The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1864, Page 4

4 @NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT. E0IMOR AND PROPRIETOR NSW XOBK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANWARY 24, 1864. to be presumed that the same obstruction hes re- | The Biumdering of Congress, Government tarded the course of the other six steamers alse. pees ont Se rs The steamer Saladin, from Kingston, Jamaice, 8 e Subject of internal 4 on the 6th inst., and Port-au-Prince on the 6th, ar- House of Representatives at Wasbing- rived at this port yesterday, after a tedious and bois- | ton has passed the act to increase the internal ee ee Tho fer. ‘Cioveland Coxe, D. D., will prea + gormen on bebalf of the Gociety for the Increase of the ‘Miawtry, in the Cuorok of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, as If the Legislature were really in earnest in slavery io om ite last in Maryland, and | the work of reformation it would adopt ‘alt.pent eoven o'glook. ae ae terous passage. Onher way toNew York she broke | revenue with ¢o mucly haste as towarrant the | 1.41 when i ee la Maryland it dics in Deta- | plau that wo tately recommended to it. A atte Seth cise, Poethrioten chase Gnd iv Cree ee ceccccoemeen TNT | 9 pestion.l ber machinery, ond bed to male pest] promamption tat the eaeneanh Rap mattioen fal: | arg, chat Want Wingicia to “practicallg, ox-| charter Snigive munlehetion to the poeple’ of SAS ee Se nanny annnneannnn " 0 i A . a THRAD cosh ta advance, Momoy oeat by mail wit bo | OF ROT TAY Undet salle vereantite Inde. | Pci Sested, and that the Genate will interpoee | sieved of the scourge,” and the loyal portions | New York, it amst be the work of thoes in| ‘=. objections which will cause the return of the bill to the House, where it witt undergo another ordeal, and probably elicit = prolonged dis- A lon. In the discussion thus far @ lamenta- tions, to demands for immediate con- | OUS#! . pe ay There have been large arti. | ble degree of ignorance on the eubject of excise vals of American provisions and bread- | duties has been exhibited by members; and stuffs, and the excessive stocks have unsettled | from this cause there is reason to apprehend a the market, the trade being epparently unwilling | law may be perfected that will atill fail to meet to operate to any extent. There is, however, @ | the end proposed. ‘ general feeling among the importers that in a Last year © 4 ani mee short time the present prevailing d@ulness, natu- . rally succeeding the atir for the holidays, will have | 2U° 8ct which proved etmost an utter abortion. past toa o’clook, and tho Rev. Samuel D. Burchard, D. D, at half-past seven o'clock. ‘The Gfth of the course of sermons ou the Liturgy wit be preached by the Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., this evening, at St. Ann's church, Eigbtecnth street, acar Fifth aveowe,. Subject—'The Creeds.”’ ‘The Rey. Samuel D. Burchard, D. D., will preach at the of Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia | Chas. FE Marshal! an® W. H. Aspinwall, aad | roomsot tho New Ragland Boldiere’ Relief Association have replaced clave Imbor by free labor, and | we will guarantee that the result of their | No. 19 ene ren ee ‘Taw pubite are lavt- 80 on; and then the question is asked, “How is | labors wilt not require remodelling for years-| %#'? snd. = all this to be reversed?” to come. Hts thus that the work of toga yim. comsse” 2. nar Someone teens oe: We anewer that ao time seed be wasted ia | tion is effected abroad in difficutt and complex ple f cm gure han qesbaaye apace, services the discussion of this questiom; that the war | questions of this kind. It is certain that no || commencing at balf-past seven o'clock. Tile Rev. Dr: et the rig Of the sender. Nowe but bank bills curreat in New York taken. 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Paces GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticactr or Lave an OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway —A Bout tm 4 Catna passed off, and business will become more active. | It was calculated to raise one hundred and fifty Great excitement has been created in the island | Millions of dollars upon the plan proposed, by the arrival of several American traction en- | and scarcely half that amount was reslized. gines, which run over the roughest roads without | This year the Commissioner of Internal Reve- obs any kind. as trip from IN to Bt. | nue, through the Secretary of the Treasury, puts 'w, @ distance of seven or cig! a8} in another programme for internal taxation, inclined plane, the performance ef one of these ceseo dhs Go ateataclingnantee donelt by engines gave universal and complete satisfaction. imposing additional taxes upon the caw mate ap . i ee the accounts of | Tit! and articles of home manufacture, as woll Richard Morrill's estate; also of ‘Thomas McAve- | ®? upon articles of bome consumption, in- y's estate, The injunction against the executor | Cluding oative wines and whiskey. [n this last of Thomas Collyer’s estate was modified, The | budget of the Gommisstoner what was money lying in the city belonging to} obscure before now beeomes so the more. James Gades’ estate was ordered paid to hia next | What was before blind, doubtful, unequal, of kin. onerous and anjust, is still foggy and inexplica- General Edward Ferrero, who commands the | ble, [p this work the Commissioner was as- First division of the Ninth army corps, writes from sisted by amendments to the excise laws sug- Blane’s Cross Roads, East Tenneasee, that he has gested by a convention of assessors held in succeeded in re-enlistigg as veterans seven regi- Philadelphi November t2 and 13, 1863: ments of infantry and two: batteries of his com- — See a, . 3 aaa and ho was again enlightened or befogged, as A fire occurred about eleven o’clock tast eve- | it may prove to be, on the subject by eugges- ning at No. 182 Chrystie street, occupied as an | tions made at a similar convention bold in organ and furniture manufactory. The loss is eati- | Cleveland, Ohio, on tast December 16, 17 and In the latter coavocation the question mated at about $7,000, on both workshops and 18. mostly mooted in the open discussions was building. The stock market was steady yesterday, and there was . v4 vory litilo deviatiun from Friday's prices, the bulls and | Whether it were better to: recommend an in- bears baving evidently decided to lay over untti Monday | Creased tax on the raw material or on the manu- morning for {be commencement of new operations. Gov. | factured' article. It waa Gnailyooa cluded to ernment securities were firm, and the fve-wenty bonds | tax both, and an interminablelist € taxable wore held at 1044. The seven and three-tonths Treasury | —-.. notes have advanced to 1073. The gold market was | *tticles was prepared and presented to the has virtually settled it; that the inatitution of Southern elavery may be considered as a thing of the past; ‘that it is dying, and that with or oon after the suppression of the rebellion it will cease to exist. & is evident that in all the border elave States and in all the States along the Mississippi the. war bas ¢o completely broken up this institution that peace, under the best possible conditions for the puspose, caa- aot coatore it; ead it is equally evident, from rebel confessions, ‘that in- South Carolina, | Georgia and Alabama the clave popalation bas Become ao demoralized by the-war th with the retura of peace, slavery will be ineWi- tably superseded by some other system of labor. Hence we consider it a waste of time any longer te discuss the question, what is: #0 be done with this institution of slavery in:the re- construction of the Union? The tree has been tora: up by the roots, and cannot be replanted. There aro cedars im California which, with a solid trenk of thirty feet in diameter, tower to the amazing height ef three hundred feet. It would: be-aa easy to replace and bring to: Mife again one of these giants of the forest, blown down: by a violent wind, as to restore this prea- trate institution of Sowtkern slavery. Its fate ia sealed, and we may leave it to its fate. But the negro question, or the question Potts wil preach the sermon, the Rev. Dr. Phillips wil dbltver the charge to the peepic, and the Rev: Mr. Ulart te charge to the pastor. Tke'usual morning services a6 haif:past ten o'clock. ‘The Rev. Peeodore L. Cuyter will preach lo yeang aeen, by tevitation of the New Yor Young Men's Ciiristhus Aasseiation,.i@ the Fourtoeath street Preaby teris-churem (Rev: Dr: McFisoy’s), between Fifth and “cixth evenucs, (Chis cvening-as tall-past coven o’ctork. ‘The-Rev. ©. €. Goss. will preach im Hope Chapel. Ne. 720 Broadway, at oleven o'clock, towtrangers, yousg mem and fanmivs, eo@ Dr. R. B. Westbrook in the evening. ‘Children's meoting for singing and’ addresses at three o'clock. At the Soath Baptish church, Twenty-fifth street, be- tween Soventh: and Eighth avenues, the Rev. J/-T Duryea wil} preach the fourth of the sceond series of the South churob'tectures, at balf-past sovem o'clock. Site Ject—“Experiences Attending Conversiom’’ At the M- maria! church, Hammond etreet, corner of Wavorley place, tho'ltev. Francis Vinton, D. D., an ase sistant minister: of Tyinity churcu, wilspreach in the ening. Services at half-past ten, balf-past three an® ha'f-past seven o'clock. j Tho Rev. Mr. Streot, of York, Pa., will preach in the North Presbyterian church, corner of Nintb avenuo and? Thirty-Grat street, .atsbell-past ton o’clock. The Rev. 3. H. Cox, D. D., willpreach at baif-past seven o'clock. At tho French Episcopal church du St. Esprit, Wosts Twenty second strest, near Filth avenue, morning ser- vices in French, by the Rey. Dr. Verren, at balf-past tea, o'clock. Eveuing services in Kngliah, by Rév. J. Camp- bell Whito, D. B. , at baif-past seven o'clock. ‘Tho Rev. G. T. Flandore will preach tho first of a course of sermons on ‘Hell: [ie Origin, History and4Deatiny,” At tho Alistorical Society Building, Eleventh atveet, Secoad other course'of proceeding can'ever secure to usa charter which will protect’ us against the knavery and repacity.of the politicians. Rerorus om Oor Pustic Senoon Srarau.— Whilst the Legislature is in sessiom we trust that it will-uadertake @ rovision-of the system uader which the Beard of Education is elested. ‘The startting facte which have beembrought to light regarding tie constitution of thet body have destroyed alf confidence in it. The pub- lic will aot allow things to remain as-they are, aotwithstanding the show made by the Board of a desire to purge itself of its vicious ele- ments; If the Legislature does not take the matter in band the community undoubtedly will, by keeping their childven from the schoel& It will notbbe tolerated that a few ward politicians, who controt the election of these Schoot: Com- missioners, shall contiaue to poison the fean- tain from whence tho rising generation are supposed! to draw intellectual life and heattb. Better far that they should remain steeped in ignorance than be brovght in contact withthe contaminating influences to which, under’ the present system, they aro liable to be exposed. Tt will be asked in what way these perils are to be avoided. The: answer is a very sim plo one. Let the Legislature give to a com mission, composed of the-heads of the different avenue, at balf.past seven o'clock. The Rev. W. H. Milbara wilt deliver one of ‘the course of lectures on the “Firet Christian Century,’’at Irving Hall, at balt-past seveu-o'iock. At the Central Presbyterian church, Broome street, two blocks east of Broaéway, preaching at haif-past tem, and balf-past seven o’cleck, by the pastor, Rev. Jas. B. Dunn, Subject in tbe evening, the contiouation of the- series of lectures on ‘‘Pilgrim’s Progress."’ Anna K. Parker will speak on the “Wrongs of Woman. Suor—Maszrra. NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Mazsrra— Dows Man or Bouxmta—Ticer or tax Sra. active at an advance im the rato of premium to 167%, | Commissioner, together with very modest Thore was govoral dulness In eommercial circles on Sat- | @llasion to the: increase of the: dascssots’ own urday, owing to the lower price of gold and’ the fall inox- | pay. ‘ change. Prices of most goods were merely nominal, “ on “ though holdors were pretty firm in their views. Trausac- Following in this tine of equivocal support, tions were moderate. At the Produce Exchange things | UP came, to the relief or to the: dismay of the were mixed; but there was ao especial activity inaoy | Commissioner, the partisan or government peace all business having been at about | press. The chief organ of the-administration Brlday'e Prices, Groceries wore quict. | Colon un- | in this city contents itself with declaring its what is, to be done with the black race-of | churches, the appointment of all the teachers the South, begins te keom up ay ono: of | in these schools. There-can be joined with the most important issues of the present cen-| them the rector of Columbia College, the tury to us-and to mankind at large. From the-| Principal of the Free Academy, and such lights of experience we think it may‘be safely; | other laymen as may be deemed desirable. asserted that this war bas noi only uprootedi| With stringent rules for their guidance, to ex the institution of Sowthern slavery, but bas} clude all chance of sectarian differences, the dittled the-destiay of the African race in this-} selections of this body cowld not fail to inspire: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Maip oF Croissr— @ovss raat Jace Burct—Mn. anv Mas. Warte. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, mote Teer: Ganz, Giant Gia. Giant Bor, &o,, 08 atl hours. Camitia's Hos- @anp, At3and 7}; P.M. changed. Petroleum dult, lower aud nominal Freighte 4 ” Ghia ewoping, of Broadway ané Pa a ig nae Verge aeons al, ROY belief that fraudulent returns. bawe been made | country. Under the fostering care of a mastery. confidence. If abetter plan than this can be- | snd iS ga agers oem: Nacek oe eee sae casa The Military Incapacity of tue Admints. | theassessors, and bonce the-meagre amount | the negro-works, theives und multiplies; loft to.|, suggested wo “will willingly accept it. We are | mmy sure siron. Or Sindak wit Aso apesk, Rate ROO S MINSTREL HAL Broadway —Braiortan tration. realized. Another organ argues in favor of | bimsclf, he-basks in the sun or sleeps in the {;disposed, in feet, to- accede to any change-| tho Rey. 7. J. Sawyer will preach in the Universalist: owas, Danous, &c.—Ratiao. }RPLOSION. For information in relation to the move- | ‘xing “primary manufactuces;” beaving the ments of our armies and all the battles that | mount to becotleeted a problem to be un- are fought the people Yook first to the| tavelied by experience. Other edministration press. But after all have ccad what the | journals join in uttering visionary or superficial | shade tilt he wanes away and dies. With the |) which will take-out of the bands of the poli- restoration of pence the blacks of the South |j ticians appointments.of euch high moral trust uader any voluntary system of labor, will thus. fand responsibility, i relapse into Afcican idleness. Destitution and chucch, corner of Third avenue and Fifty-second sirect, this afternoon at three o'clock. AtSt. Jobn’s church, coener of Washiogton and Joha~. gu streets, Brooklyn, the rector, Rev. Geo rge. F. Seyr Mo. 444 Broadway. —Ba: AMERICAN THEATRE. LETS, Farvommes, Buatrequas, &c.—Hovse Tast Jack But. ‘AY AMPAITHEATRE, Br fe I. 4 al i 485 Broadwav.—Gru- MFORMANCES. Afternoon and ‘ - Votumtecring. , Will preach a sermon to young mea this evening. correspondents ay there are some fow who.| Views on the subject, but aot one enunciates a | disease will next agsnit them, aud they will be} vew sensmy anD-TeE BLAOE MECROTTS—8OLD AT-- ices at balf-past sevoa o'clock. ERTL CHAPEL 716 Rroadway.—Tae Greaxoscornicis | want to hear the general's account of his owa'| Plain, common’ sense proposition to meet the | swept off as:by @ pestilence. the same time hssnintiiecnpence dan ~ f Rev. James C. Paittipg wi preach fo the First £. We, teaon or Tax Uniwense, the waste places of the South Will invito more |! Our Jersey neighbors, who aso anxious to ill their owns) } quota with their own men, wisite or black, do oot like the- efficient laborers from all the Southern States } idea or ageats or beolseradringing fart acerca end of Europe, and with their appearance nume- | gho river to this city.. There lhave boon several instances. fous vineyards and olive groves among the: , of “Americans of African deseent” having been stopped: cotton fields. witl spring up from South Caro- |, a the ferry, and made: to-right about face and march in lina to.Texas. We need not further pursue the Baptist church, Twenty-sighth street, at baif past. tem: clock A.M. Rov. Mr. Newman will preach in the ovea- ing at baif past seven o'cleck. In the Church of the Kesurrection, Thirty-Afth street; a fow doors east of Sixth awenue, the rector, Rev. E. Os Flagg, will preach this morning and evoning. Divinesen. vice at balf-past ten A. M, and half-past seven P. M. At the Christian chapel, Seventeenth street, near Sixty movements, and look somewhat tmpatiently { ‘iffcultics with which they imagine the whole | for his report; for in such documenta thoy ex- } Subject of internat taxation to be fraught. It pect to see s moro particular account of the | 1380 with Gongress down, through an aruy of history of each affuir. They expect to see | Tevenue asasessors and collectors, to the pal- stated, at least, tho object that it is proposed to | triest newspeper that brays its support of the gain by each battle; how it is proposed to gain | Measures of the administration. Meanwhile, ST. NICHOLAS MALL, Broadway. —Minaoz or raz Be- erin. : SEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.= Cymtositias amp Lecrurss. from 9 4. BM. ‘till P.M. ACADEMY OF MUSI Dawe Biavoas. | another direction. Rightior-wrong, it bas beea the courc Of occasional trouble-and: frequent complaints. Among: rooklyo.—Gerganx Orera—La HOOLET'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Eratorun ork, Dances, BonvesavEs, £0. ’ Hew Vork, Sunday, January 24, 1864. THE SITUATION. No new movements are reported in the Poto- macarmy. General Kilpatrick has returned from Washington, and it is reported that he will soon be appointed to a command in another depart- ment. Despatches from Port Hudson state that the enemy are concentrating in that vicinity and about Baton Rouge, und that General Ullmann is almost daily receiving prisoners from the rebel lines, who express themselves disgusted with the Service of the confederacy. Many of them never heard of Mr. Lincoln's amnesty proclamation. The Navy Department has official information of the capture of several blockade runners within the last two weeks. On Christmas Eve the Antona captured, off the coast of Texas, south of Galves- ton, the British schooner Exchange, claiming to be from Nassau, with @ clearance from Vera Cruz, for New Orleans, with a valuable cargo of coffee, nails, cotton goods, &c. @n the 3ist of December the Kennebec captured the rebel steamer Gray Jacket, as we before men- tioned, chasing her all night, while attempting to escape out of Mobile Bay during a heavy blow, and bound for Havana; and on January 7 the Ken- nebec also captured the rebel schooner John Scett, while attempting to escape out of Mobile Bay for Havana, loaded with cotton and turpen- tine. She is represented as an American yacht, built at Newburg, N. ¥., and her ‘‘foreign’’ name was the Victoria. The latest mews from Chattanooga is to the 23d. Trains were then running regularly to Nashville. The greatest distress exists in the rebel army. The mules are being killed for food. Desertions are frequent and sometimes oamber over a hundred in one day. he Tennessee aad Kentucky troops in the rebel army are said to be kept ander guard to prevent desertion. THE LEGISLATURE. The State Benate was not in session yesterday, having adjourned over from Fridsy till Monday. In the Assembly s number of measures received attention. Among the bills receiving favorable reports from committees were those for the in- corporation of the Niagara Ship Canal Company, relative to the lends of aliens, and in relation to the Kings County Judge. Among various bills introduced was one for another railroad in this city, to run through Grand and other streets. Notices were given of bills for the extension of the Chenango Canal, to incorporate the Library Fund of this city, and for various other purposes of little interest except to particular localities. Resolutions instructing the Judiciary Committee to prepare a bill to enable claimants against the Btate to carry their suits into the Supreme Court ‘were introduced, but laid over. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ‘There are six European steamships, with mails @ad passengers, due at American ports to-day. ‘Those vessels sailed for their respective destina- tions in the following order, viz:— Beeamshin. From alone Pe. Jan. New York, ee Sree Jan. 7..New York ‘cee El Sav poieed Van 18 New York ‘The news by the Canada will be five days and that by the Kedar eight days lster than the report of the Colambis, telegraphed from Newfoundland. ‘The Cotumbis reached Boston yesterday morning. Gho loft Galway on the 5th inst., and reports hat. dng boon ‘detained by ice” pa the voyage. It ie it, and, witbal, an honest recital of the result, | the credit of the goverament suffers, the people And were the reports of generals up to such a become restless with revolutionary tendencies, caustically the errors of a rival general whom he bates, or of a subordinate whom he fears; but that is, in the main, the extent of his dis- | certain, and not arbitrary; the time of pay- closures. Two prominent generals who might | ment,the manner of payment, and the quantity have given the country some very remarkable | to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to intelligence in relation to the administrative | the contributor and to every other person. blunders have never yet given any reports at subject. Lot itsuffice the philanthropic abo- litionist that bis boon of emancipation in- volves tothe Southern negro those doubtful blessings ef indolence, destitution, disease and. death. It wilh be sufficient for the Southern slavebotders, with the return of peace, that the rebellion into which they plunged for an »nde pendent slaveho!ding empire will have resulted in the extinction of slavery. standard they would be very interesting and | ®"d the whole fabric of our political organiza- important papers. They would enable the peo- tion becomes weakened and tremulous. ple to judge more clearly than they always can What should be done in the midst of this exactly how the administration carries on the | reign of official imbecitity and blundering on war, and what atrocious blunders it continually | the subject of taxation? Let us endeavor to makes. show in afew words. It was a maxim of a But the truth is that such reports are of very | sound political economist that “1. The subjects little account. They hardly ever tell the peo- | of every State ouzht to contribute towards the ple any more than they already knew from | support of the government as nearly as poasi- the papers, and they are always especially doli- | blein proportion to their respective abilities — cate upon the blunders of the War Depart. | that is, in proportion tothe revenue which ment. Sometimes a general will point out very | they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.” And further, “2. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be Me. Drarer Has an Eve on tax Custom Hovse.—The patriotism of Mr. Simeon Draper has inepired bim with the brilliant idea of get- ting up a President Lincoln association; but from the well known enterprising character of Mr. Draper we guess that he has an eye wpon the New York Custom House, and has made up his mind that with the re-election of Old Abe this Lincoln association will advance its founder to the desirable post of honor and profit now beld by Hiram Barney. In brief, Mr. Draper ia striking for the office of Collector. A similar explanation will apply to the patriotic gentle- men concerned in the Lincola resolutions of the late New Hampsbire Republican State Con- vention, and to the Lincola pronunciamiento of the republicans of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, or we are no judge of the tactics of Gene- ral Simon Cameron. Of course the bulk of the federal officeholders, contractors, jobbers, &c., are atrong in the belief that President Lin- coln is entitled to a re-election. But still, as “there is many a elip twixt the cup and the lip,” it is possible that all these Lincoln move- ments may be upset in the Republican National Convention. We know that Martin Van Buren was upset at Baltimore in 1844, in spite of a majority to that Convention elected as Van Buren delegates; we know that Henry Clay, under similar circumstances, was superseded at Philadelphia in 1848 by old Zack Taylor; and we know that Mr. Seward, at Chicago, was, quite unexpectedly to his supporters, engineer- ed off the track in 1860. But just to take a single case. If the mili- tary popularity of General Taylor was too strong for the great popularity of Henry Clay asa statesman, how much more will the mili- tary achievements of General Grant, or even General Fremont, when the time comes, eclipse the statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln. Let Mr. Draper “ put this into bis pipe and smoke it.” Taz Proroseo AuenpMeNts To Tas Caar- Ter.—The various plans before the Legislature for tinkering the city charter are, like a multi- tude of nostrums for a system diseased, alarm- ingly suggestive of danger. The concern mani- fested in so many antagonistic quarters about 3. Every tax ought to be levied at the time all of extensive movements made under their | and in the manner in which it is most likely to direction, and battles fought while they had | be convenient for the contributor to pay it. command. These are Generals Burnside and | 4 Every tax ought to be so contrived, as Hooker. Both of these men fought battles near | both to take out and keep out of the Fredericksburg, and reports have not yet been | pockets of the people, as little as possible received from elther as to bis campaign. Both | over and ebove what it brings into the pub- blundered terribly ; but it is probable that the | lic treasury.” This reaches the point, and Washington authorities blundered in those mat- | should teach our revenue tax muddlers what ters even more terribly than the generals did. | they should doin the present emergency. It And when those report: are sent in, if they are | tells them that they should not alarm the peo- written boldly and honestly, they will doubt- | ple unnecessarily by multitudinous details less disclose one of the most disgraceful chap- | of the articles to be taxed; that they should ters of administrative incapacity that the world | not attempt to bolster public credit by ex- bas ever seen. hibiting an interminable list of small things There are two marked exceptions to the usual | exciseable and leave the weightier and more teticence and insipidity of generals’ reports. | material objects of revenue almost untouched. These are the reports of Generals Halleck and | It tells them that they should not tax where it McClellan. Only some inconsiderable portions | would cost more to collect the amount than to of General McClellan’s report have yet been | leave the article untaxed. It teaches them to made public; but those portions are honest | avoid pettifogging in the matter of taxation, and distinct. They show the country just | and to adopt the higher and grander system for where the blame lies for the continuance of the | realizing an adequate internal revenue which war to the present time. The people readily | the experience of older nations presents to their contrast what the administration bas actually | judgment and scrutiny. In short, it tells them done with what General McClellan proposed | to go to the fountain bead, and assess to do, and from that contrast they as readily | and collect taxes in proportion to the infer the utter incapacity of those who put | revenue the taxpayer derives from the this able soldier aside to conduct the war | protection of the government under which on their own plan. In that report the | he is assessed. Thus, as the government is dis- letters of General McClellan to the Presi- | posed to exert its power to infuse prosperity dent and those of the President to | into all branches of trade, commerce and man- Gen. McClellan are given; and in those letters | ufactures, to prevent undue foreign competi- we see the well considered counsel of a far- | tion, to stimulate private industry, to maintain, sighted soldier turned from its purpose by | as far as possible, a sound financial system, trashy little epistles constructed upon the | including a good currency, so will the means model first furnished by Jack Bunsby. “If your | of the people and their ability to pay taxes be plan is better than my plan, then my plan is | augmented. Let this spirit be manifested by } tho latter, George: Dewning,.knight of the spoon and iord: | Of the bivalves of Broad:street, was seriously aggrievods in this way, and made complaint of hiz troubics.to- Mayor Gunther. HiasHonor eould not exactty seo how his Jurisdietion extended over Jersey City, whore thoy have @ vory good Mayor, bub, being of akiud and benevolent disposition, and. anxious thet justice be done, though the beavers should. fall, very considerately recommended Goorgo to make application toSupervisor Blunt, Chairmaa of the Volunteering Committee. Thereupon Mr. Downing appeared before-the Chaisman and presented tho follow ing lotter:— Maron's Ovricr, New Yorn, Jan. 23, 1864,. Hoa. Oricon BiU! Drag Sin—! bi been directed by his Honor the Magor to refer to you bearer, Mr. Downing, son. of ‘Thomas Downing, 80 well m to all the tovers of things in our city. Air. Downing complains of a grievance in Jersey City, which he will explain; and your soqnaint- ance with (ho whole sub;ect will at once suggest to him ® Guitabio and adequate remedy. Vory respectfully, J. B. AULD, Cloris Although this appeal was a most (eeling one, especially es it had reference to the ‘good things of our city," Mr. Biunt, though one of the well known “lovers of good was ipas great a dilemma as bis Honor the , on the statement of the case could not bim- self see how be, Chairman of the Supervisors’ Volumtcer- ing Committee, could interfere with Jersey cabbages or Dicgera; aad,as he was acting in a local capacity in the city and county of New York, bo did not believe his business extended over the sovereign State of New Jer- sey. But, not to be outdone in generosity by the Mayor, he politely informed Mr. Downing of bis inabffity to serve bim directly, but would refer his case to tho War Department, So, between his Honor Mayor Guathor, Supervisor Blunt and the Honorable Secrotary of War Stanton, Mr. George Downing’s case is likely at any early day to be thoroughly investigated and promptiy correct- @4, Who says thero is no justice remaining? A bold attempt at fraud was made on tbo Cnairman of the committee oa Saturday, which was alone prevented by the pradence and sagacity of Mr. Blunt. Toomas D. King presented his papers, rogularly made out and sigood and witnessed, represent- ing bim as (a member of Company B, First Now York Mounted Rifles. Everything was so regular and well done that thoaffair was admirably calculated to deceive The Supervisor fancied there was some con- ection betwoen the party (there were several of them, ‘and all with similar papers) aod Kings county volun- teera. Un investigating tbe matter, ho discovered that thoy had all re-enlisted, were credited to the quota of Brooklyn, aud had each received their bounty of three hundrod dollars. It was a bold movement to,increase thoir capital, bat fortunately did not succeed. Had it not beea for the clear head and good memory of Mr. Blunt the county would have been the loser of several thousand dotiars. He was about ordering the arrest of the whole party, but Goally lot them of with one of bis one huudred pounder reprimands. Mausteal. OPERA IN BOSTON. The Maretzek operatic troupe bave had an immoase success in Boston. All the artiste have gained great ap- Plause from tho public; but Miss Kellogg bas evidently made tho bit of the season, Hor truly artistic imperso- pation (of Margherita in Gounod’s beautiful opera, Faust, bas won for ber such praises from the Bostonian critics as are soldom bestowed, except in cases where merit of the highest order existe, Mme, Medori, Mile. ‘Sulzer and Mme. Ortolani Brignoli have succeeded admi- avonue, Urban C. Brewer, tho minister, will preack.as the usual bours. Sub; morning—“Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.” Eveoing—‘The Conversion. of Lydia” The Rev. Dr. Schaff will deliver a discourse Ip the Gee- man language, at tho Church of the Holy Communica, corner of Sixth aveouc aad Twentieth street, at-balf:pas seven o'clock. ‘The seventh sermoe ia.the Christian Union seriemwiti be preached by the Ror. J. S. Newman, D. N., im. the chureb in Twenty-cighth atreet, just west of Broadway, at balf-past soven o’cleak. Subject—‘The Unity of the Christian Church.” The Rey. Stephea H. Tyng, Jr., rector, will proach tm the Church of the Mediator, Lexington avenue, cores of Kast Thirtieth street, a8 balf-past seven o'clock. “Abrabam, the Believer,’ will be the subject of the second sermon of the series on ‘Representative Charac- tors in the Old Testament,” by the Rev. E. G. Brooks, ab the Twentieth street Universalist church, near Seventh avenue, at three o'clock. Morning sermon at baif-pass ten o'clock, ov “Great Principles in Little Things.” At the Bleecker street Universalist church the fins of a series of lectures on the more prominent Christian denominations wilé be delivered by Rev. Moses Balloa this evening. Istroductory—‘ Theo Roman Catbolie Church: Its Dootrines and Practices.” Mr. Ballow Preaches algo ic. the morning. At All Saints’ Protestant Episcopa! church, corner of Henry and Scammel streets, services at balf-past ten and balf-past seven.o'clock. The Rev. J. H Hopkins, Jr, will preach morning and ovening. At the Laight streot church, corner of Laight and Variok streets, St. Jona’s park, Rev. 1. 8. Kalloch will proagh morning and evening. ibject for the evoning—'‘The Ages to Come in the Church on Earth.” Services will be held at a quarter before eight o'clock, in 8t, Ann’s free church, Eighteenth stroet, noar Fifth avenue, with the view of accommodating all those who, from various reasons, are unable to attend the half-past ten o'clock services in our churches. The other services, as usual, at half-past ten, three and balf-past seven o'clock—the afternoon for deaf mutes. At the Atbenwum, Brooklyn, the Rey. Matthew Hale Smith will preach at half-past ten o'clock, on ‘The Les~ sons of the Bea.'’ At balf-past seven o’clock the second sermon of the course on “The Saviour and Practical Life—Christ a Preacter."’ ‘There will be a people's mosting at 187 Bowery, from two until five o'clock. Subject from two to three—The Monarchial Form of Goveroment.’’ From three to fye— “(Has General McClellan boon Wronged by the Govere- ment.” Mrs. Cora L. V. Hatch will speak in Clintoo Hall, Astor place, at three and Balf-past seven o'clock. Subject for the evening lecture chosen by the audience. Discussion after the lecture. General Andrew Jackson on the War, through Raa-. dolph as modium, at balf-past tea o'clock, corner of Broad ,. way and Twenty-third street. At three o'clock the for tum will discuss ‘Evils and their Remedy.'’ ‘There will be spiritual meotings of the Commonwe akh worse than your plan,” says the President | Congress at once, in the adoption of some co- chosen to rule over thirty millions of people. | herent and sensible plan for assessing and “If eo be that this ship’s gone down,” says | collecting internal revenue, based upon a foun- Jack Buasby, “why so; but if so be that this | dation worthy the vast resources and high oha- ship arn’t gone down, why so also.” And Jack | racter of the nation, and at the eame time cause Bunsby’s nonsense is the less nonsensical of the | the tax to fall as mildly upon the people as a two. similar excise does upon the subjects of Great General Halleck’s report was crammed from | Britain, where taxation is reduced to science, the first line to the last with evidence of the | and where to be taxed is considered almost to military incapacity of the President. It was | be blessed. almost like a bill for the impeachment of that functionary. Beginning with the frst| A Scaansrion ror Cononess.—I¢ Congress Fredericksburg battle, {t threw the whole re- | really desires to do something to help break ap sponsibility of that massacre upon the Presi- | the rebellion, let it pass an act ¢ dent, Upbn the the to- | the property of rebels, éxcepi those offers sponsibility for the lo al | who immediately renew their allegiance And a third great disaster—that at mauga—was traced to Burnside’s failure to re- | cated among the Southern soldiers who will at inforce Rosecrans, and the President was re-| once throw up the rebel cause and become sponsible for Burnside. No administration in | loyal men. This would punish the rebel ring- Europe, aod but very few thrones, could sur- | leaders and would give the Southern soldiery vive three such defeats; and qur edminis- | some motive for loyalty. Such an act es this tration is son atk ptabe espana te would, therefore, be much more effectual than for us in y veep silly proglamatiqns of abolitioaisa. the municipal health reminds one of the anx- iety exhibited a few yoars ago by the European governments about the condition of the sick man of Turkey. There is not one of the po- litical quacks who has taken the matter in band whose object is not to turn the helpless condition of the patient to account. Their re- medies are all of the Sangrado order—the bleeding process being in every case the basis of their presoriptions. It is absurd to expect that any relief from the present condition of things is to be obtained from legislation at Albany. So long as the committees appointed to consider amendments to the charter aro under the immodiate influence and control of the political tings there can be but one result. Our city revenues are looked upon by the lat- tor as their legitimate appanage, and such al- terations as they may make will have for ob- ject only to extend their opportunities of plun- der. All this talk about correcting the abuses of our present muniainal qyatem ialatasded at rably in the modern,Athens, which has in thie instance Geigned to give its assont to the verdict of New York es regards the artists to Me. Maretsek’s troupe. Signore Magsoloni, Bollini, Lote! and Biachi are highly 1s in Paria, id toe che fuarleaton, South praised by the Boston critics. fn short, Mareteex’s ope- | {n y and ab rebuild corvain” fuming Catholicn ratio season in Boston bas been a great artistic and peou- | tons destroyed in the conflagration | ast year, lary success. On the 1st of February these artiste are to commence @n operatic season here, which will last three months, ‘This \s great aews for the lovers of music. We are to bave novelties and are promised a most pleasing feature In the coming eatertatoments at eur Academy of Music, ‘We will give the details oo another occasion. OPERA (N HAVANA. ‘While an American prima donna te cresting a furor ia Europe, an Americas prima donna succeeding admirably een A Vaan toe ‘marked triumphs ia Havana, ‘irgtate Lorint ba mando Bor gobet ob the Those with the mook complete success, ‘The Habanerea are proverbially hard to please tn operatic matters, end their enthusiastic praises of Mme. Loria! are thus all the more flattering. We lack @pace to repreguce extracts from the Havana journals; Dut ono and all seem to vie in the warmth of their ap- Proval of the &rtiste. Pronounce ber method adm’. rele, and assert Unat who vooslises With the at aog, arity, (agility and sweetness Immenge Crow'sg nave AAHAAOA her performance Torowto, C, W., Jan. 28, 1004. ‘Tho oxten official Gaeette calle for a mesting of the Gn dian Partiamont on the 10th inst. Mr. ©. R. Chriatio, for oine youre Guperiatendens a tha Grand Trung Ra\iwar, died laut male,