids during tho winter, will soon be transformed into a beaati- ful and proaperous city, with the regeneration of all the South. These things ace among the signs of the tim Sen Barpaa ov MoCnenian —Generai McCtellan bas been repeatedly pronounced dead and done for by Massa Greeley; but stil: old White Hat appears to be aftaid that the dead may rise again. In yesterday's Trisune, for instance, we have a atrpid rigmarole oa General McCiellan, in which be is charged witl attempting to “bully the administration.” Thia is certainty ooot for Greeley, who has beea “bullying” Honest Old Abe, as a reguiar business, since the day of his inauguication Tax Revei Navy.—The personnel of the tebel navy consista of three buadred and eight7- three commissioned officers, one buudred and oinety-one petty officers, and cight hundred aad seventy-aevea seamen, which is very auch bike Falstaff with his gallon of sack to a penny worta of bread. Such are the beauties of the Davis confederacy ‘ Sam Joves ny Wane Srrewr —Goid weat up a little in Wall street yesterday, in consequence of the news of the capture of a detachment of seme two or three bundred Union troops in West Virginia by the rebel General Sam Jones. Terrible fellow, that Sam Jones! IMPORTANT ARREST YESFERDAY, Oupidity Among Pabtic OfictalmBac- ther Developments {m the Blockade Business—Cotlector .Barucy'a Private Secretary Sent to Fort Lafayette=—The Modus Operandi of Sending Goods South, S&e., &e. United States Marsha; Murray made (he arrest yoator- day afternoon of Aibort M. Palmer, private secretary to Mr Hiram Barney, Coilector of tha Port of Now York Tho arrost was made at tho Custom House, by doloctive Amith aad deputy Deiro, of the Marshal's office, and tho prisoner waa at once transforred to Fort Tafayetio oo tho order of Major General Dix. Palmer is charged wits complicity with partion cagagot in seadiag goods iat tho confedoracy by tho way of Naa fay and Bermuda, It 1a tho rogulatiow (hat shippers of g0d8 10 the ports abovo named sball entor into bonds with (ho Collector that aone of the goods so shipped siali Gad theic way into tho confotoracy It will be romombered that Louis Benjamin was arrested several days since, charged with shipping goods to Naasan whic wore intended for the South, he haying entered into bonds to the covteary notwithstanding. Ta- vestigation into Ins adairs, after be was incarcerated in Dort Lafayatic, showed that parties bigh in the confidence of the Collector must have boon ongagod with him, as tho mattor could not have Bo long and 99 By fully been carried on without aid from gome auch source All hia papers ware seized, togethor with bid office Bafs, and placed ia the custody of tho Mursbal, On Tuesday this safe waa opened and auch oyidence found as Caused 5u)- picwn to rest very strongly Paimor. The cher ic book of Bepjamio gare unmistakable evidence of the natyro of {ho transactions between the partion, aad notes were found (hat had passed from Palmer to Beajamio, writioa on £00 Officusl paper of the Custom Mouss, aad headed, “Dear Benjamin.” ‘The checks drawn in favor of Vaimer ranged from $150 to $200 aad 8250 gach, Giferoutiy dated, aad embracing @ period of several months Tpon (ae discovery of tae ovidooce against Primor, Marsha Murray bad a consvitation with Naval Oiticor Dennison, and sibsequeatly woot with chit official to tae heady..actors of hiatoe Genoral Diz, where the whole mat tor was d.scussed aud (ho ovidence in tho cage Lad befora the Goneras Tue toatimony was coasidered ampiy s\/if- coat lo justify the immediate arrest of Palmor, aad Officers wore dotailed with orders from Genoral Dis to take him from the Custom Mouse to Fort Lafayette Tho orde: waa obeyed to cha letter, aad at five o'clock the accused was oa the road to his new botel. Several of the checks in Benjamin's book are deawn ia favor of Mr. Smatiey, who was arrested a few days since, ‘but who was too uawell to teavo bis house, and is ow under surveiliance of tho Marshal's officers. Sma'ley has made a statement to tho Navai Officer, giving, it is uauer- stood, an oatire history of the case Palmor's complicity ia the matter is said to bave beea aa follows: — Benjamia shipped goods to Nassau in the aame of @notber party, and thoa placed his own oame poo tho bond as ono of the sureties that the goods auould aot go South. As tho law roquired two bondsmen to be named, ho loft Palmor to provide the other, which he did in tho person of Smatiey, who waa one of the clerks of tho office. Palmer, boing in a position to accept or raject tho bondsmoa named, had tho affair al! to bis own way of thinking, aod was thus enabled to pursue aay line of polloy which be might determine upoa. ‘Tho accused ia represented as boing a relative 0° Col. lector Barney and Secretary of tho Union Central Com mittee, als0 to bave had almost unlimited sway at tho Custom House ia the matter of appointments and the other privileges of the office. It is said (hat Smaliey's statement wil! lead to oLher important discloaurer at the Custom House, the atairs of whioh are boing rigidly investigated Important to Ship Captains, Tus United States steamer Vicksburg (guardship) now liga off Staploton, Staten Ialsad. Ammorican stoamors outward bownd on an ebb tide will round to aad tay bond to tide, in order to facilitate boarding. Steamers of other ations aud sailing veaneis of al! ations will be spoken only D. L. BRAINE, Liout. Commanding eee nN OS Barvot Acwext,—Edwia Booth bas besa playing Hamist, Richelieu and tho Merchact of Vonice to fay audiences at this house Ho ia oMoisatly supported ry Mr and Mrs. &. B, Couway, but of (ho rest of ther 5m. prog os cannot say much. To-night he plays Otho o ———— Mas Maarao of Tam Ganmane it Fav0R OF, «rag Soma Wa Horm MovaunNT <A mage Moding ‘wii be bold tornigh t ab tho Cooper Thatitute by tho GFyrmana of this city for tho moral support Of tbo Ponioawig Holstein movomont ja Germany Tho mooting, has heen gotion up by Cho moss influontial Gormans of 414 oty —bank ore aoe Gham, Ho, nad WIL We NAATORG? a by vory able npoMkorn - WeWs FROM THE STATE GoPiTal.. (eo Excitemomt @t the State Capital gi bated—The Homse ComsriticeamPaa aay? Of tho Resolution Amending tnd Oonst,‘tation to Permft soidiera to Voteet te Police Commissioners Bilin Who are Compose the New Poites Board—Rep't of the Bank Saperta- tendent= Tne State and National Ban.m- ing Bystome—Rkte Attem pis of Seoretney Chase t Compe @n Abandonment or th ate Ban&s Condemned, dc. Acasxy, Jaa. 7, 1854 ‘Tho excitement coancet'ed with thy organization of tha Logiaiature baagdied out, a¥d the crowd haa disappeared, ‘Tbe organization of the Sonat,’ 1 compicted. Notwiog baw been done by the Speaker of to Hlouse yot in refercace to (ho commitgeos. Mr. Alvord 45 now engaged aotthing tbe applications for pages, messen,%ers and doorkeopers, and intends to settle those ma.\ters abd annowuce tbo appointments &0 tho Assembly “morrow monaing. Tho House wii! than adjourn until Mom.\ay vight, for Ube purpose of giviog the Speaker aa oppor Sunity 0 make up the committees. ‘They will, undor tha’ programma, be annovaced to tho Houn oa Tuesday noxt, Tho Seoate mot this nayrning, and adjourDie.wituont transacting any Business. ‘The order of businoas of poti- tioas, notices and introduationof buis and a was gone through with ip tho Assemb!; Tho resolutions that amending the conatitution, allowing Adldiers in tho stm w vote, wore taken up in the Asscrebly avd Lao yaghy tad unanimous vole. They now bave to pws the Senate, wt arrangements will be made and tho Uogibaticon ‘will be taken to hold & election time durieg the monto of February to submit the aumamdments to ther poopie, This carly action is necessary én ordor that i” tho. ‘ar ‘ove of this atuendment @ law bond be evacted providing how that section of the gonat! 80 amended shall be carried into operation before tho . igiature adjourns @ 15 Considerable gossip in regatd to tae namon that will be inserted in the aew Poice-Commviasiondra | Dill, to compose the Police Board. A ousber of names fave been canvassed, but no defuite comclasion arrived at aa yet, Out of the number Lao uamos of Wilson Smail and Samuel Jones on the democratic side, ana Mosars. Actoa aud Bergon on the republican, aro thy moat likely to be toserted, There aro many indice tions chat they will be tho mon named. The Baxk Superintendont sent in bis report to the Assombly thia morning. [t presenta many queations of interest at this time. Lio following items will show the change that bas been made ta regard (o the clasa oF aoourities deposited for banking purposes. At the clone of tho last fiscal year the accurities were Of the following class Add amOwnE:— $17,943,160 16, 707,840 Li i 5 Now Yorik State atocie Onitod States stock. Bonds and ‘i i a Since that period the State stocks aad bonds and mort: gAZ05 98 gecuTity havo decroared, and tho United States Blacks rapidly increased, an will be Geen by the fohowting tablo— Tocreasa in United States atocks $9,898,400 Decrease in Now York stocks.. 2,607,750 Decreaco in bonds and mortgages seve 2,000, Tho amount of notes of the Stato bani in Circulation is upwards of $47,000 lesa than one year ago. In regard to the suspension of specie payment by the vanks, the Bank Superintendent argues that it cemmot be expected that they will return to their normal condi- tioa unt! the vast requirements of the governmont Ala) have beea lessened so as to permit of the resumption of specie payment by tbe federal Troasury, and tae can Only be reasonably expected at the dormiva tion of tho civil war, He holds, bowovor, that the bavks are reileved from tho penaition incident te # refusa to redeem their circulation tp gold aud eiiver, By the retention of notes issued by nal waeh Bow which ave mado a legal tender, aad the ptatutes of tho Stato regulating proceedings in puch cagoa provide that (9 preserbed penalty shall attach wnen the pasty issuing bank notes shall fall to redeem (bem 12 the hewfal money of the United Btates. 5 ‘The report apeaks in igh torms of tho aational banking — | system, Wut looks with apprehension at the indications ss Washington of a design on the part of the Secretary of the Troasary and bis subordinate officers to foster op- pressive legislation by Congress towards Ube tustitutione of this Siata, with an apparent purpose of compelling fu abandonment of their present organizations and ay tion of the mational eysicm. This course is deprecated, and the repors takes tho ataot Chat im no Stave is tue pow systom lens demanded ¢han in this, owing to the stability of our banka, The roport dwells at coasiderable Jcagth on this subject, and pots out many objectionable foatures (hal most arite tn (ho formation of the national banks Along thom ia the multiplying of small banks all over the country, which, ia bis opinion, will serve to further t!loatrate the rising propertics of gold aud the sinking propertica of papor. ‘Tho ontire report is, in fact, onc of great interes, and will command general attention on account of its longtar troatmont of the national and State hauk controvorsy. Coart of A rr Oe ak 7, FROG, ‘The foliowng it the calendar of the Court of see ‘riday, Taunary 8:—Noa, 21, 28, 234%, 2h. Be, Be, Oe, for Friday 29%, BL and 3% ’ The Mossage of Govornor, Bradfor® ef Marylana Burreson, Jan. 7, 1806, Govornor Bradford's message was transmitted to the Logistature to-day, He says tho finances of the Biato aro in a prosperous condition, Tho gratifying re suit cf all (he Treasury Operationn is that withno now dobt contracted, with moro than one hundred thousand doles of the old debt oxtingnisbed, aud upwards of three hua dred and neventy-ono thousand doliars paid the gonorst government, there is a balance op hand of more than & million doHars, exclusive of cash, lo Ohe credit of the sinking fund. ' He recommends making @ pension for the soldiers of the State in the way of al tho families of volunteers or draficd mou, He recom: mcnds A (hovough revision of the militia law of the State, Roferring to the subject of the Constitutional convoution ho bays, in rofercnce to the question of emanci 1 believe to-day, an Phare dono for yoars, that if wohad long x0 provided for the gradcad emancipa- tion of tho lavas of tho State wo should vow bo as rogarda all tho national glomenis of public prosperity in advance of our prosont porition. The products of ovr State and 18 natural resources are ‘not auch a8 aro adapted Lo or can be developed by slave labor. Tam satisfied Urat Che%peopie of tho State, tm thel moments of calm and deliberate reflection, tong since came (9 the Bame conclusion. — When tho conapir ing caters at the South fifted — e@neir — handa against tho Union and poluted to siavory aw tho iuetitution apon which thair visionary » bie wae Lo rest, they atrock @ biow of {ts vory vitaia border Stale, under which it has continued to find which must joevitably rosult fn ite ultimate desirection, It becomes as, therefore, to whom the whole quoation rightfully belougs, to tako immediate moaauroa for its removal, which should be no longow eiayed tuan way be required by & propor re spect for thors jndostrial intereate with which the mstitution hat been ko long Ant Ko tatimately intor wovon, and @ bumane regard for bho slave bimaell, witch forbids oa to cast him, all uppreparcd for ao groaka changs, too auddenty vu his feeble resources. Tho Covornor reitert hia objections Lo tae manner in whick ae Chighwoal © 08 haa boen conducted in tue Siate, and to the military Interference with elections. Tae Government Loam PurLaomirms, Jan 7, 1864, Tuo sn dseriplon ageat reports tho sale of $2,280,660 five-twouties today Deliveries of bonds aro mado to Dacemdar Lt / Police tmtelligencs Accecen Tanyr Ov 4 Drovs ov Catra, —Swlomon wu! Dakor, of Bioomington, Tilihow, appeared before Justice Dedgo yosterday ao¢ mado @ complaint agminet Jone . Torrel, a betcbor beg? business at the corvor of Firw avenue and Twenty akan art im wish ates ,. ing Gfteon hoad of cattic, valued at $877 60. Phecatd » it appears, were in the possession of. Thomas Wheev who was authorized to soll tho samo on commisat yy! whensome one came along and drove themoff to tna stanghter house. Subsequently Mr. Wheelor ascorta yoa. that two of the avimais wore in Terrei's ‘sad upon vistting the promises the ivfor be meget ys | beyond pe gt hae ‘emises, which aro supposed ve of th Pilon drove. Terre! was questioned ta ntothe matter, bul failed-to give any satisfactory the manner ia which tho ° pro into. bis Pe seaaion, and was arrogted on cl larceny. No clue could be obtained to the balance of the caltle. Tao magl strate do- cided that thore was sufficient evidence: grant him i) es the accused to bail to answer, fixed tha amount of the bond at $1,500. Torro! aeroquired ‘ security, avd was thereupon di from custody Covsrsaner Fives on tas New Yort Cor wry Bare = Well executed covaterfeit Aves on tho Ne 4 York Coan me See cy ca “ameaiie’ ote. “Po M4 ‘Olght ohn Ponnetiy, liquor dealer, doing bw pe at toe corner of avenue B and Fou! # treet, hod one of tho bills q him, {n pagme ot fora st of whiskey. rick Kearney, of No, avenue —, wan defrauded ina like berg ‘ck Bmith, of No 235 oe te a Baye au Passed by the game individual, who ¢ “ly arrested t 1, of the Righteenth inet, aad cocvaiste fort nat by Justice Dodge. Afew al che bilis G 7 wero on the oast (sido of town, and ta Woe Favanth ward to police made one arrest. 4 Comous Cast oF Kinsarriva.-4 A boy, about ait yours old, named William Abratns, wes stolea from isis paroate in Philadelphia on Monday and brought tothiacity Th hid was Loft at the bingjaek Hounes'No, 140. Wo icon aterem Dis nawe aa Jo Ay Smith, aad ita way to the poilc 4 hoadquarcera ok it waa recovered yesterday by dhe father, wher had foliowed the kidaapper to this city “What couid'hare indy iced Smith 10 bring 8 the child to duis city aad tusa” lov.vo it in (ho banda, ran fncre feannot imaging. ie vs SR eee ot tae = A some a 1 mn culty a bottom anaaction. Mr Abra fotteacd with bis boy 11 (bo af" araoon train seeeenanenen Scere we Tan Garo Canower for th® Heneft of the Churcs of Georgs the Martyr, postr ynod trom Monday, Decombar 28, ow account Of th® “noiemonay of ths woatuec, wil take place this Oveniag Court ¢ a Day. Soracun CouRt- .Crroyit, % or and Torm)nor red till F ¢iday. Pact 18, 020, 000, 81 GAL, 529, 680, gyn nay, |B90, , 678, OO1, ‘TLR, 1140, 096, 08), G90, 64. Mg ape et 1 “Noa. 1b, 267, 106, 202, 206, , Mt, 298, “209, 10D, 201, 89, 211, 48, fon. 167, Part B= NOs. 236, B48, 004, 284, 287, AB, WHO, RY, 204, 2M, PAT, 1His;, a,