The New York Herald Newspaper, January 16, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPIYETOR. tion authorizing him to expend such sums of money as may be necessary to secure their health and comfort. A resolution was then presented empowering the Governor to expend & sum bot exceeding $25,000 for the above purpose, which waa laidover ufider the rules, A resolution was adopted instructing the Judiciary Commi to report upon the expediency of passing a bill viding a State bounty of three hundred doMars for volunteers under the last call of the President, in lieu of the town and county bounties now being paid, after which the Senate adjourned till Monday evening next. In the Assembly the committee having under consideration the bill allowing soldiera in the armies of the United States from this State to vote made a majority report; Mr. Curtis, from the same committee, gave notice that he should present a minority report at an carly day. The bills relative to the sale of lands for taxes and to amend the.State Prison laws were also reported from committees. Notices of bills were given to repeal the act extending trial by jury, to amend the act-allowing married women holding stock in ‘Orrice M. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Conxiz Soogas. WALLACK’S THRATRE, Broadway.—Navat BxGace- SRNTSHOLD KNGLIsH GENTLEMAN Py laine GARDEN, Droadway.—Ticerr or Lxsve Ax, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A Bout ux a Cana Suor—Covstn Cuexay, . NEW BOWERY THE Vasenninx ad Onson— Mvipar. RE, Bowery.—Mazerrd— ON “ASCENSIONLOVE AND BOWERY THEATRE, —Rag Woman axp Her Dooe—Witp Bor or Bonxsta—Konxnt Macarne. BaRNUMS M, Broadway.—Frexca Grane, Giaxt Gi. Giant Bor, Linurerian Kina, Gxx, Gn ant, 24c" Sell Rours, Tioger or LkavaMax. At Sand 73 P MUSEU and asking for the passage of o law or joint resolu- | Cotton BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall. 472 Broade wey.—Erniortan Sonas, Dances, Buucesquas, &.—UNcum Sax Gant. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 4 Broadway —Eruiortam G8 Dancns, £6.—Rainosd EXrLosiox, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway,—Baruers, ‘Varromiaes, Boxexsoues. &c.—Hovsk Taat Jack Buiur. BROADWAY AMPHITHEATER, 485 Broadway.—Gra. | Pe and Eqgirstilax PERFORMANCES. Afternoon and rening HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway." oscorri: RMUROR OF THE UOTRRSE ne OER — NI W EORK MUSRUM OF ANA’ Broadway..: <tuomths and LECIUMEh OMY Me GE ee FOOLEYS OPRRA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Ermorus nas. Da: LESQUES, AC. THE SITUATION. Accounts from the Army of the Potomac last night tates that the reported movements of Stuart’s cavalry are not regarded with any anxiety, as it is not believed that Stuart has force enough to effect ‘any purpose of importance on the right of our dine, “The vexed question of the exchange of prisoners which has been referred to Major General Butler, ‘by being invest d with: full and plenary powers to act according to his judgment, has at last assumed some tangible. shape. On Wednesday last Major John E, Mulford, the efficient Agent of Ex- change, was sent by Genera! Butler to City Point with a flag of truce, carrying with him some highly important documents, bearing on the sub- ject of exchanging our prisoners. In the mean- time, the commanding general has ordered the rebel prisoners to be brought within the lines of his de- partment, to await a release, which he hopes to be able to effect. Our naval correspondence from the blockading ‘squadron off Wilmington contains a detailed ac- count of the chase and destruction by fire of the Anglo-rebel steamer Dare, by the United States steamers Montgomery and Aries, off the coast of South Carolina, thirteen miles northeast of Georgetown Light. She was boarded by boats’ crews from the two vessels, and, as she had grounded in the surf, much danger and difficulty attended the enterprise. ‘The Richmond papers of the 13th report that a Onion Bteamer was blown up and twenty-four prisoners captured in Wilmington harbor, and there is some reason to fear that it was the gun- boat Iron Age, which was reported to be lying ashore, under fire of the rebel batteries, on Mon- day when the supply steamer Newbern left. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a petition was present- ed from Peter Cooper and others, praying that the commutation clause be retained in the Eurol- ment bill. Bills were introduced and referred for an amendment of the Homestead law and to enable “Wisconsin and Minnesota to extend their bounda- wy line. Resolutions of inquiry relative to the Overland Mail failures of the last two months were presented. The bill providing for the payment of all the army officers aud men who have been em- ployed in the Missouri Department, appropriating evcr seven hundred thousand dollars for that pur- pose, was passed. A resolution was adopted re- questing the Secretary of State to transmit a copy of the report presented to the recent International Btatistical Congress at Berlin by Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, the American delegate. The Enrol- ment bill was then taken up, and its consideration consumed the remainder of the session. Amendments were agreed to altering the amount of commutation from $300 to 400; prohibiting enlisted men serving as substi- tates in regiments from any other States than those in which they originally enlisted; providing that persons exempted by physical disability, whose annual incomes amount to one thousand dollars, shall pay three hundred dollars into the ‘Internal Revenue fund, and making persons who have resided one year in the United States, and who have voted at any election, subject to the draft. In the House of Representatives bills were re- ported from the Committee on Commerce making regulations to prevent collisions on water and to regulate the admeasurement of vessels, A report from the Distro} of Columbia Committee showed Shatproper provision had been made to prevent the spread of smallpox, and a resolution was adopted recommending that the city au- ‘thorities of Washington and Georgetown take measures for vaccinating the citizens at their residences. The Committee on Commerce were directed to inquire into the expediency of a law to require hospital dues to be paid on Ameri- can vessels sold in foreign ports. An amendment 4o the postal laws was reported from the Post Office Committee permitting clothing for soldiers ‘to be transmitted through the mails, packages not exceeding two pounds each to pay eighteen cents, and above that weight to be subject to the regu- dations of thé Postmaster General. It was passed. The Senate bill providing for a Second Assistant Secretary of War, anda bill appropriating seven- teen thousand dollars to indemnify the owners of the schooner Glen for illegal seizure, were paased. An amendment was offered to the section of the internal Revenue bill in reference to the ware- housing of spirits. The case of the contested seat of a delegate for Dakota was taken up, and, after some debate, Mr. Jayne was admitted, Mr. Todd, ‘the contestant, being permitted to bring evidence thereafter to substantiate bis claim. The House sthen anjourned to Monday, THE LEGISLATURE. ‘The proceedings in the State Legislature yeater- -Aay were very interesting. In the Senate the bill prohibiting the enlistment of men in this State nto regiments of other States received favorable notice. The Assembly resolutions proposing an samendment to the constitution #0 as to secure to citizens of this State in the military service of thy United Btates the privileges of the elective fran- chise were adopted unanimously. Bills were in froduced to amend the Railroad act relative to the fuaking op of trains, and for rebuilding the locks on the Chemmng and Oneida canals. A message twns received from Governor Seymour in relation do the returning regiments and the conditiop of Ge recruite at the soreral military rendezvous, corporations to vote, to incorporate the Neptune Steamship Association, and to amend the banking law. Bills were introduced relative to the Brook- lyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad, for the efec- tion of @ public market at the foot of East Six- teenth street, in this.city, for the better regulation of the ferries between New York and Staten Island, to prevent extortion in New York and Brooklyn, and to incorporate the Passenger and Baggage Company. The Assembly then adjourned until Monday. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The news from St. Domingo is very interesting. The struggle between the Spaniards and the na- tives seems to be as bitter as ever. Our cor- respondence and extracts are worthy of careful perusal. The latest news from Tangier is to the effect that the two Jews imprisoned there have been re- leased, and that all proceedings against the two Israelites confined at Saffi would be suspended, in accordance with the wishes of the Spanish gov- ernment. Sir Moses Montifiore arrived at Tangier direct from Cadiz on the 11th of December, on’his mission of philanthropy. The reception accorded to him by the inhabitants is described as very én- thusiastic. The entire Jewish congregation of Tangier awaitedihim at the landing and conveyed him tothe town, and various deputations from the Israclites of Tetuan, Arzila, Waggan and Laruche paid their respects to him. On the day of Sir Moses’ arrival the Italian Consul General was in- structed by his government to protect the Jews of the empire of Morocco in case of renewed perse- eution. The American, French and British repre- sentatives had also received instructions to the same effect. It appears that the mission has thus far been successful, and that a wholesome check has been put to the barbarities hitherto exercised towards the Jews in that region. The cables inthe North river of the American Telegraph Company were broken yesterday morn- ing by catching in the anchor of aschooner. In consequence of this accident the wires to Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Washington have to be worked from Jersey City. The wires eastward are all right. The cables will be speedily repaired The Board of Aldermen were in session yester- day. Coxmnnications from the Mayor, in refe- rence tot filthy condition of the Park Barracks and the sprinkiing of gravel on Broadway, were received appropr.:' ceived. referred, The annual estimate of from the Comptroller was re- total foots up $8,013,263 for the yenr (564, against $7,234,950 for 1863. The budget was referred to the Finance Committee, with orders for the printing of twenty-five hundred copies. Mayor ‘Gun- ther also sent in a communication respecting the ventilation of tenement houses, which was re- ferred to the Public Health Committee. A long communication was received from City Inspector Boole, in response to the letter of Thomas N. Carr, Superintendent of Sanitary Inspection, which was disposed of, after some debate, by ordering its publication, together with Mr. Carr’s letter, in the Hzratp and other papers. The nomination of Mr. Ferris as Inspector of vessels in the place of Mr: Andrew Sheehan, removed by the Mayor, was confirmed. The board then adjourned to Tuesday next at two o’clock. The regular meetings will hereafter be on Tuesdays and Fridays. The Colored Relief Committee, of which Genera Jonathan Sturges is treasurer, were to have held @ meeting yesterday for the purpose of raising sufficient funds to pay each colored sufferer by the July riots fifty per cent on his claim; but as the Comptroller had commenced to pay these claims in the morning, no meeting was held. The examination in the case of Mr. Lewis J. Olmstead, of Yonkers, who is charged with being implicated in sending contraband goods to Nassau for the use of the rebels, was commenced yester- day before Surveyor Andrews. Elsewhere will be found a report of the proceedings. No little excitement was created in legal circles yesterday in consequence of the arrest of Malcolm Campbell, the lawyer in the Benjamin contraband goods case. The arrest was made at the instance of Marshal Murray because Mr. Campbell refused to deliver up some papers confided to him by his client. General Dix promptly discharged the peisoner upon the matter coming under his cog- nizance. The United StatesGrand Jury did not not appear in Court to make presentments yesterday, as was expected. Judge Shipman adjourned until this morning at eleven o'clock. James Gayler, an employe in the Post Office, was held to bail yesterday, by United States Commis- sioner Osborn, in the sam of five thousand dollars, ona charge of embezzling letters containing a promissory note, and a Treasury warrant. In the will of Ezekiel Archer, which has been admitted to probate, one thousand dollars is given to the New York Baptist Bible Society, one thou- sand four hundred dollars to the Baptist Home Mission, and two thousand dollars to the Baptist Convention, Surrogate Tacker yesterday decided that $3,900 lying in the city treasury to the credit of James Valeton’s estate belongs to the United States, and not to Valeton’s representatives, the same having been fraudulently obtained from the United States Treasury. The trial of the will of Thomas Holmes, contested on allegations of mental i acity, was yesterday continued before the Surrogate. ‘Theestock market continued strong yesterday, and ad. vanced prices, with large sales, were again the feature of the day. Gold coptinued to increase in value (if we ac- cept the quotations rendered by the operators as the standard) and sold as high as 155%. The money market was oasier and brokers were able to obtain loans to help them along with (heir speculative operations, if not upon better terms, at least with a more accommodating spirit. Exchange was firm aod in good demand at 170%—an ad- vance of three per cent since last week. The rise in gold iaducec * firmer feeling in trade cir. clos yesterday, and in many articles the salos were at correspondingly higher prices. Imported goods were quiet, but held firmer in consequence of the highor rates of exchange. At the Produce Exchange the change was nat radical. Flour and wheat were a@ little higher, but not much. Sales of wheat wore beavy for export. Provisions were less active and rather easier. Cotton was firm. Groceries wore hold bighor, Petroleum was firm under favoraly we frow Burope. Froights were firmer, and tbe festricted the export business ia bread. etal, Woxnunrct News.—The Chevalier Forney, who is getting fat on the run of the govern- ment kitchen at Washington, is out in favor of Abrabam Lincoln for another term, the real meaning of which is four years move to Forney. Mr. Seeretary Chase Treasury Regulations. In connection with the cotton question, our attention has been catled to the new Treasury regulations recently promulgated by Mr. Seere- tary Chase for the guidance of merchants, citi- zens and others concerned in trade in the re- bellious States within the lines occupled by the military forces of the Union. First, we have two grand agencies. Number one, however, will answer our present pur- pose. It is divided into thirteen districts, ex- tending from Wheeling to Natchez, with a special agent in each, to be appointed by and to act under instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury; and each of these agents, with- out limitation, is authorized to appoint bis as- sistants. Then follow the rules and regula- tions, including the classification and prices of permits for trade in the insurréctionary States and disaffected or suspected districts in all the Southwest, from West Virginia and Kentucky to Louisiana. These regulations are 60 com- plicated and so incomprehensible that it would -be folly to attempt to unravel them. It will suffice for the object in view that, in these rules and regulations, Mr. Chase still adheres to his foolish and corrupting system of per- mits, favoritisms and embarrassments in the cotton trade. The Cincinnati Gazette—a leading organ of the republican party—says that “in view of the amount of corruption which has grown up under the. permit system, and the abuses prac- tised by persons charged with the execution of the rules adopted by the Secretary of the Trea- sury, it is frightful to contemplate the great army of officers provided for;” and that there can be no doubt that there will be “under these new regulations, as under the old, the same sickening mass of corruption which bas penetrated every nook and corner of the ingur- rectionary districts;” and that “General Grant will have no reason to ebange the opinion formerly expressed that there can be no honest trade carried on in military districts under any permit system.” General Grant is competent to judge, and he is an honest man. The Gazette goes on to say that “the great source of corruption, a8 we have shown in former articles, is cotton. We have contended that the bringing in of this "staple should be encouraged rather than discouraged, and there- fore there should be no restrictions upon pur- chases, except such as the Commanding General of the department, in a strictly military point of view, might deem necessary; and if be should find it best to deny free trade in the staple, then no one should be allowed to go through the lines to purchase. There should, in aword, be absolute free trade or absolute prohibition. There is no middle ground that will not foster corruption—that will not lead to the bribery of all corruptible officers, mili- tary and civil. If, then, there can be free trade in cotton, without damage to the military in- terests, let there be free trade. It will not help the rebels to exchange greenbacks for cot- ton. Every bale of cotton brought out is equal to three hundred dollars in gold. Heavy receipts of cotton, therefore, would help the national finances, lessen the expenses of the government and the people, by depreciating the prices of goods, and furnish something to ship to Europe instead of coin. Anything, certainly, is better than a system which grants to men who bid highest roving commissions to plunder.” These are sensible views, and, coming as they do from @ prominent administration or- gan, they ought to command the attention of President Lincoln; for we presume that he has left this business entirely at the discretion of Mr. Chase, and that Mr. Chase has his own Presidential axes to grind. But what does this game of his of creating “a great army” of offi- cial dependants and favorites in his manage- ment of this cotton trade cost the country? Millions upon millions of dollars that might be saved. Honest men are defrauded, treacherous informers are enriched by tens of thousands of dollars in a single operation, dishonest officials are bribed by rogues, and in every possible way cotton owners and shippers, the govern- ment and the taxpayers of the North are cheated through the working of these cotton regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. How much of the cotton captured by our armies and sent forward to market has run’ through the gauntlet of these Treasury agents as the property of thg United States? We have no means of judging; but, when an intel- ligent Western editor of the party church of Mr. Chase denounces this business as “‘a sicken- ing mass of corruption,” we have reason to fear that the government is fleeced from New Or- leans to New York. ‘ This matter demands the intervention of Congress and the passage of a law providing f6r free trade in cotton, payable in greenbacks, subject only to the simplest regulations of trade, and a government tax of so much per bale. With the opening of the spring cam- paign our advancing Western armies will. doubtless open the way to large stores of cot- ton, and Congress should provide for bringing it to market as cheaply and rapidly as possible, Why hesitate to invite sales even from rebels? Our greenbacks, in rebel hands, wil] operate to bring on the final collapse of the paper money system of Davis as surely as the cotton will strengthen our Treasury. Let the House of Rep- resentatives, by way of a beginning, appoint a special committee of inquiry into the practi- cal working of Mr. Chase’s cotton regulations, the results of which are described as “a sicken- ing mass of corruption,” and the necessity for a law upon the subject, we have no doubt, will soon be made manifest. : A Ron ms Pickie ror Govenxmext Contrao- tors.—One ef the best measures introduced in Congress this seasion is the resolution of Mr. Washburne investing the Committee on the Conduct of the War with power to cxamine into all contracts made or that shall be made ap te the time of the committee’s making its report. Armed with authority to meet during the ses- sion or in the recess, and to sené for persons and papers, it will be difficult for any sus- pictous operation to escape its notice, provided the committee be thorough and honest in its investigations. Of course the efficiency of the committee will very much depend on the ele- ments of which it is to be composed; but, as all parties will have to be appointed on it to give it © complexion of fairness, it out to work well for the public interests. A body like this, sitting en permanence, cannot but exercise @ wholesome influence over both government officers and contractors. When the Jatter find that detection Is prompt and punishment oer- tain they will make up their minds that hon ealy is the beat policy. The Border RaMi on the Nomf< mation of General Grant. The savageness displayed by some of the Western papers in discussing men and matters connected with the nomination of General Graut for the Presideney presents a striking but characteristic feature of the idiocracy of tbe violent preas of that section when any measure is proposed calenlated for the good of tho country and not originating with themselves. This is the Kansas border ruffianism of 1854 and 1855, with all its bleody and ferocious ad- juncts and detailsyapplied to what should be the more mild and peaceful disputations of the present day. It is the sentiment that actuated the Jim Lane and Stringfellow and Quantrell massacres and incendiarism of other and late periods transmitted to a question of present political necessity, and one of the highest mo- ment to the American people. We will take the Chicago Tribune as @ type of this san- guinary class of Western newspapers. It repre- sents the border ruffian press bettor than any other sheet whose existence now occurs to us. This paper fulminates its decrees against ali who interfere with the workings of its own political machine with an audacity that would be amusing were it not that, being incapable of good, it may be productive of much evil and mischief to the country. With true bor- der ruffian spirit and instinct the Tribune and papers of its class would gut the throat of a citizen who should declare his own preferences for a candidate for the Presidency—would plant a bowie knife under the fifth rib of one who should dare to nominate a candidate not of their own choosing, and would shoot an en- tire regiment if the election of such candidate should be advocated with spirit and inde- pendence. What right have you, demand these border ruffian prints, to select a candidate for the Presidency without consulting us? What right bave you to opinions of your own on the subject? This is the spirit now animating the Trilune and exhibited toward those who have brought forward General Grant for the Presidency; and its denunciations are echoed by all the border ruffian prints within the cir- cle of its influence. But mark you: of all this savageness, all this bitterness, of all this vindictiveness and bloodthirstiness, not a word is levelled at General Grant himself. These border ruffian prints let that hero slide, and try to tomahawk his advocates. Thisis but another of the cow- ardly practices of the border ruffians of former days reduced to Western jour- nalism of the present. They dare not assail a prominent object with the danger of defeat and discomfiture; but they prowl and skulk around, and, assassin-like, attack their victims when they believe they can do so with impunity. But, in the present instance, they have found they are attacking a position fast becoming impregnable, and that the more the friends and supporters of General Grant are assailed the more earnest and spirited becomes their advocacy of his merits and his fitness for the high station*to which it is proposed to ele- vate him, They dare not question his ability, his strength of mind and character, his pre- eminent patriotism, his splendid successes in the field and Bis universal popularity. They know tbat his star is a lucky one, and that it will shine as brilliantly in the Cabinet as it bas shone in the camp. They would rejoice in his nomifiation had they had the making of it themselves, and they would sing loud hosannas upon his election should it be procured by their own wirepulling, underhand, underground, corrupt means. But not baving hed a hand in bringing him forward—not having made private bargains among themselves about the distribu- tion .of public offices upon his election—not having settled the policy of his administration with regard fo the war and the nigger, and the foreign, financial and jobbing and contract questions that will arise—in short, not having been consulted in the matter at all, these bor- der ruffian prints of the West, seconded by the State prison prints of the Kast, are attacking, with all the venom they possess, those who have presented his name independently to the people, and are honestly and conscientiously urging him onward to the Presidential chair. We caution these violent presses to exercise a little. more circumspection unless they wish themselves and the greedy horde of public plunderers they represent to be laid out in the cold, stiff and stark, about the 4th of March, 1865. Nor a Brr Berrer.—We sce that the legisla- tive tinkers at Albany are hammering away at a new draft of a charter for the city of New York, intending to divide and sub-divide the government into we hardly know how many departments. This will not better our condi- tion a bit. Legislators may work until dooms- day upon projects to purify the city of official corruption, but they can effect nothing until they begin to legislate upon the proper mode of getting honest men into office. With honest and honorable men at the head of the execu- tive departments, or with a board composed of citizens of irrepproachable character invested with censorial powers, the city may be re- deemed from official wickedness, The form of the city government may be changed every day in the week; but no good can come of it unless the character of the men who wield offi- cial power is changed for the better. Tuy “Must anv Suati.”—The late New Hampshire Democratic Copperhead Convention has resolved that “the rights of the ballot box must and shall be maintained, even if it be ne- eessary to resort to arms.” Now we dare say that not a solitary man of these New Hampabire copperheads bas ever been denied his rights of the ballot box, or has any fear that he over will be. Why is it that these would-be democrats can never be brought to repeat in these days, word for word, old Hickory’s “must and shall?” — “By the Eternal! the Union must and shall be preserved.” This comprehensive “must and }. shall” laid out the copperheads in our Iast year's State elections, and against it all this unmean- ing claptrap of “the ballot box” is simply dis- gusting. Tas Nowance or tax Pare Barracas.—It fs to be hoped that the parties responsible. for the shocking nuisance of the City Halt Park Barracks will be brought to justice; bu’, in the meantime, the firat thing required for decenoy and humanity’s sake is the abatement of the mitisance. Let the nuisance be first abated; for then it-will be time enough to inquire who created it, pe abe te PU “Mis Quer Aono tae Lives.”—This is the unvatying report from our armies, Kast and West. We guess, howevor, that this prevailing M@onotony will be broken before long; and, as usual, it is probable that General Grant will | soapon the ball, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1864, [ Rexovat or tue Carrrar.—Th® question of the removal of the seat of the nati: ‘nal legisla- ture to @ more secure and central pos¢ion than Washiigton wilt, we trust, receive dud atten- tion from Congress this session. The events pf the past three years have added unansworable force to the arguments of the advocates of the measure, If it had. not been for the constant state of alarm in which the goverment has been Kept for the safety of Washington the large army with which we havo been gompelled to protect it could have been employed with effect in putting down the rebell'on. The reasons which led to the selection of Washington as the capital of the nation have long since ceased to have any force, whilat the inconveniences and disadvantages connected with it have been yearly increasing. Thore are few persons now who will be found to argue that legislation has benefited anything by the freedom from metropolitan influences which is supposed to exist there. On the contrary, public opinion is found to exercise leas force NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL’ Skating Carnival—The Albany Skaters to Give an Entertainment for the mefit of the Sanitary Commission—so! diers Voting Bill—Market im the Kigh- ard—Pasenger and Baggage Ferry—The Ve= tion—A Caucus Police Commis. terans om Monday Next 0 sioners, d&c., sic. ‘Tho managers of the ,Van Renssolner skating park gave 4 graud cutortainment ¢athe citizons.of Albany last even. ing in the shape of a skating caruival. The park, which covers about six acres, wes illumipated with Chinese lamps and torches. In the oa ntre of the park was a pyra- mid of snow, with torches of sthe “Wide Awake” style snow , were white and blue the point of (ho pyramid. The entire park was encircled with these lighta,'the outer edge being festooned with the red, white and blue lanterng, pa‘esenting altogether a charming scene, Tho park was crowded with ekalaors, old and young. Many of them wore exceedingly skfifal. From opriy than it would do were the proceedings of Con- gress to take place under the eye of a refined and intelligent community. Tt will be useless for sectional jealousics to resist any longer the removal of the national legislature to New York. It is the natural ospital, ag it is the great commercial and po- litical centre, of the country. The business of legislation will gravitate as inevitably in this direction as does that of trade, because here it will find the associations that are indispensable to it. Asa matter of personal convenience to members, it cannot be denied that New York is now, owing to its railroad and water facili- nothing compared to the moonlight seeves on the Van Ronsaclaor Park, at the State Capital, ow carnival nights, The managers of tho park intend, at am early to ive an entertainment for the benoit of ‘ mmission, and thus turn the amusement of akating fo the aid of our soldiers. kato for such a noble cause? ‘The bill that paased the Legislature last winter and was vetoed by tho Governor providing a mode for tho gol- dors in ba artay 40 vous by letter and prey, wane mittee this wroiog oud refarred. Mr, . New York, a member of the committee, gave no- 2 report. republicans at this time, afraid of the result of the constitutional amendment ition to this bill is the ties, easier reached than aay otber city in tho | {orevne penne, THe great, opie aoe Tk is Union. pot to be wondered at that it should be ssog' foe lation that will furnish the best opportuaity lent transactions appears to be the most popular : mn law makers. It is impossible to see good reason for preasing tnat bill at this What should be done is to provide 8 special election, to be held at an early day, and then the passage of ‘necessary Jaw to carry the amendment of the constitution into effect, provided that it is endorsed by the people. This bringing forward the measure of last year, with all its loopholes for fraud, is certainly and can have no other effect than to embitter portion the people, when it is the duty of all to pull the common cause of our country until the crushed and the Union once more restored. Among the bills introduced io the Assombly this morn. ing affecting New York elty interests was ove by Mr. Salamon, to appoint commissioners to construct a market on the Lowbor estato, in the Fighteonth ward, It au- thorizes the issue of bonds by the city of New York: to the amount of $250,000 for that purpose, the bonds to mature in 1895. ‘The city now owns the lots where it is proposed to rect this market, but they are rented out as a ship- yard. It iz stuted on good authority that the city does not receive a cent of the rent, The demang for up town markets has become anoted feature, and one that deserves attention. But an important question arises bore: shall the city sink any more money tn erecting i rents of which are all eaten up by officials to look after them, or will it not be much* better for all concerned for the city to dispose of the present markets and let them be managed by a company, ina similar manner to those fa Philadelphia? Io that manper up town markets can be erected without any expense to the city. 4 Now York ier was annual iM Let Cengress, therefore, take the matter in hand, and consummate as soon as possible the arrangements for the removal of Congress and the government departments to this city. There are séveral magnificent sites in the vicinity which could be easily obtained for the buildings necessary for their accommodation. Among these perhaps the most secure and desirable is Washington Heights, both from the ease with which it could be defended in case of an invad- ing force attacking the city, and its facilities of access both by land and water. Such a disposition of this suburb would preserve it from the vandals who are now trying to dis- figure and destroy it, and would preserve it to us with all its present attractions enhanced and beautified. aie H Ovr Navy—Fast Sars.—The performances of English built steamers, as compared with those of our navy, on which so much money is being lavished, is occasioning a great deal of surprise and disquietude. It is argued, and naturally, that there must be something radi- cally wrong in the system on which contracts are given out by the department, when it can- not obtain vessels of first class speed. The Collins’ steamers made over thirteen knots an hour with full freight, and since they were built great improvements. have been effected ‘The Passenger and Roggage bill for introduced this morning. It is the regular . and has been here regularly for several years past. A Dill was also presented to charter s new ferry between Staten Island and New York. But little was done in the Senate this morning of any note. The Assembly adjourned at an early hour, to give the Veterans of the War of 1812 an opportunity’ to hold ® con- vention, Thoy commencod their session at noon, Van Rensselaer, the commander: in chief, calling thom to order, making all the motions, putting them and deolar- ing them good suggestions. There is about the appearance of this handful of patriots something that forces sll to look upon them with reverence—their gray bair thom. = a or nay eceeiiers and tns' of office rank upon a shoulders, rare, curious and ancient, it is hard: to tell which present the most Inughable ‘scene on dress veterans of 1812 or FalstsiPs celebrated recruits, The Police Commissioners contest is still in states There is considerable talk about names, but none in the construction of sea going steamers. In and advanced axe, fntermingied with ie, idea that in ir you! ‘éntere defend their a recent controversy between two well known county. ageiont foreign foe, Dut with all the reverence engineers it is stated—and the experience | that their age and circumstances of early life arouse in of = ay ee bears out the as- ing presente» acon mo that real by Tad. the cole sertion—that our na’ a rs (two or | brated army of Falstatt. A ack appear 08 SBis Cesa- = é9 .: ion are: all als and colonels—no privates three excepted) cannot Tun nine,knols @o bout. | then hele i Instead of making progress in naval construc- tion, we are, it appears, advancing backwards, like the tortoise. In the. meanwhile we have i the mortification of seeing the English ship- ‘agreed upon further than heretofore reported. builders effecting a steady improvement in Ss ‘are to have acaucus next Monday aight for the purpose of deciding upon names. Vatil thea there the speed of their vessels and casting all our previous performances in this way into the shade. In a recent trip the Scotia made the run from Sandy Hook to Cape Clear in seven and three-quarter days, from New York to Queenstown in eight days, and the entire passage from New York to Liverpool, including all detentions, under eight days and twenty- one hours—being the fastest passage across the Atlantic ever accomplished by any steamship. The City of New York, an English screw ship, has since made the trip trom this port to Queenstown, deeply loaded, in eight days and sixteen hours—an average speed of fourteen knots an hour. And yet the Navy Department, with an unlimited command of resources, can neither build nor procure to be built vessels that will make an average speed of nine knots. It is time for Congress to look into this matter. It cannot be pretended that our shipbuilders are inferior to those of England, for we have abundant evidence to the contrary. Our de- ficiencies are therefore owing either to inca- pacity in the heads of the department or to causes that are still more discreditable. ion taken. Coart of A; alse ae Jan. NY, 15, The following 1s the calendar of the Court of for Saturday, January 16:—No8. 60, 62, 68, 62, 66, 68, 69, 70. Rumered Rebel Foray on an Arkansas Ballway. % Camo, Iil., Jan. 16, 1864. will beno acti > 66, OF, i? between Duvall’s Bluff and Little Rock, and injared the road to such an extent as to causo the destruction of the next train and the loss of the lives of many passengers, - Theatre Francais. M. Juignet’s artists undertook *last Tuesday ¢vening aa ardaous task—the representation of Emile Angier’s cele brated comedy Les Eirontes, which has had such an immense run {a Paris and t France, This play igo hit at society as It exists at present in that country, and, from the commencement of the first act until the fall of the curtain upon the termination of the last aot, abeunds iu epigrams, satire and keen, cutting attacks upog: the vicious atate of the most polished, most polite people in the world. Tiris comedy is a chef d’euvre tn its com- position, is daring tn its developments, and contains ng role but which requires an actor of talent aud expertened for the t wished artista to the world, and it taxed to” thew n their gromt talent it. t's troupe is not a fa hauleur of this: Tok that ho makes a tlstake fa Bang M and we ven on the occasion of a benefit, when it is fe gd ‘mgual attraction should be offered. We lack space to give asynopsis of the piays, which is an agg! character Joun Butt mv Rrcumonp.—The Richmond cor- respondent of the London Times, in his last doleful letter, which has recrossed the Atlantic, says that if the rebel Congress, “which, it must de owned, has’ hitherte shown little grasp or earnestness or capacity, fails to rise to the height of the great argument before it, then may be expected such misery ag upon earth Has never yet been known.” But what is required 6f this rebel Congress to prevent this unexampled misery? Only three things; but three ‘things which Jeff.’s Congress could not supply if it possessed all the wisdom of the four quarters of the globe. These three things are:—First, a passable rebel paper cur- rency—as difficult # job as the filling with water a tub from which the bottom has been knocked out; second, large reinforcements to the, rebel armies from half a dozen States ts M eloe, Tuere are but rv sodogming fossares= tainted with vice. are! ‘one a young and artiese girl, Clemence (iin aber, and Heory (faye), her brother; but even the latter morais which would atrtce us as far from sound. He honest, howover, and adores his sister, and \s_ made instrument whereb; goto mag the play, Ve in his plang. Marquis d'Aubevine, a member of (Chat, is detent rf regent stato of od ag the the ai oblesse, Who despises the p society in Franco and seeks to corrupt the it may appoar as depraved as was the nobility they at- tacked so furiously during the Revolution, was Dot as #ue- coasiul in this role ag be generally is. Flo lacked the sar- castic but polite finish of the old nobieman’s manner, Mr. Chol, as the tricky speculator, Vernouillet, pinyed well; bat, like M. Juignet, he had @ too formid vole Mr. Gravier, as the Housman journalist (Gtboyer) bad no: & perfect conception of the part, He was too ancoute. A mao who has received @ thorough col education could never be so rude. We-romomber that Got, the celebrated artist in Paris who undortook thie Drasqueries of @ disappointed, unlucky adventerer, thore atl were ‘the ices of & superior tntelligenes. a Gravier also talks too much to the audiences. was, already exhausted by merciless conscriptions | sp:te: of those blemishos, very successful. Roche, Ci of their able-bodied men; third, forced army |, Sharrier, was very Muster Polator, aa the vitta, contributions fro the people of these half Sip por hag A C nets ae Hived m4 dozen States, when thoy themselves are throny hia role sutistactoily uty (A ae coctagiy wel aod waa noe tie wpeats Gs This is “the height of the great argument’ to which this Engliah philosogher in Richmond exhosts the rebel Congress. Sach are the ravings of John Ball on an empty stomach. tinetly and mi careful hort anual gracetul and artic’ manner or condingt} taste. Thesame may be sald of Sia ‘toet? Sou ms Stwa Smo Pamoy.—The Board of Tuspectors of State.| ever, that this lady was bene = Me a covers aid. Prisons bave appointed Mr. Thomas £. Sutton, of Morrisa. dee baving Tteets ‘ore ee nia, Agent and Warden of the Sing Sing prison, in place |, of Mr. Hubbell, resigned. His appoingment will date |, feom February 1. . of Chis matoh ganee in yesterday's Hanato, for 14, Ainth dove, printed @ B to K B.S," read 0.8 to K DG," ———$—$—$—_—$_{ That portion of Dr, Sayre’s report ia. which thi - ‘mont is made that T bad a ae ance Cy ible super! joers— Grane Cay aad Coneel Dit-and demanded redres,” ta iheorrect in that particular part whore Gen. Canby and a ‘ate. 5 ——— of the Ronaishlaor County United States Navy Paymaster of , recently mune tn’ Charleston Fulton. Lieut. Colonel Avery, of tho One teers, who lont %Ad Second Now York Volun tho fo arrived im of Mon Gheaber anaauilt — Lookout Tast Novem’ Dix, who, tue el 8 repor! by “ai offtcor this city Inst night, accompanied byjhis Vending surgeon, re eeiaral of (he § prunes. sabe ricesd c H ‘a. ine rogimont will ‘ming fow days, (ho,srdor for J.B. BUAYVELT, 4. A. Gurgeon, Park Barracks, having re