The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1864, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMBS OVULDON BENNETT, BDIDOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFLON N. W, CORNER OF FOLTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING NIBLO'S GARDEN, Rrogiway.—Covste Soocam WADLACH'S TREATEY, Broa: Pune Goxo. GANDBN, 1 or Luava Mike Maer Warton Doo—Noss's Win! Taox BOWERY TARATRE, mat Bowery. —Hovse SUL Apeice tO Uy E Ds~Thall OF BARNUM'S MUBEUM, Rroadway.—F Dwanre Acoisos, Wards 17, &0, a a AtSand 7h P.M m Garr, TWO re. ALS ee RYANTS MINSITELS, Mechanics’ Wait Eraiortax Bones, Dascas, Lukixsquaa, Headway —Erovorran WOOD'S MINSTRE. - Orena, OR! Hvew. fones, Dances &¢— WERICAN TILATRE, No, 444 Brondway snens, BURLESQUES. 6¢.—Swiss Sway ALLUTS, PROADWAY AMPHITHEATRS, 435 ano BQuweitian PeeroRnances, Atternoou sad HIPPOTHBATRON, enth elreet.—Aczopatic ann Boureraisn PauronKances NIBLO'S SALOON, Ri Droadway.—Evcusa Orrna—Ma- rn PR OUAPEL, 718 Prondway.—Tax Sraawosco: cos cP Mivnor ov Tux Unxivenss, PRERE Broad way.—Srarvoscorricox any Miv. non or rt som SEW ¥C UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. | CUxon trom Ya. MUI Pe Breok!yn.~ i a) Feber New York, Wednestay, A THE COUNTRY country fe incress adyerusements io sertod in the Ween up will (hua be sean by & large portion of the active and energetic peopla of the Caited Staton, LHE SITUATION. General Grant telegraphs from Neshville that an | |, expedition sent by General Foster from Knoxville against tho rebel General Thomas and his gueril- laa at Quallatown, 6 eded in capturing that place, driving the guerilia band into the moun- tains, killing and wounding two hundred and fifteen of them and taking fifty prisoners, Quiet has been restored on the Rapidan since the return of onr forces, A range of rife pits were constructed by the rebels opposite Morton's Ford, supported by a line of breastworks, It was stated by deserters to General Kelley's lines yesterday that all the Union prisoners were to be sent away from Richmond, and that the mails coming to the rebel soldiers were all stopped. The retreat of the rebels from before Newbern, N. G., is confirmed by the Richmond papers. An expedition was sent from our lines at Newport up White Oak river to reconnoitre and captured a whole company of rebel cavalry. The Union com- mand was under Colonel Jourdan. It travelled seventy miles in less than two days, and did not lose a man. Deserters are coming into the camps in large numbers. The town of Warsaw, N.C., waa entirely destroyed by fire on the Slst ult. Our news from the South to-day is very impor- tant, diffusive and interesting. We give full particulars of the panic created in Richmond on Saturdsy and Sunday by the reported approach of our troops at Bottom’s Bridge, the main facta of which we published yesterday. The people at the rebel capital were in a state of wild excitement. The citizens rushed to arme; mounted officers galloped through the city; artillery rum- bled along the streets, and the local militia, at the sound of the alarm bell, hastened to the forti- fications. Richmond, however, is not taken yet, | and the “scare” abated on Monday when it was understood that the “Yankees” had fallen back | from the Chickahominy. The Richmond Eraminer of the Sth says that for several days past the government has been in’pos- session of facts that hinted, beyond a doubt, to the existence of a secret organization of disloyal men, having for its object the forcible release of the prisoners held at Libby and on Beile Isto, the assassination of President Davis, and the destruc- tion of the government buildings and workshops. A German, named Heinz, was arrested as the ringleader of the plot. Our own correspondents in captivity at Rich- mond and New Orleans furnish some highly inter- esting facts concerning the state of affuirs in the rebel dominions. The rebels are said to have staked much of heir hopes upon being able to maintain posseexion of Atlanta, Ga., and are determined te burn it down if they cannot hoid it. By the arrival of the steamer George Cromwell, Captain Post, from New Orleans on the 2d inst., we have very interesting news from Louisiana, The salient points of General Banks’ letter to the Free State General Committee will be found in our issue to-day. The first Monday of April has been set apart for the election of members. Our correspondents’ letters contain variety of most interesting news. The people of Low and Texas are almost starving end crave peace on apy terms. Our captured correspondent, Mr. Finley Anderson, fs to be sent to Alexondria by the next ateamer for exchange. CONGRESS. Im the Senate yesterday Mr. Sumner presented several numerousty signed petitions in favor of the entire abolition of slavery, which gave rise to an interesting debate on the Crittenden compromise Proposition. The Will reviving the grade of lieu- tenant general was reported, with the clauses making sald officer general-in-chief of the army and recommending General Grant for the position struck out. A bill prohibiting speculation in coin and foreign exchange was introduced by Mr. Sherman, and referred to the Finance Committee, Dir. Powell introduced a bill amending the consti. tution so as to provide a new method of electing the President of the United States. It wae ro. ferred to the Jndiciary Committee. A bill provid- ing for an additional judicial district for New York was introduced and referred. The bill for pro- moting the enlistment of colored troops was then taken op, discussed, and its further consideration postponed tll Thursday, The Senate then ad avusaed, ‘. 7 ondway.—Gra. | qmoriag | SHEET. | jana | In the Honse of Representatives a bill was in- troduced granting aid by lands in the construction of the Lake Superior Railroad. The rosolution of the Committee on Elections, declaring Mr. Tield not eutitled to a seat aa a Representative from Louisiana, was discussed and finally adopted by & vote of cighty-seven against fourteen. The con- sideration of the Enro!ment bill was then resumed -¢ of the Whole. An amendment to cymen from the draft waa rejected. ec, by a vote of forty-five against sed to strike out the clause which con- ce two classes subject to the draft. the bill, the committee rose House adjourned. . THR LEGIS_STURE. vate yesterday the bill providing for to the people the constiintional amend- ment to permit soldiers to vote was passed, after being amended so as to have the election to de- cide the question held on the 8th of March. Tho Metropolitan Police bill was made the special order for to-morrow (Thursday) at noen, The bill to establish a law library in this city was ordered toa third reading, The Assembly bill providing for five Comunissioners of Appewia, for the purpose of facilitating the business of the Court of Appeals, was noticed. Governor Seymour yesterday signed the Genera! Dounty bill, Tho republican Senators last evening b salt in relation to the uecces: ‘on for the State present conditi ' affairs, The State ptroier, Auditor 1 Sunerintendent of the ing Department received invitations to parti- pate in the procecdings. Considerable dis- ‘on wos indulged in, but no detinite programme sacted by the Assembly yes- neral interest, most of the in Couimittee of the Whole Tn ing ses- bills. letter and on response to ral Dix’ number, ork city and s iad & hearing before the Committec on Banks of the J ture, the tendent of the Banking Department also Their object is te impress upon ors the necessity for further measures on to the State banks against the en- ® of those organized under the Na- ng act. Several prominent gentle- men addressed the committee in support of the position assumed by the State banks; but no con- clusion wes arrived at. They are to hold another consultation among themselves to-day, and have another bearing before the committee this evening. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By the arriva! of the schoouer Oriental, Capt. Burmeister, from St. Johus, P. R., we have a vices from that place to January 30, Two re, ments had just arrived from Spain, and four hun- dved men sailed on the 22d ult. for St. Domingo. Tbe British frigate Immortalite had beou to Viegnes, or Crab Istand, to recognize the Spanish flag. Sugar was high, and not much made, in con- sequence of the heavy rains. Two animals, calied the manita, were captured by Mr. Leatimer, aud are now slive and well, He will present them to the Park Commissioners, provided they will send for thei. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday. Alder- man Jones offered a resolution authorizing the Comptroller to cell at public auction the lease of all ferries, piers, wharves and public property where the leases have expired, or where the pro- perty is not inuse. Adopted. Alderman Ryers offered a resolution caWing upon the Comptroller for information concerning the revenue of certain markets omitted in his annual report. Adopted. A communication was received from the Mayor re- lalive to the expenses incurred by the city in fitting out troops in 1861, and suggesting that a commit- tee should be appointed to confer with a similar comtistee from the Board of Supervisors, with the view of reinbu incurred. Laid over. A committee to confer with | the Board of Councilmen in relation to the cele- | bration of Washington's Birthday was then ap- pointed, and the Board adjourned until next Tues- day. The Board of Supervisors received the report of the Volunteer Committee yesterday. It stated the number of men furnished by the city under the | President's calls and the numbers required, and | recommended the passage of an ordinance appro- priating $2,000,000 for volunteering. The or | nance was adopted. The court martial continned the case of Lieut. Cole yesterday, when several witnesses were exe amined for the defence. It was mentioned yesterday that Chas. McViucy had been arrested by, cer Alexander Carmichael on a charge of hay attempted to pass a coun- terfeit twenty dollar Vreasury bill, changed from a two, on Thomas Re eper of an oyster saloon in the Bowery. Mr. Viney, not McViney is the owner of the saloon No. 357 Bowery, and he, a few even- ings since, had Thomas Reid, alias Thomes Kerr, arrested by officer Carntichael for attempting to pass a one dollar bill altered toa ten dollar note (not a twenty dollar Treasury note changed from @ two) on him in yment for an oyster stew. Reid, otberwis Kerr, offered the note to Mr. Viney, who at once detected it, Instead of being arrested himselt, Mr. Viney cansed the at of a seem adroit swindle tors ef the Farmers’ and Citizens Bank of Williamsburg have notified the police that they are prepared to advance the ary for the payment of the Brooklyn police for the month of Jenuary last, which kas been up to tho present time in arrear. At a meeting of the Judges of the Court of Com- | mou Pie! 4 on Monday, Judge Cardozo alone being absent,“it wav agreed that no order the ef- fect of which was to change the existing practice of the courts should be entered unlees the seme should be assented to by the majority of the | Judges, and the clerk was ‘directed not to enter upon the win os an order of the court any di- rection of « single Judge, unless it related to some proceeding pending before such Judge. The order of the Sth of January, which had been made by Judge Cardozo in contravention of the establisbed practice of the court, was va c. } The Murtewh will case, which hee been Sp litiga: tion since 1844, and involves property amounting to fifty thousand dollars, woe argued before the Supreme Court, general term, yesterday. The Court took the pape promising to render a derision in a fow days. In the Supreme Court, circuit, yesterday, bee fore Judge Peckham, a Germen girl named Martha Muller obtained a verdict of one thoveand dollars dam: against Charlee Kade for breach of promise to merry, The defendant keeps & concert saloon, and hed been keeping company with the plaintiff for about @ year. A woman named Ann Connolly wae convicted in the Court of Sessions yesterday of having stolen a watch and money, in all of the value of $472, from @ Connecticut volunteer named Jobn Miller, while he was with hor in a house of ill fame on the 18th of January last. Judge Russel sentenced her to the State Prison for two years and nine monthe. Charles H. Walter was then placed on trial for the | murder of a womaf named Elizabeth Vincent on | Nothing {s allogod to have been cither the wife or mistress of the prisoner, who killed her in Git of joalous frenzy, induced by finding her living in a house of ill fame No. 96 Centee street. The case will be conoluded to-day. An interesting horse case waa on trial yoatorday before Judge Moncrief in the Superior Court The plaintiff, John Kelly, ex-Sheriff, sues Oharlos Nostrand, farrier, for the loss of a valuable horee, which bad his back broken while the operetion of “firing’’ was being performed. The plaintiff claima thet the casualty occured through tho hegligenoe of the defendant, and lays his damages @t $1,000. The case was not concluded when the Court adjourned for the day. The Surrogate yesterday tried the centested wil! of Mrs. Catherine Berwick, deceased. Argument was also heard on the accounts of the catates of Mrs, Mary Woodruff and of Peter Carmant, de- ceased, Patrick Dooley was arreated on Saturday Ina by United States Marshal Murray, on the charge of having defrauded a reeruit, named Jobn McGee, of $275—a portion of the bounty money. Failing to give up the money, Dooley was conveyed to Fort Lafayette. The Marahal and his deputies aro deter tnined to put down thisgtrocions system, which has hitherto prevailed to very great extent. Prices of railway shares were wel! austaiued yesterday at the brokers’ board, except the stocks of some of (he Western roade, whitch had been ran up by speculators to & point above their intrinsic value, Goverament 59 tles were iu demand for banking purposes and ty sep ly foreign ordors, which caused the reyistered fixes of LS3L to be held at 107S;, and the five-twenties to bo firm: at 104g. Tho seven auc (hree-tenths Treasury notes were quoted at 1073, Money continued easy, with an abu 4 ance of capital seeking invostmont at the legal rate of interest. Gold closot 14 above the opening price. The rise in gold tended to check business ia commersii circles to a still greater extent youlorday than on Mon- day, and the amount of business reported was aconrd ty smalt, In imported merchandise the transac were especially light: Lut blacrs manifested groat Or hess, and io many cases demanded higher prices, At (no Produce Exchange the complexion of aTairs was about thosaine, The moyoment iv breadatuffs aad provisions was fair, Freights wore dill, heavy and nominal r. Cotton we: called steady, Groceries wore ashado Oriner, but not active, Vetroleum was Ormer, and both crude und re‘ined realized highor prices The market for bee cattle was decidedly firmer this work, owing to the fuct (hat the receipts show a largo decroase, while tho demand was altogether more active, (c,a1c. per pound higher, ranging reely any Bold below 10c., and tho One fine drove from 8, aide. & bulk of the sales were at 10%o 4 126. averaged 18c., and good cattie readily commanded 12c. a 121s¢ The cattle were mostly common; but nearly all gold on Monday. Cows were sloady, with a fair demand at from $30 a $60, Veals were active and higher; some of the best brougbt 9¢., and other grades went oa 8c. Sheep and tambs were steady; prices varied from $1 754810. Swiro were scarce, active and decidedly higher; corn fed sold at 720. aG4¢C., and still fed at Tc. wBYc. The total receipts were 4,262 beeves, 143 496 veals, 11,132 sheep snd lambs, and 5,377 ewine. The Wall Street Proposition to Re-Elect Lincoln—A Most Extraordinary Finan- cial Revolution Approaching, Some time ago o distinguished Wall street financier went to Washington, and was cor- dially welcomed by President Lincoln. “I am glad to get hold of a good financier; 1 want some good advice about the money bags,” said the President. “You all know thia; but I can’t get the right sort of man to give it. This,” he continued, characteristically, “ re- minds me of a story. Out in a certain part of Illinois was a place where the farmers coa- gregated to swap lands and trade among them- eclves, They got along very well until a couple of Wall street financiers appeared among them and joined in their’speculations. After a couple of months or so the farmers found they were minus all their lands, and that the Wall street financiers had adroitly absorbed all they held.’ So much for this joke. Now for its application. What is the game now going on among cerfzin Wall street financiers and other moneyed monopolists and speculators outside of Wall strect in reference to the next Presi- dency? We will endeavor to show. In the first place, let us take the circular of the “National Conference Committee of the Union Lingoin Association of New York,” publiched ing the city for the expenses 50} @ few days since, aad notice the names at- tached to it. A rank odor of Wall street capi- tal, financiering sharpness and unscrupulous belief in the power of the almighty dollar give the list a siriking peculiarity. The list embraces as much wealth as any comprising the eame number o: runes, with perhaps two or three exceptions, th t could be selected from among our wealthiest citizens. These weighty uicn of Wall street, in this special | edict, call upon the people of the United States to come out in the support of Lincoln for a second term. And why? They believe that with the re-election of Lincoln the war will be continued, and that with the continuance of the war their vast epecntations, not yet com- pleted, will thrive. Lincoln has been tried, and, they say, ‘not found wanting.” Not ac- cording to their scale, perhaps. In the next place, there is Thurlow Wead out for Lincoln, and with a scheme to repeal the Homestead laws, to cast aside those honest men who have earned and are entitled to their privileges, and to institute a species of levislation that will | eventually throw all the public lands into the hands of large capitalists. Moreover, Weed and those leagued with him want Lincoln re- elected, so that they can retain and farther strengthen their bold upon power until their | alveedy great abundance shall overflow, and their greedy followers swallow up the drip- pings. So-with some other divisions of public plunderers and Presidential jobbers, who have revelled so long in @ sea of government con- tracte and fet places that it ie diffoult to induce them to relapse intoany honest employment. Let us return to Mr. Weed for a moment. Mr. Weed eaye the war will cost, befere it is ended, four thousand millions of dollars. He does not go far enough. If Lincoln be re- ected we say it will cost six thousand mil- ie, or one-Lalf the whole value of the prop- of the loyal States, according to the cen- sof 1860. At that time the value of the property of all the United States was estimated at sixteen thousand millions. Allowing four thousand millions for the States in rebellion, leaves the entire valuation of the loyal States twelve thousand millions, end one-Lalf of this great inheritance of the people is to be absorbed before the war is ended, unlese a chenge be effected in its management. Can this be done without effect ing © most extraordinary financial revolution? Wall street jobbers and ring masters might at- tempt an answer. * To help us along in thie extremity we find shat, according to the plans of Chase and Stan- ton, the conflecated lands in the South will fall into the bande of a few favored capitalists. And thus from one point to another, from one mo- nopolizing scheme to another, from the opera. tions of one set of political favorites to*the operations of another set of political harpies who must be conciliated, what do wo seo? but gigantic efforts to concentrate all the JUth of Novewber lat, ‘The decened woman | the financial power and oll the great landed | wil wealth of the country into the hands of a fow. What an cxiraorduary apectacie does this pre- sent! If wo lok into the history of Great Britain we will see Ohtst it bas taken that great country, with all its immense and costly wars, over a century fo run up @ national debt of eight hundred million pounds sterling, or ebout four thousand million dollars. The grout power of that government enabled it to cast its ‘landed wealth imto tho bands of & fow. The landed intoresta in Englund are repro sonted by some twonty-five thousrud persons or families; in Ireland by some ton thousaiud, and in Scotlaad by some threo thousand. In round numbers, forty thousand porsona or families may bo said to reprosent tho entire landed wealth of Great Britain, out of a popu- lation of over thirty millions. But it is not necessary to multiply etatiatics; for thoy all poiut to the conclusion that what has takon an old and great Vower like Groat Britain a |, century to accomplish in the way of public indebtedness, and in the concentration of wealth in land and moneys, will, under a second administration like Lincoln’s, require but @ decade, perhaps tho brief period of only some seven or eight years, to complete in this conatry. We repeat thal, accord- ing to all indications, if Lincoin should be re-ciccted, the war will be contioued; that its continuence four or five years longer avolve an aggregate coat of six thousand millions—two thousand millions more than the century debt of Great Britain; that the property of the country will oventually bo thrown into the hands of Wall stieet Boxnciers and graaping monopolists and jobbers, and a few ocber friends of the administration on and on the other gide of the Alleghavies. If the signers to the circular above mentioned can bring about the re-slcction of Lincoln, they can each retire at the end of his term with a fortuna of five or ten millions each; if re- elected, Thurlow Weed and his frioads, tho homesteads being abotisyed, can farm out tho public domain, and the satellites and favorites of Ghase and Stanton can attend to the accu- mulation and absorption of the confiscated property and landed estates of the rebels. There is nothing to preventall this; for Stanton has the war power, Chase the financtal power, and Lincoln is striving to get the fanatical power of the country into his bands. After @ second term, what a splendid present could these Wall street financiers afford to make to Lincoln. A bonus of eight or ten millions of dollars would be the least that could be ex- pected, and with that the great joker oould retire to Illinois, and leave his countrymen to mourn over the fruits of his folly and -imbe- cility. To prevent all this scheming—to thwart all these efforts at the concentration of wealth and power—td meet the financial revo- lution before us—to blast in the bud this un- blushing conspiracy to establish in this country an aristocracy like that of Great Britain—all the people have to do is to rally around a popular, unpledged and unsullied hero and patriot like General Grant, and elect him to the Presidency. If President Lincoln takes into his councils Wall street financiers, let him beware they do not serve the people as the Wall street finan- ciers served his friends, the farmers in Ilinois— despoil them of their lands, and leave them the beggarly satisfaction of knowing that the President has had his joke, although they are left landless and to their lamentations. The Work Done—A Dissol the Rebellion. On the first page of this paper our readers will find the most interesting, and we dare say the most acceptable, war map which we have presented them since the opeaing bom- bardment of Fort Sumter. It furnishes a dis- solving view of the rebellion, which covers, at @ glance, the territorial results of the war frgm the beginning to the present day. It shows the work wé have accoinplished towards the suppression of the spurious Southern con- federacy, and the comparatively light work still required to finish it. On the Ist of July, 1861, the military line of the rebellion covered a compact geographical area of about eleven hundred thousand sqnare miles, embracing a population of nearly twelve niillions of people. Two-thirds of tuis territo- rial area and two-thirds of this population have since been reeonquered and restored to the “old flag; and all that which the rebellion has lost is so much added to the strength of the Union. But this is only a superficial view of the extent to which the rebellion has been weakened, and the extent to which the Union has been strengthened, from these transfers of territory and population. The States of Tennessee, Kenineky, Mis- souri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas were the States upon which the rebellion de- pended for the subsistence of its armies; and in losing these States it is like an army cnt off from its base of supplies. In a military view the Western section of "the rebellion, as depict- ed on our map, may be properly omitted in an estimate of the present military strength of Jeff. Davis; for that immense gap which has been made down the Mississippi to the Gulf cuts off this Western from the Eastern section of his usurped dominions as completely as if divided by the Mediterranean Sea. The available forces and resources of the re- bellion, therefore, are really limited to the East- ern eection, embracing a white population of about two millions, and a black population something over two millions. From this white population there bave been drawn over two hun- dred and fifty thousand soldiers, two-thirds of whick number, we will assume, are still in the field. Add to this force the new conscripts re- cently raisefl, and the troops remaining with Lee, Longstreet and Joe Joboston from the recap- tured States, and the whole military force of Davie in this Fastern section may, periiaps, be set down a@ now amountipg to two hundred thou- sand men. The sweefing conscription of the rebel Congress may swell this force to two hun- dred and fifty thousand men; but it is more likely to fall short of this increase than to ex- ceed it. The spring campaign, then, will open with a Union force of at least five hundred thousand men, against a rebel force, in this Eastern sec- tion, of two hundred and fifty thousand men; and we havo said nothing of the powerful co- operating forces, on the Union side, of our fron-clads and gunboats. Considering, then, the dispirited, disgusted, demoralized, half clothed and half famished condition of the rebél armies, and the heavily oppressed, de- and exhausted condition of the rebel States, from Virginia to Mississippi, we may reasonably expect that short work will be made of this remnant of the so-called Southern img View of NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864.-TRIPLE SHEET. 9 Pormnx confederacy with the restsmp My," ofaotive mili- | city from England. Some thirty years ago tury operations they made a siwilar demonstration in his We rely mainly upon General Gract y? finish | honor. Then he sowed the seed which hae it, Our illnatrative map very atriking!y w= hibits the wast amount of substantial work that y #86 country. Now he comes to ¢ bo aud bis colaborors bave porformed in the West, and tho @oanty results of President Lin- Coln’s straisgy and tactics as our directing milifary pro ta the Fast. If Mr. Lincoln wild etill inaiat upow managing the mover of tho Army of tho Potomac, let him co himself lo his peoutiar programme for the pro fection of Wrahiaxton, if he will; but let him provido General Grant the mapn and meana for &n Aggressive campaign from Chattancoge to Charleston, and the reaults will sativfy the coun'ry. True, te heroio Army of the Poto- mac may thus fail to seoure its well morited roward for all iis arduous Inbors, of the crown- i @ decisive victory of the war; but the ion will be speedily extinguished, revel) 7 ee oes Tavri.ow Weep on ve Narionat Dent.— Tho patriotic old noldier of the lobby, the vonerable Thurlow Weed, has been at work upon bis “statistics” again, his subject this time being our prospective national debt. Be estimates that by the time this war ig ended it wit bavg cost us some four thousand millions of dollars, three thousand millions of which will remain on the books against us as our national debt. Next, turning to the interesting problem of the payment, he proposes the repeal of the Homestead law, in ordor that the public lands may be brought back to the relief of the Treasury; and then he proposes a heavy achodule of increased taxations. But we aro afraid that this old lobby soldier is not the man to pllot the governmont through 1 ties. The public recollec of bis fivancieriog in the Albany lobby od in the Washington lobby arc rather against him; 60 that whenever he issues one of his patriotic pronunciamientos the suspicion is created that it covers fome delectable lobby scheme for filling the pockots of Thurtow Weed. His “free wool siatis- tica,” his Castle Garden emigrant de- pol job, his Georgia navy yard, his services to verlain apeculators in the purouage of vi for the government, his patriotic mission to Europe, which, we are afraid, was profitable only to himself, and bis alleged interest and activity in the matter of exempting whiskey in store from the increase of the whiskey tax proposed in Congress, and various other things with which the name of Mr. Weed is asso- ciated as a lobby or speculative patriot, are not the antecedents calculated now to give him the character of a wise and disinterested states- man. In faot, the firat question suggested by this proposition from Mr. Weed to repeal the Homestead law is, how much docs “the old man” expect to make out of it? We think that, having made money enough to last him com- fortably, and having retired from the editorial chair, it would be wise on his part to stick to his little jobs in Wall street, and to give up the altenpt to play the volunteer statesman or diplomat, because this field of labor is now occupied by the Count Gurowski, the Count Joannes, the Chevalier Wikoff, the Chevalier Jewett, and Daniel Pratt, the great American traveller. ‘Tar Sprina Camparan—How THE ADMINISTRA- tion Lyrenps to Norse THe War.—Some days since a Washington organ of the administra- tion published a rigmarole of criticism and sug- gestion in relation to the apring campaign. The gist of the article was an argument against the employment of the most practicable method to conclude the war. It urged that we ought no longer to move against the rebellion by those lines on which we have bitherte had our great successes, and that we ougbt to move against it by those lines on which we have always had disaster. It endeavored to show that Grant ought to stand still at Chattanooga and in Tennessee; that our whole immense advance in the West Southwest should come to pe 7 i= Por aw wo... | halt, and that there oiight to be ono more mové- ment against Richmond from the east. Now, though the paper that published this Is one of the mouthpieces of the Directory, we ought not to assame thence that this is the Direetory’s real plaa. If Mr. Lincoln and bis advisers pro- posed to carry out such a plan, it is not proba- ble that even an administration orgaa would be permitted to publish it. It is more probable that the plan is intended as a deception. But plans thus thrown out to deceive are never en- tirely false, and the present plan haa also some truth in it. Iie at once intended to mislead the enemy and draw the fire of the opposition. It is a decoy and a féeler. It is thrown out as one of the first attempts to pave the way for the adoption of the remarkable line of policy by which the administration intends to prevent any conclusion of the war until after the Presi- dential election. The sum of it all is that there are to be no more great operations jrat now— no immense advances on the outer circle of the rebellion, and even no serious attempt at Rich- mond; bat the whole season is to be whtled away in emall affairs with cavalry all over the country, raids, reconnolssances, &o. In pursu- ance of this policy the administration arranged it that Longstreet should not be crushed in East Tennessee when he might have been, and in pursuance of the same policy we just now have an advance of two or three brigades across the Chickahominy, in Butler's department, and another rcress the Rapidan from the Army of the Potomac. So we are to go op until the next election aball throw the whole power of the government and all the interests of the country into the hands of the financiers, unless the people are wise enough to have their own way in the next election. Ovx Paces oy Amussamunt.It is really astonishing to witness the immense patronage bestowed upon our places of amusement. New York bas decidedly beoome the great metropo- lis of this continent. From Boston, Philadel- phia, Baltimore and such places, aot excluding beautifal, piotwresque Portland, we have crowds of pilgrims who, ostensibly on business, come to this city to enjoy its pleasures, to crowd its magnificent hotels and restanrants, and put on an appearance at the Opere Honse, which bas now become the resort of the élite of our society. Nightly the Academy of Musle ie overcrowded. Our theatres receive the same liberal patron- age. In fact, New York Js fast becoming in ite manifold attractions the rival of the great Enropean cities. “Paris is Franco,” say the. French people. New York is essuming tue same position in this country, and has alreyily beapme the rendezvons during the gay season of the wealth and fashion of the Nortb. Grorce Tiompson.—Tho Boston people are about to give an ovation to this great apostle of abolitionism, who has just exrived in their poet eee ne eee mag pean mente a a AEE AD SC RE a since been moistened with the best bleod of y the sy eolasle of deavlation that marks the harvest of bis labors. " NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. Major Gomera! Huacock Presented to the Avsembly-—the New York Regiments ta Hily Coepa~Dogs In the Assombly—s mon~The Special Dey of Kieotton on the Comstidutional Amendment for Bol- Glors te Vete Oneeged to the 6th of Muarea—Peitoe Bili-Law Library for New York—@ow in the Comtral Reus road Moanegemont—Oorming Restgnus, Bon Seer Ataavy, Feb. 0, 1864. One of the frat acts of the Assembly this morning waa tite passage of & resolutiva giving Major General Hao. cock the privilege of the floor during bis stay in Albaay, A committeo was appointed to notify bint of tho action of the Howse, The committee immediately wailed upom the Goveral and presented him to the Assembly, Speaker Alvord briofy weicomed him on the part of the Assembly, referring to his career in tho Army of the Potomac, and invited him to take @ seal by bis side, Gonoral Hancock, in reply, eafa that ho wae not acous- tomed to rhetoric, and begged the indulgence of tho As- sombly in bis expressing iu bis own way his gratitude for tae boner done him,and then sald that bis mission hore was for the purpose of recruiting bis corpa, wbiok was now get down for special service, His corps was once coanmanded by General Sumnor, afterward by Gove. ral Couch, Nearly one-balf of the regiments of the corpe wore frou the State of Now York, Out of Afty regiments io tho corps thore were niucteen regiments of New York troopz, Fe appesicd to the members of the Aesembiy, in thoir offictd and private capacity, to do all withia thoir power to aid him in filling up the brave but dopioted regiments. ‘ ‘The Assombiy was engaged all the morning in the Comnmitice of the Whois, @ large portion of the time de- bating about dogs and shoop, The fact was ostablished Hono but mean dogs would Kill suse within two sof home, Also tbat when people ke t keep sheep. Theeo important facts ted, the committee arose: and struck ' out the enacting clause 5 boing aatisfiod that they kuew all ubout tho phreuologi- ca! bump. of dozs and their special charxcteristics. This, fact that it Is gure doath for any dog to bite a ent contractor, or oaler in r tien ships, or Now tom House oficors, settled the dog question for the bill, of relative to thé protection of seamen and in re- to boarding bouse keepers for seamon was alea considered in tho comm tte», strongly urged by Mr. Teod, of New York, aad opposed \y J. L. Smith, of Now York! It was Ginally referred back to the standiag com- i}! providing for a special election on the consti tional amendment. relative to soldiers voting caine up this morning for x third read.ug. It was recommitted to tho Judiciary Commities, with instructions to change the day of election from the 8d of March until the second ‘Tuesday of Merch, or the 8th dey of March, ‘Ihe Pelico Commissioners bill was made the spociat orde tor Thursday at twelve o'clock, A motion wag first maao to lay it on the table; but this was lost, ané op the motion to make it @ special order ove of two repubiioans vorod against it. Had the democratic Senstors all been present it would have been impossl- bie for ¢hem to have obtained a two thirds vote. The ae smnoinae the pee ee Hapa to the process of service, providing that a copy of summons shall be served fu person, was Ordered to a third read- ing. Nearty al! the moraing session was taken up tn the Committee of the Whole. Tho bilis considered wore noarty#.| local, and of ne general importance. ‘The bill appropriating Ove thousand dollars for a law Worary in Now York was considered in tho Senate an@ ordered to a cbird readiug. There has heen quite » commotion in the enone of the Central Railroad for several days past, Ali sorts of rumors bave beon flyiug about of defaications, quar- Tels over matters of leg:siation and several other mat- ters. I bave at last becn ablo to trace the matter to @ bead. and have aecertuined the real trouble existing in the mavagement. It appears that Davidson, partner of Corning, presented a large bill for tron care ‘and other materials for the road. the bill was referred the Executive Committee, and they reused to act. Mr. Corning immediately called a mecting of the Board tor laat Saturday. The Board of Directors assembled, an@ the Dill was Inid before them They refused to aot there- upon. Mr. Corping, becoming indignant, resigned beat. Thig, of course, created quite a sensation; but the Board adjourned until to-morrow without taking action ‘on the resignation. It is uuderstood that his ‘wns 60 worded as to tako ellect at some future day at-no distant period. My information comes from a responsi- bie source. It is underst od by those ss secret that his resignation will be accepted at the next meoting of the Board, The directors feel that the developments of the eicction last fail show that they bave a great deal of etrength outside of tho Corning iutorest, and they are not cutirely oppored to olecting some one else besides nase scape nsicye res The National Banks vs. the State Banke— Secretary Chase’s Financial Plans Demounced—Onucus Regarding the State Finances, &c. Auuaxr, Feb, 0—11:30 P. M. Tt ts reported to-night that thé bill of Mr, Davidson, Presented to the Board of Directors of the Central Rail- road, is upwards of one miilion of dollars. ‘The dolegation from the New York banks, in conjuma- with tho representatives of several banks of Albany, with the Bank Sup#riatendent. were before the joint Committee on Banks this afternoon, —\ y es Syairmag of The adw York delegation sped |, Bhowing tbe injury ve ail advanl ct wore doing to the Stato banks; that tho Give to the National Banks, (a relief from taxation, &c., would drive the State Banks out of existonce, unless thoy had protection. Mr. Martin, of Albany, foliowod in a epeech of consider. able bitterness against Secretary Chase’s sysiem, and held that tt was necessary that the State banks should be put upon the same footing with the Nations! banks as re- gards taxation, This iden, howevor, was at once con- domned by the committee as @ project not to be sustained for a moment. Tho President of the Manhattan Bank, of New York, followed in denunoistion of the attempt to force upon the country tho eystem of Chase, to the ruin of the finances of the country, Mr. Stout, of New York, was quile severe on Mr. Ohaaey and considered (hat the safety of the floances of the coua- try deponded upon the State banke; toat the sye- tem ir. Chaso did very weil for the West, where they had no well secured banking system; but the attempt to force it.upon the here would prove not only dangerous, but in the end ruinous, and intimated that it would force a war of sections; thab ‘no sooner was this rebellion ovor than we should have @ financial revotution throughout the North. ‘ Mr. Olcott, of Albany, wes likewise very sevore om Mr. Chasqjaod de jooking upon them in the light of trying to foros Erastmus Corning believed it to be a grand politioad scheme, intended by the originator to be to ride tato power upon. All of the speakers arged State protection, showing ks of New York held some tweaty-four mil- , Which they conld soll a an enormous their notes One of the chant could go t peakera exploinot bow @ bankrupt mer- Chase avd coald manage to start @ ave without an pital, and yet in these banks are to be deposited the funds of the pation. If one of these panics failed, however small and insignificant, it would create such distrust (hat all would bave to co. All of the bank mon declared that they should have protection frem the State; bus none of thetn appeared to know what war necessary to be done, or what measured ,,, should be adopted. Speaker Aivord suggested the idew of licensing the banks, national as well of Otbere suggested taxing the stockholders inatead of tho bank. The consultation L4 , with the understanding thas oficials should consult together ant meet the committee again te morrow. In the end ft will probably reeult lu seekiog the adyics of eminent couusel and the Ppreaatation of some plan to enable tho State banks to resist the encroachm: of the National Ranke. The fact that the National are beld to each atrict rulos, an taxation t ‘tain oxtent, renders banking under (hat system lose expensive ard more profitable, ‘nd aiso more withia the reach of mere adventarers. The republican Senttors had a State dnances, the Comptro! intondent, Auditor and T. W to participate. Owing to the ridiculoce position that Senator placed himeeif io at the lest oauens he wae get on one side a® chairman, sod Senator Hobbe pl in the chair The different measures before tho tore affecting the revenves of the fne gevera! tone Wis for ike Lowe ag muob aocount of the he bouptios paid te down the ICT ering fm one put upon the people by 1 Dili was referred fo as one of wid redues the ravenuce, No definite upon any measure. Arrival of the United States Supply mor Nowbern. ‘The United States eupply stoamer Newborn, Command- , or Harris, arrived at this port iast evening from the North Atlantic blockading squadron and twonty-four houre from Fortress Moros, The following i# alist of, sae and 420-4 Robert ¥. Holley. ex. Uuphoer— . 4am Naber fa Richardson, ‘Acting Ensigns—Chas. Miller, OG. H. Sawyer and (6. w. Dinsmore, Jssietant Surgeor-—Joun EB Cobb. po Cushing Assistant, Isaac, Maples; Acti Second Assistant, Joh ooper; Thing Assistant, F.C. Lomas, 8. J. Hofman aud 5, W. Lath: am, Mcing Mas‘er’s Mater—John VY. Sonex, Adolphus Q. Sandergren, Fred. W, Cotton aud Joshua Cook, It Mail Agent—Jobn P. Jonge. 2 wore talked over, \y | ~ \ ey.