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

~ _ & NEW YORK HERALD. ‘OPFOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Se eeentenateaaammaatael TERMS cosh tmedvance. Money cont by mail will be NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, Ditts to ectabitsh an inebriaten’ asylum under the euper- ree OW President Making—Pet Dowe | Correction, | \ vistoa of our Cvmmissioners @ Charities and end for the extension of Seventh avenue, in this city from: the north sido of the Park te Harlow river, which wore Doth ordered to third reading. A bill was given eottce of for the erection of new Capitol butidings, ene of the pro- vistons being that the oliy of Albany bat Gret acquire | and convey tothe Stale the titie to Certain land tm tient city for the purpese. ‘The Acsombly was not ia seasion yesterday, tho mom- et the rigk of dhe eeséer. Nowe vut vank bills curreat fa bers not having returned to the Biate capital from their Rew York taken. AMUSEMENTS — ‘EY. EX! 1N@. NIBLO'® GARDEN, Broat WALL ACE'S THRATRA. Broadway. —Rosr nate RENTER @aRDEN, Bradwe —Bacmanrness. OLIMPIO THRATRA Brosdway.—Lrar Yarn NEW BOWREY THEATRE. Rowery.—Srinit Faw om TRI Di Goon—JOaN OF ARO. BOWERY THEATRE. Rewery. #ns OF Mis- Bismrei—JACK Sumrragy axo Hoe dnareiens Roow BARNUMS MUSEUM, Brosdwar.—Tunre Grants, TWO REG, ALNINGS, Ts 11, &0. as att hours, Arxuo Sta. OB SUIKIT OF At Dandy P.M, Mechanics BRYANTS MINSIRELS, once, Bouvesques, &o—Tax way —Brwortad ING A BUTRERELY, WOOD's MINSTREL HALL, Sit Broadway, —Ermoran Sonce, Dances, 4¢.—LuE eC RIPTS. AMERICAN THEATRK. No. 444 Broedway.—Barrere, Paxvowimns, Burtesgrrs. €c--OLp Guaxxy Gauwrr. BROADWAY AMPHIT! SATRR, raenc anv Bouwsieian > Evening BOPR CHAPEL, 718 Broadw = ne or 1u8 UNIVERSE, 4s, wost. URW yore MUSEUM ¢ A Y. - couositns axp Lretiaes from DAMA OE HOOLEWS OPERA HOUSE, Breoklyn.—! Sonos, Danees, BuRuRseuns, ec saduntgiaen alec! viwances, Alternoom and Tas Stxxzoscorrico® WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Tuesday, March 22, 1864. THH SITUATION... ‘Teo arrival of Geveral Gravt i expected with much apitety and enthusiasm io the Army of the Potomac Theweorganization of the different corps has not yet commenced. It {s eaid tbat Geoeral Lee ts receiving fargeaccessions to bis army, pa: ticularly to the cavalry force, which is being supplied with fresh borsea, He is evidentiy preparing for a vigorous spr Generai Butler is very busy tm his dey lating the saie of newspapers and periodicals and enter. tatoing Postmaster General Blair. Genera! Wild, com- mandiog at Norfolk, bas issued an important military order, No. 6, dooming to immediate ccath every fourth dog fo bis district, lest hydrophobia sho. prevanl nest summer To compliance with which we sre told that the “entire force’ of two commanding “8 Bre engaw e@ tn pounding” the condemned canines Tt will thes ‘be seen that our officers and men are ro! {4/2 in Genera! Eutior’s department. Nows from the Southwest ebows that the rebels are reliving there at different poimte, and thet the railroads ewe bejng reconstructed. They were i> force estimated #4 20,000 at Buii's Gay, East Jennsusee, and it was thought that they contemplated a movement into Ken- -wicky. The rebel Genorals Hughes, furgusom and Short @re op the porter side of the Cumboriaad river with Gyo bundred moa. Ou the morsing of the 16th they at- Wacked 009 of Hobson's cams, near Bonnett’s Ferry, and Were drives with a iss of four killed and several ‘Wounded, General Forrest ts reported to be orgauiving for a Movement to West Tennessee. He has obtained a large Qumber of boraes, aud Is mounting bis infactry, Genera! Griorson’s cavalry is weiching bim,and wil! no doubt Give bim warm work if be advances noribvard. Throvgh our recent advices we Jearn that Major Henry P. Wallon, of the Seventh reg. ur infentry, Daited States Army, has Istely bad two "cessful en- gagemonts with the Navajo Indians, ja one of which his command succeeded in killing over fifiy of the savages and woundiag some thirty more. Major Walicn is a ‘Drave and gailant officer, and ia possessed of ¢° = ¢ amonny Of @ktii a @ leader; but ia his present eutisnd <b position very Witie opportunity is allowed him to give «7 deace of bis fitness for a nigher command, Prisopers at Forts Lafayette and Warren bas adjourned, te mest in Boston on Monday, March 28. The Judge Ad ‘vooate tof this @lty yesterday to prepare for the session 8 the court. CONGRESS. Tn bho Senate yesterday @ communication was rece! from the War Department, tranamitiing the ord Provost marshals concerning elections ia Dela (woky, Wissourl and Maryiand Printed. After disposing of several uaimpori the bil! (0 promote enlistments of slaves, kc,, was taken up. Mr. Wiison modified bis amendment declaring tee wife and ebildren of a recruit free, by substituting “the woman recognized as'’ the wife, &c., and withdrew the seciton giving compeneation to loyal owners for gard wife end cbiidrem. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, offarcd an amend ment providing thet the district courts shall appoint three | Commissioners to make @ just valuation to be awarde! to toyat owners for slaves set free under the bill. Ade. | Date ensued, but, witbout coming to a vols, the Renate | wont into executive session, and on (he opening of the -doore adjourned. 1a the House of Repiessuiatives a resoletion was adopt 04 diveoting the Secretary of War to require the Ii'inos Central Raiiroad Company to refund $452 008, the Bar’ ton and Missour! Railroad Company $6,000, and tue evurl @04 Mississipp! Railroad Company $40, ¢aid amounts Uaving beem paid to said companies for goveruiment transportation, whereas lands have been donated to (hese roads on condition (hat they would transport rue.is end troepe of ibe ed States free of charge. A bili Aeolaring valid and binding al) bonds and other obliga- (ions made or tobe made by prisoners of war, paroled Prisooors or other parties, in order te secure Mhelr re. loage, the ponaities to be enforced by competons courts, was introduced aod referred to the Judiciary Committee. A motion that the Ways and Means Commities inquire into Che expediency of increasing the duty on low grades Of wool wan agreed to. A resolution galling he names -of ali pelitioal prisoners was offered, and, d arising, tald over ander the rules. The Committce on Public Lands: were instructed to inquire as tothe best mode of securing to the goverament the benefits of the gold bearing region of the public domain, The Senate's amendwpent tw the Military Academy Dill, increasing the pay of cadets to forty dollare per month, and a8 amendment by the Waysand Bleacs Commilice, providing that for one yoar from the Ast of July oert ap additional cadet for each Congressional distrjct shall be appoinged, were con curred ta, The Semate bill indemnifying the owners of the French bark La Manche, illegally seized by the biock- eding squadron, was passed. A bili prowiding for edu- cating ongiveers end naval constructors at (Re Naval Acatomy was tatroduced and referred. A resolution di. recting inquiry as to the expediency of @qualizing mill- tary and aaval pensions was edopted. TBe Army Appro- Pristion diliwas them taken up in Committee of the ‘Whois, Mr. Kernan, opposition, of New Fork, ofered an amendment dhat ne part of the money Gevoted to army transportation should be used to trapsgort civilians to and (rom (heir homes, and went on to stage that employes Of (be Government wore sent to their respective States at 1d Prbile OKpenRe to vow. ‘This was indignantly de- nied by Mr. Hlovens, repubiican, of Pennsylvania, who promounced the oharge ® falsehood. A fengthy and acr!- cn ouious dfecvasion followed, and fuely was lost by twenty-one majority, the eo Army Appropriation bill Was passed, ead (he Tlouse ad. jour . yane’ 78 LOOISLATORE. A Gfoat part Of yosior@ay's session Of the State Senate 0 apeal tm Commition of tbe Whole, @& (he considera 1 ve of yariOua BLs, a waniber of which Were ordered to uur Caled roading, ut the worl of tham were of very Pe. oO ee ee te eae Tt was or excursion to ¢his city on board the steamer Gt. Joba, MISCELLANEOUS BHEWS. ‘The steamer Fairbanks, from New York fer Washiagy ton, for the safety of which feare wore cutertained, ar- vived at Washington yesterday, Go wont ashore te Chesapeake Bay, and lay there severa! days, until, with the aid of two vessels, sho was enabled to get offaafely. The sub-committee on an address and resolutions ep- pointed aba recent meeting of the Tammany fall General Bradway.—Ticker or Leave | Committee assembled at noon yesterday, ta the Oid Wigwam, for the purpose of taking into consideration the platform prepared by Petcr B. Sweeney, and which was p dished in the Henarp s week ago. The committee wad in @cssion about an bour, and, we leara, bad quite am exc'ting debate over the platform, whiok, ft seems, is too } warlike for some of the braver of old St. Tammany. It 4 considered more than likely that the languageef the address wil! be somewhat modified at the vext meoting Of the committee, whicb wili take place on Thureday or Hall, 472 Broad. | Saturday. The Board of Supervisors met yosterday, A veto was feceived from the Mayor of the reaolutton authorizing the’ appointment of @ trausiator to the Coutts ef record and the Surrogate’s Court. A communication from Fernando ‘Wood, stating bis readiness to givo information on the Harlem Bridge question, aad informing the Board that 485 Brosdway.—Gra- | he had rover been called upon for evidence by the West- chester county committee, was alto received. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesierday afternoon, Prest- BTY-skveNta Steer | dent Henry tn the chair. A resolution grapting permis- sion to the Metropolitan Fair Asseciation to occupy Union. park during the continuation of the fair wes adopted. Alderman Ryer presented a petition, signed by a large pumber of citizens, esking that the Legislature be memo- rialized to amend the law relati¢e to the completion of the assessment rolls, eo that th@ returns might be com- pleted in Febrvary instoad of July, as heretofore, Alder- mon McMabon offered a resolution authorizing the clerk to gend a copy of the tax levy, apacdopted by the Board of Aldermen, to the Legislature, with the request that the rame be legalive#. The resolution was adopted, and the Finauce Committee was instructed to proceed to Albany for the purpoae of furthering the object. A commaunica- tion was received from the Comptroiler, exhibiting a y treasury on Saturday evening, the 16th 48. A number of papers were received from the Board of Councilmen aed acted upon, after which the Board adjourned unt!! Mondgy noxt. The Councilmen met at two o'clock yesterday, Presi- dont Hayes in @he chair, After traneacting some routine business, the Board, on motiom of Mr. Gross, coucurred with (he Aldegmen in the adoption of a memoriat peti- tioning the Lagisiature to mote certain amendments in the Tax law. Mir. Brice (chairman of the Finavce Com- milteo) oTered @ resolution requesting the Comptrolier to transmit to Albany, for approval by the Legislature, the tax levy, as adopted in thot Board on Saturday last, Mr. Brice stated that be did so because the Aldermen adhered to their former action, and had directed their estimaice to ba forwarded for the approval of the State Tegisisture. Mr, David R. Jaques spoke at considerable length against the adoption of the rezolution, taking the ground that @ committee of con’erence ought to be ap- pointed, and being also of opt that tho estimates are extrevagantly bigh. Nees and Brandon spoke in favor of the resolution, which was then adopted, The Board adjourned unti! Thuredsy next at two o'clock. Jobn W. Hunter, Ascistent Auditor of the New York Custom House, was arreste@ on Saturday, charged with fraudulently drawing chepks to the amount of $9,800 on the United States Aasistan® Treasurer, and placed under bonds to the amount of $10,600 to answer the charge. Collector Barney aud Avditor Ogden became Mr. Hunter's sureties. ‘The assavit and battery cace of Fdward N Linn va. David D. Ellston, which eime off fn the Supreme Conrt, vefore Judge Bagnard, gesterday, attracted considerable attention. The defendant admitted the commission of the assault, but attempted to justify his conduct by proving that it was provoked by the use of the word “liar” in (he presence of hiswife. The jury rendered @ verdict for the plainti?, assessing the damages at $500. P The case of Isaao W. Edgall vs. James and Erastus Brooke, of the Ecening Express, wae tried for the second time yesterday in the Superior Court, before Judge Me- Cunn. The defendants, it will be remembered, published @ paragraph coveorning the dismissal of the plaintit from the police department, in which it was stated that “black mailing’ was the cause of the dificulty This proved to be incorrect, gnd the defendants, om being re- quested to publish the plaintiff’s card, refused to accede to the demand. A enit was then commenced against the Prooks Brothers for libel, which was dismissed by Judge Bosworth witheut allowing te case to go to the jury. ‘An appeal was taken from this decision, and the general term reversed the proceedings and ordered a new trial. Me, James Bro us was presen. yesterday daring the trial. and when the (estimony w28 closed proceeded to sum up the ex bigown bebal’. The case was not concinded | Cue atc cument of the @ourt vesterday se of Jacob Schil'er against the eity, where tne gat to recover $10,000 damagos for injuries fatting into on er in Hester street im Jed yesterday. in (pe Court of Common [ ‘Tbe piaintt® proved that he injury of the knee joint ever up by Mr. Hackett, 1360, Pleas bid t gince eet the Corporation connge!, wae that the injury in question was Gomstitutional, and mot the reault of 1g ato the sewer. “6e jory sympathized with Schiller, however, aud rendered a verdict in his favor of $2,751 ripora Mining case was on again yesterday, be- fore Judge Daly, a the Court of Common Pleas, chambers. Mr. Cornelias K. Garrison was to have been examined Dut the conse! chore to occupy the entire day in an ar- | gument upor the admissibility of one of the vory fret questions pat to the witness, The further cousideration ©! the cae @as postponed until Saturday r, who waa convicted cruit under felca pretences in the Court of General Sessions a few days ago, was yesterday released on a writ of habese corpus by Jude Barnard, on giving bail in the snm of $260 to appear wher called pon to answer. ‘The representatives of six nian tyilves of the Troquols mation, on the ry to Washington op « mission to Pres: dent Lingoin, were received lart evening by the mem- bere of the New York Historical, Ethnological and G graphical societies, at the rooms of the Historical Se corner of Eleventh street and Secondavenus. Mr, Tred. De Veyeter presided, and welcomed the Indiang in an approppiate speech. Mr. Jamieson, of the Sences tribe, res onded for bis brotbere, and gave a good specimen of Indian @oquence, explaining the Gaject Of the mission to Washington. The meeting waa wel! attended, particn larly uy indies, wio seemed to take a deep interes: in the proceedings. A tres meeting of the working women was held at the Cooper Tnetitute last evening. The mesting was ad- dressed by Judge Daly, Rev. Wm. H. Milbura and others The City Inspector's report states that there wre 490 deaths in the city during the week ending Siarch 2i—ny increase of 49 as compared with the mortality of the Week previous, and 63 more than occurred daring the corresponding week last year. The recapitulation table gives 4 deaths of alcoholism, 6 of diseases of the bones, joints, &e., Sl of the brain and perves, 12 of the Generative organs, 21 of the heart and blood vessels, 203 Of the lungr, throat, &c.; 10 of old age, 30 of diseases of the skin and eruptive fevers, 6 premature births, 35 of G@ieasee of the stomach, bowels and other digestive organs, 68 of uncertain seat and genoral fevers, 1 of diseases of the urinary orgats, 17 from violenge, and 1 ua- Bhown. There were 310 natives of the United States, 126 @f Ireland, 90 of Germany, 16 of Ragland, 2 of Scotland, @rd the balance of various foreign countries. ‘The stock market yerte: id Saturday's Prices for shares were very well sustained. Gold con- @nned dull, with very few sales at quotations between Gor- 62 and 163, Money remains easy at six por cont @rnmont securities were in demand at better rai ‘There was no material change in the market fo: foreign or domestic merchandise yesterday. The for almost all goods was very moderate, And business, @xcept in a few commodities, was circumscribed. On ‘Change businest of all Kinds was dull, except shipping Grades of Hour, which were liberally Purchased for the Britian provinces, The increaved movement wea accom Prvied by a little more tous, and in some fostances a» @ight improvoment in prices was obtained, Wheat, dere a4 oats continued dull, aud prices ta favor of the buyer Provinions were dull and prices of bog products rather Groping. Whiskey wom without cesential change Free extromsly doll, and cae & (ure lower ‘ the Rebeltion. | The recent bulletin from the War Depart- ment, giving General Grant the chief command of all our armies, is thoepening of the great allowed to tive altogether ¢00 long. We must put i¢ down aow if we are ever to put it down. Bhould the war drag on for another year the rebels will have a hundredfold better chances of @uccess. The duty ef every Northern man is to Gevote himself heartily and immediately to assisting this campaign. From the President down to the most humble individual in the land, every one has his duty plainly before bim. General Grant is the government, so far as all the practical purposes of the war are con- cerned, and he must be unanimously supported. The watchword of the day is that old war ory which roused the nation when Fort Sumter fell:--‘Union for the eake of the Union.” Let the President keep his little plans to himself, and leave General Grant to work out our aal- vation. Let the War Department give General Grant al! tho men and means he requires. Let the politicians put off President making, and join us in securing @ country for a President to govern. t the people furnish the volun- teers and money needed, without any grumbling,or gomplaints. Let the Tribune re- frain from publishing such incendiary state- ments as this, which appeared im Its yester- day's issue:—“Halleck’s power is undiminished; he is now, as he was months ago, the Presi- dent's military adviser, and as such he ean, and probably will, neutralize Grant’s influence.” Such sneers are iN-timed, and may properly be called “treason in @ vew form.” For this last and supreme effort let us have the same unanimity, the came patriotism, the same unselfish devotion to Union and Liberty, which marked the first uprising of tho North, and added to the history of this country its most brilliant and most glorious chapter. If this be done we shall quickly and surely suc- ceed. If not, we shall have to bear the blame of our own defeat. The abolition party has never done anything to assist in putting down the rebellion. The nino hundred thousand volunteers i¢ promised have never been seen on their way to the seat of war. At every crisis, at every danger, the conservatives have been called upon to rally to the good old cause, and they have never failed to respond. They will not fail now. They will give Grant the same fafth, hope, trust and support tbat they gave to Scott and to McClel- Jan. All that we ask of the ebolilionists is to stand aside and not interfere with the work as they have interfered before. We ask them to hold their tongues about the nigger, to practise their miscegenation schemes in private, to drop their Presidential wires, agd to get out of the way of the conservative masses. These are very little sacrifices in comparison with those which the conservatives have made and are ready to make, and we hope thet they will not be refused. We do not appeal to the patriot ism of the abolitionists; for they have none. We appeal to a lower, but ¢o them a more in- fluential, motive. Let them look at the recent riots at the West. Do they understand what these portend? They pertend civil war at the North; and such a ¢ivil war will surely come if we rush into the mad excitement of a Presidential election before the rebellion is practically put down. What would’be the results of a Northern civil war at thistime? Ofeourse it would secure the suecess of the rebellion. But, besides that, it would result in the hanging of Greeley, Garci- son, Wendell Phillips, Beecher, George Thomp- son and other such men, without judge or jurr. The Tribune may rant and rave:and call us treasonable—“in a new form”—for saying 0; but we appeal to the history of the past, and the facts of the preseat, to justify our predictions. The copperheads are fomenting this civil war of the future, as the abolitionists fomented the civil war now raging. Let Horace Greeley examine (he files of the Tribune, and he wil) find there the weapons, forged by his own hand, which the copperheads are now using againat the gevernment. The curses of the Trilune fanatics are coming home to them in the eop- perhead conspiracies. We warn these people now, as we warned them years ago, of the inevitable consequences of their suicidal folly. Again we ask them to pause in their headlong career, and again we show them how to retrieve their errors, although, alas! some ot the direfal results of those errors are now irretrievable. Let them stop talking about Chase or Lincoln or anybody else for the mext Presidency. Chase has withdrawn. If Lincoln had a particle of sense he would also withdraw. Let Raymond and Greeley save their wrath for the rebels, cease abusing McClellan—who is a better man and a better patriot than either of them—and speak of the Northern conserva- tives respectfully, or not all; for we are in perilous times, when hasty words are like torches in a powder magazine, Abeve all, Jet the President leave Grant lone; let Stanton supply Graut with all the material he neods: let the politicians turn reeruit- ing officers for Grant—the one who raises the most mon to be entitled to the bigh- est place under government; let the people give Grant the®® unanimous support; let the copperheads keep to their holes, and let the abolitionists either fall into the Union ranks or get down on their knees and beg a merciful Providence to forgive them their sins against God and man, and to grants that success ip the present campaign which slone can restore the Union and save the country from agother civil war. Revotorionary HisroryvTar Lyyiuenee or “ Tue Cuurncn.”—The Right Reverend Adding- tom Robert Peel, by Divine permission, Lord Bishep of Nassau, arrived early this month in the Bahamas, received an address from the pious peeple of New Providence, and made « reply. He sustained the Church, as was natural in a churchman, and argued that “one of the surest ways to keep alive the spirit of loyalty toward the throne of Great Britain” was the establishment of “our common Church in all its fallness in the colonies." And Bishop Peel held this opinion the more Grmly beeause he had lately talked with “a geotioman from New York,” who believed, of conrse—after dinner— exactly as the Bishop did. We hope there is no New York gentleman who would venture to differ with a bishop when the power of tho Church is in question. Rishop Peel's friead alae “‘oxpresied his opinion that the ill feeling towards England that prevailed ia Americaat tho time of tho Revolution was much owing to tho refusal of the Eplacopate to the Americans by the English government.” WA the Dovtgs’s friend bot ua eugw mop Wy who iohabited the country that now forms lx New England States, who loft Kogland they might worship God in their own " and who looked upon “the Church” as better than the scartet—what-d'ye-call-it!—of | Babylon. Was it desired by the liberal and large-hearted Roman Cathoties in Marytand, by the Quakers in Pennsylvania, by the staid Dutch in New York, by the Huguenots or by the Co- venanterst Who wanted it mestt Lot us know by all means. Grant and Saretsek—The Impending Military @nd Operatic Campaigas, There {s & portentous calm at this moment, @ lull {a our wertike excitement; but all are well aware that the storm fs ready to burst, and that ere many days the final eteuggie be- tween the people of the North and their re- bellfous brethren of the South must’ com- mence. Grant—the invincible, unyielding, do- termined Grant—has mow assumed the com- mand-tn-chief of our armics, and we all know that his method fs to move at onde upon the enemy's works. The brave soldiers of the Army ef the Potomac wil! bave an opportunity to prove once more that when ably com- manded they can perform great deeds. In the,| Southwest General Sherman will hurl the vete- rans whe have kaown no defeat against the al- ready disheartened bands of Davis, and at the, aame time Grant will strike a great, an over- whelming blow at the very heart of the re- bellion. He will rid Virginfa of the accursed taint which now pollutes her, drive back the hordes who, during the imbecile mismanage- ment of Lfncoln and {fs eateHites at Wasling- ton, have @o many times, with every chow of euccess, threatened that capital. At all points will the deluded people of the South recefve ponderous hints to lay aside their present rebellious course and enter once more: that Union they have vainly sought to destroy. With the return of spring the angel of death shall once more stalk abroad taroughout the South. Not that we of the North wish to orush our brethren, but because the cepublic must live, because treasom and anarchy are incom- patible with.our great and glorious institutions, because, in fact, we are fighting the cause of civilization, of progress, of all mankind, and that with this awful responsibility resting upon us we must save the Union if we utterly destroy the traitors who would over- throw it. The teachings of history shall live again in this present struggle. We shall see the people of the North gay, prosperous, al- most unconscious of war, The followers of Davis will, on the contrary, be gloomy and desolate; they shall know the horrors, the awful sufferings of civil strife. They have raised the storm, and must endure tho destruc- tion it entails. Asacontrast to all these gloomy thoughts, we turn eagerly to the prospect of an equally determined contest, an equally animated but leas dangerous campaign, which shall com- mence about the same time as Grant's dread- ful inroad upon Rebeldom. Lieutenant Gene- ral Maretzek, the Commander-in-Chief of all impressarii, whose headquarters are ever in the operatic field, commences next week a grand spring operatic campaign, which haa for its purpose the entire subjugation of this immensely populous city. We hear from good sources that his plans are laid with a view to the utter and complete defeat of his enemies. No quarter will be shown or taken—no refer- ence is meant to a coin which once existed in this country—the entire, unconditional submis- sion of the people will alone satisfy Maretzek, who will come back from Boston merciless and flushed with success. He has #0 well conducted his operations against that city, in the short space of one week, that at present the only sane person at the “ Hub ”’ is Count Joannes. With so dreadful an example before our eyes of the prowess of Maretzek, we feel that it were vain for the people to resist his onslaught, and would counsel a surrender. If this advice is not taken—and we fear it will not be—people are seldom inclined to lis- ten to reason—the havoc made by Maretzek will be frightful. He will not only use hia big gun—his Swamp Angel “Faust’’—-to batter down the public defences, but will also make a free, we might say a deadly, use of quite as formidable operatic weapons which he possesses, and which are even now, we hear, being put ia warlike trim. He has two able generals, Mazzoleni and Brignoli, to say nothing of some most desperate eommanders who will make bold operatic raids, giving the public not a moment’s respite. Why, to show the deadly determination of Ma- retzek, to prove the ferocity which will dis- tingnish tbis spring campaign, it may be men- tioced that he will actually have a large corps de bullet well Grilled and at ali times ready to do frightful execution, especially among the susceptible parties in the parquet. We have heard of savages who steep thelr weapons in poison. They might take lessons in vindictive- ness from this dreadful Maretzek. On the 28tb of March, which shall of course become a great historical date, Maretzek fires off his firat gun. That evening will be a marked one for New York. The public will have to encounter not only this danger, but also the opening of the Sanitary Fair, the annual bail of the Melo Choreans and the production of several new pieces at our most popular theatres. We can all imagine what havoe the Fair will create. The Melo-Choreans will, it is said, be visited at Irving Hall by the Corps Diplomatique. The President, if he cannot come, will be reprexented by his latest joke. Secretary Welles will arrive at midnight in the yawl of the Alabama. It ie asserted that on this occasion he will be awake. Weare inclined to doubt this statement, although It comes through the best sources. Secretary Chase, if he cannot find a moment te spare from his Presidential wirepulling, will send his weight in greenbacks. It ts expected that vast crowds will await the arrival, or rather the non- arrival, of Chase with intense anxiety. Greeley or some leading African will represent the Tribune; and, last, amd not least, the celebri- ties in art will grace with their presence this ball. Opera, Fair and dancing will render the night of Easter Monday attractive for the vo- taries of pleasure, make it a fitting commence ment of the spring campaign, and prove the claim of New York to being the gay and bril- liant metropolis ef the New Wortd. Rerery or Cotoymens.—-A shipload of no- groes has just returned from the island of Avache, Hayti, whither they bad been sent from thia country by some of the pumaaitarians who make @ living ia Washington by proposing all sorts @f impraotioable schomos of philan- thropy aad getting Uncle Sam to foot the bills, Mate "9 igle coat tag Youd Beales Tooasury j ‘What ts the uso of sending able bodied Gestroy oll the beauty end healtbfulnces of tags charming suburb, but it will oreate a job, levelling cliffs and hills and in Gilling up val leys, apd cause the useless expenditure of mil- ‘lions apon millions and endless taxation to ‘foot the bills. Wo would call the attention ‘the Assembly to this view of the subject, to the expedicnoy im the same view of dotailing Golds of the South! Koop labor here, where it | ja speotal visiting commiites of oxamination te ‘is moet neoded, and keep it properly employed all the plans of General Grant in reference te the coming Richmond campaign, all the plans of the enemy, all the facts regarding the atrength of the two armies & month or two bonoe, and all the movements and results that are to follow. Thus we are told that by April General Grant will have aa army ia Virginia amounting, all told, to one hundred thousand white soldiers and fiftoen (thousand negroes; that by that time General Loo will have an available force not less than one hundred thousand etrong ; that General Grent will divide bis army into two columns, one of which will move up the penin- oule and the other from the Rapidan—“ Grant being famoes for dividing his armies into dif- ferent columns, each directed against the same object;” that “he cam scarcely begin his ad- vance before the middle of April, as the equl- Bootial etorm has yet. to come; that “if he has already made his plans he may depend that the Confederates know them;” that he will have obstacles to enoounter “far more formidable thaa ever opposed him in the West;” that “the alege of Richmond is not the siege of Vicks- burg;” that “Lee is not Pemberton,” and that “the War Office at Washington is far too close for comfort.” From these estimates aad opinions the reader is left to deaw his own conclusions; and we cannot perceive how, from such premises, he can arrive at any other conclusion than a disas- trous failure to General Grant. We, however, look for better things. Lee cannot very well increase his Virginia army to one hundred thousand men without seriously weakening Joe Johaston in Georgia and uncovering North Car- olina; and should he do so General Grant may strike first fn North Carolina or Georgia; for it must be remembered that in support of his movements against Ricbmond he ean bring all the armies of the Union into play. Richmond may be taken through North Carolina, or by way of Atlanta in Georgia, or even by way of East Tennessee; and should Leo leave either of these doors open to strengthen himself in front of Richmond Grant will be apt to find it out and act accordingly. Nor have we any serious apprehension that the War Office or the Wash- rington Directory will be allowed by General Grant to interfere with his plans and combina- tions, Doubtless he has accepted his new posi- tion with the distinct understanding that he is to be guided by his own judgment in managing the grand campaign upon whiob he is about to enter; and believing that. as at Vicksburg, he will follow his own counsels, we anticipate the most glorious results. Maxmanian ann His Secesu Noaies.—It is positively asserted as a fact that a number of prominent rebels and secesh sympathizers are prepared to accept titles of nobility from Maxi- milian I, of Mexico, and that one—ex-Senator Gwin—bas already been created a duke. And now, we suppose, we shall have immedi- ately a long and brilllant array of notables selected for the Mexican market from the cream of rebel society, and bearing all sorts of titles. Look out for his Royal Highnoss Jeffer- son Davis. Prince of Rebels, and heir to the realins of the late King Cotton; for ex-Sena- tor James M. Mason as the Duke de Rinaldo, Jount Palatine of Cape Cod, and Grand Master in keeping at Fort Warren, transferred to the Castle of Calomel and Xalapa, Mexico; for ex- Sepator Slidell, Lord of the Charleston Con- vention. and Grand Factotum to the late High- cock-a-lorum of the White House; for Viscount Memminger, Grand Chancellor of the Exchequer of Plaadowt, who, having uo sovereigns of his own and none for his master, is well prepared to support the title of Grand Repndiator of ‘Two Dynasties: for ex-Senator Robert Toombs, Marquis de Boomaranz, commander of the wine vats of the empire. and Master of the Roll Calls on Bunker Hill, &e., &c. The court of Maximilian I. will early rival that of his im- perial Majesty Soulonque, of Hayti, for magni- ficence and rags. Stays or Asoraen Rewer Rao inio Kes- rucky.—QOur latest advices from Last Tennes- see inform us that the reports of the rebels in that quarter “having sent away most of their artillery and wagons by railroad, and mounted men on all their draught horses, are confirmed,” and that “fhere is a general belief that the rebels intend to make a sudden movement into Kentucky.” We should not be surprised if they were to make this “sudden movement:” for Jobn Morgan bas doubtless been preparing for some stich onterprise ever since his escape back into Rebeldom. Let the Kentnekians, then, look well to their horsea, cattle, hogs, sheep, dry goods and groceries; for if Morgan comes among them again be will come hungry. | the grandest balls of the season. thirsty, ragged and revengeful Tue Wasnincros Heiguis Murinarwos ayn | Srows ano Viuxner Jow.—We perceive that | acommittee of the Assembly st Albany re- ported against the desiruction of the Blooming- dale road by a railway, and that the friends of the bill have succeeded in getting it referred back to the commitice for further action. Though the fate of the bill is thas still in doubt, the fact that the committee ence re- ported against it, looks like a returning sense of reason; and we may fairly hope that the same committee will give the bill a final quietus before it is beard of again. While the Assembly is ia this frame of mind we bopo it will tura its attention to the Washington Heights Commission, and to the work of spoliation and disfiguration, and the enormous job of spoils and plunder project- ed in that quarter. The suburbs of Washing- ton Heights, as it now stands, with its pleasant couniry seals, its groen flelds, wooded bill sides, rooks, ravines and shady valleys, is the most beautiful section of Manhattan Island. By adapting the streets, with the extension of the city, to the natural inequalities of the ground the beauties of these beights may be retained, fad all the necessary (acilities of communica- tloa may be secured with very Little additional expanse to the city taxpayers, But the pro- jected mutilatton of the Washington Heights Commission, lactuding ton viraight avenues and qumargag airagte at cight gagios, will not only ' ‘Washington Heights. , Gmina. Saemun’s Exreprmon—A Dawe respectable force, co-operated with Farragut, the oity would have been in danger, and might have been captured; buf’ General Banks was, unfortunately, preoccupied’ in the business of the political reorgasization: proclamation of President Lincoln. That bust- regarded at Washington as more! Important than Mobile, Admiral Farragut wes” sent forward elmply to amuse the cnemy ia that quarter and to divert his attention fron) Sherman. Now, however, as Loulsiane hes been put in aa acceptable shape for the. Baltimore Convention, ii fs to be hoped; that General Banks will be allowed to. proceed to the practical business ‘of the war,,.. ‘tad that the prosecution of this political > of reorganization for Presidentia! purposes will |. be postponed to a more convenient season, The Theatees. WALLAOK'S. " ‘The Echooi for Boandal, for Mee. John Gefien’s beady! to-morrow evening. After the benefits we are promined” eeverai new piays. Mr. Wallack recently etated that fey had plenty of good ones on hand. among them ts a come. dy by Boucicauit. INTER GAROEN. iy fast week of of Leave Mas. ‘Mo ¢ Monday evening, March 26, Madame Methua bgt eo FI well knowa bere as 4 capital actress In: make her debut upon the English etage a pastoral @ra-— ma, called Lorlie’s Wedding, by Madame Sirch-Pfeifter. $ NIBLO'S. v ‘The Riohingses are ainging euccessf.lly, Ur. Edwia Booth ts engaged to tread tho boards €0 long cous rated to Mr, Forgest. John Broughom’s Bol Demonte, now rem / ning at Fechter’s theatre, London, ts ia active prepara tion here. Mr, Booth will not play in ity moitaer with Manager @heatiey, who is atili infill heatth, OLYurio. Mrs. Wood revived Buckstone's comedy, **! np Year,!” last evening. This is probably only a makesn((!, to gate time for ¢he preparation of burlesques, of which twoare in rehearsal, viz, Aladdin and a new version of Fortunto, by A. Onkey Halt, 'sq., District Attorney. Mr. Hull call his version Loyalina, and substitutes a roit of grosnback® for the purse of gold. MISCELLANEOUS, Ventveli played Gamea at the Brookiyn Acsiomy last evening. To-night the Brigand will be prodvomt there, Matilda Heron has gone to New Orleans. Farnum bag brought one of Pepper's fancy fountains over fom Eng- land, aed introduces it fo a new spectacls, called the Spirtt of Beauty, or something of that sort, xt the etu- seum. The spectacte {s raid to bo gorgeous. it SHARSPERE’S TRRCENTENARY, {From the San Francisco (Cal.) Mercury, Yob. 31.) Mr. 1, Anderson, the veteran actor, ab prepegs. & member of Maguire's Opera Honse tronpe, bas, @ comreunication from Mr. Charies 8. bw of the American Dramatic Fund Association, New a to the purport that the association has decided to take @ benefit at all the principal theatres throughout seeranel, boing teformed of the matter, and commendable ibe it coe spirit Opera Honse, rent contingent expenses , ¥ diposivion of the y for the occasion. Mont of the Fastera theatrical managers have acceded to ¢!:> propo. sitlon, apd are lending tt ives with zeal to carey 16 out in@ manner worthy of the bard, the associntion aud the profession, ’ LONDON. A new farce, called the Alabama, from the pen 0? st*. Madison Morton, was undortined at Drury Lanc st iat advices, Miss Bateman and Bir. Sotberu continu! ‘bete success i ity Intolligence. ARREST OF THR ASSISTANT AUDITOR AT THE CUSTOM Foros John W. Huntor, Assistant Auditor at the Custom fo this city, wes arrested on Saturday oma chorge °f fraudulently drawing checks on’ the Assistant Troasu reg of the United States at New York. He bas been =~ Noyed im aresponsible position, drawing checks on ‘ Ksvistant Treasurer, and baving charge of the rotor &. depostts for uoascertained duties. A: the ch rently returned from the office of the Assistast Tr: rer as having been paid upon the order of the Auditor's office were two which, in that office, were thrown o-© ag not geauine. They bore the name of Mr. Huntor, « were of duplicate or extra numbers. The amount thousand eix hundred dollars and four thousandtw> 1: dred dollers—did not. however, with those +4 the othermumbers, which were for much fess sima Tbs: ehecks w@re prouounced forgeries by Mr. Hunter, a0 sarpicton@fell upon a man pow confined in Fort Lx‘«. upon other charges; but, upon ap fmvestigation bs Assistant Treasurer, Disirict Attorney Smith, eo ( Marshal, with the ald of some of the detectives, \+ deemed advisable to arrest Mr. Hupter. He was held 'o bail by Commiestoner Stillweil in the sum of ten thouse A dollars to auswer the charge. Collector Barney and Avdt~ tor the sureties of Mr. Hunter. It \s derstcod that these officers have the utmost eters {a the in! of Mr. Huuter, and believe tl Senco alll be entabliched. "He lies been red in (be Castom House for the perto¢ of about thirty years. acd his friends say that bo knew enough about affsire of his bareau never to duplicate his own checks if be bua entertained any fraudulent design. ‘Tae Crrizexs’ AgsociaTion.—A meeting of this orga” \se tion was held last evening at Brookes’ Assembly / My in Broome street, Mr. Crowe Readies, Addresse? were made by Messrs Crowe, ex-Alderman De |, Drinker, Jenny, , and others, who lost whe sing’ whicb controls munic! affairs, and wi now permeated even into the f the laborer. association wes formed for the purpase of reforta! far as posslol®, the munieipal government, and so far al of its altemp@s have becn successful. The sperkers nar~ rated many cases in which it was shown how the people hed beeu fatrig swindied out of their eyes; but no meang Ty ty hy oy tee fourteenth war Hot resolutions, which nailed with satisfaction the of the agpociat: Tas Porm BaLt.—The annual ball of the Purim Associae tion will take place at the Academy of Music this ever~ ing. The arrangements beicken (bat (his will be one o@ Nayor Gunther, to vent extortion of confusion, has issued an order di that the (are for carriages to or from the bailreom, any tocality Below Thirty-(/th street, shall be tired two doliars, Conehes are to set down ah Fm) entering by Fourteenth strect aud leavii street, Coron: Farat Resutt or tue Cuarnam 8 Yesterday morning Michael Mullen, the young man whe was shot in the breast by a pistol in tbe baods.of Thomap Doran, while sind Yiae mete ae ™. an ported, died tu the New York Al of bis injurten, notified, and wi!l hol@an inquest , Doran ig in (Le Tombs, awating oD. Coroner Ranney was over the remains t the result of the Semtemces Coart of Sessions. BURGLARS, PICKPOCRETS AND OTMEH ORIMINGL® SENT 10 THU STATE PRISON—WARNING TO PIG rocks! ; * Cc. ‘Govier OF GENERAL, SECs. Before Recorder Hoffman. Manca 21.—A large number of pzisoners wore-brough® up in the Court of essions thie moraing for sentengs. Francis Qaiea, convicted of an, andeult witt.« Gendigy Sapon, was sent to the Penitentiary for ons year. wn, Bavith, convictod of boagiery 1 ‘he tare was sont to the State Mricon bh ‘Joba Ferguson, convicted of @rimilar od¥ace, reveived ‘8 like sentence. sont ¢0 the State Prison for two years J J sentegoed to the anid be would have an gore of his tdentisy while in the State oh for Ls trad of grandparceny, een tor twoyears, Clade Mamites, ne Di uomocesen, and poattiely assured the Re- Howard, a pickpocket, was convicted Soviet, alias Jute fone Pict y peel as cmon sian, ed 5 wag ie at Boar - the Martha Jort that his was @ cane the moce to tonevels Piven for hres yours Aud sit Vishing Ggou (or three gears aud six ‘montbs, ‘and nent to ‘Hato Prleoe Marois eveloor of the f 4 }