The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFric® N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash im advance, Money soat by mail will be oft (he risk of the sender. Noue but bank bills current ia Kew York takoa. Volume XXIX AMUSEME: NTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY Of MUSIC, Irving Mlace.—Tus Orera— Aust NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Coxmie Soocam. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Puse Goto. eS inTeR GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticker of Leave AN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Contous Cast— Puion or tus Mageer NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Troxer or Leave Min—Kosmet Macarke—Linneies Bow. ROWERY THEAT! Bowr—Nowaw OVO! BARNUM’S EUM, Broad VAcAnonns. .—Foun Giants, Two hours, Hatvei— BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- ESQUES, way.—Ermiorrax Songs, Dances, Bubti ac—Ma- wEveA WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 way. Era Bones, Dancns, &—AMERICAN Orema, Ou! Hosa. AMERICAN THEATRE, ‘No. 444 Broadway,—| Pivrowiune, Buststauss, @c-Masuiee ee BROADWAY AMPHITHBATRE, 485 Broadway.—Grw- game ano Bqvasrulax Puuromuasees. Aiteraion aad vening, HOPE CHAPEL. 718 Brosdway.—Taw orric on Ninwon or me Uxivensy, Tus ST#REORCOrTICON PRRHAM'S, £85 Broadway. FOU OF TAX RABELLION ‘STeREOSCORRICON axD Min. oARVING HALL, Irving place.—Jexxe Kusrrox's Cox- it. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway.— ‘Cuntosities any Lycrures, { 9AM. tIIOP, Mo” Rew York, Friday, February 19, 1864. THE SITUATION. The news from the Army of the ‘Potomac indi- It is understood that General Meade will retain command during the next campaign, which it is hoped will be the last of the war. It was reported in the Senate yesterday by Mr. Conness, of California, and made some sensation, that rebel eteamers from certain ports in Asia were crossing the Pacific to make an attack on San Francisco. It was urged that war steamers shouid be sent at once to the Pacific coast to pro- tect it. The vessels alluded to are no doubt-those taken out some time since from England ostensi- bly for the Chinese government. There are grave doubts about the truth of the report brought by the brig Mary Capen to Japan, and received here by way of San Francisco, to the effect that the pirate Alabama was in dock at Amoy dh the, ad of January, and blockaded’ by the steamerifyoming. The Jast reliable report that we hidebthe Alabima was that she sailed from Sinigaporggh ‘the 24th of December, and subsequently, “fil ‘Be ‘Straits of Malacca, burnt the Martabati,” Sdittd and Highlander. Now, as it ia about tiv, QioueAad miles from Singapore to Amoy, and somealxchundred miles from the lat- ter port to Shanghae pit is-evident that the story tequires vers abetantial evnfirmation. The rebels in West Virginia are said to be making préphrationy, slong the line of the Ten- nessee and {Vititpl4 daittdad.*hit whether they ere making provide, Lq'shéisf di. gdvance of our forces or are contemplating an attdtk themselves, is not known. AUIHOAA Rs Tue Presi? uid hoybchif iy ftbctamation that the blobhdd-al Bedi haVillp AAEMK, “has been relaxed. We" give. ti proclamation in full in another olay, aatting ‘tout, ae’ pea es why Brownsvilledoamennatn a nblockint a C" Despatches frp Cinptyy i sereag nen ithe 00 raid. The POMUGR ROTI aerate gute does not appear to be understood at Chattanooga. Tt in in doula SHR SH RHE MRAM AY Die: Baeetfot on Bh abel cates no immediate movements or whether, sae OIA rey : A 3 3 lene Generat SPA al" vaibabdnhed, cle “dhs zens of Selma, “Kia.?"40 prepare ta dnauew ition Coie re combatants fron Mobite, ag, that-pi pear t be attacteg epee ea. aces i the blockate fob Mebitel” "0 [00.8 x0d A vob Soaats a *10Y mittee on which was, will come jep'% port agrees qutation, no longer col <a i Ye AU yon sper Saag ei ‘Bvilo” it shall 5 wh « Canee omneenim tna t ‘ner was given the regiment at Jefferson market WOHESS aya aay piaga the erghhond Gh" AdE” 2 FlbOM bs Hoe wee nd Nt ee NEW- YOre! HERALD, form of « bill through the Legislature, aad in cou- | ties Fowke and Poore, of the Marshal's office, for sequence of which it failed to fullytegatize all the | defyhuding Wiliam 8. Wilson, recruit ‘in the proceedings of the Supervisors in the premises. | Sixth United States cardiry, of $200 bounty money The New York and Brazil Steam Nange- tion Company bill was also passed. Bills were introduced to amend the act of last sea sion appropriating the lands donated to the State by Congress for the promotion of agricultural and mechanical education, and for the coastruction of a-railroad betweea Grand street and South ferries, The adverse vote on the Lex- ington Avenue Railroad bill was reconsidered, aud the project will therefore be again brought before the Senate. Notice was given of a bill to enable the Harlem Railroad Company to avail themselves of the New York Common Council grant to lay a railroad in Broadway and other atreets of thia city. The bill making an additional appropriation to improve the navigation of the North river was considered for some time in Committee of the Whole; but nothing definite was done with it. In the Assembly the Senate bill amending the New York city Bounty and Riot Bonds act was taken up and passed, and it now awaits the Gov- ernor’s signature. The bill to regulate funeral ferriage between this city and Long Island was ordered to athird reading. The bill appropri- ating thirty thousand dollars for a monument in the Gettysburg Cemetery to commemorate the New York soldiers buried there waa reported to the House from the Public Defence Committee. The Niagara Ship Canal bil! again came up, but was indefinitely postponed. A namber of other matters of less interest were considered. The report of the Secretary of State on the ‘“Statis- tics of the Poor” was presented.” The democratic Assemblymen held another caucus mecting yesterday to decide on the course to be pursued by them in the House when the Metropolitan Police bill comes up. The attend- ance was not very full; bat, after considerable talking, it was finally concluded to support Messrs. Bosworth and McMurray as the demo- cratic members of the commission. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Havana, Captain Greene, from New Orleans 9th snd. Havana 13th inst., arrived at this port last evening. Major General Wm. Preston, of the rebel army, had reached Havana, via Nassau, en route for Mexico, on a commission of great importance. There is no news of interest from either St. Domingo or Mexico by this arrival. The Habaneros were in the midst of the carnival festivities, which were unprecedentedly gay. Purser Huertas will please accept our acknowledge- ments for the prompt delivery of our despatches. The people of Tennessee are coming out en masse forthe Union. Meetings are being held throughout the State at whieh the people by resolutions are expressing their determination to reconstruct civil government, and to uphold the administration. These resolutions are strongly de- nunciatory of secessionism and secession leaders. On the slavery question they say that Southern slavcholders have struck the fatal and suicidal blow at the institution, accomplishing what its enemies outside Southern limits could notihave effected in along series of years. Gradual eman- cipation as a system is to be adopted. A fire at Gloucester, Mass., yesterday morning, destroyed seventy buildings, including the tcle- graph and town clerk's offices, involving a toss of property estimated: at_ $400,000. The damaze to | the shipping was trifling. The First New York cavalry returned to ‘this city yestérday from the seat of war—having ‘re- enlisted—and had a magnificent reception. A din- drill rooms, General McClellan being present. The general was most enthusiastically received, and made a short speech upon the occasion. The Councilmen met at one o'clock yesterday. After transacting some routine business, Mr. Brandon offered a resolution that the Comptroller be authorized to draw his warrant in favor of Bridget Mulhare for the sum of $300, as compen- sation for injuries received by her son John dur- ing the riots in July last. The boy is about eight years of age, and was shot in one of his eyes while looking from the window of his mother’s room, No. 135 East Thirty-fifth street. Laid over. A resolution from the other Board, appointing a ‘The Marabal demanded the returo of the money, the alternative being @ lodging in Fort Lafayette Ahern became indignaat at hia game being spoit ed and at the threat thus held out, and at once re- fused to diagorge, preferring, he said, to go 0 Lafayette, The Marshal made oat the order, which had such effect that Ahern offered to pay back $150, but subsequently offered the whole sum to get out of ‘his trouble, and agked to be al lowed to go home to get it. A file of soldiers were called in from the provost guard to accom- pany the Marsbal’s deputy and hia prisoner to the latter'a house. Ahern, however, declined to go in such company. The Marshal consented to send an officer to Ahern's house, where he received $200, which sum the Marshal paid over to Wilson, the recruit. Yesterday Marshal Murray sent 415 to Major General Dix, which he extracted from tho fangs of dishonest aubstitute brokers, aad which will be paid over to the families of the recruits. We publish, in another column, this morniog, the first electioncering document of the ap- proaching Presidential campaign. It is a hasty collection of racy little jokes by and about President Lincoln. As it was originally printed in that radical organ, the Evening Post, it is appareat that the radicals have finally con- cluded to support Lincoln for another term. Tn this point of view it demands special atten- tion. Every age aod country baa ita great joker. Greece had the great Asop, and also Diogenes, who was a hard, dry, caustic old wit, and made people wince rather than laugh. Rome had a host of jokers, chief among whom were Horace and Juvenal. Italy had Boccaccio, who pub- lished several volumes of very unctuous jokes, and, notably, the Decameron. France bad ber Rabelais, who laughed at this world and the next, and made sport of poteatates and priests with equal humor and severity. England had Joe Miller, who is as immortal as St. George and the Dragon, and who is said to have per- petrated almost all the good thiags we have vead or beard during the past century. But why should we multiply examples? Suffice it to say that America has at last produced her great joker, and Mat big name is President Lincoln, more commonty translated into the vernacular ‘Honest Old Abe.” President Lincoln is a joke incarnated. Hia election was a very sorry joke. The idea that such @ man as he should be the President of such a country as this is a very ridiculous joke. The manner in which he first entered Washing- ton—after having fled from Harrisburg in a Scoteh cap, a long mititary cloak aad a special nigbt train—was a practical joke. His debut in Washington society was a joke; for he in. troduced himself aad Mrs. Lincoln as “the tong and short of the Presidency.” His inangural address was a joke, since it was full of promises which ‘be tas never performed. © “Hig Cabinet is and always has been a stanitiag joke. All his State papers are jokes. His letters to oar generals, beginniag with those to Generat Mc-i Glellan, are very cruet’ jokes. © His’ plaid for’ abolishing’ slavery in 1909 was 4 broad joke: His emancipation proctimation was a solemn joke. His receat proclamation of abolition and amnesty is another joke. His conversation is full of jokes, of which those which we republish this morning are pretty fair specimens. His title of “Honest” is a satiri- cal joke. Thes+yle in which he winks at frauds in the War Department. frauds in the Navy Department, frauds in the Treasury Depart- ment, and frauds in every department, is a costly joke. His intrigues to secure a renomi- nation aad the hopes he appears'to entertain of a re-election are, however, the most laughable joint special committee of six, in conjunction with | jokes of all. the Mayor and General Sandford, to select a plot of ground suitable for a division parade ground, was concurred in. The President appointed Mesars. Repper, Opdyke and Riley as such com- mittee. The Board then adjourned until Monday next, at one o'clock. In the month of December last the Common Council passed a resolution directing the Comp- ‘troller to draw his warrant in favor of Robert and es Cunningham, contractors, for the sum of eee same being intended asa remission of hopenalty charged against them for overtime in "thetr Contract for constructing a sewer in Third | gors a¥pnGA, from Sixty-ninth to Seventy-third street. } ke Comptroller refased to pay the amount, how- ORV OR AW nthe claimants got out a writ of manda- heomatter came up for argument before Hardin the Supreme Court, chambers, apsqay, when the Court decided to dismiss om tha 5 t#A,O¥. We ‘acting bureau of the Finance ho") fAgmounting to $191,038. ee shi PHO ANG Bas nd that the claim had not nbaab, .Aroquois, the captor, piirtment purchased diana jr $65,000. ‘The pei 9 PEP aa taranation by is Mi, dwt ‘a 5 Presta created | removed McClellan. after the triumph of Antie- As a joker President Lincola is unique. With the caustic wit of Diogenes he combines the best qualities of all the other celebrated jokers of the world. He is more poeti- cal than Horace, more spicy than Juve- nal, more anecdotal than sop, more juicy than Boccaccio. more mellow than rol- licking Rabelais, and more often quoted than the veteran Joe Miller. Besides this, Mr. Lin- coln has a peculiar sort of joke, better thaa any of those practised by his famous predeces- An old German joker—a general, if we remember right!y—used to have a somewhat similar style. This general would order out a regiment of soldiers, place them in position upon a mammoth chessboard. and play chess with them for a whole day. The privates he employed as pawns, the captains as knights, the chaplains as bishops, and soon. But where this German joker used regiments President United States District Attorney yesterday | Lincoln uses armies; and the worst of it is that tered. Binds dtacbee of distribution of the pro- Dart afising from tht“#ile of the prize steamer | was a fine joke when he removed General Fre- he never wins the game. For instance:—That mont, on the very eve of victory, and allowed Price’s army to escape. That was another fine joke when he held back McDowell and per- mitted the Peninsula army to be cut to pieces. That was still another brave joke when he ther was resumed | tam.and so brought about the massacre at to chcournge veialdees’ ass Siy ds Bata HSH Biprelie he pakélore Judge | Fredericksburg and the subsequent rebel inva- mation abroad and reigitatsiy “tHe "tra aepinentiog? ie SOR AARP POR) sles WasAPACluded, | gion of the North. The people do not appre- of Gnigrants, ri Saawe ie He he P Debra ea cy ae Heasehed gone | ciate these stupendous military jokes, however. printed. Join: tevohetigng: ntith I Amir he a 4 with ast uettosas de mangamasealed | berhans the loss of life and property takes fer of mp the - i eet ‘rosin gata away some of the fun. Nevertheless, we are adophed. aemaisder ob! the seesion 1 oni ~ Maia soda | assured that somebody laughs at them—dowa cocuffied will Oe busnan ff Div cat fi ea ned sece'tke-cenalt: below. Tombit, via Y RE CALI Sa Gahoaly. bes a acti | If President Lincoln is going to try his «nae ene plats ks piss Bapooy, tin sa re ‘chances for another election, we advise him to Ioaad"tiia ecaghgivent gory ipiatting Gq y ee i so paihideneass a edtlect and publish his jokes. The Post article regiment of ‘itétith Wotbiitgdl Wijinedds tii? Thi Broadway saikCerHawtnabmet lina empikusnind ismmove in the right direction, but it ought to troduced, and referredtedha Military Sammaitaas. | tO recover ditnagew Tor! iene” Wi Sdhlowed up and the jokes issued in Mr. Clay, of Kentughyyintsoduead a billy sriiiely Mende he into him, thereby I¢t and book form. All of the other was referred to “the” Committed! Hh Ways and : ute h oie ae. sige ora have «done this, and have thus se- Means, im es Pa A aplt a r_exhibith dedy' dh fetessh hegeeg Pisa) easy immortality. We do not know contract has , fine - heer sbeing 0 Fsbo siedog bet ti ‘ah'ay vt Dah: one of them was ever elected to the 1862, or'bhall héreatver Bp i deaiohys De Diet Dihe ieainy att sider sinrat ip PeosmedeRid Consequence of a juke; but cer- or loan of got; for the'pA; OF ste oan Ore" a “5 one meee dg aovwint ao "Lincola has nothing bat his what (be! genase fon}. on one - Se sagan aera hr pnt meee taut ot surplus gold in hin chatty, ara Calleh long and interesting discussion ensued. amendments were offered, aad Salty japow Aen {6tHODp. ouggestion of Mr. Stevéns, the orfgihel restiliihidn’, sed ty give proper to the House to-day. A resolution declaring that all soldiers called out as nine months siden are entir and the amendments ‘recom Ways and Means Committee, who will form to the various propositions, tled te twenty-five dollars bounty”: weg bape, After 0 speach from Mr. Oole, of Californie; in| Fran favor of employing colpted soldiers, te House |. Waa the sdloorned.\girk LaatsLATURE. In the Senate yonterday the bill amending the ect to logalite jhe bounty and riot bods of the New York Sapervicors wha passed. ‘This bill is to Correct an error which bysomemeans crept into (he rqpeatly dhacted law during its progress in the ity: 01 heh atptiritene p all of the value of one terenbred werd Hy roar «No. 26-Walkiace rp APTA PE at Paaline f enty-eight yearw'of age! Was ttied Pewaghedtanr dsl ESAT pute IME dole UV CIal Sankt cher Re . ine ae ea rate | street 40! anuary {AWt! “HANES WehEbh HEH th thie" for tworyeame and, three monte. (FP RAPY” eho! Aol make,sb4 quost of them. Singularly Honey. Pepe Lei Ol Nes jokes have before found PASE Opt In this remark we do uppoe'veoluderhia official jokes—all of reve! *Ptdishedy to our sorrow and ‘ot ot a aa It is to bis con- al} that we aow especially refer. ATLA Nike Whibh (Old Abe was a Htdigal THUAiaAt Th hth, ghirt sleaves : ee ofobaving stoica: bwadred aad. fifty | ret: ik | emer Freddy dbtsh act bib toed JES pditawamerse sem iy ten agian or - ‘ ite. 8 Sate E PR Seo pmy Thy Boer abba Cots of WitiCin aseaW iba seers e beta maa pave Ls ay ata add ed too ‘ Or. Mt wit rd eer eticr ry “ tty 3, the’ f ate waiter girls, Na pare Fobbed. | % eyes ‘st ch aliy ype pe sak OEE pre Miner rb Bigeereen ortega ~a Of» partes house, wapromterday arrested py depu: | ailght 6 on broad ae they Wre'Jng; HaME of HADAR,ARPEBRUART: 10) Y664). "| them might bave to be printed with mots * ox purgatiogs and delicate dashes; but they warad all be alive with wit, fua aad humor, and, wiica printed in two immense volumes, after being used in pamphict form for electioneering purpowes, they would become a monument of President Lincolu’s genius, more valuable than marble and more durable than brass. No doubt, if our suggestion be adopted, the peo- ple will be 60 convulsed with laughter over Old Abe’s jokes as to forget all about the importaut issues of the’ approaching election, and allow him to be re-elected without opposi- tioa. The Vast Prosperity of Hew Work City. The annals of history contain no cecord of auch prosperity as distinguishes the progress of thia metropolis. It was fondly believed by the people of the South at the commencement of the rebellion that ruin would speedily over- take the North, but more especially this city. Its uncxampled ifcrease and prosperity having excited the dire jealousy of the citizens of amaller but ‘greatly aspiring cities, New York was voted by them a greedy monater, absorb- ng the principles of their vitality, and ber downfall was eagerly desired. The rebellion bas continued aow for three years, and, instead of the ruin and misery prophesied, New York city bas become plethoric with success, in- crease and prosperity: The whole city is over- flowing with plenty. There cannot be fouod accommodations for the thousands who flock hither to partake of the universal increase of wealth, to mingle in the mad speculations of Wall street, to partake of the multiplied plea- sures of the gayest of cities. Look where we may, we see the crowds in- creasing—the bees seeking to get their share of the honey. Our hotels are crowded to suffo- cation; they have*become callous to the con- stant calls of the hundreds who seek to gain admittance, who demand permission to pay the highest prices for the poorest places, and turn enough-people away to fill as many more hotels aa the town possesses. Our boarding houses have raised their prices, are all full; families are literally roaming the atreets, seeking roofs to shelter them, .There are no houses to rent, and those for sale are fabulously dear. Land has risea—io fact, everything in the city is dear, and becoming all the more ao as green- backs continue to flow into the coffers of our people. Fortunes are made now in New York so suddenly that we see the footman of to-day riding ia bis carriage to-morrow. But few per- gous are there in this vast kive that bave not a reaerve of five-twenties. The ladies no longer purchase cheap goods; this is no more a market for such commodities; they are sent to Boston, Philudetphia, Baltimore and such suburban places. Silks, velvets, laces and twelve bun- deed dollar furs are in great demaad bere, not cheaper materials. To meet the increasing demands of custom, our great caterer, Delmonico, bas heen forced | to spreail out his accommodations. He’ has ‘maguificeat'y, we might say gorgeously, deco- ralod tha targe house ‘which adjoined bis watt Kkaown and mest fashionable restaurant, afd how gives banquets id Bis spleadid new saloon to turee hundred guests at a time, The people who patronize Debnonico a0 longer drink ales and Cheap wines: they demand the best La- fitte. Chambertin, champagne of the Napoleon brand; and all day and late into the night do they imbibe the nectar. Paris or London woutd in vain endeavor to rival the splendor of Del- monico. We have other (amonus restaurants— the Maison Doree, which possesses so magnifi- cent a service of plate, lately imported to meet our increasing demand ‘for luxurious display. To these places our jeunesse doree crowd, on Opera nights more especially; anda gay and goodly show do they make in the resplendent salons, with their lady companions all ao ex- quisitely and richly dressed. . ‘Then that same jeunesse doree—which, freel translated, means those who have the green- backs—bave become fond of horses and yachts, and they bave none but the best and most ex- pensive. The yachts are large—at least two hundred tons—swift and well manned; and the horses are fast and of the finest pedigree. And all this because we are in the midst of the greatest, most unparalleled prosperity, and be- cause we must get rid of our accumulating wealth. Our places of amusement are enjoy- ing the most bountiful patronage, and nightly bang out the announcement that they are filled to repletion. Our operatic season is marvel- lous. The ladies and gentlemea come to the Academy of Music in full dress. The display of jewels, white cravats and white gloves rivals that made in the gayest and richest capitals of Europe. To close, we will state that Fifth avenue is daily crowded with interminable lines of splendid private carriages, all going to our beautiful Park, and that New York at this day ranks among the first cities of the world as a vast metropolis. So much for the prophesies of ber enemies. Greetey a Posric Nutsaxce.—Greeley, with his usual stupidity, finding that the ladies’ com- mittee of the Sanitary Fair are not to be fright- ened at his balderdash, but are determined to carry on the fair as they think best, suggests that, aa clerical opinion is altogether ignored, the question should now “be left for the ac- tion of the District Attorney and the Grand Jury, whea they shall learn that the managers have violated the law in letter and in spirit.” District Attorney Oakey Hall is a man of too much good sense to mind the ravings of foolish Greeley. The firat thing he will probably do will be to take tickets for the fair bimself, in which laudable example he will be imitated by the whole Grand Jury. His next act, in order, will then be to indict Greeley as a nuisance, as a disturber of the public peace, an incendiary, and the propagator of the vile doctrines of Fourierism, free love, amalgamation, and other kindred atrocities, This is the oaly way to briag Greeley to his senses. A Cuaxce ror O1o Ase to Prove His Honastr.—The jobbers and whiskey gamblers in and out of Congress having succeeded in cut- ting off the tax on whiskey in store, by which the United States Treasury is defrauded of some five millions of dollars revenue, and is likely to lose from five to ten millions more, it now remains for Old Abe to prove whether he fg worthy to wear the title of Honest Old Abe, or whether he is not. If he vetoes the bill a it stands, shorn of ite tex on whiskey on hand, he will prove himself deserving the title. If he does not, and the bill is allowed to become a law, he will stand before the world as in league with these speculators, and just as pad as the whiskey gamblers themsolves. Now ty, the time for Abraham to demonstrate his titte to honesty. Will he atand the grqenlt rr epeeeermematstteetntteesisinensineeneneentn tensions Tue Srave- .— Jefferson Waris, in a offices dnd post roads; 6 declare war, grant recent pfoclamation) ermured the Sthcra | fetfers of marque reprisal; soldiers that the apeing campaiga would ‘open | support armies, to provide and e ‘under auspices well calculated to sustalngheir | navy; to provide for calling out the militix to hopes,” and that they might “weicome the ia- | execute the laws of the Union, &c., &e., and to vader with confidence, founded upon the mo- | make all laws necessary and proper to carry mory of past victofica.” This allusion to the { these powers into effect. manner in which they may “welcome the in- | among the attributes of sovereignty, what are vader” seems to assume that the Southern | they? armies are to Gght tn the coming campaign on But we are wasting time upon these Wood their own territory, and looks like a relin- | Brothers. As the conductors of a political quishmeat of the cherished plan of tho ultra | journal they have missed their vocation. They Southern leaders to conquer a peace on North- | would do well to abandon this business, and era soil. Bat we must not suppose that Davis | remember the old adage:—‘Let the shoemaker tells bis plans to the soldiers by proclamation; | stick to bis last.” Let them atick to their trade and appearances, especially in Eastera Ten- | of buying and eelling politicians and plunder, neasee and Western Virginia, indicate that the | places and profits, aa the managers of Mozart Southern leaders still cherish the foad delusion | Hall; let them, if they will, stick to their tot- that led them on to the fields of Antietam and | teries—all the fools are not dead yet, and “the Gettyeburg, and contemplate an advance into | fool and his money are soon parted.” But let a Northern State earty in the season. not these shallow pretendera undertake to ta Longstreet’s force in East Tennesyee wilt | struct the Megat on State sovoreignty until be part of thia advance, even if Longstreet’s | they have upsct the constitution of the United present position does not indicate the direction | States—the supreme law of the land. ttet it will take; for there will be no more Seocunps, of cae AUNEARE BLK TE beak advances by way of Eastern Virginia, since the 3 enemy ‘have learned how easy it is for us to oe bo ees how warmly the people throughous ta ie’: Sieh reslatance’ La’ that the loyal North are responding to the benevo- 4 lent movement of the Sanitary Commission. quarter; and sioce also it is necessary 4 rs ‘s 4 4 The fairs in connection with tuis work bave al- that the Southern armies, almost with- . . teady produced large sams. The Ladies’ Fair out gupplies, sbould march in a country tapi? 3 " t 1 held at Cincinnati, after paying enormous ex- . ba 0 Fy Ws FE by, NE penses, realized no less than the net sum of Noite aTy every Fook of (Eastern Virginia 3*- | $220,000; that ot Boston nelted $150,000; while ithe probable that the advance will be page by way of West Virginia, though the present those oon to be held in New York and Brook- lyn will probably exceed the munificence of movements of rebet forces ia that quarter bave a definite relation to such an advance. | *Y other State. Let the good work go on and prosper. But it is probable that, if made at all, it will ee ee eee be made by East Tennessee and Keatucky to Brooklyn City Intelligence, the Obio river. Preparations for such a move- | T2# ATLANTIC DOCK ae ame ae oe ment have been in progress im the Southern On the night of tho 16th of July, 1853, the graia clowe- armiea since December, and are in progress | tor ownel by Andrew Luke, Smith, Fancher aod others, with especial activity at the present time; and snipes to the Attantic Dock basm, was 0 vat A - t * re, together with am elevalor belongimg t Mr. 4 if this movement is made early, aad made with Bh Barber & 05; nad'h soser onenbP Wi Oho Allah Deets the energy that has charactorizod rebel move- | Company. Thore bad’ beon for some time provinas m ments in other quarters, it will be a dangerous | aimoutty petween the workmen and their employers—the one to us. It will be made early, as the | former objecting to the use of ateam machioory to de Southern leaders are alive to the necessity of what bad betore beeu done by baad,and thus throwing 9 i a many out of their usual employments. The police were anticipating the great operations that we bave | notified. ond did everything that ttmited wumber ot ii broke out. Then the Atantic Dock Comy uoated Longstreet, may be in Kentucky before it is pokes eet pene ty Auond aon pany wea possible for our great Southwestern expedi- | bid neon mdulged in ‘by eome of the workmen, that am tions to make much impression, or before the | Stempt to destroy their property would be made. | The Washington Directory and General Meade have awakened to the fact that the wiater is nearly gone. There is at present no positive certainty that the greater part of Lee's force ia Poiice could got theo attend to the matter. The force wan kent in reserve night and day to be reidy for thing that might happen in aby part of the city. members of some oF the precincts bad boea seat to New York to aid io suppressing the riot there, and the force remaining was 60 @mall that reversal huadred citizens volunteered to act as special policemen occasion not already in Tennessee. Longstreet, it seems per ag abet hoe: as aL il ag Beare certain, has been reinforced within thirty days | above ‘stated « body of men collected on some of the streets ia the vicinity, They were quiet aud orderly. A few men had ben emplosed watch the elevators. About eleven o'clock the crowd, tho Bomber of some two hundred, made their appeer- aun, acd with firearms. clubs and stones, made an as- sault on the oh.ectionable elevators. Those detailed to watol them, becoming convinced.o” the utter absurdity of resisting the rioters, made their e-cape in boats. Severn! barrels of tar were rotled apen the pier and the elevator wan set on fire. The flames Glevator and.to the scow, cendinriae had, however, o- prevtously And many toubtio-a: 860 the progress 0: the fire bad kiadtod. poses sey lo, 1 being: to a with the affair. agninat x past; and apparentiy oot from Jobnston’s Alnbama army. Some active movement i knownsia now in progress on the Virginia and East Tennessee Railroad, and it is not known bow large or how small is the. rebel force that now nominally covers Richmond. Lée in Kentucky, we must remember, will | be barder to Geal with than Lee’ in Mary- land, of Ia Perinsylvnnia. He will be out of | ideotify.eny ona conngcted with t! Kae teach “for a time of General Grant, and-} 4 Co. brought en action agninat ihe eres out of reach gf the Atmy of ttie’Potomac. | Couote Ciromt Court during the ae ‘oounsel. werd engaget Bides.. Tho case war givea For, with the advance into Kentucky, the revel force in Western’ Virginia will begin to burn bridges on the Baltimore and Ohio Raitroad, and se cripple us in the movement'of a large | force to the West from the neighborhood of Washiogton. If the rebel armies are about to evacuate Virginia, as bas been for so many months hinted, we may depend upon it that they are about to evacuate it oaly for some such purpose as this. Tue Woons on Srave Soversiaxty.—The Wood Brothers—the Hon. Fernando and the Hon. Ben Wood—have too many irons in the fire. As the bead chiefs of Mozart Hall, ia managing a distribution of offices aod spoila with Tammany, they are hard to beat; but as representatives of this great city in Congress on ka to the jury on Wednesday evening. after the tion of a qumber of witnesses. and after a bri spent by the jury in celiberation @ verdict for was rendered. Damages $91.371. Actioun brought Cor damages auatained by the loss of the othor elovator and the vessctare util! to be tried. Coroner's AN ALLEGED ABORTION CAsE— Anne Killean, died at her Inte residence, im the upper part of the tenement house 116 East Twoaty-ninth street, aad, from certain ciroumstaoces which developed chem- Coroner Raauey, being notified, yesterday afternoon proceeded to make @ thorough investigation ioto@ the facts connected with the death of Miss Killer. ft ap- peared that last Monday week deceased was delivered ef @six and @ half months’ child, which lived oly about thirty-six hours During her ilicess deceased was at- tended by Dr Fenner, of No. 476 Second aveaue, who discovered indications’ of improper treatment with bis they do not amount to much, while as the con- | paver’, Previous, to, Bla, being called. at cmas ductors of a political journal they are com- | take nome medicines prescribed by ber phynician, che pletely out of their element. My rane caica we Sedat te baa ae For example, they undertake to instruct the | mde = confeswon to him. She stated thet, being ence Herato on State sovereignty; and they begin | the chid, and with that view proceeded te the office of Dr John B. Deanis, No. 6 Gtreet, who she had by telling us that on the 4th of July, 1776, the representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, declared that the United States “are, and of right ought to be, free and inde- pendent States.” But what else could they do when they had no general government? Their only course was to combine as so many inde- peadent States. But after achieving their inde- pendence the several States concerned pro- ceeded to the work of organizing a permanent general goverament, and this work was estab- lished in our federal constitution. What is this general goverament—a confederation of sove- reign States, or a “more perfect Union!” The first clause of the first sentence of the constitu- tion will explain:—“We, the people of the United States, in order to form @ more per- fect Union,” &c. Here the parties defined as forming this constitution are not the several States, nor the agents of the several States, but “the people of the United States.” All the States are thus swallowed up in the United States as one great body of people® This is the constitution—the supreme law of the land. But the Wood Brothers, with all their clap- trap and balderdash about the constitution of the United States on other occasions, dodge it been informed waz a respectable physician, who pare ~~ herd kind of Lp wy) A cog Ae aw patient furthermore sai on fast Bye Bales gr Dr. Denni arrested by detective Vangbn, and held sult of the inquisition. nm he re He was examined, however, im his own behalf, and dented in strong terms having com- mitted an abortion on deceased, but confessed to giving her medicines of an innocent naturo. On searching the doctor's office a variety of instruments, such as are gene- rally used by abortionsts, were (ound, come of them with blood. u i itt? in this matter completely, and fly for shel- betes oy sae celeste aseert Getto hescpsersuend ter to the State constitution of Massa-"| | After Captain, ee en ae chusetts, which, they tell us, declares Mas-| thet the Captain was not in the house, and Doouea of sachusetts to be “a sovereign and in- eteala 7 all salted oat some aes ia oubety dependent State.” ‘Next, in support of | armed w: ibe end revolvers, aed bad this idea of State sovereignty, Thomas Jefferson iSrcuire the med te Street oid is paraded before us as the father of the demo- | vaacing upon. them commenced ae lndiscriminase sttaait cratic party. But the Wood Brothers would ea Botan romingof i cut and ing have found the old seditious Hartford Conven- | danger, seized a pistol from one of bis men and fired &® tion, or the dicta of the leaders of this rebel- | into the crowd. she ball taxing emet spon Grahem.iand lion, much better adapted to their purpose than | snectiog the purty for tbe mdaeot aod the guard effcted Jefferson’s opinions of the purely local affairs bg = fourteen shots aio aoa by sie semen, of the several States. But again: After hav- | perty.one of which vo elect upon tbe, bead of one of ing called up the unwilling ghost of Jefferson, Set tnan of tae geard'core beaten with clube, these Woods return to the Declaration of Inde- wont wih sue excptin, ‘ware more “ae pendence. Hore we have them; for this instru- | tonityie te tee Or) sinegistely after. the ment declares that it is a self-evident truth that te camp and delivered Mavelf up te Cooasd tall men aro coated equa.” Jeunes saps | Esse Te etc this and we should i a at haan | Scrosein rho tang tbat nar st taney res Ben and the Hon. Fernando: think of it as a democratic doctrine, emanating from the found- Fé H & Ey F er of the party. soldiers and rowdies; and oo the night of the fracee, On this question of State sovereignty, how- fori nica be veered sare out to ever, we hold these flippant system to the federal constitution. is supreme power. Under our organic law the Congress of the United States is invested with ly i il i ia if citizens Of the town justify the action the power over all the States, to lay and ool- or tapas, an oly Tr iat ty ek lect taxes, duties, imposte, excises, &c.; to bor- more of the a py ben he row money on the faith of the United States; in lor two, wi rag ow ab a," . - to ‘late commerce with foreign nations and san tra euretsl ales; to establish unit Death of a sewer ton vom feat tin, rales of naturalization and bankruptoy; to coin Pron my re ; pHTe ara money and regulate its value; to eqtahiish post to’ raige and’ maintain ot