The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1864, Page 4

4 , NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, SDMOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIC M. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU ST3. ’ + TERMS cash im advance Mosey sent by mail will be mt the risk of the sender. Nose but bank bills curreat 10 Dew Yoru taken. AMUSEMENTS TO MORROW RIBLO'S GARDEN, Broagway.—Exca. WALLACE'S THRATRE, Broadway. -Buice's Strata. eM c aueeee GARDEN, Broadway.—-Tivcer of Leave an. OLFMPIO THEATRE. "Broadway Lair Year BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Sriait Paitvo— AGOON—JOAN OF ARC jowery Hunters or tae Mts BRY THEATRE. = 3 Dog—Travacers Room: Be Sissire:—Jack Suerragp an 3 MUSEUM, Broadway.—Pour Games, Two Dwai unos, Wuat Is 1%, €8., a ail hours, ArERo nis, ow Sriai or Beavzy—At Sand 7 P.M, BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS, Mechanics Hall, 472 Broad. wey.—Brasorias SonGa Daxoms, buatesques, £0.—Tax ING A BOTTRRYLY, WOOD'S MINSTREL Ha: Eons, Dances. &c.—Tum AMERICAN THEATRE, Broadw Pantoutmed, BURLESGUES. Rivac a BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 435 Broadway.—Geu- zee ano Equsstkian Perromuances Afternoon ead Evening HOPR CHAPEL. 718 hroaaway.—Taw Srereoscorticos Oh Mingor of rae Univease, ano Twauty seventa Steser ST. NBW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— Cuntosities and Lectures, from 9 A.M, Ul10 EM. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUS! Bi ya, Sonce, Dances, Buri aseuns, = ee Broadway. —Braiorias PTs. No. 444 4c.—Tax New York, Sunday, March 20, 1862. Reports reached hore yesterday that aa advanco of the rebels on the Army of the Potomac was anticipated on Vriday, aod that our troops were ou the qui vive. Heavy firiog was beard yesterday tu the direction of Dumfries, as if somo skirmishing was going on; but tater inte!li- geuce last might brought ao further aecount of it. Everythiog sppears to be quict tn the Shonandoab val. foy, notwithstanding tho floating rumors of ¢ rebol altace 00 Barboursviile. Gur tatest dates from Chattanoogs are to-the 19th. Tho eoemy wero to our front in large force, but were making oo demonstration. Geoeral Sherman bad gone towards Red river with bis forces Jate message (which great sensation in Geor; Journals The rebel Genera! Price has resumed command of the Department of Arkansas,and bas addressed bis army, an- nouacing that be is about to lead them against the evemy to retrieve (her former disasters, and so forth. hez state that rebel gueriiias have egalo appeared at Lake Providence, aad are committing sbocking barbarit.es oo the eegroes asd Usion poopie. Two Goion prisone-s, while on their route from Rich- mond to Americus, Ga., froze to death or died of starva tion fa tho rail 0d twelve others Gad to be Holt fo the boe pita! at Raleigh. General Peck bas issued mili- tary orders at Newdera estabdliehing (ree echools ta di veut parts of North Carotina. ‘The steamers Havana and George Washington briag us Qews (rom New Orleans to the 11tn inst. Apart from the prospects of the Presidential election, there ia very Jitile to cote 1a tbat quarter Our troopa bad withdrawo from Madisouville, a emall towa oa Lake Pootchartraio. ‘The cavairy were making some active thougo not im portant scoutings, driviag the rebels occasionsliy from tng fords of the Chappapela, and capturing a low prisoners Governor Brown's ¢ bave published) @ making a ja the columas of the rebel Advices (rom Nal ad ears, EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship City of Baltimore reached this port from Rueeustowu yesterday morning, bringing telegraphic Jews reports dated to the 71a of March—one day later. At the Daviah elections ia Copenbagen the war candi- Gatos wore retarned in every !nstance. A leading payer of Norway ceusures the policy of Denmark, and expresses a doubt whetber the Norweg!ans should be asked to par: ticipate ac the war. The Austrian troops bad arrived before '. The districts of Schleswig not jed by the Austro-Prussian army elected members anish Legisiature. Three Prussian war ships bad boon ordered to leave the port of Brest, France, where they bad beoa stationed, end proceed aorth. Russia had Proclaimed the emancipation of the peasants to the streets of W. Maximilian was at the T os, preparing to sot out for London. After bis visit to Q Victoria be will return ceive the Mexican deputation, ana then exico, It is said that be will be accompanied ator Gwin, of Califoraia, who wili act as a sort of crunsellor to the throue. Dr. Gwin, it i@ sad, recom mouds to the rebel government to cede the State of Texas to Mexico. Tho Paris Pays describes (be English govern ment as the Pontius “Pilate of politics, having a0 other part to thao to wash its hands, 00 mattor what Dappeas.” Te is @ow Bait that tho Prince of Wales" infant son was Doro with adeform'ty, baying only thres fingers 90 one of bis bands CONGRESS. The Senate wae oot in session yesterday, having on Friday adjourned over til! Monday. A brief session of the House wag beld for general de bate, Moesrs Arnold, of Mimois -Wiison, of lows, and Wilder, of Keusas, m ecbes 00 the war and stavery, 404 theo the Rouse adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. The State Senate yesterday transacted much bu H but most of it was of a9 unimportant charscter. The Uaioe Trust Company bill was debated for » considerable while, aad Ginatiy passed. The bili to regulate the tens. jog of the piers and wharves io this city was discussed for some time to Committee of the Whole, after which Ube enacting clanse wat jeked out The Seoate beld a0 executive session, io whick the Gororgor's cominstion of Dr. Swiaburce ax Health Officer of this port, to super- ede De Guan, was uso mousiy confirmed, In the Assembly (he bill to regulate the Audson River Railrosd freight tarit wae ordered to a third ing. ‘The Eleventh Avec! 4 Bloomingdale Raliroad Bill, which bad recotved ao atverao raport on the previous day, waa again taken up, reconsidered aod seut back to ne Raliro d Committee, Among a aumber of measures reported to the House from tbe Staoding Commiviess wore bills to Ie, the payment by towne and counties of commutation for drafted men; relative to the New York Department of Charities and Correction, tbe Aaguat Supply bill, and a bill ty amead the Metropolitan Police act. The iatter was reported advers Bills were tatroduced (or the incor. Uritet and Exropean Express od mebip wy ; t© prohibit the publica apers of lottery drawings, and to render noval of meters by gas companies, except ro by the propor officer that a judgment for the value of gas furnie! has been returned unsatisfied tion by a Wega! the re Upon the re The ma yf the Cana! Board, in favor of ea en- larger als, WAS received tod ordored to be privtes MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamer Mavens, f ,aot Havana Asib rust The news 4 Mexico tom St. Domivgo we wily making war Jearo that (he insur, more against the traitor gororoment. The leaders « their desire to receive their frmer | end then to come to terms, but there is at rong party opprred to this ides, aud therofore t in tbe meaotime it is the general opi , very Little ered ‘ted, that the Spanish troops will sooa bo withdrawn from the teiand. To Purser Muortas, of the Havana, wo Gave to returo our singere thanks for bis usual prompt peas and kindness in forwarding our packagos. roam Big dauoiro, @raail. we bave Mes of (be Correio —- pally of a local character, interspersed with tengthy ais sertations ou the impending confict m Europe, Some of tbe papers also devote attention to tbe rebellion tu Ame- rica, but without expressing aay positive opinion. alt wish that the war may speedily ead. Tho markets of Rio Janeiro were rather dull aad inactive. A leller dated Maozanilla, February 1b, gaye that United Siates Consul Blake, who receatly killed an Ameri. can sailor who had deserted from the United States steamer Sagivaw, was tried at Coloma and convicted of murder, and sentenced to be shot. Before thoday for the execution arrired, bowever, Blake escaped from prison. Tho Councilmen met at one o'clock yesterday, Prosi- deat Hayes ia the chair. The report of the Committes om Finance on the tax tevy for the present yoar was (akea up by sections and adopted. On motion of Mr. Jaques, (be sum of $40,000 for the preparation of a parade ground and the sum of $33,500 for the purchase of Clark Mills’ colossal statue of Geoeral Jacksou were botetrick- ep out. With thoge amendments, the ordinance, as aub- mitted by the committee, was adopted, by a voto of twenty-one in tho affirmative to two in the cegative. The ordinance adopted by the Councilmen exceeds 1 amouat the one from the Aldermen by $69,978. The Comptroller's ‘estimates aro $4,990,973; the Aldermen’s, $5,602,066, the Councilmen's, $5,861,944. Jo Now Orleans aa lection wil! be held on Monday, the ‘28th instant, for the choice of detegates to a convention to be bold for tho revision and amoadment of the couali- tution of Fouisiana. In the ordor calling the elegtion, section 4 It is desirable that ali persons pro- perly qualified sball vote, but it is moro important that the integrity of the clection shall oot be violated by il legal or (raudulont acts.” Toe delegates duly elected shall moet at Liberty Hall Executive Buildings, io the city of New Orleans, at twetve o'clock M., on Wodoosday, the 61h of April The case of the United States agalost Heary C. Sorraa gen, Evan Edwards and William Smith, charged with tho ‘murdor of Chaclea Courletto, mate of the Lone Star, on the 31 of September last on a voyage from Raa- g000 to Falmoutn, via St. was yesterday brought to # close, a(ter three days’ coutinuous trial. The testi- mony throughout was but ioferential as to the act aod the motive of the alloged crime, though one of the ac cused, to a gertain extent, admitted his complicity with the others impticatet. Qn tho part of the dofeace generally it was contended that the admission was extorted under terror and dread; and it was furthor Proved, as is too often the case, that unnecessary barshnoss was usel towards tho crew. Hon. George M. Curtis, counse! for the defendant Smith, addressed the jury in behalf of his clieat ina very able and ingenuous speech, Mr. Phillips berg counsel for Sorransen and Edwards. Judge Shipman, at five o'clock, closed the summing up, and after (wo hours’ deliberation the jury returned with @ verdict of not guilty as to William Smith, and guilty of mansiaugbter ag againat Sorransen and Edwards. Tho District Attoroey, C. Delafie:d Smith, appeared for the government. ‘The important cage of William Coleman aod Catherine Mulligan against the Second Avenue Railroad Company was again up yesterday iu the Sapreme Court. From the evitence taken before Judge Bouney,'0 whom the case bad been referred it appeared that on the 15th of De- comber, 1852, the Corporation of New York granted to Deaton Pearsall aad otbera a franchise to covstruct the Second Avenue Railroad; that om the 25th of January, 1863, the company was organized, and that on the 15th of November, 1355, (he grantees sold tho franchise to the company for $200,000, oa which the plaintiffs rested. The defendants moved for a dismissal of the complaint, contending that the decision of the motion would virtually decide the case. Judge Boaney denied the mution. - Ex Judges A. A, Thompson aad Edmonds for plantiffs, ox- Judge Siosson and Mogsrs. Scuel!, Fulierton & Platt tor de fendaats. Gold was duil yesterday and the sales more thau usu ally light, at quotations ranging betwoon 161% and 162%. Stocks were irregular but not weak, aad prices ia tho aiteracoa were well sustained. Government securities resumed their former Gemaess under (he tafluence of a more lively demaad. There was oot much activity Ia business circies on Sat- urday, but there wag a good doal of buoyancy oeverthe- less, and the sales reported were generally at full prices. The bigh quotations of gold and forciga exchange pre vent apy decline io imported goods, but domestic pro- duce was irregular, Petroleum was dull for redved, which was lc @ 2c. lower. Cotton was dull and beavy. ry Mov ments—A Word of Season- able Advice. We received yesterday a despatch to the Associated Press, from Cincinnati, giviog infor- mation of certain army movements, whieh, thinking it might be uaeful to the enemy, we have excluded from our columas. For the same reason we decline assisting ia the circula- tion of other rumors afloat touching the plans and movements of General Grant. We adhere to our established rule of carefully avoiding any information calculated to embarrass our generals or to give “aid and comfort” to their adversaries. Our newspaper contemporaries of this city— and especially those professing a superior loy- alty to the Union cause—have been guilty of frequent violations of the aforesaid rule. The same charge will extensively apply to the re- publican party journals of the Weat. In good faith we would now appeal to them all, and to the telegraphic caterers for the Associated Press, to exercise a careful discrimination, for a month or two. as between legitimate and contraband items of army nows, and to the exclusion of all items likely to be of service to the enemy. In adopting this suggestion, instead of embarrass- ing the military movements of General Graat, the public press may render him valuable assistance. It does aot require the keen per- ception of a Philadelphia lawyer to detect the difference betweena telegram which anneuaces, for instance, the departure of a federal squad- ron to attack Wilmington, and a report of o movement into Kentucky by a cavalry columo from Longstreet’s army. Our rule, which we commend to our contemporaries, East and West, is, to publish all the news we can obtaia of the mevements of the rebels for the informa- tion of the War Office, and to avoid any in- formation of movements on our side which may be news to the enemy. Tux Trisune avo Free Girrs.~The Tribune bas suddenly become the champion of the victims of the watch and jewelry swindies that now abound in the shape of free gifts, &c. Now, whydon’t Greeley put in ® word in behalf of those poor people who have been deluded into subscribing for the Weekly Tribune on promises of free gift gold pencils, free gift mammoth strawberry plants and other free gift humbugs’ In the wateh and jewelry swindles, which Greoley affects to de- nounce, the victims are much better off than those who are victimized into subseribing for the Weekly Tribune; for while in the one case they cau enjoy the reflection of being com- pletely and sweetly cleaned out, in the other | they bave the mortification of thinking that they must endure the infliction of reading the paper, with all its Fourierism, false lights, free love and galvanized squash philosophy, with all its niggerism and miscegenation doc- trines, for a whole twelvemonth. In one case the fraud is comparatively a pleasant fiction, in the other it is a cruel aod unnatural punisumeat, and as such plainly indictable by District Attoracy A. Oakog Haii N&W YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 420, 1864. ————— nt Mercantit to the %b of Fobruary. The news i princt | Phe ©: Before the Storm—The Com- ing Campaiga. A dead calm prevails around the eatire circle of the rebellion ; but it is the calm which pre- cedes the darkening of the sky, the crash of the elements, and the sweeping burricanc. The armies of the Union are mustesing their forces with the determination to bear down all ob- structions, while the leaders of the rebellion, on every aide, are desperately preparing for a bloody resistance. A terrible struggle is im- pending. If, in the pride of superior atrengtb, our soldiers await the order to advance, the euemy, from his very weakneas, draws the fero cious courage of despair. Jeff. Davis and bis ruling associates have literally resolved lo succeed or to “die in the last ditch,” while they confess that all their forces and all their means will be involved in this coming cam- paign. If they are defeated, therefore, they are destroyed ; but if mol defeated, what then’ Another year of war, with all the hazards to us of financial embarrassments, foreign complica- tlona, domestic discorde and political coa- fusioa. We must, then, prepare to make sure aod deoisive work of this campaiga. ‘The, national treasury, the Gnancial and business interests of the country, the unity of the loyal States, and their internal harmony, will hardly survive afailure. We have the men, and we bave means easential to complete success; but the task upon which we are about to eater, we repeat, will beno holiday amusement. Our recent military expeditions, recoonoiasancesa and raids have shown that the rebels are armed and ready at all poiats, from Richmond to Florida, from Dalton to the northern frontier of Mississippi, and theace down to Mobile. It is, indeed, sus- pected that Longstreet in the West, and Lee in the East, are preparing for another. dash ‘across the northern border, each by way of a diversion, and for the purpose of procuring supplies. It would thus appear that, although General Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania cost him forty thousand men, it still, in the matter of profits and losses, left an iaviting balance io his favor, or that dire necessity suggests an- other effort in the same direction. In any event, it is manifest that necessity has constrained Jeff. Davis to fight to the deatb for Richmond and Virginia. General Lee and the Virginia contingent of the rebel army will be lost to the rebellion with the loss of their State, and Davis bas had to take his stand according- ly. In this view the importance of a strong and vigilant guard over Longstreet in East Teones- sce, and of an early movement against the rebel army of Virginia, are of supreme importance. As firmly as we believe that at this stage of the war the rebellion will collapse and fall to pieces with the loss of Richmond, we believe tbat Davis is gatberiag his forces for a decisive struggle for the defence of Richmond. We sball not, therefore, be surprised, with no general engagement in the interval, if Lee's army, by the middie of May, is swelled to a veteran host exceeding a hundred thousand men, and for the purpose of defending Rich- mond by another offensive campaign. Entertaining these views, we attach the bigh- est importance to the order of Genera! Grant which fixes his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac. In the tenacity with which Longstreet covers the western flaok of Rich- mond, in East Tennessee, and in the vigilance and exterprise lately exhibited by the rebels in North Carolina, aud ou the Peninsula and around Norfotk, General Grant bas doubtless comprehended their designs, agd that they call for bis immediate attention with the Army of the Potomac. The peculiar feature of his strategy,is to “move apon the enemy's works;”” and in good season after his return “to the front” in Virginia we shall expect this strategy to be tried again witb bis usual success, simul- taneously with an advance by General Sherman from Chattanooga. But, whatever may be the developments of the coming campaign, the appointmentof Gene- ral Grant to the command of all the armies of the United States has given more satisfac- tion to the couatry than any other act of Con- gress or the administration since the beginning of the war. The people of the loyal States feel easy and confident now that the manage- ment of the war is in the bands of this able, energetic and victorious soldier. But still, in contemplating the exbaustive efforts of the rebet leaders to meet the coming shock of arms, we must be prepared for the most obsti- date fighting on their part since the war began. Our federal and State authorities, our politi- cians and the people of the loyal States, drop- ping the Presidential question for a season, should oow io every useful way devote their energies and influences to strengthen the hands of General Grant and the armies under bis control. If the public mind is now diverted from the momentous struggle before us in the field of the war to the squabbles of parties aad factions over the spoils and plua- der of the next Presidency, the wants of our armies may be neglected, and disasters, instead of victories, may tollow Providing the meo and means to General Graat, iet our statesmen, politicians, officials and people assist him first to administer a decisive blow at the beart or the head of the rebellion, and then we shall bave a fair Geld and a free course for the Presidential campaiga. As mat- ters now stand, the question who la to be our next President? siaks into insignificance before the great, overshadowing question, what is to be the issue of this coming struggle, upon which the rebel leaders have staked their last man, their last hope and their last chance of success? Govervorn Bramuetre axp Negro Ewtist- uENnts in Kentvoxy.—Governor Bramlette, the loyal Governor of the loyal State of Ken- tucky, bas entered his protest against the attempt to press slaves into the service of the United States. As a loyal State, Kentucky has as much right to her slave property at this time as she ever bad under the constitution, and aa officer under Lincoln, of under any commanding general in the ser- vice, has mo more right to go into Kentucky aad press negroos into the public service than he bas to come here to New York and at- tempt to do the same thing with white men. If aslave belonging to a loyal master in Ken- tncky enlists without the master’s consent the laws of the State are suflicieat to meet the case, if executed, or the constitution and laws of the United States can do it if appealed to. Ifthe property of loyal Kentuckians is to be im- pressed in this way without indemnifica. tion it is not strange for them to ask, “What's the use of being loyal?” Governor Bramlette is right Slavery cannot be abolish- edin a loyal State by proclamation, but only by State law and legitimate legislative action Tue Last Cane Uron tux Parniorem or tHe Nation.—The approaching military campaign, whiob may perhaps already bave commenced, will be the decisive one of the war. General Grant, as the leader of the Union hosts, has thie great respousibility resting upon him. The contest will be a sanguinary and terrible one; but it will decide the fate of the country one way or the other. If General Grant be auccess- ful in this campaiga the Union will be pre- served. If he be defeated the most disastrous consequences will follow. We hall see the currency destroyed, publio confidence para- lyzed, and civil war—the end of which ao one can foretell—break out in the North. Every nerve and sinew of the nation should now be strained to sustain General Grant. If he prove victorious he will be elevated to the Presidency by the spontaneous voice of the people, and ao party machinery will be able to cast an obsta- cle in the way of his triumphant election. The country should not, therefore, be now distracted by party conventions, party nominations, party platiorms or party humbugs of aay aort. Every Prominent maa, every man possessing any in- fluence whatever, should in this momentous crisis merge - party interests io a grand, united, energetic and patriotic effort to sustain the new and victorious leader of all the Union armies in this Gnal struggle. It will be the Fiercest and probably the shortest of the war, and the occasion demands that the consolidated power of the country, and the personal influ- ence of every citizen, should be exerted to bring it to a successful issue. Let every good citizen put bis shoulder earnestly to the work, and push along the moving columns of Geveral Grant. Io his success lies our safety as a nation. Iumigration TO Amurica.—The statistics of immigration from Burope to America, a brief abstract of which we publish elsewhere in to- day’s paper, show how vast has been the tide of emigration from the Old World, notwithstanding the fact that we are involved in a bloody war. The increase is perfectly astonishing, when we come to consider the agencies that have been put fato operation to prevent emigration a!to- gether. The report. of the Commissioners of Emigration is @ most voluminous one, full of valuable information to the public. Many of the people who emigrate hitherwards are me- chauics and artisans of the first class. They are all strong men and women, almost always accompanied by their families and their “house- hold gods.” They are not transtent but perma- nent visitors, who come to America to improve their own condition, increase our population, and add to the general prosperity. It is our duty to warmly welcome these strangers coming to us, as very soon they will all be our fellow citizens, tilling the same soil and fighting the sane battles for Union and prosperity. While Canada and the South American countries are being weekly improved by emigration, the superior position of the United States secures greater advantages, and this alone accounts for the results which each yoar brings towards the improvemont of the condition of our immense population. Poor Greerey tv Danaen.—While pretend- ing, with bypocritical cant and po!troonery, to deprecate the discussion of politics and Presi- dential electioneering pending the rebellion, Greeley of the Tribune seizes every opportu- nity be can obtaia to obtrude his person into public political meetings, and by making ridiculous speeches succeed both in making an as3 of himself and in keeping up a feverish and unobealthy excitement in the community. Such conduct is ‘disgraceful. Greeley should beware. If General Grant should fail in the coming great campaiga, and civil war in the North ensue, Greeley will be the first victim that will be sacrificed to the vengeance of an exasperated and outraged people Reset, Piass vor tak Carrure oF THE Presipext.—Another wild correspondent of the Tribune furnishes a tedious fiction about pretended plans of the rebels to capture Lin- coln, which is very transparent nonsense. The rebels are practical meu, and do not work in that way. Every one in Richmond knows as well as every one in New York does that the capture of Lincoln would have no effect upon our government or the war. Grant is the man. Lincoln, a8 a power whose capture would end the war, is obsolete. Coat, Movoroties.—Coal is still selling for eight and nine dollars per ton. The Delaware and Hudsen Canal Company, we are informed on credible authority, pay for the coal dumped into their cars in the Lackawanna valley pre- eisely one dollar and forty-seven cents per ton. Formerly they paid ninety-five cents. Three years since this coal sold here for two dollars and ninety-five cente per ton, and the operatives, or bosses and miners, were better off then thao now. Isthere no way of reaching these huge monopolies aod restraining them in their sban- dalous extortions? ry Afvai: RECSPTION OF THB SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT, NEW YORE STATS VOLUNTEERS. The following orders have been issued relative to the sreception of the above regiment, which is expected to ar rive ja this city oo Tuesday next — SPRCIAL ORDERS—NO. 6. Bsavgcaaters First Divisiow, N.Y. nw March N.G,} re of this city ‘6 for their gallant services in the ‘The Seventy-first rogimont, Now York National Guard Colonel Teofford, will parade on Tvesday ooxt, the 22d 100 tast., to waite with the civil authorities im the recepti the Sixty second ent = oon trae Ss . To form line 1a front of the Seventh regiment, New York National Guard Colonel Lefferts, will parade on Wednesday noxt, the 23d toat., to unite with the civil authorities in the reception fegiment, New York State Engineers. To form line in front of + Cuy Hall ‘at two o'clock i’. M. irigadier Geverals Hal Spicer will promulgate the foregoing orders By order of = Major General CHARLES W. SANDFORD. Avex. Hamtetom, A. 0. C. SWORD PREERNTATION. i@ Martindale, of Company D, Firat New York ‘evented with an él Sis, she sews cod mamccry' ote coe * com| on saturday morning. Tue atair took place at Towers! Hotel, and the presontation was made, with a fow tellin end appropriate remar: Private Senaefer, on bebal of the company. Captait i bas siready served daring the campaign io of Michigan cavairy, company ‘and now carries the Now York First into the eld again TAG TWENTY-NINTH CONNROTIOUT COLORKD VoL: ONTRERS, New Bavaw, Cono., March 19, 1844. ‘The Twoaty ninth Counecticut Colored Volunteors, num- boring one thousand and five men, all told, under Colonel THB SRCOND MAINE CAVALRY. Porttanp, Me., March 19, 1864 ‘The steamer Doatiacatat sailed ‘to diy for Now Orleans w ip Fadl tia tow, taking @ of the Second Maine cavalry mn ABTORN OF THE THIATIRTH MASSACHUSETTS REOt- want. Rosrow, ‘The Thirtioth Massachusetts repentant toe toana, arrived homo to-day on a furiough, having re-en- listed Am oathusiaatio woloome won given tnolua. ing a diaadr Crom the city authorities ia Faqguil Halt Relfgtous Intelligence. SPavi0ns TO-DAT. A public meoting kr bobalt of the Ualted States Cara. tian Commission, will be Wold tbis evewing iu the Presby- terian church, Fourteenth street aod Seeoed avenue, at balf-past aevou o'clock. Phe Rov. Dy. Rockwell, of Brookiya, just from the army, eud the Rey. George J. Mingtus, will deliver addresses. Al the Westminster church, Twenty second street, be- (woob Sixth and Seventh Avenues, tho Rov. Coauscey D Murray, pastor, services at haif-past ton and bell-past seven o'clock: Tue Rev. Hoory Biaachard will proact on the Hetplal- Bes of the Life of Thomas Starr King, im (he Church of (he Restoration, corner of Monroe place aad Clark airoet, Brookiya, (his evening. Tho Rev. Geerzo J. Mingins and George B. Stuart, President of the Commission, wiil deliver addresses in behalf of the United States Christian Commiasion, this ‘Moroing, at haif-past te o'clock, ia the Congrogational Taberaacle, corner of York and Hooderson stroote, Soreoy City. At tho South Raptet church, Twonty-Afth stroet, ve- twoen Seventh and Eighth avonues, the Rev. Alex. A. Viatoa, D. D., using the Episcopal service, wilt preach the eleventh of the South churcn lectures (second ao. Treg), at balf-past oven o'clock. Subjoct—‘Recreations."* Tue Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartiott will proach ia the Brook: dya Taberbaclo this evouing, at hall-past sevea o'clock. a the: at half past ten o'clock, Bate ‘beth sctroo! at aine and hall past two o'clock. ‘The Roy. Ham’! B. Felt ‘byterian church in Fifti alreet, between Broadway pte tote Aveouo, at paif-past ten and halt-past Reven “Restoriog the Union as it was,"” wilt ‘eubj the ya enooting. 187 Bowery, al tree selock. Prone two to three o'clock, ‘The Constitution of the Uaited States."* The Rov. Dr. Fpemene, will Tabernacte church this ovening, ou ‘The Power and Re- ‘sources of the United Church agaist tho Rationalism of (ho times:’’ Services at balf-past seven o'clock bang 36 we oe Goss icciures to young mon and stran- gors lope pet, Broadway, this evening, - Past seven 0 clock. b . ne nen The Rey. Thos. Armitage, B.D., by request, will repeat the sermon delivered ia Bouth ehureh series, io bis charch, Fifth aven.o, corner of Forty sixth atrect, thie evoning, at haif.past sever o'clock. Subject—-Church and Soul Life.’" ‘Tho Rov. 8. H. Cox, D.D., will preach io the North Vresbyterian church, coruer of Ninth avenue and Thirty- firat atreot, this morning, at kalf-past tea o'clock, and in the evening at haif-past sevew o'clock. The Rey G. A. Poltz wiit preach at the rooms of the Now Eng!and Soldiers’ Relief Asaociation, tuis alteracoa, at three o'clock, The pudtic are respectfully invited to attead The Rev. G. T. Flanders witi deliver the vioth dis- course oa ‘Hell, its Bwlory and Dostioy,” at the His- taricat Society 10g, ‘Svenuo, this evening, at balf.paat goven o'clock, Subjoct—**Chriat ia Hell.” W. H, Milbura will deliver another of the course of lec- tures on the ‘Early History of Christianity ,”" this eveuing, at halt-past seven o'ctuck, at Irving Hall. Divine service will bo hold in tho chapel of Rutgers’ Toatitute, Fiith avenue, betw Forty -first and Forty- second streets, at half-past tea o’olock in the morning aud balf past tbree o'clock ia the afteracon. The Rev. Vr. Dyor wilt preach in the morning, and the Kev. Ste- phen A. Tyng, Jr., in the afternoon. At the Bleecker streat Universalist church, this even lug, tha Rev. Moses Ballou will expiain a text tuat ao eminent orthodox clergyman said was the ouly one in the Bible that prevented bim from being a Universaliat. Morning services at balf-past ten o'clock. At the Cevtral Presbytoriaa church, Broome street, two blocks east of Broadway, preaching by tho pastor, Rev James 8. Duan, at balf-past tea aad balf-past seveu o'clock. Sabbath echool at nine and two o'clock. At the Church of the Resurrection, Thirty-Ofth street, @ (ow doors east of Sixth avenues, divide service at half. past Lea and half-past seveo o'clock Tho reotor, Rev. k. O. Flagg, will preach io the moraing, the Rev. F. Vinton, D. D., of Trinity church, in the evening, when a collection will be taken tor the Prayer Book Society. At Ali Sainte’ Protestant Rpiscnpal. church, corner of Heury aud Scamaiel streets, services. at halt. past teu and half past seven o'clock The rector, Rev. Samuel J. Cot- nettle, will” preach in the morning, aad the Rev. 8. H. Weston, D. D., acsiatant minister of trinity pariah aad chaplain of tho Seveoth regimoat,N. ¥.S. M.,ia the eveutug. - Tbe Rev. Matthew Hate Smith wilt preach ia tbe chapel of the Polytechnic, Brooklyn, Livingston street, ocar Court, in the rear of the City Hall. Services at haif-past tea and ball pst seven o'ctock. At the Twentioth street Universatiat church, near Sev- ent avoaue, the Rev. K. G. Brooks gives the giath ser- ‘mon ot the current series this a‘tarngon, at three o clock. ‘Sub.eot—-*Soiomeon, the Epicurean’ Moruing service at half-past ten o'clock ‘The anniversary meeting ia New York for the Ameri —, Union will be beid in the brick Pros. byterian church, Rev Dr. Spring, coraer of Fiftn ave. nue aod Thirty seventh stroot, this oveaing at half part seven o'clock. Rev. A. A. Willits, of Brookiya, George H. Stuart, Keq:,0€ Phitadelphia, and Mr. Stephon Paxson, from lilinois, will make addresses. fev. Joo. H. Burts witl report the contributions of the past year aad make ‘@ genoral statement. Frederic 1. H. Witts will speak at Clintou Hall, Astor place, iv the lower lecture room, this morning at half. past ten o'clock, and in the evcbiog at ba: seven e'clock. Subect—Have wo a Faith worth “The Correspondence Between the Light of the Light of the Soat.” Mra. Cora L.. V. Hatch will speak in Brooklyn, ia Ciin- ton Hall, seoutawest corner of Clinton and Atlantic streets, this a’ternoon at three o'clock. Sub.ect chosen by the audience. Queations answered at the close. AtSt. Ann's church, in Eightoenth street, near Fifth avouue, the Kervices commence at s quarter to eight aod half past tea o’ciock A. M., at three and half-past seveo P. M., the arternoon being fordeaf mutes. During Holy Week services daily at haif-past ogbt A.M. acd twelve o'clock M. and at nalf-past seveo P. M., except Good Fri day,on ‘n they will be at the Suoday hours. This (Sunday) evening the Kev. Dr. Higbee will preach, Mon- day eveuing, the Key. br. Haight, Tuesday evening, the Rey. Dr. 8. R. Johnson, Wednesday evening, the Rev. Dr. F. Vinton; Toursday ee the Rey. Dr. A. A. Via+ ton, Friday evening, the Rev Dr. Cooke; Saturday even- ing, the Rev. Dr. Dix. The sermons wilt be interpreted for deaf mutes, aud the offerings of the congregations will be received towards paying the floating debt of the church, Pg vow amounts to about Gve thousand dollars. Seats roe. ‘The Rev James A. Phillips will preach @ discourse on the death of Jas. P. Hocking, at Lalf-past teo o'clock this morning, tn the First Freo/Witl Baptist church , tu Twenty. eighth etreot, near Broadway, of which the deceased was gextoo for many years. The friends aro invited to be Present a Bisbop Hopkins’ “ De‘ence of Slavery” bas saat beea pub lished by Pooley & Co, of Fraoklin square. tt is ad dressed (o bishop Potter, aod makes » volume of nearly four buodred pages, in which a-vast amount of research is exbibited—labor usolessly expended, eoving that the institution in this country hak received ita death blow, and can never be resuscitated “Nancy Blake's Letters toa Western Cousin’ iz the title of a pleasant little volume of pootical episties io the “Nothing to Wear’ style. The author, we believe, is Mise Ruth N. Cromwell, and the publishor is Tousey. A significaat fact ia copnectiva with General Grant's prospects as a Presidential candidate is tho announce. ment that Mr, Larke's “Life and Campaigns” of the bero, hich bas only beeo a few weeks published, bas already fun through several editions Dr. Alger’s ‘Critical History of a Future Life” is one of the most remarkable of the many doctriaai works published of late. It bas excited a great seusativa io feligioua circies. ‘ Michael! Banim, the survivor of the gifted author of “Tue O'Hara Family,’ bas a novel ia the pross entitied “The Towa ot the Cascades,” A very valuable and interesting compilation is ‘The \atroduction and Early Progress of the Cotton Manufac ture io the United States,” by Samuel Batcholder. {t ia published by Little, Browa & Co, of Boston. A capital biography of Father Mathew, the great Apostie of Temperance, has been receatly published io Tendon. ite compiler, W. Jobo Fraocis Maguire, writes withous the slightest sectarian bias, and has conse. quently been enabled to do full justice to the large-hearted Christian philanthropist who rendered such important services to the cause of social progress. Oharies Lever's new story of ‘Luttrell of Arran” gets @nevere Cutting up from the London critics, althoug! only a few numbers of tt beve appeared. A case of care. less writing and bad Eogtish is made out against it. A vory curious work is that entitled “From Mattor to Spirit—the Result of Ten Years’ Experievce in Spiritual Manifestations.”’ [t ts by Mrs. De Morgas. Professor De Morgan, the well knowa Thoory of Probabliities,”’ who has written the preface. De. Doran’s last book, ‘Their Majesties’ Servants, or Annals of the English Stage from Botterton to Kean,” is bigbly praised by the London eritios. Woe trust that somo American publishor will reprint it. A vow edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations,"” revised by Profesor J. R. McCulloch, bas just been pub- lished by Black, of Edinburg. “(A History of the British Navy from the Earliost Po- riod to the Present Time’ Is among the most servicoabio of the contributions to the historical literature of tho day. It is from the pen of Mr. C.D. Yonge. One of the most interesting chaptors in it is the account given of the fight between the Shannon and Chesapeake, Mr. Yonge does full justice to the gallantry of our sailors and their commander. Manafactory Explosion at Spri Srainarievo, Mase , March 19, 1964 Eight persons havo alroady diod from (ho offecta of the Jojurion they received in tho recent cartridge manufactory explosion, Several others are in a critical condition, NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Vniow Prisoners io Transit from Rich- mond to Georgia Frozen to Death. IMPORTANT MILITARY ORDERS. Free Schools to be Eatablished at Newborn and Other Places, ae, ae, ae. The United Staten etoam transport Elisa S. Terry,Cay- tale Chapie, from Nowvera,N C, on the I4tb times, arrivod at thie port yesterday ‘Wm. Johosoo, of Company F, Nivoty ninth Now Yor® Volunteers, died om board ine Terry yeatorday, whee o& Sandy Hook. Mis rosideace was at No. 35 Hanover , Pala i9 Pao day the cnomy wore v0 bo in ponscasion ‘Neéwbera,.¢ 40 their expoc'ativas, it being tho socond anniversary of its capture. With tho oxception of A dlight skirmish between the ouemy aod tho Third New York cavairy, thore has bosa ao collision a8 yot ‘Tne Witmiagton: (N. ©.) Journal ays that out of the voceat party of Yanko prisouers ia transit (rom Rick. mond to Americus. Ga., two frone to death im tha cars be: tween Weldoa and Rvleigh, twelve wero 80 severely frozen that thoy had to be loft in the hospital at Ralcigh, and thirty-one escaped from one of the box cara between Branchville aad Augusta. A roteased Union officer from Richmoud, who bas ar- rived in Nowbora, thinks a lack of (ood, instead of frost, was tho cause of the above moationed deaths. For the iuformation of persoas iv (ue North who expe. rience some difficulty ia: getting letters to tbo friends: who are officers ia the North Carolioa Uuiow rogumente, Wt should bo underatood'that there are two: white rogt meats of infantry known as First North Carolina, and ewe knowo ag the Second North Carolina. Two of these regiments are ia Kast Tenness2e aod twoin East Norts Carolina. Thess oumbe's alao represent each branch of the servico—cavalry, infantry and artiliory—white aag Diack, which, with those of (he sama number ia Bast ‘Teaucssee, will make Afteen regiments known as the Firat and Second North Carolina, white and black, ‘There are also white and black ments knows as the ‘Third North Carolias regiments festero aod Kasters North Caroliaa, oousisting of each branch of the-servioa. When tho various, regiments, white and black, now ar- ranging under these numbors, are all full, there wilt be tweaty sevea Union regiments kuowa as tho Firat Seo0ad and Third, which aré located in four differeat ‘Staten— , North Carolina, Virgtoia and South Carolina In addressing letters to these regimonts, the branch of service should be stated, thoir Koulity, ane 0 eta Agent Ob ies tn ty-o00 soldiers longing to the Second North Caroliaa white my ‘the reported wan cr bed several companies of the Second North Carolina white regiment ia Westera bap Reriyeves receatly captured by the rebels, have given a fresh start * to tho ealiaément of conscript deserters, who arecager for a0 Opportunity to aveage these atrocities. The (ollowiag orders have been issued:— GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 32. HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AND Distror Norm Carona, . Nrweers, N C., March U8, 1864. 1. Mainty through the phitanthropy of Northern ample and liberal means tiave beeo provided for -moral and religious training of the colored childrea North Carolina. No jwrtion of. this bounty bes been verted for the education 0; ‘poor white children,” thousands are withiu the lines, growing up in vice ignorance. Unless they are inatructed the American: plo Lavo no guarantee that thoy will not in the tems to révolutionize the goveroment and stitutions. Hietory will record that tl knowledge which results (row a general aystem 4 was ove of the leading causes of the existing revola- on. 2 It is ordered that free schools be organized at owes in Newbern, uniter such female teachers as may from time to time bo authorized. Tao wilt procure suitable rooms The expenditures will be pala from the civil fund, on orders (rom thase juartors. 3. Rev. J. Hilti Rouse, Hospital Chaptaia; ww. H. Doherty and Surgeon D W. Hand, Modical Director, 86@ appointed as Inspectors of Schools, without compense- ‘Th I report at least moothiy their - REeaks i HH z i i ; day schools will be opened ja Wasbing- ton, Keau’ort and other places. By command of Major Genora! PECK. Bexsasun B. Fosver, Assistant Adjutant Geuersl GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 33. Aeanqvarrers, Ausy ano Distaicr or Nowra Canouma, Nawrmgen, N.C. , Maroh 12, 1566 } Complaint having been made that colored employes the sevoral staff departments have been enticed pry | civilians, through tne oiler of bigher rates of pay, {hat the same practice impedes the success of recruiting agents, ail persons if this district are prohibited from employing blacks at bichee mages than those Axed by the goveroment. By command Major Goueral PECK. Bays B. Foster, Assistant Adjutant Goaoral, f Fine Acts. Kensett’s “October Afternoon on Lake Goorge,” now on exhibition at Goupil’s, is ove of the most auccessful of this artist's late efforts. Often aa the enchanting sconory of this beatiful region bas beeo painted, wo know 00 work which so faithfully portrays its features The point from which tbe vicw is taken embraces a long sweep of the lake, varied by a pumber of the small is'ands by which it is s0 picturesquely dotted ‘Tho per- spective is admirable, aud aided by @ glass the spectator can trace in the far distance many a favorite #)ot which would otherwise escape (he uaked We lope the work will be engraved, for as yet we have had nothing {n that liae which conveys so satisfactory au idea of the attractions of (he most picturesque of our Americas lakes One of the fow benefits which the uohappy struggle im which we are eagaged will con’er upoo us is the stimulus that it will impart toa branch of art which bas bithor- to bees little cultivated here—aamely, hisiorica: paiat ing. Already evidences of this are beginning to manitess themselves in the compositions which are making (hete appearance on the walls of our exhibition rooms. We are glad to find that the artiste who are applying themacives: to thia class of subjects are doing so ip an earnest aod conscientious spirit, Neblig, who Bow occupics a fore most positiod among our ‘igure paictera, bas beon paas- ing some time at Gettysburg, studying all the points of ipterest in the scone of tue late terrible coaflict, with a viow of painting a series of large pictures tlustrative of the battle, We have seen his sketch of the fight om the extrome left of our liae, which is proasunced by mitt- tary men who were present at it, to be @ most euc- cessful reproduction of its leading incidents. Sotar as the character of the ground and the general disposition ef tho opposing forces are concerned, nothing can be more accurate. It is intended to Introduce porteaite of the principal actors ia the scene, so far as they can be got, by sittiogs or otherwise, which will impart great a ditional taterest to tb The Uaioo triumphs at Chattanooga are also, we are glad to leara, about to receive their share of pictorial - justration, Mr. James Walker, the artist who painted the assault on Chapultepec, now in the Capito! at Waste tagton, bas been on the ground for some time preparing skotches for several large pictures. One of those will re preseut the struggle on Lookout Mountala, in which out troops were so magnificently haodied. ‘There is a German artist aow in this city of the came of Schoeptf, who has brought back from India and Persia ‘a nummber of very curious paintings jilustrative of Rastera: Habits and manners. One to particular , representing the court of Runjest Sing, isa very remarkable work, there being @ vast number of portraits introducdd and immense pains taken to reproduce the scone in all ite barbaric magnificencs. It is of vory large sizo, aod ie @laborated to an extraordinary degree in all ite mioutess dotaiis. It will be sbortiy placed on exhibition Mr. Schoepf 's studio is at 125 Broadway. Mr. J. ©, Baltro, (he pablisher, baa seat us a Gaoly ea- graved portrait of tho newly appointed Lisutouant Gone. ral of the armies of the United States—Goneral Grant. It is the largost and most faithful portrait of him yot pub lishod, and bears bis autograph The corders of @raving aro docorated with scenes from the Goueral’s; military career, one of the most promivent of which ta the conference with Pemberton for tho surrender of Vicksburg. The work, from its merit, is cortain to have avery large sale. ’ The Artiste Album, presented to the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, was “raffled” for on Thursday ovening Tho pictures were divided into six lots, which wore wou by, Mrs, Bussing, Mra, Clarke, and Mosers, Sanford, Steele, Ward and Thompson. Tho aumber of tickota sold wan five hundred aad Afty-two, making ao aggrogate Faooipt tor tho benofit of the fale of $6,260. A number of the tonding saints assisted in tho raifie, and some Of tho sin. ners, too, we rogrot to aay, for durtag she orcitement Attending it an wafortunate reporter was cased of hie pocke: book, Prelate