The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1864, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JaMBS GORDON BENNETT, ENTTOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOS N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TERMS cash inadvauce, Mouey sobt by mai! will be’ ot the risk of (he sender, Nome but bani bills current la New York takea, Votame XXMIX . AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—1) Orxaa—lone. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coxnix Soogat. WALLACK'S HEATRE, Broadway.—Cuanpestixe Mannrace, weak ween GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticaer or Leave AN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. —Fouttes oF 4 NiGHt— Tit Teeatxp tL. TrovaTors. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Taree Fast Mex—Watcu Dov. sa BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Housk teat Jack Borur—Apvitr 10 Huseanps—TRAIL OF Six. MUSEUM, Broadway.—Four Giants, Two Lown yo all hours, Havvi— Dwanrs, Avuos. Wuar Is It, &0,, @% At Sand 74 P.M ~ BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- way.—Eruiortax S0xGa, oes, BuBtesques, &.—Ma- aera, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, S14 Broadway —Erqioriaw Soxos, Dances. dc.—American Orgra, ‘On! iosm. AMERICAN TREATRE. No. 44 Broadway.—Batiers, Partowimes, Burixsques, &c.—Swiss Swaine.” BROADWAY AMPRITHEATRE, 433 Broadwav.~Gru- ZASTC ano Kquesiwtan PenvonvaNces. Atternson and ‘Feuing HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tue Srerroscornicox Cr Mienor or ie Universe. PERRAM'S, 585 Rroadw: ‘noe oF THE ReBrLLioN. —SteReoscorticon axp Mir. YW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Comrosttigs avy Lecrores, from 9 4, M, "till 1 | Broadway.< | OP. ML | HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraiorian | Fores, Dances, Bureesgues, £0. i ene mga | uary 1 1864. | NeW York, Satarday, Febr 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 atthe Post Office until Monday next. Printed lists will, however, be posted at the Post Office and on the Henatp bulletins for THE SITUATION. General Meade arrived at Washington yester- day, and will proceed to-day to the front to as- sume command of the Army of the Potomec. Up to yesterday everything was unchanged. Desert- ers were still dropping in. . The party who captured General Scammon in the Kanawha region have been taken by Gencral NEW YORK HERA, SATURDA ‘sued for soldiers, Bill were noliced for a rail] PR Bighe Way to nbelisn African road in Fifth avenue, to enlarge the powers of the sanitary officers in the City Inspector's Department of New York, to compel the Erie and Central rail- roads to charge pro rata freight, and to reduce the capital stock of the Harlem and Spuyten Duy- vil Canal Company. An evening session was held, which was entirely devoted to speeches on the Governor's message. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The extra Cunard steamship Olympus, from Liverpool at eleven A. M. on the 26th, and from Queenstown on the 27th of January, arrived at this port early yesterday morning. Her nows has been A letier from Rome of the 16th of January says:—On Monday last there was the annual ‘‘Ac- | cademia Poliglotta’’ of the students of the Propa- | ganda, and I allude to it only to observe that the | youths who carried off the palm were two negroes, ‘rejoicing in the names of William Samba and John Provost. Their delivery and action were wonder- ful, and called forth thunders of applause, even in a church, c Colonel E. L. Price, formerly of ti® Ohe Hun- dred and Forty-fifth regiment New York State Volunteers, which corps has been consolidated, was serenaded last night at his residence, No. 60 fenth street, bythe non-commissioned officers of his late command. Colonel Price made an appro- priate speech in response to the compliment tend- ered him, and assuring the soldiers that he would | soon be restored to his command. Michael Purcell, a Sixth ward politician, wae shot yesterday by a man named Valentine, at the show room of the latter, No. 145 Chatham street. Valentine surrendered himself into custody, and declares that he shot Purcell in self-defence. After the rencontre a gang of Dead Rabbits at- tacked the show shop and destroyed its contents. They also beat James Beasley in a dreadful man- ner. The wounded man was conveyed to the hospital, and it is supposed his injury may prove fatal. William Godfrey was yesterday arrested by offi- cers Tucker and Poore, of the Marshal’s office, charged with defrauding two enlisted colored men, George Taylor and Benjamin Johnston, of a large portion of their bounty mopey. Johnston says that he was enticed from Washington on a promise of large bounty in New York. On arriv- ing here he was taken in hand by Godfrey, who took him to Lafayette Hall, where he signed papers of enlistment. A peraon representing himself as a recruiting officer at Lafayette Hall told the negro that Godfrey would see him safely tothe boat. He was then taken into a room on pretence of having a iniform given him. Being here left alone for a short time, he suspected all was not right, and started out to look after his friead Godfrey, whom he saw jumping into a ‘cab, which immediately drove off. Johnston was quick enough to recognize him, and, meeting him yester- day. he gave him in charge of the police. Godfrey boasts of having been a prominent Ninth ward Politician. He is at present locked up. Further evidence in defence of Lieutenan®Cole was taken yesterday before the court martial. Duffic; but it is not stated that he recovered Gen. Scammon himself. The steamer Fulton, from Charleston, brings news to ‘he 10i instant, An expedition of three brigades, for Jacksonville, Pla., started on Fridey, ‘under command of General Seymour, accompanied ‘by General Gillmore.. It landed there on the 8th ~ Instant, and would push-on to Tallahassee. Des- Patches to R'chmoud confirm this. An Anglo-rebel vessel ranthe blockade in the harbor, anc was comfortably unloading her cargo on the beach at Sullivan’s Island, when she was discovered and fired on by our fleet and utterly demolished, her crew making their escape on siore. She had got clear through our blockaders, and was almost under the guns of Fort Moultrie. The British ship-of-war Petrel arrived off Charles- ton bar on fhe 5th inst., wishing to communicate with the British Consul at Savannah, Ga. She also brought extensive despatches to J. P. Benja- min, rebel Secretary of War. State messages were sent to Admiral Dahlgren, who was then at Port Royal, to get permission to enter the harbor. The request was not granted, and+he vessel put to sea at once. “ The robels are reinforcing General Mercer at Savannah, in expectation of an attack by the Union ferces. Torpedoes have been laid in the Wilmington and Savannah rivers, and defences of every kind have been thrown up. The news from the South refers to the move- ments of our troops on the peninsula and specula- tions thereupon. General Lee furnishes an official report of the withdrawal of the Union troops from Morton's Ford. CONGRESS. ‘In the Senate yesterday a motion to print ten thousand extra copies of General McClellan's re- port, without the maps and accompanying docu- ments, was referred. The House bill making Q@ppropriations for deficiencies, amounting to $30,000,000, was taken up and a number of amend- ments proposed by the Finance Committee agreed to; but, without concluding the subject, the Senate went into executive session, and shortly after The House of Representatives spent the entire day on the Enrolment bill, which was passed as it stood ninety-three yeas against sixty nays. The bill now gogs to the Senate for concurrence in the House amendments. THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday the Metropolitan Police bill was agin taken up in Committee of the Whole, and amended by substituting for the names of Messrs. Purdy and Jones those of Messrs. Bos- worth and McMurray as the democratic members of the commission. In this form it was reported bo the Senate, when various amendments and sub- stitations were proposed, all of which were voted Gown, and, after some discussion, the bill was ordered to its third reading, there being only two mogative votes. During the debate on this bill Genator Fields, of this city, made the state- ment that Mayor Gunther is a+ member of @ secret peace society, extending through- out the North, and that he recently presided at a fmeeting of the society in this city. Bills were canal debt for the fiscal year, ‘the term of office of notaries public to two years, ‘end providing for off€ for each bank in the State. Bills were noticed for the incorporation of the Bouth Ferry and Grand Street Ferry Railroad and the National Savings Rank of New York. A re- ‘@ppearing a8 witnesses in their own behalf. In the Assembly the vill incorporating the Na- tional Club of this city, for the promotion of lite ratare and the arts, was passed. - Several bills sa special or local interest were reported from standing committees. Among a large number Of measures introduced were Wills fora raitrondbe- |’ Somewhat Pemptaxen—The republican Pre- toin- | sidential politicians of the Senate, with the tween the Catharine and Desbrosses ferrics; Benjamin M. Case. who represented himself as “Agent New York Life Insurance Company,”’ re- siding at 115 Clinton street, Brooklyn, was arrest- ed on Thursday evening last, by Deputy Marshal 8.8. Jones, on'g change of defrauding an enlisted soldier, named Patrick Hughes, out of om hundred and fifty dollars—pert of his bounty money. It appears that one of the Brooklyn police was ‘also implicated in the act.’ Case was kept in durance vile all Thuraday night ; but, having no alternative but Fort Lafayette or giving ap the money, he chose the latter, and on fefunding it was dis- charged. sf Arising out of the previous case a charge was subsequently preferred against Charles Wjlliams, of the. Forty-first precinct Brooklyn police, for having defrauded the soldier, Patrick Hughes, of fifty dollars—part of the bounty money. It ap- pears that it was on Williams’ affidavit that Case was arrested, and he now turns round and charges Williams. The latter ia at present in custody. A verdict of $983 was rendered against Jobn A. Fisher, of 117 Chambera street, yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Daly, in consequence of losses suffered by Hermann Stras- berg and othera by the defendant's Croton water being carelessly allowed to run during the night- time. It was expected yesterday that Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court, would make a final dispo- sition of the jury who ‘‘agreed to disagree” in a ase tried before him last week; but at the request of the counsel for the delinquents the matter was postponed for a few days, with the view of pre- paring affidavits in mitigation of punishment. In the case of Curtis against Van Eeten, which has been on trial in the Superior Court, before Judge Monell, during the past two days, one of the witnesses, named M. A. Jones, te: d that he was a stock operator, and thatupon a capital of $275 he had done a business of $200,000. By paying a small margin to the broker, just enough to secure him against any loss, the witneas was enabled to operate largely without running any very great . risk. He invariably received or paid the difference, as the occasion demanded; so that the stock itself never passed through his hands. The dispute between the American and United States guano companies, relative to the right to take guano from Howland Island, in the Pacific Ocean, is still under litigation. The United States company is laboring under an injunction, but is now seeking to have it removed. Yesterday the motion to vacate the injunction was argued before Judge Barnard, in the Supreme Court, chambers, amd Emott on the part of the United States com- pany. Wednesday. Prison for ten years and three months. the purpose of procuring an interpreter. firmness of holders, Froights were decidedly botter, a war democrat. by Messra. Whiting and Langdell on the part of oamé from the Committee of the Whole. The vote | the American company, and Measrs. Pennington The argument will be continued again on The trial of a young man named Stephen Larkin, indicted for robbery, accompanied with violence, occupied the whole of yesterday in the Court of Sessions. The prosecution proved to the satisfac- tion of the jury that Larkin had assaulted and afterwards robbed John Rice of a watch and $55 in money. Judge Russel sent him to the State John Ahoy, a Chinaman, was placed on trial for s similar offence, alleged to have been committed on a fellow countryman, named Charles Jose, who accuses Ahoy of robbing him of $73, None of the officers being acquainted with the Chinese ver- nacular, the case was adjourned until Monday, for Yesterday was a dull gey ip commercial circles, and the amount of business reported was emall, particularly in merchandise of foreign production, There was but a passed making appropriations for the payment of | moderate business done on 'Change, the unfavorable news appropriating | trom Liverpool having depressed fhe market for broad. remainder of the canal revenues, and limiting | stuffs, and caused a decline in prices. Groceries were buoyant and frm. Cotton was heavy. Petroleum was ‘buoyant and firm; but business was restricted by the Tur Hon Bex. Woop as a Peacamaxen.—Tho Monstrance was presented against the enactment | Hon. Ben. Wood, in his broad brimmed hat ,of any law to prevent claimants for riot damages | and shad bellied coat, seems to be continually getting into hot water. At present he is en- gaged ina rough and tumble affair with the Albany Atlas-Argus, and, bat and coat off, of | while crying “peace, peace,” he is fighting like . Wane ts the New York Quote t—V’olun- | than two @e a a. The tcortng Versus @ Drage, yes > It requires not only olde calculation, bal | wan’, gener ortce duis fr mage good and sound. judgment, on dic part of the | gic ue A gree ang a War Department {o correctly and fairly strange | othe, se — —_ . the quotas for the different cities and disticts: | o,5 dutica of their various courts; Owing to the doating population of oltion, the | a4 conte: tho practice Pye sang emp census is by no means a fair criterion to be Poe nay pppales piv grado. ate j-governed by én making out their quotas, while | | ..4.4, thy a Ha Peniy 4 . inspection it might be for the rural districts; and hence appointed pote Hp Fg ecg pani cities aco generally called upon for more than | op 41,4 ae rae o Aen — ss their fair proportion of recruits, pipe , or by oar Bees — We bave no idea, if all the facts and deduc- | 40+ aes oo ee. e — 4 o j e tions were taken into consideration and a fair tary and involuntar: ae sie ib wad estimate mado, that the quota of New York | to he a" oity, under the calls of the President for Ave | city she ia - ee to aimpli- hundred thousand men, would be anything like | -4; bi thirty thouwand, a haa boon generally given out: | ye diseumed aome ot ike rennet No other city in orld, probably, bas any- | susceptible of amendment; bul at first gions thing like the fonting population that this city } they soem to be all that is required to protect bas. It may be fairly estimated that- there are * constantly among us from one hundred and the interents of both debtor and ‘creditor, fifty thousand to two hundred thousand persons mostby men who are mee squatters, 60journers for a day, woek or month—hbirds of passage, who comé aod go, with no. fixed residence among us, or anything to entitle them to any of the privileges or duties of citizeas. That such should be counted in making up our quota would be clearly wrong, aud would put bur- dens ypon us not only hard to bear, but wholly: unjust. .The Departmont might with the same propriety include the prisoners at Sing Sing in making up the quota for the town or the district in which it is located. Deducting this surplus, or large floating popu- lation, taking the consus of the capable arms- bearing population alone of New York, it will “be found that ‘thirty thousand as our quota is greatly in oxcess of what we fairly owe, and out of all proportion with districts of the inte- rior or in other States. Take the voters of the city at eighty thousand, and. add five per cent for those ‘between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one, and we have eighty-four thousand of all ages and conditions, Does any ono sup pose that out of these one-third or more are oapa- Slavery. Senators Sumner and Reverdy Johnson — representing the two extremes—together with the conservative democrats and ali the radicals and General Fremont, now stand upon the Heeacp’s platform in regard to the abolition of slavery. This is one of tho greatest victories we have ever achieved. For tho sake of making more conyorts, let us repeat that platform aod the reasons why it should be adopted. And these reasons are equally weighty in support of Senator Trumbull’s resolution. The only way to abolish slavery legatly, and the best way to abolish it effectually, is by an amendment to the constitution. Some aboli- tionists, like Gerrit Smith, have contended that the constitution does not recognize slavery, and that, consequently, slavery is itself unconstitu- tional. This is an absurd position; for, al- though the words “slavery” and “slavebolder” aro not mentioned in the constitution, yet that instrument does virtually recognize slavery, and protects the slaveholders in the enjoyment of their property. Another class of abolitioa- ista, led by Wendell Phillips, have endeavored to abolish slavery by abolishing tho constitu- tlon, which they:have'valled’ “a covenant with death and a bond with Hell.” .This position is equally absurd; fpr if we abolish the conati- tution we abolish the goverament authorized by that constitytion, and the result is wnarchy, and perhaps a despotism. We repeat, there- fore, that the right way to abolish slavery is neithe! take the constitution precisely as it is nor to abolish the present constitution alto- gether, but to amend it in the manner which the constitution itself provides. The proclamations of the Presidential joker have not abolished slavery. They have prac- tically accomplished absolutely nothing. In the first place, they are unconstitutional, and will be so pronounced whenever the Supreme Court comes to decide upon them. In the second place, they are ineffective, since they do not free the slaves within our lines, many of whom have been freed already by the fortunes Among Democratic Senators—Ratlroad in Fitth Avemue Noticed—Niagara Ship Oanai Bill Under & Olowd—The Bilis Intro- Guced im the Assombly—How They Affect New Yoris Oity Zuterests, Ses, Me. : ALaant, Fob, 12, 1864. The Metropolitar Police bit was takeo up this morning {n the Senate. The names of Bosworth aad MoMurray were inserted. Sonater Fields moved te strike out the name of Acton and insert the name of Purdy. This waa voted down, Fields alone voting for it. He they moved to strike out the name of Bergon avd insert the name of ox: Sheriff Willett, and om this motion’ he proceeded te speak at great length. Hoe read a copy of the resolution passed by the democratic cavcus, which’ ho helé dig-not refer to the two democratic names iw’ the bill, but that it opposed the bill sow before tho Benue reorganizing the Police Commission. It was ia opposition to the bill generally, and aot agaiuns tho names. He had yielded hisovm opinions to the be- bests of the caucus, as he always bad,and now steed bere in obedience to-that decision, He stood’ here to oppose the bill, and his democratic fricndg around the circle were now the bolters from the caucus. He now opposed the bill, in accordance with the decision of the caucus, but be now found that eomobody-clse had been making @ bargata with the republicans, and he now stood as the defender of the democratic party, and his: cot- leagues are now outside by their bargainings. Ho fot- Tus Posrrion a Evrors.—There are now in- dications that the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty may be arranged without a war. “England, France,.Russia, Austria,and even Prussia, can benefit in no way by this war unless it shall become ajgeneral atragglo;. and we doubt whether these Powers, would like to risk the fearful consequences of such am event. The: are indications that they will endeavor to settle the matters in dispute, and thus defer that time of aifarchy and confusion whioh they all have a chronicdread of—we mean a general European war. It is evident that at any moment this fatal torch may become ignited. The least event in Hungary or Italy, or a sudden out- break in any other portion of Europe, may hasten the catastrophe. ney Tt was some time since stated “that our government had ordered out such large forces from a fear of the intervention of France in our affairs. This is a futile dread. The Emperor of the French, ham- pered by the Mexican expedition and by the troubled aspect of Europe, could not interfere with us. He well koows that such a step ing that they could not point toa line, letter or aytiable infavor of the prosecution of the war, Ba.would noe ‘but he aid charge that be hadmot given, in any form, @ single evidence that be was in sympathy with the sup- pregsion of the rebellion. He then passed omtothe Al- banoy management of the democratic party; and ho would inform the peculiar representatives of the Governor that J they could not stand up ‘here and take the course that they were taking without being beld to.a strict account for it. He compared the course on the war of Purdy and Jones with that of McMurray, and declared that on that issue be stood as between his constituency aod those wo are now gone out of the party. Senator Cozans informed bim that ths Governor would tako care of himself; and he would say that there had been no bargain made, and the Seuator, after hav! restord: vatimidate aay the 8 iésuo shown = weakuess y' lay, could oot 10g person here. Senator Shafer said that the Sonator from Seventh bad misstated the facts at issue,and,as the haa boon raised, it must be met nnd tried. it pained him te be forced to bring this subject up again this mofaing. of war, and they do not affect the slaves | ble asarms-boaring citizens? The thing is prepos- | Would be most distasteful. to his subjects, and | te had hoped there would be no allusion tothe events of within the rebel lines, to whom emancipation | terous,and becomes stilf more so when we con. | that the opposition would make it an arm | yestords ae ae itwas, betes! 2 tseute can only come at the point of the bayonet. {a | sider the immense numbers of able-bodied men | against his government. There need exist no | tho tacts. ae would now state, that 0.8 trom the third place, these proclamations, being | we have already sent to the field. Tho,number, | fear in this country that France will intervone; | th°yigm y olght of tbe Taman ae a . issued uoder the plea of military necessity, | we must recollect, who are capable for duty | she has trouble enough of her -own to settle; Pitas aust anes entiad slagiat Hees become null ang void as soon as the war ends | have terribly diminished within tho last three | and then, contrary to the previsions of those | bill deciaring how ho would vote. (Ho abeaVerorred tothe and the military necessity is over. Neither ts | years, and probably the mate population also; | better informed, war may take placo about this on oailers oat meusioeien, sls eet ‘ae Pret that other plan of the President to abolish | and, ina fair review of this question by the | question which arrays Denmark against the See eee et te maaan ok slavery in 1900 by compensated emancipation | proper authorities, wo think that they | Germanic Confederation, and France will ne- | iso reterred vo tho fact that McMurray’s brothor- wes. tm of any avail; for the border States have not | will find that one-half the rumber the | cessarily be forced to husband her resources to eR gn er Perey 20d saben ae tee ecuareneene, eod to tl accepted it, and the cotton States will certainly refuse it if It be offered to them on their return to the Union. Neither does the President's scheme to readmit the seceded States as free States abolish slavery, since the States thus readmitted can re-enact their slave laws as soon as their full population is allowed to vote at an élection—in other words, as soon as they are received back. into ‘tho Talon... We soe, thén, that neither tp thee nor the poiftical “abolitionists, like’ Liacets, understand how to abdlistislavery: The theorists havozéal withottiowledgeand discretion. Mr. Lincold merely uses dbolittoiiom'as a tool, and’ is not at all in earnest in his abolition ¢chemes, as he clearly showed when he pronounced one of them ‘a Pope’s bull against the comet.” The only practical way to abolish slavery, therefore, ia to amend the constitution by a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress, rati- fied by the Legislatures of twonty-seven States. meet the eventualities which may arise during the struggle. It must be evident that the pre- sent position of affairs in Europe renders all fears of interference in our affairs quite out of the question. This much we gain by the trou- bles ia the Old World. press announces as our quota will be found tives of tho party, more nearly correct, and cdrresponding more nearly, according to population, to the quotas of other districts in this aud other States. This latter number can easily be raised by volun- teering with the present large bounties; but a draft would as utterly fail in securing this number as tho late one did in Alling the oall made. Qn~ tho” call fast’ seasoa for theee ‘dréd thowtaad nda hy’ deat dy: thousaa® is: ‘all’ the ‘War *Dapactment~ ackaowledges it- realized out of it ia all the States, or one-sixth the number demanded. All | will pro- the hands. of~ the local autboritios of cities, towns or districts to obtaia the men by volua- teering, and they will be forthcoming, every maa of them. Let the true numbers required of us be fixed and known, and then let volua- teering be pushed ahead, and if by the 10th of March it is found that we have nearly finished Our Pouce Comuisstonsrs—Goon News prom ALany.—The action of ‘the State Senate nag 4 in favor of the compromise Board of ‘elice Commissioners, consisting’ of Mosera. { ‘Acton, Bergeon, Bowwerth aud SoMurray, we. Bergen wo have two. dillecis ‘whose capabili-- ties, efficiency and fidelity have been tried and proved as through @ baptism of blood aad fire; and in Messrs. Bosworth and MoMurray we have tivo men whose standing in the com- munity guarantey an honest and faithful dis- charge of their duties, It isa matter” also for public congratulation that, urder this arrange- ment, our Police Board Rath 4 di game ot view of the of the: i i th i He i t We have taken it for granted, in arriving at iota doubtless the draft will be post- ump to bem porty | ste, peteies the above conclusion, that the time forthe Solin ene te ths machine, and is so constitutéd that its actions | {ithe later a repubiicen. - : A . poned. 4 must be controlled independently of party ‘There bas been an juteuse excitement throughout this formal abolition. of slavery bas come. This, We notioe that the Supervisors’ Volunteering tri ne contest, and while. the attention of the é we think, is undeniable. Tho “poouliar insti- lekery on the one side or the other.” We | attracted by the tlasaes of debate thore ts belie ‘pec Committee have made a report to the Board of the Assembly will in the Senate | ®2 interost which bas received a severe’ * ibe wot tution” has served its turn, and must now | in hope 7 pare nate | koown that Thurlow Weed and his wore among jupervisors in regard to its action, in which, in | yi ang without any further efforts in behalt } the f ‘of those who secured the adoption by the be superseded by something better. It is | relation to our position on our quota, it esti- png ha el party backs and/Wwar | republican ctucus of the names of Purdy and Jones ‘The no longer a safe system of labor; it is n0 | mates that the various calls of the President give y & tee horses whom some of the scheming party man- agers of this city have been endeavoring to smuggle into.this Police Board. Give us the Senate bill, and the people of this metropolis will be satisfied. lenger a profitable system of labor; it is ‘no longer an acoeptablé system of labor. Our Yankeo soldiers now carry in their brains and their knapsackse the plans of ma- to this city as the number called for, including ieacii 30,000 - 10,000 chines which wiil develop the South without | Leaving the number actually demand- the comparatively feeble ald of the African | 04 Crnich somewhat exceeds our own, | 4 Tovam Quustion—How is “Honest Old machine. In its day and generation slavery | We have supplied under the various calls....14,093 | Abe" to get rid of General Fremont? did a good work for the country’and for civili- zation; but it bas outlived its usefulness. During what may now be called the latter period of its existence it exhibited signs of degeneracy, and indulged in abominations which gave evidence that it was near its end. Even without this rebellion slavery could not have survived for many more years. It was losing its political power. Its material power wason the wane, since corn, and not cotton, was really king. This rebellion, inaugurated by ambitious and disappointed politicians, undet the plea of protecting slavery, has given the in- stitution its death blow. Not one man out of @ thousand is now a pro-slavery, man. The immense majority at the North—to say nothing, at present, of the South—is anti- slavery. When the war is over the South will be thrown open to the omigrants from Earope, who will be attracted by the fine climate, and will thoroughly de- velop the Southern resourcesy Here, not ia Mexico, is the home for what Napoleon terms the Latin race. Let the democratic party place themselves upon the platform of the abo- lition of slavery by a constitutional amend- ment, with Grant or some such hero as their candidate, and he will be almost unanimously elected. But if they blindly follow their present leaders, and attempt to oppose public Leavin, Add Total to be supplied by the Volunteering Committee 8,861 That the committee will be able, with its present efficient action, under Supervisor Blunt, to raiso this number by the middle of March or Ist of April there seems to be no reasonable doubt. A draft, then, we should consider wholly inexpedient and unnecessary. Let the committee persevere; let the publie and the press assiat, instead of throwing obstacles in the way, and our quote will soon be filled. NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Location and Force of the Enomy—Re- ported Capture of Rebels on the Ya- soo, S&c. to be mmpotien. If as deficiency. Mempars, Tenn., Fob, 12, 1864. ‘The Little Rock Democrat gives the following report of the whereabouts of the rebel forces in Arkansas: — General Price has about 6,000 domoratized troops at Washington. Generals Marmaduko, Brook and Cabell are in tho mountains iO the vicinity of Murfreesboro, General Shelby, who was recentty routed, is with his command oa the Lower Saline river. Gonorals Cooper, Stele and McIntosh are with their Tndian commands at Warren and North Fork,.in the In- dian Territory. The total force of the rebels, indluding guerilias and camp foliowers, is about 14,000. ¥ carl c ccmetese the Firat Nebraska cavalry, recentiy ed a complete uniform and outiit for General Price sent from St. Louis. Areport has reached here that the Eleventh Ilineis regiment has captured several hundred rebels up the Yazoo river, but as yot wo have received none ofghe par- ticulars. The New Bankrupt Law. Of the various measures proposed for the relief of bankrupts, the bill that has been pre- pared by Mr. Jenckes, of the special committee appointed by the House of Representatives to consider the subject, appears to us the simplest, most economical and least liable to be per- verted into an instrument of injustice. It seems to unite the best features of the English and French laws with the modifications required by the pecullarities of our judicial system. It gives to the United States district courts full jurisdiotion over all bankruptcy issues, the place of trial being within the discretion of the judge. The ciréuit courts are to have a superintending jurisdiction over all the district s j nad tmarket build} Fi gs tk i d A, : The Italian Opera. ‘Toro was a Faust audience last evening at the Aca- domy of Music; that te, the house was jammed, filed to repletion, hundreds having to stand during the perform. all doing it cheerfully, s0 popular bas this de- kl opinion, instead of going with it, they will be | courts within the circuit, so that at any time, by ona sine Re toe eney of Bt dashed to pieces like the insane bull which | bill or any ordinary process, questions of law names in dhe Dil, ek It 18 guppoey attempted to stop a locomotive under full | cssential to a settlement of the estate may be os ¥ = Were, Dormant Koy, Mat or 7 tried pari passu in a circuit court and district ‘} court without any arrest of proceedings ina district court. There are to be registers in bankruptcy, appolatable jointly by a circuit judge and any one of the district judges within speed by running against it. Ho. Fervanvo Woon as a Peace Comms- stoner.—In the House of Representatives, the other day, Mr. Cox, of Ohio, suggested the 2) i i appointment of Mr. Fornando Wood 8 ®| his circuit, or, in case of disagreement, by the trituoct ts pat pe EA peace commissioner to Richmond, upon the | cirenit judge alone. These registers on to hsaptenytieg pec lee a heels of another speech from the Latter in favor | nave the power of holding chambers and do- Serious Allegations Against of some such peace project. We know, how- ever, that if Mr. Wood were to make @ peace speech every day, and that if Mr: Cox should propose his appointment as a peace ambassa- dor every day to tho ond of the war, they would orily be talking against the wind. The out the North—Intense Bucitement the Capital, d&. ’ Fields, ta Gis to-day, ohargod: Gonator apeoeh Q that, May ciding all matters when there is no opposition. They are to be paid by fees. Power is given the President, by and with the advice and con- sent of the Senate, and upon application on a certificate of both the judges of the circuit court for thie district, to appoint temporary dis- Gunther was member of » secret pence sociaty pnly way in which Mr, Wood oan satisfy him-} tci¢¢ judges, who shall 7 thong ing throughout the North; that Re received the self upon this question is to go down In | ana in no other. These are to ect as asalet- mation from a delegate froma Western Sante who person to Richmond, op his own responsibility, ’ of the wih 0 poss exh anh er Un pe ant judges district, and are somewhat Gimilar to the assistant vico chancellors under rotiotis. Let him go dowp, and thus prove hls | the o14 aystom in tho State of New York. Their Daited sates steamer Wyalusing, which wont to the ol faith by his works; for should he find out that | term of office is not to exceed threo years, and oon withthe on-dd Alaa, bas revurned damaged by the tine pone ear We pet pork to Richmond, | they are to bo paid by salary. Temporary | thecollition, 3 Teds he will probably | 0 Vie white tother be: circuit judges, aleo paid by salary, may be ap- Fhe Malden Murder. ait : hind him, and come beck « sgorting “war A Bus von eam Baxerrt ov tas Loser ft iE Fy pointed by the to clear off accumu! terms of office, however, not to exceed two tin tho same manner, of tho docket; their mont to Ogneral Grane. oorporete the Metropolitan Market Company, the | House resolution making General Grant » LL... F/ it stands before | yours, Appools in equity and writs of orroe a ¥ ining ane carlos ° swear Moutenant geusral. hs owe Sets anenddenen exempt: | law are allowed in all cases from district tooir- | 4 oS ta ete pogulote the sale of drugs in this city, to amend | Daawmo te 4 Larrum Mioun—Mr, Simeon | ing from the tax tho whiskey bought up by | cult comrts, and from olroult tosaperior courts, ‘On oxaLbitjou previous ‘i Albani. _ isons evi ad aay banda ia: | Rrepss and hie Lincola Amooiation. lobby peulery Lond on castidente ef She inége, wo hae mace | ta Yall e wo . ad ~ ~4 ® lowed this up by an attack. upow Mr. MoMurray, declar- — matte any charge aginst the loyalty of Mr. McMurray: | |