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

ton Avenue Rajlroads, to change the mode of electing the Board of Education in this city, to incorporate the New York and Brookiyn Passenger and Bagyage Company and the Manhattan and Long Isiand Land Improvemeat Com- pany, and authorizing the Brie Rvilroad to tacroase ite capital. The Christopher and Housto: Streets Railroad received ap adverse report. The Senate resolution al- lowing the military trophies in the Burosu of Military Statistios to be uscd at the Metropolitan Fair in this city was adopted. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our Furopean files and correspondence by the Asia, Gated to the Sth of Murch, contain toteresting details of the telegraphic news report from Haliiax, pabliahed ia the Henan last Thursday. By tho arrival of tho steamship Corsica, Ceptain Le Measurier, at this port yesterday, we have news from Havana to the 12th inet. Rumor# were afinat that General Gandara, who had arrived from St. Domingo, advised the abandonment of the Spanish conquest of that ovlovy, and that @ council of superior authorities and army oficera had decided to suspend the preparations in progress for an expedition to recapture Santiago de jos Caballeros. Although these ramors come from a well informed source, yet our correspondent entirely discredits them. There ‘was no tater intelligenos from St. Domingo of importance, The Opera and French dramatic company had left Ha- vana, and several of the slogors arrived at this port on board the Corsica. The Board of Supervisors held a meeting yesterday and appropriated $2,000,000 additional to pay bountics under the now call for troops. They report the probable quote of tho city 6.400 men, but have made provision for pay- ing the bounty to 8,000 men, General John Charies Fremont was last evening for- mally nominated for the Presidency by a meeting of bis friends beid at the Cooper Institute. The platform of the Fremont Campaign Ulub was adopted, and the au- dience adjourned to meet in a larger hall next ween. The General Committee of the German Democratic Union Purty of this city held a meeting on Thursday Iast and adopted resolutions endorsing the Tammany Hall bolt from the state Convention. The Unconditional Union Central Committee held « meeting last evening, and adopted a preambie and reso- tution declaring Mayor Gunther to be in fu!l communica with the symp.thizers with the rebellion, and that further increase of bis official power would be unsa‘e, In Supreme Court Chambers, before Judge Barnard, yesterday, Fdward Phalon and Henry L. Phsion moved for an injunction to restrain Frederick H. Henshaw, Charles L. Faulkner and Joshua M. Cushing frem selling an article o’ perfumery koown as the Night Blooming Cereus, umder tho label or trade mark of plaintiff, or any imitation thereof. Plaintiffs allege that the defendants have been and are selling a spurious article under the name of Night Blooming Cereus, by which they are soriously damaged in their business. During the hearing of the case Judge Barnard has grapted an injunction against the defendants, In the Court of Common Pleas, before Judge Brady, yes- terday, the case of Elizabeth Barton against Cecilia Bur- ton and Jobn J. Crane, executors of William E. Burton, deceased, ¢ime up for hearing, The plaintiff scexs to have her dower administered in the lands whereof Wil- Mam E. Barton died in possession, in Hudson street, and on which, previous to his death, Mr. Burton built the house in which he died. The platutiffs allegation sets fortn that she was legally married to William E. Burton in the Church of tbe Parish of St. Martin in-the-Fields, county of Middlesex, Eogland, on the 10th day of April, 1823. The defendants denied the marriage, and that the plaintiff was an alien, having ever stace the alleged mar- fage been a subj ‘ci of Great Britaim, and therefore not en- titled to dower in the lands of tho testator, who became & naturalized citizen of the Unitet States, in Pounysyl- Vania, on the 10tn day of Fcbruary, 1865, To this defence platntiit demurred, and ths matter came up for hearing. Judge Brady held that the act of Oongress of 1855 was designed for the benefit of an alien white woman, whether resident or not, married to a person who was at the time of the marriage a citizen of the United Btates. ‘The demurrer was consequently sustained. In the Court of Sessions yesterday, before Recorder Hoffman, Henry Carrol! pleaded guilty of picking Mary Mc¥adden's pocket of a purse containing the sum of forty cents in postal currency. James O’Bohnell,: Andrew McNamara and Michael Cannadep pleaded gailty of petit larceny ona charge of having Stolen the sum of five dollars from Emil Everwahr, a private in the Thirty- fourth regiment New York Volanteors, on the 2d instant. Catharine Smith, @ milliner, pleaded guilty of baving Picked Julia Martin’s procet of m purse containing the sum of four dollars and @fty-Ave cents on the 20th of February last. John Bray, a young Irishman, pleaded guilty of committing an assault apd battery on John De- taney on the 14th of February last. The two men quar- relied in a saloon on First avenue, when Bray, after Kicking Delaney, attempted to rifle Dis pockets. Claude Hamilton, alias Heury . Davis, & young Englishman from the ancient city of Bath, was triet and convicted _.6f grand larceny. He came to city during last month, end was em. pioyed by Mra: McLsish, of Ne, 110 Grand strost,as a walier. One morning she sent bim from the dwelling Part of the house to the clerk, in the store, with a packet of United States Treasury notes, amounting to $500. Hamilton walked off with tho money, and was arrested about two days afterwards while in the act of securing passage for Fogland. He badcarefully disguised bimecl’, and anticipated having a good time in the Old Country. All the prisoners were remanded for sentence, and the court adjourned until uext Monday, at eleven o'clock. A final decree of distrfbution was yesterday made in the United States District Court, before Judge Betts, of the stoamer Antonia and cargo, the proceeds amounting to $126,300. Of this sum $121,864 is to be shared by the captor, the United States steamer Pocabontas, The ¢ ial of William C, Sirransen, William Smith end Evan Edwards was comlinved yesterday in the United States Cireuit Court, before Judge Shipman. The accused aro on trial for the murder of Charles Courletta, first mate of the bark Lone Star, of the 34 September, 1863, while on @ voyage from Rangoou to Falmouth via St. Aelens. The testimony was not closed, and the case stands adjourned till to-day. On Thursday night Thomas Sutton, alias Tim Sullivan, alias Toomas McCoy, was arrested in Broome street by Captaiu Jourdan, of the Sixth precinct, and fully identi. flod by Mr. Etward P. Waite as the person who entered bis employer's office, No. 116 South street, on the mora- ing of the 12th inst,, knocked bim (Waite) down and attempted to stesl @ tin box containing nine thousand dcLars, Satton is an old offender, The Surrogate has admitted to probate the contested will of Mrs. Rebecca Kelley, deceased, The Surrogate has also settled the accounts of the estates of James Daly, Peter T. Van Note and William Falconer. The accounts vf the collector of Jonn Patten’s estate have been settled. Achurch in Elmira, in which «fair for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission was being held, was completely destroyed by fire last evening. It ts feared that some lives wore lost, The building was valued at $35,000, and was insured for $10,000. A large basiness was done in stocks yesterday, and the market was firm and buoyant, Government securities wore in better demand and the quotations tended up. ward. Gold fluctuated considerably, the highest point reached being 16334, but the transactions were limited. ‘The rise in gold occasioned @ more buoyant feellog in ‘Dusiness places yesterday, and with a fair demand many articles ruled very firm, Tois particularly the case with imported merchandise, Domestle produce was generally ratber dull, and prices were either nominally the same ora trife lower. Petroleum was dull, beavy and lower. Cotton was dull and heavy. Groceries were firm. On 'Chaege the flour market opened with more tone, tofluenced by the rise ia gold, but closed dull and depressed. Wheat continued inactive, and with only e trif_ing business prices were nominal. Corn was dull Qnd drooping. Oats were rather more active and a shade firtaer. Pork waa a shade easier, but other hog products, beer and other provisions, were steady. Whiskey was unchanged, Asormkn New Stare to sm Oarven Ovt or ax OLp Ove.—A movement {is on foot, and froin present appearances it is likely to succeed, to manu‘acture a new State out of that por- tion of Tennessee called East Tennessee. This is another plan to open a field for speculators in politics and adventurers of all sorts to reap a rich harvest by the dismemberment of old States and the obliteration of old landmarks. ‘The business is a scandalous one, and should not be tolerated. Keep the old States as they are, except where imperative necessity de- mands a change; so that when the old Union is restored the people of the several States shall find that their boundary lines have not been disturbed. When the rebellion is over the State now called West Virgin'a should be restored to the Old Dominio NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNSTR, EDTTOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICE M. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. nee ‘TERMS cash tm advence, Money sent by mail will be at the risk of the sender. Mome but bank bills current In New York taken, ‘TRE DAILY HERALD, Twnae cents per copy. ‘THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, as Five coats Per eopy. Apnual subscription price: — Postage Ave cepts per oopy for three months. Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, 62 SOcacn. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $85, and any larger number at same.price. An extra copy will be Fant to clubs of twenty. 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MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Mali, 472 Broad. ay—Erniorian Goes, Danone, Bumtasqua, 40—Tan Ine a Berrenriy. te oy WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 51, Broadway. —Besiortan Boras, Dances &¢.—Bis0n Beioape. AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Bai Panromimas, Burixsques, &c.—Tum Rival ARTISANS. BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, @ Broad way.—Grw. pane amp Bquxsteian PSRVORMANONS. “Anvernoon aud BOPB CHAPEL. 718 Broadway.—Taw Sreenoscorrigo: = OR OF Tu UNIVERSE, AND TWEETY-sRveNTE erages Bi NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Cumiosinxs axy Lectures, from 9 A. M. till 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSR, Brooklyu.—Esa Bonca, —— Buxwasques, &c. rag w i'TH ‘BU = P LEMEN T. “Rew Vork, 5: iit March uid 1864. IHE SITU ATION. The army news to-day is not of any moment. Every. tuing is per‘ectiy still, Vague romors of a raid of Gen. ‘Stuart's cavairy near Fredericksburg were fa circula- tion yesterday; but there is no truth whatever in them. Genoral Grant is expected in Washington on Tuesday, from whence bo will proceed without delay to his beadquarters in the Army of she Potomac with. out receptions or avy other manifestations of popular good will, which may Getain hima (rom the active duties that await him, and doniand tis immediate presence. We pablish to-day an authentic ntatcment of the origin Of the misorabie slander connected with the alleged in- terview between Goveral MoCiciian and General Loe so frequently re‘erred to. Toore is ak uneasy element apparently tp motion in Kentucky Guerilla bauds aro being formed in several counties for the purpose of obstructing the navigation of the Ubio and Mississippi rivers. A number of arres's were mado wear Hickman afew dass ago of men who were orgavizing themselves tuto companies to join the There is wo other news from the South- remaining to enjoy ovations, cobel army, weet CONGRESS. Jatho Senate zesterdsy the House bili providing for carrying the mails to foreign ports, with the Senate ‘coimumittee’s anvendsnents thereto, was passed. The amend meuie repeal the apt authorizing the conveyance of let -iherwis® thao ju the mails,except money letters wnpanying packages, and also refuse to extend the prejaid letter postage rates over the overland route to Colfforuta tu bona fide subscribers of pewspapers, The Louse refuced to concur in the amendments, and a con ference was ordered. A petition from citizens of New York aud Brouklyn, asking that the confiscatod lands of rebels may be devided among soldiers and loyal men, was *ppropriately revered. Mr. Grimes’ proposition to have all executive nominations considered and decided tn oper Senate was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill to promote the entis ment of slaves wag then takea up. ‘The amendments providing for the freedom of the wile and children of the recruit, and granting toyai owners id slaves, were the under animated and ox eresting debate em bat, withouYcoming the Seaste went tuto execntive session and mod several hundred promotions of officers tp the jar army and navy. On (ho opening of tho doors an adjournm ut hl Yorday look place. In the House of Represeutatives Mr. Julian, of Indiana futroduced @ substiiute fur (he bil heretofore reported by bim from (he Committee on Public Lands, extending the princiles of the Homestead act to persons im ibe naval tary service, on confiscated and forfeited lands, ms, itis intended by this mewure to divide the forierted estates of rebels among our colored eatiors and roidiers. Mr. Julian made @ long speech tn support of his b4'l, but no action wus taken on it. Mr. Bennett, th: devegate from Colorado, introduced Dill defining the terms wpoo which loyal citizoms may enter upon the pub lc mineral tends, and thus secure the early develop- ment of the copper, silver and gold riches of the aatioa. It was referred to the Ways and Means Commitves. The Senate Dili to faciiitate entries of land under the Home- stead act, by permitaing soldicrs to take the required oth before a military offcer tustead of before a iaod officer, was pessed. A report §8 favor of paring Gales & Seaton $35,000 for copies of the +Congressional annals and Debates," claimed to be delivered before the resolu. tion ordering the supply was rescinded, was debated, aad jaid on the table by @ vote of sixty-seven against Ofty. The House then adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. ‘There was but little of Importance done ta the State Sonate yesterday, Among alarge cumber ef bili re- portet favorably from the committees were those to amend the charter of the Hudson and Aariem Rivers Caval Company, to facilitate the acquiremeat of land for tho new Croton reservoir on the upper end of Maubattan {sland, and to reimburse the Twenty-secund Militia regi- ment for jossos of clothing. equipments, &c., ia thoir Pou sylvants campeign, Various ather mensures of but 1 ro eived attemt) Tha bill for @ public a enth aed of city was reported 20 agtte wih tbe commiitoo’s ble nearly forty bills, making ® clean twoop of oll that tal been ordered to thelr third reading. Few oj thin however, are of any terest beyond some wmmall rural joowlitios, The bill legaiizing the acts of town meetings io Westchester county in raising money Lo pay Commutation for drafted moo, which was defeated some days &g0, AS Again takom up, reconsidered and passed. A Dumber of Vil's were reported by the commit. toes, included io which was one suthorizing the comstrue- tive and Operation of 9 horse raliroad on the route of the Rull's Bend Mme of stages. Tho Eleventh Avenue ‘and Bloomingdale Raliroad bill was reported adversely The Crosstown Railroad bill was reported favorabiy, with ameodmerits providing thas al) profits ever ten per cent on (he eopital aad for # sigkting fund be paid to the city Fororavie reports wore also wade on the bills for the Thirty Jouve sbreot and livbokeu ferry and (be Loxing NEW YORK HERALD, The War—The Approaching Desperate and Decisive Campaign. We are on the verge of a decisive oampaign— &® campaign which will bring the rebellion to an end or cover with disgrace and confusion the government and the loyal States. As the opposing armies now stand, all the advantages of oumbers, facilities, position and strength appear to be so overwhelmingly on the side of the Union that hardly the shadow of a doubt disturbs the public anticipations of complete suc- cess. From all the indications, however, on the otber side, it is apparent that the rebels in this campaign will fight with the energy of despair. It is their Inst chance. All their forces—now estimated at three hundred thousand men in the field—and all their resources are staked upon this coming struggle. They feel and confess that their situation is desperate; but on every side they are preparing for a terrible resistance. Tn this view it is a matter of universal con- gratulation that, under the pressure of public opinion, Congress has spoken to the President, and that the President, in compliance with the voice of Congress, has placed all the armics of the Union under the direction of General Grant. The country is satisfied that this pro- ceeding is eminently wise and well4imed, and that it cannot possibly fail to secure the most glorious results. The steps already taken by General Grant in the work of reorganizing our armies for active fighting are very encourag- ing. He puts his most thoroughly tried and approved officers in the most important posi- tions, beginning with the sagacious and intre- pid Sherman, as his successor in the command of the great department which stretches from East Tennessee to the Mississippi in one direc- tion and to the Gulf in the other. But tho announcement which we accept with the highest satisfaction is that which locates the headquarters of General Grant with the Army of the Potomac. With that heroic army we have bad from the beginning the most inviting opportunities offered for a deci- sive blow to the Davis oconfederacy; but the mismanagement of that army, thus far, has been our only serious drawback. Now we may confidently look for better things than costly defeats in blood and treasure, foolish raids, unprofitable marches and counter- marches, and undecisive victories. We dare say that General Grant bas dis- covered that Richmond is the head of the re- bellion, and that a telling blow upon the head is the readiest way to finish it. We suspect that he has found out that the Army of the Potomac is able and ready for the work before it, and thatthe work will soon be entered upon and thoroughly accomplished. We cannot imagine that he comes to sit down on the Rapidan and quietly wait for the roads to dry, until all the odds and ends of the rebel armies, from Rich- mond to South Carolina, are ‘concentrated against him. In any event, however, we are called upon to prepare for a campaign, East and West, which in all human probability will be marked by the most obstinately contested and the most sanguinary battles of the war. In,fhis view, and considering the momentous uences involved in the struggle before us, os the duty of the administration, of Cotigress, of the State duthorities of the loyal States, and of their people, without distinction of party, to devote themselves now to the para- mount business of the war, and to the exclu- sion of party politics and Presidential squab- bling, at least till the 7th of June. We must suc- ceed in this impending military campsign, or this war for the Union may prove a disgraceful and ruinous failure. We cannot safely go be- yond another year, with a yearly expenditure of eight or nine huodred millions of money, and amannual draft from the industrial inter- eats of the country of half a million or more of its most vigorous men. We must bring the rebellion to the dust this coming summer, or the discontent of the people of the loyal States may ripen into scenes of violence, dis- cord and anarchy, and our Presidential elec- tion of November next may be the end of the chapter. We would appeal, then, te the party journals and the party politicians of the loyal States to suspend the agitation of the Presidential quea- tion until we sball have gained a solid founda- tion to stand upon. In the interval to June we hope to be able to see our way clearly through the routed columns of Jeff. Davis; but in the meantime nothing is certain, except that thé issue of the Presidential contest, if. not of the war, remains to be determined by the issue of the approaching campaign against the rebellion. Souenox on Unempiorep Generats.—Accord- ing to the latest news from Washington, Mr. Schenck is eminently disgusted with the failure of his scheme to throw aside all our unem- ployed generals. Schenck is a very curious maa in his way. Such men are not uncommon in revolutionary periods, and come to the sur- face naturally, as the “scum that rises when a | ation boils.” They are the sprats and small fry of that-kind of political life in which Dan- ton and Robespierro were giants. Without any ability at all, they keep their places in party favor by an exhibition of the most vindictive spirit. Schenck shows his vindictiveness in Washington; he showed his want of ability at Vienna. We rejoice at the defeat of his scheme. Many of our unemployed generals are men of the first talent, and desire to be employed, and serve the country. General McClellan and General Fremont, in their proper spheres, would be of great sgrviee, and they ought not to be thrown aside because the government will net give them commands. It is to be hoped that under our new army administration this mattét will be well looked into, and employment given to every man who can be of any benefit to our cause. Tae Warwice or tae Wan Departuant— When President Lincoln formed his Cabinet he included all the rival candidates for the repub- Mean nomination—Seward, Chase, Cameron and Bates. Seward soon used himself up, Bates sunk out of sight, Cameron was kicked out by Chase, and Stanton was brought in to kill off McClellan. This he did at once, and then used Lincoln te kill off Chase. Now, it appears, he has taken up Grant to kill off Lincoln. Verily, ‘wo begin to belicve that Stanton is the modern Warwick. Thurlow Weed must resign the title. He is not a circumstance to Warwick Stanton, of the War Department. Four Mons New Starrs. has passed enabling acts permitting the Territories of Nevada, Colorado and Nebraska to enter the Union. East Tennessee will come next—per- haps before. This will make four new States prepared to enter the ficld for the next grand Presidential four mile race, and the rebellion not yet subdued. Trot out your horses. Tue Gear Evnorxsw Agrratioy.—A Rus- sian journal, dese ting upon the present trou- bled state of affsirs in Europe, takes the occa- sion to awert that the souroe of the turmoil may be trace: to one person, who, seated upon a “golden throne,” makes use of bis great power and influence to agitate Eurepe by in- trignes and the encouragement of the revola- tionary schemes which arise in all parts of the Old World. ft is welt known that in Russia such statements are seldom made except when backed by the approval of the authorities. Hence it may reasonably be inferred that the opinion emitted by the journal in question is that of the Russian government. Austria has expreased the same opinion more than once. In fact, her official organs make periodical accusations against the Emperor of the French, whom they look upon as the arch agitator, the evlfish and determined enemy of the poace of Europe. The English press has made the same statements, and all the more angrily because in this Napoleon has usurped what at one time was the sole privilege of England. Lord Palmerston some years since was the maluspring of those intrigues which threw all Europe into consternation. But that was In the days of Great Britain's ascendancy. Now France wields the real power, and Napo- leon has become the agitator. We bave ever asserted that the Emperor of the French would be forced to play this role. He came into power through the revolutionary party, and is bound to sustain to the extent of his ability that party. He must also, for the furtherance of his influence and the strengthening of his dynasty, keep the other nations of Europe in trouble, that they may not have the leisure to make trouble for him. This fact is as patent to all Europe as it is to us. This being the ease, it is but natural that the great Powers should look upon Napoleon as their common enemy; and, spite of pretended alliances, they do so esteem this fortunate ad- venturer, this lucky member of the revolu- tionary party. The result must be that ere long there will be formed in Europe a coalition which will bring about a second great Napo- leonic war in this century. At present France has Italy to aid her; but this will not be the case when Italy shall have regained Rome and Venetia. Then Napoleon will find, should he be attacked by a “holy alliance,” that his cruel deceptions towards the Italians have resulted in causing them to dislike him; that his late in- scrutable course towards Italy has made a greater impression on her people than did the benefits he at one time conferred. This is human nature. We speedily forget the services rendered, but bear in rancorous remem- brance the ill favor bestowed upon us. <A few years hence there will undoubtedly be a strong effort made by the great European Powers to crush Napoleon. The present war in Europe will surely hasten this event. Exrraorpivany Exutsrriov—Tue Hanceu Brings Matrer.—We published on Wednesday morning last one of the most extraordinary documents, portraying dishonesty at the hands of officials, that it has been our duty to present for along time. We refer to the reportof a committee of the Board of Supervisors of West- chester county relative to the new Harlem bridge matter. From the representations there made and corroborated by sworn testimony it appears that the. commission having in charge the building of the bridge was from almost its very inception a fraud; that the contracts it made were scandalous and corrupt; that its payments were illegal; that it paid itself with- out the shadow of law or right, and that it was & gross swindling transaction from beginning to end. Over three hundred thousand dollars have been paid contrary to law for the building of the bridge, and it is not half finished, although the original estimate was but rising two hundred thousand; and from present ap- pearances, and from the rise in the cost of ma- terial consequent upon the unnecessary delay in {ts cofistruction, it will cost at least one million of dollars before it is finished. This is truly a most extraordinary exhibition. And who are responsible for it? Is it a job of the Board of Supervisors ot New York or their friends? This Board or their friends bave had a finger in the business, as appears from the evidence; and this same Board or their friends have bad a finger in other speculative jobs for which the taxpayers of New York have had to pay roundly. Now the question arises, how much value to the interests of the taxpaying citizens of New York is this Board of Super- visors? There is too mich evidence to show that they or their friends are busy in specula- ‘tive jobs outsidé'their legitimate duties.. The Board is one of the many heads of the city goverament which has a mouth of its own, and mouths without number in the shape of retain- ers and friends, to feed. It is one of the bydra- headed animals of corruption that seems to sustain its existence, not by curtailing oxpen- ditures and reducing taxation, but by increas- ing them, and in giving good fat outside jobs to its retainers. The time may soon come when the citizens of New York may see the necessity of abolishing the Board altogether. Apoismino SLaveRY BY CoNnGRESSIONAL Enactment.—This is more ridiculous than ful- minating » bull against the comet; and yet men in Congress are found ignorant enough to sup- pose that slavery can be so abolished. Slavery can be legally abolished in no such manner. The only legal way to abolish slavery is to amend the constitution, as we long ago pro- posed—a method which will meet the issue and settle it forever. The State Legislatures are the first tribunals before which the subject can be properly brought; and the Legislatures of the States of New York, New Jersey, Ohio, In- @iane, Marylend, Missour! and Massachusetts are now in session. Why do not the anti-slavery men in these bodies go to work and adopt the required constitutional amendment if they want slavery abolished in a legal way? As for the bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr. Arnold, of Illinois, abolishing slavery, it is not worth the ink with which it was writ- ‘ten, and.the author ofit must bear o striking resemblance to the animal which Absalom rode. ‘when he was bung by the hair, if he ever imagined such stupid piece of legislation would ever find a permanent place upon the national rover, Gaowstm6 Gaeriey at rr Yet—Poor Groe- ley keeps grumbling and growling continually. Yesterday he grumbled st General Grant, and growled at General McClellan, and bad a grumble and s grow! for everybody and every- thing. Won't somebody at Washington, or elsewhere, throw this growling and grumbling dog a big bone, with» little meat on it, to quiet himt He makes so much noise that he is really a auisance, SATURDAY, MARCH 19. 1864.-WITH SUPPLEMENT. Tux Wisvow ov Congress Inivergarep 8T History.—General Grant is the practically and really. Nominally two or three bodies of politicians in Washington are still the government; but that government was merely a kind of grub, the only purpose of whose existence was that it might gnaw and bore and keep itself alive until it had matured & government better fitted to the present con- dition of the country. This it has done, and, though it still remains the semblance of a government, it is a semblance only—an ex- uvium—a mere sbell—the vital power is in the new mau. We are, and must be while this war laste, @ military people, and the life of the na- tion is in the army. He who is at the Lead of the army is therefore the man who wields the power of the nation, and is the man above all others with whom the country «must stand or full, He is the government in a truer and deeper. sense than any man could become suck through forms of appointment or oatbs of office. In the action by which Congress placed General Grant in his present position it acted up to the necessity of a great occasion, as- sumed the initiative with events, and showed greater whdom than simitar bodies usually ex- bibit. Had the Roman Senate made a virtue im the eame way of what was an obvious necessity, and made Cesar Consul—made bim formally, as he was really, the incarnation of the Roman power—tlere would have -been no civil war. Had the Directory seen its oppor- tunity and made Napoleon First Consul, it would have made the first step of usurpation infinitély more difficult than it was, and it is not improbable that it would thereby have pre- vented that devastation of Europe which ended only when it bad given a new king to France. Had the English Parliament been guided by the practical genius of Oliver Cromwell, that. great man would never have seized the supreme power; Richard Cromwell’s name would never have appeared in history; the Restoration, by which England lost the greater part of the benofit of her struggle, would never have taken place, and in all probability Eng- land would have had a free government to-day. Cougress was “timely wise” under circum- stances similar to those in which the Roman Senate, the Directory and the English Parlia- ment failed. It went with the current of events—went with the people—and did what was necessary to be done in a grand way. And, now that Grant is in the place of power, it is the country’s duty to sustain him in it, heart and soul. Around this great leader the } country must rally, with the last man and the last dollar, to end the war at once; for if we do not end it now we never can. Stavery AmonG Tum GREEKS AND Romans.— Poor Greeley is still harping on this string. He {s so ignorant of history as not to see the differ- ence between slavery in Greece and Rome and slavery here. He does not know that the Greek and Roman slaves @ere of the same race as their masters, while the modern slaves are Af- ticans, distinguished from the white race by thelr color and their physical and mental cha- racteristios. This makes all the difference in the world to some people, but not to the advo- cates of amalgamation, miacegenation and other abominations. Tar Evsows or Tux Mincio.—What has be- come of that strategie movement so ably described by the man of the Mincio in the Times a few weeks ago? Wo mean that move- ment of which Sherman was to make this part, and Logan that part, and Smith the other part, and which: was to result iu something miraculous? What does the man of the Mincio think about it now? NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Departure of an Expedition for Vicks- burg—The Sixteenth Army Corps on the Move—The Fight at Yazeo One, &e., de. Camo, March 18, 1986, ‘The steamer Continental, from New Orleans on the 10th fost., bas arrived with the Twelfth Wisoonsia and the Eleventh and Fifteenth Iowa Veteran Volunteers, The Twelfth Wisconsin regiment disembarked here, the others g° om to St. Louis. An expedition eomposed of threo brigades started from Vickeburg just before the Continental left, ‘The Sixteonth army corps has let for the South; desti- pation unknown. General Lee’s cavalry, which followed Sherman's ition on its returu, had gone back into the intePlor. New Orleans papers of the 10th and Memphis papers Of the 16th are devoid of iterest. The Memphis Bulletin of the 11th saysan increased revenue tax of two cents per pound, together with the amount of stock om hau@ and the reported weakuess im the Northera market, bas depressed cotton. The market closed last evening with a decline of four conts 0B previous rates. No sales are reported, bat prices may be stated at 60c. » 66c. for middling to strictly do. and 620. a 3c for good middling. Large quantities of forage are coming: into Cairo, and are daily examin“d by the government inspectors on ao- count of adulteratios and inferior quality. The bospital steamer 0, C. Wood, from Vicksburg and Memphis, bas arrived with three hundrod and forty-nine sick and wounded troops, and loft yesterday morning for ©. Louis. Eight died om the way up, among them Julius Remers, of the Thirty-fifth New Jersey Volunteers, who wus buried at Helena. ‘Tho estimated force of the enomy in the recent fight at Yazoo City was five thousand men, with four pieces of artitery. The Eighth Louisiana (colored) Volunteers lost eighty killed, wounded and missing. The First Mis- wissippi cavairy and the Eleventh regiment thirty. Nive out of eighteen oficers of the Eighth Louisiana were found dead. NEWS FROM ARKANSAS. Result of the te Eleetion—Arkensns tate, die. Lirrxa Roos, Ark., March 18, 1864, Partial election returns frou eleven counties give more ‘votes than the whole number required by thy President's ee es Theother ARRIVAL OF THE ADMIRAL. Adaitional Particelars of the Chase of the Bieckade Runner, ‘The United States steamer Admiral, Captain Eaton, bas arrived at this port from tho Qulf and Atlantic conats, after a run of thirty-six days While absent sho touched at all the naval stations going and coming. Annoxed is a list of the officers attached to the Admi- ral— Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Commanding—Wildam B, Acting Asstslant Paneter i 8 Lamm J Jones. ‘ant Surgeon—Samuel Ane Acling Master and Brecutive vomesrthels N. Moyer. Ac ing ‘Henry Oakiey, Robt. Pendlobury, BR W, Soest ar | Sees cling Master— Acting Master's Pinan aa P. Atkins, J. W. Pease, B a a M. Farrer; Second Assistant, Geo: go bee ‘Tyler; Acting Second Assistant, 0.5, French; Avting Third Assistants, Jas. D. Van Zandt, Lewis Ruab. Paymaster's Clerk—Rodnoy Caipp. Capiain's Clerk—N. M. Bassett. ‘The follow ing are the names of her passengers :—— Assistevt Surgeons Jobo D. Murphy, L. au , lyon, 0. Perry; Acting Assistant Surgeon C. D, White; Acting Pen yree Yaymasters Wm, L. Pynchon tad Wm. H. Big eo; Acting Muster Charies Hugyius. * The Admiral was built in New York by private persous ane from thew purchased by the Navy Department, either in Necomber or January last, before she was en- tirely compioted, though launched. She is about thirteea hundred tons, carrying five guus,.twenty-ove officers end Binety tour blue jackets, flremen ond marines, and her model is.promousced by every competent judge a most Ddeautiful one, She le't New York on the 7th of Fobruary last, wit fresh supplies for the West Gulf squadron, the mails, an@ a draft of one hundred and eighty mon for Roar admiral Farragut’s flect. er first stop was at Port Royal, February 11, thence to Key West February 14, where she coaled and from there to Pensacola February 19,where ahe Gret issued ber supplies. While lying at anchor in that harbor, ou the evening of the19 h, the town of Pens cola, distant some six miles from the Navy Yard, was discov- ered to be in fiames, and the Admiral, with the De Sete and the Sebago, were ordered up to ascertafa if any at- tack by the rebels was intended. A rosonvoissance elicited the fact that no enemy was to be een, and, though the town was almost entirely destroyed, i te generally attributed to accident. This town has not bees coupled for some time past either by our troops or thoes ofthe enemy. it bas been a species of neutral ground, On the 20th of February the A. arrived off Mobile, where she found some twelve or fi‘tecn vessels perform. fog their monotonous and tollsome duties, and on the - qui wive for the appearance of the rebel ram Tennes- see, said to be inside the bar, but ouside of Bog River bar. Should this ram and her consort, the Nashville, make a raid on our versels off tho bar, thoug® they may inflict more or less daimigo, thoy ngver will return to boast of their prowess or elicit sympathy for their failure. The Admiral’s next stopping place was Sbiy Istand, where she arrived on tho 2ist of February, en@ found the Hartford, with the flag of the gallant Admiral Farragut fiying at bor mizzep. In the svund, formed by the States of Miesissipp! and Alabama on the north, and Ship, Dauphin, Horn and smaller islaucs on the south, we have many vessels of a medium draft of water. On an island owned at one time by ® person of the name of Grant the rebels have erected a fortification command. ing tho very shoal and narrow artificial pass from the gound into Mobiie Bay, from which place it is oaly distant some four miles. Our bomb schooners an@ some light draft vessels have on different oocasions tried the range of their mortars and guns upon this work; bat as yet no very serious attack has been made ufon it. Thence the A. p oceeded to New Orleans, arriving there on the evoning of February 22, ome of her officers re ceiving cards for Mrs, Gexéral Banks’ grand miaquerade ball at the Opera Ilouse, which was p:onsuaced by all pike t@ avything of the kind in New Orleans’ palmicat ed Sabine Pars, const of Texas, Februar; y. ‘21, the A@ miral ascertained from < ur ve:sals — that the Cl! ton, formerty one of our armed vess aud captured by = rebels last year, im the attack by # naval force Datreries at Cabine, was inside, with aome eight bi “ree Dales of cotton on board, and awaiting an opportunity te run out. The next stopping place was off Galveston, Febru. ary 28, and thenco down the coast of Toxas an far 98 Pass Cavallo, the catrance to Matagorda bay. Our trove accupy the forts on the islands in the bay in sufficient force to meet any attack, her way back the Admiral stopped off Galventon, om 2, for the niaila of the squadron, and found there the United States gunboat Penobscot, Lioutcnant Lom- mander A. E. K. ham (which vesse: bad beea sup plied off Velasco), with three prizes, ali having cotton om board. The crews and passeugers of the captured vee- ao sent om board the Admiral, to be taken to New March 5, baving tae the: Caiboun, with the Uctorara, Jobo P, Seckeoe, fort Royal and six bomb vessels, and for two days had bam mered away at cae Pass Sauerists but coed in permanently injur! at night the damage done ‘natant, bound {et On the morning of masthead lookout saw a veasel to tho eastward, m black smoke. The Admiral tustantly altered course gave chase to the southward and eastward, and by ve O'clock she coud see ber from the dock, and out to be a eo grande conten Laoag with two ——— stacks, with in volumes from her» two funnels. At this time “he Admiral had all sail sot, with a good breeze, and making per log fourteen know r hour At haif-past nine, sees Admiral stil! eatuing , the chase commenced throwing overboard and for an hour the sea was covered with cpeniet b; i. op board aren aod Admiral pussed, to the and tity. brig within 9 husdred yards, crews waved saved thee bats as ap earnest of vax Tiny cae pking apts tse haa ns mg up ral’ semen and ihtorest were centered elsewhere, Still ted wh ct vith cotton, or had to apenas of oat Rens the be cotton plantation, At one o'clock Captain atom, and of could eee a number of persons on her deck and plain); Gistinguist the SBD, a at ‘and beaut side-' vessel, with great b' berm, unlike a Clyde built blockade veeee ainaea d ead color, and capa. ble of ig EY a cnrery fresh brent, the A with the aia of a good ap hg A Admiral A making fourteen and three-quai upon the chase, atill some four and alt mn beyond the ers of the ea "ha esa Parrott, “at two o'clock —— upon Ber, but still tet, ‘conn to reach her with @ shot, I trinis the officers’all felt Gertata t it the breove held four o'clock she would be a prize, alas! such was noe on bourd a very severe, eg ta ge nde ia to be attributea iober igae = reat Tong vend i to of and "ot ig oe wees Bcayion. ‘wol aptag “wortee. ante course ant Se eae Admiral’ “4 anda shorrart ts ‘a ate sie time of daylight tt. are eae oe the A. have followed the have at bight t's pont happened to of the Admiral ‘Tho British prize steamer Mary B. seean, N.P., airived hore today. She wa oe in by United ‘States gunb rat curt, ene has 4 cargo ot wwo hundred and Oty bales of cotton. Sr. Loum, March 18, 1864. ‘The special despatch from Washington to the Commercial Advertiser, stating that the Military Commit- tee of the Seunte had refused to recommend for promo (on Lieutenant Colonel Sanderson, of the Thirteenth reg- ulars, because of proofs of his cowardice at Chickamauga, was tolograpbed West last night. Colonel Senderron ie Provost marshal of this department, and as on acto? P. Metcalf, the Unton candidate ‘for Mayor, was lected to day by threo hundred and alxtf Aix ealoriy. the 13th, ust vat six o'clock, the bales of cotton, . At eloven o'clock tha +