The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1864, Page 4

4 Ww YORK HERALD. nN JAMSS GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETO! Ovriot H.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash to advance, Monoy sout by mail will be ‘St the rik of the sender. Nono but bank bilia current in Now York token. THRE DAILY HERALD, Taren couls por copy. TOK WERRLY HERALD, ovory Saturday, ai Five cents Per copy Aupual subscription price — - $2 5 8 oe td Avy turgor aumber, addreasod to names of subscribers, Bi GO cach. An extra copy will bo sant to every club of NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1864. to press. The steamship Ariel, from Aspinwall, N. G., passed Sandy Hook about twelve o'clock last night, bound up. She has not arrived at her dock at the time we go to press. We are in possession of Mexican papers, containing very important news, from the republic of Mexico. a large number of forces have not accomplished very important re- some prisoners and killed some Mexicans, but their road to empire is still as difficult as it has ever been. The soldiers of France in Mexico were beginning to be wearied of this fruitless campaign. La Cuestion Estrangera (a paper published in San Luis Potosi), gives all the latest news, most of which has been antici- ceived. The next arrival from Vera Cruz at Hook, at eleven o'clock tast night, ‘bound in, but | will render the silence of bia adherents equally | with profit; for Lamar adds:—‘Such operations has not reached the city at the time of our going | fatal to him and to them; for in the interval to} belp us and our government, too; it helps to the national party convention the outapokon | break down their currency.” ©. A. L. Lamar organs, State Conventions and Legislatures of | writes from Londop to his father, in regard to “Old Abe” will leave his Secretary high and | the rebel agents in England:—“It is impossible dry on a lee hore. Briefly, Mr. Lincoln will be the regular varied, though not | Ominee of bis party. He is in the field, and he has the reins of the party in bis bands According to these accounts the French invading | What, then, are bts prospects? He will enter the canvass as the responsible embodiment of sults, They have burnt a few towns, captured | all the blunders, follies and corruptions of bis administration; and upon ita merits and de- merits the battle will be fought. In this sharply defined contest all the opposition ele- to conceive by anything I might write—though you have, a I know, a liberal opinion of them on that subject—the amount of swindling going on all the time, and conducted by government agents. Caplain Bullock is the only one whose name is untarnisbed. Some of them have made large fortunes. One has @ summer residence out of London and a winter one just out of Paris, bought, itis eaid, and presented to him by the house of Isaac Campbell & Co. ments and all the disappointed politicians and | That he is living at the rate of $35,000 a year cliques of the country may be readily fused against him; and if combined upon such a can- tionably carry the day. In any other event, Timagine there can be no doubt. With such financial agonts to negotiate, and auch agents pated by telegraphic intelligence previously re- | didate as General Grant they can unques- | te make the expenditures, how is the govern- ment credit to atand?” How, indeed! Wecom- ton. Twonty coptes, to one address, one year, $25, 824 | Havana will doubtless bring us very interesting | with Mr. Lincoln as the regular administration | mend these financial letters and the letters ‘uy largor number at same price, An extra copy will be | news concerning the progress of the French and party candidate, we can only’ venture to pre- | about the purchases of boats to the special at- went to clubs of twonty, These rales make the WEEKLY Hina the cheapest publication in the country. Tuo Evaorgax Epmion, every Wodnosday, at Frvg cents per copy, @4 per annum tw any part of Great Britain, or ©G b any part of the Continoat, both to include postage. ‘Tho Caszrorma Eprriom, on the 34, 13th and 234 of each month, at Sx conte per copy, or 63 per annum. " Anexermuacner, 10 4 Usnited number, will be inserted | York Hospital. The premises burned were occu- | the jw tho Wexxiy Hiagat, and in the Furopean and California Battions VOLUNTARY CORRESPONDENCE, containing tmport- ant pews, solicited from any quarter of the world; if used, ‘3POS AND PACKAGES SENT US. NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We 40 aot return rejected communications. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. ACADBMY OF MUSIO, Irving Piaco.—Grawan Orera— ‘Taxnmanuser, MIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coxnu Soocan. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas CLaxpmstixe Marmiagr pmunree GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticeer ov Leave a. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway —A Bout in 4 Cains Suor—Mazuera. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.~Mazerra— Caro—Au. tax Worp's 4 Stace. BOWERY TARATRE, Bowery —Raa Wi bet ‘Lore Lovet—Joan Worrs Hangs aati tas BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Faexca ae, Giant Gree, Gurr Bor, ‘Lunurertan Kino, Gan, ho Bh gies a at ours. Tiouwr or Luave Max. At Sand 732 BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad. per garmorun Songs, Daxoms, Buaesquus, &c,—UNcLE jam GRANT. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, Ki Broad =I Gongs, Dances. &c.—Rarrei oe Bxrvosos. ss aie al AMBBICAN THEATRE, 44 Bi Pacrouncs, B Ma ger way.—Bauuers, oRLasgues, &c.—Hovss Taat Jack Buiit. BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 69 Broadwav.—Gru- ano Bqumsratan Pumroguances. Afternoon and HOPR OHAPEL. 718 Rrosdway.—Tas on Mimaoa or run Ceres canyceaenncny eal BT. NIOf ALL, Broad =! Falk OLAS Hi, Bi jway.—Mirnor or tae Re- KEW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 61! Broadway. Cumounes an Lacrouse. toate, unr ae BOOLETS OPRRA HOUSE, Brookiya.— Foros, Dances, Buninsopme bo pat aerate: ry 17, 1864, w York, Sunday, J: THE SITUATION. We publish to-day some very curious, interest- fing ond significant rebel correspondence captured on ono of the blockade runners. It contains let- fers from several parties in New York, and treats of quite & variety of subjects, including “free love, ie powder, whiskey and steel plated ships, the transfer of the South to France, god other pecaliar notions which have entered into ‘the heads of the rebels and their sympathizers. We commend the correspondence to the attention of our readers. It will give a good insight into | tween President Lincoln and Mr. Secretery dead.” Trowbridge sums up ber character in | the varied machinery which the rebel agente have been operating with in the North and elsewhere. Tho Rishmond journals of the 15th state that a | Seward and Thurlow Weed, goes for President form him to the contrary, 1 keep shady on the lively shelling of Charleston had been kept up H pince Guosday, and that two new Parrott guns | pad boen unmasked by our troops at Battery Gregg. A large number of transports filled with our Aroopa hed been seen going South; but the rebels mre unacquainted with their destination. It is aid, however, that an increased fleet has been ob- served at Hilton Head. The rebel papers also say that Gencral Mosby is still harassing the Union Jines, but was badly beaten near Harper's Ferry lately, and suffered considerable toss—a fact which we before stated. Wo perceive by despatches from Fortress Mon- | roe that two of the Heravv’s army correspon- dents, Messrs. George H. Hart and L. A. Hen- dticks, who had been captured by the rebels some time since, Have been released, and arrived under a flag of truce at Fortress Monroe yesterday. Beporis (com the Army of the Potomac repre- Pout the greatest discontent and hopelessness of the cause to exist inthe rebel lines. Our troops sro in fino condition aad spirits, and the weather | excellent. Some movements on the part of the enemy have given rise to the belief that they medi- tate s new movement. Despatches from St. Louis yesterday state that the rebels in Arkansas are suffering severely from tho cold, and that deserters are coming into the Mexican arms in this struggle of Mexico for life or death. F A very destructive fire occurred last night at No. 146 Duane street. The end wall fell, crushing to death two firemen. One was a member of No. 42 (steam engine), named George W. Burridge; the other, Thomas Moran, one of the insurance pied on the upper stories by Auffmordt, Hessen- of British goods. The total loss is estimated at about $250,000—no doubt covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is not known; we give an account of it elsewhere. The hearing of the Olmstead case was resumed highly interesting character. We refer to another part of the paper for a verbatim report of the pro- ceedings. ° An interesting case, involving the custody of a the Supreme Court. By a,singular coincidence, it appears that while the claimant is a cousin of the rebel General Robert E. Lee, the respondent is a cousin of the Union General McClellan, and that at the identical time the Generals were fighting at Antietam the cousins were hotly engaged in a suit at law for the custody of their offspring. dict the most bitterly contested, the fiercest and the most dangerous Presidential atruggle in the history of the country. The intercepted Rebel Correspon- @ence. teation of our readers. They will see the tricks and dodges of the rebel speculators clearly revealed, and will learn how the pow- der speculation turned out a humbug, how the cotton speculation failed, and how the We ‘publish this morning @ large batch of | rebel loan. speculation broke dowa. They blockade from Washington. These lettera show that the of free lovers, ewindlers and specula- tors, always upon the lookout for a chance to patrol. The bodies were conveyed to the New | Tebel correspondence, captured upon one of | Will also be further informed in regard to our. | runners and sent to us | Custem House traitors hy Smith, St. George’s, Bermuda, who has the im- burg & Co., importers of cloths. The first floor | rebel agents, both at the North and in Europe, | pudence to write:—“I have facilities for getting was occupied by Fairchild & Fanshawe, importers | are o set almost anything from New York, and, if I can dispose of the cargo I now have here, iatend to letter from Frank | make a little money,.and always waiting, like | 90d an order to a fore'gn house in Now). Micawber, for something to turn up. By their York—who are acting for me—to purchase either own perfectly free and easy and impartial | the Margaret and Jessie or Cornubia (captured child, has just been decided by Judge Barnard, of | the most interesting to our readers. are pretty fair representatives of the bogus yesterday, and the developments made are of a | #ccounts of themselves and each other they lately) when they are sold. I think they ean be bought cheap, and there is no trouble in confederacy over which the honorable and | getting them out.” All this our readers will illustrious Jeff. Davis presides. The letters from New York will be, perhaps, were written bya Mr. N.C. Trowbridge, who appears to have passed last summer at Glen Cove, and who was a frequenter of the Claren- don Hotel. Who in the world is this Trow- bridge? Does anybody know anything about him? Is Judge Busteed acquainted with him? It was Humphrey Ayres, an employe in the Post | Whoever he may be, his letters show that he Office, who was arrested on a charge of embezzle- was a sort of general agent for the rebels. ment, and not James Gayler, as was erroneously | He made his living by speculating in gold, as reported. Mr. Gayler is the acting special agent of the Post Office Department, and it was through him that the fraud was detected and Ayres brought to justice. ‘The share market continued strong yesterday, with a tendency to further advance in prices. The gold ex- change was in a state of ferment—and the premium was pushed up to 58—an advance of 21; over the highest price obtained on Friasy—and large sales were made, Government securities were steady at previous prices, the seven and three-tenths Treasury notes standing’ at 10634 8 107. Money was comparatively easy; but in { some cases usurious interest was demanded and ob- tained. ‘There was very little change in the genera) aepect of commercial affairs on Saturday. As usual, comparative- ly little business was done, save in a few leading articies of merchandise. The trafic in goods dealt in on Change was fair, the favorabie influence exerted by the Scotia's’ } news being still fet. Some articles were rather lower, | but the business in the aggregate was pretty large. Gro- ceries were steady. Cotton was without decided change. Petrolevm was more active and firmer. Freigbts were | active and very rm. The Next Presidency—Trouble Administration Camps. There is some trouble in the different camps of the administration party in reference to the next Presidency. The Hprarp, in advocating the claims of General Grant to a popular sup- | port as an independent candidate, has stirred up the managing politicians of “the powers | that be” from New Hampshire to Kansas. We’ speculations in gold, dealings | have smoked them out; we have compelled bridge’s letters were directed to the care of them fo show their hands, and tke develop- ments thus made are exceedingly interesting and suggestive. Thue we find that the administration, to- ' gether with the party supporting the adminis- tration, ie ‘a bouse divided against iteelf,’ be- Chase. The conservative wing of the party, such as it is, under the management of Mr. Lincoln. The main body of the radical faction. under the lead of Greeley, goes for Mr. Chase. But, as we bave heretofore suggested, there is a powerful German republican element in the West which is fully prepared to carry the standard of General Fremont through the ordee) of a acrub race; while, according to the latest expositions of Wendell Phillips, Genera) Butler will be more acceptable to the radical New England abolitionists than any other man. One little fact, like a chip on the water, will serve to show which way the tide is drifting in regard to the contest between President Lin- siastic resolutions of the late New Hampebire Republican State Convention in bebalf of the conspicuously noised abroad by the Albany Journol (the special organ of Mr. Seward end Thurlow Weed), while these same resolutions have received no more attention from the Ni Pratt, the great American traveller,” or Colo- rado Jewett, the great fusey international me- diator. Thie means that Greeley and bis clique are contemplating the same game witb Mr. Lingoln in 1864 that was so successfully played against Mr. Seward in 1860. And are not the provocations of these anti- Seward radicale sufficient to justify this course? Union liges in large numbers, declaring that they believe the rebel cause to be lost. 4 feht between part of Colonel MeCook's cavalry Bad the Bighth Bd od > ~ ae - meats, at Mossy Creek, Tenn , occurred on the 12th. Fourteen of the rebels were killed and forty-oue prisoners taken. CONGRESS. In the Seuate yesterday a petition was present- 4 from citizens of New York praying that unna- Luralived residents be oot exempted from the Graft. Nearly the entire day's session was taken Op in & continuation of the debate on the Enrol- Mont bill, and amendments were agreed to pro- Viding that veterans re-enlisting shall be credited Ao the districts from which they originally joined the service; that commutation money shall be ap- plied to filling the quotes of districts in which it 4a paid, and that colored troops shall be credited 40 the States from which they enlist. An amend- ment authorizing the President to call out one | } Anundred thousand volunteers for one dundred | interest of MraCbase, and interested also ins) paid bim well. Gaya, for the apecial service of driving the rebels eat of Virginia, was discussed and Snally rejected. ‘The Senate adjourned without taking further ao- tion of importance on the bill. The Nouse of Representatives was not in session TOON: seraCELLANROUS NEWS. ‘Tho United States steamship Vanderbilt, from a eruiae in, pursuit of the rebel pirates, passed Sandy Has not “Honest Old Abe” been playing with them all these two or three yenre past ae an amiable cat plays with «foolish mouse? Has be Dot dedibegate)y sailed to makg any satjefactory atonement for the removal of Fremont? Have not the radicals become pa disgusted with “Qlg ape’™ Mirious cetelenmént of the Mie- souri muddle? Do they not find hie Jate procia- mation of an amnesty a sort of Trojan boree! Doee not Mr. Chase, en the contrary, endorse the whole abolition programme without quali- fication, reservation or embarrassing proviso’ These questions carry their own anewers along | with them. Accordingly it is the came of the radicals to set aside the limping and uncertain Mps Lincoln for the decided and positive Mr. base. But tc do this they must be permitted, with their sapp°Ts and miners, to work on in silence until their plans are matured; because it might | in a number of speculations—cotton, Confede- | These speculations | per organ in the be dangerout to any news federal spoils aif.! plunder, to begin now to | blow his trampét to ,the prejudice of bie master | Greeley, therefore, hoy es that the agitations of | Foote, Bowers and reli. the Presidential questio.? Will be deferred till Joly next! for he k,10WS that, should he begin now to agita’@ the j of Mr. Chase, he weuld be speedily de- claime many other men of his calibre have done, and took a special interest in the purchase of Ken- tucky colts and Kentucky whiskey. This brand of whiskey was once said to be patron- ized by General Grant, and Old Abe wanted to send a barrel of it to every general in the army. Perhaps the rebels had some such an idea in regard to its potency and virtue, and desired its aid in their military operations. If so,the whiskey never reaehed Richmond, as the recent defeats of the rebels conclusively prove. Among the friends- of Trowbridge fn this vicinity were a Mr. Cammack, a Mr. Carhart, a Mr. Briggs. a Mr. Parsons, a Mr. Putnam, a Mr. Monnot, a Mr. Kipp and a Mr. J. B. Sardy. Cammack was here last October, but then in- tended to leave for Havana. He stayed here “some weeks, and had no trouble” from our officers, and thought it would be safe for La- | mar to come “if he would keep his mouth sbut.’’ Carhart could not be found by Trow- bridge. Briggs, Parsons and Putnam did the pecuniary business for the rebel agents. Mon- not and Kipp were horse dealers, with whom Trowbridge bad some little arrangements about the Kentucky colts. Sardy boarded at the Pierrepont House, Brooklyn, and was very | anxious to make seme money somehow. Trow- | James Dart & Company, 25 Willixum street. Cammack bad alady love—“a perfect stunner” | and “one of the F. F. V.’s”—with whom he | dined at Delmonice’s, and “had a good time.” | This lady was a widow. “She spent last win- { ter in Havana with a sick busband, since | this single sentence:—“Cammack thinks her | virtuous, and as it will do him no good to in- subject.” Who were these rebel free lovers, | and who is this stunning lady? Can anybody ; tell? Can General Dick Busteed? It is very evident that Trowbridge. Cam- mack ané Company were employed here to transmit news to the rebels and to fit out block- ade runners. Perhaps this latter part of their t business was transacted through their friends | in the Custom House. One line in one of the ; very greatly surprises us, however. | Trowbridge writes to Charley Lemar:—“I will > letters | deliver your meseage to Dick Busteed.” Now, | | Busteed is a pbilosopber, a lawyer, and a pe- } triot ef the first weter. He bas been a briga- coln and his financial Secretary. The enthu- { dier general, and Old Abe recently appointed | of Herr Hablemann. The house was | bim to a judgeship in Alabama. What message , ould the rebel Lamar send to this incorrupti- j re-election of “Honest Old Abe” have been } ble and incomparable loyalist? How dered the | rebels be so familisr witb him as to call him Dick! How did it happen that he knew Trow- bridge, or Trowbridge bim, except by reputa- | tion! The Senate hee not yet confirmed Judge | Perhape he know® and will tell all about Trow- | bridge and Cammack, and Sardy and the stun- | ning F. F. V. Trowbridge says, “I will deliver | your message to Dick Busteed.” It is probable that be did deliver it. The Senate ought to know what it was. We notice an allusion toa | letter from the paternal Lemar to Fernando | Wood “on business.” This letter was pub- | lished some time since: but the Sage of Bloom- | ingdale says he never received it, and therefore did not anewer it. This could hardly have been the case with thie message to Dick Busteed. If Trowbridge Kept bis Word Bustecd certainly iH received the message. Very likely he an-) swered it. How did he answer it? The Senate ! | correspondence prizzies us #6 iniich as this mes- - Busteed. Before confirming him the Senate should be fully informed about it, and we call information. The rebel agents in Europe seem to have bad a good time generally. Trowbridge says that , he made “a living, but no money,” by bis gold speculations here: but Charley Lamar was more fortunate in Paris. He writes:—“I am engaged rate Joan and powder.” He says:—“I bave made some | $5,000 on cotton. Am arranging to purchase | $200,000 of gold in New ‘York —Gowernor | Guion is to borrow | the greenbacks in New York, buy the gold and ship it to England. We then draw sterling, whith is sold in New York for greenbacks, pay | up what we owe, and the balance will be | molished. Jut this drawback je Mr. Chase | profit.” Tatriotism shared these speculations They | message to Dick Busteed. sage from a rebel agent to General Judge Dick | upon the notorious patriot in question for the } find, and more; but, like us, they will seek in vain for any explanation of that mysterious Tae Vacartes or aN Ewmpxror.—Napo- leon the Third is strangely sensitive upon one subject: he desires, above all things, that the world should look as much as possible upon the founder of the Napoleonic dynasty as an emperor, and not as a soldier. He cannot bear allusions to the “Petit Caporal;” he wishes to ignore the commencement of the great Cap- tain’s career, and see in him but the Emperor. Louis Napoleon has carried this sentiment to a degree which oversteps the sublime and falls into the very depths of the ridieulous. In the Place Vegdome, in Paris, there is a grand column, made of bronze, of great height, and which was surmounted with an immense atatue of Napoleon the First, as all Frenchmen love to see him—in his cocked hat and famous capote grise—in fact, as the soldier, wearing the habiliments which were peculiar to him. This ‘was most appropriate, as the column upon which the statue stood is made of cannons cap- tured from the enemies of France. Around this Colonne de Vendome the old soldiers from the Invalides were wont to collect and gaze admiringly at the effigy of their beloved ecom- mander. There was much in this trophy to awaken the pride and sensibility of the vete- rans, as it is covered with beautifully executed reliefs of the great victories won by them un- der the command of the “Petit Caporal.” Napoleon the Third could not bear the sight of this statue. He caused it to be removed, and instead placed there 2 magnificent First Emperor, in ® Roman toga, with a crown upon his bead and in his hands the insignias | of empire. They made a (wesar of the Little Corporal, whose splendid statue they have placed far out of the town, upon a suburban | bridge. The Parisians are disgusted at this ex- | hibition of weakness and puerile vanity on the | part of their Emperor, and ridicule heartily the | statue which now crowns the Colonne Vendome. They assert that it looks like a man in 2 sbirt, with a candle in his hand. tance from whence it is seen the statue cer- tainly loses all the effect the Emperor imag- ined it would have, and we dare say he wishes | } that the cocked hat amd the long gray overcoat were once more on the top of that great col- umn. Assure asfate they will be replaced there by the people of Paris some day. They will never allow Napoleon the Third, who, with his Caesarean ideas, evidently wishes even the glory of his great predecessor to pale be- fore his “Life of Caesar.” to remove the evi- dences of that glory. The French will think ' | of bim with glowing hearts at a time when this man and bis acbievements shall have passed out of their memories. Musical. TRE GERMAN OPERA, butz’s artists sang last Friday eveniug Pojel- mantic opera La Dame Blanche, for the benefit Mr. A dien’s lied, although the andience was by no menus as large as we sbould have wished it to be, if only for the sake of the beneficiary, who has become quite 2 favorite. This opera is ezsentially | French, sud pot, we think, beard to edvaptage in the translation. Mme. Federici was very successful as Margaret. She sang and acted admirably, an’ wae much applaused. Mine. Johannsen, as Anna, wns also very tisfactory, Herr Hablemann was a very pleasing George ; , <-etaa rn i “3 - ~ | Brown, Herr Hermans fully confirmed the favorable im- York Tribune (Mr. Chase 's special organ) than | Busteed, and this matter ought to be investi- | pression be made at his debat. He bad a secondary role, | if they had been passed in support “Daniel | gated before any action ie taken upon him. | put gave evidence in it of artisti ability, This gentie- | man js certainly & great acquisition to the troupe. On Monday evening Wagner's Tennhanser will be anng by the German ertisie, This opera created ® marked seneation in Europe, ENGLISH OPERA Mr. Harrigon's artiste @ second representation of the Bohemian Girl at Nibl aloon on Friday evening, witb even more success then on their firet might. The house was overcrowded by 2 most select end appreciative audience. Mme. Porcherd and Moesre. Castle and Campbell | were much opplanded, and certainly deserved all the favor shown them by the public. Mr. Harrivon’s enter. prise is evidently appreciated by the lovers of music here, and he will undoubtedly meet with the saprort he merits if the Transport Newhern. Commander T. A. morning from the Snes, Py | North Ajjanuic blgckng! ing equadren, and twenty-four ; Qught to know that. Nothing in all this + pours trom Forirere Monroe, with forty prisoners from the blockade rinvers Avtonia and Sallie, and a censign- ment of naval stores to the Navy Department. the following is a liet of ber offcere:— Commander—T. A, Harris. Acting Master and Executive Oficer—Robvt. Y. Holley. Acting Master—Joe. H. Richardson. Acing Amant Surgeon—Jobn EB. Codd. Acting Assisvant Paymoser—K. A. Cashing. Cap ain’s Clerk—-Thomes J. Benjamin. + Paymaster’s Cierk—8idney Hanson. | Bnginerrs—Acting First Assistant. Isaac Maples (in | charge): Acting recond Aesistant, John E. Cooper; jak | Third Assistants, C.E. Raimer, F. F. Lomas, 8. J. He man, Geo, W. Latham. ' Acing EnsignenC, H. Sawyer, Charles Millet, Milton Webster. Acting Master's Motes—John P. Jones, ©. F. Mixon, Adoiphus Sandergreen. Mail Agen'—Jobn P. Jones. | ———$—$—_$___+-_— on i Important to Drafted Men. THE IN‘UNCTION AGAINST THBIR BRING TAKEN Dis- SOLVED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF FBNNBYL- VARIA. Panaperraia, Jan, 16, 1864. ‘Tuis morning, in the Supreme Court, the motion to diaaolve the injunction heretofore granted to restrain the Provost Marshal from taking @refted men was granted, Juatices Strong, Read and Agnew delivering opinions in favor of the dissolution, and Chief Jastice Woodward and Justice Thompsor in oppasition thereto \ Neligtous Intelligence. . @BRMONS TO-DAY. Tee Rey, Gamusl B. Boll, D. D., will proach in the Fitvicth otrewt} Presbyterian church, betwoen Broadway end Kighth aq emne, at balf-past on and naif-past seven. Subject of morwing sormoa— ‘Tho Fall of the Walls of Jericho." Even ng discourse announced in tae morning. Dr. P. B. Randolpe will epeak this evening, corner of Broadway end Twovty-thira etrest, oa “Hie Travels in Egypt, Syria, Palosti.xe and Turkey, and the very Strange ‘Things that he Saw.”" At the Second Universalist church, Eleventh street and Second avenue, the Rev. Gr. Flanders will oxamino this Ovoning the current epiritualistio idea of God: fa ho Something Or nothingt—e substance and form, or am ea- gonce, or mist? The Rev. J. P. Nowman, D. D., wil) proach at tho rooma of the New Eagiand Soldiers’ Roliof Association, 104 Broadway, at three o'clock. The publie are inytiod to attend. The Rev. C..C. Goss, pastor of the Christian Alliance, will preach: _tm Hope Chapel, 720 Broadway, at hal’-pest Seven o’clock, to strangers, younr’ men and families. Children’s meeting at eleven and three o'clock. At the church of Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D., the Na- tional Freedmsan's Relief Association will introduce to the Congregation, at seven o'clock, three white elave chil- Gren taken from the schools in Now Orieans ; also a colored man, whose forebead is branded with the initials of his late owner's name. At Bt. Agn's church, Eighteonth street, aear Fifth ave- ue, services at a quarter to eight, half-past ten, threo and nalf-past seven o’clock—the afternoon being for deaf mutes. The Rev, Wiltiam A. Hitchcock, chaplain in the United States Novy, will preach in the evening. The Rev. J. B. Hagany, D. D., pastor of the Bedford atreet Methodist Kptscopal church, will preach the third of the series of practical sermons upon “Christian Life,”’ in the South Baptist chareh, Twenty-filth street, between Soventh and Fighth avenues, at half-past soven o'clock. Subject‘ Repentance.” At the Memorial ehurch, Hammond street, corner of Waverley place, tho Rev. Dr. Canfield, rector of Christ church, Brookiyn, will preach in the evening. Services at balf-past ten, half-past three and half-past seven o'clock. ‘The Rev. §, A. Corey wilt preach in the Murray Hill Baptist church, corner of Lexington avenue and Thirty- seventh street, morning and evening. ‘The Rev. Dr. Juakin will preach in the Canal strest Presbyterian church, corner of Greene street, at half-past ten and three o'clock. At the People's meeting, 187 Bowery, subject, from two till three—The Monarchical Form of Government.” From three: till five—-Has General McClellan been Wronged by the Gevernment.’’ ‘The sixth sermon in the-Christian Union series will be Preached by the Rev. Leonard Buco, D.D., of New Haven, in the First Freewill Baptist church, in Twenty- eighth street, near Broadway,.et half-past seven o’olock this evening. Subject—The Visibility and Historic Con- tinuity of Christ's Catholic Church.” . At the French Episcopal church du St. Faprit, West ‘Twonty-second street, near Fifth avenue, morning ser. vices in Freneh, by the rector, Rev. Dr. Verren, at half- Past ten o'clock. Evening services in English, by ‘the Rev. J. Campbell White, D. D., at balt-past seven o'clock. The Rev. W. H. Milburn will deliver one of the course of lectures on the ‘First Christian Century,’ at Irving Ball, at half-past seven o’clcck this eveoing. ‘The Rev. Stephen H. Battin, rector of St. Paul’s church, Columbus, Obio, will preach in. the Memorial church, Hammond street, corner of Waverley place, to-day. “A Sermon to Children’? will be preached by Rev. 1. 3. Kalloch, this morving, in the Laight street eburch, cor per of Laight avd Varick strects, St. John’s park. Bap- tism at the close of the sermon. “Christ Weeping Over Jerusalem.” the tenth in the course upon “The Critics of the Bible,” will be tbe sabject for the evening. At All Saints’ church, corner of Henry and Scammel Streets, services at half-past ten and half.past seven o'clock. Tbe Epiphany sermons, omitted last Sunday, ‘owing to the illness of the rector, will be delivered to- day. The Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D., of Boston, will re- peat his sermon on “The Spirituality of the Liturgy,” this evening, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn. At the Central Presbyterian church, Broome street, two blocks east of Broadway, preaching by the pastor, the Rev. James B. Dunn, at half-pass ten and half-past | seven o'clock. Subject for the evening—“Doubting Castle | and Giant Despair.”” Sabbath school at eight o’clock A. M. and two o’elock P.M The Rev. Matthew Hale Smith will preach at the Athe- nivnm; Brooklyn, at balf-past ten o'clock, on “The Ark of } Ged on a New Cart.” At half-past seven o'clock, the first of a course ou “The Saviour and Practical Life—Our Lord There will bea stual meeting of the Commonwealth } or Church of the New Dispensation, at balf-past ten, three and hbalf-past seven o'clock, at the bail 835 Broadway, southwest corner of Thirteeuth street, up stairs. Mre. Cora L. V. Hatch contipues her eeries of discourses | at three and half-pest zeven o'clock, in Clinton Hall, Astor | | Place. Subject for the evening choen by the audience At the great dia- | w R | | Discussion at the close of the lecture. $ Rev. Chauncey D. Murray will preach in Westminster church, Twenty-second street, between sixth and Seventh Avenues, at balf-past teo and three o'clock. Strangers will be provided with seats. There will be preaching corner of Fifty-second street | | and Third avenue this afternoon, at three o’elock. } In the Bleecker street Universalist church Rev. Moses Ballou preaches this morning. consider “The Parable of the Net and the End of the , World’’—Matthew 13: 47.50. at ‘Twentieth street Universalist eburch, near Sev- enth avenue, the afternoon service will be resumed to- | day. By urgent request Rev. B.G, Brooks will repeat his course of termons on “Representative Characters in the Old Testament,’ delivered to crowded congrega- j tions four years ago, giving the first this afternoon at “three o'clock. Subject—''Eve, the Deceived.”” Morning | sermon at haif-past ten o’clock—a sequel to lagt Sunday ' morning's eermon—on ‘‘Ronan Casholiciem.” Strangers cordially invited. i ANNUAL MEKTING OF THY PLYMOUTH CHURCH SocIETYT—Ht¥R THOUSAND DOLLARS PRESENTED TO THE REV. HENRY WARD | PRECHER. ‘The annua! meeting of the Plymouth Church Zociety | was beld on Friday evening fn the lectnre room of the chureh, the object being to consider the proposition— which bos been much talked of reveatly among the me bers of the congregation—of increasing the present falary of Mr. Beecher On motion Mr. J. T. Howard wag elected ag chairman, ‘The minutes ot the previous meeting having been read and adopted, the secretary stated the object of the m of i ing, which was to consider the propriety of increasing the | { salary of Mr. Beecher. Mr. Bel! moved that tbe sala) Mr. Beecher be increased from seven thousand five bun- | dred dotlors, its present amount, to ten thousand dollars, | Mr. Tatler moved, as an amendment, that Mr. Beecher’s salary be increased .to fifteen thousand dollars per ao. | nim. He argued at roll length in favor of amend- { ment, showing that in congequen-e of the | charitable ‘disposition of Mr. Beecher and ; drafts the depreciated state of the curre | cand was not too large a 8um f yn propertion to wi Conaiderable di finally Mr. Graves moved asa matter that the trustees of the church be requested to present Mr Heecher with the sum of five thousand dol- lars in addition to the present ealary of seven theursend five hundred dollars, and that the salary remain at ite | present rate until next year. The substitute was adopted and the meeting adjourned. ‘THR THIRTY-SBCOND REGIMENT RE- | TURNING TO BOBTON. | This regiment arrived in New York iate Friday night. ‘Yesterday Colonel Howe, at ceived the following despatch the Adjutant General of Maveachusette-— Bowron, Jan, 16, 1864. vot Y. Ey }. Ni — i We have. ‘gade siren coun te to receive the Thirty. second Massachusetts regiment at Faneut! Hall to.morrow | (Sunday.) The Cadets will escort them, and a national ralut it the Common. Arrange to bave | the i: Saipan “Me BCROU LER, Aaqitant General. ‘The regiment left this city by the Fall River boat, at four P.M. yesterday, and will arrive in Bostop about noon to.day, probably. TRE TWENTY-SRVENTH MASBACHUSETT® REGIMENT, : Two bundred and twenty re-eniteted men of the Twen- ty-seventh Massachusetts regiment arrived Inet evening from Norfolk, on the transport Admiral Dupont, and are now quartered at the New England Rooms, 194 Broadway. ‘Yho regiment is under the command of Lieut. Gol. Par i bulomew,, aud were reornited in and around 4 ane reey will weave here this afternoon o pn ad ts morrow morping fer home. RECEPTION OF TRE SECOND REGIMENT PIRE ZOUAVES. ‘A meeting was held last evening at Jefferson market, by the officers and members of the Fire Department, to make arrangements to receive the Second regiment Fire Zou aves, whe are shortly expected home on a furlough of thirty days. Nearly the whole department are expected to parade, the Chief Engineer and Assistants acting as marshals. The department will bo called together Heme oenpt of a tologram from Colousl Burr, of the regi. ment, uae striking of the fire belt», Due notice will be aiven w! the tine will be formed In the evening be will , Interesting Proceedings in the Senate eee Consideration. THE AMENDMENTS AGREED TO YESTEBDAY, de, ae, be. Wasuwcron, Jaw, £6, £864. 7S DEBATE ON THE ENROLMENT BILL. A etrong effort was made in the Benate to-day to resch @ nai vote en the amendments to the Enrolment act, but without avail. Innemerable amendments to amond- ments were introduced, and tho Senate adjourned @t a tate hour withodt having come to aay definite’ conclusion im the matter. It is mot im- probable that several @eysof noxt woek may be oc- | cupied: im debating this subject.there etill being great lack of umanimity onthe part of the Senators withrrefer- evce tothe commutation elause, During the discussion. ‘onthe amendments to’ the bit? this afternoon Mr. Trums- bull, of Hlinois, brought up-the Richmond crusade agam, in the shape of an additional section to the ‘bill, authorizing the Prosidemt to raise, arm an@ equip ono hundrea thousand men for one hung dred days, for the special perpose of driving she rebel forces outof Virginie: and rescuing the Union’ | prisoners at Riobmond. After considerable debate.on the amendment, which was earncstif supported by & Trumbuil, Howe and '‘othors, and'the imspracticability an@ absurdity demonstrated by a number ef Senators, it was rejected by a vote of’ eleven'to thirty-one. GENERAL STONEMAN'S DEPARTURE FOR TENNESSER. General Stoneman. left this city yeaterday for Chatta- ‘nooga, whither he has been ordered. te report to General Grant, ‘THE NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON DIREC? RAILROAD. ‘The eelect-Committes of the ‘House on the subject ef an independent raitroad between Washington ama New York hold'a meeting this morning, iw which it was decided uot to consider it as a work. to be done: by the government, but that‘Congress might recetve propositions from private parties. MRS. LINCOLN'S RECEPTION. Mrs. Lincoin’s reception was brilliantéy ettemded thie afternoon, there being a large representation of the army and navy and both. branches of Congress. A pamber of the diplomatic corps wore also in attendance:. OONFISCATION OF A VIRGINIA JUDGR’S LIBRARY ‘The Marshal of the District has selzed, under the Con- figcation act, the law library of Geo. P. Scarborough, of Virginia, late Judge of the United States Court of Cisins. SPEAKER COUPAK’S RECEPTION. The reception of Speaker Colfax. last evening was e truly brilliant and popular gathering. It was unguestion- ably one of the most agreeable reunions of the-seasen. PAYMENT OF THE MISSOURI HOME GUARD. ‘The bill appropriating $700,000 to pay: the Home Guard heretofore called out in the Department of Missouri sow onty awaits President Lincoln's signature to beeome a law. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDBNT. Yesterday the President gent into the Senate for eom- Grmavion the name of R. F. Perkins for Postmaster at Sam Francisco. Mr. G. Storrs, of Kansas, was to-day appetat- ed chief clerk im the Fourth Auditor's office. HOMRSTRAD LAW LANDS. Five thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine acres were taken up at the Land Office at St. Peters, Minnesota, in the month of December, under the Homestead law. DECISION OF THE INTERNAL REVENUR COMMISSIONER. Ton the application of Messrs. Levy and Cooper, a committee on'the part or the New York importers of per- tumery, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue hes de- cided that the penalties of the aw shall not be enforced on account of the sale of articles enumerated im sobedule C without the appropriate stamps, where such articles | are sold in the original packages, prior to the first day of April, 1864, to dealers who purchage to sell again, pzo- | vided that im all such cages the purchaser shall. be fur- ished by the seller with the requisite amount of stamps, which must be affixed and cancelled as soon as the pack- age ia ope ned. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THB ARLINGTON CONTRA- BAND COLONY. Charges of incapacity have beep preferred against the present Superintendent of the Contraband Coloag at Ar- lington, and the case is now undergoing investigation at the beadquartérs of the department. | COURT MARTIAL FOR THE TRIAL OF SURGRON GaNR- RAL HAMMOMD. By direction of the President s general court martial is appointed to meet in Wasbington on the 19th ioetaat, or ag 9000 thereafter as practicable, for the trial of Brig. | Gen. W. A. Hammond, Surgeon General of the United States Army, and such other persons as may be breagbt before it. Detailed for the court sre Major General R. G. Ogiesby; Brigadier General W. S. Harney, United States Army; Brigadier General W. S. Ketchum, United | States Volunteers: Brigadier General G. 8. Green, United States Volunteers; Brevet Brigadier General W. W. Morris, Colonel Second United States artillery; Brigadier General A. P. Howe, United States Volunteers; Brigadier Genera | HE, Paine, United States Volunteers; Brigadier General J. C, Starkweather, United States Volunteers; Majer John | A. Bingham, Judge Advocate of the Court. ADMIRAL LER’S ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BLOCKADE RUNNER DARB. Admiral Lee bas officially informed the Navy Depart- | ment that the new and swift steamer Dare attempted on the 7th inst. to get futo Wilmington, was chased of by the Momtgomery aud Aries, ran herself ashore above Georgetown, bilged, filled, and became a complete wreck. This was ber frst trip. Enclosed'was her charter to run cotton, Admirai Lee farnisned @ list to show that the | are is the cwentieth steamer destroyed or captured by the Wilmington blockeders since the middie of July | last, making an average loss of one steamer for every nine days to the bicckade ranvers, under whose dis- couraging losses the itlegal trade with Wilmington ts rapidly diminished. ANTICIPATED BXCURSION OF THE NAVAL COMMITTEES. It is understood that the fal committees of the House and Fenate will betore long make a trial trip in one of the recently constructed naval vessels, probably from Alexandria to Fortress Monroe, in order to test the | speed and see for themselves the actual working of these vessels, about whore speed and efficiency so violent = controversy is now going on. THE TWHLFTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY, The Twelfth Iino! 'y, which left the Army of the Potomac about six weeks ago for Chicago, bas bose filled up to the maximum number. Lieutenant Colonel Hasbrouck Davie bas been commissioned colonel, and Major Thomas W. Grosvenor succeeds bim as lieutenan colonel. EXAMINATION OF TRE INVALID CORPS, Ab entire re-examination of all the members of the im- valid corps wii) be made sbortly by @ board appointed for that purpose, who will report the names of those zow im the corpe who are phyetcally able to endure the fatigue and exposure of active service in the Seld. DECISIONS IN THE SUPREME COURT. | ‘The Supreme Court of the United States, in two cases | againet the city of Dubuque, bas reversed the{judgment } of the District Court of lowa, aud remanded the causes: | for further proceedings, in cowformity to theopinion of the Supreme Court. The suite involved the.question of ) comstitntionality and legality to issue municipal bonds for railroad purposes. Y In a case againet the city of Madieon, Ivdiana, the issue | being ae to the legal authority to issue bonds with coa- | pons attached, the judgment of the [pistrict Court wan | reversed and the canes remanded for further preceedings, | im conformity to the opinion of -the Supreme Court. H DROBRASE OF DREBRTIONS THE ARMY. From statistics recently it appears that de rertions from the army have became much less (requent , | and, under the present enforcem4ns of military law reia- tive to such cases, there is reasyn to belire that the prac- ] tice will soon cease almast éntirely. There ave sew in confinement here omy thirty-three men for this offence. LARGE GALE AT ALRXA/DRIA OF QUARTERMASTERS’ STORRS AND TRAYSPORTATION MATRRIAL. Captain Robinson's qvartermasiers’ sale at the military railroad depot in AlexAndria on Wednesday of locomotives, car wheels, axles a4 railroad irov was attended by rop- rerentatives of (Ae largest iron establishments ia the country from ajmost every loyal State, The prices ob- tained by thgauctioneer, J. B. Van Zandt, were above the New York foarkot, and scrap iron brought more than at any prgefous public sale, One hundred and eight tone Of wgoTght scrap iran was gold to Oliver Ames & Soo, The Enrolment Bill Still Under omer i