The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1864, Page 6

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Orrigs 6. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVSSING. AOADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Placs.—Ganway Orrri— Pager ror Laoies—[arsa Tro. WALLACK'8 THEATR: wayts—Oc0 ENGLISH GEN WINT!R GARDEN, Mav. WIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosaway.=Wicuie Rircr-Law dway.—Navat Exoace Broadway.—Ticarr or Leave OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad MEY BOWERY THEATII On's Duart—BaLLoon ASCENSION —Camicia’s Huspanp. Bowery—Mazerra=Frr- BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Grirs Scroacixs Guost—MiiuiseRs’ Ho1ipay—Vanr, BARAUM’S MUSEUM, Guns Bor, Linurvrax Kino. 80. orbxarr dos, Afternoon aud Er Broadway —Freven Graxt, as all hours. Ticker Me, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. Erctorian Songs, Dances, BuRcesquss, &e.—Uncue San Garay WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 5i¢ Broadway, —Ermroriaw Bones, Dances, &c,—RarinoaD Execosiox, AMUPICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Baters, Faytow is, BoRtESQURS, Ac.—Tax Busysopr. )" AY AMPHITHEATRE, 435 Broadwav.—Gru- seo EQUESTRIAN PERYORMANCES, Afternoon and HOPS CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tas Srzezoscorrican of Mivvon Or tam Univer: BEW TORE" MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Cunwsitims asp Lecrurxs. ‘rom 9 a. M. ‘tli l0P, n™ 7 HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Ezaiorus Foros, Davoss, Burtxsou ic New York, Friday, January 8, 1864. THE GITUATION, Luteuse cold prevails in the quarters of the Potoe mac army, rendering the sleeping arrangements of the men somewhat uncomfortable. The roads are in fine condition, and we are told that the con- fideace 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 and the highways are inas good con- ditiou for the movements of artillery as they were @s far back as 1776, or whether they shall wait unt! the favoring airs of spring bear upon their wings ‘‘the perfume of wild flow- evs, mingled with the aroma of de- ea horses and muies’’—a delicate combiaation of odors which will doubtless put the night b'coming cereus altogether into the shade. Tt ia all the same to the Army of the Potomac But it appears that while the Union bus hopeful and cheerful, the rebels are nondingly despondent, and are deserting into General Meade’s lines by hundreds, It is said that the President’s proclamation of amnesty is ing a wonderful effect in General Lee's id 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 that on 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- nois regiment, commanded by Major Beers, and eighteen men of Weill’s Ohio battery. A despe- rate resistance was made by our troops, con+ tivuiog ‘vom seven in the morning to three in the afternoon, when the Union troops surrendered. The enemy oumbered four thousand men. The Unioa forces were guarding a portion of ceuntry from which the army relied for the supply of fovage Geners! Early has completely failed in his raid in West Virginia, 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 revels were driven off. They amounted, however, to only sixteen men, so that the affair was not a very i The rebel captain command- ing the squad was killed CONGRESS Lhe proceedings of Congress yesterday were of anwsuu! interest. In the Senate the bill amending the Parolment act was taken up, and all the propo- Military Committee were agreed to, section abolishing the three hundred was exce; dollar commutation clause, which was passed over until y. The House bill extending the time for paying bounties to soldiers was referred to the Finance 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 fi 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 ‘Washinogton 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. In the House of Representatives the Speaker announced the select committee on the proposed railroad between New York and Washington. is composed of Messre. Brandegee, of Connecticut; Alley, of Massachusetts; Randall, of Pennsylvania; Farasworth, of Illinois; 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 Jeaders at Richmond to negotiate for the restora- tion of order ought to be rejected without hesita- tion o: delay was agreed to by a vote pf eigity-nine against twenty-four. Two Propo-'Ucus regarding the status of the febels were introduced—one by Mr. Rogers, & Peace democrat of New Jersey, which was laid on the table, and the other by Mr. Myers, of Penn- Bylvauia, which was referred to the select Commit ¢ on Reconstruction. An investigation by the ‘aval Committee was ordered in regard to the ‘Construction of marine engines generally and those the war steamer Pensacola in particuler, The Nava! Committee were instructed to inquire as to the expediency of establishing a navy yard and Depot for iron-clads. The Consulgs Diplo. fhatic Appropriation OM was Chek sf the couse adjourned till Monday. THE LEGISLATURE. ¢ business was transacted in our State "e yesterday. Ia the Senate the bill no- It | WEW YORK AERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY |, 1864. | ne Mreatdomtial 0; : ticed on the prevfona day, legali#ing the payment of bounties by county supervisors, and repealing the law of last aeasion prohibiting the eame, was introduced. Among the other bills introduced was one providing for the reorganization of tho First division of the National Guard Notices were given of bills for the proposed ameadment to the constitution to enable soldiers to rote, rela- tive to the piers and slips of this city, for the ia- corporation of the Cayuga and Ontario Ship Cana? Company, for a law to enable busband aad wife to for and against each other, providing for certain changes in 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 conatitution, 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 juriadiction of New York and Westchester counties, to amend tho Exociae 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 tu vote were adopted unanimouely. The apnual report of the Banking Departmen! Superiatendent was laid before the House ° MISCELLANEOUS SEWS. 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 aceouat of the summons and examination in an Haglish 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 be 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 connected 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 one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars, payable to Palmer. They also found memoranda 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, aad 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 cases at the suit of underwriters ponding before the federat courts against masters of vessels for attempted frands on insurance companies. The last party arrested is Wm. McDouga', master of the British schooner Jessie, the complainants being the Sun, the Ori- ental, the Atlantic 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 haa not since accounted for the pro- ceeds. He was traced to St. John, N. B., and elsewhere, aad at last taraed ap in Boston, Blaas., whence he was brought onto New York and de- livered into the custody of Marshal 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 ahip Senator, on a charge of scuttling that vesdel when freighted with food from New York for the poor of Ireland. The underwriters have confede- rated together with a determination to suppress these crimes at sea A snow storm set ia last aight aboat aine o'clock, and for aome time there was quite a heavy fall of the fleecy particles. The indications ab alate hour were that wa would have quite a good fail, and some sleighiag. The stock market which opened yesterday morning com. paratively steady, broke down in the afternoon, ani tue prices of railway suarea fXT7om Ons to four por cant Gold was {a more demant yesterday, aad the promivm ranged higher, the market closing firm at 151% a 151%, Govyerumeat stooks were aot affected. The five tweutios are still held at 101%,. There is now loss thao (forty fivo milijous of shis toaa hore is ac combination lias bee Cormed witt tae objec! of taking the batance ‘Thoogh the amouat of buatuess reported ta commerc\a circles yesterday was sma'i, there was a very Grm feoiing on the part of nolders of foreign and dowestic merchaa dise, aud very full rates wore demacded (or all articles ‘The rise in gold stitnulated a more active iaquiry for gome commodities; but trade was hiotered by the extrome views of holders, At the Produce Frobangs breadstitls were rather firmer, but the advance waa alight Pro visions were firm, with o fair business. Groceries were quiet, Cotton was a auade easier. Petroleum waa a shade ecosier, with cathe more doiag Troghts wore quies. | Important from Washingtoa=—Ths Trae Way to Suppress the Robeliton In 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 limited period, to burl 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. In a 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 prisows throughout 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 @ 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 soldiera could be ce 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 be driven from the few strongholds left to them, and nothing but unconditional submissiog or total destructiog Gguld await them. We bave their own oonfesstons a3 to their desperate con- Aition. If their loan be not taken by noxt April or May; if the faipoverishod farthors of their blighted dominions refuse to feed thoir armies without casl, and if (hoir awoeping oon script bill fails to pags 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 the Geld, moving from Fortress Monroe and other points direct upon the rebel capital, and, in conjunc- tion with our other armias, atriking the enemy at every vital polat, Jeff. Davis and his motley crew would soou be driven into the Gulf of Mexico, aad peace would become the oormal condition of tho nation What a grand apecta- cle would this be for Europe! A aation, with nearly a million of mon 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 as it is suggestive Let it be adopted by all means. Archbishop Haghes—The Power of the Oharch. Yosterday the funeral rites were solemnized over the remains of Archbishop Hughes, which wore thon deposited in o vault in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Ono 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 oumber, while an*immens? concourse witnessed the solema and imposiog funeral ceremonies. Lo such honor, and amid ‘he earnest sorrow of such a mialtitude, eads the career’ of the maa who for maay years has been identified bere with the church whose doctriae he 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, ofvaingle purpose, and pure life, can entirely win the hearts of simple peopie; aad in the fact that Archbishop Hughes was loved by a simple-minded, religious and intensely earnest race with a sentimeat scarcely short of idolatry, wo find the evidence that he poaseased in some degree the aame qualities that have made churchmen 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 be won the respect of all Opponents, save those too little to respect evea themselves. Just before the Mexican war Presideat Polk desired to send Archbishop Hughes, as an influential ecclesiastic, om a mission to Mexico, and early in the preseat war he was induced to go to Europe to correct miarepre- seatations of ua current there—circumstances that indicate how highly he was esteemed by those eatrusted with the welfare of the country. His words to the rioters im the past summer hare beea 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 hoard him the idea that he was opposed to the 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 was held in virtue of his position as archbishop, and it was the body of the archbishop, the honored prelate, that the thousands thronged to see. Tn this immense crowd, eager to catch a last glimpse of the remains, wo may see whata power tuo church holds with the people, es- pecially whea governed by a man of the marked charactec and ability of Archbishop Hughes. Rightly constituted and rightly ruled, the power‘of the church for good or evil in the State is almost without Limit, as (he history of the caureh shows; but there must be the church that men reapeot, and the able maa also. Otb- erwise, wheo 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 not a church could exist without a bishop. it dwiadies, aad is lost as a power; while, whea it is presided over by a man of intellect—a man whose opiaions upon great questions aro regarded a4 weighty ia the coun- sels of the nation—il* importance is seea and felt in every circumstance tbat affects it, and cannot bo overlooked by any one who looks with lis eyes opea Tax Lrasmrry ov « Cry om Cage or a Rio. —A singular decision bas just beea rea- dered by Judge Barber, of the Superior Court. Aa ion was bronght against the Mayor aad Corporation of Now York by a maa of the name of Davidson, to recover the value of certain property belonging to him, amornt- ing in the aggregate to one hundred aud twen- ty-soven dollars, which was destroyed in the July riots. His right to recovery was based upon the act of the Legislature, passed ia 1855, providing for compensation to parties losing property under auch circumstances. The Court held that the act was unconstitutional, and directed judgment to be entered for the de- fendants. The ground on which this extraor- divary decision is based is (hat the act is penal ia ite character, because it compels the citizens ofa city or the taxpayers of » county, as the case may be, to pay for such property as has been destroyed or injured by a mob, even thongh such citizens or tatpayers might aot be particepa criminis, or in aay way connected therewith. This is the gist of tho judgment, which we do not think it necessary to give at length. We need hardly 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 is contrary to the fundamental principle on which society is based. Man, in renouncing bis natural inde- pendeace aad accepting the restraints of civil- ized life, only does 80 in exchange for the pro- tection which an organized community under- takes to afford him If 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 fails in its part of the contract. No constitution that has ever yet been framed cao legalize this fail- ure, which is a violation of a natural law or tight anterior to all constitutions THe Questigy SertLe —The House of Repre- seatatives at Washington having resolved, by a vote of eightyeight to twonty-four, “that any proposition or negotiation with the rebels ought to bo 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 gr tivo, Onaat- ous Bloction of Gract: Mr. Arnond, momber of Congress froma Llit- 0018, took the frsuble to cenominate Presldcst Lincoln, in the course of a buncombe abolition speech delivered in Gongress on Wednesday. The Republican State Convention of Now Hampshire did the same thing, on tho samo day, in the form of a complimentary resolution. Wo are afraid that this resolution waa intended to be aatirical. At any rate, it is ao worded aa to have precisely that effect. When we read of Mr. Lincoln’s “unequalled sagacity and statesmanabip,” 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. [a strong contrast with the buncombe of Mr. Arnold and the bombast of this resolution is the truth, aa stated by our impartlal 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 represented at the State capital will cordially support Gene- ral Grant. ‘ In point of fact, ax most of our readers know, such sitly demonstrations as those of Mr. Arnold and. the New Hampahico delegates mean tothing and amount to pothiag. They are like the nomination of General McClellan by a party of old fogiea at Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago, The people have nothing to do with them and know nothing about them. They are the little, artful dodges of schoming polt- 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. Liacola has, 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 aor any other political convention will be held this year. 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 better be avoided at a crisis like this. We have the rebellion neariy subdued. It may make one more grand struggle 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 strengtkea the enemy by inter nal dissensions aad divisions. But at the very time when this unanimity is most necesaary the Presidential campaign wiil come to destroy it. Thus think and thus reason the loyal peopie of the North. We propose to cut this Gordian knot of con- tradictory circumstances by unanimously elect ing General "Grant. 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. If any sen- sible, patriotic man has any objection to this pian we should like te hear it. We have yetto learn that it is opposed by a single person who can give aa unselfish reason for his oppesition. If we are asked why Geneval Grant isthe only candidate we present to the people, we anawer that General Grant fs the only prominent mao who can be unanimousiy elected. President Lincoln, and Secretary Chase, and General McCiellan, bave so many aad euch bitter ene- mies, in the ono faction or the other, that to insist upoa the unanimous election of either of them would be laughed at aa lunacy or ridi- caied aaa broad joke. General Grant, on the other band, has no enethies except among the rebeta, and Is respected evea there. If we are asked how we happened to hit upoa Grant, we anawer that bis brilliant and unequalled ser vices to the country, the affectionate esteem in which he is held by the masses of the people and the remarkable naion of great military ge- nius aad comprehensive statesmanship which we find exhibited in every act of bis public career. have pointed bim out to us as the maa for the crisis. Geneva! Grant is the candidate of Pro vidence and of tho people. We have aot cre- ated his popularity; we have only expressed it. If we are asked what advantages will be gainet by his unanimous election. we answer tha® the advantages ate self-evident. The union of the loyal people, the suppression of the rebellion the restoration of the nation, the satisfactory aettlemoat of al! the debts due us from foreiga Powers —these are advaatages worthy of soy sacrifice, and they may be secured by the unaal- mous election of Grant. But, after all, what are tbe sacrifices required’ How alight, bow trifling, how unimportant they appear in comparison with the triumph they will obtaia. Our forefathers fongh! for seven years, renounced all their pleasires and al! other business. endured the rigors of winter aod the beats of summer, marched with bare, bloody feet over the snow and ice, and contended against an enemy superior in numbers, disci- pline aad 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 ambitions 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 bave deprived themselves ofthe lururies—in many cases the necossaries— 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 othgrs to throw aside their politics and theic 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 ompare 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 office in the land’ If there be auch a politician among us we want to know his name, 0 that wo may put him in toe public pittory of hintory Gonta ro Tax Doos.—The rebel Secretary of the Treasury, Memminger, ays that uni is Proponed loan of ® thousand milligna he me PERS PRET SR I ee WEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. taken up by Aprff noxt iho Giiapidetoa Son.t ern confedoracy will tumble te picces, the rebel Secretary of War, Seddon, says that un- 1086 the farmors withia tho roalme of Jeff. Davia ait made to disgorge their provisions their bleaaed confederacy will dio of starvation; the rebel Beaster Wigfall says that ualess they eo- force the conacription of every white man they can lay hold of capable ef bearing arms their hard 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 thoir 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- ish 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, subsistence and soldiers, the rebellion haa used itself wp, aad nothing can save it. Tanparey amp May.—At St. Louis heavy teams are crossing over the frozen Mississippi, and the papers are Glled with accounts of the auf- ferings of travellers, soldiers aad the unfortunate poor in all that rogion from the terrible cold. On the other hand, at St. Augnstiae, Florida, “the peach trees are in blossom, gardea flowers ore ia full bloom, and bouquets grace the tables of ovr officers” on duty in that delight- ful climate. Yet St. Augustine, with all its na- tural advantages, and although it ia one of the very oldest white settiements in all the covatry, is but a sleepy hamlet. But this 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 wiater, will sooa be transformed into a beaati- ful and prosperous city, with the regeneration of all the South. These things aco amoog the signs of the times. Semi Hare ow Mo: AN —Generai McClellan bas beea repeatedly pronounced dead and done for by Massa Greeley; but still old White Hat appears to be afraid that the dead may rise again. In yesterday's Tridune, for instance, we have a atupid rigmarole oa General McCiellan, in which be is charged with attempting to “bully the administration.” This is certainty ooot for Greeley, who has beea “bullying” Honest Old Abe, as a reguiar business, since the day of his inaugucation Tax Revet Navy.—The personnel of the cebel oavy consista of three bundred aad eight z- three commissioned officers, one hundred and vinety-one petty officers, and eight hundred aad seventy-seven seamen, which is very much bike Falstaff with bis gallon of sack to a penny worti of bread. Such ara the beautios of the Davis confederacy. . Sam Joxns oy Wace. Srrewr.—Goid weat up a little in Wall street yesterday, in consequence of the news of the capture of a detachment of some two or three bundred Union troops in West Virginia by the rebel General Sam Joncas. Terrible fellow, that Sam Jones! IMPORTANT ARREST YESFERDAY. Oupidity Among Pabtic OfictalnmFac- ther Developments im tne Blockade Buainess—Collector .Barucy’s Private Secretary Sent to Fort Lafayette=The Modus Operaadi of Sending Goods South, &e., &e. United States Marshai Murray made the arrest yoator- day afternoon of Aibort M. Palmor, private aecrotary to Mr Hiram Barney, Coilector of the Port of Now York Tho arrost wan made at tho Custom House, by detective Amith aod deputy Deiro, of the Marshal's office, and the prisonor waa at once transforred to Fort Tafayette oo tho ordor of Major Gonoral Dix, Palmer ia charged with complicity with parties engaged in geadiag goods jab» Uo confedoracy by tho way of Naa 6ay and Bermuda. Tt La tho regulation that shippors of 0013 to tha porta above named sball enter into bonds with (a9 Collector that aone of the goods ia shipped alaali Gad thor way inte the confederacy. It will be romombered that Louis Beajamio war arrested several days since, charged with shipping goods to Naagay whica wore jatended for the Routh, he having ontered into boada to the copteary notwithstanding. To- voatigalion int 8, alter be was incarcerated in Lort Lafayatic, showed Lbat parties bigh in the conddonce of the Collector must have been ongagod with fim, as Lae matiar could not hava ao loag and 90 aucussatully been carried on witvout aid from some such Bowree All his Tapers ware seived, Logothor with bis office safe, and placed ia Ube custody of tho Murshal, On Tugsday this safe wan opened, and auch evidence found as caused sus- picion to rest very strongly wpm Paimor. Tho chert book of Benjamia gave unmistakable evidence of the natiro of (ho transactions between the partion, aad notes were Cound (hat had passed from Palmer to Beayanio, writtoa on C09 official paper of Lue Custom Mouse, wad loaded, “Dear Benjamin." ‘The cheeks Arawn in favor of almer ranged from $159 lo $200 and $250 oach, Aiferoutiy dated, aad embracing a parixd of several months CTpow tho discovery of tae ovidooce agalust Primor, Marsha: Murray bad a consultation with Naval Otticor Dennison, and subsequcatly wont with thit official lo (as hheadguartors of Siaior General Dix, whore the whole mat tor was discussed aad the ovidence in tho cage laid befora the Gonera; Tue fostimony was coasidered ampiry su Mf. cient to justify the immediate arreat of Palmor, and OMficars wore dotajiad with ordecs from General Dix to take him from the Quatom House to Fort Lafayette Tao order waa obeyed to cha letter, aad at Ave o'clock tho Accused was oa the road to bis new hotel. Soveral of the checks in Boojamin's book are drawn ia favor of Mr. Smalley, who was arrested a few days since, but who was too uawall to leavo bis house, and is now undor surveillance of tho Marshal's officers. Sma'iey hag made a statement to the Naval Officer, giving, it is uauer- stood, an oatire history of the cage. Palmor's comploity ia the matter is said to bave beea a3 follows: — Bonjamia shipped goods to Nassau ia the game of another party, and theo placed his ows oame upoa tho bond ag one of the sureties that the goods suould aot go South. As tho law roquired two boadsmen to be named, he loft Palmor to provide the other, which he did in tho person of Smalley, who waa ono of tho clerks of tho office. Palmer, boing in a position to accept or raject tho bondsmoa named, had tho affair at! to bis own way of thinking, a04 was thus enabled to pursue aay line of policy which be might determine upoa. ‘Tho accused ia represented as being a relative of Col. lector Barney and Secretary of tho Vaion Central Com mittee, also to bayo had almost unlimited sway at the Custom House in the matter of appoiutments and the other privileges of the office Tt is aid (hat Smaliey's statement will load to other importaat disclorurcs at the Custom House, the aTairs of whioh are being rigidly investigated Important to Ship ©: eins. Tos United States steamer Vicksburg (guardship) 09W Lin Of Stapioton, Staten Iaiaad, Armorican stoamors outward bocad 09 a0 ebb tide will round to aad tay head to tido, in order to facilitate boarding. Steamers of other @ations aod ng voarois of al! nations will be spoKea only D. Lb. BRAINE, Lieut. Commanding See reenter ea Bevomtrs Acswant.—Edei® Booth bas besa playing Hamist, Richelieu and tho Merchant of Vonice to (ar audiences at this house He ie oMoieatty supported ?,y Mr and Mra. &. B, Cooway, but of the rest of ther om. pany wo cannot day much, To-night he plays Oty o _—— Man Maararo of Tm Garwand ot Faroe Of, ca Somme wia-Honarmn Movnumt <A maae modting ‘wil be bold tovnigh t ab tho Cooper Tnatitute by the Germans of this city for tho moral support of (bo Hwioawig Holstein movomont ja Germany Tho mooting, has besa gotion up by (ho most influontial Gormans of V,i4 oty —bankors ioc Ghani, Ho, And Wil! We NAATORGF A by ory Ahlo apoMRarn AAA RARA MAL RARE ‘The Bacitemomt @t the State Capital “ Sbated=—The Hose ComutticesPaa aay? Of tho Resolution Amending thé Conar,‘tation to Permit soldiers to Commissioners Bili— Who are © pose o~ New Police Board—Repott of the Bank Saperta- prt State and National Bar m- yatome—Rite Attempts of Seereines Chase to Compél @n Abandonment’ or the State Bant&s Condemned, dc, Acaany, Jan. 7, 1854, ‘Vho excitement coancet'e4 with the organization of the Logiaiature baagdied ont, a¥d the crowd bas disappeared, Tho organization of the Sonat. 13 compicted. Notbiox haw been dons by the Speaker of te House yot in refercace to tho commitgees Mr. Alvord 45 now ongagod aotthing tbe applicationa for pages, mesaen,*ers 0d doorkoeperas, and inteods to settle those ma‘lers add aonounes tbo appointments £0 tho Assembiy Morrow monaing. Tho House wilt thea adjourn until Mon.\ay Dight,{Or Une purpose Of givtog the Speaker an oppor Sunity to make up the committees. They witli, under tha’ programme, be avnovace to tho House 0a Tussday noxt. Tho Seoate mot this naorning, and adjourpied without transacting any Businesa. The order of busing of poti- tions, notices and introdud:ion of build and pe was gone through with io tho Assembly this morn) Tho resolutions that pasted tho Togstature last pom amending the constitution, allowing Adldiers in the atm to vote, wore taken up in the Asserebly and passed by & temas ef yh ae arr wil will be taken to hoid & election 1 mee the moto of Fabrunrg to submit the to the poopio, This oarly action is necessary én ordor that iy” tho. peopia ‘ove of this atucndment @ law be euacted providing how that section of the gonacttution ao ameaded shall bo carried into operation before the Logisiature adjonras ere 1s Considerable gossip in regatd to tae namon that wilt be insorted in the aew Police Commissioners Dill, to compose the Police Board. A oumber of names bave been canvassed, but no dofivite comclusion arrived at aa yet, Out of the number (no namos of Wilaon Smail aad Samuel Jones on the democratic side, aad Moser. Actos aad Bergen on the repubiicau, aro the most likely to be toserted. There are many Indice tions that ney will be tbo mon named. Tho Bank Superintendont sent in his report to the Assowbly thia morning. It presents many queationa ot interest at this time. ‘Lao following items will show tho chapgo that bas been made to regard (o the class oF acourities deposited for banking purposos. At the clone Of tho last fiscal year the securities wero Of tho following ciass And Amount: — Now York Stato stock. oo BETAS, 140 Onitod States stock. . 15,787, 6o0 Bonds and 00 onan hes sees BBO2K the State stocks aad bouds and mort eng’ security bave decreased, and tho United States bere rapidly increased, an will be Geen by the fohowling table — Increase in United States stocks Decrease in Now Yori stocks. . Decrease in bonds and mortgages coveee 1,000,307 Tho amount of notes of Lae Stato banks iw Circulation is upwards of $47,000 lesa than one year ago. In regard to the suspension of specie payment by the panks. the Bavk Superintendent argues that it cemnot be expected that (hey will retura to their normal cond tion upti! {he vast roqmrements of the govornmont Ala) have beea lessened so as to permit of the resumption of specio payment by the federal Troasury, and tlie caa only be reasonably expected at the Lormina- tion of ‘the civil war. He holds, however, that the Davks are reileved from tho penaltion incideut te « refusa to redoom their circulation in gold aud eitver, By the retention of notes issued by the goneral gov logal tender, aad that the Atatutes of tho Stato regulating proceedings in such caRea that (oo preseribod penalty ahall attach when the pasty saswing bani notes shall fail (o-redoem (bem ja the hewfal money of Lhe United Btates. ‘The report apeaks in igh terma of tho aational banteing system, but looks With appreheasion at Lue indications = Washington of a design on the part of tho Secretary of the Troasary and his subordinate officers ty foster. op- pressive legislation by Congress towards the lustitubions of ibis Stata, with am apparent purpose of compelling au abandonment of their present organizations and an tion of the national ess This course f6 deprecatat, apd the reporé takes the ataut that im no Stato w tue oow aeystom less domauded Chan in this, owing to the stability of our banka, Pho roport dwells at comsiderablo Jeugt on Wis subject, and pots out many objectionable features (hat mast arise in tho formation of the national banks —Alvong thom ia the multiplying of small banks all over the country, which, im bis opinion, will servo to further t!luatrate the rising properties of gold and the sinking propertics of paper. ‘Tho entire report is, in fact, one of great interest, and will command general attention on account of its longtar troatmont of tho national and State havk controvorsy: Since that per Court of Appeals. Ainany, San, 7, 166, ‘The foilownng in the calendar of the Coart of for Kriday, January 8—Nos. 21, 28, 254%, 2. 2, oh ”, 20%, SL and 32. Tbe Moasage of Governor, Bradfor@ ef Maryland Burrraona, Jan. 7, 1808, Goyornor Bradford's message was tranemitted to the Logisiature to-day. He says the finances of the Biate aro mm A prosperous condition, Tho gratifying re suit of all (he Treasury Operations is (bat withno now dobt contracted, with moro than one but of the old debt oxtingnisbed, and upwards of three bus: drad and peventy-ono thousand doliars pata the gonorss government, thore isa balance op hawd of more than a million dollars, exclusive of cask, to the credit of the sinking fund, He recommends making & pension for the soldiers of the State in the way of aiding the families of volunteers or draftcd mou. Me recom: pends # (borough revision of the milltia Inw of the State, Referring to the subject of the Constitutiual convoution ho saya, in roference to the question of emancij 1 beliove to-day, as Thava done for yoars, Uhat if wohad long ago provided = for tho gradaal omancipa- tion of tho slaves of tho Stato wo phould now bo as rogarda all tho national sloments of public prosperity in advance of our present poaition. The products of oor Slate and ita natural resources are not such a6 aro Adapted Lo or can be developed by slave labor. Tam satisfied that (he%peopie of tho State, tthe: moments of calm and deliberate reflection, tong since camo (0 the game conclusion, When the conaprr img ivadors at the Sooth titted ener handa againat tho Union and pojated to siavory an {ho inetitution upon which — thair — visionary: republic waa to rest, they atrock @ biow af tts vory vitals io every border Stas, under which it has continued to languish, and which must joevitably rosull fn ite ultimate destruction, I becomes us, therefore, to whom the whole quoation rightfully welongs, to taka immediate moannros for st0 removal, which whonid be no longer deiayed (uan way be required propor ra spect for thowe ” industrial interoate with) which the matitution han been #0 long And no butimately intor and @ humane regard for Gho slave bimself, whch js os tO cast him, all uppreparcd for ao groak« oo auddenty 0) his feeble resources. Tho reiterates bis objections to tae manner inwhick isimeat of slaves baa boep conducted in tho diate, military Iuterforence with sections The Government Loam PULADR. MMA, Jan 7, 1866, Tus subscript on ageat reports tho aalo of $2,280,Bieo five-twouties today Deliveries of honda aro made to Decem a Ut / Police Entelligenc=. Aucucen Tuuve ov 4 Drove ov Catra, Solomon w.! Baxor, of Bioomugton, [Uibow, appeared before Justice Dedgo yesterday and mado a complaint agnivet Jone , Torrel, a betcbor bee * business at the corvor of Firw avenus and Twenty fifth atreet, charging bim with ates ,. ing arteen head of op bes it appears, were in jon who was ‘authorized to eli the samo on commis yp! when some one came along And drove themof to tne slanghter house. Subsequently Mr. Wheelor aa (hat two of the avimals wore in Terrei'a nae, ‘aad upon vistting the promises the ivformation proy o4 ta be correct. Three carcases were also found up® the promises, which are supposed to have boeme part of the stolen drove Terre! was questioned ia roger¥ , to the matter, bul failed-to give any satisfactory account ‘of the manner in which the property camo into, Lis Pe seanion, and was arrosted on cl larceny. | No. could be obtained to the balance caitie, Tao magl strate do- cided that thore was suffciont evidence to,we srant him ae! >| the accused to ball to answer, fixed tha ount of the bond at $1,500. ). Torro! ire Coversane: Fires on tas New Yort Cor wry Baye = Weill executed counterfeit fives on the Ne » York Goan Bank wore freely circulated, Ma the uppar Kee or the city on Wednesda oight. ‘town Ponnelly, liquor dealer, doing bw yinesa at tine corner of avenue 1 and Fourteenth treet, hed one of tho bills upon him, {9 pape ot fora int or whiskey, rick Kearney, of NO. 287 ayonus —, was defrauded fo like manner, amd 285 vento B, ditto. The bils. game ipdividual, wh’ a cor Abrabal, of ‘tho for triat by Justice ok Smith, of” No sali passed by tha aly arcested by OM. eu teenth weed anct, al rote ‘Alew Of the bills were race on the oast (sido of town, and fans Ptgventh ward the police made one arrest ig Comtous Cass oP Krnwareita-4 A boy, about ait yoacn old, named William A*ratns, wes stolea from isis paroole Toy in Philadelphia on Monday aod brought to this city hid was loft at the Marge House, No, 140. Wout by @ man who isterem® Dis nawe an Jor Ay Smit! subsequently ita way to the poiic s hoadqu ok it Was TeCovorod pestorday taubsced eth 4 bricg ga to chi u" i > ppg ag ed 4s supponed, ' A some domestig Ni ‘ty at the bottom of the tr naaction Mr Abr returaed with bis boy t9 (bd af! weooon tran —a ‘Tar Gaawo Canowrr fOr th® Henefit of tho Churc of Georgs the Martyr, postr mod trom Monday, Decombar 28, om account Of th® “ nojemoaoy of tho woathec, will, take place this evening | ia city aad we @adnot imaging. iad 9 Ay ip hae a be 7 rath foomow adjourned til F gj Part 2—Now. O18, ‘ tat, 620, 689, ahs, 879, Liat, 968, 679, O01, 1188, 114, 998, 08",, 680! 41. Common P 4, Part 1 Noe 1, 267, 100, 262, 206, , 9017, 298, “aon, 30D, 201, 89, 211, 88, npg: 107 Part $= Nom. gas, O43, 084, 28, 487, 208, THO, RBI. BO, WAT, 1H, Me, ‘