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of reortiiting the armiss by voluateers rather than by tho conscription. The bit! granting Fropoh ship ‘La Mauuche was passed. No other b importance was transacted. “ In the House of Representatives tho dill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to soll surplus gold was ably disoussed by Mr. Stebbing and Mr. Fenton. Tn order to tost the sense of the House, a motion was made to lay the TERME cash im advance, Money sent by mail will be | subject on the table. This was defeated by nineteen may et the risk of the sender, None but bank bille current in | jority, and the discussion termivated for tho day, The New York taken, Conference Committee on the whiskey tax then made a roport to the effect that they were unable to on the TBE DAILY HERALD, Taree conte per copy. question of taxing spirits on hand, A motion that the NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence. We | House recede from its disagreemout to the Senate's do not return rejected communications. amendments was negatived by a vote of aixty-one to pe eee e | SevOniF-one, 4 manlion fo edher ta the clengronneey Volume XXIX ., sseeeeN@. 63 was carriod, and the House adjourned. ee THE LEGISLATURE, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Ia the State Sonate yesterday the aunual report of the —- Commissfoners of Emigration was received; also a mes- \ ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ingjng Place.—ItatiaN OPERA~ | gage from the Governor recommending an appropriation Taepeens Ronen, to pay additional clerical force in the Adjutant General's NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Linps D1 CHAMOUNIX, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Pone Gorn. NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrios N. Ww, donner OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. office to attend the registry of volunteering. Petitions were presented from Westchester and Dutchess counties for the Harlem-Broadway Raliroad. The bill allowing convicts to work out commutation of their sentences was ordered to its third reading. An adverse report was made on the bill legalizing the Kings county volunteer bounty bonds.” Another New York and Brooklyn Passenger aud Baggage Company bill wos given notice of; also a bill to amend the geueral insurance law, The bilis for the eatab- lishment of an inebriate asylum in this olty, to prevent drunkenness and vagrancy, and to. amend the act cstab- lishing the Charities and Correction Commission, were in- troduced and appropriately referred, The finai hearing of arguments on the Broadway Railroad bill, before the Railroad Committee of the Senate, was yesterday post- poned till next Weduesday afternoon. The Assembly spent the greater part of the day, io Committee of the Whole, over local bills, many of which wore ordered to their third reading. A portion of the | session was taken up in adebate on “the pill repesting | that section of the present Tax law exempting clergymen from taxation, It was ultimately amended so as to repeal all State laws exempting property from taxation, aud in that shape ordered toa third reading. The Assembly Committee on Citles bave appoiuted next Tuesday afternoon for the flual hearing of arguments on tue Metropolitan Police bill, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Governor Seymour last night received from Secretary Stanton a despatch announcing that the national bounties: to volunteers will be continued uatil further notice. § | Phe Board of Aldermen met yesterday aftersooa, Pre Brooklyn.--Ermiortan | sion: Henry in the chair. ‘Tho Mayor sent in a memo rial from the residents in the neiguborhood of West ‘Phirty-ninth street, praying for the al of a soap fat boiling establishment at the foot of Thicty-ninth street, WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Ticcer oF Leave JAN. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tamixa. 4 Borrga. LY, NI WERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Co.teex Bawx— a My Tasixen Jor-My Youxa Wire 4xD Oro Uxanacna. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hovse Bourt—Kos Ror—UirseY Fanner, Tuat Jack BARNUM’S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Four Dwarrs Atoixos, Wuat Ts 17, 0, as all b or Leave Maw—At 8and7 aM, Giants, TWO ours, Ticket BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hal!, 472 Broad. way.—Erusorian S0NG3, DANOES, BuRLESQUES, 40.—Taw 1c 4 BorreRriy. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway, —Ernropia orcs, Dances, &c.—Amenicay Orgra, Biro HUNTERS. AMERICAN TREATRE. No. 444 Broadway. —Batu Pantouimes, BuRLESQUES. 4 AZULME. i BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 433 Broadway.~Gru- paszig ano EqvestkiaN PeRyonMances, Afternoon sud venting. HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street. —Perronwixa Dogs ax Moxkrys. ' Afternoon and Evening. ‘HOPE CHAPEL, 718 Broadway.—Tug SrerroscorTicox on Mimror oF Tux Universe. SRHAN'S, £85 Broadway.—Srereoscorticon axp Mie- OF THR REBELLION W YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 6i8 Broadway.— ostmies axp Lecrenss, from 9A. M, til! 10 P.M. {OOLEY’S OP: Gs, Dances, BuRLESQUES, New York, friday, Murch 4, 1864. The news from General Kilpatrick up to the latest | hour last might was most satisfactory. On Wedaesilay he bad reached Hanover Junction and got ten miles | wouth of that poiot. He destroyed forty miles of the Virginia Central Railroad, from Beaver Dam to the Junc- | tion, thus cutting off General Lee's supplies from Rich- mond. The Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad from the Mattapony bridge to the {Pamuvkey river, ‘was also entirely destroyed. Kilpatrick avoided, ‘as far as possible, his raid, with any large force of the enemy, but some skirmishing ‘with General Hampton's cavalry wis carried on upoa his right flank near Spotsylvania Court House. Rumors were afloat in Washington yesterday that Geverai Kil- io a collision patrick had got as far as White House, and there formed | @ junction with General Butler but no such ivtel- ligence has reached us. [t seems to be still in doubt ‘whether Longstreet has reached Richmoad or not. We | cation explaining why certain and a varnish factory in Fortieth street, on the ground thst these places are ic nuisances. Tha Comptrolier, in answer toa resolution of inquiry. seat 1a a commupi- and yvorkmen ia the employ of the city had not received theit pay. Tho Auditor, it appears, discovered some frauda in the pay | rolis, and, boing uawilling to certify, the Comptroller was | unable to make avy payments watil- the matter was re- | medied, An attempt was made by Aldermay Hardy to have the obstructions in Battery place removed; bat the Camden and Amboy interest prevailed, and the reso- lutica fell through, A memorial from carmen, market men and others, praying for the removal of the Tra'l now in use aloag West, Front and South streats, was re. ceived and referred to the special Commitee on Rail- roads. A regolution directing the Committee on National Affairs to hayo a monument orectad ia Calvary Cemetery to the memory of decensed soldiers, at an expense not to exceed twelve thousand dollars, was adopted. The report of the Committee on Arts and Sciences, in favor of ap- propriating thirty-three thonsand dollars for the pur- chase of Mills’ statue of General Jackson was takea up and adopted. The Board then adjourned’ until Monday next. The Councilmen met at four o'clock yesterday, Presi- dent Hayes in the chair, The preamble and resolutions have therefore to endure a little more anxiety until posi tive iatelligence of the result of Kilpatrick's movement is received ‘The latest account of General Sherman, from Memphis from the Aidermen protesting against the proposed actin of the Legislature to piace the control of the vkets of this city in the hands of au irresponsible com mission were concurred in, The Board adhered to its former action in authorizing the Comptroller to issue bonds for the redemption of the bonds of the Union De- fence fund, which become due in November next. A committee of conference, consisting of the Finaace Com- mittee, was appointed to confer with the Aldermen on this subject. The Committee on National Afairs was directed to procure a stand of colors for the Sixtecuth regiment New York Volunteers (Foster's artillery). On motion of Mr. Brice, the Board adjourued until Monday next at one o'clock. - A meoting of the Chamber of Commerce was held yes- terday, the President, A. A. Low, presiding. A series of resolutions were passed with reference to the death of the late Thomas Tileaton, who bad been a member of the Chamber for many years, The President passed a high | eulogy on the deceased, which met with the appreciation of all present, The Board then adjourned, ‘The obsequies of Thomas Tileston took place yesterday afternoon, from his late residence, corner of Fifth ayeaue and Fourteenth street. The religious services were per- EUROPEAN NEWS. formed by the Rev. Drs Bellows aud Osgood, after ‘The steamship Conada, from Queenstown on the 2let of | which the remains were removed to the Second Street February, reached Halifax yesterday moruing, on her | Cemotery for temporary interment. is Et Wren two days out the Canada ting | The atimusl commencement of Bellovue Medical College | was celebrated last « vening at the Academy her machinery slightly disabled, and was at half speed | in the presence of thousands of our citizens. during the remainder of the voyage in consequence, The | were most prilliantly illuminated, and on every side news by the Canada is two days later. | beauty and joveliness rained down their enchanting The rebel privateer Georgia slipped out to sea from | showers. At seven o'clock the Academy was eo crowded Cherbourg Roads at midvight. Three Nortb Americau | that ingress and egress were equally impossible. The vessels, from Callao for Havre, arrived in the roads just | oeerciges and amusements of the evening were of tne atter the Georgia’ sailed. The case of the Pampero wae | tnoet select kind, and up to the hour when tho large again before the Court of Exchequer, Faimburg, and agua | gaaience dispersed there was enough to attract even adjourned. There was a ramer in London to the effect that Napajpen meditated a speedy recognition of the rebel confederacy, which bad the effect of causiog 6n the 29th ult., states that he had no doubt taken pos- session of Selma, Ala,, and bad captured five rebel gun- bouts there. A negro company ofthe First Mississippi infantry were Surprised and cut to pieces by rebel guerillas, dressed in Union uniform, near Tecumseh Landing, on the 14th nit., ‘while standing guard for a foraging party from the steamer Pringle. Oaly two of the ne_roes escaped death or mortal ‘wounds, Admiral Diblgren arrived at Washington yesterday, from Oharleston. All was quit thers, No more torpedo copspiracies were discovered since the successful attempt ©n the Liousatonic. Ail General Custer’s troops have reffroed to quarters. The privoners captured .po-k hopefully of the prospects of the confederacy, and say that the troops in Lee’s army | re receiving {ull rations, tvcluding coffee and sugar. Ay the arrival of the steamer Yazoo from New Orleans and Southwest Pass we bave news to the 25th ult. General Sherman's army was expected daily at Mobile. The capture of Montgomery, Ala., as well as Selma was | reported by deserters who joined the blockading fleet at | Mobile. to Boston. ple of art to do homage to the disciples of Bscutapi branebing into medical life from Bellevee Hosp! an advance in the rebel cotton loan. The report | apout nine o'clock last evening Jovathan Simpkins, was discredited at tho latest moment, Lord Clan-/ of starpiehemd, was united in matrimony to Mehetable ricarde is to call the attention of Parliamect | jonos, of Swansen, both of ye ancient colony of Massa- to tho subject of federal American recrvitments | cyugeits, The ceremony was performed by Rey. Dr to Iroland. The Attorney Genera! of England @x- | Jedediah Poundtext, in the Now England kitchen of the plained to the House of Commons the law with regard to the seizure of neutral vessels by Union cruisers in the waters of Mexico. The point for egal decision hinged entirely on the question whetber the captured vessels | were really in the waters of Mexico. The Roglish Cabi net bad not been informed of the captare of the ship Martaben by the Alabama. Secretary Seward bad ex Brookiyn Sanitary Fair. For full particulats of this a+ teresting event see our report-™ auother column, Up to a inte hour Jastevening the gross receipts of the fair amounted to about $319,000. Two men, named George Andrews and ©. Shaffer, were yesterday arrested and held for examination on the com- ca ¢ plaint of a Spiniard namea Rafael Ortega, who charges Prossod regret and offered reparation for the capture of & | (ua thoy aze proprietors of a gambling estabiishagent op Fobel vassl in a parbor of Nova Scotia | tie sooced fob &) 3. 335 Bebedwty 1s which, Be ba ‘The Corian troops had entered Jutiand. Lord Paimers- | 1 ; aes Gee a ton made a sirchg spesch in Parliament on the subject | on, 4, pedicom Fpce I ayy aperedrsoydlbarn OC the Austro-Pruasiad invasion of Schleswig, bat he dia | 24 azuere in a ome apt ot say what England would do if Jutland should be in |," ie ey ee eee ae san hte an ; . leges, is aleo a partver in the aforesaid establishment. inet council, hastily summoned, met i | Coroner Naumann Yesterday took the ante mortem ‘Loudon on the 20th nit. Napoleon was drawing’closer to |. sieméni of William Kumpf, who was stabbed with a isel by a fellow workman, named Adam Scheffer, on Denmark. Some of the leading journals of Paris and | Vieona are vor) sarvast Gel 0 astic on Dano-German POY | tye 15th of Inst month, in the cabinet manufactory 136 of Epgland, Thi ag aliad 0 Macha Pech ae pote Ladin street, Other wituesses were also examined, emergency. The German troops liad attacked the Danish | “°° CF does not deny the charge, but alleges that the | injaries were inflicte) in seldefence, He was committed | toawait the result of the injuries to Kampf, who, it ia | bought, cannot live-much longer, as he bas been sinking position at Duppel, along the pulsed after severe fighting ne, but were re. 2 were demanded ‘and paid in England on the vessels of both be igerente, ‘ , and naval retaliation on tradere was ordered on voth | rapidiy for tue past few days. sides. Twolvo Austrian war vessels were to put to goa |, > NaPer Was read lost evening before the Goographical Society, at Clinton Hall, by Joshua Leavitt, M.D, on “Denmark, Ite Condit) and Relations.’ The paper ably sketched the political and social aspects of Nen- to protect German merchanimen. Several Danish trou. clad vessels appeared in Flensburg-Fiord on the 18th | ultimo, and exchanged shots with tbe Prugsian artillery Tho minor States of Germany were likely (© separate | seve ud gave @ lucid analysis of the Sobleswig-Holstela ence Stik EOE nO dnt Pratt. | wuestion. Dir. Leavitt took the aide of Denmark, ead ‘The Archduke Maximilian was to reosive the Mexican | "eProsented that country as struggling against woprinc! oputation fo Vienga and ve proglaimed’ Emperor of | gp ae sted <io0. Previous to this he was to visit Bruseols, and at. |," "Toeste Tucker on Weduesiay proceeded with the trial of the Breus ud at the baptisen of the son of the Prince of Wales, in | jum yore tae aged eae fon. He will set out for Mexico io an Austrian war » Joseph Clark and Oroondates Mauran were finally settled, v ‘sel, and touch at Civita Vecebia, in ‘order to receive | 4, ro liye " ernie een ol ge vote “aan Wlowming of the Pope: y000. iv jasue execut > i ‘ ta Poland we lose: that the Russians bed wustwimea | MAiNst the ostate of William Mowser, decoased. The exe- cutors of Peter MeLaughlin's estate were ordered to file accounts, : ‘The rise in gold had the effect to strengthen the market for most articles of morchandise yesterday, both foreign and native, and, though there was so great acti¥ity, holders generally remained firm. The news by | the Canada ws not of a very encouraging character; woul, ov the 20th of February. Brendstuty were quiet | but, owing to the advanoe in gold and foreign excban, ud provisigpsfat, Cousols closed iu Loudon on the 20th | pie aa We "i ine sal ieee wwe wigord fa at OLY fOr mOBeY. American securition were ac. | valle pep ailiaek whch Yaw vance of 5c. a 10¢. was established on shipping grades CONGRESS. of the former and 1c. a 2c. on the latter, influenced by fhe te Sonate yesterday the House joint resolution ox the news from Europe and the rie in gold, The business was milaly on speculation and for export. Corn was lc, Ja pe Sie for poy ing bay St yeneens tts of April wea atopted, Thie Will a0 doubt Yond to a port. © 2c. lower. In other grain no important chavge, Pro- visions were firm and moderately active, Froights wore pinemont of the draft, perhaps indefinitely, as the Beore ‘ayy Of War bas expipssed himself as decidediv ia favor Aly WAS actively preparing thr war © frontier seat of the late war in India was again 4. The steamship Great Eastorn bas the Atiantic cable tn 1866. The Liverpool cotton market ciosed dull, with prices | | * sevore defeats wt the hands of the insurgents. | } been chartered to lay | more active aud rates advanced. Whiskey, too, was up ward and active. Groceries were drm, Cotton wag dull Aq natentanen unsettled Ineger crowds than those which tbrouged this great tem- | NEW YORK HERALD, FKIDAY, MARCH 4, 1864, Warlike News from Burope=The Danish Dimeulty. The European news by the Canada is of a very important eharacter. The Schleewig-Hol- atoin bagatelle is assuming the proportions of a continental diffoulty, which may be settled only by a goneral war. The invasion of the soil of Denmark proper by the allied Germans has roused the British Cabinet from its stupor to aome manifestations of that spirit and reso- lution which once governed the councils of England. The British people recognize in the wife of their future sovereign those claims of hospitality which involve the protection of the King of Denmark against the powerful in- vading coalition resolved upon his humiliation. It is this pressure of public opinion that has brought Lord Palmerston to the denunciation of the course pursued by Austria and Prussia, and to the significant point of declining to say what her Majesty’s government would do if the Germans entered Jutland. That this is equivalent to @ warning of British intervention is apparent from the fact that on the receipt of the news that the Germans had entered Jutland a Cabinet council, hastily summoned, took place in London. The result of the council will probably be a notice to the Germans to vacate Jutland; and they may, per- haps, discreetly respect the warning, and reopen the door to a pacific golution of this Schleswig-Holstein imbroglio. Other- wise, a British squadron may appear on the scene, and this may be the signal for France to move, for Italy to revive her war cry of Rome and Venice, and for Hungary to spring to arms. French policy, it appears, is setting in favor of Denmark; and why not? «Is it not the Germans who stand between France and her Napoleonic boundary of the Rhine? Unfortu- nately, however, England bas reason to distrust Napoleon even asan ally of Denmark. Eng- Jand. under the control of her feudal aristocra- cy, has a natural dread of popular progress, popular rights and republican ideas. Napoleon, in the midst of the vigilant and terrible repub- lican elements of the Continent, is compelled to be their leader. An absolute despot, he thus holds fast his power by assuming the char- ster of the champion of the people against the uses of kingeraft and its usurpations. The British aristocracy can regard such a man, wielding the power of France, only as a dangerous neighbor—to be conciliated, but not to be trusied. Hence the difficulty of England inviting Franee to a march upon the Rhine, even as anally. The humiliating neutrality at first assumed by England in reference to the h controversy may be traced to her fears of France as a propagandist of the progressive ideas of the age. The Prince Napoleon, in a late speech on the question of the Suez Canal in its political bearings, very forcibly exposed the contracted foreign policy and unscrupulous selfishness of the British aristocracy. We think, however, that he was right in saying that they would not dare to go to war to put a stop to this Suez Canal, in order to hold France in check as a political Power in the East, because in such a war the masses of the Evglish people could have no sympathy with their rulers, This same power of Eng- land’s hewers of wood and drawers of water has enforced her aristocracy to a stricter neu- trality in regard to this civil war of ours, when we know that they bitterly regret the opportunity thus lost for breaking up this country, its commercial power and the over- shadowing influence of its popular, institu- and On the other baud, it is the pressure of the public opinion of England which is compelling her unwilling aristocracy to side with Den- mark in her quarrel with the German States. The English people, perhaps, instinctively compreheod the fact that another European war, bowever it may terminate, will be to their advantage. In this view, and in view of this present tremendous struggle of ours with the landed aristocracy of the South, we can hardly object to another general shaking up of old Enrope; for we believe that from another con- tinental war the people will so far prevail that even the dropsical aristocracy of England will be laid low in the dust, never to rise again. Ravicat, Texonaxce ws Coyensss,--Nearly all deliberative assemblies recognize and ob- serve certain proprietiesof intercot between man and man, and especially certain decencies of reference to men outside of their bodies. More particularly is this tbe * when the men referred to cannot possibly speak inreply. The | Congress of the United States is the only ex- ception to this rule. By provision of the con- atitution speech is perfectly free there, and no member for “words spokea in debate in either house can be questioned in any other place.” This provision in the constitution gives a Con- gressman the right that constitutes bis highest prerogative—-the right to assai! for the benefit of the country any power or person ia it. But the very existence of this provision which puts him above question would, we might suppose, render every member of education and refine- meni charg tn the ise of bis right, and prevent indiscriminate and unnecessary personal as sault. Such, however, is not the case, or Sena- tor Wilkinson, of Minnesota, is not such a member. That Senator, in the session of March 2, got the floor under the protence that he had been assailed by Governor Andrew, of Massa- chusetts, and that it was necessary for him to | speak in bis own defence, He then at oncd gave the Senaiga dimple assault on General McClellan, Now, as Governor Andrew fsnot notorious for bis admiration of that soldier, it does not appear how his impeachment of Sena- tor Wilkinson could be answered by such an assault, Like many a previous attack upon the same General, it was completely gratuitous, snd was dragged in by the cars. Bat it was worse than that. It was malevolently and vindictively false, With the variety of charges that have done duty against General McClellan so many times be- fore, it contained also the stale old story that while the battle of Malvern Hills was in pro- gress General McClellan was with Captain Rodgers on a gunboat in the James river, It is fair to suppose that before a Senator rises in his place to speak" he has gotten what information is handy on the subject that he is to discuss, and certainly that he has read the report of the General whom he is about to assail. General MoClellan, in his report of the battle of Malvern Hills, eays:—“I once more”’—soon after day- break—“made the entire cireuit of the position, andthen returned to Haxall’s, whence I went with Captain Rodgors”’—not on board a gun- beat—'to select the final location for the army and ite depots. I returned to Malvern before the serious fighting commenced, and after riding along the lines, and seeing most cause to foo\ qamlous aboyt the rleht, romaiged in that violnity.” Sonator Wilkinson most have bean acquainted with this passage when he uttered the slander that it so positively contradicts; and In no other deliberative assembly but the Congreaa of the United States could such an indecency occur. Senator Wilkinson’s whole tirade was fo keeping with this slanderous statement, and he only alluded to the.ciroumstances of the penin- sular campaign to betray the most lamentable ignorance of it. But this, afier all, is what we must expect from the radicals. General Mo- Clellan is their mania, Talk toa lunatio who believes that ho is an umbrella, and he will make every possible subject turn on umbrellas. Wars, sick dogs, blind horses, church steeples and toothpicks are all umbreilas or parts of umbrellas. And with the same maniac inge- nuity the radicals can make all subjects, even a defence against Governor Andrew, culminate in abuse of the hero of Antietam. It is in this mad spirit that the radicals havo ruined the country to the extent of their abili- ity. Desperate in their hatred, they will sac- rifice the nation to gratify it. % Tax Portce Commissroy.—We learn from Albany that another obstacle in the way of the settlement of the Police Commission ques- -tion has been interposed in the Legislature. It consists in a proposition to enlarge the Com- mission by the addition of another member. Let the bill pass as it stands. There will be justas much wrangling and jobbing about the additional member as there has been about the other four, and the end so earnestly de- sired by the citizens of New York will be de- feated or hopelessly deferred. The Commis- sion as it now stands, and as it has already harmoniously worked together in one important instance, is all that is wanted. Messrs. Acton, Bergen, Bosworfh and. McMurray have proved themselves qualified. for their duties as Com- misstoners. The citizens and taxpayers most interested are satisfied, the Governor of the State is satisfied, and why should the Legts!a- ture halt in the performance of a positive duty, and by harassing delays increase the demo- ralization which is becoming so apparent in the police force of the city? gunboats at Selma. = * Neen marie li teen “ ATS FROM Tak STATE CAPITAL wWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Reports ReXAtding General sherman’ Expedat —Sapture of Five Rebel Ganboats at ScUna, Ala.—Massacre of @ Company of Colored Soldiers Near Grand Lake, Miss, d4,, de. Caino, Il., Maroh %, 1884. The steamer Golden Faglo, (rom Memphis for Ci Qati, bas passed here with 669 bales of cotton ou board. A private letter, dated Memphis, February, 29, from an officer at Viokaburg, writing on the 22d, says. — We hear nothing of a dofaite character from General Sherman, but n0 doubt be hag akon possession of Salma, Alabama. Tt is said that Genera! Sherman oapturad five robet A rebel brigade is between Vickaburg-and Jackaoa. Washington's Birthday wag celebrated at burg {og fnemanuor, All the troops were reviewed by Gen. McArthur. ‘The clerk of the steamer Pringle makes the following etatement:— While tho stoamor Pringic was oa a foraging expedition to Johnson's plantation, at Tecumseh landing, five miles above Grand Lake, Mississippi, on the 14th of February, a band of sixty well mounted and woll armed gueriilas, dressed in Union uniforms, surprised a company of the Firat Mississippi (Union) colored tafautry, who wore standing guard about a mile and @ bail from ¢ho main body of the foraging party, capturiag and disarming them, and before assistauce could be readored all were killed or mortally wounded, axcept two, who foigued death—Lteutenant Cox and Sergeant Spoucer. Some of the negroes wore pinned te the ground with bayonets, othors bad their brains kaocked out aad others wero shot througa the head while on their kuees begging * for quartor, ‘Tae guerillas escaped without losiug a man a After the dead had been buried, the princely mausion, around which the guard had beon posted and 0 one lowed to enter previous to the slaughter of our troops, waa fired by the gacriliag, and its magaidcent furniture consumed. Four thougand bushels of cora were taken from a crib containing fifteen thousand bushels, when the foraging party returned to Vicksburg. . Four hundred guerillas, of whom the murderers were @ part, are reported by citizens to ba encampeda short distance back in the country from Tecumseh landing. By the arrival of the steamor Empress we have Now Orloans dates of the 23d of February, The total voteof the State of Loutsiana, as far as ro. coived, is 9,293. Hahn's majority for Governor over Fellowes is 3,542, over Flanders 3,595, and over both 1,727. The other oaudidates on the free Stata ticket are elected by about the game majority. Tho Erapress has’a vewy large cargo of sugar and mo- lasses (or Cairo and other pointa. ‘The Memphis cottoa market is active at 85c. for good midditog, 640, for strictly mi iditag, aud 620. a 63c. for middling. Sherman Reported Bound to Mobile. CatRo, March 3, 1364 A rumor comes from Vicksburg, by the steamer Missis- sippi, (rom Now Orleans, that General Sherman, naving returned from Moridian, had gone ia the direction, aud was within forty miles of, Mobile. No dates are given, and the report cannot be traced toa reliable source. Adjutant Geuerai Thomas loaves bere to day for Mem- pbis. Vowunteerine.—Every effort should be made to help along the enlistments, in order that the quota of the city and county may be filled and a resort to the draft be rendered unnecessary. The Supervisors’ committee are earnestly at work, and ‘the citizens of New York and the public press should aid the cause by every means in their power. We are glad to receive informatien that the State bounty of seventy- five doliara to recruits, on boing mustered into service, will henceforth be promptly paid and arrearages attended to. This is as itshould be. All doubt and uncertainty about the receipt of the bounties are now removed, and addi- tional inducements are offered to those bringing in recruits. The smalt number neces- sary to complete the quota shoald and can be Brookiyn Sanitary Fatr. A NEW BNGLAND WEDDING—COSTUMES AND OUS- TOMS OF THE OLDEN TIMB—FULL AGOOUNT OF THE CEREMONY —WAAT IT MAY LEAD TO, &TC. Everybody is aware that our neighbors over the water have, for the last ten days, been bolding a fair in ald of the United States Sanitary Commission. One of the most successful and profitable adjuncts of the (air has been the New England Kitches. It was estabiished to pro- mote plain living. high thinking, a consumption of pork raised within the coming week if the exertions of the Supervisors’ committee are responded to in a proper manner. A Pontticat. Sensation at Lasv.—We under- stand that the refined communities of the Five Points avd Mackerelville have been in a great state of excitement and enthusiasm since our nomination of the Hon. Ben Wood as a seces- sion candidate for the Presidency on a Jeff. Davis platform. - The consumption of bad whis- key and the demand for lottery tickets have largely increased in those aristocratic locali- ties, and the inhabitants are eager to ratify the nomination of the Hon. Ben at once. Let a convention be held, either at the Five Points or in Mackerelville, and let the matter be settled before the draft is enforced. No one can tell what may bappen after that. GENERAL BUTLER’S DEPARTMENT. Mr. L. A. Hendrick’s Despatch. Norvowk, Va., March 2, 1864. MR, BULKLBE. The names of those arriving by flag of truce boat ha been announced to you by telegraph. Mr. Bulkley, corres pondent of the Hexauy, is temporarily detained at Fort» ress Monroo to give bis testimony before a military com mission. Already the change from the close air of a Southern prison has {mproved bis health. Hts oine moaths incarceration ia the prisons of Richmond, most of which was spent in the famous ‘Libbr, will enable him to write an acoount stirring with incidents. He ex. pects to go North to-morrow. OURRITEAS do not confine themeetves to the rear of the Army of the Potomac. A party of this amiable fraternity mado their appearance last evening ten miles beyond Deep creek, and succseded In capturing Lisutepant Phillips, Fifth New York cavalry, and four men, on picket duty. Subse quently Captain Fay, of the same regiment, went with a squad of men tu pursuit of the guerillas, but did not come across any of ti wo guns was fired from the Russiad ileet, and responded to by the same umber of guns from Fortr onroe, fa commemora, tion of the birthday of the sian Emperor Interesting fem Fortress Monroe. , Forreess Mowros, March 2, 1864. Androw Ainsworth hag beoa oppoiatedtCaptata of the port of Old Point Comfort by command of M.jor General Butler. The (ollowing is a list of the officora captured ®at Smith. field, Va., on the Ist of February, 1864:— Captain F. A. Rowe, Ninety ninth New York, wounded. Lientevant T. 8 Harris, Third Pesusylvania artiliery, wounded. tain William Chambers, commandiog Smith's bri i drew Hoy qed fogincer James DoOh. ‘Tho following are the names of those who were killed at Snzitbfeld, as far as can Yo obtained: — Charles Dennis, Third Peonsytvants Nery. snes, Third Penn rtlilery, Charien Wot" ied Peanayivania artery.” ‘The following wore wonn.. re Adjutant A. Cramb, Twenty fis eanectiout, ow , Rockwell, Twentieth ‘or! iy Ae Vaugess Ewontieth Now York caval al J. Kirk, Third Pennsylvania artillery. W. Tuddles, Twons:* Now York guvairy. The above roturns aro s'cned by M. P, Turagr, Major commanding the Military Prisody Richmond, ¥. The Russian frigate firod a salite today at noon ia honor of the anniversary of the coronation of the Czar, which was immediately roplied to by tho British frigate lying in Hampton Roads and from the water battery of Whe fortress. Beq to a Divorce Case, MOTION TO AMEND A DECREE, SUPREME COURT—CHAMAERS Bofore Jutgo Barnard. Marou 2.—Rovalie A, Harris ve, William A, Harden. brook.—This was a motion to modify a decree of divoree touching the possession of thé children. Toe counsel for the plaintiff stated that the parties were formerly mar ried; but in June, 1550, plaintiff, having ogoasion to doubt the fidelity of her husband, commonced a suit againet him for divorce, apd ® decree was cntong in her favor, Thore were two children by tho marriage, aged ton and peg et od the Upp thae! uaabie to bear the expense of supporting and ecucating-tbem, it was agreed that they should remain at the ot deteaannt's that the plaintiff should bave an opportuaity once 4 week at least, There did not ap- diMoulty about the mother visiting the defendant webt to Coonoeticut and mar- When his socotid wifo would not permit the come tothe house. Mr. Hardenbrook offered the children to bis place of busioess in Broad+ , 80 that the plemtiff might converse ; but, as the agrecment was thatshe was w be to them at defendant's place of residence, to accept the Mag ed sud dotermined to matter into court. Toe counsel argied that the to modify the dooree so that tho pormétted to visit the plalatif at ber be reneee, twice a wook. Jann Lynd ho would Yook ovor ‘ho papor, aad ren. 1 ip afew dave, i ‘an; it “week, and then and beans, and a revival of the spirit of '73. To increase the sale of their pumpkin pies and other delicacies, thoy have had sevoral apple pearings and quilting {roicis. As ® vatural result of such feattve gatherings, two auscopt! bie hearts were smitten with the tender passion, aud they resolved to form a life long alliance ou the acove of their early jove. Last evening was the time appoisted for the interesting ceremony to take place. A limited number of the general public were lavited to be present, at the moderate charge of threo dollars each. ‘The Kitchen was appropriatoly fixed up Cur the occasion. On the loft side of the Greplace was a small platform. [t was railed off aud overshadowed by the Stars and Stripes, and under its folda tho bappy couple were to be made maa and wife, The bride aud bridegroom, togetuor with a large circie of friends and acquaintances, had come from away “deown East "' ‘They were all attired to the costumes of the last cea- tury. Atmong the dramatis persone we noticed Widow Saitties, Hozekiah Luakins, Prudence Billings, Aminidad Duoham, Cyrus Bradford, Deboraa Edwards, Mrs, Deacon Groon, Elvira Slimming, Grandma Downing, Dr. omel, Squire Brown, Grandma Adams, Ruth Jenkins, Peggy Murray and a outmber of others equaliy disti hed. principally remarkable The ladies’ dreases were for length of age and shortness of waist. They were of all fabrica—yeliow, time stained mustta, heavy brocadet giiks aud coarse, strong calicoes Mob oa forward caps. immaculately clev, and bi state of development and high ected as ornaments for U hoops was avothor noticenble ‘eatu f the Ladies made us think that the fas our greaigrandmother might buy ted the meal sack style. cuitles.wore revive! in the much ‘ied shirts, powdered wigs, velvet cights and white stockings. Their attire did not impress us wjth™ the same idea of antiquity as did that of the indies. Wo have often seen something very similar on the person of the happy possessor of a pair of splendid calves while he as cititcbing with desperate energy to @ strap at the ack of a carriage. Ike Dowving—the only remaining son of old Widow Downtng—cat a great dash in a salt borrowed especially for ihe occasion. The coat and smails wore of green China silk, the vest (which reached half way to the knees) was of Crimean silk, a orn mented with heavy sult formerly belong- ed_to Benedict Arcold. Shortly atter eight o'clock the bridal procession formod, and Dr. Singer, with tho majority of the guests, marched to the platform: and to the appropriate tune of ** mnvita- toa’? sang the hymo commonctag— my beloved, haste away, ort the ours of thy delay. The Liat was promptly taken dy, the parties interest 4 and Dr, Jededi LL ggdies! atiag Slorgyman if the way to t form. Ho was followed by sonataaa Syupkins, the bridegroom, accompanied by Josiah 2 {<.08,25 groomsman, Miss Mehetable Jones, the young and t yelp Brida, attired in a low necked robe of white satin * of a walking length and a striding width,” was then lod forwarl by her parents, Jehoshopbat and Patience Jones, they were accompanied by Misa Jerusha skipper as bridesmaid. The party, when placed, re- sembled @ collection of wax Ggures. ‘Tne idea was, how- ever, speedily divsipated whea Dt mindtext (some oue at our back whispered that looked remarkably like Rev. re L Cuylor) an most approved and ancient fashion to perform the core mony which was to unite ia the holy,bands of matri- mony Jonathan Simpkins, of Marblehead, with Mehetabio Jones, of Swansea, both of ye ancient colony of Massa chasetts, The ceremony was very impressive, aud seve- ral times brought down the house. His oxbortations wore very fine, that to Mehetable particulary so. We are sorry that our space will oot permit us to gi in full bia remaries to her on the subject of Jonathan's buttons, yY wore very instructive and deserve a wide circulation. eign Bein brought to a con- clusion amid the toars of the bride's parents and the ESR WR re” ttn me coremony, we bolieve, was vor, Pe with by all bands, eng eitough to see ug bor 3 ed the audience, nu Cpr eel it by singing to the ay, opriate tune yma commencing me The Lord my shephord { agit eral moped mine ai Witat'can'T want oonido, a ; Silence being restored, Dr. Poundtoxt, tn ® loud voloe and with a vory (mprossive mannor, aenounced his wil- lingness to perform the same ceromony for oy, other couples who jolt disposed to avail themselves ol the op- portunity, No one accepted the invi 1, 80 the reves rend gontioman picked up bie gloves and led the way to the ro'resument table, ¢ appetites of the happy pair and the wodding “Conteut’’ the uosts had been somewhat d the gouerai public wore invited to step w @ something. A number of Amerioan citizeus oan descent handed round pteces of pound pio, squash pie, coffee and cider, The Shortly afterwards put away, ite ply obeyed, Dancing, after the “ye ancient times,’”? was then indulged in, Kept up with spirit until closing time arti ding was a morry one; may it result happily. to effect a groat change In B, a8 A number of unmarried ladies of a cortain age aro desirous of making the Now ugland Kitchen « permavent institution. Thy intend to have oy pearing and quilting frolios eveFy who knows what may happen’ the Dayton Emptre Office, reac" nyt “A Mr 3) rr bmpi at was completely’ eam Dy somo aoldiors of the Worty-tourth Ones, inte meteg (nat shortly atterwards one man was Killed and two soldiers w led. Thore was considerable excitement at one time, dod the Flome Guard was called tore “Cleaned Out” by Soldiers. aw Sonvruene (avew, Pe March 3, 1868. Amobd of drunkea fut adidiera ard toariog out the store of Ai whom thoy charge with vat Doing & Kaiat of tbo G_ : ~~ The MetropoiicsB Poltts Avenue Ratiroaad— we bag pes Militia Law—M11k and Cheese-n, ers Clab—Oommisatoners of Charition" ebriate Asylum—Puntshmoné < Oriatt= mals and seisbes for Good Neha- vior, déc., dé, ‘ean, March 8, 1006" < ‘Tho State capital ssema to be a pr'sce Of great attraction Just cow. The hotela are all orowded to overflowing. Many of thoae who have vialted the olty’ have found ts ex- coodingly Aifloult to procure aven a cot 40 stretch them- aelves upon, The occasions aro very rare ghon tho hotet proprietors are obliged to tura people away”, 20t having accommodations for them; but such was the ons with alt tho Grat class hoteis last night. ‘The speech of Mr. Platt, of Suffolk county, on the Gev+ ernuor’s massage, last night, was a creditable affair. Re took a different position from most of bis democratic aw leagues. He denounced the rebellion, and took stromy ea of eens spe ee racterized the management by the yo peloton: Suffolk county may well feel proud of wo reproseuta- tives ta the ‘Kssorsbly this winter, ‘The Assemb!; 6.00 Cites arguments on. Motropolit ice Dill y aon but noone erpearet. for that purpose. ‘anol meeting morning; 00 person argue it, other subjects wore taken up. now are that the bill will bo that It came from the Senate. Ti agreed to report the bil! exteading the track of theSecond Avenue Rallroad. The Assembly Committee on Military Affairs have neer- ¥ completed their report ou the of amending ~ Nena eee boa whee 2 pes. ely oo them by a g; resolution ssombly. They strike out the objectionable features of the law of 186%, known as the National Guard law, They have decided te return to the syatem of electing the military officers, thus putting an end to the appointing powor, which they olaim has been abused by the present State official, comraittse will also recommend the appropriation of twe for the militia under this bill, eatorday after- . They helt eae mittee of the Who! , lengthy debate over a cheese bill, on the question should be done with the stripping milk of cows. question was progressed, Several bills wore reported by the Senate committee this morning. Among the number was a favorable renee of the bill incorporating the- New York Skating Club. Tho bill relative to notaries public in the city of New Yorm waa reported advorsely. The bills heretofore noticed, {n regard to the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction in the city, of New York, for better punishment of druvkenness, for an ia- ebrtate asylum, and two or three other measures coa- nected thorewith, were this morning introduced in tae ze. Senato. Moat of the morning session was taken up in discuasing a bill relative to comrhuting criminals io penitentiary and State prison for good behavior. If the Senators wish to render service to tho State, loatead of working on suca humbug bumanitarian bilis, they will consider gome measure protect the lives of our people from the asaasain and murderer, Hardly s day passes that the New York paperedo not contain am account of stabbing or murder, and frequently two or three at the same timo; and yet the Sabbatarian Gommit- tee, the moment that one of these murderers is coa- victed, commence their pleadings to have him commuted or pardoned. 1a has been carried to such au extent that tue laws of the State afford but little protection to the lives of our poople, All know that the crime of mur- der ig ten times as frequent since the Legislature of 1860 plundered and robbed our citizens on one hand, and abolished capital punisbment on the other. It ia true that a subsequent Legislature changed that bill; but It now staude in auch a position that it is almost impossible to punish a man whocommits murder—it is so muddled. This idea of sympathy for the man who commits murder, and none for tho man mur. ig one of the evils of the present time, and ta a twin child with such corruption and public plunder, The men who were the deapeat in the corruptions of the Legislature of 1860, which aboliahéd capital punishment, were among the loudest and aoistest advocates for mercy to murderers. The oviis are now coming upom us. The men who com- mit the atrocious orime of murder can, ag a thing, only be restramedby the fear of punishmont; but in the present state of our statutes on-that subject they Know it is almost impoaatble to punish them, oven if they are detected. They now stand in defiknce to authority and reckloasly commit their foul deeds. Really, wilt not the Senators better serve the public by previding some mode of punishing criminals instead of trying how they cin again turn them loose upon society? Despatch from Seerctary Stanton to Governor Seymour—The Payment of jed—Postpone- ment of the Hearing of Arguments on the Broadway lread—The Mm tropolitan Police Bill the Asseme bly Committee on Cities=The Pay of the Pollce—Taxation the Clergy= Falstaff ia Albany, &c. Aunany, March 3, 1864. Governor Soymour received the foliowing despatoh this morniog from Secretary Stanton — ), March By authority of a joint restation pe bo “oneont today, tha payment of bounties will be continued (ortho orders, EDWIN M. STANTON Secretary of War. A latter waa received today from Judgo Hilton, A, T. Stewart's lawyer, stating that, owing to sickness in Bis family, he would be tivable to attend the mooting of the Railroad Committes to-morrow to present arguments against tho Hariem Broadway bill, The friends of the measure who are hore were notified, aud a meeting of the committes was held. Senator Christie notified the committee that he had received the letter from Mr. Hilton, and asked a postpovement, Mr. Clark stated that the frienda of thes bill were ready to go on with tho argument at any time, but wanted a full and fair “hearing of both sides, There were several imeportant questions involved, and he considered i tmportant that they should be argued, H@ wauted ag early a day a5 possible fixed upon, and that to po the Goal hearing THe would also state that there were a large number of property holders who desired to appear before the committee in favor of the bill. The committes have -herotofore set dowa bills for consideration which will take up their time until next Wednesday, It was there- fore mutually agreed on both sides that the argument should be heard on Wedoosday next, at four P.M. Lat those who desire to appear before the committee take notice of this fact. The Assembly Committee on Cities have settled upon noxt Tuewday afternoon as the day for fioa! consideration of the Metropolitan Police bill. The bill will thea be reported {a some form or other, whether the parties who have been asking to be heard are prosent or aot. It is said that those who desire to be hoard are opposed to the bill that passed the Senate and fu favor of the House bill, which originated with the radical republican faction ia New York, The samo com. yi ee decided be reports Sane, comabiy Cee | ott 9 at prol report ve ice nce et Y. EU we wie Asaem¥ly spent all the evening session on ting “the pectinn, oC "the. rosent Tas lew exempting jinisters from taxation, The = discus- sion on this gui,gct revealed the fact that uestion of taxation is to be an important sul this winter. The bill was finally ame 80 a6 to Fe. 1 laws on the statute books exempting taxation, thus taxing everybody and of property, aad in that shapé it was ordered toa iy The Sonate met this evening and immcdiatoly be 4 to sce Haokett piay Faiscatl fa the Merry Wives of Wind- sor, at Tweddle Hall. <1, A despatch was received to-night from Seeretary Staa- ton by Governor Seymour, stating that the payment ef bounties will be continued until further orders. increase that The bill Twenty Thousand Dollars Lost in @ Gambling House. COMPLAINT AGAINST THE GAMBLERS—TWO OF THEM Mc. Rafael Ortoga, aSpanish gentleman, residing ts Morrisania, Westchester county, recently appeared be- Core #i and ferred a ine ines ee Eat Cocke fi, @ ae te Andrews, whom he charges with keeping and matai ing a gambling house on the second floor of premises No, 233 Broadway, where money is lost and won at the game of “faro.” Mr. Ortega in his aM@davit further s: that between the 1st day of February and the last day of December, 1363, he lost in that house by betting of the game of ‘‘faro”’ the sum of $20,000 and this complaiat the magistrate issued his 6 trouble, but Hill has not yet been arrested. ors wore held for examination, which will Tee 650 in the steerage. Committee 00 Cities expeoted to hear “7 « reported in the samo * Me acmito ton aie Fy tor be ‘Andrews, and placed it ia ‘ in Jourdan, of the Sixth ym execution, Andrews and Shaffer were fount wi 1 2 ee