The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday bills were noticed to legalize certain ordinances of the Supervisors of this city relative to the issue of county bonds, and to authorize the borrowing of an additional sum for the payment of riot damages and military bounties, to amend the act for compensating par- ties whose property may be destroyed in conse- quence of mobs and riots, to authorize the Dela- ware and Lackawanna Railroad Company to own lands in this State, to enlarge the Chemung Canal feeder, to regulate the milk freight on the Harlom Railroad, to amend certaia sections of the Code of Procedure, to confirm certain conveyanocs executed by husband and wife directly to cach other, and to enable husband and wife to convey real property directly to each other, apd to incor- porate the Altamaha Canal Company. Among the bills introduced was one to incorporate the Cayuga and Ontario Ship Canal Company. A resolution was adopted inquiring into the obstacles interfering with the sale of the Marine Hospital and land at Seguine's Point, as directed by law lest year. The Assembly resolutions to enable e pF RENCK Gti ji referred to the Judiciar, BaRxom” _ MOSEOM, Brosivey Tames, Guay soldiers to vote were y 2B, 20.08 all Bours, Ticker oF Luave Max. orviog + CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. PS At A ot Nace A RE eR SR TR Volume XXIX ........... No. 12 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irring Place.—Guawan Orens— Faust. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Coxxiz Soocas. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rosenare. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticxzr or Leave OLYMPIC SRRATAS, Broadway.—A Butt 1m 4 Cains Suor—Covsin Onxeny. a NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Mazerri~ Favon's Drate—Turw Hix Ov. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rac Wouax axp Hen Dogs—Biack Erep Svsax—Baxorr Host. ‘AtSand 7% | Committee. In the Assembly, the Speaker announced the standing committees, and bills were noticed to amend the Registry and Excise laws, to provide for the payment of the certificates of the soldiers of 1812, to amend the Metropolitan Police act and AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batrers, | the act relative to the sale of property in Brook- Faxtomiurs, Buntesquus, &c.—Hovse Taar Jacx Buitr. | lyn for unpaid taxes, to incorporate the Pawners’ BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadwav.—Gru- | Relief Association of New York, to create com- fa Bougsraian Perrorances. Afternoon and | missioners for intrenchments, removals and reve- nues for this city, to build a produce market in New York, to regulate the ferriage between this city and Long Island, to allow soldiers in the army to vote, and to regulate the milk freight on the Harlem Railroad. Several unimportant bills were introduced, and resolutions were adopted to amend the constitution for the relief of the calendar of the Court of Appeals. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. There are four European steamships duc at American ports to-day, with news to the Let of THE SITUATION. January—five days later. These vessels sailed in the following order:— The Army of the Potomac is still subject to occasional incursions of the rebel guerillas, but From. Day of Sa 5 ; i : Sidon......... Queenstown... .Dee. % beyond this the quietude which prevails there | City of London..Queonstown....Dec. 31. is not disturbed. A few nights ago they ‘made | 7outoua a dash into the camp of the First Massachusetts cavalry, near Warrenton, capturing seventeen men and thirty-five horses. The ensuing day another party struck upon the mule train of the First Maine cavalry and captured four or five men. Desertions in the rebel army continue as fre- quent as heretofore. One entire Georgia regiment had made arrangements to cross over into our lines last Friday night if they were placed on picket; but the opportunity was not afforded them, probably because their design was known. Despatches from General Kelley's department in Western Virginia yesterday state that scouts anTs’ ISTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad ee oe Daxcua, BUBLESQUES, &c,.—UNCLE San Gnayt. grees "8 MINSTREL HALL, Sié Broadway —Brmoruan tence. Danes ‘$c,.—RalLROAD BEPLOSION, NIBLO’S SALOON, Broadway.—Bomemian Ginu. HOPS CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tas Sreaxoscorricas on Mregor or tas Universs. BEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Cymiostizs axp LecTURES. from 9 A. M. till10 P.M. HOOLET’S OPERA HOUSB, Brooklyn.—Eraiorian Boxes, Dances, Burizsavns, £0. New York, Wednesday, January 13, 1864, uthampton.. .Dec. 30, Londonderry... Jan. 1,. We have news from the City of Mexico and San Luis Potosi—via San Francisco—r spectively to the 22d and 18th of Decem- ber. The Mexican loyal forces are continually harassing the invading troops, not only in iso- lated and guerilla attacks, but frequently in strong force, offering them battle whenever opportunity offers. In one of these General Uraga, with 5,000 Mexicans, attacked the French army intrenched at Morelia, but was repulsed witha loss of two thousand killed and wounded. Uraga had pre- viously inflicted considerable damage on the French by sapturing supply trains. G Doblado had evacuated Guanajuato, first destroy- ing the aqueduct, water reservoirs and growing crops, leaving the whole country around a barren report General Early falling back up the Shenan- j waste. Ortega was expected to join Do doah valley, and that all fears for the safety of | blado and give the French battle. The Mexican traitor Tobar, with 3,000 men ico. pi csi ora paeaines ,. | Was defeated on the 6th ultimo near Guadalajara The latest nows from the Kanawha valley is | py an equal number of loyalists under Col. Rajos. very encouraging. The river is frozen over and | The impression prevailed at Mexico that Maxiai the heavy snows in the mountains prevent any lian would be induced to abandon the throne, and military operations on either side in that direction that some Spanish prince would be substituted for 5 * | a time, on condition that France and Spain uphold Our correspondence from Newbern, North Caro- | the new government. Juarez contemplated moy- lina, is interesting. A prominent Union citizen was | ing his seat of government from San Luis to Monte- arrested by the rebels, and, upon the demand of | Tey, to be nearer the United States. President Juarez, in a letter, says:—‘‘We know full well that SSE Ween eee nnee The Dare if the United States had not been engaged in thoir confirms all the previous statements of the desire present atruggle no European potentate would ever of the people of North Carolina to return to the | have attempted to strike a blow against republican Protection of the United States flag, although it aaacuit tha He says it may bea apie of aur- prise that they abandon the principal cities, but 7” ee ee —— anes ee they were right in doing so; that by harassing who advocate the vague idea of a separate and destroying the French communications, and sovereignty. carrying on a roving system of warfare, like that Rumors come from St. Louis that a quartermas- | Which the French once experienced in Spain, they ter of the rebel army, acting, it is said, by authority crenteely. will not consider Mexico an easy em- ire to govern. from Richmond, has offered to sell to Gen. Haribat, | Ata prises of the National Democratic Com- or to the United States government, all the cotton | mittee, held at the house of its chairman, August now remaining within a certain district yet outside | Belmont, last evening, it was unanimously voted ; that the next National Democratic Convention be paths: Seen ae a eR a held in the city of Chicago on the 4th of July next Rebel government cotton, and that greenbacks will A number of republican politicians left New be taken for it. It is further stated, on the | York yesterday evening for Washington. Rumor same authority, that General Kirby Smith has | states that this political exodus is connected with recently sent an authorized messenger to Wash- ce Collectorship of this port, which may, per- a 5 chance, be vacant very soon. nape ss eee She: Unica sutioritios to tur In the Board of Supervisors yesterday but little nish every requisite to get out all cotton in the | business of public interest transpired. The stand- Red river and Wachita district within rebel con- | ing committees for the present year were an- trol, the money to be paid to such officers as are | nounced by the cages ae ban gage a mittee on Annual Taxes, Messrs. Purdy, Davis, wot taotadiod fn: the ‘amnesty. proclamation, who | 2 <4 sAsslas' Civil Conrta) Mteire: Little, Putty, are willing to leave the rebel army and go to Mex- Smith and Ely; Criminal Courts and Police, Messrs. It is alleged this measure would involve the | Ely, Shook, Connor and Davis; County Offices complete disbandment of the rebel forces in Ar- page iowoeu paanyir ks ne ag! Shook; and kansas, Missiasi ing and Stationery, Messrs. Blunt, Connor, Stew- ee Oe ni ee ist ahd Briggs; Charities and Correction, Messrs. immediate return of those States to the Union. Smith, Purdy, Blunt and Roach, Adjourned to It is stated that ancw military departmeut has | Tuesday next. been created in the West, over which General The Commissioners of Health met yesterday, Heintgelman isto be appointed, It is to include | 904 Mayor Gunther was chosen President of the Board for the ensuing year. A communication the Btates of Ohio, Indiana, Tilinois and Iowa. was received from Dr. Griscom, calling attention to CONGRESS. the large increase in the mortality of the past The proceedings of Congress yesterday were | over the previous year, and the Resident Phy- highly interesting. In the Senate communica. | Sician presented an interesting report upon ps aan the cakene of Wisconsin was pre- typhold and typhus fevers, showing the necessity % for improved methods of ventilation in tenement sented, with a copy of a petition to the Legislature | y ouses and public buildings. of that State, asking compensation for losses Mesars. Underhill, Topples and Doty, who had suffered through the enforcemen? of the draft, | been arrested by the Custom House officers ona The House bill to continue the government charge of complicity with L. J. Olmstead in the . contraband trade, were released yesterday by Bounties to volunteers till the Ist of March Marshal Murray, there being no evidence produced was pessed. Bille were reported for the appoint against them. ment of a Second Assistant Secretary of War and United States Commissioner Osborn commenced for the payment of the officers and men employed | @n examination yesterday into the charge of mar- in the Department of Missouri. A message wae | der of the second mate of the Yorktown. Two of reoeived from the President, in answer to tbe in- | the accused sailors were discharged; the investi- quiry of the Senate relative to the cruel treatment | gation as to the others was adjourned till to-day, of Union prisoners by the rebels. The message The trial of the will of Thomas greeting ‘was accompanied by communications from the | was continued yesterday before Surrogate Tuck- Secretary mf War, General Halleck and the Com- { er, and will be further proceeded with to-day. misesary General. The bill emendatery of the En- There was an excited stock market yesterday, anda rolment act was taken up, when a long debate en- | large business was done at advanced prices. Some of sued; but, without taking agen on wel | ba itd dliak ox grate Pate bd ten varias of the important pointe of the bill, the Senate | | cicm aavanced to 64%, with oo fecressed amount of went into executive session, and on the opening business The money market ie yet close, and lenders of the doors adjourned. demand legal interest, payable in gold, which increases In the Honse of Representatives, the Commit | ghe rate to fully nine per cent. tee on Commerce were instructed to inquire into ‘The sudden snd unexpected rise of two per cont in the expediency of amending the act of 1799 in | g ried & morbid influence on trade yesterday. All Teference to admeasurement of veesele, and of a | kinde of goods were held bigher and the bulk of tho sales Jaw to inflict punishment for changing the names | were at vetter prices than have been received for many ofthe same. A bill reported from the Judiciary jew "as tor Piodais Reoelagh tat over ee Committee, changing the places of holding the District and Circuit Courte of East Tennessee, was privet hermes ceesetas eet tala baabe ava bill defining the jurisdiction of the “a the alee showed ap ‘advance. Cotton was firm. Court of Claims, also reported from the Judiciary } petroieum was dull but unchanged. Freights were quiet Committee, was, after some debate, laid over till | put arm the 2ist inst. A bill providing for the revision and The cattle market was decidediy more active and consolidation of all the laws of the United States | higher this week, owing to continued short supplies, On ‘Was reported from the seme committee. Mr. | Monday the number om sale was unusually small, and Stevens, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and | prices were at once advanced jgc. a le. per pound. There jeans, reported from that committee the bil] to | were subsequent heavy arrivals, but prices wore sus. mond the Internal Revenue act. It will be found | tained to the close. The whole range was @0. to 140., Gn our report of the proceedings. The House, in | but nearly all went at 100.8150, Milch cows were Gommittee of the Whole, took up the bill to reim. | Seedy. Venls were tm good demand at full prices, aod Gold weil at bc. 080. Bheep ang lambs wore in rather yurse Pennsyvania for expenses incurred in re- better supply, but sold at fall y wed ling the invasions of her territory by the rebels, Host my ‘Bwine werd Nae an} em . ora fand © long discussion took place; but, without | fea nota artye 8540. and etl fod at T90'0 80. Fhe total ‘coming to # vote On the measure, the committee | reoeipte wore, 4,100 beoves, 103 Cows, 400 veal, 10,473 rose and the House adjourned. *t ood bbe, and 6,868 ewine, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNES General Grant And the Presidemey—"he + People against the Potitictans. Our advocacy of the superidr claims and qualifications of General Grant as the people’s candidate for the Presidency, in disturbing the plans of scheming parties and politicians, bas brought upon us the fire of their masked bat- feries from every direction, But, in thus drawing their fire, we have ascertained the various positions they occupy and know bow to dislodge them. Beginning with the administration party, we find the annual State Convention thereof in Now Hampshire proclaiming fn favor of an- other term to Abraham Lincoln, and with a boisterous enthusiasm, as if to drown all oppo- altion. It appears, too, that the republican majority of the Pennsylvania Legislature sym- pathize with “the voice of New Hampshire,” and that the party engineers in Indiana and Illinois are working In the same direction. So far, thon, to say nothing of the “loyalty” to the existing hoad of the government of the Loyal National Leagues, President Lincoln holds the inside track for the party nomination; but so did Mr. Seward, to all appearances, in 1860, down to the meeting of the Chicago Convention. Then, however, it was discovered that among the several competing cliques and candidates there was an “irrepressible con- flict,” especially in reference to Mr.Seward, and the old expedient of a compromise was adopted in the nomination of Mr. Lincoln. ‘At the present time there is an “irrepressible conflict” between Mr. Lincoln and his Secre- tary of the Treasury; and the worst, or the best, of it is that we see no signs of a disposition on the part of either to give way to the other. Mr. Seward, discoyering some time ago that Mr. oe capt) gg 2 i falar Chase had taken the ground from andér his foe d desirous to head off this powerful rival, seized the first available opportunity—on the eve of our last November State election— to declare himself in favor of the President. Bot there has been no joyful reaponge from the party of the Empire State to Mr. Seward nor to the New Hampshire Convention. On the the remarkable silence of the New n regard to Mr, Lincoln's aspira- tions, and it alous defence of Mr. Chase ainust the objections of Wendell Phillips, vould indicate that the prejudice of the New rk radicals against Mr. Seward extends to Jent himself in becoming the candi- date of the unlucky Premier. The danger is, re, that Mr. Chase and his money bags »ve foo strong in New York for Mr. and his favorite. Mr. Lincoln is menaced also with another danger in the West. General Fremont has a to pick with him; and Fremont, it is said, vers his friends and does not forget his Lt further appears that the powerful slement of the republican party is with Fremont to a man; that the radi- rn German considers him not only opber Columbus of the emancipation movement—not only as a deserving martyr to the cause—not only as the model of all black republicans—Dut as one of the very few Ameri- cans who thoroughly sympathize with the Eu- ropean red republicans among our people. Fremont, in a word, like Kossuth, can blend the most ultra principles of democracy with the magnificence of the Great Mogul—a combina- tion of things which, though incomprehensible to “the Yankees,” is perfectly consistent in all its parts to the Continental Evropean radical from his past associations. Here, then, we have the prospect of three antagonistic candidates from the administration camps—Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Chase and General Fremont. Against either of the first two it is said Fremont will take the field as an indepen- dent candidate; and. with his German backers, he will be a formidable competitor to the regu- lar party nominee. But the chances of an ex- citing, turbulent and perilous Presidential con- test do not end here, if we are to trust to mere party conventions and politicians. The rump and stump of the old Know Nothing faction have recently nominated General McClellan, trusting to bis broad shoulders to carry them through. The odds and ends of the late demo- cratic party have yet to come into the arena. They, too, relying upon the solid popularity of General McClellan, may take him up as their champion. Under such a state of things we shall have a scrub race, which, in its final ex- citement, may be carried to scenes of revolu- tionary violence, bloodshed and confusion throughout the loyal States ‘This is the last hope and the last chance of the rebellion. In the outset Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators counted upon the active support of their democratic partisans in the North. Disappointed in this calculation, they next counted upon foreign intervention; and failing in this, they looked for aid and comfort to the Northern elections of last autumn. Sig- nally rebuked in these elections, Davis and his fellows bave now no other prospect of success exceptin the chances of Northern dis- tractions and anarchy in our approaching Presidential contest. How, then, are these perilous distractions to be avoided? Not by trusting to parties or politicians, to whom we are indebted for this terrible war—not by de- pending upon an administration which has proved a failure—but by an independent movement of the people in behalf of General Grant against the field, as the new man ordain- ed to inaugurate anew epoch anda new order of things. Thus by bringing prominently and posi- tively forward a candidate whose record is too clear to be successfully assailed, whose achievements are too great and decisive to be questioned, and whose popularity is too strong to be resisted, all opposition will be silenced, all the dangers of party violence will be avoid- ed, and in the quiet and acceptable election of Grant we shall have the crowning triumph of the war and the dawn of a lasting and substan- tial peace. Rewer or Broapway.—Amongst the many excellent suggestions which Mr. Gunther, in his quality of a new broom, has made since his ac- cession to office there is not one more sensible or practical than the recommendation that em- nibuses and carriages in going up town shall be compelled to take one line of street, and in returning to take another. In our present heavily taxed condition it is not feasible to widen any of the side streets so as to make great parallel avenues in the lower part of the city for the relief of Broadway. 1¢ wouJd make such an addition to the publie burdens that it ie not to be thought of for the present. Tho Mayor’a plap sooms to ug to offer the only rémedy that 19 withig our Tt bos be tried witheut puttlog ity to any Ge- . Color Jowett and the Great Interna- tional Oongress. ‘This wicked world is full of pleasant sur- prises. Not many days ago, having been inju- dicious and inelegant enough to term the Che- valier Colorado Jewett a great -fizzle, we sat musing upon the uncertainty of human affairs and wondering what had become of the re- nowned diplomat in question, when we were suddenly estonished by the startling intelli- gence that @ person resembling the Chevalier Bad been seen to land from the steamship Asia. This intelligence turned out to be true. The modern Monaieur Tonson had really come again. As large as life and as bold as brass, the Che- valier Jewett pushed his way through the Cus- tom House officers, and, braving the terrors of Stanton, martyrdom and Fort Lafayette, pre- sented himself at our office. |The Chevalier Jewett looked nice. He was fresh from inter- views with kings and queens and salt water, and had about him a mingled aroma of royalty and Davy Jones quite indescribable. One coat- tail pocket bulged with despatches and the other with a lump of Colorado gold. He beamed upon us for a moment like a thing of beauty, and then took the cars for Washington, to report to President Lincoln in person. The Chevalier Jewett is undoubtedly the most independent, extraordinary, impudent and successful of American diplomatists. The Chevalier Weed, who allowed himself to be humbugged by Mpcquard, cannot hold a 9 with Jewett. ‘Conbared SYouets the acd lier Wikoff is a mere carpet knight, more fit for §lady’s boudoir than a statesman’s cabinet. As for the regular diplomats, who receive pay from the government for doing nothing abroad, Jewett casts them all into the shade. Indeed he never notices them. He never even asks them for introductions. Kings, queens, em perors, princes and royal dukes are his inti- mate friends. He is hail fellow well met with all the nobility of Europe. He carries on a constant correspondence with Napoleon, Victoria and Earl Russell, and has private interviews with the great ones of the earth whenever he desires it. Beau Brummel was celebrated for cutting the Prince of Wales in the street. Colorado Jewett has put all Vienna in tears by refusing to see the Emperor of Austria. It seems that the Em peror was absent at Schoonberg—a sort of Aus- trian Washington Heights—when Jewett called; and although the Emperor wished to sce him, and requested him to wait a day or two until the court could come to town, our independent Chevalier decidedly declined, aud at once bustled off & Paris, leaving the Emperor to en- dure his mortification and disappointment as he best could. Such acts as these mark the illustrious man. Well may we be thankful that we have this bright oraament of our race again among us. But results much more important than the humiliation cf the proud Emperor of Austria were accomplished by the Chevalier Jewett’s visit to Vienna. The Chevalier tried hard to induce Count Rechberg, the Austrian Secretary of State, to bring the American question before the Frankfort Diet. This the Count positively refused—although how he could refuse anything to Jewett is a mystery—but suggested that the Diet had nothing to do with our business, and that the great international congress to be held at Paris would be the proper body to consider it. These suggestions gave Jewett an idea, and with this idea and a clean shirt he posted immediately to Paris, as we have al- ready stated. At Paris he bad a confidential interview with his friend Napoleon. Jewett asked Napoleon for a favor. Napoleon offered him everything he had in the house, from a dukedom down to a glass of brandy and water. Jewett replied that he wanted nothing for him- self—rare magnanimity!—but something for his poor, bleeding country. Napoleon shrugged his shoulders, twirled his mustache, thought of Mexico, bowed, and emphatically declared that the empire was peace and Jewett’s word was law. Then our brave Chevalier demanded that the United States should have a sea( in the great congress. The Emperor was afraid that there was no seat vacant. The Chevalier blandly remarked that John Bull was not going to come. The Emperor danced with joy, em- braced the Chevalier, exclaimed that two heads were always better than one, rang his office bell, kicked the attendant who answered the bell, and ordered tbat vassal to write an invi- tion to Brother Jonathan on the spot and a sheet of gilt-edged note paper. This invitation Jewett has borne across the raging Atlantic to deliver to Old Abe, and thus it happens that America is to take the place of England in that congress which is to regulate all the world and bring about the millennium. Secretary Seward will now be set upon his legs again. He can write more letters in an hour than anybody can read in a lifetime, and he will have a splendid chance to display his epistolary powers when the great congress is in session and America, Mexico and Poland are under discussion. This chance.is the New Year’s present which the Chevalier Jewett, like a diplomatic Santa Claus, has brought our genial Secretary of State. Nor have the other public functionaries been forgotten. The Chevalier has brought Mrs. Lincoln half a dozen Balmoral petticoats—a present from Queen Victoria—of the style which her Majesty used to wear when she bound- ed up and down the hills, like a stray deer, before the good Prince Albert died. From Eugenie he procured half a dozen bonnets—also for Mrs. Lincoln—of the latest French fashion and most beautifully trim- med. To Old Abe the French Emperor sent— per the Chevalier Jewett—a copy of “Rabelais,” elegantly illustrated, and a fine and funny vol- ume called the “Decameron”’—no allusion to ex-Secretary Cameron—and the proof sheets of Napoleon’s “Life of Cesar,” which is doubtless the funniest book of them all. But Secretary Chase fares best; for the Chevalier has be- stowed upon him a deed for two large moun- tains of Colorado gold, of a quality exactly like the sample which the Chevalier carries around in his coat pocket to show to kings and capitalists, and which, we hope, be will place in our cabinet of curiosities at Fort Washing- ton after it has gone the rounds sufficiently. With these gold mountains Secretary Chase ex- pects to pay off the national debt, resume spe- cie payments, and settle the salaries of the Hon. James Brooks and all our soldiers, sail- ors and politicians. What effect this may have upon the Presidential campaign, or whether it will bo necessary to°make Old Abe a king in ordgr to send him to the European we not able to without further and pro- reflection, We are at least autherized to Q , however, that the may Jowett, all are whose ensive tiding, ot prevent ahropely de vax Gran, DAY, JANUARY 13, 1864. Crvrirr 10 Voutwremrs—Neoreor oF tH Wan Dsrarruxyt.—Our new we learn, are suffering terribly on Riker’s Island during this inclement weather. Our city authorities ere doing alt that lies in their power to raise our quota of volunteers—paying out millions of money for this purpose. As fast as recruited the Chairmaa of the Supervisors’ Committee, Mr. Blunt, passes the men over to the United States authorities. They are then transported to Riker’s Island, not to be made comfostable during this inclement season by being placed in good and well warmed barracks, but thrust into old and worn cotton tents, without flooring or any furniture whatever, with not #0 much even as a bench or camp stool, and compelled to asleep on the bare earth, or at most a blanket be- tween themselves and the frosty soil. This is the extreme of cruelty. Well tried and har- dened soldiers could hardly stand it on that bleak island during the terribly severe weather we have had for the last ten days;' and upon these new recruits, unused to such trials, the effect must be terrible indeed. The sufferings of these noble fellows have, we are told, been of the most painful character. These reporta’ having reached the city, the ef- fect upon volunteering has been to check it most sensibly; and unless the War Department or the officers in command display more humanity and Corect this immediately,we are not only likely to lose many of those already recruited, but it will put a stop for the present to volunteering en- tirely. Such usage is simply barbarous. We hear also that certain authorized sutlers are ac- tually robbing the soldiers on the island. We are informed that they have charged forty cents for s dish of coffee, a dollar for a canteen of water, and other outrages of gqual atrocity, and that the single well on £ island sapaltee but partially water enough, and this is most generally monopolized by the negroes, to the exclusion of the whites. If these things are true, or only partially true, it is a disgrace to the government and parties allowing it. Let General Dix send some intelligent, quiet gentleman down there— not covered with gold lace and flummery, to whom no one would dare reveal anything, but some shrewd, perseverihg person, who could obtain all the facts without exciting suspicion among officers, men, sutlers or others. Let the facts come out and the responsibility be placed where it properly belongs. Repcsrioan Prrism.—The radical , leaders, alarmed by the revelations which are daily being made of official corruption and pecula- tion in their ranks, are trying to weaken the effect they are producing by sham motions of economy and retrenchment. Thus we see that Senator Wilson is about to amuse Congress with a resolution reducing the salaries of the Collector, Naval Officer and Surveyor of this port to $6,000 a year, and making it penal for them to receive fees or perquisites. Of course no one believes (Senator Wilson least of all) that such a proposition will be seriously entertained. The pap by which the organs of the party are fed is supplied mainly from these official per- quisites. The Evening Post, through one of its proprietors, who is naval officer, has derived an ineome, it is said, of $80,000 a year from this source since the pre- sent administration has been in office. The motion is intended merely to clear the skirts of the radical leaders from the odium attaching to the business. The public will not, however, acquit them of the responsibility of having assisted to place their authors in the way of robbing the public. As to the neces- sity of putting an end to official perquisites of every kind, and instituting the most rigorous economy in all the departments of the govern- ment, there is but one opinion amongst honest men. It will not, however, be done by the pre- sent Congress or under the present administra- tion. It is only when we shall see Gen. Grant elected to the executive chair, as the exponent of the people’s views on these points, that we shall have a reasonable hope of seeing these desirable reforms carried out. Tar New Meyicipan Commission.—The plan which we originated yesterday of appointing a commission of five, seven or nine of our best citizens to investigate and reform the abuses in our city government seems to meet with very general favor. The Legislature ought to take action in regard to this matter immediately. The members of the commission should be care- fully selected, and honest, independent men can easily be found to fill the positions if the Legislature will put their names in the bill. Bad as New York city may be, we have not yet come to the condition of Sodom, in which ten j Virtuous citizens were not to be discovered. Then the commission should have power to send for persons and papers, to take testimony, to make arrests and to remove delinquents. The power of appointing, however, should be retained in the hands of the Mayor. At pres- ent all the departments of the city government work independently. The officials are respon- sible to nobody, and it is impossible to remove them. Hence fraud, corruption and incapacity are the rule and integrity the exception. Our plan would remedy all these evils. What member of the Legislature will make himself illustrious by bringing it before the Assembly? Chess by T ph. Ip accordance with our announcement in yesterday's Hanan, play in the pending match between she Philadel- phia and New York (Paulseo’s) Chess Clubs was resumed last evening. As will be seen by @ careful examination of the score, so far ae the game base progressed, the va- =~” pent nied arising bave bey By) and Ca Sab to ecko aheont invertany te fall tine (Rliweh aoe utes) s!!owed for the calculation of each move. A #econd adjournment has in consequeuce become necessary, and the game will be resumed thie byte at seven o'clock. yore, . AND LEDLIB TO THE ARMY OF THR POTOMAC, BTO. Forrnase Mownos, Jan. 11, 1864. ‘The steamer John Tucker arrived this morning from Baltimore with about eighty wounded rebel pritonere, bound to Point Lookout. ‘The Norfolk Old Dominion of to-day says:— Barnes, Getty and Lediie, Nimente tn tbe Army of the " Weitzel will sueceed Govaral Private Wilson B, Kerne, Battery B, Third Pennayl. vania artillery, baa been sentenced by court martial to be shot to death for » ‘The sentence has been approved by General Butter. 2 ts, uo Bae a See (Gre weriving here in jlarge qunyers, IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Repulse of the Mexicans si Morelia. RETREAT OF BOBLADO TO ZACATECAS. Destruction of Public Property at Guanajuate by Doblade’s Forces. Coatemplated Removal of the Juarez Gov: erameat te Monterey, &., Sam Frawomoo, Jan. 11, £664. Dates have been received from the city of Mexico to tho 22d December, and San Luis Potosi and Morelia to December 18. On the 17th General Uraga, with 5,000 Mexicans, at tacked the French army, intrenched at Morelia, and was repulsed with the loss of two thousand killed and wounded, Previous to this disaster Uraga had inflicted conside- rable damage on the french by capturing their supplies. Be proposed to continue @ guerilla warfare, and was gathering reinforcem ents for that purpose. Doblado, before evacuating Guanajuato, destroyed tho Aqueduct, water reservoirs and all the works belonging ‘to the different mines, agricultural implements and grow - ing crops, leaving the country a barren waste. He ro- treated towards Zacatecas, pursued by a division of the Fronch ‘army, Ortega was expected to join Doblado there and give battle to the pursuers. On the 6th the Mexican traitor Tobar, with tureo thousand men, near Guadalajara, was defeated by an equal number of -loyalists under Colonel Rajos. Five hundred prisoners, eight hundred horses and @ large amount of arms and ammunition wero captured by Rajoa. ‘3 . % The impression prevailed at Mexico that Maximilian would be indueed to abandon the throne, and that soma Spanish prince would be substituted for a time, on the condition that France and Spain uphold the new govera- ment. At waa reported that Juarez contempiated moving ths seat of government from San Luis to Monterey, because Of that place being near the United States. His family were already at Monterey. A letter from President Juarez, dated San Luis, Decem- ber 8, received in thjs city, 8ays:—‘Our hopes arefor a speedy termination of your civil war aud the com- plete restoration of the Union. With it no doubt many American soldiers would join us for the purpose of driving from the oil of the American continent the French, with their de- sigos of establishing a monarchy here. Wo know full well that if the United States had not been engaged ia their present struggle uo European potentate would ever have attempted tostrike a blow against republican in- stitutions; but as we are, with God's help, we will try to defend our beloved Mexico, You no doubt will be gome- what surprised at our abandoning our —priocipal cities, leaving them in the hands of the French. Wo think we were right in doing so. Im the frst Place, as @ military viow of the matt ther we can draw them into the interior their base the better, Sy dividing them up and dis- tributing their forces they become weaker aud give ua more power to agsail and destroy them. We don’t in- tend to carry on more than what is classed ag guerilla warfare. Woe are not iu a position to wait for an attack on any of our points by their system of artillery warfare, The French army boing far superior to ours in point o Giscipling, as well as being supplicd with all the modern foventions in gunnery, we would be compelled te suc- cumb eventually in any pitched battle. while, by ha- rassing and destroying their communications, and carry- ing on a roving system of warfaro, like that which the French once experienced in Spain, they eventually will not consider Mexico an bar’ empire to govern.” he, &e. The Re @’Italia. ‘Tho royal Italian iron-clad frigate Re d'Italia was taken in dock at the Navy Yard on Monday evening. Yester- ay a thorough examination was made of her bottom, which resulted in ascertaining that only a few sheets of copper had been scraped off her bottom, an@ that the ‘metal on her keel was torn up. Otherwise the veasel has sustained no injuries. The nails in her copper are not even atarted, and it will require only a few hoars to put her in as good order as before she went ashore. The whole expense of her repairs, &c., will not exceed seven hundred dollars. Musical. ENGLISH OPERA. ‘To-night Mr.’ Harrison’s English Opera troupe will ap- pear at Nibdlo’s Saloon. The opera selected for their dobut in this city is Balfe’s Bohemian Girl, which was Produced by them at the Park theatre, Brooklyn, with great success, The principal artists are all well known to our public—Mme, Borchard, Messrs, Campbell and Castie. THE GERMAN OPERA. The opera of Faust will be repeated this (Wednes- day) evening at the Academy of Music, by the German Opera troupe. The rendition of this opera by Anschutz’s troupe bas been successful, and it is only necessary to @nnounce the fact of its repetition to secure the attend- ‘ance of all the lbvers of its sublime music. woll constructed and exquisitely written little comedy, La Joie Fait Peur—a piece that, without any very exten- sive conventional reputation, is one of the real gems of French dramatic literature. Delicate, pure and perfect in spirit and tone, it would bo good at any’time, but is especially apt just now, since it gives us 80 vivid a pic- Blanche (her daughter), Mathilde de Piorreval, and Noel, an old domes- aoe in br Fae! — at see Ma- dame’s eon ri an officer pay: thought tobave beon lest with his ship. Adrien to Noel alive and well. Noel, : ¥ erly ae eed a eae artiste of han ordinary talent and grace. Skating Intelligence. THE PARK. The thaw of yesterday forenoon has done no damage to the ice im the Park, but instead, has rather improved the surface of the ponds. It bas, however, spoiled the sleighing, and has not improved the ice set ‘apart for the curlers. Botween twenty-five and thirty thousand persons visited the ponds up to dark yesterday, after which they were lighted up, and with the assistance of the partial ‘moonlight made the evening’s skating very pleasant. mt it Setanta hack Laer ea Sei to entirely dispense with the artificial light. i amy growling among the bold Tigers on this occasion they will be growis of satistactiqn, The Sales of Fiye-Twentias, sacttonin mea Sree SSraseki tence ete