The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. Governor Seymour, and denounciag his course ia regard to soldiers voting, to the draft, aud to the Police Commissioners. « MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. There are five Buropean steamships due at American ports to-day, one of them, the Canada, bearing five daya later news. ‘Tho veasels sailed in the following order:— JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OPFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Nassau STS. Volume XXIX . 20 apaban eoveoeh le _ aon Steamship. Prom, Sasi, siesta ; Louisiana...... Queenstown, ..da, 8-4. % A etapa —_ ne, “Queonstown...Jan. T....New Nort. *-"Poadonderry. Jaa. 8....Porttand. Queenstowe 10. |New York. WALLACK 5 THEATRE, Canada... Queenstown... Jan. 10... . Halifax & Boston eatin Tia " | By the arrival of the steamers Morning Star and Seen CARDEN. | Auedine times oF Taare | Kagle we have iatelligence from Hayana to the | 16th tant. with later advices than yet received from Mexico and St. Domingo. The news from Mexico is very favorable to the invaders. Presi- dent Juarez had been compelled to abandon San Luis Potosi, and had taken refuge in Monterey, in | the State of New Leon. General Uraga, com- mander of the national forces, attacked the Mexi- | can imperialists, under Marquez, at Morelia, on SSTRELS. Mecnantoa’ Halt, 472 Broad | the 17th of December, and was signally defeated. tones, Dances, Buncesque’s, 46—1ue ) The principal chiefs of the national party were | slain, and a thoasaad prisoners taken. This, how- | ever, it shoald be borne in mind, is a Preach ver- | sion of the affair, Tn St. Domingo the revolution | is gradually losing ground. The Spanish troops Rae | .WOKe preasing the natives into the mountaina, | where they can make no effective resistance. Itis | due to the Dominicans, however, to say that they are fighting bravély for the restoration of their.in- | dependence. The Spaniards had succeeded in cap- turing two vessels loaded with arms and destined RIBLO'S GARDEN, —Connte Soogam. Rosevare. EATRE, Broadway —A Bows ix 4 Caixa NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra— Camniee Axo is Doo—Higuwarwan’s Hor! Day. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rag Woman ano Hen OGs—LouD Lovy:—Jonn Wores WARNUM'S MUSEUM, Grant Boy. Livuiretian 98, 80.,a8 al! Bours, TicKer or Lxavx Man Broadway.—Preveu Grant, a, GEN. GRANT At Sand way.—Brnv0r Seaious Fan WOOD'S MINSTREL HALE, 5M Rrowtway —Erarorram Fongs, Dances. a6 —KaiLnoan Exriosio NIBLO'S SALOON, AMPRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway Yawrommuas, Bewrnagues, &¢—Hovse THAT BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadwav.—Gru- ano LQcrsikiaN PumroRNANCES, Atternoon and Broadway.—Bosrwtan Gurr. Bat Ack Ta, Broadway.—Tag Sreceoscorrican VERSE, HOPB CHAPEL, cx Minnon oF 78 “1. NIQHOLAS a away. — > an Pa : aoe AICHOLAS HALL, Brondway.—Mrnnon or me Re- | for the use of the insurgents. XEW YORK In the Board of Education last evening the re- USEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.< | Comosnnes A croRws. (rom 9A. M. “tH P.M. | | | port of the specihl committee appointed to inves- tigate the scandal case in the Thirteenth ward was rec j, The report is a strange revelation, ex- ceeding in iuterest auch volumes as ‘Camille, or the Fate of a Coquette.”” It is published in an- | other column, and also the resolution expelling Commissioner Shaver from the Board. The Olmatead case was again postponed from yesterday till three o'clock to-day, when it will HOOLEDS Brookiyu.—Kran Fores, Danors, B 3 cal New York, Thursday, January 21, 1864 THE SITUATION. The news from the Army of the Potomac is not | importani. News reached headquarters yes- \ terday that ope or two divisions of Lee's D6 DEOUG HE B08 SUpOUI OD In the Surrogate’s Court yesterday additional wmy hi gone to reinforce Longstreet, who testimony was taken in the matter of the wills of was said to be advancing on Knoxville. Henry H. Raymer and Edwin P. Christy. The Ji was ssid that General Grant has notified the | Christy case will be continued during this aud War Do mont of the fact that General Long- | next week. ‘The accounts of the estates of Thos. | Byrnes and William Hyns were settled. ‘The radicals of Missouri have issued a call to choose delegates to attend a Freedom Convention of the slave Staios, to be held at Louisville, Ky., | on the 22d of February next. street was being reinforced from Virginia. The rebe! guerillas seem to have concentrated their | operations about Warrenton, where they pick up some OF our cavalry pickets very frequently. is : Tia Ren ere oe Sener eaeete | The firat twenty bales of cotton ever raised ou som New Orleans to the 12th inst. 18 | the istind of Cuba were deposited in one of the importan. Toe town of Madisonville, La., on the | worehouses in Havana a few dayn ago. other side of Lake Pontehartraid, has been cap- | Stock speculation was aa rampant aa ever vestorday, and railroad shares were put further up in the morning. Toledo and Wabash Raitcoad received the attontion of che ball gpecalatora, and a rise of 1354 per cont was the con sequence, Gold was not so firm. and the promivm drop: ped about two par cont. Money was in active demand at the legal rato of interest, with a strong feeling to claim anadyaucs. Government securities remained firm ‘There was great buoyancy and firmness ia commercial circ es yesterday ,as a cousequonce of the highor price of tuved withont resistance, and is now garrisoned The s1 oF the Maine ‘Twelfth, the Connecticut forces, expedition consisted of a 4. two battalions from the convalescent camp of the Thirte: ith corps, the Massachusetts Fif- teeati battery, battery of the United States artil- | tery and a company of the Louisiana Second | gold as compared with last week. There has beon a cavale | gradual appraciation iu most articles, and atmost every- Ge Hanks has jawed aa order for the State | ting bas advanced. Ihe business was fair yesterd: 2 ; | though the discrpancy in the views of buyers and sailors elects tot February. He says he is | soryod torestrict sales of merchandise considerably. At folly ascared that more than one-tenth of the | the Produce Exchange a (air busiio3s was done in all ar- Population Avsire the earliest possible restora. | Hsle8 Groceries were held drm, but salar werg moder. < ale, Cotton was firm, Petroleum was dull, but uo- sto the Union, He declares 80 | changed. Freights wore about ateady. President Lincoln as Commander-in- Chief—His Mititary incapacity. Duving the first two years of this terrible war it was somewhat difficult to fix the reapon- sibility for ouc inexcusable military blunders and disasteva in Virginia. The radicai abolition | faction and the War Office were generally be- hanes’ | lieved to be the marplots of the administration; | and hence, while they were uosparingly de- | nounced from all points of the compass, there was no end to the public sympathy for “Honest | Old Abe,” the unfortunate victim of these evil | advisers. At length, however, tho official re- ports of General McClellan and of General Hal- leck, with the accompanying military views and instructions of President Liacoln, remove all * and relate to slavery being Incons stvut with the present condition of public and plainly inapplicable to any class of vias NOW Xisting withia ifs limits, are inopera- The General also appoints a con- veution for the revision of the constitution, to be held on the first Monday in May, 1864, will be made for the early election of mem- bers of Con The steamer Gray Jacket, with a cargo of 500 bales of cotton and a quantity of turpentine and rosia, was captured on the Slst ult. by the Gusioat Kennebec off Mobile. She is worth | | | neatly a hundred thoasand dollars. Pisce 4 ‘ Gar correspondence from Key West to the 18th | doubts as to the individual really responsible _ for these aforesaid magnificent military pro- is interesting. Several negro soldiers en route mises and deplorable military failures. We say to President Lincoln, the Command- n-Chief of the Army and the Navy of the —The British schooner | United States, as the prophet Nathan said to ye, from Nassau: the bark Roebuck, bound | King David. “Thou art the man.’ In the very | outset of this war, against the remonstrances | of General Scott. at that time filling the post of | General-ia-Chief, the army under General Mc- Dowell was prematurely pusbed forward upon the enemy at Bull rua, and we know what fol- fo hie prizes had been captured by the vessels of the | ¢ nad arrived there. Three valua- New Oriean Wasi Gull syaadron, namely im Havana to Mobile, nd the sloop Hancock, whicis was taken off the Florida coast by the Sun- ‘They had all valuable cargocs. flower b arrived at Key West. Admiral Var y | \ to-day the official list of the names put | lowed. President Lincoln assumed and must of those t 1 prisoners who have died in the | poar the responsibility for that most expensive Richmond prisons ap to December 31,1863. It | disaster. Next, by the advice of General Scott, General McCteilan was called from his | Victories in West Virginia to the command of our shattered and beleaguered army in front of | Washington. What be dfd ia fortifying the ap- will prove a melancholy record to the friends of the gallvat men who thus perished in the service of the'r country, not upon the battle field, but in the i spitable precinets of the enemy's prison proaches to the city, and in mustering and houses training a powerful army, we need not here re- peat. Let it suffice that when he was ready to move President Lincoln interposed; and, dis- carding the plans and appeals of McClellaa, broke up his army into four or five distinct and widely spread commands, and that thus was brought about those sanguinary and dis- astrous seven days’ battles of the Richmond CONGRESS. Hut lite basiness of importance was transacted A bill establishing a ulance system was reported by the | ary Committee. Mr. Collamer made a speech | in support of the rule requiringesSenators to take the oath prescribed, and after an executive ses- sion the Senate adjourned. in the Senate yesterday. 0 ivan am luthe House of Representatives a bill was in. | Peninsula. ; troduced to amend the act establishing and equal- | But again: Haviag secured the strong and izing the grade of line officers ot the navy. During | desirable position, as a new base of operations, Hise iv ssic on the joint resolution amendatory of | of Harrison’s Landing, on the broad, navigable the Confiscation act the opposition members an- | James river, General McClellan begged for re- nounced their determination to del the ques | inforeements for a new campaign against the tion fully, even should they be obliged to resort to | veel capital, and earnestly appealed against the extremest measures justified by the rules, : . 7 < the enforcement of an order he bad received fa Committee of the Whole, the tax. on | » rile c tt aes whiskey being the subject under consideration, | ‘°F, "Me evacuation Pi + eee Mr. Fernando Wood offered a proviso to the | %d_ the removal of bis army back effect that all spirits on hand for sale, whether | to Washington. But be was overruled again distilied prior to the date of this act or not, shall , by adverse opinions operating upon the mind | of President Liacotn: the Army of the Poto- mac returned from the peainsula, aad what were the consequeaces? The commencement of its retreat was made the sigaal for tbe ad- ; vance of the whole rebel army from Richmond , "pon Wasbington, in the hope of cutting the bamall interposing army of General Pope to pieces, and of reaching the city in ‘advance of be su he rites of duty provided by this act from aud after ihe 12th day of January, 1864, except that spirits which have been already taxed i July 1, 1862, shall not | additional or inereased tax This was agreed to. Th aains a8 already provided for was agreed to that all whiskey ander the law appro bear more than the provided by t as ou whiskey 2 bor an amend or other spirits or Maids into which matter has beva infuse land sold as whiskey, brandy, rum, | the forees of McClellan. The army of Pope Wine, 4. not othidrwise provided for, shall pay , Was cub to pieces; but fortunately McClellan's twenty con lca additional tax. Cotton | reinforcements in sufficient numbers arrived in Witch MW pays one-halt cent per pound tax is to | time to save the national capital. pay alo half cents tax additional, Without But the danger was still imminent. What was further action the committee rose and the House | President Lincoln to do? Me bad displaced aici LEGISLATURE. | McClellan from the command even of his pe- Quite a number of subjects of local in ' yinsnla troops; but the crisis called for his were brought forward in the Legislature ve | yeatoration. Tle was aceordingly restored to howeve: dre the command of all the forces arowad Washing- ton, and speedily resumed offensive operations. day, few of ther to require f such imnportanc In the Se “n ¢ ence. the sesolution suthoriving Governor Seymeurto He expelled the enemy from Maryland, puabed wr ene he bes the Teception of | his vetreatiag forces a hundred miles back into ds ae a naclog grec! i“ at a Virginia: but then, within a few days, perhaps, of pec a po xe j led Re a te ik t re another victory, and an opea road to Richmond, rendeavous, was uded by peovidin |! y apes sage shalt not expend mor , 88.000 ia any one | 2 Was superseded by General Burnside. Thea came the Ire erioksburg disaster; then the the poatment of General Hooker in Burnside’s length, | place; then the lamentable Chancellorsville acts of | campaigns thea the second advance of General oouaty, was adopted. At the evening session of the Assembly, the Governe 1 order, Mr. Reddiagton the alate papers and message apoke 4 official Lee across the Upper Potomac; then the ap- pointment of General Meade in the place of Genoral Hooker; then the magnificent Union victory of Gettysburg, and then the escape of the crippled and nearly exhausted rebel army across the Potomac, while General Meade was awaiting instructions from Washington. What a budget of blunders is here! Of over- whelming armie# wasted in the foolish system of small detachments here and there, each under @a independent commander, operating around @ great circle against the combined forces of the enemy in the centre. What a deplorable want of military capacity at Washington is here exhibited in golden opportunities disre- garded, in battles lost by blundering strategy, in great victories thrown away by hap-hazard changes of military plans and army leaders. The responsibility lies with President Lincoln for all these misfortunes and failures, from the first Bull run down to the escape of the rebel army across the Potomac. Without educa- tioa or practical service a soldier, his experience with the Army of the Potomac has proved that he is equally deficient ia the natural qualities of mind ossential to the suc- ceasful military leader, : No braver army ever took the field than our heroic and self-sacrificing Army of the Poto- mac; yet how different the net results of its ‘arduous and bloody campaigns, under the management of President Lincoln, compared withthe resaits of Grant's campaigns in the West. The Army of the Potomac stands to-day only some forty miles beyond Bull ran, while General Grant has overrun and reconquered an empire. We contend that the man who has subjugated the rebellion in the West ia the man to finish it in the fast; that General Grant, in a word, is the man to take the place of Presi- dent Lincola ia view of the speedy and com- plete extinguishment of the rebellion, and in view of the foreign complications which*may follow, calling for a capable military leader at the head of the goverament when the rebellious States shall have been reduced to submission and peace. General Grant is the man to re- establish the Union in its territorial integrity, and the maa to settle our outstanding balances against the Western Powers of Europe. Presi- dent Lincoln haa failed asa military leader, and General Grant is the man to take his place. County Bouxry 10 Re-ENtisren Voruntsnr The atmost confusion and delay, we learn, oxists in the payment of the county bounty of three hundred dollava to the re-enlisted vete- rana in the field, owiag to the noglect of the War Department or military officers.in com- mand to furnish tae properly authenticated papers to the Supervisors’ committee. It must be clear to the dullest intellect that the Super- visors cannol pay tbe bouaty to every soldier who comes along and clains it, withont the necessary proofs to show that he is fully on- titled to it, and that be will be credited to our quota. These gallant soldiers, before re-eulist- ing, were promised almost evervthing by their officers. especially that they would receive the county bointy of three huadred dollars on their arrival in this city. Yet they seem not to havo takea the least pains to furnish them with the proper documents on which to secure their money. These brave fellows come straggling on to this city, some with regimental officers, some without, and few of them have any more idea of what is requisite for them to doin order to obtain their bouaty than the man in the mooa. It is cruel on the part of the War Department, and shamefui oo the part of the regimenta! and company officers, that they should have allowed these men to come on here without aay papers, instructions or infor- mation as to what course to pursue. The Su- pervisers’ commitiee have a very important and delicate duty to perform in reference to the payment of the bounty to these re-enlisted soldiers. Mr. Bludt. the chairman, must know that they are New York soldiers. He must know that they have been mustered out aad have re-enlisted. He ninst be assured that they will, oa the payment of the bounty, be credited to the quota of the city and conaty of New York. To be certain of these facts the committee positively require a cortiied copy of the master in roll (on file in the War Department), signed by the Commissary of Muster. This, properly authenticated, tells the whole story, and onsuch paper, and that alone, will the Supervisors pay the bounty. To pay without such muster in roll deposited with them would make the com- mittee liable to the severest cengure, if net per- sonally liable for the amouns thus recklessly paid out; and why these papers have not been sent on here with the regiments is incomprehen- sible. But it is all of a piece with the shilly shally way of doing business in the Washington departments. They are literally tied up with red tape, or too ignorant to understand how to perfect the most simple business transaction. Some two or three regiments have. we learn, suceeeded in procuring their muster in rolls, deposited a copy with Supervisor Blunt, and have consequently been paid the bounty; but many others are floating about the city or have gone to the country to visit their friends, with no bounty, no officers to make out their papers, and their few days’ furlough rapidly expiring. Is this the way our brave soldiers should be treated by government authorities? {s this the manner officers neglect their men’? Pavine or Broapway.—Among the vacious plans recommended for the improvement of our great central thoroughfare that which proposes to substitute broken stone or gravel for pave- ment is, we think, entitled to most attention. After similar experiences to our own some of the leading European cities have finished by adopt ing this system, which is found to work well. The Boulevards in Paris and Oxford street and the City road in London are jaid down on this plan. It must not, however. be confounded with the ordinary road making of the Maca- dam system, of which crushed stone forms the only material. Vor streets a substra- tum of cobble stone with a layer of as- phalte is employed before the small stone is laid on. This prevents the causeway sinking into ruts, aad if ordinary care be employed in keeping it in repair, which can be done by simply throwing loose gravel npon it when it shows signs of wear, it will form a surface as even and durable as that of the present pav ment. It will be objeeted that it will create a great deal of dust, and will spoil the goods in the stores. This oan be easily obviated by the sireet being kept regularly watered, which will also serve to hold the surface well together. Next to this system we believe the Belgian pavement is the best. It has this to recommend it: that it can be constructed ont of the present pavement, thus saving @ good deal of monvy to the city. Tux Sermo Casraran Acawsr Rioumonp.— Ono of the republican journals of this city pub- lished in a letter from Washington @ plan of operations against Richmond, which; it says, “will mark the opening of the spring cam- paiga.” The plan is for an advance of two distinct armies against the rebel capital, One of these armies is to advance by the overland route—that is, by the valley of Virginla—and the other by the peninsula route. Since the publication of this plan it has been intimated that the correspondent who communicated it to his paper will be arrested and imprisoned for the publication of contraband news. Certainly if any one goes to the Old Capital for the pub- lication of such @ ptan as that he will go for a vory slight offence; for this great plan is, after all, the very one by which McClellan proposed to act against Richmond in 1862. Moreover, it is the plan by which he would have taken that city if the Washington strategists had not inter- fered with it. Frightened at the movements of Stonewall Jacksou, Mr. Lincoln and his ad- visers entirely stopped, as every one knows, the movement of the column that sbould have moved down the valley under McDowell. This left the peninsula column to move and fight alone, and kept McDowell’s column at 're- dericksburg until it was too late for it to be of service anywhere else. Then they denounced McCiellan for the failure of a plan that they had prevented him from oarrying out. And this wonderful plaa that a republican journal has just discovered, and that some one Is to go to prison for, is only remarkable as an evidence that the Wash- ington Napoleons have just found out that Mc- Clellan was right. It announces to the country that the War Department is likely to take up and act upon one of McClellan’s plans. They may imprison the correspondent for that. Should the rebellion hold out till May or June, the plan of advance against Richmond that will be acted upon then will be a plan agreed upon between the ablest military mea in the country beyond a doubt. Grant, Thomas, Sherman, Meade. Sedgwick and Han- cock will all furnish ideas for that plan, and therefore it will be a good one. And as the ablest military men in the country will form the plan. they must be suffered to carry it out. There must be no more interference on the part of the War Department Napoleons, who divide their time between political intrigues and a ridiculous pretence to strategy. They must leave the generals alone; for if they do not, no plan, however good, can be successful. Ooly our ablest mea must have charge of the spring campaign, and then we shall be sure to succeed, no matter whit our plan may be. an Humnve.—From time to time insignificant weekly paper publisbed ia Pavis—the Memoriate Diplomalique—announees witha greaf flourish of trumpets that Prince Maximilian has accepted the throne of Mexico; that be is to visit the Emperor Napoleon, ant that immediately after he will set out for his new government with: heavy reinforcements. This story has been so often repeated and so often proved false we have no hesitation in asseriiug tbat in this instance tbe journal has added one more canard to its large flock. We feel assured that on the contrary Maximilfan has no idea of going to Mexico, and that Napoleon wisaes he were well out of that serape. To add to the importance of this ramor,. we are also informed that Marsbal Morey visited President Lincotn ia Washington, 9nd obtained from him a promise that the government would not molest a french monarchy in Mexico, Forey baving asi ved Mr. Lincoln that the Emperor Napoleon's govera ment would show no more favor to the rebel Davis and his followers. We need scarcely add that all this is bosh. Our government never could nor has made any such promise. To add to the utter improba- bility of the whole story, il ‘must be borne in mind that Marshal Forey did not go to Washiag- ton. All he did when here was to visit Niagara Falls and be photographed by Brady. These rymors take their rise in the necessities of the adventurers who surround Napoleon the Third. and who at times work the money market by the issue of false news, with a view to their personal wenefit. It must be evident to all that our govera- ment could not ignore we Monroe doctrine. We may, from the force of o"cumstances, per- mit the encroachments of other Powers upoa this contineat, now that we are involved ina struggle whieh taxes all our energ.23; but when, at no distant date, we shall have’ suc- ceeded in obtaining peace, the North and Sonth combined will then demand aad obtain, front both France and England, such reparation for their ingults-as shall appease our wounded aational pride. As for Mexico, we will, at the close of the rebellion, if the French have not left there before, send fifty thousand Northern and fifty thousand Southern troops, forming to- gether a grand army to drive the invaders into the Gulf. That is the way we shall tolerate a French monarchy in Mexico. A Baste vor wae Fine Ants--We under- stand that a well known Wull street speculator, having an interest: ia one of our city journals, has been pure ig some of the pictures car- ried off from the residences of the Louisiana planters and now being surreptitiously hawked about here. For three pictures by modern French and German artists, which, under ordi- nary circumstances, would be worth, to any dealer, twenty-five hundred dollars, he gave the other day the munificent sum of eight hundred. How comes it that valuable works of this kind, which could readily fetch their full value under the hammer, are sold in this underhand way? Has the buyer no misgiving as to the character of his purchase? He is either an indifferent judge of pictures or has an elastic conscience if be feels eatirely satisfied with himself. Tur Coxviscation Act.—The discussions in Congress on the proposed amendments to the Confiscation act are so. much time thrown away. There can be no doubt as to the unconstitn- tionality of any enactinent which assumes that treason runs in the blood. It matters gut little, however, how Congress may legislate on this or any other constitutional question. The war policy of the present administration has en- tirely superseded the constitution, and we now live under a regime as purely military as that of Rome under the Cmsars, BoecnaRy it THe Dowrny.—Two men, giving thotr names as Jobu Ferguson and William Smith, were arrest od by officers Laughlin and Kantz, of the Fourteenth pro cit, charged with forcing an entrance to the cloak and ahaw! atore of Samuel Jones, 334 Bowery, lato on Tues day night. Tho officers caught the burglars in the store, aod on searching thom found a heavily loaded revolver, jimmy and & jo thei pockets. ‘The prisoners, who ‘are mon about thirty two ‘earn of ngs, wore taken be foro Justios Hogan and iveker wy for trial io default of $1,000 bai! cack. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1864.. : NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasuworon, Jan. 26, 1664. ‘THE RASELS PEKPAK(NG TO BVACUTE RICHMOND. A telegraph despatch from Fortress Monroe, received Dore to-day, atates that information has reached bere that the rebel authorisies aro removing from Kichmoud all the public archieves and property ‘THE WHISKEY TAC. ‘Tho epeculators iu whiskey received @ savore biow to- day, the House, ia Committee of the Whole, haviag adopted Fernsado Wood's amendment to imposo the ad@itioaal tas on the stock of whiskey on hacd. This result was rather —unaxpected, ‘aod will cause a toss to them who have monopolized the article in expectation of largo profs from the iso onsequeat «upon thy tucreage of tho tax. ‘Too Westera. members on bois aides of tho House almost unagimousiy voted for the amendment Considerable commotion was exhibited among interested parties, and for # while the telegraph wiros were busily engaged in conveying the dolefui intelligence to the sut- forers. The bill wil! pass without other material amend. meat. TAG STZAMER KOVAW. ‘Tie United States sean guntuat Kutaw 1s to start to Now York tomorrow, to be ready for the proposed trial of speed with other steamers. APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED. ‘The Senate to-day cosfrmed the followiag aomina tions — ‘Toomas J, Boynton, as Judge, and Homer G. Plantz, as Attoraey, for tho Southera District of Hiorida. Joseph Remington, Marsiat of tae Northara diateict of Florida. Faward Doda, Marshal for the Northora aiatrict of Now York. James Graham, Marshai for the Hastera district of Towisiana. Joseph G. Easton, Marsha‘ for tho fastera district of Missouri. Sowa Underwood, Marsiat for tha Hastara district of Virginia. Samus! A. Maniovo, Postmaster of Fort Scott, Kansas, Joba B. Tyre, Postmaster of Wabash, ludiana. Michae! Steck, of Veausyivanix, Suporinteadent of Tudian Affairs for tho Territory of Nev Moxico. Froderick 0. Rogers, Attoragy for the Weatera district of Michigan Joshua Twiss, Attorngy for the district of Kentucky. Rufus Waites, of Now Ociaans, Attoraay for the Kasiera district of Louisiana Tneodora D. Edwards, Nevada. Horace A. Harrison, Attocasy for tha Middle district of Tounessee, Wan. NV. Grovor, Attoraey for the Kastora district of Aissouet. Andrew Wylin, Justice of the Supreme Court for the Disteict of Columbia. Ricbard Busteed, Judge or the D district of Alabama. Jona Titus, Chiat Juatica of the ‘erritory of Utah. Kimor S. Dundly, Assoc ate Juatica of tag Territory of Nebrasica Parry Broachits, Asso. New Mexe Joha W. North, Associaty Justice of the ‘Tacritory of Nevada wi ‘Lacage, Chin? Justic Powuatan B, Locks, Ags of Novada, Mit, TIATED COMM AMATION, Contrary toexpactation, thare wax no contest aver made i execs tive Besa: on OF (he Renate to-day over the nowiaitin» Of Gonaral Dick Mustoad as” Hoitod Staton Wiaerwet Judge of # mousy conficmod Attoragy for tha Territory of Court for the ute ist ca of tha T ory of the Larritoey of Arivona, Jutticg of the Torriory TERT Y-KIauTH COVaROss. Pies? @esarny, Sermate Wasson, daa, 20, 1864 Some NED praseated @ mamortal aad SO. the Missouci General one ¢ i Schofield ag a major 4 most of (ue moralag bouc axa military cxmmander Of Messoues FAN OE MeSeRR, ropociad fev Coo Military Ssamaul of a omy she Me. Browse. (rap ) 0 peotest of piciy Lares av Agsambly against coniry gonord Mr. Brown occu io comm Hpoo bac it Cae Westera Dy ™ AN Aw of Maw nitte ba'aaca sysiom. with aiform am. «tions of thee cnvans nat and un;'es, and If reported’ wpa fa uot bees used, Adoni THK CONDLCT ve Go moti % Ohio. the joint reamtution the Conduct the War reouirigg an of 1onse4 amend ale coateacts. was eo Jed to address the ‘© requiring Seuators » understand the proposed rulo of 2 consideration oot duced by the ol true rategt and wm ale 4 was neces pa a law and the remedies proy > 1351 mon had claimed seat 4 durin, the! overnament o their par) ta tothatend. ‘They detiaatty wa over a majority of the Seuat carry into gilect the con quastion before the s: adoption of the new rule, men and to Keeptaem out Was woverament to be pit fu the bi plot its destruction? Tht, indesd, vhe goveroment. if t be cublect to ta: ion of this dg Of Mey who boidty Te wis an 6d of ongtijulion was 8o formed a to it wad @ total faiuco. Toe Seuttor from De admitted that Congress bad power todeling the qualifications of its members. He did not eee why the Senate had uot the Power tuat the State Legisiatures had repoatedty exercised fn this respect. Would the beaaior nder the old law bo take ao oath tuag bis age was au to quality Bim (or a Boat here? Would it aot be proper ior the Senate the Senator if he poasissed the other qualifications as that” The law requiring was an imporisnt ons. and made no distinction, and aay breach of it would be permry; whereas, withou: the sanction of (ae law of 180, it would not be ‘Ibe law did not propose any new disyaalifica- tion, aud the Senator s objections seemed to apply solely to the manoor of its appli ‘This gid noi d C roperty. He did not avo that this ii! aflowe escribed im the coostitution conn when the country st nipon its ow: ab instead Of UPON the power of a few great and brilliant meo. ir. ANTHONY, (rep) of It was based ned by the Executiv RT ot propose to dis- slaw of 186¥, and ‘That was eoough for the authority of the Seaate to astab- d from the opiaion of Chief Jus: Hoch os. State of Ma+ Tm oath which tution—Is presoribed. aod no other can be required. Yet be would be charged with insanity who should coatend that the Legislatvre migbt not stiperadd to the oath directed by the cosstiiution such other vath of office as (ts wisdom might suggest Mr. Hesoew xs, (opp,) of Ind., said be took the oath whea it way required of him, dot becase he thought it proper, but to silsnce the clamor that might arise iC be refused, ‘There was nothing particularly objectionable in it to him, but when the Senate proposed to make it the general rule affecting ail fature applicants. be shold op. pose it. He thought that whoever came duly qualilled by his Stato as a Sonator should be eutitled to bis seat on this Hor, and that the State had 8 right to demand this He conteaded (nat this oath put obstructions ia the way of any feasible policy of reconstruction. He was heartily determined that aone of the leaders of the rebellion should take seats again here. The end of the rebettion was ea eee tothe leaders of the — rebelliou. ‘They would, ia the event of reconstruction, be too solicit. ous for thett personal aafety to urge claims for seats here. He argued that there were people in the seceded —- who nad never sympathized with the acts of thoir teaders, and he would not have such persona treated as criminais after their retarn to allegiance. Mr. Heauricks animad- verted at length on the \deat's recoustruction policy. He could aeo no authority under the coastitution for the President to teat down the state fabrics erected under aad prior to the formation ot the fedora! compact, and vo build up new aveten ‘oo -theit rutos by the votes of one. tenth of their original inhabitants. It was a chyrished Principle of the American people that the govesoment derived powers from the Kegeaih ha var Poche Pa u Fin eae ol, “au ia Stato he enterod a protest agai pects pele. Tho President proposed to take charge of os with an army to him inferior to gone ever possensed 8 any soversign power. He trusted the Id come when tho people would ia re seen to rote for ‘the man in power at his behest. Fo would have such @ iy of reconstruction as wauld al. Jow the rotarn of the seceded Starox into the Union as friends and not as Gnemies. THR HAMAURG FAI A monnago was rocelvod from tho Pros: tont, containing ‘Ordered to be printed. BXBCUTIVE, ‘Tho Senate thea went into adjourned. House of Representatives. Ne 4 . Wasamaton, Jan. 20, 1666. ° + THR TAN OMOERS OF THR NAVE. t Mc. Hcumnon, (rep.) of Ohio, introduced a bill to amend tho act establisbing and equalizing tho grades of hee officers Ia the mavy. Referred to Committes on Navab Aduica. THB CONFISCATION QuesTION. Mr. Sevens, (rop.) of Pa., desired to postpono a further consideration of the pending business—namoly, a joiub regolution amendatory of the Confiscation act. Duriog the incideata) debate Mr *Voornnes, (opp.) of Tnd., said that several gentiomen ow his side of the House desired to express their views on this tavorite measure of tho gentieman from lowa (Mr. Wilaoa). They iatoed to iudutgo in a togitimate debate, If they cannot have that wiltingly they will enforce it by tho privitioges of the oe Sith which they became familiar during the last ‘Congress. Mes Wits0x, (rep.) of lowa, replied that the joiot reso- lution was no favorite measure of tris. It was the aes, of tho Commitico on the Judictary, The House caa such course ag it may deom best. Ho would make Bo accangemeat, nor would he be drivn into one. Mr Voornwes roptied that they did not threaten; bub they ee ratood their rights, and wore reantvod to maig- bain yu). - moe Mr. Swear, (opp.) of Mo., expressed his gurprice. eiteeape nat'Goee outa to asihe oe aeldge aitecneion amt such an important quealioy ag confscatian. He replied: to the remarks heretofore made by.Mr. Davis, of Mary’ lind, earnestly deny mg that the miuvority came here te embarrass, tho administration, aod that they wore seat. hithor for that purpose by their cooatituents. Was thig the spirit in which the gentioman extentied tho ri 5 hand of fellowship to them, while they wore su the administration ia every act consistent with Carte tianity and-clvihzation iu putting dowa this tafamove-we- bethon? eats back these charges into the gemtie- man’s teeth, Wasanurne, (rep.) of Il!., reminded the gentiomas that Mr. Pavis was not now in bis seat. bd Cox, (opp.) of Ohio, called Mr. Washburac der. Mr Swear remarked it was tho duty of Mr, Davie to be in hia seat. AS to the Jatter’a charge that tbo minority of this House attempt to embarrass the administration, nod wore sont bero for that purpose, be would gay, God and the country, that tho purpose of his hoart aad of his coustituents was not to embarrass the admiviatra- tiou, but to aid it in putting down rebellion, The mi- nority 1d shown such A patriotic disposition on thie Moor, and had made no factiour opposition. They had voted to aid che government by furnishing mon and mouoy to an unlimited extent to end the war. In further reply to Mr. Davis he alluded to the fact that the drat blood wag shed in the streets of Baltimore, white the Massachusetts troops wero paesing through = to dofend the President and the capital, w protect the laws and preserre tho constitu. tion. The gentioman from Maryland came from that laticudo; and he undersiond that if there had beea & free aod fair, voto,in the Fourth district of Maryland some ‘olbor gontieman would now be in that member's place. ‘Tho wigack of the genticinan from Maryland was wantoo , unprovoked and inexcusable: ho, therefore, was the last person enittied to make that charge. Mr. Seat in his er- fument aid the legislation now proposed was be effect to Tepoat (he decision of the Presitout that the forfeiture of estates alall not extend beyond the lifetime of a peraom convicted of trexson, He had ono theory- » DEO- gecute oarnestly and vigorously this war until armed ravellion shalt be subdued, repeal all uacooatitutionad o1 laws, and pass none ' bat what are constr tutional, ard when armed rebellion is pub down jet the States como back in wolcome, and tet all questions of dispute be aettied by tho proper judicial tribunals of the land. Ho did vot belleve im the power of the President. 11 Congress, or any other source, outside of the constitution, to blot out States or State hues, as advocated by Fred. Douglass and others. ‘Tho further consideration of the Bubject was passed over THE KAMPURG FAI. % ‘Tho KreaKKR laid before tho House @ message Premdent, enclosing the report of exiovernor Commissioner (o the uaternational fair at-eat Brugoatiag Hual-nd app: rigtion be madeto' thal gentleman foe expenses incurred, ‘communiga~ tiou was referred to the Committes on Agi 1%, FE WIMKRY TAX, ‘Tho Houze (Mr. Cox in the chair) resumed, ie (oo of (ho Whole, the bilt amendatory. oF. the #xolge tay Various amoudmeuts were discussed and Kinatly the folowing, introduced be Mie F. Woon, (app.) hand for sale, whethes ‘Actor not, shall be wu: ted to the y provi er the [2th day of Jannary, 1864, except that wich have been already taxed under the law i shall no. bear more than the additi or im x provided by shis act. Soverat meiloctual efforts have been made to reduce (ho eixty cents tax on spirits as proposed in the bill, Mr. CLay, (rep.) of Ky., offered an amendment as fod- lows Ali whiakey or any other spirits or Muids into which mat- ioe bas infused and sold vB whinkey. brandy. rom wine, Ae % olherwise provided for, sball pay twenty conis per gallon additional tax. Agreod to—Yeas T4, bays not counted. ‘Tho committes rose. Ov motioa of Mr. STRVENS, it wos resotved that, whee ihe House again go into committes, all dobate shal cease i one minute ‘Tho House again went into committes, & Mr Hoopsr, (rop.) Of Mass., offered a substitute for tha warehousing clause, 30 28 (© moke tt more porfest, but got changing the charactor of the origiual ono, and peoviding no part of this act shail be construed to ri the existing laws which provide that diatilied spirits may bo removed from the plice of manufacture or bonded warchouses [or the purpose of being ro distilled for ex- portation, or which provides for the manufacture for em- portation for medicines, preparations, compositions, per- Cumery avd cosmetics, ‘This was agreed to, ‘Tho part of the bill relative to the tax of two cents per pound ou cotton heing under consideration, Mr. Barve, (rep.) of Me., offered an amendment, which wus agrood to, providing that on all cotton which now payaone half cent there shall be levied an additionat duty of one and a half cent; the object being to make it corroapond with the provizious of the pending bill, Without further proceedings the committee rose amd the House adjourved, b Hovse of Rev ihat tan Sth Colfax has declared iu favor of a seoond torm d Abe" Will you alow moa brief space im your nas to Bay that | have expres-od no Presidential pro- «whatever. Supported for the position 4 Ly the House by Union mombers, North and South, Fast and West, of all euades of opinion, | have not folt it beeconiog in me to participate jo any Presideatial move ments in favor of or against any one of the gentioncn 1 of as candidates. And, while replying frankiy se who asked mo that tho papular feeling eooment to ieating itself strongly in favor of President Lin- cola's re-election, T have Always stated that it would afford me gratification, in the private life to which [ im tend to retire at the close of the present Congress, to- live during tho vext iour years under tho administration of any of the distinguished gentiemen named ia with the Union ucmination, SCHUYLER COLFAX. a wh duly o United Statos Supreme Court. Teraoay, Jan. 19.—No. 89.—Wilham ™. Jonos, appet- lant, vs. Charles W. Green oval., from the Sa- preme Court of the Territory of Nebraska. Me. Justice Field delivered tae opinion of tho court, reversing the do- cree of the sald Supreme Court, with costs, and remand. Ing the cause for furtber proceedings in conformity to the opinion of this Court, No. 104.—Joha B. Ryan, plaintit in error, vs. Jobe C Rindiey, This cauge was sulmitted to the considoration of the Court on the record and printed argumeat by Mossrs, Lee and Fisher, for the ptaintifl in error. No. 105, Elisha Bloomor, appellant, vs. Jamos Mildto~ ger. This cause was arguod by afr. Seward, in part, and by Mr. Norton, in part, for tho appellant. ‘No. 107. Meyer and Stackon, plaintiffs in error, vs. the city of Muscatine, This canso wag submitted to the con sideration of the Court on the record aad printed = ments, by Mr. Cook for the pinintiff in error, and by Mr. Butier and Mr. Richman for tho defendant ia error. No. 103, Isidore Pacheoo do Malarin et al., oxecutora of Franci# Perez Pacheco, deceased, appellants, va. the United States, The argumont of thia cause was com monced by Mr. Black fer tho appeliaats, and continued by Air. Wills (or the appelloes. United States Court of Claims. Trsapay, Jan. 19, 1864,—In the case of Augustus Kings- bury, administrator of Daniel Loomis, deceased, va. una United States, Judge Peck delivered the opinion of the Court, ordering a judgment to be entered in favor of claimant for the sum of four thousand one hundred aad 1s canes of Mary White et al, va. the United States; of the hoirs of K. Frothi va. the United States; of C. States; of Maria Kilbourne 6 al. va. the United Statos; of Luko Saususe ot al. va. the United States; of Chariotte Goyette et al. va. tho United States; of Samuel Garlinghouge vs. tbe United States, and of the New England Missiseipp! Land Company va the United States, having been this day called on secowd call of trial docket, the claimants not ‘mg. either personally or by counsel. & was ordered it the said cases be stricken from the docket and the petitions dismissed. ‘The cause of Moore and Boica va. the United Staten was argued by Hon. John S, Watts, for fag iv Mr. McPherson, the Assistant Solicitor, for the United States, and the case eubmitted. Coroner's Inquest. Cay Murnen.—Coronor Naumann yesterday hoki an inquest at the Fifth pracinet station house on the body of afall grown male cbild which was found ia tho sink of premises No, 361 Greenwich street. Suspicion was di rected against Alice F. MeKeever, a young woman living in the house, as being the mother of deceased, and sbe was accordingly detained to await tho reauit of an inquisition. Depaty Coroner Thomas Robinson ate t-mortem examination of the body, and found that Shia was bora alive. In his cpinion the baby had been suffocated. Tho testimony olicited withdrew all suapt clon from Mise McKeever, but utterly faited to show aoy- thing concerning the parentage of the child, The tare fovod “That the said child camo to bia death from suffo cation, by some Porson or persons uokDown, by borne Uivrowi into the vault of No, 61 Greanwich alreok, and we oxonarate Alice F. MoKeavor from all blame in tne mattor.”” Captain Poity, of tho Fifth prectact (ove yng Bilt using his beat endeavors to toarn whq committed 4 miurdep, \ i ! i <=