The New York Herald Newspaper, February 22, 1864, Page 4

- 4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDUN BENNETT, DITOR PROPRIETOR OPFIOR N. W. CORNER FULTON AND NaSSAU STS. Voiume XXI& ... AMUSENENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irvi J Pumirans NIBLO'S GABDEN, Broadway.—Tur Doge's Morro. ‘lace. —TraLian Ores WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway,—Masss avn Faces WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticxet or Leave AN. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Fou.ixs or 4 Nigut— Tut Tresten 111 Trovatons, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Tickrt oF Leave MAn—MiLiee or New e¥—Roweexs oF THK Heat ROWBRY THEATRI Bowsr—hoLuy-wuse H BARNUM'S MUSEUM, way. —Four Giants, TWO ARPS. ALNINOS, naz Is 1 0. aval! hours, Mutiam's —Novse Tat Jack awp Mus, Warns, Caurmm—at Sand 7% P. BRYARTS: MINS: Mechanics’ Hal'. 472 Broad- we, —Rrwioran ‘Sout, Dances Bustasguat do-—Ma’ WOOD'S Mf MaLl Bt |. Rraroria ar AMERICAN TREATRE, No. 444 broadway. —Bai Paprosimxs, Bunixsquas. Ac.—Mazoume. BROADWAY AMPAITHEATRE, 635 Broadeny.—Genu- Basic ano Equestuian /eeronuancas. Afteravon and Broning E ar RATRON, Fourteenth _ntreet. —P: poor ane Mosanre Atternoon and Evening. nn, NIBLO'S SALOON, Broadway.—Gorrscmatx’s Concent. HOPS CHAPEL. 718 Broadway.—Taa 0800: ox Minor ov Tum Usivensi, ssrroiniiosansie PERRAN'S, [85 Broadway.—Stenxoscorticon ann Min- mou oF THR RABELLION NRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cumosirims axp Lxorurns, from 9a. M, Ul 10 P.M. | HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—| Bonas, Dances, Buxumigues, ac.” oem —Etmorian ‘New York, Monday, Feb: THE SITUATION. ! The news fr.m the Southwest is important and exciting. It wa. rumored at Huntsville, Ala., on Saturday, that General Sherman met the rebel General Bishop Polk near Brandon, had a fight with hin, beat him, and took twelve thousand prisoners, The detail- have not reached us, | Oficial in/ormation trom General Dodge to | Genera! Logan's headquart ra yesterday, states that rebels, supposed to be Genera! Roddy's com- mand attempted to cross the Tennessee river at three different ferries, but were driven back by General Dodge, with a very ‘slight loss on his side. General Meade had a consultation with the Pre- sident on Saturday, relative to the re-organiza- tion of the Potomac Army, and returned by spe- cial train yesterday to his headquarters. The rebels are said to be preparing to make ad- vauce movements in the spring upon our army in Virginia, with a view to drive them back to Wash- ington, and, if possible, to force them to another battle om the old Bullrun field. This measure is said to be pressed upon General Lee by the authorities at Richmond, in order to relieve the despondency existing there. It is stated by rebel deserters that the want of forage is so great as to necessitate the disbanding of General Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry uatil the 17th of March, when they hope to obtain grass to sus- tain their horses, The Navy Department has received information that the work upon the rebel iron-clads has been temporarily suspended. Deserters continue to come into General Kelley's lines. It is stated that since the 16th ultimo mearly two thousand of them have found refuge with the Union army. The scouts are capturing @uerillas every day. Major Cole, commanding a battalion of the First Maryland cavalry, had a ekirmish on Saturday with a portion of Mosby's command at Piedmont Station, in which he took @eventeen prisoners and killed five and wounded a large number of the enemy. His own loss was two killed and two wounded. Mosby and his men ‘were taken by surprise. It appears that the Major had received a notice of his promotion to a lieutenant colonelcy, and he and hia officers and afew sympathizing friends were celebrating the occasion, as soldiers do now and just then, very jovially, when the sutler’s stores are in g00d condition, and were no doubt making speech- ea in liquid measures, when Major Cole came down mpon them and grabbed seventeen of them, dressed in their Sunday clothes, in which, like Goldsmith's Moses preparing for the fair, they had decked Chemacives to do suitable honor to the festive scent. For once, therefore, a few captnred rebél officers were found with good coats on their backs and untarnished gold lace on their shoulders. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Africa arrived at Halifax on Saturday, and reached Boston last evening, with European advices to the 7th instant. The news is three days later. Its main points appeared in the Hematp yesterday morning, and a full telegraphic report of the details is given in our columns to-day. The very latest news from the theatre of war in Bohleswig-Holstein states that the Danes had evacuated Schleswig and their great defence work of the Dannewerk. Cotton was firmer. Breadstuffs dull. Provisions ‘and produce were steady on the 6th instant. Consols, for money, 90% a 90%, on the 6th instant. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Virginia, which left Liverpool on the Forenoon of the 24 and Queenstown on the 3d dnst., arrived at this port yesterday after- moon. Her news and newspaper files have been e@nticipated. The United States steam transport John Rice, Captain Beaston, arrived at this port yesterday morning, in five days from Hilton Head. She Drings the Ninth and Eleventh Maine regiments veterans), There are four hundred and thirty gnen of the Ninth, of which the following are the wflicers:—Colonel, Sabine Emery; Lieutenant Colonel, Zina H. Robinson; Captains, Robert A. Grey, Joseph Noble, Sylvester B. Tivy, Wm. A. Barrows and Billings Brastow; Lieutenants, Levi, Hi. McKenney, Benj. F. Whitton, Josiah C. Beal, ‘Wi. L. Hughes, James L. Thompson and Joshua &. Rows ‘The skating bal! was ap at an early hour yesterday Morning, and long before noon a numerous throng of visitors appeured on the Park. Previous to that hour the ice was in excellent condition on ‘the upper ponds, but was not quite as good on ‘the lower lake. The southerly wind and the warm @un, however, soon had their effect upon the frozen warface, and it became softand porous. In the w@fternoon the crowd increased to such numbers was to render the ice unsafe, and it therefore be- came necessary to lower the ball and clear the ponds long before the usual hour. The number of wisitors to the Park before dusk was estimated at Beotweon eighty and ninety thousand. The drive eras olso very lively with vehicles during the after. Booe Professor Mattison, at his church in Forty-ninth @troot, last evening, roundly denounced ail those are opposed to the clergymen’s war the innocent pastime of raffling at fairs ee beats oe RU NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY .22, 1864. Rev, Wm. Alvin Bartlett delivered @ dis- course at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last evening on the Sanitary Fair. After alluding to the vast bene- fits which would accrue to the suffering soldiers from this fair the reverend gentleman spoke of the lottery business in connection with it. He held that raffling was not right, but decried the idea of bringing up the doctrine at this particular time. St. James’ Roman Catholic church, situated in James street, was reopened for public worship yesterday. The church has been redecorated and three new altars placed therein, There can be nothing more beautiful than the interior decora- tions and arrangements of this edifice at present. There is scarcely a church in the country that can equal it in this respect. The services yesterday consisted in high mass, at which Rev. Father Brennan, the pastor, officiated. Very Rev. Father Starrs, V. G., delivered an excellent discourse upon the occasion. There was quite a large num- ber of clergy presgnt. ‘The share market was feverish and unacitiod Saturday, and the stocks of all the New Yerk ratiroads, which ad- vanced.in price ee rapidly during the past seek, took @ Sudden turn, and sbld a tall to two anda ball per coat lower thaa en the previous day. Gold was inactiva, with barely sufficiont transactions to mark quotations. Government securitics were teas Grm, apd couté be pur- chased a iraction below the bighest prices of friday, Money continued easy at six per cont. The buoyant feoling caused by the European news brought on Fri@ay by the City of Manchester, was ¢ermi nated by the receipt of the later advices brought by the Africa and received on Saturday, and the influonce of the intelligence by the former vesse! was counteracted by that of the latter; the markets accordingly were dull, and prices of many articles ruled io favor of the buyers. Import ed merchandise, however, was generally firmly bold On ’Change things wore somewbat mixed. Opora- tions in wheat partook largely of the cbaracteristica at the stock and gold exchanges. Prices wont up and down, and then up again, upon the strength of tho conflicting news from Furope by the steamer bere, and the one at Hal the market finally closing 1c. a 2°. above Saturday’ nge prices, Flour opened lower, but finally closed at about previous prices. Hog products wero without decided change | Whiskey was firm, but not active. Froights were deci- dedly better, but rather quiet, American vossels are in better favor, and command nearly as bigh rates as British vessels. Several packets ready to sail aro detain- od for want of crews, and an advance of one hundred dollars per man was paid on Saturday to complete a list. Cotton ‘was dull and heavy. Groceries were generally quiet, and without espocial change. Potroloum was quiet aud « shade lower. The Px idency—I'he Opportunity and the Ticket for the People. In the very beginning of the Presidential agitation of 1864 we have the important fact disclosed that, from the divisions and confu- sion prevailing in our regularly organized po- litical p:rty camps, there is an inviting op- portunity for an independent election by the people. The republican Presidential party of 1860 has ceased to exist. Ita,mission—the exclusion of slavery from the Territories—was fulfilled with Abraham Lincoln's election. South Caro- lina 80 understood and accepted the result in defiantly seceding from the Union one month | afterwards, in pursuance of a preconcerted programme for a Southern confederacy. The whole thing had been nicely obntrived under Mr. Buchanan’s consenting administration, and thus Mr. Lincoln and his party and the loyal States, with the retirement of the imbecile Bu- chanau, were.called upon to face aformidable Southern conspiracy, organized as an independ- ent confederacy, and armed, ready and eager for war. The new administration, in behalf of the integrity of the Union, accepted the issue of war, and for a time all opposition in the loyal States was hushed by the spontancous and in- the Union. Thus from the great New York war meeting in Union square in April, 1861, in which even that now deluded peace man, Fernando Wood, participated, down to the autumn elections of 1862, there was hardly the sbow in any of the loyal States of any serious opposition to the administration. But the extraurdinary war measures adopted in 1862, including the unconstitutional emanci- pation and confiscation acts of Congress, and the sweeping and alarming arbitrary arrests and imprisonments made under the secret orders of the State Department andthe War Office, alarmed the conservative elements of the loyal States; and next, the military blunders, fail- ures and disasters of the administration ral- lied these conservative elements into a power- ful opposition movement. The general result was a significant political reaction, involving the defeat of the administration in all the great Central States from New York to Illinois. The Nortbern democracy in these elections, upon their simple platform of the constitutional rights of the people and a vigorous proseci- tion of the war, had the way ‘to success in factious peace leaders, such as Vallandigham, the two Seymours, the two Woods arid the two Brookses, would not have it so, and dragged their party after them into the dismal swamp of peace with Jeff. Davis at any price, in which they were completely cut to pieces and de molished as a party in the elections of 1863. Thus broken up, routed and spattered to the four winds, we find to-day the dislocated fragments of the Northern democracy and their conservative allies from the rump of the old Know Nothing concern. In the hope, perhaps, that ‘something may turn up” in the interval to their advan- tage, we next find s Democratic National Convention appointed at Chicago for the 4th of July. We presume, however, that the “shent-per-shent” administration of the effects of the defunct party, following the invariable matter of fact policy of the tribe, will call this convention together on the “glorious Fourth,” only to knock it down to the highest bidder, excepting Vallandigham, who has been declared inelligible for 1864 by the late deci- sion of the Supreme Court. And how stands to-day the so-called repub- lican party? It basandergone so many trans- formations since 1860 that we cannot undertake to conjecture in what shape it will next appear. It will suffice for the present that it is all adrift. It is divided into three principal factions—the Lincoln faction, the Chase faction and the Fremont faction, and various little cliques. The TAncoln faction is working actively to supersede a national convention; the Chase fac- tion, as will be seen by its first campaign mani- festo, published to-day ‘in another column, is engineering to secure and control a con- vention; while the Fremont faction, of the out- and-out German radicals, is organizing for the specific purpose of defeating the nomination or the election of both “Honest Old Abe” and his ambitions Secretary. Of course, from such a state of things in the administration and in the opposition camps, we have the prospect before us of a demoralizing, dangerous and revolu- tionary serub race—e misfortune which it be- comes the duty of the people to avoid by pro- viding for » smooth, harmonious and satisfac- a Agony ROT ik ibis greng objogt, ty bo gained? dignaot uprising of their people in the cause of | 1864 clearly pointed out to them. Bat thejr { We answer, by the simple process of an inde- pendent movement of the peopie upon an inde- pendent Presidential ticket. But what ticket can thus be carried triumphantly through’ We answer, that the independent ticket of Gene- ral Grant for President and General Dix for Vice President, and with the understanding that General McClellen is identified with this ticket as our future General-in-Chief, will be a satesfactory combination of popular men. Such a ticket, upon the platform of the speedy and complete suppression of the rebellion, retrench- ment and reform, and an amendment of the constitution utterly abolishing slavery, will sweep the field, East and West Let the independent men of the country, who desire a harmonious election and a strong and capable administration for the crisis be‘ore us, proceed to put their heads together in be- half of this, suggested ticket and platform, and their strength willcoon be made manifest. 77> Brosvwav Rawn9sv.—Tho question of acail- tend in Broadway has again ‘been brought be- fore the Legislature at Albany. {t ‘has made ite annual visit there for the Jast ten years, and will no doutt continue to make its annual ap- pearance as long as it furnishes a rich placer for the lobby, or until ft is finally settled. For several years it was dressed up by Weed, Sharpe, Sweeny and other railroad patriots, and paraded at the State capital under their nourishing care They managed on two or three occasions to almost accom- plish their design and secure its passage But as often ag it was presented the property holders on that great thoroughfare and the gen- eral sentiment of the city against it defeated the project. Finally Weed anf his associates be- came tired of the contest and left the field, and the scheme was next presented by some of the wirepullers in the radical or Greeley faction, and was more or less used in favor of the clec- tion of Greeley to the United States Senate. A year agoit waa once more disinterred by some of its original supporters or well knowa lobby- mea of this city, with Law, the gridiron patriot, as an associate. Under the pressure brought to bear it received the sanction of both branches of the Legislature; but the Governor very wisely put his foot upon it, and thus prevented its final consummation The Harlom Company has taken poasession of the project this winter, and, basing its claim upon the action of the Common Council last spring, now asks for the right to lay a rail- road in Broadway, and thus despoil that street. Ita introduction bas, according to reports, aroused the ‘patriota of last year, and rumor has it that they are preparing to move, bag and baggage, to Albany to oppose the Harlem Company, and probably to present a scheme of their own for a Broadway railroad. But behind and above all this the old questions remain unsettled—is a railroad in Broadway needed? Is it a-necessity? Wilt it not increase the diffi- culty instead of relieving that thoroughfare? We have been unable to see anything to change the position heretofore held by us that it is not required, and that it will be injurious to Broad- way and its vast interests to operate a railroad in it. The owners of property on that street we know still entertain the same opinion. If the claim could be established that a raitroad in that street is a necessity and would not operate dis- advantageously to the business of the atreet— which it cannot—then the project of the Har- lem Company might be worthy of considera- tion, inasmuch as it divides some of the enor- mous revenue and gives a tax-ridden city some benefit for this valuable franchise, which none of the former schemes proposed to do. We insist that one street shall be left free from railfoad tracks for carriages and proces- sions to pass through. All the side streets are now monopolized by railroada, either in opera- tion or in course of construction. Take Broad- way and there is none left. Will the Legiala- ture please bear this in mind when they come to vote on this measure’ Geverat. Fremonr’s Grrevances.—General Fremont bas written a fetter to General Schenck, the Chairman of the Military Com- mittee of the House, which may be regarded, we suppose. as a very significant document, coming from an independent candidate for the Presidency. It is anything but friendly in its tone towards the administration. Indeed, it is’ anevere rebuke for harah treatment at their hands, which the General complainsof as un-” jest and joffensive—first, in retiriag him from active service against his wil! for the apace of Gixteen months; next, in reducivg himto serve” under Gen. Pope, which be pronounces “an un- merited insult;” and finally, in giving an import- ant command, which waa expressly arranged for him by the Secretary of War and approved by the President during the last session of Con- gress, to anotber officer General Fremont is grievously offended at these alights, and he takes the opportunity of telling tbe public so. Tax Tricxsters oF Tak Luoisiarere.—Nearly all the corrupt and selfish schemes got up in the Legislature, such as Broadway railroads, charters and transfers of charters, commissions to cut up and destroy the beautiful suburbs of this city, and @ host of other jobs, are instigated by the politicians of Tammany and Mozart. To carry out their plans they are notreligiously scrupulous about partisan affinities, provided the spoils be fairly divided; aod they make catspaws of the more verdant Solons and Ly- ourguses from the country districts to consum- mate their iniquity It is right that that the rural members should be warned not to lend a band to the success of measures regarding affairs in the metropolis, about which they know nothing—measures for the most part both mischievous and corrupt. They should remember that the infamy of such transactions attaches to the whole body of the Legislature, while the profit goes into the pockets of the tricksters from this city Boriorme up Byivence.—We have received a copy of a circular, issned by the Navy De- partment to local inspectors of machinery for naval vessel, charging them to bo more careful in future in relation to their several dutics with the censtructors. The whole purpose of this document is to en.) able Mr. Welles and his subordinates, whea charged before the Committee of Investigation with a useless expenditure of the public money, to show that they attempted to do what was right in the premises. Like the solitary prose- oution of @ defaulting navy contractor the other day, it comes rather lata to bolster up the case of the department. Rars Daseetina ry —The rebel General Price has received » porpetuol fut: Geverat MoCrarian ane Tae Apunnsena- tron.—General McOlellan’s report has now been in the bands of the public for some days, and has been very extensively read by tho more intelligent portion of the people. It has fully established that soldier before the coun- try as the ouly person who at the outset of the war fully appreciated the vastness of the rebel- lion and bud a clear comprehension of the means by which it could be put down; and in this way that report amply justifies the eclat with which General McClellan is received wherever he makes his appearance, especially by the soldiers, and gives the lie to all the malign statements made against him by the ad- ministration and its supporters. Since the ua- just and cruel removal of General McClellan from the command of the Army of the Poto- mac not a single movement has been made on. this side the ANeghany Mountains that could in auy way. tend to shorten the war‘or put down the tebellion. When tho administration threw away this single sotdier it sooms'te eave turqwa away its whole power to injure the encmy in the Hast. Sustained aloue by: the | mililary advice of the Waeshingtoe Directory, tho President has carried on a contemptitie struggle, whose reault has been to impoverish the country, but not to injure the enemy. The administration interfered with the penin- sular campaign, and, by its withdrawal of sixty thousand men from the number that had been assigned as necessary to carry that campaign to a successful issue, caused its failure. The ad- ministration, by iws suspension of General Mo- Ciellan in August, 1862, caused the successive disasters of Pope's campaign. And the ad- ministration, by the removal of General Me- Clellan in the fall of 1862, caused directly the massacre at Fredericksburg, the greater mas- acre at Chancellorsville, the advance of Lee into Pennsylvania, where the country was saved by the stubbora qualities of our soldiers, and Lee’s eventual escape across the Potomac, which gave another year of éxistence to the re- bellion. All this the administration has done; but it bas not given an effective biow in the East towards the destruction of the confederacy since General McClellan was sacrificed to the clamor of the radicals. Tue Nava Apvisory Boarv.—Theyproceed- ings of this irresponsible tribunal, under which 80 mauy officers of good standing were de- graded without being allowed an opportunity of defending themselves, are about to undergo a thorough overhauling. Under, a resolution introduced by Mr. Schenck, the whole of the evidence, if any, taken before the Board is to be laid before the’ House of Representatives. When we state that this commission sat with closed doors, kept no record of their proceed- ings, and passed judgment on more tbau seven hundred officers, without allowing those whose cases they decided adversely to be. present or to be heard by counsel, the justice of a revi- sion of their decisions will be apparent. Ia some inatances we kaow for a fact that the re- cords of the Navy Department are entirely at variance with the judgments of the Board, there not being o single scratch of the pen against the officers oversiaughed. On an ap- peal to him, Mr. Lincoln referred back these cases to the Navy Department, with a recom- mendation tbat a fresh investigation should be instituted. The Secretary of the Navy, whilst admitting the hardships, stated that he was powerless to apply a remedy, as the act under which the board was appoiated left him no dis- cretion in the matter. An appeal was then made to Congress, and a bill was introduced providing for the relief 6f those officers who could make out their claims to redress. It passed both houses unanimously; but when it went to Mr. Lineoln for signature he quietly pocketed it, assigning as a reason “that it would in effect be the establishing a board to condemn the proceedings of a previous board.” Io a country like this such a motive for quashing an appeal for redress for alleged in- juries is not for a moment to be admitted. Ac- cordingly the friends of the oyersianghed offi- cers have taken steps to have the evidence on which the Board has acted produced before Congress, in order that the country may decide how far justice has been consulted in their re- spective cases. Mors or rae Frvrrs ov Treasoy.—Another evidence of the exteat to which secession has debauched its followers isto be found in the statements recently made by Lieut. M. ¥. Maury in the London press. reiative to what be alleges to be forgeries by Northera journals, Mr. ‘Maury wus heretofore reported to be a gentieman, and coasequently « man of honor and truthfulness; yet he stoops ¢o the publica- tion, over his own name, of charges which are manifestly false for the purpose of bolstering up the rebel cause. He states that fac similes of Richmond papers in size, type and advertise- ments have been got up in the North, and the reading matter filled in of Northern manufacture, and circulated as “Southern utterances” to de- ceive the world. It is strange that this discovery was never made before. Again he says that the published report of Mr. Mallory, the rebel Se. cretary of the Navy, is a “take in,” a “spurious thing,” and that no such document was ever issued by him. Now Lieut. Maury must know very well that this document is genuine, for it appeared in the Richmond papers as part of the official proceedings of the rebel Congress, and its genuineness was never questioned. But his statements only show to what desperate straits the “confederacy” is driven, and how far its representatives have become depraved. Tor War tw Scaceswia.—We publish this morning ® map exhibiting the territory em- braced in the scene of military opera- tions now being carried on by dhe allied forces of Germany against the Danes. This map is accompanied by an explanatory article setting forth*the geographical position of Schleswig and Holstein, as well as the situa. tion of the points through which the invasion of the duchies was completed, and the location of Missunde and Bustorf, the towns assaulted by the Austrians and Prussians on the 2d and 3a of February. We have also traced the course of the principal zivers which bound and run through the duchies. A description of the great Danish bulwark of the Dannewerk is also given, the whole forming a valuable key for the better understanding of the very im- portant military movements which may be re- ported from Europe from day to day. The very latest news by the Africa states that the Danes had abandoned the Danne- work. This requires, in our opinion, con- firmation, ae the act would be a virtual sub. mission of the kingdom of Denmark to the scesieg of Brunia and Angicie, @rovented by She coguiar decreane in the rates | domands of the German Dict, backed up by the Wasmnarom, Fob. 24, 1864 cage where Proceedings | have — PAE TRESIDENOY—THE MANIFESTO OF THM CUABE tect or "oeule grin at the" Untied 8 The publication ycaterday, by the Conséitutional Union, | with cote er Febsliion ond bot Of tho excepted clase, Of the circular of the Chase National Executive Commit Tet anethgen tee vanie nt an Nivel of ee, signed by Senator Pomeroy as chairman, bas created | Not Raving wolervened, you. will ee 2 a -® Profound sensation in political circles. For several | end to, 9, BFooeédings whouever the person se week: barged eball juce evidence sacisfactory to you # it Las been known to a favored fow that such am | f)i789), Silt yee ee ee poe} organization existed, but weithor its existence wor char- | compliow with the Ceouition prescribed by tho Peas ector was suspected by those not in the secret until this | dent's proclamation o: che 8th of December, 1463. Nor. Publication, The bold and unequivocal position of how. Ulity to Bir, Lincoln, and preference for Mr. Chase, a8 sumedin tI Circular, have been the subject of much commen! Ihe fact is known that this document has been extensively circulated among prominent republicans in all the States; and the high politioal reputation of the men by whoni it was originated gives to it unusual importance, It.gives evideuce that a very large aumber of the loaders of Uho republican party strongly endorse the argumouts of the Hakap tho ‘rowlection of Mr, Lincejn, and that the adioala iutend to concentrate -all available force upon Mr, Chage ag their candidate for the Presidovoy. THE GOVERNMENT WAR LOAME, ETC. ‘Atleution “has boon called to tho ananifestations ‘of singutariy dncroaging ceuGdonce to the goverment is it neceRsary that the evidence he produces should be a deed of pardon.eigned by the President. 1 would be quite impossib' the President to furnish the muitt- tude who are now availing themselves of the bencfits of the proclamation, and who are likely to do so h With this format evidence of pardon it will be suificioat to justi'y your action if the party seeking to be relieved from further proceedings shal! prove to your full satisfac tiem that he bas in good faith taken the oath and brought himseli within the conditions of pardon and amnesty set forth to the proclamation, If ip any case you mave g60d reason to boliave that the oath has been taken for @t which pubic toans have boom aogotixted sitce the commencnment of he ‘war, ‘Tho fast Joan wogotiated by Mr. Buchaian, by the -Issuo of two year bonds, was mogotiated at twelve per cent, all of which debt, principal and interest, has since been paid in coin. Tho Grat wan effected by Mr. Ohaso was readily taken At seven and three tenths per cent. Tho next, the fivo twootios, was grocdily sought alter at six por cont. ‘The ton-forty bonds to be next issued will bear an in- torest of only five per cent; and if a subsequent loan should be needed the Secretary of the Treasury intends to offer only four por cent interest on it. THE REDRLS PREPARING FOR OFFENSIVE MOVEMENTS. A prominent citizen of Virginia, rocontly arrived here from Richmond, states that tho rebels are preparing for offensive movements carly m the spring An effort will be made to drive the Army of the Potomac back upon Wasbington by demonstrations along the Blue Ridge, and if possible to force a battle upon the Gainesville and Bull run fields. The authorities at Richmond demand this of General Lee, in order to avert the despondency and disin- tegration that must ensue throughout the South in case of any further retreat pon Richmond—believing au un- successful attempt for the capture of Washington prefer- able to disastor while acting on tho defensive. WORK SUSPENDED ON THE REBEL IRON-CLADS. From information in possession of the Navy .Depart- mont it appears that the rebels have almost entirely suspended work upon their iron-clads. Three aft com- pleted at Charleston and two aro ta process of construc- tion there, The scarcity of material, however, will do- lay their completion sovoral months. Thoro is but one iron-clad in the James riyor—tho Richmond. Two are nearly completed, but their guns have been Temoved to the fortifications of Charleston. No hopes are entortaing™ by the rebels of making their iron- clads available at cither of these points, and very little attention is given them by the revel goveroment. THE RROKL CAVALRY BUFFERING FOR roRragz. Rebel deserters ata'o that Fitzbugh Lee’s cavalry has been disbandea until tbo 17th of March, ia consequence Of the soarcity of forage, and that the rebel cavalry corps is being scattered throughout tho, country in the rear of Leo's army for the purpose of procuring forage until apring ball afford auflicient grass for tho sustenance of tho animals. s b THE REORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY OF THE PO- TOMAO. view ; Genera! Meade was in Washington yeatorday, conault, ing with the President relative to the proposed reorgani. zation of the Army of the Potomac. “He foturned to-day tured at 8oa,.a8 enomy's property , than to: dor tho act of Auguat, 186i, and July, 1862, Such foituros are punished, not so much to punish. the ow: prohibit commercial intercourse though the remission of forfeitures under the act of July, 1861, aro thus not within the scope of the prociama- tion of pardon, still ample power is- conferred om tho Secretary of the Treasury by the eighth section of shat act to mitigate or remit all forfeitures and penalties incurred under the act. And it is nob to be doubted that in all proper cases undor that act, where the owner of the property rosiaing in the torritery of rebe:lion complies with the condition of the proclama- tion, the Secretary of the Treasury will exercise the power of remission of such forfeiture in the same snirit of generous forbearance and liberality which inspired and characterizes the proclamation. Very respectful- ly, &., TITIAN J. COFFEY, Acting Attorney General. Coréners’ Inquests, Fatan Resunt oF A STARING AFrRaY,—Richard Johnson, the colored man who was stabbed in the back with @ sharp pointed pocket knife in the hands of Jobn Beok- with, also colored, while they were quarreling in the dance house of George Cornelius, No. 164 Church street, early on the morning cf the 15th inst., as previously re- ported in the Herat, died late on Saturday evening, im the New York Hyspital, Both the parties wore patie intoxicated at the time of the occurrence, Thoy been staunch friends for tho last seventeon years an@ lived together in fhompson street. It is believed that the use of the knife on the part of Beckwith was an im- pulsive act, and his friends assert that be bad no inten- tion cf taking Johnson's life, or oven doing him serious injury. Beckwith, whé was arrested at the time officer Williamson, of tbe Filth precinct. is still in the Tombs. Coronor Naumann was notified and will bold am inquest over the remains of deceased to-day. The knife used by the prisoner has not been found. Datu ov 4 Domratio rrom Burns.—Coroner Ranney hela an inquest at 78 West Thirty-third street on the body of Catharine Carey, an Irish woman, thirty-four years of ago, whose death was the result of burns. Deceased was adomostic in tho family of Mrs. Julia A. Sutherland, andafow nights ago, while she was sitting by a hed stove nursing a baby, her clothes caught fre, and before aid reached b clothing was nearly congumed; but, Btrapge Ww Biy, (he child escaped unbarmed. The poor ‘woman died in twonty-four hours afterwards, Tho jury penny ‘a vordict of ‘Death from burns accidentally re- wed.’ . Faratty Burvep wma “Inroxicaran.—On Saturday evoning Margaret Keane, who lived at-428 Cherry street, while partially intoxicated ventured too near @ hot stove. thereby setting her dress on fire, She was terri- Diy burned about ber bead, face and body.: Tho Thir~ teenth prociact police conveyed her to the New York Pil died soon after: by apectal train to thp hoadquartora of tho army. - The | Hspital,.whero. she a trip trom Washington to Brandy Station was made in two'| ride”, Held an inquest oe, the bedy and: the ery ree. thirty-cight yoars of age and a native of Ireland. A Cun Fararty Scatpxn,—An toquest was held at 161 Lewis street by Coroner Wildey, on the body of Catharine Pug, a child fifteen months old, who died from the effects of scalds received on Thursday last. De- consed was sitting in a bigh chair at the table, near a tub of hot water, and during the absence of Mrs. Plug fell Inte the tub, and was tnere found by the mother on ber return, Death ensued on Saturday, hours and three minutos. THE SOAROITE OF SEAMEN IN THU NAVE 4ND roR . REMEDY. ‘There are-at the prosont Lime fourtoon mavai vessois all ready (or ea, with all their stores aod officers on board, but detainod for the want of men The Congressional delogation from California called upon. Secrotary Wolles a (ow days aince, to ee tf an additional naval force could not be seat to the Pacific coast, where re is great necessity. for an iacrease of the force. They wero informed that the Wateree was then lying at the Washington Navy Yard, and all ready for sea, and had been for some time wader ordors for the Pacific; but she was short ono hundred men and could notideave in consequoace. Upon this Mr. Conness intro- duced his joint resolution authorizing the transfor of men from the military to the naval service, for tbe apecial Pbdject of enabling vessels to be sent to the Pacific. The resolution has passed both houses. bat with a proviso that such transfer should not be made from regiments below the mioimam number, which, under the construction of the Brooklyn City News, Destruction or 4 Tonacco Factory py Fins.—The em tensive tobacco factory of Mr. Thomas Watson, situated in Sedgewick street, between Van Bruat and Clinton atroots, was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The flames wero first discovered about a quarter past eleven o'clock , and every exertion was made by the Fire Depart- ment to suppress them; but in consequence of a large amount of inflammable material which had ignited, it was impossible to do more than noigbboring buildings As near as can be the fire originated from a grate on the second Gupposed that some live Conis fell out, some dried tobacco leaves which wer the flames communicated to @ “tl ul i tier 1 Secretary of War, virtually nullifies it, and he will not Sa consent that & men shall be transferred. By an amend- | soon oad ies etee copeed Soowel ee ‘mout to the enrolment law both aoamen and ordivary sea- | outiro building was gutted. The stock on hand, men can be transferred, under reguiations to be prescribed | gogehner with machinery. 6 valued, Ot STA atoms by the President; and undor the pronsing necessity which | water. Tho machinery was in the bieement, and very existe for rectuits in the naval service, he wil! no doubt | little injared. The building is owned by Mr. Charlee Kelsey, Sen. , whore loss amounts to about $5,000. There aro some insurances on the building aud contents in New York and Brooklyn offices, but not sufficient to cover the losses suatained. The tob.cco manufactory of Buchanan & Co., adjoining, was damaged t» the extent of about $2,000 by water. Chief Kugincer Cuani im, of the Brooklyn Fire De- eee fell through a trap door, while ongaged io giv- orders, aud was severely injured. hile proceetling to the fire Mr. Elijah Bonnett, re- siding at No. 229 Smith atrost, was run over by Engine No. T,on the coruer of pees and Joralomon ‘Both arme were broken and bis skull fraciured. wes iu” procari: us condition Jaat ovéning. Vorensr or Miutary enone, —Yesterday afteroooa the fomaing of Capt. Jobn Sullivan aed Lieut. Jobo J. Irwta, ‘both of (ue Niveticth ragiment New York Volunteers, werseonveyed from the Governor's Reem, in the City Hat!, to their respective places of birial, The deceksed wero formerly members of the Thirteonth meat mitt. tia, and prrticipated in the first three the’ Cam- pa‘gn im nage 4. On returning home they aided te raising the Nineticth regiment, and to Key West, whore, acting fevers, they died. The coffins were of mihorany, encased in boxes, dressed with black Each bore a silver at once proscribe such regulations: The Departme:t have been compefitd to retain in ser- vice for months alter tbeir time has expired sailors who are entitled toand should in justice have received their discharge; but the exigencies of the service bave been such that itcould not be given them. During all this time the Department have beon in receipt of hundreds of applications from seamen who have got into the military service, and who dosired to be transferred tothe navy; out heretofore this could not oe dows. Ths depleted ranks of Che biuy jackets will pow probally be epacdiy Gilled up, andthe efficieacy of the navy very much ine creased thereby. ; DEATH OF EK-RKPRESENTATIVE BOULIGNY, OF LOUIS: IANA. Ex-Representative Boulgoy, of Louisiana, died here yesterday. He sterniy refused to follow the oxampie of bis colleagues and (be other secession mombers im with. drawing from the House during the Thirty-sixth Congress, and served the full term for which he was elected ARRIVAL OF GOYRRNMENT FORAGE. The steamers Tortiand and Kingston, towing twelve government barges loaded with forage, for the safety of which some apprehensions were entertained, arrived here last night. The Portiand cut a new channel through ice Bix inches in thickoess from Maryland Point to the wharf in this city. IMPORTANT CIROU! ‘ROM THE UNITED STATES AT- TOBNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE—RESTORATION OF THE PROPERTY OF REPENTANT REBELS, ETO. The following circular bas been made public:— Wasinncton, Feb. 31, 1864 Srm—Many persons against whom criminal fodictments, or agatuat whose property proceeuings under the Confis- cation laws, are pending in the courts of the United States, growing out of the cipation of such persons io the existing rebellion, in good faith taken the oath bed by the proclamation of the President of the jth of December, 1863, and have therefore eutiticd them. Selves to the full pardon ond restoration of ali rights of Property, except as to slaves, and where the rights of third parties have intervened, which that proclamation offers and secures. The President's pardon of a pereon guilty of acts of rebollion will of course relieve that per- 800 from the penalties incurred by bis crime, and wherean indictment is pending against him therefor the’ production ot the pardon, signed by the Prosident, or of gutixtactory evidence that he has complied with the catiditions on which the pardon is offered, if he be not of the class ex. cepted from the bevelits of the proc'amation, will be a suMcient reason for discontinuing such criminal - ings and discharging him from custody thereif. Nor is it lesa doubtful that a bona fide acceptance of the terns of the President's proclamation by persons guilty of acts of rebellion, and not of the excepted class, will seoure to such perso restoration of all the rights of property, except as to slaves and where the rights of third parties shall have intervened, notwithstanding such pro- | ag perty may by reason of those gets of rebellion MAVe | Lay. cloth and ornamented with silver, plate, containing the following inscriptions. That of Cap- tain Sullivan was as follows:— Captain John Sullivan, Ninetieth regiment New York Vole unteers, died at Key West, Fin, August 16, 1863, aged forty- six years, utenant Irwin's coffin was insoribed tho fol- Lieutenant John J. Irwin, Ninetieth regiment New York Fplanieers, died at Key West, Fis., August 31, 1862, aged years, A cross of immortelles was piaced on the coffin of the Captain, and a wreath of never fading flowers on that af the Lieutenant. The former was conveyed to the Ceme- tery of the Holy Cross, in Flatbush, and the latter to be Oni it Cemetery, in Newtown, Queens county. orts consisted of one company of the Thirteent and one company of the Forty-seventh regi- ment, both preceded by bands of music. ‘The flage of the City Hall wore displayed at half-mast td honor of the deceased. The President and a Marderer. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. On the 18th of October last the Provost Marshal of Williamsbury firet lieutenant in the First Now Yorks Mounted Rifles, the son of one of our most respecta- bie citizens, was deliberately and without provocation shot dead whilst in the performance of his duty by one of bis guard, Patrick Boyle, an unmitigated vilisin and the worst fellow in the regiment. this dreadful crime Boyle was tried by a court martial, and, as there was nota oy redeeming feature, found guilty and sea. tenced tobe hanged. This sontence was approved Goo. Batler, and every one Son it would at ones be sake of discipline and.as a terror to evil. rprise, however, of the regiment, and. ew of the circumstances, Président Itogether unaccountable, and, so far in jodge, for causes unjustifial suspended this 0, Mark the consequences -— je, pending the been to confiscation under the = pre | guapensiom, escaped to tue rebels from Fort re visions of eonfiecation acts of August 6, 1861, | Whora.ne was coniined, and, thore is the best cones rot chapter 60, July 17. 1862, chapter 195. For. without | Helieving, conveyed to the rebels the intended advance adverting tu her source of power in the President | oy Richmond.cavsing the failure of that woll planned to restore th woperty, the rteonth FEOLION | oy pedite We wish some one would explain why the of the aot of authorizes the President at | procident interfered with the military Inw in this cae, ly 17, any time theren'to by proclamation, to extend to per sons who may have participated) in the existing rebellion im any Stato or part thereoi, pardon and amnesty, with Withoot such explanation and bas been attended with quences. such exceptions, and at ‘auch trmes a =a virgen ow eer ete. tt ath Bataty 00 naan tioned, T sup. Sailing of the North repro = pese, that the purpose of tifis section, insert Portianp, Me , . 21, ed in a law mainly intended = to heron ‘The steamship North American, for Liverpool vie Lon- the property ot persons engaged rete pnok persons on | AOuderry, sailed at olght o'clock this morning. such coaditivns as he should prescribe from the penalty of loss of their property by Arriv Departures. Lavenroo.—Susemey Vi Aifet fe, Sea Bie Bertha, Maren ee.