The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1864, Page 4

4 —_—-—- NEW SOITOR AND PROPRIETOR QFFION X. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, * canes se 0 AB Se a ABUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. YORK HERALD. AQADEMY OF MUSIC.—traviay Ornea—Uy Barco ix M ssonmRs. NIBLO'S GARDEN, WALLACK'S THEAT —Conmie Soooau. Broadway.—Pure Go.. MMINTAR. GARDER, Brondway—Tioeer or Lxave an. OLYMPIC THRATRE Broadway —Contous Caste Prime ov Tae Mangwr NEW GOWKRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tioxer or Leave Maw—Warcy Doo—Lork axp MuRDE®. BOWSRY TARATR! Butir—Rosert Maar Bowery. House Lormer Ticarr raat BARNUM'S MUSEUM. Broftiway.—Fove Ques, Two | aye byt Avarnos, Waar 1s lt, 0, as al hours, AtSend7y PM + Tacx BRYANTS! MINS/RELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way. BtMtortan SONGS, errs. WOOD'S MIN: Le Boxas, Danese de mentoee Ovens, On! Hu AMERIOAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadway. —Batcers, Pawrowanes, Burixsques, £¢.—Syiss Swarsa, avoms, Buatrsques, &¢.—Ma- S14 Broadway. —Eraroria X BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 435 Broadway.—Gru. maReiG ine ‘questeuss Fautonvances, Aftericon and Beeatog HOPE OMAPEL, 718 Broad: on Murnox or Tux UNIvERSR, way. =Taa Brrrxoscorricon PBRAAM'S, 68S Broadway.—Srxneoscorzicon axp Min- non oF Tae REBELLION. COOPRR INSTITUTE.—Paor. Voeswos Lecrurx on Biwornore ano Licar osrtoes Ane Georores, from? A.M, UL10 P.M HOOLRY'S OPERA WOUSE. 0%, Dawors, BuRixsqurs, ko, New York, Monday, February 15, THE SITUATION. It is reported to the military authorities in Washiagton, that troops from General Lee's army in Virginia, and Beaure being seut to other po! probably to Mobile, Atlant aaid that.positive inform. that Geaeral Lee has only thirty thousand infantry oa the Rapidan, though his cavalry is being rein- forced. Our Southera news is of more than ordinary in- terest. Jefferson Davis has issued a bold, defiant, and hopefsl address to the rebel army. He re- marks upon the adherence,of the soldiers to the cause of the confederacy by the re-enlistment of those whose term of service has @xpired, and con- teasta it with “the halting and reluctant service of the mercenaries who are purchased by the enemy at the price of higher bounties thaa have hitherto been known in war.” He saya that the “‘brave battle-cry’’ of the South- evi legions in the coming spring campaign will ring through the land of the enemy and “will sitence the vainglorious beasting of their corrupt partisans andheir pensioned press, and will do jastices to the caluminy by which they seek to pur- wuade @ deluded people that you are ready to parchase dishonorable safety by degrading sub- misston."’ . The victories of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro and the Chickahominy, Manassas, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville are referred to with a tri- uniphant air, and the downfall of the Union armies is confidently predicted. One thousand and twenty bales of cotton were s iu the confederacy, It is ‘on has been received and Kooxyille, W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— Brooklya,—Eriiortax n is at Charleston, are MISCELLANEOUS SEWS By the steamship Morning Btar, which arrivod at this port last night, we have dates from Havana tothe 9th inst. A Spanish war steamer had cap tured off the coat of Cuba a slave brig having on board about seven hundred negroes. There is nothing else of particular interest from Havana, Peter F. Burke, who, it is alleged, waa ono of the ringleadera in the uptown riots of July last ia this city, arrived here yesterday, in charge of @ Washington detective, having recently been ap prehonded in the Latter city. After being arraign- ed before Justice Dowling, Burke was committed to the Tombs to await his tria! A considerable amount of counterfeit postal currency, and dies for making the same, were found oa Saturday on the dook at the foot of Thir ty-sixth street, North river. Two men, aamed | Morgan and McGeary, were arrested and commit ted on suspicion of being in seme way connected with the affair. A portion of the Twentieth New York State Militia regiment, who have re-enlisted for the war, arrived in this city yesterday, on a thirty days’ furlough. This regiment served threo months at the commencement of the rebellion, They then re-entered the service for three years, and now nearly all the remnant of the gallant band, after haying participated in some of the hardest fought battles of the war, have re-entisted for the closing struggles Though the amount of business transacted oa Saturday: ‘was modet in most articles, Fol there waa mantiest @ good degree of buoyancy aud @rmness, aad ooarly all kinds of merchandise, foreign and domost|o, brougtat fui! prices, while some articles were eld firmer. Oa ‘Change, however, the dulnoss of the past (ow days was intensi- fied, if anything, and flour and wheat were the tura cheaper, while corn, which is chiefly in the bands of laters, was higher. ons of all kinds were © Whiskey was change- Friday's figures, Vreighta , the steamers monopoliriog nts, Cotion was tieavy. Gro- m was firmer vader & good able, and finally were depressed and wv a large sharo of the sl cories were tir rm nauity Ihe Sy g Campaign—The News from } the Seath, It will be seen that we have cews from Rich- mond of au iaieresting character, a0 far as it develops the efforts of the rebel authorities for the spring campaiga. It is evident frou the manifesto of Sef. Davis to the rebel army, which we publish in full, that everything is t depend upon the operations which are to begin in the course of a month or two. The proclamation of the rebel leader stands in singular contrast with (he recent contessions in the rebel Congress. One is all hope and promise, and the other is all fear and despair. One boasts of rebel victories and a largely increased army, and the other bewails the hopelessness of the cause and the dimin- ished force in the field. One is the effort of a desperate leader determined to hazard all on the next campaign to infuse courage in the ranks of his deluded people, while the other exhibits but little faith ia the success of the miserable confederacy. But what is the duty of our government in view of this state of things? It is to act on what Jeff. Davis says. Our goverament should take’ it for granted that al! the asser- tions of this proclamation are true, and, by throwing an overwhelming force in the field, meet the crisis of the rebellion and crush what there is left of Secessia in a single cam- paign. The fresh restrictions placed by the Rich- mond authorities on the importation of luxu- ries and the exportation of cotton show that the demoralization among the people throughout the South is becoming serious and alarming: and, while Jeff. Davis endeavors to encourage them by fine phrases, the authority of a mili- tary tyranny is exercised to prevent the col- ‘barned at Wilmington, N.C., on the 8th inst., by lapse of the whole concern by a renewal of an accidental fire. A fight occurred at Lebanon, Ala., on Wednes- day last, between*the Lewis squadron and our troops. Acoording to the Selma Reporter the enemy, nine thousand strong, subsequently aban- doned Lebanon, and retreated toward the Ten-, neasee river. The rebel force is said to have numbered four hundred only. Despatches from Vicksburg state that the town General Sherman, after a slight skirmish, attend- ed with little loss to our forces. With this suc- ceas we have obtained possession of a fine foraging oountry, Generals Hurlbut and McPherson tock possession of Jackson, while Yazoo City was oc- 7 cupied by Colonel Coates, after a short fight at Sartatia, where the enemy made some show of re- sistance and killed a few of our men. A number of the raiders who attacked the train oa the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, aud robbed | the passengers, were overtaken and captured by aforce of our cavalry from General Sulli- van's corps. They are reported to be a part of Gilmore's gaerilla band, many of them being the nona of “‘respectable’’ and even ‘‘distinguished” gentlemen living in the vicinity of Cumberland, aad others belonging to wealthy families in Rerke- ly and Jefferson counties, Va Our special correspondent at Sundusky furnish- es to-day a most interesting story of the prisoners, prisons, discipline, treatment and so forth, at Johuson's Island, with an account of the removal of the prisoners of war from the various Western jails to the jurisdiction of General Butler. The steamer Morning Star arrived from New Orieans last evening with dates to the 7th. She brings no important wor news. Among her pas eengers is the Hanan correspondent, Mr. Finley Anderson, who for the past twelve months has been enjoying the hospitality of the rebels, a4 @ oaptive in Alexendrie and Shreveport, La., and Tyior in Texas. He is “unconditionally surren- dered” to the custody of his friends in New York, and, considering the limited capabilities of his late hosts to supply the wants of their prisoners as | well as of themselves, be looks in remarkably good condition, The Bermuda papers of the 3d instant repre went the English trade from that port for Wil- mington, N. C., by way of Nassau, N. brisk, The Royal Gazette states that the mer City of Petersburg, from Bermuda, had been eap- Connectiont. commercial intercourse between the two sec- tions. Are the authorities in Washington equal to the emergency? Can they and‘will they put an end to this war before midsummer? They are nothing but: politicians, and our only hope is in the generals. We must rely upon Grant, Thomas, Gillmore, Sherman and the other commanders of our armies. } TI Soldt of Jackson and Yazoo City are in the hands of | Fhe Pree ee ee d the Politicians. The coming Presidential election will be a vitally important one to this country. Never before in our history were such stupendous issues involved in such a contest. But, how- ever important the contest may be in its general aspects, the one point of greatest interest in it is the relation it exhibits between the politi- cians and the soldiers. Above all other qunes- tions the question between politicians and soldiers is the one that the people must deter- mine in the next election Under the guidance of the mere politicians | the country was precipitated into this war, and by them the war has been continued to the present time. So far the people have endured the burdens of the war comparatively with little complaint, in the faith that all that was done was necessary for the country. But now all classes of men begin to see clearly the necessity that the war should end. All see ' that the present progress of the struggle is not ! a progress toward its termination, but merely a progress in the accumulation of a vast debt, | whose burdens of taxation will prevent the | growth and development of the country through the next century like a dreadful ‘and tho country can and will-bave peace in this way. Foremost among the soldiors, in vir- tuo of his great achicvomonta, atanda Gon. Grant. But for the victories by which he has drivoa tho rebellion out of the whole of the great ter vitories that it held in the Weat, the confedera- oy would have boon recogwized by the Buro- pean Powora more than & yoar ago. But for Grant, thorofore, we should now have been smarting under humiliating dofeat, or been at war with England and France as well as with the vobela No. event that haa happened to armies not under Genoral Grant would have tended to delay such @ recognition; and nearly every great battle fought by other generals would have presipitated it Grant alone haa kept the balance in our favor, aud ho, as our firat and greatest soldier, abould be at the head. Next to him come Gonerals Mc(ellan, Thomas, Sherman and Gitlmoro, all ablo aol- diers, who are acceptable to the people and have the popular confidence ia the largest de gree. The men under.Grant should form the next administration; aad an administration thus constituted would casily ond tho war, aad giro the country peace bofore its immense oxponaes should have oxbausted every clement: of wealth in it. § the Domocratio Party, “Tho domocrata are mating a pretiy display of their dirty linon at Albany Poter B. Swee ny and Feraando Wood bave completed tho little bargains without deigaing to consult any body else, and Governor Seymour and the democratic politicians generally do aot feel inclined to ratify these arrangements, which give Sweeny and Wood all the spoils. This disagreement ia the secret of tho row about tho Police Commissioners Linke Cozans, Shafer, Fields, and the other people who bave wran gled ovet this qaestion, may bave displayed some tatont for windy and wordy vituporation, but they have not shown thomaclyes even do- cent politicians. «In this quarrel, however, the opponents of Sweeny and Wood havo had al! the might and all the right om thoic aide Ac- ton, Bergon, Bosworth and MoMurray ought to be, and will ba, the successful candidates. Purdy aud Jones, the nominees of Sweeny and Wood, amount to nothing. Purdy is called “the Old War Horse,” because he has fed so long from the public orib. Ho has five or six offices already, and we believe that all his rela- tions, male and female, are similarly provided for. Jones is a nouentity, except in the Direc- tory, where his name occupies @ dozen pages. Respectable people of all parties repudiate such candidates for the Police Commission. Tho democratic politicians and their organ— the Leadev—receatly protested against our statement that the democratio party is no more. It is no new thiag for politician’ teobject to the publication of the truth. They have man- aged the-party onty-to destroy it,anduow tuey are fighting over the beaes at Albany. In the face of recorded facts it is ridiculous to insist that the democratic party still lives and isin a flourishing condition. [ts decline and fal! ave as much matter of history asthe decting and fall of the Romaa empire. Its former leaders ruiued it, and Peter B. Sweepy and Feraando Wood sold out its lifeless remains. [n 1860 Dean Richmond and Company, August Bel- mont and Company, and other such politicians, led the democratic party, and they verified the Scriptural adage that whea the blind lead the blind both fall into the pit. They murdered the party at Charleston, and banded over its property to the black republicans, thus inau- gurating ow civil war. In 1861 oothing was heard of the democratic organization. Its rank and file had enlisted. Its newspaper orgaas were suppressed for dis- loyalty.- Its leaders were hiding in holes and caves, or had marched over bold to the rebels. In 1862 the Herato rai up @ new party, recruited from the conservatives, and opposed, not to the war.~but to the extrava- gance, profligacy and mismanagement of the administration. This conservative party tri- umphed in all the State elections of 1862, and would have reformed the administration had it not been for traitors ia the camp, who betrayed it, as they had before betrayed the demgcratic party. Who. thea. were these traitors’ They were Dean Richmond and the rest of the Albany Regency. They were Sweeny, Wood and Clancy, who may be termed the New York Re- gency. They had hung on to the skirts of the party until it was successful, and then they as- sumed to manage it. They revived the rebel News, which ought to be published at Rich- mond. They bought up the rotten World, which neither piety nor porter. india rabber nor republicanism, bad been able to sustain. They tried to run the conservative party upon secession principles, and they ran themselves into the ground in 1865. At all the State elec* } tions, and even in our municipal elections, they were badly beaten. Since then they have bad | levy of two mills and o no party, except the hangers on of Tammany Hall and the strikers of Movari. Heaven knows that we earnestly endeavored to get some good out of them; but we find them much blight. And, in view of this great nevessity that the war should end, the people have to ‘-ask themselves the simple question, will or can the politicians end it! The answer is that they neither can nor will. And the evidence that they cannot is seen in the manner in which the administration, guided entirely by the poli- ticians. carried on the war at the time when it really desired to put the rebellion down. Then the politicians shouted “On to Richmond,” and ‘ burried our raw troops to Bull run. Then the well planned peninsular campaign of General McClellan was rendered abortive by the jeal- ousy and intrigue of the radicals, and by the humbugging promises of the administration to send men, and its failures to semd them. All that ie clearly shown in General McClellan's report. Then also we had the great butcheries in the valley of Virginia, when our army was commanded by General Pope, the President's especial protege; the slaughter at Fredericks- tured off Wilmington by the United States ship | burg, when eur army was under Burnside, the The late United States steamer | protege of the President and the radicals to- Forriet Lane was fitted out at Galveston, Texas, | gether; and the even greater slaughter of sg cotton trader, destined for Havana A rumor w circulated in Washington yester- day that one hundred and nine Union officers had | escaped from the Libby prison at Richmond by | cutting a sabterranean passage under the wile; ‘was aot koown, Captain Joba F. Porter, of the Fourteenth New that four of them wore retaken on the yond to Hanover Court House, and the fate of the others | gteal clectioneering machine. | Chancellorsville, under Hooker, another favor- | ite of the President and the politicians, In ail ticians cannot end the war if they would; and now it is equally certain that they will not, | Since they see their opportunity to use it asa The only Lope of the country, therefore, ts in the soldiers. They alone can give the couatry these disasters we see cleasly that the poli.‘ York envairy, arrived at Washington yesterday | Peace, and upon them the people must depend ovecivad fom Richmond, having escaped two | entirely. At the next election the politicians ‘wocks ago from Libby prison. He was ning days in | taust be clearly and distinctly throwa aside, , Heenona without exeiting sucpicion, and the soldiers put in thete places Vpon no 1 oad more amenable to kicks than to good advice. They live by carrying on system of barter and sale with the republicans. and, like a curb- stone broker in Wall street, they do a profita- ble business on a capital of nothing. This is the explanation of their squabble about the othgr condition than this can the conatry hare | Wenpart, Prunaars’ ‘Tho Row at Athany—Dooline and ati or} } { | anticipation of any tax | Police Commissioners at Albany, and they are preparing themselves for the during the Presidential call for a shent-per-shent Chicago is their first game. The same campaign. conven- move in tion | the Presidential | more democratic than these so-called demo- | | cratic leaders—are bringing out their candidates through popular meetings, independent of cut and dried, bought and sold conventions. The | tace | | joans te be paid ata distant day: and prol | great and successful exertions made to procure volun- por: ceive that this notorious agitator is announced to address the public of New York on Tuesday next. ‘There is no.longer any room for his in- sane vaporings on the abolition question, for he whole country is antimavery now. But, as ho must always bave something to talk about, ‘let him start the amalgamation theory This is | just the thing to suit him But we wilt not be satisfied with bia theories omy Let him not only preach, but practice. We have no ob- jectiona whatever to hia marrying ® negro woman himself, or, if be baa a son, that bo shonld make him the husband of the blackest wench he oan find, and his daughter the wile of the biggest black nigzer from the South, If it auswera the taste of Senator Wilson, let bim do the same thing, and pechapa Charles Sumner may alao bo induced to follow suit. We can spare all sich follows as theae from decent society Therefore tet Wended Phillips not only talk of amalgamation, but proceed to illustrate it spractically without delay Aoriviry of Buses. —Thore'are oumerous indications that. business will -be very fourish- ing this year, {a every department of trade and commerce’ we porcdive very healthy signs of the expansion of busines Money ia rapidly changing bands, and-people are building apd investing with great vigor and rapidity. Property: holdera asl! out ab groat advantage, sad ibere ia no lack of purchasers. Let them go ebead by all’means. Mr. Chage can supply all the greembacka we want, and they are cer- tainly good enough for all purposes, at loast until the end of the term of the present admin- {atration NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. Vue Motropolitan Peitoe Sommission— Tas Oomtest OvereDTho Uemooratte Members of the Board—The haws- ciom of the State Fund for Bounties to Volunteers—Statemenmt of the State Oomptrotion om Che Subjert—Tne Fouc- teemth and Desbrosses Btrocts Rait- road, de Alaa, Koo La, L864 ‘Tho only Uming (aigea of iM political circles Gate Ts tho Volice Commissiopora question, be friends of the Govornor aro oxceoding!y jubilant over the course that tho affair baa taken ia tho Senate it bas materially alrougthened thom in their plans for (ho State Convention on tho 24th, and seoms to be considered aga grast on- dorsemont of the programme undor cousiderationia ro- gard to the contesting delegation from Now York. As it now stands, Tammany Cannot oxpect to havo moro than one-third of the voice of Now Vork city tn that conven- tioa. Tue ropublicans of the Asacmbiy exprose a grout deal of feeling, oa tho ground that they were not consulted by their party frionds 4n tho Senate ia tho arrangements of this questioa the samevas the demoorats wore by (he dom- cratio Senators. This, with tho aasortions of doubtful loy- aity and the authorship of the ninth resolution of the Syracuse Convoution, mado against McMurray, with former Fouthera associations of Bosworth, bas caused the republicans of tne Assembly to sorutiniz) tho “prasont. arrangement very closely. Many trem Chiuk they goo a chance, ia case of distuch aoco jn New. Kork, of those two mov refusing to act, aud chon preventing the police force from doing anything @fective-1a. suck an emorgency,as it can be soon that two moa can ‘tho work of the other two, and tuunsiop proceedings. This idea has been oxtoosively . taiked over by copubticen =mombere who remained boro over Suoday. it is useless to deny the (act that a strong foollag bas been worked up in favor of striking Ovt the name of Mr. McMurray—tully sufficient to Justify mo to the prediction taat when the caucus meets they will strike out ais name, and insert tnat of James CG. Willett, for the purpose of placing the oame of a demo- crat ta the biti whose sentiments on tho war are far bo- youd doubt or suspicion by anybody. ‘Tho demoorats in the Assombly, to a great extoat, will vote against the Senate bill. Their interpretation their caucus rasomtion is that they wore ‘ucted to vote against ott’, hil in the Son or the reorganization of t ice Board, without avy regard to the namesfin the bili. Although the democratic names bave beon changed, they still interpret their tnatructions to mean the same—to vole agaiust the bill. The excite meni aud contest over this question are not over yet. Comptroller Robinson, | answer toa resolution of the Senate calling for iaformatiea in regard to bounties for — tn the Cottowing Communication on Sa- turday:— State or Naw Yors, Comerroi.cen's Ovriox, > ALnany, Feb. 1%, 1964. ‘To vam HowoRants tax Savare— in complying with tho request contaived in your resolu- tion, 1 have to inform the Senate that the act, chapter 184, Of the jaws of 186., appropriated $3,000, for the payment of bounties to volunteers, and that the appro- priation bas to-day become entirely exhausted; aud the Payment of State bounties must therefore conse, unless immediate provision for thelr continuance be made by tue Logisiature. From ao estimate which | have receives from the Pay master General, | learn that the oumber of votuateers en- listed since the cali of the President for 300,000 men in October last wili be su‘ficient to require another appro- paiation of $3,000,000. ‘These emiistmeuts were maiviy procured by means of iarge loca! bounties an@ the enor- gotic efforts of the people; but the act offering a State bounty of $150 to veterans and $75 to new recruits re- maived ull force, aad the voiunteers were agsured hut they would receive the benefit of it, and the master General ly paying it to them the ted before the Motober call. | it will, Of course, be for the Legisiature to determina | whether, after having legalized the local bounties aud | continuance of them, the State bounty shail als) be paid to volunteors under the uew cali (or an addi- tions! 200,000 men. It is supposed that the quota of this tate under the last cal! will be about 40,000 mea. If the Siate bounty be patd to them it will require a still Cur ther appropriation of $3,000,000. 11 this be ordered and provided for it will mke $9,000,000 paid and to be paid from he State Tre&sury for bounties during the past aud present year ; aud, added to the $3,500,000. paid in 1962, wil wake $12,500,000, besides U ge amounts paid by the severa’ cities, towns and counties. y of 1863 provided for the levying of a or 80 much thereof as the Comptrolier may . However, upoa consultation with the Paymaster Generai previcus to sendin: out the Lax cir. culars on the Lst of Uctobor last, it was deemed sate and prover to Limit the tax to one mill and eleven-sixteentus, as it did not at that time appear probable that more than about two-thirds of the appropriation would be used. the subsequent unexpected cai! of the Presiaeat, and the twers, Lave rendered both the appropriation and the tax largely deficient. Ih my avnual report | estimated the rate of tex for or. | inary p irposes for the next fiscal year at two mills and Uhirteen-sixteenths upon each doliar of valuation, embraced nothing for (uture bounties, nor for any exti ordinary expenditure; aud it will require an additional eighth to provide for the boun- | ‘still anotber ove eighth of a mill ‘be continued to vojonteers under ties airealy pledged if the State bounty su: the new call Ibis would piace the whole taxation at tue unpreve- dopted rate of seven and one-sixteenth wills, even if the Legislature should abstsin {rom every expenditure not | avsolutely vecessary, aud should observe the most rigid economy in all its appropriations the whole $3,000,000 paid under the act of 186 veen borrowed from the “ommissiouers of tue Can. opop the Comptroller's bouds, in anticipation of the will be necessary to borrow source such further amount 0 money will be required immediately 1 beg teave earnestly to recommend that a tax be levied ‘at once to cover whatever appropriations shall be made. } i ont, be very , in the pres-y| anc st affairs, co atsomagn to make iy it would be impossible to do so at any reasonabie “ate, as our stocks would come in competition with those of the | United States, which are exempt (rom taxation, and the republicans | | people have had enough of parties, and of | Albert Shaw and Jonn Mog | party leaders, and of bands of plunderers, or- | ganized into Halls. We want a candidate whose personal history is his political platform—a man like Grant, McClellan, Thomas, Sherman or Gillmore—s man fettered by no bargains and owned by no wirepullers, Such a man will beelected President by the conservative people and the independent press, and the so- callod democratic leaders, like Richmond, Bel- mont, Sweeny and Wood, wiil fasion themselves to the tall of this movement ov drop off into oblivion. THe Army or THe Potomac. General Meade, the commander of the Army of the Potomac, on a recent visit to Philadelphia, made a speech in which he said that the Army of the Potomac had lost one hundred thousand moa singe the beginning of hostilities, Canvot Mr. Lincola find time to crack @ joke on thiv vory funny gubject? interest on which 1s paid ty cot. Respectfully submitted. LUCIUS ROBINSON, Comptrotien ‘The bill introduced (n (he Assembly oy Mr Curtis oo Friday lagt oames as corporators io the Fourteenth ana Desbrosses Streets Railroad Company &. 2, By Kevoo, Thomas &. stewart A. Boyd, Iheo, Allen, Wickham, J.J. Flavagan Ww construct @ railroad with a sing 0 oF sirsck along | the following Streets: —Commencing at the North river, Teebrovecs street, thence” along Greenwich to | Spring to Macdougal street, to Fourth street; Fourth street to second avenue, through the latter to | anon street, arvagh a peed le turning along Fourteenth street, t rat avenue Yhird direst through Third to Great Jones and Amity to Sullivan streets, through Sullivan street to Spring, to Washi street, and through Washington see street, The said roaf to be completed in two years from Uae passage of this act Tre Navy. Latiors Crom Groat up, to the 17th ult. report the Koarsarge blockading the Fioride, Captain Wiaslow had ‘been informed from several sources that the Georgia, Florida and Rappabaunock bad combined, and were to meet at a certain point Ww attack earsarge. The Kearsarge was the ouly United Btatos war on the lookout for the pirates; but she kept them ta port and prevented alt burning operaticfe ia the channel | suitable for the suceession to (he archbishopric | nected with the’ : : Wassouraror, Kom. 14, 1666 LEM ANY BEAUREGARD BRIMFORONG GOPHER HeBRt, - ARNIMS. From information recently received by the mili tary authoritios (boro is common 10 believe that the robels aro sounding Woops from Loo'a army aud from Oharlostoy 0 other pointa im the confederacy ‘Thoro is no doubt that the force at Charloston haa been Vory matorialiy lossenod since (he bet of January Twonty-five (housaud troops bavegbecn kept (hore Hovoral months, but the charactor of tho defences would Mow onablo the onomy to hod tho place with @ much Smaller force. Tho troops at Mobito and Atlanta havo hoon reinforced, in anticipation of au advance upon those Pointe by our cavalry oxpodiions, aud a largo oumber Of mon havo boon hastened (0 tho support of Longest oot im Tennessee, with tho viow of capturing Knoxville and 1o- Wrioving thoir numerons revoraes in that section. Wo havo P eee information to ¢he oftect (hat Lee has now upon bo Rapidan but thirty (housand infantry. ia cavalry, howoror, ia boing incroasod, and ia ia much bettor com. Gition than at avy period during Cho last six months. AB G00n As tho Condition Of the roads will allow it it is bo- Hovod that Stuant will inaugurate a gories of raids upon au oxtonsive acalo, unless our own cavalry auticipate such movomonts by vigorous attacks upon the flanks of (ao rebel army and ita lino of communication with Rich mona, A PROTEST AGSIMAT CHU FRENCH OODUPArTO OF MBKEQO. Hb 1a wodersiood that ho govorament t@ proparing. a Protest againot Uho Fronoh occupation of Moxico,dn obo: Gience tothe: spmpathy manifoelod waivoraalle by. tho poeple. 7 TLEMERT OP THE ALAVBRY QUEBTION, ‘the Hrns10's programms (or ho cure of slavery agile. {iow nas talon wondortully with all parties in Washing- tom, The radical ropublicans camnot object to it, the Conservatives of both parties Like il, and (he peace demo orate have nothing to aay againal ii. It atrikos tho koy note, and, with Grant on (hia plat(orm, tho result Is ro. garded by all partios aa boyond a doubt TUE URROLMENT BILL OM TAY BBXATH ‘Tho Rorolment bill, aa roturned lo Cho Sonate with tho Houso amoudmonts, will bo actod upon by tho Military Committee of the Senate tomorrow, The pointa of dif. Joronce betwoon (ho tyro branches of Congress are oom- parativoly Grifing and will goon “be adjusted, and the bill will speedily become a law, THE WAISERY TAR 1 TAR HOUSM, The whiskey (ax will como up in Che House oariy asxi wook, Tho House will boyond a doubt stand to its pro. vious volo upon (he aubjoct, and refuse to (ake williona Out of tho Wroagury to boncit speculators, THM THDIANA BBPUBLIOAN STATE GONVEN TION. Sovoral of (ho Indiana dologation, with promivont poli. ticians, bave loft Washington to attend tho Conveution about (0 be hold in that State for clooting dologates to the National Ropublisau Convention. Tho impresaion pre- vails among thom that Mr. Chase wili bo supported in tho Gon vention, but, ahould the opposition be too strong, Gologates wili bo olocted with instructious to secure the nominaffon of Goneral Grant THE POMLIO LANDS. were taxon up at the St. Potor's Land Office, Minnesota, during the mouth of January. The tast of tho plats of tho 3uscoe rancho were received at the Gonsral Land OMce On Saturday from California. GOVERNOR JOHNSON IN -WARAINGEON. Goveraor Andrew JSohuson, of Tour oases, trax accivod | covercd with timber, affording a good protection from the im Washington. s city om Saturday, direct from the seat of war. Lioutewant Loudon eajoys the distisguished bonor of | 4*@’owned at Sandusky, bul't to cruise among the islander haviag om one ocoasion been the captor of the famova Confederate raider and gvoriiia, Maior Mosby, under the following circumstances —- On the 19th of July, 186%, the momorabio raid of the Alarris Light Cavairy, umder Colonei J. M. Davies and | the release of those prisoners, Lieutenadt Colonel (now General) Kilpatrick, was made on Beaver foretell The object of the expedition ‘The prison proper is @ square enclosure of about ave was to fal taht fing te! aps 9 ino, and sta: tion a dismounted rete officer 7 ob- served in tho act of rom our forces. Lieutenant Loudon ordered ing to do 60 an order was immediately bincors to Ore upon him, which was when the Cont aarre: be the now famous Mosby, then an General J. K. B. Stuart. was sem to Lore, of « General Kiog, thea at Faunouth, icksburg, that incident Mosby has captured several of the Harris Ligtt Cavalry boys, aud invariably, upon: meen that they to that regiment, treated them: ), Say- ing:—Lieutenant Loudon, of your regimemt, treated me woll, and I will mot abuse you ‘The it is on a visit to Troy, aad wii! be fa the city again on the 18th instant. He is, both phyaicaliy = mentaily,a fae specimen of a Scotch: American soi jer. fleoing [1 5 him to belt; but Moab fail- ven to two car- three times, He officer on the lead. 4 ff i Major General McDowell coactad this city oa Saturday | Duiidiogs are on the outside, two pairs to eactr building. evening, froma brief visit to Woodside, near Troy, the residence of Heory Burdéa bis ‘ather-ia-law. Major General Butier left the Asior House last evemag, to take the train to Washington. He oame North.to at tend the ‘uneral of bis brother. City Inteiligence. SouKer POR Tae Prorerion of Daseruim Roway Cxmmouc OMmoREN.—At al the Catholic churches yes- terday « cirewlar from the very Rev. William Starrs, Administrator of the Diocese of New York, was reat, catlingupon'the pastors to make a collection next Sun- day for the-benefit of the Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Chiidreu ‘This association was incorporated about a year ago, and suitable buildings were bired for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the act. The management o° these tutions was eu- trusted to the Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy, who bave been most success’ ia their labors up to the present time. About thres hundred ana fifty children bave been cared for, instructed and saved from a iife of means of these institutions. ‘Tbe grand object ablishment was to rec aim depraved chiidren ot Catholic pareuts, there baying be: ‘0 institution of that kiod in this city previously. pt one zed exclusively by Methodist and I jan gentlemen A large amount of money was subscrived by a number of wealthy Catholics to start the institution: but the fund thos raised is now nearly exh ed Ml hence the Catholics are catled apoa to render assistance by conte) buting according ‘to their moavs next Sunday. The trustees of the society expect that iu a short time the State will give them a yearly support, similar to that given to kindred assoc.ati na iu other parts of the State, | This appeal to the bevevoience of the Catholics will, therefore, in all probability (or this laudable purpose. Tw Ancumismorrcc of Naw Yors.—We are informed on good authority that a meeting of the several Catholic ve the last, as it i# te first, | bishops of thé archdiocese of New York took piace ia this city two or three weeks previous to the “month's mind” of Archbishop Hughes, for (he purpose of selecting names in ac. the usual custom three names wore d trapemitted to Rome for cordance with agreed upon a ity. kind are kept I! rumors and statements that @ to them will be pure spect- refore, is to be placed apo the some weeks ago in many of the morning papers, in which the names of three prominent prelates were mentioned in dation of dignus, dignior, = nistimus. Owly one of those mentioned te probably among thé rea! names chosen in the conclave. a large at tne rooms of the Typo Trroonarmioa: Soot On Saturday eve street. Mr. Wm. MeCres, meeting of prioters tuck p graphical Society in Champs: ted the object of the, meeting, viz: the reading of original papers on printing and she discussion of all subjects o culated to ‘clevate toa inetruct all com. proservatiye of allarts.”” after some further tomarks he introduced the Vioo-Preaident, Mr. Theodore |.. De = — read CF eager on “ Modera aod Mediu raphy,’ ited a " - Tsaciant modern books, The many One specimens of ancient and a raceting was quite a success and we hope the matter will ot be allowed to (all throug for want of interest in the right quarter, The paper of Mr. De Vinne wan very jenn a OS tae docrety on Saturday even: uo Tose March 12. alt oie sd wich dhe prinbing Dual ues should attend these meetings Vine iw Ris Senmnr.—Between seven and eight o'ol ok yesterday morning a Ore broke out in & rear duliding, No. 26 Kim atroet, avod by Worrs & ed harmon 108 with their mere, ‘The butiding ead its were destroyed ‘about ; ao thsarancs, Damaj to the extomt of $200 Wy -s) Dy water to the machi. nory and stook in the env: mw a Pr. Lyons, No. 831 Pearl strest = io the Me. omanige” and Traders’, y,importors and ‘vendors’ and Tradesmen's insurance @ompanies = The cause of the fire is unknown at presoet. will agate doughs, ovoni Amey f be that oe the (4 TEE BEPALD'R COMBFITUTIONAG PLA NOR OHM ONT: | the city and half a mile within the poiut of the peniaeuin Thirty-four hundred aud sovonty-Ave sores a iaad | that torms the bay. It ‘ea smali island, loss thane ores | constant sarveiliance, Within the enclosure are thirtews Mmanotpation 4n Tennosses. Carno, Fob. 14, 1964, ‘Tho reorganization maoting at Memphis ou the 10tn adopted tho resolulicas of emancipation an rendered by Governor Jovem, au The Establishment and Ita Surroundings. Twenty-seven Hundred Rebel Officers Prisonors. The Contrast Between the Union an Rebel Military Prisens. THE REMOVAL OF PRISONERS OF WAR. ACCOUNT OF THR JOURNEY TO BALTIMORE. Remarkable Escapades Moving -Traim A, SEVEN PRISONERS , a Je Zhompzon's Opinion of the Preatment of Prisoners. AT LAgOR ARAN ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS, &, &., ae. Our Gandosky Correspondemoo. Sawnvsay, Oblo, Fob, 12, 1864. Tho massing of prisouors of war witbin tho limite of Goneral Butler's department, for tho purpose of exchange or such other disposition aa that oficer may find It neces sary to make of thom, bas boon so long determine? upon, hag attained so much publicity, and is already ae far advanood, Unat ita mention in this connection can have no fpjurious effect, The prisons at Oamp Chase, Gbio, Camp Dougias, Li, and those at Indianapolis, Ind., and Rock faland, [il., aro alroudy ueariy or quite depopulated, their thousands of tpmates baying besa sent forward 60 the banks of tho Chosapeake Bay. RRA OFFIOBRS AT BANDUSAT. ‘Tho prison on Johnson's Island, noar Sanduaky, Ohio, aa been kopt exclusively for officers. Hore there word com: gregated, om the lat of January last, twonty eoven hundred rebel officers of all ranks, from major generale down to ltoutenants. They were very comfortabiy pro vided for, and oxpreas themselves satisfied with the treatoneat they bave received. SORNBON'S LAND jigs withia tho bay of Sandusky, aboutfthres aaties from mito io‘length, and soarcely baif'a mile in broadth at apy poiat, The main portion of the leland ts dlevated from ton to fifteen foot above the level of the bay, witha small rocky elevation in the centre Afteen or twoaty feet highoc, The onds and north shore of the isiand are chiding winds which sweep across the lake from the north during the winter months, “The central an@ aouthera portion of (he islagd is cleared, aaf- hore ds te- cated the prisos. {¢ should bo remarked that therete ia the west oné of the lake, which are the only ones thas can make @ landibg at this particular island, Hence wil be soen the absurdity of the great scare last fall of au apprehended expedition by steamer from Canada for TER PRKON. witha gallery on tho outside near the for sentinels. At a-convevient distance along this snalliiberionge are placed for the protection of the guards fa the mere inciemeot weather. These boxes are placed at intervals of about one hundred feet, so that the eatire wall is under large two etory frame buildings for the accommodation of tween the rows of barracks. Averaging abont fifteen feet sauare, eight o@ exch foor. ‘The stairways loading to the upper apartments of these ‘These apartments to accommodate from tea to Gfteea prisoners each. They are furnished with two tiers of banks each, a table, chairs ada aud such other articles of farniture-and comfort as Rig as esas car te u of our are furnished with an abundance of the army blankets and all the fuel they onn use. RATIONS. fach prisoner, of whatover rank, is eotitied ceives one soldier's ration of food per day, to this they are permitted to purchase whatevor delioa- cies and luxuries they wish—liquor only: they may receive the same when sent to friends. MESSRS, ‘ine prisoaers form themselves into messes, pants of one apartment usually comprise a rations for all comprised in such mes are given tothe person designated by the mess to rece! No soryanis, as such, are allowed a copeeen aon cers of means employ the more in J wash for them alt perform such other mental or as may be required. {ach mess in this manner a cook, excepting in cases where the mess is wholly prised of poor men, when the members take turne-ta culinary department. : . MOSPOT ALR. ‘The whole ares of the ground floor of one oF the bai ie divided into two apartments for ital , + BO man. These wards are well lighted—su Sclentieally, and, perhaps not in (be ‘proper nor, ventilated, and well warmed. They are: prov! ‘with comfortable single bunks, not crowded too together, and (urniahed with an abundance of clothing. is an ave of atantly under treatment io of diarrhoa snd bilious presided over by rebel surgeons, nubject to | vision of the Surgeom-in-Chiat of ‘the ‘Two deaths oocur et ae weep 1 <i. ison walls, a force prisoner ig i the graves and perform the bu ard of | soldiers attending them. ‘i viwan’ are required: No money LF gran to glee bog rule is violated sometimes by reason o | search made of new comers, of it is smuggled in despite- | the utmost vigtiance. A (ew days ago ceived by General Terry apnouncing that ining clothing baa been sent to one Enclosed fn this letter wag one add t informed bi ves prisoners, The ab. pr | forming bim of its whereabouts. it | placed to his credit. ail money bones | whethor brought with thom or sevt by . posession of by the commandant of the placed to tho credit sm ——s risoner may then proc Tnerized person ‘such articles as be requires, and pay for thorder on thecommandant If bis io | proper one, or if the expenditure is ord for a pur. | pose ‘onsitient. with prison regulations, the com. moodant honors the draft of the preenee otherwise mot. | The objest of this will be obvious. ‘weoks ago i made for the escape. Before the appointed time, how- ‘ever, the guard’s confcience smote Bim, he the plot to the prison authorities, Colonel Pearsall, iu command, drocted = ‘tho arrangement for the shonid » but at Che same time posted men to catch tue Tegtive: He succeeded ia ‘out the prison yard, paid the contract price to started on bis way bam | Jeomed | he wes reiakem and marched bak | Mains his greenbacks and watob. i: then appear, ops if by toe"? mee’, Tuo report of all peewee et eters fg or ore aod some aerate prisoners mt ail times, : Mo civilian Ie pormitind to enter the Pr 400 snoloeurd, Corsona of approves loyalty, ly vouched. for, visit the "Aa, it [oueetwivale the | , may tote the