The New York Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, gp7OR AND PROPRIETOR Oe eee eee orrcon M. W. CORNER OF FULTOM AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MY OF MUSIC.—Irartas Orena~-Matluee a: 1 ARTRA NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Conyix Soocas WALLACKE'S THEATRE, Brosdway.—Rosepace. WINTER GARDEN, Wan. coadway.—Ticket or Luave OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—A Bout tv 4 Omina Snor—Marurra. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Roorwoor— SuirwenoxeD Manovwn—Youre Amunican AcTRESS—Lovs ayy Mumpax, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hovse nat Jack Botsy—Avorrep Carip—Luxk rae Lanogen. BARNUM'S MUSEUM, RBroatway.—Fovx Giants, Two Dwanrs. Acorvos, Wuat Is 17, &¢., ab all hours, Camitia’s Bussary, At Sand 74 P.M. ANTS’ MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall. 472 Broad qacinorar Songs, Dancus, BuRtesques, 40.—Tux mous Fasaiy, fis lhe woon' FALL, Sié Broadway —Ermoruan Soscn Dantas kewiiatino 4 BErosiO3. AMBRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Batters, Pawromans, Buriusauss, &c—Youxc Rucrvrt. BROADWAY AMPHITHEAT! 485 Broadwav.—Gru- =” Bqurssiay PREYORMANCES. Atternvon and ren: HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tu Sterxoscormcax ex Minvor oF tax Unive PRRIAM'S, 585 Broadway. ROE OF THY REBKLLION SEW YORK MUSEUM a 70 ANA au = Comosmas ann Lye eae ae TRREOSCOPTICON AND Mrr- mover Brooklyn.—Ernrorias HOOLEY’S OPERA Gores. Dances, Buxraseu: Velume XXIX New York, Saturday, February 6, 15) 64 THE LIST OF LETTERS. Owing to the press of advertisements, we are | obliged to defer the publication of the list of un- called for letters at the Post Office until Monday gext. Printed lists will, however, be posted at the Post Office snd ou the Henaup bulletins for the conveuleace of the public. THE SITUATION. ‘The tate fight between ¢he rebels under General Early, and Colonel Mulligan, of General Kelley's command, at Moorefield, West Virginia, has re- sulted in the defeat of the former after six hours aghtiag, and their flight from Moorefield closely pursued® by the Union cavalry, under Mulligan. General Rosser appears to have made a stand on the south fork of the river, but the whole force was driven towards the Shenandoah valley, losing several! menin the retreat, both by capture and desertion. They were driven clear out of Peters- burg by our troops. Gur iatest dates from Charleston are to the Ist inst., by the steamer Flambeau, The, bombard- fwent was then proceeding slowly at the rate of three shells every five minutes. Our navy was not’ firing at all, and no perceptible effect was pro-- duced so faron the city. The ruins of Sumter have again become a formidable battery, appa- rently, five new guns having been mounted | thereon, and the industrious garrisen being | busily occupied in cutting ravines throngh the | rabbis and piling’ up sandbags; the best of | breastworks. The Richmond journals of the same | date aay that only three persons have been wounded in the fort since the bombardment com- menced; that the flagstaff was again shot down on | the 29th ult., but was raised immediately, the | soldiers waving the flag defiantly #8 they hoisted it. | Reconnoitering parties from the Anny of the | Potomac have proceeded as far as the Blue Ridge, | | sank only a short distance from the shore. * NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1864, CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session yesterday, having adjourned over till Monday. In the House of Representatives the considera- tion of the joint resolution explanatory of the joint resolution of July 17, 1862, relating to the Confis- cation act, was resumed. After two hours wrangling the majority agreed to an arrangement whereby the debate waa to be continued till about three months age al 61 40.081 60, deliverable frst (oa days in Fobruary, averred that some of fais rivals ia business had made damaging misrepresentations wilh rogard to his gtanding Gnancially and mentally, and while endeavoring ( iraighten matters up ho became very much excited and bolaterous im bis language, For a (ime all business was suspended, and the excited persen was tho cynosure of all cyes. Bome partics in the crowd Lad tho bad taate (to use no harsher term) to pelt the ba ranguor with Lumps of dough and handfuls of grain, till Goally it was found necessary to withdraw, after which Measra. Blair, of Missouri; Green Clay Smith, of | busines roaumed its wonted direction. Grocerits were Kentucky, and Pruyn, of New York, had expressed | quiet. Cotton dull, PotroleumGrm. Froights were aiil!, their views om the question at issue. Upon the conclusion of their remarks the resolution. was adopted by a vote of eighty-two against seventy- four, and the House adjourned till Monday. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday, the bill to sub- nit to @ vote of the people of the State, on the first Wednesday in March next, the constitutional amendment extending to soldiers in the field the ‘ privilege of voting, was unanimonsly ordered to a third reading, The bill authorizing the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad Company to hold real but uachanged. Silavery—The Blunders of the Admints- tration—A Constitutional Amcndment the Only Remedy, Tho blunders of the administration in tho management of this war are painful to contem- plate; and from bis first disaster at Manassas (o his last fiasco in Virginia the record of President Lincoln as a military leader is but a budget of blunders. In some reapecta, however, his des- potic assumptions of power, bia crude ideas, and property in this State was also ordered toa third | his tinkoring- experiments in viow of a settle- reading. Mr. Laimbeer asked unanimous consent, which was refused, to report the new Metropolt- ment of the slavery question, are more doplo- rable than bis waateful mismanagement of out tan Police bill.. This bill names as Commissioners | armiea, Messrs. T. C. Acton, J. G. Bergen (present Com- missioners), Elijah F. Purdy and Samuel Jones, The Governor's measage was again under conside- ration in the evening session, The Senate ad- journed until Monday. In the Assembly the bill legalizing the bounty and riot bonds issued by the New Yorl Super- Th revoking General Fremont’s Missouri edict of emancipation, and in roproving General Hunter for bis proposterous South Carolinas manifesto, the course of President Liacoln was satisfactory to the country. But ia his letter @ admonition to General Hunter there was o visors, and authorizing the expenditure by them | warning that, {f our facetious’ President could of two millions more passed. for bounties, was This bill passed the Senate oa the Favorable reports were made Railroad and anti-adultera- Billa were introduced amend- regulating the fremen of this city, re- ing the Erie and Cent ‘ailroad companies freight reports, for a railroad to previous di Or on th Brooklyn Passenger and Beggage Com- Notices were given of various projects, in- hills for more railroads in this city, the concert saloons, to amend lating our city courts, and tolls on the Erie and Central rail- roads during the suspension of cana! navigation. Tn referenee to this latter bili, a resolution was adopted expressing it as the opinion of the House h tolla should be imposed. A letter and documents bearing on the treatment of s in the Park Barracks and on Riker's Island were received from General Dix. The General says the statements that have been given currency to in this matter are gross exaggerations, The bill to give a State bounty of three hundred dollars, in lieu of county and town bourties, was discussed for some time in ‘Committee of the Whole, when progress was reported, and it was made the special order for to-day. EOUS NEWS. The Colt’s firearms factory at Hartford, Conn., was partially destroyed by fire yesterday. The te loss is estimated at two millions of dollars, which | his annual message to Congr: isin part covered by insurance. One man was killed and another is missing. Nine hundred men are thrown out of employment by this calamity. A lecture was delivered last evening for the benefit of the Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, in the chapel of the Packer Institute, Brook- lyn, by Mr. L. R. Baugher, of Gettysburg, Penn- not permit any indulgence in these abolition proclamations by his military subordinates, it was because their commander-in-chief himself intended to monopolize them, and to use thom in good time and in his own pecu- liar way. Avd 60 it came to pasg that in September, 1862, we had the initial and to incorporate the New | euiancipation proclamation from President Lin- coin, warning the rebellious States that unless they should come to terms before the end of the year another proclamation would be issucd extinguishing their peculiar institution. They disregarded this warning, and 60 on New Year's Day, 1865, the thunderbolt of emancipation was lanecbed upon thom as a military necessity. It produced at first a great sensation of joy in the abolition camps; but after a while, upon a closer inspection, they found it to be the trick of Jupiter with the frogs, when, for the king ich they lad called for, he cast dowa to them a great tog into the water. The President had abolished slavery beyond the lines of our armies, where his edict would be a dead letter, and had saved slavery within our military lines, where his proclamation could be made effective. No wonder that he regarded it as a good joke, and described it as “the Pope’s bull against the comet.” Another year rolls away, and Mr. Lincoln to appends a new proclamation on this everlasting trouble of slavery, embracing ax amnesty to the masses of the people concerned in the rebellion. He requires them to endorse his emancipation proclamation and ali the concurrent acts of Congress in refereuce to slavery till repealed sylvania, on “The Battle of Gettysburg.” The { OT declared void by the Supreme Court. He audience was not large on the occasion. The lee- turer detailed many of the incidents already pub- lished in the Heraxp in connection with the memo- rable conflict at Gettysburg, and illustrated his remarks by referring to a map showing the posi- tions of the different corps, both before, in and after the conflict. The Broome street court martial continued its investigations yesterday in the case of Lieutenant Cole. Two witnesses were examined, one of | whom was Brigadier General Spinola. About ten o’clock on Wednesday night a reoruit | named Joseph Brown attempted to desert from Riker’s Island by swimming to the meiniand, but was discovered by the guard, fired upon and shot. He endeavored to swim back to the island after receiving the shots; but his strength failed, and he His body was recovered the day after. James Reilly ,;who was convicted on Thursday of a violation of the Internal Revenue law, was yes- has tasde the discovery at last that the Su- preme Court may possibly upset all these fine doings some day; but in the meautime he will proceed with this business of swearing in the subjects of Jef. Davis and reorganizing the rebellious States, on the basis of the emanci- pation proclamation, ata venture. Is this the President of the United States engaged ia the sound and wholesome work of rebuilding the Union, or isit Don Quixote fighting the wind- milla? It is indeed the “Kaight of the Sorrow- ful igure.” But where is his faithful n@cn- man, Sancho? We need not here argue the question to show that all these lame devices of President Lincoln in behalf of universal emancipation, short of some larger remedy, will only serve to make the existing confusion upon this subject worse confounded than ever. They will only serve to Flow rae Lacatarion or tam Courrr Loan a} . Taw Powice Muppie a Aceiny (xxce More — Looxey Bron—Lar Axi. Hanne Go 16 Wors.— | Whilo the incendiary copperhead press are ‘Tho legalization of our county loam by the | éeizing the present demoralized condition of Legislature at Albany bas effected wonder- | the police force to promulgate their indendiary ful chango in public seatiment hore, especially | doctrines, the niggerhead press are chuckling among the veterans who have re-enliated and | over the prospects of another bloody draft riot, returned among us for their bounty. Our arti- | and the Legislature is remaining an idle apeo- cle in tho Hrrarp on Wednesday in reference | tator of the potent signa.of trouble which on all to this subject reached the State capital just in | sides present: themselves, like a low browed, time to influence the Senate to take the back | narrow headed bottlcholder in a prize fight. track. Thats body immediately saw ¢he unpa- | While logislatora are wrangling about the con- triotic and dangerous position its action (refus- | poaition of the Police Commission, the seeds ing to legalize the county loan) would place | of riot and insurrection are being sown. Let the republican party in, and, with the explana- | thom beware how they discharge their duty; tions madé by Supervisor Blunt, chairman of | for upon thom devolve responsibilities of the tho voluntooring committee, who was at Alba- | greatest moment to the peace and welfare of ny to enforce the necessity of immediate and | the city. We repeat that the great majority of prompt action, the Senate receded from its | citizens im the Motropolitan Police district will previous action, and passed the Loan bill | be satisfied with the selection of Messrs. Acton unanimously. This was a wise aud judicious | aud Borgen aa the republican, and Governor movement, and the chairman of the Volunteer- | Seymour’s candidates, Judge Bosworth and Mr. ing Committee deserves infinite credit for his | McMurray, as Commissioners. A new gang of successful and unselfish effortsin: this matter. | Corporation ewindling coaspiratorms seems to He gaid to the mombers of the Senate,in his} have been at work ia Albany sinace crisp, blunt mapeer, “Tho loan or adraft.” | our Laat allusion to this eubject. This The Loan bill passed. gong has succeeded in having broken the The-change of feeling among the bronzed | Purdy rjag, and have had the power to fellowa who are waiting for their lbounty | introduce a new name for appointment as Com- ia wonderful. Grumbliag and discon-| missioner. It is that of John Kelly, another tent, approaching more positive demonstra- | of that race of insatiable officeholders who tions, have given place to good feeling | have grown fat and lazy upoa public pluu- and rollicking hilarity. They appoared yes-| der. Kelly has already beem too long be- terday at the committee’s room in atrong | fore the public and heid too many public offi- force, and all whose papers were ready | ces to render his mame any more acceptable to were paid the greenbacks by Mr. Blunt, and | the property holders of New York as a Police they went on theix way rejoicing The cer- | Commissioner than that of Elijah F. Purdy. tainty now that the county loans are legalized | Kelly is not a fit man for the place. Purdy is by the Legislature ought to dissipate all doubts | not fit. They are both as dead fish in the nos- about the procurement of funds. If our zealous | trils of the respectable, taxpayiag, responsible and patriotic loyal leagues will not como for- | citizens of the metropolis, and are fast floating ward and sabacribe, our banks and other mon- | down stream into the pool of. political oblivion. eyed institwtions and true Union men will. | The other man, Jones, whom it is proposed to Thero are no better or safer securities than | leash with Kelly as one of the democratic Com- bonds of the city and county of New York, and | missioners—who is he? Is he the boy Jones the four cr five millions that Comptroller Bren- | who once crept under the sofa in Queen Vic- nao will likely put upon the market will be | toria’s private dressing room; oris he the John taken without hesitation or delay. This is | Jones redivivus who flourished ia the time of awelling our debt considerably, we know; but | President Tyler as the editor of the Washiagton we must recollect that this addition is a neces- | Madisonian? There is but one Jones whose sity, and for a great, patriotic purpose. Who, | name now attracts public atteation. aad he then, will hesitate to subscribe when the in- | was once kaowa as George Jones, but now vestment is one of the most safe that could be | is hailed as Count Joannes. {t taay be that made and the payment of the interest certain! | the Legislature has picked up the Count as he We all know now the work that is before us. | was floating away from Massachusetts under a We know that we have yet to raise over twenty | bluelaw edict of banishment, and proposes to thousand soldiers in this city. Let us one and | make of him a Police Commissioner for New all, then, put our hands to the work; let every | York. It might do worse, perhaps. But, seri- person make himself for the time being a re- | ously, there must be an end put to the muddle eruiting sergeant, and procure at least one | now existing ia Albany about this Police Com- volunteer; let us all be active in this great and | mission. The sooner it is settled the better for patriotic work, and Supervisor Blunt will have | the welfare of the city and the future political our quota filled by the middle ef March. If we | history of legislators by whose efforts and now sit down with folded arms we only invite { machinations the settlement of the question upon our beads the cruel and harsh measare of | has been so long delayed. conscription. Who desires this? Who would not avoid it? Cr Jos Tar Dersypers or Tax ApwiNIsrnaTiON.— The strictures of the independent press upow iw vax Le@rstaroxx.—aAll sorts of | the blunders of the admiuistration in the con- jobbing schemes are before the Legislature, | duct of the war have at length had some effect, emanating from job-brokers aud lobby-workers | and have called forth some responses from the belonging to this city. Wf one-half the schemes | administration through the papers thag support now before it succeédin being manipulated | it. Several of those responses have appeared as through, the present session wi} stand highest | rigmarole explanations for certain movements, in the niche of jobbing infamy knowa in the | and others as apologies for faitures. Oue of aunals of legislation. Look at the gigantic | these is remarkable asan acknowledgment from schemes for railroads. Bills are presented for | the administration of its blunders. A Wash- charters for roads to rau everywhere, through | ington paper defends the directory for its ad- every highway and byway 4a the lower and the | herence to the overland route te Richmond, and upper part of and on each side of the city, and | shows that our failures on that route were not all around the city, through every avenue clear | the fault of the directory, but were the neces- upto Harlem, through Kingsbridge and through | sary result of the natural obstacles to an ad- the roads, and in such lines and directions as | vance—by that route. may be required for the future expansion of | supporter. And then this writer-—speaking for the tracks,of the companies. This immense | the directory—goes on to show to the country franchise. unparalleled in its yastuess in the | what advantages there are in favor of an ap- experience of any city in the world, will be | proach to the rebel capital by the Jaines river. placed in the hands of only a few men—pro- | He shows this on the part of the directory, when vided the Legislature proves venal enough to | the advantages of that route were never ques- pass the bills incorporating the companies. | tifhed, save by that very directory for which Here is an excellent } but found no guerillas. They report that the con- | terday admitted to bail by Judge Shipman and | Prolong the war, and wiil leave this thing of ee discharged, Bail was fixed at six hundred dol- | African slavery as much a bone of contention the operations of Mosby. | lars. ¥ . } when the war is over as before the war beg: The rebels have been making ydemon-tration | _A number of revenue Laoeituiggl decided om | so Jong as any one of the States of the U at Newberu, N. C., which, for a time, looked l canta veapeeucuas canary Pra | may re-establish to-morrow the institution errious, but which has resulted in the retreat of | were rendered avainst Collector Barney in the case | Which it has overthrown to-day. We would | therefore earnestly call the attention of Con- dition of the roads militotes considerably the enemy. On the 2d instant the rebels at- | of James Napier and eighteen other plaintiffs. : : : tacked our post in Newbern, and took poseession | John Crogkett, a boarding house keeper and | Tess to the fact that there is only one way in 5 stitute Broker, was arrested ay by | Which this slavery question may be decisively 2 ral at pl Morehead | *™ y 9 7 ’ J of a 4 owl ueommetieors oar i Gert | United States Deputy Marshals Buckley and 8.8. | and permanently settled by uuiversal emanct- | city, They also took the gunboat Underwriter | Joucs, Crockett was charged with defranding | pation, and that now is the opportunity tor this What may we not expect next unless a stop be peremptorily put to this abominable pressure upon the Legislature? The next we shall have projects presented for railroads through each of the ten new avenues proposed in counection with the subjugation of the beauties of Wash- ington Heights. hen we shall have a project for a railroad around tie Park, and possibly, in time, we shall actually have a dirty one-horse railroad car trotting through the delightful Raina- ble in one of the most costly and elegant pub- lic pleasnre grounds ia the world. A stop must he speaks. We are told also that if the war is not ended by September Jeff. Davis may abdicate; that Lee may then be deglared dictator, and may offer to lay down his arms upon terms that will embarrass the government. Dreadfal danger! Hercin we seo how imminently neces- sary itis that the war should end soon. But we can assure this philosopher that, whether Jeff. Davis does or does not abdicate in case the war should not be ended by that time, the Northera people willin a very practical and destroyed her. Major General Butler at the War yesterday, however, states that the enemy re- and that New- A despatch received from. Department | owas, tired on Kinston the next day | bera is now relieved. A steamer, the D. G. Taylor, which con forty thousand dollars worth of commissary stores it Nashville, was totally Louisville, Ky., at two o'clock yesterday | ned for our troops estroyed | by fire morning EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Arabia, from Qneenstown on the ‘24th of January, arrived at Halifax yesterday, and sailed from that port for Boston ataix o'clock in the morning. Her news is two days later than the | report of the Jura. There was little change in the aspect of the | s-Holstein question. The Danish out posts at Kiel were ordered to retire before the ad- vance of the Prussian troops. “in consequence of the thaw.’ The Prussian Legisiative Chamber bad passed a resolution in digect antagonism to | the action of the King and Gabinet “in separating from the other German States," and threatening | resistance thereto. The United Service Gazette, of London, states that » brigade of Pnglish artil! lery has been ordered to Copenhagen. The Danes will defend the Dannerwirke to the extremity. The Archduke Maximilian ie to be received in France as Emperor of Mexico, having accepted the crown, subject to the ratification of the vote of Notables of Mexico by certain of the Mexican councils specified by himself. It was said that thé “‘mission’’ of the French army in Mexieo would end by the middle of January, The Mexican de- putation was expected to return to Europe in the middle of January, and announce his election to the Archduke. Queen Isabella, of Spain, will ap point ‘a minister to Mexico when ‘‘officially as- sured” of the ratification of the crowning of the Archduke ‘The English emancipationists have renewed their profession of friendship te the Union, when restored on pasis of freedom to the sidves of the Bouth Major Gordon, commanding the Anglo-Chinese contingent for the Emperor of Ching, had been captured by the rebels at Soochow | From Japan we are told thet Prince Satsuma re- | fuses to pay the indemnity to the Englich unless | they evacuate Yokohama. The British awsited reinforcements. Console closed in London on the 25d wit. after official hours at 90% for money. The Liverpool cotton market was firmer; but prices were un- obanged. Preadstuffs were dull and unchanged end proris: stenay. | of “We agree to disagree. Christopher Rea, a recruit, of two hondred + nineteen dollars, a portion of his enlistinent money. Crockett, de: ing to give up the mone: c order of General Dix, conveyed to the in- terior of Port Lafayett A milliner, named Eliza Crowe, obtained 4 yer- dict of $500 damages against 8. T. Cory, of the Planter’s Hotel, yesterday, on a suit for slender, brought before Judge Alker, of the Marine Court. The defendant, it is alleged, abused the plaintiff at her place of busingss because she did not trim a skating cap to suit lis wife,,and in the course of the argument made rather free nse of the word swindle, and ended by threatening to wring the woman's neck. | In the case of Stephen Clork vs. James and Erastus Brooks, of the Evening Express, the coun- sel for the defendants made a motion hefore Jndge Cardozo yesterday to have the issues framed pre- paratory to trial. The Court took the papers, and will render a decision in the matter on Monday. Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, fined a jury #250 each yesterday for bringing in 4 verdict * The officer who sug- gested the verdict to the foreman ef the jury w: fined $100, and suspended from pay and duties until the further order of the Court. © In the case of Isaac Ogden & Co,, who sued the ee ‘) city for loss of property occasioned by the destruc- | tion of their lumber yard at the hands of the July rioters, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict for | the plaintiffs of $16,732 98. Messrs. Ogden & Co, claimed to have lost $21,000; but we suppose they will rest satisfied with the verdict ar it stands The suit in reference to the wil! of the late Mrs. Mary summed up yesterday before Surrogate Tucker. The Court took the papers and reserved decision. The trial of the will @f Mrs. Sophia Dayton, de- ceased, was forther proceeded with before the Surrogate. . Coroner Naumann yesterday held an inquest on the body of Wm. Smith, the barkeeper, who was killed last Tuesday by a colored man, named Daniel Brooks, at N South street. The evi- | dence against the prisoner was very strong, and | the jury found him guilty after a short delivera- | tion. He was committed to the Tombs to await trial. The stock market was again buoyant yesterday, and owing to the increased ense in monotary circies prices ad- vanced ope to three per cent. foreign orders. The gold market was pot active, but the premium advanced a fraction, closing at 158. In the absence of radical changes in gold, the complex. jon yesterday of commercial matters remained without much change. The business in both foreign and domes. tic produce was small, but particularly in the former. Basiness on ‘Change was enlivened by ® ‘cornering’ et Reoraenrteae resulted in the forcible ejection Principal operator, This party, — Fish, widow of Preserved Fish, was | Government securition were in demand for banking purposes and to supply | | great achievement. This way is pointed out in | the federal constitution, and is simply an amendment of that iastrament, declaring | Slavery abolished throughont the United States. Tt is thus provided that “the Congress, when- Sever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it | necessary, shall propose amendments to. this constitution, or, on the application of the Legis- latures of two-thirds of the several States, shall calf€convention for proposing amendments, | which, in either case, shall be valid to all in- tents and purposes, os part of this constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three- fourths of the several States, or by conventions | in three-fourths thereof. as the one or the other | mode of ratification may be proposed by Con- j gress.” | - Here. then, the amendment suggested, passed { hy a two-thirds vete in each house of Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures or by conven- | tions of three-fourths of the States of the Union, | } will abolish slavery at once and forever through: | out the length and breadth of the land. And | why not’ The institution, so long as it exists, | can never be anything hereafter except a source | of mischief to all concerned. Its usefulness to | the South is destroyed; its evils, ae gs fountain of bitter waters, are all that is left of it. Let Congress pass the amendment indicated, with a reasonable compensation to loyal slavebolders, ; and the ratification of the States will soon fol , low. An average allowance of three hundred dollars for the slaves of loyal owners will, we dare gy, cover lese than a million of slav We will assume that the constitutional ratifica- tion means three-fourths of all the States, in- | cluding. in the count the rebellious States. | This will require three-fourths of thirty-five States, or a ratification of twenty-seven States. There are twenty-four now represented in Con- gress, exclusive of Old Virginia. Arkansas bas returned to the Union as a free state, and Lot siana and Tennessee are following close be- hind. Thus within a short time we shall hava the twenty-seven States required, every one of which, on the test of a popular convention, will ratify the proposed amendment | Let Congress, then, apply the remedy sug- | gested, and before the end of the year this vex- | ing and perplexing question of slavery may be settled constitutionally, decisively and forever. And this is the only way to settle it. Nor can there be a shadow of a doubt that the man who puts this ball in motion in Congress will be the commandiag «pirit of the Union restored. j } ! i | | | \ | | | | | | suburban rail | jobs. | taken in the case of the Carbon county “Buck- | be put to this class of legislation somewhere. No set of men, becanse they have capital, should be permitted to approach the Legislature with | schemes that so matcrially #ffect the welfare of | citizens as these interminable lines of city and | pads, and claim prerogatives over the public highways which are not to last for a day, but perhaps for alltime. The Leg- islature has numerous blunders and corrup- tions of pas! sessions to correct and wash ont, without bringing forth It has to look after the gizantic swindle in the matter of the Harleta bridge, in the con- struction of which nearly four hundred thou- aud positive way request Mr. Lincoln to resign in the same event. Ov Farm IN AN Excrrumbnt.— The pending investigation into the transactions of the Navy Department has stirred ap won- | derfully the energies of Secretary Welles. He ' and had him sentenced to a year’s imprison- j ment and a fine of $5,060 for frauds on the new | plandsttag | Department. If a little of this vigor had been “2 , exhibifed before it would have saved the coun- | try large amount of money | scores of contractors in this city who baye | made enormous fortunes through the laxity or ag ete cane , expended, and ; connivance of the Navy Department. whom it it is not balf finished yet. It has aumerous | woutd be well to bring to book in the same other matters of potential public interest to | a way. Justice should be even handed attend to, and numerous other past abuses to | * before it enters upon the new fields of debi q shinai nen, visited tion and jobbing which the horse rail- tne stuck: xchange yeeverday, and was ‘ road leethes are standing ready either (o whip | by the morchante and others cougre or cajole it into, Why cannot we have a great | Major General French, whore corps was ro hig public meeting of citizens interested in oppos- | tmenished in the battler of Autictam, bur ing and exposing these great swindling opera- | Fredericksburg, if now bee Ne atthe Now York on . A . but expects to leave the City to-morrow morning. Gene tions of legislative jobbers? Some means | qj rrency was in Texas when tlie prevent troubles con should be immediately taken to uncover the — menoai, put eucceeded io bringing hie entire comma scawps: for the evils complained of become {| out of tie -w He joined the Army of the Potom daily of move and more magnitude an a brigadier, and commaniled the division which covered | the retreat of SeCioilan in te peninsula Wie division Pourticat, Stanvers.---A statement appeared | was terribly cot up in making the charge at Lretericks | yecently im the correspondence of the Kvening | burg, smd sutered severely as the battle of Antietam | We believe that his division or corps how not been Post. purporting to be taken from a Pennsyl- vania paper, to the effect that in the testimony whipped or driven back in a single encoakter wish the enemy. We regret that hie lenving #0 scon will prevent many of our citivens from calling on him Oaptain Chories E. Faller hae been promoted to & Jom ot” there wa averment that p tewantcoloneicy by the President, and assigned to duty pps nt op he etal oF tn on the | Stcniet Quartermaster or the Tenth army corre #t leading members of the Knights of the Golden | dered to report to the General commanding the He Circle were General Lee, C. 8. A., and General | Mento’ the Some McDowell and McCletiaa, General McDowell | has thought fit to write a letter to the Trihune | to contradict this assertion, and to state, fur thermore, that he never belonged to any secret society whatever. We are aurprised that he Musi ' ITALIAN OPERA, Mr. Maretyek might Certainly give ope tyht, 1 We are to judge from the crowded stato of the Academy of Music #ince the commencement of this season, The Prejudice which hed exiated against off myphts haw disap. Mt y peared before the Iimense success owt v sbould lave condescended to thus vindic ate | eae ee pL rye himself, He must have seen by the association | gyri< the encoursgement of opera, pales arhiew New York shodey to that line. of bis name with that of General McClellan I tne Foseari. ove af the fest operar composed by toati , 7 » verd 4 \s by the Maretvek troupe, that the fabrication us prirely @ political one, | Yerdl, wae sung. leat erent raahiwaable atulience, mod and inteyded for effect in the approaching | the perrorm whe certainly vory snecessful. Mme. if ii i eto rolani aud Helin wore much { Presidential campaiga. The correspondence of | Meter) and sigaure Sayrolen i ap. " te : the Post and Tribune is made up of such | ec ere prend matinee toker place. on whien | calumnies, and none but the weak minded pay any attention to them. The patriotism of General McDowell is too well established to be affected by slanders of this kind. He should follow the example of General McClellan, and Went them with silent contempt. oceasion Martha will be su Mies Kotogg, Mile Salver, Lott) and Biaeht are ih the cast inn Sa Murder of a Kw mon nesian sailor was murdered at wit naneed Teague, who has been arrested. ciroumatances are MOL KNOWN, — Lovestiqations are being made to might, | bas just pounced upon an untacky contractor, | There are | IMPORTANT FROM HORTH CAROLINA NEWBERN RELIEVED. THE REBELS RETREAT TO KINSTON, Capture and Destruction ef the Qna- boat Underwriter, , hey ee. oe Fortrzas Moxroa, feo. 6, 1804. ‘A moaseogor bas just arrived with despatches to Maxw Genorai Butier from Newbern, N. C., February 2, a fifteon minutes past five P. M. Tho post in Nowbern ts attacked, and the robola have the ratiroad between Nowbern and Morchoad Oity, but may be forced te retire to Fort Macon. Aa long aa wo can keep the river open we aro wail enough of. ‘The rebels captered by surprise the gunboat Under. writer, and destroyed ner. Fortress Monzox, Feb. 6—?. Mt. The steamer Louisa Moor has arrived hore {rom Now- bern, which place she loft carly yesterday morning. Sho brings a despatch from Genera! Palmer to Genoral Butler, atating that the rebel forces were retirtog from before Newborn. Oficial Despatch from Gea. Butler. Fortress Monnox, Seb. 6, 1864. Hon, B. M. Srawron, Secretary of War:— Doapatch received from Newbern dated February 9%. ‘Tho easmy bas retired on Kinston, Newborn ts relieves. B. F. BUTLER, Major Genoral.. INTERESTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. Ainasy, Feb, 5, 1368 Tho activity of the lobby and the large gathering of outsiders here this week indicate very clearly that thw fea! legislation of the session is about to begin. The buzzing and confidential whiaperings among the crowds @round the hotels are the annual sigus of the move mont of the icgislative wheels in earnest. The pob- lic can rest assured that but §a short period | now elapse before there will be developments that wih decide tho character and tone of the Legislature, and furnish some idea of the class of logistation that wilk be evacted this winter. The busy portion of the session, from all appearances, will commence earlier than usual. Tn fact, the Legislature is now turning off busiaesa more rapidly than usual at this stage of the session. ‘The usual quict and harmony of Congress Hall were thim morning somewhat disturbed by an altercation in 000 off the public nalls between Charles McNeill, member from Queens county, and ex-Mayor Opdyke, of New York. [& appears that Mr. MoNoill, or some of his family, had am interest {0 a gun contract wilh the ex-Mayor, and that the destruction of the factory in Second avenuo last eum- mer has in some way got tho affair into a muddle. The foresaid member charged the ex-Mayor with trying te cheat bim out of twenty thousand dollars, and seized the opportunity furnished by the destruction of the during the riots to carry out that design. Nor di member of Assembly rest there, but huried upon the ex- Mayor charges in regard to exacting money for severe! purposes, in which be brought in the name of the Surveyor of the port of New York: also charge of forcing ten thousand dollars out of certain parties to elect him Mayor, other accusations that mado the scene a decidedly inter- esting one to the bystanders. It thus seems that the government contracts tothe politicians are resulting: io the manufacture of guns that fire from the breech, @od are Likely to seriousiy daraage those in the rear, sad. wily the.contractors. From oa the aitercation this morning they are doing more the political contractors than the ~The claim int developments wi is broug! court for adjudication, and additional light will be throwa upon the mode of obtaining and carrying ont those con. tracts. Sail in, gentlemen, When rogues fall out honest men get their own. The public want a little more light ‘on their contracts. A good airing of this special contrast will do no harm to the public generally. ‘The following resolution-was introduced this morntag by ovanimeus consent, and adopted, only half a doses voting against it, Resolved, that in a time like the present, when the ex- penses of a great war press heavily on the lo, it te Just and proper that the large and rich railroad corpora- tions of this State. which are competing with the canals ‘and are reducing their revenue (as shown by the Auditor's of 1863), should bear a fair proportion of The bur- thens, and be compelled something of their enormous earnings in the way of tolls on tisonge freight carried during the suspension of camal nari 3 It ts somewhat singular that the above resolution , after being read to the House for information to mombers, was then introduced by unanimous consent, aot one member objecting to it. One objection would have stop- ped it. Can it be possible that the Central road bas ne friend in the Honse? Although tho resolution commite tho Assembly to the policy of tolling the Central Rati- road, yet it was adopted without debate or a division of the House, or calling the yeas and n: Its slipping throug easily is without parallel in legistative action. In addition to the above a bill was introduced relative to the election of a railroad cor; tion, which is under. -4 stood to especially refer to the Central Railroad, and is 4 part of the fight of last fall. Mr. Filkins offered s bill ordering that in al! elections for directors of every railroad corporation within this State each stockholder shall be entitied to one vote om uy pt to any election. Providing such vote shail be chal- longed, it shatl be the duty of the inspectors to require the voter to produce the original certificates of the stock, and, unless offered when asked for, such vote shati be fused. The president and socretary are ordered to to stockholders who represent at least ten per cent the capital stock a list of the owning stock ch corporation, with number of shares heid by each, in defau't of doing 89 they shall Torfeit $1,000 and be ie to punishment by fine or imprisonment, or both, ta the discretion of the court. rector, officer or employe of a railroad company shalt vote at the election of directors upon any stock except. that which stands in his name upon the books In addition to the above a bill was introduced requiriag the New York Central and Erte railroads to make mouthiy returns of the amount of freight carried, and to give de- tails of the varions kinds of treieht transported it will thus be seen that this morning's session was one H of general onslaught up the main iines of rajiroads, ; In tho first place, the tolling of the lines competing with | the canals, aod thon the bill applying to all rowas in elect- ing directors, but particularly to the New York Central, as any person who remembers the contest in the election Jowt fall of directors for that road can testify ; and, further, the call for monthly statement in deta! on freight or the | New York and Erie and the New York Central—the very information necessary to enable them to levy toll om + those two roads. It will be borne in mind that the latter | bill only apples to those two road. { ‘The bill incorporating the New York Cross Town Rail. rood Company was reported favorably by the Railroa® Committee of the louse thie morning ) Auotber City Passenger ond Raggage bill was prevented | this morning in the Assembly. Also a bill to crowding the city borse care, providing that no more passengers shal! be adinitted to the cars than there are | Seats for. Also a bill providing for the State banks to orgenive wader the National Paok law, by giving publie notice for a certan number of dave, and assuming all the , Tesponsibilities of the old banks, forwarding thetr currency to the Ranking Departny the State, where- \ npon the Bank Superintendent is to return to them their { securities deposited in that department. | The State bounty bill for three hondred dollars bounty rier ths evening. onere bili was ready to réport thie | morning in the Senate Senator Lasmbeer had this Dill In hie charge to report, and when that order was | he was talking with @ frien? from New York over the » railway, and, before be was aware, that order of busines® gone througn with. leaving bin ue opportunity to Feport in except by vrenimous consent, This asked, und there were filly # dozen objections. The re- port of that bill bae therefore to lay over to another day. It is pow ramored that some of the leading meme bers of the republican side of the Hovge have ed the: republican Senatore that unless they consult with the republicans of the Houre op That bill, to jomt caucus, the Assembly willoverhec) Cie action of the Senate and tne sort other names, ae fer av the democratic Commissionera ! are concerned. There will be nai Senate now, for the rearon thet mai dosira-the Asgetably to repudiate the apd voted for the bid with thot time i¢ vot in atore on that qnest | The bill providing for a em tion on the amend. ment of the conatitution relnt ldiere voting came up in Comamyttee of the Whole ths mc rning in the Senate {An effort was made tw swend by providing that the amendment to the constitution in reference to the Com. mismoners af the Court ot Apoenle be submitted at the | kame time. | This motion drew cats epicy and interesting debate between Senators Shaler aed bieids on one side, aud Fot- gor and others ov the repubicay side of the touse. The fr nce ae odd cour: t, while the democrats trie® every parliamentary incorarate the amend. meni in the bill), Senator Sharer, in a quiet bat elective harged Luat the republicans were toting in ® partt er under the jeeh of the Sribune; that the ail told them vo act jn that way, and they were Sonaior Fields wleo took a band in, and for @ fow moments there wae quite s commotion around the Seuate cirele. The wnenament wae voted down tn every way that It woe brongnt op. and the bill providing for ® enecial election on enldiere voting ordered to a thiré reading. Showid the amecdment relative to the Court of Appeal be submitted at the #ame time as the other, tt woud | give Governor Seymour an opp: ‘ommisioner® before hy wished it to toe y " thet they will elect their Governor naxt fail. tho African in this matter, waa? was made the t i Hore tie that auy soldiers had frozen to death, and that Inge there were mostly confined to thows persons by recruiting brokers, which cases he ia now weyeatigatiog.