The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETR, ATOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. W, COKNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash fn advance, Money sent by mail will be at the risit of (he sendor, Nowe but bank bills current io Rew York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Twuae conte per copy. THE WEXKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at frye cents Per copy. Apnuai subscription price — Any larger pomber, addrossed to names of subscribers, GU GO cach. Av exira copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and ery larger number at same price. An extra copy will be kent to clouds of twenty, These rales make the WEEKLY Hixnatp the cheapest publication vn the country. Volume XX1X NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1864. (ional army. This is the substance of the news (rom Mexico, which is certainly bighly importaut at this jJancturs. The Ohio House bas passed resolutions tastructing Obio Congressmen to favor the immediate abohtion of slavery everywhere by Congressional amendment to the constitutiaa, The same branch of the Legislature bas appropriated $1,000,000 for the defence of Obw from fevasion, Owen Lovejoy, member of Congress from flinots, died in Brookiye yesterday, He bed been suffering since January ust from ao affection Of the liver and kidoeys Air. Lovejoy was noted for bis toteose abolitionism, and (or the vigor aud ouphasis with which he promulgated bis opinins Mr, Matt, Gooderson, the well known host of the Park flo.se Junior, died yesterday, after a brief illness, of typhoid fever, Deceased, though a native of the city of Philadipbia, was for many years well and favorably known io this community, Jo the United States Circuit Court yesterday, tho case of the government against William H, Poynton, charged with altering one dollar Treasury notes to tons, was com- menced, de/endant pleading not guilty. As the case pro gressed, defendant withdrew his ples of not guilly, and tLe jury, under the direction of ine Judge, returned a vor. dict of guilty. Sentence deferred. The case of the United States against forts Mayer, Morris Cohnert and Hevry Zandri, charged with enticing AMUSEMENTS TO MORSOW BVENING, ROAPEME OF MUSIC, Irving Place —Itattan OrERam AOR KIBLO'S GABDEN, broaaway.—Poou's Revenge. WALLACK'S THEATRES, Broadway.—Love anv Moxey WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Lorum's Wapping, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Hroadway.—Lear Yuan. NEW BOWKRY THEATRE, Kowory.—Jznny Lepnew— Hunvauias Cuiee—Usencr or INTEREST. POWERY THEATRE, MAN—V.Gs OF THR BAKNUM'S MUSEUM, Bri Dwaurs, Avrinos, Waat Is it, Bla, OK SELLAT OF beAD.—AL San) Bowery—Ticket or Lrave Wo. dik AnD Mas Waive, Away, Taree Grawrs, Two all Rests. Aluno BM, BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanies Hi’. 47? Rroad- way.—Ermiorian bono, Dances, Buauxsquas, &0—lau Bho a UTTER LY WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 51k Broadway. —Ermiorrax Gongs, Larcas do—aruicin CL g. NIBLO'S BALOON, Proadway,—Puotoans rmtara. AMERICAN THF ATRS, No. 444 Brondway,—Batrers, Parromimxs, Bunies.ors, Ac—OLD Gaasoy Gauary, a soldier to desert, came up for trial yosterday ia the United States Circuit Gourt, before Judge Hall and a jury. Mr. McKeom, appearing for the do‘endants, urged that the Prosecution could not be proc eded with, for the reason thatthe indictment did aot sot forth, as was required under the Conscription act, on which the proseoution was fovnded, that the parties were not liable to military jivisdiction Other objections were urged; but Judge Hall deemed the one noted as sufficient, and the tudiot. mout was qusshod, Judge Baroard imposed a fine of $600 yesterday upon a man named William H. Kin.cy for not complying with the order of the Court in producing certain affidavits be fore leaving the court rom. Subsequentiy the order was modified g0 a8 to allow the delinquent until Tuesday vo purge himself of the contempt, A domestic named Ellen Ryan yesterday recovered $50 damages, in the Marine Court, against her late employer, Elkin Hyman, for false arrest and imprisonment on suspi- clon of stealing a pair of earrings, Iho Mariposa case was on again yesterday before Judge Daly, io the Court of Common Piens, chambers. Tho pro ceedings were exceedingly dry aud devoid of public in- terest The rain atorm put a atop Lo most business transactions on Saturday; but, though there was no disposition to buy, there was no disposition ou the pirt of seliers to force BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadway, —G Fasric anp LQuseitian PeutOnNANCRS, Allernvon Evening ati BOPR CHAPEL. 718 Rroatway.—frerroscovticyt on Mingo or Universe, and Twenty-seven ta STREET Gost, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cumositixs anv Lucrones, from 9 A. M. tll 10 P.M. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Boncs, Dances, Bunie-aues, &c. Brooklyn, —Eruortax New York, Sunday, March 27, 1864. THE SITUATION. ‘Thh steamer Evening Star, from New Oricans, brings Gs dotai's of the capture of Fort De Russy, on the Red river, with iis garrison and guns, amd the further im portant ‘atelligence that Alexandria and New Iberia havo been cocupied by the Union forces. Alexandria gur- rendered to our fleet without firing a shot. Our special correspondent gives a full description of the affair, A despatch from Cairo states that four hundred of the Beventh Tounessee (Union) cavalry surrendered to the enemy at Union City, Tenp,, after repulsing them three times. The rebels, it is said, numbered two thousand, ‘The President bas issued another proclamation, explan- atory of bis amnesty proclumation of the 8th of Decem- ber I st, 80 that the public may underetand what the Origival document means. Mr. Lincoln seems. to labor ‘under the tmpression—which, perhaps, is shared by a good many of his follow citizens—that the former pro- clamation requires a glossary to make it comprensible; end be thus furnishes it in the recent pronunciamento— which is spread before our re.ders in anotber column It Gefives the important point that those who are in con- finement, or ot of prison on bonds or parole are not en- titled to the clemency offered in the proclamation. It furtber aefinos the officers who are entitled to adminis. tor tho oath of allegiance, viz: any commisssioned offi- cer, civil, military or naval, in the service of the United tates, or any civil or military officer of a State or Terri- tory vot in insurrection, who, by the laws thereof, may bo qualied for administering oxths. ‘There is athing new from the Army of the Potomac to-day except the addresses of tho retiring Geverals, Pioasanton, Nowton and French, bidding farewell to the Gallant soldiers they had commanded and fought with so long and go bravely. The removal of theve generals—as might be expected—is received with a profound sensa tion of rozret in the army. However,as the exigencies of the times , as they are now regarded and understood in ‘Washington, appear to demand their removal from posi- tions in which they might prove useful in putting down the rebellion, we presume that both the army and the Public will bow to the decision of the higher court grace- fully and submissively. CONGRESS. ‘The Senate was mot in session yesterday, having ou Fri- Gay adjourned (iil Monday, In the House of Representatives the session was de voted te general debate, and Meese, Moorhead, of Peun- yivania, Herrick, of New York. Eckley, of Obio; Har- rington, of Indiana, and Harding, of Kentucky, made @pecches on the rebellion aud its consequences, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the bill making appropriations for the paymeot of State bounties to yulunteers was passed. Bills were introduced relative to the Surrogate’s Court and to incorporate the International Land Company. Among matters given notice of were bills to provide for the safe keeping of the old ofticial records of this city fend for the enlargemeot of the Erie and Oswego Canals. ‘The bill to enable banking associations to orgauize under pationa! Banking act,and tnat authorizing savings fastitutions to loan movey to counties on bonds, were ordered to their thied reading. The Assembly had under consideration the bill te em power the Erie Railway Company to issue Ove millions of ew stock to lay doubic track and coustruct new build ings, aod three mil lone o capital stock for the redemp. ton of the Comptroller's bouds of 1845. After bi Ouseed for some time, it was again given io char; Ratiroad Committee, to be reported complete, It is sup. Powed that it will be passed. A large amount of business ‘was trans ted in the third reading of bills. Upwards of Gity wore thus disposed of. mmay of which were passed; ‘bus they were nearly all of only & loce! or private charac tor, Among them we thai for the conrolidation of the Boston, Hartford and rie extension ra\iroads, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Yhe news (rom Mexico, published io this morning's Aimnatn, i of & high degree of interest and importance. By rn {uvitetion of the movarchical party of the Moxican republic, General Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Avta—eo weil known to the Am pooplemtefs bia quiet retreat Qt St. Thoma, and, in company with his family, returoed to Vora Cruz His firet declaration was fealty to the new order of things there established ; but, in consequences of Bome “irregularity im the proceedings,” the Freach Gen Fal Berane thought it his duty unceremoniously to expel the ovo logged boro from his native roll, As there was fo appeal against Frevob authority im Mexico, Sante Anos bed to leave, and our iaicet advices leit bim in Havana, perbars on his way back to St. Thomatand his deserted Phough still riotous “enckpite.’” To the moautime we have news from San Luis Potosi, by way of New Orieans showing that Genoral Uraga, one Of the Ormest, truest and most dotermined of Moxt- @an officers, had completely whipped the French and traitor Mexicans and captured the city of Guadalajara. fhe gallant Berrtozabal too part fn the attack, and wiotory, as ueual, sat upoo bis banners. The French @oldiers and their Mexican rebel allies were fairly and squarsiy beaten by the loyal Moricans, and Urage was fortitying bimeolf and preparing for eyy future effort of bis enemies. in the mntersm Gonzaler Ortega, the de fonder aed hero of Pusbia, wag reported ready to move sales, On the contrary nearly ail commodities were firm ly he'd, and for some higher prices were demanded. Po trolem was dull and lower for crude, but Grm for refined. The War—The Strategy of Scattering and the Strategy of Comcentration, The promotion of General Grant to the active command of all the armies of the Union has inspired in the public mind the largest an- ticipations of a successful campaign. We think, too, that, with the earnest co-operation of the government and the loyal States, our armies, East and West, under the guidance of the hero of Vicksburg, cannot possibly fail. Our con- fidence arises from the bellef that the disastrous policy of the Washington Directory —the policy of scattering our forces—will now be super- seded, even in Virginia, by General Grant’s in- fallible strategy of concentration. What 2 budget of blunders will the future historian present against President Lincoln and bis Washington board of military advisers chargeable to this persistent folly of scattering his armies to cover numerous points of possible } danger, whereby the vital point which com- manded them ail has been lost. How brightly, in contrast, stand the victorles of Grant and the Napoleonic idea of concentration through which they have been achieved. At the first battle of Bull run we had some eighteen thousand troops engaged against some twenty-seven thousand, when, by calling in all our scattered detachments from the Potomac and Shenandoah valley, an army of fifty thousand might have been moved upon Beaure- gard. Arreinforcement to General McClellan of twenty-five thousand men at any time during the seven days’ batiles of the Peninsula would have secured the capture of Richmond; and all this time there were fifty or sixty thou- sand Union troops scattered about from Frede- ricksburg to the Shenandoah valley. Again, by express orders from Washington to General Pope, at Warrenton, to fight, his army of less than forty thousand men, against eighty thousand, was shattered to pieces, involv- ing heavy sacrifices of men, horses, artil- Jery, provisions and ammunition trains, when, by an order to fall back to Centreville with. out fighting, General Pope, wituout loss of men or munitions of war, could have secured an overwhelming junction with the forces of General McClellan. And, yet again, a timely order from Washington to Gen. Miles at Harper's Ferry, instructing bim to evacuate that place and join his forces with McClellan’s, would have resulted in the destruc- tion of Lee’s army at Antietam. In the ab- sence of such an order those twelve thousand men at the Ferry, fifty pieoes of artillery, and provisions and ammunition, equivalent to « heavy reinforcement of Lee, were captured. | And, yet once more, we charge the Washing- | ton Directory that in permitting Gen. Milroy | to remain at Winchester when Leo’s whole army was again advancing northward, the enemy, in the capture of the town, were again | replenished with liberal supplies of artillery, | ammunition and provisions. | Such bave been the results of our military | campaigns conducted under the immediate management of the Washington junta of law- yers aad politicians, headed by Presideat Lin- } coln. His peculiar notions of the art of war \ have been sufficiently tried, let us hope, to convince him that he is a perfect igno- | ramus on the subject. He has admitted | his inferiority to General Grant as a military | leader, and therefore we have reason to believe,that General Grant will be permitted | to carry out his own plans and combinations, | incomprehensible as they may appear to an | Illinois lawyer. If we could only bave this as surance from Presideat Lincoln, and the an- nouncement of his withdrawal from the politi- cal field, we should feel perfectly secure of a triumphant military campaign and @ peaceful | Presidential election. As it is, with General | Grant's promotion to the command of all our armies, an immense stride has been taken in the right direction. While awaiting, therefore, tue development of coming events, let us all do what we can to strengthen the hands of General Grant, and rely upon his approved ekill, activity and discretion for the best re- jw sults. A Moca Neeoen Rerory is Crry Ratuwar Cans ann Omytarsey.—We are glad to loarn that the subject of reform in the management of our city railway cars, &., has been brought before the Legislature. It is pro- posed that a law sball bo enacted declaring that no proprietor, conductor or other person in charge of any passenger car, stage, omaibus or other publio vebicle in the city for the trans- portation of passengers shall require fare from Pawengers not pupplied with comfortable upon any threatened point with an army of 15.000 men, geats, and that no further cadinani P \n aid of any threatened position of the free comsitu | franchigos be made, of any psoas peer made the scapegoats to enable the of the roads now in use be considered, without attaching thereto a provision of tie above character, This Law, if passed, will reacu and reaivrain, if it do uot entirely oxtirpate, an ev that increases in magaitule every day. The annoyance of travelling in overloaded cars and omnibuses has been the cause of great comp ant, on the part of ladies especially; for, ho matter how crowded the vehicles may be, conductors have such @ way of saying “there is. room for one more” that passongera with huge bundles and boxes, and some with pickaxes and sboveis, are admitted, to the sacrifice of the comfort of every passonger who occupy esa seat. Let the law be passed, tho reform adopted; and, if further legislation be necessary in order to circumscribe the ampli- tude of ladies’ skirts when occupying seats in public vehicles, that can be done some other day An Alarming Pict: 7 Health, Atthe request of a number of our most rospect- able citizens—included ia the organization known as the Citizens’ Association of Now York—a committee, consisting of distinguished and exporienced physicians, dately undertook the labor of examining practically into tho con- dition of the city as regards internal hoalth, and, having completed their investigations, have submitted their report. From this it appears that the internal sanitary state of the city is a fit subject for alarm and apprebension. A state- ment like the following, which we find in tho report, cannot fail to startle all who take an interest in the prosperity and the good health, as wol! as the good name, of the metropolis:— Smallpox and other in'ectious and loathsome dis. eases aro allowed to prevail aud be dilfused continually in ali parts of the city; the worst cases of fovers and other fatai maladies aro being continually goueratcd in tho crowded habititions of the poor ; while from this, as &@ radiating contre of disease, the poisons of death that are» abuvdswt here are diffused widely througnout the ontire country Were it not that a statement like the above receives the endorsement of many of our most respectable and worthy physicians it would be almost incredible, But as it stands wo must take it for truth, and, if possible, proceed at once to ascertain the cause and apply a remedy for the gigantic evil it discloses, How is it that such a state of things was ever allowed to creep in upon the city, and at last to assume such vast proportions? What have the city authorities been about? Where are the officers whose duty it is to look after the internal health of the city, by seeing that sewerage and drainage are in proper order; that stagoant pools are cleaned out; that filth in the stroets ia removed; that close, confined, subterranean tenements are cleansed and ventilated, and that that great clement of health and cleanli- ness, the Croton water, is properly distributed over the city, in its vile dens and filthy cabins, in its low, damp, marshy, unhealthy quarters, as well as in its princely mansions and its grand avenues and promenades ? If we should put these questions about the time of the Corporation election we might bo promptly answered; butif they should be put at any other period those whose duty it is to anawer them would be found too busy plot- ting and counter-plotting with political rogues and Corporation jobbers—too earnestly at work scheming for the holding of place and tho re- tention of public plunder, the giving out of contracts and the pillage connected therewith— to deign a word in explanation of this gross and criminal neglect of duty in so vital a mat- ter as tho health of the city. The trail of the serpent is seen in all the political achomes and party job work in the Corporation ; and, now that its slime indicates the path and presence of disease, physical rottenness and death, we hope the people and the Legislature will arouse to the work of reform. Per contra to the atatement made above by 80 many eminen* medical men, we have the re- port of an address delivered by Dr. Cyrus Raw- say, Registrar of Records in the City Inspector's Department, beforo a recent ineeting of the New York County Medical Society. Dr. Ramsay proves by statistics, that bear upon their face every indication of truthfulness, that New York city is, in proportion to its population, as healthy 3 almost any other city in the country. The ratio of deaths for the month of January anda portion of February last shows a decided percentage in favor of New York as compared with either the cities of Boston, Philadelphia or Baltimore. It is true, nevertheless, that the health of tho city can be improved greatly by @ more rigid attention to the cleanliness of the streets, and the purification of those regions of squalor which serve as the hotbeds of oon- tagion. One prominent cause for much of the unheatthiness that prevails in oertala portions of the city, particularly the upper part, ia the insufficient conduits used for the outflow of the refuse of the gas houses, The stench arising from this abominable nuisance fille the atmosphere wherever it is permitted to exist. When the gas companies are com- plained to on the subject, they attribute the blame to the insufficient sewerage, for which the city is responsible; and whea the city werage department is appealed to the charge- is retorted upon the gas companies, This be- ing the present state of the case, the Grand Jury should take cognizance of the matter, and, by abating this nuisance, put an end to one source of unhealthiness in the city ef Internal More Sreivaest Examtvations Demayogp 18 Cases or Orrtciat Dentnquencr.—A military commission, held in Norfolk, Va., having uoder consideration certain charges against an ex- agsivtant quartermaster, finds the acoused both guilty and not guilty, and ao splits the dif- ference by mulcting the defendant in a fine, with the remarkable declaration that “she com- mission has striven in vain ¢o find in the ac- cused a proper party upon whom to fix respon- sibility for some portion of the enormous frauds hb the evidence shows the government to have auffered.” What business bad the ¢om- mission to “strive” at all to find in the gocused a party to frauds with which he was not charged by implication or otherwise? Why did not the commission adopt the necessary measures to ferret out the principal culprita, aod cause them to be arraigned and punished ag they deserved’ The commission tacitly conceded that the charge against the defendant in the present case was a shant, by gratuitously offering the apology that at the “outset” of the case there appeared ample cause for the inves tigation; @hd finally they agree that the testi- mony showed the accused to be less guilty than hordes of others against whom no accusa- } gatiant tions bad been filed. This shows that am enor- mous amount of swindling is going on among the mammoth contract and supply jobbers of the government which is seldom brought to the light, while comparatively honost mon are | Yours aly, and really guilty rascals to escape. We want thorough overisuling of the entire contract and supply system of th» government. It has been commenced in the navy, and the army should be taken promptiy in hand; for there is scarcely a military department in the country free from those corruptions and frauds trom which the governmeut is coutivually mate to suffer gravely. Greevsy Gerrive Feavrio.—Gree'ey is fast going McClellan mad. Day alter day be raves worse and worse, and indulges all his bad pas- sions in the bitterest abuse of the hero of An- tietam. He seems to forget that tha great war is stil! In progress, and that the energies of the press would be better employed in the effort to sustain General Grant in what romains to be done than in uttering imprecations at a soldier who has been many months out of active ser- vice. If Greeley gives way in this manner to all the wickedness that is in him he will be in & madhouse before he knows it. Avnoruze Casa or Inoimant Poritioat In- sanity.—The youthful sophomores of the World ere also likely to fall into@ mania, though it isa very different ono from Grooley’s, Indeed they are on the othor extrome from that vio- lent philosopher. They are afraid of Grant. Everything that this soldier does or éa likely | to do seems to them to he dangerous, and they are dreadfully frightened about it. Deadly Affray Between Soldiers at Aaburn, TWO GOLDIBRS SHOT DEAD AND TWO SRVRRELY WOUNDED BY A SQUAD OF THE INVALID Cours, Avnuns, N. ¥., March 26, 1864, A torriblo affray occurred in tho streets of this city this afternoon, between an armed squad of the Invalid Corps, patroling tho streets, and a number of the voteran gel- diors belonging to the Seventy-fi th regiment of New York State Voteran Volunteers, During the melee two Of tho Seventy-ffth regiment were shot dead and two se- veroly wounded,one of whom it is thought cannot ro oovor. The Equinoctial Storm Yesterday, Tho usual spring oquinoctial galo broke upon this city yosterday, aftor a most charming promise of plonsant woathor, But old March ip this respect showed himself 5 ready to broxk promises as young May borsolf, Tho early might was beautiful, and it was not till about three o'clock that the storm broke forth in all its fury. Then, indeed, it might bo said, aud vo doubt was said, by somo stragaler, ‘That sic a night ‘a ho took the road tm, Nac poor sinner was abroad in, Early risers wore 00 doubt astonishod to find such a commotion of the elements, the wind blowing from the eaat with a force which during the day caused many a humorous scamper after fugitive hats and skeloton um. brellas, The inevitable little croaswalk sweeper. was out sud. Gonly betwoon the ferce gusta which swopt the streets; and, although “ono awallow don’t make agummer,’’ yot (ow pedestrians who witpessed the efforts of those iate- resting specimens of humanity could pass without do- positing a few ‘‘nickola’’ im the Litto outstretched hands of the suppliants. The severity of the storm told on business, littie ia that line being transacted, if wo except some of the mos: po. pular hostelries, which soemed to drive @ profitable trado (rom numerous wayfarera, who called te take a@ little spiritual consolation as aa Oflet for the buffotings of the floss storm. Tho dwellors aloog the Hast. «nd North rivors felt for a timo the usual dread .of aa inundation; ‘but, the wind biow ing straight from tho cast, ite fury was broken by the high polots of land ou tho Long laland side of the river, and the ugual consequoaces.of au.equinoctial atorm did aot occur. . Military. PRBSNTATION TO MAJOR HUBBRLL, OF THE SIKTY- SECOND REGIMENT NEW YORK BTATH VOLUNTERKS, The mombera of Company B, Sixty-second regiment Now York State Volunteers, have presented to Major Hubbell, their former captai joudid medal, upon which is tho following tnscription:— Presented to Major ‘Wiison Hubbel by the mombors of his o! ped se B, bern geen ry regiment Now York State Voiunteors, Jan- uary 1, 1864,"" tho Stxty-second has recootly roturoed from tho soat of war on a thirty days furiougb. Ma’or Hubbell is & vali much estoomed by the members of his e TOR TWENTY-SIXTH COLORED REGIMENT. To consequence of the inclomency of the weathor, the departure of the Twonty sixth colored regiment is poat- poved until today. The committee of the Union League ‘will proceed to Riker'a Istand and there make a prosenta- tion of colors, after which the regiment will loave for the South. THR PIFTH HEAVY ARTILLERY N. ¥. 8. ¥. Colone! Samuel Graham, of the above regiment, having been suspended from bia command for some fow mouths | Past, has been bonorably roinstated. Tho Fifth regiment i at present stationed ia Baltimore, and on Monday last Colone! Graham found himself at the bead of his old com. mand, Cylonvet Graham ts ® well known citizen o° Brook- lyo, and bes held several public positions of prominence. THE BIXTY-NINTH'S OA* DECIDED. At a lato hour last evening Colonel James Bagtoy , of the Sixty-nioth regiment N. G.,8. N. ¥., received an official communication from General Sand ord, stating that tho 60 called Sixty-ninth roziment tail:tia, pow in the field uader command of Colonel Mathew Murpby, and attached to the Irish Legion, is to be kuown as the One Hundred and bighty secoud Now York Voluntes: It will bore membered there was a lengthy investigation held on this subject abuut a year ago, The decision is now rendered. TRITIMOMIAL TO LILUTENANTOCOLONBL DOnKE. A very c'ogavt sword, sash and belt wore presented to Lieutenant Culone! Adotphus Dooke, of the Forty.ftth regiment New York taro Volunteers, om tast Tuostay | Ovening, at tho Broadway Gardeu, No. 645 Broadway, by 4 Inspector Carpeater, @. bebalf of tho merchants of the | Third ward, After the ad@ress by tho Inspector, Colonel | fitting reply, returning his sincere thanks chants and members of tne Police Psvartinent for their handsome testimonial. Tho invited guests than sat dowe to a sumptuous repaat, during which specches | were made by Inapector Carponter, Captain Greer, of the | Third precinct; Captain DoCamp, of the Righth. Captain | Mount, of the Eleventh; Captain Thorne, of the Twenty- | sixth, and several other gentle who wore present. | At ‘the breaking out of the war Cul. D | cer attached to the Third pri to ficht for bis adopted count regiment New York Voluntect neat of war, Ho bas beon in m of the hard-fought battles of Virginia, and im every engagemont hus acquit. ted bimeolf with houor. ‘The following inscription appears on the blade cf the sword:-—'*Presented to Licatroant Colones! Adolphui Dobke, Forty Mfth rogiment New York State Votuntecs by the merchants of the Third ward, for bis fwtthrul eer. vices as @ police officer and bis bravery as agoldier in the defence of bis country, March 15, 1964" PREABNTATION TO AN OFPIOBR OF THR TWRLPTH REGIMENT N. G, On Thursday evening Brovet Colonel Jacob Raynor, for over twenty eight years acaptain in the Twel(th regi- moat N. G., Was preseoted with a magnificent gold watch and el by (he mombors of Company ft. The prosentation took place at the armory of the regiment, corcer of Fourth street and Broadway. On the watch was the following inscr!ption— Presented to Brevet Colonel Jacob Rayuor by the members aud ex-members of Company [, Twalfth regiment N, G., as @ token of os- toom. Now York, 184." The Affate at the kiyn Academy of Music. A VARD PROM MLLE. VROTVALT. ly eorry to be mixed up in any thoatrical i times disgraceful, and eapectally n who, for tha sake ot her artistic and goelatioas, would’ much rather receive an insult than be made the subject of public comment conse, howevor, the aswault was 40 thoroughly endurance that | saocifice private feeling for the sake 0° public reputation. Hrtefly, she state of the care is this, Tero men, jo state which l'intead not toqualty, followed me behind the scones, tauchiug at me ironically several times, | Maturaily avoided them, haviog no male | | protector with te, my three agents being occupied in frout of tbe bovee. | } Uatortunaoy, | was obliged, later the evenioz, to | | slop towards the a for stage 098, whore there ren stood with some ballet gira. Tupproached, dresacd as Aavp. | foit handy sbowk my body, aud, turning round, aid, “How dare you Inault m ‘They continued to Jaugh at my todignatins ot thingy, E then eald, “D0 you kno where you bed bo permieion to be, or I wi'l cut your Raed off “Abr t be tasautod fa ray own Whom the stage Une of lo th beyond s and sald all ki bese mon Kaw Chat Lacks (n earnest they Loft so rapidly that they went without bats or coats, these men grabbed hold of my right arm ao roagtiy that i laced furtbrr staten ts io my lawyer"ehands bave lurther statement and'nope thatthe American nation, pron ead ; hope owned for their courtesy towards wil Nar the grees fosult a ‘ady bas Teccivet from tease two a ackvow lodged ofeo ‘Americans are universally bo be and courteous tiwarde women, Twas very much upset, and for thirty-aiz hears col? not leave my bed, unable to the sancunced Dake's Motto. The money wan to the public in vening. | am sorry to have caussd aheavy loss to Mr. M i bie Fil - Beligious In: igen °® ay. ‘Fhe antivoreary Of the Babbath schoo! oa ‘nected with Wo-tminster ehurch, Twenty-second atroet, between Pixth aud Seveuth avenues, will take piace thig evening, Commencing at balf-pact seven o'clock. The ox *cises will cousist of singing by the children and addressa' OF the Rov J. L. Phillips and the pastor, Rev, Chauncey D- Murray, The usual moraing services at the church, 94+ ba'f past ton o'clock. be ‘The Sunday school monthly conoert of the Froowilf Baptist churoh, Twomty-eighth street, noar Broadway, will be hold ato o'clock this afternoon. Major General Anderson will be present, Stephen Paxon, the Sund«y Schoo! missionary from the West, will addrosé the mees- ing, rehearsing many interesting incidents connected wiih more than @ thousand Sabbath schools which bo has organized, Tho Rov. J, H. Burtia and the Rov. J, L Puiilips will also participate in tho exercises, At the Twenty tt street Reformed Dutoh church, ger Sixth avenue (Rey. Alexander K, Thompsou), the anniversary Of tho Sunday school will be celebrated thie evewing ut balf-past soven o'clock, with aulta v A'ldreas by the Rev. Joseph T, Duryea. “Truth ‘or the Times: Reasons tor Separating from all: Deuominational Connections,” will be the subject of discourse to be delivered thia afternoon at half past thrce o'clock, im the University Buildings, Washington equare, Tho Rev. Pr. Tyng, rector of 8t. George's church, will Preach tho aext sermon of the course, to young people this evening, ia the Church of tho Mediator, Lexington avenue and East Thirtioth street. Services will commence Qs half past seven efoluok. ‘Tho frst of a course of leoturca on ‘Tue Bible the Book for Who People” will be dellvored this evening at half. Past seven o'clock, ithe Contra Presbyteriaa ehurch, Broomo street, two tiocks east of Broadway, by tho pas- tor, the Rey James B. Duna, Prevching by the pastor algo at bal past ten o'clock. : At the peopio’s mocting, 187 Bowory, subjects for to- day—At three o’olock—'' Restoring the Union as it was.’’ from two to three—“The Constitution of the United ‘States.’ The Kev. Samuel Bookataver Bell, D. D., wiil proach in tho Fifticth street Presbyterian church, between broadway and Kighth avenuo, at half-past ton and bait. past seven o'clock, Subject of morving discourze—Ko- lix ond the Convenient Season’ tho _evening— Tho Apocalypse ~ The Rey. ©. C. Goss will spork this evening in Tope Chapel, Broadway, to etrangera ana young mon, upon “Tho Feast Daya and Fast Days of the Church,’ nistori cally considered, especialiy Kastor Sunday. ‘The Rov. George Junkin, D.D., will proach inthe Canal stroot Presbyterian chu corner of Greeve etrest, at haif-past toa in the morning and three o'clock in the af. tornoou, At the South Baptist church, Twenty-fifth street, be- tween Seventh and Mighih avenues, the Rov. Leonard Bacon, D.D., of New Havon, will preack the twollth ser. mvn of the South church sories this evening at half.past seven o'clock, Subject—Kvangelizaiion.”” Tho pastor preaches and administers baptigm in the morning. At 3t. Ana's free church, Eighteenth street, near Fifth avouuoc, Easter services at quarier to eight and haif-past ton in the morning, half-past three in the afternoon, and ‘at ball past soven o’ciock in the ovening—the afteruoon being for dou mutes. The Holy Communion will be ad- ministered at both the morning services. In the evening tho Rev. W. H Spaulding, of Wisconsin, will preach, At the Memorial church, Hammond street, corner of Wavorloy place, Bishop Potter will administer the rite Of coufirmation this eveving. Services at half-past ten, alt past threo and balf-past seven o’clook. ‘1ho Rev. J. Wheaton Smith, of Philadelphia, will preach in Pierrepont steoet Baptist cuurch, corner of lierrepout and Clinton atroots, Brookiyn, at ball-past tea A. di. und bulf-past seven P.M. ‘Tho Protestant Epi free churoh of St. Matthias will bo'd services ia the Stone church, Sey ne sireot, near Broadway, at halt-past sovon P.M. Morni gorvice at half past ton, in tho ball northoast corner Broadway aad Thirty-second street. Al the Twontioth street Uuiversalist churoh, near Sev enth avenue, the Rov. E.G. Brooks gives his oleventh iseourse 9a“ Kte] tative Character” this aftoracon at throe o'clock. Subject—Jozebel, the Spoiled Woman.’ Morning serwoa at hall-past ten o'clock. Divino service will be held to the chapol of Rutgers in- Gtitute, Filth avenue, between Forty-frs\ and Forty- seouad streets, at haif-past ton A. M. and hall-past three P.M, The Kev. Dr. byor will preach in the morning, and tho Rey. stephen H, Tyng, Jr., in the afternoon, The fourteenth sermon of the Christian Union sorles wiil bo proacned rt tho Rev. W. A. Bartlett, of Brooklyn, jo the Evangelical Lutheran church tn Fifteenth street, just west of Second avenue, this evenlug at hall-past Boven o'clock. The Rev. G, T, Flanders will deliver the tenth dis. course va ‘Heil: Its Origia, History, Destiny,’ at lis. torical sclety Kutiding, Second avonuo, this evening at bait past seven o'clook, Subject—Origin of the Common Doctrine of Holl.’ At the Hedding Mothodist Episcopal oburch, East Soventovnti streot, near Stuyvesant square, the services 4d y wil be in commemorativn of tho oxtinction of the d-bt on the church and parsvaxge. Bishop simpson will Presob im tie ok ‘at ball past ton o'clock; Dr. Abel etoveus in the evoving at baif-pust seven o'clock. In tho @ tornoon at three «'clock a rourton will take place Of the old members aud friouds of the churcb, W. H. Milburn will doliver another of the course of Joctures on tho ‘Early History of Christianity,” at Irving Hall, this evening at bali-past seven o'clock. Subject— “Christianity gains the throne of the world.’* At All =aints’ Protestant Episcopal church, coraer of Henry aud scammet strects, services at haif-past ten A. M and balf-paat seven PM. Tho rector, the Rev. Samuel J. Corneiile, will proach mornirg aud evening, At the Luignt streot church, corner of Laight and Varick stroew (1 ohu’s park), Rev. I. 8, Kalloch, late pastor, will preach in the morning, and Rov. Wm. H Poudieton, of the Canooa stroot obureh, will preach io te evoung, At the Bleecker atroot Universalist churoh this even ing the Rev, M«ses Batlow will consider ‘some Views o! the Divine Govorument, as lilustrated by an Eminent Or- sho Clecgyman."’ Morning discourse by Key. L. J, Fletouer, of Brook ya. Frederic L. H. Willis will commence a sories of lectures on the “Spiritual Of all the Ages,’ at Clinton Hail, Astor place, to d = “«Miscegenation,”” reviewed by @ “blend,” at Union Hall, corner of Broadway and iwenty cbird stroct, at sieven A.M. At three P.M. « medical clairvoyant will diagnose the disexse of aay patient selected by the audience. At half past seven P.M. au Kastorn lady will speak under spirit control. Mre. Cora L V. Hatch will sposk in Clinton Hall, corner of Atlantic and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, this afternoon at three o’oluck. Subject chosen vy the audiences, Ques. tioas on same subject after the discourse. ‘The Rov. Joba Vegg, Jr., pastor of the Forsyth airect Mevhodist Epizcopal church, between Canwl aud Division Strects, wil! preach bis farewell sermon this evening. By Qu inexorable iaw of this denomination, he cannot romain longer with a people who have appreciated bis eloquence io tho pulpit and bis agreeabis and social qualities out of it, The two years of bis service have been very pros perous in every respect, and the congregation of the Cev- teuary church, in Brooklyn, who, it ia expected, will be favored with Mr. Pegg’s #ervices for tho noxt two years, havo reason to congratutate themselves upon securkag 80 able and popular a preacher. The choir of Forsyth street church, which is one of the best in the city, will make extra efforts to interest to tho farewell exer 5 imball will preach at the rooms of th ‘Tho Rey. Henry Now Kogland Soldiers’ Reliel Assoctation, No, 194 Bro way, at three o'clock P.M. The public are tnvited aitcad. Easter Sunday, Church of tho Resurrection, Thirty fifth treet, a fow doors east of Sixth avenue, divine service At past ten A. M. and haif-past seven I’, M. Tho rector, . BO. King, preach moraing and evening, Tho Hutebinzon family will siog this afternoon at two o'clock, at the Sunday school meeting to be held a: the Freowiil Baptist church, Broadway. At the Brookiyo Tabero Hoyt street, the Kev. ada {wenty-cighth atrect, near Fulton avenue, corner of joCielian will preach this O'ciock. Prouchivg by the rtlott, at hall-past ten o'clock Preaching in Freach by Rev. M. Piva, Fvangelical chureh, No. 9 Ui versity pl ween Wa. vorley place and Fighth street, every Sunday. at balf-pacs seven o'clock P. M. io the Freoch bet tyence. Avtaasp Arr To Murer Pouce Orrcers—Tanee Man Anneeten.— Almost nightly for some weeks pam s have Leon In the habit of congregating om tho corner of Soventh avenue aud Ninctecath street, aud conduoting themselves ia a very disorderly manner, On Friday ovening officer Whalen, of the Twenty-niat» pro- cinct, made an effort to diaperse the gang in question, but they not only refused to leave, but threatened the officer with violor if be interfered with them. The officer then seized tho ringleader , but the prisuner’e necor)lices immediately rescued him, and ran of down Nineteenth street. After proceeding a block or two the (ugitivos made & stand, avd, when officers Whaien and ner came up, vo lesa tian twenty sols were dred at thom by the @aMians; but fortunately usithor of the policemen wore injored. A man named Sylvester Mooney, standiog on tho walk near by, was stot io the left side severely Injured. He was removed to hie residence, 104 Seventh avenue, and the ballet extracted by & surgeon. Tbroe of the mon attached to the woe fired on the officers were arrested. They gave ¢! bames as Potor Murray, Patrick Noumary Peter Lyven. The prison: Orn wore taken before Ji Ledwith, and held in tho excoodi light bail of each. Considering the pamber shots it is @iOOwS MirAcUloUD that nome one waa vot killed. Cuanan ov Reoarvixa Sroum Goona —Androw Monobaa, 0, ee oh Rs i bontously receiving a call eee $100, ape Wr orsenpotes, ail taken by a man a s od the vessel, aod ad to tho acoused for at. to Poitce Headquarters, oa botare JuMblos THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Effect of the Reorganization of the Army. Farewell Addresses of Generals French, Newten and Pleasanton, ARMY OF THE l’or0Mac, Hirapquarters ww rug Fixup, March 26, 1864 Gonoral Order No, 40, reorganizing the Army of the Potomao, bas caused considerable commrat in this army. It bas boon a-fruitful theme of discussion, particularly among the troops which have been consolidated inte other ocrps, le object of the order is to secure greater Strength apd means Of consolidation. Experience bas shor hat a grand army, composed of few army corps, with numerical strength preportiosately great, is muck more effective than one oumposed of many small army corps, as woll for purposes of discipline in camp as fer extensive operations on the field of buttie, It is the pre vailing opinion fo this army, eveo umosg Officers whe ‘are most unfavorably aflected by the change, that the Present consolidation will result i beneit to the ser- vice, It 4s with great rogret, however, that the soldiers leave ‘the corps with which they have ben. feretoiore ides fie, The members of the First, aud partioularly chose Of the Third corps, which was the largest in the army, have heard with sorrow the order which destroys the Organization of those corps, under whose distinctive oo- lors thoy have fought with honor on so many battle fields, aud where the blood of their brave companions, who fell go nobly, hax covered the nimes of those corps with lasting glory, Though the order allows them to re- tain their badges and distinctive marks, it ia with mani feat reluctance that they sunder those atrong associations which bind tu a common teliowship companions in arma on tho fleld of battle, None partake of this fee'ing so eonsibly ag the general offoers who bave been removed frout thoir old commands, and the various staff officers, whose positions have been changed in consequence, Tho goneral (ficers, however, bive gracefully yielded to the requirements of this order with a spirit of mag- napimity becoming noble soldie-s, Oniy their personal alds-do-camp accompany the geverala. The order was promulgated immediately after Lieu- tenant General Graut's arrival at bis hoadquartors in the fold. Tt was not’General Grant, however, but General Moado, who dosignatod the particular corps to be cea- solidated. General Grant bas simply givon bis sauction to the order. When the news was frat announced there was great ae- tivity at the several corps headquarters indicated, and arrangements were soon made for an immediate complt- ance with the provisions of theorder. Soon after Major Genoral Sykes received the order reieving him trom com- mand of the Fiftn corps, Major @eneral Warren, its newly assigned commander, rode up te the oorps headquarters, accompanied by bis staff, and fermally assumed command. Major Goueral Sykes was evidently deeply touched when he learned that be was ordered to report in Kansas, 60 far away from the One command with which he bad been so long identified. He will be accompanied to Leavenworth by two of his alda— Lieutenant Iogbam aad Lioutenaat Svyder, Captain vay, hia other aid, hag beep assigned to duty at the hoadquar- ters of the army. hed General Sykes, after suing the f:rewell sadross to hie troopa.gemt to you yeaterday, was oacorted to the.depes by anutnber of his officers, and went down to Washing- ton, en roulefor the West. GENERAL FRRNCH’S FARAWRLL TO His TROOPS. Major General Frooch was also extremely sorry to leave the suidiers with wom he had fougut on so many battle fields, His officers hocked to bis headquarters to renew thoir assurances of personal regard, and to express their regret at his approaching Goparture. They also spoke @f the historic feids on which they had fought. there bade him farowel! before he wont to Philadelphia. Gonoral French issued tho followiug charactoristic addremy, bis suldiors:— Higap Tas 9 Cones, \VARTERS 1HiKD ARMY patos ceinec, Sanka nee Having been detached trom the Army of the in consequence of its reo'grnization tote threo corps, desire to express the persoual feelings of rogrot with which the order is received, The conrolidation of the corps givos this army groater streogth. The Geverals te command them a:@ cunspic:ous for their gall abitity. Only known whistle, there is a stron moet in the field those bi been #0 acwociated wi ‘ide and distinction. Wh. H, FRENCH, Tiajor General Volunteers. GANERAL NEWTON'S ADORESS TO Bis TROOTS. Major General Newton, lately commanding the Fired corps, which is now merged into the Fi'th, was ust versaily beloved by his troops. Ina quiet manner Re bade farewoll te bis division aud brigade commanders, General Newton has been intimately associated with the Army of the Potomeo, and nas tought in neariy all iw Dattios, Last evening the troupe belonging to the Brooklyn Fourteenth regiment, in Dis corps, gave @ musical entertainment in Culpepper, at which some pleasing allusious to the General were mado, Ho issueé the following: — Haapquanruna, Finest Corrs. March 26, 1864. To relinquishing command, | take to ‘the prise a pieasure | ‘ocousion tO expresp <perienced with you, an@ fouod rogret at our separation. identified by its services with the history of this war, tho First corps gave at Gettysburg a crowning proof of vaior aud eddurance in saving from the evemy the strong tin upon whivh the battle was fought, The torribie jogses wuffered by the corps on tho Isto! July attest ite auytemed vution to the country. Though the titte of the corns may not Rurvive the prose t changes, ‘Wil UOt be silont upon the magnitude of its se. vices, JOHN NewWTON, Major General. General Nowton went down to Washington this morn- ing, Howas acoompanien by Goneral Kisley, General Nowton will pay « pissing visit tobis funily in Now Leadon, Conn., previous to going wmeinnatl, He will be attended to the Wost by bis three porsonal friends, Captain Bliss, and Lieutenants Jackson avd Carring- ton. GUNRRAL PLAABANTON'S FAREWELL. Major General Pleasanton, the recent commandor of the cavalry corps, went down in the same train this morning. His removal was not included in the order of consolidme tion, It is a matter for much surprise that be bas bees romoved at this time from ® command which ho bas or gavized #0 well, and fought so successfully. It te the pride of the cavalry corps that they bave never been beaten in any battio. The whole com- mand is sincerely sorry at bia departure; for he has wom the reputation of being one of the most skilful and,herole of commanders, He loft Lis headquartors this moraing, escorted by @ squadron of cavalry and @ band of music. A special onr bad been provided for the departing Gone- ral. The band played appropriate airs as the train moved away toward Alexandria, Genoral Pleasanton takes with him to Missouri Liew. tenants Clifford, Thompson, George H. Thompson an®, Yates, members of his personal staff, It is. understood. tbat bo wili be succesded by Gonoral Sheridan, (rom, ther West. Before leaving bis beadquarters Govoral Plea~ ‘savton penosd the following parting words. to his Ineo command: — GWERAL Lge wand ue enenen Haad Quarters, Cavatay Cours, bai Torowad, Marah 2%, 1864 Having been relieved from duty with the army of ‘the ich tact as erage era bal assoctations estal rgb gens Your glorious deeds testify to the trust you have matn- titned #0 sacre@ly, Continue Ww be apimated by the same spirit that now guides your colors to victory, an@ you will reap. (ha rewerd of duly to yourselves, your bac ssp pie PLEASANTON, Major Genoral. ‘Those parsings have beon deoply folt by tho soldiors tm thearmy. They havo touchod a tondor chord in tho be maa heart, The officors who have thus left the old Army Of the Potorwho will boar with thom so-othor Nelds of sor vice the siguere well wishes of their comrades wl, ro main ails oe Mime of the Pirate Fiomas from Ma-~ detra. Bostos, Marob 26, 1864. Alotter from Madoira atalee that tho pirate Florida satied from Fusehal February 29. The United Grates bloop of war St, Loula was port, but boing ® sailing ‘vousel could do nothing. The Americe at Portiand. PortLann, Mo., Marsh 26, 1864 ‘The steamship Amorioa, fron Liverpool 10K, via :~ arrived early thy morning. et A vans woot by the neorning train, News @-,