The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1864, Page 4

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Grant Bor, wano, AtSaud7ig PM BRIARTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanic’ Alall. 472° Broad Taiortan SonGs, Dances, BORLEsquas, &0.—Tus ‘Smxious Fawr, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 516 Broadway —! ‘Songs, Dances, £0.—Raicaoan Exrvosion. oe ar Broadway —Frenca Giant, @., a ali Bours. Camicta's Hus: AMERICAN THEATRE. No 464 Broadway.—Batt Pawromiwes, Bunixsques. &c—Hovss Tost Jace Beret BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadwav.—Gru. wee ano Equssraian feuronmancas. Afteravon aod HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Rros@way.—Tas Sreasoscorni on Minnox OF tag Univensn. insure non ST. NIC. =| one BOLAS HALL, Broadway —Mianoa or can Ra- BEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondwag.o Tks AND Lecrones from ya M. Cii0P. Mt. ACADEMY OF MUBIC, ,' al PR ool 'C, Brooklya,—Gaauan Orsra—La BOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Ermorus ‘Gonas, Dances, Boucesquss, £0. New York, Monday, January 25, 1864. THE SITUATION, There is very little news of any importance from Sny portion of the army. Despatches from Cin- cionati state that General Longstreet bas been reinforced with twenty thousand men, and was ad- vancing on Knoxville, pushing General Gordon Granger's forces before him. Another rumor was to the effect that John Morgan, at the head of five thousand cavalry, was making a movement to cut off commnunication between Chattanooga and Knoxville. We give these reports for what they are worth, and trast tothe news of to-morrow to confirm or annul them. Re-enlistments are progressing most favorably dn the Westernarmy. Nearly the entire Sixteenth Army corps will re-cnlist, and twenty thousand men of the Seventeenth corps have done the same thing. General Hunter has arrived at Cairo, and General Shorman bas returned to Memphis from Vicksburg. The captore of a rebel mail in West Virginia has strengthened the opinions formed of the effect which the President's amnesty proclamation is producing in the South. Almost every letter in the intercepted correspondence alludes to the proclamation, and in terms favorable, more or fens, to the measure. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Etna, from Queenstown on the ‘Tth instant, reached this port yesterday morning. Ger advices are two days later. The report of the Committee of the French Corps Legislatif on the Supplementary Credits has been published. to Napoleon that the Mexican expedition should be abandoned as soon as consistent with French honor. The Bchleswig-Holstcin question was still the cause of an alarming excitemcat. The pre- valling impression was that a general European war would ensue from the complication. Austria was agitated with regard to the future of Hun- gary and Veniee. Garibaldi had addressed It contains a positive request NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1864: Mr. Geward’s Diplomatic Correspond- great show of déferriag 4o the will of the peo- city. The excogitations of Mrs. Cora L. V. Hateh will, of course, be the most earnestly sought after, and we therefore give a brief sketch of what she said last night. But, to vary the matter, we give the dissertations of three other spiritualists, one of whom treats on the end of the world, while another gives us General Jackson's ideas on the rebellion, and a third discourses of the sanctifica- tion of man through the medium of angels. The reports will well repay perusal. The stock market was steady Saturday, and there was vory little deviation from Friday's prices, the bulls and bears baving evidently decided to lay over until Monday morning for tbe commencement of new operations. Gov- ernment securities were firm, and the five-twenty bonds were held at 1044. The seven and three-tenths Treasury notes bayo advanced to 107%, The gold market was active at vance in the rate of premium to 1571. There was general duluoss in commercial circles on Sat- urday, owing to the lower price of gold and the fall in ex- change. Prices of most goods were merely vominal, though holders were pretty Grm in their views Transac- tions were moderate. Atthe Produce Exchar ge things were mixed; but there was no especial activty in any article—nearly allthe business having been at sbont Friday's prices. Groceries wore quiet. Cotton um- changed. Petroleum dull, lower and nominal. Froights quiet. enceEngiand and France. The recently published diplomatie correspond. ence of Mr. Seward, we are sure, bas gtven unex- pected satisfaction to the country. We refer especially to his excellent despatches since February last to Mr. Adams, our Minister at London, for the information of Earl Russell, touching our” relations with England. The calm, firm and decided tone of these de- “patches, in the serious grievances and dangers of which they complain, and in the grave and momentous resolutions and warnings whicb they convey to the British government, is all that could be desired. For example, Mr. Seward speaks the publio sentiment of this country when, in reference to the piratical Alexandra case, he eays that if there can be found no justice in the laws of england “then there will be left for the United States no alternative but to protect themselves and their commerce against armed cruisers Proceeding from British ports, as against the ynaval forces of a public enemy, and “also to claim and éasist upen indemnities for the ioju- ries which all “such expeditions bave hitberto committed, or shall hereafter commit,.against ug;” and that in thus assuming the task ofredress- ing our wrongs, England need not be surprised if “the navy of the United States shall re- ceive instructions to pursue these enemies into the ports which thus, in violation of the law of nations and the obligations of neutrality, become harbors for the pirates.” This is talking to the point and to the purpose, and with an emphasis which cannot be misun- derstood. In the great result thus achieved, of bringing the British government to a sense of shame and danger, we are amply compensated for the mortification involved in the surrender at the haughty requisition of England, of theae arch traitors, Mason and Slidell. Had Mr Seward contented bimeelf with the hypocritical protestations and false pretences of ber Majesty's government, there can be no doubt that at this day the rebel rams of Mr Laird and other swift and formidable rebel iron. olads issuing from Britist ports, to the number of at least half a dozen, would be aiding the Nassau blockade runners along our Southern coast, or bombarding our defeuceless Northern seaboard towns, or preying with impunity upon our merchant vessels op the bigh seas, In re- ducing the matters in dispute to the simple issue of peace or war with England Mr. Seward warded off these threatened calamities, and in the very crisis of life or death to the siaking fortunes of Jeff. Davis and his Earopean con- federates. We know that from those British built iron-clads the traitorous conspirators at Richmond had saticipated bountiful supplies of much needed articles in the way of clothing, equipments, arms, munitions of war, military stores, &c., and, not only these, but the entan- glement of the United States ia a war with Eng- land, which would result io an independent Southern confederacy. The Secretary of State, in arresting and de- feating these fearful designs, will be properly recognized as the country’s faithful sentinel in the hour of danger. But, while thus fully meeting the public exigency and public opinion in regard to England, we are disappointed in not finding the same course of treatment adopt- ed towards the Emperor of France. If the per- fidious neutrality of England during the first two years of this War was sufficient to’excite the indignation of every honest American, surely the undisguised sympathy of Louis Napoleon for the rebel cause, his cunning de- vices to give it aid and comfort, his zealous efforts to inveigle England into a joint alliance with Jeff. Davis, and his insidious military in- vasion and occupation of Mexico, have been sufficient to render him equally obnoxious to this country. And yet Mr. Seward handles him as daintily as a friend in disguise, and in- dulges him in all his mischievous vagaries, even to the extent of a French protectorate over Mexico. The rebel ambassador Mason, kicked, as we may say, diplomatically, out of England, finds a convenient refuge with his fellow voyager of the Trent in Paris, while Sli- dell, fresh from some encouraging conversation with the Emperor, receives his brother exile with renewed assurances of French interven- tion. And yet Mr. Seward, with the blandish- ments of Slidell, courts the smiles of Napoleon, when he should warn him of his folly and his danger. Let us be thankful, we say, that our inde- fatigable Secretary of State has exhibited that degree of moral courage and resolution towards England which bas resulted in enforcing her to a comparatively honest neutrality, and to a satisfactory interposition against the rebel iron-clad builders within her dominions. But the public opinion of the loyal States cannot approve or excuse the temporizing course pursued towards Louis Napoleon, or shake the regret that he should be regarded asa model of honesty and friendly propriety, after meanly taking advantage of our domestic troubles to seize upon the helpless republic of Mexico, and with the design, too, of extending his usurpation, if possible, to Texas and Loui- siana. In a word, signally successfully as Mr. Seward has been in his diplomacy with England, he bas in his correspondence with the French government quite as signally failed to grasp the merits of his case, and to meet the Important from Germ General Europ The news from Germany, received by the Etna, is of a very important end significant character, The complications arising out of the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty are daily as- suming a character so grave that it would seem as if nothing can now prevent a general war or a revolutionary movement on a vast scale. A recent proclamation of the King of Denmark breathes the firmest determination to maintain his rights. “Our motto,” he says, is ‘the honor of our country. It sball be upbeld by peaceable measures if possible; if necessary by force of arms.” To give effect to this declaration the Danisb reserves to the number of 14,000 have been called out, and troops have been sent to the Kronework with orders to blow up the bridge next the sluice immediately on the out- break of hostilities. Jn the meanwhile the attitude of the Aus- trian and Prussian governments is of so tem- porizing a character that it only serves to in tensify the exeitement which prevails through out Germany One of the semi-official journals of Vienna publishes an article cautioning the minor German States against taking any part in the movement against Denmark. This waro ing will bave no effect; for the question has become one of national feeling with the German people, and the smaller States, whatever may be the apprehensions of their governments, will be swept into the move- ment. Prussia, which, with Austria, was a party tothe Convention of 1852, is being profoundly agitated by these influences, and the liberal party there are straining every effort to induce the King to withdraw from the treaty, on the ground that Denmark has violated her engage- ments with Schleswig-Holstein. In the news just received it is stated that the Vienna Cabi- net has intimated to the Prussian government that it would not take any action in the Schles- wig question if Prussia would withdraw from the London protocol. It is probable that Fre- derick William, with his characteristic obsti- nacy, will resist all these influences, and will endeavor to stem the tide of popular feeling. He will be the more disposed to do this from the fact that Engiand has ranged herself on the side of Denmark. Should he persevere, how- ever, im this course, it will cost him his throne and set the revolutionary ball in motion. Herein lies the great danger of the compli- cation. There can be no doubt as to the part which France will play in the struggle. It is true that in his recent letter to the Duke of Augustenburg Louis Napoleon expresses his opinion that the General Diet should have debated this question more fully before taking hostile steps against Den- mark; but there is no doubt that at heart he is well pleased with what they have done. The dangerous aspect which the question is assuming, complicated as it will still further be by the doggedness of the King of Prussia, opens up to him the fairest chance that will ever present itself of his real- izing the traditional policy of France in regard to the Rhine. It is this prospect which has, no doubt, induced him to contrive that a committee of the French Legislature should call ypon him to renounce his designs on Mexi- eo, and withdraw all the French troops that are at present there. From this brief resume of the situation it can no longer be doubted that matters have reach- ed a crisis in Europe which renders a long and sanguinary struggle inevitable. It will afford us some consolation and compensation per- baps for the trials to which we have been sub- jected by foreign countenance and aid that we shall have ended the war here just as the European governments are entering upon theirs. More Istzrestinc Corresponpence—A Piotr Amono Government Orrictats.—The most ro- mantic portion of the history of this war will certainly be found in the private correspond- ence which has been brought to light by the arrests of defaulting or conspiring govern- ment officials and the capture of block- ade runners. The delightful little batch of letters which we published the other day, in which the Lamars and Trowbridges flourished ® stirring appeal to the Italians, calling on them to trust in Victor Emanuel and him only. It was said in Paris that Maxt- milian would set out for Mexico very soon. The London Post congratulates France on her victories in Mexico. The London Times laments the wast emigration of Irish to the United States 4aring 1863, but acknowledges that it could not be arrested. The case of Heenan and King was to be tried in a quarter sessions court in Sussex, England. We give’a report of the proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench, London, and before the Sussex magistrates with reference to the great prize Gght to-day. The privateer Florida was still in the port of Brest, watched by the United States steamer Kearsarge. The Liverpool cotton market closed dull and inactive on the 7th inst. at a decline from the prices of the day previous. Breadstuffs were buoyant and provisions steady on the 7th inst, Consols rated in London at 91 a 91% on the 7th inst. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We have advices from South America, dated et Rio Janeiro on the 9th of December. In the Rio coffee market, dealers having submitted to a forther decline of 100 reis, great activity was de- veloped, sales up to the 2let of November having amounted to 112,450 bags, to which be add. ed about 12,000 bags shipped on deal ccount, Sagar continued in very active demand for France, and prices of brown sugar bad advanced 300 ri The cotton crops of Corrientes, Entre Rio Paraguay were reported to be ina very promisin condition, We publish this morning some interesting obser ations from some of our spiritual apostles in this ae 80 conspicuously, revealed not only important State secrets, but some of a more delicate, if not a more refined, character. Another bundle of correspondence bas just been found among the papers of Mr. Stuart Gwynn, recently in- volved in some complications about the Trea- sury Department, showing a neat little plot to make something comfortable out of the Navy Department in the way of gunboat contracts, “Union armor,” and so forth. Iptieed the par- ties concerned did not seem very particular as to which of Uncle Sam's bureaus they got their fingers into; for the Treasury, as well as the Navy Department, seemed to be the special object of their attention. The parties involved in this matter are Mr. Gwynn, Mr. Griffiths, marine constructor—who wanted to be chief of the Bureau of Construc- tion—and General Haupt. It would appear that they were not quite as successful in their schemes with the navy as their greed demand- ed; 80 they took to “Treasury operations,” in which Mr. Gwynn {s reminded by General Haupt that he made séme funds wherewith to reward his friends. The finatcial system of Mr. Chase is lauded to the skies, and the deci- sion that all the engraving, printing, &., of ‘Treasury currency shall be done “within the Treasury walls” meets with the unqualified approval of the conspirators. If we can judge from this interesting correspondence, Mr. Chase could not manufacture greenbacks half fast enough to supply the wants of these patriotic gentlemen. just expectations of the country. The French in Mexico—A Change in Nae Doleon’s Position, By our advices from Europe received yes- terday, we learn tbat the Mexican ques- tion has entered upon @ new phase in France, one which will doubtless rid this continent of the presence of the French troops, and thus give Napoleon the opportunity to enter into the coming contest in Europe with all his forces at his command, and untrammelled by such a stumbling block in his way as is the invasion of Mexico. A committee of the French Deputies, called to report upon the supplementary credits requested by their gov- ernment, have made, in the boldest language, an urgent request that the Emperor should give up the Mexican expedition, that he should hold back “on the brink of dangerous entan- glements,” and retire from this imbroglio as oon as the honor of France will allow. The committee assert that in making this request they but represent the general sentiment of the French nation, and they dare hope that the Emperor will appreciate this desire, We are inclined to suppose that this is just that graceful mode of backing out of the Mexican muddle which we have always pre- dieted would be the end of this pet seheme of Napoleon. He doubtless was fully in concert with the members of the Corps who made the report we have alluded to, and, hav- ing thys arranged the matter, will make ® ple, as expressed thraugh their representa- tives, and will epeciity Abandon Mexico, that he may be ready for the gaat struggle which it is now almost impossibXe for Europe to escape. We feel assured! thaf she committee who have taken go bold a stand wpoe the Mexi- can question were not without dae antbority for 60 doing, and hence we took for aa inemedi- ate solution of the Mexican qmestion. Even if we are wrong in our surmise as to tle cotla- sion between the Emperor and the committee, we atill shall expect the withdrawal of the French troops from Mexico, as, simce this open censure of the expedition, it were suicidal in the Emperor to persist in it. This be will fully understand, and he is too wise # man not to’ bow to popular will when he sees thas it were dangerous to oppose it. It will readily be understood that the threat- ened troubles in Europe will, of course, deter all action on the part of Prince Maximiltan as regards Mexico. Austria is making immense warlike preparations; in fact all the Powers of Europe are assuming a most formidable aspect; and it is quite out of the question that at such @ momentous period they could encourage the schemes which have been attributed to the, brother of the Emperor Francis Joseph. With’ the prospect of « speedy end to the rebellion and the withdmawal of the French from Mexico, there is now every probability that we shall be | enjoying a profound peace at the'very period when all Europe shall be convulsed with a general war. This will, indeed,,be a turning of the tables, The War, the Opera a the Theatres Genecally. When the liberties of Greece were being filched away, during the Macedonian and Roman wars, the theatres and the public games were always crowded. During the civil wars of Rome, which transformed that oation from a republic to an empire, the Colosseum was continually thronged and the gladiatorial shows had their thousands of admirers. Ia Paris, whea the guillotine was doing its dreadful work and the atreets ran red with blood, the people Gocked to the theatres and roared with laughter at funny plays. So it bas been in all ages of the world, and so it is in this. Weare in the midst of the most terrible and sanguinary civil war that ever afflicted mankind, and yet our places of public amusement were never so crowded and our theatrical managers never made such heaps of money as now. We have no Italian Opera in New York at present. Maretzek and his artists are delight ing the noble Count Joannes and the other aristocracy of Boston, and Grau is lost some where in the wilderness out West. But, instead of the Italian Opera, we have the German Opera, at the Academy of Music. This did aot pay very well at first; but tately itjfras felt the impetus of the times aad aow shaves in the generat prosperity. The Tannhauser bas been produced with great eclat. Some people consider it dull; but that is because they do not «wndorstand musical mathematics. Mr. Wagner writes for the future, and the very fact that we think his music dull is the best proof that future generations will think it exquisite. Not many years ago Americans voted all opera a bore and preforred the negro minstrels. As Mr. William H. Fry’s music is also unacceptable to the present public, we believe him to be as great a genius as Wagner. In abont two huadred years from now Fry will be worshipped as a musical deity. We only hope that he will live that long and see his own immortality. This theory must be very comforting to Wagner and Fry and all the other unappreciated authors, actors, ar- tists and composers of the period, and there- fore we adopt it. Besides the German Opera we have also had a little attempt at English Opera; but the company can find no place to sing in, and have gone back to Brooklyn. Somebody ought to build a small opera house for such enterprises. We have been applied to several times on the subject; but we have enough to do to build up the Opera, and other people must build up the houses. The theatres are overcrowded every night, without produeing anything to deserve it. Mr. Wallack presents a theatrical sandwich of Rosedale and the old comedies. His theatre is a very pleasant place jn pleasant weather; but when it rains the water drops through the ventilators like a miniature cataract. In case of fire, too, this theatre would not be very comfortable; for the management again in- dulges in the reprebensible practice of bleck- ing up the aisles with extra seats, and our former remonstrunce upon this nuisance only resulted in a temporary reform. Mammon isa good servant, but a bad master. At the Win- ter Garden the Florences are still playing Tom Taylor’s Ticket of Leave Man, and are gradually converting the whole city by means of this moral, theological and religious drama. We agree with District Attorney Hall, how- ever, that the play is a legitimate success, and if Manager Jackson never brought out any- thing worse he would soon bea benefactor of humanity and a millionaire. Mrs. Wood, at the Olympic, does the other, side of the the- atricals. The Florences make peoply cry, and Mrs. Wood makes them laugh. Mr. Frank Drew assists her mightily, and cuts comic capers nightly to the delight of thousands. At Niblo’s the Williamses are impersonating impossible Irishmen and women, in an impossi- ble Irish tragedy, for the delectation of the Irish people. There are certain critics who object to these caricatures; but we do not. So long as Irish ladies and gentlemen patronize and en- dorse them they must be considered all right and satisfactory. Besides, they draw money, and that, little charity, covers a multitude of sins. ‘The minor places of amusement and the large theatres on the east side of town are, if possi- ble, more thronged than their rivals already noticed. Both the New Bowery and the Old Bowery have gone some distance into the me- nagerie business, and exhibit trained dogs and horses on the stage in appropriate melodramas, Again we display our good nature by not find- ing fault with this sort of entertainment. The people like it and pay for it; so let them have it and welcome. Better performances will come by and by, perhaps, when the masses are better educated. At the Menagerie, on Broad- way, hundreds of little folks assemble every day to take practical lessons in natural history, and tickle the monkeys. The Broadway Circus is as successful and remunerative as the Aldermanic ring. The American theatre, where « miscellaneous show is on rbibition at a cheap rate—ballets, concerts and pantomimes all mixed together— is « favorite resort of lower tendom. The regular negro miggtrel hella are of course Ailed to got under weigh, and proceed to Fort Morgan under ber station, The nature of their business with the rebel ~. = Panoramas and stereoscopticons are also well supported, but require no special mention. Thus we have pushed our way down town, dropping io at all the places of amusement, and seeing them all jammed. At last we come to Barnum’s ditty Museum, which is generally the most jammed of all. Thia moral Museum i@ 8 moral humbng. Its saloons are so stall and dark that the visitor cannot see the many ceriosities worth seeing, and is forced to be coatent with those mot worth seeing—and ‘these are usually advertised with the greatest }fourishes, The compamy is by no means the most select. in the world; for the ruleis, “a quarter @ ‘ticket and no questions asked.’" Barnum ought to tear down this Museuuy and build one worthy of the city, If he does mot Goraebody chee rill got the atert of him; for amusements pey@o largely tet capitalists are anxious to invest money iw that business. Now is the time tobdo it, while-we are changiog from a republic towan empire,.like Greece and! Rome and France. INTERESTING MISSISSIPPI RIVER NEWS Arrivals of Cotten—The Trads‘and Trade Regulations of River—Movements of Generals Hunter and Sherman—The Troops Re-enlisting En Masse—Piend- ish Outrage on a Union Soldier by the Rebeolsa—Capture of Guertilas, d&c., de. Cairo, Jam. 24, 1864. Tho steamer Hillman, from Memphis on tho 2ist, hag arrived with four bundred and fifty bales of cotton. Major Gevoral Hunter came asa passenger on beard tho Hillman General Hurlbut has issue@ an order committing the commerce of tho Mississippi river exclusively to the agonts of tho Treasury Department, who will be responsi- bie for the amounts, character aod disposition of: the supplies, and forthe character of the persons to whom the same are given, No permits will bereafter be re- quired or given by the military authorities, except’ for the purchase of military or sutiers' supplies. General Sherman bad returned to Memphis from Vicks burg Re-enlistments wero being rapi@iy pusbed forward) Nearly tbe entire Sixteenth army corps will re-enlist. All was quiet at Vicksburg. Twenty thousand men of the Seventeenth army corpo have re-eniisted. It is understood thas General Buckland: will (ake (be command, The Memphis cotton market was unchanged The steamer Swan, from New Orieams tho 16th inst, bas arrived, with the Twenty-fourth lodiana Volunteers, three bundred strong, en route bome on furlough, and one bundred other furioughed meu from various regiments. She also brings a larg of groceries for 6t. Louis and points on the Obio river. One of the One Hundred an@ Seventecnth New York Volunteers, having straggiod away (rom the tine of march oral Smith's late expedition in West Tenvessee, was bung up by the neols- aad bad his throat cut. Thirty-cwo guertiias were ceptured: om the 20:b near Paris, Ky., and taken to Oolumbus. THE MOBILE BLOCKADE. Our Naval Correspondence. ‘West Goer Buoonavina Squapnon, Ory Moss, Aln., Jan. >, 1806 The British Man-of-War Sioux of Mobile—A Flag of Truce—The Kennebec Captures Another Blockade Kun mer—Sasling of the Colorado for the North—The New Blea Commander Commodore Jenksns—Active Opera tions— Destruction of a Rebet Steamer, &c., dc., dc. “Since I wrote you ou the bth we bave bad quite stirring times on this blockade. On the afternoon of the oth the Koglisb man-of-war Sioux made her appearance amoog us, which at Grst was supposed to be some rebel gun boat. All the vessels in the fect were ready to give ber @ warm recoptioa—i, ¢., if she could not show the right colors and give a proper account of herself, On aearing the Geet she was discovered to be an English max of-war, and showed the colors of that nation. She sent a boat to the flagship and communicated the nature of ber busi- ess to the commanding officer of the fleet. They asked permission to run up to Mobile. As @ matter of course that request was not granted to them; but it was promisod that their messenger should visit Fort Morgan the dret fair day. Yesterday, being calm, the Octorara was ordered flag of truce. After a couple of hours she returned to government has not been madeknown. The Sioux will romain here until an answer is received to their message On the night of the 7th a rebel pilot was picked up by the Kennebec. He was unable to make his way in the bay. ‘They learned from him that two hours previously he had Piloted a schooner out, and he informed the cocamander of the Keanebec the course she would pursue. The K. slipped cable and went in pursuit, steering E. S. wards morning they mado a sail, which. w: to be the one the pilot had taken out the vious, She was taken while making fifteen Drought to the fleet yesterday, at balf-past eleven A. M. She was formerly a pilotboat' belonging to New York, but now owned iu Jamaica. She had on board one bun- dred and sixty bales of cotton and a quantity of tarpen- tine im small packages. Sue has been sent to New Or. Jeans. This s the second prize the above named steamer bas taken within the last six days. anchor yesterday for harbor defence. Sho steamed around the koglieh war vessel, dipped colors, and proceeded to the south and west. The United States sloop-of-war Richmond is the fiagsbip at this station, and is commanded by Commo- dore Jenkins, a naval officer of the (rst. water, who bas gv, distinguished himself during the i rebel. jon. This morning everything cepeared’ lively. The following named vessels were or to get weigh:—Octorara, Kennebec, Gertrude, Albatross, Pinola and Itasca (the last named vessel arrived from the North pg Rage Proceed as far as practicable towards ‘ort Morgan and destroy a large steamer aground on the bar. Each vessol, at intervals, biazed away with Oeste tanues One shell renege ene ew. ay ‘most conspieuous part—exploded midsnips, which bas # Probably crippled her ao that she will be una: Die to get off. She lies one and a half mile from Fort Mor- gan, which opened fire on our vessols at twenty minutes past ten A. M., and fired at intervals of twenty minutes, continuing until three P. M.,00¢ one of its shots falling anywhere near where they wore intended to. Our new fleet commander is determ! that she sball be destroyed atall hazards. It is believed that Fort Morgan did its very best to-day. Now, what are the euthorities at pie gg oo doing? Why do they ad us some iron: clade? 18 fleet does not includ jingle one. Give us the vessels (we bave the right mettie to man them), and, my word for it, in less than sixty days from their arrival here the Stars and Stripes would wave-over both Forts Morgan and Gaines. Orr Mone, Jan. 10, 1864, I wrote that the United States gumbomt Octorara was fired at by Fort Morgan. The Octorara went in as far ‘as Sand Island lighthouse with a fiag of truce. She hauled down the white flag to arrange it differently, when Morgan fired one shot which went near to her. She imme. arately hoisted up the white flag again, and remained in alongside of Sand island some oight minutes, and started abead, when Morgan tired two more shots. Sbo hauled down the flag of truce and backed out towards tho fleet. ro the es com- She went under flag of truce to modore, who had been left there A vessel ran out last evening A large crowd of persone visited the Park yesterday for the purpose of strolling around the grounds, the day doing very fine. As wo intimated im our yesterday's issue, skating was not allowed, im consequence of the comparatively weak condition of the ico; but on tho fires cold snap the sport will be renewed. The following articles have been donated to the Perk collection since our last “Iiet:— An unusually large specimen of the American engle, ‘ond year old, and measuring seven feet from tip to tip of the wings. Presented by James Grant, Esq. of Davenport, Towa, f ports ters ree ned by James Grant, Esq aged ow a, ‘resent * y Owe ‘en Yin Virginia, ‘and sent by Cal. Third Now York cavairy, ‘to be of the Park in New Yocs.”” Inp-eared rabbits, ‘of Twenty-ti . Sevoral othor animals have been rec ived,a list of which we will give on the first opportun 7 pihctadbere thesia in Arrest of the Late Provoss Marshal at Baitimere., Batt fronn, Jan, 24, 1864, Colonel Fish, of the First Connecticut cavalry, until re- contty Provost Marsbal of Baltl'aore, was arrested to day by order of the Beoretary of, War ona charge of fraud nd corrugtion, every evening, in spite of the protests of the Tribune and poor Greeley, who thinks that Regro minetrelsy is worse than negro slavery, and proposes to abolish the first after he has got through with the second. Half a dozen 8. Purinten, P. P. Kellum. A * "=~ _ Wasmnaron, Jan. 24, 1864. TB ANTICIPATED MARINS Race. Tho proposed race bel ween the United States side-wheel steamer Eutaw and the Kiu-Klang will probably taxe Place in a few days. Captain Fox, tbe Assistant Secretary of the Navy, weot to New York last might, and will ar- range the detaita with Mr. Otypbant. The Navy Depart. ment 1s confident that (bis trial will develop a speed ia tho double-enders which will surprise those who have sup- posed that tho pew boats were failures. The department as also offered te run ono of the screw propellers against ‘fang propelior that may be offered to run a friendly race, in order totest tbe speed of this clas of vessels also It 1s proposed to run the Eutaw aod Kiu-Kisog from Nor- fol to New York, @ distance of two hundred and seventy four miles, Mt ts expectet tbat the caval Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives will be present ov the Eutaw duriug tbe trial, in order to | witness for themselves ibe actual performance of the vessel. Adler thevrace the Kutaw will proceed to hor eta- tiom in the Bleck.\ding fleet of Wilmington, to makes still more practical srial ot ber specd with the’ fase Dioskade ruopers which yet remain udcapwred' or de atroyed. REPORTS FOR THR PAST THABR YEARS FROM ALB THB ORNERAL OFFICERS. A cirowiar bas been issued fromthe Adjutaet General'a office to the major generals and brigadior generals, re+ Questing thems, to furmieb, lor tbo taformation of the oflice, Buccinet acceunt of their military gervices while im the rvice of the Onited States since Murch 4, 1801, [tie ; proposed to bénd the reports tv beok form, tote pre: ; Served with tie promipest records of the olfice. INTENDED MODAFICATION OF THR LNPERNAL RESTRICTIONS, The Secretary. of the Tressury 1s proparing somo-very: material modificasions of the trade regulations. Mr. Chase beiieves that the time bas come when the restric- tions heretofore’ imposed may bo toa rriat extent re? moved, and as. s00n a8 the press of otbor business will Permit moditcations will bo made to ttie regulationgy which will go far towwwds reopesing trade with the row covered portions of tla seceded Stares. GENERAL ROSECRANS AND THE MISSOURE DEPART- MENT. It tg anid ip military civsics that last Fridey an order was sent to General-Rosecrans to assume tbo’ command of the Department of the Missour!. REJECTED GPIRITS EXEMPTION AMENDMENT 70 THM INTERNAL BB¥ENUB BOLL. Among the amendments rejected when tbe amendatory Internal Revenue bill was before the bowse, was one offer- ©d by representative Eu :b- Wind, providing that the act sbould not apply to sucl» distilied spirite asare eetuauy on ebipboard and bound to tho Dnited States, anton de- posit in bondee warebcuses or pydiic stores when the ack shall take efect. MR. FERNANDO WOOD AND: PEACE COMMISSIONERS, Represevtative Fernando Wood hae, it issaid, prepared. @apeech to be dehvered on the amendaiory Contiscaiom bill, ia which he will enforce:bia-views as tothe propriety and necessity of appointing-Peaco Gemmisswners to4be Richmond goversment THE ARLINGTON CONTRABAND COLONY. A Military Commission nas been. appointed, at the re quest of Colonel Green, Chief Quartermaster of this De~ partment, for the purpose of investigating‘the affairs of: the coutraband ooleny at Arlingtoe: The report of the commisaion is to be placed 1a the bande of @ joist come mnttee of Gongreas, for their action: It ts understood~- that among the improvements-to-De made is the ap- potutment of an army oilicer to the post of commandans 10 place of trresponsibie and laexperieanced civiliaas, HE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGROES: IN- TRE HOSPITALS, By @ Goveral Urder of: the War Department of January 16, 1863—No. 23—Geaeral Urder No. 390, of Decomber 6, 1868, 18-revoked, aad (he-employment of persons of Afri- can descent, male or fomaic, as cooks or warses, is per- mitted to ai! United States gonsrak bospitels, Whee se employed tuey are to recetve ten doliare per month ang one ration. THS CONVALBSCENT CAMP TO'BE- BROKEN OP, It ts @pderetood tout the convalescent camp is to be broken up and changed into a camp of distribution. MORB CONSCIENOS MONBY. FOR THE TREASURY, Within soveral woeks past the Troasury Departments bas received several sums of moncy from persons whe ave detrauded the government, nod. gow: the Secretary ackpowledges the receipt of afteea doliare more from eome persvo unknown. RESIGNATIONS IN THE VOLUNTERRS. Lieutenant Colonel Hastings, Major Murphy and Captain Beli, of the Soveuth New York. beavy-artiliery, have re eigued. The Re-Enilsted Regimemts. ARRIVAL OF THE ONE HUNDRED: AND SECOND NEW YORK AND FIFTH: CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS. The remnants of the above two gaNant regiments, which bave done good service in the field, arrived at the Park Barracks last aight, where they were put in quarters for the present, The One Hundred and Secona New York oumbers ouly two bundred aud Gfty-cight men. Tho following is a list of the officers:— Captain—L. R. Stegman, in command. Aujutant—F. M. Crofts. Quarlermaster—G. W. Howland. rsa iy paren me jiew/enants—E. T, Bureton,,R. B. Hathaway, & Davis, HM. Maguire, Ht. McCarty. sae Surgeon—C. H. Lord. Assistant Surgeon—L. Applegate. This regiment was organized in this city 1p December, 1861, and lett under command of Colonel B, Van Buren, Paymaster General of the State. On arriving a8 the seat of war the regimont was attached te McDowell's corps, and were subsequently transferred to Banke? Shenandoah rales cates They fought at the battles of Boliver Heights, Cedar ‘Mountain, White Bulpbur Sprit Chantilly, Antietam, the Wilderness, Chancollorsville Gettysburg, gaining marked distinction jn all of those memorable engagements. Y acted as the aavance line of skirmishers at Lookout Mountain, au@ were the first to dash across the creatiu the attack. They alse fought at Missionary Ridge, and av Ringgold, they made a gallant charge through the gap, the rail rack. They belonged to ‘s White Star division, Twelfth corps, under Slocum, up to the time they left tor New York. ‘The Fifth Connecticut numbers thr. buzdre@ mea, ana came home officered as follow:— Cotonel—Warren W. Packer. Lieutenant Colonel—Henry.W. Dadout, Major—W. 8. Cogawell. Adjutant—Wm A. Daniels. Assistant Surgeons—Evelyn L. Bissell, 4adrew J. Gile —E. K. a yina—Charles Santora” Charles Doyle, Me dison O, Whitney, Alfred L. Packer, ‘Wm. ©. Rookwell, /\Ifred A. Cotnery, Wm |P. Sith, Theodore H. Diddle, Ade iphus 0. ey. La par“ @aier Burcs, Isao Weidon, Waieleek;, Alvin Ms Michael vonovan, Charles i Te is, Hari P. Rugg, Edwin E. Carter, Albert L.Gavit, William ) James Svewart and Isase TROOPS EN ROUTE HOME ON PURI UGH. Cincixnam, Jam. 24, 1664. The Sixth New Hampshire Volunteess ‘arrived here yesterday, and tho One Hundred and Ninth Penn- sylvaria, and the Twelfth, Sixty-sizth and Fifty-sevens® — regiments, al) re-eniisted, bave anrived at Louis. vijamee McLean, om old citizen, died yest orday morning, VETERANS FROM LOOKOUT *OtNTAIN. PaiLapmrraa, Jan, 2, 1b64. rawut Hous tain oyeag, abd were’ rovalvecby © depar tng Germs, hw eaign giving. Wem @ supper to- ry Prize ton Long, Island. Aprize fight for purse of $100 came off yesterday marning at Joe Cook’s Sunnyside Hotel, on the rvad te Pushing, Long Island, between Young Drumgoid, of this. city, and Joe Graham, © receatly arrived Cunadiam pougilist. The former bas acquired a bigh reputation as @ Doxer from his skill in the use ef the gloves, as well ag the style-in whiaa be bad polished off bis opponents tm several impromptu contests , but had aever been engaged dofore in a regular ring fight, So bighly, indeed, was he esteemed among hie friends that they quite recontly matobed bim agains) the ssientific boxer Barnay Asrom a side, and the Sight in question was ded wer Ser tnt of hig abilisies. The alfase came of in @ room in the above hotel, in ths presesce of about two | spectators. Drumgodd was seconded by Joba Lawrence and Billy Donelily, oad the Canedian by Jim Elliott snd George Leese, Bontman Tom was the refe. ree. Graham was some twelve or fourteen pounc§ the heavier man, al myold had the advant in height. The lattor was not in Mit condition jor ‘a contest, allbough so sanguine were his friends that th offered high odds on his wi . Grabam took a decid lead from the start, owing to his superior condition an cool judgment, He hiself a hard bit 1 ne ‘vere puutaner a9 well as 0 good wrestier, gainin tala nearly every round. After fight! forty-six rounde, lasting one hour and five minutes, Drumgold, who dis- played extraordinary gamenoss bout, was obliged to succumb, after recei severe punishment, Granam, ‘at the termination, was almost without a . The irned to A city without any intorrupy pol day broak, the t for $100 a side De ike Nunan, lyn, ven rainoe of Keating 1@ his receat — with Hollywood, and Switt, of a Sheil