The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NaSSAU STS, Wolume EXEX vicceeeccec cess eneeennes AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving Place.=Iratiany Oreni= Paver. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Fooi's Buvencs WALLACKE'S THEATRE, Broadway. —Puns Govn. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Jopirs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway —Iursn Emtonaxt— Lavoning Hryvna KEW PROWERY THEATRE, Bowery —Fanxon Srr— MabaBa—Papdy Caner. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Tickeror Leave Wo: Man~Guo.r OF ATENBURG—LaReoaud Fin UM, Broadway.—Four Quawts, Two nat 1# 1, 40. ot all Bours. ArEKo Sand 7 P.M. BARNOM'S MU Dwarrs, Aveinos, Bla, om Srimit oF BEaviy—At BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. way aBearonsan songs, Danoms, BoRiEsquas, &—Run- Wind THs BLockaDE, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway, <Eracorta: FONG, Dances, AeA PRICAN Castes NE TRIOPEAR MA Wanp's Lecturs, AMERICAN THEATRE, No, 444 Broadway. ~Batt Pantoxnend, BURLasgues, &.—OLD Guanny G - RUMPY, BROADWAY AMPHITHEATRE, 485 Broadway. =01 Rasti0 AND EqvEstian PERFORMANCES ibis HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street, — Parr onmt Dogs ayn Moxxers, een) Afternoon and Evealag HOPE CHAPEL. 718 Rroadwar.—Srenroscoenicoy Minvos or Univars®, anv Twenty SEVENTH Binust Gnome NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cuniositins aND Lecrunns, from 9 A. juih M, Un 10 P.M HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. —Erniortan Sones, Dances, Burcesquas, &c. with at SUPPLEMENT. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1864.—WITH SUPPLEQMSNT. extend to as, was adopted. The Military Committoo re- ported adversely on the House bill reorganisiog the Quartormastor's Department, with amendments. Abi! covablisbing a Burcau of Emancipation was reported, and Ordered to be printed. The Senate recently called upoe {he Seorotary of War for an ordot of Gonoral Dix 0 Pro- vost Marahal Dodge, rolative to tho Marytand election of 1861, and the Secretary responds that mo such document iskaown to the officers of the department, nor bas it been found in its archives. A bill was reported appropriasing five millions of dollars for the satisfaction of olaims for spoliations committed by the French prior to July 81, 1801, and appoiating a commission to adjudicate said claims. Tho House bill authorising onligtmeats in rebel- lious districla was taken up, and Messrs. Grimes and Trumbull made spooches against it, while Mossrs. Sher- mau and Wilson spoke ta favor of the bill, Mr, Howe, of Wisconsin, then made a speech in favor of prohibiting slavery by an amendment of ths constitutioa, After the transaction of some unimportant business the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives, resolations calling for {information as to the amount and disposition of the commutation money received from drafted men, and as to the number of colored rogiments in the service, also 3 to the umber of persons arrested for pelitical offences, wore laid on the table. Tue Secretary of War was called on for a statement of the number of mou who havo entered the army eince March, 1861, and tho quota of each State under each call, The Commiites on Foreign Affairs te- Ported a joint resolution declaring that ‘the Congress of “tho United States is uuwilling by silence to leave the nations of tho world under the im. Pression that thoy are mdiffereat spectators of the deplorable events now trapspiring in the republic of Mexico; therefore they thivk it Mt to declare that it does not accord with the people of the United States to acknowledge a monarchial government erected on the ruins of any republican government in America, under ‘the auspices of apy European Power." This was adopted unanimously—one bundred and nine members voting. An effort was made to have the resolution granting the use of tbo hall of the House to George Thompson, the Frgilsh abolitionist, for a lecture, rescinded; but the House refused to entertain the proposition. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on ths bill amendatory of the National Bank act, but adjourved without concluding the subject THE LEGISLATURE. Ip the Senate yesterday a bill was iatroduced appro- New York, Tuesday, April 5. 1864. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Werkiy Frain must be hand- ip before ten o'clock every Wedvesday evening. lis circulation among (be enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchavte, manufacturers and genticmeo throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in the Wareiy HeRain will thus be seen by a large Portion o: the active and energetic people of the Uuited States. THE SITUATION. General Grant left Fortress Monrose op Suvday morning, on the steamer City of Albany, and arrived in Washing ton yesterday, where be was actively engaged in the ‘War Department, preparing for bis future movements fe gocs to the front to-day. Seven deys continuous rain bag left the camps and roads in Virginia tu @ frightful condition, It will tske four wooks of sunshine to enable our troops te move ‘Tho spring camp: mcr. Some cissat.s’action is @aid to exist in the Potomac army among tho officers of the extinguished corps. A fen of them werd put ucder arrest, and this ohecked the init will thus be thrown into the eum- bordination foo rebel Commissioue® Colons! Ould and Captain Hatch returned to their dag of truce boat on James river aturday, en route for Richmond ne under. studing was come to Between Colone! Ould and Genera Butler, whereby the exchange of prisoners will be here. a‘ter conducted hoporahly and humanely ‘the tervific storm which has boon raging on the oovet for some Gays Dearly caused the toss of severe! New ‘York soldiers (450 men) returning trom furlough on the stonmer Fairleven, was driven ashore at Capo Henry on the ist inet. Ube troops were eared alter They betouged prineipally to the Sixty- th, Gighty eignth and Niuetleth regimenté Now York | Moca ditieatty, s from Kentucky and Tenuesses Gexe Forest wag at Jackson, Tenn, ax Geuere! Cbualmere ' honér | wild two! wee at Grand Junetion, A a, with s Lundred of the Sixth Teovesvee cavairy, bad a i Coione! au t wos af with toon hundred rebel caval: SUF & part Of Me | qay,and adjourned withoot doing any busines: sllough's foree—near Somerville, Ton., on Wednesday | The law courts adjourned yesterday in conseqv@uce of tho Fair. The Coort of Over avd Torminer wil! not sit sat, and that our troops, after contesting the flel@ for neariy four hourg, had to falt back, teaving seventy-five men and three officers in the Lands of the rebels, either ahed or wounded. No extensive raid of the enemy into Kentucky t# anticipated by the authorities e: Lovtsrille EUROPEAN REWS. The steamships Ciiy of Lovdon, Mi from Queeneto and Teno and Southampton respect’ voly , s port, and the Hibernian, from Londonderry a and, Me., during yesterday, By these arrivals we bave Buropean news to tho 26th of March —f.ur days later. lve report from the acat of war in Penmark fs tnterust- tog. The Danes were intrevehed in Yredericia, a very strongly fortified town in North Jutland, Frederivia ta termed tho “ Mallen City’ of Doumork: for, althongh 1 vas voen frequently attacket by the Germans avd ciber evomies of the kiv Gorman Allies ha’ sakiogon the 25th o of the city and defences of Frodertoia ie pab- w Drasty this morning. We also givea bis the place, with « description of its bastions, bate ee and or nea of aefence. Tuo Prassiang eontinued to bombard the Danieh post- 4m at Duppe. I wag enid that the city of Famburg #78 Lithog Out® tearm Gotilis for the protection of its oreate at een during the war, and that the vessels i be placed under the command of the Austrian Adami: Austria 600 Proesia conseuted te tue pine of tho aemomblage of & peace coufarence without any tixed basis, Dat Nenmare refused w entertain the proposition for ® souforeng? uBtens an armicticn was Gret ngreca nyo. Four very awkt steamers, built of steel, were toads atart from Liverpoul ia order to attempt te ram the Ame ican Woekade. Tho Lovdor Timer states that these wili be no Puropean interveotion. Maximilian was to assume the (tie of Puperor of Mex- ino on Baster Sunday, and sot out for the Capito) of the re early fn April, THe will open diplomatic reistions the United States, and oberve & etrict towards the rebel confederacy. Genera! Wol chief ald-de-camp to the new Emperor, ged {t, bat ab ‘The fronch steam frigate Dryade ioft Cherbourg for Vera yotuted cron, having Ob board about two hepdred Mericaa recently prisoners of war tn Franco, who bare rated after having given tbelr adbosion to | sew government, The simount aod terme of & loan for Mexico were atili agitated i financial olrcles in Londuy od Parks The boaith of the Pope bad impro: from Caprore for England brillant geception ta Lowden Hongury wae etill uneasy towtsds « revolution ‘The national government of Polead Lad prepared at ap peat to she nations of Europe. ‘The Earl of aberdeen and Lord Ashbarton were dead, ate ue Deke of Newonrtie had bad 4 very vorivue alwok ‘ 083, ed. Gartbald! Lad Fo was ¢ sive & Con 8 01% the Liverpool cotton market cloved fmt end trraguiar on (he G4th of Mareb, with prices vacbanged from a de eime experience! the previous day Bresdstufs were @ et and steady, with unobanged rates Provisions to ¥ CONGRESS in Une Senate yesterday & resolution that the Vonmm|i- we vo Poreiga Relations be matructed to inquire into the expedioney Of eo amending the neutrality iaws as to them reciprocal to cach goveromoat, extending pootrality t those whieb return the game, and (he oreet meamure of oputralliy which thay cloned in London on the Séth of March as O1oy we whe | \ | | \ | n, ft hag never beos taken. The | doped the under. } Priating Sve millions of dollars for the enlargement to grnboat capacity of the Erie and Oswogo canals, To ac coraplish the work in accordance with the plan proposed in this bill, the canals will have to be closed about the Ast of next November, and remain closed until about the Ast of June, 1865, A bill was algo lotroduced requiring the Excise Commissioners to give bonds for the performance of their duties. The bill for the sale of the Staten Istand Quarantine jands wis recommitted, with instructions to have an amend ment inserted providing for the retention of four acres at the southeast corner of said lands, for tem porary boarding and landing purposes, offices, &o The bill amendatory of the Unsafe Buildings act for this city was ordered toa third reading. The amendments pro- vide for the more complete inspection of bulidings and prescribe the manner in which suits shall be prosecuted under the act. It was agreed to vote for Regents of the University on the 12th inst., to fill the two vacancies new existing in that Board, .1n the Assembly the bill prescribing the mode in which (he votes of the goldiers in the fe'd shall be taken was under consideration for some time in Committee of the Whole. 4 (ew tmmateria! amendments were agrecd to, avd the Dill was finally ordered to a third reading. Among tho bilis passed were those consolidating all the School laws of the State Into one act, and to relieve from ction duties ali sales for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers The consideration of the bill appropriaticg $860,000 tor arming, equippingand unt forming the Stato militia occupied a considerable portion of the day's session. It was finally laid over aud made the speciat order for this afternoon. The bi!) providing for the apponvment of ye Commissioners of Appeals was Teperted to the House complete by the committee having it fe charge. The Senate's resolution calliug on the national goverument to pay the $100 bounty tore ts 10 the two years regiments who were honorably discharged before the expiration of their two years’ aer- vice was adopted, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The creat fatr was (brown open to the public yesterday, aud the event was marked by appropriate ceremonies. Tn the atternoon a parade of regulars, militia regiments aumbering oight thousand mea, took place aud was witneesed by about half million of peo le, who oxhibited the mest onbounded enthusiaam. At seven ©’clook in the evening the inangura! ceremonies took ploce at the "alsce Garden & ‘b of the Fair, acd the building was crowded to Ite full capacity with spectators. The annual electia for State officers in Connecticut esiorday. he returas received show that ans have carried (he State by eight thougand —% considerable gain on the vote of Inet year. Gof Aldermen were without a quorum yester- untti to-morrow, All day, boweror, and ness will be travsacte ‘The Taarmany Society bold their monthig meeting last 6 other courts will he in zeasion to- expected that considerable busi- + ne The War in Europe—The Danes Saccess- fully Resisting the Germans, Wo. bave four days later advices from Eu- rope. They give us the important intelligence of the fallure of the Germans to take Frede- ricia, a town of North Jutland. The Danes were intrenched tn that strong position. Frede- ricia is situated at the entrance of the Little Belt. In this fortified city, termed the “Maiden City” of Denmark, they were be- sieged by the Germans; but our latest news from the seat of war, dated the 25th ult, con- vey the announcement that the allied in- vaders had abandoned the siege. The Danes, inspired by their success, arc increasing the strength of their defences. That the Allies have felt the effect of their von-succeas is evinced from the fact that rumors of s peacoful nature bave gained ground. It ia asserted that the Germans are willing to adhere to a conference, but that the Danes, as before, refuse unless they can obtain an armistice. The refusal is based on the assumption that a reliance upon the rean!t of the-conference might tend to lessen their defensive powers. In London and Paris a belief that a peaceful eolutfon of this affair was probable seemed to be gaining ground. The money markets in both these cities were more animated, which fact proves that the peace rumors were not without some foundation. Be that as it may, the results ofa prolonged resistance on the part of the Danes would surely tend to peace. The Germans bave, up to last accounts, been success- ful; but now that the key of the Danish de- | fences is attacked the Germans fail. Finding the work before them more difficulé than they were led to believe, the Allies will all the more readily agree to terms which may settle the question. It is not improbable that the Danes may thus obtain the desired armistice, aid that diplomacy may yet settle the Holstein imbrog- lio. The English government, which, of course, feels how ignominiously it stands before Eu- rope on this question, will do all in its power te obtainfrom the Germans an gdbesion to a conference. The latter were willing to be rep- resented at such a meeting from the first, but refused to suspend fighting during its delibera- tions. Now that on fand and sea they have beon repulsed, they may think better of this, and grant the armistice. This would give England a chance to take a leading postion in the affuir, and her people might be duped into the idea that the prestige of Great Britain is still great. France will only act in the matter when Napoleon sees that his interesta are at stake. It is more than probable that he would prefer that the fighting should go en, that he might seize the moment to extend his frontier; but peace in Europe is desirable at this mo- ment, test the warlike feeling should spread and become unmanageable; and Napoleon is well aware that whenever he chooses he can flad a pretext for war with Germany, so that the Rhenish provinces may be seized by him. Knowing this, Napoleon, like England, would doubtiese urge upen the Germans a peaceful termination of this Holstein quarrel—an event which would not surprise us should the Ger- mans meet with more defeats. Much anxiety wil? be felt now as regards the result of the reuewed attacks made by the Allies on the key of the Danish-Schleswig as well as the Jutland defences. ° _ Tux Reo River Exprprrion—Corron anv Coyrnaranps.—The formidable expedition of our land and naval forces, under Gen. Banks, up the Red river, supported by Gen. Steele's column from the nerth, will doubtless result in expelling the rebel detachments of Generals Price, Kirby Smith, Dick Taylor and others from the southern section of Arkansas and the northwestern conuties of Louisiana into Texas. | Whetber they will next be followed up into | Texas, aud driven thence into Mexico, remains to be seen. We shonld judge. however, from the heaps of cotton already picked up by this expedition, equat ia value to a million anda half of dollars, that this famous Red river cot- ton country, in the single article of that great staple, wili make this enterprise a very profita- evening at Tummany Hall, Hijab F, Purdy, Vresidect, ‘The session was chort, and the business entirely routine. The Heitish ship Sultama, from Newport, Wales, with carg® of cout; the brig Lizzie Alves, from Siatanzae, with @ board, and nll hound to New York, were all wrecked cargo of sugar and me'ado, aud the brig Hannsh, iaetfrom | Nosawu, with Spaulding & Rogers circus company on } ble one to the government, both in a financial and j military view. The Red river planters, we are informed, as a rate, have neither been cajoled } nor bullied into the folly of burning their cot- ton, but have exercised their power, influence | and ingenuity in every way to save it, in order during the late gale on (he New Jersey beach, near Barae gat. | "The siock market was strong yout WAY shares gonerally advanced im pr 196, and the oficial price was fixed at 165%, actwith standing which fue premium rese to L073. Goverusent Piock continued firm. Very tittic bus was dove in the afternoon, owing to the celebration of the openiny of the Sanitary Tair, There waz not & very eptive movement “owe town yesterday, pariicnlarty im the after part of the day, which was goweraily observed as @ holiday, Tho Fair » and the raile was the chief attraction, Berchandise war poverally quiet, but Srm. Io petrolsom thore was av active specu letive movement, and prices advanced. On ‘Change there as more movemont. Sbippiog brands of State flour were b¢ higher, Wheot was frm, but quiet, Corn end ontg wore without change. Provisions of all kinds wore very firm, with a brisk demand for pork, both for pre. sent and futare delivery. Whiskey was buoyant and ac Hive Feeighte rather more active, but at extrenely low ratee Gono fo Exawey tae Navat Sires ix om West. —There is a growing feeling of indlgi tion among the people, arising from the num- i ber of Congrossmon absenting themaelres from their seate, much to the delay and embarrase- ment of the public business, And now we leara from Wasbingtos that a party of Con gressmen, with ladies, are avout starting on a gallavanting excursion ons West, for the osten- sible purpose of examining proposed sites for a naty yard, but in reality to eee the sights which always characterize similar Congressional sprees. This fs al! wrong, and tends to bring the whole busines. of the nation Into contempt. What ie wanted in @ case like the present ie « small committee, composed of practical men, who have kaowledge—coastwise as well as in- iaud—of what Is required for the purposes of a navy yard. The West ie bound to have a for- midable foternal naval depot of {ts own in time, and the sooner and the more practically j the work is commenced, the more offectually |v speedily will it be completed. A gaila- vanting excursion like the one suggested is tore likely to retard than to facilitate the | completion of such an important work. Auipeir’s Last Famonr.--Siidell, the rebel ambassador at Paris, was, from all accounts, regularly soubbed, and bad the door slammed in his face, diplomatically speaking, in » tate application for ® confidential futerviow with the French Emperor's German Emperor of Mexico. This algnifies that Napoleon is hegin- ning (o suspect that Slidell is a humbug, and that King Jo, upon ang torms, would bo « bad barwain. Gold opened at } j to turn it into toney with the arst opportnnity. Some have beon waiting for a chance of sending it off'on the rebel roule tothe Rio Grande: but | Others have been wailing for “the Yankees.” | Bron: the stores of there two classes we should | not be surprised if Gen. Banks, on this Red | viver expedition, Were to pick up forty or fifty thousand bales of cotton and half as many contrabands. Tu» Tast ov Patrioriam.—-It was Doan Swift, we believe, who said that the bost test of a man’s petriotism was the manner in which he met the calls of the taxgathorer. If the re- mark have any troth in it, how much more for- cibly will it apply to the volunteerefforts now being made throughout the country in aid of the Sanitery Commission. By the difference in the amounts produced by the Sanitary Fairs that have already been held, we would be en- titled to judge of the sincerity of thoee who are noielest in thelr professions of devotion to the Union, Take Boston, for insiaice, which is more than any other. branch of the community responsible for the sacrifices caused to it by the present unhappy struggle. Ali that it could accomplish by its Sanitary Fair ns tho raising of asum of $145,000—but little more than a fourth of what was obtained in Brooklyn, and from all appearances less than a ieath of what will be produced by the New York Fair. The truth is, there fs but very little genuine devo- tion to the Union amongst the Boston aboli- tionists. They are ever ready with tholr pro- fessions of loyalty and readiness to make sacrt- fices; but when it comes to performance tliey are always to be found in the background. A Ban Siow ror Prace—Judge Linton Stephens-—brother of Alexander H,--has raade & suggestion fo the Georgia Legislature that peace propositions sbould bo offered to the enemy after every rebel victory. ‘Chen there will be but @ poor show for peace propo- sals emanating from the rebel side for some time to come; for General Grant will goo that no propositions are offered conformably to Judge Stephens’ suggestion while he com- mands the Union army. Nor a Word.—The Lincoln organs have not a word (o say in answer to our statements that Old Abe is almost without « party in Con- gress. Why? Because they ars afraid to touch this curious and damaging fact. It can- not be successfully denied, and it canst be exgiaiued away The Great Fair. The Metropolitan Fair in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission was inaugurated yesterday with appropriate ceremonies. For graphic and detailed accounts of all the pro- ceedings, incidents and occurrences of the day, and for a description of the Fair i tself, we re- fer our readers to the very full and elaborate reports published in our news coliamns yeater- day and this morning. So perfect a picture of 80 eplendid a celebration—-s0 complete a re- cord of such a great event—has seldom been seen in any otber newspaper in the world The celebration was @ grand success. Na- ture gave us fair weather in a double sense, ne recent rains, kindly acting for the City Inspector, bad cleaned, the streets capi- ta!'ty, The bright sunshine And fresh, cool air made the parade equally enjoyable to those who marched and those who looked on. In accordance with Mayor Gun- ther’s request, many of our citizens declared a general holiday, Those stores and offices which were notregularly closed were at least deserted by both clerks and customers after the hour of noon, Even the habitues of the Stock Exchange abandoned the service of Mammon after the first board, and devoted the rest of the day to the Fair. From almost every house the fiag of freedom flashed brightly in the sun. Vast crowds of people lined Broadway on either side. The windows, from first floor to roof, framed fair faces or fluttered with waving handkerchiefs. The musical thunders of half a hundred bands crashed melodiously. Thou- | sands of regular and citizen soldiers, horse and foot, fully armed and equipped, joinedin the largest and finest military procession ever seen in this city, and proved that the republic has not yet exhausted her armies. In the evening the Fair building was densely crowded. The display of articles was extremely fine. The speeches were eloquent and appropriate. The music was admirable. The whole inaugura- tion was a triumph. But bebind the crowds in uniform, the crowds in the street, the crowds at the Fair building and the crowds outside, there were other crowds Goagly interested in this most magnifi- cont of modern charities. The entire civilized world takes part in this mammoth Fair. Our armies, composed of a million of the best men in the land, feel this celebration as a personal compliment to them. The relatives and friends of the soldiers, scattered over this broad con- tinent, from cold Maine to the sunny South, from the storm-heaten sbores of the Atlan- tic to the golden sands of the Pacific coast, cannot but be gratified by this signal mani- festation of the love which the people beat their brave champions and defenders. In Europe, wherever Liberty has a friend, there the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair has a con- tribiitor or a well wisher. The artists of Paris and Germeny send pictures and albums and quaint carvings. The humble woodcutters of Switzerland send specimens of their work. Poor women, dwelling among the Alps, send flowers and prayers. A few Englishmen, not yet infected with the prevalent Americano- phobia, send gifts of various vatues, but all most valuable because of the sympathy of which they are the exponents. Even from Cen- tral America a costly donation has arrived, and thus the Sanitary Fairis the result of the world’s contributions. No words can do justice, however, to the generosity, the benevolence, the munificence of the citizens of our own metropolis and of the country around. Their charities during this war bave been unexampled in liberality. In the first year of the conflict we kept a list of the contributions to various bene- volent purposes from the different sections of the country, and the amonnt of money realized was over fifty millions of dollars. A'most as many milliens more must have escaped our record. Since then two years have passed. Our people bave been heavily taxed. Enor- mous bounties have been paid for recruits, Call after call upon tbe hearts and pnreses of our citizens has been promptly and willingly met. Yet, when this series of Sanitary Fairs began, the masses gave their goods and money as cheerfully and open-haudedly as if they had never given anything yefore—ss if that were at once the first and the last demand. Now this Metropolitan Fair crowns the glorious work, and will be the most splendid and remunera- tive of them all. Such a succession of free will offerings is unexampled in history. During the Crimean war England produced a single Flo- rence Nightingale, and the fame of hor good deeds spread to the ends of the earth. Here all our women are Florence Nighticgales. Every hamlet produces at least one—every large city a bundred. They may be found in our hespitale, ministering like angels te the victims of war, succoring the sick and eomfort- ing the wounded, relieving the @istressed and bringing peace to the dying. In the Roman Catholic church there is a religious sect called the Sisters of Charity, whose glorious liver justify their claim to the high title they adopt. But almost all our women, irrespective of sects or creeds or religions, are sisters of charity to our soldiers. There is no village so small that it bas not an association of them, doing a modest but eublime work, and securing the blessing of God and of man. Indeed, we can- not conceive bow any Awmerican, native or naturalized, at home or dbroad, can refrain from some sort of particlpation, however hum- ble, in the object to be accomplished by our Sankary Fair. But where all have done so well all deserve praise. Here and hereafter “they shall have their reward.” Ko Postroxtwenr on Account ov ran Wrarart—The Tinea-the Lincolu organ par excellence of this city—somewhat alarmed at the movements afoot for the postponement of the Republican Netional Convention, pleads earnestly against any postponement, on the ground that it cowd operate only to distract and divide the party, and embarzass the gov- ernment in the great work of the war. This is a patriotic view of the subject; but it is shallow and fallacious. The republican elements op- posed to Lincoln's re-election, fn Congress and throughout the country, embrace a large pro- portion of the most intelligent, influential and honest wen of tho party, The fdea prevails among them. too, that Honest Old Abe and bis retainers have, by unfair means and crooked wayr, packed this convention which is to meet at Baltimore on the 7th of June, and hence this cerice among the anti-Lincoln nen for a postponement, They wish to bring the real opinions of the masses of their party to bear upon the convention, so that Mr. Lincoln shall not be thrust upon them bys snap judg- ment. We venture to say that If « posipone- ment be re‘waed, and if Old Abe shall be uniting the loyal ofemanne’ of his support, the experiment wh. dyide his owa party into two irrepressible factions’. Buch are the signs of the times. Goop ron Gueetuy—His exposures of the delinquencies of the present House of Repre- sentatives, Wecan tell him, however, that his labors for a reform in that quarter will be all in vain so long as be sbrioks from exposing tho blunders, the prodigalities, the short- comings and tho deficiencies of Old Abe. We must reform the adminiatration before we can effect any substantial reforms in Congress. Work ror tux Sanrrary Fam.—There are forty thousand sick and disabled soldiers now in the military hospitals of the country—a num- ber equal to the whole army of tittle Denmark. THE ELECTIONS. Success of the Union Ticket in Conmec- Ucut—Ileavy Gains for the Repub- oy aha Bactronn, April 4, 1864 Hartford county, with the exception of three towns, gives Buckingham 7,323, Seymour 6,501; a gaio of nearty 1,000 over last year. Hartford county elects three Union Seuators, a gain of two over last year. . New Haven county gives Buckiogbam about one hund- red majority—a gain of over nine hundred over last year: Almost every town in the State yet heard from, give Buckingham an increased majority ovor last year. New Haven, April 4, 1364. Now Haven elects two Onion Ropresentatives. The Senator from the Fourth district is elected James 8. Tayl ir (Union) is elected Senator in the Ele. venth district, and David B. Booth and Orrin Bonedict (Union) were elected Representatives from Danbury. Morris Tyler (Union) is elected Mayor by filty majori- ty, in a vote of 4.814. The whole city ticket has been carried by the Union men. THE LATEST, Hartrorp, Cona,, April 4—Midnignt. Tolland county complete gives Buckingham 2,144; Sey mour, 1,586—a gain over last year of 172. The Sonate wil! probably stand Union, 18, Democrat, 3. The Legi re will be about three-quarters Union. Bucklugham’s majority will be uot far from seven thousand. Hartrorp, April 5-130 A. M. - The indications vow are that Buckingham will have eight thousand majority in the State, New Havan, April 5—1:30 A. M. ‘New Haven county shows a gain for Buckiogham over his Vole of Inst year of over 900, Hartford county nearly 800 and Windham county about 200, Election at Princeton, N. J. THE UNION TICKERT ELECTED—REPUBLIOAN GAINS. Pamcrron, N. J., April 4, 1864. The election for borough officers took place to day. The entire Union ticket was elected. Hezekiah Mount, ‘for mayor, bas thirty majority. Democratic majority tast year, thirty. Election of the Radical C: Mayor of St. Loi St. Loci, April 4, 1864, Incomplete returns indicate the election of James S. Thomas, the radical candidate for Mayor, by from two thousand to two thousand five hundred majority. The ew council will have from four to six radical‘majority. didate for Election and Riot at Leaveaworth, Kansas. Sr. Louw, April 4, 1344. At the election in Leavenworth, Joseph L. McDowell and bis entire ticket were elected by from six hundred to eight hundred majority. At noon, Mayor Anthony issued a proclamation closing the polls, and calling on the citizens to assist bim ia pre- serving the peace. All of which wae disregarded, and the voting continued, Rioting was indulged in to con siderable exteni. Several persons, who were circulating Mayor Anthony’s prociamation, were beatea with re volvers and driven from the polls. The Leavenworth despatch siya— At the alection to day the polls were seized by a mob in the interest of McHowell the copperhead candidate, and Major Anthony and many of bis friexda were knocked down and bratally beaten. The City Marshal was as- saulted and dangerously wounded. Armed men took possession of the polls early in the morning, avd defied the city authorities, The military was called on by the Mayor to preserve order, but arsintance was rofused, General Davis, the district com- munder, had igeved ordera that soldiers at the fort should not viatt the city untoas entitied to vi but the order was openly violated. General Curtis ta absent, Great exoitemont exteta, and the best cit:zons denounce the er asa farce nnd fraud. The copperheads are ja- lant. Hespatches aay that Anthony tried to excité a mob, avd closed the First and Fourch ward polis, but tno people compeled him to open them again. lialian Opera. TOVERT ULE DIABLE. I there were any who supposed that tho fascination of tho Meteopotitan Fair would deplete the Academy of Music lat night they were divappotnted. Robert le Diable proves too strong @ tempta’ion in our community. Tt ts eszon- tally the popular opera of the senson, and consequently it was onjoyed last night by a very Iarge audience While almost acrequal excellence characterized the whole performance, it would be diMcult to particularize. The second det, however, the grandest and most clrssie in the opera, wae finely rendered. Medor! was superb, especial. ly jo the duo and tho concluding trio. Ail the artists were in good voice, and eang with a great deal of esprit, ally ap to bis best efforts Ais voice was in joo, and he seemed to feel it, and hence threw great power fate hig ro’. Medort from first to iast sang splendidly. The oscular salutation of Brignoli to the light footed aud lighter draped Mother Abbess was a a pleasant episode in the gra rd scene, aod provoked somo mirth in tho audience. Fermanns castained his previous reputation wall, und Lotti was even better than heretofore Miss Veurria was received with very cordial approbation, Bae geined courag she progressed, and wag heartily apphiudea, fndeed the opera throughout was received with great enthiietasm. The 8 were called before artain atthe end of each act. Tonight we are to have Faust, with Mine Kellogg and Mazzolen\: on Wedoes- day Locresta, ond on Saterday evening fone, for the benefit of Signor Mazzoleni. Me: Lacia di moor will be given on Thursday @ Acalony. Winter Garden. fact uit Miss Avonia Jones made her first appear. avee at thig theatre in a new play, entitied Judith, the Tonghter of Merari,and bad @ warm reception, though ‘vot by any Moana so wa m A OMe as her merits would justify. Mise Jones is already « great actress. She is entitled to take hor place on a level with Edwin Booth, as Bis full peer in yo ar art. Possessed ©, tbe made her appearance. Ju the Lebrew story of Judith and Holofernes there is 6 heroicdorivess of thought and the grand spirit of lent times. Holofernes was a noble kind of bar- parla, and Judith a woman worth: type of the women of her remarkable race, anying agreat deal for the play of Juditn thas in tt these two charectors are drawn spirit Of the ancient stury, roughout, Some of the scones in whi aleo aro admirably writtou, aud the iejvigoronely drajaatic. Hut altogether Judith uneqoal of jterary efforts, are Positive puerility, and it fe freighted with a tore trash thaa any new play can carry. desperately proned or die og they die * whom lov: Sor hes and halts and awkward pauace are per. aps inevitable io a first night; but in this respect the performance iagt night was ue, Nap wae Fivon almost by fnetalmenté. An Improvement in the vanagoment 9 quite 6@ Necessary aa ao improvo- ment in the play, Mr Earron, who aleo made his first appearance Inst ight, in» very good actor, and @ valaabie acquisition to the metropolitan boards, —— nee Covsn Joutnes ox NAPOLEON AND tHe Frenom Ewer, — ‘Tho crotion to be delivered to-morrow evening at the Croper Institutayan the above subject, by the versatile, coontr ce and talepted individual who bandied so piquant. ly the codfigh avtstocraey of (the fub’’ the otber night, pr « to be anothor rich treat. It is more of a mono- han @ lecture, the tr aractors introduced ‘og imitated in all tb the gods the Count dladaining auch aide to the momory as one’ ordinary lecturere are compctied to vse, In the course of i oration be will take a rapid review of the Mexcan question, ees the Bye 4 by a f bas been made to sequine \ts present importance, and t! characters of those who have figured in tt, A Presiden. tial vote by the sudiouce will wind up the evening's on- tertainment, which, from the programme above given, promises to very emuUning and exciting one. Personal Intelltge ‘The Rev. Dr. Bellows sailed voaterd) nominated be thia Jane Convention, inayond ef ! gion. rants Cay California mye OPENING OF Tite CREAT FAIR. CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAu.* bied, and the interchange of all the kindlier made the cocasion as interesting as anything of kind that wo have ever seen, It ia uscless to to ort where is ail the same. the of New York who were not at the ‘tll go to see the for themselves, and that they well content there can bs no ‘doubt ta avy mind TUE UNION SQUARE BUILDING. . Seana eee Progress of the Inside Work—The Open- img Expected to Take Place To-lay— Be * im Union square Vosterday, &e., dee. ‘The iary building of the Fair ettuated ip Vales square, Opposite the Everett House, did not open yeater- day, but, as statod by several of the ladies having man- agement of tho department, wit! throw opon its deors al seven o'clock this eweutag. There will be excelieat music and speeches on the occasion. ‘& viait to tho interior of tie building yesterday atter- noon showed rather offectively bow energetically the va rious workmen and mechanics have labored to Anish ep the building. Tno decorations of the intorior are mow noarly oomploted- Flags and orngmente of every description aro being bung up all around iho walls, and this bulldiog promises to rival its sister one—Palace Garden—not in point ef extent, but as regarda laste and clogance of scans. ‘The windows have nearly all received their painting der vices, These are the arma of the several nations of the Old contivent. Underneath oxob.of the arms are the names of tbo countries which theya Teprosent. Oo each of the windows two countrits “aro ted. AS ix o'clonk last erenleg sre half dozen windowa were decorated, and when ali are Suisbed the appearat i bo decided'y classic and telling. The arms of ——_ ‘igium, Ireland, Prosata, ——s cfm Gormavy, Britain, Poland and Franco alresdy deck sever windows. At night, when tho building is brilliantly illuminated, as {+ no doubt wiil be, from the excellent arrangements which bave been made in this matter, these decorations will preeent a beautitul appoarance. Tho Children’s Department yestorday evening scemed te be the most finished of the whole four departments inte whi buliding iz divided. It will be recollected thas the of partments ara the Music Hall, the Knicker- bocker Kitchov and the Interuational Department. Sovoral of the bootha are ta readivess forthe ing. ‘Tho fronts of the cooniars tefl pay in Der white, while the tops are carpeted with a bine covering, In the Knickerbocker Kitcben the ladies are faisoherd at work ia fitting up tho place, 80 aa to present to the publio more novel and inierosting specimens of ‘ye olden time’? on the opening. The parlor was yesterday atrewn with all sorte of articles decidedly of @ rather aged appear- ance. ¥ veral likenesses are alao bere, among which are those of Colonel Rutgers and Rey. J. W. Livingston. There is also a Biblo used by the itamortal Washington him- self. Tho Music Department is fitted up in most comme- dious atyte. National banners depend from: the cefl- tng, and the floor is aumptuously carpeted. * ‘The Internationa! Dopartment also presents quite @ ship-sbape appearance—at least it did when our visited it !ast evening, Ladies crowded the room, as bees in their various occupations—ftting uy booths, arranging their various articlos, and eeable duties of that description. booths are also ready for action in ths room be looks heat a Lad Ga much to the mapy other attractions of this department. itlthouge thie building did not take part in the inaugue ration ceremonies yesterday, yet quile a I was congregated in the sjaro. This crow: tracted thither by two indues:aun(s—viz: to see the tary parade which filed turough Fourteenth atrest, to examino‘the auxiliary building. There was’ rauch ea- thusiasm exhibited by this large crowd as the various regiments marched past, which occupied some considera- ble time, after which the people quietly dispersed, The Hastings Stand—Correetio: In our diagram of the Fair buildings on Fourteent™ Gtreet wo omitted tho Hastings stand, The citizens o Hastings have contributed qnite Uborally to the Falr, aa@ cocupyratand No-16, 10 conjunction with, a comestiies from Dobbs’ Ferry, Prices of Admission. ‘The prices of admisaton to the Fair will be aa follows: byrarynt Carre Ora ra te ali departments of the Fats on and af Al * Tickets for No days day of exhibition, of Wednesday, fret Btroet i mille 3 ay . t. é Tickets for Thuraday, Friday or Saturday, 60 ‘The same ticket admits to the Fourteenth Union square departments. Children under twelve be admitied to ether of the departments on payment of twenty fivo conta. The above prices are announced for the first week; bat the commitice reserve the right to cbange thom trem aay flay, a6 circumstances may require. Contributions for the Metropolitan Fats” at Rome. Wararaton, Apri! 4, 1664. The United States Miuistor at Rome, General King, writes that the Americana ia Rome made libersl contributions to the Metropoiitan Fatr for tho Santtery Commission about to be held in New York, aod that tae people and Cardinal Antonelli have joined in the coutrt butions, NEWS FROM TENNESSEE, Movements of the Rebel Gi rele A Fight Reported at Somerville, dso. ; Camo, April 8, 1666, Momphbia datos of tho Lat instant are recelved, giving the following particulars of the movements of the rebols:— General Chalmers, with a rebei force numbering twea- ty five hundred, is reported te bave been at Grand June- tion, Tenn., on the 29th ulttme, Other rebel forces were at Bolivar at the same date, General Forrest was at Treatou as che latest advices. It is reported that the Sixth Tennesses cavairy, Colonel Marah, about six hundred atromg, bad @ Gght near Somerville, Tennessas, on the 30th ultima, with about fifteen hundred rebel cavalry, supposed to be part of General MoOutloch’s command. Ow forces, after fighting three or four hours, fading: ‘hemacives targoly outnumbered, fell baci, leaving ony ar sixty killed and wounded tn the bands of the rebels, A rebel surgeon is detained at Paducah, asa hostage for P. E. Hood, captured aod carried away from the Row. pital there by Genera! Forrest. ‘Thirty or forty sick, taken prisouese at she hospital by tho rebels at (be same time, were kapt (on miles back of Padncsh om the night of the battle, on damp ground, without shelter or fre, and marched off tho next day without food All is quist at Paducah, There ts no chango in the Memphis coton market, The steamer Jowess, (ram Meaiphia Cor Cincinsatl, haw arrived here, Suehos five hundred and seventy-eight bales of cotton. _, Lovrsviza, Ky., Aprils, 1964, A special despatoh from Huntevitio says that parties of guerillas on Thursday aight *2>bed eeveral houses, Cighteen milos Lelow (hat place, aad sole # aumber af horsen. Riotend | Generals McPherson and Logan drove them to ths Tea- nossee river on Friday, Dut could sec no Tebols o8 the op- posite bank ‘The Nashville Times mentions she captare om Thursday of the notorious guerilla Sata Moore, who has committed depredations in (he vicinity of Pulaski, Athens and De- satur, for months past, The pasrenger trains from Nashville are sever boars behind time, detained in consequence of « freight tratm upping off the track at Murfreesvitle this morning, ‘The military authorities kere have mo approhepsions of ‘any oxtensive raid {nto Kentucky for the present. es Cascren are, April 4, 1066, A Knoxviils despatch eays :--Genern! Stoneman has a€- vanced to Bull's Gay, The raitrosd and telegraph ore te order, exceyt that some bridges and trestlework have beon destroyed. ‘The trains ov the Kuoxrtilé and Chattanoogs road were otained on Saturday by rumors of a raid of two thea. and rebel cavalry on Cloyeland, The rumors proved am- founded. Suterestiang from Memphis, Munrwys, April 2, 1864. Forrest, at the tast accounts, was @ Jackson, Teum., apparently arranging to travel South, Chalmers fs reported to have s sousiderable force as Grand Junction and Bolivar. *. Griorson’s cavalry tf oll out sna will give Forreas fome trouble To a fight noar Somerville, Tonn., Colonel Hurts, of the Sixth Tomoseee cavalry, reports a lore of three officers and seventy-five men killed, wounded and misging, Adv {cos trom Vicksburg to the 208 report al! quiet, There te uo news fromthe Red river oxpodition, Loo and Wirt Adama are reported near Canton, Mian, with thotr commends, * ae Presextarion TO Me, Twei—On Satarday last the friends of Mar, Wm. M. Tweed, rediding In the Seventh ward, called upon bim at his fosidencs, and presented: bim with ® maguificont watch and ehain, as @ mark of thetr extcem and tn honor of bis forty-first birthday, ab the sumo time his amiable lady was a. the tome parties with a aploudia ry of diamond edrr! ‘The prosentation was made by Mr, Edward J, In @ neat address, which was, of course, han: aponded to, Mr. Tweod was completely au whole asrangoment having that he hed no knowledgo of th wae storined by bia friends, UndOrstand, Coat on UheronnA tundent dollar. 1